I hate being la lazy bum. Especially when there is a mountain high of errands to do, like clean the house, laundry, books to read, things to learn. My mind lists the items to do at the start of each day right before work, I get home and that mental list evaporates. Believe me when I beat myself over it when I turn it at night. More to do another day, I tell myself.

But sometimes, one gets too lazy trying not to be lazy. So the cycle persists.

YYYs should do a purely acoustic album.

A new look for my blog. It was time to retire the old layout seeing how that has been in place for some years now. I am very pleased with how this turned out.


The three most eventful activities during my absence here have got to be:

1) Being away from the city at a cottage for one full week with people I enjoy being with.










2) Visiting Montréal my very first time with my siblings during Thanksgiving weekend. Met Yixuan, who is on an exchange, there too.


















3) Attending Mika's concert the Thanksgiving Monday straight after returning from Montréal.






There are so many pictures and videos to choose from - just looking at them again bring back plenty of good memories! I miss Montréal, tremendously! I do hope we get to go on another mini-Canadian trip soon. Perhaps Ottawa, Vancouver...? Also, I definitely have to work on getting licensed to drive, learning to play the guitar again, and picking up the Korean language. If I might say myself, I appear busier even with my supposed semester off from school.

But till then, I am volunteering with the World Wildlife Fund which hopefully will serve as a good job prospect in the future, and I will be working at Indigo for the holiday season (6AM shifts god dammit!). Christmas is in less than 2 months!

C'est moi. Désolé, j'ai eu peu d'heure au blog parce que je prends à un cours en français cet été. C'est difficile, mais j'aime apprendre une nouvelle langue. Je réussirai!

I went to see Travis on April 21 for the second time in two years. It was in the midst of my exam period, but I thought I deserved a birthday treat and an exam booster. Travis damn well knows how to put on a live show! And thanking us "weirdies" for seeing them instead of Kings of Leon and Flight of the Conchords, then encouraging videos to be posted on YouTube, brilliant!






And for sticking it out through the semester, a pat on my back came in the form of a live Patrick Watson concert. He performed in a church that provided an intimate setting with great lighting and acoustics for the show.






In other news, my interview with the Toronto Zoo did not yield a positive outcome. Bugger, it just means summer school for me. I am quite looking forward to it since the courses are French, and at the downtown campus!

Classes for Winter 2009 have come to an end. I have exams on the 17th, 18th and 25th; I am going to see Travis and opening act The Republic Tigers on the 21st and Patrick Watson on the 2nd next month; and I have an interview with the Toronto Zoo on the 21st!

Speaking of the Zoo, I was there recently as part of a behind-the-scenes visit for my "Roles of Zoos in Conservation" course. I learnt so much from that 2-hour tour - from the keeper's job and the zoo's operations to anecdotes of animal care and conservation efforts.



The Toronto Singapore Film Festival had its fourth run this recent weekend. A smaller event than last year, it ran quite well besides some snafus. With, erm, added responsibility this year, I only managed to catch the opening film, Rice Rhapsody, and another feature, Invisible Children, with the latter surprisingly being more impressive with its subtlety. The people from E-Snacks were there and they remember us from last year, thinking back of the amount of food we bought from them then and this year too (my sister didn't have time to volunteer or catch a screening but somehow found time to get some food). Ryan was in town visiting for a couple of days as well, so he ended up acting as a tourist/volunteer while hanging out with Yiwen and I.