Jimmmmmmayayayayayaya

First and foremost Happy Birthday JIMMAYAYAYAYAYA. I took this photo of jimmy when we had left pacific mall one day. jimmy and ryan had both gotten this weird sweet which they thought was good, but it turned out to be a bait out and it was ultra dry. This is jimmy struggling to finish the one in his mouth.

I have been quite busy these last few days so expect a long post. We still start with friday. Friday started off with a normal day of class. After class I met up with Ian Amy and Jo and we played badminton for sometime before my bus back home. We played around for a fair bit. Nothing too crazy happened during badminton though.

After a long bus ride home I eventually made it home. Once I got home a group of us went to go see Pans Labyrinth. The movie was excellent. Some scenes were a tad graphic or eerie but overall a very good movie. After the movie people headed back to my house where we sat around and talked for quite some time.

The next day I woke up to justin calling me telling me to go downtown. We left for downtown at around 2. That trek downtown was the most walking I had done in a long time. We started off at Eaton centre and walked around the mall for a bit. After getting bored we walked down Queen St W towards Silver snail. At Silver Snail I bought an interesting Manga by Osamu Tezuka called The Ode to Kirihito. The book looks to be very twisted and cool. After silver snail we walked all the way back up to Eaton centre.

On the way there we stopped off at a Second Cup because justin wanted a drink. I have never actually ordered a drink from Second Cup (or any coffee place for that matter) but after seeing justin get a Chocolate milk I was tempted to get one. In my mind I thought to myself how good could a chocolate milk from second cup be? My Patti makes the greatest chocolate milk in the world. However after drinking that chocolate milk I was damn surprised. My Patti's chocolate milk will still be #1 in my heart of course, but Second cup comes a very close second. I can picture myself going to second cup quite frequently now.

Once we got to Eaton centre we wandered around the mall for a bit once again. After we got bored again we decided to head down to church st. We walked down yonge for a bit only to quickly realize we were walking parallel to Church. We took a quick detour and ended up on church. Nothing really was happening on this street. We walked from Church St up to bloor. At around this time we were getting a little hungry so we started looking for a place to eat. We walked down bloor towards yonge. Then back up yonge. Eventually we came across a Quiznos. I hadn't had quiznos in quite some time so we went there. As always the subs were damn good. After eating we headed back to justins place where he got the car.

We first went to go pick up edward. We were at eddu's for a bit because he needed to eat some food. We all talked about some random junk then I got my ass handed to me in ping pong.

After playing some ping pong we went and got bbt and then went off to pick up sean. After we got everyone we headed back to my house and sat around and talked for a bit. Ryan came by for a while and we played DS for a bit. Ryan destroyed all of us one by one in Bomberman. However I managed to throughly trash him in Tetris which is all that really matters.

Sunday I came back to waterloo and brought with me a bunch of junk and food. The most important thing I brought though was Justins Wii. Since he is playing so much WoW he hasn't had time to play his Wii. I watched some anime and tv shows till Andrew and Ian got back from home. Before they returned I went and got some chocolate milk with Amy. They ran out of whip cream for the hot chocolate which made me quite sad. Amy and I talked about random stuff like high school and stuff and eventually headed home. Amy was quite busy with various labs and tests. Once Andrew and Ian returned I went over to their place and played some Wii sports. We played lots of Tennis Golf and Baseball. Baseball is broken with those damn splitters! Its always funny seeing people play Wii sports. Amy was constantly trash talking Ian, it was hilarious.

Monday is a big blur. I don't think I did anything that important.

Yesterday was a very intense day. After a CS241 Lecture I started working on the CS241 assignment. I had to write an assembler that would convert MIPS processor instructions into binary. So for example if someone wrote a mips program that added two numbers, my assembler would take that file and produce the corresponding 0's and 1's to tell the processor what to do. It sounds hard but the assignment comes with a starter file which saves you a lot of time. However even with that file I was struggling. After a good 6 or so hours of solid coding and repeated failures I lost my spirit. After wasting time online and watching a bit of crap I got myself back in gear and plowed through the assignment with another 3 or so hours of programming. CS is wicked. Its always a nice feeling when you give up hope but out of no where you have an epiphany and everything becomes clear and you manage to fix your program. Now that I have finished CS I am done for the week!

Today was a grand day indeed. It started off with various lectures. In calculus I learned about a calc test I had forgot to study for. Luckily for me Calc 3 is still super easy so it wasn't a big deal. The only course I am really worried about is CS245, logic of computation. That course makes NO sense. I will get into that course another day though.

After all my lectures I headed home and did a bit of calc. After doing a few problems I realized this test can't possibly be that difficult and diverted my attention towards watching some Shuffle! I eventually went and wrote the test and came back in one piece. Once I got back I quickly wrote my online stat quiz then went back to watching anime. At around 8 I decided to go check out the badminton club. I was throughly confused about how everything worked. They didn't really tell me when I was playing or how any of this stuff worked. I am still quite angry about the stupid club so lets just say I was there for a good hour and didn't play a single round. I left quite angry and then decided to just come home and finish the day with some chocolate milk and more anime.

