So for my birthday, the girls got me a pair of tickets to The Sound of Music playing at the Princess of Wales Theatre downtown. I took my mom and must I say, BEST PLAY EVER. Maybe it's because I haven't seen one in a long time, but everything - the transitions with the props and the background - it's so high tech and just plain cool to watch. 

The girl who plays Maria won the reality series on CBC "How to Solve a Problem like Maria" and won the role. She's never done theatre before but there's no way you could've told that because she was such a strong performer (and only 2 years older than me - what the heck am I doing with MY life??). Everyone was so amazing, my mom friggin loved it and I literally had tears in my eyes throughout the entire play. 


Yesterday, me and Ira went to get Becky's birthday present and I finally bought my running shoes. 

We bought her the home and away Toronto Maple Leafs jersey since she is a crazy Leafs fan. Cute eh?!

Yes, they're green but that's not why I bought them. After considerable research, I decided just to dish out for the higher-end pair but I lucked out in the end because there was a sale + SPC discount. 

Becky joined us after and we picked up Gerald from the airport. Then me and Ira went on our adventure to four different Rogers trying to return the darned cable box. It was worth the trip because we met this guy with a sexy Scottish accent (I can't wait to go to Europe). 

My bananas were beyond ripe so I had to make use of them: I made banana brownies and banana muffins from scratch.

We briefly went to 7-11 to get free slushies with our expired coupon. When we came back, James joined us for the baked goods and then we had a mini-jam session in Ira's room.

Pure poses.

The true musician! 

Today is Becky's 22nd birthday. 


This is the card I got her featuring her lover from her fave show, Prison Break. We went paintballing at this small place in Kitchener called Paintball Arena. By the end of it, we were all absolutely disgusting but it was fun, although I much prefer laser tag!

Other highlights:
  • Late late night girl talk with Ira and Lilian. The trio is best
  • Tennis with Michael, Jacey and Ira
  • McDees with Jackie and Ira. We got free ice coffee that kept us awake til 7AM
  • Becky made me special dinner: chicken with spaghetti squash... mmm, I love it




This album is actually amazing. Lady Gaga is a hard-working, creative, musical genius. Her voice is just incredible and she has a lot of soul. Just youtube her acoustic performances with her playing piano. She's grossly underrated.


Things that suck right now...


beautiful day and beautiful weather
iminlikewithyou.com
my DS
music
MW
wikipedia
youtube
30 rock

when really good things happen, bad things happen! ARGH, get me out of this hole.


I had an interesting day.


Went to Mississauga last night on a whim. It was kind of crazy. I came back this morning, went to my group meeting, took a nap and shower and then got up to grab dinner with Lilian and gang. We ate at Ennio's and then went for K-Zone. 

Now time to get to work.



my roommate who smells good


my last Laurier dining hall perogies, ever. what? i'm nostalgic

after a boys drunken night out, jam session at kevin's house. that is marcus passed out on kevin's floor

kevin was really into singing about killing whores. he's scary when he's really drunk

shannon is a master of freestyling. and also at doing chin ups in mid-air

last Sunday, I made Spinach Cannelloni's for my roommates, it took forever!

...but it was worth it! yumm


I rearranged my room and put my bed in line with the door like in 3rd year. Ira told me that feng shui dictates that you absolutely cannot put your bed in line with the door. It's known as the "coffin" or "dead man" position, symbolizing how the dead are carried through doors. It freaked me out and I started obsessing about feng shui so I rearranged my bedroom another three times. This is the result. It's not the best, but I am tired of moving my furniture!


So this thing has been going around facebook for a while, but since I don't write notes on facebook, I decided to do one here. 


Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

1. No one knows me.


2. I am not as sad as everyone thinks I am.


3. I only drink for the sake of getting drunk. 


4. Jane and Finch, born and raised.


5. My arms are crooked and bend in weird ways. 


6. I love RPGs.


7. I had a speech impediment as a child where I couldn't pronounce "sh," "ch," "r" and "w" words.


8. I was never in a relationship that lasted more than 8 months. 


9. I like High School Musical.


10. My biggest pet peeve is being ignored.


11. I can't keep a secret for the life of me.


12. I don't know what I am doing with my life and frankly, it doesn't bother me. 


13. I eat popcorn with chopsticks. Add some cajun to that


14. I hate talking on the phone.


15. When people hurt me, I always have to do something stupid to myself. 


16. I hate how people now like How I Met Your Mother and "I'm Yours." Likewise in grade 9, I hated how people started liking anime. 


17. My life dream is to watch a Westlife concert in Dublin, Ireland.


18. I like beer now.


19. When I was born, my dad was 51.


20. I am trying to learn the phrase "Your ass looks big" in every language. 


21. Ghosts scare me. 


22. I never sleep with a mirror in front of my bed. Or my bed facing towards a window.


23. Elyna is a character I draw and write fantasy stories about. Not my alter ego. 


24. In my life I've stolen three things: 1) A skeleton pog from my childhood best friend, Michelle, 2) A Coors beer cup from Morty's, 3) The recycling bins from next door three days ago


25. I am never changing my facebook picture until I get another picture with Spider-man.



so that I can live tomorrow.

I gots my extra large coffee and I am ready for my all-nighter. I deserve it because I went to Montreal instead of studying for my exam and so I screwed myself over. I also half screwed myself over in AIS and FAT today because I didn't participate (because I didn't prepare for class, because I was studying... slash watching Westlife videos all night. Stupid Ira! Rekindling my love for my favourite boyband 10 years ago. By favourite, I mean the only boyband I ever liked. Backstreet Boys is gay!!! That's right Ira, I said it), so I made the effort to participate in Marketing Research. But that's so easy because there's only 20 people in that class and Lisa Giguere is surprisingly awesome.

What's worse is that right after my killer exam tomorrow morning, I have to endure 3 hour of classes before I can get my nap nap. From that point on, it's freedom...

So close.


Where'd we leave off?


Tuesday - Christmas Eve Squared. Annual RHSS Christmas Party @ Jenny Lai's freakin humongous mansion near Mississauga Road. Friends, billiards, table tennis, rock band and a ton of food = GREAT PARTY. How am I going to top that?! Remind me, I have this hilarious video I took at the party that must be posted once I get the cable for my camera to upload. 

Wednesday - Christmas Eve. Me, Charis and Priscilla went to Oasis for bubbletea and had an intense game of Trouble hahaha. Charis is a sore loser! T.J. invited us over to his place so we went over at 1 a.m. and played this wicked fun game for the Wii called Samba de Amigo, foosball, air hockey, DDR (he has METAL mats like in the arcades!), had a jam session with the guitar/piano/drums which I aptly named "Real Life Rock Band" and then karaoke until early morning. What a way to spend Christmas Eve! 

Thursday - Christmas Day! Tony & Lilian, Quang, Marcia and the kids came over and prepared a non-traditional Christmas dinner for my parents: bisque followed by prime rib steak. Not turkey, but it still tasted amazing. Also, I FINALLY - after one arduous week - finished the movie of my parents' trip to Vietnam. Me, Tony and my parents stayed up until late together watching the movie and I was happy that they really enjoyed it. As my dad says, "Success!!!"

Friday - Boxing Day - Boxing Day hell as I woke up at 11 and scrambled out of my bed to get to Guess Outlet with my brother before the sale was over (at noon). When I got there, the jacket I wanted was sold out. I went home and then I went out again this time to Sherway Gardens where finding parking was kind of hellish. We went to Maki Maki after at like 5 and then I came home and forced down another dinner afterwards with my parents.

What comes next? Well, Charis is going to New York tomorrow even when we were supposed to go on our Blue Mountain Trip... so I guess I'm going to Montreal instead for a couple of days. Then, 

NEW YEAR'S EVE SQUARED!!!


Vanessa and Howard come to town!

Thursday. We had another wing night at Morty's where Howard took a "souvenir" for me. There was about 20 people so everyone got split up into two very crowded tables, upstairs and downstairs. We stayed there for a bit and then some of us headed to K-Zone after.

