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?
Monday, March 13, 2006
this friday, tiffany exposed her heart to the world. it was very embarassing.
[dave is laughing at me right now, i bet.]
PORK BONE SOUP!!!! i was so distraught that the 168 pork bone soup place had closed down, but thanks to the always lovely debbie, we have discovered a korean place close-by to campus and the church. the food is pretty good and everything seems to be around $6-9, which i'm very pleased about.
party at ju's place for kalam/cath was very fun. thanks for having us over, hui sisters! (hey ju? how come every time we go over to dinner to your place, shirley does all the work? :p hehe, just kidding. you were an awesome hostess!) there was tons of good food (thanks, wat!) and i ate far too many baked potatoes - five by my count, but in my defense i chose the smallest ones (about half the size of my tiny fists) and, really, who can turn down sour cream and bacon bits?
in party-related news, hanmin has been voted "person you'd most want with if you were stuck in some sort of nintendo gun-fight" and louis is undoubtedly the DDR king what with his ability to accurately play on both pads simultaneously (though tomlin was quite impressive in his own right, too).
now i've just got to do all the work i *didn't* do this weekend... :(
p.s. b/c of all this upcoming wedding stuff, i've been swooning over the aqua and purple dresses and accessories over at fashion crimes. <3 can someone spot me a few hundred dollars?
p.p.s. http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=8959.0 good or bad idea? it looks soooo cool, but i don't want to end up ingesting any toxins... that would be very regrettable. they would make sure cool jewelry, mobiles, or decor/wall-hangings if left in original cd form.
posted @ 2:07:00 a.m.
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Friday, March 10, 2006
i think i really give my emotions too much sway. the ancient greeks would think that i were no better than a beast, letting my feelings overcome reason. there's no point getting all riled up over things that don't even involve me... and yet i feel very indignant towards ppl who don't actually deserve my dislike.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
while getting off at spadina station this morning, i was struck with an inspiration for an addition to tiffanyville: a hit list that will replace the notable quotes section, until i find some quotes that are, well, notable.
.: tiffany's hit list :.
1) ppl who spit on the ground in public places (subway, sidewalk, etc.) punishment: ummm, i'm not sure yet, but it has something to do with a spitoon. any suggestions? 2) ppl who pull fire alarms in residences at 3:47am (this one's for you, grace) punishment: ummm, i don't remember what grace and i came up with back when we were at brockington together... i think something about tattooing a big red "f" (or "L"?) on their foreheads so that they would forever be ostracized? and possibly cutting off a hand or two - depends if they are repeat offenders or not. but seriously, who pulls a fire alarm three times in one night?! stupid kids. the same ones that decided to use the fire hose to drench the hall and incidentally almost flooded our room. jerks. 3. wicked little children that are mean to my cousin and make her cry punishment: the forked-fingers/double-pronged attack. (eye jabbing)
oh man, this post makes me sound like a terrible, terrible person.
oh well. i'll add more as they come along. :)
ooooh! and here's what my new shoes look like:
and when i saw this shirt outside the tap phong for only 5 dollars, i just had to buy it. the colour's unflattering and it fits me kinda funny b/c it's for large "youth", but i still <3 sugar bear.
those were my impulse buys of the week. who knows, maybe i'll drop by fashion crimes on queen st and see if they have any purses or earrings on sale. :)
apparently all my pharm friends go to sleep b/t 10:30pm and 12am, and are all appalled that i keep such late hours. just wait'll they meet tomlin. :p but honestly, it was so rough getting up this morning. it's preparing for those darn panels, i tells ya! and then they make us get up early for panels, in case we're called. tmw, i have no school at all (yeah, for alternate week labs!) but i'm still getting up early, b/c i'm walking my darling of a cousin to school tmw. it's always great going back and visiting broadacres, but it's kinda sad that pretty much all my teachers have left/retired. even mrs. harper (who was my jk, grade one and two teacher) is gone now since she retired this year. :( on the plus side, i'm fairly certain now that i won't be mistaken for a shrimpy fifth-grader, although i'll probably still be shorter than a lot of them.
posted @ 9:53:00 p.m.
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slightly riled up. this sort of thing gets my mother hen instincts up.
posted @ 12:39:00 a.m.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
oooh! i almost forgot... here is a list of books recommended by iulia (from her blog) that i want to read:
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart Edith Pattou: East Shannon Hale: The Goose Girl Virgil: The Aeneid Geofrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
i eventually want to reread pride and prejudice sometime and maybe some other austen stuff. we'll see how p&p goes first.
i've also got the problem of pain (c.s. lewis), talk to the hand (lynne truss), passion and purity (elisabeth eliot) and neither here nor there (bill bryson) on my book shelf, amongst many other unread or half-read books. with the exception of the more spiritual reads, i've decided to chiefly stick to children's lit, short reads, and humourous accounts, mainly because i can get through them much more quickly and easily. otherwise, it'll take me forever to slog through some of those other "must-read" classic tomes due to the brain-power expediture required. i'll focus on those behemoths during the summer.
do you guys have any recommended selections for me?
posted @ 11:39:00 p.m.
