Saturday, August 31, 2002

A tiring day of cleaning and kungfu. Went to my new place to clean it. The place is pretty dirty. I especially need to rid of the big broken fridge that's just there to take up space and spew molded air into the room. I'm really moving out....whoa..... Kungfu was really tiring as usual. Good training today. Oh, hurt my thumb during broadsword sparring :\

Things to do: Fix New Bike Clean up new place Move stuff into new place Go see movie with the gang As you can see, the last thing I should be doing is to go online and start blogging. But still....

Thursday, August 29, 2002

Once again, I find myself wanting to draw some comics/manga. In the past, whenever I try to start, I always try to read my mangas for inspiration. Eventually I would end up just simply lying in bed reading them rather than drawing. I found this placed called "Keenspace" online where you can signup and it allow you to update mangas easily. It looks interesting. Maybe that will strengthen my will to draw. Plus I don't have to worry about Adam's moronic restriction on contents and ruin my "artistic integrity" (hehe, com'on, I get to say it sometimes too)

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Hm....Just realized I havn't wrote anything in two days. Strange how it didn't seem so, I guess my life have been so routine in the past few days that nothing is reminding me that the day ended or a new day started. I've basically just worked, went to a meeting then went to Kungfu. Work: Ok, turns out my work doesn't end today, it ends on Friday, sort of. Apperantly my counting system is different from Rebecca's....oh well. Meeting: Went to this "Regent Park Revitalization" meeting yesterday night. Basically Regent Park is this run-down district of Toronto. The worst part of Toronto if you will. Although I don't live there (thank god), I am intrigued by the prospect of this project. Once completed, it probably will benefit Toronto as a whole. The meeting was actually kind of funny. Once the hosts started to ask the various opinions and suggestions of various ethnic groups, a guy from India(?) stood up and talked for the longest time without stop. Even when the host asked him to stop and give other groups a chance to speak, he still wouldn't stop. I guess he like public speaking a lot :D. The I was a big annoyed at the First Nation's group. The lady just kept reminding everyone that she is First Nations, and always make sure we don't forget that by constantly reminding us that she is First Nations in every single sentence. Ok, guess what lady, I don't care! People are people, we are all the same. Being a different ethnic group means nothing! I don't care if you are Chinese, Somalian, First Nations whatever. Don't constantly bring that up! If you want to be treated as equals, then start by viewing yourself as equals. Stop reminding everyone here that you are different! *ok, I'm gonna get some flame for that* Kungfu: I told the guys I have meeting today, and that I couldn't make it for practice. Alas, I still couldn't refuese the temptation, and went to the club anyways. It was fun, a bit of sparring with the guys. Bui and Adam showed up, and Bui's new haircut is butt-ugly. I'm focusing my practice primarily on TaiJi and XingYi principles and techniques these days. Also I need to work on my basic strength and speed exercies. I feel some of my techniques are not as clean and crisp as it could be. Gotta work on that.

Monday, August 26, 2002

Went back to the club after a week of absence. When I got there, there was a note on the door that said "will be back at 8". I figured it's only half-an hour away, so I head for the parking lot and started to practice myself. I went through the Xing Yi Pi Quan and Beng Quan movements, and then practiced Yang style TaiJi from start to finish without stopping, for the first time. Geez the TaiJi form is long, took me at least 20 minutes to do it, my back was killing me. Yup, nothing like a good afternoon of practice.

Sunday, August 25, 2002

Went to CNE yesterday, didn't do much really. We got there by 4:30PM. That's me, Bui and Khai by the way. We went to see Sida and Mei, who were working there. Sida hanged out with us during her break. Then we walked around for 8 hours, having no desire to go on any of the rides. I got some free food from my old employer, ate some really spicy and good chicken wings, and drank what probably is the worst bubble tea I've ever had. So yeah, didn't do much that's worth mentioning. Think I'll go to the anime convention again today, just to get my money's worth.

