you people and recommending/rating artists and their albums.
I don’t have an artist or album to recommend. Like I said in the last post, i’m watching a lot of scrubs. I get most of my songs from scrubs… lol kinda sad. Anyways, My Road by Quinn Walker sounds pretty nice… better if you can hear the bass… probably.
So, let’s get on with a few updates.
Coffeehouse. I distinctively remember the first and what was the only coffeehouse I helped out (performance-wise) in was very traumatizing. I was close to having a nervous breakdown. My heart was beating mad fast before I had to go on. I even had to stay outside and stretch. Very unpleasant. However, once I got up there, I did ok. I was satisfied with what happened on stage and I had a sense of peace.
This coffeehouse was the opposite of that. I felt nervous… but it was the kind of nervousness that I always have before playing in front of a crowd of people. I wasn’t as nervous beforehand this time because I knew most of the people watching whereas last year it was the beginning of first year when I didn’t really know anyone. However, whether it was because the song was sung very low during the verses or I just got really nervous or the combination of them both, my voice started shaking and I couldn’t project my voice (and even when I do, it’s still pretty soft). To this day, I’m still playing that moment over in my head and beating myself up for it. How could I mess up like that? Many debates are currently going on in my head… even though I should just let it go because it has already passed. Also thankful for the friends there that just encouraged me when I was putting myself down after.
The skit was a bit more fun to do. After putting myself down the first act, my thought was that nothing that I was about to do would be worse than what had just happened. It went fairly smooth. Maybe one minor timing glitch but it wasn’t noticeable.
Pretty much finished Fable… I could do a bit more, but I should actually really study. I haven’t really taken my studies that seriously. I have however, been reading a lot. Except it’s not for school. Maybe i’ll post something about it when I’m more bored than I am now. Got up to date with the 8th season of scrubs that I thought would never exist coz I thought the 7th season was the last. The 8th season is actually pretty funny. Or at least more so than the more recent seasons. Also watching the 8th season of friends. I forgot where I left off a few years ago after the…. incident….. dot dot dot.
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spilled a bit of sauce on my bed sheets and now i have to wash them all! (with my house mate’s laundry detergent coz mine ran out. Was suppose to buy detergent today but I couldn’t decide which one was the best. Bad decision skills).
Fine… I’ll use it just because it has been recommended twice. Peer pressure…
I probably won’t be using this type of font on all my posts because it’s just too much trouble to select everything. We will see. Anyways, found out I had an essay due today that has already been extended 2 weeks… I just didn’t notice that the 2 weeks ended today. So i basically have to write an essay before next week or i will fail (not really… but still… fail)
As for coffeehouse stuff… I’m not totally sure how ready I am. I am in two acts, the first one being me singing and on guitar with another friend singing; the other is a skit. I’m interested to see how nervous I’ll get right before I go on. Last years coffee house was the most nervous experience in my life. Definitely will be an interesting night.
Other than that… had an awesome time in the anatomy lab taking out the large and small intestines and cutting open a human liver. It’s actually pretty small. People usually think it’s huge, but it’s actually contained in a lot of fat and a sac so once you open everything up, the kidney is only like 70% of it’s size before.
Our cadaver had so many surgeries done due to having so many things wrong with him. I kinda wonder what his life was like before he died. He died from his right lung kinda exploding, but when you open him up there is so much more than that. His heart was ridiculously huge… or rather it was just larger than what it’s normally suppose to be for a guy his size. He had heart surgery… we think he got his valves replaced. His digestive track is just DESTROYED. He couldn’t do his number 2 normally. He had part of his intestines rerouted out of his belly and into a bag.
Can you just imagine that?
What is life like when you can’t even poo normally?
I know my whole group kinda felt sorry for the guy. He also had gall stones and a cyst on his kidneys. If he didn’t die from his lungs, he would’ve died from other stuff. I think he also had cancer on his intestines too.
What will happen when I get old? What’s happening in each of our bodies? It's all a mystery
Oh life…
Guys we have a new theme song. See below.
[EDIT]: Err... I'm a noob. Why isn't this working? Can one of the more technically adept members help to fix this?
[EDIT2]: It actually SORT of works and can be viewed if you click one of the video links in the bottom of the video bar once it loads and the message pops up.
How is that not cool? I personally don’t care too much about the dark vibe feelings from the video, but the beat i have to admit is pretty catchy.
