Big White 2005

Woohoo!

The ski trip we've

all been waiting for!



A pleasant surprise Thursday morning when I wake up to a beautifully white-covered scenery. No doubt there was more to come. Schools begin closing their doors early afternoon (even though they do not concern me too much :}). Luckily, they closed the following Friday, so Mike was able to join up with us on the bus ride (which was quite a relief!!). I did some last minute packing and had to search frantically for things to bring. I happily open up my KH: CoM package to find a missing INSTRUCTION BOOKLET. I get sorta pissed and depressed at the same time (for being unable to bring it with me to the trip :[[) and had to ask my mom to go exchange it for me (the earlier the better y'know).



Friday comes along and I set my alarm clock to 11. More last minute packing while waiting for my ride. Mike comes by with Jon to pick up my board. Soon later Simon and Tony pick me up early to Simon's for some homemade lunch (made by Simon's mom~ -- MSG udon!!). Next we loaded up the car and made our way to UBC (Simon's mom & sis drove us). When we got there, we called Eleanor to find that she was too busy playing Big2 to come help us with all the luggage (aka. the FOOD aka. our RATIONS) but we convinced her soon enough. We moved the stuff from the car to the UBCJA ski office and pretty much clogged up the whole hallway with our stuff as other ski trippers came and dropped their stuff as well. Mike comes with a bigger crew of people (Franky, Jon and another Mike [from now distinguished with Small Mike whereas the Fish Mike = Big Mike]). Then the bus comes and we transfer all our stuff there. We find seats on the bus a minute too late and end up pretty much at the back (noooooo toileeet horror!). Oh yeah, we almost forget to get Mike's board at the office, um oops. After waiting around on the bus, we realize we're missing a head also known as Jason but he shows up soon enough.



Yay, we're finally on the move...! We end up having crap movies on our bus ride... Did we even watch two movies on the bus ride? I can't even remember... I guess that's how crappy they were. We watched Ride, however, it was a movie (sorta documentary-esque) about skiing/boarding... It was rather boring though, so meh. We stopped at our first rest stop as we all ran like mad to Subway (which was a whole parking lot away) in the freezing wind and weather. It was insanely packed (with other people from other busses)... while lining up, I took the opportunity to go to visit the washroom but gasp, another lineup and apparently, someone either fainted in the girls' washroom, took a very long dump or the washroom just got locked from the inside because we ended up having to use the guy's. After the food stuff, we rushed back onto the bus and we soon stopped at another quick washroom break stop. After another few tedious hours, we finally arrived at Big White BUT the bus guy dropped us off a little too far from our living quarters. Everyone ended up having to HIKE with bags and bags of heavy luggage and equipment up a few streets. Exhausted and tired, we found that our condo was on the SECOND FLOOR that was lead to by a very narrow and steep stairway. Blah! The condo was big and pretty! Eleanor and I got first dibs to rooms and took the one with a washroom inside ;D! Then the other rooms got occupied one by one. Jon was his selfish-ass self and hogged up a whole queen sized bed and room to himself as two others had to sleep outside on the living room couches. Big Mike and Franky. Simon and Jason to a bunkbedded room LOL so cute and cool. Shu had a tv viewing room with a foldout bed couchy. Small Mike and Tony got the living room couches. We finally settled down... exhausted from the treacherous hike, we passed on going to the Pub that night and finished up our liquor from New Years Eve (I recall...). Did I mention the condo was loaded? TV (only 13 or so channels), microwave, oven, dishwasher, kitchen utensils and eating utensils, cooking utensils, a washer/dryer, vacuum... and other miscellaneous things. The hot water system really sucked though. After a few showers, we ran out of hot water. We attempted to play MJ with Simon's mini MJ set but due to lack of feet and Small Mike's lack of knowledge of the game we kinda gave up after a few tries and decided to sleep instead. Note: Shu was pretty much non-existent for the whole trip cuz he was never around with us.



