Busy November.

First snowfall this week. I tried so hard to delay (and even avoid) the purchase of winter tires but I gave in hearing all the snowfall warnings. I'm glad I did get a set though seeing it really DID fall and there's still plenty of crazy drivers out there... crazy as in still driving at insane speeds regardless of road conditions. Funny enough, the roads were a lot emptier once the snow stuck. The drive home was quite pleasant 'cept very cold. The snow did come and go now that the weather's slightly warmer, the rain's been pouring like mad. I imagine we'll be seeing more snow later next month though.

I've finally submitted my JET Application earlier this week. I decided against sending it too close to the application deadline date (Nov 30) just in-case of unforeseen problems. I went through about 4 draft overhauls, more than I've ever done on any academic paper. I definitely wouldn't of gotten to my final version without the support of my English proficient friends (yeah you know who you guys are). Now that it's over and done with, I can get on with my next task - my portfolio. I'll have to try and not think about it for another 2 months before the next dreadful hurdle called the interview. :|

Amazon.com is the evilest POS (hint: not point-of-sale). They had a vid game promo for a buy 2 get 1 free and I somehow splurged. A week later some those games go on sale for even cheaper. UGH. On its way up the border, customs got a hold of it and literally attacked my special Record of Agarest War limited edition. No, sorry to disappoint but there's no bombs in the shape of oppai mousepads in there.




My porn has been spoiled. :(
Work's been a bit hectic. We recently (two weeks ago) opened a new location in Coquitlam and then followed to get robbed the next day. We also got a new POS (point-of-sale) system which we launched in the same month as all these happenings which is also a great POS (not point-of-sale). Outdated, unintuitive, slow, unfriendly, unreliable (crashes)... everything you'd want in an efficient software of the 21st century.

And so November comes to a close in a few days.

PS: Monsters is such a shitty movie. Don't watch it, even if's free!

Halloween and Cupcakes

My plan was great. It was going to be awesome.
Bring awesomely delicious halloween-themed cupcakes to a party while being considerate to that one attending sensitive vegan, and maybe even score some additional orders from her! I imagined her awesome surprised look and then followed to indulge in the sugary goodness...

On Friday night, her facebook message noted she was making cupcakes for the party. The first ohsh- moment. Wanting to avoid having her feel upset on the night of the party, I decided to drop her an sms telling her I was bringing the same. A call came a minute later. From her.

It was an interrogation.

You're bringing cupcakes?
Why didn't you tell me?
Why are you bringing cupcakes?
How are they vegan?
How much are you bringing?

Questions and the answers that followed were filled with awkward silences.

At the end of all of it, I offered to only bring my giant box of regular sizes since she had minis. I knew it wasn't going to end happy either way at this rate, but there was no reason why I should not bring mine because she made some too. I purposely made this order and reserved it for the sake of the party.

Saturday afternoon, I get a call from someone I least expect - her again. She lets me know there's no vegetables at the party and asks if I can get some. Sure, why not but why me? Ooh, that's why...

Are you still bringing the cupcakes?

Yes.. do you not want me to?

Yes.

YES? How selfish and immature can one get? She followed to ask me what flavours I had.. and I felt bad listing it since I knew it was nothing close to what she'd be bringing (cough). I don't want to admit it either but I can bet mine will look and taste better... which is the only reason why I'd be hesitant on bringing it, but the whole reason of bringing it to begin with was for HER SAKE (and because damn our cupcakes are good - vegan/organic or not.).

WHOLE PLAN WENT DOWN THE SHIT HOLE FUCK.

Now she gets to glare at me all night.
Snap at me if I try and distribute my cupcakes.
Maybe punch them when we're not looking.
All while ruining the night's mood.

Here's hoping all my premonitions are wrong.

CNY & the rest of the week...

So Chinese New Years came and gone... nothing particularly special though. On the eve, we had roast beef at home instead. No complaints from me because it was absolutely delicious. We postponed our giant family dinner (with relatives and such) to wait for my Auntie Maime to arrive from HK (she got here yesterday). So dinner is planned for tomorrow night (or tonight I mean...) it seems. I'll be missing out on watching Underworld 3 with some peeps though.

The week's been good. I was sick for most of the first half of the week. I tried to do a lot of sleeping.. though it didn't seem to help much. The sickness eventually just faded away as days passed. I got back into Fable 2 this week. I've been doing some serious school catching up... and I think I'm back to my normal procrastination schedule now? I've been finally thinking about work again too... which means I need to revamp my portfolio already. Just thinking about it makes me lazy.

