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2007-06-06T11:07:00.001-05:00

Haven't blogged in a while?

Can you tell I'm out of practice....I have absolutely nothing to say. Oh WAIIITT a minute. I can tell you faithful blog readers about my new found interest in ULTIMATE FRISBEE!! I used to think this was just a "fake" sport but it actually requires a lot of skill, strategy and can get competitive.

I just joined a team a few weeks ago and we've been playing every Tuesday for the past 3 weeks. Sooo fun! And of course, like every team sport, the type of people you play with make a huge difference (especially if it's your first time playing). Let me tell you, this team ROCKS! Not only do they have speed, agility, passion for frisbee, quick reflexes, good aim, control, and hand-eye coordination... they also LOVE congee! AND better still, they are all huge math/science nerds of some sort. hahaha so I play frisbee with a great group of diverse people! WOO HOO for me!

K. back to work. Wait I AMMM WORKING! (seriously >-< i'm learning new technology cos im working on Adobe Contribute CS3 right now!!! hehehe)

Proof that Ultimate Frisbee is a sport!

return of the BLOGG!!

2006-11-27T15:54:00.000-05:00

got a message today from someone who came to this blog and saw that the last entry was back in ugggGH JULY!!!

so i felt pretty bad about this. People stopping by who give a damn about the lives of other people - namely, me!

I just felt like starting again so late would be kinda pointless!? don't you think?

well, i guess i could always start fresh but then i'd be wasting more space and creating more blogs for myself to keep track of!

so i will continue writing in this blog... it might give me something OTHER than studying and dancing and drinking and partyin and studying and coding and assignments and job searching and ... the list goes on...

aafffter all "an unexamined life is not worth living" - so says a wise man by the name of Socrates..

So this blog will allow me to examine life by writing about it. I guess.

Any ideas??

first cottage weekend of the summer...

2006-07-24T15:56:00.000-05:00

so here I am at work today... so burnt out and tired from the drive home...

the 3 hour drive from seto's cottage up in port severn. I had a bag of garbage behind me (the garbage smelled like beer, uncooked salmon, soggy marshmallows but mainly salmon) and a joint being passed around in front of me... so basically the whole van was a hot box of nasty air - good thing no one decided to jump in the lake that day...

Or fall out of the canoe which shelly, karen and I went on that morning. It was hot and sunny and I got a crazzzy tan! yes we burned.. our skin among other things...

like wood from the bonfire! we burned all sorts of wood and ate the bestest smores because it was melted marshmallows in between DECADENT chocolate chip cookies!! YUM...

yum like the dinner me and chris decided to make before passing out at 10pm only to wake up at 11:30pm to go out to this after hours club called sonic for the MYLO and MSTRKRFT album release party!

from the end to the beginning the weekend was pure DOPE! And I mean that in the most literal way *sigh

it's show and tell time kids!

2006-07-04T15:44:00.000-05:00

WOW check this out. its the coolest thing I've heard all day!

Today I was told by my co-worker that there are ppl who do random pranks/improv acts in different parts of the city.

Apparently there was a bubble blowing fight this past weekend where people were told to start blowing bubbles at each other at 4pm or something like that.

I was totally confused at first but then checked out the website and yoo this is actually pretty funny shit.

One of the ideas -chris, you'd be happy to hear this... but i think* you came up with it once in a convo - anyways see if you can figure it out which one i'm talking about...it was actually really funny!!

So anyway the website is:
http://www.improveverywhere.com

And this is the link to the one in Toronto (about the bubble blowing fight)
http://www.newmindspace.com

All alonein Kyoto

2006-06-13T08:30:00.000-05:00

Kyoto...if you rearrange the letters that spells Tokyo!

Yet however similiar they may sound, Kyoto and Tokyo are not even comparable! It is soo different here. Its sooo beautiful here! There so many temples mixed in with the modern city life. The historical monuments and classy shops really give this city such an amazing atmosphere! The hotel I'm in is also really nice... its got a starbucks!! yay!! no more nasty japanese coffee!!!

Even tho I'm pretty enthusiastic to have made it here today, I was all alone... It's incredible how I can get around this country without speaking a word of Japanese. It's also remarkable how people can actually communicate with only a few words of english...

Well when I got here, I went to this gorgeous mountainous area called Arishiyama. OH MY GOD (:O was my face the whole time. This place was literally breathtaking. It was seriously so worth seeing. I loved every minute of it!!!

then I went down to the GION CENTER to try to see a maiko or geisha show. however when I got there, the show was almost over... well actually it was kinda a good thing because the guy let me go in just to catch the ending of the show. Talk about a rip off!! It was just a puppet geisha! haha well at least i didnt have to pay...

BTW today i saw a DOMOKUN!! Finally :)!!!

The big one was close to $90 (ridiculous... i like toys and all but i aint about to shell out $100 -which is half the money i have left here - on a domokun!) but I bot the small one. I will see if I can get a picture of the big one when I have another chance. At least I can say I saw one!!!

toKYo!!!!

2006-06-09T01:38:00.002-05:00

cannot explain this...

craziness around me...

this city doesnt stop.

rite now @ an internet cafe that looks out of this world...

i love tokio!!!

hope this keyboard doesn't swwtch in2 jpneze md.

im now a R%b0T.

w/ jpneze hair wh0 sp3aks in 0s n 1s

01 010 1 01 100 1100 1100!

Mickey Mouse speaks Japanese?!

2006-06-04T20:10:00.000-05:00

Yesterday emrah and I went to Disney Sea for the first time.
It was soo fun! By far the indiana jones ride was the awesomest!!

It was cool to see so many of my favourite japanese friends as well...

jiminey crucket

a har-ABUku girl

an evil japanese jafar

I learned a few japanese words:

"tanoSHE dee roo?" : are you having fun?
"haunto??" or "ooh so?": really??
"ech!?" : whaaa?!
"shinto" : i think this means when your foot falls asleep (i have to double check this)--- just did.. its actually a religion
"sumuyi" : cold (which i get a lot)
"sumimassen": excuse me/sorry/please
"su goi!": awesome or sooo good!

