The Coffeehouse

i said 'no' to coffee twice today, and im am just beginning to recover from the withdrawl...i honestly dont know what i was thinking..i went to a cafe with my mom today, she ordered green tea, and that seemed like a good idea, so i ordered the same...then i went shopping at an outlet mall, and i was dying of thirst, so i go to a smoothie/latte place and choose a fruit smoothie over an iced frappe...i dont even recognize myself anymore...so then i came home, ate, and took a 3 hour nap..which was the worst possible mistake!! i usually dont take naps, and there's a VERY good reason for that, but somehow my mom managed to talk me into taking one (shes talking me into bad habits lately..no coffee, naps... hmmm). see, if i sleep in the afternoon, i wake up reaaallllyyy cranky, crankier than a two-year old throwing a tantrum..in the old days, when my mom used to care about my well-being, if i took a nap, my mom wouldnt wake me up unless she had a cup of some caffeinated beverage (usually coffee) in her hand, otherwise, i would bite her head off...i cant help it, i dont want to be cranky, but thats what happens...so i took a long nap today and woke up really cranky, and no one presented me with coffee..which got me madder...so i went around the house spreading my wrath..and just 45 minutes ago i decided to stop and make myself some coffee....i think if i had a dose earlier today, i wouldnt have experienced such intense withdrawl symptoms..

i have been meaning to write about something for a long time: the wonders of adobe photoshop...it is a beautiful beautiful program, which turns yucky people into the most gorgeous creatures on earth using airbrush techniques!! actually, sorry...not really yucky people, but if there are any blemishes, zits, scarring, or undesired eye bags, it removes them!! people say i am photogenic, but it is all due to the wonders of airbrushing...there was this one close-up shot i took with a friend, turned out really cute, but the sad thing was that i was just recovering from a breakout (i will tell you about my breakout later :p) and a buncha of stray hairs from her head were in her eyes and stuff.... 20 minutes later, we could have graced the cover of every beauty magazine out there...well, she wouldve graced them either way, but i looked ten times better! now, i dont know what the ethical/moral issue surrounding this is, but when it comes to beautiful pictures, i have neither ethics nor morals....i will have my goddamn beautiful pictures!!

happy monday everybody!! i have decided to write this early today so that i dont end up leaving it to the last minutes of the day (although most of the time, posting something takes me into the next day, in which case i simply turn back time..i tell you man, we aquarians...simply brilliant people of extraordinary power, we probably directed all those commercials i was talking about!), then stay up until 4 am doing other stuff... this way, my online nite-life will begin earlier, i get to sleep earlier, and wake up earlier!! lately, i have been going to sleep at 4 am, and wake up at 12 pm, which doesnt give me much time to do anything before my soap opera starts at 2 pm...an hour gone, 3 pm my sister comes home from school, must start dinner so we can eat right when mom comes at 4:30 pm..and then its tv time again...so basically my day is over the moment it begins.. i like to do everything in the morning, like going to the gym, going job hunting...any errands i have to do..and waking up at 12 doesnt leave much of a morning to do all this .... see why waking up early is important..plus it gives me an excuse to have more coffee to wake up!!! i love win-win situations..:p

but part of the reason i dont go to sleep is because of mr. eye-candy... ever heard of the show "ready-or-not"..its a kids show from the early 90s, and they stopped it a long time ago, but they show the reruns at the most unholy time of night (its a KIDS show for god's sake!)... anyhoo! so back in the days when i still had classes and assignments, i was working on a lab assignment with a buncha people i knew who also happened to know mr.eye-candy... he was there too..we were all in a computer lab and we were kinda having one big conversation about whatever... except, i couldnt really see mr. eye-candy because he was sitting on a comp across from me, but down to the right...i could see his big mass of curly hair, but no eye contact... i mentioned how they seem to have interesting shows on this kid channel in the middle of the night and i mentioned some of the stuff i had watched the night before ( i know...really mature and attractive... how could i have NOT impressed mr. eye-candy!) and i mentioned "ready-or-not", so then mr. eye-candy says "hey, that show was shot near my house" and i was about to say "really?" or "where is that?" or something to make our worlds cross..but no matter how i shifted left or right, i wasnt able to see his face to say it to him..yeah it was sad, i almost cried...but anyhoo! the purpose of this whole spiel was to say, i was flipping channels last night, and checked out the tv guide..so "ready-or-not" was on, so was everybody loves ray, and some other show i really wanted to watch (forgot its name)... the big dilemma was which show to choose..should i watch ready-or-not and hope to get a glimpse of a little curly haired boy running around in the background..or should i watch the other two more grown-upy shows, like a grown-up should...usually i give in and watch it...it was difficult, but i decided to let mr. eye-candy be, until fate brings us back together again...

