pizza!

Sometimes I think watching a movie alone is pathetic. However, I wanted to watch the movie, so the fact that no one else showed up to watch it AND the VCR wasn't correctly hooked up to anything to allow me to watch it did not stop me from in fact watching it. "It" refers to the Inside Man, which turned out to be fairly good. Pretty much all Orientation Leaders out there have played that game where there's a split down the middle of the crowd and you have to walk across it to the other side whenever a condition shouted out applies to you. I laughed when they played that game in the middle of the back robbery while threatening everyone with guns.

Anyway, the reason I was at the school (the place no one stayed to watch the movie at) was because there was a goodbye betaspace (the old space) party. There did not turn out to be too many of my friends there, or really that many people in general as they had way too much free food (food refers to pizza at SFU Surrey). People took random pictures.

Speaking of pictures...I took some of my own for once when I went out to mown the lawn. There was a tiny cute little kitten which is the neighbors that came up to me and would bound towards me and then get scared and bound away. I think it thought it was a bunny. My camera is evil and won't let me upload pics or movies from it to my own computer if they are put on my memory card. So that will come later.

Now I'm off to Saturna Island for the long Canada day weekend.

I can play the stick game

The detour to the detour...is the original route? Today my bus decided to go straight rather than turn off on the detour, though I have a sneaky suspicion the bus driver just messed up. The road is far from being done as construction in Surrey almost NEVER finishes.

Three short tips of advice that I picked up from the weekend:

If you don't have sun block, then ask someone else for sun block other wise your face will look like spiderman's. (When he wears his mask I mean)

If you're going to be sneaky and dishonest enough to cheat at a game (especially the stick game - yes I know..you have no clue what that is...nah nah nah!), then make sure you are also dishonest enough to not confess to cheating later.

If you play capture the flag, head first to the playground where you shall be injured rather than to the forest with the chest/fridge that contains bugs AND nothing. (So you don't waste time)

A dime is hard to find on the bottom of a pool, broken clocks are right twice a day, and succesfully throwing three balls held in one hand at the exact same time across a pool to 3 people who all catch them on the very first try is possible.

Yes, these were all relevant to my weekend.

Viagra!

So, today is the 22nd of June, which holds no significance unless one notices that it is the day after the 21st of June which is itself the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. I can't really believe the days are going to get shorter from now on. It doesn't seem like they are that long to begin with...but then that's probably because I'm from the great white north. Dawson Creek that is. That there dang water is the dang creek y'all!



In other news, apparently there is this study that is going to happen at the BC Children's hospital...amongst a lot of studies and research that they do there. But this study, it stands out...as the mention of giving children Viagra caught my attention. In this study, somehow the rest of the details I never paid attention to, children from ages 1 to 16 are going to be given Viagra. There was mention of some of the errr...side effects to males in the study and it was noted that they should inform nurses of any...side effects of the drug. I really don't think 16 years old need it.

People disolved

Last weekend was actually a little slower than most. I got together with some friends on Friday as we went to a charity dinner at Sasamat camp where the Afroman works. Someone at worked commented that I do a lot of charity work...which caused someone else to correct them "No, he doesn't...he just pays for a lot of stuff that goes to charity!" Meh...big difference.

The food was pretty good, and Rob fell in the lake. Which is to be expected.

On Saturday I actually didn't even leave the street. I just went down to my aunt and uncle's for my cousin's birthday party. Nothing exciting happened. That's right...NOTHING! whew...what a day.

On Sunday I went and tutored for 2 hours at the school. This time I was tutoring for MATH 12 instead of Calculus by although there is more I don't understand in Math 12 (they've changed it since I was in it) somehow I managed to do a much better job of tutoring at it. I call it luck.

On Sunday night, I went and saw X-men 3 finally...with someone else who mysteriously also had not seen it yet. That someone being Q. I believe we both thought it was alright, but not as good as the first two. Still a good movie to see in a theater rather than on a tv. Pretty cool effects including people disolving or whatever you want to call it. I'm sure you knew that though since pretty much EVERYONE saw the movie before we did. I forgot to watch the hidden scene after the credits damnit. Oh well.

I am going to count Monday as part of the weekend. Just cause Monday's usually suck but this one was fairly good. Oh sure, the Oiler's lost and the Stanley Cup went to Carolina, but it turned out, surprise surprise, that going to Rob's place to watch the hockey game was not all about the hockey game. In fact, you will be surprised to know, or not if you have any previous related knowledge, that most people showed up after the game finished. We also watched Mr. Show you see...as well as played some pool.

Double Eyelids

What's the deal with double eyelids?

I just found out that there was some sort of significance to them today. So I can truly say this Jerry Seinfeld-ish line without it seeming silly. By significance I mean that people actually care about them and many people...especially over in Asia think people who don't have them look better. I really don't get the deal, I really wouldn't think a girl was hotter with a crease in her upper eyelid than without.

But there is a deal. So much of a deal that there is quite a few people in Asia getting upper eyelid surgery to put a crease in their eyelids. Apparently half of all asian people are born without a crease in their upper eyelid and for those asian eyelids that do have creases they differ a lot from the eyelids of non-asian people. Yeah, that's one of the things that defines them as asian. So what? It's nothing to get surgery about!

I learned about this today because a girl at work who coincidently doesn't have a crease in her upper eyelids mentioned how her friend was getting the surgery done today. Over here in Vancouver I assume. Apparently the friend's spouse's family was all making fun of her for not having a crease. I wonder how much this type of surgery costs. It's a mad mad world I tell ya.

