Oh~ Lots of Movies

So a celebration was held for my nephew for living a whole month. A big, important event indeed, since it was also held at an expensive restaurant; high expectations were expected. Our whole family dressed up for it, going pretty semi-formal ONLY. Meh, we overrated the celebration dinner; we were actually the MOST overdressed. We forgot the majority that were invited were my aunt's co-workers who all worked at T&T with her... man. We dressed better than the hosts. *coughcough*



Moni-moo needed people to practice on for her manicure skillz so I agreed on helping. Had to wake up early and bus to VCC to meet her at school. I gave her the wrong hand to start with and had my right hand done. There was a lack of time so I lived a day with one really pointy hand. I went the next day to get the other hand done. It was hard to get used to the pointy hands at first, but it's all good now. Still quite inconvenient though... Oh well it's cooooo~l!



We had a movie night the other day. Knowing Shrek 2 was coming out, we rewatched Shrek again and also because Fish and Elie hasn't watched it yet. We took the opportunity to finish the Smirnoff Vanilla as well so I could bring the beautiful bottle home which is now beautifully proped on the highest shelf with my precious cds. Anyways, afterwards, we went to Kam Do ("Golden Knife") to have some good dinner. And we met TROUBLE. We dropped Elie off and went to pick up Ocean's Eleven from the video store. We had trouble finding it there though... :O We got back and met up with Simon and Sally as well and watched it. Oooh, such a good movie~ Brad Pitt's always eating... so good :D Jerry came half way and watched as well. Jo and I left early while the rest of the people went on with their MJ. Can't wait for Ocean's Twelve~! Oh and Shrek 2 too~!



My mom borrowed a fake DVD of AZUMI from someguy and I decided to watch it. Gawd, Hiroki Narimiya's so damn cute! WHY'D HE HAVE TO [spoiler]DIE![/spoiler]... I soon figured [spoiler]most people, if not everyone, would die[/spoiler] after Amagi went and killed himself. And I saw Nagara and hoped he would die cuz of his ugliness... Aw then I thought, Hyouga can't die! He's got a GIRL! And he's pretty decent looking! And then woosh, death. Then the cute Ukiha dies (dying ever so heroicly~). And at the end, the UGLY GUY'S ALIVE?! Man, super disappointment. I just hope AZUMI 2 has more hot guys for me to gawk at :p



I just finished watching Moon Child before I started posting... Wow, they can't act but they put the funniest humor in there. But it was sad... But to think hyde's a vampire.... I would have never thought the story would be about a vampire... I expected something more "mood child"-like than a guy that can't live under the sun and sucks peoples' blood to live. Meh, a little less unoriginality there but oh well... their hotness pays off.



Job hunting is such a drag...

Yay for Troy

Woke up late, met up with Jo late and headed out late. We had TV Dinners at my place for our late lunch. We headed to Pacific Border to check out the super sale. Saw lots of nice clothes but had no money. I eyed a cool hoody but it was slightly beyond my budget. Jo got something and then we made our way to Safeway for the food. We visited Sam B. at the cashier and quickly got to Jerry's place. By then, only 3 people (Jerry, Simon, Elie) were there and they started watching Totoro with crap subtitles. Amy came and we realized we didn't know how to surprise her so all of us hid in the bathroom as Jerry stalled her. Took her a while to find us and tried to scare us out by turning on/off the bathroom fan and lights. We considered buying the tickets for the movie online so we tried it out. Unfortunately you couldn't buy the tickets for TROY at SILVERCITY RIVERPORT ONLY. Fustrated, we hurried up Mike to get here with his car (since he's always the designated driver guy) since the majority who came with a car didn't want to drive because of the nasty gas prices (99.5/L). Soon, Paul and Angus showed up and joined us in the continuation of Totoro as we waited for Mr. Taxi-Man. We started making hotdogs and burgers but the buns were rather difficult to chew. Mike finally arrived, so we hastly drove Riverport, bought the tickets and started lining up to get in. We stood/sat for at least a half n hour before we were let in. We sat for another half n hour before the movie actually started. We put bets on how many times a particular advertisement would show up before the movie started and also managed to refilled on pop and popcorn.