ここから日本語にしよう。　最近あんまり日本語を使ってないから、いい練習になるよ。
で　香港から来た後すぐ、あたしはある人にかなり恨んでいるの。
彼は何だかすっごくうるさくて、とてもイヤなヤツと気付いてたんだ。
まず、彼の計画はとてもヘンタイくさくて、喋ってばっかで、いつもバカなことしか話していて、もーｱｷﾀ。
しかし彼はあたしの学校の友達の友人なんだから、あたしは何でも言えても　何も変わらない。
そしてあたしの周りの友達も彼のことを全然気にしてない。
あたしだけが気にしてて、おかしいぃかな・・・
最近、欲しくなくても、なんか彼によく会うんだ。
みんなが彼のことが好きから、何もできないなぁ・・・
ガンマンしかできないかしら・・・

Holiday Part-Timers...

I had the most frustrating phone conversation today.

I called up this jewelry store for my mom today to ask for the availability of this particular ring she was looking to get. It was unavailable at the closer location, so this lady kindly wrote down the details of the ring for us.

This is where it begins. I called up the other location... I get an obvious heavy Chinese accent salesguy on the other side. It starts off as usual, I enquire about the ring that was shown in their catalog. He disregards my question completely and instead asks me what my name was. And I was thinking, don't waste my time guy, and so I asked back, "Why do you need to know my name?" He answers it helps him serve me better. Grr okay fine, I give him a name, and then he goes into a full introduction of himself. AMG.

He continues, "So how can I help you today?"

"..." I thought, I already told you when you first picked up.

Okay, he asks me for more information about the ring, say, how it looked like.

Okay, wait, what was this serial number the other lady at this other location wrote down for me?? Apparently, the number is largely USELESS. And better yet, the "name" of the ring written down for me said, "10KW FANCY RING". Apparently that wasn't the NAME, in fact, it was a "description" the other lady probably wrote down that only SHE understood.

So here we have one or two useful clues, it's 10K and it's white. Obviously not enough information for the salesguy. So I went on saying it was a thick band, with jewels only on the front, and had small jewels etc... Again, he ignores what I say, constantly saying, "I'm sorry, I do not know which one you're talking about."

Well, sir, if you listened, maybe you would know.

He asks me for the first few numbers of the serial again. And he then asks me where the ring was located. I told him it was located at the front of the store and he was like "no, that area's 438," my ring being 418.

"That was where it was at the Richmond center location."

"Are you a salesperson working there or a customer?"

"..." Would I not address myself as a salesperson at the beginning of the conversation if I really was one? "No, a customer."

Then he prompts me to tell him where I saw it in the christmas catalog. 3rd.. 4th page maybe, I didn't remember.

"3rd page are all coloured."

"Then 4th page."

"No, there isn't any 10K white jewelry on this page."

Holy shit then look for yourself FOR ME, why don't you.

He gives me the description of a completely different ring. No, didn't the information I've given you already tell you enough that it's completely white??

He then throws a question at me, "Is it a channel ring?"

The first thing that crosses my mind was, you mean that ring in Tales of Destiny I had no idea what it was for? Channeling ring was it?

Mister, don't use terminology your average, typical jewelry-dumb customer would not know, so I ask "What's a channel ring?" And he tells me to ask a sales person what it was. I was like, uh, I'm not at the store right now... so he goes onto explaining it.

NO, it's not a channel ring. I JUST said the jewelry is only on the front half.

He asks another question using terminology I didn't know, though I don't remember what the word was (started with a g). The word had to do with whether the jewels were small or big. I already said they were small the first time.

So... this rant being longer than I expected, he finally did find the ring and kept it on hold. Judging by the time he got off work, he was a part timer for the holidays. So perhaps it was a good thing I didn't get to see who he really was. Dear Allen.

The actual ring, btw, looked like total crap. Didn't end up getting it.

2010 Olympic Tickets

So we didn't get picked for the first round of 2010 Olympic tickets. The next thing to do is to fight for the leftover seats during the priority access period which started at 9AM this morning.

9AM I woke up and logged in.. lo and behold I was directed to a VIRTUAL WAITING ROOM and it says:

What is the Virtual Waiting Room for?
In an effort to be completely fair to all Canadians we have developed the Virtual Waiting Room, used to randomly allow access to the ticketing system during busy times such as this when all visitors cannot be served simultaneously. You are currently in the pool to be randomly chosen to register your account and build your ticket request.

By 11AM, after reading up on the latest news as the usual places, I was still waiting. I didn't get to sleep in as I would of liked to today so I crawled back in to bed.

I got up again at 1PM to find that I was redirected to the main page. When I tried to get started with the booking and buying, it timesout and redirects me back to an effing waiting room.

It's now 3PM, I wasted all morning waiting in this stupid room. Time to move workstations closer to the PS2. My retarded monowheel bike is calling for my attention. Well, at least the weather's crappy today so I'm not missing much.

