name : tiffany
faith : christian.
nationality : cbc.
status : <3
living in : toronto.
school / major : UT / pharmacy
.: my stats, as of 11/05/06 :.
mood : tired.
likes : my friends. bunnies fronting as pillows. keeners.
dislikes : exams. lack of sleep. keeners.
wishlist : "connections".
current distractions : dexter, top model, heroes.
wondering : hmmm, is it too late for me re-learn study habits?
Saturday, January 31, 2004
"scroogy mckilljoy"
man, i love get fuzzy!
ok, so today was a bust. i tried studying, but just couldn't force myself to do it... but in my defense, it's hard to study when you have a backache all day and a stomach that refuses to be satiated. i could really go for some mashed potatoes and roast beef right now... :( so yeah, have been feeling blah all day. not blah-i'm-depressed, but blah-i-just-don't-feel-like-doing-anything. girls, you know what i'm talkin' about...
meh, maybe i'll just go to sleep now and try for early service tommorrow...
oh! so while i was wasting time, i was just randomly looking up sites - you should check out the "quirkies" section at ananova.com (which has thankfully nothing to do with ananova tables or stats...) speaking of which, how can an 89 lb. woman beat a 406 lb. man at an eating contest?!?!? ok, so i understand size is not always an indicator, but c'mon! he's more than 4x her size!
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grace and i just got back from jess and vic's... oooof. i am SO stuffed! :) i had resigned myself of a night of studying (or pretend-studying), when jess called us up at 11:30pm and asked if we wanted to come over for fondue... how could i resist the siren call of chocolate? :p
so we went over and gorged ourselves on strawberries, apples, oranges, bananas, chocolate fondue, and candle-toasted marshmallows, while we discussed neurology, autism, and hermaphrodites. while our biopsych textbook looks really stupid, it really IS interesting conversation-fodder! after eating, we watched a few "highlights" of american idol (i've never seen any of those shows before)... oh man, let me just say that i feel for those poor, poor people... i can't believe none of their friends tried to stop them from making a fool of themselves!
anyhow, now i'm back and going to go to sleep... sweet dreams, everybody! <3
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Thursday, January 29, 2004
oh, the three-fingered salute... how surprisingly acquainted we've become over the years... :s
i'm telling you, it's one-third my screwed up computer and two-thirds the fault of the queen's server... i can never open those stupid lecture notes...
in completely unrelated news, i was talking with liz about this earlier, but if anybody comes across any quotes or passages in a book which they find striking, don't hesitate to pass it along! share the wealth! i'm always on the lookout for a well-phrased sentence. i'm still lovin' "...mingled in some strange exquisite ecstasy...", btw.
hall of fame-worthy: recalling our crossword-filled halcyon days at mci, i decided to take on the challenge of today's toronto star crossword and jumble between classes today... i am proud to announce that not only i complete both said items, but i also performed the task completely unaided! oooh! ahhh!
yet another note: i've been busy with school and etc., and now i feel like i've been a bit distant from certain people. there are actually a few people i'm a bit worried about, but i hope that my fears are unfounded? just so you know, i love you guys and will talk with you soon!
OH! i just realised that it's past midnight... and do you know what that means?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENITA AND ERIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (turning 20 and 21, respectively)
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
[excerpt from letter written by oscar wilde to his wife constance, ca. 1883]
... the air is full of the music of your voice; my soul and body seem no longer mine, but mingled in some strange exquisite ecstasy with yours.
would love to get a similar sort of letter atleast once in my life... although hopefully the letter's author won't turn out to be gay, like in mr. wilde's case... :S
but do guys even write letters like this these days? (a girl can dream, can't she? better dream than become bitter...) haha, in related news, i expect to get real valentines from everyone here! whether it be a greeting card, a letter, those wonderfully unpunny (sorry, i couldn't help it) cardboard cut-outs hearkening back to grade school, flowers, chocolates, a chatty email (no 2k long messages either, i want them LONG and CHATTY!), a phone call, or a hug, i better get something! :p it would be rather nice to get flowers though... ;) {fish fish}
i found the funniest valentines cards in the buck-or-two here... they were PEZ dispenser cardboard valentines... on the front you'd see something like a skinny cowboy holding a lasso with a torso comprised of the candy package! unfortunately, candy was not included in the pack, or else i would've bought them. and speaking of this particular over-commercialized and wretch-inducing holiday, does anybody want to meet up on that saturday to celebrate our freedom? i might be in toronto that weekend since reading week starts the following monday. i figure i'll head home that weekend and then come back to kingston in the middle of the week.
