Dear Immunology

How I hate you.. with a passion.

Midterm coming.. my worst mark/subject right now in 3rd year..
I missed almost all the lecture due to a conflict/lab in the afternoon..
Listening to the lectures now.. but struggling through them
I guess this is why I ain't no immunology specialist and
should stay within genetics for my own sake.

14 hours of lecture to go... start the count down.. it will be a long week
Life = Busy lately.. Will update soon
I hope? (and with something more interesting)


Peace (2s)

Random rant

a rant about environmental biology…

this has been the first class where I’m actually being marked on participation. We’re marked out of 10 each tutorial class. Attending the class will only get us 2/10. So if we attend and do nothing, we still fail somehow… stupid. In order to get a 50% for the tutorial class, we have to make an original comment/question. Depending on how many of these comments we make, we can get anywhere from 5-10/10. With 20 or so people in the class, how is it possible that anyone can get 10/10?? dumb!!! ugh!!!

The readings are so long!! I just find this class very self-absorbed haha. It thinks it’s the only course in the whole campus. Class is actually 50 minutes, leaving 10 minutes for people to get from that class to the next and if you’re like me who has to get close to the other side of campus AND change for judo, we are most definitely going to be late. I find ending class that late actually disrespectful. People do leave at the 45 minute mark, but if i leave I know i’m gonna miss some information >.< people have other classes to go to! Seriously!!!

Just the amount of participation we have to do even out of class! in the discussion boards, we are marked on the comments we make and what new topics we post up there. AHHHHHHHHH!!!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s an interesting class and raises a lot of awareness on what’s happening around the world and to this world that we live in. The work is just ridiculous. Sucks! blah!

New Laptop!

Came back during the weekend and bought a new laptop!

HP Pavillion dv4 2154ca with 500 GB hard drive space and 4GB of RAM. All thanks to drakonen for going laptop shopping with me for the majority of saturday haha. $850 done rite there.

In other news, a month ago i also bought new in-ear headphones. sennheiser cx500’s… i think. don’t remember the exact model anymore. Originally $140, i bought it for half that price. SWEEET!

And of course I also bought an ipod touch which set me back $200ish. Daaaang I’m getting poor. major spending in 3rd year. No moreeee!!!

although I didn’t have to pay for my laptop… so meh… but still. Major expensive for 3rd year.

2010

NEW OPPORTUNITIES AWAITS
Happy 2010 to y'all!

Hugely excited to what's in store for us all, even tho I am not too keen on waking up tomorrow at 7am as oppose to 2pm the past 2 weeks, I am still all smiles (absolutely no idea why).

I think it's time for some sort of a reunion sooner or later, now that UU is working downtown on his coop term (yes I have to update you guys on his life.. wish he can just do it). We just need echoes to be back soon, then it will be fairly convenient to meet up for ANYTHING.

Remember that list we had in the summer? Oh man we totally FAILED, let's make it more epic the next time around by actually completing at least HALF of it, but this post isn't about reminiscing about the past year..

It's a new decade, time for new things. So guys... I think it's time to...

ready, set, go...


On a side note, music recommendation:
So last minute but john mayer album battle studies absolutely rocks
Sample song (introduced to me by a friend, steph! Thank you :D) Friends Lovers or Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSpv5iMIVQ

Rekindling......

I thought a post would come sooner than this.. was hoping for a spark of randomness where one would do the unthinkable (new post). However, that obviously has not happened...

Time to redeem myself, just quicks and ups with the life updates..

school
trying hard this year.. pretty good results.. just got my marks for some half courses.. guess it's true when you work hard at it, successes do come along the way. Another proof to myself that I am not dumb, JUST lazy at times and I can compete with the rest of the nerds at UofT.

play
Partying's been down since school started for obvious reasons, trying to focus and living at libraries rather than crashing over at friend's rez. Poker and bowling has been the story for this Christmas holiday. Got a 168 in bowling, and I am quite proud of that achievement.

girls
pretty good.. since the summer there was a few and now its one.. will keep you guys updated hopefully even tho it's hard to discuss on a public blog about this sensitive issue. I think there is something to this one tho as oppose to the others during the summer, however school and friends still comes first since I really do need to do well. =]

New year is coming up soon, will make a new year resolution and this time I will push myself.

