綠茶, you are my only hope of staying awake

Since I lack any coffee in this house (and also since I do not drink any), I have to rely on my 綠茶 to keep me awake. I have a giant beer mug full of it. It took 5 tea bags to make it taste half decent. It also does not help that we have no milk in the house. I always find that green tea tastes best with some milk in it. Oh well, it is still tasty. The reason why I need this tea to keep me awake, is because I have a test and an assignment tomorrow. The assignment (which I just started about 5 minutes ago, and am now taking a break from it to post this useless blog) Is roughly about 16 pages long. It is called a "Listening Log". Basically I have a template for a song that I have to listen to, which has about 1 page worth of writing on each one, explaining different features of the song and such. Well I have 16 songs in which I have to write about by tomorrow first thing! On top of that, I have a Mandarin Test tomorrow in which I have a good page worth of PinYin to learn as well! For this reason, I must find a way to stay awake until these tasks are complete, as well as eliminate all possible distractions which thus far, is not working out too well. Stupid Blogger!

Anyway the best part about having to do all this crap, is that it was my Birthday today. Yay for me, 20 years........ young. I would say thats a good present, having to stay up all night to do some stupid assignment that I really do not feel like doing. Oh well, you win some you lose some. Other than that, I had a really nice day today, starting at 4 and ending at roughly 12. I wish that it could have lasted longer, but even an hour would have made me really happy :). Thanks again for being with me ;)

Sleep is worth its weight in gold

So I go to bed at 1 last night because I had to be out of the house by 8:00. I think I'm about to fall asleep at 2, but then I start getting text messages to my phone. Oh well thats ok, it was another night where I could not sleep. And on top of that, I wake up in the morning at 6:00. I do not have a clue in the world what it was that made me wake up at this hour.

Anyway so the reason I had to be out of the house by 8:00 was because I had to drive all the way up to Alliston (which is on hwy 89) to play in part of the Georgian Region league meet. I would say that it ended up being a successful day. There were two flights for mens doubles: A and B. The Director of our club told the people running the tourney that Brian and I were high B flight constesants. Our first game ended up being supposedly the top team in the B flight category. The first game we beat them 15-1. The second game they put on a good run but we still beat them 15-13. So our next game, for some reason, we got put up against the top team in the A Flight. Apparently this team basically wins most of the Georgian region Tournaments. They were a good team, but they definately are not invincable. Brian and I put up a good fight but still lost both games to them. Basically the reason that they edged us out was because of experience; Brian and I had a few more mistakes then they did and that was the difference in the game. They were both good games and I was really pleased with the outcome of them. We ended up playing a third game against what seemed to be a father/son team. They were both good players; the son being the better of the two, with a really strong smash, so we picked on the father and beat them both games. The second game was a little too close for comfort though, 15-13. We still held on though. Overall, it was a really good day.

And what better way to celebrate 6 good games of badminton than to eat a truckers breakfast at the HUSKY. There goes all the calories that we burned off playing badminton, but it was well worth it. 5 pieces of bacon, 3 eggs, homefries and TOAST. Definately cannot go wrong with that :).

Anyway so yesterday I tried to go home and change my oil, and do a good cleaning out of my car. All I had time for was to clean the outside of it and clean the windows. At least I can see out of the car now, but the oil still needs to be changed. Hopefully I can do that sometime soon, I'm 800km past due right now :S.

Also went to kareoke yesterday with Thu and his buddies, as well as some folk at YUBC. Good times. A little short though because I had to get up and play baddy the next morning. Only had a chance to sing one song, Beat it with Khoa. And let me tell you, I SUCK at singing, especially to MJ. It just doesn't work for me. It also doesn't help that I listen to old hippie music, and that no one else there does. You don't see many old hippie songs at an Asian Kareoke place either. Anyway, I guess thats about all that I have to say for right now. Cya.

Procrastination is Key

Indeed it is. Here it is at 12:35 and I have a test in a class tomorrow that I have been to once thus far. Attendence counts as well in this course. So much for my participation marks. Anyway so I have this test tomorrow at 8:30am and I have not yet started studying yet. Why do you ask? I really have no legitimate answer for you, other than that I am really lazy. I have to listen to about 16 gregorian Chants and be able to distinguish them tomorrow. I don't even know where to start. Which is the reason for my post now anyway.

Whats happening in life? Well pretty much the same old. Lack of sleep, lack of school work and an abundance of Badminton. Have a tournament coming up this weekend in Allistion. Good ol' Alliston, home of the potatoe festival. And I thought Nobleton was hick :).