Hopefully tomorrow will be more interesting.

Daniel Telling a story

I took this photo of Daniel when we had gone to china Buffet for x'mas / new year dinner. This photo reminds me a lot of this photo.

I have been quite busy these last two days. Yesterday was spent doing a chunk of CS and today was mainly devoted to more CS, C&O (Combinatorics and Optimization) and a calc assignment I didn't know about. After struggling with a small aspect of this weeks CS assignment I stopped and though to myself maybe I shouldn't be in CS. The last time I had this feeling was after the Waterloo Computer Science contest in high school. That was hands down the hardest contest I had ever seen. I love programming, I just don't think I have the problem solving skills to do it. I prefer doing calculus and algebra over CS. We will see where this term takes me. The program I am currently in involves me taking a fair number of math courses which is nice.

So back to talking about these past two days. Yesterday started off with a whole string of classes. Followed by my frosh leader interview. The interview was just with two students which was nice. It started off okay, fairly simple questions, "Why do you want to be a frosh, what can you contribute" then they started pulling out all sorts of weird questions like "Name an event where you went against the popular decision". I was like WTF, after a little bit of thought I started talking about movies and what not and they seemed to buy into it a little but at the end they were like "you could have just said your decision not to drink". After cursing a bit in my head they asked the next question. "What do you do if you like a frosh and they hint that they like you back?" You aren't allowed to hit on the frosh so I laughed a little at the question and thought for a moment and said "Well its just wrong going for a frosh. Even if I think they are attractive it just seems wrong. I would probably just lie to them and say I have a girlfriend or just tell them straight up they can do a lot better then me." Both people laughed at my answer. The last and most difficult question they asked was "What was your favourite frosh game?" Now for a person who never went to frosh this was quite difficult to answer. I can't even remember what I said but I think I left the interview in an okay position. Hopefully I will get a response from them because I really do want to be a frosh. Considering I missed my frosh I want to see what its like to be in frosh. I also think it will be fun bossing around first years and what not. But the biggest reason for me to join frosh this year is so that I can slowly work my way up the frosh ranks to guarding the holy pink tie. Guarding the pink tie is like the 2nd highest position a math frosh leader can have (highest being director who organizes frosh).

After the interview I wrote a stats quiz which was semi-owanage then went home to do some CS. At night I went to CIF to do some exercise. Exercising while doing sudoku squares is the greatest way to exercise. Everything passes by SO much faster. I finished two sudoku squares by the time I finished my workout. Another great part of exercising is exercising and listening to going the distance or gonna fly from the rocky soundtrack. Whenever I hear those songs I want to start speeding up but I'm pretty sure I would burn out super fast if I did. Once I was finished at the gym I came home and did more cs and eventually called it a night after watching bleach.

Today was a pretty busy day as well. After my CS 241 lecture I went and studied with Andrew at DC. We worked on the C&O assignment again and this time got much more done. After much struggling on both our parts we finished all but 2 questions. I was fairly pleased.

We called it a day at around 4:30 so I left DC at around 5. I bought a cookie for the walk home and it was a damn good cookie! Once I made it back here I started working on a Calc assignment I forgot about. I managed to finish the calc 3 assignment in about one and a half hours which was awesome. I love calc so much! The assignments aren't totally crazy and the stuff we have done so far isn't super intense either. I can't see why people don't like calc.

After calc I went back to CS 241 and continued churning out bugs and trying to get as many marks as I can. After hours of coding I have basically finished the assignment except for 1 part. That single part is worth 4/60 so I decided to just leave it. Its not worth the extra hours of sifting through code and debugging.

Somewhere while doing CS241 I went out and got dinner with elaine. We went to Golden Mango, a small chinese/pho like restaurant near us. The food is okay, nothing that impressive. After dinner we headed out to get some bubble tea from bubbletease. I ordered my usual, banana milk tea with no ice. So after waiting a DAMN long time for it they eventually give it to me and its warm. Not hot, but like luke warm. It was the NASTIEST milk tea in the world. I had to ask them to put ice in it because it was so warm. I also had to drink it from the top to bottom. It was a very unpleasant drink. While at bubbletease elaine and I played big brain academy. God I love this m3 simply.

Just a note but comments still don't work. Stupid ass google blogger won't let me concatenate .html to the post pages (the individual pages for each post). The old posts have .html but all new posts after switching to google blogger don't have .html. It will take some time before I can figure out how to fix this. The only option available to me right now is to just migrate all my crap to a different host service thingy, like wordpress or textpattern.

Yvonne eating Ice cream

I took this photo when we had gone for a big dinner at Buffet King. Not quite sure why I like this photo but its nice.

Today was a horrendously cold day. The air was like ice. To make things worse I didn't have my scarf so my face was like frozen. Made me wish I had that ninja mask redford owns.

