Heat Interference

In came August, in came a sudden mix of thundershowers, meteor showers and heatwaves. Our city never ceases to amaze us and the past few weeks have just been a good handful amazement.

I managed to go to the final performance (of the four) for the Celebration of Lights fireworks night which was done by some Canadian group doing a tribute to China (why China?). It was a bit strange how they decided to move the event up a week earlier than usual this year so I only managed to go to the last Saturday one. Well, Saturday was a scorching beach day and I got there a bit after noon and met up with Sty and Tofu. Napped, played iPad touch tetris (fffffffffffffffuu - I got to level 13 at least), ate chips, then it rained and scared some people away. Yay for beach umbrellas. Saboo and Steph followed to join us later that night. The performance itself wasn't all that great as it was too stereotypically Chinesey. Finished off the night with the deliciousness of facecicles.

The following weekend was the weekend of weddings. Friday the 6th was my cousin Fan Mei's wedding. They hired a horrendous wedding singer duo that wouldn't stop their loud singing in bad Engrish. We all wanted to die. At least the dessert was pretty:


The day after, Saturday, was Vee+Chris' long awaited day. For some reason, having Lisa with me made me late for every occasion. She must be bad luck as we were late for both the ceremony and reception. Unfortunately it also decided to rain that day, which made communing that much more frustrating. Jess was there as an additional photographer and it was actually pretty neat to see her again since grad. We totally danced it out at the reception dance floor. :3 It was also interesting to experience my first buffet-style reception. The salad tricked me into filling my plate before getting to the meat. D:! Speaking of weddings though, I don't think I mentioned my cousin Jacky's wedding that happened in July as well. I've only had to go to three this year but my parents have gone to double what I have. Sigh, tis the summer of weddings~

So! As summer's winding down, my inner guilt had forced me to look a -little- harder for work. I did some more searching the following weekend, tried at a few postings and lo and behold, I got a call on the Monday for an interview Wednesday. The next thing you know, I was hired on the spot and I began work that upcoming Friday. Hello! I'm now a jack-of-all-trades web administrator! I'll get into that a bit more another day. Thank goodness for office a/c though.

Then... Anime Evolution happened on the following weekend. I coughed out a day's worth of pass money which I completely regret doing but for the sake of just meeting friends, it's worth it *sucks it up*. Thanks to LightningSabre, I got a pleasant a/c'd ride to UBC where we both began dying upon leaving the vehicle. Bumped into Nina+bf on my way to reg, bumped into Jenny on my way to somewhere-I-forget and joined her to the cosplay cafe. The lineup for it was insane so we just took a peek and then bumped into Tofu and his gang. We headed to the cosplay contest where there were some really questionable performances. It wasn't long before we ditched the place and wandered the artist alley.. er villa. I'm really disappointed at their "artist villa" layout as the artists upstairs obviously got the short end of the stick. I bumped into Nina again upstairs as she finished setting up her table. After wandering around aimlessly a bit more, we headed to the Little Tea House downstairs for some cold drinks before making our way to the Final Fantasy photoshoot. I left Jenny to her photo-taking frenzy as I headed inside to check out the Niconico panel. Stepped in, sat down for a minute, stepped out. It was DISGUSTING IN THERE. With the lack of a/c and the amount of people, it was unbearable. It didn't help that they were playing Japanese Ronarudo remixes. As I waited outside, I bumped into the Chen+Ran duo who were waiting around for the Touhou panel. I watched Chen get into her fake nails while the Niconico panel behind us started to do a live streaming feed. We had people sleeping on the sides, playing their psp, or just talking and didn't care for what was being streamed. Then there were the niconico keeners at the front doing their singing and dancing as they knew the lyrics to the medley and catchy meme'd-the-hell-out-of tracks.

Touhou panel was next. The room got even more packed, thus even more disgustingly hot and humid. The presentation was the same as Sakuracon (and probably last year's AE too). People started trickling out pretty fast when they noticed the presentation was just going to be a snore-fest. I'm glad I brought a fan or I would've died in there. There wasn't anything else good to do so I waited around and left soon after the photoshoot.

Me and LS followed to check out the Starcraft 2 tourny but spectator line was undesirably long so we went next door to the console gaming room instead to pass the time. We poked at Katamari and found that 2 player mode isn't available initially, Split/Second and rerealized that racing games only last so long, Call of Duty and just shot a lot and died a lot. After what we thought was enough time wasted, we went back to the tourny room and watched some matches. Sty and Steph soon showed up and joined us on the watching before it was -finally- Tofu's turn. We watched him get his butt kicked :( then we followed to figure out where to eat :b and finalized on 24hr pho. Called it a night after a stomach full of food.

This dreadful heatwave rendered my PC useless the last few days and scared me into thinking that my hdd might actually be dying. Fortunately it doesn't seem to be the case after I turned it back on when the weather started cooling down. Though I did end up corrupting some sectors on the hdd and that messed up the settings of some programs I had open at the time when my computer began hanging under the heatwave weather.