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Monday, January 26, 2004
in case you didn't get it the first time around last year, i hate drosophila. so i just spent the past 3 hours counting 573 drosophila larvae. delicious. and to think i was hoping to get out of lab early today - like at 4:30pm so i could make it to the bible study - but no, no, i got out around 30 minutes after the lab officially ended, at 6pm. and the best part was when i was done counting (500), but then dropped the stupid egg/food medium slab so i had to recount that last set again... {sob} on the plus side, the nub mutation we're tracking is just for winglessness, not bristles. anyhow, i think this is going to be the start of a life-long campaign against fruit flies...
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so today was actually pretty productive (for me, atleast). i went to "early" service (really, the middle one at 9:45am, but i still can't wake up for it so i end up at the 11:15am one instead) and then met up with suz. we studied for a bit at her house (with hot chocolate!) and then went for the cpr certification thingy. "step aside, folks, i know first aid!" oh, the heady authority... afterwards, we read some more at stauffer (yay for 1.6 chapters of psych), dropped by to say hi to ketan (if i was in engineering, i'd vote for him!!!) and then came back here and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! :) but i did make a quasi-alfredo/carbonara sauce for dinner... yum.
man, now i gotta study for my 206 quiz... booourns!
in the meantime, amuse yourselves with the 8 new additions on my pics site, courtesy of ebru. (man, i LOVE those family portraits... imran, you've outdone us all!) some of them are from the saturday when we went to clark hall pub. i'll letcha all know when i put up jeanie's too.
and now if you'll excuse me, hardy and weinberg are beckoning to me...
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Saturday, January 24, 2004
just got back from suz's where we had dumplings (with four "special" ones....), red bean soup, and other standard chinese fare.... mmmmm.... it was good! we also played taboo with the upper years against the frosh. the competition was fierce, but naturally, us old-timers won! and remember, when in doubt, everything can always be linked back to pirates of the caribbean, friends, or batman... :p
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wow, i'm in a ridiculously good mood!
got back from campus crusade, dropped by suz's place, and then came home. grace is gone for the weekend, so i started to put some more peppy music on and started singing and dancing around my room with wild abandon! :p
now everybody's wondering why i'm in such a good mood! talking with danny <3, candice, brandon, and kalam right now... i suspect they think i'm slightly odd... but that's ok! i embrace it! :D
i can't stop smiling! :)
see folks, this is the power that music has! i think it's all b/c i started playing those o.c. soundtrack songs (the upbeat-sounding ones) and now i can't stop dancing and singing! (hmmmm... so do you think all those other times i was "down" that it was b/c i was listening to pretty, but depressing music? actually, i suspect so, b/c when i felt sad, i'd put on depressing or chill music and stay in that mood - but then again, i wanted to mope at those times, so...) but yeah, i'm actually quite happy! i have been for the past week now! i think it's partially b/c of the mini relationship epiphany i had a few blogs back. i'm not pathetic, i'm just not ready. i can't rush God's time anyhow, so i'm just going to enjoy this singleness ride as it comes!!!! :D but i think it's mostly the music... ;p
and so, i'd like to credit ebru for this good mood - for without her, i wouldn't even have those songs on my comp! and now if you'll excuse me, it's time for a little billy idol...
"i'm dancin' with myself... whoa oh oh!" :D
p.s. i still need help on those names (see below)! keep 'em coming! (thanx candice and alex! YOU GUYS are cool!!!)
