name : tiffany
faith : christian.
nationality : cbc.
status : <3
living in : toronto.
school / major : UT / pharmacy
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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?
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
JENNE IS GOING TO HARVARD!!!! i'm so proud of her!!!! for those of you who don't know, jenne is the older sister i never had... she's the jenne of the "super-sundays/thursdays/whatever-day-of-the-week-days" and i've known her all my life. she's absolutely brilliant and now she's going to harvard this september for grad school! although i really hope she doesn't become an ex-pat and i'll also miss her while she's gone, i'm really excited for her... do you realise that this means i can go visit her while she's in boston? and that means that duncan (her med student bf) can introduce me to other nice wannabe doctors!!! mwahahahaha! finally, one step closer to trophy wife status!!! right guys? right?? (better start brushing up on those trophy wifery lessons from grace...) hey, you know what would be awesome? if i met some australian guy!!! ;)
sigh <3
that's it! i'm going abroad to study! sydney, here i come!!! :p
now back in reality: didn't do anything extraordinary today. dropped off my resume at a few places... i really hope i can get a job in some sort of health care setting, but we'll see. if not, i'll just try volunteering. i think i'm gonna go start to venture to begin to unpack, which means all i'm really going to get done is maybe open up one box or two. all of my stuff is in jon's room right now - there isn't even any clear floor space left! i'm rather fine with leaving everything as is, but i have a feeling jon wouldn't be very happy if he came home on the weekend... anyhow, i suppose i should go now... i think tonight i'm heading over to ebru's to see the girls - should be fun! (ack! does this mean i'm going to miss the o.c.?!)
p.s. candice: best. insult. ever. hey, what do you think happened to matt byrd anyway?
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hrm, haven't blogged in quite few days now. well, i'm back in toronto and things have been pretty good so far. i spent all day sunday pretty much packing and moving back home again with my parents. monday, i slept in, dropped by uncle stephen's, and then headed over to mei's for a few hours. it was soooo good seeing her again! i missed her so much! i love how things are always the same between us no matter how long we've been apart - but i guess that's what best friends are for, right? i can't wait to see benita and allison too! tacb once again!
today i did some job hunting, and hung out with the cousins for a while. man, i've said this once but i'll say it again: kirby talks too much! and i swear, every word that came out of his mouth had something to do with lord of the rings. he does the non-stop chatter very well... erin, you'd be surprised, but i think he's got even me covered with inane chatter!! but i still love him anyways... him, the cutesy tyrant bethany, and my darling adrienne (the good one). they're such cuties. <3
when i got back, i went out with liz, candice, and sarah rome to play some pool. happy birthday, sarah! had lotsa fun spending time with them, waxing nostalgic over kathryn-ball (a.k.a. hurl basketballs at a group of peoples' heads when they're not looking), mrs. kapsa's dodgeball warnings ("below the knees, girls! we don't want to damage your ovaries!"), certain guys who think they're really hot, and grade eight with mrs. boyce ("get down you give [sic] turkey!"). ahhhh, the memories... hahaha. but yeah, it really was a great time because i hadn't seen candice and sarah in years, and honestly, we just laughed so damn much while catching up! plus, everyone got to see my mad skillz at pool astonishing ability to completely miss perfectly set-up shots... it's too bad all of candice's fluke (or was she just trying to hustle us??) shots didn't rub off onto me... anyway, time really flew while we were all chatting, and before we knew it, it was almost 4 am. so much for me going to sleep earlier these days... but s'ok, it was worth it. this summer, i'm definitely going to be getting together with those girls again (and this isn't an idle threat this time!).
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
went to the cat centre with grace today... didn't buy anything, but we shared a tub of laura secord ice cream on the bus ride back! mmmm... i miss bargain shopping though... when i get back, i'm so hitting up dixie value, square one, and heartland. i think mei's going to take me to dixie on monday night? oooh, and grace and i are going to the eaton centre (new red earth and h&m stores there!) and then enjoying a nice, juicy, medium rare steak at le biftheque. i can't wait!!!!
hey, so when guys plan dinner parties, they're not always planned out fully... nonetheless, we all had lotsa fun at dave's place tonight. there was lots of food... eventually (and at kinda staggered intervals), interesting conversation ("i don't need women, all i need are my pillows... hey, i think i'm kinda drunk"), lots of kelly hu (scorpion king), plus me shooting victoria with a machine gun and running into a lot of walls (tiffany's foray into the ps2 world of 007).
but where have today's adventures now left me? sitting in my room at 3:30am, realizing that i haven't even begun packing yet. sigh. and i'm leaving this afternoon. anyway, this is my cue to jet... goodbye kingston, i'm gonna miss ya!
