for the second day in a row in the same week, i (or rather my brother causing me to) overslept. monday it was fine, since the lecture had an online version. but today's class was a tutorial, and in order to get the participation mark, attendance have to be taken. so i rushed out of the house at 9.30am, with the tutorial starting at 10am. reached there around halfway through, with my very messy hair, and sloppy clothes thrown onto myself.. but ultimately, i got my attendance marked and handed in the mini-assignment.

i have to get my own alarm clock. also, my brother has to put his act together. he has been oversleeping, skipping classes, doing nothing but stare at the computer (sniggling to himself very randomly/irritatingly) day in and day out. oh, and he doesn't hear a word i say when i TRY to talk to him, so i have to repeat it so many times. so much for communication..

oscar nominations are in. nothing new; the same films and people in brokeback mountain, capote, walk the line, good night and good luck, etc. i'm only pulling for felicity huffman to win for her astonishingly well-acted role in transamerica. i'm sad (though expected) claire danes wasn't nominated for best actress as mirabelle in shopgirl.

talking about transamerica and shopgirl, i watched both of the sometime back. the former was touching. felicity huffman was just phenomenal. she plays a man who is about to undergo the final sex-change operation, but discovers he/she fathered a child. so it's the road to discovery and belief. felicity huffman's voice and portrayal were so believable. but the ending was kind of abrupt. still the film has to be one of the best of 2005 despite its small-scale. in the latter, claire danes just shone in the film. she plays a saks avenue shop assistant who is battling depression, and then meets two guys of opposite nature. i found the film to be very subtle and meaningful overall.

so there you have it. oscars will be handed out in march, which by then i would be busy with my midterms and school. AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, i'm lagging behind in everything related to school, to the extent of being late for classes, or skipping the whole darn thing. but the worst thing is the return of new seasons of TV in spring for reality and dramas. like survivor: exile islands is starting this thursday, the amazing race at the end of this month, america's next top model and prison break in march! on top of so, so, so many other shows that i follow and worship (ahem, Grey's Anatomy).

also, i'm becoming terribly lazy to blog. i had so many random stuffs to type, but looks like they will just vaporise till i condense them back when i chill. yea, very lame. i better focus more on school..

PS and to think i'm sitting right now, right here blogging. BLAH!

BARKING IN CNY!

it poured heavily all day. my parents and aunts always say raining on auspicious days can be a good omen. call us superstitious or what, but water represents good fortune. so perhaps this year would be good economically.

had dimsum with my housemates and a few others. surprisingly there wasn't as many people as i expected it to be. there was lion-dance at the restaurant when we arrived. and cai shen ye came around for donations. LOL. i thought he gives wealth, not take them. just a note: no angpows collected.


an overseas lion.


the usuals with a new korean guy (his also-korean friend is taking the picture).
it's still raining. now working on my health studies mini-assignment. i'm so far behind in my schoolwork. i thought of resting this CNY weekend, but the coming midterms and assignments' due-dates are freaking me out. so happy holidays for those who have monday and tuesday off.. ~!@#$%^&*()_+

PS thanks PAMY for your OVERSEAS-CNY-SMS!

thankfully, this year's Chinese New Year falls on a weekend. i remember last year, i had to whip up a reunion dinner right after i came home from school. canada should seriously consider making CNY a public holiday since there are so many chinese immigrants. but, then other holidays have to be declared public holidays since canada is such a culturally diverse nation..

anyway the point of reunion dinners is to be with family members right? well apparently not for me. my only family here went out with a friend, without the opposition of my family elders. my brother claims he didn't know it was CNY. so i went with my housemates for a chinese dinner.

tomorrow i told my brother we would go for dimsum with our housemates (which he suggested too at first), but now he says he doesn't want to go out so many times since we will be meeting kaleng late on in the evening for dinner too. excuses, excuses.. so much for family eh? he better wise up, otherwise he isn't going to get a share of canned sharksfin (made in singapore!) and ocean clams that i bought just now after my dinner..

i don't feel the atmosphere of CNY here. firecrackers and lion/dragon-dances are missing. perhaps it's better in chinatown. there wasn't much of an atmosphere back home too, but at least there was family, red packets, mandarin oranges, snacks and tidbits, sumptous dinners, more new clothes.. i miss CNYs in kl/singapore.

ok me and my brother are going to make long-distance calls to give our well-wishes. so have a HAPPY (doggie) CHINESE NEW YEAR!