Saturday, August 24, 2002

While I'm waiting for Bui to call me when he's ready to go to CNE, here's what happened yesterday: After work, I headed straight for the CNanime convention. I didn't want to pre-order any tickets, so I decided to buy it at the door. Oh boy did I regret that decision. When I got to the convention, which was around 6:30PM, I discovered a huge line of people (or anime freaks) waiting to buy the tickets. The line was at least 200 meters long! It took me about 2 minutes to simply walking to the end of it to line up. On my way, I saw so many people dressed in those anime costums, trying to imitate their favourite anime characters ( can anyone say freaky? Otaku? Nerd? ). There was quite a few girls dressed in those skimpy outfits that we so often see on anime characters (hey, don't let you imagination run wild here, it's anime, not hentai). I had no choice but to wait in line for about one and half hours to get the tickets. Which I guess isn't all that bad considering the length of the line. Unfortunately, by the time I actually bought the ticket for 40 dollars (it's for three days), I was so tired and hungry that I had absolutely no desire to look around in the convention. All I wanted to do was to find a place and rest. However, having waited for so long and spent so much money, I forced myself to enjoy the convention, and started to look around to see if I can find anything that fascinated me. Predictebly, most of the animes and mangas there are the popular series that I loath so much. I guess I really can't expect much out of a North American anime/manga convention. I asked around for any works of Mitsuru Adachi or Urusawa Naoki, but barely anyone even know who they are. One store that sold mangas in Japanese knows about them, but they don't have their works in stock. It seems that I can order them from their store, so I'll check that out when I have the time/money. Most of the items there are way too expensive for my blood, a Do As Infinity CD is 40 dollars, s DVD movie is 40 dollars, a single manga is 10+ dollars (That's in Japanese, an English one is 20+). Geesh! I found Tuyet and Phong sitting behind their desk drawing pictures and selling them for 50cents a piece. Both of them were exhausted, and Tuyet claim that she haven't slept for 24 hours, and that she won't be going to Luke's party. Interesting note, there was a lot of people doing what they were doing. However, their drawings are better than most of the other people's, with the exception of true professionals. I saw so many people who sit there and try to sell their imitations of famous works (i.e Rorouni Kenshin, Dragon Ball Z...etc). Is it just me, or is that really sad? Although they have some talent, most of them will never see the light of the day since they are doing nothing but copying other's work. I finally started to act like a giggling little girl when I saw the sword stand. Upon closer inspeciton, I discovered that they sold nothing but fantasy swords, Bah! All the guys there were simply impressed how those swords "looks" really cool, nevermind none of them are authentic, or even sharp. I checked out a Chinese style sword shaped like the green destiny. I could swear the scabbard couldn't block any sword slach, it looked so flimsy. I checked the sword, the middle portion was warped, and the sword wasn't very straight. The whole blade was flimsy, and didn't feel very spring like. I finally checked the balance of the sword, and noticed it was all wrong. A real Chinese martial sword should have it's centre of gravity at one-third of the body length (that's from the tip of the blade to the bottom of the handle) from the handle. However, this sword's balance rests at about 1/4 the body length. I looked up, and saw the owner looking at me, suprised that I was doing all these routine checks on the sword. None of the others were even thinking about it, they were simply astoned by the fact that the swords look oriental. Ok, I know I shouldn't whine so much as the dismal state of the weapons, this is an Anime convention after all, not a martial-arts market. Still, paying 60+ dollars for these cheap rip-offs seems like a um...rip-off. I was so hungry by the end of the convention, so I decided to buy a Coffee-Chrisp from a vending machine. When I tried to grab the bar from the bottom of the machine after it dropped from the shelf, I discovered that the opening was blocked. WTF! The opening simply refused to open more than a merely 2 cm wide gap. I just wasted $1.25 on a Coffee-Chrisp which is now lying helplessly at the bottom of the machine for me to see. Arghhh! Eventually, the convention came to a close for the day, and the announcer kicked everyone out. I went straight to Luke's party, and bought a big bottle of Pepsi and a big bag of chips on the way there. Gopy, Eva, Jennifer, Sean, Tyler, Sean and others were there. I talked a lot with Gopy, since I haven't seen him since graduation. Gopy and Eva went home at around 11:30PM. I went home an hour later. Very long day. I definitly will go to the convention again, since I spent so much effort getting the tickets.

Just back from Luke's party. Oh boy am I tired. Gotta go and sleep now, I can barely open my eyes. I'll update on what happened today..er...yesterday tomorrow...er....today.....ack, I'll just update you people later.

Friday, August 23, 2002

Ah, what a lazy day at work today. Went to eat lunch with Dihn and Ivy, supposedly it's me and Ivy's "fairwell" lunch. I guess the food is as good as it can be, seeing how I'm not all that excited about Vietnanmese food. Going to be a busy day today. I'm going to the CNanime convention tonight, and then to luke's party hopefully with Tomoe, Phong and Tuyet...if I find them at the convention that is. Still need to call LiWenJun about going to CNE on saturday. She doesn't know if she will work on saturday or sunday (apperantly her job is "on call", guess you can't be too picky if you are working with only a student VISA *ops, um...ignore the last comment* ) That girl is not giving me anything to work with here. Katherine called yesterday and told me she can't come on saturday becasue she has to work until 5:00. That's right 5! Apperantly she can't go outside after dark, which is around 8:30PM nowadays. Well, I guess I'm partially relieved that she can't go. At least I don't have to worry about John or Dex beating me up. Yes, busy busy day.

