Wha You Sayin?

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So this dude at work went up to me and said, "Wha you sayin?" After 10 minutes of confusion (on my part) and frustration (on his part), he finally told me that it meant "what's up" and it only made me wonder why he didn't just say that from the start.


I haven't updated about current events for almost two months now so you're probably wondering "what I'm sayin." I've been keeping BUSY that's for sure...
  • Taking the Tax II class I dropped last term, I go up to Waterloo every Mondays and Wednesdays
  • Part-time work at Mississauga Honda as a Service Cashier while I finish school and decide what I want to do with my life (to Korea or not to Korea, that is the question)
In between, I've been watching A TON TON TON of movies (went to see Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus at TIFF), applying for full-time jobs for January and just hanging out.


Goodbye school, Hazel St. and the last moments of summer...

Goodbye house with many memories to leave behind...

Last couple of weeks of school, I've been jamming on Ira's guitar a whole lot

Last visit from Shannon. So many memories dude!!

Four of us went to Victoria Park after sushi lunch to hang out and Ira "climbed" a tree

Goodbye Kitchener!! Four years... can't believe we haven't been to this park yet (it's right beside Charles St terminal!)

Last night studying and Allen passed by Solarium!

me, ira and penny goofing off on the last study day

Goodbye 267 Hazel forever....... *tears* can't believe I don't live there anymore, it feels WEIRD thinking about it!!

My name on my door right before I peeled it off..... *tear* (P.S. this stupid thing cost me $50 from the landlord who charged me cos they said I didn't peel off everything)

Visit to Lakeshore and goofing off with my besties after eating some yummy Dairy Cream

Last night before Europe....... hotpot at Charis's!! (last time i would see charis *cries*)


Enjoying the brisk autumn weather and life @ home...

Back from Europe, me, my brother and sister-in-law went to Buffalo to check out the falls on their side and go shopping

"Cave of the Mist" - surprising I've never been here before (very fun getting SOAKED by the falls)

crazy shot with the falls ravaging behind us... and rainbow!

Sushi Star with friends for Mike's bday celebration!


crappy cellphone pic... but this was at Nuit Blanche where they showcased a bunch of contemporary "art" exhibits downtown Toronto all night

Thanksgiving Weekend was crazy but good... celebrated Shannon's birthday at PJ O'Brien's Irish Pub, went to Waterloo for Jacey's birthday and had Thanksgiving dinner with the family. I've been keeping busy lately studying (or lack thereof) for my exam Saturday, working, etc... and TA-DA ALL CAUGHT UP!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

Goodbye Hello

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On Tuesday, I finished my exam by noon (I walked in Marilyn and walked out the hunchbank of notre dame - damn you retarded 1E1 tables). I know I was going to have an adventure but I didn't really feel up for doing much of anything haha. I ran errands all day and by night, Ira went to school to study while I stayed home to pack.

Around 10:30PM, James came over and brought me an ice cap and we had a reaaaaaaaaaaaaly nice talk outside for an hour. =) When he left, I was about to take apart my desk but I realized I didn't have the "L" tool (which I now know is called an allen wrench - trying to explain what it was to 4 different people without knowing what it's called was not fun).



My plan: take apart my desk and go to sleep at 1AM. How naive I was!!!
What happened: I needed the allen tool so I went to Jackie's to pick it up and Ira told me to get her bubbletea. Jackie INSISTED on coming with me (apparently he was very bored at home LOL) and we brought Ira and Cyrus ice cream instead. They were talking about how Penny left to see the meteor showers, so the three of us went to solarium to look too. There was too much light so we walked a little further but it wasn't dark anywhere! We ended up walking and walking, all the way to Waterloo park (and getting super lost in the meantime) where everyone else was. The rest of the night we watched meteor showers and in total, I saw five! It's so fast and it rarely happens so I was SUPER EXCITED.

So yeah, I took apart my desk and went to sleep but at 5AM!!

Wednesday, I packed and cleaned everything by noon. Kevin coincidentally came up to get his things and he gave me a ride to home hardware to get some packing tape. Kevin was so nice, he helped me move some of the really heavy stuff!! My parents remembered him from the first day of school, where we were all moving in at the same time. Fast forward one year later, and we're all moving out... time goes by so quick!

I got back to Mississauga around 1:30PM and my parents took me to Tremendous where we had $11 dimsum between the three of us! (All I can think about is that $100 meal at Cameron we had between the four of us...my goodness). Now I am home, the babies are here and make me happy, my room has stretch marks now because it's jam packed with my crap, and then... off to Europe on Saturday.

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What the frig am I going to do with my life??!?!








AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

**EDIT

I am fine now.

Pictures from Hendry's birthday...

