Subsequent Post

So as for the other stuff that happened…

Had an Epic Summer Planning session with Unknownuser. Nerded it all up. For complete nerdiness you must look at the original copy, but for now I will type out the good copy of our plan.

Food
[ ]Kbbq                        [ ] Indian Food
[ ]BBQ                              [ ] Wings
[ ]Sushi                              [ ] Hot Pot
[ ]Pho                              [ ] Buffet

 

Activities (non-sport)

[ ]Go-Karting           [ ] Pool
[ ]Paintballing                [ ] Movies
[ ]Bowling                       [ ] Laser (quest), Playdium

Activities (sport)
[ ] Sports (include but not limited to:)
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Badminton
4) Soccer
5) …

Nerd Stuffs
[ ] ROM
[ ] Science Centre
[ ] Conventions

Epicness
[ ] Sport events
[ ] Concerts
[ ] Camping (road trip)
[ ] CNE

Campus Challenge was nice. I think I posted a bit about it already. Learned a lot from the people and from the overall experience itself both related and unrelated to the event. For more details about what i learned you can probably go to flow4him.blogspot.com whenever i get to it.

Edit: the list is without the marking scheme and the super epic road trip plans. those will be left on my actual sheet to preserve its epic contents

Work

So i’ve been working at my co-op for about 2 weeks now, and finally I understand a little bit more about what I do everyday at my monday to friday 9 - 5.

It’s an interesting little small start-up company in the biotech field.  A bunch of researchers at UofT decided that they had a product which others were interested in, and a few of them decided to break off from the university and create a company to develop and sell this product.  A few people being Actually a “few” or 2. 

So I have 2 other full time co-workers in this little company.  Theres 1 product manager which deals with the customers and the managing and selling of the product.  Another one is the machinst who goes about building the product in the little machine shop of his ( think grade 7  & 8 metal and wood shops? ).  The main product which we develop or which i’m currently working on, involves a product which analyzes the thermal stability of proteins.

Working in my first software development job, i’m actually enjoying having complete control of the this entire aspect of the project by myself. 

Now working once again is a new thing for me.  9-5s are more hours then what school takes, but then the nights are completely free to me, so there's that plus of having no homework. 

I can see how its easy to fall into a pattern of working and letting time fly right by. 10 – 20 years of this can seem like a normal routine.  will that be me? All the older people who I speak too, all tell me that job security is an important aspect.  But doesn’t this mean they’ll be staying in the same company for a long time? I just don’t want to fall into a cycle for that long.  We’ll see where I end up in 10 years.

I’ve also turned 20 last month, I don’t beleive i’ve posted since then either.  But that whole new “2”s digit infront makes me take a step back and think about where my life is heading.  I haven’t had any major epipanies or anything but its just a reminder that everyone should take a step back in their lives sometimes just to think about where their lives are headed.

The 12’oclock bug ALWAYS hits.

Like most days, i’ve attempted to post much earlier in the day, and my posting speed is at a slow-moderate pace.  It usually culminates abruptly with it becoming too late and time for bed, and the pressure and race to finish posting begins.

Just Hoping to be cured for next time….

off ice al

Disclaimer: It’s a whole post about a girl. I know how everyone loves disclaimers.

Hey guys, I didn’t post in a while. I was kinda hoping that someone would post, but I guess not.

Pretty exhausted from campus challenge. I was away for the whole Victoria Day weekend just getting to know other christians from other campus fellowships.

A few things happened from my last post to now. I can’t do a lot of it much justice as it has been a while, but we will see how good my posting skills are. I will devote this whole post to one thing and my subsequent post for the rest.

May 11:
Dragged drakonen out with me to do some shopping.  My mom got laid off this day, so I had the car for the whole afternoon. (She’s doing ok). I went to the bank to take out some money and then I went to shop for a red rose and a box of chocolates. Found the flowers, but didn’t buy them because I wanted to keep them fresh. Went to STC to buy a box of chocolates. Got exhausted after driving around so that was that.