PROJECT RAT. 25/01/2005. 1400hr. S-Wing UTSC.

yea, i dissected a rat for biology lab. more of a group work, as each bench were given a dead lab rat. a stiff, blood-drained, white, full rat. the lab was filled with a smell of some chemical, most probably for preservation.

cut across it's belly, and started opening up. with all our heads hovering over the poor little creature, we had to swing in a headlight. for a moment, it felt so much like being a surgeon in the middle of an operation, like those in Grey's Anatomy. maybe more of a veterinarian..

we saw the little heart, kidney, intestines, testes, etc, all surrrounded by layers of fats, blood vessels, muscles, bones.. the purpose of the experiment was for us to draw different organs in various systems. what a way to make use of a dead rat's body eh? we could have just drawn it off a book or diagram. but for the sake of science and knowledge, thank you little Rattus rattus!

PS talking about GA, i linked the latest episode of it from YouTube to my friendster profile. watch it if you have 40-minutes of spare time! (:

the conservatives (right-wing) is the new minority government of canada. i was supporting the liberals (previous ruling party) and paul martin, as even though i'm not canadian, i feel it would be better for the social welfare and economy of canada. i just know there are going to be so many politics to be played over the coming weeks.

me, nora and juyenty were sitting in front of the tv, watching the news and exchanging information about the parties/election that we heard from friends or read from the newspaper. we came to a conclusion: all 3 of us prefer the liberals/ndp to the conservatives so much more. it's weird to say this, but..

i'm now living in a conservative canada.

i seriously don't know what i have been doing over the weekends. been very unwilling to study or blog. so this will just be a quick post on what's to come. one, tomorrow is canada's election day. two, CNY is in a week.

oh, and i'm most probably going back to KL this summer to help my aunts move to a new condominium close to midvalley! sweet. i guess i won't be returning to singapore since i'll only be in SEA for a while. crossing my fingers as airflights are almost full.

sunday = GA = bliss! desperate housewives and grey's anatomy are up tonight! i hope i'll breeze through this week..

this week was the start of both my biology and chemistry labs. i was kind of looking forward to them, but at the same time nervous as i won't be in the same lab as the other people i knew last semester (specifically for my biology lab where i had a blast!).

biology
i took the exact same section: same day (wednesday), same timeslot (2-5pm), same lab room (SW237), but different TA. we are suspecting our current TA to be the wife/fiance of my previous TA. anyway i was moody as there weren't many familiar faces. and 3/4 of the session were girls.
thankfully there was sandy who sat next to me in the front row. but sometimes it's tiring as i'm always sitting with sandy in lectures too.. then alex came and things got better. at least there was another person to talk to. so 3 of us were in a group when we did our practical with the Daphnia organism where we have to count its heartbeat at different temperatures. disgusting little creature. ours died just as we were wrapping up our experiment.
next week we are going to dissect a rat! woot! eeew!

chemistry
had the lab today, and it felt different. i didn't like last semester's session, and i don't think i am going to love this session too (though it's kind of better). i like the lab room, although older, i've a larger working space with my own sink. our TA looked young enough to be on the other side of the room facing the board.
the experiment was okay. and surprisingly i managed to finish everything early, very early. as early as being the first person to walk out of the lab. shocking eh? maybe it's because i knew i was alone and had to finish the experiment independently, so somehow i got perked up.

another 4-hours straight lectures timeslot tomorrow. there's a quiz too for environmental science; the textbook is out of stock, so just now i stayed back in school to quickly skim through my friend's copy. off to being hardworking.

