Picture Post I!

Ok, I really should be working on my Bio lab report and studying and stuff, but I've been having a pretty cool conversation with MM on facebook. So, partially because of what we were talking about and the shortness of the time I should be spending blogging I will mostly just post a few* pictures. xP

The theme is: Creation and how amazing it is with a focus on the 'Natural World'. xP















Psalm 19:1-4 "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world."

I may end up having this type of post be recurring, but with different themes. xP Like 'chairs' or 'architecture' or something. xP

Ttyl.

D.Fa

*A few turned into like 14... >.>

Maple Cabin

Heya!

It is now 9 am the next morning. CU vs OU. Kinda interesting. Kinda immature. XP....

I woke up at like 7:30. There's this photo contest, well, there's a competition between all the Univerities here (CU, OU, Concordia, Queen's, and McGill) and there are various games / sports / contests to get points.

The first photo contest was "don't let the bed bugs bite". The CU guys took a picture of all of them without shirts under one blanket... There wasn't room for me is my excuse... Anyways the OU guys took a picture of them in our cabin while we were sleeping at like 3. If they win, we can argue that it is our picture. Lol....

Anyways it is now the second session.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

Awesome Creation

So. Hey.

My cell phone was confiscated Friday night, so I couldn't blog this weekend.

Part of the point of the camping trip is to get away from technology and electronics, but ya. This post is going to be a summary of the trip and I'm gonna start at Friday.

So, I woke up and had to finish choosing songs. Apparently I missed a couple though, but really I had to figure out how to print a document that was on my laptop. I thought emailing it to my computer would ruin the formatting because my laptop was all like older ms word's might not keep the same formatting and the whole point of a large portion of the day Thursday / Friday was formatting the document, so I tried to set up my printer to my laptop... It was taking so long, so while that was happening I also emailed myself and the formatting was fine. This was like 10 minutes after I should have been leaving my house... xP I also hadn't really finished shoving stuff into my bag. I ended up forgetting my towel which is hanging on the back of my door because I never threw it on the pile of stuff I was taking.

So, ya.

We were camping in Gatineau Park by Lac Phillipe. This is the same camping site as two years ago. (This is an annual camping trip for the YF in our church.) So, for the missions trip next week we bought walkie talkies so we were testing them out on the camping trip sometimes. NC is funny.

The first night Pastor DB broke the B string on the guitar... xP It was fine, but there was no B string, so like the chords kinda had a low chord and then a high note. xP

At like 11, we were told to get ready for bed and stuff. The other guys tent was pretty loud... xP There were 5 guys in it and really there wasn't enough room, so JS had to lie on top of them... xP This caused much of the noise. By like 12 almost everyone was making an attempt to go to sleep, except for Pastor DB and TM who were talking quietly at the fire, and the boys tent. They were being quite loud and everyone was telling them to be quiet. Nothing worked until HK, after unzipping her tent, yelled "Boys, if you don't stop talking you're going to be cleaning all the dishes tommorow!" Pastor DB and TM thought she was yelling at them and immediately went to bed. xP It was silent after she yelled. xP

AL gave a cool bible study on Prayer Saturday morning, we went to Mont Cascades (I got burned. xP), there were group activites / competitions which ended in everyone sharing bubbles / smores.

The meals were fine. At sometimes there was a bit too little for everyone, but overall it was fine.

We spent a good portion of our free time playing this game that all the YA have been playing recently. I still have only won once... The game 'Monopoly Deal' is pretty fun, but when you have 7 people playing, the game gets kinda messy. We stayed up until 2 playing yesterday. xP That last game was intense. Here's an online demo if you want to know how to play. http://uk.pogo.com/hotdeploy/uk/promotions/marketing/monopoly-deal/ I bought the game on Tuesday, so I can play it too. xP

Today we (my tent) woke up at 8 and then changed, packed up, ate breakfast, then it was time for church. This year, mostly for the parents who would have to come pick us up and possibly miss church Pastor DB decided to have two services; One in the Park and one back at OCBC. No parents showed up for it though. xP

After we got back to OCBC, I stayed and helped the worship team by doing A/V (all the A/V people were on the camping trip. xP) so I heard the sermon twice. It was about the extraordinary schemes of the devil in our lives. Which is very clear to us because our friend has gone through a lot, but that's all I will say on my blog.

