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Sunday, September 09, 2007

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:55:45 GMT

I'll be cancellation my subscription here for the premium service...will be moving over to Wordpress. Keep you posted then...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:16:34 GMT

I finally got my comp back!! I can't believe it's been..almost a month! Can't even remember what's been going on anymore. haha. Just am really busy at work. And yea, that's pretty much it i think...

Maybe i'll just let pictures speak for itself, long day at work, lazy to type more, but at the same time, can't get off the internet..need to get my fill for it.

The rafting trip

At Suzy's birthday bbq/watching UFC matches (let me stress, i've never seen so much UFC in my life before, and i still think it's really brutal)

Other things that happen w/o pics..

Pumpkin is getting bigger, fatter, and better, and still so cute.

We celebrated Paul's b'day at work with a bunch of Sponge bob things..he loved it..

Karen's going to be leaving us soon..surprise surprise for Loblaws. I can't believe everyone's all going there. I'm so sad she's leaving us, but again, she's gotta do what's best for her.

Aight..dinner time...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:33:26 GMT

I saw my dream house yesterday in our area. I love it so much! And it's actually on sale!! Ususally, I hardly see houses on sale in our area, and if there are, they're not very pretty. But yesterday, we were walking down willowdale, and I saw this house that was so pretty, and then I saw the sale sign! So excited! But unfortunately, we will never be able to afford it. It's probably 800 thousand to a million dollars...i don't think we'll ever be able to afford houses in our area. I would miss it if we ever have to move away from here...sigh...

The days without computer...

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:45:20 GMT

Ok, our computer is at future shop for like 2 weeks now, I miss it!!! Hopefully we get it back this week. I've been so busy at work the last few weeks with all these prices changes happening..but knock on wood, it slowed down today. I'm not complaining about it. Actually have time to surf the net abit, which I shouldn't be i know, but I'm kinda bored, not bored of work, but just bored in general, want to be outside.

So Karen was showing us some pics at work of her friend who got married on facebook today. Guess what?? Her friend's sister is Karena Lam!! The girl who kissed Nic Tse in the movie Tiramisu!! I'm soooo jealous!!!!!!! Well, i'm not as jealous now of course, but back in the day, when i saw the movie, i was like damn, i wish i was her! so unfair!!!

Since I don't have the computer at home and i'm acutally free right now, although i'm kinda still sneaking to type this..but whatever..best part about my seat is i'm away from everyone, i mean away from my team leads...it's not as stressful. But oh yea, I'll be moving to leisure lines soon, doing camping and outdoor living...it's good experience, but I'm nto as excited moving over there anymore. Everyone's leaving. And our team lead in leisure seems like he's changed since he became the team lead, he used to be our trainer. He's so anal about everything now, the stories i hear pissed me off too. And i'll be sitting close to him. So yea..I just hope the teams I'll be working with will be nice.

Saw some of the Beh Teng bachelorette's pics with the girls at Cherating on hui yee's blog, miss them so much!! It hits you harder when it's one of your close friend getting married. I still can't believe it sometimes that we're all heading to another stage of life very soon one by one. Soon I'll be 30! It's all downhill from now.. I was talking to Ling a while back, can't remember when, and our conversation was all about who from high school are getting married, who's got married, who already have kids!!! Crazy!

yea..so..remember last year i said before that life is short, and I said to myself i want to do as much as i can, or rather do the things i want to do now, because you never know..time passes by too quickly, i feel it passes by so much more quickly when you're older. Anyways, so i said I was going to pick up dancing again. I finally enrolled in my pole dancing classes. 6 weeks. I'm taking it at a different place right now, but i think when i continue to level 2, i want to go back to Flirty Girl, they have much more fun classes. The one i'm going to right now is called Aradia Fitness at Queen and bathurst, i guess it's the area that i don't like as well. I feel quite unsafe there..but since I've already paid for it, I jsut have to stick it up for now. This was suppose to be the summer of dance..hehhee..so as me and Ally had called it. She had picked up belly dancing and salsa. And we are going to go try a drop in swing dance class..not sure when..some day this year. And will be going salsa again in September. kat's going to come with me!!! I'm so excited about it!!!! It makes a difference when your partner is someone you would want to dance with, you know what i mean. Don and Brette, Karen and Peter are coming too, so I'm excited about it. Ronson got offered a paid position to teach salsa, so we'll be learning with him.

This is going to be a pretty long post...it'll be all the highlights i've been wanting to pen down.

Long weekend - we had a few people over for a dinner party. And played monopoly. I haven't played it sooo long! It's acutally quite fun to play board games once in a while, especially when you have a group of people. Karen was serious about her monopoly, it's so funny, she remembers the rent of the properties! without looking at the cards!

Not sure if i mentioned, went to the U of T salsa cruise this year again.

Last weekend, i went camping for the first time. We went whitewater rafting on Saturday. It was so much fun!!! I loved it so much, now that i know what to expect, I want to fall out of the raft into the water. We went on the 12 ppl raft, but 6 ppl look much more fun. Waiting to Mario to burnt the video. There were alot of Australian instructors there, good looking boys. hehee..so camping. The first night we got there, we got there pretty late, so it was quite hard to set up the tent, and plus the tent i borrowed from Suzy's dad is really old. At first, I was like, omg, this is so embarassing, this tent is so old. But once it's set up, I'm like this is like a 2 storey house, it's huge for 4 of us!! I'll post the pics up when i have them. Anyway, so there was a guy in the next tent, i swear, he was throwing up from like midnight to 6 in the morning!!!! So disgusting!!!!! I coudln't sleep, everytime i fell alseep, i hear him coming out and puking!!! This young fat boy! disgusting! Lucky the 2nd night was ok. 2nd night, was quite tired. We had the bonfire going, roasted mashmallows. I really like the cracking sound of the fire, I don't know why. But yea, overall, i enjoyed camping much more than I thought I would. Oh and the first night, the sky was so clear, I've never seen so much stars in my life, it was so pretty!! And we saw shooting stars!!!

ok, i have to go now...been on too long.....continue antoher day when i'm not busy ...

