March 26, 5:00PM

I've been sitting here figuring out how to write this. Let's start with this morning.

I had a rather exciting dream yesterday (this morning?). It was heavily influenced by Tales of Vesperia (gahahaha!). In the dream, I wanted to break away from the rules of society so I created my own guild. My guild grew to be the most powerful guild in the world. There were plans for my assassination because I was just that powerful and it was believed that someone in our own guild was trying to betray me. There was a conference/speech scheduled to happen (with other guilds/the world), so I went to join my appointed guild commanders who were already there. I didn't know which side they were on so I randomly went left and there they were. My commanders were made up of some of my irl friends, though I only remember seeing Simon and Jason. I had a hunch that Jason was the one who betrayed me so I interrogated him. He continued to be suspicious by avoiding eye contact and refusing to answer my questions. The speech was about to start so I fixed my seat on the front row (there were only three rows, my dudes were on the 2nd and 3rd). The first row was empty so I sprawled myself across 4-5 seats.

The speech began and more of my people lined up across the stage. Then my 2nd-in-command who was called Gary for some reason (but had no face I recognized) announced himself as the new guild leader, which was actually my plan. Apparently that saves the guild and me and all the problems get resolved.

Now that I was an anybody, I roamed around freely. I used my car to travel to places (my irl car) but this one time my car gets electrocuted by lightning with me in it, but I was fine. My car stops working but apparently lightning is common in that area so I was not surprised. The next thing you know, I was on one of those one-footed scooters standing in a river of other one-footed scooter riders and one of the opposing enemy guild members (who was Korean for some reason) recognized me in the crowd. I guess she didn't like me. I swear there was more to it, but that's as far as my memory goes.

Ok, back to reality. I woke up again at 8 and was like ugh school so I forced myself up and arrived at the academia at 9:30. That morning I struggled with CSS amnesia due to my rustiness. I should really go back to some good ol' coding.

On my way home after school, I got a call from a Withheld number who was actually a girl who tried to steal my identity. The whole conversation was in mandarin unless otherwise stated:

Me: (English) Hello?
Girl: (English) Hello, do you speak Chinese?
Me: (English) Yes.
Girl: [really fast mandarin I didn't understand]
Me: I don't understand. Can you speak Cantonese?
Girl: Oh you speak Cantonese. Can you understand Mandarin?
Me: A little bit.
Girl: Where do you live?
Me: What? I don't understand why you're asking me...
Girl: Where do you live? Vancouver? Richmond?
Me: [ugh fine see what she's up to] uh, Vancouver
Girl: Where do you work?
Me: I don't work.
Girl: Where do you work?
Me: I have no work; I'm a student. Hey, I'm driving, can you call me back later?
Girl: Oh you're driving?
Me: Yes.
Girl: Oh okay, what's your last name?
Me: Uh..... I don't understand why you're...
Girl: What's your last name?
Me: Cheung.. maybe.
Girl: Your last name is Cheung? What is your first name?
Me: ......
Girl: Hello? What's your first name? Hello?
Me: *hangs up*

K, so I was kind of slow in realizing that, oops, shit!, this person isn't normal and I have no idea why I went with it. I was plenty confused and I just went with the flow without realizing. It was my first time experiencing something like this so it caught me off guard. Those identity thieves, they're tricky. (Or just that I'm just that dumb...) Luckily I don't think I have anything important registered to my cell phone number, assuming that's the only thing they got ahold of.

When I got home after an afternoon of errands (at ~5pm), I got a call from my aunt telling me that my grandma passed away. It was way too sudden considering my parents saw her the day before, but it was obvious that she was weakening drastically the past week. My mom and I waited for my dad and bro to come home early and we headed to the hospital where she passed. My Auntie Lily, and two cousins were already there. It was a relief to know that she passed away peacefully (rather than painfully) during one of her regular heimo-something appointments (manual kidney cleaning with blood). The nurse who assisted her throughout the day told us her last moments and we regret that not one of us were there to see her off. Her body was already failing quickly throughout the day and we were told that she did not show any weakness or pain... though, it was just her personality to not show or express that. It wasn't until we did a short prayer, I felt a pierce in my heart and I couldn't control my tears.