Regardless, I have an external on the way anyway.

Now that I have a job... I can think about that backlog of things I need to get/do.

Twenty Ten

あけおめことよろ～

Hello 2010! Happy New Year!
Great to start the new year by running a STALE RED light. I *think* there's no camera in that intersection, but you can never be so sure. Sigh, fml.

Anyway, winter break... there really wasn't much of one. Finished Dragon Age for the time being and marathoned a bunch of anime.

Then came New Years Eve which was a bit unexpected. There were a series of power outages on my way home late in the afternoon. My house and area was also affected so when the rest of the family got home, we headed out for food instead. Later that night I finally headed to Mike's place for the usual celebrations. I honestly had no intention of drinking a lot but I somehow got befriended by one of the party girls and she had me "catch up" to her... and that involved a lot of whiskey and jagerbombs. The night also involved eating really good chips I don't remember the name of and learning how to lap dance.

Before the end of the holidays, the family (+ my bro's gf) also headed down to the states for a day as his "Christmas present" to us. We had to fit 5 people into my car so it wasn't all that comfortable of a drive (I wasn't driver/shotgun). The buffet at the Tulalip casino wasn't as good as we all hoped either but I suppose the successful shopping trip balanced that out. Gotta hold off the spending (for serious this time!).

As for new year resolutions... I've been sleeping more than usual and I always felt oversleeping was a time waster (I still feel the same about it now) but I've been giving in to the awesome comfort and laziness of rolling in bed and not having to feel sleepy midway through the day. It's a sign that I must be becoming more of a lazy person (or lazier than before). Probably not a good thing considering my current position and the time of year. Hm, this would make a good new years resolution. The process of unlazying myself?

School has restarted and I'm not looking forward to the final semester. A fastforward 5 months button would be great right about now.

Halloween, Costumes & Explosions

It's that time of the year when I scramble frantically for a relatively easy costume to put together for Halloween. This year instead of red gloves it's bunny ears. Not just any pair of bunny ears... No - not fuzzy, no glitter/sparkles/shiny, must be white, must be bendable and long would be a plus. I wandered through at least 8 different stores... It was Faith all over again! This year they were Reisen bunny ears. :3

You know you are a geek when you purposely dress up (hm, the more suitable term in my case would be cosplaying) as a character from an extremely niche market and you know that a good 97% of the people who will see it won't know where it's from. To my surprise though, one person did recognize my costume at the party but that was after I told them that it was from "an obscure Japanese shmupvertical shooter." And for those who really had no clue, "Japanese bunny school girl" was a good enough description for me.

Now that I have a new costume... I think I can reuse this again. Maybe I'll get a wig, though I am a disaster at maintaining wigs. I gave up on trying to straighten my Lacus mop-of-a-hair back in the day. I'm unsatisfied with my ears though, they just aren't long enough but there was one girl at the party who had an awesome pair of perfect long ears but she got it at a game stand at PNE/Playland. Not sure if I'd ever get a chance to go there and force myself to win myself a pair of ears... or if it'd even be there by the time I visit the place again.

I almost didn't end up going to the party. Sty's been busy packing and was tired so she didn't wanna go. It took me about three tries to actually get her moving, the main reason I used (and was the truth) was that I couldn't face the scary cupcake girl by myself. But the three tries took about three hours before we finally got to Gar's place three hours late. Luckily it was because we got there late, cupcake girl was already deep in conversing and boasting about her cupcakes so I had nothing to fear. I kept my box closed until the end of the party.

Sadly also because we got there late, there wasn't much food left. Although while I was waiting at home, I raided some of my brother's food so I was pretty good without. We watched "Halloween" movies on tv... the scary/horror flicks and the like. Ugh Saw II/I. ;(

When there's Halloween, there's fireworks. Fireworks are only cool when you're the one playing with them. Besides that, they're annoying and loud. A bit past midnight, we made our round of noises in backyard and came back in smelling deliciously smokey. That followed with the revealing of my cupcaaakes, and the consumption of more candy, baked+salted pumpkin seeds, garlic bread (?!), pop?!

I think I'm eventually going to run out of easy costumes to do...

Then I get to go back to elaborate sewing.
Before that though, I'd probably have to get myself a sewing machine.

Two Thousand and Nine

Happy 2009! A happy new year it is!

My NYE celebration happened at Mike's place as usual. I got there at 7 to join in on the dinner gathering. I figured I would park on the side of his house so it would be easier to leave later that night. I turned in a street prior to his and lo and behold, I was welcomed with and unpleasant amount of snow to drive through. I had difficulty turning as I kept getting stuck so I kept going straight until I hit the next big street. From the big street I turned into his and when I finally got to his place, his streets were in no condition to park on at all. I saw Pat get stuck coming the other way so I stayed with him until we saw Keith come by to tell us he parked on the big street instead. I took that advise and drove out to park on Granville as well. I walked to his place, sliding on all the black ice possible on the sidewalk, fortunately not PKing.