EDIT my professor was kind enough to postpone the quiz to next week since he knows many of us are without a textbook! yay for him and me! (:

i came across two situations involving disabilities today:

1) in psychology class, we watched meaningful videos about autism, asperger's syndrome, and tourette's syndrome. it shed light on the woes of such mental disorders. patients with autism and asperger syndrome seldom socialize, and are visual thinkers, with some unusual behaviours and language difficulties. tourette's syndrome causes one to have uncontrollable outbursts of movements or vocalizations. when watching this video, i felt uncomfortable. imagine being born with all the inconveniences that will bring on constant stares and ridicule from the ignorant public. one of my friend found it amusing, and i was irritated by such lack of understanding.

2) during my break, i was sitting at the science wing. a man left a piece of folded paper with printed words and images. i will try to get a picture of it up. anyway, it read..

These cards have been printed for the purpose of assisting me, a Deaf person, in making a living. Will you kindly buy one? With it you may acquaint yourself with the deaf people. Pay ANY price you wish. THANK YOU!

i wriggled out all the coins i had, which valued around 40-cents. without even looking at the amount, the man looked at me with much gratitude and signed out 'thank you' with his hands.

my whole point of it is: i'm just thankful to be here with such blessings..

maybe today isn't such an unlucky day. more of an un-unlucky day of reverse luckiness. it turned out rather well at the last few hours. i went to fairview mall and duplicated a key, bought yummy KFC for dinner, and watched the Golden Globe Awards 2006!

weeeee, sandra oh won the 'best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a tv series' for Grey's Anatomy! fantabulous. she rushed up to the stage and was in disarray. for 'best performance by an actress in a tv comedy series', the four leading ladies of wisteria lane were nominated and faced only one other outside competition, so what are the odds that they lose to that one soul? well 100%, seeing that was how it turned out.. however, Desperate Housewives won for 'best tv comedy series'! also, Lost won 'best tv drama series', beating out GA for it (yay and boo?).

the biggest winner for movies have got to be brokeback mountain, the gay cowboy love story with wins in 'best drama movie' and 'best director'. it's followed by walk the line, the biopic of legendary country singer johnny cash with wins in 'best musical movie' and 'best actor', 'best actress in a musical movie' for both joaquin phoenix and reese witherspoon respectively. also worth mentioning is felicity huffman (aka lynette scavo of Desperate Housewives), who won 'best actress in a drama movie' for transamerica, about a man who goes for a sex-change operation, only to discover later he has a son and bonds with him. i want/have to watch this show!

fashion-wise, i felt eva langoria, natalie portman, evangeline lily and kate beckinsale looked stunning. ok better stop now. for more head on here to read the winner list. i'm now going to watch the episode of GA that i missed. (:

today has got to be one of the unluckiest day of my stay in canada. it's a long story but i will try to shorten it as much as possible.. quite a challenge, considering my fondness for procastination and continuous ramblings.

my brother wanted to get some of his own groceries, so did i. he wanted to use my debit card for it, but i needed it to buy my textbooks today. so we came to an agreement that i would by my books, and when i'm close to home, i would call him to meet me at the lobby to go to the supermart.

things went wrong when i realized on the bus to school that i had left both my wallet and cellphone at home. so we decided that i would go straight up instead of waiting for my brother at the lobby. without my wallet, i couldn't buy my books to read during my 2-hour break, and food to munch on as i was starving. nevertheless, i survived the first half of the day and went home. when approaching the apartment building door, i again discovered something awry. i only had the key to the apartment building, but had lost the one to the house door. still, i would be able to enter since my brother was home.

so i thought.. i went up and started knocking away, but no one answered. i guessed he was asleep, which frustrated me. i went down to the management room and asked for assistance to open the door. this lady gave me the cannot-be-bothered attitude, and made me wait there just to end up telling me "unless you are the lease-holder, we cannot open the door for you". say so, biatch. i left and went up again. i was worried that i would have to wait till late in the evening when my housemates would return, as i know my brother would sleep all the way if no one wakes him up. my knuckles were sore from the repeated knocks and bangs. i was starving and tired. i waited at the stairwell, and periodically went to knock on the door for close to an hour.

