Yay Easter

Hey again

So it was the Good Friday/Easter weekend, therefore i went home home for the weekend. Basically spent 3 of my four days in toronto playing smash bros brawl on my wii! finally... it was the only thing i was looking forward to all month. Got that out of my system. Pretty sure by the next time I get back, all the characters will be unlocked coz my sister and her boyfriend will be playing it.

Came back thursday afternoon right after my last class. I found that it wasn't being in toronto that's really exciting since i've lived there all my life, but it's the going to the greyhound and riding on the greyhound that's exciting. Well it's not THAT exciting sitting there and just napping, but it's just... fun. I don't know. Weird.
Anyways, came home to find that my sister and company was playing smash bros so i just waited until they finished so I could start playing it. That's... all I did on Thursday.

Friday, woke up so i could go to church for the Good Friday service. Had to go to the one that spoke cantonese because I couldn't make it to the English one on Thursday. I understood maybe 45% of what they were talking about, not because I can't understand cantonese, but because my attention span is very limited. I still liked it though. After that, obviously since no stores were open, and everyone else was busy, no relatives, I was home playing smash bros almost all day. Took a break once in a while.
Easter actually trumps Christmas. I was just reminded of that. Christianity is really based around Easter which is the death and resurrection of Jesus. I mean it's great that Jesus was born, but without Easter, Christianity would lose most of its core beliefs.

Anyways, saturday smash bros, and sunday i went back to western without playing smash bros =(. I got a lot of instant noodles though. yay!

I guess I should post something or else no one will...

very upset about my exam marks. I'm gonna have to spend the last month of school studying hardcore. So annoying, I've never gotten such low marks consistently. I usually get one bad mark, and then do better next time. There are those who do well in high school and suck at university, and there are also those who sucked in highschool and do extremely well in university. I'm part of the first group... i did fairly well in high school... and now i suck at uni. of course there are those who do consistently well. What lucky people...

I'll b coming back home for easter. Possibly my last greyhound trip back home. But we never know, i might decide to go home again during exams or right before exams. Looking forward to possibly playing super smash bros brawl. Should b back thursday... maximum playing time.

Weird thing happened on sunday. I actually woke up laughing. It was so stupid, i had a pretty funny dream and i kept laughing until i was awake. I believe i even snorted. i couldn't stop laughing until i was conscious enough to know it was a dream and i had woken up.

I

Have
Work
Tommorow
I
Should
Be
Sleeping

600
t
h
.
p
o
s
t

y
o

599

Ok people, I am doing the 599th post. SO, if anyone wants to make us happy and do the honors of writing the 600th i wouldn't mind. If it inspires you to post something so be it. It doesn't need to be significant. just POST!

I finished the Prince of Tennis manga... that's pretty important to me coz prince of tennis was the first anime I downloaded and watched instead of just watching it on t.v.
It was the series that started the anime-crazed era that is my life. Although it would be more significant if i finished the actual anime instead of the manga coz i didn't start from the beginning for the manga.

Yah... that be all. Please someone post something.

Reading Week

My reading week was pretty fun actually... i believe it was better than my 3 weeks of my Christmas break.

So, i basically didn't do any reading. I'm at the UCC (university community center) attempting to study. I refuse to go back to my rez before reading some bio. Yet i still continue to procrastinate. Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday were the days i actually did stuff.... Sunday I went to church but that's about it. On the days I didn't do anything I played flyff and started watching a new anime called bamboo blade which is an anime about kendo.

So lets start with friday. I had my chem exam at 7pm which is why i couldn't go back to Toronto on Friday. I didn't do too well on it... and based on what i glanced at other people's walls on facebook they didn't do too well either. I was mad relieved when the exam was over though...

Saturday was my birthday. Thanks unknownuser for sneaking a 20 dollar bill in my pocket... i used that and now i have no money. And thanks drakonen.. for the free test drive haha which probably would've happened anyways whether it was my birthday or not but thanks. The test drive at the autoshow was amazing. First time in a long time driving. It was especially fun since i didn't have to care about gas. My driving is usually uber conservative (don't step on gas too strongly getting a nice cruising feel). After watching initial d, i try to drive so people don't notice me accelerating or braking. Nice smooth drives are great. However, i didn't care about that on the test drive, smoothness was not a necessity although i didn't go too overboard as many of the other drivers did.
I don't like the sound of the engine. I don't know, many people think it's kool to hear the engine roar... i find it very annoying lol. It's noisy...
Don't know much about cars, so i'll leave any autoshow business to unknownuser and drakonen if they ever post.

