here is the best birthday card. ever. i don't know if you'll be able to see it, but for your sake, i certainly hope so...
click here
i love you jen!
25 June 2007
24 June 2007
birthday miko
as usual, my birthday turned into a weekend-long event. we went for dinner and drinks on a patio on friday night. we decided to do this earlier in june when the weather was summery and hot. on friday, it was not summery and hot, but we shivered on the patio anyway. i have some great pictures from the night, some of which can later be used for blackmail purposes, i'm sure. the owner of the bar gave us all two rounds of shots which was nice. the waitress said it's probably because our bill was so high.
on saturday, we went to a friend's house for dinner, then to the oakville waterfront festival. here, we enjoyed an amazing fireworks show in the VIP section (we had connections) where we sipped champagne and ate strawberries (yay, connections!). we went to another friend's house afterwards for, you guessed it, more drinks.
today, my mom and dad came to visit. kris' mom joined us all for dinner, all the way in oakville at a sushi place. now we're enjoying the cake that vanessa made. YUMMY! it's a raspberry flan-y thingie that rivals the products from a pastry place close to our former apartment. vanessa is my queen of tarts.
it has been a gift card birthday. i have received gift cards from club monaco, lululemon, sephora, starbucks (two) and mac cosmetics (two). my thoughtful friends and family know me so well! or maybe i'm just really transparent. or both. yes. let's go with that.
also, kris bought me two shirts. funny, i tried on a shirt last week that i really liked and was ready to buy, but i didn't because i wanted to shop around and then i ran out of time. when i told kris about the nice shirt i found at club monaco, he casually asked what colours it came in, so i told him orange, black, white and beige but that i really liked the orange one. it turns out he bought the very same shirt in orange for me a week earlier. this is big news for those who think i need more colour in my wardrobe.
overall, a fantastic birthday...it may have even been the best yet. thanks to those that made it special!
on saturday, we went to a friend's house for dinner, then to the oakville waterfront festival. here, we enjoyed an amazing fireworks show in the VIP section (we had connections) where we sipped champagne and ate strawberries (yay, connections!). we went to another friend's house afterwards for, you guessed it, more drinks.
today, my mom and dad came to visit. kris' mom joined us all for dinner, all the way in oakville at a sushi place. now we're enjoying the cake that vanessa made. YUMMY! it's a raspberry flan-y thingie that rivals the products from a pastry place close to our former apartment. vanessa is my queen of tarts.
it has been a gift card birthday. i have received gift cards from club monaco, lululemon, sephora, starbucks (two) and mac cosmetics (two). my thoughtful friends and family know me so well! or maybe i'm just really transparent. or both. yes. let's go with that.
also, kris bought me two shirts. funny, i tried on a shirt last week that i really liked and was ready to buy, but i didn't because i wanted to shop around and then i ran out of time. when i told kris about the nice shirt i found at club monaco, he casually asked what colours it came in, so i told him orange, black, white and beige but that i really liked the orange one. it turns out he bought the very same shirt in orange for me a week earlier. this is big news for those who think i need more colour in my wardrobe.
overall, a fantastic birthday...it may have even been the best yet. thanks to those that made it special!
22 June 2007
people who look like people, part ix
i've stooped to a new low. i actually covertly took pictures of this unsuspecting girl at the blue jay game last night. she looked so much like vanessa marano (who plays april nardini from the now-defunct gilmore girls), i couldn't resist!
she wouldn't turn towards me, which made it more difficult but kris pointed out it's a good thing she didn't turn towards me otherwise she would see me secretly taking pictures of her...good point.
poor, unsuspecting girl:
vanessa marano:
it's too bad the poor, unsuspecting girl's companion didn't look like luke dane/scott patterson, then i could have asked them to pose together and would have felt less like a creeper...alas, poor, unsuspecting girl's friend looked nothing like luke and kept insisting that she take obscene pictures of him posing with a hot rod/pepperette. luke would not have approved, especially because they weren't paying attention to the baseball game and because they both had cell phones.
she wouldn't turn towards me, which made it more difficult but kris pointed out it's a good thing she didn't turn towards me otherwise she would see me secretly taking pictures of her...good point.
poor, unsuspecting girl:
vanessa marano:
it's too bad the poor, unsuspecting girl's companion didn't look like luke dane/scott patterson, then i could have asked them to pose together and would have felt less like a creeper...alas, poor, unsuspecting girl's friend looked nothing like luke and kept insisting that she take obscene pictures of him posing with a hot rod/pepperette. luke would not have approved, especially because they weren't paying attention to the baseball game and because they both had cell phones.