Urgaaa it was so hard to wake up at 7:30... but we dragged it to 8. All guys working in the kitchen = teh ultimate. Small but good breakfast. Elie & My breakfast was kindly made and served by Small Mike (aww! XD!)... Apparently Jon woke up early just to hog up the hot water (hm!). We headed out a little after 9. Elie got split up from us but was with JaaJaa (sp D:) and Gousuke (多分？ I don't know... :x) the whole time. I don't remember Jon being there either.. hm? Simon joined up with us later after he lost sight of Elie. We went up the Ridge Rocket first I think... then made our way to the Black Forest Express through some green trail. We stayed on the Black Forest Express the whole time (teh best trails imho.. same for everyone else, I think) and constantly went down the blues. Haha Jason had some troubles and constantly got stuck at some flat areas cuz of his board. We all PKed a lot... Small Mike was zipping through like the pro he was and did a few dozen jumps here and there. And the powder was good! Sometime halfway, Jason and Small Mike ditched and headed to the terrain park. 1:30 came around and we returned to our condo for a break and food. Eleanor was nowhere to be found. :T We ate and slept until Night Skiing came into effect (around 4 but got out at 5). Eleanor finally returns in one piece. Only Tony, Jon, Franky, Jason, Small Mike, Big Mike and myself went out for some more action. We dropped Jon off at the bunny hill on the way. Night Skiing was ack. Somehow Small Mike convinced us to go down a dark, unlit trail that was actually a Blue (but probably Double Black at night) covered in whataretheycalledagain? moles? Those small bumps/hills of evilness... We all strugged in the dark and took a hell of a long time to get through, practically fell at every other bump that all unexpectedly hit us (since we couldn't see jack!). After the frustration, we made it through and arrived at the terrain park. We arrived at the top to find that the Black Forest Express trails weren't open at night so we stayed at the terrain park instead. Me and Tony only went down the terrain park once (obstacles/jumping/flipping weren't our specialty). As we waited on the bottom, we enjoyed our rock-hard and frozen Chewy chocolate bars, mmm~ After the wait, the two of us convinced the rest of the group to return to the normal runs and so we did. We went on a few more that were on the Bullet Express, I PKed really bad on a few to the point I cracked my goggles. We tired ourselves out (felt like it was mainly just me) and made our way back. Eleanor, Simon, Jon, Small Mike and Jason went to the hot tub while the rest of us bummed around, eating and watching TV. They returned to find that there was no more hot water once again for them to shower with. Finally food time. Our big happy family went out for some good ol' food. We first visited the bar Raakel's to find nothing good to eat, even though the underagers successfully snuck in. We visited Sam's next to find that the menu was unsurprisingly expensive. Half of us shared things. The pasta was good... we were constantly stared at in the restaurant by caucasians (we were the only asians). The bill was expensive and not to mention, our waitress wrote down herself that we needed to pay 15%... what a @#%%. :p Well yeah, we were out of towners but still, that was uncalled for. That night we decided to sleep early... and we sorta did. 12-1am's pretty good yeah? I had trouble sleeping though. It was strangely hot AND Eleanor took up a lot of bed space AND she talked in her sleep AND I had a bad tummy ache. Did I mention I lived through the weekend with my monthly 'thing' in effect? With that, the night's rest was kinda bad.



The next morning. Checkout was at 10 (aww, last day already?)... Elie and I got out of bed at 9 and did everything slow mo. We packed, ate, and did some last minute cleaning. We got to the checkout room at around 10:30 to find a whole condo packed with other JA people AND a better condo! :p Eleanor decided not to join us but the rest of us went on! Jon returned to his bunny hill again I think... More Black Forest we go~ We bumped into Tammy, Sam and Sham on the way there. We stayed there the rest of the day (yay I love those trails esp. Herbert's Hollow and teh Bear's PAW!) Simon left us early to join up with Eleanor for some ice skating which they did not do at the end. Tony made a few videos and took a few pics. The guys raced a few times in which me and Tony did not participate in. It was really nice going down those blues... they'll truly be missed. ;DD Around 1:30, we returned to change and settle down. The bus comes, and we still had to hike a bit with all our luggage again but we were able to take a few trips this time because the distance wasn't as long. We got free drinks and got slightly more middler seats this time. We left earlier than planned (@3) and arrived at our food stop at West Bank at 5. We had all you can eat pizza. There was some confusion, and the different pizzas went everywhere. Three hawaiians arrived at our table... too many hawaiian pizzas. We also had limitless pop... all for $10 flat. It was good... (at the time.) We took another stop at the toll booth for washroom breaks.... the girls unfortunately had the longest line-up of course... especially with the other, oh, 5 busses that arrived at the same time we did. We watched some better movies on the ride back -- Dodgeball (slept through the middle) and Mean Girls (v. good movie ;D)... Then Jason got sick and almost got me throwing up too. My ears popped a few times on the ride back (ow :/)... We finally arrived home sweet home Vancouver, UBC at 10 something! Almost immediately did everyone that came off the bus left as fast as they came. Our group ended up being last (eheh..?)... Der comes cruising in with Big Mike's mini van as Elie's and Simon's ride come soon afterwards. ...And Der runs through a few red lights on the way home -_-;;) He drops himself off first, then I drove Small Mike home then I returned home after... Big Mike drove himself back afterwards. Shower then straight to bed I went. Internet was dead anyways.



Me and my unnecessary over detailness. Yey.



Monday morning... I didn't have work luckily. Internet was still being retarded. I gave the modem a bit of a rebootage. I watched the end of the First Love drama with my mom. That long speech by Tomo about her own selfishness was so blah. She seriously needed to be slapped big time. I forgot to mention, my mom tried to exchange the game for me, but having no knowledge of games, she was unsuccessful and the worker somehow managed to convince her that the instruction manual was built into the game cuz the games nowadays were like that. Okay, it almost convinced me too but then I was like wtf that still makes no sense. So that night I went for an exchange and got a new one but guess what--? The instruction manual was in FRENCH ONRY. I went back to ask about it and for some reason all of them only had french instruction manuals. Okay... I didn't exactly need the instruction manual to play but to have the whole game as it should've been bought for your money's worth makes sense wouldn't it? Anyways, I gave up and just kept it as it is... now I noticed Future Shop had that matching price feature... I've gotta take advantage of it and get some cheapcheap on my KH: CoM. >:]] Later I HAD TO VISIT MY FAVOURITE BOOKSTORE but to find that my magazine wasn't available so meh. Then I waited some money on a One Piece figurine in hoping to get 1 out of 12 chance for an Ace figurine for my bro! Ahaha.. but no luck. I'll try some more later this week when I return for some more bookstore shopping... Mmm~



I have to bus to work tomorrow. Sucks. Snow's sorta getting in the way now. :/ Now, snow a LOT MORE or just melt ya stupid snow. Being in the middle of too much and too little's no good.



My guestbook's also being raided by Spanish fans of Kaleido Star who, I assume, got hit by the Kaleido Star fandom just recently. Ahh it's all in spanish!!