Anyways after walking to school I had to hand in a CS245 assignment. The assignment required a cover page which I couldn't print because I don't have a printer. So for a little while I was in MC trying to figure out how to print crap from the school computers. In the end I was a giant scrub and simply gave up. I made my own cover page and now I pray they mark it.

Today my only class was CS241 which is still really interesting but also very confusing. The course doesn't really involve much note taking. It is more like "Here is how this function works....use it". It may sound like a crap ass class but the prof is quite cool so its still great.

Once I finished CS I headed to pho and got some lunch. Once I finished lunch I signed up for my interview time to be a frosh leader. Hopefully I can be a frosh leader. It seems like a lot of fun. Even though I didn't go to my frosh I still hope I can get in.

On my way to DC, a library to meet someone to study, I bumped into Simon Al and Kyle. I talked to the 3 of them for about 20 minutes then headed on my way. I eventually met my buddy from Japanese 101r and we worked away at the C&O assignment. This assignment was intense. We were working around for a good 2 hours and managed to finish most of question 1. I didn't think it would take so long. Towards the end of the work session I bumped into Amy Ian and Joanna. I helped them print some crap from DC, which made me wonder why I didn't print my damn cover page here. After printing some crap Ian drove me home and I worked on Stat here.

After about 2 hours of stats/anime I headed to the gym with simon. Today was a good day at the gym. I pushed my pace up a bit so it felt like more of a workout. Also with my DS on hand I could do sudoku squares while on the elliptical. Time passed by so much faster when doing sudoku squares. I only really managed to finish 1 and then I was getting a little tired so I simply focussed on exercising. Eventually elaine came by and stole my DS and played big brain.

Once we finished exercising simon headed home while elaine and I went to Lunchbox to grab some dinner. We talked about all sorts of random junk, from highschool to funny stories about our families. Once we finished eating Elaine headed to DC to study and I returned home to continue studying Stat. I work quite slow at home, but I like listening to music and being near my computer. Hopefully I will be ready for tomorrows stat quiz.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

This is a photo of kevin after I totally destroyed him in Wii Tennis. Jimmy took a series of photos of kevin during the match point. I should make them into a gif or something

Today was a great day indeed. I ended up going to bed at around 3 A.M finishing up my CS245 assignment only to wake up at 8:30 to find out that it was a snow day. Since I had already woken up I decided to stay up and work on some more CS. I finished 4 out of 6 CS241 questions which was quite nice.

Inbetween working on CS I was downloading various programs for OS X and also downloading anime. Running 10.4 is wicked! There are so many great programs available on 10.4 One such program is Quicksilver. Quicksilver is a pretty simple program, it basically lets you quickly open files without having to go through and find them using your mouse. So say if I wanted to open up Photoshop. I can hit Apple Spacebar and type in photo and it will bring up a list of files/programs that start with photo. It automatically judges what files you will want to see and what you don't want to see. This may all sound very stupid but it really improves how fast you can get things done. I find myself using it more and more now.

At around 1 or 2 I went and got Dim Sum with Amy Andrew Ian and Joanna. I can't remember the name of the place we went to but it was pretty nice. Joanna was a scrub and ordered a ridiculous amount of food. However we managed to go through a fair bit and joanna took care of a fair number of plates on her own.

After dim sum we headeded home and I continued working on CS and downloading random shit. Now I am tired and plan to finish the day with some anime, laundry, and maybe CS.

Update: Comments still don't work. Can't figure out how to add .html to allt he individual posts. Stupid ass google blogger. If you use IE you should be able to make posts. Firefox, opera and Safari still don't work I think.

Edward Posing

Edward is by far the best person to take photos of. Almost all photos I have of him deserve to be framed. Partly because they tend to come out really well, partly because I always take photos of him making funny actions. This was taken when we were all playing Cranium in my basement one weekend.

This last weekend has been quite fun. Friday was Simons birthday so as soon as I got back to toronto I quickly started planning where we should eat. Since simon is a big fan of Steak I decided with the Keg. After few complaints we all rallied together and headed to the keg.

Once we reached the keg we had to wait a good hour before actually sitting down. The people working there are all quite nice which is very deceiving. They talked to us about 6 or 7 times before we actually sat down each time saying we were going to be seated in roughly 10-15 minutes. Aside from that though the Keg was very nice. I had no complaints with my food. I ordered some ribs and split Calamari with Redford. The calamari was great.

After the keg most people headed to my house and we all talked well into the night. The first part of the night was just making fun of kevin and how he has a fear of hugging girls. Jimmy yells to elaine "Hug kevin" and elaine motions to hug kevin and kevin instantly throws his hands into the air and backs away. This happened 3 or 4 times throughout the night. After a while kevin kept asking elaine to hug him but it was too late.