Thursday, August 22, 2002

I decided to take a nap for 30 minutes and then go to kungfu practice at 7:00. Next thing I knew, I woke up at 9:30. Great, just great. I suppose that's good for me, since I badly need time to rest. I havn't gone to practice for a week now, that's not that good. I discovered that I'm fascinated with anything that require hardwork and dedication to master. First there was kungfu, then there's learning a new language (Japanese for now), now I'm interested in picking locks (hey, it's a craft with a history). Today, while I was buying lunch for my co-workers at Asahi, I was suddenly intregued with making Sushi. I know I need to learn some form of cooking now that I'm moving out, but I'm primarily interested in it because I know the hardwork and patience required to learn such a skill. Ack, too many things I want to learn, too little time...

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Moved bags and bags of teddy bears to a fancy house today. By bags, I don't mean those large shopping bags, I mean HUGE plastic bags, even bigger than garbage bags. After that, I fixed Elain's broken file drawer. The two back wheels popped out so the drawer falls out when it's pulled out too far. I managed to hammer them in with a wrench. Yeah that's right, a wrench. Apperantly there is a terrible lack of tools in the office. The socket for the wheels are horribly disfigured due to the amount of stress the heavy files put on them, I had to hammer them to the right shape while trying to attach the wheel in the same time, had some fun there. After that, Elain asked me if I know how to open a door without keys, I said no, I don't know how to pick locks. Apperantly, one of her clients locked her key in the apartment. I spent the next hour trying to learn how to pick locks off the internet. The theory is very simple, but the practice is hard as hell. Hey, gimme two weeks, and I'm sure I'll master it (Although the client need to get in tonight). So there you have it, my new goal: Learn to pick locks.

Went and did another translation this morning. The guy I was translating is one of the worst drivers I've ever seen. He accelerates and decelerates abrubtly with no transition in between, I thought I was going to die on the highway. Kungfu related: Last day of TaiJi class for August. It'll start again in September, hopefully there will be some more cute girls in it next month :P. Cleared up some questions regarding the end of the form, specifically ShangBuQiXing(�ϲ����ǣ� and WanGongSheHu���乭�仢�� for those who care. Learnt a lot today, I think I'm getting better too.

Monday, August 19, 2002

You know, I should really stop sleeping at around 3:00AM every night. I was basically sleep-walking all day at work. Hehe, at least Terrence was no better. He had two huge bags under his eyes, nice to know I have a comrade. Richard and Rebecca dragged all 5 of us summer workers to Buffet King for lunch as a "going away" present. The food was quite good, and I ate a wack load of food. Then they dragged us to the monthly meeting and made us sit there for 3 hours. Haha, I'm starting to feel more and more at home with these people. Although my job will end in the next two weeks, I think I will "work" there for a much longer period of time. Their "SEAS" shirts alone are worth it.

Sunday, August 18, 2002

I wanted to go to CNE today, but couldn't contact anyone. I realized that I forgot Bui and Adam are away on the Kungfu trip (oh, I wanted to go so much! Stupid job!), I couldn't contact Katherine, Luke had no money, LiWenJun had to work (her exact words:"Why do you always contact me with these things when I'm busy, but never when I was bored?"), Khai could've gone since he lives at his friend's house and it's only 10 minutes away (I wonder why *roll eyes*, since Sida is working at the CNE this year *Khai, please don't kill me* ) and everyone else I know don't pick up their phones. I must admit, I didn't feel like going when LiWenJun told me she couldn't go. The truth is I don't specifically want to do anything at CNE, since I already worked there for the past 3 years. It's just the fact that I really want to go there with my old friends from China, since I've never done that with them before. Ha, what a lame nostalgic loser I am, oh well....

Saturday, August 17, 2002

Ah...what a lazy lazy saturday. Nothing much happened really. I was thinking about getting a cellphone instead of paying for a landphone. I went around the net and checked out all the options for all the various companies. I think I like the Bell Solo option the best. I'm not going to get one until I settle into my place first though, so it will have to wait a month or two. Going to CNE tomorrow? Maybe.