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR in a little while!!!!! go monkeys!!! "kung xi fat chai, hong bao nah lai!"
don't want to do work, so lookin' at names...
alyssa :: arianna :: elyse :: tara :: shannon :: marissa :: alanna :: evelyn :: chloe :: kathryn :: erin :: talia
(as a rule, for girls, i like unusual but pretty-sounding names that have "ssa", "se", or "nna" endings. bonus marks if you can work in an unnecessary "y" that acts as a vowel.)
names i used to like: chrissy :: kristy :: autumn :: diana :: dawn :: rosemary :: lilah :: cassandra :: briar (don't ask)
guys' names are so much harder! all the ones i like are too common.
david :: jonathan :: kevin :: matt :: alex :: eric :: chris :: christian :: andrew :: ian :: ryan :: seth :: gavin :: james
names i used to like:
darian :: austin
what are YOUR favourite names? any suggestions?
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my hands smell like an intoxicating melange of lemon, squid, clams, and formaldehyde.
on the plus side, this was the first time that i actually enjoyed my biol 200 lab.
songs i'm diggin' from the unofficial o.c. soundtrack:
> the way we get by, spoon **
> strange and beautiful, aqualung **
> how good it can be, the 88
> into dust, mazzy star
> i'm a player, kgb
> dice, finley quaye ft. beth orton
> we used to be friends, the dandy warhols **
** current faves
as you can tell from most of the selections, i'm in a pretty good mood :)
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ok, so in between working, i was watching this broadcast of a beauty pageant in chinese. dear Lord, let me just say that you haven't understood the meaning of the word "terrible" until you've listened to (and seen) chinese rap. just awful. and those sappy love ballads that they're so fond of aren't any better either. oh, and the pageant? pardon the language, but hil-freakin'-arious! honestly, chinese people really do enjoy their campiness! (just watch any of their game shows for two seconds!) anyhow, while i still do feel a twinge of jealousy towards these incredibly poised (and photogenic!) girls with impeccable chinese diction, i found the pageant rather humanizing - i realised how nerve-wracked and normal these girls really were (albeit, more "genetically blessed" in some ways... haha). plus, it was pretty amazing to see how long they could plaster those incredibly fake smiles across their faces... honestly! not THAT is a feat, ladies and gentlemen! that alone (along with their numerous accomplishments and talents...) deserves accolades! that is why, sadly, i could never be in a pageant (besides the fact that NOBODY would want to see me in a bathing suit and that i'd circular talk my way through the interview sections - hey, could that be my talent?)... my dad always did say that people could instantly tell how i was feeling by looking at my face - i don't think i'd be able to keep the smile on all night.
speaking of smiles, i can't quite decide if i should be smiling or not. correction, if i want to be or not. i'm not talking about the actual, physical smile here... so yeah, have been thinking about this "singleness" plague of mine, and been wondering if this is really a plague or not... i can't decide if i should continue on this bandwagon of "i want a boy" (baldly said, it really does sound ghastly and desperate to me), or if i should revel in my lacking-of-guyness. b/c as much as i want to meet a guy right now, i think i'd rather just wait for the right guy. mind you, that's always been the way i've operated. i've never before jumped into (or rejected) any relationship (or quasi-relationship) without a lot of deliberation and true feeling behind it. unfortunately, my caution could still use some work, as i found out recently. hahaha. but yeah, i've never casually dated before, and i still feel strongly against going out with someone for the sake of a relationship, so why should now be any different from before? what's with this sudden urge of mine to just go out and "snag" me a guy?