From Fourth Year

From Fourth Year

From Fourth Year

"GOOOOTTTHHHHH"

Friday. We got back around 3:30AM and I went to bed at 6:30 and had the most uncomfortable sleep of my life for those three hours (me and Vanessa on my twin = erk!) before heading to my group meeting. A bunch of us went to East Side Mario's for dinner and we had the plan to watch Saw V but that was scrapped in the end. Instead, me, Vanessa and Mike Lee went to Symposium for some of the best cake and wine in town before they had to leave for home.

From Fourth Year
V likes her chocolate brownie cheesecake

Saturday. Cathy came home from her CN Tower climb and me, her and Bhu embarked on our journey to find the Marbleslab in KW. What is Marbleslab, you naively ask? It is the best tasting ice cream in the world, and comes in a variety of unique and delectable flavours. You pick your flavor and they put your ice cream on a marble slab and you pick a candy or fruit topping. They put it in the icecream and kind of mash it up together (but the icecream is very smooth and durable) and they put it in a waffle cone and it makes the most expensive, most delicious ice cream ever. 


The short of the story is, we took the bus, got off, got lost and wandered around for a long time and FINALLY found it eventually after an hour and a half of getting off the bus. Good thing is, when we found it, it only took us ten minutes to get back to the bus stop LOL. 

Sunday. I just got back from a nice time shopping at Fairview Mall with Cathy. I can tell you that taking the I-Xpress is probably a better idea compared to that time I went to Fairview Mall on the 12 bus in 2nd year and went in the wrong direction, taking me 2 hours to get there. 

I had a great weekend. Check out the photo album for some updates.



Thanksgiving weekend. I had a nice weekend at home. Right after my Thursday night class, Justin drove us home and then I had a nice night out. On Friday, me and Vanessa watched Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (it was cute) and spent the afternoon taking weird Mac photos at the library. At night after dinner, the whole gang went out to Sweet Avenue, this new dessert place in Mississauga which pretty much sucks. It was a great night of catching up with close friends.  

On Saturday, me and my mom spent the day preparing a Thanksgiving dinner, after my mom spontaneously went out and decided to buy a turkey. Keep in mind that we are not a conventional family and have never celebrated Thanksgiving before. We've never eaten a turkey either. So I spontaneously decided to make turkey stuffing. I've never eaten stuffing before except for the little sidedish they give to you at Swiss Chalet during holiday times, muchless have ever made stuffing - but I was confident that I could pull it off. How difficult can cooking be? Nevertheless, the turkey, the stuffing, the pumpkin pie, the entire meal turned out wonderful. The next afternoon, we had a second Thanksgiving meal when my oldest brother and their family came over. My youngest brother and his wife roasted lamb, made butternut squash, spinach salad, and yams - how Western are we? By the time everything was wrapping up, it was time for me to go back to Waterloo with Cathy. 

Jason Mraz @ Massey Hall. To get downtown for the concert, there was no choice for me but to rent out a car. I got Michael to drive me to Enterprise, but they said I needed insurance so I lied and said it was under my parent's name. They told me I needed a document for proof so I told them I would go home and try to fax it to them - and we left and never came back. He then drove me to Discount, which was SO difficult to find because it is hidden at the back of a hotel, but first you have to go through a restaurant to get there. Fortunately, these guys didn't even ask me for insurance so I was good to go. Me and Cathy drove to Mississauga first to pick up Ira, got McDonalds on the way and headed downtown.

Massey Hall compared to the ACC is a tiny place. It was amazing how close we were to the stage. The concert itself was fantastic. Jason Mraz is a God when he's out on stage performing - his voice, his talent, his energy - it just gets the entire crowd pumping. This concert definitely beats out Spice Girls and all the John Mayer concerts I've been to, in my books. He is just plain awesome. 


Oktoberfest weekend. I had a Management Accounting assignment due Friday afternoon, which me and my group members stayed up all Thursday night working on. Of course, we started working on it Thursday at midnight so it only makes sense that we worked on it non-stop until 10AM the next morning. I woke up around 4PM on Friday, took a shower and got ready to go out for Oktoberfest with Becky and friends. 

