demetres...yum!

awww, nostalgia...

seeing rita, caitlin littlefield, tee, em figs, and mark for lunch at the sushi club (because shintori is closed for renovations?!?!) and then spending almost 4 hours with carl, who i haven't seen in ages....and then pre-drinking at elmsley first with alan, victor, jill, jadea, iain, and kevin. AND then the party begins at mullins with the cast of "chess": signing of laura and mark's cards, and the presents, and the posters...

fun times! ;p

this is it. it's over.

ok, well classes at u of t anyway. i still have two upcoming exams, but of course they had to screw me over by having them on the next to last day of exams. ahhhhh, bastards.

although i had an in-class final monday and a paper due thursday, my brain went on vacation about a week in advance...i think it had something to do with the nice weather outside, i don't know! either way, i don't think last week was a really great effort to do well, oops.

BUT
lectures are over, i have more time to do my favorite...nothing! ok, well not nothing, but nothing that has anything to do with school.

highlights of last week include:
sin city on tuesday - was it just me, or did alexis bledel just look and act like a sluttier version of rory? i'm sorry, that wasn't a great movie for her. but the rest of the movie was wicked. my favorite parts were the most morbid...no extremities elijah wood, the talking benecio del toro...yah...

oedipus rex play on wednesday - i studied it in highschool, so it was a real treat to actually see the play, held by the ryerson students. but matt and i left during the intermission because the good part was over, plus i had to finish my last paper that was due the following day.

grandma doesn't like grandpa anymore movie on thursday - it was one of the better short movies that i saw that night. i also liked the shrimp nightmare one too.

brook's sisters saturday night at hugh's room - great performance by my friend caroline brooks and her sister katherine. it was really cool because jerome stopped by and i hadn't seen that boy in almost a year! and tee, mark, and manny were there too! i think mark's planning a "4th year get-together" on wednesday so that will be really nostolgic!

i want to see all my friends that i've been neglecting because of school! hahaha. hopefully i'll be able to do this before i go to france!

yah, france!

yesterday was definitely a "feel-good" day. #1, i finally finished that essay that has been the bane of my existance for at least a week and a half. i guess it was either finish the paper yesterday or hand it in monday (seeing as it's supposedly a holiday or something? ;p). #2, CONGRATULATIONS TO AVRIL AND ROSE, SMCSU'S NEWEST PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT!!! it was just incredible, everyone was so happy and excited! never in the history of smc has two female COMMUTERS won over a a jolly smc community. it was great to be there counting votes and knowing that they were always the leaders! smcsu democracy might be looking up! ;p

needless to say, all these recent events (grammateion, formal, symposium, smcsu elections) are my very last ones. i'm not very sad right now, as i think i'm more then ready to leave this hole for a bit, but i'm pretty sure come september i'm going to either nostalgic or embroiled in my own new exciting future. although, now that av and rose are manning the helm, i think i would like to visit round the college occasionally.

this is it...two more weeks until schools out!

edit

whoo hoo! so remember that stupid essay i handed in yesterday? well i received some papers back this week and i didn't want the marks to affect my writing capabilities (especially if they were bad marks) so i decided to wait and check out the marks now....two papers...A- and 85%!!!!

feeling hella good!

wow am i SOOOO procrastinating on one of my final papers right now. i could have been done, but of course not...i decided to watch "the prince and me" with julia stiles. the movie itself was kind of sappy, but i was so intrigued with the movie because there was just SO MUCH U OF T IN IT!!!! there was so much st. mikes, like the underpass, some of kelly library, the guys residences on the lane, the coop?!?!?! and there was shots outside of sidney smith, and they even had a whole scene inside EJ PRATT!!! i was like COOL! anyway, yah, i definitely didn't do any work, and that is not very good at all! so i've decided to remedy this by going to sleep now. hahahaha. i guess i'll work on the essay tomorrow morning!

she's back!

after a long break from the internet world, i'm back in full force. the musical that has taken 3 months out of my short life has now come to an end. now that it's over, i can finally take a look back and say that i'm glad that i did this project. there were some pretty intense times when tension and stress was at maximum level, but it's turned out fabulously! CHESS has completely exceeded my expectations, and all the important people (to me) came out to see it so i have no regrets! i've met a whole bunch of great people who i'm sure to keep in touch with for the long run, and it's going to be so great when we're all at formal together!