Dinner followed. Seems like there are plans for getting things organized and tidying up tomorrow and I'll be helping out with that. Surprisingly, my grandpa is coming back for the ceremony. A side note, we've been trying to get him to move back here permanently but there has been no progress.

I seem to be taking it slightly better than I expected, though this is the third time now. I'm glad there's something like this (blog) around for me to just dump my brains out on.

Nightmares...

I've had nightmares two nights in a row.

Nightmare 1: KOTOKO had work at the same location as me. The location was my house but in the dream it wasn't my house. As soon as our work-related stuff was done, I wanted to approach her asap but when I got to her, I WAS TOO LATE. Someone else was already talking with her. Then as soon as the person left (which felt like a long time, cuz I paced around anxiously waiting) I approached her but she received a call from her manager (Kazuya Takase? LOL idk) that there was more work to be done. Right after I get a phone call from MY real work manager (the other branch's work manager actually) saying I had to get to work now cuz I was needed. I shook him off and said yes (we were speaking in Cantonese, so KOTOKO wouldn't of known what we were talking about). Then she starts humming the beginning of that Maiyahi song and I hummed the rest of the song with her (wtf??). After that weird moment (which wasn't weird at the time???) I began conversing with her. BUT FOR SOME REASON... I COULDN'T SPEAK JAPANESE PROPERLY! So then I bore her to death with my f-uped, choppy Wapanese. And she responds in an extremely uninterested tone (in JP: "Ah yes.." "Oh is that so..") while stretching, rolling her eyes, and the full works. Noooo~ I woke up so discouraged. Influence? The night before I made and played in a Japanese PT on FFXI, typing of course Japanese.

Nightmare 2: I don't remember it but... my moonroof got stuck, opened. Influence? I've been opening my moonroof cuz it's been sunny lately. My mom's car's sunroof got stuck (unopenable, if opened it will jam) when they forgot to close it up this one time and water got in. Paranoid dream.

Enough of the depressing nightmares.

A few random thoughts..
- Kwantlen's been sending me spam.
- I'm going for a desktop instead of a laptop for now. I keep aiming for highend and the laptops available here suck in terms of desktop-replacing highends. I can hold off until they bring over the better technology. Now I wait until end of July for the price drop.

[ffxi talk]
Full Bard AF1 set in a week and a half! We did all of it as Me (WHM75) and my bro (MNK75). Castle Oztroja coffer took the most time. Both key and chest searching. I may look good on the outside but I have gimped earrings and back. I was caught yesterday with them wahahaha XP~ Not to mention all my songs were constantly resisted. LOL that's so horrible. But I can't help it.. they're too expensive XP!

Player>> Party? Do you want it?
Me>> Yes, please.
Player>> Gather together. Aht Urghan Whitegate
Me>> NOooooooooooo!

Player>> Hello! Party?
Me>> Yes, please.
Player>> Gather together. Al Zahbi please
Me>> NOOOoOOooo!

(I didn't really NOoooo! like that but the inside was screaming.)
That was TWICE IN A ROW. NO PARTY THAT NIGHT AT ALL! I want the expansion so bad now XP! I hear the lag's bloody bad there (400-700+ people in the area at a time) so I might wait off on it until I get my new computer. I might just lag out and then that would defeat the purpose of me having the expansion to start with.
[/ffxi talk]

Oh, I will cut off here. Gunna go out n grab some grub.