The main reason that having my phone taken away this weekend was troublesome is because I like taking pictures of cool still lifes or landscapes and we were in the Gatineau hills, which are so cool. So, ya... that was annoying, bu t I borrowed SB's camera and CC's camera sometimes.

Aside from all that stuff is only the most amazing point.

I seriously spent at least an hour or so just lying on the ground looking at the stars this weekend. I seriously really like looking at the stars when I am in an area with less light pollution. And there were no clouds. none. It was sooo awesome. Like yesterday I spent at least 20 minutes lying on the ground, at about 1 am (it wasn't that cold last night.), staring at God's amazing creation praying. Like, your creation is so amazing and I can't even take a picture of it or express it in words. I deffinately saw like 5 shooting stars last night.

I'm just really glad that I got to spend this weekend in fellowship with all those guys and soon I'll get to spend a week in New York with some of them.

I'll talk to you later.

D.Fa

"Hey AL. I don't feel I talked to you very much this weekend, but sometimes it takes more then words. Just being together under that sky was fun. ROFL. lol... I don't have a girlfriend."

"Frogs!"

So, ya.

As we were waiting for the bus I took a few pictures.

After we were on the bus for a while at a stop a bunch of soaked people walk on... Umbrellas are ok.... I guess.

The puddles are huge. XP. The bus is throwing water to each side. It's rather funny. And RL is drinking water... XP.

ttyl.

D.Fa

New Life

So, ya...

Normally, or at least recently, I've been updating my blog after I get home late at night... I end up finishing that around like 12:30 am which means I don't get to sleep until around 1 or 1:30.......... So, today I'm trying to update before I go to work. I'll have to tell you about tonight tommrow I guess, but I'll be able to wake up and actually do something, so... ya.... it's probably better this way.

So, ya. Today when I woke up I turned on my cell phone, set my alarm for half an hour later, then I went to bed again... xP

When I woke up later I kinda went back to bed again, but this time my cell phone kept ringing because I was texting RL (YAY! RL got unlimited texts!!!! It's rather annoying when you have unlimited and the person you're texting doesn't... Especialy when you text them and get no reply...) Anyways, the point is that because of this I actually woke up at a relatively normal hour, like 8:30.

I then tried tomatoes and sugar. xP I'm not sure I had the right amount of sugar though... and the tomato is tasty without sugar because it's a Suntech tomato anyways which are these super tasty local tomatoes from Manotick. Mmmmmmm. But I digress (hehe*) the point was that I woke up and did stuff before work.

After the tomato, I did some bible study for a couple hours which was cool. I think I should get cue cards for memory verses though. xP Its kinda troublesome to have to look through the bible study book for where I scribbled the verses...

I then had some salads. xP Prepackaged salads are really cool. I used to buy the salad bar salads for my lunch breaks, but they are pretty expensive... When the salad kits are on sale they are less expensive, have more salad, have herbs, cheese and dressing and I can just go into the produce cooler to get afresh one. xP So yesterday I bought four at 2 for 6$.

I also watched anime. The last episode of FMAb was kinda boring, but it wasn't bad for a final episode.

After that I put on 3 sweaters because its soooo cold downstairs and went to my laptop to get the pictures and videos from my memory card onto my computer. I'll probably upload them tommorow. There were 1500 pictures / videos!!!!

So, ya... I gotta go to work.

Ttyl.

D.Fa

"Hey AL, you're probably awake right now. xP I still don't have a girlfriend, but the major problem is probably that I'm not really trying... I'm too busy..."

Here's a cool song I heard on the radio the other day.



*I really like that phrase. xP

Stary Sky

So. ya...

Today was pretty cool. Here are some general thoughts...:

I got to sit on the top level of the theatre seating at TM's house which is actually so cool and very sturdy actually.

I kinda want a vevuzela, but as an instrument not as a noise maker.

HK's camera is sooooo cool. I really want a digital SLR now...

Whenever I'm going somewhere fo the day my dad just throws money at me (figratively, mostly) "Here. Have some money." was how he phrased it today as he gave me 40$.

Reunions in the middle of a mass of people are difficult to pulloff smoothly.



Anyways, that bus ride was messy. We almost didn't get everyone onto the one bus. Once we did it was very full... People had to get off the bus to let the people who wanted to get off the bus off then they had to get back on... I saw like 4 Merivale Grads on the bus.

