Not Frosh No More

I was shocked with unknownuser's post so i decided to post something too... late at night... lalala

So, I'm finished all 5 of my final exams. With five exams every half semester, ten every semester, two semesters, that's 20 exams that i completed. Assuming every mid-term is 2 hours and every final is 3 hours, I've spent a bit less than 50 hours in an exam room.

The classes did pretty much fly by. Mostly because i wanted it to be finished so I could take a nap everyday. I guess you shouldn't always keep looking ahead because you might miss what's immediately in front of you which is the present; the next thing you know it becomes the past and you can't go back. Just looking back at the first day moving in, or even before that when we all went to the beach at night on the saturday. I think that was the day nimalan ran the red light. Moving out of my res confused me as I still had distinct memories of moving in. All the cars parked in front with the sophs helping the frosh move their luggage into their rooms. The first night at the back of perth with a campfire and some food. Meeting a few new people, some i talked to a bit, others i never talked to again.

I also remember december when i went out with some friends and said "man, it's been half a year already." Then riding in my car talking to another friend saying "man, it's been one year already". How time sucks. The next thing I know, School will be starting again and i'll be like "man, 4 months of summer is over already".
It's sad but true, one week of my summer is already almost over.

I have yet to sign a lease to my apartment. I should do that soon. I still got lots to do during the first week of my summer. After getting a place i need to get a job. Then I need to find an aikido place where i can train over the summer. I may also need to get my G license. How painful it is to think about what I need to do and yet i'm on the blog. Right now i'm just searching for specialty stores that I can work in. Want to work at a martial arts supply store, haha. Unknownuser is now a proud owner of a bokken bought and brought from london, ontario. He can now fight crime and be a super hero. "oooo, a wooden sword" "yes, happy birthday!" "are you serious?"

Now I must plan the getting of mario kart and my stomach is growling a lot. I'm hungry.... but it's late, i should sleep soon.

thoughts.

Months ago, I began working at Ontario Power Generation. when I first started working... Actually I dont remember what of what happened that long ago in the term. What Did i do this term? Went out a ton, bothered busy people with school, learned a new martial arts, went through another "situation", went on at least one epic adventure, celebrated my brithday (thanks gary, I will now go around fighting "bad guys"), met a whole bunch of work people, and refocussed myself for school.

I am slowly starting to remember the numerous days spent in the library last term....

All Nighter

Hey

Currently in my first All nighter for an exam. I don't really think all nighters are necessary but as part of the university experience (while i'm still here) I'm willing to make a sacrifice. Last time i tried this was for my psych project which was mad stressful.

Studying my physiology right now which is my last exam. I'll be back in toronto on wednesday. Ok.. back to studying.

Dream

Ok so today I went out to look for another house. This time it was at a condominium. Rent is 850 or 425 a person or 415 and 435 a person depending on which size room the person chooses. It was pretty nice.

Anyways, this post isn't about that. Recently, I've been searching up youtube for boy bands doing a capella. It was mostly backstreet boys, recently i searched up westlife.... and i'm against nsync coz they're not together and only two members really sing!
So, for whtever reason, I took like a 2-3 hour nap today. I don't know why, i just did. During that nap, i had the weirdest dream. I don't know how it started, but I remember a concert and it was westlife. But they were singing a backstreet boys song. The song that just kept going continuously was "i'll never break your heart". It wasn't much of a surprise since westlife did do a backstreet boys song before.... some boyband medly. It was kool. And then the next thing I know, I was singing it with them... maybe as one of them i don't know. I remember having the mike. Then the band turns into backstreet boys somehow coz the next time i look it was the backstreet boys. And it wasn't at a concert anymore. Of course this was a dream so i didn't notice anything, i didn't go "whoe! how did that change happen?"
Then after singing, we all just started talking. Somehow Brian's little boy was a girl in my dreams. And everything turned mad weird after that. Brian had to go to some place up north to consult some elders who were romans and to ask them if his now daughter could stay with them. Some kind of situation was happening... i dunno. My dreams are random. So I decided to go walk with him. Which is also stupid coz on the map, it was probably like a few hour plane ride up to the location. But we decide to walk??? Dreams... so not logical. But I decide to walk with him during the night coz i wanted some one on one talking time. Brian is too kool.

And then I receive a phone call from a friend going to the library... so i wake up. and it's over. lol! That's all

Posting what is important.

Jiu jitsu has been amazingly fun, alternating that with going to the gym, every day i get to go home tired and fall asleep easily. Although the time in which i fall asleep does seem to be later than it should be thus resulting in me being tired in the morning. Speaking of morning, I really like my schedule over at OPG.