After that there was a lot more random conversations going back and fourth. Some people went to get bubble tea and a bunch of people went home. Late into the night Simon and Daniel were arguing and Daniel was just making fun of how weak simon was. Daniel beat Simon in an arm wrestle then said simon couldn't lift elaine. Simon tried a bunch of times but couldn't lift her. This was probably due to the fact elaine was pushing down and wouldn't let simon lift her. So instead he walks over and lifts me up. After a bit more arguing everyone the three of them left at around 5 or 6 in the morning.

I woke up on Saturday at around 3pm. Most of the day was spent sitting around until around 9:30 when I went to McDano's with Justin Ryan and Sean to get some dinner. After dinner we headed out to go see Curse of the Golden Flower. The showtime site I checked posted the wrong time. This is the second time this has happened. The first time I assumed I was an idiot and read the time wrong but I doubt I would do it twice in a row. So we showed up to the movie a good 10 minutes late. We quickly ran inside to find out we hadn't missed much. Curse of the golden flower was pretty good. At times cofusing but stil pretty cool. Jay chou does a much better acting performance in this movie. Also the song at the end of the movie was top tier.

After the movie we went and got bubble tea and met up with Simon and Vanessa. We talked at bubble tea till around 2:00 then called it a night.

Sunday was spent just getting things together. Carvil came by and dropped off the M3 Simply and OS X 10.4 dvd. The two things I really needed. Well not so much the m3 simply but the OS X dvd. After carvil came by I bussed down to Pmall to pick up a keyboard and Micro SD card for the M3 Simply. It was a damn long bus ride. Mccowan is too slow on sunday.

After I got the SD card I quickly downloaded a bunch of games to test the M3 and was surprised at how easy it was to use and how great it works. This simple invention brings new life to the DS. I can't wait to start putting some crazy roms on my DS.

Now I must finish my CS assignment for tomorrow... I probably should have wrote this post after finishing the assingment. Oh well.

Good Friends

This photo was taken when Simon Felix and I stopped by MKV to go pay a visit to Valerie. A bunch of Valerie and Phoebe's friends came up to celebrate Lily's birthday. I took a fair number of photos that day, this was one of them.

Today was another great day of CS241. That course is wicked. It is really interesting learning about how CPU's work and also working in unix.

After the lecture I headed to subway to get some lunch. I have been eating subs for a while now. It is my attempt to eat a little healthier. Not sure how long I can keep it up though, subs are damn expensive.

Once I got home I watched some anime. My new used eMac is much faster then my iBook and old imac so its great being able to watch anime without any problems. Only problem is the OS I am running is about 3 or 4 years old so it lacks a fair number of features.

Once simon got back from his lectures we decided we would go to the gym at around 5:00. Once I finished all of slayers we luckily managed to find Elaine online and the three of us went to CIF. Today, like many other days, the ellipticals were all in use. I felt like trying a different cardio machine so I went on one of the bikes. It was damn tiring. It also didn't help having Elaine next to me bugging me to go faster. Once I finished biking Elaine wanted to try using the medicine balls so we both tried doing various things posted on the walls. Elaine would usually try first, struggle, then I would try next and also struggle.

After we finished at CIF the three of us got some lame chinese food at China legend. That place serves too much food. We got the set dinner for 3 but it was enough for at least 4 or 5 people. Elaine and I both took parts of the meal home since simon did not have a fridge.

Once I got home I talked to people online for a while then eventually felix came by and we went to his place. At felix's we watched transporter 2. The movie had some impressive action scenes but still a stupid movie overall. After the movie we talked about cars for a bit and then called it a night. Now I must get some good sleep.

Note: Commenting still doesn't work because firefox won't open the page unless .html is concatenated to the end of the page. I will try and fix that soon.

Note 2: Happy Birthday Simon TSANG! You're an old man now!

Badminton!

This photo of Sean's dog was taken by Justin the day we went to the big xmas/new years dinner.

Yesterday was a great day! I worked out for the entire afternoon at CIF on the elliptical and the thigh master (to sexify my legs). After that, I met up with Jo, Andrew and Amy to buy badminton rackets and then we headed to PAC to play but got baited out cuz the gym was full. Of course, this was after Amy and Jo had already changed into workout clothes. They were too lazy to change back into normal clothing so they ran to Andrew's van in their shorts and tshirts while it was blizzarding. Then we headed to CIF and played till 10:30, 1.5 hours past schedule. Team AK (Amy and Krishna) owned of course, despite Andrew's cheap moves.

After that, I headed to Jo and Amy's place to print my work report, which took a bit of time. Once that was done, we headed to bubbletease and I had a second dinner and a banana bubble tea. Then I went home and did CS til 3 am. I was struggling on this simple simple question but now I s2 CS!

A-Town Girls Pose

I took this photo of Elaine and willie on friday.

A lot has happened these last few days. I had taken friday off in an attempt to find a place to live in waterloo. Ryan was driving up with daniel to go pick up nelson so I bummed a ride from him. When we got to waterloo I quickly called elaine and willie and made them rush home from the mall so that I could see them. After calling them we walked over to Derek's place and relaxed there for a bit. AFter learning they had exams in a little bit we left to go get some food.