EDIT: 4PMish - I get redirected to a page saying they SOLD OUT. Next round of tickets is in May. D:

バレータるるるる

で、

BARD PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS!のオイワイ
I swear I should rack up lots of money and get myself Sha'ir body already (or level up the damn craft)... better yet, do more assault and get that Yigit.. frick! Anyways, I -need- Fortune, I swear.

Speaking of crafting... I think I'm gunna aim for main Cloth, Sub Wood and Alchemy. Just looking at the elemental staff prices as of late and I wanna cry. Everything's dropping in price... it hurts to look. >_< Like my Jester+1 was 300k, now it's 60k?! Divine Log was AT LEAST 1mil now it's 500k - that's half! Ouch D:! Sucks to be the seller... Buyers are having a blast though ;_; So right before Dynamis started today, Tiamat decides to pop. Killkill 2 hours.... After the delay, two MNK crowns, THF and my uber pants drop~ My patience paid off :33 Next: Jeuno. Nothing left to get there... hoping for a free lot perhaps.. X3 As for the past week... my bro's out of town [somewhere in China], "spying" for the sake of the family. ufufufu, I say no more >_>

And look... It's almost April.. うそいやだ＞＜

countdown: 3 months....

きもぉーい

ああ¨
ある寄食わるいヤツ
ネットから会えて
あたしからはなれない
いつもダサいこと話したり、したり…
ムカつくんですぅヽ(｀Д´)ノ
ちょっとストーカーのようなヤツなんだ；；

（誰かタスケテクレー!ヽ(´Д`;ヽ≡/;´Д`)/）

あなたが読めるなら、
あなたのことじゃないってゆう意味だｗ

感謝しやがれ！ｗｗｗ

Bitch lost my post.

So finally the day came... the damn yearbook!.. that came out SHIT. Well... not complete shit but bad in some ways that just keeps irritating me like hell...





I was late that day, so Mo2 phoned to rush me. Meeh, when I got there, nobody seemed to really pay attention. I hmmed some more and started helping with book counting with Mo2. The MailFag decided to go upon his own approach on organizing this, so we let him. I don't feel like ranting cuz I gotta go study so... *thinks fast* Counted, yadda then it was 12 something by then. We wanted dim sum for lunch but there was some sorta communication problem that just screwed the whole idea over. Spotted a hell lot of errors when I got home...





Tuesday, sat and watched the little minions do their thing while we signed books and glared at the grades come in. Then the complaining stage started... first, Mailfag noticed a photo duplication and said "Haha, WE didn't spot it when were proofing."... meh wanted to kick him in the nads for associating us with him in the same word. Then Helaine was upset her last name was spelt wrong and her write up wasn't there (Artona's fault dammit). But of course we were blamed. Next, CeCe got HER name spelt wrong (oh why oh why ;_;)... and then Joyce's baby picture wasn't her (erh)... then Matt's name was spelt wrong (gosh)... Moving on, after all that signing it was 2:30. I had tutor at 4, so we rushed to bbworld and ordered our drinks. The group wanted to play photo hunt (so did I ;__;) but I had to sign a few more books. Left without the photo hunt group, dropped me off and had mcdix. BBtea was good at least.





Today, got up for Eng. I was glad the original composition was a topic that was easy to manipulate. Due to lack of time, we had MORE MCDIX. Returned for Japanese. So much regret in this exam I swear... I'LL FOREVER REMEMBER THE WORD MAJIME FOR IT MEANS SERIOUS dammit... that was my first guess then I decided to change my mind AFTERWARDS. After it was finally over, went for a short stop for some math questions @ my tutor then rushed home.





Now, I need to study some more math cuz I LOVE math to bits.





