MONDAY! We watched "Lost in Translation" at teh Fish's house. Jo wanted to finish the "6 month old Smirnoff" (mah sexxy Vanilla Twist) so she bought and brought coke and we all tried to finish it but couldn't. Back to the storage it goes... :< Due to Eleanor's bad planning skills, we were delayed and people came at different times. We started the movie around 8 and ended at 10... Elie fled to *refers to her blog* drink BUBBLE TEA with some other people while the rest of us figured out what to do. Fish, Simon and I didn't have dinner yet so after a long discussion we decided on all-you-can-eat sushi @ SuiShaYa~ We ordered a large sake there because Amy didn't want food... We all sipped and ate and got rushed to finish before they closed. That reminds me, I have to scan our receipt.. something good there. Someone's gotta remind me sometime again soon... Amy was being stubborn and persisted that she'd drive home (when she's on alcohol) so we had to follow behind her. Oh and she claims she didn't know she was driving at 90km/h, freaking out all of us~ >____<;



Iei~ I sold my Marketing book to Polina Tues and made myself some money. I should be giving it back to my mom but nah, I'm going to be greedy and keep it. I NEED MONEY GAWDDAMMIT; SOMEONE GIMMIE A JOB!



Jo and I planned on going to the Please Mum job fair in Metro originally but felt the journey there was too long and decided not to go. After I drove my mom to work in the morning, we went to Richmond! Once again we left the house just in-time to listen to the Todd and Karen show on the Fox. Strange timings... We dropped by my favourite bookstore (Iwaseeee~) and picked up .hack//UdeDen Vol.3~ Soo damn thick! Unfortunately my monthly mag hasn't come yet so I'll have to wait some more. I finally tried using my gift card that I graciously got for my BIRTHDAY! (Kyaa, coolest thing ever!) It took them a while to figure out how to use it though.. they called some people a few times and made us stand around for a bit. Jo said the sales people were "Trainees" so we couldn't blame them...



We made our way to Richmond Centre and went our separate ways to pick up applications. I wandered around and met up with Jo later on. I was empty handed while she was filling like mad on the ones she picked up. Meh, I was too chicken to pick up any actually so I watched her fill out forms while I began craving for food. I wanted a McDix McChicken after Jo was done but we didn't realize how long it took her to fill them out... Soon enough it was already almost 7 and we had to get going. Jo helped me hand in a few resumes before we left though... :D



Ooh, I recently got hooked on the manga Paradise Kiss which I luckily picked up at the VPL a week ago and began reading recently. I've heard about it in the past but haven't cared much about it until now~ There were only volumes 1, 2 and 4 but it was gooooot~ Except the fact that it was in chinese and I couldn't understand a damn thing, the drawings are wow and the story's pretty good too... even though I'm only judging by the drawings that lead me to think so. :D Now too bad this thing's licensed or I could pick up some scanlations on the web... and if I looked hard enough I'd probably find it though. But maybe I'll buy this series instead.... it's only an issue of if I have money or not.. which brings it back to: I NEED A JOB.

It's been a while... I can't remember what has happened in the last two weeks. Time flies by too fast...



I've been job searching a bit. Only applied to two places though.... meh, lack of effort. So many places hiring at this time too...



