Night of Indulgence

Cheesecake crew (minus V) decided on gathering before Lisa's departure to Taiwan at the end of next month. We first watched 9, which was a pretty neat movie (Lisa: "The writer must've been playing too much LittleBigPlanet.") but the ending was pretty boring. Since the theme and the story in general wasn't very kid-friendly, they should've went all the way and made it sad instead of this half-sad-but-not-really thing. [spoiler]What's the point of a world with only dolls and 4/9th of a soul?[/spoiler]


After the movie we went to try out Gudrun, a cheese tasting room, at Steveston. It was cheese paradise. We had the waiter recommend our drinks, although we didn't do any pairings - I had a Malbec selection (06' from Vancouver, BC) for the first time and it was excellent. For the real deal, we ordered a cheese and charcuterie combo of the day which came with bread and some fruits.


After salty we, of course, craved sweet so we followed to order a Hazelnut Mousse _____ (insert dessert name for boob shape). Absolutely. DELICIOUS.


My second RMA. This time for my poor, poor, poor WD Raptor. I don't know what happened exactly but my brother killed it to the point of no recovery. It only made scary noises when being accessed. I drive analyzed it and it was reported to be indeed dead. It's only on its 3rd year (I actually couldn't believe it until I checked the receipt again) so having it die as soon as it reached my brother's fingertips was shocking and upsetting all at the same time.


カッッコイイイ！(≧∇≦)ノ

Fireworks - Canadar

It's that time of the year again! The fireworks have come! Hurrah!

After work, I headed towards Mo2's workplace to meet up with her. We walked down to the beach, picking up some Vera's fast food on the way. We found the usual gang chilling around the usual area and relieved them of their duties so they could grab some food. We spent the evening playing a few rounds of Big 2, then went and learned how to play Dragon. Near the end, we also had a few rounds of Tetris DS with the Tetris Queen ;3

Ok so the actual fireworks performance tried to be epic. Epic with Godzilla. Like, literally epic Godzilla orchestrated remix of the soundtrack movie (or something to that relation). However, they failed to really grab our attention. They had well timed fires, which was nice... but it went with boring marches. They also used one too many annoyingly bright exploding fireworks that obliterated retinas in an instant. Didn't help that I (and probably 80% of the rest of the people) was not familiar with the soundtrack (if that truly was their source).

Well at least when I got home, I was greeted with a new Logitech wireless mouse and my monthly manga loot. My old mouse was having spasms, couldn't understand single clicks thinking they were double clicks and couldn't hold on to anything long enough -- like an old man! But I've only had that mouse for less than a year. I filed a troubleshoot with Logitech and they concluded I need a new one, so here, my new one! It clicks a lot louder than my old one, but it works like a charm so far. No complaints here.

Only maybe that I'm really mentally tired from coming home late yesterday... Sounded like I missed some fun PQ runs in WAR yesterday night too...

The past week was alright. Nothing overly great...

Well, the results fot the Psychology statistics assignment was crap. The marketing case study marks also came out crap. I couldn't monitor hunt crap. And didn't try to avatar hunt either. Had short dialogs for japanese class we had to create ourselves. Me and Irene made a all-out feminine dialog filled with pink bikinis, ~wa and ~wa ne and ~wa yo, and atashi and kareshi and 'ohohoho'. The teacher pet pair centered their dialog on the teacher's birthday, go figure. The 'chibi high pitched dude' was overly (and unnecessarily) hyper, jumping around and raising his voice constantly. Everyone elses' were typical.



After school Wednesday, I retrieved my brother's 22" monitor -- it's a TV. I then went out for bubble tea with Jo and Amy at the revamped Bubble World. The place is nice and roomy but our favourite photo hunt game was missing. However, they played unenjoyable music that repeated throughout our stay there. Replaced my old monitor with the 22" and whoa, scary big difference. Now I have too much desktop space but a nice movie player. At least until I get my new monitor. I was supposed to get a viewsonic but SOMEONE waited too long and now it's gone. Now I'm going to take the chance and wait till Monday to see if there are any other deals for better monitors. I'll just keep crossing my fingers and hope I'm right.



Got new groups for my marketing class. An unexpected group I'd say. I do not look forward to find anything good from these people though... I hope I'm wrong about this one.



I lost my original seat in my Geo lab class so I took the seat in front of it. I sat beside a strange girl who plays with her hair constantly in class and talks to herself a lot. I asked for some graph paper from her and I was only given one. I had to draw three graphs, supposedly on three separate sheets, but I was forced to fit all mine onto one sheet. Cheapass girl. :/ Got out of the class early and met Ryan. He came over and I lent him some anime. I angered a few drivers on my way home. Good stuff.



Watched the second half of Red White: Kouhaku. I expected White to win afterall and so they did. The guys definately had more interesting performances than the women. I was really happy to see CHEMISTRY perform. ELT wasn't any special nor was Ayumi. SMAP, imho, did a crap job even though everyone just loves them to death despite how little effort they put into it. I didn't know of Hitoto You until now but I might have fallen in love with this artist after hearing her song 'Morai Naki'. *goes to download*



Today. Woke up. Headached from sleeping too much. Had McDix for lunch. Waited for Jo and Amy to arrive for some studying. We studied for a record time of 2+ hours. We then watched My Sassy Girl as a reward for our hard work on teh 22" monitor. Not as great as we all heard it was. Had dinner at my local HK cafe. Stayed there for 2+ hours. Drove back. Talked in the car. We all had to piss. Went inside my house. Tried to install Amy's blog. Didn't know what the problem was. Everyone leaves. I realized the database wasn't properly activated yet. Sighs.