so now that this baby is done and over with, it's time to get back to the school work! !!!

i was attacked by a killer migraine last night. i could feel it coming on about 6 in the evening, but i was in the middle of teaching so there was nothing i could do...AND the students came late so i had to plug on 15 mins longer then i originally planned. by the time i got in the car, i could barely see straight and just speaking on the phone with shelley was really painful. shelley had a natural medicine book where she was looking up stuff for migraines...except where was i going to get celery juice? so i took the easy way out: popped two advils and went to sleep. that's the only way i can get through the pain....ooooh my head.

as a result of this unfortunate episode, i'm totally freaking out over my essay now. i need to start writing it tonight after work, but i don't want to!!! this is going to distress me even further because of rehearsal tomorrow, which means my whole day is wasted on music. *thumbs down*

i'm going to take another pill to ensure that i can get through the day...

i missed the oscars last night because of rehearsal...it was 10 hrs long!!! i'm starting to get really frazzled about the music, i still have so much to go over...and less the two weeks! *sigh* i don't like pressure, but i guess without that, i'd be doing nothing.

oh right, so the oscars. apparently i didn't miss much, seeing as i checked out the red carpet pictures when i got home. is it me or were the dresses really blah this year? it was either all black or really pale, and some of the girls just didn't have the boobs for their dresses. the ONLY dress that i really really liked was the red dress emmy rossum wore. that's it. that's all i liked.

anyway, i think mark gave me the cold, i woke up with a sore throat. i should get ready for a gram meeting that i'm most definitely going to be late for...

soooooooo incredibly tired. yet why am i still awake? i'm actually not sure why...i figured i'd just post a little sumthin sumthin and then be on my way to sleep land.

i got a test back today. i thought i had done horrible on it, seeing how i had spent a total of only 18 hours at starbucks cramming for the test two weeks ago. so the prof walks into class today 20 mins late (only at u of t people) and announces that she has our tests, that they've been marked, except that she hadn't finished recording them in her book. fine. so she lectures briefly and then sticks a movie in so that she can finish recording our marks. great. and then she comes back in and tells us all that she has our tests and everyone can get them back but only people from A-G would have their mark and grade and everyone else would get them next week or see her to get the marks. seeing as my name begins with an M, i picked up my test and went to see her. looking at the marks in just the short answers section, it didn't look very encouraging. but i was watching her write my mark and grade upside down....an A-. CRAZY. unbelievable. so the gist of this story? i'm a happy camper! ;p celebrated with smoothies! hahaha.

the dao is chilling-ly

And through it all she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection
Whether I'm right or wrong
And down the waterfall
Wherever it may take me
I know that life won't break me
When I come to call she won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead

- Robbie Williams' Angels

after watching the brit awards last night, i fell in love with this song. i love brits, they are so cute. except that some of them (like franz ferdinald) are sooo thin, i couldn't date someone that thin, i might squash them or something! (disclaimer: joseph didn't count because we didn't go out for very long!)

anyway, it's snowing yet again. and i'm tired. so off to sleep i go.

reading week was a complete waste of time. all i did was eat, watch lots of movies, eat, see people, and did i mention eat? ugh. and now i'm looking at my calendar again (which i haven't looked at in awhile) and suddenly i realize that i need to get my act on with my chinese philosophy assignment (which i haven't a clue what i'm going to be doing it on) and oooooh, i'm sooooooo incredibly screwed music-wise as i haven't touched the piano in a long time and we should all know that that is a big "no-no".

in other news, here are two websites that are definitely worth checking out:
ames this is my sister's new website address, and she just did a trip back down memory lane of her past web layouts, they are awesome! so pretty!

the phat conductor this guy, dylan is in my chinese philosophy class. he does some pretty cool breaks, and he gives his music away for free!

i should go play some piano now (like it'll do me any good...)

it is currently 5:15pm on a thursday evening and the professor has not put up the lecture notes to our 6pm class. this sucks!

