Christmas Catching Up

First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :-D

Okay, I realize I haven't done this in... quite a while. The exams were... overwhelming, to say the very least. You've all see that cartoon where a character suddenly gets buried under a mountain of snow? That was me, at exam time - blinking madly, looking dazed, and listening to the chirping of imaginary songbirds as they circled my head. Yes, the exams weren't great - and it didn't exactly help that i had 3 exams in 3 days, which shot my concentration to hell for my last, and WORST, exam. On top of that, I managed to catch a cold! muchos argh!!!

Anyway, that's all over and done with, thankfully. I greeted my meagre 2-week holiday with the sort of joy usually reserved for wedding days and other such momentous occasions: "Oh, Joy, Rapture and Bliss! The freedom to watch television again at last, to catch up on my manga and anime reading!" I said as much to Steph, on our post-exam shopping trip! And then I realized - there are no new tv show episodes for the last 2 weeks of January, the Kakashi Gaiden on Naruto ain't all that great, and Bleach manga and anime episodes come few and far between. So yeah, I've spent a whole week doing absolutely nothing, and y'know what, it's been fun. :-D

The family and I went for midnight mass last night - un-fortunately, we thought it started at 11:30, and so got there nice and early at 10:45 - except it started at midnight. Me sitting with nothing to do for more than an hour? Baaad things happen. I mean, one can only critique the clothes of your fellow congregation members for so long, right? And before you start telling me I should be less critical of people's dress choice, remember - there is NO excuse for wearing a tan suit with a blue shirt and a red tie - none whatsoever. To make matters worse, the suit wasn't even well tailored! Anyway, one can only mentally pick apart outfits for so long; as time wore on, I began to contemplate hurling various pieces of jewellery at random people: "Wouldn't it be fun to nail that random guy with this chunky ring?" But then I remembered - my aim sucks! Attempts at recruiting family members into my zany throw-stuff-at-people scheme failed, so the good people of my parish remain uninjured and unharassed for now. :-D

Theoretical Question: How exactly do you go about breaking off a friendship? Or maybe an acquaintance? I mean, suppose you find that you and person X are completely incompatible - but this is someone whom you see almost every day, so you can't just go out of your way to avoid her/him - what are you supposed to do? How are you supposed to say, "My God, you're really f***ing annoying, and my life would be so much happier if I didn't have to put up with your idiotic bullshit!!" How do you say all that, except polite, like? All this is strictly theoretical, mind - this could be a useful piece of information to have, right? ;-)

Shameless Plug Time! Go read h3lios' blog, the link is on the right. h3lios is a friend of my esteemed brother, who spends way too much time annoying me on msn (juuust kidding! :-P) Now he's got a webpage, who knows what'll happen?

Off for now. Next update whenever. Or whenever i'm sufficiently bugged about updating. :-D

Take care all! Bye!

PS - Best wishes for a happy new year!

Mid-Semester Crisis

Now Playing: To The Roof - by John Powell - from The Bourne Supremacy OST

I *HATE* this part of the semester - mostly because this is when I run out of steam, start phoning it in, skipping class - all of which results in me mucking up my exams. Try as I might, I'm too apathetic/lethargic to care. argh.

And we're fresh out of the sugar-high-inducing, heart-attack-causing chocolate cheesecake, so now what have I got to look forward to? :D

Yesterday was the Biome Pubnight thing - didn't stay very long, but it was nice to see all those people in the flesh! In attendance were Aravind, Chris, Derek, Nina, ZMP, Yonny, Shankar, Ali, Olly and Steff (among others). We had way too much fun simply taking silly pictures - which (hopefully) will never see the light of day. *crossed fingers*

Who else watches Lost? I'm one of that rare breed of U of T students who actually watches television. The rest of the lot are too busy studying. Such dedication on me part, wot? Anywho, I really like Lost now - and not just cause of the hot guys - the ideas are pretty good too. I think all JJ Abrams shows have those two factors going for them - hot guys and good scriptwriting. Recall the second season of Alias - best season EVER, episodewise, and there were THREE hot guys as regular cast members (be still, my beating heart!) - and then Will had to go leave. feh.