I'm cold. :|

I fucked up my TI-83+ calc permanently it seems. I wanted this particlar app from Mo2's TI for a while now, and finally Matt H. had a cord. I quickly plugged it and attempted to download it, instead, causing it to freeze. Guys being their retarded selves goes and takes out the battery for mine, thus causing all my proggies to disappear and such and such. Then I wasted the whole IT class in attempt to accumulate another collection of games, proggies etc from other peoples' calc. I went through archiving and ram problems and finally just went and resetted the whole damn thing -- to find that it won't even graph properly anymore. My graphics calculator has just lost its sole purpose.



On a lighter side of that day, I finally received my sexy new burner. Right when I got home, I quickly swapped the new one with the old, and mad burned o_O... Hard to get used to its... fastness. Oh, I also started and finished up my geo term paper from maybe 9pm-4am. It turned out quite short, still within limits though... but I was hoping for at least 1200 words.



Another interesting highlight. I jab one of those pointy parts of an umbrella into my thumb... resulting to a little dinky, but painful bruise. Then we had the carnival with crappy weather (grey covered the skies and it trickled rain) at first and then it suddenly gets bloody hot 18 degrees or something... so everyone had to bloody strip. There weren't any good stands or attractions except the talent show, imo. The first guy that sang was probably the bravest... his singing was crap, he was alone up there, he was the first to go, everyone was laughing but he got right through it. So he was cool. After was a r&b girl duet, then a very loud alternative band. The main girl's singing wasn't good at all, but the music was great. After came Tony's group singing Tactics. Geheheh, their new temp vocalist didn't know Japanese so he had to bring up a piece of paper with lyrics, which was literally read right off the paper. Then there were a few more after them and then ended with hula dancing. XD After the carnival, I developed a painful headache and when I got home, tried to sleep but couldn't. Then I started feeling sick... ~_~ After taken two extra strength tylenol, they gradually disappeared...



THIS HORRID WEEK'S FINALLY OVER!! Cheers. :E

I finally joined up with the MJ crew again and had a looong day of MJ allll day on Friday. The winnings sorta sucked though... Anyways, with the help of Mo2 I got my last-minute biome assignment done. Wahaha.. she helped me colour and I mad drew graphs and pictures. I lived, somehow. Heh, wait until next week--essay, test, presentation...



I wasted a good portion of my Saturday watching meaningless but hilarious japanese flash movies, then reading the ending of the HikaGo manga, replenishing my playlist with new music by BoA, Sonim and Ueto Aya, watch a wedding ceremony at UBC, and finally got my grad dress~. Purpley and perfect... a little to perfect to the point that I don't need to trim or tailor. Not too long length-wise and surprisingly nicely fit around waist n such. As if.. the dress was waiting for me! XD Hmm alright, enough of that.



I think I'll be getting that new burner sometime this week... I've calculated and such and it just so happens that it'll be only $51w/tax! Jes, good stuff. I even get some CDs to accompany my newly bought burner. Urg I can't wait to clear this 24GB+ load.



As for today: went to the library and got a big stack of books for my research paper, treated myself to some Starbucks, and went to Mo2's b-day outing thing. The group met at May's place and watched the season finale of Simpsons and this crap 'scary' movie called Darkness Falls. The build-up of the story was great until it just gets screwed over not even partway through. The way the ghost died was the best. A fury firey punch in the face... falling baby teeth... glow... disintergrating... EXPLODE!! We all laughed at the end... After the movie (when "darkness fell") we headed off to Kits beach and wanted to start a bonfire. We were having fun with the log until two police guys came over and told us we couldn't have fires by the beach. Geh; Got depressed, ate boring normal marshmellows and went to Eliza's. Sat there... for a while... then the other people started drinking. Hmm, then I decided to go. And so I left. The end.

Bloody hell MATRIX TOMORROW.. or.. "TODAY"! FIST!



Is a burner 52x24x52x for $65 a good deal? Is burning 30 episodes of Shaman King for $20 a good deal provided that the CDs are included? Oh and I finally got Sakuratetsu Tuesday.. Diuy: "NO!!" "JYASUTISU!" "HOWATTO!" "YUU AA KUREJII!" ROFL~ So perfect!



And I'm ready for my popcorn craving......!!! :D~

Then I thought about asking to buy his burner off my bro... but then again, it'd be used and would it really be worth it?... then I thought about asking Fish for one, hoping his would be cheaper. I'll come to some conclusion by the end of the week, hopefully.



I went to Yaohan yesterday and was in fear of not having enough money. I saw sakuratetsu (both books) and dnangel... no boukyaku yet it seems. I only got one comic and a mag which came out to be 22.. I still had 15 left. I coulda bought myself another book. I'll somehow get more money for next Tuesday and get the other two.



David tried to take Aubrey's voice for attendance yesterday... haha, he didn't fool anybody. Funny high-pitchness. Haven't played RO for at least a week or more. And I recently found out I'm not part of the guild anymore.. bah. Celes only likes ACTIVE characters... well psh her. I haven't had the time to install the new patch so meh. Trying to clear my drive and keep up with my downloads at the same time, but it doesn't help when my burner can't burn the majority of my files.. grahgruheah..



I need sum fu-d.