in other exciting news, this has definitely been a fun filled week (literally from last thursday) with the abbey reunion that actually took place saturday evening! the witkos bus came around to everyone's houses and fayewood picked up me and karen. i think we had reservations to jack astors but since we were late (surprise surprise!) we gave up our time slot and ended up at shoeless joes. hahaha. what a ghetto place. i don't recommend the veggie burger (it was a bit dry) but the nachos were good! then we wanted to go to demetres but it was full, and so was just desserts, so we finally ended up at tim hortons! what a way to go...you know you're old when you chill with your buddies at a coffee shop. no one really wanted to go clubbing or anything. hahahaha....we're getting so old!

i have been seeing other old friends that i have met over the past four years here, with ms. bozek being #1 on the list. hahaha. considering how she goes to osgoode which is literally 7 mins from my house, we are pretty sad to only be catching up NOW. we went to york lanes and had some really soggy soup (?) and then she took me to her building that has no windows...hahaha. i hear wongie is back, so it would be nice to have a get together with holly and tee sometime.

ian himself has been back from australia since the end of december, so it was nice to chill with him at uc's jcr for a bit on monday. i like the updates, and it's really nice to have an idea of what to expect if i go to australia next year (lachlan, don't get your hopes up yet!!!) and today i met up with mel d'souza for coffee which in itself is funny because we originally met up at starbucks, but there were no seats so we went to second cup where she bought a muffin she didn't like and i was drinking starbucks! hahahaha. i am SOOOO boycotting second cup. they don't know how to make soy chai lattes.

oooh, another fun event i went to tuesday night. matt had a showing of one of his short films at this media promotion event, and shelley and i went to see it with him at the drake hotel. the atmosphere was really nice, clean and spruced up. and there were three screens set up in a room so you could see the films at three different angles. at the centre was a stage where there was a guy who did the music and noise for the films by blowing on some keyboard thingy or playing the accordian or strumming a guitar. basically they are introducing films and songs with some crazy instruments that require lots of wires. ??? hahahaha. needless to say, that definitely took up my tuesday night!

wednesday night i went to see some fellow chess members perform in a one act play called "check please." victor and i went specifically to see their show, and luckily it was the first of four one act plays so we jetted after their show. kevin and shannon had some of the best parts ever! hahaha, i'm not going to disclose their characters as they are performing them again tonight and tomorrow night, and it's so much more fun if you go to see them perform at the william doo theatre in the new new college building (85 wilcox).

tonight after lecture (which the notes are still not put up for...) there is a bachelor/bachelorette auction for valentine's day. i personally am not for these things, i don't see a point in auctioning people off, by putting a price on them. but hey if people think they are fun, good for them! since my aileen is going to MC the "show" i will be going to see the ruckus as well as seeing how the bakesale goes! ;p

and then i will have to get some work done...HA. oh mu, if only our paper was on immortality and not on nancy cruzan i would be so much more happier. but needless to say, this essay should be done tomorrow so i can get cracking on an upcoming test! =:o

as for the musical, i think it is going well, but i will have more of an update on that after reading week. hahahaha, they key here is that i spend alot of my reading week practicing so that after reading week i will be set! i will know ALL the songs. hahahaha. KEY.

kk, so off to class i go...

i ran into henry yesterday after class and after berating him about not blogging, i promised him that we would both make a more conscientious effort to blog more. HA.

it's not that i haven't tried blogging, the computer said no and shut down several times, or i forgot what i was writing and gave up. i dunno. it's been busy busy what with all the rehearsals and substitutions and trying to gather up my thoughts and whatnot.

it has also been snowing alot and i think that is a good thing. snow is good for the economy, this is what canada is known for. it does cause of lot of traffic delays and falling downs, but oh well.

so what is up? well other then the fact that THE musical (CHESS) has taken over my whole entire being, i have no life. well ok, i do have one sort of. There is a hockey game at the varsity this thursday (smc vs. vic...we are so going to kick vic's asses) so that will be a well deserved break from doing nothing, as well, if anyone is interested in going it would do well to bring some non-perishable foods as that is the point of the game, to bring in donations.

