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Just got my DS

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:49:07 GMT

Platinum FC: 1247 7083 8146

Someone add me and leave yours in the comment please?

Ben Schwartz's Conversation with Nastia Liukin

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:26:57 GMT

Nastia Liukin is an Olympic gold medalist in Gymnastics for the USA team.

In this video, Ben Schwartz the interviewer is funny and the adorable Nastia did her best to keep up in the humorous atmosphere.

A sense of accomplishment

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:31:52 GMT

I have been at loose ends for a long time, so I decided to tweak my old layout. I want to feel that I possess my layout and I'm not using someone else's.

(Actually I edited this from someone else's a long time ago.) But anyways, it works on both IE and Firefox now. I don't know why the personal info module and the blog content are interchanged on the two browsers. I don't think I really care lol.

American Girl

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:40:54 GMT

Props to Barton for informing and updating me on a new Taylor Swift song. It's a cover. The original song is also a favorite of mine.

The cover:

American Girl - Taylor Swift

For those who perfer Youtube for music.

The original by Tom Petty:

AMERICAN GIRL - TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS

Literary Backlog

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:37:51 GMT

Reading is one of my hobbies. Probably my main. However, my reading speed is atrociously sluggish and I can't do anything about it.

These are the books I have left hanging. I need to finish them.

Fiction:

The Lost World - Michael Crichton

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Non-fiction:

Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand

Made in America - Bill Bryson

This summer break is pretty long, we have only finished a quarter of it.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:06:17 GMT

「自信可改變未來，問誰又能做到？」

光輝歲月－Beyond

July 1st

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:34:27 GMT

means nothing to me, that's right.

All my joys that day have ceased to exist since I was disappointed at the fact that SIG Electronics have the longest and deplorable line ever at Pacific Mall.

I wasn't too excited about Canada Day, it stems from loving the south too much. And since I wasn't volunteering for Richmond Hill, there wasn't much meaning to be proud of anything.

Plus the rain deteriorates everything there is. And holidays like this mean malls are generally not open.

I didn't volunteer so I'd have to pay, so I decided not to go to Richmond Green to watch fireworks either.

Still can't get over the fact that it took an hour and a quarter to get out of Richmond Green to Bernard last year.

Fireworks at Parliament Hill are so much better even if it was 15 minutes and that I have to watch it on TV/online.

Hmm... Octopus's Garden :)

Some things don’t last forever and shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:24:02 GMT

Didn't proofread any of this, haha forgive me if there are grammarical errors.

Before I came to Canada, I had lived in an apartment for 10 years, still the longest time I have inhabited in a residential property. As a child, I had questioned myself, why can’t I move one day, just like others who have long ago. In the end, I got my wish granted, few months before permenantly setting foot onto Canada, that apartment was sold and my parents rented another flat for the remaining months. I have to say moving was and still is the worst experience ever. It takes hours to move from one place to another, and those hours were spent either on laboring or waiting for it to end. Before that, bed frames have to be disassembled. The two houses both need to be vacuumed or cleaned. It’s just long and tedious work.

In my first year in Canada, I lived on 5 Cedarhurst Drive in Richmond Hill. It was a cozy house with around 2100 sq. ft of area (Basement area not included). It wasn’t until a letter near the end of the school year saying that I couldn’t attend Richmond Hill High School because of the railway boundary (that would have put me in Richmond Green Secondary School). We end up having to move to a house a few streets above Richmond Hill High School. [I won’t say it here, because I don’t want to cause any harm to the owner who’s trying to sell the house due to my remarks] In the summer of 2004, that house costs around $470,000. I remember my parents doing shuttles between the two houses that summer with the SUV. We moved the small stuff so that it would take less time with the big, final move.