Eating at my new favourite restaurant... CHINA LEGEND! Why did I have to "discover" how awesome you were a week before I leave Waterloo? Why do you tempt me oh China Legend with your deliciousness?!

Bowling FUN! What an amazing day HAHAHA. Wooooooh go Ira, "do it for the greens!!!" (P.S. she did not end up doing it for the greens at all.)

Me and my favourite person of all time, the most friendliest, happiest, most fun-loving guy ever. Ira and Jacey both said that me and James are very similar in personality and I don't really see why but I take it as a compliment for sure!!!

The birthday boy, Hendry Biantoro!!! So happy and cheerful, I'm sure he had the best birthday ever!!!


P.S. Not going to Korea in September anymore.

The Final Weekend.

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I wanted this weekend to be pure studying, but I had a lot of nice distractions to remind me that I only have two more days before I move away from Waterloo forever. I can't wait to be done with school, but I also can't seem to tear myself away from the place I once called a shithole.


I am going to miss it so much. I am going to miss everyone so much.

Yesterday, Jackie had an "end of the summer BBQ" but for a lot of people, it was a last goodbye before we all go our separate ways. Of all the beautiful days we had this week, it decided to rain a mother, but it was all good. I only stayed for a couple of hours because I had to go study, but it was really fun - tons of food, friends, drinks, music, WII! I am going to miss these crazy people.

Tonight, Mike and Jacey invited us over for special dinner. He cooked me all my favourite foods!!! His special croutons dressed with vinegar, french onion soup and RISOTTO!!! Me and Ira brought over ice cream cake that said "Mike and Jacey... YOU ROCK!" which was quite embarassing telling the Baskin Robbins guy to write.

Back to school studying right now. I am finished my exam at noon on Tuesday and I am just going to run around Waterloo like a crazy person taking photos, admiring everything for the last time, and saying goodbye. I am going to do everything I wanted to but never got a chance to... anyone in for a crazy adventure?

Picture Update

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So I finished an exam last night and afterwards, the original plan was for me, Jackie and Shannon to go to Morty's to drink off the narsty after taste of Giselle's horrid exam... somehow it turned into 11 of us!

Today, me, Jacey, Mike and Ira went for all-you-can-eat buffet at Sushi Star. Mike was like, "What are we going to do now?" and I said, "Let's sleep under a tree!" So we went to Victoria Park and it was really nice. Jacey kept harassing the ducks and swans and Mike helped Ira climb an otherwise unclimbable tree while we were getting weird looks from people. I'm surprised after four years at Waterloo, I've never been to this park before because it's right beside Charles St. Terminal. It's pretty sweet.

Here are some pics of various events:

Me and birthday boy!

Group of friends at James's birthday party. How did he cramp so many people in his very narrow apartment? Look at Mike's face = priceless.

Church day! On our way to dimsum and enjoying the gorgeous day

Us outside of Cameron - the uber expensive dimsum place


My crazy friends posing outside of James's apartment

More to come.

Must Maximize Productivity!

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So this is final exam times and I can say that I am definitely on schedule with my studying. I have two exams left:

  • Auditing tomorrow night
  • Advanced Accounting on Aug 11
Then on the morning of Aug 12th, I am moving back home for good.

On Aug 15th, we are embarking on our Europe trip and will be returning Sept 2nd.

From that point on, it's still a mystery.

Today's another day of studying. Happy Birthday Dennis Lau and Eric Ngo, enjoy yourselves whilst I suffer.

Birthday Long Weekend

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What a weekend!


**HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES!**
On Friday, I finished my tax final on a mere three hours of sleep. I took an hour nap before going to James's place to celebrate his birthday. We got him transformers and we hung out, ate pizza, drank beer, sang songs and ate mango cake.

**HAPPY BIRTHDAY HENDRY!**
Saturday was Hendry's birthday and we went out for lunch at my new favourite restaurant, China Legend. Me and Ira got Hendry a 12-pack of a beer he likes called Grasshopper. At Hendry's place, me and Jacey started playing this Wii game called "House of the Dead: Overkill" and it was so fun - we were glued onto the screen like a pair of... zombies... (ha, ha.)

We then went bowling at Brunswick Bowl in Cambridge. I sucked big time at first but by the third game, I was playing really good games I must say. Better than I've ever played before. That was super fun.

We went back to Hendry's and after putting up with all the stupid annoying unskippable long ass cut scenes trying our patience, me and Jacey finished House of the Dead. Everyone else was playing alcohol poker so I had to buy in with two narsty shots of vodka only to go bankrupt literally two hands later. Yeah lol...... damn.

Church
Sunday, James invited me, Ira and Jackie to come to his church and I was more than ecstatic to. We went to Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church. It was a beautiful church and very mellow. It was different because there was no pastor for that service, just a woman who shared her experiences and helped us reconnect with God through moments of silence - it was like our Praise Night. James told me it was not usually like that, but it was a very mellow service.