There will be a pseudo abbey reunion saturday night (oh horrors, i don't want to jinx it) but thanks to len, it looks like it will actually happen. ESPECIALLY since i got a special call from my buddy corona today. wow did i feel special! ;p hahaha. And dinner at grace and juju's? we'll see about that. i may not have room after dinner with the girlies. ok, maybe for that tiramisu dessert that the cousin makes. ha!

whatelse what else? oh right so i am selling homemade cookies at 1 for $0.25 and 3 for $0.50 and all profits will be given to the graditude fundraising committee, and i've made just over $10, wow i should feel proud.

meh, nothing big now except for the TSO for 3 piano players on 3 grand pianos and some street music (with a guy drumming on the subway with two pieces of rubber) coolio. there's a guy in my death and dying class that dimps and i have nicknamed the "smelly guy" because the past two weeks he looked like he didn't know proper hygiene. but we are reconsidering the nickname because he looked SOOOOOO hot in class today. damn he looked good with the specs. oh and plus there is always starbucks boy, who always makes me so happy when i see him. hahaha.

oh i missed velma and kelly. love you too.

oh this is just craptacular...i am so totally putting the blame squarely on matt. why? if he hadn't taped the first episode of the second season of The O.C., and then had me, shelley and carmi watch it an hour before the second episode (while explaining the crazy drama, who dated who, who is who's mom...), i never would have been hooked to this multifaceted eye candy show! honestly, is it just me or was lindsay wearing a purple bra with a sweater on top to cover herself?!?!?! and the coincidental hooking up of everyone with their respective girlfriends and boyfriends (with the exception of the girl who got dumped by the gardener)...and next week everyone is dumping everyone.

geez, you'd think i had better things to be watching...like GILMORE GIRLS. unfortunately that show hasn't had a new episode in ages. i hear maybe the week after next week? COME ON. i want to know what's going on in stars hollow, i want to know if luke and lorelai are ok (i personally think lorelai is better suited with christopher...but that's me), i want to know if rory will date the hot hot hot rich cutie, and i want to know where lane and zack's relationship is going.

so i realize this rant is very superficial as it centres around the comings and goings of television people, but i'm way too tired to try to write something of importance, so i guess i'll save it to tomorrow? or is that today? hmmm...we'll see how i feel after i wake up after a bag of sour cream and cheddar chips....among the various other junk food i've had today. but please, let's not dredge that up tonight.

what am i doing? i'm so tired right now, i'm falling off my chair but of course i decide that this will be the time that i blog about my very VERY short winter break.

first off: i had an amazing time!

right, so i currently have a huge bruise on my left bum cheek from skiing. no i don't suck at skiing, it just happened that the two days i skiied in mont tremblant, they were shitty days. the 31st of december it rained all day and the visibility was as good as nothing. i went skiing that day with my sister, and after falling the gazillionth time and even performing the splits, she decided to call it quits and i ended up going solo the next day (which i totally didn't mind, in fact i think it was better that way, i could go faster...yay!) the only problem was that the next day the weather got cold and the rain from the day before became ice and that made for a great abt workout on the slopes. ;p

so new years was in mont tremblant and christmas was in NYC. this is all i have to say about asian bus tours: NEVER AGAIN. never had i ever felt so asian in my whole entire life. hahaha. i mean sure i got to go to NY for cheap, but after this...NEVER AGAIN.

actually i have so many stories to go with that trip but i'm just way too lazy to type it all out. but it was a great trip, just too claustrophobically asian for me. yech. (picture an asian tour guide in a bright yellow puffy jacket holding a yellow flag and yelling for us to follow him...shudder...ames totally knows what i'm talking about!!) but the best part of that trip was that i was there for the boxing day sale at saks fifth avenue and was able to score myself a pair of gorgeous garnet chandelier earrings for a low (but still insanely high) price of $37 from $115. go me.

interestingly enough, i spent the most amount of money in kingston. as soon as i got in and met up with tanaka, she said "hey miao, we're going shopping now." the biggest "oh oh" in the world, and about $80 later....i ended up with a pink coat, a pink top and a very cute black sweater with a poodle. hahahaha. jokes, so jokes.

anyway, school is back and therefore so is running into all these random people that i haven't seen in 3 billion years. so far i know a fair amount of people in my classes, i am just waiting to see if anyone is in language acquisition with me, and that will make my day.

i lied. you know what made my day today? seeing the hot starbucks boy at college and yonge.

wow. nuff said.