Anyways, after we finally got off that bus we were walking home. There's this path that I have to walk on when I go home from work. From this path you can really see the stars, which I think is really cool / amazing because stars are really cool / amazing. I think that one day I should be involved in a trip somewhere where the main event is stargazing by lying down in a field and looking up. Sora no Manimani is a cool anime that really made me want to stargaze but the stupid light pollution is annoying....

So, ya...

D.Fa

"Hey AL, how was your Canada day..? Apparently JS had recently complained that there were no girls with which to turn into girlfriends, or something like that. The point is, I don't have a girlfriend, yet."

A Cell Message.

XP I have my cell and it has a 2 megapixel camera, so I've been taking pictures like a tourist... XP.

[I actually was texting someone this as a reply and it sounded like something I had felt like posting, so I just resent it to my blog.]

"The Dragon is Sla-i-ain!"

So, ya...

The other day (Thursday) was our graduation ceremony, you know, the one where everyone walks across the stage and gets their diploma..? The ceremony started at 10 and went until 12:20 or so. It was in our gym... ie. it was super mega way too hot... xP especially if you are wearing a suit under a cap and gown surrounded by another thousand or so hot sweaty people clapping and waiting for their children to get to the stage at which time they run to the front with cameras and take like 20 blurry pictures of their child accepting a piece of paper that says "good for one diploma with return of gown", while texting one of your friends who to your surprise wasn't there.

Then we went to the cafetorium for the reception, ie the place where all the people dying of heat stroke and exhaustion go to drink PC Sparkling Lemonade that has been pumped through a drink fountain until it no longer sparkles and eat maple leaf shaped cookies or mini cupcakes with edible diploma and cap shaped frosting while everyone takes a million pictures (especially YC) and everyone says "Are you going to prom tommorow?|" excitedly until I say "no, I'm going to Montreal" at which time they then say "Well... have a good life" or "Well... See ya." dryly... >.>

So, ya... My parents couldn't stand the heat or the person beside them, so they left pretty much immediately after I crossed the stage. Well, whatever. The funny thing was that my brother's girlfriend was there, but not my brother...

So, Ya... After that I decided to cut up the dragonfruit I had bought and the star fruit I had bought on Wednesday. The dragonfruit was kinda bland... The starfruit, although not bland, was kinda too sour... xP anyway... here are some pictures!!!








Ya, weird eh..?

Anyways, later that same day was the final playoff softball game before the championship on Saturday. Each of the other teams had a win in the playoffs, so we needed this to even have a chance, we also needed to win by quite a bit because it would come down to the number of runs determining who moves on if we win. It had rained earlier and so the game was moved to another field. Everyone was there and we played a great game. We ended up winning by about 5 runs. We didn't win by enough, but it doesn't matter that much. Winning is fun and all, but being on a team that can grow and improve together while all being friends and fighting through the challenges is way cooler. In the end our team only had two wins... our first and last games of the season, but it was cool to win our last game.

So, ya...

D.Fa

P.S. "Hey AL, registering for university courses is pretty hard... probably as hard if not harder than getting a girlfriend, but I don't have a girlfriend, so I don't know how hard that can be..."

Pie-Flavoured Candies

So, JC has been asleep for a while, basically since he sat down on the train he has been out. We took random photos VB's faces were pretty much priceless.

We are playing a ridiculous drama game, or at least I assume, called "Who's Closest?" In this game there is a judge who decides on a topic. The competitors then choose a topic to guess. Everyone's choices are announced and then the competitors try to proove that their choice is closest, well, not really... They just need to get the judge to say that their guess was closest.

Choice.

D.Fa

P.S. Lololololololololol *pause to breathe* lolololololololololololololololol "the other people on the train are worried about you." lolololololololololol "The trains pretty quiet except for us, eh..? We're the 'people' at the back." lolololololololololol "We should record this!" *silence* "We are not going to stop recording until you laugh" *silence* ... Lol

Grand-Theft Quadricycle

So, we had a couple hours left in Old Moltreal. We decided to rent a Quadricycle. You have to be 18, or at least one of you, to rent one. I just happen to be the only 18 year-old at the moment, so I had to used mu messed up health card as ID... Embarassing...

We each took a turn driving. One person would be in the middle and not have to pedel. They would take pictures usually.

Anyways, we were pedaling rather fast and one of the chains got off the middle gear... We had to push it back... >.>...

We are now attempting to get back to the train station, but are progressing slowly because of photographic distractions... Or poor navigation...

so, ya...