Sorry this post is so simple and not written very well, I just to make a sneaky post before the new years and I think I owe it to echoes for at least one post this whole semster since he has been basicly carrying the load and keeping this blog to its true roots.. With that said, I hope this post can be some sort of spark that will lead many more posts to come..

thank you, come again
m&ms

Anime and God (Re: Major)

I’ve had a similar post on my facebook notes, but thought I’d make another one here. I find these little connections between what I watch in anime and kind’ve what I know from the bible. So HERE WE GO!

-Major- Season 1

This show tugged on bits of my heart because it touches on what I’m currently learning. The first one is pride. There’s always someone out there who’s better than you at something. This gives you room to develop and grow. The next is perseverance. When trials or hardship comes, you’ve gotta press onward and fight to the finish. Trying your absolute best is all anyone can ask for, just don’t give up! The last is surrender. Sacrificing things in your life for one purpose.

Major is about a journey of a boy named Goro who loses his mom as a little child and soon loses his dad due to a wild pitch to the head by a well-known american baseball player, Gibson. Goro then goes through his life aiming to be a good enough pitcher to face off with his dad’s killer. Meeting many friends and rivals along the way, he grows from the mistakes and losses and celebrates the wins.

In comparison with other anime such as dragonball z, bleach, one piece – when they lose, they usually get severely injured or die… and they somehow come back to life somehow more stronger than they used to be. Not saying that the other anime’s are bad, I thoroughly enjoy watching and reading them, but major I find is more realistic – you lose sometimes, that’s how you grow and become better. Goro’s team doesn’t always win. There were a few major upsets throughout his baseball career, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The anticipation of facing his rivals or facing good teams motivated him and his team to train and develop their skills. Meeting people who are better at certain things does not mean they are a better person than you are. Though it does open up room for you to grow in that area.
"If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." (Mark 9:35)

Goro is simply passionate about baseball. When trials come, it’s simple, try your hardest because at the end of the day it isn’t about winning or losing, but having fun because he’s playing with many other players who share his love for baseball. When hardships come our way, we can’t quit.
“Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)
and…
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance” (James 1:2-3).
Goro’s passion for baseball overflows to other players motivating them to play harder as a team. Goro himself cannot win a game, as baseball is a team sport. He needs the support of his teammates to win. Shouldn’t our passion for God, for Jesus, overflow somehow to point others who may be in the same boat towards God? How does this impact me? I’m still thinking about… just writing down ideas… but,
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)

Gibson went through his life playing baseball so that one day he could face Goro. He even risked his life to fulfill a lifelong promise. Because of one mistake, his whole baseball career has been about waiting for the day that Goro would come and meet him for a showdown because he feels like it’s the only way he can be redeemed for killing his father. Though a lot of what Gibson is doing doesn’t ring true in a Christian sense, it’s his act of surrender and sacrifice that kind of stuck out to me. When stood on that field pitching against Goro’s team with a (spoiler alert)  heart condition that may kill him if he continues pitching, I found it pretty touching to see him try his absolute hardest even with that risk to fulfill a promise he made many years ago. If we set God as our first priority, what are the things we’re willing to give up? Is it truly everything? Would we risk our lives for God? Sometimes I find myself wondering what I would do if I was persecuted for being a Christian. A gun pointed at me, person asking if I believed in Jesus… what would I do?
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16: 24-28)

-Major- Season 5

Major

There are only a select few anime’s that i still keep up with. The majority of them I just read on manga instead of watching because the actual anime has secret filler episodes that get annoying. They’re also very behind the manga as we all know!! Bleach, Naruto, One piece, and History’s Greatest Disciple Kenichi I read on manga, while Major is the only anime I still watch.