The movie... it was.. GREAT; GOOD; WOW XD... I loved it lots. I had to go to the washroom midway through the movie (I was full; next to bursting) but the movie pulled me back in and I totally forgot I had to go. :D Exciting and fun and of course, Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom were teh COOL and teh hawt stuff~! <3 The events were mangled, there was a dirty spot on the screen that got in the way a few times, the people beside us chattered a bit too much at times (and too loudly even if it was two or three words), and a bunch of girls in the back giggled a few times a bit too loudly lol... lots of nice nakedy shots though lol, no wonder Jo said it was rated R in the US.



Whee, after the enjoyable movie, we returns to Jerry's place as Mike went back home to get ketchup and Sally that decided to join us. Amy and Paul left as soon as we arrived. The rest of us finished watching Totoro and headed to the basement for MJ and Pool. We sent a few people out to bring us back some Bubble Tea. Everyone else gradually departed leaving Jerry, Simon, Mike, Sally and myself there. I took the time to visit Jerry's TATAMI ROOM! I had fun opening and closing the door and snoozing on the table in the floor. It must be nice to have their very own Tatami room in their very own house... XD And to think, they're selling the house! Anyways, Sally went to made phone calls so I took over her spot for MJ and won the biggest win of the night of a "Overflow" or "No room" or "Full" or what I call "Explosion!" hand taking $512 from everyone. :D I swear it must be from sitting in Sally's lucky seat where she continuously beat everyone all night. Finally we called it quits and got going. We dropped Sally off first because she was the farthest. Mike started complaining that he was hungry so we stopped by McDix and then decided to visit Tony C at his graveyard shift. We bought a bit from him and drove back along the empty streets at 4AM.



*yawn* My hair's finally dry. I'll go to bed now. :)

Kiru Biru 2 & Job Hunting PT. X

Watched Kill Bill 2 yesterday at Metro~ It was a nice ending, though I didn't expect it to end that easily. Lots of talking and explaining though. The Superman analogy was kinda interesting.. :D Had late night all-you-can-eat HotPot afterwards. The insanityyy.....



Woke up late today... got to the Job Fair late too. Developed foot pain from wearing those nasty heels while walking downtown. Me and Jo lined up for a half n hour and got in just in time. The annoying couple beside me kept trying to squirm in front of us. I wanted to be a bitch and yell them back, but decided not to. Got in, filled out a quick survey and took a mini tour around the booths. There wasn't much there, and most of the forms were already taken so we tried whatever that was left. We left soon later and passed by a McDix so I decided to finally have lunch (@4:30pm). Had the McDeal and supersized the fries.. mm fries. We took the counter seat where it was wide-open and visible facing Thurlow St. We sat and talked for an hour or so and made our way back. Stopped at Oakridge and visited the newly opened Benetton. We saw Lisa Cheng and fled. :D



Wow.. had even *MORE* hotpot at home for dinner tonight.

New Layout, rar

Blogger has a new look (big, bubbly feeling), a title fuction I've never noticed before, and other funky new stuff (like a comment system -__-). As for myself, I made a new layout after endless months of slacking off! I like how it turned out, how about you? :D

My eyes are so tired... I'm going to *try* and make this short... TRYING!



Tried to use the alarm clock and cellphone again to wake me up... I turned them off again and got up an hour after it rang so it sorta helped. I called up Amy to check if she could give me a ride but she had lessons at the time. My parents wanted to go out and eat so I changed and got ready. Amy called a bit later and we decided to meet up later instead. Had lunch on the noodle house on Graville where we had to wait forever for a seat because it was packed. We tried out that cheap seaweed that everyone seems to like to order there and it turned out alright. Sour... cold.. flimsy.. green. Nothing overly special though.. not sure why it's so popular. Got a call from... I don't remember... about the change of plans. They said Stanley Park so I hesitated about going and decided not to. After we finished eating, I reconsidered and decided to follow them. They didn't have lunch yet so I met them at... Golden Award (I think is the name?) and got the seats first cuz I got there early. I was surprised I got there before they did; from Vancouver -> Richmond, compared to Richmond Superstore -> Richmond Golden Award. Hmph... We sat around and watched Sally and Tony C. eat while Jon and Tony K drank their pop and Simon, Amy and I enjoyed our free tea. More talking talking talking and then they said we'd go biking at Stanley Park. Hmm, apparently I was unluckily in a skirt and lots of other people had to go home to pick up things and change. We made haste and left... I decided not to bike and ride scooters instead (whee~) so we skipped my house and headed to Simon's to get his bike. The effort of taking out the bike and making room for it in Amy's car was a waste because it wouldn't even FIT. Then Tony C suddenly calls and says he doesn't know the way there so we suggest to all ride in one car. Simon's car was also free but we didn't need it so next we went to Amy's. Tony C arrives and announces that we'll need more cars because he'll have to leave earlier, forcing Amy to drive anyway. We all agreed on a meeting location and finally made our way there to Stanley Park.