I have a confession to make. I am addicted to nuts. Eventhough I get threatened to not eat so much by an anonymous individual who will remain unnamed for now. She threatens to beat me up, to not talk to me, you name it. So far though, thank god, she has not lived up to her word. YAY.

I also just realized that the majority of my posts are pretty darn late at night, and therefore I am usually really tired writing them, therefore most of my posts basically make no grammatical sense. Thats ok, my English is pretty bad now these days anyway. Thats why I'm trying to take up a new language, Mandarin :D. Mind you when I can actually hold conversations in Marndarin, I will probably be brutalizing that language as well.

What else is happening these days. Well I apparently Finally got my posters that I ordered off of ebay. I bought them both in September and there are finally here now, almost a month later. But it is well worth the wait, I mean where else can you get an original TMNT movie poster from? Good ol' Ebay, the greatest website for buying things that you don't need.

I must say that life is really going well for me these days. I don't think that I have ever been happier in my whole life. Its getting tough these days to try and keep up with some friends though. All of my best high school friends are going to different Universities right now, and that keeps it hard to keep in touch with every one of them. Especially when I find it hard enough to see the people who also live really close to me right now. Many people have dissappeared to different Countries this past year, and the list is seemingly gettting larger and larger all the time. Before I know it, everybody is going to be gone! Lucky guys getting to travel! Oh well, I am happy here as it is, so I don't feel I need to go anywhere for a while. The people who I want to be with most are right here, so why would I want to go anywhere?

Yup, I am indeed a loser

Yes I am aware that I updated this thing yesterday, but I really have nothing better to do at this moment. Well, technically it IS the 13th now, and my last update WAS on the 11th, therefore its 2 days. Hehe now I don't feel so bad.

Anyway, enough stupid talk. I don't really understand why, but in the past 2 nights, I have been really frusturated. May you ask why? Well, last night it was because I couldn't get my music program to work on my computer. And instead of looking deeper into trying to figure out a way to solve the problem, I was an idiot and just tried the same thing over. So here I sit in front of my screen, being angry and stupid and not thinking. Donna comes along and in 2 seconds, my problem is solved. She looks on the internet and finds a solution to my problem. 5 minutes later my program is working (except for a minor delay in the midi keyboard). Well, so much for men having the rational mind and women having the irrational mind. I believe its the other way around, beacuse I am certainly not the rational one, not last night anyway.

So anyway, on to tonight. Playing baddy at ABC. I haven't played for a few days, so what? It should not affect anything should it? It appears to be so. I played like absolute garbage; not so much as my shots (mind you I did hit way too many frames) but the way I was playing. So many stupid shots, I was just asking to be pelted in the face by a birdie. But then again, who cares? Its just a game is it not? So why do I have to get all bent out of shape because of a silly shot? Everyone makes mistakes, nobody is perfect. Maybe I just feel like I am not up to snuff with playing mixed with my partner, thats all. Maybe it was also because I did not really want to go play badminton in the first place tonight; I almost got convinced not to go, and I kinda wish that I didn't. I probably would have had more fun then, doing things that matter to me more than anything else in the world right now :). Next time, you will have to do a better job of convincing me, hehe.

Sometimes I feel like a moron

So I wake up this morning (if you want to consider 1:30pm to be morning, I sure do anyway) and decide to make some progress in the home for a change. Went downstairs and pulled out the oven to try and find the bloody fuses to see if any had popped. I search high and low for the damn things, I took the whole oven out, removed the drawer, took off the whole back piece to get at the wiring, and find nothing. Behind the oven was a gross mess, so I decided to vaccum there, in the end, I vaccumed the main floor of the house, as well as my bedroom and the top floor (which consists of about 3 square metres). Cleaned up my room somewhat, and tried to devise a method so that my DDR mat would not slip anymore, which consisted of cleaning up most of the crap on the floor. It seems to have worked for now, but I haven't made the ultimate test to it yet; RHYTHM AND POLICE. I will do that eventually. Anyway I also cleaned up all the dishes, including my new ones that I got for my early birthday from my parents. Cooked up some fried rice and felt fat again after eating it. Messed around with my computer for a bit today as well. Things seem to be working much smoother now.