Anyway my vocab is growing and the people here are all so nice!!

Currently, I'm enjoying a lost in translation moment. Stuck in a japanese room eating a traditional japanese breakfast full of all the essential nutrients for bad teeth:

pocky and green bean kit kat!!

Here in Japan!

2006-06-03T09:45:00.000-05:00

OMG I can't believe I made it!!! 13 hours on a plane with a weird peruvian deaf mute lady and a comfy-as-hell U pillow - I AM HERE safe and sound....

The U pillow saved my life! For anyone travelling more than 4 hours on a plan, I highly recommend you get one!

Emrah is here with me and his room is pretty sick! We went to a weird arcade today and wasted so much money trying to get a Stitch doll from the pick up game machine...

Observation of the day: hmm... there have been so many - I guess the fact that everyone speaks sooo fast and I am compleeetely bewildered and overwhelmed when they talk to me!

But emrah's japanese is pretty impressive - at least thats what i think...

Tommorrow: DISNEY SEA!

really bad blog... but im kinda eating and watching TV

2006-05-24T21:19:00.000-05:00

In Nashua... eating alone in my hotel... watching that Will Ferrell movie about soccer and writing a blog... for the first time since APRIL!

I hate eating alone... but I guess that's what happens when you have to go on lonely business trips.

AH well i get free food, free wireless, free movies!

boring blog = eventful life

2006-04-03T20:01:00.000-05:00

i find that most people write blogs when they are bored. Lisa writes a lot of blogs because she gets easily bored. i used to write more blogs because i didn't work as hard... and hence was bored.

when you're bored you also tend to write funnier blogs. Because you wished your life was just as fun as your blog - true? i dont know about that statement, alot of people can prove me wrong - but it is true in my case.

For the past few weekends, I've been doing so much that my blogs just can't keep up.
Let's see... I was in kingston at least 3 times this month!

It was pretty awesome tho. I'll roll it all together in one fat sentence: I saw 3 dance shows (Vogue, QDC, Qkids in ACSA), the Matt O'Leary (aka Chris, Ameya and Aaron) band, went to a formal, went to a formal dinner, went to brunches and lunches and coffees and indian foods, had weed seshs along the water and in bookstores, and furniture stores, hmmm.. anything else i missed.. probably!

I guess what I mean to say is that when you have time, you can write great blogs! but when you don't have time, your blogs become short and messy and full of run on sentences...
much like this one!

adios!

Kingston on the weekend

2006-03-14T12:31:00.000-05:00

Kingston.

Asian Semi's are always planned to be spontaneous.

East Side Marios is tripod-worthy photo material.

SAW 2 isn't scary at all. The characters are all boring and annoying. They might as well have all been dead... wait a sec...

Stauffer and Bain are the hottest places to be on a Saturday - well at least better than Alfies.

Science is a religion...if you're drunk enough to believe it.

Buying the entire season five of the Sopranos for $15 is too good to be true - after realizing that the 3rd disc had episodes from the 1st disc?? or the other way around! or is there an order!!?

That 80s song, 'Blame it on the rain' was inspired by Kingston - on the real.

On that sad note... i just spent my break writing a blog and my fooz is really gonna suffer now...

---

Okay seriously you didn't think I was just gonna end it there did you??

My pessimism only goes so far! I had a wicked weekend in Kingston! It was soo fun! And I miss everyone up there heaps!

Can't wait till next time...:D

doo doo butter and tiger bum

2006-03-05T23:20:00.000-05:00

smells like indian food!

...the latest from DRUNKY MUNNY MAGIC ADVENTURES pt2!

doing nothing is underrated...

2006-03-03T23:12:00.000-05:00

finally a friday nite at home where i can actually just DO NOTHING.... right now im enjoying 80s music from the cure, reading up on other peoples blogs, drinking tea, trying to play a few notes on the guitar, randomly cleaning my room, making some more avatars and occasionally going downstairs to talk to my sister and her boyfriend kerry.

Wahhaaaa amy's in montreal right now! and the dogghouse went out to alfies! and i'm here at home...

but why would i wanna be anywhere else?

This week has been the most longest and tiresome week i've had in a while... I guess all that moving around and getting myself involved in all these projects at work really takes it's toll on your mental state... i was losing it by thursday :S

Wednesday nite I went out to a show. Stars. It was good. Nothing like the first time I saw them @ Grad Club.. but then again, a wicked first time is really hard to match up to.

But the predrinking - well any kind of drinking on a hump* nite - was fun. Wings and potato skins and beer... BELCH! (ie BURP! -remember from Archie comics!? no? EGADD!)...AHH Bar food can be sooo satisfying every now and then.

And so can staying home on a friday night... :)

*HUMP NIGHT- n. wednesday night. a night where you hump things. booty night? all three??
(it was my lil cousin Sammy who told me that "hump" meant butt and "lump" meant boobs... that damned BEP song is corrupting my lil cousins! That's MY job!)

bizzarre avatars

2006-02-28T14:23:00.000-05:00

AND AVATAR?!

Just one of the many cool reasons to switch to Yahoo! Messenger!

Thas me!

You can prolly guess the others...

You Too-b

2006-02-26T16:07:00.000-05:00

Today im bored and surfing other people's blogs (did i just say 'SURFING' blogs!! ewww that was soo 1999!) has just gotten a little more interesting. But while watching some You-Tube videos on lisa's site I caught on to this guy's home made series called Ask a Ninja .