it's been really great so far, catching up with luke and csb jeff (california sunshine boy), who i haven't seen in ever so long. also talking to fayewood and karina on the telephone, it makes me sad that i won't be seeing so many people before i leave.

i'm planning on going off to kingston tomorrow to visit tanaka and then saturday off to NYC...and next week we're off to mont tremblant for skiing time, yay! i only hope that this constant migraine will go away, somehow i'm not too optimistic about that.

other then that, "hero" is a great visual movie, very much enjoyed that. and vaughn mills mall is overrated, the only thing i really liked there was the outdoor store, THAT was much more interesting then the rest of the mall...come on, they have an aquarium with rainbow trout and hunting gear, and the like...

oh, and i played the piano at the christmas party at the toronto rehabilitation hospital on tuesday. wow, it was an exhilarating experience, having everyone singing along and just so happy. and i was happy that people were requesting songs that i knew i could play. oh, and the piano was SO WONKY. all the notes were off by a semitone so when i played middle c, it sounded like a b, and b sounded like a and so on....so wrong, but it worked out! ;p

and look, it's snowing outside now...

T-minus 16 hours --- last exam

god, my head is going to explode of soy chai lattes, spastic cerebral palsy, hearing disorders, cleft palate, aphasias and my all time favorite, neurogenic disorders of speech. it's been bad, what with my bouts of dizziness the last couple days, i'm convinced that the perilymph in my cochlea (ie, fluid in my inner ear) is messed up.

true to form, i've been studying like a fiend and i am SOOOO looking forward to tomorrow afternoon. i've already planned what i'm going to be doing after my exam: cleaning my room. yes yes, my room looks like a hurricane AND a tornado has struck...i can't see my bed anymore, i just crawl under something resembling a comforter at night and hope that the clothes and paper on top don't fall off the bed!

it would be nice to see some people before i leave christmas day, but i went to nisha's christmas condowarming party yesterday with shelley and it was a lot more fun then i anticipated. i do believe i have entered the age when my friends are getting married or scoring big shot career jobs or living in fanatastic places.

me? i'm going to be a traveller. ;p

oh how exciting, in exactly 10 days i will be out of this wretched city!!! i had been preparing to write another essay for today's exam (because the exam is 60% of our final grade, and come on, 60%?!?!?) but about 2am this morning i had a relevation, that i didn't HAVE to write the essay, it was only optional to take the stress off of the fact that the exam was 60%. it also helped that i hadn't even begun the essay and i was freaking myself out. so in the end, it all worked out. ;p

so i am now a starbucks dweller, i have spent the last two days studying there (there being the one closest to my house) and i'm pretty sure all the starbucks people know me. i even know which one is the manager, which is pretty crazy. i met this girl, raquel, one day sitting on the couch (which looks suspiciouly like velma) across from me last week. and the crazy story to that is that she knows my friend robin! i pulled the line "do you know..." and she started laughing and then was like "wow yah i know her!" fun fun times.

ok, i'm planning on catching up on some lost sleep now. but my goal is to start hardcore studying for JLS tonight and then review review review, and then kick some booty. (that is the plan, let's see how it goes!)

i am in SUCH A GREAT MOOD RIGHT NOW!!! finished bioethics and for the first time ever, i have a FIVE DAY break before my next exam! (i mean for this semester anyway) so i went out with the bioethic ppl after our exam and we went to o'grady's where there were kids from JLS promoting 'communications awareness week' and we had such a great time! (i am so in love with jon, he's like a cuter version of eminem! hahaha!)

it's been a long couple of weeks, and it feels great being so relaxed (oops, my bad, i had a margarita! hahaha) but now i'm going to go to sleep because it suddenly occured to me that i am EXHAUSTED. i'll have an update when i am more coherent! ;p

A cardiologist died and was given an elaborate funeral. A huge heart
covered in flowers stood behind the casket during the service.
Following the eulogy, the heart opened, and the casket rolled
inside. The heart then closed, sealing the doctor in the beautiful
heart
forever.


At that point, one of the mourners burst into laughter.
When all eyes stared at him, he said, "I'm sorry, I was just thinking
of my own funeral...I'm a gynecologist."

The proctologist fainted.

hahaha, that is SO funny!