8:00-8:45 Respond to emails/Initiate more emails, which thus takes up alot of time.
8:45-9:30 Work on my mindless data entry piles that i have to be done whenever, just so long as they are done.
9:30-10:00 Send more emails/walk around looking for work/ talk to the co op student who sits behind me.
10:00-10:30 Walk to cafeteria to buy a bagel, toast it, buy peanut butter, and eat this plus two fruits.
10:30-11:30 Carry out some kind of job of the day
11:30- 12:00 More emails, waiting for lunch.
12:00-12:45 Lunch with the other co op kids.
12:45-3:30 The afternoon, it goes by fast.

and then i occasionally use the gym at my workplace afterwards, then the hard work of the day is done. Whats not done is my work term report which is basicly a 20~ or so page report on some kind of topic that i notice in the workplace that i can solve, compare, analyze... etc... I need to do it soon. Soon i will have my birthday. On my birthday I will be 19. There are 19 more minutes before i will go to sleep.

A REAL post

Drafts... i believe they count as posts too on the dashboard. So we might really be at 598 posts... dum dum dum...

Monday again... I remember my last monday... i bought a bokken. I really don't know many techniques.... i have to youtube some stuff... but still! the handle part is very shiny.... maybe from sweat... i dunno... but it's just talking to me. "I"m shiny... swing me...." I dunno... i didn't know what to say without making it sound bad.

Finished my first year of classes! finished that last thursday. Now i'm on my exams... finished two so far. First one... was not great but i'll settle for it coz i can't do anything else.... I just have 3 more to go.

Got my second professional haircut today. At the same place.... $20.... so not worth it. The process was the same... the hair still smells pretty nice... but this person was worse than the other. She didn't even show me how the back of my hair looked. I couldn't really understand what she said either... but that's actually just me coz i wasn't paying attention. But yah, that ended up with me keeping the side burns. And I didn't have a chance to tell her i made a mistake... so i had to go back to res to shave the side burns off myself lol.
The back of my hair is still left a bit longer than I'm used to... but it's acceptable for now. Hair doesn't look that bad.. it WAS professional after all. Not going back to the same place again though....
Also doing drakonen's thing with the buying of a green tea latte after every exam. I need to get another green tea latte for the exam i just had. mmmm.... and second cup's green tea latte is a bit better than starbucks. Surprisingly... I actually had to try both.

Went out to an aikido dinner party yesterday. Sad to say there WAS drinking, but I didn't drink. lol! Partly because I promised drakonen he'd be the first to buy me a drink, partially coz i had an exam the next day and I wanted to study a bit that night, and partially because.... no.. that's it. Went to a place called Palasad. It had pool tables and bowling alleys. I went bowling... not cool enough for pool. Ate some pizza and nachos before. Best thing.. it was all FREE!!! We had a coupon for group parties... and also the club subsidized and paid for everything. It was great. Stayed there from 6 to like 12. Insane. I love our aikido club, people are great. I'm actually gonna go to the actual dojo this wednesday (hopefully). Looking forward to it. After that, we WALKED all the way back to campus... which took like 45 minutes. It was 1 degree Celsius outside and I didn't really have a jacket. I was shivering halfway.

Now I must relax a bit more. Maybe start studying for my 3 exams in 4 days starting this weekend. I may or may not post later.

just a post

Another one of the drafts which i have found and i'll decide to post, my posts all sound the same now that i look at them... they're like the intro paragraph, and then they stop because i run out of time... next time i should just skip to the body or the conclusion

My reasoning behind not posting was the idea of how I would rather be spending my time posting to be talking with possibly nobody, but seeing as there is nobody to talk to, and i do have a limited time frame before going out, I shall throw down a post. University life seemed quite epic before it, during it, and even sometimes now. So far it has been filled with enough ups and downs to call it quite a journey. Having finished one school term and on my way to finish one co op term, I think its about time to look back on it all


Originally written/drafted 04-10-08

Back from war

Hmm while looking through the old posts, i see this one as being a draft, now reading through it i dont remember this, so i will use my admin rights to bring it out. -Jonathan (DRAKONEN WROTE THIS POST ORIGINALLY) (i thought it would post as him but apparently it turns out that it looks like i wrote it)

The war might be over, but rumour has it that it'll be started two months from now. So in that time, we'll be here at home from now. We should be preparing for the next battle, but seeing how we won the last (assuming that no one failed), I think this time of peace will be spent relaxing and with family and friends.

So, we far, its none of the above since I've been doing nothing. There was some tree climbing and such yesterday, but the fun of jumping out of trees involved intense testicular g-forces that did an then unknown amount of damage and best to let be for now. So in my time of healing, i'm playing sudoku in a book that i borrowed off a friend and never had a chance to give back.

So now, I'm bored, and since I'm assuming people actually read this, my friends of the asylum, wanna go to a buffet sometime this weekend or next week? only need to bring 20 (its not actually 20, but if we do something else)... also, two bus tickets or equivalent. ? comment your reply... for yes and no... and a suitable time

Into the second month of the second term

Hey i found this sitting in our archives as a draft so i decided to "post" this, i honestly dont remember writing this

A year ago was a long time ago... I was probably still walking 30 mins from my house to get to school each day, still trying to get into universities, doing alot of things that i'm not doing now. Alot has changed in a year, i'm in my "summer" and its probably more tiring to wake up each day for it than it was when i had school. I still get my nights off, but with few people in scarbrough and early bed times, it really isnt all that much time. Weekends are the best two days of the week just as they were last term. They really do go by too fast, I really want to use the very few sick days that i have just to make them 3 day ones, that really would be 'sick'...