I forgot to blog yesterday, bleh, and I had stuff to say too. Well, I guess now is the same, though I don't remember much of it. The night before yesterday, I had a dream which was a weird crossover of X (tv) and FFVII. I think it was influenced by the 10 back2back episodes I watched before I slept that night (uguu..). And the only part I remember (now anyways) is that Kamui was talking to this long haired guy (uuu, like Ayame from Furuba but it wasn't him but I feel that he was) and this other dude about some new "girl" (which I knew was Aerith) supposedly to be some special person but I don't remember, unfortunately. And this scene I remember was repeated several times (kind of like X TV itself where they like repeating unnecessary scenes over and over again) throughout the whole dream. Funny. o_o;

Two days ago.... In the morning, my friend and I went to the Career Fair. There were some pretty cool schools there, and I guess you could say we learned quite a bit. Oddly, there were a whole lot of free pens, stickers and candy given out in every booth, which was kind of interesting. McGill was probably the only school we wanted to see that didn't show up at the fair... disappointing. When we got back at lunch, we handed in our school newspaper wordsearch, hoping to win, with quite a bit of high hopes too. I did a very simple LotF test in the following class. Later that night, I stressed over my History term paper until 0300, fortunately, getting it completed and in addition, still be able to sleep that night. ^_^;;



Yesterday night, I had another strange dream. Mainly it was myself in a huge department store with a big crowd of people that stayed as a crowd that I knew only (I don't remember who they were... just close friends/family) and from the corner of my eye, a burglar crept up the stairs to the next floor I guess. This other guy (male, that I knew.. I think) went to follow the burglar. Nobody noticed or saw him so I went up to follow as well. He ran around the floor and went back down the escalator which was for some reason 180ｰ (straight O_O) which lead to the previous floor we were all at. I pinned him down, grabbing both his wrists sitting on his tummy. I screamed for attention from the big crowd and they ignored me. I had to scream to the loudest I could get until they slowly walked over as the crowd and gasped n so forth. I was so busy screaming for attention, waiting for them to get here, the burglar got away. Then I don't remember anything else. I'm just a bad story teller. ^_-



Me and Sach watched Metropolis today at Metropolis! A somewhat recent (few months old) animation of Osamu Tazuka's comic like 50 years ago. The future metropolis, robots and human story. I thought it was pretty cool. The cut out scenes were pretty obvious though... ugly zoom blackness into something then returning to fullscreen, psh. "Watashi wa... dare?"

I woke up late for school today, no surprise, and I went back to sleep even though I knew I was going to be late. Within the 20 mins I was asleep I had the most oddest dream. I was to do a live presentation (in front of this bigass crowd) about the disease that I made a presentation on a few weeks back (although in the dream, I remember not doing it at all). Then, watching the other people's presentations, theirs were like singing (unrelated eh) until my cousin Jacky went and did his, his was formal and so on. A big mumbo jumbo of running around, freaking out, redoing my presentation last minute, forgetting how to write "KAWASAKI" (which was the disease I was doing)... Then suddenly, I was in a car, I asked my bro about the presentation I was to do. I then thought it was a dream, but then I got right back to the same building I'm supposed to present at. I followed my mom inside and I looked around at the stages, they were filled with hockey games and basketball games. My mom was eagar for me to do the presentation so she stomped around to find the people in charge. A girl came, and my mom presented something to her, and I immediately knew she was showing this info to arrest her husband. My mom's an undercover cop? o_o Wow, just thought I'd mention this because I remembered when I got to school. XD

I had the most disturbing dream yesterday. I think it was my family eating and my dad made a nasty remark I couldn't tolerate. So I was going to threaten him by throwing ice cream at his face, but when I was saying it, the ice cream came out of the bucket and flew at his face. Then I said something to him and ran off into the mall (?). I went into Zellers, but whereever I went, I saw him, then I realized I couldn't avoid him because there were duplicates of my dad everywhere. Is that a sign for something coming? o_o



And tomorrow's morning class been cancelled due to the IB Retreat. Woosh!

dreaming! dreaming! another dream!

I go to a mall close by Richmond Center by bus, but in my PJs, figuring I wouldn't see anyone I know anyway. But when I was about to leave, I see my friends sitting down and just saying "Now we'll just wait for Candace" says Florence. Then they see me. I tell them, "I'll come as soon as I can, I'll go back to change. They wander off doing whatever, as I squish through the rather squishy crowd with a weird setup. I take the bus back home and change.Taking the bus back, I bump into someone....