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Friday, April 23, 2004
just for the record, i'm moving back to toronto this sunday... feel free to call me when you're back in toronto again!
oh, this is kind of a fun survey. go to match.com and take the physical attraction/preference survey. you pretty much look at pics of lots of guys (or girls, if that's your preference) and click whichever pictures you found most attractive. a lot of the guys were pretty old and not that cute (though some were...), but it's interesting to see what face type/shapes i like (ectoderm and ecto-mesoderm). i like them pretty boys and the boy-next-door thing. and brunets. ;)
haha... grace and hasib are watching robocop right now...
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can you believe it? four usher videos, and only one of them featured his abs... it's such a shame... hahaha. watching videos on launch is such a good time-waster.
alright, so let's hope i can fall asleep tonight, eh?
p.s. oh, don't worry, i've calmed down considerably over the last post. it's just that i don't really take friendships lightly and it really irks me when others don't do the same. especially when it seems as if i've lost a lot of my close guy friendships these days. (p.s. boys suck.)
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ladies and gentlemen, kill bill vol. 2 is a great movie - you have to see it! it's so much funnier than the first one! you'll love the pai mai parts, trust me. there's much less violence, and a lot more dialogue and plot to it (in cantonese, no less). definitely entertaining.
oh, so you'll never guess the back of whose seat grace was (accidentally) kicking during the movie... hanna! when the lights went up, we noticed that we were sitting right behind hanna and her bf, keith and priscilla. funny coincidence, non? haha, not just that, but i bet we probably annoyed them further b/c grace and i kept laughing throughout the movie (some parts were just too funny, but we were strangely the only ones laughing in the theatre!). but really, the best part was when keith pretty much totally ignored us. no, really. a girl loves to be ignored. it was great when i think he said bye to us (i wasn't quite sure if he was talking to us - i couldn't hear him too well) and didn't even look at us as he passed by and said it. this coming from the probably the closest friend that i made last year at queen's. of course, that was last year. and that was before he decided that having any close female friends at all would hurt his girlfriend. nevermind that i'm not interested in him in that way at all, and that it's ridiculous that he should have to do that in the first place, but whatever. i guess it's a good thing that he's so thoughtful of her atleast, even if he's not to his own friends.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
soooo.... tired....
well, last night, i did my orgo exam. it didn't seem too bad, but i still have no idea how well i did. at this point though. i don't really care because I'M DONE! WOOOHOOO!!
i didn't end up going out last night b/c of the torrential downpour (my jacket was completely soaked through), so i hung out a bit with grace and hasib, then watched lost in translation. by the time i went to bed, it was around 3am, and i swear, my sleeping patterns have been all screwed up since the advent of exams... even though i hadn't really gotten any sleep for the past few nights, i still couldn't fall asleep! so 2 hours later, i decided i might as well watch a movie since i was still up (and wasn't feeling very well, either) and ended up finishing better luck tommorrow and parts of fight club (such a good movie). blarg. this new sleep cycle (or lack of sleep completely) better not be a pattern... maybe i should start taking melatonin...
anyway, just got back from princess st. shopping with grace and am going out to dinner with her later. all the lifesci people still have an exam tommorrow, so they're all studying like mad.
ok, well gonna go eat some brownies now... see you soon!
p.s. seth and summer better not break up or else i'll be sad. :(
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
the downside to living downtown: the maniacs driving around princess st. honking their horns while i'm trying to study for orgo. in related news: go leafs!
just think: in exactly 24 hours, i'll be free...
make sure you let me know your summer plans and etc. b/c it's about that time to start planning those get-togethers!
back to enolate ions now... (honestly, as long as i get 50% on this exam, i'll be completely content.) yes, felix, science does suck.
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this page takes a few seconds to load up, but you should definitely check it out... i love her voice. check out "breathe me".