Just finished watching the final episode of its 6th season. Daaaang, had to actually search that up. I’ve been following it for 6 seasons. As I watch it, I just catch myself thinking that I love this show! It’s kind of like all the other anime that I watch, except it’s more realistic. Jess asked me if they had magical powers as I was watching it today, and I found myself quite shocked that they actually do not haha. Well, History’s greatest disciple kenichi doesn’t either but those characters are just superhuman (for more information on this anime, go on my facebook profile notes >.<).

I’ve grown to love this anime because there really is growth and great morals that are placed in more realistic situations. In a nutshell, its a show about baseball. The story is actually quite complicated… i tried to explain it, but it got too annoying to type so you may just have to go on wikipedia or just watch it. In the most simple way I can put it, the main character’s (Goro) dad dies of a wild pitch to the head playing baseball against a famous pitcher from America (Gibson). Goro seeks revenge by eventually being great enough to play in the majors one day and facing off with his dad’s killer. This event basically sets up the plot for the whole show until perhaps the 6th season. Though his goal is to face Gibson in the baseball diamond, he is still playing baseball because he loves it. Goro is a really simplistic, innocent/ignorant character who had that personality that affects everyone he meets (just like naruto). His love for baseball overflows to those he meets and inspires them. Now that I think about it, he really is like many main characters out there in animeland. Somehow, his persevering attitude affects me more than all the other animes i’ve watched.

I have watched him through his growth from a kindergartener to little league, junior high, high school, minor leagues, and now the major leagues. When he dislocated his right shoulder, he became a southpaw to continue playing baseball. His mom dying, his new mom, his dad dying, his new dad (haha… dang), witnessing the amount of work every season that he puts into becoming better and the hardships he has to overcome is inspiring. I think it’s his raw passion for baseball is what brings me to liking this show. [] Through many seasons he has played on many teams with many different teammates. Some characters continue to make appearances bringing a sense of nostalgia with the stories they each hold with Goro.

This is a rambling blog post >.< Just getting all my thoughts out.

The childhood rivalry, the many other rivalries, playing on the same team with your rivals, the growth, friendships, and most recently his relationships, I feel very attached to this character haha. It’s hard to compact 6 seasons worth of great entertainment in one post… just wanted to make a mention of what I’m thinking at the moment… especially for the 6th season. Just MIND BOGGLING!

Ok, i’ve rambled on for quite enough, i shall end it here… for now…

2/3 done my deadly weekend!

With a lab due 2 tuesdays ago and a 30% lab due this past wednesday, I’ve only had 2 days grace period to study for 3 exams this weekend. I have finished 2 out of the three exams so far!

Lab due 2 tuesdays ago: 100%… my first 100…

Lab due this wednesday: don’t know mark yet, but handed in 1 minute before final due time

1st exam: this morning at 9. Took basically 2 hours and 50 minutes. 10 short of the full 3 hours because I was too tired to continue double checking. Result: DONE STATS!

2nd exam: tonight at 7pm. Took the full two hours. Brutal exam with many tricky and picky questions and answers. But nonetheless… rsult: DONE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY!

Tomorrow (sunday) I got Laboratory on Exercise Physiology at 7pm-10pm. Started studying… now haha. GG.

Also 7 months with Jess and I =D

And that is about everything my friends… who may not read this… ever…

The Little Gestures

Just a random post

Was walking to class yesterday and had to open a few doors to get there. There was a guy walking behind me as I was opening the doors so I held it open for him and he obviously walked through it. However, in my mind there are two door holding etiquettes.

1) The door hold reach –> When people are in a hurry and they may not know you, they open the door with arm fully extended, outside leg may be off the ground so their next step is already in progress. This tells the person behind them that they’re courteous enough to hold it open for you, but they themselves have to get somewhere.

Response –> Person behind speeds up a bit showing their understanding that the other person isn’t going to hold that door forever. Responder also extends arm forward to hold the door so the door holder can be relieved of his/her duty to hold that door.