oh! and a special hello to Martine! you are so cool for loving my blog!

some commercials are brilliant, just sheer genius.....and you actually feel yourself getting pulled in and emotionally affected by them, even though the product or whatever they might be selling doesnt apply to you!..like gatorade commercials...oh so perfect... and remember the bell mobility commercials last summer for the olympics, or even the karma one that continued into this year about passing on kindness which will eventually come back to you, so good! i really like the cover girl ones, but only cause they rhyme and are cute like that..and i love the united way ones..where they have this street-life reality show..that REALLY hit home ...the best commercial, in my opinion, inspired me to write about commercials, and the funny thing is...i forgot what it was...it was THAT good!

i did this little expedia.ca contest and i had to pick where my dream european vacation would be, let me tell you..its HARD...so i chose Spain (it was a three-way showdown between Spain, Italy, and Scandanavia).then i had to chose a city..and its weird, cause when i thought "Spain", i just thought Spain, with total disregard for individual cities and their historic/cultural aspects...so i have no clue if i should choose Valencia, San Sebastian (never heard of it) or Seville, Malaga.... the only ones that sounded familiar were Madrid and Barcelona..and even those i have no clue how they differ, except one is by the sea...i think...i never knew i was so ignorant..so i decided to check out some pics of these places...and Seville is gorgeous! Malaga is more modern...so is Barcelona..San Sebastian and Valencia are too by the water-y, Madrid had that old historic-city thing going...and after some more deliberations...I CHOOSE SEVILLE!!! and i decided to stay at a castle hotel and go shopping!! wohooo.....

in ashton kutchers new movie, theres seems to be a lot of things being stuck up people's noses...just something i noticed from the trailer...ewwwww

i went to a park by the lake today! (jack darling park) the weather was so beautiful, and i brought my camera along...

thank you for those who have congratulated me on my ending of the school term...i am also awaiting some phrases of sympathy because i will be stuck at home alone while everyone else is busy with schoolwork..it is boring...

i cant wait until i reactivate my gym membership..i miss the aerobics class and the weight manchines ( i love you weight machines! ) ...i also miss my biceps...since i havent been working out since last summer...my once toned biceps have turned droopy-ish..yucky ....said too much?

sleeeeppppyyy...my bed looks yummy at this point

im done im done!! i finished my last exam and handed in my last assignment yesterday...the weird/funny thing is though, that my assignment was due today, but since i didnt wanna make a special trip to school just to hand it in, i decided to write it ahead of time so that yesterday would be the last day i needed to be at school...and so i manage to muster up some time management skills FOR MY LAST DAY OF THE SCHOOL TERM! lool...sheesh, im stupid ...anyhoo, i was having too much fun enjoying my newfound freedom yesterday to write in my blog, and i was out like a lightbulb by like 1 am yesterday, which is weird cause bedtime for the last couple of monthes for me has been between 2-3 am..... and i dont want this blog to seem like my everyday homework or chore..ya dig?

i found some really nice flash animation thingies...if youre like me and are done school, check em out..if not, then hahahahahahaha.....must be tempting to waste your time checking out flash animation... but you know..this always happens to me.. i end up finishing early, and no one else is, so i have no one to do stuff with until THEY'RE done...so i dont really enjoy the early-ness.... poor me...!! :p

http://gprime.net/flash.php/invisibility <--- your cursor is invisible!

http://gprime.net/flash.php/cursorthief <--- so cute! try to keep the cursor away from him

http://gprime.net/flash.php/autumninnewyork <--- nike

http://gprime.net/flash.php/perfectconditions <--- also nike

something off the top of my dresser...wanted to vectorize it, but this happened instead..anyone know how to do vector graphics?!

if you would like to celebrate summertime w/me...check out the song "summertime" by moonpools and caterpillars!

hi hi....today, i will attempt to write in a rainbow....a seemingly impossible task, but what doesnt kill me will only make me stronger... right?

as you probably have noticed, i did not post a post yesterday even though i left some friends last night for that very purpose..i must confess, i fell asleep at the keyboard..well, you guys are boring, you must admit...i feel like i am typing to a wall :p

i must share a tragic piece of news with you..shannon from train 48 on global died...cause of death? complications from a nose job!!!...oh no, not the REAL person, the character..

here is another tragic story: i woke up this morning and put on my glasses only to find that my left lens was missing, and THAT was the biggest issue, not how to put it back in, but to actually FIND IT..my eyesight is reaallllyyy bad, im not farsighted..and i dont think i qualify as nearsighted either since you have to be less that 20 cm from my face for me to see you blur-free..theres only one place/area in my room that the lens could be, and that was around my nighttable and bed.... i searched and searched, turning my bed upside done..doing floor sweeps...i tried every imaginable half-visions and no-vision methods i could do...well almost..at one point i was so desparate i was gonna get a flash light to see where it shines but decided that was kinda too geeky for me... i even thought of paging it (tech)!!! then i found it 15 minutes later, when i umm.....decided to wear my contacts to find it....