D.Fa

10:16 PM

So. Another day at work has left me slightly annoyed, desiring another job, and (I can't think of something else to type, but I had already typed the word 'and' ... and now I think of like three things...) tired, with random unusual produce and ...*

So. ya... I am currently thinking "What the heck am I going to do with this dragonfruit..?" this was of course after buying it and going "what the heck?!? 5$?!?" xP I bought it because it looked ripe, I've never had one and becuase LH bought one when we went to T&T the other day.

So, ya... I am about to facebook stalk HK. She added me as a friend a day ago and I have yet to look at her profile. The main reason I am looking forward to this is because she enjoys photography and has a Digital SLR! So I'm gonna stalk her photos. xP I hope to find a lot of cool pictures.

Umm. I don't have very much to do tommorow. I think I will practice softball pitching because my parents, V?, and RT all think I should try it. That practice never happened I think. There was a 'medical emergency'. I'm not sure if it was actually called off though..?

Anyways, I may end up doing / posting something random soon because my posts have been described as predictable, so ya... Be on guard because I may surprise you.

That's all for now I think. Except, I wish it were winter! I mean at about 5 pm in winter you can look up and see ALL the stars. Yesterday I looked up at 9:30 and saw one. One. 1. >0, <2. 1. Anyways. I'm not always that hypocritical. I mean, just because I was saying "Is it summer yet...?" for like 4 weeks and now I want winter... Well, I don't want all of winter, just the 'night' sky.

So. Ya. To HK's photo page!

D.Fa

*actually only two other things apparently... xP

Disconnected

"Hey AL, fouls are boring, but balls are worse. I also don't have a girlfriend."

So, ya. I'm procrastinating. I got home like two hours ago. I said "no, I can't play tennis now, I have homeowrk." And yet, I havn't started my homework...

Today, if I didn't have some mandatory event scheduled I'd be in the darkroom. Spare, lunch, afterschool, between periods (not really, just once to take out a print that was washing.) I made two contact sheets aswell as 5 of a probably 8 however possible 11 prints, so I'm making progress.

Tommorow should be enough hopefully. The problem is that the exposure under the enlarger is now at, like, 70 seconds for a print, so the whole process takes like 4 minutes to develop and then 5 for wash, but I can make another during tha time.

So, ya. Today's run-through was pretty good actually, way better then yesterday. You should go to One Acts! That is if you live in Ottawa... Thursday and Friday nights. About 7-8:30ish. Pay What You Can to charity!

Ya.

Jaa.

D.Fa

Overworked..?

"AL, if you didn't know, I don't have a girlfriend. However, I do have a blog. Also, I made my lunch today."

So, ya.

Today, I thought it was a day 2, ie Bio first period. Nope, it was a day 1. Spare! yay! or not. I developed my film for my Physics project. Developing film is the slowest part of the photographic process... like 30 minutes of shaking a container full of liquid and then rinsing it, then letting it dry overnight... *zzzzzzz*

So, ya. Only a couple days until that's done. But, guess what?!? The Bio essay was pushed back until Monday. ie, I can sleep tonight! Also, I don't have work next Sunday, so I can actually do it! Wow!

This Thursday / Friday is One Acts and it's actually really sudden, I mean, I auditioned, like, 25 days ago or something, and the performance is in like 3..? Tight schedule, eh? No time for cast bonding... T.T

iPod Repair is quite funny. Once it is all together and has all main characters performing it, I think it will be far better. I did however notice that the old ladies were rather flexible, speedy and limber. I mean, after being slammed to the floor she quickly jumped to her feet and threw the other one down. (minimal exageration used)

C(?) is a better slave girl then NW. Especially because she has her lines memorized and has actually rehearsed with us. I thought NW wasn't going to perform with us anymore..? I mean she can't make one of the shows... 1 of 2... 50%. but I guess that's a pass...

Anyway. I made lunch today.

I don't think I ever had before. lol.

I also discovered that I can update my blog from my cellphone. I wonder if it will work / if I will use that feature... hmmm.

Ya.

D.Fa

My Chauffeurs..?

"Hey AL! Today was fun, but I still don't have a girlfriend, although I was talking with V(?) more then usual. I think she will become a girl friend, ie friend that is a girl. Also, physics is stupid."

So, I feel that yesterday's post was "too structured" ..? I feel it is less like how I normally speak but at the same time, it did get the job done...