(too detailed.. I can't help it)



We arrived and met up with MORE people. We stood around for Tony C's crew to arrive, since they had all the stuff. Wendy and Jon pestered drivers who were leaving for their paid all-day tickets but was unsuccessful. Amy and I geared up our scooters as we made our way to an open area beside Georgia St. We opened up our newly bought kites and started flying. Amy and I had teh Disney PRINCESSES kite and rocked with it for it lasted the longest and didn't fall at all (well at the very end). Everyone had a turn at making the more expensive "Patriot" kite fly (had two strings -- more "advanced") while we kept our princess flying the whole time. Finally Amy and I decided to tackle the challenge and successfully made it fly for at least 15+ seconds compared to the other attempts when it just shot down right when it lifted off. The sun was already setting so we gave up (for now -- still proud that we kept it in control the longest XD) and headed out for dinner @ iCafe. Amy and I took the scenic route around Stanley Park (because we missed the exit and had to go around the whole park once since the roads were one way) and arrived last. Everything was expensive... so I had something relatively cheaper, sacrificing soup and a drink for a few ($5+) dollars. The rest of the crew went to Mike's place afterwards... Amy and I were too dead tired (from all the crazy kite running) so we headed home... but headed the wrong way. We went west instead of east and realized only when we reached Alma St. (Cambie St > Alma St) and turned around after a bit of gas refilling. Felt icky and dirty (stupid heel-less shoes kept catching all sorts of dirt)(I smell like sunblock too -- still do, a little) so the shower when I got home was really (super) nice and refreshing~ Ah~



Now my eyes are going to pop. GOod nightttttt...

We should go kiting more often. :D

Turned on the alarm clock and the alarm on my phone on to try and wake me up earlier but it failed to work. I turned them off when they rant and slept right on through... -_-;



Finally got out of bed late as ever and skipped downstairs to find that SOMEONE ATE MY EGG TART. And that someone was my brother apparently. Bleh, no egg tart.



Early Mother's Day dinner at night at a Shanghai restaurant in Richmond with the whole family. Ordered crappy stuff imho. Mom talked too much throughout... I think I prefer eating Shanghainese (that's a word right?) only in the afternoon when they have all the better dishes and I think I'll stick to eating at that time only. After dinner, only feeling somewhat full, I asked my Aunt to drive me to Monimoo's party downtown which I was supposed to attend earlier but due to a sudden dinner announcement, I was forced to go later. Got to sat in my Aunt's pretty (relatively) new car as the obnoxious cousin brat screamed and laughed like an idiot in the backseat the whole bloody time. Got dropped off in front of Century Plaza and made my way to their floor and their room. I was greeted by May :D! and then met with everyone else in the living room. They then started up with a movie and decided on Honey. As it started, I realized there was mac and cheese waiting for me so I made my way to the kitchen. To my disappointment, all the cheese was eaten already and all that was left was the cold macaroni. So we had to improvise and made Mac and Spaghetti Sauce instead. I took a look at the refridgerator to find nothing but liquor. There were a few things I wanted to try though... They had a giant bottle of sake (which Boom seems to love for some reason) so I started with that: poured myself a cup and microwaved it. Mm.. good stuff indeed. I sat by the kitchen, against the wall, behind the table, away from the people and enjoyed my meal alone. :D It was nice. Then I tried this weird looking vodka called SKYY which tasted like crap. Then tried a Bacardi Black (oooh) which was strange and pretty good. I then saw a really cute brown bottle that Monica said tasted like milkshake so I had to try one. And she was right; it tasted like milkshake with a tinge of unnoticable alcohol flavour in it... very interesting stuff. I think the label said it was the taste of italian creme.... But I prefered my sake over the rest. I forgot to try out the Corona though... And drink Mike's Hard Lemonade Cranberry which smelled ever so nice... :D Moni found a mini bonus 50mL bottle of Smirnoff Ice inside the box which I wanted to keep :D but since she found it first, I couldn't argue. After watching Honey, she opened up the presents and took pictures. Then people started leaving. Soon we decided on watching Brother Bear, which we wanted to watch at first, but was overtaken by Honey. We popped open the bed from the couch and watched while Cory, Cat and Scott drunkily (haha not a word) talked loudly over the DVD which we gradually got used to. Monica started to get groggy and fell asleep. I began enjoying normal drinks like nice Nestea for the rest of the movie and had tasteless popcorn which I will have to compensate for when I watch Kill Bill Vol2. So, generally the movie Brother Bear sucked. Tried to make it all family like but meh, no family-feeling came outta it... the music tried to be all "this-will-be-a-classic-family-song-because-it-sounds-smiliar-to-all-the-rest-of-our-succesful-classics". THEY FAILED! So anyways, the birthday girl passed out on the bed and the rest of us had to get going so I got a ride from Cory. We got to the parking lot and Scott started to feel queasy, so we gave him some timeout. He made his way far, far away from Cory's car, towards the ledge of the floor and behind some other guy's van. He was going to puke over the ledge but apparently a guard was standing right below him, hm. So after some silence we heard a waterfall and a few more after that and we were ready to go. XD On our way back, some chinese guy in his shitty souped up CIVIC got mad and us because we turned left from an intersection as he signaled to turn right into the same lane. In that case, we got priority and went first but nooo, he didn't feel that way and sped up beside us and started screaming in his crap english and we screamed back. He kinda hmphed and went ahead of us. Finally, I made it back home safely with Cory mistaking Fraser St. with Knight St. along the way.