Onto the next dream... this old lady says wearing this ring will prevent getting shocked by electricity. I put on the ring, fill the sink with water, and wet my hands. Then I plug it into the wall and watch the electricity flow through me. Then the old lady cackles "See, I told you it works." And then I dry myself and so forth.Another dream... After a dinner at this very high class mansion (with my friends taking every expensive jewelery and so forth), they leave first and we sit around, resting after the meal. Then the owners of the house come storming in in their big fur coats and old wrinkly faces gaping about their lost prized posessions. As if they don't notice us, we sit there watching them.

As this connects to the previous dream... We steal a truck/van from someone.. it's rectangular shaped and dark green... a guy is driving.. as two others are behind us. The guy in the back was dressed up in a costume to look like my friend who has blonde short hair that I don't personally know. Because I forgot some previous dream stuff.... It seems like we're driving the local roads of my house, until suddenly, someone hits the van. I look behind in the mirror and see nobody. I hear someone hit us again and I look back to see a bunch of guys with long knives. I tell the driver to go faster. Then we hear that someone has climbed up on top of the van and began shooting us with a gun. It was right above me and the driver, but for some reason it didn't hit any of us. I start shooting above, but for some reason, my shots were slow. I told the driver to go the specific ways then I said the only way to escape them was to go to Chinatown (and yes, the way we were going was going to Chinatown) except the road was different. There were no buildings and as if we were going to a freeway. He told me to drive because he wanted to shoot the guy above, so I climbed over and only managed to sit on his lap. I never driven before (because I haven't learned how yet obviously, considering I'm only 15) so as if in a racing game, I sit the walls a few times, until I got the hang of it. The guys were screaming at me the first few times asking if I knew how to drive or not. Then the freeway went into a tunnel, and I screamed out, "Ahh I hate tunnels!"... For some reason the car's headlights were bright, so I saw what was in front of us easily.

The walls were all woody (not cement and dark)... I forgot something here, then we arrived in a game-state room full of big things I had to acquire by moving the car around but in a different point of view. Af if I saw the car from afar, above like a toy but it was hard to steer. I collected dice-looking numbers and big round balls till I almost cleared everything until I noticed something hidden behind a piece of newspaper. I open it up to find japanese drama-recorded tapes (like the ones from the haircutter guy), magazines, jars of candy and stuff... I quickly grabbed as much as I can. I heard some person complaining, until Kawamura-sensei told her to shush and watched me.

When I was done sweeping (I didn't clean out everything purposely because I didn't want to be that greedy) the bag I was to put in wasn't mine because I also stole that as well. So I found a really big plastic bag and put it into the bag so if I were to change the bag I stole, I can take out the plastic bag easily. I put them in an organized fashion. Then the driver friend asked sensei if she had a paper bag that was long like [ ] with the paper handles on the top. He found one, and so did I.

Then it ends there.

Dreaming of adventures, apparently

Last night, I had a very long dream. And they say, right after you dream and wake up, you should write it down. Unfortunately, I didn't of course, so I forgot bits and pieces of it.It was like this video game type thing, in the beginning.

*insert forgotten memory here* I found a slingshot on the floor and used it. *insert forgotten memory here* Then there was the final boss who looked *insert forgotten memory here* but very big. I was with another friend, who was female but I don't remember who it was. *insert forgotten memory here* I tried to hit it with the sling shot which took off 0 everytime I tried. Then, after a few times of that, I suddenly decided to hold it (kind of like Unreal, when you hold onto the fire button to charge up whatever you're using) and then I fired, hitting 200 or so. I did that 3 more times, and then he died. *very very big chunk of forgotten memory here.. had something to do with tunnels or something*

