pea soup?

i once heard that saying "the fog is as thick as pea soup" came from england. now if i were british, i might say that of the past weekend. we've had fog here since saturday. and it isn't just as thick as pea soup. it's like everyone decided to cook rice all at the same time... this cloud of rice steam just hasn't let up! it's wednesday already!! maybe later i'll go out and take a picture of the street and hopefully that will aid any of the "visualisationally impaired"... ;op

i'm going to do my laundry now.

d.d. for life

it's 1013 right now.

i was at the royal (a hole in the wall club on granville street) last night.
by 2300 my friends all ranged from tipsy to drunk.
suprisingly, they played that jamiroquai song! (yes, i danced.)
we left by 2oo.
despite 4 barf stops, and numerous drunken arguements (among them... i was just laughing at them), i managed to get three of them home safe.
i got home at 4oo this morning.

i woke up at 915.
i expected to start tutoring math at 945 for 2 hours.
my student is not here.

i am tired.

nothin left for me to do but...

You know this boogie is for real.

I used to buy my faith in worship,
But then my chance to Heaven slipped.
I used to worry about the future
But then I throw my caution to the wind.
I had no reason to be care free
No no no, until I took a trip to the other side of town
Yeah yeah yeah, you know I heard that boogie rhythm
Hey- I had no choice but to get down down down down.

Dance, nothing left for me to do but dance,
Off these bad times I'm going through just dance
Got canned heat in my heels tonight baby

I feel the thunder see the lightning
I know this anger's heaven sent.
So I've got to hang out all my hang-ups
Because of the boogie I feel so hell bent
It's just an instant gut reaction, that I got
I know I never ever felt like this before,
I dont know what to do
But then thats nothing new,
Stuck between hell and high water
I need a cure to make it through.

Hey- dancing nothing left for me to do but dance
Off these bad times I'm going through just dance,
Hey got canned heat in my heels tonight baby
You know know know I'm gonna dance yeah
Off all the nasty things that people say.

Gonna dance, gonna dance my blues away tonight
Dance, come on got canned heat in my heels tonight
Canned heat in my heels tonight.


i got to teach music all day today. the usual music teacher is great, but i really like it that i get to take over when she gets sick. i'm not the type to adhere strictly to the lesson plan she leaves me, but today was good. we got to listen to a bit of reggae and some jamaican stories, and we got to learn a bit about jazz and ragtime and marches. then, of course, because i'm in charge, i play a bit of the "hidden beach recordings" to the kids if they're good. jazzed instrumentals of hiphop songs is so intriguing to them. they actually listen to the music, the instruments. it's really neat how music affects the kids.
the last time i had a chance, i pumped them up with the beatles "white album", then i asked them the songs they knew off of jay-z's "black album", then flipped it around by letting them listen to the "grey album"... that floored them. they couldn't believe that sort of mix could happen. so good times.

i am so happy. i think i will dance!

4 photos, 4 dollars, 4 minutes

this is how we look withOUT our makeup on.

faces only a mother could love. to think, we all fit in that tiny photo booth. and all this because we didn't bring a camera to dimsum!

MY APOLOGIES!

so i was wondering WHY nobody wanted to comment on my blog anymore. not even my sister!! then i looked around... yeah i clicked on that moderate comments YES button and there was no email address saved to it. hehe... silly me. so to clarify, i haven't been ignoring everyone's comments. thanks for them all. reading them all at once made it feel like it was my birthday and i got to open all my presents at once!! :o)

to the comments i say:
- dancing is awesome... and i strive to be awesome too. thanks for the support/props.
- the beatles are awesome!
- i will lend you my piano when i can figure how to fit it in the envelope.
- fighting with sticks is awesome. i'll stop holding back when you want your butt kicked (this is directed to my cousin).

and yes, i originally put the moderation thing on because of stupid blog comment spam. i don't need to know ways to: pleasure my man, pleasure my woman, get cheap prescription drugs online, lose weight, or make more money without leaving the comfort of my own home. and, come to think of it, some chick called rashguardgirl might even be a spammer in the guise of a blogger!!

i feel like elmer fudd. oooh, those pesky wabbits!

have a good day friends... :o)

the b-girl is strong in me

one day i will be able to pull sweet floor moves as such. one day.

i'm only sleeping

When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream (Float up stream)

Please, don't wake me,
No, don't shake me
Leave me where I am,
I'm only sleeping

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy
Running everywhere at such a speed
Til they find there's no need (There's no need)

Please, don't spoil my day,
I'm miles away
And after all
I'm only sleeping

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time

Lying there and staring at the ceiling
Waiting for a sleepy feeling...

Please, don't spoil my day,
I'm miles away
And after all
I'm only sleeping

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time

When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream (Float up stream)

Please, don't wake me,
No, don't shake me
Leave me where I am,
I'm only sleeping...

this song reminds me of when my sister and i were in university. we blasted this old beatles tape on saturday mornings. we always wondered why it was so bad that oasis was always biting the beatles' sound. we like that beatles sound (the later tracks, that is).

it's been a long day for me. too much work, too little rest. however, i am feeling a bit musical... despite it now being just past midnight, i think i'll tickle the ivories. maybe i can find some old oasis sheet music to play ;o)

i wish i had more time to:

play video games.
play the piano.
listen to and then mix music.
read books that I want to read.
practice my sweet b-girl moves.

i think i know what i want to be when i grow up: retired! ;op

halloween highlights

scary pumpkins... beetlejuice as a snake and the silhouette of the zombies from dawn of the dead.

mmm... candy!