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new shoes (!) and other randomness. looking back at this post, the word of the day seems to be "seem".
i looooooove my new $10 shoes! :) the only problem is how to get rid of that terrible plasticky smell that seems to accompany all cheap chinatown footware. i bought them at this gold mine of a fobby clothing store (off of spadina) where all the running shoes come wrapped tightly in cellophane. (note: if you are asian, i'm sure you know what i'm talking about). i guess i didn't really notice the plastic smell in the store (probably b/c the whole store smells of it), but when i left them in my room for a day, the smell seemed to permeate everywhere! hopefully with some airing out they'll be fine? anyhow, they are cream-coloured pointy-toed low heels (for comfort), and have black contrast stitchin, piping and a bow at the top. very see-mun. i'll post a pic of them later.
panel tmw: motion sickness and vitamins. it says in my patient self-care text that motion sickness goes away with age, so now i'm kinda puzzled b/c i've seemed to have developed motion sickness these past few years. i used to have no problems reading anywhere - car, bus, plane - but now whenever i try to cram on the bus for an exam (subway is fine), i get wicked naseous. hmmm... actually, maybe it's stress-induced?
despite my concerns that it would be super-boring, the pride and prejudice night was actually really fun. mary and andrea were kind enough to let me and iulia crash their lovely place after delta, and it felt like one of those good old sleepovers of yore b/c we talked about makeup, purses, books, boys, and (non-kinky, more consumer-driven) shoe fetishes. although i found staring at the tv screen for 6 hours a little dizzying, the movie was thoroughly enjoyable. much, much funnier than i thought it would be. never again will i doubt the girls in the book club! (though they slept/worked on laptops for the first 3-4 hours, the guys looked fairly interested by the conclusion of the movie. poor saps.)
books: am just finishing up the great divorce by (who else) c.s. lewis. it's a fantastic book and has given me lots of food for thought, but i desperately need someone to discuss and puzzle some things out with me. any takers? or should i put it on the book club queue? when i have time, i promise i'll book-club-blog about something that struck me while i read it.
kalam's birthday soon (friday), the party should be fun!
goodness, all these weddings are all coming up so quickly! i can't wait!!! :D i have to admit, the best parts are the pretty dresses... i was over at my grandma's trying on some dresses that my aunt had bought for my (australian) cousin's upcoming nuptials (aside: i'm jealous that i can't go b/c i have schooooool), and there was this one wrap-front dress that i really liked, but was deemed too low cut for my parents' tastes. my aunt was on my side though - her body is like mine, so she knows what it's like to fill out tops. and bottoms. :( i've long since discovered that it's waaaay too much grief to argue with my parents over fashion items. it's an uphill battle with my dad especially, who i'm sure finds collar-bones a bit too risque. sheesh, and the sad thing is that i'm pretty conservative compared to a lot of my friends who - might i add - don't looks like skanks in the first place! but, if my parents never see it *wink* or if i absolutely love it and it's grudgingly deemed appropriate by mom for the type of situation...
ok, i've wasted far too much time on this blogging nonsense. will update later. xoxox
posted @ 11:05:00 p.m.
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Friday, March 03, 2006
this is just going to be a short nothing post b/c i haven't too much to write about lately.
actually, i *have been posting, just not on this blog. i've got three long-ish updates on my book club blog regarding our last meeting, so if you're interested in "the horse and his boy" or "prince caspian", please check it out and leave a msg! also, please leave a comment wrt the poll: is mr. tumnus a friendly faun or mean molester?
reading week, though fairly uneventful, was good as it allowed me a chance to catch up on sleep and see a few of my mci friends. unfortunately, as soon this past monday rolled around, my body immediately tensed up with the thoughts of class, upcoming assignments, and exams. :s
for lent, i have decided to give up all those garbage-filled (but oh-so-diverting) entertainment and gossip sites that i waste so many web-surfing hours on. i really, really hope that i'll turn to more productive activities (heh, school work? reading?) with this freed-up time, and i hope even more that i actually spend some of it as quality time with God. i've been having a pretty rough time of it lately, with my spiritual life, and i'm not sure exactly what i need to do to get it on track. actually, no, that's not true, i *do know what it is that i need to do, i just don't have the motivation or discipline to stick to it. it's not that i'm having a crisis of faith or anything, but the more insidious (and dangerous) problem of apathy and lukewarm-ness. i sit passively by while others are up and out doing things for others (and esp. God). lately, i've been feeling rather disconnected and unmoved by "spiritual things" and other people even - and i feel like i've spent the past while coasting on the fact that i used to be so active and passionate and i used "know my stuff". now i've found that the little foundation which had laid down before is nothing but a shell of what it once was (which, to be honest, was humble enough to start with). sorry for the mixed metaphors, guys, but i just can't quite think of how to convey what i'm feeling very well.
no worries though, all is not lost. one of the most amazing things about our faith is sometimes one of the most forgotten things: His grace. although i want to be more active in my faith, it still doesn't matter what i do or don't do -- being more active doesn't make more christian or more saved than the next person. it doesn't matter what i do b/c it's all up to God.
posted @ 4:21:00 p.m.