Monday went to the dentist. Then I hung out with my church friends, went kbbq which was mad expensive for a meal. I can get full with a 7 dollar chinese meal... but no... a 17 dollar kbbq has to be the social thing to do.
after that we just went to our youth pastor's house and played a board game while just chatting and chillin. Also went bbt.

Tuesday I didn't do much either except go to volleyball at my church. Didn't do that for SO long. Vball was ok, I was a bit rusty so i wasn't too happy. It was fulfilling to finally go there though.

Wednesday I didn't do anything except flyff and watch bamboo blade. I'm almost level 30 now... yes... it is a feat. None of my characters usually get above 25 like gunbound (i don't even know if they have levels), neopets, gunz, maplestory. Everything usually gets harder to level up once u reach 21 so i usually just quit after that. The only exception is diablo II. I think it was 30 or 40 something for that. Go barbarian! u... necromancers.

Thursday... the main thing was basically going to jiu jutsu with unknownuser and then destiny's with both unknownuser and drakonen. Jiu jutsu was fun and tiring. I watched the jiu jutsu club today after aikido and I was like "i wanna try! I know some stuff tooo now!" but i resisted. I just liked the fact that I can do basically anything when just free sparing in jiujutsu. Although I couldn't implement my aikido skills to its full extent I still used it a bit. I'll probably join the actual aikido center in london though... next year haha. 70 dollars for 3 months (20 dollars off regular price since I paid 20 dollars for western's aikido club so it was actually suppose to be $90 student price). Looking forward to that next year. I only have 2 months left this year so it's not worth it.
Speaking of which i have an aikido belt test March 16th. Going for my yellow belt! no stripes! lol... although it'll probably be a bit harder since i'll be tested on 2 techniques, not just the basic movements.
Destiny's was fun too. Drakonen was kinda high.... don't know what they put in that green tea latte.
They didn't put ice or a straw in mine and it tasted a bit diet as well. If they didn't put tapioca in it i would've freaked out. I did not get drunk this week... sad or good? don't know

Friday I was planning on going to fellowship but the weather was pretty bad. Normally it wouldn't stop me, but I wanted to do something else. I was watching stuff on youtube and I stumbled upon the usage of ki energy. It's interesting too and I've been trying to become sensitive to my ki but it hasn't been working out so far. Apparently some people sense their ki very fast and others take time... or basically some people are just gifted at it and others aren't. And from the looks of it I'm not. But everyone can use it through meditation and stuff. No, it does not conflict with my Christian beliefs. So this will be fun. I'm actually interested in ki therapy. Using ki to heal others. It'd be useful if i can do it. There are actual classes.. but they're like 70 dollars for level 1. and other levels cost more. Same with CPR! that's like 70ish dollars too... i think. Kinesiology is so expensive... lol. But yah, if u ever go onto youtube, check out ChosonNinja's stuff. It teaches a lot of different martial arts and has different philosophies as well .... i dunno. It's not one of those Chinese philosophies, just i think neutral stuff. He's a christian too... if that bothers u then... don't check it out? haha...

Saturday, was suppose to go drinking with drakonen friday night, postponed it to saturday morning/afternoon... and ended up not doing it at all. How disappointing. So i did nothing Saturday except pack and watch a bit of t.v. Then I left for western.

Now I'm here... trying to study... yet posting on this blog that no one uses anymore. -sighz-

edit: OH and i ate PHO!!!!! FINALLY ON THURSDAY! thank u unknownuser. that is all

When History somewhat repeats itself

Now that we're in university, I'm pretty friggen scared about plagiarism. It's not that I plagiarize, it's just I don't know how great my paraphrase skills are.
I had to do a Psych project requiring me to make a presentation on powerpoint but not actually present it. The presentation should be 15 slides including title page, body, conclusion, and references. We were told that we'd have to do this since october... however i chose to do most of the work 2 days before the due date which was February 21st (today). My topic was on the evolutionary significance of music which i found to be a bit interesting. Well I had to or else i wouldn't have picked it. We basically had to think of a good question related to psychology and submit the question with minimum of 2 articles by january. Then we had from january to february to do the slides. However, making the slides is not the long part, it is reading and understanding all my articles that took forever. Even after reading the articles i had trouble organizing my slides. It's over now, however it was not fun. I could have done better, just like how i could of done better in my physio exam that i pretty much ran out of time and had to guess 2 answers (no time for educated guess, it was random guess).

