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December 22 New spaceThis is the last entry of this "old" space. My new one will be in:
Please change the link if my space is on your friends' list. Thank you. Happy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. December 11 more updates on musicA buddy of mine and me exchanged some of the good music we've found lately, just like the old days when we talked music everytime we met. I almost forgot that "tradition". None of us play music instruments, but we are pour music lovers who love underground (non-mainsteam) music.
He sent me a link of a website which was extremely cool and powerful!!!!!!!!! myspace music, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music
the name is quite self-explanatory. Individual artists post their songs as samples in the space. They blog music instead of essays.
Another good friend of mine blogged a music band called "Lady and Bird" in her space. She mentioned the song "Suicide is Painless" in particular. The name attracted me to search the band in myspace music. Found and repeatly listened for a while. Quite good. The music is a little bit decadent, especially for the lyrics, but is the tune I like. Here is the link if you are also curious: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=59172095
I am going to stop putting stuff in this space by the end of the month, and start up a new space that is associated with the new hotmail account. Thanks for reading my blog in the last 16 months. If you haven't added my new hotmail to your msn, my friend, ask me in the old msn, because I will also try to stop using the old msn after Jan.01. A new start for me, a good and happy start. November 29 Music of my tasteI thought, after these years, my taste of music has evolved to some new trends.
A week ago, a woman vocal caught me attention, so I downloaded a lot songs of hers, and crazily in love of her works.
Imogen Heap, as I searched her album in amazon, the Editorial Reviews reads
"Her style, which incorporates layers of multi-tracking, lies somewhere between Sinead O'Connor's banshee howl and Jem's more delicate musings. "
Everything back to square one. Flash back to Grade 12, I was so deeply indulging in Sinead O'Connor's songs and her voice that I could listen to it all day all week. Then from one point 4 years ago, I stopped listening to her music because it was too depressing for me. And now for some reason, I am back to where I was, like traveling back in time. I still love that style of music. November 28 MondaysMonday is the most stressful day in this term.
Besides of 8:30am till 9pm schedule, things like presentations, tests and deadlines always bump into that day.
Yesterday, it was the presentation + debate day.
Yes it is debate i am talking about. When I was in middle and high school, I've never liked debates, never done one, in Mandarin or Cantonese, whatsoever. However, it was a requirement for that Finance course. After hours of research, some practices in mind, I did it quite well in English..... I felt so relieved and happy that I got it over with, and realized that I could be good at negotiations. Ha!
The presentation for the marketing course went ok for as well, though still feeling quite nervous while being put under spotlight. I am hopping to see more improvment in the next two presentations which are coming within a week!! They are both technical engineering presenations, should be much easier than Marketing one. So much for updates. November 18 busy, stress, quarter life crisishalf a year away from graduation.
LOOKing for a job and a master opportunity.
Projects and presentations are lining up to be done.
Just got a midterm paper back. I did poorly.
Tears dropped, Losing self-confidence and self-esteem.
Maybe I am not smart at all. I am so average...
Yet, people around told me that I can do it ...
So what do I wanna do? what do I like to do? Where am I going?
Quarter life crisis.
Graduate study or job?
I need to make up my mind soon.
October 23 S'mores nightOur house had an awesome s'mores night on Sat.
Let me explain what s'mores is, because i didn't have a clue before that.
It is a set a s'mores kits, which contains a s'more maker grill, a rotational table, four small containers comes with oval and retangular shapes, and mashmallow roast forks.
Material: mashmellows, chocolate bar, and Graham crackers.
Step 1: roast mashmellow on top of the grill;
Step 2: Prepare a layer of half a Grahan cracker, place two square of chocolate on top;
Step 3: Once the mashmellow is brown and melt from the inside, put it on top of the chocolate, and place the other half cracker on top and sqeeze the mashmellow. Now it should look like a sandwich.
My first time to play and eat it. Yummie... though it is quite sweet.
Beside the crazy s'mores, we had nachos with a big skillet of homemade sausa...hmm... thx lara!