Everyone sound’s like they’ve been enjoying themselves lately, well nim did have a weekend of enjoyment before that… I think i’ll include myself in this group. I do have to agree with Gary and say that the weather brings out the best in people.
Perfect weather yesterday. I went out twice yesterday to play with a soccerball around the res where I live. When a group of people can just get together and kick a ball around, in some sort of field/parking lot mix, then it must be something special.
Working inside with the windows open and a gentle breeze blowing in, is one of the nicest feelings which I can remember in my recent memory. Wait, Driving with the windows slightly rolled down and a breeze blowing in as I drive Might top that.
This warm weather also reminds me that summer is next term. Summer in toronto will be amazing, no more having to study while everyone has fun which happened to me last year.
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Oh where or where to begin, with good news or bad news? Might as well go chronological!
Last Saturday I went to the South Asian Alliance Show, and went as part of University of Scarborough’s Spirit team. That ended up happening because I couldn’t initially go to the show, but when the day cleared up, my high school buddies called me up to see if I was going and that they were buying tickets right then. So I ended up going to the show as part of the UTSC spirit team, which is basically where all 14 participating universities had people come who weren’t participating in the stage performance sat with their respective universities and had to both cheer and perform a special intro cheer right before the stage performance. The UTSC theme this year was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the cheer we had to do (which me and my friend from waterloo learned in the lobby of the Hershey’s Centre) was us unwrapping larger chocolate bars with university names on it singing “whose got the golden ticket” as if we were Oompa Loompas. Suffice to say, the winning golden wrapper was in the UTSC bar, and the one minute cheer went straight to a Willy Wonka themed Bollywood dance off. Did I mention this is a competition, which is judged? Waterloo won I think like 9 of the 19 awards, including the top award of Best Performance. Their theme was university life, with the different styles and themes within south Asian culture split up to represent the different faculties. They definitely had the best funding, and the best usage of props and stage sets, which made for a good show, but sad competition. York was second with a Super Mario theme, which curiously University of Toronto Mississauga campus also did. Third was McMaster, which did a take on the movie Night at the Museum. Others worth mentioning is Western's Mafia movie theme performance, where their cheer was a trailer of sorts, UTSG did… I can’t seem to remember for the life of me… I just remember UTSC people feeling depressed for not winning anything (we should’ve won best spirit team). It was a fun 5+ hours of pure exhaustion (we cheered louder then most, and led the entire group a lot of times since we were in the middle). Also, there were so many hot brown girls and not enough guys to watch them, so a great sight everywhere!
So that was Saturday… Sunday was spent making pancakes with me and my cousin since we woke up at 8am somehow. It wasn’t my first time making pancakes, but I botched the batch since I couldn’t find a whisk, and used an electric mixer instead. In my stupidity, I used it in a shallow bowl and ended up ejecting a good portion of the egg yolk. Too hungry and lazy to start over, I went ahead and made them. I messed up again because I left the heat too high in the pan which caused the pancakes to burn easily, so I lowered it. Well, instead of lowering it and waiting for heat to dissipate, i went ahead and made the last bunch. Now, if you want to not burn things, you put them in lower heat, or you put if for less time. I chose the latter, and resulted in undercooked pancakes. Luckily, maple syrup masks all… too well….. My cousin was too hungry, and nice to complain, so that was that…..
For him at least (dah dah daaaaaaaaaaaaah)
The rest of the day was spent with me, my cousin, my sister, and three other cousins taking a cousin a newly arrived cousin from France shopping with us at Orfus Rd, to which I have never been to personally but is the outlet street for Urban Planet and Stitches and Cosa Blanka and wherever else girls show (they got tops for $5!?!). Last time I apparently met this cousin was 10 years ago, where she was a flower girl with my sister for our aunt’s wedding. Now, this aunt’s youngest sister is getting married, and she’s back. She’s never bought so many close in her life, and neither have I, nor any of the guys there. Hell, it was more then my current wardrobe! How many times can you split $200 into $5 increments? Yeah, exactly. I was hilarious because the French cousin could speak French, German, Italian and Spanish…. but not any English, so we all had to speak Tamil. Which none of us are the greatest in. So I had fun with family that day.