Now all you antisocial - err hrrmm.. i mean - net-savvy people out there may have already heard of this and it's prolly sooo 5 min ago, but I found his shit kinda funny (in an endearing sorta way! aka i could see some people i kno doing this too!). And note I FOUND it! aka NO one told me about it! woo hoo.. im a discoverer!! (please dont ruin it for me)

But then I found he also has a blogger account, so that makes him even cooler!
Check it out. The Ask A Ninja blog.

Also this gives me some ideas about whether i should post up this music video i made a while ago... hmmm...??
or maybe i should save myself (and the reputations of others) from the embarrassment? Guys? team ASE? should i post it??

nah dint think so.

Ambassador of Canada, born in Toronto, working in Ottawa, translating southern US slang

2006-02-23T10:23:00.000-05:00

Being up here in Ottawa, I learned a few new words (thanks to my new american amigo PJ Clark)

LUSH - n. the party person in your crew that drinks a lot
You're a lush. (i.e. Jenn, you're a lush)

DISCO NAP - n. a nap that clubbers, in particular the disco/house kids, take before they start dancing the night away (or in between songs to regroup when they are tired from dancing?).. basically a nap that's 20 min long but s'pposed to feel like a few hours worth of sleep.
synonyms: power nap

GEORGIA RED CLAY - n. some red playdough-like clay that comes from Southern Georgia.
She's as dumb as a ball of georgia red clay

Also some cool facts:
-milk does the body NO good
(ameya can explain this pretty well... ask him)
-Boxing day is a canadian thing... Other people call it 'The Day After Christmas'

Sore loser but hey I DON't get mad easily...

2006-02-21T11:18:00.000-05:00

[name left unmentioned] says:
it seems that u r mad with me or not in good mood to chat...that's why u don't want to chat with me.

hahahahahah lol! sorry this was too funny I had to post it.

The extent of my bad MSN replying has made people think I am some sort of pissed off beeotch...

In addition to bad MSN etiquette, my potty mouthed-ness and poor sportsmanship from my last entry has earned me several critical comments, including one that told me I was a sore loser!

Alright...so everyone has their bad days!! gimme a break!! (i just needed to vent)

breathe in. breathe out. don't kill people.

Losing sucks!!!

2006-02-17T11:45:00.000-05:00

I'm on a friggin losing streak this whoolee weeK!! arrghh i hate losing... HATE it!! :
but oh well.. its not like i'm playing any worse.. but I guess I could be playing better since everyone else seems to be...

It's all good tho! tis the weekend and there's SNOW!!! gonna get drunk off my arse after work today and after I play another game and WIN!!!

but the only thing that bothers me more than losing is when someone else pities my losing streakedness and lets me win... like some sort of dumb pity win! That shit kills me!

fuck it.
damn fooz is taking over my day.

drunky munny majic pt.1

2006-02-12T22:08:00.000-05:00

BEHOLD...

the initial makings of my munny (which btw does not have a name yet so any suggestions would be FABULOUS!)

The surgery begins ... Karen cuts him open... MUNNY WANTS HIS HEAD BACK!

Then I used the drummel for the first time to sand it!

When I asked the no named munny whether it was feeling ok after the surgery it said... Cheerfully yes!

Look it's a TOP HAT!!!

Isn't he adorable!? The idea is for him to be a drunken monkey magician! I think this is GREAT! Thanks to K.Chow the handy woman~~ WOO HOO!

next step... making the hat & designing the face/body/etc

stay tuned...

back from the boat

2006-02-11T01:39:00.000-05:00

home sweet home.

I just came back from my mother-daughter cruise. Very interesting to say the least. Spending so much time with mama lo, I was very impressed with the fact that we didn't fight once!! I think we both had a really good time tho. Really relaxing.

Some new/cool things I did:
-go horseback riding
-learn how to fold towel animals
-made drinking friends by myself!! (i've never actually went into a bar by myself but I DID IT!! and it was fun)
-take a bus into Miami and go exploring with my mom
-got a tan in february

Hello kitty!

2006-02-05T20:25:00.000-05:00

My aunt kitty was looking over my shoulder as I started writing this blog. So as you can see, the start of this blog is a bit uhh... awkward... [and yes her name really is kitty].

For some reason I can't write blogs properly when people are looking over my shoulder. Actually I prolly can't do anything properly that way.

Okay so enough about my aunt kitty and weird privacy issues... on to bigger and BETTER things!
Breakfast in Miami tommorrow,
Sun tanning out in 20C weather in the afternoon...
Chillin with my mommy on a boat far, far away from here...

Ahhh. I can't wait.
That is the near future. This is the near past...

My weekend: Pretty hype I must say.

I got my haircut in a space candy store and you know what they did a pretty good job! The brilliant outcome was not only due to the fact that the hair dresser could speak english but to the moral support I received :)
Then we went out for my best friend Jackie's barfday. Though she didn't puke like she should have, she looked like she was having a great time. I was too. CONGRATS JACKIE!! :D

Oh and I also tried alcoholic bubble tea! For those of you who know my weird obsession with mixing drinks, you may recall my long overdue idea of mixing alcohol with bubbly tea. Well.. I did a mix of mint sherbet tea, bailey's and creme de cacao. It was pretty good until I went a lil overboard with a good thing... then i got real sick.

lessons learned: Don't go get your haircut at a foreign space candy store without chris kong. Always add 1 part alcohol to 4 parts bubble tea and you'll be straight ;)

gung hei fat choi

2006-01-29T23:31:00.000-05:00

This weekend was pretty fun and not very chines-y despite the fact that it was chinese new year...
It was cool tho cos I got to hang with my queen's girlfriends and some of my emc friends. [NOTE this doesn't happen often enough so I thought I might make a mention of it]

I don't remember much of what happened this whole weekend... I guess after eating like 2 chinese new year dinners in a row and drinking and not sleeping and trying to read what could possibly be the most boring-est work-related material since biochem or orgo I have officially lost my mind to deliriousness.

