2005! Banzai!

Akemashite Omedetougozaimaaaasu!

あけましておめでとうございます！☆



Time to go back in time!



Dec25: Typical but traditional Christmas Day: Sleep in. The whole house gradually wakes up at its own pace. Slowly we all present our presents (this year, little to none :p)... My mom presented me with a giant stuffed animal. Hmm, how old am I again? :D Oh well, she's like that. Later that day, my bro finally comes upstairs to pick up his share. I think he was rather disappointed with my present for him. Even though it was only a giant bag filled with Daiso food. I guess I'll try harder next year~ :p For dinner, we went to our grandma's place. I got to watch Cheaper by the Dozen on TV. Only got money from the cheap aunt relative but a Future Shop gift certificate from my good ol' Auntie Lily (woohoo!). Then I urged to go home early... since I had to work the next day.......



Dec26: Agh, boxing day. It was insane. My first time ever, out on Boxing Day in a MALL. WORKING, even. Everyone was crazy. Enough said, really. All but the lady who went on vacation to Mexico were working on Boxing Day. Yeah, I think 40% off is pretty damn cheap. We all took turns eating the pizza we were treated to in the back room. I got to excuse myself from work early to attend my parents' baptismal service. Then I had a talk with my bro outside at the car while munching down their dim sum left overs after my parents finished their dunking and testimonies. So afterwards, he didn't convince me to stay at the Dental Office after all. Actually, it left me more frustrated than before...



Dec27: Continuation of Boxing Day sale. Nothing more to it.



Dec28: After Boxing Day sale, Returning Day. We had nothing but people returning things today. Depressing.



Dec29: Went up to Cypress for some good boarding with Mike. It got rather busy all of a sudden. -_-;



Dec30: Woke up early for some MASSAGING!!!! at the chiropractor. What's better than getting squeezed at right after a tiring boarding experience eh. And yessss, I told the lady to PUT ON MORE STRENGTH WILL YA! And whoa, did it hurt! After that fun was over, my mom and I fooded dim sum at a hot pot place. Afterwards, we went to Aberdeen and bought a Lacus figurine. My mom was hoping to get one of Lacus' CD cover dresses (and I, her original) but instead we got her on the beach instead. :/ It was still good, but not as... :D Then we visited the new Korean store that opened up also at Aberdeen. Everything was rather obviously fake but they looked pretty authentic. So I got myself a pair of $10 JEANS! It seemed like they were still in the process of putting things up... especially the stationary section. We then moved onto Yaohan! I bought Aya. (more info later, maybe >_>)... Whee, mini shoppings spreee....



Dec31: After work, I rushed home to change for Simon's b-day/new years bash-ing! I got picked up and we headed to Guu on Robson. We got the coool room where we still had to squish together uncomfortably. The food wasn't too filling but I made sure I filled up on the tea. Then we went on our way to E-Spot all the way in Richmond, making a few stops on the way. Then came my Guitarfreaks addiction! Heehee, that game's so amusing... MUST.. WASTE.. MORE..MONEY.. ON THAT GAMEE!!! I finally agreed to leave, after wasting too much on it. We made our way to the casino and bumped into Ray on the way in. I followed him out cuz they decided to get to Mike's house early instead. When we get there, the house is already raided by half unknowns, drinking their heads off. Soon enough, the rest of the people started arriving... the drinking begins, we do a last minute cake chopping for Simon, rush to countdown and then relax afterwards, scarfing down the cake with the alcohol. So... after this, we go a little crazy. My parents were done their own countdowning with some other people, so they come by and pick up crazy little me. When I arrive home, I shower and plop to bed... knowing I have to work the next day....



Jan1: Oooi, last day of Roots. Oh, but before that, I woke up a little earlier and enjoyed breakfast with my parents. I had a bit of a hangover... at least I think it was a hangover. So when I get to work, it was only me and my manager. I always find that's its weird working when the manager's around... (maybe cuz duh she's the manager? :P) There were a surprisingly large number of people shopping around that day... man, what happened to the family tradition where we'd all stay at home and have family time? Well I guess that was back when malls weren't OPEN ON NEW YEARS. So after 6 hours, it was sayonara to Roots. I was somewhat disappointed to find that the other asian girl was hired when I took a peek at next week's schedule. Oh well, she definitely deserves it more than me; she's a _MAD_ seller.



Jan2: WAS going to board... felt sick so I didn't. Joined the family for food and Costco. I treated my bro to bbt and walked around some malls with him. After we both fell asleep in the car, when my parents went to return something at Staples... :D Later that night, I went to Wendy's big party (+ somewhat potluck) thinger at her place in Richmond. A potluck, but almost nobody brought anything. Yeesh.. :p There were loads of people there... most of them were people we knew 'cept a few UBC odd balls. We got there, watched some jenga action and then tried out MJing. A particular girl that was playing on our table messed up both times we successfully played (first she had one too many tiles when she tried to eat, and then she made a chicken afterwards hahahaha :p)... There goes the two games... After the two rather unsuccessful games, we went lined up for food! After the eating, the MJ tables gradually got taken and I ended up watching the Poker table play Poker the rest of the night. Midway, I played with Pat's cellphone game where you had to shoot mosquitoes! I kept beating Jason's score... poor Jason XD



Jan3: More snowboarding! It was Mike, Jo Li and me this time. It was even MORE packed up there. We had hell finding parking and ended up parking even farther than the other times. The hike was tiresome but after that, there was nothing but fun times. XDD Jo started to get tired and we soon had to go anyways, so me and Mike finished up our last run and left. Jo went a different route than we did so we both couldn't find each other. I protected the boards while he went back the other route to see if he could bump into him. But after the long walk, we find that she was waiting at the lodge for us... As Jo went to buy food/drinks, Mike went to get the car. We waited at the pick-up area for ages and started to freeze before he finally made it back. It was really cold up there.. and it was only a mere -4 or something... it can't be compared with Big White's -16. D:... aww man.



Jan5: I drove my mom to work and then deposited my cheques from the dental clinic. After, I bumped into Jo at her Unicef booth. I gave the library and a few stores a visit before Jo's shift was over. We had some yummy White Spot and then visited Churchill for Jo wanted to do a few things there. We made our way down to Richmond and stopped at Richmond Centre. After some window shopping, we ended up at Sportchek to find some ski pants for myself. Unfortunately there weren't any pants with suspenders left anymore so I ended up getting just pants instead. We did more browsing and left to Future Shop afterwards. I used up the gift cert. I got for Christmas on KH: CoM (I wonder if that was a good buy after all.. hm!) and still considering whether to bring it up to Big White with me so I have something to do on the bus ride...... Afterwards, we returns to Vancouver and had bbt across from Oakridge and then made our way home.



Now: It's so silly late but I suddenly had the urge to start and finish a layout tonight and I did. Here's something I kept nice and simple... I think there might be more to come with those Star Ocean 3 layouts (rar! XDDD)... I also managed to keep up with my blog~ (thumbs up!!) Now, is a good time to sleep.