yum... breakfast!

bwaaah haaa haaa haaaaaaaa!

procrastinating

that's what i'm doing right now. i've checked and replied to my email, i've checked who's been stalking me on friendster, i've updated my thinking is hard to do blog and now i'm updating this blog. as much as i'd like to be going out shopping or spending my hard-earned money in some way or another, i'm going to stay in today. what i should be doing is go to the bank to deposit $ and pay some bills, but instead, i think i might make a mix cd.

yes folks, i've acquired an acute case of laziness and i think it's contagious!!

argh!

ok, so i had a bad week.

it was only so bad cuz it started bad, then went totally good, then horribly bad, then waaay better, then better again jus a lil bit, then it went to suck, then it went to SO good, then it ended off with argh!!

it was like a roller coaster: i just wanted to get off! people that i hope are reading this know that they were not the reasons whatsoever for the "bad" in my week. you guys were totally the reasons this week was any good. i appreciate you... thank you.

HOWEVER, there is ONE person, who i know only reads my blog sometimes, who could really be one of the reasons why this week ended off the way it did. to YOU i say: thanks. thanks for making me realize the kind of person i DON'T want to be like. you were acting like a complete baby, and i expected a bit more maturity from you. call me when you grow up.

on that note... i'm off to bed.

craving

i need some music. it's like my ears are so hungry, they're starving. i'm almost finished with a mix cd (which is STILL in dire need of a title), and i'm hoping i'll be playing it in heavy rotation in my boom box... or in anyone's boom box for that matter. it's not that i doubt how good the cd will be... it's just that with music nowadays... well, i feel like it's been so iffy since after 2001. and i can't make a really good mix cd that i'm proud to give out unless i know that the music is the best there is at that point in time. there have been, and still are, the good artists, thank goodness for them. much like how i look at men, i'm more attracted to music with something intelligent to say instead of having just something to say. dig?

another season ended

yes my friends, the dragonboat season for rgl united has come to a close. i now can focus on stuff other than yelling at my friends for dragonboat. i can just yell at them for fun now! but seriously, i can't explain how much i enjoyed this season. not since my first year of dragonboating have i ever had such a blast. i think in this '04-'05 season my team only had about a handful of o.g.'s (original gangstas) but the newbies made the whole team fit together like tetris. props, you guys.

as for this past weekend, well, kelowna has always been a favorite festival of mine. and getting to meet and host albert's team from toronto was so cool. tempest is a comp team and you know what? i like that. i mean, after watching their first race, the only thing i could think of was "damn they're fast. i wanna race them!". of course people thought i was crazy to think united would even compare (we're rec), but just to be able to see how we fare up against them would be so neat. my dream came true in our second races of the day cuz we DID get to race them. man, it was cool... maybe even exhilerating... they beat the pants off of us. however, WE placed second. i thought that was quite an acheivement for us, especially compared to how we were in the beginning of the season. i know i'm just a caller, but i hope our team decides to be a bit more competitive next season. i would really enjoy it.

aside from festival stuff, things that highlighted the weekend:
- bonding with the girls ("hold my gold!" and "deuce deuces")
- buying fruits at the side of the road
- the gorgeous waterfront property we rented for the weekend
- costco dinner
- meeting and greeting tempest
- team naps under the sun
- hitting up the mission hill winery
- inter-team bonding: eating at the best chinese restaurant in kelowna (dragon inn)
- more inter-team bonding: clubbin at "gotcha"
- getting hyped for our last race by dancing the "team dance" in front of tempest
- seeing a wheelchair with rims (i wish i had my camera!)
- ice cream!
- keeping with tradition: a&w stop in merrit on the way back home

and after not being able to recuperate from the weekend, sleep will be my plan for today.

shout outs to my...

NEO!!
cuz you're my #1 blog fan, i'm sending this post straight out to you. i miss you too, man. and i can't wait to see you either!! and same goes for annie. when you gon come up to canadia and kick it ol' skool witcha homeys?.. we're waiting. :o)
there's a couple pics headed your way... and no, we're not nekkid.
*hugs*
mario and annie

sleep?

this past weekend was sleepless. the highlight was my 10 year highschool reunion on saturday night, then the "post highschool reunion" dimsum the next morning. and of course, the big cheez: the guy i had a crush on since he first walked into our 8th grade english class had said that he had a crush on me in highschool! i know, i felt SO 15 years old for a minute. but yeah, even though it was just a highschool thing that probably wouldn't get anywhere nowadays, it still made me smile/blush a lil. overall, the night was a success. and for all the grads that were too cool to come out, too bad for you. there'll never be another one like it!

bonne nuit?
i DID get my sleeping a bit back to normal tho... and last night i had a strange dream. it was all in french! i was speaking in french to french people in paris... so strange...

spontaneous in seattle!

i had a really good weekend last weekend. just kicked it with some good friends. i mean, things didn't work out like they were originally planned, but everything turned out even better. van and kiwi both decided to come and meet up with me in seattle where we took over ron's crib for the weekend. his place never looked better after we were through with it. now, there's at least some place to sit! i'm sure we'll be stopping by more often now that we know there's a blank canvas of an apartment out there for us to decorate. thanks ron ;o)
there were a lot of highlights: the friday grocery shoppin extravaganza, the saturday "let's get ron a chair or anything!" target shoppin madness, and the sunday outlet cruisin (they even have a "christian outlet store"!). and we managed to hit up a club and a fancy japanese restaurant and get a almost free keg dinner in there too! i'm really, really happy i decided to go. it was good times, no? ;o)