May 12 Part 1:
This was a pretty full day. Started with a Campus Challenge worship practice from 9a.m. to 12p.m. Then Jess and I went to celebrate a friend’s birthday at Sushi Bong. After everything was done, she went home and took a nap while I had to drive off once again to get the missing flower. Bought the flower and chose to go to STC again, but this time to buy a shirt for a date the same evening. I failed to buy a shirt for like an hour so I just went home and took a 1 minute nap. Then I was off to Jess’s house.

Intermission: brief background
This background information won’t do her justice either, but she knows she’s awesome so whatever. I met Jess Ngan at the first coffee house of the year at Western’s ACF (asian christian fellowship). I found that she was pretty open and friendly and I enjoyed her company that day (and still do). Didn’t really know her too well except for the short talks here and there either during fellowship (though i don’t really remember those talks) or during bio-psych or the jamming sessions we would have every so often. When she shared something that she had kept secret for a while, it took a lot of guts to do something like that. My overall impression was that she was a strong woman who’s honest and most importantly loves God. I was impressed, but didn’t think much of it as I was on my own journey of growth that year. However, when it came down to it and a question of “who am i interested in?” was placed on me, my answer was her. Don’t mean for this to sound very cheese or anything, just if i had to pick anyone… I thought of Jess. It didn’t mean I would make a move because I wasn’t ready and I didn’t know her that well still.

May 12 part 2:
Driving on the highway northbound at 5:50ish was not the best plan. Traffic was pretty bad and the fact that I was tired did not help the traffic go by any faster. Once I arrived, I gave her the flowers and chocolates. I was suppose to give a relatively short speech at her door asking her out, but I chickened out at that point. So I just drove her to Milliken Park where we took pictures. I was still trying to work up the courage to do the speech and ask her out so it was a while until i actually sat her down and attempted my cheese speech. A speech that would’ve taken 1 minute to get through took probably around an hour coz we kept laughing at my cheesy lines (+ they were true, not just lines). By the time i asked her, it was pretty dark. So we went to Swiss Chalet where I used to work and ate dinner there. Afterwards I slowly drove her home making stops at our respective church parking lots talking. Eventually got her home and sat by her front door because I was just that tired. Talked for a while and asked her to be my girlfriend shortly followed by her parents coming back to the house and me saying bye.

Blasted the radio on the way back so I wouldn’t fall asleep. But yes, this was my first date with Jess. Hopefully she enjoyed my very tired self =P

Just announcing this more publically because I found that hiding it this weekend was just very hard. I believe we both found it frustrating not to act like a couple because we didn’t want to disrupt the already established team chemistry of the worship team. Probably would’ve been easier to tell them, but I didn’t wanna just bring it up and have awkwardness… I suck like that haha.

That is basically it. Thanks for reading.

So Tired…[edit: I will miss you Scrubs!!!]

 

I should not be sleeping for 5 hours during the summer when I sleep for more during school. Though this is kinda my fault for sleeping late.

Pretty exhausted from everything. Had an interview today with the people above the director position. I knew them from last year so it was ok, I didn’t feel as stressed as I have with my many other talks with other people. Whenever I have a seriousish talk with people, either my face, or my hands get numb… and sometimes both. Maybe it’s just a lack of sugar… or healthy food in my system.
Anyways, they just asked me a few questions… though it seemed like a lot. The interview was different that last years i think. They didn’t ask me anything situational based like “what would you do if you lost a kid at the science centre?”. They instead asked questions like “What do you hope to achieve this summer at daycamp?”. Overall, it went well, they were very nice about everything. I kinda caught myself slouching a few times though… not good. I was tired though…

Slept at 3 in the morning coz that’s when drakonen left my place as he was installing Windows 7 on my laptop. Woke up before 9 for some reason… I don’t know why… not used to that so my eyes were pretty teary for the rest of the day. But yah, lost the songs i bought off of the itunes store… i’m pretty upset. Hopefully there is a way to get them back. Have some of the songs on my ipod shuffle… so i just can’t sync it up with my laptop. Other than that… still have to recover a few programs that I lost. Windows 7 is pretty nice so far… don’t have the energy to personalize it yet. Also had a Pho craving so we went over to pho double eight at bamburgh circle to get some Vietnamese noodles at 11:30pm. Very satisfying. Well worth the gas… and the random impulse excursion was a pretty nice bonus to a fairly semi-epic day. Drakonen also managed to confuse a spider. It looked hilarious! It was just going back and forth from drakonen’s hands (yes… pretty nasty but hilarious) until we figured out the spider was building a web between his two hands.