The deposite was paid and the lease was signed. The die is cast, and I'm moving in on September 1st. I got two weeks to prepare to move, before that, I want to have a little fun. I guess I will go to the CNE (Canadian National Exibition, for those of you who don't live in Toronto), since that is the most exciting thing that's happening right now. The least I can do is to go and make fun of Sida and Bui, who are working there. Just finished watching Magnolia. Wow it's a good movie, so long and so good. The ending is interesting, since everything turned out for the better after a suprise rain of frogs. I guess this symbolizes miracle or divine intervention, and that families and love strengthens and forgives during times of crisis. It also reminded me that this is just a movie, and have a more pessimistic spin that in reality, miracles are just as rare as it sounds. oh, and Super Troopers is hilarious.

Thursday, August 15, 2002

I went to check out this rather nice place today. The room is for the same amount as the one at Jarvis+Gerrard, except the room is huge, so big that I can't imagine what to do with it. It's about 5 minutes walking from UofT. There is central air conditioning too. The only downside was the rather crude bathing facility. It consisted a rubber hose and a bathtub, great no? Well the colours of the room is butt ugly, and it smells like paint. The floor is rather bad as well. I decided I'll rent the place because of its AC and closeness to U of T. By the time I called, the lady told me they already booked it for another family. So I guess this one is not to be. I called and confirmed with the place I saw yesterday. I'm guess someone up there wants me to live in that place, so why fight it? I'm gonna pay the deposite and sign the lease tomorrow, yes, it's happening...

Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Just got back from the place I was looking at. Well, now I don't know if I should rent the place or not. I mean I like it, it's definitly big enough for me. The only downside is that there's no AC, so the room is hot as hell. I don't mind the heat though, since I like summer. But um.... well I think I'm a little startled by the fact that I can just go ahead and rent the place tomorrow if I choose. This is a big decision! I'm gonna be living there for the next 6 months! My life will be altered by how it turns out (reader: hey hey, not so much drama ). Well I really don't know now. On the one hand, I really want to rent the place. On the other hand....I dunno if it's a good idea. So confused, so confused...What to do...what to do.....

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Still looking for a place to rent. It looks like I'll have to move out now. Not a choice anymore. My family is selling our store and move up to Missasaga where our house is. So I'll have to find a place by September 19 or else I'm screwed. Well, I have no problem with it, since I planned to move out anyways. Called up a place near our current location, taking a look at it tomorrow. KungFu related: Went to TaiJi class today after 2 weeks of absence. I must say I didn't miss much, since I am pretty much done the first form. As always, people kept asking me to show them the form. I was fine with it before, but now it's starting to irritate me a bit, since I always show them the begining of the form, I get no practice with the end of it at all. I guess I gotta practice in my spare tme now.

Monday, August 12, 2002

Finally, got my router working. Turns out I had to install the 2.02B firmware update to make it work. Guess I'm not such a big idiot after all, phew...

Back to work agin Adam convinced me to drop Linguistics for Sociology. His excuse? "It's statistically proven that more girls take Sociology than Philosophy!". Hey, good enough for me. The time doesn't conflict with my current time table, and there's less classes than Linguistics. I'm sold.

Sunday, August 11, 2002

Just back from the Taste of Danforth....again. I didn't get to enjoy the food there yesterday, so I'm there again today. This is what I had for 10 dollars: 3 large sivlakis (spell?) 1 large slice of watermelon 2 boxes of sushis, 6 in each box. 1 large bottle of water ( ok, fair enough, I brought the water myself) Although I'm full as heck, I really couldn't get much more food for 10 dollars. In fact, I wasn't able to buy the roasted corns. The sivlakis were 3 dollars before, now they are 5. Talk about price inflation. Bui was supposed to come today, so was LiWenJun, but obviously both are too lazy to walk. Guess unlike me, they are not motivated by food. I did meet Vicky though (I still gotta remember her Chinese name, so hard) Oh boy I'm so full....

Well, I brought the router back to the store where I bought it. The guy there magically made it work, so now I feel like a big idiot. Especially that I still can't make it work even now.... Went and did a kungfu demo on this stage in Chinatown. Boy did I screw up, lost my balance more than once. Although most people couldn't tell, I still feel rather bad. As Bui pointed out, the stage was uneven, so I'm blaming my incompetence on that. We pretty much spent the whole day in Chinatown yesterday. I planned to go to the Taste of Danforth, but LiWenJun and friend didn't show up, so I sticked around Chinatown, and later went there with Bui around 12PM. But we were so full that we didn't enjoy any food there at all, so we simply walked around and.....walked around. Point of interest, we did see some guy trying to do a front flip. A whole crowd gathered, and then the police came. The funny thing is, after hearing what he was attempting to do, the police made room for him in the crowd, and cheered "DO IT" , it was hilarous. The guy's flip sucked though, I could've done better. Another 5 minutes of my life wasted.