2) behind-the-door hold –> person is probably with you and is waiting for you to cross that door so they can continue walking with you. They are positioned beside or behind the door like a door man/woman, out of the way so the responder can walk through in comfort.

Response –> just walk through the door and say “thank you” ? haha

The first situation happened to me. I had to get to class, but there was someone behind me. I held the door with arms full extended coz I was in a hurry to get to my track practical. The person didn’t speed up, nor did he show any verbal/non-verbal communication that he was thankful. I think he was just having a bad day =S Still, he didn’t reach out his hand to hold the door, his arms was i believed crossed as he walked through the door. In my head, I’m just like “wth?”. It’s not a big deal, just something random that i noticed.

You don’t notice the little things until they’re missing.

Forgetful

Wooowowowow! I’ve been pretty forgetful these past few days haha. Forgot my gym bag with my aikido stuff yesterday and panicked for a bit but found it after I calmed down. Actually left it at the place where i ate lunch. Looked there before, but I didn’t ask the people working there whether they found a bag initially. So the panicking is more of my own fault =P But I did ask after i ate dinner and they had my bag in the back room. Such a relief!!!

Today, don’t know where my lab manual is for fitness appraisal. I think someone might’ve taken my lab manual instead of theirs by accident. Or maybe I actually left it but someone who knew me took it to give it back to me because when I went back to the lab, it wasn’t there anymore. =S If anything I’ll just go to the bookstore and write notes off of the lab manuals they could have there haha. Or worst comes to worst I’ll either hopefully be able to borrow a lab manual or I’ll go buy another one >.< Rawr!!!

Testing stuff is about to begin. Yesterday, had my first track and field practical =P Yes, playing sports for marks FTW! We got tested on relays, so she marked us on where we are positioned in the lanes, when we start running, how the hand-off of the paton was, and whether the paton decelerates. It’s actually more technical than it looks =S. I think most of us got docked marks due to the paton decelerating when we’re handing it off. It’s hard not to decelerate… which is why that part of the test is only worth 1 mark. It was pretty easy, i got a 9/10 haha. Dumb deceleration (alliteration!)

Also got tested for aikido! Going for my 6th kyu! Daaang! haha. That’s just a solid orange belt instead of an orange belt with a stripe. Hopefully I’ll get to green before i graduate. Funny because in first year I had to do a goal setting thing for a kin course. My plan, if everything worked out perfectly was that I’d get to brown before I graduated. That was also assuming that I went to every class though.

Anyways, just a little something random for this blog as no one seems to like posting here anymore. I’ll just post once in a while when I have something random to post haha.

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Leave a comment if ur out there guys… lemme know you’re alive!!!

Daaaang Wednesdays

Booooo… Wednesdays are my longest days as I believe I have previously posted about haha. I think I did… last post… hmmm… don’t remember. Track today… did high jumps! Spent the whole class slowly building to the final jump; isolating each skill on its own. Footwork is obviously important so spent a good deal of the class practicing which foot leads and which foot is the take off foot. Practiced falling on the bag thing haha, it was ridiculously isolated skills lol. It was still fun though, and I didn’t get too tired from it… too tired….

And then the lab. The lab wasn’t actually that long, but for what we had to do it was surprisingly exhausting. Had to run on a treadmill for as long as you could at 8.5 mph for males. It was faster than it looked >.< Only stayed on for a measly 36 seconds. The best in our class was i think 64 seconds. Taking your body to the limit week after week is interesting, but at a cost haha.

Aikido was a lot of test review. Don’t know if I’m gonna be testing, but had to do the review stuff anyways or there’d be nothing for me to do. Still good though, there’s always stuff to correct and learn in every technique. Again… pretty tiring, especially since i didn’t get a chance to recover enough from the track and lab before this. So going into studying right after was toughhhhhh.

