Just got back from a wedding dinner at Century Palace. At least i think that's what it's called. In any case, it's the big chinese banquet hall at Metro. It's one of those occasions where your parents drag you to for the sake of 'giving face' to the hosts. These occasions usually turn out to be quite awkward because you would have no idea who the hell the people there are and they have no idea who you are either. It is probably just me, but i find it downright weird to be sitting at a wedding banquet when you have never met the bride and groom before.
To sum up, it was quite a boring night for me. Don't get me wrong. I'm sure everyone who knew the bride and groom or their respective families enjoyed themselves as they indulged in conversation and alcohol, and i congratulate the two on their marriage. But put in my situation, i'm sure most of you would feel the same.
Dancing soon followed dinner, and by this time, i was feeling slightly peeved. I guess i'm jus a bad spirited fellow but watching couples dance on the floor wasn't exactly getting my spirits up lol... I couldn't exactly leave either since my parents were up there as i sat alone at my table. Having my mom constantly telling me to invite some random girl in the hall to dance wasn't improving my mood either. I'm sure some of you wouldn't mind doing that, but i do. To make things worse, my mom then said she'd go and dance with me then. In my head @ the moment, i was like 'WTF...leave me the hell alone and go dance.' I know it's natural that all parents somehow make their kids feel embarassed, but what the hell... How bloody hard is it to place yourself in the position of another. If a person has their arms crossed looking kinda peeved, you'd think the wise thing to do is NOT make insensitive and thick headed comments. Not to mention i was supposed to be studying for a midterm that's on monday, but she figured it was more important for me to accompany her for dinner. It still ticks me off thinking about it now, and i'm starting to sweat because of it...damn lack of a/c.
(Brief moment of calming myself)
Problems aside, participating at the dinner tonight put things in perspective for me. As i watched the bride and groom lead off in the first dance, i wondered what and where i'd be years from now. Questions like 'what job i'd have?', 'would i still be in canada?' and 'would i be married or even be in a relationship?' began to pop up. It was a good time to reflect on my life and think about what awaits me in the future.
Anyway this is enough ranting and/or emo-ish posting. I'm sure all of you have at least thought about what your own future would be like. Anyone care to share?
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Summer's Here...
...at least for those who're done school or not taking summer courses. Guess i shouldn't be complaining much considering it was my own fault for dropping courses in the last 2 years. And if i wasnt taking summer courses, i'd either be working or sitting at home bored out of my mind. I just need to get through these coming 3 semesters and i will be finally able to go on my dream vacation to Japan. In less than a year, ill finally be able to go....
Anyway enough talking about depressing school and such. Weather in Toronto sure has picked up the couple of days. Average temperature been about low 30's and with the humidity it felt like the 40s... kind of reminds me of summer in Hong Kong. You'd sweat just standing outside. The sunshine and hot weather reminded me that beach time and my cruise trip is getting closer, and that means i need to start getting in shape lol. I was heading to the gym the other day when i saw this
I don't know why mother Canada goose is raising her young in the corner here. For those who go utsc, its the corner where the stairs from the b wing connects to the gym. Anyway i guess you can call these geese 'cute'. But think how not long from now, these little geese will turn into the cocky full grown Canada geese, who walks around like they own the land and craps all over the side walk. It is as if they know they're the national symbol of Canada and we can't mess with them. Anyway, i was contemplating on going outside to see their reactions, but i suddenly remembered watching this vid on youtube
and figured it wasnt a wise decision to do so. Anyway i should start studying for the English midterm i have tomorrow. I'll blog again tomorrow.