So finally, 4am Monday, I wake up to a stomach ache, go up two flights into the washroom, and throw up, a lot. After four complete upchucks, I rinse my mouth out and tried to sleep on the couch. I ended up up vomiting up four more times, with at least three upchucks each. I don’t think I’ve ever been so dehydrated. So I took two glasses of water. Who the hell throws up water? Its like my body was waiting for me to give it a medium to upchuck. Hell, I threw up some more after that, and there was no more bitter acid taste, just tasteless vomit… which I gagged so hard at one point that half of it came out of my nose… ugh. So a trip to my family doctor (whom I haven’t seen in more then a year) basically asked me what I think I should do, since it was clear what the cause was at this point. I ended up with a liquid diet for the last three days, a shot of gravol injected into my ass (literally) by the doctor so I could actually eat something and survive, and antibiotics since I was coming down with a slight fever. Last three days have been locked in bed, random light vomiting, tasteless food, clothes that I have yet to buy for a wedding on Saturday, and my buddies posting how nice the weather is and how much fun they’re having! SPRING FEVER!
Oh, and my cousin had no problems, so he’s enjoying his march break.
I have found myself spending alot of money on orange juice lately, or well not just recently but more so throughout all of my past and present university terms.
I have funded “tropicana” with countless amounts of money over the past while. They somehow make their juice taste so good in a way that, the 1.99 carton of pulpless so called orange juice does not. In our fridge, or well in my section of it anyways, there always must be at least some form of tropicana orange juice within it.
I probably cannot go more than a week without seeing it in my fridge. Sure here and there I splurge for the odd fruitopia, or fivealive carton to make up for it. But more often than not i find myself buying the same thing week in and week out, and it has really put a strain on my wallet.
I can go grocery shopping and somehow spend 35$ somewhat dollars and it only accounts for a few meals, the mystery of the missing money at the grocery store still puzzles me.
stupid 8:30 classes.
5$ and a calculator. I have no clue how it got there. But the 5$ was a nice find. I guess the calculator is useful, for school?
The weather IS nice, no i haven’t gone out on any wacky adventures like Gary has. But i have enjoyed being outside. So many possible summer ideas do come to mind though which have made the last few days more enjoyable. Just waiting for others in my class to get a job, as many of them are having a tough time given the current economy. It’s tough to talk about anything fun without inadvertently (misspell most likely and i can’t find the spell checker) causing them undue mini-angers. I know the feeling of seeing others get jobs before me and how i felt in my previous job-less state.
I Just found one of those daily pill/vitamin boxes which I have started using and it actually Does it’s job of reminding me.
Was it all just a splurge?
Did it come, and already go?
This weekend I “watch”ed the “watch”men.
( first real hyperlink, it better work )
Having heard about this movie from various people who watched it last weekend ( opening weekend ). One thing which I was warned by many to do was to read up on it first. So that I did. Wikipedia Obviously. It wasn’t enough. By the end of the 2hour and 25somewat minutes I was still left quite confused by the whole thing. It was a very slow paced movie, which went into excruciating details about every single characters past in the story. Most of which just made it more confusing. Why’s and why’s I was left with. Aside from that, it had all the makings as to what could have been a very good movie for me. Or it may have been, to someone very familiar with the story.
7 / 10
I’ve added two more albums to my current playlist, Kasabian by Kasabian and Perfect Symmetry by Keane and am looking at the newest album by Ne-yo which i never got around to. Did anyone else know that the wiki page for albums automatically collects and displays “professional reviews”? It would be interesting to actually go through it and see how “professional” critics see, or hear, the music we listen too, although i suppose metacritic.com is much more powerful at aggregating it….
I think I have a think for British rock, with mild to heavy electronica, or maybe its because I’ll never hear it on local radio
Things seem to be going smoothly, I’ll be going to the South Asian Student Alliance show that happens every year. It happens with all the universities in Ontario with their respective south asian clubs/alliances/groups. I didn’t go to last year’s one, but people said it was well worth it, which i will find out this coming Saturday. The after party is also said to be eventful, if your into after parties of mainly westernized south asian kids… hopefully the guy:girl ratio isn’t abysmal.
On a completely different note, how awesome is the Naruto manga going? Am i the only one who reads it? After all, you can read it online, so its not like you have to put to much work into downloading and extracting anything. I mean, there’s been non-stop action for a long time now with massive losses for both protagonist and antagonist, always loved it when the author is willing to kill of characters that were prominent, unlike others… *cough*