Living in practically a completely different then everyone really is different. Until you actually experience going to work work, you cant really understand it. The roles, the responsibilities, and the tone of office work is very dif than university.

Girls and Relationships perhaps Pt.1

Ok, so unknownuser and I were talking about.... unknownuser's relationships because he didn't update me at all on anything.

Disclaimer: Post is just me, it's not absolute. Not meant to offend anyone. I won't do this justice because my thoughts are unorganized.

Now i'm just sleepy. Don't know if i want to do this anymore. I will try to go over everything generally and details will come later either in post form or actually talking face to face.
So let's start off with a bit of an intro. University. How it has changed me... lol, i hope. Reflecting on my life here and there has me concluding about a few things. The three most important things in my life right now is Christianity, Aikido, and Anime. I'm pretty sure I posted that part already. (btw, i bought a bokken today. very awesome).

Ever since coming to university, going to fellowship on campus, I think I've matured more in my faith. (I promise this will lead to girls). A lot of people could say they are Christians without being actual Christians. Looking back at my life, I don't think a lot of it has been very Christian like. I won't deny it, I've done some bad things in my life. But so has everyone else. The important thing is to change. I felt that I had to go back to the very beginning. As we do in every class in aikido, we do the basic movements. The movements that are basically the foundational movements of the techniques that I'll be learning throughout my life. In the same way, if i don't have a strong foundation in my faith, I won't be as strong when it comes to everything else. So my life this year has been "Back to Basics: Passion for Passion". I know, i selected an awesome motto/theme for my year. Basically, the very foundation of Christianity is just loving God with all your heart, mind and soul. God loves us and so when we love God too and establish that relationship, everything else will follow. Love, it's tough, but once u know what it is in your heart, everything just turns out fantastic.

Ok, sorry, had to get through that. If you have more questions, i would love to answer. But right now, girls. So that paragraph did have a purpose!!!
Because I'm trying to become more serious about my life, I want someone who is serious about theirs. Not serious as in "no fun at all" serious. But serious enough to make the most of their lives and live for what's important. I would like a girl who has the same interests as me. They may not do aikido or watch anime, but at the very least they should be a Christian. After coming to western, I've met a lot of drunken girls, tipsy girls (after knowing what tipsy meant), and i've also met girls who just loved God. This post isn't meant to offend anyone by the way, this is just my point of view. But the girls who are authentically in love with God were not just great and fun-loving in a period of time, but they're great and fun all the time, even when they're serious. It's hard to explain.
Drinking a few beers or whtever is great, but there are limits (i don't remember where i was going with this). I don't want to ramble on so i'll just get to the meat of this coz i need to shower and play with my bokken. If I were to date someone, I would date with a purpose. What is the purpose of dating? That it will eventually lead to marriage. Maybe even have a few kids. When I look at a girl and I'm thinking of possibly dating her, I would always ask "would i marry her? could I live with her all my life?"
It doesn't sound fun, but i think there's a time and place in a relationship for fun, and a time and place to be serious.
So, the first girl. Won't say the name coz it's a public blog. She is a fantastic person! always happy, I enjoy her company. She's so great in fact that I think she's out of my league. It'd be great to be with her, but I'm not at the same spiritual level as her. I'm learning a lot form her, but i think as a man, I should be stronger.
Everyone has different views. I'm not saying this is how it's suppose to be, but it's how i would prefer it to be. It's different for different people in different situations. So it's complicated. You would have to be able to discern for yourself about what you want to do with that particular person in a particular situation.
There are two other girls who are also great christian girls that i've met at western. But i'm just trying to establish a good friendship first. And if i feel a tug saying "do it" and it's not from unknownuser, then i will. (not from drakonen either) I think friendship is important first because that's how you know the real them without getting too messy.
Also, another rule that I placed for myself is asking the girl's parents first before I date her. And also ask what the girl thinks too. Relationships require two people. You don't want to forget about the girl's feelings. But parents have also invested a lot of their time, effort, and energy into bringing their child up. You can't just take their child away from them without asking them first. A good analogy i liked was if you had a mad awesome car. Whatever great car you saw or didn't see at the autoshow. So you have it in your driveway and a boy you don't even know asks if he could drive it. What would you say? No right? Isn't a daughter's life more important than a car? Know the parents and ask for their permission. I'm generally shy. So if i do ever conjure up the courage to go to the parents, i'll know the girl is worth it. Just my general rule.

Ok, i think i'll end this portion up. Bye

Love for Martial arts???

Short post

Just figured out why i love martial arts so much. POWER RANGERS! lol! dang.... i loved power rangers when i was a kid. I just searched up power rangers stuff on youtube, and it still looks good! lol! well not as good as today, but still... brings back memories.