Stuff

So, stuff has happened. Not much.



16-19: Parents (mainly my mom) start stressing out when my Uncle (-Pond) decides to make my grandma's funeral a big deal (aka. telling the whole world)... Not saying that's a bad thing, but making it a big deal = more work = more money. I'm sure grandma wouldn't want us wasting all this money on her funeral.. I agree with my bro on this. The ceremony came up to be $1k (1,000) I think it was and that's not including the insanely expensive lunch. We only wanted 3 tables full of people (10 ppl per table?), 4 the most.. and suddenlyy 70 people showed up (70 compared to 30!?) meaning 7 tables and around $220 per table. Dude, 80% of the people don't even know her. Sure come and shake our hand and hold a sympathetic face for us and then leech us of our money. Bah, I know I shouldn't be angry or upset about this especially when people come because they care but still... -_-



Staples Job fair. It was a failure.



I switched to JP Playonline. Getting used to playing in Japanese now. I still suck at recognizing kanji though. Why switch? Because I could do this: ヽ(｀д´)ノｗ



My uncle and aunt visit from HK (mom's big bro & wife) to come see my grandma last Sat (24). The digi pictures I took for them turned out pretty good, except I noticed they fooled around with the lighting with one of them... grr photo people. Digi pictures are now pretty cheap to develop which is a good thing... better find more pictures to develop. So anyway, we had breakfast before we went to pick them up at the airport. They haven't ate yet so we eat at California Cafe (was that the name?) then I got driven back by my Uncle (-Pond, that is) that once again reconfirm the fact that he's the worst driver in the world: driving without hands, driving in two lanes, stopping like its DDR and not signaling all done while TALKING to ME. I was too scared to tell him to watch the road... -_-;;; I am glad I arrived home safely. D:



I picked the car and headed to the airport again to pick up the Fish. Hmm.. there wasn't anyone who wanted to come... so whatever, he said he didn't want lots of people to come in-case he dies from jetlag and isn't able to stay awake. I get there at 215 or so and waited about 45 mins before he shows up. Throughout the wait, I saw lots of other guys that looked just like him lol (big guy carrying a backpack with the chinaman look lolol)... So anyways, after picking him up he claims he isn't tired so frack we start calling up people who can't make it out at that time so instead they plan dinner instead, which I did not attend.



Instead, I had Shanghainese food for dinner with my family and relatives... The day after, we met them in the morning at church. After service, I walked with the two around Fraser Street waiting for Auntie April to finish her meeting. We had lunch at a Chinese restaurant across from Amy's Cake Shop and fish fished by Uncle Raymond. He also brought red wine, which was nice and interesting for an afternoon meal. The food was okay, not superbly great but Uncle Raymond & co love the place apparently. Edmond (or is he Alan? lol) goes out near the end of dinner and brings back some old fashioned coke bottles; I kept one for myself. Later that night, we eat at the Chinese restaurant across from Yaohan. The next day, we had noodles for dinner at Mak's (is it Mak's?) and my congee came last. :[ The day after that, we have dim sum with Angel(Uncle's daughter) and her companion (sort-of boyfriend, ya; caccasian) at Spicy Court. He's a PILOT OMFG. いいな?



I take the car and make my way to Metrotown. I get there a little early... Soon I see a guy in tan-coloured clothing sitting there by myself on the bench in front of Playdium. Hmm, I wonder if he was the guy I was supposed to be meeting with. I wasn't sure so I stood around and waited a bit longer. Soon enough I went and approched him first (yes me, out of all people) and yes it was him! Him = Tekmo. Yey, the first person I met from #digimon. ;) we make out way to what was once the food court with did not exist anymore, so we followed the funny signs on the floor that lead us to the new food court and whoa, the new Metro food courts *really* pretty. And so we eat food and then start wandering. Bah, I didn't have any good ideas for what to do so we just walked around mindlessly. Then we made our way to Crystal Mall to have some good ol' bubble tea which was disappointingly BAD! More mindless walking and talking and then we soon disbanded. He claims he had fun.. but really, I don't know.. >_> Oh and I got my ass kicked in DDR. Him = 2 feet.. Me = 4/5 feet. I had platform sandals on but still... ASS GOT WHOOPED!!!11



That night family and relatives had dinner at Tropika. More good food.



My uncle and aunt left for HK the next morning. I didn't go. I didn't feel like anything that day. Didn't go to the Breadgarden job fair nor the fireworks. I did manage to do my RSE quest for FF instead though.



So it's the end of the month. I'm supposed to have decided what to do now and in September. I feel it's too late to register for most things... maybe I'll end up working for a semester... or two.. or... a year. Maybe... That's only being optimistic though.