finally, help arrived when one of my housemate came home. i was close to missing her as she closed the door before i could get out of the stairwell. but i managed to get in, and true enough my brother was sleeping away. the thing that frustrates me is that he was supposed to be prepared and wait for me to come home so that we can leave at once. but no, he had to go to sleep, and expected me to wake him up. furthermore, he knew i didn't bring my wallet or cellphone. which leads me to another frustration of why i didn't remember to bring my cellphone. i could have called for help, or called the house phone (but even then, my brother wouldn't be bothered to pick it up).

so from all days, i had to lose my key on the day that i didn't have any money or communication device on me. this is exactly how unlucky my day was.

Grey's Anatomy is on tv right now, but surprise surprise.. guess who isn't watching it? one out of the many GA-fanatics, ME. but i have a perfectly good reason to justify my actions, starting from...

me and my brother went to bathurst to meet kaleng at 4.30pm. she came a little late, and then rushed back to her house to put her stuffs down, while me and my brother went to this japanese place for dinner. it's funny how we always go to koreatown, but have japanese food most of the time when we are out with kaleng.

kaleng wasn't feeling too well, so she missed out on the usual buffet. we gave her a treat as her birthday present, and tempted her to watch a movie with us. went to her house to get some stuffs and then rushed off to paramount. the movie was starting at 7.50pm, and we were only leaving spadina at 7.20pm.

at spadina, we had to run through this long tunnel from the east-west line side to the other side of the station where the north-south line was. it was so tiring. then after we came out of osgoode station, again we ran in the super-uber cold weather. since i was in charge of buying the tickets, i ran ahead. just to be clear, i haven't exercised in a long time, and running in unfavourable conditions (it's -10 degrees celsius today, and with the windchill making it -18), makes it even harder and tiring. i was breathless by the time i ran a few blocks, and had around two more to go. i thought i was going to collapse from a lack of oxygen. my throat and windpipe was so dry and cold, and my ears were numb. but i got the tickets anyway.


Hoodwinked had a good voiceover cast, and relatively nice storyline and animation. the story revolves around the little red riding hood fairytale, with a new twist. it has good laughs too. i love the spunky, badass grandma, and the hyper little squirrel. overall, the movie is a good one to wind up a nice/bad day. click HERE to watch the trailer. enjoy!

so we came home late. i missed Desperate Housewives, and GA had already started when i returned. thus, i decided to just watch it through other means, and enjoy the benefits of self-control and advert-free.

yeap, now i'm just chilling around in this chilly weather. it's hopefully going to warm up during the weekdays. i must get down to studying. CNY is coming in 2 weeks! even though there isn't a public holiday, it's on a weekend. yay!

slept really late last night as me and my brother watched Underworld, a movie starring kate beckinsale, and is all about the vampire clan versus the werewolf clan battle of dominance. there is more to the feud as learn when the story unravels. overall the movie isn't bad. maybe i should go watch the sequel, Underworld: Evolution, which is coming out next week..

woke up and watched some japanese anime. it's funny how i'm still treating my days as though there are holidays, when i should be reading text and preparing for what's to come in the next few weeks/months.

i then went out with nora, kusuma and christina to T&T supermarket (the biggest, cleanest, chinese supermarket i know of) to get some groceries. it was hard to get a parking space, so we parked at a 20-minute only parking space. rushed into T&T and hurriedly picked up whatever we wanted. it felt like those TV gameshows, where there's a time limit to find the items on a list. LOL..