So because I lack words and for some reason my pics from the previous blog did not show... I will make up for both by showing you some of the pictures from my weekend.

OH yea check out my msn space too... i added pics from New Years and the Brown formal for those of you who've been waiting all your life for them... sorry for the delay

http://spaces.msn.com/bananajello/

No one... I repeat NO ONE should spend chinese new year alone!

2006-01-24T22:58:00.000-05:00

Aahaha I'm talking to my cousin Gordon on MSN and he's all the way in the HK. I think it would be pretty lonely living so far away from the family especially during all the holidays and stuff...

He doesn't know I'm writing this blog in honour of (or out of pity for) him.

Oooh a cute baby! Just so happens that she's my niece!! and shes as big as a pug =)

(She's mixed and I think mixed kids are soooo cute! I want one!!...a pug of course!!)

rain...sun...hail..sun...rain...oh the joys of california

2006-01-18T18:33:00.000-05:00

You would think that its like super warm here or something but actually the weather is a bit crazy. So are the people here at Documentum... all crazy....

They made us sit in a meeting - pretty much lecture style- where people went on talking and presenting their powerpoints for 8 full hours!!
and I thought 3 hours of databases was tough... ohhh man

but today was the last of these meetings and tommorrow MORE! but fun ones (I hope).

There's a gym in the hotel that I'm staying in. Or rather there's a hotel in the gym I'm staying in. I'll try to get a picture of it but lemme tell ya its UNREAL!
Ball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools, weight machines x 1000, cardio machines x 1000, a ROCK CLIMBING WALL!!, squash, aerobics, spinning... (i'll take a pic its crazy!!)

Well other than the meetings, things in cali have been alrite. Saw my cousin Olive last nite. That was fun. Cept I was soo drunk I passed out even while she was chilling with me and when she left I was barely awake. Tonite I'm gonna have dinner with the family and tommorrow with my work crew. I think we might even get to see a queer punk show! It started as a joke but I thought it was real and a GREAT idea at that! I mean queers and punk define san francisco!!!

carmen sandi-jlo

2006-01-15T14:59:00.000-05:00

I think it's my aspiration to become the most infamous international woman of mystery (?) or is it cartoon history??
So where in the world am i?
well right now I am in KINGS-TOWN chillin at starbucks... and it looks like im doing work but really i'm pretending to be. My disguise - this blog.

Tommorrow I'm leaving for California and the week before I was in Ottawa.. (Wow 2 places, could I really be INTERNATIONAL now?). Wait and today I am in kingston, last nite I *think* I was in India...

now aren't we the prettiest mail order brides you ever saw!??

...and its 2006!

2006-01-02T00:24:00.000-05:00

its a new year and resolutions are key because they give you a starting point for which you can begin to try to change things about yourself. some of the things I hope to do this year are:

-work out at good life with big jess
-volunteer at bloorview macmillan
-be on top of things at work/school
-use bigger words (in conversation mostly- at least not in this blog-that will be for next year!)
-be more organized
-keep in touch better with family and friends esp. after they all move away after 4th year. or if they move to different countries.
-floss
-pay attention to people better when they are talking to me even if I have absolutely no interest in what they are saying and start to drift off...
-help my mom and dad more
-talk to my sister more
-dance better
-fooz better
-get more sleep.. which reminds me im really tired right now... damn blog

and if things don't work out this month, chinese new year is at the end of Jan.!!
I like second chances...:)

happy 2006!

need to chill cos dreamweaver is acting like a beeotch

2005-12-29T13:48:00.000-05:00

my computer is fuckin' up large... i hate this... errgghh
I might just be grumpy because I'm at work and it's 2 days till New Years!

Things have been going really well this holiday tho so I can't complain! In fact I will make a list so far of good things that Ive done so that I dont have to be soo annoyed at this work shieet that I have to do...

Asian christmas and why it was awesome:
1) Sheesah
2) a lot of asian food (my first asian dinner that i organized woo hoo!)
3) gift stealin game - bringing out that selfish side after all the 'giving'
4) Queen's people - thanx to all those who came out!! I had a blast! It made me realize that even though we are not all together at school this year, we can still be tight...

Potluck and why I love my highschool crew:
1) They cook good food
2) They are like family to me
3) Tradition - It was our 9th annual potluck! that's almost 10 years baby!!
4) They are horny and perverted!!! ahhh finally REAL people for once!
5) They know me... everything about me.. and still they love me!! :)

Family dinner:
1) Happens every weekend anyways but christmas makes it more special I guess
2) We eat at Mandarin - how asian can you get!?!
3) My cuzins are cute
4) My grandparents are cute

Giftgiving:
1) I get to be creative
2) I get stressed out but then feel good when the gift is finished and I can give it
3) Its nice to think about others - seriously I do DO this sometimes!!
4) People get happier :)

conclusion: christmas rocks even when you're at work and dreamweaver is crashing on you... a

ahhh back to work.

BOOOORRING!

2005-12-20T15:18:00.000-05:00

I was having to slowest day at work t'day... normally i am pretty busy but today feels like everyone in the world has moved on.. and im stuck here lost and confuzed... or is that dazed and confuzed.. well i think what made my day so shitty was the fact that my MSN broke down!! yes for some reason it's not allowing me to sign on. Could it be a blessing in disguise? Maybe I was gonna get a virus or sumpthin today?!

Anywase, i started going on Yahoo Chat which I had installed a couple months ago - recommended to me by my U.S. colleagues. It ain't all that bad -'cept I only have 4 contacts!! Moral of the story tho... when your msn breaks down, sign on to the Yahizzy Chizzity and download this video:
evanjsnow: http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=IggTu7kV7No

(courtesy of evan J the Obi Wan Kenobi-like UI guru)

ps. its the SNL Chronic - Cles of Narnia Rap

Wine and Wolverine

2005-12-16T12:21:00.000-05:00

So last nite I was soo tired (and a little tipsy from the red wine I had for dinner). I was about to fall asleep at 10:30pm but decided that it was too early. What I DID do instead was read and LEARN about the origin of Wolverine...