Quite happy to relax a bit for everyone, just chill and have fun. :) October 10 Mid-autumn & thxgiving longwkendFriday night, the Mid-autume day semi-formal, organzied by CSSA. Very awesome ballroom dance. I was lucky to have a great dancer led me dance all night. I have learnt a few moves, and getting quite good at the end.
Sat nihgt, Thanksgiving turkey dinner in Janet's home. Enjoy her host as usual. Wonderful lady.
Some photos were posted from those two days.
Long week was short, I ended up spending the rest of time studying, but a lot of stuff remained undone. I am so busy everyday that I hardly have time to sleep or a nap. Life is like back to the last year of high school. However, i am enjoying every moment of it. There is always a bright side of life, hanging with friends is all I need. October 01 house party, shopping = non-productive weekendi can't regret anyting.
Party on Friday night. got up at 11 on Sat, went shopping in Yorkdale mall (in toronto) on Sat, came home after 12am...
Sunday... stared at the computer for hours.... movement is extremely slow.
Unfinished homework, readings, handins, and projects are piling. I am panic...and still smiling. 痛苦并快乐着！~
Uploaded some photos right from housemate Kyi's space.
Monday is approaching, i am so scared. September 15 back to schoolI feel quite exciting and great for coming back to school, though I still wanna have fun from time to time. New housemates are friendly and fun to hang out with. I did quite a lot of sports yesterday, including freesbie and basketball, so the muscles around my body are quite sore now. However, I was so happy to play in a basketball game after a long time and totally kicked my friend Mukul's a$$. :P Maybe I haven't done any intense sports for a long time. I decided to join Lisa (a nice housemate of mine) for ultimate freesbie intramural, since her team always need more girls to play... Hopefully I won't be doing too badly in the game, since i am always sucked in a real competition.
There are already lots of projects announced in the class. I will be a project manager of one of the projects. To be honest, I feel like reading more and study ahead this year to gain solid knowledge before I walk out of school. Life is definitely better, compared to the job in Ingersoll. Time to do some reading now. September 08 Sept 4-6 Vancouver6 hours later, I arrived in Vancouver. King (good friend back in Kelowna, and he is studying in Vancouver now), picked me up. He was skinner than b4. He took me to the Chinatown just a few block away for a quick lunch, and then showed me the downtown area, Stanley Park and gas town. I wasn't feeling all the excited while I was reviewing the city. I was probably tired of living in a city of a typical modern look and walking in a big crowd. To me, Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto are of the similar place. Or I might just need to live long enough to experience the differences.
Day 2 in Vancouver, I had lunch with Frank (Ou Yuanfan, a good friend in elementary school) and his wife, just to catch up with each other. After lunch, we visited the beautiful beach just outside of UBC campus, which was surrounded with forest, good houses, and sea. UBC students are definitely very lucky to living in one of the best campus in the world. Despite the short time, Frank showed me Richmond Hill, which is a big area where thousands of Chinese family lives. I saw signs writting in Chinese everywhere. No doubt about Vancouver has the biggest Chinese population outside China.
At night, King showed me Simon Fraser University where he attended school in. SFU is famous for its business program. The campus was essentially composed with a few gigantic buildings which are joint togather as a piece. I was impressed by its computer and libary facility, but not impressed by the depressing grey color and interior design of the buildings.
Day 3, Sept 6, got up at 5am, King saw me off in the airport. The vacation was offically over. Not much mixed feeling about saying goodbye, because I have done it thousands of times, and I know we will be seeing again in the future. Walking away delightly from my friend, I knew McMaster would be embracing me once I set my foot in Hamilton.
Hi ... Bye ... Hi ... Bye ... Take care yo! Sept 1-3 Kelowna, BCHa...here we go, I was finally back to Kelowna after 4 years. Things had been changed quite a bit since then. Basically there are more high-up apartment building and business building, though they are not as high as you would expect, but for a city like Kelowna's size, a slightly tall building is eye-catching for sure.
Jack made a big feast of home-made ribs on Friday night. It was very tasted! However, Jack had to take off on Saturday morning for a month long bike trip from Kelowna to San Diego!!! This will be the biggest bike trip Jack has ever done. I am so proud of him. I anticipate to hear more from Debi later.