Had to eat viet noodles at noodle star today though… with my pho craving gone… it was pretty hard to eat a large bowl. Maybe I’ll go back one day when my cravings are back at full blast.

BIG EDIT:!!!!
HOW CAN I FORGET? SO CRAZY THAT THIS WILL BE IN CAPITAL LETTERS. JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE LAST EPISODE OF SCRUBS. THOUGH I WATCHED IT IN TWO SEPARATE PARTS AS MEGAVIDEO DID THE 72 MINUTES THING ON ME. I WAS PRETTY ANGRY. SO MAYBE I WILL WATCH IT ANOTHER TIME THROUGH THE WHOLE ENTIRE EPISODE. IT’S USUALLY 20 MINUTES BUT THIS ONE WAS 40 AS IT WAS THE SEASON FINALE. IT WAS A BITTERSWEET ENDING. I’M GLAD IT ENDED AS THE SEASONS 5-7 WEREN’T THAT GREAT. THE 8TH SEASON WAS AMAZING IN MY OPINION! A MIXTURE OF COMEDY AND SERIOUS LIFE LESSONS. IF ONLY ALL THE SEASONS WERE LIKE THIS. I think that the fact that they now knew that the season would be over, the writers actually had to think of what to do and try hard to make it awesome. Lesson: Have a goal and deadline, you will cherish everything much more than going endlessly without a finish line in sight.

Scrubs… you will be dearly missed. The show has brought me so much joy during my 1st year at Western… and it will always remain a part of me. I would take everyone down memory lane but it would make for a substantially longer post so this is good for now. =( Bye Scrubs.

I tried not to post/guitar week

Really? No posts by other people other than M&M’s? Really? Fine m&m’s you have my props

Don’t want to post long. Basically, guitaring all week… fun but tiring =P What is to become of my fingers? find out in the next post… I would explain everything in more detail but I’m not in the best state to do that. 2 in the morning isn’t the best time for anything.
With no further details:

Campus Challenge Worship Practice: Thrusday to Saturday 11am-7pm
Genesis Fellowship (Church fellowship for university students): 7pm-8pm? maybe…
Sunday Service (mothers day) Worship Practice: Wednesday 7pm-10pm (just finished)
Sunday Service: Sunday 8:15am-10amish?

Many hours pressing down steel strings. mmm…. very nice.

Hungry Hungry Hippo

Echo Domination anyone? Too bad it had to come to an end. I'm sure echoes is getting all teary by this post already. =]

Nothing too exciting in my life, I still have one more exam so I will keep this short. Typing at 5am in the morning might not be too healthy, but I have mutiple urges to eat nowadays. I already devoured my cut in half delissio pizza. Oh my, was it just awesome!

Switching to my main topic, since you guys know I am going back to my home town in china during this summer and going along the food theme, I wasted alot of time googling up my favourite food in China since when I ate it as a little kid.

I want to share some stuff with you guys.
The first thing is STINK TOFU :D










YUMMMM YUMMM!


Second thing: "Hot Dry noodle" or 热干面









They have instant noodle version of these, I might bring some back.





After you mix the sauce it looks like:














That's all for now. I will be adding more later, hopefully I can take lots of pictures and do some vblogging during my trip there :D

Signing out...

Update April 30&1

So moved out of my place north of campus and moved to my new place south of campus. It was tiring with a big of rain but it was done. I left my slippers there… I will see if i can still get it another time.

Other than that I’m back in Toronto with a lot of stuff to unpack. Throwing clothes out that I won’t be wearing anymore coz I don’t have enough room for my london clothing (I just backspaced like 3 times with the intention of capitalizing “london” but just went “whtever”)

I don’t wanna do job stuff… I just feel like relaxing but I know I can’t. Plans for the summer? Nimalan can post the list… as he says he will post on saturday… we will see whether he goes through with it.

blechgh? I just feel very blah… maybe it’s coz it’s almost 3a.m.