Time to sleep... should be a good one. Another long day ahead... (maybe)

MONDAY! We watched "Lost in Translation" at teh Fish's house. Jo wanted to finish the "6 month old Smirnoff" (mah sexxy Vanilla Twist) so she bought and brought coke and we all tried to finish it but couldn't. Back to the storage it goes... :< Due to Eleanor's bad planning skills, we were delayed and people came at different times. We started the movie around 8 and ended at 10... Elie fled to *refers to her blog* drink BUBBLE TEA with some other people while the rest of us figured out what to do. Fish, Simon and I didn't have dinner yet so after a long discussion we decided on all-you-can-eat sushi @ SuiShaYa~ We ordered a large sake there because Amy didn't want food... We all sipped and ate and got rushed to finish before they closed. That reminds me, I have to scan our receipt.. something good there. Someone's gotta remind me sometime again soon... Amy was being stubborn and persisted that she'd drive home (when she's on alcohol) so we had to follow behind her. Oh and she claims she didn't know she was driving at 90km/h, freaking out all of us~ >____<;



Iei~ I sold my Marketing book to Polina Tues and made myself some money. I should be giving it back to my mom but nah, I'm going to be greedy and keep it. I NEED MONEY GAWDDAMMIT; SOMEONE GIMMIE A JOB!



Jo and I planned on going to the Please Mum job fair in Metro originally but felt the journey there was too long and decided not to go. After I drove my mom to work in the morning, we went to Richmond! Once again we left the house just in-time to listen to the Todd and Karen show on the Fox. Strange timings... We dropped by my favourite bookstore (Iwaseeee~) and picked up .hack//UdeDen Vol.3~ Soo damn thick! Unfortunately my monthly mag hasn't come yet so I'll have to wait some more. I finally tried using my gift card that I graciously got for my BIRTHDAY! (Kyaa, coolest thing ever!) It took them a while to figure out how to use it though.. they called some people a few times and made us stand around for a bit. Jo said the sales people were "Trainees" so we couldn't blame them...



We made our way to Richmond Centre and went our separate ways to pick up applications. I wandered around and met up with Jo later on. I was empty handed while she was filling like mad on the ones she picked up. Meh, I was too chicken to pick up any actually so I watched her fill out forms while I began craving for food. I wanted a McDix McChicken after Jo was done but we didn't realize how long it took her to fill them out... Soon enough it was already almost 7 and we had to get going. Jo helped me hand in a few resumes before we left though... :D



Ooh, I recently got hooked on the manga Paradise Kiss which I luckily picked up at the VPL a week ago and began reading recently. I've heard about it in the past but haven't cared much about it until now~ There were only volumes 1, 2 and 4 but it was gooooot~ Except the fact that it was in chinese and I couldn't understand a damn thing, the drawings are wow and the story's pretty good too... even though I'm only judging by the drawings that lead me to think so. :D Now too bad this thing's licensed or I could pick up some scanlations on the web... and if I looked hard enough I'd probably find it though. But maybe I'll buy this series instead.... it's only an issue of if I have money or not.. which brings it back to: I NEED A JOB.