So, Hi

Cosmetic Night/The Bay Galla yesterday and my mom volunteered me to go help out (but my mom's taking a break from work so she wasn't there :[)... When I got to her counter, the Shisheido head manager person lady from Toronto was bitching at the Shisheido people about all sorts of stuff. I excused myself and got introduced to the "boss lady" (I forgot her name again) and yeah, she's scary. She sent me to go help out another lady, Joyce, at the front door. I think I did a crap job helping out though... anyways, after some ticket ripping and paper passing, I got sent to the centre stage where they were passing out gift baskets for customers who bought over $100. The nice girl Michelle and the semi-nice girl Jennifer (who once worked at the same counter with my mom) were there and only Michelle explained to me what was going on. I sorta became security person who watched for any reaching hands that tried to steal 'em baskets. Then we realized that I wasn't really needed there either so they sent me to work with a 9 year old kid at the beverages table. I was sooo surprised to see her there, firstly because she was only a kid and second she was pretty smart. But she did silly child things like pretend her grandma was calling on her cellphone (which was her aunt's) and talked in Italian. And then she'd tell me what she was talking about on her phone. The rest of my night I worked with the girl, Miranda (who wanted me to call her Mir and insisted that she call me Candy)... it was surprisingly hectic at the drinks table. The people came in giant WAVES and they would all just stand there and demand for drinks. Some would even walk up behind us and steal it from us, without asking. Then Mir would go and yell at them.. >_> But there was a good hour or so in between it all when Mir was sent somewhere else and I had to work alone. It was crazyy.. the people were crazy.. they were GREEDY FOR DRINKS. Goodness, take ONE bottle not TWO OR THREE for yourself. We made great big messes of water everwhere, ripped mad paper to dry the drinks, our hands were pruney by the end of the day and oh... I didn't get to say goodbye to her. My mom's fellow worker hurried me to leave as soon as they were done because she told me not to hang around after to clean up lol. Anyways, it was nice but I only got to take a bite out of one cream puff throughout the whole night. I wanted something from the fruit lady at least... but she and her plate disappeared as soon as I saw her.. ughh...



Anyways, the summer heat's back... it's hot.

Meh

So I finally felt like blogging... so much has happened and time's still going by quickly.



There was Spiderman 2. Good movie.



Fish suddenly had to leave to HK we last minute-ly decided to go to Playland. And how wonderful it was to go on a scortching hot summer day. This time, I got to ride on everything (except a selected unimportant few). We got there early so there weren't any line ups yet. Went on the Roller Coaster a few, Hellevator a few, the Enterprise only once before it flipped my stomach over for the rest of the day, Corkscrew only once before it ripped open my ear, Music Express a few, Crazy Beach Party only once (sickening ride), Log Ride and some others.... enjoyed our free tokens at the arcade... had Subway for our late lunch and left. Then made up stupid stories that revolved around, ahem, diarrea.



Then Fish left. I went halfway through the wrong floor and had to call him. Then I realized I didn't get a receipt for the ticket, so I had to call him again. Scared myself a dozen times, especially when he said that its easy for people to get mugged in the parking lot too. >_>



Then I moved my computer room to my bro's old room. Took me a while to clean it out and I'm still not done yet. He has a lot of junk apparently... and most of it is dust-covered. Bad for my allergies.



No job still.



Went to a wedding ceremony at a church Downtown Saturday. It was funny watching the groom after their exchange of rings.. he was psyched. :D



Got home and stayed home. Then I got a call in the middle of the afternoon from my dad that my mom's grandma passed away. It was strange... I didn't know how to respond and ended up with, "Huh?" Then he told me to contact my bro about it and go to them whenever. I found him on ffxi and we got going asap. I was still fine until Uncle Pond showed up at the top of the stairs and took my hand as we headed to my grandma's room... She was indeed gone by the time we got there but my dad and my mom were by her side before she left. It was a good thing that she left though... she doesn't have to live through anymore painful days in the hospital. Besides my mom being the most affected, it hit my bro quite hard too...



So I stayed home that night instead of attending Ray's party and had a nice dinner as a whole family.



Oh, I also told my mom what my plans are for September and she doesn't approve of it. I don't know what to do...



I also heard some student from our grad year passed away because of drinking and driving. Even though I didn't know him, RIP.

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs

*sniff* runny nose....



Had dim sum with some old Elementary school buds [Andy and Yisa to be exact -- Phyllis apparently *couldn't* come because of Eurocup, pfft, excuses] with Jo and Amy at Spicy Court across from Oakridge. We waited forever for our food and ended up with leftovers. We played a game of Jan-Ken-Guu to split the leftovers. Afterwards, Jo and I went to Oakridge and sat around, wondering what to do. We called up Mike and told him to get his ass up to watch Spiderman and so we did. We also called up Simon and Elie and went on our way to Silvercity Riverport. The theatres were surprisingly empty for a 3:30 show. We sipped on our free water; no popcorn this time. The movie was pretty good and lived up to expectations. After we returned to Van to buy the bus pass I promised to get Garth. When we got there, we found that the bookstore closed earlier for the summer. Ugh, I felt bad for not buying earlier for him though... We then went to have dinner at Honolulu on Main and had to order an expensive meal because there was nothing else good *sigh*... We were too stuffed so Jo suggested that we walk the dogs and yes, so we did. We returned to Mike's place to walk his two dogs. We arrived at Jo's place and brought her dog along as well. Next we picked up Elie's dog at her house which required two leashes and two walkers (yeow, scary dog). We ran, walked and got dragged around. We walked back to Mike's place with all the dogs and gave them some water. I, on the other hand, developed foot pain and scrapes from wearing the wrong kind of shoe for the occasion. While the others went back to return the dogs to their rightful homes, I sat around a bit, blowing my runny nose. I waited a bit and drove to Jo's place to wait and pick up all the dog walkers. I apparently arrived too early because I had to wait a good half n hour before they arrived. Everyone was tired by then and my nose continued to run. Finally after some rest, everyone agreed to go home. I stayed at Mike's place to get my computer-related stuff fixed and got home afterwards. Now I'm feeling miserable, stuffed and exhausted. I must be sick.