Oh yah… having that extra screen is actually pretty nice. Yay split screen. So much extra space… mmmm…

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Saw a shooting star when walking back from just chillin with people who still had exams. Wasn’t really annoying them, I had a book to read and was also looking for a summer job. Still nice though since it was my first time seeing a shooting star. It was epic in my eyes. It had a trail of ice behind it as well. Did I make a wish? does a cow go moo? I don’t know

Oh twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are…

(don’t get science on me, i know what it is. u’ll only ruin everything)

Edits: “It’s not about how many times we fall, but how long we stay down”

Taking a little glimpse back from the start (ironic post?) [a thought post]

Don’t have enough time or energy to post a full look back at where I was in September to where I am now so I’ll just jot down some stuff that I thought of while brushing my teeth.

I don’t think anyone ever sees exactly what they’ll be like at the end of a journey. Second year went by fairly quickly as did first year. Some stuff seemed like a long time ago eventhough it was just this year such as swimming and volleyball. Others like my trips back to Toronto, friends coming over, seemed like just yesterday. The point of this paragraph is to say how thankful I am for this year. It was a rough start academically mostly because I overloaded my first semester… and I had swimming, but coming out of this year I am able to swim and appreciate other sports more, and I also have a larger understanding of the human body and how it all works. I would have never expected this much growth in knowledge (that I may lose over the summer), or growth in other parts in my life.

I do find myself looking either in the past for hindsight or looking forward for foresight. I think many people do that though, learning from the past and applying lessons to the future. However sometimes you just have to look at the present. Just concentrate on the todays because the tomorrows will worry about itself =). Make each day count because unfortunately the world is unpredictable and this moment might just be your last. I haven’t been doing that, but hopefully one day I’ll be able to enjoy each day as it is instead of looking forward to another day thereby missing the present. Follow?

With that said, looking forward to the summer and our third year.

That’s enough for today i think.

Done Last Exams

Let me walk you through today…

First Aid/CPR at 10am. SO HOT. we had maybe 3-4 breaks including lunch. Maybe two 15 minute breaks, and one 1 hour lunch break. Maybe it was three 15 minute breaks, i don’t remember. But got through the first 8 hours of training realizing I had no notes to study for my Children’s Lit course coz I left 80% of my notes at my future house… dangs… I shake my fist at the one who might be laugh at this.

Anyways, finish about half an hour early. So I go to the library to do last minute cramming of memorizing authors and main characters… which actually ended up failing at. I forgot one author’s last name and another main characters name. Hopefully I just lose part marks for that… common english! part marks please!

The children’s lit exam actually requires a lot of strategy:
Part A Question 1 => choose 5 out of the 8 passages and state full author and title + character  who spoke it and who else was involved
Question 2 => Out of the 5 passages picked in Question 1, Pick 3 to elaborate on any themes, important developments that occurred from this passage, etc. You cannot use any of these books for Parts B or C

Part B
Pick two out of the five short answer questions to answer. You cannot use any of these books for Part C.
It basically made you compare 2 books that had a similar theme to it. I chose comparing the use of clothes in Cinderella and Peter Rabbit, and comparing the values that were in Treasure Island and the Story of the Treasure Seekers.

Part C
Pick 1 out of the 5 essay questions.
I chose to talk about how authors use death in children’s books and why they do it. I used Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, White Jade Tiger, and Briar Rose.

So you basically couldn’t reuse books that were used elsewhere in the exam. Which means you had to go over the whole exam first and pick and choose the right combination of books that would be the best fit for each question and give you the highest mark. Of course because I didn’t read every book, my choices were limited. Parts A and B had set books while Part C was choose any 3 books of your choice to compare. I enjoyed strategizing… mostly because it worked and I actually finished my exam this time. I couldn’t finish my mid-terms coz I just wasn’t used to the style. I didn’t expect much out of this exam. I went in pretty hopeless, but came out pretty hopeful. All I can do now is hope that the exam mark doesn’t make me hopeless again.

