i'm going back...
no, not to cali (but oh how i wish i was!), but to work... yep, school is back in session. at least this year, i know things are going to look waaaay more up than the previous ones. for example, i've got a regular bunch of kids to tutor. yay! i know it means extra money, but for real, i like these ones. i actually feel like i am contributing something to their lives that will mean something to them in the future. it's kind of a cool feeling.i think that's why i ultimately would like to be a teacher-y kind of person when i grow up. see, i'm not completely sold on becoming a teacher just yet. i know the ups and downs and yeah, the downs are still pretty sucky. i don't know if i could take them. but i wouldn't mind being like a school counsellor or something... yeah kinda like what buffy does, but minus the night job of killing vampires. that would be cool. we'll see.

well, i guess i'm just going to relax the rest of the long weekend away... maybe i'll practice speaking properly now, instead of mumbling and slanging everything i say. yeah, maybe not.

no more drama.. please!
so i'm trying to help out my godsister with her wedding plans... it's a bit tough cuz she's all the way out in sacramento and i'm waaay up here in vancouver. what makes it complicated is that up her is where her side of the family is, and down in cali is where her fiancé's side is. and as you can guess, both sides would prefer to have the wedding on their side of the border. hmmm. i wonder how many people go through this kind of problem? i know another couple who will encounter a similar dilemma (he's in san francisco and she's in toronto) but they're still in the really baby stages of the planning so they haven't even crossed that decision yet. anyways, for all o' y'all who are going to go through this kinda stuff, i, marion the aspiring wedding planner, have a suggestion: sit down with your fiancé(e) and ask each other what you two would like. don't take anyone else into consideration. it's your party and it is written nowhere that you have to do what everyone else tells you to do. if everyone around you is truely happy about your engagement and the fact that you will get married, then they'll do their best in supporting your decisions rather than trying to make it work to their advantage.
**are you listening char?.. ;o) don't worry, it'll be fine girl**

let's get married
since i'm on the topic... holy cow, how many people can get married in the span of 3 years?... annie and neil last year, joy and peter, andrew and karen, evanna and henry, my old classmate joanna and sabz' cousin, and little jennifer and her man will get married all this year, then next year is jo and jay, my kuya and bev, and char and leny... anyone else?.. dang. and yet, people still ask when i'll get married!.. well sorry, as you can see, i will be a lil bit busy for the next year or so. i'll wait til the wave of weddings dies down ;o)

besides i'm way too happy for everyone else right now. congratulations you crazy kids!!

A-B-C... easy as 1-2-3...
yeah so my sis and i are talkin bout getting back into school. i was almost convinced that i wanted to do nursing, but i think i'll just venture deaper in the realm of edumacation... annie on the other hand was the last person i'd ever picture taking nursing, and now she's talkin bout getting all her applications straight for the bcit and langara programs. funny. well, i guess 4 years in the "real world" is enough for us to see how it sucks. and it's easy to get stuck in a certain lifestyle... which could ultimately make everything SO suck. we just need to get ourselves more education to get better jobs (or higher pay for what we do!).
well, she's got it okay with a job that has benifits and regular hours... plus she got a good raise not too long ago that i thought she really deserved so that's not bad. but of course, her job falls under the "mediocre" category. she still does too much hard labour a day, and on top of that she still has to do a ton of paperwork. it kinda doesn't balance out enough. i have my cool, fun, laid-back teacher's aid job that i really love... but i don't have it full-time, and i have no benefits (yeah so my eyesight's deteriorating... what can i do?). and worst of all, i just want to have a job like this full-time, but the school just can't afford to give it to me, even tho they want to.
it's funny cuz if you were to relate life to the matrix philosophies, answering the question "what IS real?" would be easy... "real" is when you get outta school... cuz like the "real world" in the matrix, the "real world" for us is the same: it sucks unless you do something about it.

yay! it's over
so joy and peter are now happily married. finally! and everything went on without a hitch. you know i'm getting so good at this maid of honour thing that i just may rent out my services. doing it a few more times and i think sabby and my business just may take flight...
but enough about that... i can finally get back into my own life. wait. what IS my life about anyway? i've been so ear-deep in weddings and parties that i can't think about how it used to be before. well i'm hoping that it'll all get back to normal for just a little bit before char and leny get their own ball rolling... let alone all the others (yeah, liv and jam, i'm talkin to you two! ;op).

is it winter yet?
not like i'm rushing to get out of this gorgeous weather we're having, but i'm just dying to hibernate. i've been invited to 5 parties/get-togethers for this month so far and i can't even think about replying yet. i need to just unwind and relax. sabz and cin are headed to florida in the middle of the month til september (lucky girls!)... i think i need something like that too... but that involves little to no money. cuz yeah, i've got little to no money. hopefully the money owing will be rolling in soon. anyways, me being less busy now will really improve my blog updating ;o).

dang... when was the last time i was here?..

sorry for the lag in blogging. for the last 6 months (give or take) i've been really putting a lot of things on hold. my godsister is getting married on saturday and everything is busy, but everything is also coming into place. thank goodness. friends and family have been consistantly bombarding me with such temptations as parties and barbeques... and what kind of a person would i be if i denied their invitations?!...

may was a crazy month... char graduated from ubc, then we had a luau to celebrate... then she got engaged to leny, then she moved to cali. yeah, i call it the month of char.
june was a little less hectic, but every weekend had something planned... hoop it up, dragon boat, barbeques... it wasn't the most relaxed either.
july was just pure madness. first off, i think it rained all of twice this month. i don't want any right now, but man, the sun is doing more than fabutan has ever done for me! the first weekend it was cin's party... and j.p.'s too but suprisingly i didn't make it there this year :o(. and then there were so many things to do involving joy's wedding... dress fittings, finding shoes, giveaways to make, planning the flowers and the decorations... the list is still endless! so now we're at 3 days til the big day and i'm trying to make sure my butt will let me get into my dress... yeah, it's gorgeous when it's on (no doubt) but getting it on is the tricky part... oh crap! i still have to write a speech! i was stressed for last weekend (i threw the bridal shower on saturday... a hit as usual ;op) and now i'm stressing for this weekend... i still need to do my nails... aiya... too much to do! well, when i get married i'll be so experienced with weddings that mines will be a piece of cake.

alright this had better be enough of an update for you all cuz i gotta get things done... the work of the maid of honor is never done. so yeah, don't expect anything more in depth til after august 2nd!

bertuzzi, naslund... scores!
yeah the canucks made it past the st. louis blues... woohoo! hopefully minessota has an "off day" for the next 4 games...

darn french keyboard.. i can't find the greater than and less than signs... well, this page is about to get its annual makeover... stay tuned!!