several reasons, i think. one major one is the fact that too many of my friends are hooked up. JEEZE! i'm like the septuple wheel or something! it gets pretty irritating, let me tell you, when everybody else starts going into their pairs while i'm just standing there, twiddling my thumbs... ok, not really, but still. it seems like everyone's half of a couple. (a couple of what? hahaha.) it gets a little annoying, and a little depressing at times... not to mention, it would be nice to have someone to brave the kingston cold for me and escort me everywhere/anywhere/anytime while carrying whatever bags/heavy objects in my possession... {cough cough nick and rob} :p
then i think there's that whole one-upsmanship factor. you know what i'm talking about. why do we always have to find another person first before our ex does? even if we're over the guy, why do we (or maybe it's just me?) feel bad when they find another person first? i mean, honestly, why do i always end up caring and getting upset? somewhere, somehow i've got this notion in my head that i'm easily replaceable and that i'm pathetic b/c i can't find another guy. but you know what? that's absolute nonsense! instead of thinking that i'm the pathetic one, it should be the other way around. i don't have to have a guy in order for me to feel good about myself, or to fill any "vacuums" in my life. i don't need to date anyone. if so-and-so has found another person to make him happy, that's great - more power to him. but for me personally, i want to wait for God to bring the right person to me, and i know he's going to be worth the wait. why invest my time and emotion in relationships that won't last? in the end, i'll just be giving a little more of my heart away each time - something i'd rather give wholeheartedly to the right guy. and as much as i hate to admit it, i still don't think i'm really ready. i'm not the person that i want to be yet - i still need to strengthen and grow in my faith, maturity, and outlook... i need self-assurance, patience, and drive.... i've got to figure out what God wants, what i want, and if they're the same thing. i want to develop admirable qualities, not detestable ones. haha, i need to focus on the apex of the "triangle" instead of the advancing sides...
anyhow, those motivations are the wrong reasons. haha, i just wanted somebody to play the role of "warm body"... :p
anyways, i believe i've just made up my mind which option to choose. to opt to revel. :)
note: ok, i can't tell whether what i wrote is coherant and makes some semblance of sense... i started writing it at 2am (even though i had an 8:30 in the morning...), and then added some stuff later on in the day... so i apologise if it's shoddily written.
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Monday, January 19, 2004 and she says
"so long, so long i've been waiting"
~ alessia, the july 26th movement
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Sunday, January 18, 2004
what a great weekend! i <3 the mci kids!
so ebru and her friend, leslie, arrived on friday afternoon (greeted by us queen's "snobs"... hahaha.) and we made them lunch and showed them around downtown kingston - shopping, etc. kevin arrived in the evening, and we met up with the guys at stooley's (huge portions!) for dinner... it was really good! had a lot of fun. afterwards, we swung by the guys' place to hang out and play cranium. eebs and i got BRONZE, thank you very much!!! :p haha, it was a lot of fun. plus, imran lips were so full and lusciously red!!! ;)
got back from their house late, spent the next morning chatting a little. we were supposed to go tray-bogganing (w/ caf trays), but b/c somebody wouldn't put on pants ;p (just j/k!), we ended up just missing the bus to fort henry. but it turned out alright... we ended up buying tobaggans and flying saucers from s&r and walked up there instead - it was a nice day. haha, we never did find the rest of the engs (as imran and i can attest to after walking/rolling around the fort), but we had fun there even if some parts were snowless and really steep... plus it was fun to pretend to run down those punk snowboarders... the best part was when ebru, ketan and i cut off all those little kids on our diagonal ride down! :p
we came home and warmed up with hot chocolate, omelettes, and lotsa catching up while sprawled out on the floor. in the evening we went to clark hall to catch ben's band play (further mci reunion!!!!). they're awesome live (the july 26th movement) and i thought they were the best band there. so yeah, good music, good drinks (sex on the beach, strongbow, polar bear), and good company = good evening! i had a lot of fun! but it was kinda strange b/c one of ketan's friends was hitting on me... something i'm rather unaccustomed to, personally. it was flattering, but kinda uncomfortable for me... i don't like being mean, so i think he was misconstruing things... on the plus side, since i'm normally oblivious to things, i think it really worked in my favour - i can just pretend i don't notice/understand anything! (though half of the time, i really don't notice anything.) anyway, it was interesting. so we got back to the guys' place at around two, where ebru and i watched the end of contact (and ketan went promptly to sleep). a slightly... um, off, imran came by a little later ("uhhh... where's kevin? did they just leave him behind?") to say g'night and rant a little. :p
the next morning, i went to church and came back and ketan made us these really yummy omelettes - goodness, cheese encrusted with loads of spinach, mushrooms, and onions. this coming from the who makes condiment sandwiches! who knew? :) we also had some bagels, apples, and brownies. after we chatted a bit with phil and megan (their housemates), ketan and eebs "guilted" kevin to wash the dishes (he hadn't moved at all since i left for church!), and then ebru and i headed off to visit jeanie's place for about an hour. we looked at pics (jeanie was hot stuff!!!!), laughed at a cool clock (with slightly unfortunately placed hands), contemplated the beyonce butt-shake dance move, and listened to the acappella "where in the world is carmen sandiego" theme. eebs and i walked back here afterwards, and leslie and grace came back... we chatted for a bit (with retro tunes!) and then they taxi-ed it back to the via rail station. and now i'm going to do all the work i put off earlier... contemplating if i have time to catch the 10pm asus movie, kill bill tonight...