anyway, initially they were discussing going for karaoke, but i didn't want to go. when i confirmed with them again this morning, they were all with the "no, we are no more going" crap. and i naively believed them. so i got tricked and there was no turning back.
we went to this karaoke lounge (with very bad service from this guy) and started our 3-hour long singing race. trust me, I CANNOT SING. i croak like a frog. but i mumbled the lines of songs. as i haven't been hearing chinese songs in a long, long time, the only ones i sang was those of stefanie sun's.. the others were singing songs from mainly jay zhou, with some random english and chinese songs. at the end, we chose oldies, like teresa teng's songs.
i think i had a good time. it was embarassing to sing, especially since i have a very low voice with no sense of rhythm. i ended up with a very croaky throat. if there is a next time, i will prepare and practise beforehand.

headed to dinner at a chinese restaurant. i haven't been eating at a chinese restaurant (those rice and dishes where everyone eat together kind of restaurant, not those self-portion type) eversince i came to canada. so it was kind of nice.. and it was cheap too!

i believe i have to go read some school material first before i watch shows later in the night.. this weekend is cold, with freezing windchills. but there will be a warmup again next week. crappy weather. tomorrow me and my brother would be going out with kaleng to our usual haunt (aka koreatown). and sunday = Grey's Anatomy (and Desperate Housewives too)!

today wraps up my first week of school's winter semester. i always love the first week; though boring, there aren't any practicals or tutorials which means going home early! here are the courses i'm taking this semester:
BGYA02H3 (biology II)
CHMA11H3 (chemistry II)
PSYA02H3 (psychology II)
EESA06H3 (environmental science- planet earth)
HLTA01H3 (health studies- plagues & people)

i'm kind of liking this semester's timetable. i don't have so many breaks as i used to in the fall. which means less time in school, more time at home. yay! wednesday is my busiest day; classes from 9am-1pm, 2pm-5pm. yes terrible eh? but the most of the other days it's good.

i really love HLTA01 out of all five. professor sawchuk cracks me up. this is his last year teaching this course, so i'm glad i'm taking it now (even though i was a little apprehensive before as it's an elective, and if i decide not to do conservation biology i would end up with many electives, so.. it's a long story).
EESA06 is interesting, but professor eyles kinds of bore me out. there are relatively little people taking this course compared to the other courses. overall i enjoyed today's lecture; all about the continental drift, plate tectonics..
the other courses are about the same as those i took in the fall semester. some new professors though, for biology and psychology.

the intenet network of the house was down since last night. i got really bored. i now know how sad my life can be without internet. but now it's fixed and i'm happy.. spent my hours yesterday rewatching S02E06 'into you like a train' of Grey's Anatomy. and again i cried.

oh, i updated my radio blog, making it not autoplay and alphabetized the list of songs from GA! wee! okay i seriously need a life.

i really need to have a new dose of Grey's Anatomy. my god, everything about me now includes GA; the music playlist, my pictures and icons, my MSN nick, my friendster profile. oh my blog too, with those past posts about GA-ga-ness.. and so here's another (it won't kill).

i came across this GA LiveJournal community (ok, i went searching for it) last night on the web. and with it came many juicy news, and cool GA icons! of course i had to take some and credit.













also, found this on YouTube. it's one of the MANY funny scenes in GA. i also had it posted on my friendster profile. the madness eh? well, enjoy!

sunday always seems like a long wait. and now, with GA falling on sunday, it makes sunday seem even further away. oh, and i will be updating my radio blog so that there will be new songs, songs from GA episodes.

yes, GA is now my life.

the daily school routine is back, this time in cold, dark days. i'm too stressed and lazy to ramble on about how monotonous today was. here's hoping winter school-life will be great, to being hardworking and getting good grades. and to me, generally.

the sixth episode in season 2 of Grey's Anatomy with the title 'into you like a train' made me cry, sob and bawl REALLY, REALLY badly.