When I asked my coworker what the difference really was she said I wouldn't know because I have double eyelids. mmmmk....she's got a point.

Anticipation

Ever heard the phrase "Anticipation is half the fun." Well sometimes I think it's even more...and no I'm not talking about events that don't live up to my expectations. In terms of time I think I would rank good events as being the best #1 - in the present (happening NOW), followed by #2 - in the future (going to happen), and finally #3 - in the past (already happened).

So yes, any good event is a lot more fun when you are actually at it, then when you are planning it or waiting for it - but the thing is an event only lasts for so long, and lately it seems like I have anticipation for things days in advance. Then it'll happen and before I know it, it's the next day or two...and normal routine settles in again. I'm just glad there seems to always be something to look forward to. No having to step back to the past and do things again.

Weekend (pt3)

So to continue...
On Sunday I met with the icetek studios gang at school at noon...once it had been decided that we would indeed be meeting and it would be at noon (was decided at about quarter after 11 unless you talk to Shea who will claim she decided it for us all a day or two before). Thankfully we did more this weekend than last...and in less time. We managed to put down what everyone in the group is good at and what they'd like to learn. Oh yeah, in case you are completely lost, my friend Alex has started a company called icetek studios which we are all going to work for. He's not really the boss though.

Later we went over to Rob's place and hung out...well hung out well Shea did some work and programmed the website. It took forever for those people to figure out how to bridge a connection and get the internet, and I don't even know if they got it. But, ohhh...progress.

Weekend (pt 2)

So then I woke up on Saturday at around 4pm and headed out at 5pm for Metrotown to meet Gabby and some friends of hers that I didn't previously know for a birthday party. It turned out to be somewhat of a joint party because her friend had had a birthday shortly before her. I felt bad because I didn't bring a present - I was just so busy in the flurry of things, although I guess that's not a great excuse. How bout the excuse of you never know with people whether they expect gifts and so what if I had brought one and been the only one to and then it might have been awkward. What then, hmm? HMM?

Anyways the birthday was all about doing things for the first time...at least it turned out that way for me. I don't think I've ever used one of those photocard booth things to get a group picture on a card, I don't think I've ever had Korean food in a restaurant where you cook the meat yourself on your table, and I know I've never been to a karaoke place before. So yeah..met some new people, did some new stuff. It's all good.

That wasn't my whole weekend...

Busy weekends

This weekend there were again 3 things I did. Every single weekend since school ended has been fairly full of events, I really never have a lazy boring day. I almost starting to wish for one. Yet I keep volunteering/agreeing to do things that I don't think that will happen soon. What can I say, I like people and I don't really do much of anything with anyone who lives in this house. This weekend I was barely at home. What'd I do this weekend...

1) I Went to the Relay of Life Friday night which basically consisted of hanging out at the track at Bear Creek park from 6pm - 7:30 am or so and walking and running around the track for some of that. The idea was to keep one person from our team going around the track at all times but they weren't too strict on that. Why did I do it? It was for a good cause and it meant having a fun time with friends...plus I have never stayed up all night surrounded by that many people before. There were more than 40 teams I believe.

There were also games throughout the night such as Volleyball (lost the first game quite badly thus being put out of the tournament), Scavenger hunt (were too lazy to play), a pie eating contest (some nasty chick decided to throw her pie around rather than eat it, Name that Tune (TV theme songs, I got our team the only point), the Dating Game, (according to Rob the question that seals the deal is what your favorite music group is (contestant 2 said Zepplin)), and poker (3rd out of 5).

I'm lazy...I'll talk about the other two things later.

TAPLE

What another whirlwind weekend. First there was the Open House where I spent 5 hours playing with a Smart Board and explaining to people how it worked. I was rewarded with some lunch money and a t-shirt. It wasn't even pizza...well because I could use the lunch money for whatever I wanted. I bet I could have bought a whole lot of pizza slices...but that wasn't what I wanted. I know someone who went to the SFU Surrey open house events on Satuday instead. I bet he ate pizza. Google SFU Surrey and my friend's blog comes up right at the top. And I found this page of pictures from school in the results...people all have the same pose...you think they could have been more exciting.

On Sunday I participated in the BC Child run which managed to raise $13,086,895 from it. That was some healthy exercise and I went with a group from work. Now my boss actually believes I'm in good shape. Yes, and I believe that in the olden days everything was black and white. Hmm..now tell me why there is a whole category on I Used To Believe about toilets? They must be very mysterious to youngsters.

Later on Sunday I went to the school and had a meeeeeeeeeting. It was long you know. Not much was accomplished. I single handely accomplish even less. I think we have too many designers in the company we are trying to start up. I'm not one of them. The evening was more fun as we watched a movie and a bit of X-men cartoons and pool at Rob's house before I left to get to bed early enough to work today.

By the way, the title of this post comes from an ad at the Pho place that boasts a Chair - Nail Taple. I think Rob still has the number if you want to contact them.

Goodie Bag!

Yeah so I'm on a charity run kick and I have two coming up in the next couple weeks. Between those and the SFU openhouse I should be recieving 3 free t-shirts. Not that I need more. Not that that's the reason I do anything.

Since this first one is the BC Child's run...I found some rather childish things in the goodie bag I was given today. I'm not sure what the fish is for.

Apparently I have pictures on my camera's hard drive from when there was snow...SNOW...here. Yeah, I guess I no longer use my camera that much.