Oktoberfest - which none of us have been to, was fun and money draining. The entire night, was let's say... interesting. The Heidelberg house was playing pure country music and there were old people line dancing - talk about being out of place. We went to Symposium in the end for desserts and that was our night! I uploaded photos in the photo album.


yesterday was a good send off with all-you-can-eat sushi for dinner with a whole bunch of people. later on, dustin and gang hit up morty's but me and becky didn't end up going. i had a lot of packing/cleaning to do, and i ended up sleeping around 5AM.


my waterloo room without my crap

my bedroom jam-packed with all my crap

my first day back was pretty awesome despite being on four hours of sleep. we ate dimsum @ tremendous, i started unpacking/organizing/cleaning while singing my ass off out loud! (it's fun that way), played tennis and went bike riding with my brother and made him ride a girly bike and our neighbours laughed at him and told him he needed to get a new bike, watched mariah carey concert, had pho for dinner, briefly went clothes shopping, blogged and now SLEEPY time because i have work tomorrow and i am frankly quite exhausted! GO SUMMER


all weekend, i didn't step foot out of the house. i caught up on finance and got a head start on the assignment due next monday (while playing some advance wars and revenant wings) and also preparing for stupid in-class marketing case for participation marks.

assignment for marketing is due friday, and operations assignment has now been moved to friday too. i'm hardcore working on ops right now which i HAVE to finish tonight so i don't plan on sleeping.

i also finished dexter season one. so good.

ira is coming this weekend, and we're going to get bubbletea and celebrate new years with lilian and friends so i'll finally get the chance to socialize. then next week is going to be more hell - BOD for marketing and two midterms, 14th and 15th. not like i had plans for valentine's day anyway.

then we're roadtripping it to montreal 16th-19th.

howard's birthday

reading week.

and then spice girls!


due to lurking creepers, i will not state specific seat locations... BUT IT'S REALLY CLOSE!
bwahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!

maybe i'll drive there... in my new GREEN car!!!

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!


if i had to describe my life right now through a song, it'd be "something's missing" by john mayer

this past week has certainly been eventful, sort of emotional roller coaster tangled with ups and downs. but for every down, every up was very much worth it. i'm trying my best to keep my life on track and i don't think of any day as a particular waste, which is my goal - but something's not quite right.

whatever


oh my god, i'm such an idiot. i used a pen to scratch my back without looking, and turns out the cap was off.

anyway, i am so freakin happy because i spent all morning worrying about how i'm going to transport my crap on such late notice. i was on the phone with my brother trying to find uhaul rates and alternatives (uhaul is such a friggn ripoff, GO DIE uHELL!) and in the end, turns out that my dad has some hookups with a van so we're all set to go for tomorrow.


now to concentrate on priorities.

DIE ACCOUNTING!!!

unfortunately, only cerello students understand this. unfortunately.

*edit.
OMFG OMFG we got snow patrol tickets... FLOOR!!! *screams in excitement*


after the stats exam today, ira and lilian tricked me by inviting me to a "sushi dinner" and then changing plans last minute, telling me about this 'new place' that's really inexpensive that even ira would be willing to pay for me. so we got on the bus and got off two stops later where they sneakily dragged me to justin's house because he made us dinner.

i wish i could have brought my camera, but it was a good dinner. lilian and ira then watched some depressing korean dramas while justin showed me his new DS Lite and reaffirmed my devouring want for one. so for about six hours straight, i played DS Lite... best spent hours of my life.

about the jm concert, it was good but not as good as his previous ones, mainly because of his newfound attraction for an older, more mature audience that is almost as rowdy as howard lau. i am glad that there are no annoying screaming pre-teens, but without those girls, the audience is lifeless and makes the overall experience less enjoyable. i, on the other hand, did not hold back in delivering my teenage-girl cheering and singing and dancing, which made old man winter there next beside me start dancing and singing as well. i am proud of my work, and also a little creeped out. it was the dancing that threw me off.