[spoiler alert!] the episode was about a trainwreck resulting in many injuries/deaths. the ER was flooded with patients, one particularly serious one was that of 2 patients (1 male, 1 female) impaled with a metal pole through them. the surgeons couldn't pull it out of them, as then they would die from excessive bleeding; they couldn't cut the pole in between them and treat each of them separately as they were too close together facing each other. they had to choose: the male or female. they chose to sacrifice the female with more extensive injuries by moving her out of the pole. despite that, the female patient still made jokes and accepted the conclusion that had befallen on her. it just made me cry from that moment on..
in the operating room, they pulled the female patient out and tried to save her. but then the male patient went into a critical condition and they just switched their attention to the male, partly also because of the bad injuries the female had. the main lead actress stood by the dying patient's side, trying to do anything she could (she was just an powerless intern), and screaming "we cannot just abandon her! we have an obligation!" over and over again. just so, she had fallen out of love at that period of time, and one of the head surgeon was the one who let her fall.
this just worsened my already uncontrollable sobs. it showed the deep emotions of the character; she was abandoned. her screams were like her own, calling all the surrounding people, especially him, not to abandon her. the whole episode was just so raw and mind shattering. the best episode of any shows i have watched yet. well, the GA rocks my socks.

i know, my continuous ramblings didn't make any sense or eject any feelings that i felt (and you are supposed to feel). you have to watch it to believe.. and since i had GA's marathon runs over the last 3 days, i finally caught up with that of the television schedule. this means tonight i can watch a recap-like episode for GA. totally stoked.

PS do you know shows that feature a certain occupation, and when you love that show, your would love that profession to be your ambition? well, GA is making me want to work in a hospital as a surgeon. so now i don't know if conservation biology is what i want, or should want. i get that the show is just a facade (but who knows?), but i can't help this idolization.. the power of the media, the influence/greatness of GA on lil' ole' me.

today marks one year in me being in canada.
that's fast.. i can still remember the day when i arrived; it was late in the night and slightly cold. i have more years to spend here..

and how great is it that school starts tomorrow?

i had a lovely lunch at koreatown today. spicy seafood and tofu soup with rice, and a side-dish of steamed dumplings. spent nearly 2 hours there, before me, nora, juyenty and christina went to little india.

my first time at little india, which is somewhere to the east of toronto. we took the subway (went west at first, but realized our muddle-headedness before we made it any further), and then the streetcars. i'm always fascinated by streetcars: bus or train? ok, more like a tram. cool.
had some snacks like samosas and some REALLY sweet ones. overall little india was quiet? maybe it was just a wrong day to go there. but there were the familiar sari shops, convenience and spice stalls..

i'm going G-A-G-A over grey's anatomy. hell, it's even better than lost (well i think i lost myself in the long absence of the show). and now i keep on playing the songs found on each GA's episodes.

i know i should be sleeping at this late hour instead of blogging, but i just cannot wait for tomorrow. i just watched the 2004 korean box-office movie, Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War.


and OMG, it has to be one of the BEST films i have ever watched. i have heard of it before, but didn't really bother about it as i don't really enjoy watching war movies. however, somehow i did watch it with my housemates and i'm SO glad i did. even with all the distractions (ie house visitors, computer loading problems) that were present when watching the dvd; and yet being able to draw me into the whole film, this movie (director, cast, crew and story, etc) shows its brilliance. it's definitely oscar-hollywood material, no could be way ahead and even better.

the movie is written about 2 brothers torn between the destruction of the korean war in 1950. jang dong-gun (all about eve) and won bin (autumn tale) are the brothers, and they give top-notch performances.
all the settings and the war-effects are so realistic. the blood, gore, killings, violence, deaths, and destruction show the downside of war. and within all these brutal scenes, there were tender, and also depressing, heart-wrenching moments. scenes that gave spine-tingly effects, scenes that bog the brain down with so many thoughts, confuse the heart with so many emotions..

me and my housemates who watched the show cried and bawled our eyes out. we blew our noses into the already wet tissues. i was having a bad migraine earlier on. after the movie, my migraine came back. my eyes and nose were red. i felt dizzy..


