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Monday, October 13th, 2008
peekaboo
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5:54p
direct quote when talking about moving tobi into their new apartment.
Dad: Did you all do the heavy lifting?
Angie: Don't the girls always do the heavy lifting?
Dad: They do around me.
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lily
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1:51p
Gross National Happiness
Everyone should read this article. It's a very good article.
current mood:  contemplative
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greenriver
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8:49a
I ACTUALLY REMEMBER A DREAM I HAD LAST NIGHT!
Yesterday, I was looking at people's camping photos on Flickr, and then last night I dreamed that I went on a hike with a bunch of people. It looked like the Island and it was along a river. Perhaps this was due to me visiting both Cleveland Dam, Cleveland hatchery, and Lynn Canyon saturday. Anyways the dream was both in a high school and at once on this camping trip, where I might have been dreaming in the dream of the high school. The h.s. kids were talking about how they didn't like that their band teacher made them play songs from the 40s through the 70s and how they were gungho on learning more nineties or even contemporary songs. Then I led them to a room in the attic which magically transformed from the janitor's toilet into a room full of more contemporary sheet music. The room lent them the ability to play songs from this decade with great ease even though they were total musical rookies.
Then the dream transitioned to me being lost in a forest along a powerline trail. I was looking for my friend Greg (treeplanter) who had fallen down a slash hole but the holes were too deep and the holes were like rabbit warrens with Greg's voice coming from everywhere at once. So I gave up on looking for him and came across my friend Russ, who is a seaman for BC Ferries. He was playing golf on a river, putting the balls off of big skeletal trees. He said the river had been dammed before but the dam had broken and now the river was back to normal, aside from the great loss of life (trees, animals, ecosystem). I wanted to but didn't debate this & went on until suddenly it was winter and I was able to walk on top of the river, where I watched bison give me big sad looks as they crashed though the weak ice and drowned. I continued on carefully, knowing that I was completely lost in the wilderness but for some reason not caring.
This was my fave costume at the Parade of Lost Souls last year.
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thebeaumonde
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7:41p
Have a break, have a kitkat !
 I really need some time for myself NOW ! So I've decided to take the time off to finally CHANGE MY LJ LAYOUT ! YAY =)
I have been studying with friends after school practically everyday. During the weekends, I went to work and study at the 24 hours cafe near my home aftermath. I can't study at home because my study area is in a huge MESS - Clothes & books are lying around. Also, the laptop is the only distraction in my house ! I find that my life only consist of work and studies ): Tomorrow's thanksgiving BUT I can't even host a decent dinner for my friends & I ): I've a lot of exercises to practise for Calculus & Chemistry since I'll be having both those midterms next week. I've to do my Chemistry lab report as well - graphing my data with excel & doing calculations. I fucking dread labs & doing lab reports ): I officially declare that I'VE NO LIFE ! I just hope I can finish all my first midterms & celebrate halloween before my second midterms commerced.  Please spare me from all the ECONS crap ! I hope I won't major in Food Market Analysis in the near future because I detest business courses ! I can comprehend the lecture notes & text but it's so difficult for me to apply it & draw the graph for relevant questions ): I guess this course will be my most dreadful class this semester !  I was craving for Filipino food the other day after trying it with my sister for the first time so we had Filipino Chinese cuisine but there's a hell lot of MSG in it ! Totally dislike food with TOO MUCH MSG ! It makes me hungry even more when I'm already hungry every 2 hours even though I had a full meal ! I'm gonna satisfy my craving for the native Filipino cuisine again sometime after my first midterm, which by the way seems to be NEVER-ENDING !  Taking econs class together, giving idiotic guys stupid nicknames, missing her first singing competition, having fun phone conversations, encouraging each other to study hard, hanging out together - there're too many to be listed ! But I'm glad to know her =)
 & I'm happy that she's finally attached to the guy of her dreams ! It's so cute when she told me all about him even before they were together & then, they finally got together =D I really took quite a couple of hours thinking of inspirations for my LJ layout & collages for this entry. Guess I did not really have much inspirations these weeks because of the overwhelming workload ): It's late now ! So I've to sleep as I'll be studying with my sister & Ellen tomorrow. Ellen will be teaching me Calculus while I'll be teaching her English (: So goodnight lovelies ! Hope you guys are doing well ! P/S: Fall has arrived. The weather's so nasty & I hate it ! I'm freezing my ass off ): It wasn't this cold last Oct. It might be due to global warming that the climatic condition of the entire Earth is in a DISASTER ! Boohoo ): 
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aenima_1996
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2:46a
life
i need something totally new in my life that i can't even explain.
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starra74
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2:25a
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.
current mood:  apathetic
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aenima_1996
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2:19a
flowers become screens...
or something like that...
i've decided that i have a keen interest (at this point in time) in natural photography. i recall taking some pictures in mid-spring that influenced me both artistically and i suppose, mentally. there is much to see in this world that can be captured without necessarily being drained.
i also think i am naturally drifting towards a lifestyle that involves black and white movies, working in a coffee shop, having a cat and smoking a bit too much pot.
i think this may be the best possible year of my life. being 24 still holds some significant life value to me, which i somewhat, in someway, compare many of my life experiences to (albeit subconscious). things i have come to realize:
- money, really, is ambivalence. respectable but not worth sacrifice. it works, and although i believe it is one of modern day's more philosophical problems, there is simplicity to it. it requires a clear mind though. and then it's just dust.