Monday, July 30, 2007

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:53:13 GMT

I think part of the reason I will be reluctant to leave CTC is because the people I've met here. Although, yea one by one, they're all leaving the company, but my teams have been so helpful, and willing to teach me. (other than my storage team) I'm even a little hesistant moving over to the Leisure lines, will be doing camping and outdoor living in a few weeks time. Just because I've been really lucky so far, my tools and lighting team have been so good to me. I have no complains about them. But I'll get to learn more in leisure side otherwise.

It is such a huge difference a year ago working at Golf Town. I was depressed and miserable. I hate taking the bus there. I hate that the people i worked with were narrow minded except for Carrie. I hate being stuck in the basement with no visibility of what the weather is like outside. I had a shitty bitchy manager. But now, I have a window seat, I met some great people here, my boss is great, it takes me about 15 mins to get to work with one train.

Anyways, just a quick reflection that's all...

Went to Nadia's house for bbq on Saturday. She always goes all out for her parties, really reminds me of thoese Food Network shows, those dinner party ones. She's got big backyard, so she invited alot of people. Set up tables and tent. Was fun!

These are the girls, and the extremely hyper Paul. (extremely hyper that night i mean)

The team..well not all anymore. Brette and Nadia have left for Loblaws. Darin has started a new position...

The 'outsiders'..hahaha..or Don, Kat and Peter

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:16:42 GMT

We celebrated Jer's very belated birthday last night at this Argentina restaurant, Sky Ranch. First time. The people there were really nice, I thought, helpful enough to recommend us what to eat, and helpful in other ways. There were 6 of us. We ordered the antipasto for appetizers. I really enjoyed that, a variety of cold cuts and grilled vegetables. And for some reason especially enjoyed the hearts of palm. The dinner entree part, probably the fact that I don't eat beef made it less enjoyable for me. But i did try the sweet bread, which surprisingly taste good and normal. hehee..because i tasted the kidney, and the after taste is really..errm..strong, I didn't like it. Tried the paella there as well. It's more watery than the ones I had in the past, but it's still good.Oh also first time trying chimichurri. Liked it. Too bad we were too full to try dessert..maybe next time.

So after that, we went to Thanh's house. Finally watched that Andy Lau movie 'All About Love'. Me and Ronz wanted to buy the dvd long long time ago, 2 years ago maybe? hehee..well thought the movie was kinda crap, and I think Charlene is really annoying in the movie. I think she's cute, but annoying and way too young for him!! But I think I've got a crush on Andy Lau. I'm like watching all these you tube videos right now. He always dresses so well, so smart, the suits and stuff..hmm..I find that sexy. That he dresses well. lol...heheeh..

and just random browing at you tube, i like this song...and i love the cherry blossom. Yea, i definitely want to have a cherry blossom wedding one day..hehehe..

Bittersweet reunion

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:44:39 GMT

So we finally organized and got together with the girls from Bittersweet, my first job in Toronto. I mean other than Ally, I haven't really kept in touch with anyone. Oh and besides Mary of course, which I also lost touch with, but bump into her when I took salsa lessons last year. So i guess facebook initiated this reunion dinner..it was fun though, it was really nice seeing them, and catching up. No one really changed much. Julianna is still as bubbly as I remembered her. Jen is still as sweet. Ally's of course as fabulous. hehehee..so I think we see each other way too much. We're starting to dress alike! hahaha .. The tights and the dress top. And my concierge even recognize her!

We went to Mimosa Bistro and Wine Bar at Yonge and Eglinton. Food was alright. They had a taste of summer menu too, sort of like summerlicious I guess. I had the mushroom ravioli. The girls had the salmon and steak. Ally's soup of the day was really good though, apple and celery soup. And had creme brulee for dessert.

So all in all, nice to see everyone again...

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:57:56 GMT

Which Sex and the City Character Are You?
	You are Carrie. You know what you want out of a relationship and you're not afraid to keep moving until you get it. Wit and charm are your biggest turn-ons, and you like guys who appreciate you for your mind as much as your body. You have fun playing the dating game, but secretly you just can't wait to find the guy who sweeps you off your feet and carries you into the sunset.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

Meet lil pumpkin!

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:28:38 GMT

Now isn't he the cutest little thing? I call him pumpkin, Kat calls him mango. ahhaha..i so want to foster this kitty, I want to adopt him. I went to see him today again at the shelter after work. Sad thing is someone had dropped him, and he has some sort of head trauma. He goes into seizure, although i haven't seen it happen. I saw him on Sunday the first time, but didn't realize he had any problems except he was so cute and deep in sleep, but still let me tickle his belly. But realized that he has a bit of a difficulty walking today, walks very slow. But yet, he's still so playful. He's just such a sweetheart! I hope he gets better!! The first 2 pics were taken on Sunday.

These were taken today.

Getting to roll on her back...

Belly rub time!

My first attempt in French food

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:59:02 GMT

Well I saw this on Food Network - show is called French food at home. So tried this - Baby Endive Tarte Tatins. I haven't had much appetite with the weather so hot and gross..so I had this for dinner along with Tomato Mozarella Salad.

This was the first one i made, didn't look too pretty like on tv..haha..i must practice some presentation skills. Or maybe I can just take better pictures, better angles and make it look good.