this weekend is turning out to be quite the *exciting* weekend in that out-of-the-ordinary things keep happening. i basically spent my entire day with john, which was definitely nice. good ol' quality time! we agreed that since i'm more study-productive at night, that we wouldn't see each other after 5:30pm until my finals are over. fair enough, john had to work today at 5:30 anyway. but around 5, when my mom got home, she was like, "hey, there's a huge car accident right outside our house! go take a look!" i just rolled my eyes and figured she was overreacting as usual, so we humoured her and took a look. but sure enough, RIGHT outside my house, a car had a big metal pole half under it. and by big metal pole, i mean the kind that hang over the intersection...and this one was complete with the no left turn during rush hour sign. so the only place that could've come from is the intersection at the bridge (for those readers who have never been to my house, i live a good 100m away from the bridge). we just stood there awestruck at how he got so FAR dragging that giant pole under his car! i just stood there and applauded, cuz it was pretty darn far! anyway, there were cop cars and stuff and the street was pretty blocked up (what with a bus and like, an 18-wheeler trying to get through) not to mention the pole stuck perpendicular to the car and taking up half a lane. so john couldn't quite get out of the driveway for a while and ended up going to work kinda late. LoL, he called in and told his boss he'd be late cuz he was stuck. an hour later his friend from work calls and says, "i heard you were blocked in by an accident...so where are you REALLY?" i think he almost didn't believe it was the truth!

yeah, so after john left, the rest of the evening was pretty dull. ate dinner and kinda studied. thrilling.
but in other exciting news, when i checked the mail today, i got one good mail and one bad mail. visa bill bad. pictures from kasin GREAT! as soon as i get a hold of a scanner (denise, it might be you by default!) i'll send those around, cuz those are some great pictures! thanks man!

and last but not least, a very happy 20th birthday to the one and only vincenzo! saeng-il-chuk-ha-hae, dong-seng...sorry i had to miss out, but unfortunately gong-boo-ing calls. noona'll make it up to you - promise!

today was not actually all that interesting until about 10 pm. basically, i woke up at 10 when joelle called me to tell me something, then went back to sleep until about 2. woke up, did not all that much besides study, and that was it. at 10, norm finished his (one and only) exam and he, john, and i went for pho. this was, of course, after much pleading to be *allowed* out because i have an exam....in FIVE days! LoL, anyway, we had a fun time at pho as always, then went to john's house for ice cream...and gg. i mean, umm...unreal tournament. fed a wad of meat to the pirhanas, but they didn't seem too interested in it. drove norm home and realized that the stars were gorgeous, so we spent prolly another hour trying to find some place in the city with NO lights. it's harder than you think! we were gonna go down walkley (away from giant tiger and chung's house) but the fog was FREAKY! one minute you're driving through it, and the next minute it's all above you. it's clear about 6 feet off the ground, but everything above that is misty! it's like twilight zone or something! john said, "where's kasin when you need her?" cuz that was straight outta luskville!
in any case, after much driving around, we finally just went a bit south of hunt club on this desolate stretch of road with no lights, pulled over and stood outside so we could just look at stars. within 10 minutes, a big city-of-ottawa snow truck went lumbering by...and then backed up about 200m just to ask if we were okay and if the car had broken down. awww...it really is nice that there are still people like that. ...and within 10 min of that, a carload of ppl drove by, pulled a u-ie, and hopped out to ask if we were okay. then the guy told us about some park nearby that we could go to so that ppl wouldn't keep asking us if we were okay! LoL... gotta love ottawa!! for all my brit readers, remember when i always said that if you dropped your wallet, the person behind you would likely chase you down to return it? i'm tellin' ya, canadians are NICE!
anyway, after that, it got cloudy and it was a little embarrassing to be there anymore, so we went home. within 5 minutes of sitting outside my house talking, some crazy kids jumped on and over the car!! i was SO freaked out, i nearly had a heart attack! they didn't even notice us IN the car, cuz they jumped all over this car across the street, too! delinquints! i was so scared and my heart was racing so fast after that that we had to go for a drive (again) just to calm me down! we went to check out stars again (nowhere near hunt club!) and at least the sky cleared up a bit so we could even spot the big dipper!
so yeah, my day didn't pick up until about 10 pm, but it certainly made up for it in excitement and odd occurances!! ;)

i woke up at the crack of 7am today, because i had such a bad dream that it woke me up. my heart was pounding harder than if i'd just run 200m, and it felt like it was gonna jump outta my chest! after that, i couldn't sleep again, so i ended up lying in bed until 9 when i fell asleep again until 2 (yikes!). got up, showered, packed my piles of library books into my bag and went to the library to return them. those suckers were HEAVY! they didn't even all FIT in my bag!

after that little excursion, i hopped on a bus and went to john's place to join him and patty for an afternoon of not-all-that much. john was half asleep when i got there, and patty was working on a (late) paper on ethics. i read a bit, then realized that this is the day after an exam and that i should be relaxing today so i gave up on that idea. eventually we went to ottawa u to drop off patty's paper, and went back to john's to settle down for a night of smallville. i am SO mad with smallville. what IS this?! TWO straight weeks of RERUNS?! and not just ANY rerun...the one with the psycho meteor researcher that i'm scared of?! him and his twitchy hands are freaky, man! GRRRRRR.... anyway, since it was a rerun and patty hadn't slept all night, we took him home so he could pass out. and on our way back, we decided to pop into a grocery store for some ice cream! mmm...we settled on breyer's fudgsicle fury, then went back to john's house. he made me eat dinner before he'd let me have any ice cream (the nerve), so we each ate a slice of pizza before having giant bowls of ice cream...which is basically a normal breyer's chocolate with some extra fudgey swirls. i'm not overly impressed.