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
meh. sorry for the lack of updates... i just honestly have nothing really to write lately - besides the odd kitchen mishaps here and there. (but let me just clarify that i've never had any big problems while actually cooking - i mean, i can cook, so i'm not completely hopeless.)
random news:
only 5 more days until i'm done second year... i will officially be done at 10pm on wednesday. honestly, i'm ready to give up on school right now. screw psych and orgo!! i just want to be done! (i think i'm starting to go a little nuts. i've been cooped up at this desk too long.)
good news:
my mom and dad got home from hk safely yesterday afternoon. thanks for the prayers, guys. haha, i look forward to new clothes and purses (drool), my my sassy girl vcd, and giving my parents some X and Os! <3
bad (not-so-new) news:
dude. i'm so going to fail orgo. you know, until this year, i never really understood why orgo was so infamous... i am now thoroughly enlightened though. (and i was always pretty decent at chem too! sheesh. ok, that's it: no pharm for me.)
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
funny story:
ju, i believe i have done something today that rivals your own fire mishap story... you know that phrase "it never rains but it pours"? well, on a scale of one to ten, i'd say that today ranked about 12 (typhoon territory). so i haven't really done that much studying today, although i've been pretty busy... let's just say that my day included the overflowing of a sink and semi-flooding of the bathroom floor - oh, and did i mention a small fire in the kitchen? yeah, it's a good thing grace doesn't read this blog... luckily, i've got it all cleaned up and everything is back to normal... except that the apartment's actually much cleaner than normal and it's missing a spoon and a bowl. actually, i'm keeping the unusable spoon as a testament to my own stupidity, but the bowl is no way salvageable - what with it being completely melted and such. it melted onto a stove element and it took me quite a while to get it off (with the help of a hammer - i really pounded it)... surprisingly, if you look at it now, there's no trace of burnt plastic or severe hammer marks on it...
goodness. an interesting day, by far. but strangely, i'm still in a good mood... i think God's helping me take all things that come my way with good humour instead of freaking out or sulking.
and now if you'll excuse me, i've gotta go shower b/c i just noticed that i have a fine layer of soot on my skin (no joke). but a note before i go: always make sure you've turned on the correct stove element, and never leave it unattended - even if you're just supposed to be boiling water... :S
two other notes:
1. so i just logged on to my epson photo account and they changed it a bit - up at the top, there was a brigh red bar telling me that i was using 271% of my 100 mb limit! ooops! (in my defense, there wasn't a limit before...) i've opened up a new account where i'll post new pictures there (and still keep my old one), but i'm going to be deleting some not as popular albums/pics off the old account... anyways, you've been forewarned... just message me if there are any deleted pics that you want, ok?
2. grace got facilitator! yay! congrats, dear!
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Monday, April 12, 2004
happy easter, guys!
just a quick blog before i keep studying (or go to sleep). i have my biol 200 exam today at 2pm, so i've been pretty busy studying all week. i swear, i haven't even started exams yet and i'm already sick of it! can't wait 'til i'm done... just another two weeks...
oh, big jon is visiting kingston this weekend and he dropped by to chat with me and grace for a little bit tonight. (haha, he pulled a ketan and fell asleep - it was kinda late when he came by) it was a nice break from studying, not that the both of us didn't get a long enough break cooking and eating our easter dinner! (it was yummy!)
yeah... maybe i won't blog any longer tonight - i really shouldn't procrastin---- ARGH! why the heck did they start playing shaggy on radiostorm? EW! ahem. sorry about that outburst. anyway, i think it's back to the grind now... ttyl.
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Friday, April 09, 2004
i like this "eating out" concept... :p
went out with grace, jen, and jeanie for a late dinner (around 11pm) at wooden heads. we were supposed to introduce jeanie and jen to atomica, but when we got in, they said that the kitchen was closed. grace had actually called ahead of time to check, and they told her the kitchen closes at midnight. the waitress told us that apparently it was "too busy, so the kitchen closed up earlier today"... i don't know, but doesn't that sound kinda counter-intuitive? but it's all good, they still got to briefly see the cool changing-colour lights anyway! wooden heads was sooo yummy. since we had eaten a bit earlier, grace, jen and i shared this pizza with smoked salmon, sweet onion, portabello mushrooms, and (apparently) lobster curry. jeanie had something else - i forget what it was, but it was good too. however, the best part of that snack/meal was definitely the dessert. it was an apple dessert pizza with this awesome caramel sauce on top..... mmmmm... to die for! and surprisingly only $4.50! if you ever come up to kingston, you have to try it!