Saturday, August 10, 2002

Finally, I got my internet connection back at home. We swtiched to Rogers, so I went out and bought a D-Link DI-604 DSL/Cable router. Guess what, it doesn't work! The lousy contraption simply refuses to connect to the net. I'm marking this up as a hardware problem, since I simply can't find any fault on my part. I just downloaded the newest firmware. I'll update it tomorrow, and see what happens.

Friday, August 9, 2002

Ok, OSAP isn't a problem right now. I went and took a look at a place I saw in the ads, it was actually quite good. The room is in the attic, but it's very roomy, more than enough for one person to live in. There's a small sink and a bathroom inside, and it feels quite cozy. Over all, I'm impressed. I doubt I will be able to rent it though, there is one more person ahead of me, and she's a third year business major. You know how landlords perfer girls over guys... Finally switched my courses from "Modernity, Identity, and Art: Studies in Ukrainian and Russian Modernism and Avant-Garde" to a more reasonable "Introductory to linguistics". I suppose the course is still a little crappy, but my recent study in Japanese sparked my interest in studying linguistics. Anyways, hope it will all work out.

Thursday, August 8, 2002

I just realized I gotta take care of the OSAP money Godforbid if I screw this one up too, then I'm really screwed.

Nothing much happened yesterday, worked, went to look for more places to rent...ate Okonomiyake... I'm thinking about finding and renting a place with Adam, which probably is not going to happened. I plan to try to find a place, living at home is a last resort that I hope will not actualize.

Wednesday, August 7, 2002

Ack, they just told me that the residence have already been arranged, and that the best they can do is to put me on the waiting list. Looks like I'll be living at home for an indefinite amount of time. I think I'll look around for off-campus housing, as dumb as that sounds.

Well, back to work. I just knew things were going too good to be true. Now that I ran out of my good lucks for the rest of the year, bad things are starting to raise their ugly heads. First, I discovered a confirmation slip for UofT residence at a bottom of a draw dated back to June! It said if I didn't send it back by then, then I automatically cancel my guranteed residence there. WTF! I never even saw this letter until yesterday. Apperantly my parents "displaced" it and forgot to tell me that it arrived. WTF! Well, looks like I'm most like to either staying home or go rent some place close to UofT for the first year. Oh, I just realized how to select the first-year seminars. But too late now, I discovered I've selected "Modernity, Identity, and Art: Studies in Ukrainian and Russian Modernism and Avant-Garde"....what the hell? well, I can't select any of the more interesting (by that I mean normal) seminars because they are 1. full and 2. they will conflict with my other courses. *sign* first East Asian Studies, now this. I think will drop it, and maybe take something more interesting (normal). I have a feeling this's gonna be an awful week....*sign*

Sunday, August 4, 2002

Ok, this sucks, my internet access went belly-up. So I won't be able to update anything this weekend until I can go to work on Tuesday. I'm typing this in the UofT computer lab as we speak. My day yesterday at Niagra Fall was terrible. I did absolutely nothing but sleep. I slept on the ride there, I slept on the grass field in Niagra Falls and I slept some more on the way back. Oh well, at least I'm paid for this. Still, I could've better used my time by staying home and....sleep.

Saturday, August 3, 2002

I eventually went to the baseball game with Bui, Justin and Tanvir. The Jays lost 8-9 to the Orioles. Such a humiliating loss, since it was 8-1 Jays in the 4th and 5th innings. It was an exciting game though, lots of tension in the air as the teams battled it out in the 7th and 8th innings. Eventually, a well placed homer with 2 men on 1st and 3rd bases won the game. Yes, it was fun.

Friday, August 2, 2002

What's the world coming to when I can't even give tickets away? So far I can't contact anyone to go to the game with me, the outcome of tonight looks grim indeed. This's absurd, these are great seats, right behind the home plat, and it's in the 7th row too. Bah!