When I finally got there, it seemed that a number of people were also stuck as well. So after about an hour delay, we finally had food and then started drinking. Surprisingly, time flew pretty fast and midnight approached quickly. Everyone stayed alive for the countdown which was nice. I had a Flaming Dr.Pepper for the first time and it actually tasted like Dr. Pepper like wow! XD It was pretty yummylicious.

At around 1, after a few more shots, we watched Ping-Pong Playa just for the silliness of it (and the fact that it was Ping-Pong, which Eric loves ;b). I started to get a headache about then, so I listened to most of the movie and watched the ending. Man, the main character is fugly.

I stayed until 4am before I knew I was alright to drive. I was then informed that it was snowing again outside. OMG. When I got to my car, there was already a huge layer that formed on my car. I took a while to clean up all the snow that piled up on my car. A lot of sliding occurred on my drive home. When I finally did get home, the neighbour's car blocked my garage and the snow in front of the house was rather high for me to park on. I found a spot in front of another neighbour's place though. I left a note when I got home for my dad to help park my car for me because I knew I wasn't going to wake up the next morning.

I hate you snow.

Two Months Worth

Depressingly returning to work after an awsome trip (that just felt like a long weekend), things were back to "normal" again. Insanely busy work, only mere hours a day of 'free time' before having to go to bed for the next work day, too tired to do anything big, online shopping......

Speaking of online shopping... online shopping is such an exciting activity, is it not? The other day I finally bought clothes online! All this time, through my online shopping adventures, I've been over-worried about sizing and style. Clothing is one of those things you usually have to try on and see how well it suits you. This time, some of the stuff I've been eyeing for the longest time were on sale (!) so I decided to take this chance to take a chance. XD It arrives save and sound and to my surprise, they fit perfectly (minus two that were labeled "one size only" which turned out to be a LARGES D: -- might wash it and see if it shrinks on me). Now that I have clothes buying experience, I think I'll be doing more frequently in the [near] future~

You would think I'd stop buying so much after coming home from vacation and bringing back two suitcases packed full with good stuff.... hahaa.. that doesn't apply to me. :b

More on the topic of online shopping... MY LAPTOP! Finally decided to get one because I'll need it for work. I ordered my very first laptop the other day, ETA 2nd week of August. I totally spent too much on it! As my first AND just a laptop in general. But there was no way I'd go for something that I wouldn't be proud of lugging around and using. The two companies I drilled down to was Toshiba and HP. Toshiba mainly because of their comfortable touchpad I've used before and loved, decent builds, AND because it's 'Toshiba'! For HP, I have gotten a few negative comments about HP from a few of my friends, but I won't let that stop me. HP has more than just a few exceptional laptop builds... especially with the better GPU choices available and included, on top of good sound speakers (Altec Lansing!). That in itself is already a good enough reason for me to go HP. Built-in things won't do for me. So it was a nice try, Toshiba. Within HP, I had a few choices. However, still relatively limited for the Canadian market. My original choice was the dv9420ca from HP Canada. I tried to do some research on this model, but there weren't any reviews or comments on this machine at all. I also found myself looking at the expensive pretty stuff like the Dell XPS but was upset to see the value in price. By the end of my long journey around the online globe, I finalized on a dv9500t CTO notebook! I'll give my customized specs and my personal review when I finally get it. X3

Now onto the backlog...

Thu July 5 - Company BBQ in celebration of our successful commercial release (which I wasn't even here for cuz I was in Cali at the time! :b)! We closed down the office at 2 and headed down to Waterfront to catch the Seabus to the CEO's house out in North Van. I got chosen with another co-worker, DK, to join the CEO and the COO in their car for a joyride to their place instead of taking transit. And wow, go figure, it's North Van.. his house was big, new and pretty. We got to meet the rest of his family (wife, three boys and flip maid!)... We started off with chips and beer.. then I moved onto the lemonade. It wasn't until a few hours in we began finally getting the actual BBQ part. Then the water fights began... One of the boys had the insane supersoaker (with the backpack of water!) and he totally owned us (versus our manual hand-pumping action guns). I got to the point where I got ahold of the backpack supersoaker too and attacked a few people. They had a trampoline in the backyard and we had drunk Jeremy jump in it. Kinda scary to watch actually lol... There was also a waterslide which was called BANZAI MOUNTAIN rofl! Me and DK left at the same time (around 7ish) and took the transit back together. Wow, long time no Seabus for sure.

Fri July 6 - Long time no All-You-Can-Eat sushi @ Richmond Sushi for Trevor's bday.