20 June 2007
blast from the past
remember these?
sorry the picture is so small, but it's the only one i could find. bonkers with their dual-colours, great flavours and fun commercials from the 80s. in my search for a picture of this picture, i found some literature on the topic (i love the internet! where else can you find LITERATURE on CANDY?) and it's true, they've been discontinued. we should start a petition to bring bonkers back.
grape was my favourite flavour.
sorry the picture is so small, but it's the only one i could find. bonkers with their dual-colours, great flavours and fun commercials from the 80s. in my search for a picture of this picture, i found some literature on the topic (i love the internet! where else can you find LITERATURE on CANDY?) and it's true, they've been discontinued. we should start a petition to bring bonkers back.
grape was my favourite flavour.
surrounded by idiots, part iv
remember the idiot featured in "surrounded by idiots, part i"? the person who kept running OVER the stop sign?
at the end of the ramp that we live on, there's a sign telling motorists to stay to the left of the median. at least, there was a sign. someone ran over it. i'm having difficulty understanding why people are finding it impossible to stay on the road when driving and why they must run over street signs while doing so. it's not like these streets are extra narrow or anything! and wouldn't that dent/scratch/damage your car?
i will never understand.
at the end of the ramp that we live on, there's a sign telling motorists to stay to the left of the median. at least, there was a sign. someone ran over it. i'm having difficulty understanding why people are finding it impossible to stay on the road when driving and why they must run over street signs while doing so. it's not like these streets are extra narrow or anything! and wouldn't that dent/scratch/damage your car?
i will never understand.
18 June 2007
in search of the magical cure...and the magical elixir...
thank you, family and friends, for your donations for relay for life. our team ended up raising over $1000 (and still going since online pledging is still going on) and we were pretty diligent about making sure someone was walking at all times. there were some teams that were pretty lax about it, i must say.
this is a picture of a luminary that you can buy in honour/memory for those who have or had cancer. we bought one for kris' mom and one for vanessa's dad. we got them online, but for some reason, didn't have the pretty pattern that this one did, so i chose to post this one instead...the luminaries lit up the track once it got dark which was a beautiful effect.
next year we will be better prepared - read: bring warmer clothing for nighttime - and perhaps better organization (matching t-shirts? a team sign? a bake sale to keep us occupied throughout the night?) i did get new shoes for the occasion, which worked very well for my over-pronation (flat feet).
we kept seeing people walk past with tim horton's coffees and baked goods, drawing us to the conclusion that there was one close-by. everytime we turned around, someone was walking past with an armful of coffees! so after i dropped vanessa off, who joined us for the first half of the night, i went in search for the tim horton's. i could have gone to the one close to vanessa's house, but i wanted the coffees to be as hot as possible when i brought them back. and i reasoned that there would be one close-by since we kept seeing so many people with tim's. so i drove around the vicinity of the park, and nothing. i returned with the rest of my team eagerly awaiting my arrival (something tells me they were waiting for the coffee and not just my lovely presence) and i was empty-handed. kris then said that the GPS system in his car would locate the closest tim horton's (we had to take both cars because i had to come a little later), so we took his car out, again in search for timmy's. there was NOTHING in the vincinity, the closest one was actually in mississauga and we were in etobicoke. so where were all the people getting their coffee from? i guess we will never know, because vanessa was too scared to ask. hahahah!
this is a picture of a luminary that you can buy in honour/memory for those who have or had cancer. we bought one for kris' mom and one for vanessa's dad. we got them online, but for some reason, didn't have the pretty pattern that this one did, so i chose to post this one instead...the luminaries lit up the track once it got dark which was a beautiful effect.
next year we will be better prepared - read: bring warmer clothing for nighttime - and perhaps better organization (matching t-shirts? a team sign? a bake sale to keep us occupied throughout the night?) i did get new shoes for the occasion, which worked very well for my over-pronation (flat feet).
we kept seeing people walk past with tim horton's coffees and baked goods, drawing us to the conclusion that there was one close-by. everytime we turned around, someone was walking past with an armful of coffees! so after i dropped vanessa off, who joined us for the first half of the night, i went in search for the tim horton's. i could have gone to the one close to vanessa's house, but i wanted the coffees to be as hot as possible when i brought them back. and i reasoned that there would be one close-by since we kept seeing so many people with tim's. so i drove around the vicinity of the park, and nothing. i returned with the rest of my team eagerly awaiting my arrival (something tells me they were waiting for the coffee and not just my lovely presence) and i was empty-handed. kris then said that the GPS system in his car would locate the closest tim horton's (we had to take both cars because i had to come a little later), so we took his car out, again in search for timmy's. there was NOTHING in the vincinity, the closest one was actually in mississauga and we were in etobicoke. so where were all the people getting their coffee from? i guess we will never know, because vanessa was too scared to ask. hahahah!