So! It's Eleanor's birthday today, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Woke up early to join my family for dim sum with my brother's girlfriend. She decided to treat us because my mom was angry at her for forcing my bro to go with her to Malaysia to attend a wedding at this time of year. My mom's emotional level was going up and down the whole time (happy to angry and around again) so I didn't know what to think. We ate a lot though... it was a total of ~$60 at the end so wow. Soon later, Fish came and picked me up to go rent a video with Eleanor. We picked up Der on the way, leaving us slightly behind schedule. We made our way to Kerrisdale Blockbuster and after some thought, picked out Lost in Translation. Next, we rushed to Plant Lazer and arrived on time, 'cept no one else was there... oh, yeah, Angus was. Eleanor called up and rushed the other missing bodies while we filled out the entry form. I couldn't get my free game, so I had to pay both games, which I did not plan to do since I was lacking in money. Instead, I got two free games for the next time I visit (which is never). The Simon, Pat and Darren crew didn't arrive on time, so we started without them. Before we entered the game area, we were greeted by a bunch of sweaty children of all sizes as they looked up to check their scores. As lovely as it may seem, we were then required to wear their sweaty vests and use their sweaty guns. w00t! The first game started, and I messed up big time. As a person who hasn't played for over 8 years, I'm pretty much a newbie again... The worst things about lazer tag were the annoying little children that kicked out asses easily by stalking us and mad shooting while standing there, and the lack of air con in the building. I ended up ranking 17 (I think?) out of 20 something in the first game and 15 out of 30 something in the second. I used rapid fire in the second game constantly which brought down my accuracy by a lot, but I hit more people :E It was fun nonetheless, but the frustration of not knowing what the "Destroyed" noise is and if you actually hit the target or not pissed me off. Amy and I teamed up in the second game and watched each others backs while we kicked some better ass than in the first game. We finished and decided to go to McDix for something cold. When we got there, we couldn't decide what to buy so we left quickly after. Went to E-Spot and dropped off Eleanor and Der while we went to pick up Jo and the cake. Suddenly we were called to pick up Catherine too, and so we did. Went to pick up the cake, dropped up Jo and Catherine at Shabusen and returned to E-Spot. Because of that, we ran late some more. When we arrived at Shabusen, they already started eating without us. The tables were overflowing with food... so much that we didn't have room to eat. The meal felt rushed and unfinished but we were forced out of our tables because of another reservation. The giant cake "that was bigger than Jo's head" and was "as big as Fishy's head"... and is just REALLY big, so big that a party of 20 couldn't finish (at least half of it is left), was brought out for show. It took her 3+ blows to blow out one candle. And there was apparently a hot waiter that I did not notice... But he did a crap job taking pictures though. Cuz I was pushing my hair away when he took the shot.. urg, fist. We hastely finished our all you can eat food and put the cake away. We then went to Fish's house for MJ, movie, cake, games and presents. First we had the super sweet cake that felt like you were eating an endless chocolate bar. Then Eleanor's sister came and mixed us some strange drinks... and yes it was nice of her. And Jo told me that little girls shouldn't drink alcohol... Yes, right. Then while the guys played X-Box hockey (that btw looks like crap), we went and played MJ. Then, we came up and watched Eleanor open presents. Then, they had this X-Box tetris game that LOOKED cool but was crap too... and I tried that. I kicked a few asses while I was at it but my eyes started to water really badly so I stopped. I went downstairs and moped around and didn't feel like playing... apparently, no one watched the movie we rented. Meh, was a waste eh. Got bored, so I came upstairs and joined Jo in the office room to surf around. So yeah I'm here now blogging.



Oh and Eleanor present was so damn expensive. XD But pretty.. and got enough people to chip in for it. It's really pretty... XD I wanted stuff from that shop toooo... Piccini, I think yeah.



Mmm... I just tasted some "Baja Rosa"... imported tequila and strawberry crene liquor that smells and tastes like strawberry yogurt mmm~

17 Random Questions Quiz

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"Marketers also create experiental value for customers: appropriate experiences, feelings,..."

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
pile of cd spindles

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
hockey game.. first period. yay canucks. XD

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:1:30am

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:1:44am

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
(besides the fan) music coming from the computer.. beside that, nothing; music too loud.

7: When did you last step outside?
yesterday evening

8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
http://www.wsu.edu/~kc_/illintime/illintime.html

9: What are you wearing?
my pj's

10: Did you dream last night?
yes

11: When did you last laugh?
a few hours ago at some stupid people in .hRO :p

12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
nothing but posters and wallscrolls... 3x3 eyes, faye wong, yu yu hakusho, etc

13: Seen anything weird lately?:
can't remember

14: What do you think of this quiz?:
could be better

15: What is the last film you saw?:
Hellboy

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
a mazda 3.

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
Who are you?-------Was thinking on getting on ffxi but decided not to... might wake up at 4 in the afternoon again. That's too messed. tWBBS made themselves their own private RO. Fun stuff. XP Man I need a job...

It's OVER!

Thank goodness...