Sat July 7 - Franky's 22nd Birthday at no other than Mike's place! So we have our usual rowdy group of the Liquids, Franky's work friends, Mike's work people (my work people too I guess) and lots of booze. Franky is such an adorable weak drinker XDD... So it's his birthday... the birthday boy has to drink unreservedly, of course. I had my first Flaming Lamborghini... recommended by the bartender (aka. Eric Chin XD) when I requested something 'different'. XD Then our "boss" (aka. Mike) tricked us (co-workers = me, Jeremy, Paulo, Matthias) that our toast shot was Tequila but turned out to be a friggin' 151. Destructively burning it was. Gross and disgusting surprise lol... Bastard Mike :b The soccer tournament between France-Jeremy and Brazil-Paulo was pretty amusing to watch (on Winning 11 lol~). Tried to get Matthias to join in (as Germany of course! XDDD) but he wasn't into games, boo. So after rounds of strange liquids, I had to start sobering up to drive home so I hid myself in the gaming room and tried to nap. I was accompanied by Franky who was completely out of it... *patpats* Poor guy... he wanted to stay sober to help clean up and be responsible but how could he, it's his birthday! :B

Skip two weeks...

July 16 - Registration for courses. Omg it's that time of year already?! School's back in a month...!!!!

July 18 - Flare & Sakura: k it took us weeks to convince these people to come out of their cave in Langley, for serious. Two people who were part of our #Digimon channel way back when... Flare came to visit Sakura so duh, we're nearby, come visit us too! We decided to meet up at Metro at 7. I drove us to White Spot so we can enjoy the awsomeness that is the burger and their BLUEBERRY PIE! We didn't think about bubble tea until hours later and realized it was probably too late to grab bubble tea so we rescheduled for Saturday. みんなすごっく妙なやつだった。考えたよりすげーオタクくさい…

July 20 - Point Roberts. Requested that I got off work early (2AM) to head down to the states early (to beat the Friday afternoon/evening traffic). There was already nasty traffic forming on Knight street which delayed me a lot. I asked Tek to come with me (paranoid to go anywhere far by myself) and had him wait at Aberdeen so I can pick him and some bubble tea(!) up. It was relatively straightforward... got to see a lot of nothing. I was starting to panic when we got to the border. Gah I'm talking to the border guy not someone else like it usually is like! Tek was under suspicion both times there and back :b... We were there to sightsee... which is exactly what happened. The border guy on the US side had a stern face on the whole time... He paused a lot after our question and answers... then when we said it was our first time here, he suddenly got up and walked into the office. He came back a few seconds later, he gave us a map of Point Roberts and let us through. O_O!! Well.. sightseeing is one thing, our first and most important stop (and the whole purpose of the trip!) was to visit TBS Shipping to grab myself my own number for my nummy packages from the states. The place was a house.. which was why it all makes sense and put some light on how things worked. Grabbed the number and yay, mission complete! We took the opportunity to take a tour of the rest of the little town. The beach. The lighthouse which was NOT a "lighthouse" but was a mini reflective tower! We didn't see any WHALES! NO FREE WILLY! We stopped by a cafe for dinner that was by the marina and had, of course, seafood! We also visited the border obelisk (which had exact coordinates on it :0!!), saw some impressive mansions (with tennis courts, basketball courts, etcetc), some poorly painted houses, and then visited their convenience store (we were wondering where people bought their groceries!)... They had a number of products that have been discontinued here in Canada (lots of childhood favourites -- cereals, etc). It was getting late so we headed back around 8-9ish... the weather was crappy and we pretty much took a tour of the whole town already so we made our way back. Now I know Point Roberts from the back of my hand! Ask me anything! XD

July 21 - Flare & Sakura PT2: Aye. Metro again that evening. Walked to Crystal Mall. Was pissing rain like fack! Had bubble tea, oy full. Sakura even had two O_O! Unfortunately everything was closed by the time we got there except for a few. They ended up buying stuff from the stores that were open. Metro was still open at the time so we walked by the Metro and visited the arcade. A few rounds of bad guitar playing and a few expensive mario kart games. Flare had to start packin' so we disbanded early.

I got home... prepared for AU22. We tried it... 5 times? 75WHM 75RDM 73PLD... and once we got sooo close (1 frickin' percent left!); it was super depressing. It was already late by then (um 5AM?) so I decided to give up for now.

July 25 - It's that time of year again for FIREWORKS! I got off at 5, headed to Monica's work at Burrard station by 5:45ish. We ordered ourselves a party tray and more and headed off to 7-11 for some snacks. Headed back, grabbed our order and made our way to English Bay. As usual, all busses were full no matter which street you tried so we walked the whole way there. We arrived as the relief party for the other members who then went to grab their food. We start off with Spain this year... doing Star Wars and Iron Chef. It was actually quite well done~ We'll see how the other two countries do though. That is, if we plan on going next Wednesday and have to go through this whole after work rush thing again. XP I must admit, I was tired. And it was hot too, so it didn't help one bit. :[

July 28 - I woke up late so I told Mo2 to go first to meet up with Shi2 at McDix. I arrive a few minutes later, had some awesomely good greasey breakfast and then we finally headed downtown. We were all kinda tired so we laid around and cooked. I was lazy to put on sunscreen so I tried to protect myself with the umbrellas. Unfortunately it didn't work as I went home red and itchy. But anyways, the time flew by pretty fast. Other people started joining us around 5ish~6. I am known as the beach monster btw. The sun's radiance is a nuisance to my PSP gaming. I will finish Gurumin soon enough.... We had Fat Burger for dinner. It was not fat. They lie. But anyways, Canada's jazz-themed performance was pretty good. The synchronization was excellent but jazz is not my thing so it was good but not as good as Spain's.