Bit peeved. Apparently I leave dishes in the sink… when I’m rarely home. It’s kool… I just take clean dishes and throw them into the sink before i leave for school without real breakfast. –sigh-

Not enough

A resting half-day was unfortunately not enough for me to recover. Wednesdays are now the longest day of my week. 9:30-10:30 is Physiology in Fitness Appraisal, 11:30-12:30 is Intro to stats, 2:30-4:30 is Track and Field, 4:30-6:30 is Lab for Exercise Physiology. After classes, I also have 7-9 for aikido. All this may not seem like much, but physically it’s pretty exhausting haha. Mentally, the lab reports that I have to do never ends…

Had to do sprints/relay, and shot put today for track haha. Pretty nice. Shot put technique looks pretty kool =P

Time to study… Exam exam exam exam tomorrow.

A resting half day

So after hardcoring for day i usually try to relax the next day unless i have something really crazy to do the next day.

I had some pretty nice personal time today. Went to the mal, window shopped around winners, watched astro boy in theatres (yay finally! $5 movies… been a long time) and also got a hair cut. Don’t really have much time to relax this year I find… so these rare occurrences I do cherish quite a bit.

Astro boy wasn’t that great though which was pretty disappointing. It had a lot of potential, but the movie failed to convert that potential into reality. A lot of it had to do wit timing. Some parts seemed kind of rushed, and there were a few predictable scenes. I wouldn’t pay $10 for it, but it served its purpose today which was mainly to destress and get the craving for watching a movie out of the way.

Hope everyone else is doing well =S wouldn’t know as people don’t post. booo

Schoooooooooooooooooool!!!

So last week, finished a stats exam and an intense exercise physiology lab report. This week, I finished an intense animal physiology lab report. The first lab report was a full one with abstract, intro, results, discussion, conclusion and references. The second one was just results, discussion and references but somehow seemed like the same amount of work. Lab reports are just a lot of researching, reading articles, picking out useful information, and fitting them into the report. Reading and finding articles take like 50% of the time, yet you usually don’t have anything to show for it. A lot of the time, many of the articles searched up is of no use and so reading it was basically a waste of time.

Lab reports… time consumer.

Typing this while semi-conscious. I don’t know if anything I say makes sense. Have an exam this Thursday. Haven’t really started studying for it yet… but I shall today… study, lab report, study, lab, study, lab, study, lab

Rinse and repeat.

The end.

Breaking the Silence

Helloooooo

 

No one has posted in this blog for a while so I just decided to post something.

I attempted to recap my summer but failed. Wrote a fair bit but my laptop ran out of batteries and all was lost. So I chose to just recap what has happened during the school year.

September is almost over and exams will be coming soon. I have a few labs and therefore a few lab reports that I’m suppose to write. I have a lab in exercise physiology, fitness appraisal, and animal physiology. They’re all pretty interesting, but I’m not too big on lab reports so it will be challenging.

Moving into my new place is smaller and a bit inconvenient travelling to campus-wise. It’s a further walk to all my classes, though it matters not since I take the bus. But if i ever did want to walk… I would lack the motivation to as it is too far. I enjoy the company though at my house. Seeing friends when you wake up… pretty different. I’m liking it so far though, not too bad. Living with friends does have its perks.

Sport-wise I haven’t been playing volleyball… i’m at a volleyball withdrawal. Instead, I have softball (fast pitch) for one of the sport classes that I take for marks =) It’s interesting so far. Very complicated and has a bit of a learning curve in terms of techniques. It’s a pretty technical sport. Today was mostly practicing outfielding. The coach basically taught us to step into the ball and a bunch of other stuff to catch the ball and get it out of ur gloves faster. There was a LOT of throwing today and so my throwing shoulder and sides are pretty done. Catching balls that are rolling towards me, running to the ball and doing a crow-hop to continue the momentum that I gained from running making the throwing of the ball easier; throwing the ball to a relay person when the outfielder is too far out to throw it all the way into the infield; catching pop-flys and throwing them back to your partner… a LOT of throwing and movement as throwing is often accompanied by catching. Sometimes there are balls that are purposely thrown to make you run… and then there are those that accidentally get by you which forces you to run even more. All this was today… in the rain, though it was only a light drizzle, it was also damp and soggy outside. Overall though it was pretty fun and we got to get off of class earlier as the field was wet so no scrimmage. A lot of techniques and information to take in for each softball class. I know it sounds like I’m complaining… prolly much better than what you engineers are doing rite now haha. As fun as it is, it does drain the energy stores and therefore it is time to sleep.