Trying to hold down the urge for any anime, games and photoshop... *winces*

It has been the most stressing day in the past... month. I was constantly cussing after the horrible day, ending up with quite the headache as well... Starts off -- a normal day... until I get to the car and realize I didn't pick up my Geo binder. I get to school late, got through the first two classes; no sweat. Lunch comes around, I review my notes for the Geo test I moved to third block so I could help out on the grade 7 tours. Then we get kicked out of the cafe so they could do some grade 10 test. So I decided to review by my locker instead. Almost before the bell rings, some dick goes and spills his orangey red gatorade bottle right beside/behind me. The liquid was spreading quickly so I jumped up to realize my **--NEW--** jacket was WET. I ran to the washroom to dry it (thank goodness it was a jean jacket, but still?!?! it'll still get sticky and smelly etcetc)... When I went back out, the kid was already GONE. That guy NOR his friend didn't say anything and just left... AGRH FUK, so my whole locker area was all sticky. So the Geo test came around... it was sorta hard... damn. Didn't have enough time to finish the written nor check over answers. Then I got to the auditorium to meet up for the tours. Then I thought, yay this'll cool me off for the day... BUT I WAS DAMN WRONG. Screw it all... -_- We were unlucky to get a group ALL consisting of bratty/talkative/cocky/naive/arrogant kids. There were these 3 caucasian boys that HAD to wave (with the Queen-like-not-much-movement wave) at the people in the cafe. One kid had a skateboard which he kept BANGING on EVERYTHING. And another of the three tried to talk to everybody and ANYBODY that walked by. Then there were these 4-5 taiwanese girls that couldn't stop TALKING. They kept asking Simon questions like "Do you have a girlfriend?" etcetc and at the end, asked for his e-mail. Then there was this kid (maybe really retarded, I don't know) which lagged behind us by a hallway or more, constantly fell, spoke nonsense/random/jibberish by the name of KENNY (funny how you get to know the name of the most troublesome one)... But I suppose the funniest thing that happened would have to be, "Simon, what grade are you in?" "How could you?" "You're as tall as I am!" "Haha you're so short." conversation that occured while we walked. I chose not to deal with the group and decided to be the tail, dragging whoever that wasn't following with the pack. Finally it was all over... or so I thought, again. After school, we decided on working on our new plans for our Bio project. We started rough again because the first idea (making a CD) was too much work and time consuming, so we decided on a story instead. But this particular idiot (who seems to claim himself as some sorta anime otaku) who kept complaining that "these ideas won't work!", "so, then huh how do you explain THIS!" "Ahh I'll kill you if I'm missing a new Digimon episode today" "I want to go home." while he sat complaining, he didn't help with the ideas at all. Then he gets easily amused by something that isn't amusing. Then he gets really confusing and suddenly starts humming some Escaflowne song, then starts talking about how the new season of Beyblade all became small kids, then sings some other random song, then suddenly blurts out "Ahh damn Evangelion movie", then says he wanted chips, then goes and reverts his attention to a textbook on another table and decides to go over, then he sits there again and randomly talking about the chapter we're doing for Bio and then repeatedly said he'd type up the notes again and again... then he goes back to complaining... and then alternates. Finally he decides to go, when we weren't even done. Petty and I decided to stay and finish it. Even yet, we didn't understand the Ovarian and Menstrual Cycle at all it seems... thus we didn't get it completely done.



Now I got an essay to deal with.




Which Naruto Character are You?
quiz by orangeday.net

such ungrateful child

blackdragon4me (2:07:35 AM): are you ever going to remake theworld??
Mahoro Maiden (2:08:01 AM): if you read .hackers updates you'd probably know without me telling you
Mahoro Maiden (2:08:19 AM): and please stop asking... it just makes me want to NOT open it again
blackdragon4me (2:09:08 AM): well I don't go to this .hakers thing
Mahoro Maiden (2:09:18 AM): then that's too bad
blackdragon4me (2:09:24 AM): o k
blackdragon4me (2:09:26 AM): bye
blackdragon4me signed off at 2:09:32 AM.

Then he decides to warn me... then I warned him back 15% more than he warned me.
Probably his 5th time asking in the past two days.

I hate spiders. I SERIOUSLY HATE SPIDERS~!!!! FOR ALL I CARE I THINK THEY SHOULD DIE!~! >___<



I just had another scary encounter with a spider that's as big as a thumb (yeow, that's big) and it crawled around the computer room a bit. I tried to ask for assistance from my bro but all he did was ignore me. I couldn't help but cryyyy ;___; ... Spiders are so horrible, why do they plague me so?! The big dood is hiding somewhere behind the computer.... I don't really want to look nor know, which is why I'm trying to type as fast as I can before I zoom out of this room and hope he'll never reappear in the house again, but damn spiders, they crawl EVERYWHERE. I just realized I seem to be the only member of the family that really encouters spiders... or perhaps it's just that I'm extra alert of their presence. Annoying little bugs.. DIE DIE DIE!!!!!

Ouch, almost got caught skippin' first block, had to make up a 1 second excuse. ^_^;; Monica and I wasted our money buying 2 cups of coffee from the caf all morning... but didn't stay awake at all. I was overly proud of myself today for achieving a good score in my japanese quizes! >=D Stupid me forgot what to touch something that was cold was... stupid stupid, TSUMETAI DESU YO! >_<



As always, Sophie, being the prick that she is, FORCED me to do some stupid scanning of the annual pictures just BECAUSE I was Ms. Price's comm serv. student, but I don't see why? It went...



Me: "Why do I have to do it? You're free, why don't you do it?"

Sophie: "Just do it."

Me: "Why do I have to do it?"

Sophie: "Just do it."

Me: "You didn't answer me yet, why do I have to do it?"

Sophie: "Just do it..."

Me: *thinks: ...biatch*



Day ruined.