And what an origin indeed!

I actually feel a little enlightened today and somewhat more superior now that I know the story behind the Marvel Comic's most elusive character. Don't ask me why... I've never really been a comic fanatic but for some reason I was really drawn to the story of Wolverine.

Maybe because he lived in Canada.
Maybe because he's my favorite of the X-men.
Maybe because of the wine...

ITS ALMOST CHRISTMASS!!

2005-12-12T09:36:00.000-05:00

Well not really! But I'm so excited.. I don't know why in particular- but today I feel extra happy! (maybe its those uppers I've been taking... KIDDIN!) ...

im at work and just chillin out. decided to make sushi for the work potluck...
or maybe i should go with tiramisu cause it's the only thing I can actually make MAKE... Can't decide. :S

Anyway.. thought i might make a shoutout to my highsKEWL girlies! Last weekend was a lot of fun! Elaine, Karen, Ella, Greg and I and some other people whom I don't know the names of, went to Andy Poolhall to get some pool/bar action! hahaha well the only one who got any action was Greg when he tried to argue with the bouncer to get us in to the club. Actually he got NO action cos we ended up not being able to cut through the line and we lost our original spot too.
Then Karen and I met some cool people that did design stuff. That was fun cos we had some decent confersations (yep confersations- like conferencing and conversation cos we were talkin like nerds about work). Elaine had a consolvation (a cross between a consolation and conversation -because the guy was a lame-ass and there was no one else for him to talk to). Well that was our night in a nutshell and THANK YOU GIRLS for a GOOD NITE!

^_^

OH SHOOT ppl are coming in to work now... gotta stop bloggin.

LOTS TO DO

DO check out vice! DON'T dress like a slut!

2005-12-11T21:08:00.000-05:00

Since my good friend Emrah Kent (now known as Emura Kento) left for Japan recently, I've had a lot of extra time to do the kind of things that only people with extra time can do... such as go onto Vice Magazine and check out the DO's and DON'Ts.

To my surprise I saw a DON'T that was a picture of some kids from A.Y. Jackson!! THAT'S MY HIGHSCHOOL! And the only reason I knew it was referring to the A.Y. Jackson in Toronto and not Ottawa, was cos the comment was something about Math nerds (for those of you who might not be familiar with A.Y., we basically had no sports teams but our Descartes scores?! Dayummm...they were off the charts!! Go figure when 90% of the school is asian)

hahahah but anyway it made my day knowing that the readers and writers of vice can make fun of my highschool the same way i can.

Here's the pic and comment: Hey look, the math nerds at A.Y. Jackson High School got “made” by MTV. Only now they’re the math nerds at A.Y. Jackson High School dressed up like slutty Bosnian superheros

Though not a substitute for actual human interaction, check out vice's do's and don'ts for good laugh!

ps. the 50 cent guy is hilarious

A apple

2005-12-06T14:08:00.000-05:00

This is my apple hat... drawn by christopher kong himself... I am supposed to be expecting it in the mail anytime now as long as I call California and ask Steve Jobs for a new nano because yesterday my apple headphones ZAPPED me! Literally! I got ZAPPED... but no burn marks or damage has been done to my ears or my head (I hope not anyways). phew!

Word of advice, apple headphones are shitty but this apple hat is adorable!!

emrah's leaving :(

2005-12-04T03:30:00.000-05:00

So im sitting around in emrah's basement right now... writing a blog and listening to the conversations around me

this is a scene from the party

Marco: hey do you come here a lot? and do you like my scarf?
Elaine: no... I don't but I do like your scarf...
Karen: Did you spend new years with the guy from Degrassi
Marco: yea...Snake was a tight ass. he didn't buy me a drink.
Karen: hehehe
Marco: I am alergic to this carpet.
Jenn: where's emrah? he just left us down in the basement
Marco: what is jenn writing.. she's prolly thinking we're all on crack right now and this one time this guy was whacked out at paparrazzi and he tried to come after these girls and the bouncer came in lookin like Morpheus
Emrah: That took fucken forever guy.. that guy lives so far. I can't believe I'm going to be sitting here alone in japan a couple of days from now...
Marco: I'm going to be there in 6 months
Emrah: I will pay at least half

Jenn - the stenographer

foozball champion!

2005-11-25T19:42:00.000-05:00

YESSSS We WON!! we WON!! we WONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im drunk at work and we awong toutr roofzboal;l btouygrnament~!!!!!

team "double J" - the underdog...

2005-11-24T12:28:00.000-05:00

Tommorrow is our official foosball quarter final games (this means we still have to knock out 2 other teams before making it to the actual final)... Jonathan is my new partner and we kick ass!! Seriously though for the fact that we haven't been a team that often we play pretty well together except we lost our 2/3 practice games today.. and yesterday... Whatever tho.. we're just saving our wins for the REAL thing!

I feel like our team is the underdog in this because we had to substitute players...I like being an underdog tho... its much more challenging and if we do win then it's all about the R.E.S.P.E.C.T! If we lose... then its like "ehhh we're the underdog! what gives?!"

