Other People's Weddings

I love other people's weddings because it's a great excuse to buy a new dress for the occasion. what a selfish yet entirely valid reason =)

I also love it when coupons/gift certificates are threatening to expire on me. Because it is a perfectly nice reason to spend money now.

you're poorer than you think

At least I am. Unemployment + one month vacations aren't really compatible. Admission tickets to the parks in Orlando (i.e. Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Universal Studios...) already come to around $3xx. Plus plane tickets. Plus broadway tickets (at least I'm buying rush tickets...but still at least $40...). Plus shopping money (not mandatory, but good idea to bring some). Plus food.

But it's okay. Spending money is kinda fun haha.

Btw, Benny keeps imagining our cruise to be like those Corona commercials (i.e. lawn chairs on a beautiful, quiet, sunny, peaceful beach and a corona). I am more realistic. I imagine crowded, dirty, noisy, sticky hot beaches with nothing but bottled water that we bought for $5.

Declaration of War

Dear germs,

I will not be intimidated by your congregating in my throat. I will not allow you to ruin my vacation plans. Now get out!

Thanks,
Kathy

Changing

Today, I told a friend that it is okay for people to change if:

1. they realize that they are changing
2. they can correctly distinguish whether this is a good or a bad change
and
3. they are willing/able to make adjustments if they are unhappy with the change.

Now that I am thinking about this, I do give fairly ambiguous and random advice eh? Just another bunch of fluff and verbal diarrhea (that word again!) from the randomness and confusion that is my brain. But hey, maybe ambiguous and random advice is the best advice - the person who hears this advice can just interpret and do as they will.

Okay, I need sleep.

Actually, no not anymore.

the other day i was at Lougheed Mall when the following happened:


BMO credit card salesperson guy:
Hey there do you have a minute?

Me with my shopping (oh how i dislike people that try to get me to buy/sign up for things):
no not really.

PERSISTENT BMO credit card salesperson guy:
you are a student, aren't you?

Me with my shopping, paused for a minute:
Actually, no not anymore.

not-so-persistent-after-all BMO credit card salesperson guy turns and goes bug someone else.

I think this is the very first time I am actually kinda happy that I am no longer a student.

自我安慰

On days where I feel like there is nothing here for me to look forward to, all I need to do is go here, sign in to my account and see the "confirmed" status. It's reassurance that my getaway is not very far away at all.

Jet Lag

It's 12:17am and I just heard a bird chirping outside: the kind of chirping that usually occurs at 4:30am just when the sun is ready to rise.

Either that bird is majorly jet-lagged or this has something to do with global warming/urbanization/deforestation/whatever.

Flip Flops

Today, for the first time in 2010, it was warm and sunny enough to wear flip flops and not risk freezing your toes off or have to wade through puddles.

And it felt awesome.

the first signs of summer

You know summer is around the corner when the buzzing sound of the first house fly that is separated from its freedom by your bedroom window prevents you from napping.

I looked at the annoying pest and thought:
1. The weather JUST warmed up. How did it manage to hatch, learn to fly, accumulate such enormous mass AND get into my bedroom in such a short period of time?
2. How did it manage to get into my room? Surely it couldn't have pulled its fat self through the tiny pores of my window screen...
3. Most importantly, how can I make it leave?

I guess groundhogs tell you when spring arrives. House flies tell you when summer is almost here.

what's going on?

For the past few days, I feel as if I'm being hounded/annoyed by something but I'm not sure what it might be. It seems like I've either forgotten to do something that is quite urgent/important or that there is a approaching deadline that I've yet to deal with. I can think of a feel reasons why I might be feeling anxious...

• I was supposed to have a paper due Thursday but the prof already postponed that...
• I have a paper proposal due also on Thursday but I've finished that already
• I have a performance on Friday night but I'm quite ready I think. And usually these things don't start to stress me out until around an hour before I actually have to get on stage
• I have to lead worship this week. And there's a new worship team member. Actually this one might be one of the reasons.
• I've yet to catch up last week and this week's course readings. This one is probably it too.
• I haven't translated an article that I was supposed to have translated by last Friday. Yup this one too.
• I haven't been to one of my course lectures for far too long (although it is rather useless). This one's definitely one.

Okay so I think I've got a few reasons down. Then again, some may suggest that this anxiety is biological. Oh c'mon it's not that unreasonable, please!

A Match For A Match

Today, I was reminded by a person that truly inspires me to be well-prepared for everything. As I wouldn't have gone into a taekwondo competition without stretching, or a piano exam without practicing scales, or a driving exam without making sure the mirrors and seat are well adjusted, or a singing performance without doing doing vocal warm up, or even going to school without my pencil bag or my notepad, why would I ever do anything else in my life, without preparing for it?