we talked for a few hours and then it was home time, esp since john has a final tomorrow (consisting of all questions off previous tests, YEESH). but get this...something ELSE i'm not overly impressed about...we pull up, and the living room lights are on. john's like, "yikes, your mom's still awake!" and i figure that it's prolly poopy and not her, since the last few times i've come home late, poopy's still been up. but what do i find? i find the lights are still on not because I'M not home yet...the lights are on cuz POOPY'S not home yet!!! fer cryin' out loud, everything's always pitch black if i'm the only one still out...what's with this special treatment?! yeesh, i'm surprised she wasn't still awake, waiting up for him! this is totally double standard...

so all in all, not an overly impressive day. a good people-day, since hanging out with patty and john was very fun, but event-wise, fairly blah.

so after meaning to go to sleep at 3, but sleeping at closer to 4, i woke up bright and early only to decide to go back to sleep. i finally woke up at around 1ish, ate, got dressed, and went to school. crammed until exam time at 7pm (why do i keep getting night exams? oh well, it's definitely better than 9am), and went in to write it. it wasn't too bad. some of them were even giveaway questions, like "which of these is not a phonetician?" a. someone who i can't remember b. peter ladefoged (otherwise known as guy who wrote the textbook) c. some other guy whose name i can't remember d. homer simpson. i took a stab in the dark and went with d. the last question was also quite nice. "what is your favourite aspect of phonetics? (any answer is correct)" LoL, i walked out after about an hour, and then john came to pick me up. we were right on time for wings!

thing *wing crawl* idea is starting to finally take shape, after about a year in the works! we went to local heroes last week, and this week we went to honest lawyer's for all you can eat wings. i think i pretty much ate all i could eat. 20 big wings. ick, they start to get disgusting after a while. normie and john were about to have it out in an eating contest, and according to patty, "whoever pukes first will be the man in [HIS] books." it was rather amusing because after a while, john had to stand up to eat because he just couldn't sit anymore. sacha stood for a little while too. LoL...silly boys. it was still pretty early after wings, but norm wanted to go home and study, and he drove sacha, patty, and kara, so basically everyone went home. we were bored, so we decided to do the now-usual thing and watch a movie. we're down to our last option of the 3 we chose a few weeks ago, so we went to john's place to watch MIB2. i think out of ice age, mr. deeds, and MIB2, this one was the best. it might not be saying much tho. : P

and yes, i was not supposed to see john for like, a week because of finals. be he guaranteed me that he was completely ready for tomorrow's final and plus...we figured that wings supercedes us. : ) man, i checked out the format of his "final" tomorrow....yeesh, a 40 question final? it's like, 8 questions on clutches, a few questions on u-joints, etc. it's basically only 5 topics, and at most 11 questions on any one topic! i said it before and i'll say it again, my opinion of college keeps going down and down (first person to bring up the fact that homer simpson was on my final gets a poke in the ribs!).

i still hate dial up.

blogging is sooooo slow...on that note, phill, it's one of those "once you have it, you can't go back" kinda things... dialup is neanderthal for me now, sorry to say! that and my computer is busy trying to download some massive email right now, so things are extra slow.

studying sucks. that is all.

the exam went okaaaay...bleh. went to jina's after the exam cuz sunmee was sick and lying in a lump on her floor. i went to drop off a bible for her cuz she gave hers away. kasin called, so i talked to her for a little bit and then john came to pick me up and we went to go see die another day. it was okay, it was a lot like every other bond movie. : ) then again, john wouldn't KNOW that because apparently this was the FIRST bond movie he's EVER seen! i'm still incredulous over this...at least i feel special knowing that he saw his first bond movie ever with me. : ) we went to nickel's after that with patty (boucher), aiman, and moe and maureen. then we went to moe & maureen's place and chilled for a while before it was home time. actually, it was probably home time before we even went to nickel's. ; )

today i woke up at the crack of 1, showered, ate, did laundry (that's right denise, it's saturday!), called kasin, and then john came over and promptly fell asleep. oh well, i just sat there and studied while he slept, which worked out pretty good, until he woke up and we ended up talking for about 6...maybe 7... hours straight. the conversation was so good that we completely skipped dinner (which i cooked while he was sleeping)! wow, time just disappears like that.... on the bright side, i blitzed through 3 chapters today! only 7 more to go before monday night! that's okay, i won't be seeing someone for about the next week because of finals....someone's got finals from 9-12 straight....and if you're reading this, i don't care if you're gonna skip your final on the 12th, i'm gonna pretend you're writing it!

and on a very nicey nice note, i just came online to check some quick emails and jon nip wrote me an email! so nice to know that he's still alive! the only time i ever get to hear his voice is when i call and hear "hi, you're reached the room of jon nip and eugene chan, we can't come to the phone right now...."

LoL, i've been blogging quite a bit lately, huh? guess this dial-up thing isn't THAAAAAAAAT bad....