This is really exciting actually... I wonder what it would be like to compete in a real sport : i bet it'd be CRAZY! Oh well FOOZBALL IS a REAL SPORT! I don't care what anyone else says...

work vs. school

2005-11-23T00:15:00.000-05:00

work - can come home to cooked food every night
school - can go grocery shopping (at A&P) at midnight to buy a half priced chicken and eat it

work - can watch 2 episodes of sex in the city, 1 Dave chappelle, loaf all night while feeling sorta guilty - then upon realizing that you don't have to do anything ANYWAYS, telling your stupid conscience to shut the F up
school - can watch 2 episodes of sex in the city (or felicity or some other chick drama) with your girlfriends while eating cookies and ice cream - and then feel guilty upon realizing you didn't get any work done...cry... talk about boys and how they suck... talk about - wait this isn't me! hahahaha BUT i DO know people who do this and i love them....

work - sit at a computer for 8 hours a day meanwhile having foozball breaks
school - sit in bain lab for 8 hours a night meanwhile having class breaks.... and some foozball

work - can go to montreal on the weekend!!!
school - can go to montreal on the weekend!!! (3 hours AGO!)

work - 9-5 days
school - 9-4 days (4am that is)

work - free coffee
school - free donuts - that you win from rolling up the rim (hey i loved this gimmick! winning a donut would make my DAY sometimes - yea school was that depressing)

work - powerbook, vegas, paychecks...
school - ??? yea didn't think so...

this blog is a tribute to everyone who is in school right now strugglin' to get outta there and move on with life! my heart goes out to you!!

my haunting pencil case memories

2005-11-22T11:49:00.000-05:00

Friggg... if anyone reads my comments ever.. there was this last comment in my prev. blog that scared the F outta me.
It reminded me of some stalker who used to bust out the strangest lines on me... they were all so creepy but then a friend pointed out that they were like lines on an asian pencil case... like
"you smell orange and flower cup cake" or
"the wind of my sailboat flocks over the moon" or
"i eat boston cream ever time i order from a black lady" hahahahaha seriously weird...

but that last comment happened to come from a crunchie (brown on the outside - yellow on the inside) that i know called ameya. AMEYA! AMEYA! AMEYA!

there ya happy AMEYA you made it to my blog! Feel special

j

yaaaawn

2005-11-14T15:50:00.000-05:00

Coffee just doesn't work anymore...

My head won't stay open and my eyelids feel really heavy - oh wait i think I got it backwards...iLids won't stay open, and iHead is heavy (I'm on the Mac again, go figure)..I don't know if I'm dreaming or if I'm in real life... can't find the light switches to test this reality.

Will this blog wake me up??

the bus blog

2005-11-11T19:04:00.000-05:00

i'm on the bus on the way to kingston....
pretty cool having wireless here! maybe i should take the bus more often. Definetly not at the risk of getting any more speeding tickets (or accidents - hah! *montreal rd. trip). So here I am talking to my new friend Lenny that I met on the bus...I asked him to write something on my blog but he's not going to say anything (i think he's shy of bloggin').

Anyway I thought I might take this opportunity to blah blah blog about my week (since I have not updated in a while). This week has been pretty hectic for me... Work has been steady but I also kept going places after work. On Wed. I had the Kanye West concert. It was amazing!!! Just knowing all the songs and being in the presence of such a talented artist was enough to make up for the actual performance aspect (nowhere near an $80 concert performance). I wouldn't pay as much to go again but it was worth it for that nite alone.

Other than the concert, I've been working out! I'm SUPER WOOOMAANN!! I think my wrists have had more of a workout tho than anything... Fooz-fever has hit our office as we started this tournie this week. I had my first game today and it was INTENSE!!!But we won! YAY! and now I got internet on the bus and we are gonna have a parrrtayy tonite!! AzIAN seMi sTyLE!

(BTW I love this blog program cos when i tried to publish the first time, it told me it didnt get published and all I had to do was go back to create and recover post was rightttt there in the lil left corner!! - great UI design! still in work mode)

bubble pop electric shoes!

2005-11-06T21:37:00.000-05:00

So i love my new L.A.M.B shoes. They are pretty and come in a nice black bag... Probably not worth the price but they are comfortable enough and make me feel extra cool so what more can I ask for?! I think I'm going to use them just to dance and prance around in... yup thats right dancing prancing shoes to feed my dance addiction! This brings us into another new chapter of my life... I'm a DANCE ADDICT ~6_6~ (thats my addicted face!) - started taking all these random drop in classes with Anna (she's actually more of an addict than I) but hey at least I got complimented on two seperate occasions this weekend! woo hooo! that's more to feed my addiction and make it all worth the while! :)

more to say about my weekend... ummm... i took my sis out for her birthday (it was really fun - we went out to a gym downtown and did a spinning class. Let me tell you this was no ordinary gym and this was no ordinary spinning class. First of all, this gym looks like a store/cafe - it sells cool work out gear and has a juice and internet bar on the side. When you see this gym, 3 simple words come to mind - Orange Mocha Frappucino - and this spinning class was unlike any other. The teacher was spinning house tracks while drinking a latte and telling us about his hangover and his wild nite involving pole dancing in between yelling at us to "bike harder!!!" - I kid you not! This would be derek zoolander's gym!

But it's not easy being ridiculously goodlooking so I have to go back again (well at least until my week pass runs out).

After that, we went out for Crepes at Cafe de Crepe. The crepes were alrite looking.. but the HOT DOGS! they were ill!!

I guess it goes to show that when you go to a crepe place - where all they specialize in is crepes - you must order a hot dog to get something special...

~6_6~

halloween and the city

2005-11-01T13:59:00.000-05:00

wow i did nothing for halloween this year... didn't even dress up :( Now that's a sad story. But what I did do (literally nothing) was equally if not more fun! So I had a lil' green, followed by the munchies and then watched 2 back to back episodes of the METRO-sexual tv series "sex and the city"... That's good enough for me at this old age of 22...

I find it amusing how in our generation, we have all been brought up to spend Halloween loafting and doing absolutely nothing... Thinking back on those public school days, halloween was just a day where we would all bring food, decorate stuff and have class parties... then we get home, we get changed in our elaborate costumes, meet up with our friends and go get candy! THen we bring it home and trade it and eat it... And to top it all off, it was an excuse to go out and see your friends on *gasp A SCHOOL nite! So would be the routine for every Halloween....

I guess that's why I always feel like I have to do something fun on Halloween.