We decided to get some pizza at the local pizza pizza. Nothing of interest really happened. The pizza was okay.

After pizza we went and checked out Joanna and Amy's place. It wasn't anything that special. They seem to live like bums. There rooms were very messy. Surprising as this may sound, but Joanna's room was actually messy. Even my res room wasn't that bad. I was in shock.

After examining the place ryan had demanded to eat some eggs, so joanna started making some. Ryan ridiculed joanna's egg making skills from the moment she started till the moment ryan finished eating them. It was very very funny. Joanna was very defensive about her cooking. She even lashed out and said I couldn't cook. Cut me deep.

After eating I got a call from Elaine and willie saying they were at Willie's res so we all headed out. I went to visit Willie and Elaine while the others went to MKV to play some pool. Willie's res looked quite nice. I didn't see a room but the outside seemed nice. They started off by giving me 3 kinder surprises which was very surprising. We sat down in the common room, ate some chocolate, built some toys and talked. Update: While eating and making toys they told me I had to use their mail in rebate from the Kinder surprise and buy Cars. I was planning on buying the DVD soon anyways so I put the coupon in my wallet. However upon reading it I found that I need the receipt from the pack of kinder eggs which is long gone. So I won't be able to save my $5. From time to time willie and elaine would start their secret conversations which was just a lot of whispering, staring and laughing. After receiving so many complaints about not having any photos of either of them I took a bunch of photos of them smiling or doing silly poses. Update: During a lot of the photo taking elaine kept asking me all sorts of weird questions about why I couldn't get photos of her making weird faces. She would bring up weird scenarios involving national geographic like what would happen if there was something right in front of me and I needed to take a photo of it. She complained that I was switching lenses too much and that if I worked for national geographic I wouldn't have time to switch lenses. Also after taking a lot of photos Elaine and willie said that I wasn't taking pictures from the right side so we all got up and switched couches. This way I could get the side with Elaine and willie's bangs at the same time. After taking a lot of photos it was time for me to head out. They both walked me to the door where we took a few more photos (the one pictured above was as I was leaving).

The ride back was VERY long. There was a CRAZY accident and all 4 lanes on the highway were shut down. We were crawling on the highway for about 3 hours before we passed the accident. Ryan had to drive on the shoulder lane twice. It was very nice to be home.

Today started off as a dull day. After lunch it picked up when I had gone to pacific mall with felix. Felix has a very nice car. Its a simple civic on the outside but he has done a fair number of modifications to make it very nice. The car is RIDICULOUSLY loud and surprisingly fast. It was scary and at the same time a very cool sitting in the passenger seat. At pmall I just bought some DVD-rs and hello pandas. We walked around for a bit and talked then headed home. He said he was going to put a new engine and change up the transmission in the car. When that happens I can't wait to see how fast he will be going. Hopefully not fast enough to kill himself.

After pmall I went online and discussed what we would have for dinner. After much arguing we ended up going to all you can eat sushi at midland and finch. The sushi there was okay at best. The salmon sushi was TOO damn cold. You can feel that it is frozen which was pretty damn bad.

After dinner we came back to my house with the intention to play settlers of catan. We didn't but instead just talked for a long time. It is always nice having talks into the night. Now I must get some good sleep then wake up and watch the prestige!

Happy Birthday Cheryl!!!

Happy Birthday Cheryl! I took this photo when I had gone to lunch with cheryl and shawn. We went to the woodside pho. It brought back great memories.

Today was a great day. Around 9 o'clock Philip Kevin Kings Redford Courey and I went to Timmy's to just sit around and talk. It was wicked. Lots of great stories flying around. Kevin was constantly under attack which was also funny to see.

Don't forget to check out my flickr.

ANGRY!!!!!

UPDATE:

I have added new photos to my flickr.

I took this photo of Kevin during the CIBC run for the cure. I love this photo because Kevin looks so angry.

Too tired to make a full post. I am still working on a new layout for a site. I am off to a good start. The site is up but I need to make a layout and.

A few things worth mentioning. One, Cranium is a great game. Two, We must play settlers. Three, I still don't like work. Four, Lost is wicked. Five, I need to figure out my timetable. Six, We need to watch The Prestige. Seven, I will make a small post tomorrow.

Sexy Black Man

Justin on the beach. Not much else to say about that.

I will keep this post short and brief.

So far Kevin Shawn and Justin have agreed to join me in the CIBC run for the cure. If you want to join just go here and sign up. If you are under 18 the registration fee is waived or if you collect some amount of money (not sure how much) it will be waived. Then when you want to join a team enter my last name, sivaranjan, or search by team name. Our team name is Superfriends (from the simpsons). A bulk of this run will be done walking so it won't be some strenuous exercise. So come out and help a good cause.

Walking out of the water

I took this photo at the beach. This was right before we left. Cheryl convinced ian andrew and justin to run into the water with her. It was quite stupid, also justin tripped while running in.