Got home. AU22 again. This time we got another RDM. Hella easy with a fourth lol.

Aug 1 - Holy crap it's August already. Only a mere month left before the start of school again.. I look forward to it, to be honest. Full time work is hella boring. So CHINA. I met up with Mo2 by the Burrard skytrain again. We couldn't decide what we wanted to eat so we made our way there and walked down Robson to do some quick window shopping. We were in a lack of time so we decided to hold it off until Saturday. We picked up Triple-O's on the way (yay!) and ate our soggy fries at the beach. So China gave off this insane war-like angry emotions. I heard some people left feeling scared. I felt their performance was less all pretty stuff but more figurative and deep. Well, they called their performance "The Time Machine" so I'd imagine it was something related to their history :D. To us chinese though, it was to signal for us that it's time to take over the world. The chips that were implanted in our head when we were babies are finally resonating. Becareful.

Aug 4 - The Finale. Me and Mo2 went down around 12ish and walked down Robson to do some shopping. We got to the beach around 1ish and had ourselves some hot dogs we wanted since day 1 (the evil aroma that lures us in when we walk by to the beach everytime!). We then meet Shi2 who was standing there on the beach figuring out what to do. My latest delivery of manga came the other day, so I brought some to read. Karat! is magical girl on crack. It's super messed up and super fun to read lol~ Later that night, we had Fat burger again. And again it fails! And around 4ish, other people finally started arriving. The finale. Was boring, as expected. The opening portion was out of sync and dumb. And for some reason Canada won this year. Canada wasn't as good as Spain, but hey, they allowed spectators to vote this year so no wonder everyone voted Canada. Biased I tell you.

Was going to do AU29 but I was too exhausted from the long day. Apparently the PLD didn't even show up on time anyways.

Long weekend! Went to the states on the Monday. Did some good ol' shopping yay! Visited the Daiso at Bellisfair. The place is puny compared to our giant two floor. However! They sell things at $1.50usd and things over $2! Even "designer" bags for like $14usd lol... Another good thing is that there's a lot of stock of everything! Not many people know about yet so I still got first grabs! AND $1.50usd IS cheaper than $2cnd so yay!

Aug 11 - AU29. Tried twice. RDM died during convert. Second time I died when we won.

Aug 18 - Anime Evolution is still major weak sauce. Met Shi2 at the Joyce skytrain SUPPOSEDLY at 11 but she showed up a half n hour late. Got there around 12ish, found a place to sit down and we had our Subway we bought on the way. We visited the dealer's room next. We had to wait in line for NOTHING. We went in, went around the puny room and thought, "That was IT??" So we walked around the room twice. Everyone kept crowding around the KH3 trailer... dudes, I thought you've already have seen it by now! After we went out to leave and lo and behold, there was an extension into the mini cafeteria. The Code Geass fan was very tempting... what's better than Lelouche looking hot on the fan :D? I ended up not getting it and kept wandering around. There were a few stores that sold lots of seriously fake shit. That really upsets me. I picked up a Haruhi artbook and wondered why the pictures were all kinda dark... Failed to find any publication information (e.g. ISBN, publication date, etc) Turn it around and see that was published by a Taiwanese company. Ouch. The place makes me shake my head. After that garbage we decided to visit the new Copperstone area and wow it's beautiful. It's like a community! We had bubble tea that was as sweet as fuck. We lounged around a bit and headed back a bit before 4 to make it to the VGcats guy's panel. It was pretty amusing. Though, as usual, there were the annoying stupid questions like "Pirates or ninjas!?"... and eventually there was another stupid girl that kept playing video game ringtones. Sigh I guess that's everywhere. Or just a lot here at this convention. After the panel we walked back to Copperstone and visited Prem's place. And wow, the place is nice and cozy! He even had one of those mini floor cleaning robots! I couldn't help but stare at it clean the whole time XD... We hung around until we were hungry and then we went out for Pho that Shi2 was dying to have for the past few days. After food, they dropped me off and I headed to meet up with Matt and his friend Daniel (?). I made in just in time to watch some G.I. Joe chant parade. o_O Then we went to the BACK-ON concert. And wow... Japanese artists ceast to amaze me. Their concerts are always crazy fun and really enjoyable. Speaking of concerts, they tried to sell $1 glow 'sticks' that were those bendable cheap thin weak ones rather than the thick, bright ones. Total ripoff :b~ After that insanity, me and Matt went to line up to grab their autograph. They're really cool people :D I had them sign their 'Chain' CD I got. And HEY surprise! I also saw Jenny too! Apparently she was volunteering as a translator, assistant, liaison person. She was busy with them so I couldn't stop to talk at all... :T And that ended AE 07. Look out Scon08!