Vivi, their new student, biked around Kelowna with me on the weekend, downtown and lake shore in general. Lake was still in shining blue color. Sky was still of clear navy blue. Tons of ppl were still doing all kinds of sport in city park by the beach. I had the exact good feeling when I was cycling along the lake shore, like cruising in a sunny paradise. We visited Diane and Rick at the night before Rick and Jack's big trip. Happy reunion + host's family gathering were quite nice.
Sunday, I went back to Kelly O'Brain which was a cosy Irish pub I liked to go b4, espeically in the occasion of birthday party, because the pub offer up to $18 free food to the birthday person. Main reason was to try the Guinness black beer again. BC Guinness did taste better than the Ontario one. Strange.
Admanda, who was a little kid living in our neighbourhood, came hang out with me. For some reason, that girl was like naturelly boned with me, and always ask me out to play with her. She was very very happy to see me and tried the best to stay with me longer. :P Strange again.
3 days in Kelowna, I have done what I wanted to do, scenary and friends stuff, or just simply lying on the couth in the living room.
Time to say goodbye again, with no sadness, Debi drove me to the greyhound bus station. A bear hug and a simple promise of going back in the future. September 04 Aug 28-31 Jasper-Banff National ParkMonday, Jack drove us from Calgary to a countryside called Leduc on the edge of Edmenton. His friend Matt lives in a nice lodge deep in the country. We had a hard time finding his place under the dim light of the moon. Since we arrived late at night, we only got to chat with the host for a short while. Me and Vivian slept in sleepingbag on the ground that night.
Tuesday, we took off early after a morning coffee and begals with the hosts, and headed towards Jasper National Park. Endless high-rising mountains and river streams were our best companies as our car waiving through the highway. We stopped at some of the best viewpoints and went for hikes in some trails. Iceberg and glacier were among the spectacular sceneries we've seen. The Jasper village was little yet beautiful. The village is composed with a few blocks of gift, clothing, boutiques stores and restarants. We were lucky to find a price-reasonable Bed and Breadfast (B&B) to stay for the night. Most of restaurants there were quite pricy, but we made a good choice to dine in Earls, which offered excellent food with reasonable price. Unfortunately Ontario does not have this restaurant. We all enjoyed our dishes.
Wednesday, before we left Jasper for Lake Louise, we had a nice breadfast in a well-known local bakery, called Bear Paw Bakery. Coffee and a respberry mixed white chocolate scone, hmm... Yummy. We stopped for a few time to see glacier and a few breathtaking falls on our way to Banff. Some climbing and lots of photo takings, which made my day. Stayed in a lodge by Lake Louise Village for the night.
Thursday, the day started with rains, lots of rains. I saw Lake Louise and Lake Moraine in cold rain with depressing grey sky. Our original plan of the whole day was pretty much ruined. We didn't hike up the mountain with tramway nor able to the mountains surrounding Banff because the fog or thick cloud was completely cover the entire Banff. We only went shopping in the downtown Banff village, which has lots of interesting gift shops and restaurants side by side, so at least I could get some souvenir shopping down.
Escaped from the rain, we had to say goodbye to Banff after a short visit, heading back on the highway to Kelowna, and was pretty lucky to stay in a great lodge nearby Golden. Pool table and hottub were some of those things available there. We all enjoyed the staying very much. Breadfast on the next day was delicious and probably has too many varieties to choice from. well well, can't complain on that one.
It was the first time for me to go back to Kelowna after four years. All memory flashed back to me as soon as our car cruised around the city.... read on to the next entry. :) plz leave msg if u like my travel log.
some websites which tell you more about Jasper and Banff, there are lots to done in all seasons.
August 27 Aug 25 to 27 - Calgary, AlbertaDay 1, Friday 5:30pm, arrived safely in Calgary International Airport, I was picked up by Daphne, (Deb and Jack's good friend). We saw each other quite a lot in Kelowna, and she moved to Calgary last year. Stay in her nice big house for the weekend. Deb and jack will pick me up on Sunday afternoon. We didn't see each other since I left Kelowna for hamilton 4 years ago. Time flies.