Tae Guk Gi is just flawlessly superb. one can/will see the brutality of war through this film. at least i did. i don't know what else to say, except: please do find a way to watch it. how can anyone miss such a classic?

and so me, nora and kusuma went to chinatown to have dimsum at bright pearl restaurant. yum, it has been such a long time since i actually had ha gau, siew mai, char siew bau, cheong fun..
then took the streetcar to dundas where kusuma left for guelph. me and nora walked to eaton center for some (window) shopping. i finally bought dan brown's angels and demons paperback novel. there were shops that still had sale, but we didn't get anything.
something really funny happened as we were walking around. i heard grey's anatomy's theme song.. TWICE. at two different stores. this tells me my sudden craze over the show has something to do with a higher power..... might as well say it again, I LOVE GREY'S ANATOMY!
walked out of eaton center and passed by foot locker (a shoe shop). there were flowers, wreaths, candles and notes left outside the shop. why? well, on boxing day, a gunfight between two gangs broke out in broad daylight on the busy area of yonge street. foot locker happened to be the place where one lost her live, while around seven others were injured. it was boxing day, just a day after CHRISTmas day. so what's with the violence? one note wrote: "STOP THE VIOLENCE!". may she lie in peace.. and may the violence end, as soon as possible. we need/want a safe toronto!
me and nora went home after getting some bubble-tea.

oh, and i promised some pictures from friday's dinner..


the gang with our dinner.


our literal banana (one-and-a-half) split, with additional peaches!


the washing line: wash --> wipe --> arrange.


"eeeww, i'm sick of this job".


did i mention we had alcohol drinks?
well adios people! going to watch a korean dvd..

MELISSA FU, I'M GONNA SKIN YOU ALIVE!
(to prevent spoilers, highlight to read)

damn it. i actually went to a link provided by our dear mel fu, and turns out there was some evil lurking behind the fake front. and to think i tried my best to play the game. when it happened (note: with additional sound effects), i was facing the lappie screen face-on and so had a full, clear view of the whole thing.
i leapt out of my chair, towards the bed. used my comforter to cover my ears and eyes. the piercing sound subsided, the image remained. i used my pillow, covered my eyes and walked towards the lappie. swirled the mouse around and exited the page.
to think i let my guard down. i have been haunted by such similar experiences, and now just to relive it, alone (my brother was sleeping) and clearly.. i'm still trembling. it's an auto-response to such fright.

so, F* YOU MELISSA FU (wow it actually rhymes)! (:

going to prepare as we head out for dimsum soon. dreaded school's winter semester is starting in a week.. OH! BOO!

HAPPY 2006!

here's to the start of a new year, the start of something fresh.
my new year resolution is... forget resolutions. i have grown out of the habit of coming up with them (as if i remembered what they were by the end of january). i think i will live life the way i like and the way it should be. so have a colourful year ahead all!

countdown last night was funnily weird. we stayed home, and when it was 11.55pm, everyone gathered at the living room. the tv was switched to a live broadcast of the new year's celebration at downtown nathan phillips square. we counted down- 10, 9, 8.. 3, 2, 1.. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
gazed out the window to look at the indistinct city skyline, hoping to see bright large sparks of fireworks. yea we saw some colours, very small ones. on tv, it looked better with all the confetti and sparkling lights. well, downtown has all the high buildings, so the fireworks set off there were much smaller and shorter into the sky. elsewhere (we think it's ontario place at the harbourfront), there were bigger ones that we managed to get a glimpse of. mel lastman square in north york center had fireworks too i guess. blah, they were all so insignificant for long-term memory.

how did i spend 01/01/2006? sleeping in till late, waking up for brunch over our hotplate/grill. then i watched the first episode of the first season of grey's anatomy. OMG, it's my new favourite television show! i have watched some random episodes on tv, and i liked them. but now, starting from the beginning, i am going to fall in love with the series!

now to end of my first post of the new year, i'm going to talk about FOOD! yes, here's food for thought. tonight's dinner we're having hainan chicken rice! yippy! my housemates are cooking everything, from the authentic rice, to the chicken, and an additional wintermelon soup. yum yum yum..

can't wait to dig in soon. so drool you all! LOL, have a good (and fulFILLING)new year people.. (: