apparently, i look like an evil terrorist (6) November 23, 2006

(6) <– msn devil emoticon 

so, i rushed home from work, made it back at about 7, inhaled my dinner and started frantically running around trying to gather everything that i needed to pack.  finished pretty quickly, with time to spare, and i sat around thinking “what else did i forget, i feel like i’m forgetting something, i know i’m forgetting something”.  It wasn’t till we were in like…oh, sarnia that i realized i hadn’t brought my passport or birth certificate. oops. drivers license is technically good enough to get across the border, so whatever, right?  besides, i’m a sweet, innocent, little asian girl.  who wouldn’t trust me??

so we got to the border, bought some liquor and chocolates from the dutyfree shop and got to the customs guy.  he asked a lot of questions…and then asked us to pull into the lot and go inside the building, leaving our car unlocked so they could search it.  he asked a few questions, then said that everyone else could go sit down except for me!  he sat at the computer, not saying anything for a loooong time. he just kept looking stuff up, reading who knows what.  finally, he asked me more questions, where i was born, how long i lived there, where my parents were from and when they came to canada.  then he just kept looking up more stuff on his computer while i just stood there.  surprisingly, he then proceeded to ask about my grad trip!  i don’t know how he knew about it, but i guess it’s all interconnected somehow…he asked why i flew out of the states earlier this year, where i was going, what was the purpose of my trip, etc.  geez.  i mean, i answered all his questions truthfully, it’s not like i have anything to hide.  but technically, i wasn’t even supposed to need my passport to cross the border.  then he made me go sit down with everyone else to wait while he took my license to the back and did who knows what with it….

 but anyways.  despite that minor delay, and a delay with fast food that didn’t exactly come fast, we arrived safely at about 2am.  went straight to sleep, woke up late (it was great!) and just chillaxed this morning (jeff’s mom makes yummy food!).  i started moving stuff over to my new work computer and installing the necessary software.  the guys tried to get an xbox from amazon.com at 2pm (they were selling 1000 of them for like $100 or something?).  i played some piano, but i couldn’t remember much since i didn’t have any music with me.

currently: three people outside playing volleyball (one of whom should be finishing an assignment!), one person *actually* finishing a school assignment, and i’m blogging

todo:
- look through the flyers to decide where we’re gonna go later tonight (starting midnight), and to devise a plan for where we’re gonna go on friday morning. 
- make a list of all the xmas gifts i need to buy so i can pick up as much of it as i can this weekend
- finish reading the book i’ve been trying to finish for months
- finish setting up my computer so i can give my old one to one of the coops who asked for it
- enjoy jeff’s mom’s yummy thanksgiving dinner!

must relearn how to write properly :$ November 15, 2006

wow, i just reread my previous post, and i sound like a bimbo.  i can’t even put together coherent sentences anymore! my grammar is terrible, the coherence and “flowingness” of my writing is seriously lacking, and i just wrote like 3-4 paragraphs about absolutely nothing!

this is embarrassing.  maybe it’s cause i haven’t written or read anything other than emails, code and design docs in the last 5 months.

todo:  read more (i have a long list that i want to get through), get back to the gym (for real! next week!), volunteer work (CAMH? Big Sisters? Fu Hui?), take haircutting class, get a new dresser, fix the fishtank, continue learning mandarin, clean the basement, get more sleep……

oh. and if i have time, look into becoming russian.

ps. yes, that is an msn emoticon in my title. like i mentioned in my msn name a while ago, i’m incapable of expressing my emotions in writing without the use of msn emoticons (a) <– that’s an msn angel emoticon

another blog November 15, 2006

so, i should be sleeping. and if not sleeping, then at least working. but nope, i’m blogging. why here and not on xanga? a few reasons.

• i’ve been meaning to try out wordpress for a while now, at least since like the beginning of the year or so. i have to admit, i do like the features. there’s lots of stuff to play around with and customize.  i haven’t done any customizations yet, lol, but i do like the flexibility it offers compared to xanga.  i guess i’m gonna stick with wordpress for now and leave my xanga account.  that makes me wonder…why are the crappy sites always the more popular ones? maybe my tastes and preferences are just completely different from everyone else? i like wordpress, everyone else likes xanga and livejournal. i like photobucket, everyone else likes imagestation or flickr. it’s not like i didn’t check out those other sites that everyone else uses…i did! i just didn’t like them.  i could write out all the reasons for why i find wordpress and photobucket superior to the others…but i don’t think anyone cares why
• new chapter of my life (please excuse the cliche!), so new blog. hey, why not? good bye school, hello working world. kill me now…..:|
• i have a nagging feeling that my other blog has been read by people that i don’t really want to be reading my blog. i think i have an idea of how it got to them, and it was an honest mistake, so i’m not blaming anyone . but i just haven’t really had the urge to post anything in months because i think this one person in particular has been checking it for updates. yes, yes, i understand that i shouldn’t be posting anything uber-private on a public blog anywyas, but this is one person that i seriously hate with a vengeance. for the most part, i’m a decently tolerant person who very rarely dislikes people so vehemently, so for me to actually say outright that i *hate* this one person means that i really do hate this person. i don’t want him/her to know anything about me, not even anything relating to the non-private things i post about. btw, i also don’t like the idea of locking down my xanga site to require user signin to read posts….just something about it i don’t like. it kinda defeats the whole purpose of what (personal) blogs are meant for; they aren’t meant to be locked down. Plus, locking it down restricts my readers to only xanga-users, which is dumb

so yeah. new blog. dunno how often i’ll update, or what i’ll even write about. but like title says, for some dumb reason, i can’t fall asleep. it’s not because i’m not tired, that’s for sure….i was dyyyyyying at work today. sigh.