Gah - friday afternoon scatterbrain syndrome is the worst. I wonder if there are actually people in the world who get work done on Friday? I mean, I can't. Not if I've come through a five day work-week. I can get cracking on the Saturday morning, but friday, i'm as useless as can be. Which is why I'm here doing this, after all, instead of so-called "productive work".

PJ TIME!

(not jammies, PJ = poor joke - my specialty, don't ye know?)

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The owner of the Wilson Nails factory calls up his ad agency and tells them to make a commercial showing off his nails. The ad exec says "no problem," and that the commercial will air that night at 8 p.m. So Mr. Wilson turns on his TV at 8 p.m. and his commercial starts.

It looks like this: Two Romans come out carrying spears and walk up to a cross with Jesus hanging on it. The camera focus on his hands and the >head of the nail, which clearly has "Wilson" written on it. Mr. Wilson goes completely crazy, calls up his ad exec and tells him to get rid of that commercial before the Catholic Church sues him.

The ad exec says okay, and that he will make another commercial the following night at 8 p.m. At 8 p.m. the next day, Mr. Wilson turns on the tube and his commercial starts. This time, two Romans come out carrying spears and approach the cross, but Jesus is not on it -- we can see him running away in the background. One Roman guard says to the other, "I told you we should have used Wilson Nails."

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(implausible - but still funny, right? right? hello?)

Finally - thanks to all who wished me on my birthday (you know who you are!) - you made my day! So a big e-hug to all of you! :D

Birthday!

Ah, been ages. Midterm Hell is finally over, and so I can post once more!!! :D

So, we went out to celebrate my birthday last Friday! Well, mine AND Linda's, actually - Linda's birthday was last, last Sunday, and mine is this Saturday, so we thought we'd go out to celebrate both at the same time! So Steph, Linda, Mimi and I went shopping at Eaton's. I finally got to go to H&M!!! I love their coats, by the way! I was gushing over every single one in the store! Anyway, I ended up buying a brown suede skirt, with these ruffles :D - it's kinda cute. Linda was eyeing this yellow jacket, but then didn't buy it. :( We then wandered around Eaton's for a bit more, looking at the stores, and then we went to Spring Rolls for Thai food!

Katie joined us for dinner - she'd have been there earlier, but she had the Physiology miderm this Monday, so she stayed in to study. Anyway, dinner was wonderful - the food was good (and swanky!), the company was great, and the conversation interesting. We did manage to prove that I can't tell a joke without breaking into a giggle-fit - great day for science, wot? AND Mimi got me the second Inuyasha movie! The animation is sooo crisp; i'm never going to be able to watch an episode of the regular TV show normally.

Had to present a paper for my Developmental Biology class - despite my TOTAL fear of public speaking, managed to get through it without embarrassing myself more than usual! Woohoo!

What else? Re- the US election - i'm not even going to bother commenting. really. i've already ranted IRL more than is good for me.

Bleh. And now, I have two weeks of relatively free time! POWER TO THE SLACKERS!

random music note before I leave - get the Samurai Champloo OSTs. All four of them. they are THAT good.

ciao!

Indian? Canadian? Thai?

No, we're not talking food, it's just one more random quiz...

You're Thailand!

Calmer and more staunchly independent than almost all those around you,
you have a long history of rising above adversity. Recent adversity has led to questions
about your sexual promiscuity and the threat of disease, but you still manage to attract a
number of tourists and admirers. And despite any setbacks, you can really cook a good
meal whenever it's called for. Good enough to make people cry.
Take the Country
Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

Sexual Promiscuity? Cooking skills? threat of DISEASE? they've got it wrong, i tells you!

more substantial posts later. genetics is evil.

BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP!!!

or not. tee-hee!

Sharon was a Sneaky Greek God in a past life. http://quizme.stvlive.com/pastlife/quiz.php

Sharon spins tunes as DJ Crazy God http://quizme.stvlive.com/djname/quiz.php

Sneaky, crazy and divine? Sounds like me alright! :D And now, back to the grindstone. *sob*