oh, and i forgot: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDON (on friday the 16th).
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Thursday, January 15, 2004
would love to meet a guy like this.
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a big CONGRATS to my brother, jon, for passing his level 1 CFA exams when there was a 37% pass rate!!!! i'm so proud of him!!! i know he'll do just as well for the second set!!!! :D
what i learned in school today:
flatworms are actually really pretty.
some crabs can climb trees and eat coconuts.
sea scallops can swim really well. like even better than me, probably. (i didn't even know they could swim at all - it was cool! it just went whoooooooosh! up and away!)
listening to:
miles davis' someday my prince will come...
and in the "oh so creepy" category of the blog:
ok, so i heard mischa barton (the o.c.'s marissa) was in an enrique iglesias video, so i watched it out of curiosity. let me say this: EW! first of all, i don't like his music at all and this song was no exception. and the video just like his other videos: him + a hot girl making out. oh, and there's a "plotline" with him being in jail or something? yeah, i don't know. anyway, i found this video to be ICKY!!!! she spends half of the video wearing practically nothing! oh, wait, there WERE scenes where she was topless! (pleeeeease tell me that it was a body double...) i mean, SHE'S 17 YEARS OLD FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! and he's what? like 28? 29? that doesn't even pass the age-by-half-plus-seven thing!?!?!? ew ew ew!
AHHHHH! benita just "outed" me!!!!!
(no, not what you're thinking! :p )
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 HilaryDuffsCorner [plz click on da linkee! thx!]
like, OMG! this is, like, the BEST site!!! hilary duff 4eva!!!! omg, she's sooo pretty! i think she's da coolest! i have all her cds and have every single magazine dat she's been on! <3 (if only you could see the "i"s dotted with hearts...)
grace's poetry corner:
(don't hate! appreciate!)
hilary,
i found you in a distillery.
ur eyesight's kinda blurry,
b/c you drank too much slurry.
hilary, ur so pretty
i wanna be lizzie
hilary duff,
she's so tuff.
aaron cheated on her,
man, that's ruff!
mary-kate and ashley,
just as cool as hilary,
u rule! yay!
ur cool, like okay!
honestly guys, check that site out - it's the funniest thing you'll ever read.
on another note, britney spear's new video, toxic, is just terrible... mind you, the song's awful too, so that doesn't help either. bad song, bad dancing, bad "video plotline", TERRIBLE costumes and makeup... check it out!
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tommorrow morning, with windchill: -42 degrees celsius... i think i'm going to cry... :*(
HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY BRANDON!!!!
and happy even earlier birthday to you, benita!! i can't believe you actually want to turn twenty!?!? oh well, even if you are weird, i still <3 you!!! KISSY PROPS!
what i learned in school today: leeches can actually get quite large and fat. and they're pretty cool, in a gross-but-mesmerizing sort of way, though it's sort of icky seeing an entire jar teeming with them.
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ugh! i can't stand that nickelback "someday" song! it sounds exactly like their old overplayed song! radio stations, STOP PLAYING IT!
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my fingers are all chlorophyll-y.
oh, orgo labs... how i love thee... let me count the ways... :p
actually, it wasn't so bad. but now i gotta catch up on a whole buncha readings b/c i won't have time this weekend since EBRU'S COMING OVER!!!!!! woot!
speaking of visits, i'm considering visiting mac this term b/c i wanna talk more with simon. hrm. it's just a matter of when.
so it's official: grace has started looking for a replacement roomie for next year. {tear} i mean, it was my decision not to renew my half of the lease since i'm not even sure if i'll be at queen's next year, but still... i love this place and living with grace! : ( let's just hope that i get accepted at whatever program(s) i apply for so it won't be in vain!
sigh. i am so poor. school is $$$.
ok, gotta go do some hw now. some QT would be nice, too.
for time-passing (c/o alex) : duck hunt (oh, the memories...)
just on the heels of me and grace's discussion of how we should take up shooting er... hunting.
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Sunday, January 11, 2004
i love simon! it was SO good to see him again - things haven't been the same since he left us for mac... :(
ummm.... don't really feel like summarizing the whole weekend, so i'll give a brief run-through:
> simon and his friend dave arrived during the afternoon and went to a meeting
> jeanie (and then hasib) came over for a baking party with me and grace... we made chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, and hello kitty-shaped blueberry muffins
> i took waaaaay too many pics of myself and everybody else (they're being posted up on my pics site)
> vic and nick came over and hasib insulted many, many people on the yahoo chats
> dave and simon returned - simon and i went for a short walk (and chat) to grab the take-out
> alanna, karolina, pravin, jess, and suz came over later... food was served, and merriment was had
> had another late night chat with simon after everybody else went home
> the next day, had lunch at vicky's after church and hung around there for a few hours
> said goodbye to simon :(
> library
> home, writing on my blog and doing readings
also, boys, i'm still curious about your thoughts regarding the post below.
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Saturday, January 10, 2004
didn't go out tonight on account of the freezing cold... instead, cleaned up the place a bit, cooked, played on the comp, read the toronto star for a bit... then hasib came over and we watched music videos of "hot" pouty girls (according to hasib, the secret to hotness is the frown of constipation), episodes of daria, and that terrible movie i saw on a flight to HK, antitrust. ooooh! and we had shrimp chips!!! mmmmm.
hey, so going back to the aforementioned comment in parentheses, how many of you guys out there think that girls are more attractive or "hot" when they're frowning and looking pissed off? i know it's not just hasib who thinks bitchy girls are hot b/c he pointed out that in every single hip hop or rap video we were watching, the featured girls were never smiling... and it was true! so my question to the guys, are you more attracted to the pouty/bitchy girls? hasib says that if i want more boys after me, i should act/look more bitchy (as if i weren't already... haha) ... but then that would be such a waste of my "best smile" designation! :p
oh, retro-y goodness.... "all i know is that to me, you look like you're lotsa fun... open up your loving arms and watch out here i come! you spin me right 'round baby, right 'round..." next time, i'm going to joe with you guys!
p.s. hey candice! how are you doing? weather sucky in t.o. as well? better than montreal though, i'm sure!
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Friday, January 09, 2004
that's it! i've had it with canadian weather! i draw the line when it's - 20 degrees outside, which is bad enough, but feels like - 30+ degrees with windchill! ARGH! i missed the bus after classes today, so i had to walk home... in the opposite direction the wind was blowing!!! my face nearly froze off! i had to take refuge in the kingston public library or else be turned into a tiff-sicle!
free student concerts? maybe? but then again, knowing queen's "rob you blind" university, they probably charge you an arm and a leg.... (i'm not bitter.) but honestly, check out Lament in the Trampled Garden if you can.
ooooh! grace just found out that kevin's coming to visit next weekend too! it really will be an mci reunion!!!