Nothing much has been happening at work these last few days. Pretty much the same stuff I did last year except less. I don't have administrative passwords to the computers so when I need to set up a new computer I have to keep calling over my coworker to type in the password. I don't have access to the helpdesk emails so I can only help people who phone in. Work is pretty much just as boring as it was last year. Mind you its nice working with my coworkers. They are all quite funny so its not a big deal, but it would be nice to have some challenges. Most of the problems I deal with aren't that hard. Some of the more complicated ones involve using software I have never used or access to certain components I don't have access too.

Hopefully tomorrow will be more interesting.

So tired!

That is a fun roller coaster. I wish my life was as fun as a roller coaster. I have just started working again and it is quite tiring. Once again the days seem quite boring. The work is pretty much the same except takes twice as long because I have to bother my coworkers for passwords and what not. Hopefully the work will pick up. The company is going through some big changes so it should be interesting. All in all studying in university rapes working. I miss math. I miss cs. I miss uni! 83 days to go =(

Hopefully I will get a real post going sometime this week

Cheryl lying down

I took this photo of cheryl at the beach. Cheryl was trying to even out her terrible tan but failed greatly. We weren't at the beach long enough to do anything. She went to the beach in two shades of colour, left in 4.

As always I love taking gaps between my posts. Nothing that crazy has happened over this last week. Much of the week was spent playing volleyball and occasionally eating out. We had went to Maid cafe for a meal again and it was quite nice. We also went to this crappy noodle place kevin mentioned to us, the grotto. It was TERRIBLE! The service was terrible and it was expensive. Kevin has lost all credibility now.

The main reason for this post was because I went karaokeing. It started off with me edward and louise. The first chunk of songs were all sung by jay chou so it was louise singing like a pro and me and edward filling in simple words where we could. Louise knew how to read the kanji, but edward couldn't so he would only sing like portions to 3 jay chou songs. For the jay chou songs I didn't know what I was saying I just said whatever I thought sounded right. After a while it was me and edward singing various english songs. I was terrible at singing. I can't hit any high notes and some of the songs we picked were quite high. Regardless it was very fun. Jessica eventually joined us and she picked a bunch of random songs which she could barely sing. All in all karaoke was awesome. I must train hard and master some jay chou songs before I go again. Singing english songs isn't as fun as struggling to sing a jay chou song or some song in another language. If only they had more jap songs I had heard of, that probably would have been easier.

Waterfall

This photo was taken when I had gone to wonderland with cheryl last week.

Another break between posts as always. These last few days have been quite busy. I currently have no recollection of what transpired friday or saturday. Friday I think the guys watched Sympathy for Lady Vengeance at my house. It was by the guy who had made Oldboy so I imagined it would be crazy. Sadly it wasn't. They were all quite unimpressed with the movie. I wasn't really watching the movie because I was talking to my cousin Abi who had come to toronto for a wedding.

Saturday nothing really happened for most of the day. At night people came by and we watched lucky number slevin which was an awesome movie. Justins Xbox was crapping out towards the end so we had to switch to my iBook to finish up the movie. The movie was great. Everyone who was watching it enjoyed it I think, except justin because he is a scrub and went to sleep.

Sunday my family had a big get together for my cousin who was visiting us. It was great just seeing all my cousins again and talking away. Somewhere in the middle of this I attempted to help Elaine in math but not sure how helpful I really was. For dinner we all went out to a wings place and talked and joked around. One of my brothers friends tried the Armageddon wings at this place and was very unimpressed. I was shocked! I am very curious to see if he can handle the Armageddon wings at All Star wings now.

After eating a bunch of wings we went across the street and got this ice cream thingy called gelato's. We continued to sit around and talk. Abi would tell all sorts of dodgy stories about what my brothers were doing in Japan, then my brothers would quickly start talking about his dodgy behavior, and it would just go back and fourth. Once the gelato's were finished everyone headed home.

Yesterday was also a very quiet day. Most of it was spent at home. I had my annual physical and it went by okay. Over the course of a full year I gained a full pound. I'm at 102 now I think. Everything else is fine, I just need to get my blood work done tomorrow. That is the thing I am really scared about. I'm certain my waterloo diet has probably crippled me. Even though I don't eat very healthy when I'm at home, I'm certain its better then eating the crap I eat at waterloo. ,p>After the physical I went to play some volleyball with the guys. It was pretty fun. I am still quite bad at volleyball though. I need a lot more practice. I also need to learn how to volley and bum properly. After a few games of volleyball Justin Philip and I headed home. Justin and I watched a bit of tv at my house before heading to STC to return a game. I was shocked that EB would buy his lost magic for $12 and sell it for $32. That is unbelievable. I was damn angry.

At night justin picked up shawn and we met up with wilson and KD and watched Snakes on a plane. The movie was stupid, as I anticipated, but it was fun to laugh at though. Kevin and I were cracking jokes for a good chunk of the movie.