Anyway enough talking about depressing school and such. Weather in Toronto sure has picked up the couple of days. Average temperature been about low 30's and with the humidity it felt like the 40s... kind of reminds me of summer in Hong Kong. You'd sweat just standing outside. The sunshine and hot weather reminded me that beach time and my cruise trip is getting closer, and that means i need to start getting in shape lol. I was heading to the gym the other day when i saw this
I don't know why mother Canada goose is raising her young in the corner here. For those who go utsc, its the corner where the stairs from the b wing connects to the gym. Anyway i guess you can call these geese 'cute'. But think how not long from now, these little geese will turn into the cocky full grown Canada geese, who walks around like they own the land and craps all over the side walk. It is as if they know they're the national symbol of Canada and we can't mess with them. Anyway, i was contemplating on going outside to see their reactions, but i suddenly remembered watching this vid on youtube
and figured it wasnt a wise decision to do so. Anyway i should start studying for the English midterm i have tomorrow. I'll blog again tomorrow.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
[Insert proper title here]
I haven't posted in a while, but there's good reason behind it.
My old computer hard drive crashed on me last week and the entire computer was incapacitated. I ended having to buy a new hard drive so i could fresh install windows xp on it. I never back up my computer information, so i was pretty nervous about losing all my old high school and hong kong pictures. Luckily, i was able to use some freeware program to fish out most of those pics from the hard drive. My computer was never reformatted since i bought it about 5 yrs ago, and so i guess this was a pretty good opportunity to do so.
After the windows install, it went through a period of updates which took quite some time considering it was default at SP1. Then i had to dl all the applications i used to use, which was the reason i never felt like reformatting in the first place. Though this all took a long ass time to do, in the end it is well worth it because my comp is now running a lot smoother than it used to.
It was pretty much saturday night when i got all this together, and i then realized i had a midterm on tuesday for abnormal psych. I thought i was pretty lucky to have realized this considering how i missed 2 midterms before. Seeing how little the midterm covers, i decided to kick back , relax and start reading sunday afternoon. It was when i started reading on sunday that neena told me the midterm was actually on MONDAY or 'tomorrow' to be exact.
After a period of panic and confusion, i managed to maintain composure and get some reading done. I was glad that the midterm started at 5 on monday so i managed to read everything monday morning. I even managed to get some good nights sleep sunday (12-7am). The thing ended up to be pretty easy. Though it was 100 m.c., a lot of the stuff was covered in the other psych courses i've taken before and i also managed to retain a lot of info in my short term memory from having read it all within the last 24 hours. So thank God everything turned out alright!
Anyway that's pretty much what occupied me the last week. Here's a cool video of the upcoming street fighter 4 game. Anyone looking forward to purchasing it when it comes out for consoles?
My old computer hard drive crashed on me last week and the entire computer was incapacitated. I ended having to buy a new hard drive so i could fresh install windows xp on it. I never back up my computer information, so i was pretty nervous about losing all my old high school and hong kong pictures. Luckily, i was able to use some freeware program to fish out most of those pics from the hard drive. My computer was never reformatted since i bought it about 5 yrs ago, and so i guess this was a pretty good opportunity to do so.
After the windows install, it went through a period of updates which took quite some time considering it was default at SP1. Then i had to dl all the applications i used to use, which was the reason i never felt like reformatting in the first place. Though this all took a long ass time to do, in the end it is well worth it because my comp is now running a lot smoother than it used to.
It was pretty much saturday night when i got all this together, and i then realized i had a midterm on tuesday for abnormal psych. I thought i was pretty lucky to have realized this considering how i missed 2 midterms before. Seeing how little the midterm covers, i decided to kick back , relax and start reading sunday afternoon. It was when i started reading on sunday that neena told me the midterm was actually on MONDAY or 'tomorrow' to be exact.
After a period of panic and confusion, i managed to maintain composure and get some reading done. I was glad that the midterm started at 5 on monday so i managed to read everything monday morning. I even managed to get some good nights sleep sunday (12-7am). The thing ended up to be pretty easy. Though it was 100 m.c., a lot of the stuff was covered in the other psych courses i've taken before and i also managed to retain a lot of info in my short term memory from having read it all within the last 24 hours. So thank God everything turned out alright!
Anyway that's pretty much what occupied me the last week. Here's a cool video of the upcoming street fighter 4 game. Anyone looking forward to purchasing it when it comes out for consoles?
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