Overall I am pretty satisfied with the exam. It went ok. I could’ve done better, but I did my best and it all worked out. Yays. =)

Update: The New Jacket

Trying my hardest to have post titles… they’re hard

Bought a new jacket 1 or 2 days ago depending on how you count days… technically 2 days but because i haven’t slept yet it’s still yesterday. Yah? get it? yah.
I’ve been complaining a while that I needed a spring/autumn jacket because I don’t really have one except for maybe my formal matrix looking jacket which I don’t wanna wear every day. So yah, $30 at winners… I WIN!!!

Today was a pretty hot day. I wanted to wear my jacket… but I couldn’t. It was just hot. It’s ok though… i finished my Treasure Island book today… the one i started during reading week… and never finished. Started Treasure Island in February and finished 2 other books in between haha. Just because I wanted to write my essay on one of the two other books i read. Good motivation. So yah, finished that book, bought another book, started the new book AND finished it in the same day! WHT WHT??? Pretty proud of myself rite now… despite the fact that there are still 4ish novels left unread in the book list that I should’ve read. So i don’t really know how great I’ll do for my exam without 4 books worth of knowledge. I will just try my best and hope for the best… because that’s pretty much all I can do. But yo… “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”… pretty nice book. Very interesting and contains pretty nice lines that just make you wanna say “gg”.

Have my STANDARD First Aid/CPR C saturday… or today… or tomorrow… seeing how you count days =P from 10am to 6pm, then exam from 7pm… to… most likely the end. –sigh-. Tomorrow will not be a nice day. I wish I’d have more time to relax coz the next day is the second part of the CPR course. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I just have to get through the weekend… and I will have to worry about summer. Oh Summer… summer… summer………. =)?

Dang it! not even cold enough tomorrow for me to wear my jacket. I HAVE NOTHING! nothing!!!

Edit: Also got a free soup from Timmies!!! I was so happy! coz… i didn’t see her give free soup to anyone else… YAY. ‘Twas delicious.

Goodbye Anatomy

Just finished my anatomy exam both written and lab. 100 multiple choice for written and a 30 station bell ringer for the lab. This marks the end of me working with cadavers. It truly is a blessing when you think about the lives those bodies must have had when they were alive.

I never got to say goodbye to Clyde the Cadaver… haven’t opened him up for a few weeks. Though his muscles were amazing, his organs were not. With an enormous heart, a burst lung, and a really messed up G.I. system, he was good to us and it would’ve been nice just to pay our respects once more. I’ll never forget the experience and knowledge that I gained from working with you Clyde. I only wish I worked with you more.

The group i worked with was also amusing. It started off productive, but as we got more confused in the course, we just started to play around. No longer following the lab instructions, we just cut and explored the human body. They just make me laugh every time with their smart remarks and brilliant insults. Hope to meet up with them again someday.

Time for some children’s literature.

Update/Thoughts

Weird title… because all posts are either updates or thoughts…

Finding happiness in the little things and being thankful that I can actually afford them… for now. Ran out of body wash and hair gel (well i have an old container of hair gel but it’s been so long I don’t think it’s gel anymore). Bought new ones yesterday… can’t wait to shower… and then style my hair. This new excitement will only last a moment though… but it’s the little things that get you through the day.

Starting to feel the weight of the stuff left unstudied. Anatomy is mostly all memorizing with some application to case studies. Exam is tomorrow. Starting to worry a bit. I’m not a big worrier because I know that worrying doesn’t get you anywhere. Sure, maybe it amps up your sympathetic (flight/fight) system so all your senses are like heightened but it’s a big waste of time if you don’t do anything productive. It does get you the initial drive/inspiration for action though, and I think I need that drive or motivation to go all out. I know I will try my best though so that I may be at peace with the result and not give too many excuses (too many does not mean none =P eheheh).

Got me thinking about Security. Everyone needs to feel secure and safe though there are people who like to live on the edge. We all measure the level of risk in our heads and try to go into a decision where there’s the least amount of risk. Sometimes it’s out of our control though. So what happens to our sense of security then? Where is your sense of peace?

Just a bunch of questions. Where are the answers? Stay tuned for the next epi… jk.

Good Weekend?