I really should stop sleeping so late. I know I got to work tomorrow, but I guess I'm too used to this schedule. I finished enrolling for courses after I got home. Turned out I can't enroll in East Asian Studies since it's already full. Damn it, no Japanese for me, at least not in UofT. The phone broke, so I couldn't call people until I got to the club (Kungfu club that is). LiWenJun can't come to the game cause she gotta work tomorrow. We were both pretty dissappointed. Her roommate didn't want to come either. Now it's just me and Bui who are going for sure. Gotta find two more people fast. I have someone in mind, but let's see how that works out. Helped some crazy drunken lady after she fell on the sidewalk. As I was helping her, Adam went to check out the girl before us, and Bui just kind of enjoyed the "humor" of the whole thing. Turned out the girl had too much make up, too bad. Strange why I'm so good to people these days, I guess my job really changed the way to act towards strangers. Hm...food for thought there.... Gotta go sleep now, hopefully nothing eventful will happen tonight.

Thursday, August 1, 2002

Phew, finally finished a bunch of job assignments. The interview in the morning went smoothly, the old couple that I was translating for were very pleasant people. They just came to Toronto in July from Montreal. Having just closed their laundry store (They didn't speak any French and barely any English, it's amazing they lasted for as long as they did), they had to live off government walfare. The old lady Mrs. Tang was constantly trying to let me talk to the worker about how Jane (one of my co-workers) screwed up and delayed their money for 3 weeks, so they have no money for July, so that was a bit annoying. They reminded me of my grandparents somehow, so I was very nice to them, although I might have appeared a bit cynic as I was reactionless from their life story. Speaking of annoyance, I was going to call the office to tell them I will be eating lunch with them before I go back after the interview. There was only one payphone around, and it's the only shade from the blazing sun. But some jerk just wouldn't stop talking, even when I was standing behind him. Finally, I gave up and walked a block to another payphone, Argh! Then I was sent to measure the rooms in our Labatt office, that didn't take too long. Oh, I got 4 Jay's tickets for tomorrow, I gotta think who I want to bring with me fast. I'm thinking about Bui, LiWenJun and Vicky, since no one else I know like to watch baseball. Apperantly this UofT professor is looking for volunteers for data entry, Rebecca (my boss) is asking me if I want to participate. It's gonna be great, I can work at home, and I can make some connection to a professor before I even start attending UofT This job is looking better and better.

Ah, with all the unpleasantness of last night, I forgot about one happy thing I received a letter from OSAP (student loan) telling me that they are giving me (or lending me, same thing) around $7000! Whoohoo!! Damn I'm tired this morning.

You know what they say "Shit happens" Just as I began to fell asleep, the alarm in our store started screaming in the middle of the night. Of course the rest of the family was sleeping in the air conditioned room, so they couldn't hear anything with the roaring of the AC fans. I jumped out of bed, and put my ears to the floor to listen for the alarm downstairs to make sure it's our alarm that went off. Unmistakabily, it's ours. I put on my clothes as fast as I can, grabbed my sword and key and ran downstairs. As I ran out, I saw a big hole where the windows above the door used to be. The glass was shattered by someone, and a dark green overcoat was put to cusion the broken glass. This's no alarm malfunction. I ran upstairs, waking up the family, and ran down with Dad. On the way out, I drew the sword and was ready for battle. But there was no one there, the alarms continued to scream throughout the whole incident. Apperantly some jackass threw a large stone and broke the windows, and while attempting to get inside the store (How will he get out after? I will never know) The chef who was taking a break outside his 24 hours restaurant yelled and chased him away. F**k! Apperantly there was this prostitute who just stood there beside the guy who did it during the whole thing. She came back later claiming she "don't know nothing". Then proceed to try to explain why she's innocent in the most annoying fasion. I was too angry and pumped up to say anything to her, and yet she continued to talk as if giving some important speech. F**k! Well, it's 3:00 now, and the police isn't here yet, although we called them 20 minutes ago. So much for the public servants. This kind of thing is the major reason why I practice Kungfu with such heavy emphesis on practical combat. Although I am happy that no one was hurt, and there was minimal property damage, I must say I was a little dissappointed. Oh well, this looks like another long and sleepless night.

Ok, good, finally finished putting up and polishing off the updater. The funny thing is that my Mom was screaming at me the whole time to tell me to go to bed. I probably should, seeing how I have to get up relatively early and work in the morning. I'm supposed to do another translation for some guy at 11:00AM, but we gotta leave the office at 10:00AM in order to get to the location. Argh, I can't wait until it's the weekend....no wait, I can, I gotta go to Niagra Falls to take care of that group.....I really miss my saturday breaks. So much to do tomorrow, gotta go sleep now

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