When I got home I did AU31. Weak sauce. I can't carb pull even if my life depended on it.

I'm working hard on Alchemy lately. I am slowly getting poorer than before... I feel I won't get anywhere with it... oh well.

AU39 or something the following Saturday - we died, oh, only just abooout 5 times before we finally managed to pull it off. We were pressing it to finish it for the update the following Monday.

Monday rolls around.. update comes around... NEW GRIPS. Finished up the Lamia.13 assault later that week and got my hands on some hot Paluhwan Khazghand (sp XD) body.. daymn... I need to hurry up and lvl up RNG so I can show it off more. I considered getting the Yigit head but meh, the heads I have now for my mage jobs are better imho. Next round of assaults goes towards some Yigit pieces!

Oh yeah, I tried Einherharjarbargarharjar just for the hell of it with a pickup party-alliance. Lawl. You can imagine how that's like. But it was an interesting experience nonetheless. The lasted two runs until the co-leader decided to decide another time for us, confusing everyone which was then followed by the breaking of the shell. That was the end of that.

This week flew by rather quickly. School starts next week. I think I've prepared... mentally... materialistically... maybe. I need to clean my room.

Catching up on the gaming news...
Slim PSP has CLEAR BUTTONS! WTF! MINE'S 100X MORE GIMP THAN BEFORE! D:
It also has TV-out, it's lighter, loads faster... however the battery lasts less longer... which is, wait, the ONLY DOWNSIDE D:

I cry. Inside.

Oh, hi. :D

Wanted to rant this past week but I didn't get around to do it... hmm, don't remember any details.

Last Last Wednesday, 'grad brekkie'. A cinnamon bun and a hashbrown. Keh, crap breakfast. Not to mention our freshman year letters were pathetic. :D Then there was the dissection on fetal piggy. Thought it was a girl so we called it Emma, then we were mistaken and gave it another name. The way it looked surprised me... poor looking thing; pale-ish and smelly. I got to do the cutting~ :}





Then Thursday, watched Animatrix in Info Tech. Didn't get to finish it, leaving the two last episodes. Then the most horrible thing that could possibly happen before a dinner/dance... [caution] fucking period has to come!





Friday, more than half (majority) didn't show up for classes. Only went to Bio and Geo just for some provincial practise and review. Afterwards, had a Shanghai lunch then went home and wanted to blog but didn't have the time. Showered, fixed hair (I let it down), packed up sleepover gear, painted toe nails (second layer), then finger nails (two layers -- screwed up a few times :<), and the MAKEUP. 5:00 came, Rita came with her BF and Helaine. Got there @ Four Seasons Hotel, found retarded parking that required us to walk crazy flights of stairs, and had to stand the blazing heat. My make-up was melting when I was putting it on, even. Arrived at 5:30 and sat around, watching other people take pictures. More people came, and finally around 6:30 the ballroom was finally open so we went up and lined up for coat check and entrance. Its then I received my corsage but my date was all meh all night. Then we and the crowded room of people stood around, talking and taking pictures in the foyer. Finally the doors open and we go in, feeling and savouring the breeze of the air con. Sat around, more pictures, more talking, more yeah... then it begins with speeches one after another. Corsage already dying by then... then shit buffet food. People said to be greedy and hog more, which I think the majority did (including myself). All of a sudden, the napkin/towl that was on the table is stained with tomato sauce. Then I notice that my DRESS is STAINED with it as well. URG, since I had to check up on my menstral cycle day 1~5 so I whisted away to the restroom. Tried to clean it out but it oil stained and luckily unnoticable from far away until you look up very very closely. I was in the restroom with Irene for as long as it took our plates of food to become cold. Returned to our tables, the food was even worse than before (cold that is) so I poked at it a few more and left it. Instead, I had some dessert, which still wasn't great either. 'Too much cheesecake,' says Fish. More pictures, wandering around from all the tables taking pictures pictures pictures.





[stopped here for a few days, time to refresh my memory...]





Luckily avoided some freaky guy that wanted to dance with me by saying 'my feet hurt', and it worked. The few slow songs after that, I danced with my date, Tony. When the fast dances were going on, we saw... teachers.. dancing. Sooo awkward.