Well that being said, I'm going to go back to eating my smarties and playing with this fake plastic ear that I found...

wait what day is it again?

Live, Las Vegas

2005-10-28T17:08:00.000-05:00

Back from Vegas and what do I have to show for it?? Hmmm... seeing that I only lost $60 at the Black Jack table, lost a good 16 hours worth of sleep, maybe lost only a few liver cells (surprised? I didn't drink THAT much and yes you can kick me for that cos every nite was friggin OPEN BAR), I did come out of the city of sin alive and well. And despite all those losses, I feel like the luckiest girl ever...

For the first time going on a 'business' trip, I think I can safely say that nothing compares to this. This could probably well be the best first experience I've ever had. Seriously!!! And for any one at work reading this -APPARENTLY my blog was being read by a fellow co-worker, which MEANS I might have to censor some of the idiotic things I say - I mean, it might even be read by other co-workers and worse, people that actually think I'm "normal" and maybe even "sensible?" - okay so back to my thought, yea I guess for ANY one in the world reading this, I just really wanna say that I had many good surprises from the people I work with... and if it wasn't for these people, I don't think I would have enjoyed vegas as much as I did!

So thanks to Dave- the owner of EMC who is probably going to be reading this as well- I had a terrific time in vegas!!!

long time no blog

2005-10-18T14:57:00.000-05:00

well not that long... but for all my loyal blog-subscribers i apologize for the lack of updates... i've been pretty busy these days. ACTually I'm sitting right in the middle of a meeting! HAH! Trying to control my facial expression so ppl think that I'm hard at work taking notes on my laptop when in fact I am writing this blog! oohhh its hard to keep this straight serious look..

okay too much effort mentally, physically and psychologically. im outta here!!!

buh-nay-nay's day-day

2005-10-11T11:06:00.000-05:00

The weekend passes and I'm back at work once again...

Today is slow. But I found out that my hockey team was doing really well. Last week I heard we were like 2nd and now we are ranked 5th. That kinda made the day a little more interesting. Other than that, there's a lot of work to be done and not enough jenn-attention to do it!

It's funny how the first thing that everyone (myself INcluded) asks here is "How was your Thanksgiving?" Or "How was your long weekend?". Honestly, you would think I am just asking these generic questions out of being polite but really I actually kinda DO care... Or maybe it's just because the work conversations don't go as far as - well...work - and maybe if your popular- the new coffee machine. That being said, Thanksgiving conversations are pretty enlightening.

Damn, shouldn't have stayed up till 2 last nite... but then again my whole weekend was basically nocturnal. Sleep at 4 and waking up at 11... I miss that. But the chromeo video looks friggin awesome (thats why i was up so late). I can't wait till it's done and I can post it somewhere and share it with all the rest of you!!

Overall, the weekend made me miss my vm, sh, jc and jc (the Doggies of the Dogghouse). Also biggie, uy and sads...and the rest of the k-town crew... names not needed cos really there would be just too many! Well, if any of you are reading... im at work and i miss ya!!!

much love,
ba-nay-nay lo

home, sick

2005-10-05T13:54:00.000-05:00

Today I felt sick so I stayed home. I went to the doctor (finally! i can be so stubborn sometimes) and I knew exactly what he would tell me. My DR is pretty cool tho. He always writes me the prescription in the end. I guess he knows that after waiting for 1hr to see him (my appt was at 12:30 - I finally finished my 5 min appt at 1:30!!), that I should leave with something!! haha. I guess that and the fact that he knows I'm not some druggie that comes rolling in for pills every week. I don't know how much of this Pondocillin stuff I would take anyways. I think I can get better with just resting and water. Plus he told me I shouldn't even finish it all - again this is why I totally suspect that I didn't even NEED to see the doctor in the first place!

I think I can totally just take care of myself and be better by the weekend... I just need to stay in bed with my laptop. That actually sounds very... not boring!

sweet.
home, not bored, sick

no longer an orphan

2005-10-04T11:15:00.000-05:00

I have a family at last!!

Last nite my parents came back from their 3 week excursion to china/hongkong.

It's great to finally see them again and to have them back in my house - yes it is MY house now- after 3 weeks of living alone and holding down the fort, I think I've reclaimed my role...

Their trip seemed to go by real well... I kept asking them for funny stories but I think they were too tired to remember any. Actually I hope they were too tired to remember cause to think that they had no funny stories would just mean that they had a sucky trip and NO ONE wants that!

This morning I had coffee with my dad. He told me some good news and some bad news. I like having coffee with my dad. I think he likes having coffee with me too.

Now I am at work. Busying myself with checking me-mail (thats my email for short- I invented this word just now so don't try to steal it but if you like feel free to circulate it, it seems like a good new word) and writing blah blah blogs....

Life is good, foozball game is improving and everything is back to normal again. :)

tired and uninspired

2005-10-02T21:52:00.000-05:00

oh what a weekend it has been.... friday shooting a music video and drinking waay too much while doing it, saturday getting stranded at home but then going to see my cousins (and new born baby) and going to a luau to watch Jackie pick up boys, sunday running a 5 K marathon with the latinas and now being on the computer for another 3 hours uploading, playing msn games, webcamming and blogging...

I am soo tired. I really wanted to edit this music video too!! The song we did it too was Chromeo's Needy girl. It was cool cos before I even saw the video I decided to use the mirror effect while filming! Then when I actually saw it, they also had MIRROR STUFF!!
WOWOWOWOW.

I think I better go to sleep before I burn out....

oh Genie! I wish for a magic button to open the garage door!

2005-10-01T15:39:00.000-05:00

Friggin garage door won't open.
Both cars inside garage.
Jenn inside house.
... going crazy....

(btw genie is the name of the garage door opener company)

GO BLOG GO!!