Oh, in the morning i also went to the wrong building and had to get to the other side of campus within 10 minutes. Speed walked it all the way there. Also forgot my umbrella after class at the UCC so i walked down to a bus stop, then had to walk all the way back up which maybe took 10-15 minutes or so in total. Just a lot of unnecessary walking today haha.

That is all for my Tuesday. Hope to post here more.

Firsts

This week was pretty fun. Day camp staffs bring in very interesting characters. This year may not be the same as last year, but it’s not a bad thing.

Thursday, we went to the executive director’s place in Whitby. It was a pretty ok drive… once you drive to london almost once a month… every other ride seems shorter. The place was HUUUUUGE. It was like a mansion. His yard was like the size of the park behind my house. Had burgers and hot dogs and time for reflection. Afterwards I got to drive ppl home in a car that didn’t belong to me =)! It was a very interesting experience. First time driving a friend’s car, first time driving in the express lane, first time having the tires squeal, and first time seeing a fox out on the streets.

Friday, I drove one of the staff back to his own church and I witnessed my first car accident! It was amazing!!! (not for the ppl involved… but for me). A car was about to make a right turn but stopped. The driver behind him was going too fast so he couldn’t stop and tried to swerve out of the way, but failed so the corner of both cars were hit. It was definitely an experience.

Apart from all the firsts, I went to a funeral today. It’s strange to dress formally for a wedding a few weeks before… and then dress up again a few weeks later except for a funeral. Both were a celebration of life in a way whether it be a joining of two lives… or a departure of one. The one who passed on was a sunday school teacher for me at church and I also know her kids. I think they went to Buchan as well… though a few years after us. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer I believe and it was a long hard battle. It was weird coz I actually got choked up and teary eyed for this one… and I blame it on the speech. Maybe it’s because all the other funerals were spoken more in cantonese so I often zoned out, but the father/husband shared in english and so did the kids so I understood everything and actually paid attention. That’s all I’ll say for now.

It was a fun-filled week. Look forward to the rest of my summer.

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While unknownuser is taking on an expensive hobby, I’m trying to gain money… although he is pretty much gaining a lot more money than i am still…

Started daycamp training this week and finally met everyone together in one room. Just reminds me of the first year I did this (which was last year). It’s pretty fun so far. I look forward to the rest of camp. Hopefully it doesn’t get ruined somehow… =S

Too tired to post anything else. Drove a lot these past few days. Need a break.

Latest Hobby: building my own computer

 

So two things came up to trigger this new hobby. 1) I had no idea how to go about doing this, which was sad because I was switching into Computer engineering. 2) my poor old laptop which I got 2 years and 2 or 3 months now has been struggling by for the past year or so.  While i’m at it 3) a lifestyle change in university where I’m now in a new one year lease for a place off campus makes a desktop much more bearable to deal with.  4) there's a 4th!. Starting with co-op again this term, means quite a bit of extra cash so I decided to use a portion of those earnings toward this new computer.  a budget of one weeks worth of pay.  Sounds reasonable?

I think my first step was Wikipedia.. some sort of search for the components of a computer.  Then about a few days after coincidentally at work, I wanted to get two monitors, so i told my boss and he said that my current computer couldn’t support it but if i fix up another one lying around, i could use that.  So opening it away i went.  It took me like 30 mins finding a philips screwdriver amongst the mess which is my work place and to dissemble the computer itself.

I was more than mildly disappointed…

As it turns out computers only really have 5 or 6 components to it, with 3 being more major ones.  Not too complicated as I once thought.  So let me throw up my planned computer and *looks around, Nim comment now! and/or anyone else.