Afterwards, tired like hell, we took even more pictures everywhere and then moved on. We decided on bubble tea (why? :D) so we dropped by Granville Bubble World and then went to Fish's place. The hongers were already there waiting to get permission to enter. Strange, instead of playing MJ they had weird happy fun in the guest room (6 of them :D), and who knows what in the world they were doing. The rest of us were tired, but still lived through one round of MJ. It was around 3am I think when they decided to leave. Amy decided to get it on and drink XD.. Didn't expect her to actually. And when she did, she's alcohol intolerable. She sorta shared two ciders with Fish and got really high, whiny, loud and bitchy. She wanted more, while the rest of us just casually dranked and talked. Finally she was physically escaping through our grasps, reaching for more. We had to hide it, but she got upset and angry and started to cry. Fish brought her into a room to calm her down but she whined and screamed some more. Franky wanted to start some movie so he played some Chinese movie in the movie room; 4:30 by then. Fish decided to go to sleep with Amy, Jo with Rich in some other room and Franky and myself stuck watching some crap chinese movie full of boring cliches and strong Shanghainese (or the related) accented annoying perky girl protagonist. I tried to stay awake but I died half way through, and woke up just in time to watch the ending. It was around 6:30 before it ended.





Slightly before 10, I was awaken by Fish's LOUD STICKY FOOTSTEPS (the floor being wooden)... so I couldn't sleep anymore. We walked around the floor, talked and blahed. Then the others started waking up and soon enough Jo and Rich had to go. We wanted to go have Dim Sum but it seems like JO AND ELEANOR never got around to come that night anyways. While we decided either to go out for food or not, the guys were playing gameboy. Amy and I had nothing to do, so we played Pokemon Stadium mini games, then we got bored and moved on to Guilty Gear. The guys then moved onto Bomberman and then we wanted to play. There were only 2 controllers so we called up Lee, went over to pick them up and brought them back, snatching Mario Party 3 while we were at it. Fish's mom bought home McDix so we had that for lunch and then we played Bomberman64 4 player rumble. XD Got bored of course, so Fish and I played the Bomberman64 RPG portion of it. He was Pommy! We got stuck a few dozen times so we gave up. We then decided to try out Mario Party 3 and played a 35 turn board -- Franky as Daisy winning at the end. It was surprisingly 7:30p by then, so we went home. End. :D I think I slept some more when I got home...





REHEARSAL THAT FOLLOWING MONDAY. Waste of the afternoon. We didn't exactly get to practice walking across at all. We picked up our gear and was supposedly going home until Amy suggests BUBBLE TEA! Thus we journey to Oakridge bbtea, wearing our sexy red whateveryoucallitwithyourgown around our necks, and drank bbtea. We started ripping junk paper and then decided to put them together again. We had some picture fun and then got home around 4-5?





Tuesday, ceremony. Makeup afterschool (mom insisted o_o), then bought some curly fries. Fish picked me up at 5:30 because he wouldn't listen that there was traffic! We barely made it there by 6 something, finding parking then arrived feeling anxious and nervous. Wandered, visited the washroom a few times and paniced some more. We started lining up in our homerooms and then marched in. Every homeroom was called; twas a freaky big stage. Some funny one-liners, some depressing and NOT funny like "See you all at Langara". Keh. Pictures afterwards, BIG SWARM OF PEOPLE >_> Hard to move <_<... Dad was in his usual pissy mood, ruining everyone elses mood. To make it worse, he gets a ticket for parking a few minutes past his limit. Went to I-Cafe after for food then finally got home tired as hell...





Finished Animatrix the following IT class (Wed). Decided not to go to Eng, hanged out in councelling suite doing late jishuu. FRIDAY: ENG PROV PRACTICE 9-12 or SO I THOUGHT. Found out it was actually at 9:40 when I got there, spotting Der, Winnie and Eric. Talked and sat around with them until time was up. We got that done... somewhat easy 'cept the last writing part (always).. broad subject but a boring subject. Had the grad bbq afterwards. Forgot to bring ticket but it was still good. Stood around some intolerable bunch of annoying hongers for a bit until Amy and other people showed up. We played with Rita's dying pink 64 in 1 gameboy game. It was finally our turn, got food... loaded up on chiiips. Got really windy. Flying food and garbage. Went for seconds. Took forever. Smoke got in my eyes. XD Stephen hung around us boredly, commenting on whatever he could. Then we had to decide on what to do when 2:30 came around. First we went to our locker -- had to clean it out. Slowly cleaning and pondered about things to do. Started a game of big 2 while we were thinking. Then decided on Fish's place. Dropped Simon home on the way. We set up the n64 downstairs and started some more mario party (yay). Then Sally, Tony and Tony got here all of a sudden and wanted MJ. Took our valuable game players away, but we still had fun without them with 3 people. I ALMOST won because of all the bonus stars at the end but meeh. We finally dominated 'Ridiculous Relay'! Other fun ones like 'Hide and Sneak' 'Mario Puzzle Party' 'Coconut Conk' and that crazy WAVE ONE that I kicked everyone's ass in! Harharharhar... the MJ people left and Amy had to go early. Jo, Fish and I sat around talking about Mr. Wong (strange) and then about other random things. We found out Fish had a condo across from Oakridge. Unwilling to go home, we decided to visit. We only hung around the pool room and had two rounds of pool, Fish winning the first, me winning the second. That was amusing and fun... ^___^