It's been a while... I can't remember what has happened in the last two weeks. Time flies by too fast...



I've been job searching a bit. Only applied to two places though.... meh, lack of effort. So many places hiring at this time too...



So! It's Eleanor's birthday today, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Woke up early to join my family for dim sum with my brother's girlfriend. She decided to treat us because my mom was angry at her for forcing my bro to go with her to Malaysia to attend a wedding at this time of year. My mom's emotional level was going up and down the whole time (happy to angry and around again) so I didn't know what to think. We ate a lot though... it was a total of ~$60 at the end so wow. Soon later, Fish came and picked me up to go rent a video with Eleanor. We picked up Der on the way, leaving us slightly behind schedule. We made our way to Kerrisdale Blockbuster and after some thought, picked out Lost in Translation. Next, we rushed to Plant Lazer and arrived on time, 'cept no one else was there... oh, yeah, Angus was. Eleanor called up and rushed the other missing bodies while we filled out the entry form. I couldn't get my free game, so I had to pay both games, which I did not plan to do since I was lacking in money. Instead, I got two free games for the next time I visit (which is never). The Simon, Pat and Darren crew didn't arrive on time, so we started without them. Before we entered the game area, we were greeted by a bunch of sweaty children of all sizes as they looked up to check their scores. As lovely as it may seem, we were then required to wear their sweaty vests and use their sweaty guns. w00t! The first game started, and I messed up big time. As a person who hasn't played for over 8 years, I'm pretty much a newbie again... The worst things about lazer tag were the annoying little children that kicked out asses easily by stalking us and mad shooting while standing there, and the lack of air con in the building. I ended up ranking 17 (I think?) out of 20 something in the first game and 15 out of 30 something in the second. I used rapid fire in the second game constantly which brought down my accuracy by a lot, but I hit more people :E It was fun nonetheless, but the frustration of not knowing what the "Destroyed" noise is and if you actually hit the target or not pissed me off. Amy and I teamed up in the second game and watched each others backs while we kicked some better ass than in the first game. We finished and decided to go to McDix for something cold. When we got there, we couldn't decide what to buy so we left quickly after. Went to E-Spot and dropped off Eleanor and Der while we went to pick up Jo and the cake. Suddenly we were called to pick up Catherine too, and so we did. Went to pick up the cake, dropped up Jo and Catherine at Shabusen and returned to E-Spot. Because of that, we ran late some more. When we arrived at Shabusen, they already started eating without us. The tables were overflowing with food... so much that we didn't have room to eat. The meal felt rushed and unfinished but we were forced out of our tables because of another reservation. The giant cake "that was bigger than Jo's head" and was "as big as Fishy's head"... and is just REALLY big, so big that a party of 20 couldn't finish (at least half of it is left), was brought out for show. It took her 3+ blows to blow out one candle. And there was apparently a hot waiter that I did not notice... But he did a crap job taking pictures though. Cuz I was pushing my hair away when he took the shot.. urg, fist. We hastely finished our all you can eat food and put the cake away. We then went to Fish's house for MJ, movie, cake, games and presents. First we had the super sweet cake that felt like you were eating an endless chocolate bar. Then Eleanor's sister came and mixed us some strange drinks... and yes it was nice of her. And Jo told me that little girls shouldn't drink alcohol... Yes, right. Then while the guys played X-Box hockey (that btw looks like crap), we went and played MJ. Then, we came up and watched Eleanor open presents. Then, they had this X-Box tetris game that LOOKED cool but was crap too... and I tried that. I kicked a few asses while I was at it but my eyes started to water really badly so I stopped. I went downstairs and moped around and didn't feel like playing... apparently, no one watched the movie we rented. Meh, was a waste eh. Got bored, so I came upstairs and joined Jo in the office room to surf around. So yeah I'm here now blogging.



Oh and Eleanor present was so damn expensive. XD But pretty.. and got enough people to chip in for it. It's really pretty... XD I wanted stuff from that shop toooo... Piccini, I think yeah.



Mmm... I just tasted some "Baja Rosa"... imported tequila and strawberry crene liquor that smells and tastes like strawberry yogurt mmm~