The week before exams, I tried studying and really didn't get anything done at all. Luckily I was able to borrow the English text we needed to read from Tiffany and took the whole week the read that. I even tried reading at Bubble World to find a bunch of UBCers instead that prevented us (or at least me) from concentrating. Oh well, had good bubble tea nonetheless.



Amy's birthday on Saturday. A last-minute decision, I believe. Turned out a little wonky, but overall successful. I only showed up for the second part (bbtea) because I was desperate to finish the damn english novel. Felt really out of place when I was there though... the majority were from UBC, and they all talked within UBC only... Sat around... did nothing... contemplated on whether to buy myself bubble tea or not... then checked up on Tony and Sally... couldn't help the couple.. shrugged and returned, had cake and disbanded.



Crunch time come Sunday and Monday and did my English Final Tues morning @ 8:30. Wrote nothing but bs. The poem was somewhat hard to comprehend... and the quotations from the films and novels were hard to identify. Then we got our final essays back from back then to find that I almost FAILED IT. (C- btw) With quite the shock, I read her notes to find no more than two sentences saying the strengths of my essay were uneven throughout the essay. And that was IT. Learning absolutely nothing from her feedback, I scanned through the rest of the essay to find edits but they were scarcely written... Oooh, so frustratated and confused. Tiff almost failed hers too (super shock to her as well) so we asked some other people about theirs... Most people did a screenplay (FUCK I SHOULD HAVE DID A SCREENPLAY) but I was too chicken to attempt.. and I had the minimum required grade to do it too.. dammit dammit DAMMIT.. and they got high marks. ;_; URGA... moving on.



Later that same day, I returned to do my Marketing Final in the gym @ 1:00. It was awfully difficult compared to the previous midterms we had. The other students in his class also agreed with me.. *sigh* At least we were able to get a B+ for our marketing project with the FOBsters. Like Jo said, they weren't as bad at the end afterall... The toothpick girl's kinda weird though... at the final, she couldn't stop smiling and looking at me as if she was going to laugh (not AT me but...) so I'd look over to her and smile and... sorta look like I'm laughing and then.. I look away knowing she's still looking.. and grahgra, that was strangely awkward.



Relaxed for the rest of the day and more crunch time the next morning for Psychology that following night @ 6:30. The final didn't feel really balanced between the two chapters we were supposed to study. He repeated questions using different analogies but had the same answer which puzzled me... perhaps out of ideas? It was textbook heavy like he said and the gym was really cold as usual.



My dad's car started to die that night... Had to bring it to fix the next day with him so I could drive him back just to make it in time for my Japanese final. It was surprisingly straightforward and wasn't too hard. Irene and I decided (last minute) not to go to the Japanese "Farewell Gathering Dinner Thinger"; left the teacher sort of disappointed. Bleh, if it wasn't in Downtown and if my dad's car wasn't screwed I might have gone. Oh well, I'm sick of seeing the people in that class anyways. Which reminds me, we were given a collection of all the essays that were done this semester by our class... While I was waiting for my dad to pick me up, I read through and found there were a strange number of essays that were related to the internet. AND that little elementary school kid in our class is INDEED a typical elementary school kid -- his essay was about A-KO-GE (anime, comics and games -- he made that up) wtf.. :D And he talked about RPGs and Doraemon... yeah, typical alright. Kinda like another guy..(s) I know -- *coughhoandkincough*.



Returned to the world of Vana'Diel... had a really good Japanese party. 2 1/2 levels in a few hours. The day after, I got the slowest party that had major downtime, long battles and crap experience. Then, I was introduced to RO again by the users of my BBS that made themselves a private server (ohoho..). Wasted loads of time there, leveling up at every or every other kill. I'm at like 64/39 or something after starting a few hours... I don't know they're doing that yet but it's fun how people use the GM fuctions to do stupid things. :p They might try out another emu though and start again... oh well, wouldn't take too long to level up anyways.



I'm prone to writing long entries filled a week or more worth of events... I should stop that.

My new earring hole hurts.. ~_~



Wed: We winged the marketing project presentation. I panicked so much I just started reading off the powerpoint slides instead of my notes. But compared to the other groups, we were relatively good, I think.