2005-09-30T14:34:00.000-05:00

Ya ya! I found out that my friends are actually reading this! Woo hoo! (im a blog rookie what can i say)

And it's Friday! Working 8 hours a day is tiring as shit!! but then studying for 14 hours in a computer lab aint all that great either.... But I do have to say I miss school...

Last nite, I went down to kensington market to see Andrew (Emrah's very talented and creative friend who does all these crazy songs - check it out www.songstowearpantsto.com) perform at Super Market (NOT a grocery store it's actually the name of the bar).

AHHH. Looking at the clock and I'll be here for another hour or so...

I need a game of fooz... but I've been on a bad BAD losing streak this whole week. I am now the WORSE girl fooz player... Bila's has improved so much... and I am sadly declining...
That just means I have to play more! but what if no one wants me on their team... that would be SOOO SAD!

i'm sad. not.

yours truly dear diary
PEESE

NEW BABY!!!

2005-09-29T11:25:00.000-05:00

Yesterday my aunt Suzy had a BABY! Her name is Myra and she looks.. well like a newborn baby! This is crazy I can't believe we're getting another family member. That is just sooo cool! I can't wait till she gets bigger and we can all play hunter and cheetah! hahahahaha inside joke for insiders ONLY!

But I did go to the hospital to visit and then went out with my lil cousins and stuff for sushi after. That was really cool cause after living without the 'rents for a while I really started to miss those little things in life... like family dinners (which we used to do like EVERY weekend!) and mahjong and karoake and hunter and cheetah - jess i hope your reading!

afterwards I watched a movie that was recommended to me for a long long time... Requiem for a Dream. I KNEW I would be disturbed afterwards but not as much as I thought. I watched it with my friends Jackie and Shelly. It was about addiction. The scariest story was proabably... well all the characters but I have to say that the old woman who was addicted to diet pills had, by far, the best performance. Friggin scary shit....

Anyhoo, I gotta get back to work. Today has actually been pretty cool. We did this hockey pool thing at work today and got to pick all our players for our team. Me and Bila made up our team together... it was shitty cos we both don't know too much about hockey but we ended up with SOME good players I GUESS... but it was hard too cause every time I wanted to pick one, the guy before me already picked him...

so our team looks like this:
Defense: Brian Leetch, Bryan Berard - he's the charity case for the team, Paul Mara
Forward: Marian Hossa, Robert Lang, Martin Havlat, Brett Hull, Scott Walker, Jason Arnott
Goalie: Toronto's Ed Belfour - had to do it T.O. Style!!

I really don't know a whole lot about hockey but it was so fun doing this!! Now I really am going to have to pay attention to stats and stuff...

Hey my blog was actually really long this time... improvement on my slacking skills! I think so!!!

GULP.

2005-09-28T11:47:00.000-05:00

GULP.

That word sounds so funny yet for some reason that's all I can think about when I start to write this blog. Why? Well see I have this fear of writing about myself for other people to read AND I'm hella lazy with keeping up a blog so I always feel dread and anxiety when I begin doing this sort of thing. Hey wait - now that I got that out of my system I'm starting to feel somewhat more relaxed.... (knowing really IS half the battle!)

So the reason why I just started compulsively writing this blog knowing that I have a meeting in T minus 6 minutes is that I have been reading some of my friends blogs and found that blogs can actually be a good way to relieve stress and get stuff off your mind and also to note the weird and interesting things that happen so that when you look back, you can laugh at yourself (sounds like good idea?)

Anyways I just wanted to shout out to the world that I AM OFFICIALLY A BLOGGER!!!!!

and will continue to be...

just like i continue to upload my digital pics right after I take em
and just like i continue to reply instantaneously on IMs
and just like i read....

hah.

jenn.bean

(JENN + COMPUTER) * 8 * 5 = CRAYZEE GEEK GIRL

2005-07-12T14:48:00.000-05:00

Wow I think being on the computer for longer than 8 hours a day, 5 days a week can really drive you madd... i'm only figuring this out after being a computer science half major for 3 years... and yea so maybe I'm not cut out for all this typing, straining my eyes, crouching my back business. Sometimes I just wish I could be outside working at camp again. Playing soccer and dodgeball and eating FREEZIES! But then I remember how cool this whole job thing is and that kids + no A/C + 90 degree gymnasiums = shoot-me-now combo from hell...

Well I guess the only way to save myself (and my wrists) from this torture is to write more BLOGS!

Yikes I sound like the hugest computer geek write now :S

But then again wait, you're actually still reading this so what does that make you??

week o' family fun

2005-07-11T13:42:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was my grandfather's 90th Birthday... I wonder what it feels like to grow up to 90 and see all these people celebrating your life. :) It was a lot of fun tho. Spending time with family, esp. when you get to eat a 12 course banquet dinner and you're sitting at the "kids" table. These are the traditions that never get old. Even when I turn 90 we'll still be sitting at the "kids" table!

I wonder if my grandfather's table was once a "kids" table....hmmmm

Life on thursday july 07, 2005

2005-07-07T15:04:00.000-05:00

This week has been interesting to say the least. Not that my life is ever really that boring... well i think that life is only as boring as you make it - ah well thats another story.

I am really really excited though. For starters, I just hurd that STARS which is one of my new favourite bands is playing at the DRAKE HOTEL one of my new favourite venues! This is terrifical! I am super psyched!! The only prob is that it is on a Thursday (july 21st) which might conflict with a majorly important meeting that I have the next morning!

Oh well maybe i'll invite everyone at work and we can all sleep in!

The next reason I am so excited is because I haven't written a blog/diary or at least kept one up to date for the LONGEST time! I feel that because I sit on my computer 8 hours a day and get extremely bored sometimes, I may actually find the patience and desire to write down all the things that go thru my head.

Also my friends Lisa and big Jess have really cool looking blogs and I wanted to bite their style :S

Shoot. think I've spent too long doing nothing. Better get back to work!

JENNIFRREEZE