13 June 2007
stupid amigos...
paco and jorge showed up WAY too early today - around 7am. they haven't been on my balcony, but on the balconies of the floor above us, which means they still have to pass by my window en route. so i woke up at 7:30. AND we went to see a movie last night and so i didn't get home until late, didn't get to sleep until late, and wasn't supposed to wake up until late. now i'm tired and not sure how i'm going to teach until 9pm tonight...
new friends!
i was getting ready for work, putting on my make-up and noticed two men wearing hard hats standing on the other side of my balcony. despite my initial thought, they weren't levitating, they were on a crane thingie that hoisted them there. they were knocking on the balcony to get my attention, probably so i would realize they were there and not start undressing or something. reason #18275 to invest in window coverings. although - all of my reasons to invest in window coverings are the same, or revolve around the same area of concern (so as to not expose myself in front of strangers, only close friends), so i guess it's just reason #1.
paco and jorge (yes, i've named them) were here to cover up a gaudy yellow pipe cover - i don't know what the official construction term is, but the guy who spoke the most english (paco) called scaffolding a box, so i'm sure he won't mind my layman's terms. jorge didn't really seem to know what was going on, so paco is in the lead for being my favourite...
they promised to be back tomorrow to stucco and put the finishing touches on the pipe cover with the help of the box/scaffolding, so i look forward to seeing my amigos again! fully dressed, of course...
paco and jorge (yes, i've named them) were here to cover up a gaudy yellow pipe cover - i don't know what the official construction term is, but the guy who spoke the most english (paco) called scaffolding a box, so i'm sure he won't mind my layman's terms. jorge didn't really seem to know what was going on, so paco is in the lead for being my favourite...
they promised to be back tomorrow to stucco and put the finishing touches on the pipe cover with the help of the box/scaffolding, so i look forward to seeing my amigos again! fully dressed, of course...
11 June 2007
relay for life!
i am a last-minute participant in relay for life on june 15. please pledge me if you haven't already pledged kris (thanks to those who have so far!) you can go to wwww.cancer.ca/relay and look me up.
thanks!
thanks!
07 June 2007
seriously..."young lady"??
i accompanied two RCM exams today. i walked in the door, and the woman at the desk said to me cheerfully, "are you here for your piano exam, young lady?" i told her that i was accompanying two violin exams, and she kind of looked embarassed and told me where my first student was warming up.
later on, after the first girl had finished, i had switched chairs to sit beside the mother of the second girl i was accompanying. the same woman saw me and asked if i had signed in yet. again, i told her i was the accompanist and not here for an exam.
i remember one time about a year ago, i was at the LCBO. as i'm walking around, i notice an employee following me. i thought it was a little strange but shrugged it off. as i stepped into the line to pay, she ran to her cash and eagerly offered to serve me. at this point, i figured she was either hitting on me or wanting to check my ID. it was the latter.
i guess this comes with the territory of being asian...since most asians age slowly it's really just a crap shoot to figure out how old we are. sort of like the bearded lady at circuses, we are freaks of nature.
and mind you, i would rather be called "young lady" than "ma'am"! so i'll stop complaining. if only that dreamy guy from starbucks would call me "young lady"...sigh...
later on, after the first girl had finished, i had switched chairs to sit beside the mother of the second girl i was accompanying. the same woman saw me and asked if i had signed in yet. again, i told her i was the accompanist and not here for an exam.
i remember one time about a year ago, i was at the LCBO. as i'm walking around, i notice an employee following me. i thought it was a little strange but shrugged it off. as i stepped into the line to pay, she ran to her cash and eagerly offered to serve me. at this point, i figured she was either hitting on me or wanting to check my ID. it was the latter.
i guess this comes with the territory of being asian...since most asians age slowly it's really just a crap shoot to figure out how old we are. sort of like the bearded lady at circuses, we are freaks of nature.
and mind you, i would rather be called "young lady" than "ma'am"! so i'll stop complaining. if only that dreamy guy from starbucks would call me "young lady"...sigh...
05 June 2007
seriously..."ma'am"??
the starbucks that i frequent employs a guy who is probably a few years younger than me. he is always nice to me, but he seems to make a point of calling me "ma'am". i don't consider myself to be too old, or old-looking, so this strikes me as strange.
his calling me "ma'am" is completely unnecessary...he just seems to tag it onto a sentence whenever he serves me, almost as if he knows how it would bother someone who isn't old enough to be called ma'am. the other day, for instance, i asked him how he was doing, and he says "i'm fine, ma'am, how are you?"
grrrr.
on another note, i seem to be blogging about starbucks a lot. i should make it another series! i could name it "starbucks should really re-examine their screening process when hiring" since i seem to be complaining about the people who work there...but that's not very nice, so we just won't go there...right, ma'am?
his calling me "ma'am" is completely unnecessary...he just seems to tag it onto a sentence whenever he serves me, almost as if he knows how it would bother someone who isn't old enough to be called ma'am. the other day, for instance, i asked him how he was doing, and he says "i'm fine, ma'am, how are you?"
grrrr.
on another note, i seem to be blogging about starbucks a lot. i should make it another series! i could name it "starbucks should really re-examine their screening process when hiring" since i seem to be complaining about the people who work there...but that's not very nice, so we just won't go there...right, ma'am?
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