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st. lawrence string quartet at the jane mallet theatre (st. lawrence centre for the arts) on january 15th, 2004. i've got school (unfortunately), but if you can get a chance to see them, do it - they're amazing. i admit, i've always been a bit prejudiced against strings b/c i'm a loyal band geek, but listening to this quartet made me realise how beautiful and passionate string music can be when in the hands of professionals (and not middle school string players :p ). grace, jeanie and i have seen them twice before (mmmm... reception grapes... :p ). for students, the fare is really cheap (less than $10).
am looking for their/a recording of marjan mozetich's heartbreaking (but gorgeous) Lament in the Trampled Garden.
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Thursday, January 08, 2004
whoa! 157 KiB/s download rate!!! score!!!
song du jour: dice - finley quaye ft. beth orton (song featured on the o.c. episode "the countdown" at the end of the episode)
BIG NEWS, guys!!!! not only is ebru coming to visit on the 16th, but SIMON <3 is coming to visit this weekend!!!!! him and a friend are coming up on saturday and are going to stay at our place!!! haha, grace and i are so popular!!! :D
i can't wait for either to come!!
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awwww brandon, you DO really care! <3
oh lordy... have spent the last 2.5 hours alternately laughing, shrieking, and feeling extreme, extreme pity... so grace and hasib were chatting on yahoo messenger with random strangers... it first started out with hasib trying to see how many guys he could attract with grace's pic... then grace took over showing him how to properly respond to 7 different people at the same time. ok, so i NEVER go to chatrooms - i don't even respond to messages from strangers on msn/icq - so let me say this: there are a LOT of desperate people on the internet! old people! dirty people! people who'd actually call long-distance for a chinese girl named kitty! way to go grace!!!! you attract those (10+) brown guys!!! (jealous, hasib?) :p i felt so bad for some guys though, they seemed so sweet... see, this is why i could never do this chat thing... i'd either be way too grossed out (i'm a simple, innocent girl :p ) or i'd end up in endless small talk b/c i don't want to be mean to the guy.
the crowning moments :
1. "what colour do you like?"
2. "hellooooooooooooo!!!"
3. "is that your voice? you're a guy!" "no, that's my voice! you're so mean!"
hold up. no, this was the best part (left on hasib's friend's voice mail): "your gf kitty has got all crazy b/c you don't pay her enough attention".
hooo boy. alright, that's enough excitement for tonight... and remember: "no talky unless you send me a pic!!!" :p hahaha
we're horrible people, aren't we? (though i do maintain that though i was there, i never actually took part in said chatting.)
and the moral of the story? boys are icky.
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Wednesday, January 07, 2004
random thoughts that just popped into my head:
greetings, belle! :)
so guys, i think i've about had it with school. or atleast labs. (yes, the lab-hating has already started, much to my chagrin... i was really hoping that they wouldn't be so painful this time around... hahahaha. sigh.) oh hey, so guess what i found out about my biol 200 written exam? well, i haven't gotten back my mark yet, but apparently the average was a whopping 50%, so they bell-curved the average to 70%. didn't i tell you how super the exam went? :p
for the record: the o.c. is a great show. i love adam brody. and peter gallagher, for some reason. (just not the eyebrows... :p ) also, the music to that show is awesome - ebru, i need the unofficial soundtrack when you come!!!
also, i apologise if the blog is a little cryptic at times... but too bad! it's staying that way, baby!
actually, it's just that i sometimes have to get some... shall we say, extreme exasperation and/or eye-rolling out of my system... and as we've all recently learned, some people (many people, in fact) read this page and read too much into my words, i just figure that code-speak would serve my purpose without all that hassle.
in light of a recent conversation with alex, i have decided to add a "word of the day" section to the column at the right. today's offering is doughty. see, whenever i read this word in books, i knew that it was a positive description, but in my head, i'd always just picture a smiling, rotund, doughy-looking man instead. with dimples.
oh, and ben, you'd be so proud: i finally deleted a certain bookmarked page (like you told me to a looong time ago) and have thus far resisted the temptation to check up on it. it's all part of my "operation: phase out" plan... ok, so it's not really an operation... and i don't actually have a plan... but for some reason, i just decided that i had had enough of this/my nonsense.