we had spagetthi today...but theres still some bbq chicken left in the fridge :p

first i had a cup of coffee, then i had an iced latte, then i had some turkish coffee...all within a time-frame of about 4 hours.. and i still am not feeling the caffeine high..why oh why..WHHHYYY?!?!

let's talk about barbecues. i love them...generally a result of good weather and enhanced by good company..wait..lemme finish my bbq chicken skewer...ok done..bbqs are also marvelous when followed by a sport game of some sort..we had our first barbecue of the year yesterday..i love this time of year, firsts for a lot of things...but i must admit, i was kinda scared by the trend yesterday would start for the rest of the summer..you see...two years ago, i had an overdose of bbqs...that summer, my dad had re-finished/restored our old bbq back to working condition, and he and my mom were just delighted with it, so they would have a freakin bbq dinner every weekend!! im serious..AND we'd get stuck with leftovers for the rest of that week, until the NEXT weekend, when we'd end up with a new fresh batch of leftovers..ooh i remember once, we had people over for a bbq dinner on a friday, the saturday, and the sunday...i could just die! its like how this winter, my mom would cook stirfry for dinner every weekend, beef on saturday and chicken on sunday and BOTH keep us company for the remainder of the week....so that skewer, that was from yesterday..and theres still plenty more for tomorrow!...but pray with me that bbqs will not haunt me this summer... future looks bleak though...

some people are just plain crazy...i can understand loving something or being obsessed with stuff like coffee, teddy bears, the color pink...and okay, maybe thumbtacks..but check this out, there are people who are obsessed with economics ...ECONOMICS!! they have a blog called The Economizers with a tagline that says "Real Life and How it Relates to Economics"....huh?! and i was reading through their posts (yes, more than one person....this obsession is contagious), and lo and behold... they remain true to their tagline...recounting everyday occurances and connecting it somehow to economics, using economics terms that they write in BOLD...its freaky man..here, lemme share with you the post for april 11, 2005 (they live in the future too!!):

Aging athletes

mr. telemarketer called again today....i was out taking pics, and my sis answered then passed the phone on to my mom who totally MURDERED his character...loool...i came back home in time to eavesdrop on about 7 minutes of the conversation..he was trying to convince my mom how joining his long distance company was soo much more convenient than using pre-paid calling cards..and umm, my mom wasnt convninced. here's how it went:

mom: so how exactly does this work, how is it easier than a phone card?

mr. t: well ma'am, first you call our 1 800 number, than you enter a pre-registered ID we give you, then you enter your credit card number then after 20 seconds you enter the pin code for the specific call, confirm it, then...

mom: wait..no no no..i'm sorry this doesnt...

mr. t: no, but ma'am , wait..

mom: no, im SORRY, this is much too complicated, id rather just enter numbers twice, than 8 times, sorry, not interested

mr. t: no, but wait, what exactly do you find confusing..its really simple, you..

mom: sorry, its just too much of a hassle, and your rates arent as low as calling cards

mr. t: no, but ma'am......

mom: no, and thats final, i'm sorry, not interested..you seem very nice, but goodbye

mr. t: .........goodbye.....i pity the fool..!

okay..that last part he didnt say, but i had to write it!! at some points in the conversation, my mom was almost yelling...i felt so bad for the poor guy, and i almost gave myself away cause i couldnt contain my laughing! ah well

here is a pic i took today, the weather was so beautiful..people were out in shorts and t-shirts! ...drove around with the windows down and the system up!

the first flowers of the season!!

my beloved telemarketer did not call again..i guess his job is very demanding..but then again, i didnt hang around by the phone all night either so he may have called, i was out! post-exam celebrations are the best.. i had a 3-hour, 3-essay exam today..and meh, it went alright (oh wait! my fav song is on the radio!! )i just wrote and wrote, not sure if i answered the questions though..and mr. eye-candy did the exam as well...hope he did well, it would be devastating to our relationship if he turned out to be a dummy...oh yes, and by the way, to my so called friends: this is the ONLY place where you will be hearing anymore news about mr. eye-candy or any other more-than-eye-candy potential candidates because you have a tendency to be obvious and embarass me...i can deal with online humiliation, so go ahead, when you get the urge to make me look stupid, type away!.. 

so below is the infamous burnt lady's face ('the secret garden') and another photo that i absolutely LOOOVEEE...i am so proud of it, i call it 'lost childhood' ..both were taken may-ish last year.