So, due to the project, I attempted my first all-nighter. It was not all night, i stayed up to 4:45 and my body could not take it so I let myself go to sleep. Had to wake up at 9 to get to class, but decided to skip it and finish my project as staying up all-night did not accomplish everything. Eventually I had to go through all my classes, skipped my bio tutorial to finish the project. So from reading the articles to producing the slides it took around 18 hours in 2 days. It looks nice, but i'm not sure if the content is up to par.
My next all-nighter hopefully takes all night with no sleep not because i don't want to sleep but because i just want to say i stayed up all night. I found that after 3:30... productivity decreases. My main productive times are in the afternoon and from maybe 10 to 2:30.

Have to study for chem now. I would do an allnighter for chem, but 2 all-nighters in a row is not something i'd like to do before saturday.

Hacky Sack

Unknownuser... bought me a hacky sack for christmas and now i must semi-master it like the rubik's cube. However, it's not going as smooth as the rubik's cube where i just learned to do it in like a day. Hacky sack takes skill ><. I am just waiting until there's enough neuronal representation in my primary motor cortex for the foot is present so i can actually perform the skill without trying too hard. But yah, this could take a while. And when i master the hacky sack, i'll go into juggling with my hands. That could be for the summer or something.

But yah... hacky sack... -sighz-

short post..

a post about a one post

There was just ONE post last year in february??? This is very disappointing! Although not as disappointing for me coz it was my one post that provided a link for february 2007.So it was basically last year that we started declining in posts. So sad...

Most of my posts will be looking back at past years because that's what this blog is about. Reminiscing about what we did around the same time last year. I was driving last year... i'm not driving at all this year. That's not suppose to happen. I'm suppose to drive more as years go by. I could've had my G license by now. Also, reading the comments, nimalan wasn't on msn for a while. WHERE ARE YOU???
what else did i talk about... hmmm... no girlfriends... (jeez this is getting depressing), and birthday coming up in less than a month. 19th birthday... legal for drinking... although i don't plan on drinking now do I plan on drinking with underaged kids =P

I'm in university now... i'm suppose to be studying. I'm currently at the weldon library supposedly studying for psych test on thursday and a physio quiz in a few hours yet i'm here posting because posting is a good procrastination tool. Also because i'm trying to get the post count up to 600 all by myself (with a little help from unknownuser of course). I'll probably be back this weekend. Chinese new year on thursday?

Anyways i'm gonna close my laptop for now since i didn't bring my charger so it's running solely on batteries after my one hour lecture.

Thanks for reading.

Oh, and i also started and finished elfen lied. Yah... starting a few new anime series now.

Post about a non-post

Oh Unknownuser.... all these drafts that are not posted.... lol!

Yah... my titles suck.

Anyways! January 29th, this shall be the day (although i'm posting now on January 30th) that I have received my first Gi from aikido! yaaaaaaah! I thought I'd share my happiness. During classes, i'm usually the only one without a gi or the uniform we wear for training. I felt like i was the odd one out.... coz I was. I had a yellow stripe belt and yet i was all the way down the line where the beginners were. I had a white belt that was lined up in a higher rank than me (wearing a belt with regular clothes really looks... blah). So yah, maybe buying something like that will get me to be more serious about the art.

I just came back from a retreat with a christian fellowship from school. This won't be anything religious, i'm still talking about aikido (although i really shouldn't be... i feel bad). We had a snow ball fight! and all i thought during that time was "I CAN USE AIKIDO HERE!" but i didn't. I was a pacifist for the whole fight. Although aikido has sharpened my dodging skills. I dodged two snow balls that were thrown within a meter away from me and both snowballs hit the same person behind me. It was hilarious. Next time, i will be ready to fight.

History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi! anime! watch some of it.... =D only 50 episodes. All on veoh. don't even need to download it. Guy learns jiu jutsu, chinese kenpo, karate, muy thai, and weapons. There's one person who uses tae kwan do i believe.... no judo though. There's sumo.... haha! for like 1 episode. No aikido though, so don't worry unknownuser.... don't feel left out.

Three Years

As one can probably tell, this blog has gone on for little over 3 years now starting in december of 2004 with just a guy named drakonen verifying his own existence. The good thing about our blog early on is that we posted almost everyday so it allows me to look back on what happened exactly 3 years ago. There was no January 12th post but there was an 11th and 13th. I had the stupid music project that i did last minute. I still remember that coz it's probably the most stress i felt doing a 3 month project in maybe 2 days. I believe drakonen came over to help too. A funny thing to also see is that i was looking for a martial art that was right for me. Now I have one! dang... how we've grown. I was so energetic in my posts... now when I read my posts it has a more...non...energetic feel to it.