Day 2, Sat morning, got up early, left the house at 7:30am for an annual Farmer's Market in the Heritage Park. The event is to fund the childern's hospital, cancer research and the park. We arrived 30 min prior to the opening at 9am. There were lots of people brought their carts with them. By the time the gate opened, people were all rushing in to load up the carts with all kinds of fruits and vegetables. They were all sold at cheap prices with no taxes. Most of the things can be seen in the grocery store, but there were something rare, like boccoliflower which is the hybrid of broccoli and coliflower was unheard of for me. And colliflower also comes with yellow and purple colour. After that I had a nice walk in the Heritage park, which reassembled the houses, stores and life styles back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Staffs dressed in the old fashion way, and worked as servants, ranchers or shopkeepers in private houses, ranch, downtown shops and post office.
Karston, Daphne's son, brought me to the downtown Calgary to look around. Chinatown was hosting a hk festival, so we walked by to watch a few plays and got some bubble tea, which took more than an hour to deliver, really pissed us off. Saw firework competition between four country in a park, but we were late for that. 11pm, arrived at downtown Cherry Loung which played house music. We (a group of 5) danced till 2:30 pm. I could hardly lift my feet and open my eyes by then. Very tired. To sum up, Calgary doesn't look as good as Toronto, city wise. Highway system is complicated, just like Toronto. Housing is almost as expenisve as Toronto. To find a job here or not? I have to think twice now.
Day 3, Sunday, Deb and Jack and their current homestay student Vivi (from Jiangmen) should be on their way to here now. I am so excited to see them again. The best is yet to come. They are planning to spend a few hours here to chitchat with Daphne and we will head to Edmenton togather in the late afternoon. August 23 Now I am done with small town life.I won't say that the town had not a single thing to do and so boring that I wanted to hang myself by living here for a year. I was still taking its advantage of being a quite small place with a big sport field located right next to my house. A few well organized festivals had show its pride and fun to make itself so unique and unforgetable for visitors. However, there is no comparison with living back in the city where my friends are.
Now it is only one day away from getting out of here. Tomorrow is a big day of moving back to Hamilton. The day after tomorrow will be another big day to fly across Canada, for a trip in Alberta and British Columbia.
I will try to keep up my traveling journal here, and tell you where I go and what I see .... yeehaa ....:))) August 22 背着甜筒一路狂奔刚才超级商场买了一盒四个的drumstick雀巢巧克力外壳villena甜筒。带着兴奋的心情起着自行车一路狂奔，心里一直想着要赶在雪糕变软之前开吃，要在甜筒外层脆皮还很脆的时候好吃掉。
那份焦急兴奋的心情就像高中那会儿刚买了新CD迫不及待的赶回家试听，像叔叔婶婶刚从纽约回广州我兴奋的一路盘算会收到什么礼物，像刚学习游泳被放在深水池里，我一直猛拨着水期待够着爸爸肩膀的一刻，像等着一个很想见的人而约定时间还没到，也像手里拿着篮球快步走向篮球场的心情澎湃。
快到而未到，憧憬着快乐时光的兴奋心情 - 就是“背着甜筒一路狂奔”。 August 21 awesome weekendLast weekend before my internship is done in Ingersoll. I went out for a office party and African Lion Safari in Cambridge. It was wicky. It is not like nothing to do around small town, because the fun is just lying at the coner waiting for me to explore.