the earlier part of my day was pretty uneventful... i went to campus and studied a bit at stauffer. ooooh! i didn't fall asleep! (a major feat for me, let me tell you!)
oh wait! something eventful DID happen: i saw marco!!!! (henceforward, the rest of this post is devoted to my favourite only child. to clarify: not my own only child, but my favourite person without siblings. :p) anyway, i was pretty excited to see marco (was lending some pharm notes to him) since i never really see him these days besides psych class... which i kinda didn't go to for the last week or so b/c i had too many 15% assignments/tests due... but yeah, it was good seeing him, scruff and all! actually, i think you looked alright with the unshaven look (most guys look pretty pitiful - heck, i bet even i have more hair on my lip than some of those asian guys... sheesh!), i'm a big fan of the "ruggedly handsome" thing myself. as long as those guys don't end up looking too dirty. but back to the subject at hand: m.a.r.c.o. ;) it's a shame that we didn't get to meet up that much this year except for a few times at alanna/karolina's - we'll have to meet up together with them in the summer/next year. oh, hope you have fun in china! bring me back something cool! hey, so did you miss me and grace this year? haha, i bet you didn't! i bet the real reason you went for facilitator last year was b/c you wouldn't be able to deal with living with us!!! s'ok, i understand... but let me just say that our neighbours haven't complained about us yet! though, for the record, grace and i have never randomly entered their apartments and shed our hair everywhere... nor have we tried taking things from their rooms to see if they notice if anything's missing/out of place... (not that we did those things to you last year... *ahem*) on second thought, maybe it was a smart move for you... hahaha. :) ok, i'm getting kinda tired now, so i'm gonna go to sleep. i don't think i've been writing too coherantly this past while now! anyhow... so in conclusion, marco is awesome, so was the dessert pizza, and i'll definitely be seeing more of the both of them in the near future! :)
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 word. i hear ya, calvin. :)
and i like this one just b/c of its interpretation... oh, how i wish for that childlike naivete once more...
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ugh. i ate waaaaay too much. it was all really yummy, but gluttonously excessive. vic and jess had their bbq today and we had wings, drumsticks, burgers, sausages, pork chops, apple crisp, and ice cream. oh, and some salad. :p the usual suspects were there, but this time we were joined by jen, kimia, and hayley (chownies). anyway, there was good conversation, food, and company. oh, and the music? someone got a hold of william hung's cd, and let me just say that some good songs (and some not-so-good ones) were butchered. it was funny, and a little sad too... but definitely something worth checking out.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 get fuzzy - march26, 2004 this reminds me of grade 10 english with mr kay... oh, mr kay...
and this is what i think about kingston weather.
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ahhh... there's nothing like repeatedly falling asleep while trying to read a textbook... (a sensation i unfortunately am far too acquainted with...) :p
so yeah, was pretty much a hermit all day. was busy studying (or trying to study) and will be doing so for the next, oh, three weeks. methinks i'll head on campus tommorrow... take me away from the computer and its many distractions. and hopefully a lower chance of falling asleep? (maybe i shouldn't study huddled in blankets in a reclining position on my bed... haha :p )
hasib came over to wait for grace, and we ended up watching some fushigi (after all these years, i still love tamahome), teen girl squad, and she's all that (classic freddy "i don't know how to act besides furrowing my brows and looking confused but that's ok because i'm pretty" prinze jr movie). hasib kept claiming that he was zach in the movie (the prom king/bmoc) and that grace was the nerdy, unpopular, loser girl who he "made" (and can break...). for those of you who don't know hasib, let me clarify that he was just joking... i think. anyway, never mind that our schools never had prom kings or queens (nor would we really care if there were), but if there really were, i highly doubt that he'd be one... actually, now that i think of it, who would have been bestowed the "honours" at mci anyway?
oh, and for jasy: netlooks.net. if you click on the OC link at the left side of the page, there's this "radio.blog" that streams 40+ songs from some OC episodes. i couldn't send you the songs, but here's the next best thing!
ok, now back to reading and/or sleeping. by ways of a desperate bid to procrastinate, expect some surveys or favourites lists to go up in the next while.