Honestly, initially that house was in a terrible shape, there were two spoiled boys. When I was there meeting the seller (the only time, my parents have talked to her several times), there were unflushed toilets, there was a computer in the dining area, and a TV touching the ceiling with the boys playing PS2 on it. Then when we finally had the house, we were really mad at how the seller didn’t even clean up before she left. A man she designated had to do all the work. He never finished them all anyways, we had uncleaned kitchen drawers and cupboard handles with paint worn off. I remember spending an afternoon sanding those handles.

We also had to repaint the deck and remade a rail.

With a bigger house than before (2800 sq. ft), we bought more furniture for the following two years.

I also had a big backyard that I will always love, yet somehow I would often feel sad that I don’t have an outdoor pool. The backyard was so big that my father would take 2 or 3 hours to mow them all, often he ends up dividing it into two sessions. (I had only mowed it twice, sometimes I only got to mow a part)

Still it’s pretty gorgeous and I had a self-photoshoot there. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=65405&id=506540499&op=18

Then we had a family who wanted a place to stay, so we got the basement finished. They stayed for around 8 months, and when they were gone. The whole basement was so empty I felt like it was haunted.

I once thought of having a pool table down there so the basement can actually be a party floor. But it costs at least $800 for a used one and my father sees no use of it anyways.

Now I find it ironic that I, being the introvert stay home person would miss the house so badly as if I haven’t enjoyed all my moments there, well, my life is like a man in a story I have heard of. The man was so satisfied with everything he has that he feels his life is so boring and pointless. He askes a genie for help to his situation. The genie made all his things vanish: his car, his wife and kids, and all the luxuruious stuff. It wasn’t until then that the man realizes how lucky he was and when he gets all his things back, he starts to enjoy them. I don’t think I am any different from a kid who is at the state of despair in finding his lost toy. People don’t see that some things can disappear and out of our reach so easily. Some things don’t last forever and someday you will part it.

Graduates are going to leave their house and become more dependent themselves. In those years, they will find out how much they have truly missed home.

The house was sold in March 2008 for around $520,000, our house definitely worths more than that with the renovations and time. The owner, a flipper (which I scorn, because I would have never thought he would do this to my old house) did some work and once put an asking price of $574,000 in a recession. I wonder if anyone actually bought it.

I have always wanted to type up my reflection, I finally did it. I feel kind of relieved.

Specs

Pics

Dining Room

2004: 2008:

Washroom

2005: had a wall of mirror in my washroom, and the sinktop was white (not shown here)

2008:

First Living Room

2004: 2008:

Other Living Room

2004: 2008:

Front

2004: 2008:

Quick Update

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:16:55 GMT

Well I finally graduated. It's like the latest thing people say these days. And I being a non-conformist, just overlooks it and says it's okay. It comes natural, doesn't it?

Lol, I didn't take full advantage of Commencement and Exam Feedback day. I was supposed to take lots of pictures or be included in them. Yet I did the opposite, as if I don't think it is that important.

Once again, I'd dedicate everyone to a song just like I did in Grade 8. Please no, it's not that overplayed Vitamin C song. It's the Beatles' "In My Life". I still think it's relevant for moments like this.

http://www.dizzler.com/index.search.dv8?q=in+my+life

Sighs, honestly how many people are going to honor those "Let's keep in touch" promises? We are bound to lose some people. I guess it's our initiative to really start chatting up with someone for no reason at any time. (Haha, I still need to work on that)

This summer might end up being like the last one. I haven't got a job yet. After studying and working on final ISUs, I have put aside my summer aspirations. When I was supposed to get a job in April, I just left it like that. Now the University kids are taking over my jobs. What's the point of having a reference recommendation letter ready now haha?

I certainly don't want to sit at home or I won't be any better than my cat who just sits, sleeps, meows, eats, and poops every single day.

I'd love to see you guys around. Really, let's keep in touch. Haha!

(I'll always be a Country fan, people should have figured that out already. Ah... Dierks Bentley, Jason Aldean, Trace Adkins, Taylor Swift, Kellie Pickler, etc... )

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:51:12 GMT