Saturday office keg party was ok, not that exciting afterall, as I expected. All the full-time colleagues are over 30, most of which are married and have a few kids. The things we have common are few. Me and friend Tamjid left early, and headed for clubs in London, where we only found out a few empty clubs along downtown Richmond St, because the students haven't returned to school yet. We went to Cherry Bomb, the only club in Ingersoll, where we had a good time two weeks ago. A big shock to Tamjid, it was a male stripper dance night. My Bangoli friend couldn't take the "eyesore", and ran out immediately inspite that man was free of charge!! I had a big laugh at him. :D On the way out, I had a quick glance of the dance pool. A topless guy (with pants on), was dancing around. Nothing exciting. :S
Sunday, me and Tamjid again, went to Cambridge's African Lion Safari. It was fun for those ppl whose first time to visit there, like us. Instead of driving through the wild animal conservation area, we decided to take tour bus. Lions, baboons, zebras, bisons, giraffes, sheeps, cheetahs, deers, and many more wild animals were freely wandering inside the conservation. I have never been to any conservation before, not even the one in Guangdong hometown. The highlight of the day was the three shows in Kanya Gate. Elephant Roundup demonstration was the best of all three, where 5 elephants were trained to perform soccer, dunk basketball, and even gymnasium moves. Very awesome. Most funny part was a trainer placed a white mouse on an elephant, but the elephant wasn't scared by the mouse at all. So the rumour is proved wrong.
The weekend ended with finishing reading the book called "The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum", though I did skip a few chapters in between. A good social guide book for ladies who wants to be more charming. I learnt a few things which might be useful later. :)
A nice weekend.
Next weekend I will be in Calgary and get to see Debi, Jack and Daphne, anticipating more great and fun time! August 19 回忆是一种折磨我终于在写回忆录了，写了好长，发现有越来越多的东西要写，回忆泛滥起来。
因为并不在家人身边写，每一个细节的回朔，无论是开心的，平凡的，亦或是不不开心地回忆对我来说都是一种折磨，扎心的折磨。
我怕会流泪过多，怕无法继续写下去，怕身体日益恶化的爷爷赶不上看我的回忆录，我怕。
但我只能加快脚步，尽快让这种折磨成为过去式。 August 18 Count DownLately, on msn, I notice quite a few friends are counting down their clock as appeared in their names. Everyone is anticipating the near future or making affort to race with the limited time.
A big day: a day to return home after 7 years; a day to have an exam for a certificate; A day to travel/move else where and start a whole new adventure; A day of wedding; A day to start a brand new job.
They are all significant to our lives, which might change ones' destiny. And we wait and wait, counting down from one significant day to another.
Whatever the big day is, good luck and take care to everyone. August 14 快乐的忙乎了一个周末周五清晨开始的周末，与最后一个夜班说再见。
周五周六连续晚上去Oakville看免费的爵士节。加拿大，或者说很多西方国家就是这点比较好，为未出名但又有潜质的艺术家提供舞台，免费向公众提供娱乐。作为半个爵士迷的我当然不能错过这样的盛事。三个表演台，分架在Oakville downtown的三个地点，不同台演奏的风格都不一样，有些是bigband, 有些是Blues, 有些是拉丁、巴西风格。每隔1到2个小时就换一个乐队，观众当然大饱耳福！临时便成步行街的downtown两旁有不少餐厅围起的临时露天酒吧，有直喷黑烟的BBQ Pork Ribs. 平时宁静的街道到处堆着人，少见的热闹，一些热血青年随着轻快风格的爵士陶醉的在人群里手舞足蹈，也有些喜欢怀旧bigband爵士乐的老夫妇在舞台前相拥慢舞，旁边的Alek说，他们配合真默契，像是专门请来的，我想他们都在一起跳了一辈子，能不默契吗？在我看来他们比我们年轻人更浪漫甜蜜，岁月的沉淀。