Parents eventually showed up to take a look at the oven. Dad found the fuses in about 2 seconds, which made me feel like an idiot right off the bat. But we noticed, after running through some tests to the circuits, that all of the fuses were fine. That means something else is messed up. We open the back and test all the wires with the mutimeter again. Everything seems to be working fine, so what the heck is wrong with the oven? Dad and I decide to look at the schematic diagram of the wiring for the oven. We find out that the timer must be set off for the oven to turn on. So we look at the dial for the timer, play around with that for about2 seconds, and the oven light turns on! Someone played with the timer setting last time they used to oven and thats what caused it to not turn on. Well don't I feel like moronnow. A 30 minute job solved in about 2 seconds. At least I will know now for next time. Now I can make muffins again!

Thanksgiving was good times. Anyday that involves turkey, Jackie Chan and Donna is a good day in my books :P. I felt so fat yesterday and tired after the turkey dinner, so what do I do about it? Eat pie and ice cream, then muffins, nuts and drink bubbletea. Now I really feel fat. I still feel fat a day later. I'm starting to feel that all the food I am eating is starting to catch up on me. Ok well maybe not, but one day I'm sure that it will.

What else happened lately? Hmmmm, well there was the YUBC kickoff outing. Was not a huge turnout, but still had some good times. Got to meet some new people, got to bowl really inconsistantly LOL. Also got to play some DDR for the first time in a good month. Man am I ever rusty. Almost failed on everything I did, Afronova Standard, Lets Groove Heavy and Max 300 Standard. I did nothing harder than 8 feet and I almost died. Of course the DDR machine was not the best. Pads too close to the screen, volume too low, and only one of the two mats was working. Once that was done, had some bubbletea and condensed milk toast. Also took a lot of useless random pictures. One more things to note: TMNT original cartoons is the best thing that has ever happened to mankind!

It only took a month

It only took a month, but I have finally been to all of my classes at least once now. Yay for me and being completely lost when the Tutorial leader asked me a question and I haven't set foot in that class yet until today. I only missed a month of it so far, I don't think thatsTOO bad. Only problem being that there is attendance in that class for Lecture and Tutorial. Maybe missing a month is enough for one year, I guess we shall see. I do not really have an excuse for missing so much class, its just that I like to sleep in until the afternoon.

In other news, I had my first Mandarin Test today, and I think that I did farely well. I'm quite confident that I got all the characters right, only problem is that with the teacher I've got, it is quite difficult to distinguish what tone she is using in her words. Crazy Teacher I say, but thats ok, she's not the only one in my life whos CRAZY. Receiving text messages at 5:10am! Only a crazy person would send a text message at that time of day :P. Thats ok, I don't mind getting them.

What Have I been up to lately? Its kinda tough to say, spending lots of time playing badminton. Spending too little time sleeping, and making lots of trips to the WESTSIDE part of North York, which has been a lot of fun so far. Spending lots of time with what matters most to me right now, only problem is that time seems to be passing so fast now. Its already been over a month since school has started and it feels like yesterday that I was cutting out endless amounts of keychains for info fair which started in August. Its been a fine month and a bit though, good times.

Gotta pick up my brother at the airport tomorrow, so It might be best to get some sleep. Thanksgiving is coming, means time for TURKEY mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Stupid 8:30 classes

Man, I can't wait until 8:30 classes become no longer a part of my every-day schedule. Here it is at 1:40 and I have an 8:30 class in the morning. Well, looks like I'm not going to be there again. I got enough stuff on my plate right now. Chow Fan being the most abundant at the moment, hehe. Anyway so yea, its not just the fried rice, I need to catch up on my Bass practicing, as well as get a book read, and write a test for Chinese class on Thursday. I also have laundry to do as well. I pretty much only have about four pairs of pants that I wear, therefore I have to do the stupid laundry very often. Hopefully I can perhaps get some*ahem* discounted jeans from somewhere near Bayview and Sheppard............

Anyway, moving on. Had a nice Kegger at Alex's house yesterday. There was a lot of people there. 180 or something was the count. It seems that every year that kegger goes on, more and more cops show up LOL. Got kinda hungry, took it easy on the alcohol comsumption, its more fun that way. And also learned that Bubbletea and Beer do not mix together too well. I'm now going to conduct and experiment. Which is worse; Bubbletea with beer, or cheerios with beer. I think that it is going to be a tossup between the two. Today was nice as well, much more relaxing, and probably one of the best days I've had in a while, eventhough I wasn't totally there, and the oven dying when we were trying to make muffins. But it doesn't really matter what happens in a day to make it good, its who you spend it with that really makes these moments some of the best times you can possibly have. I'm not sure if this post is making any sense anymore, I'm so tired and out of it I can't even think anymore. Maybe I should go to sleep.