The next thing I remember, I was in this house with my friend, Flare, from IRC. As well, there was a gang of other people I did/didn't know there as well. Then there was this lady who stood in front of the door, blocking the way. For some reason, I remember asking a kid for advice on how to get out and he told me to jump over fences but when he did, he got stuck once and he said it "hurt a lot". :rolleyes: Ah, anyway, so me and Flare went through the backdoor and looks around for an exit. They were all locked so we went towards the fence. I found a part where the fence was low, so we jumped over. He followed me as I jumped a few more fences then *insert forgotten memory here*... arrived back at the same house, but on the other side of it. The lady who was blocking the door was blocking the right side (so now we're on the left side ~_~). She "hmph"ed and turned away, as we walked out.*insert another big chunk of forgotten memory though I remember something really big happening, escaping from something/someone*

...I'm at this building looking for Flare, when suddenly, a friend of mine who's bald and is a guy (don't know him, but recognized him as a friend for some reason) grabbed my arm and pretended to be my bf, hiding his face away from a guard that was walking beside us. We walked down this long zigzaggy corridor, trying to make conversation so we won't look suspicious. *insert forgotten memory here* The sections of the corridor were different coloured, there was black, green, red and so forth... I remember asking (when trying to make conversation), "Are we there yet? Do you remember which room he's in" and stuff... The guard finally turned at a room in the black corridor section. As we continued along, we arrived at the yellow corridor section with the room number of 22, which was where Flare was supposed to be. I remember myself trying to memorize the number so I can find him here again. When we went in, we found him, sitting in front of two tvs on a couch watching TK and Kari moments. -_-;;; Okay, so us two sat on the floor, watching with him. *then big chuck of forgotten memory to end the dream off*

Hmm?

It would figure all the goodness wouldn't come in one day. That'd be too easy anyway. At least it's planned n stuff. That's a good sign.. good sign.

So much happening lately, which I suppose could be considered better than doing nothing at all. Just a while back, I finally advanced up to the next dungeon in Chocobo Dungeon 2. I went and charged up the dungeons then realizing that the bosses weren't that tough! ^^;

I had a dream yesterday, and it had my relatives and my family in it. It was related to Jello Pudding snacks. My dad made this one that "cooked" for two days (which was supposed to be good? o_o) and showed it to me, hiding it away from my aunt. Really weird.

Drizzle Drizzle Drizzle

(the very first official blog post is here.)

What bummed out weather today. Rain. That's funny, the last time I checked, I swear it was summer.

I had the most messed up dream yesterday. I only remember the ending part very well. Once in a while, there are programs on channels like TLC that talk about "Speed Chases". It was related to those. There were these two old grandmas walking the highway. An asian woman walking about a mile in front of a white woman. Then, from behind came two speeding buses, driving like mad. They were driving off lane, leaving alot of dust, swaying awkwardly and all. The bus in front was about to hit the asian woman until the white woman comes from behind and pushes her away. Oh what a save! XD The picture's all dusty now, until it clears up, the two grandmas are in front of the buses again (o_O), crawling away as fast as they can. The first bus comes from behind the white woman and was about to hit her but the asian woman pushes her away, but instead, the two get sucked into a tornado. The grandmas get tossed into the air (for some odd reason, they got their backs to each other and their arms together). Then the narrator is heard talking about how they were flying seeing only the asian woman screaming as they fall. The picture changes when there's a bunch of kids coming out from a bus and a car below.....Then I see myself grabbing a jug of water from the refridgerator, pouring it in to my cup then drinking. XD

The disturbing scene comes next.. the two grandmas fall, head first... the white woman hits the cement hard x_x, as the asian somehow bounces off the fall and stands up straight (ok o_o). It was rather bloody >_<... A father of some kid was hugging his child until the bloody body lunges at him. -_-;

I woke up with an urge of drinking water.

Then, I cleaned up half of my room. Ahh, feels good to have such a half clean room. But I couldn't finish up the job because my room got clouded with dust. If I stayed any longer, it would have left me with a sneezing fest which I already had when I was cleaning. It shows how long I haven't cleaned yet. ^^;;