The weekend 'n' stuff....

Time: 4:17pm
Mood: Restless (can't seem to sit down & write...)
Song of the moment: Bush - Machine Head

Weekend @ the Cottage

Last weekend Jen invited a bunch of us to her cottage up at Muskoka Lake for the weekend. I drove up with Jimmy, Art and Marta Friday afternoon and lucky for us there wasn't too much traffic :) We were the first group there (we had planned it out so that some of us arrived there at 3, and the rest at 4 b/c Jen's dad had to take us to the cottage by boat.. it's on a island!).

This was my first time going to a cottage (most of my friends are asian.. go fig azn ppl don't own cottages! haha! I want to be the first! haha). OMG I LOVED it! It was the perfect getaway... it wasn't too far that the thought of driving all that way would give u a headache, but it was far enough to get away from your everyday life. I felt so relaxed the whole weekend. I stayed out all day in the sun and in the water... I got quite dark (darker than I am already... I thought that wasn't possible! haha). The water was sooo awesome! I coulda stayed in it forever except the fact that I hate it when I turn all pruney... ewww.. hah! I spent the evening with some good friends drinking it up and playing silly games. The first night we were there we played Pictionary.. and the team I was on actually won! haha! We got some pretty strange ones... like masseuse.... and illusion.. we managed to draw those & guess it somehow! hahah! it was hilarous! The second night we made a nice camp fire and sat around roasting marshmellows :) yum... campfire marshmellows are the best :D Oh if Jen does this next year I'm totally going!! :D

The boat ride back was brutal! Alex, his brother Andrew, Jimmy and I were the first ones to leave (haha all the azns got voted off the island! haha) and we took a water taxi. the waves were kinda high and we were on a speedboat.. Alex, Jimmy and I were sitting at the front of the boat.. man we shot at least half a foot up in the air when the boat hit a wave. I was giggling the ENTIRE time... it was fun but holy mother of god it hurt! haha! Needless to say, after that boat ride back, the drive home seemed uneventful! haha!

Last Week in The Hammer

I'm moving out this Saturday so this is my last week living in the Hammer... Steeltown.. Hamtown.. whatever you want to call it. I was excited about it except I started to feel sad...

Since Alex and I are moving this week (actually Alex left today), my friends are so sweet and planned two nights of fun as a kind of farewell to us. Tuesday night me, Laura, Jen, Alex, Mark, Andrew, Nadira, Cecilia, Art, Marta and Derek headed to the very first Timmies ever opened (Store #1). It was sort of uneventful.. I think we totally built it up as this big thing... but it wasn't... it looked like every other Timmies :( After, we headed to the theatre to catch "The Island" on the big screen. HAHA Laura, Jen and I had quite a adventure getting to the theatre. The theatre is located up the mountain in Ancaster, so we thought we would try to take side roads to get up the mountain. We ended up driving around this neighbourhood and getting nowhere! haha! We FINALLY found a road that went up the mountain.. haha! Anyway, we managed to find our way to the theatre! hooray! haha! So before we went in, Laura and I thought it would be fun to play Dance-Dance-Revolution. OMG it was HILAROUS! Our friends started taking bets to see who would be the better dance.. I was an obvious disadvantage b/c I had a busted knee AND Laura's the tap-dance queen. haha! We started out easy and it was good... then our friends told us to go for the "moderate" level...OMG I made a complete ASS outta myself! haha! It was so fast... and I think I spent more time laffing than actually dancing! hah! Eh it was all in good fun! The Island was a really good movie! Go watch it!! :D

Last night my friend Jenn came to Hamtown b/c I told her my friends were heading to Hess, and she told me she wanted to go out so I invited her to come along :) We started the night at Koi, a pretty pricy bar (but it's nice!). Sometime during our time there, this fat old drunk man came up to us and started talking to us. He told us he had ESP and that he could prove it to us. He said he was gonna turn around, and we had to do something silly behind is back, then he was gonna tell us what we had done. So he turns around, we did something silly, he turns around and says "I know what u did... u did something silly!" HAHA then he walked away! hahh! oh drunken old ppl are hilarous! Afterwards we headed to Elixir for some dancing.. it was so packed :S Made me remember why I'm not too fond of clubbing ne more. Geez am I getting old?

So this morning Jenn and I went out for breakfast in Westdale and that's when it hit me... I'm gonna miss this place. And I felt sad :(

Well back to my thesis writing... I'm strugging with one chapter.. my supervisor keeps sending it back to me telling me to add more. AGH!! :( It's due tomorrow... but I don't feel like writing....

Girl Inturrupted

Time: 1:40am
Mood: ..getting sleepy..
Song of the moment: Gwen Stefani - Cool

One of my biggest pet peeves that I tend to keep to myself because I don't want to look like a complete "I want attention" drama queen is when ppl inturrupt me when I'm telling a story. I find this happens to me A LOT and when I mean a lot I mean almost once a day. I'm not sure if it's b/c I am a horrible story teller... or ppl are not that interested but it really ticks me off sometimes. It's almost the same feeling when you feel like someone is walking all over you, treating you like a doormat. Right away you feel insignificant. I hate that feeling. Is it just me or does this happen to everyone? I understand ppl can get sidetracked but that's a poor excuse for being rude. I'm not the type of person to re-inturrupt a person and say "hello! I'm in the middle of a story here!" like some ppl would do. That's just not me. So I guess I will continue to battle this pet peeve of mines in silence. Holy shit I'm gonna snap one day aren't I?