hey, so what would be an alternate way to write "had had"? b/c to me, it always looks so weird to see the word written down twice consecutively, but i can't think of a better (or correct) way to convey my words. where's mr. kirkwood to help me parse sentences? (hahaha, or mr. "english dept. head" kay?... i weep for mci.)
apology #2 : i'm sorry if i seem a little curt or irritated lately. it's that i've been feeling, well, irritated by a lotta things recently. no, it's not due to aunty flo's visits, it's just that i seem to have lost my patience with some certain people, things, or comments. i have no idea why, and am finding it kind of alarming... i haven't said or done anything regrettable, just been a little grumpy... but still, i don't like it. of course, that being said, i feel that i had due cause for my ire - people who are too conceited, people who are insulting, bus drivers who see you running to catch the bus but still pull away from the curb even though you are less than a metre away from the door and did i mention that it's, like, - 20 degrees celsius outside? (ahem. but i digress...) anyway, here's a pre-emptive "i'm sorry" and i'll try to curb my excessive moodiness in the coming days. it's happy tiffy time!! :D (but a bus driver does that again... oh, all bets are off...)
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Monday, January 05, 2004
side-note : the world could always use more friendly people.
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who are all you people???
(names would be helpful, people!)
also, it's called tact. use it sometime!
so first day of classes again... was nice b/c i didn't have a lab today... have been pretty much doing nothing since i got back from classes. haha, have been scrounging the apartment for food since we cleared out the fridge before the holiday break. gotta go grocery shopping, but it's too cold to go outside! the dilemma!
meh. have nothing of note to really blog about today (or any day really, for that matter), so i'm about to attempt to do some readings. wish me luck that i don't fall asleep!
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{rolls her eyes}
n. e. v. e. r. m. i. n. d.
i totally stand by my original thoughts now. SHEESH!
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now that was just plain weird. must not read too much into it.
sigh. so back in k-town now. woo. hoo.
on the plus side: FEWER CLASSES!
goals :
> STUDY and actually do hw
> find a small group
> get in shape {cough cough}
> volunteer
> find a job
> FIGURE WHAT THE HECK I'M GOING TO DO FOR SEPT 2004!!! AHHHHH!!!!
> research careers
> stick to my devos
2003 : a year in review
the most heartache and stress in my life mixed with the most fun of my life... a good year for growth.
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Thursday, January 01, 2004
i am unaffected. i am unaffected. i am unaffected.
sigh. {rolls her eyes}
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
been having a wonderful holiday (besides the recuperating)... benita ended up staying over for two nights... watched a lotta buffy, talked even more, did some yoga (or in my case, a lot of falling over :p ), had dim sum with my cousins,, shopped, and just spent a lot of quality time together!! i'm really glad she stayed over b/c we never get to see each other anymore these days... love you lots, hun! <3
tuesday night, had erin, liz and grace over for a lil' movie night... rented the good girl ("who's sorry now???") and all i want. the latter was a terrible, terrible movie! this is what comes from deciding to watch a mandy moore/elijah wood movie just for the fun of it without reading the back of the movie box. ok, so it was funny... but only because it was so very bad... :p but it was really great to see erin and liz again! too bad i missed joe on sunday - if only to see erin and kris all over each other. (ew. just j/k.)
new years, i spent with the girls!!!! went to anika's with karen, grace, nat and her bf, adam... omg, had SO MUCH FUN! i <3 karen! she makes me laugh so much that it hurts! it was pretty low-key - our "countdown" especially - but i think i would have preferred this over going to mike's and watching people get incredibly drunk and/or stoned. i mean, where else could i have gone to have karen threaten to break both my legs b/c i wouldn't get out of therapy?? :p (best board game ever!) or our new and improved pictionary game? ("my toes are just too short to do this!") hahaha. and bonus: we now have an inexpensive and sure-fire pregnancy test... tap tap tap...
anyway, have company over right now... i'll blog later. don't worry brandon, i'm not slacking in my blogging!
posted @ 5:47:00 p.m.