Hey people… yah it’s obviously me. Because my birthday was 2 months ago, everyone in the blog has started to not post. My birthday present is dying!

So went back to Toronto on Thursday and have seen Jon and Nim 3 days in a row (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). Also saw Peter… finally haha =P ‘Twas nice seeing everyone… prolly should’ve taken a blog picture but that would’ve been awkward on Jon’s birthday… just maybe.

Everyone heard about the Thursday… but the friday is still left. Saturday I will leave it to someone else… so they can have something to actually post…. please… post it… do it….

Friday was a nice day. Spent it downtown because Nimalan had to get a jacket for his sister. Thought I’d go too seeing I need a spring/fall jacket myself. Didn’t end up looking for one. For more epic details… consult your closest blogger coz I’m not posting the rest. Some pictures are on facebook.

Main reason why I went back was because of Jon’s birthday, but I also had other plans on top of that. I accomplished 2/4 of the plan. Now, some may ask “why don’t you reduce that fraction to 1/2?” and I say “because I didn’t take math for 2 years, and because I had 4 plans and accomplished 2 of them.” What are those plans? One was to give some stuff to my dad from London to take home so I don’t have to carry everything when I have to move out. Second was to talk with the parents… yay talking.

Just watched x-men origins: wolverine online. It was pretty ok… better than stupid dragonball evolution. The CGI stuff wasn’t complete so I might want to watch it in the theatres. I found it hilarious and entertaining. When I can’t stop watching… it either means it’s really good… or so bad I just wanna know how else they can mess it up… like dragonball…. GAAAAAH!!!!

Is anyone else gonna watch it so they can fume with me? or… disagree with me? I need a fuming partner!

Edit: I need to buy new hair gel and body wash! Bar soap is annoying…

Just another update

I was suppose to post for Jon yesterday. Maybe I’ll redo his post after mine.

No one wants to post so I’ll just post for them. That’s the way it goes… and I WILL make you look bad. haha jk. –cough- Anyways, I’m back in Toronto because someone invited me to their birthday. I should be studying but another person said we’d go jacket shopping. Yet I haven’t heard from him ever since… he better not be sleeping at almost 2 in the afternoon.

Yesterday was pretty nice. Wicked awesome weather, coupled with a relatively productive day. Woke up before 12pm! I congratulated myself. Did a little youtubing, but figured my day was pretty short so I had to get moving. Emailed my parents telling them that I will most likely go back home the same night. Went to campus to 1. Find out when the last day was for handing in a copy of our CPR/First Aid certificate; 2. Register for a CPR/First aid class for the weekend after; 3. Buy Greyhound ticket to get back home; 4. Buy any children books on the booklist that I haven’t bought yet; 5. Buy lunch

Everything was done in that order. Went home to eat lunch and pack my stuff so I can get to the station on time. Found out the book i bought was the wrong book… I was quite sad. I think i posted about why I needed to do another cpr/first aid class… stupid emergency first aid instead of standard first aid. All that took… everything… almost. Once i got back to Toronto and bought more tokens… THEN i was broke. I actually have no money in my wallet. It is quite sad.
So after everything was packed, lunch eaten, I headed out. I missed 2 buses to get to greyhound on purpose coz the campus looked so beautiful that day that I had to go and take pictures of it! I also knew that no one goes back to Toronto on a Thursday… that’s just too random. I was right! Got on the greyhound bus and there were SO many empty seats! It was pretty niiiiceee. I was so happy… oh the little things that make everything so enjoyable.

Got home, ate dinner, Nimalan calls me, we all go to Jonathan’s place. Mostly chilling… youtube… them talking about computers and everything related… amusing time destroying jonathan’s facebook status and annoying everyone… back to the computer stuff. Go home around 2a.m. and decided to climb up our elementary school’s roof. Nimalan succeeded… I did not… but I will this weekend! I WILL!!!!! maybe.

That is all.