- family. enough said. tis life itself. doesn't have to be blood because your body can bleed and bleed and not die, but when your heart is broken you're pretty much fucked. so it's so beyond blood there should be a word in between "blood" and "heart". like bleart, or hood.
- friends, but meh, who am i kidding? see above. i'm an extremist in a very uplifting way.
- work. bothersome yet necessary. i think my most used word of this entry is easily necessary, or having to necessify.
hmmmm...i tire.
current music: heaven is.
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in_frequency
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12:26a
sf is in town, so the other thing that happened; i got a haircut and shave.
thanks sf.
she says it looks good and if you can't trust her word then we're all fucked.
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(comment on this) Sunday, October 12th, 2008
dreamhope
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9:53p
Went to Whistler with Mom
What Mom taught me this weekend:
I come by my complete lack of sense of direction honestly.*
The secret to a long-term relationship is to never fall out of love at the same time.
If my uncle hadn't gotten married during a certain March break when I was a kid, my family would have gone to Germany for two weeks.
If you can't give something without expectation, either don't give it at all or make it clear what you want in return... even if it is just a "thank you".
Mom once dated a guy named Skip. She liked his friends much more than she liked him. She used moving to the Northwest Territories as an excuse to break up with him.
God has nothing to do with it: take responsibility for your own life and decisions.
Seeing the ancient cedars is worth getting lost on the highway, the long drive up the gravel road, and the breathless uphill hike.
Always be suspicious of guys who are too romantic. And having someone make pancakes for you is nicer than getting flowers.
* We got lost every time we left the hotel and every time we left any place to go back to the hotel. In three days, we never went anywhere without getting lost at least once.
current mood:  sleepy
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silvi
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7:36p
love this track
if i was going to clump it, i'd put it in there with Britney Spears. So good!
good times in tha land.
current music: commercial drive in my mind ^,^
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peekaboo
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10:35p
uum de ya da
Tonight I had my first cello lesson with my new montreal-based cello teacher. Her name is Tyr and she is the cello player for the winks. The lesson was at her beautiful and gigantic apartment (6 bedrooms for 6 roommates, amazing stained glass, hardwood floors and hardwood moldings, beautiful porch). At the end of the lesson I ran into one of her roommates who just so happened to be SALLY LEE! Surprise surprise! Canada is so small sometimes. Friends from one end of the country find each other again on the other side. We had a nice chat in her kitchen, a chance to catch up on the last few months.
I have been spending so much time working (this week has been really intense at work) and helping both my mother and Tobi around their respective houses that I haven't had much time to do something for myself, something without stress. Cello can be all about doing something entirely outside of myself and entirely about time with myself.
At this moment, feeling a little rejuvenated from the lesson, I've put together the following list of things that I would like to try doing this winter (all things that are about engaging in things I *want* to do rather than what I *must* do):
- make a quilt
- learn to make a super 8 film
- plan my springtime garden
- paint that last big canvas that's been in my parent's basement for 5 years
- make some clothes for myself and, in the process, learn more about sewing.
- read. a lot.
Ryan has been visiting for the last few days. It's been comforting to have some Vancouver folks around. He's such a fun fella. Too bad I had so much work and was unable to hang out more.
oh well.
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in_frequency
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4:29p
i started watching my two new fifty horror movie boxsets this weekend.
on the first disc there was a movie called hell hath no fury which was shot here in town
now, considering how much tv and film gets shot in this town, i'm surprised that, that would be the first one in all of these low budget movies that i've seen, that was filmed here in town. even weirder still, it went over the top in the gore department and didn't suck. and as a bonus, some of the lovely ladies in it had their tops off.
*30*
swinging to the opposite side of that scale is a movie called brainiac, which also doesn't completely suck. shot some time in the last three or four years, it's about a monster that is sucking peoples brains out. a premise that is chz right out of the fifties, but again, doesn't completely suck.
what does suck about it though, is the monster it self.
woof.
way to spend ten dollars on make-up guys.
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in_frequency
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4:06p
one of the best things about downloading and watching that bill bixby show, the magician, was seeing all these seventies tv character actors that i'd forgotten about.
case in point:
whom i had the worst teenage tv crush on ever. but i never knew who she was and as infatuations go, passed. but when i saw her again, i was all, how could you forget that face!
*30*
another show i've been watching is the protectors. a seventies crime show featuring robert vaughn and produced by the same people responsible for ufo and space: 1999. it's not super good, but has a certain charm about it.
signs about trainspotters make me happy.
*30*
and speaking of space: 1999, this show had more awesome album cover art scenes per square inch than any other show, before or since.
( album covers )
also, as a show, it was responsible for the craziest shot of
christopher lee, i've ever seen.
thank you space: 1999.
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in_frequency
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3:40p
i'm still fucked, but now i've got a number to phone, on tuesday, that'll hopefully get me some help. so now i'm optimistic. one of my biggest fears has been that of losing my job.
thanks for all the good vibrations.
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