Had a really great relaxing day tonight just playing Monopoly with Karen, 鄭少 and MickMo. Although I only ended up with $4 and 250$ worth of debt, the laughing does my body a great deal of exercise that no amount of gym workout can match.

Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah

I was just about to start whining and complain on this blog post about life in general today but then suddenly, my iTunes shuffled itself to the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive.

Now I know that even my iTunes is rooting for me。 Ah, what a relieve.

Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right, it's O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.

Well now, I get low and I get high
And if I can't get either I really try.
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose.
You know it's all right, it's O.K.
I'll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin' alive

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right, it's O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin' alive
Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin' alive

24

i watched the season premier of 24 with benny today. i didn't think it was that good haha...maybe because I fell asleep halfway. I always say Sundays are tiring.

Sick Cat

Good thing UBC only haunts me on Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester because I have become a 病貓 today: my entire skull is itching (this is the best way I can think of to describe the sensation), my throat is as dry as the Sahara even though I've been drowning it with all sorts of liquids and limbs are sore-er than a first-time-snowboarder's butt (I will find out how sore that exactly feels this coming Friday!!!).

落唔出?

成日話落雪, 點解等極都好似落唔出?

大佬呀, 靠你落多D 等我唔洗返學考試架嘛...唔該多多合作!

wow typing in 'Cantonese' takes forever.

the weather and my new nail polish

I never knew that Vancouver can be this cold. Of course it snows but mostly, even when it snows, i don't think it's really THAT cold at all. But today, it seemed really really cool (even when I had all my "gear" on). 凍到入骨! According to weather underground, it's -8C outside right now but with windchill it's actually -16C!

Thank God there's no UBC tomorrow or I would not even bother going and walk around campus in this frigid weather.

I bought a new nail polish today (yes again). I am still searching for the perfect i-am-not-wearing-nail-polish-but-i-actually-am colour. This new one turned out okay but Karen says it 'looks cheap'. It's Sally Hansen No Chip 10 Day nail colour in Tough Buff, only 2.99@Zellers today. Maybe I should stop cheaping out and actually go get an OPI or something for $12 (argh almost $10 difference).

After finals are over, I will go get a full set manicure and pedicure treatment. That would be this year's christmas present for my hands and feet =)

and i just watched Love Actually for the 3892708979078th time in my life.

2010 Church Theme

I've already thought of next year's church theme for the church

國家興亡 匹夫有責
教會興亡 會友有責

Of course I'm kidding. =)

老虎活士

I'm just so disappointed in Tiger Woods! He appeared to be such a perfect family man (who just happens to make tons of money). Argh i feel tricked!

ya i don't know why this concerns me at all either but i guess no one likes a cheating man, regardless if they're in a TVB drama, in Hollywood, a friend's dad, a friend's boyfriend or just a friend.

Canada Post

Took me thirty minutes at the post office today to finally send a precious piece of cargo to a Ningbo friend that happens to be in the UK right now. Post is just too expensive nowadays: I was given a choice of paying 23$ for my package to get there between 6-8 weeks (no guarantees) or $48 for my package to get there in around 2 weeks (no guarantees either). I don't understand how people can 'send Christmas parcels' to family around the world still. I bet paying for post is probably already more than the present itself. Thank God for online sites where shopping is a click of a button away and delivering within the US is free.

Today I managed to finish 2 out of 10 articles that I have to analyze by Friday. It's not much compared to my usual working speed but given my newly picked up habit of slacking and lack-of-motivation, I guess it is something.

Today's Top Ten

1. 爲什麽台慶那麽無聊?

2. 爲什麽曾志偉年年都要搞到女星們超狼狽他才滿意?

3. How can any body claim to represent another without first consulting with the latter?

4. Why is my Starbucks tumbler leaking?

5. Why can't I play a song on the piano with the melody in the left hand?

6. Why can't people see beyond the immediate future?

7. Why can't I insist on finishing my readings, as oppose to continuing to procrastinate?

8. Why do the yellow yams in my 番薯糖水 today taste not as sweet as the purple yams?

9. Why does my writing slant to the right?

10. 爲什麽無綫的劇集總是喜歡"爛尾"?

of course, i have so many more questions than that, but if I were to continue, I wont be able to wake up to go to UBC tomorrow so let's just leave it at that.

currently listening - 黑風暴雨 by 鄭中基 (karen's listening to it beside me so by default i'm listening too)