Jonathan’s Post:

Hi, I’m jonathan and I’m too kool because I’m finished school now. Not with ease though as I did have many exams crammed into a few days. Moved out of res once and for all and got back home in Toronto around 2pm yesterday. It was sad… my room mates and I hugged for a long time… we will miss each other dearly (that might have been made up).
Now I’m back in Toronto getting ready for my awesome co-op job which will be in the markham area. I have lots of learning to do. What will happen next? Stay tuned… for the next filler episode…

Girls and Relationships Pt.2: “Love is…”

Yo… I should so be studying. I WILL study after this post. That’s right, you just saw my mental power at work there. Impressed? We’ll see what happens after this post…

Nothing specific here about this post so if you’re looking for dirt, there ain’t any so you can just leave and go study.

I don’t usually post anything that may be thought of as “spiritual” here because I think it might get annoying and make people feel uncomfortable which I don’t like to do despite popular belief that I do like to make awkward moments… which I do… just not this type of awkward. But, it’s a topic that is relatively known to everyone so I feel like I can just put a glimpse of my most recent thoughts on it. Love….dating… marriage… so complicated!!! Let’s have some funnnn…

Most people knows or knows of the quote I’m about to ctrl-v on this post. Usually said at weddings? I’m pretty sure everyone has heard it in movies.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

You know about it… but you never really think about it. Or at least I don’t really think about it. I don’t just hear it and zone out and start thinking about it… although I could… but then I’d miss a part of the movie or the wedding and that’s not kool. I’m not gonna go too into it because I do have to study… prolly take a shower first and then… laundry… and then study. BUT I WILL STUDY. Anyways, back on track.

I see dating as a path to marriage. You don’t date and not plan to get married. Using a metaphor I read from a book called “I kissed dating goodbye” it would be like climbing up a mountain with a partner who suddenly decides they’re not really sure they want the responsibility of holding your rope while you’re 2000 ft up a mountain (Harris, 28). <-I am so doing that for fun. So before you dive into a relationship, a few things cross my mind.
1. Am I able to place her needs before my own? Or take care of her as if she were of my own flesh? It’s not about what you can get, but what you can give

2. Will i be able to forgive her if she has wronged me, work things out, and keep no grudges?

3. Will I be able to guard her heart and keep her pure in mind and body? Protect her life as if my life depended on it? Dating and marriage are separate things. We shouldn’t introduce important elements of marriage into a dating relationship if we do not have the level of commitment to go through with it. There is a certain level of intimacy that comes with the level of commitment.

4. Will I be able to open myself, get vulnerable, and trust her with my own life? and am I responsible and reliable enough to receive her trust?

5. Will I be able to stay positive, keeping hope alive in situations where it may seem utterly hopeless?

6. Will I be able to endure hardships and be able to overcome them? When times get tough, will I stay faithful and continue to support her?

A lot of the ideas are connected. Enduring and being patient. Gaining trust and protecting that trust. It seems pretty niiice if you do experience this type of love. The really nice thing is, there is no such thing as “love fail” and if it does seem to fail, it’s not the love, it’s probably a “you fail”.

Meh… semi-spiritual but whtever. Just been on my mind and thought I’d share something that had some depth to it unlike my other posts. This is just maybe 30-40% of what goes on in my head.
Love is hard yo. Are you ready for it?

Peace out…

… did i really say “peace out”? dang…

-Additional Thoughts/Edit in Green.-

Apparently I had a part 1 back in April of 2008… so I post the second part a year later.

Are you a gay fish?

If male, proceed!
Do you like fish sticks? If yes, proceeed!
Do you like to put fish sticks in your mouth? If yes again, proceeed!

What are you? A gay fish? Hahahhaa =]

South park is awesome! Busy with school and life lately, add me on twitter guys come on!
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Posting Beast!!!

It’s 4 in the morning and I’m eating chocolate covered almonds. Not studying… just… up.

Had a random urge to post about my sister’s hamster. Not sure if i posted a story of the hamster, but in memory of my sister’s late hamster… now laying in the backyard, let me tell you a tale of an adventure like no other… not really.

Woke up one day to find my sister going crazy and yelling my name. I come downstairs to the living room where i find my sister at the scene of the crime. The hamster was out of its cage. How did it happen? We believe that our dad cleaned the cage (which is often very much needed as my sister is sometimes too busy with school, talking with friends, or chillin with the boyfriend) and he didn’t put the wheel on properly. Our hamster slept in the wheel that he was suppose to run on which he did… but he got old and started sleeping there instead. So the wheel fell over night, and the hamster escaped. So the epic adventure began.