So I paid off my bank loan this week! I would say "Hooray!" but not so fast. I actually took the money my parents gave me to pay forpart of my car (my "trust fund" money.. the last of it...eeks!) to pay off my loan. I still have enough to cover another year and a bit on the car. I figured.. I have the money sitting in my account... I am paying about $20/month in interest (since I'm a student they only made me pay the interest amont on my loan) ... and I have to pay it back eventually anyway so I might as well fork over the money now! haha! It's actually good b/c I heard the interest rates were going up. Nuts!! Anyway, I've decided to cancel my current chequing account and open one up at another bank instead. My current bank raised it's minimum "no service charge" balance to $1500 .. f**k that! I'm switchin! The other bank has a minimum balance of $1000 + they're giving away free ipod shuffles if you switch! Bonus! haha!

My thesis is going alright.. I've got 4 chapters ready for submission... 2 more to write (but they're easy peasy!) and 1 bitch-ass chapter to fix up. It's an absolute mess! I have a feeling I'm gonna have to re-write most of that little bugger. Agh! I know it's just one more chapter to deal w/ but it's sooooo hard! I'm getting so lazy about it. I can see the finish line but I'm crawling to get there.....

Geez I'm itching to start the new Harry Potter book! I got it delivered to my house on Saturday. No.. I wasn't one of those freaks that lined up 12AM @ Chapters DRESSED like one of the characters to get a copy of the book... although I was at a store at 12AM when the brought out the book... but I just wanted to see the cover :D

Gwen Stefani - Cool

It's hard to remember how it felt before
Now I found the love of my life...
Passes things get more comfortable
Everything is going right

And after all the obstacles
It's good to see you now with someone else
And it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool

We used to think it was impossible
Now you call me by my new last name
Memories seem like so long ago
Time always kills the pain

Remember Harbor Boulevard
The dreaming days where the mess was made
Look how all the kids have grown
We have changed but we're still the same
After all that we've been through
I know we're cool

And I'll be happy for you
If you can be happy for me
Circles and triangles, and now we're hangin' out with your new girlfriend
So far from where we've been
I know we're cool

Elizabeth's Bridal Shower

Time: 2:18am
Mood: Brain-dead (yeah yeah.. 2am...)
Song of the moment: Gwen Stefani - Cool

Today I went to my very first bridal shower :D It was for Elizabeth, who's getting married at the end of August. It's so strange because Elizabeth and I actually went to the same highschool.. in fact I think my mom taught her chinese school a LONG time ago... I'm not sure.. but I remember her face from way back. Anyway, she was two years ahead of me so I never socalized with her in highschool. We became friends after I met her at a roller hockey game.. Jimmy and her fiance Hubert played on the same team. We were the girlfriends that sat on the side-lines cheering them on and yelling at the opposing team (I'm pretty bad at those games actually... I've gotten into a few yelling matches w/ the players on the other team! haha I'm fiesty! No one touches my man.. NO ONE! haha). It was a surprise bridal shower @ Hubert's apartment downtown. It was awesome b/c she really had no clue we were throwing her a party.. so it was a genuine surprise! hah! I had a lot of fun! I didn't really know anyone (except for one of Elizabeth's twin sisters.. ). We played fun games all afternoon... like the ever-popular "Make a wedding dress out of toilet paper". hehe I can't wait for mines (if I have one... hehe)

Every weekend I have the most wonderful experience that I just want to blog about.. just for the fun of it. Every weekend, either I stay over @ Jimmy's or he stays over at mines. Actually, it's been more my house b/c I got a bigger bed (I tend to be a bed hog according to Jimmy... hey man! I need the room to curl my long legs! haha). Every Saturday and Sunday morning I wake up and immediately I feel like I just woke up alone, because that's just what I'm used to. But then I look over and I see Jimmy... and I just feel so complete. It's wonderful! Waking up to the one you love!

I can't wait to do that every day :D

The Capital of the Wireless World?

Time: 12:14pm
Mood: groggy (I just got up... damn u Timmies IceCap!)
Song of the moment: Foo Fighters - Razor

I was surfing the net and I came across the Style.com website which had an article about how Canada is now considered "hot" in the fashion industry. With its list of why Canada's hot, I came across this:

"Maybe you haven't heard of Waterloo, Ontario, but the HR departments at Apple, IBM, and Microsoft are quite familiar with this city of 110,000 people… and one world-renowned engineering college. Its geeky graduates are invading Silicon Valley, but increasing numbers are staying local to work at hometown hero Research in Motion. Haven't heard of RIM, either? You will, as the company's flagship product, a little gizmo called the BlackBerry, establishes Waterloo as a capital of the wireless world."

If that doesn't make a Waterloo Engineer feel like a complete and total nerd, I donno what does! haha :) But a stylish nerd indeed :D

London Terrorist Attack

Time: 3:55pm
Mood: Upset
Song of the moment: ... I'm drawing a blank...

I woke up this morning and everything was alright. I usually go online, hit up thestar.com to see what's going on in the world but this morning I didn't. When I got to school, people started to ask me if I heard what happend in London. I smiled and said "Well yeah they got the Olympics! duh!" But my smile was quickly wiped of my face upon hearing the news that London was the center on yet another terrorist attack.

4 bombs. 4 bombs went off during the morning rush to work. 4 bombs. 3 in The Tube, 1 on a bus, that just tore it apart.









I was absolutely horrified. In fact, I still am. Am I scared? I admit, a little. But that's exactly the way terrorist want me to feel... terrorized in my own environment, an environment that up until the attacks on 9-11 have made me feel safe and secure. I don't know what I would do if Toronto was ever bombed. But I refuse to feel scared.. I refuse to live my life in terror.

My prayers go out to the Londoners that were affected by this selfless act.