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Sunday, April 04, 2004
ketan just left a little while ago. we went to dinner at golden viet thai, a tasty but often overlooked restaurant. ("um, i don't think it's in this direction...") afterwards, we headed back to the apartment and hung out with grace for a bit. as per usual, ketan fell asleep in my bed again, so grace and i played a lil' toki toki boom against each other while he napped. :p (so strangely addictive...) when he woke up, he took us out to the juice bar for smoothies (yum!), and we headed back home again to chat some more and eat crackers and hummus. it was just a nice time to get together and relax before the craziness starts. plus it's always great to spend time with ketan - we don't get together nearly as much as we really should. he's pretty much gonna go into exam/hibernation/study mode for the next two weeks (as am i), but we're hopefully going to get together again before we head back to toronto. he still needs to cook me and grace dinner!
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Saturday, April 03, 2004
went out to atomica tonight on a "date" with gracie (we have so much in common!) to celebrate the end of classes. it's this swanky italian cafe/bar that's lit up with changing-colour lights, and it's pretty tasty though slightly overpriced. we both had some mochaccinos, smoked salmon bruschetta, really yummy tiramasu, and i had some sangria. it was a nice chance to just kick back and get all dolled up. haha, i borrowed grace's camel-coloured ho boots, and honestly, i have no idea how girls walk in those things! i think grace has only really worn them once. i mean, i can deal with two inches, but three inches kill especially when they're pointy-toed! sheesh, the things women subject themselves to so they can look good... but i must say, we both looked pretty hot! :p ok, not hot, but atleast people didn't look at as like, "what are they doing in here?" dressing up: one of the fun things about being a girl!
after a painful walk back to the apartment, we watched kill bill, during which hasib came by. we watched a bit of family guy and daria, and now here i am, writing about my evening to you!
anyway, i'm pretty happy that classes are all over, though i'm not looking forward to finals at all. and though i miss my family and a "select few" people, i don't want to leave kingston yet. it's so nice, and removed from "real life". ah well. life just feels good right now. not spectacular, but i'm content. *
* correction: i was content until just now. it'll blow over in 5 minutes, but right now i feel slightly hostile. just slightly though -- perhaps "a twinge irritated" would be a better description? or is it really more a morass of annoyance? feh, you don't get that much credit. anyhow, unfounded or not, i have no patience with you. until you can say the right thing (which you won't, btw), leave me alone. yes, i'm being unreasonable, but i like my angst-free life right now.
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ok, i'm good again. smiley once more! :) i just gotta let things go, right danny? (chapter 3 - what drives you?)
hrm. i can totally see how guys can be totally confused with girls, what with the crazy mood swings and all! (goodness, i can be such a... jerk... at times. sorry guys! :p )
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Thursday, April 01, 2004
had only one class today since two of mine were cancelled, and i only have one more class tommorrow before i'm officially done all my classes. who wants to celebrate with me? don't know what i'll be doing tommorrow yet, but saturday night i'm going out with ketan. oh wait, i think him and imran are having a kegger on friday at their house - more fundraising for qpid/team guyana. as rampant debauchery isn't really my thing, i'm prolly going to pass on that...
people i missed this week: mommy & daddy, benita, and (strangely) keith
ok, so after grace and i watched this week's OC ("the nana"), we started to watch various music videos on launch. did you know that hanson's back?! the lead singer still looks pretty girly... (but samaire armstrong/anna is in the video) also, that "she wants to move" video by n.e.r.d. doesn't really make any sense to me... haha, i actually liked it, but it still made absolutely no sense, what with the crazy wolf-eye/space ship thing... also, the girl dancing in that video looked s.c.a.r.y. (she looked so angry/bitchy that i bet hasib'll think she's hot!)
but, ladies and gentlemen, i believe i have found a truly terrible music video tonight. it looks like one of those karaoke music video thingies that they have at wonderland. seriously. the video and song are completely forgettable, and 2 of the girls aren't even that attractive. i leave you to be the judge - watch the video yourself. "it's a party" by uc3.
and in conclusion, i want cadbury mini eggs.
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