After the movie we went to Timmy's and just talked for a little bit then headed home. Now I anxiously await to see what will happen today. Simon wanted to go downtown but I had no bus money. As much as I hate working, it was nice having money in my wallet.

Victory Pose

This photo makes more sense if you have seen this one. This photo was actually taken before the one I posted yesterday. Justin mentioned that it would look cool if you saw the photo of the fight then of the victor. So I thought it would be nice to post the photos in that order.

.Today was a very quiet day again. I spent much of the morning watching One Piece which is a great anime indeed. Chopper is finally doing something useful which makes me happy.

After a lot of One piece Jessica and simon came by and we played lots of Soul Calibur 3. Simon was a little sad because a lot of the characters he usually uses lost a lot of their moves. The game would usually be simon beats whoever he plays then me and jess would win alternatively. I am still in between the level of noob and scrub.

Simon and Jess left around 6:30ish. I went online to look for random anime to download then just sat down and watched a bit of Kare Kano for a bit then talked to people for a while. Once 10 o'clock hit I headed out to KBBQ with Jamil, Nis and Shawn. It was nice to see them again after such a long time. The conversations we had at dinner were pretty much the same random crap we talked about in high school and on our long walks home. Also it was KBBQ so the dinner was superb! I haven't had KBBQ in a long time.

After a long dinner we drove around a bit with shawn then talked in the car till around midnight. After that shawn had to head home to get some sleep for a long day of work tomorrow so we all headed home. And thus ended another great relaxing day. Tomorrow is finally friday so hopefully it will be interesting. Perhaps people will watch Lucky number Slevin.

Good Triumphs Over Evil

I took this photo when I had gone to the beach with a bunch of people. The next few photos will probably be from stuff that happened at the beach. Justin will most likely be very angry because I made him evil.

Currently I have no idea what I had done on Monday. Perhaps I will figure it out later on in the post. Yesterday was a pretty quiet day. I spent a bulk of the day watching anime. Towards the end of the day we all got together and went to Ryans house....I think. We played some gamecube and talked for quite some time. We then headed out to Destiny and got some good bubble tea and talked some more. It was a great day.

Today was also a pretty relaxing day. I spent most of the morning watching One Piece. The characters are all so funny. My favourite character next to Luffy is probably Tony Tony Chopper.

After a chunk of anime I went out and played some volleyball with the guys. It is shocking how bad I am at volleyball. It was still pretty fun to play. but bumping the ball hurts too much. I also played a bit of tennis with ryan. I suck at tennis also but I enjoy running around. It sort of made me want to play badminton again, but I have no one to play with and no where to play. I also don't have a racquet.

After volleyball we all went home and nothing really materialized. Justin came down but it got too late and we didn't really end up going anywhere, so justin just left at around 10ish. However on his way home something darted in front of his car and he had to swerve out of the way to dodge it. This resulted in him hitting the curb and getting a flat tire. So the next hour and a bit was spent trying to replace this mans tire. Luckily our neighbourhood hero Nelson came to the rescue and helped us get the tire off. My dad was also outside for a bit making sure we didn't crush ourselves and whatnot. After a lot of effort we managed to get that damn flat tire off and then quickly put the new tire back on.

Now I am going to watch a bit more anime then head to bed. hopefully tomorrow will be more promising.

A hungry black man

I took this photo of justin when we had gone to pho once. I doubt Justin was actually hungry, but I wanted a a funny title

A lot has happened since my last post on tuesday. I shall start with Wednesday nothing had happened, it was pretty much laid back studying for Calculus on thursday. Calc was a pretty okay exam. I have yet to get my mark back for it but I think I did okay. It was the greatest moment leaving that exam. I was soooooo happy. I love waterloo and I love lectures, but I hate writing exams. Too much pressure and too much studying.

After the exam Simon and his friend kyle came to our suite after their physics exam. They talked about their exam for a bit and Kyle (Simon's friend) and I played a game of chess. Kyle is a pro chess player. He was Hamilton regional champion and I believe he destroys everyone in the waterloo chess club. So Simon had mentioned to me that he could be me blind folded. I did not believe simon so I told simon to send out a challenge. After their physics exam Kyle and I had our chess game. Kyle covered his eyes with one of my clean t-shirts and totally rocked me in chess. He would start correcting me on my moves and informing me of possible places I could go. Even though it was a horrible loss it was a great game, a game I shall never forget.

After the chess game Simon and I got some food at Mels then walked to V1 to return an ethernet cable. It was a damn long walk. V1 is too fucking far, stupid ass resnet!.

When we got back we did some hardcore cleaning then pretty much watched anime till simons dad came and picked us up. Once we got back to scarborough we called a few people up and went out to Lemon grass for dinner.

Lemon grass was quite nice as always. It was also nice seeing various people again. After a nice meal we walked next door to Destiny and sat and drank some good bubble tea. Jessica told me to try Green Apple, and it wasn't that bad. I still think banana is the better though. After Destiny we went outside and talked a bit outside for a while then everyone went home. It was a great day indeed.