Thurs: Went out for an expensive dinner with the family, because I requested so. :D Just had to go enjoy the taste of Alaskan King crab again... so THAT was my bday present from the family. Even though they ran out of bigass crabs and got a smaller than wanted one, it was still made perfectly. Ho-Ho-Ho... so worth it. XD



Fri: Started memorizing my japanese essay yesterday and realized it was more difficult than I thought. So I went and presented it half-ready and got a crap mark, as expected. He took marks off for my speed (;_;) and a question that HE couldn't even ask properly and promptly skipped in the middle of repeating it. Grr... he didn't give me another question to replace it either. Ghey.



After, went to Richmond for Richmond activities: eating, library and shopping. Sort-of bumped into Amy's bro.. I saw him at first, he didn't see me. His girl-friend saw me, pointed at me, he looked around and saw and then laughed or something and then walked as fast as he could away from me. Strange lil guy. Later that night, Jo, Amy and I went to visit Cheesecake Etc. by Downtown. The selection of cheesecake was small but nonetheless v. good cheesecake. Jo's driving's dangerous.



Sat: Woke up at ~10:30. Got ready and called Moni to find that she stayed over at Boom's so I didn't have to pick her up. Couldn't get ahold of Sty. Attempted to call a few more times and finally Saboo picked up. Found Sty half dead in bed and didn't feel like coming, so she didn't. Because of her I ran late and met up with Moni at Richmond Centre at 12. She gave me my b-day present -- more earholes! It was painful, yep. But we got jipped (sp?) and paid more than we should. Went and picked Boom up at his house from which he locked himself out of and headed to White Spot to find two very bored people waiting for us. :D We got to ordering as the waiter kept flirting with Boom.. lol. Since our schedule was all messed up, we decided to watch a later movie. After food and a mountain dessert, we headed to Aberdeen and and MORE dessert. Visited the new stores and the newly opened hardcore foodcourt with more than 4 different types of chairs and crazy design. We lost track of time, having too much fun in Daiso, so we rushed to Riverport for the 3:45 show of Hellboy. The movie was good, 'cept the sappy love-theme... Yay, I love the fish man. :D Thank goodness he didn't die. With time to spare, we headed to E-spot to meet up with a few others. Played a few games and had Time Crisis 3 eat my money. We didn't have the chance to play Street Fighter Turbo though. We met up with the rest of the few others at the dinner location, Tropika. We pointed at all of our desired food dishes that were displayed gorgeously in the menu and ordered like mad. We chowed on mango cake afterwards and was then presented the coolest present that night...! $60 at Iwase Books! Kee! Can't really get a lot with $60 sadly (4 mangas or maybe, not even, an artbook...)... I can't complain though, Iwase's stuff's expensive and imported but goood~ Still need to figure out how to spend it... Use it once every month for a magazine and finish it in 4 months or buy something different like an artbook, calender or fanbook of some sort... Anyways, Tony C left early to go work at Burger King night shift (lol, poor him.. so funny though) and the rest of us headed to a Lovegety-like place to take some sticker pics. We messed up the first machine, wasting $10 and only got ONE picture (out of 6 we wanted) with only 2 visible people, 3 half covered in the background and everyone else not visible at all. So we chose the biggest, high-quality version. It had a silly story we didn't bother listening to because they constantly made us squat and stand up to get the right camera about 6 times (up and down, up and down)... fun but frustrating and $10! We tried again with another machine and did much better with that one, with everyone that time. We finally made out way to Bubble World. Everyone already looked dead tired, so we just loitered a bit and everyone gradually disbanded. I drove Boom and Moni to Boom's place and got lost for at least a half n hour while coming home. I turned the wrong way and then kept turning around randomly and ended up at No.1 Rd... I called for help, but didn't get much assistance. Luckily, I had the mini yellow pages and found my way. It was dark, lack of cars and there were quite a number of police cars here and there. Bah, scary.



Throughout the whole day, Mike was trying to make everyone's lives miserable, even my own. Boom got plenty abused by Moni. My camera's batteries died when we arrived at E-Spot. I think I caught a cold too... either that or really bad hay fever. Oh, and my bro moved out and rented our basement to roommate with this other friend of his while I was gone all day. Oh, he just came upstairs to take a shower. LOL.