1. There’s the processor or computer which can range from 100 ~ 400$?
    Want: AMD Phenom II X4 940? 220$

2. Theres the motherboard, which holds the graphics card and the processor, mother- board? 50-250$?
     Want: _______ something 100$~

3. A video card! depending on the brand, the number system is different and means different things, so higher is not always necessary better.
     Want: Radeon 4770? 110$

4. Ram, or more memory for the computer.  a cheap way to boost a computer’s processing ability.
     Want: 4gb DDR2 1066? 60$

5. And a Hard drive, compared to the space in a laptop, these are so much cheaper for a desktop
     Want: 500gb SATA? 70&?

And then you just need the casing and the power supply for it and there you go, a simple computer.

still mildly disappointed…

the wedding

• woke up 40 minutes before the wedding ceremony
• called dad to pick me up so I can get to the ceremony as he was already out
• got dressed and cleaned up within 15 minutes
• skipped breakfast
• sat with friends on the bride side even though I was closer to the groom… though i also know both so it’s alrite
• took pictures after ceremony
• ate a bit of snack after photos… didn’t realize it would be my lunch. something I’d have to pay for in the near future
• went to friends house to game. played rock band and sang karaoke and a game called ragdoll kung fu (very fun game!)
• went to mcdonalds 1 hour before wedding banquet coz i didn’t realize the snack was my lunch. also ate a bit of expired snacks before deciding to go to mcd’s
• went to wedding banquet
• got bloated with the food… underestimated the power of mcdonalds

The wedding was very nice and I was very happy for the couple. Both were my counsellors at one point at fellowship… more so he groom (highschool fellowship) than the bride (university… i was at university and not in toronto so I didn’t talk to her as much). Both are very great people that I respect. You guys have prolly been to a lot of weddings and wedding banquets but this was my first time going to a wedding banquet so I had a great time as I had nothing to compare it to. It was a great and tiring day overall.

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mmm… continuing on my streak of uninteresting titles

So instead of posting about my week I’ll concentrate more on today. This week has just been about bridletowne (daycamp) stuff such as workshops for lesson planning and music for kids, Jess being sick, and me doing a whole lot of nothing but chillin. Though we finally did get together for a night of movie-fail (except drakonen) + pool + kbbq. I’m sad I didn’t take pictures eventhough i brought my camera (though I’m sure drakonen is happy about that).

Today, basically went with Jess to pick up her guitar from twelfth fret. Her guitar sounded very nice indeed… though I still love my own guitar… just… ok i don’t wanna talk about this anymore. Also saw creepy motion sensor kid doll…toys??? it was awesome… haha

Most of my day was spent doing daycamp stuff. There was a Family Fair running at a nearby school (to bridletowne park church at warden and finch) and he daycamp staff “volunteered” there to meet the kids who may be coming to the camp this summer. Day started around 3 (chilled with the directors a bit as i was early =P) and ended around 9? It actually went by pretty fast. I was in charge of this… soccer… kick… station where we set up hula hoops inside a goal post and the kids just had to kick it in. There was on for gr.3’s and under which I manned, and another for older kids which was harder. Lots of kids came and it seemed like it would never end. My volunteers came and left randomly >.< so at times i manned the station alone which was brutal.

It was a lot of fun though. There was a cotton candy machine and a dunk tank. It was nice to see a lot of kids out with their parents. There was even a “bus race” where the kids in each grade made a card board vehicle and decorated it and they had to race them as a team. I didn’t actually see the race as I was distracted by the dunk tank, but the designs looked so nice. It was also sweet to be in an elementary school again… it just has a certain atmosphere to it that just makes you all warm inside haha.

Ended the day with watching dawn of the dead with Jess at my place, getting bubble tea, then me driving my sister and her friends home from prom. It was a nice full day =) and I enjoyed it all.

Have a wedding to go to tomorrow. Should sleep now. Bye.