Friday I had gone to yorkdale and wonderland with cheryl. We first stopped off at yorkdale so Cheryl could buy a yellow sweater. There isn't much to say about wonderland, we went on a few rides then went back to yorkdale so cheryl could do more shopping.

This women did some intense shopping. I was almost passing out towards the end of the day, but I managed to stay somewhat strong. After a long bus ride home I met up with the guys and we got together at my house and talked. I can't remember what else we did, but I'm certain we did something.

Saturday started off as a day of board games. My cousins came over and we played a game of settlers. Afterwards I went to Pacific mall and bought some hello panda's and did some simple wandering around with some of the guys. After walking around pmall we all decided to check out the "I Maid Cafe". That cafe was awesome. It was hilarious. Jessica looked like she was sick just sitting there but it was quite fun. Before we entered we see a women wearing a maid costume smoking. Probably one of the greatest sights I have ever seen. It was a damn shame I didn't have my camera.

The cafe was also pretty nice. It is much better then the crappy pho place that was there before it. Not sure if this cafe will last though. It did have some other customers and I doubt there are other maid cafes in toronto.

After we finished relaxing at the cafe everyone went home for dinner then came back later to play poker. I sat around and watched on people play or I played some good old xbox. It was a very fun filled day indeed.

Finally caught up to today. Today was a pretty quiet day as well. It started off with me cheryl and justin going to Ash bridge beach. It was a very nice beach. We quickly met up with amy and the twins and basically sat around and talked for a little bit. We played with the sand a lot and also took a bunch of photos. I can't wait to get them developed tomorrow.

After the beach I met the guys again and we went to Tim hortons and talked for a bit. We bumped into some grade 12's while we were sitting around and talking. It was quite strange because they were all dressed up. At first I thought they were coming from formal but then I realized formal was like 2 months ago. I later learned they were coming from some sort of party.

After Timmy's we went back to my house to watch a movie except the movie didn't work. Instead we talked till around 1:15 and then everyone went home.

Long posts are too hard to write. I am certain this post is littered with grammar errors. I really need to get into a blog posting mood. I miss those days when I would do daily posts. I wonder if by making a new blog and starting fresh I would have more incentive. Only time shall tell.

Proud Firemen

Another photo from the gay pride parade. The pride parade was quite a fun event. Its always nice seeing a lot of people out supporting an event.

2 days. 2 days and I will be free from waterloo. I have started my calc review and seems to be going by okay. I just need more practice with Taylor series and Taylor polynomials and I should be okay.

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. Amy Ian and Andrew came by and we all went to MKV to play some various games. First was foosball. It was Amy and I against Andrew and Ian. We were totally demolished. Amy couldn't finish and I was terrible at D. After a terrible game of jitz we moved onto Ping Pong. Ping pong was a little better. Amy was still struggling a little in that also though, so we ended up losing again. Mind you I wasn't much better either. We played ping pong for a while until we noticed the pool table was free. Pool was a lot better. Amy and I were on par with Andrew and Ian. We didn't win any games I think but we came really close. I am not too familiar with the rules of Pool, but supposedly Amy and I had won two games because the twins had scratched when going for the black ball (they missed it). For some reason I didn't think that would constitute a win, so we usually just kept playing till someone sunk the 8-ball, and it was usually the twins who sunk it. Anyways after a lot of pool we all went to Kelseys for dinner

Dinner was pretty good. The appetizers were awesome. We had chicken wings, calamari and bruschetta. I didn't really eat and bruschetta, but the calamari was damn good. If I ever go to Kelseys I will be sure to simply order calamari. The mains at Kelseys are not worth it. Once dinner was over we came back, sat around and talked for a bit then they left for home.

Today was a pretty quiet day. Most of it was spent at home playing games, watching anime and studying. Tomorrow will probably involve rigorous amounts of cramming for calc. Now I must get back to calc. I still have yet to touch up on the one thing that truly worries me....rotational volumes. But I still love calc though, it is a great course. Only course that comes close to it is classical algebra. And for anyone interested here is a link to a cool sounding number, beast number.

Can't hide

This is the second photo of Kevin I had taken when we were at Tim Hortons after Sean's party. He was always trying to hide from the camera. People are making it harder and harder for me to take photos

Today was a pretty dull day. My parents came up today which was nice. I hadn't seen them in a while. We did a lot of packing. Most of the stuff I have left in waterloo is either going to be thrown away by thursday or will be crammed in a bag and taken back to toronto. I can't wait for thursday. It will be a glorious day.

After we finished packing we went and got some mcdonalds which was nice. I haven't had McDano's in a long time. After lunch my parents left and I just continued reading manga and playing video games well into the night.

I must take more photos in Black and white. For some reason I feel my black and white photos tend to come out the best. Not sure why, but I think black and white is excellent for taking individual portrait shots. Below is a quick collage of random black and white photos I liked. If I was better at Flash or javascript I could have attempted to animate this but clearly I won't be doing that anytime soon.