We looked everywhere… under the piano, in corners behind tables. No where to be found. I believe he may have been under the couch at first. Oh… the hamster didn’t really have a name. It was just hamster… and I think it was a he.
It took I believe a whole day to catch him. He ended up going to the kitchen hiding behind the oven, and apparently we had a hole in our bottom cupboards coz he got in there with the plastic shopping bags, sauces, cleaning supplies, and green bin. I was actually pretty concerned it would chew on something poisonous. I let it roam around a bit because everyone deserved a taste of freedom instead of being locked up in a cage. I think it may have been his happiest night. However, the fear of poison did kick in and I couldn’t let him chill in the cupboards/drawers any longer. So I did what any owner would do… set up a trap. Put the ball thing that the hamster could run in around the house with food. Left the ball open so the hamster would climb in and grab the food. He eventually did and I caught him. I felt pretty proud. Put him back in his cage and his adventure had finally ended.

Couldn’t pick him up coz he was scared of people touching him. You could only stroke his back when he was eating. Otherwise he would run. And even then, he would still crumple up into a ball if he feels too nervous getting touched while eating, or it would start trembling. Poor guy.

R.I.P. again Hamster

Post Master!!!

I have no idea how many posts I’ve written this week… daaaang, i must be bored.

So, just streamed the dragonball z: evolution movie thingamabob. When I first watched the trailer… i thought “dang… this looks horrible”… but you know wht? Yah… it was. I know you all expected me to say that. Quiet you… fun-destroying…people

The action was ok, it was a cam version that I watched so the quality wasn’t super great but it was still decent. Being a very big fan of dragon ball, dbz, as well as dbgt, there were a lot of things in the movie that bothered me. Pretty sure people of this blog are big fans too. I don’t wanna say too much, and it’s just my views. A few things you can already pick out from the trailer include Goku being white… i mean… Caucasian. Nothing wrong with that… it’s just… my mind somehow sets Goku as being asian than anything else even though he may technically not be. He is a saiyan afterall… Despite Goku being white though, I don’t think his character was portrayed correctly.

Ah… getting tired of fuming about the movie. It could’ve been better. It’s kinda like the first hulk movie. I hope there’s a redo like there was for the hulk as well. ahhhh….!!! So much more to say but my brain really isn’t working after that movie.

Edit: Scrubs season 8 is so niiice. I’m liking the humour. i think I will be satisfied with them ending the show off with this season. I think they may be doing another season but with a change in the key characters… but whtever. Just enjoying this season =)

Poor!!!

Last day of classes was today. It’s all over. Half a year of classes finished. Lightest semester that will ever occur in my entire life has been completed… I wish I treasured it more. Only 3 exams… 3.5 exams (i count lab exams as 0.5) although if you do put it that way then it’s 4 as I had 2 lab exams. Whatever.

Don’t wanna reflect on my year yet… it’s still too early for that.

So I got my new dress shoes today. Pretty expensive, but I’m hoping to wear it for a long time… hopefully. Leather both inside and out, and the soles have traction!! Sick! It’s like running shoes at the bottom, but no one can really see. So deceiving. I likeeee.
Also got another Kin clothing. So far, my western clothing consists of a kin zip hoodie, western hoodie, and now a kin black long sleeve t-shirt that says “we play sports for marks” at the front and kinesiology at the back with University of Western Ontario on one of the sleeves. Sick too! Hopefully I’ll be able to stay in Kinesiology as I still need my standard first aid!… dang… that brings another side story.

Basically, got certified for CPR C and Emergency first aid when I worked at a daycamp last summer. I thought it would do, so I kinda procrastinated in handing it in until last month. Then I discovered I needed standard first aid and not emergency. So apparently I have to take another course all over again. AHHSDAKFJ;KJ! Very annoying.

But yah. Still have to pay $40 for my aikido test and I owe my housemates some utility money. Still wanna get a new dress shirt. Maybe get a spring jacket later on…. not all at once to ease my psyche into it.