Warharhar, interview on Saturday for PNE. Surprisingly everyone there wore such casual clothing (jeans and what not). It was somewhat irritating to see that though... when I was handing in my resume, I noticed Der's name tag and looked around for him but he didn't show up. The group interview itself was so blah. Of course, the one that sticks out the most stuck out a lot. And then this shit math skill testing sheet at the end... bah. Got a stamp for all day free rides but I had nobody to go with so I decided not to. Bro picked me up, got home, tried to call up Sty but nobody picked up. It started to get late, so the playland idea in general was not possible. Had leftover dinner for dinner -- good stuff. Then around 10:30p, Boom was able to get his car so we, Boom Mo2 myself, went to the Richmond nightmarket. The area was generally bad, considering the horrible parking places and the unfamiliar area. We were lucky to find a spot but it started showering a little. We made our way in and started looking at all the wonderful junk. We bought a lot of junk, imo. We passed by the Japanese style koi catching pond. Lots of people crowding around, wondering how it worked. The girl asked me to try a buck for a net, so I was the first to go. It was easier than expected, so I caught a whole bowl full. We were able to keep 3, thus I did. Mo2 did the same and we moved on. Lots of stationary buying fun and then before it started to close we got hungry. We ended up by the food stands, bought ourselves some crap mango bubble tea, then some korean dish then some crap but better than nothing takoyaki then another crap mango bubble tea from another stand and then cinnanon covered DONUTS! Shiawaseeee~ XD That was good and over with.





Finally today, J.P.'s leaving our church and I wasn't able to attend his farewell party either. Neither did I contribute anything to their scrapbook so I felt sort of bad. I promised him I'd keep in touch with e-mail though. We had group pictures, Jacky camcordered everything on that sunday service. Then my parents pissed me off, got in a crapped up shit mood, we had dim sum with me and my PMS attitude. Then a fish died when I got home. Another died when I watching it from my computer table. Gotta go catch some more next time XD~

Minority Report ish a velly g00t movie! At least, I liked it a lot anyway. I backed out on Japanese food yesterday with my family because I was already filled with popcorn from the movie. Damn, was it even worth it?



Brian had a party today at his house. More like a... end-of-school-year celebration party. Me and Styg got there at around 6 something, to find a lot of people there already doing various things... like sitting around, watching soccer, playing some b-ball game on PS2, and CSing in some room. As strange as it seems, there were also a variety of age groups at the party too. From grade 8 to some graduates... Anyways, Stygien went around taking random pictures with her digicam, while thinking of ways of blackmailing them with them.. kekeke. The booze came a while later, but SOMEBODY carelessly opened the trunk too early and the... (I can't find the word for the box that holds ice and drinks ATM ~_~-- easy word that's not coming up)... and it flew out and everything went boosh out the box. Though only 1/3 has gone wasted, they still continued on. Stupid people started drinking already without permission by the host and a fagget spilled his everywhere and I was so annoyed I went and cleaned it up myself (since nobody did anything? =_=)... Moving on, we just sat around and chat, while as the same time, other people were still doing their random things. The pizza came soon and of course we ate (gwaa~)... about 7 large pizzas methinks. After, they watched movies, while some others went and did other things (again... we're never together, considering the amount of people that were there). While we waited for the shots, while everyone was doing their random activity, stygien and I was in the computer room, playing around. Sometime there, I started playing Sim Vacation... and indeed, it was weird but unfortunately there wasn't enough time to play much of it of course. Then, as expected, everyone was eccentric about the 'shot time' (so was I!!! ^^)... Some people carelessly drank too much and went overboard. Day ended off kind of oddly... no details mentioned. Now I must go to bed for my brain hurts from the liquid that rots my ever so precious brain.

It was Amy's b-day and party yesterday! Long and I waited at May's house for William and Kevin to get to her house so we could all get a ride to Amy's. They were a half n hour late >_< which caused us to be late for the skating. Amy wasn't mad because some KOREANS and a particular KOREAN was there already at her house. XP When we got there, the rest of us including those who waited at Amy's house began walking to the bus stop. It was cold and windy, and looked like it wanted to rain. When we got to the bus, we had to do a bus switch because we had to cross the bridge. We sat at the bus stop by the bridge for an hour, as three other buses passed by going to other destinations instead. We finally gave up and decided to walk across the bridge to Richmond instead! It was rather a wierd turn in events.. however by then, we missed the skating part of the party. When we got there, we met up with the people who were going to meet us at skating at the karaoke place instead. After singing we took the bus back to her house. It was pouring shit outside, so we had to run for our lives. At Amy's house we had dinner, played a bit of Mario Party 3, and Tekken Tag Tournament. The three Tupper guys kept taking turns trying to kick my butt in Tekken, but I kept creaming them for some reason. It ended up something like 7 to 35. XD Anyway, we ended with truth or dare and spin the bottle =X Bleh!