Check them out: http://www.waterloomb.org/

After, we went to eat dim sum @ Cameron in Kitchener and the bill was like 200 bucks between the FOUR of us. The weather was absolutely amazing I must say! We went home and I ended up packing my entire room so now my room is naked and I'm ready to go anytime! WOoh, out of here for good next week.

Studying
Me and Ira went to concourse to study. Swati joined us, ran into Shannon and Julian, then I asked Becky out for dinner and Charles conveniently wanted to go too so we all went to China Garden. At 8:45pm, I was desperate to get my degree and my passport (which I need to mail to the Korean embassy ASAP and I left both of them at home!!!) so I went to Mississauga to pick up my crap and drove straight back.

Overall, really good weekend. Too many summer babies haha but had a great time =)

Marilyn still needs to do her essay...

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Friday
Me and James at his grad reception. 

No grad pics from me yet, my brother was my personal photographer and has it all. I refuse to talk about grad (best day ever) until I have my photos.


Crazy grad night with drunkerds in our house. What happened that night stayed with that night...

Saturday

I made him three sandwiches. Studying with Mike, then pulling an all nighter for my exam that didn't deserve my all nighter. It's okay, I was playing blockles most of the time anywho.


I came home to Ira's homemade Shepherd's pie

Sunday
9 am exam in the morning. I took a nap for 3 hrs then Ira woke me up for Monica's BBQ. Mike won (AGAIN) $50 in poker so me and Jacey attacked him and I reaped my Party on a Boat funds from him. 

Monday
A bad morning so I went to the gym and ran into Shannon. Then we went to hang out with Mike. They bought a softball and they were teaching me how to catch and throw (even though there's no way in heck I'm joining their MLSB team). We then went back for badminton

Tuesday
They raided my room to play poker. This is the first time Mike lost...... I think this was a very important day for all of us. Amen.

Where's Marilyn? Part 2

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School Starts:
Taking Tax I and Advanced Tax concurrently is hell enough. Add: Advanced Accounting and Auditing - just kill me.

Mother's Day:
Frankie's Tomatos in Markham for Italian Buffet. Blegh, I hate buffets.

Afterwards, BR with friends for bubbletea (and other ulterior motives...). Dennis spent the night taking random ass photos with his new DSLR. P.S. Upload photos please

Next afternoon was Mother's Day and my parents drove me back to Waterloo. We ate the best meal ever at King Tin.

Jackie's Birthday! Lilian and Ira baked Jackie a diabetic cake with a big "J" on it and made delicious cupcakes with everyone's last names. Again, people, upload your photos! The next day, we met up again on his actual birthday and went out to Morty's. We stayed up late Rock Banding at his house and all I can say to Hendry and James: you guys, omg.

Movies. Howard gave me a ride home Friday morning. Charis called to say goodbye in the afternoon, as she was already at the airport on route to Peru. HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, see you in two weeks! At night, we stayed up with a Europe psych-up movie marathon night at Richard's house. The next night, we all went out to watch Angels & Demons and it was good!

Blue Jay's Game. I went downtown to pay for Party on a Boat deposit. It was A LOT, so you people better come (Justin, Ira, Mike Murakami, Michael Lee - RSVP! You know you're coming, why prolong the inevitable). I took a picture of a boat, but yeah, it's pretty dinky. I was quite disappointed. Go on the site and look at the photo gallery. This means I should stop hyping it up as one big crazy party. 

After, I met up with Lilian and the gang to watch the Blue Jay's Game against White Sox. It was amazing!!! I had a great time, and it's not nearly as boring as that time I watched it when I was a kid. We didn't get our Alex Rios bobblehead (I WILL FOREVER BLAME IRA) but Lilian won free passes for Terminator: Salvation and a hat, and we all get free Pizza! After, we ate at Loose Moose Bar & Grill because Cyrus and Kurt wanted to watch Lakers. Fun day. Again, UPLOAD PHOTOS!

Okay I'm all caught up! I beat you, James.

Hello BBA, Goodbye Laurier

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It's like everything was a complete mess and then all at once, everything just falls into place. I've waited a long time for this moment and only now do I start to feel like it was all worth it. All of it was for my parents but now, this is for me.



See you June 5th

Select cellphone pics from the past few weeks

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studying with v-bear @ UTM

distracting Becky at a computer lab

Marcus talks now! he knows my name!

"Airplane!"

my baby friends

im a good influence

halim and 1/4 of her birthday present

my new DSLR. DSLR is what it's called, right?

PIKA!

chillin at mike lee's place

me and Ira's embarassing stack of asian snacks @ T&T

MY NEW SPI-DOG!!!!!!! tentatively named Tina. its a girl!

all my trophies that I won in various sports...