周六是与老大，gaonum, & their friends 一起去的，抓拍的不少照片，等我美化之后就立马贴上！
周日赶回小镇Ingersoll， 为我的朋友Tamjid庆生，突然发现身边的好友大多是八月上旬生的，看来狮子之间不树敌，反成友。为他BBQ steak, and cheese cake after dinner. 周末就这样呼呼过去，晚上又犯了周日失眠，周末余下来的兴奋+就要到来的新一周的紧张心情=难眠，躺了四个小时，起来写个日记，赶个work term report, 4点半的早餐，六点半上班。现在11：19，我目光呆滞，精神恍惚，反应迟钝，应该是困了。还有3个多小时才下班啊！！
还有8个工作日，就干完了。下周五就要飞去alberta玩，还有回去久违的BC...简直心急如焚了。 August 09 搬家两周后，internship就完了，意味着新学年的开始，和搬回去Hamilton。
真是头疼的事，算上这次，今年就搬了四次家！！没什么人可以破这个记录了。
东西打包，有的家具得拆，把自己的东西从家里各个角落挖出来，租车，找朋友帮忙搬家。
搬好后整理房间，所有东西拿出来该放哪方哪。
虽然并不羡慕一辈子都窝在一个地方的人，但这种搬家频率也太折磨人了。
算一算，这几年共搬了8次家，什么样的房子都住过，破的，豪华的，地下室，一楼，二楼。
给我一个地方，一个理由让我多呆一会儿，行吗？ July 30 啤酒盖每箱加拿大Labatt Blue Beer里，都有几瓶是有着一个笑脸J的瓶盖, 我把它们都收集起来，放在一个小小的纸皮盒子里，三年，搬了好多次家，都没舍得扔，也许为的是不时提醒自己无论有压力有多大，遇到多少挫折，都应该保持笑脸一样的心态。 July 27 家庭回忆录小时候，我爷爷跟我提过我家有族谱，我觉得那是本很神奇的册子，虽然只是简略的记下配偶与儿子孙子曾孙的名字，按传统女性后裔的名字是不写上去的。 爷爷不怎么提他的过去，而奶奶喜欢说她童年与青少年时期的故事。人死去后，记忆也随之而去，写下回忆就是对生命的无限期延续。于是去年，我要求年事已高，行动也开始不便的两老把他们的过去都写下来，写他们的爷爷奶奶，爸爸妈妈，还有子孙，他们看我的角度一定与我看自己的不一样。我也答应他们尽快写个家庭回忆录，用孩子的眼光去记录三代同堂一起生活了18年的日子。他们加上我的回忆就是一部上下跨度五代的自家历史。我当时为这个想法而兴奋，然而一年过去了，我仍旧没有提笔，心中深感亏欠，现在决心在九月份前完成初稿。爷爷奶奶我一定要让你们看到我的回忆录。 July 18 Pando. Have u downloaded it?Pando. Have u downloaded it? If not, do it now. :))
Friend of mine, recommanded me a great program that allows to send files with any sizes through your email account. It overrides the size limit set by each email service provider, so that you don’t have to worry about sending a music video larger than 50MB or something like that. Ok, it works like this: It is like a bittorrent server + client, with the supernode the company has. Therefore, it delivers the packages rather than going thru the e-mail server. The receiptian will have the same software, and will recieve and decrypt the file, just like ppl talk via msn, except the transfering speed is thousands times faster, which makes it an extremely ideal tool to tranfer big files, such as image and muic. :) Tech gig, just laugh your head off and cheer for this briliant creation. From now on more ordeal for sending big files!! Yoho~ July 11 祖国的号召今个夏天是我身边的朋友的毕业高峰期，大多是本科毕业，也有硕士和博士的，看到了祖国繁荣昌盛，毫不畏惧现在国内海龟严峻的就业形势，不少一部分人都选择了回国找工作。也有极力劝我海龟的。
这几年大伙聚会时的热闹气氛在我回忆里慢慢冷却下来，身边的人陆陆续续地离别，最后还是一个人在自己既定的路上往前走。 July 04 Brilliant gaols by ItalyWatched the semi-final between Ger-Ity after half time. It seems to me a pretty boring game, because both teams play defensively. Extra time again, and then 2nd half of extra time, into the final 2 minutes. I was very disappointed at Italy, my 2nd favourite team in this world cup. I know if they enterred penalty kicks, Italy would not stand any chance to win. Fabio Grosso broke the deadlock with a brillant goal. I screamed immediately. Italy is going to the final for sure.
Into the final minute, Piero, the cuttest guy in Italy, got the ball from his teammate during a fast offensive play, kick the ball into a beautiful curve, passing the German goalkeeper, the ball went in!!!! I can't believe this... Looking forward to the final on this Sunday July, 9!!
希望Piero 会是首发，真不明白屡次为意大利进关键球的他为什么整天做替补，也许算是秘密武器，要等到最后发力阶段才能调用他。他还是短头发比较好看！！！^_^! |
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