We still need a new background for this blog. I remember when we used to change the background like every week. I didn't photoshop for sooo very long.

I have to figure out when the next time i'm coming back to Toronto is. I know i'll be back either the weekend before my birthday or the weekend of my birthday. I don't know if i'll be back anytime before those two weekends, if so it'll probably be the weekend of february 1st. Yah it'll probably be february 1st then since it's in the middle of when I was in toronto and when i'll be back for... some reason later in feb. yay... you got to see my planning in action from one paragraph. Neways... just woke up an hour agoish. Have to plan the rest of my day. Probably watch a few movies off dc++ then start reading the berserk manga. At night i'll probably study since I've figured out that if i can study everything in 2 weeks, studying everything in little pieces every week should be easier.

I need a life... don't really have much of a social life but i should've established that during frosh week. Too late now.

My Break.

The break did go by so fast... but after it I honestly do not remember what being in school feels like anymore, waterloo seems like such a distant memory for me. Still looking forward to going back to it in four months or so? That ammount of time just seems gynormous. Hopefully i get stuff done here while i'm in toronto. Started my co op last thursday. A week already? it sure is going by fast. Working at a nuclear power plant with all these engineers is such a different experience. All these technical terms wizing by me, does make me feel that i still have things to learn.

Judo, martial arts really are a stress reliever. Have gone almost a month without doing it, and i've got to push myself to go out and look for one, except... something always comes up, stopping me from doing so.

Juno, didnt notice their similarity til now, not related at all though. This is a movie that i went to see twice at the theatres this week, my excuse is that it was with different people, the actual reason though was that the movie was really good, I wouldn't mind seeing it a few more times. The movie is about a girl and her pregnancy. Really is much better then that description, much. If a movie can be fullypacked and can get Everyone in the theatre laughing at some point And when a good Half of the portion of the theatre was filled with older folk that were laughing their asses off too, then it must be doing something right. Just the main character alone is enough to make someone go see the movie, and the soundtrack... what soundtrack? you'll see...

what else... got to be up by 6:30 tommorow for work and its... 1:12 already... so the else will have to wait.

New Post

I believe this is my first post of 2008. Let's take a look back at the times when all of us posted something except for maybe m&m, but still he posted a bit. Now, let us fast forward to today when only two out of the four people post even if it's just a bit. By this time next year, there will only be one person posting. This is not an independent blog. I already have an independent blog. This is a blog where 4 people participate in such activities as sharing one's story even if it's only a story about their day.

I have shared my disappointments many times. Now unknownuser has experienced the same disappointment. Feel my pain of coming to a site where nothing is updated. No new stories.... You have either done nothing during the break and have nothing to share, or you're just not kool enough to post in a blog that you've helped create.

Aikido is still fun. Still learning new techniques that I have yet to master. My dual with jonathan never happened, but i did collect 70+ stars in Super Mario Galaxy. Watched two movies one day after another, and stayed home a lot catching up on tv. I learned how to solve the rubik's cube, started to learn how to juggle, and ate a lot of chocolate. Caught up on my chinese food and home cooked meals, and also watched a lot of youtube stuff containing aikido and needle throwing. Even I found two possible aikido centres in Toronto that I might go to during the summer... although it would take money so i need to get a job first. All in all it was a great holiday. Just lining up at best buy at 6 in the morning is an accomplishment. That line was longer than abercrombie and fitch for it went all around the parking lot (I do not claim that as a fact as I didn't really get to see the abercrombie and fitch line).

Now I'm back in res at western. Got over my need to play the guitar and the need for dc+. Still noticing that martial arts just brightens your day... all this new self-confidence. Feels good... but if i sleep it'll go away.

I do not think on my posts... I simply type. I think my new paragraphs aren't really paragraphs... the breaks are just the breaks I have when i lose my concentration and start daydreaming or something. Anyways, this post could go on forever so I'll post again later. Happy New Year.

why dont I see any new posts

/\
|
|

just a week left

in one week,
i'll be done all my exams,
i'll be taking a pretty long break from waterloo,
i'll be back in toronto
i'll have to get used to more work work and less of that school work
i'll hopefully not be bored enough to post more often ( sorry )
i'll have to last minute shop for christmas presents
i'll have to pack!, the mess i've made is intense, i really am not ready to pack it all up

Slowly making it to 600

We should've reached 600 posts by now but some people choose not to write anything here. The creator of this blog hasn't legitimately written in this blog for over a period of many...many....many.... months. This is very discouraging and disappointing at the same time. What's more disappointing is that he'll most likely not read this post at all until maybe next year? I can technically bash him all I want and he won't know a thing until next year... but i would've gone back to university by then therefore missing his chance to kill me personally unless he drives down to london, kills me, brings my corpse over to waterloo and dumps it in some random guy's room.

I'm jk drakonen, don't kill me

Anyways, that wasn't the point.

I was a bit late for my exam today. Had a 9:00am physiology exam... woke up 8:55am... Let's just say it was not a pleasant experience. On the other hand, i did get my first dose of exercise running to the exam room... found out i wasn't really fit... well didn't find out, basically reminded me that I suck at cardio.

The calm before the storm, no wait the tsunami, no i think it'll actually be the end of the world

exams, we all hate it but we all have it. They're worth so much that, people who probably skipped lectures all year and wasted their life studying probably will do well on it, and get a better mark than those who showed up. What if they're harder then hard and everybody fails, and even midterms couldn't save them, haha pwned. So i enter the exam arena, wishing i had probably entered it sooner, exams start in three days, and with no classes, i'll have no choice but to study. and with the librarys open 24 hours, the last time i left it at 2... it was full. i'll have to go find some new dark corner or closet to study as the libary will be guaranteed to be full all the time, and not only full but loud. but thats ok, i just got new headphones, a small reward which i'll owe myself back for when i'm on co op next term. $100 shure earbuds, all because my roomate got the $200 ones. There probably are better ways i could have spent that money but they're jsut so... much better than the ipod ones... which probably weren't that good to begin with but they still had the w factor... one republic has their album out, but they only have two new singles? i think? just read the titles and listened to their new ones. and heroes has their season finale today.. which wont make sense because the series was cut short because of the writers strike

writers strike sucks
writers strike sucks
pdeng sucks, which is my course which i'll still have to take over my co op term, so i'll never ever be free from school
writers strike sucks
judo is cool
i should probably do more judo when i get back to toronto, i'll see
writers strike and pdeng sucks
jumper looks cool, i remember reading that book when i was so young, and researching that movie, told me that there was actually a sequel to that book, which i'll have to read, along with some newspapers when i get back to toronto. Haven't read a newspaper or flipped to the news channel in so long. Canada may now possibly be in a war or someone finally found bin laden or something and i wouldn't know.
music is too cool
dc++ is too cool















EXAMS ARE NOT COOL.

whatever

You guys all suck! booo

Very quickly. I went to a ball and learned how to swing dance. haha, it was fun.

Got my yellow stripe belt for aikido. Happy about that too.

See? doesnt have to be friggen long. just friggen post something

Paintballin

What's with all the drafts that are unpublished/duplicates?

Anyways, quick update.

Getting ready for finals. I haven't been studying as much as I want to or had hoped to do. I need to focus and concentrate but daydreaming is so fun.

Attempting to decorate room with Christmas lights... looks pretty. I've only decorated the room with my roomate's lights though so I need... no... want to buy some more lights and decorate my part of the room (majority of the decoration is on his side).

Still up to date with scrubs, grey's, heroes, and lost. Started the first episode of House yesterday. Don't plan on continuing until exams are over. I'll probably download most of the episodes off DC++ during exams but not watch them and save them over the christmas holidays. If i remember.

Went paintballing today. First paintball experience. It was fun but i wish I got shot at more on my arms and legs so i have bruises to prove i went paintballing. I have a red mark on my left arm from a shot... but it's not bruising. I'm happy, i shot 3 people my first time playing. It's not great, but i'm satisfied. Wrecked my clothes though... must wash. I have like 3 loads of clothes left unwashed coz i don't have the time or patience to wash clothes right now.

Vacuum Time

Hey, this is fake Nimalan.

I have come here from the future warning you that I have a disability that hinders me from posting. ... Lalalala

You know what I just said? "I can finally wear a shirt" please comment on that

By the way, I have things against flowers

A PROfessional haircut??? what???

Won't post much

Got my first professional haircut since like 3 years ago? Everything looks great except the back... which i'm gonna have to fix in 2 weeks when i go back to toronto.
Don't know where I left off on my series update last time but all caught up on scrubs, g.a., and heroes, now on second season of lost.