Today's topics:
1. Summatives
2. Worship Practice
3. Softball Tournament
4. Exam
5. Parental Chauffeurs

So, it's that time of the year again. No, not winter! Summative time...

Each class has a different summative. Bio has an essay about an inheirited metabolic disorder involving protein synthesis. Physics has this stupid project / presentation / lab report / research project thing... Calc / Vectors just has a nice summative test.

So, ya. I've been procrastinating far too much and need to get these things done.

I didn't study for my calc summative on wednesday, but I feel I did pretty well at piecing together my memories of the course matter in the alloted time (75 minutes.)

I havn't started my bio essay. It's due Tuesday, so I've got to, basically, finish it tommorow... (I have work tommorow(2-10) and Monday(4-11)...) So. ya.

Physics is stupid. My project is odd. and i forgot to check if there was actually film in it the last time so I'm behind schedule... I'll have to spend spares, lunches and any possible after school times in the darkroom... The presentation is due Friday...

So. ya. anyways. Today was also my Japanese Exam..! I crammed this morning. I actually got a few good things crammed in and I feel I did pretty well. It was really easy. Our teacher gave us word banks... lol. Ya. A bunch of people were going to go to Banc Sushi afterwards. It turned out to be four people. They had reservations for ten. lol.

Today was also the great glebe garage sale or something. So that whole area around the school was overflowing with a viscous flow of automobiles and people. It reminded me of Animal Crossing. It's kinda something they would do. Everyone selling any random object they had and the rest buying them.

Immediately after my exam I had to go to worship practice. I had tried getting out of it so I could go to Banc Sushi, but I couldn't get a replacement or anything, so, I went. It was a semi-accoustic practice and it started a bit late, but it was good. Grace Like Rain is a really cool song the way we are playing it.

I then had to go to a Softball game for 3pm. The tournament had started at 11am. My team had games at 11, 3 and possibly 5. I had an exam, so I missed the 11-o-clock game. We lost like 12-4 or something..? I don't remember. At 3 we played. It wasn't a great game. Our weaknesses are kinda obvious and our players aren't the most enthused group of people, but we can have really good games sometimes. We lost by quite a bit.

The game at 5 was between the top 2 of the 3 teams. In other words, the other two teams. Our team just needs a bit of practice to fix our weaknesses. We'll be getting a new player for our next game. His friend is on our team.

So, ya. For a while now, probably since grade 7 or 8, I've been using my parents as chauffeurs. They drive me around and ya... I need to be driven around a lot these days... I kinda feel bad about it. It's one reason I walk to school now. I think this summer I should get my G1(driver's license level 1.) That way I can at least drive half of the time...

Ok. I've covered all the required topics. Oh, right. lol.

Today, I also played tennis with my brother (7-5 for him...) I was kinda tired from softball, so I didn't really care that much. xP

That's not the funny thing though. On the way to the park we saw this couch. It was perfectly fine, but it had a "FREE" sign taped and pinned to it. It was also only two houses down from ours, so we decided that on the way back we'd take it.

It was actually a reclining couch! It's comfy. The problem, it was wider then the door of my house. The solution, it has three individual seats which are just attached by a bar and some screws, so we unscrewed it and then took it in in parts.

My parents reactions are always funny to this type of thing. xP When I was a kid me and my brother would plan these schemes. Like once we schemed to remove the existing bed from my room and bring up the bunk beds from my brother's room. This was all done in secret, until we were found out. Schemes would often involve doing things secretly and then surprising my parents with the sudden change. Like it's too late now. You can't undo it now.

This was probably the easiest scheme. I mean, we were older, we took it apart, it was a hilarious situation (PIVOT!!!) and we were caught early on (the front door) and we were given helpful advice..? It also only took like 45 minutes.

So, ya.

D.Fa

Unlimited Exposures

So, ya. (last time I start this way..?)

"AL. As you know, yesterday I didn't have a girlfriend. Today is a different story. I don't have any pictures or a girlfriend, but the way I was talking it sounded like I had a crush on C(?)*."

So, "And, yes. We are sold out of lemons." refers to work Sunday night. From this point on I will be counting how many times I say "We are sold out" and what we are sold out of because when I work a seven-hour evening shift we are often sold out of like 5-10 different things, often 2-3 are in the flyer. I say it at least like 6-12 times per shift..?

We are never sold out of lemons, so it was rare to say it, but everyone wants lemons, so I said it a lot... A Lot....

Ya, today. Day 1. Period 1 spare. I was going to develop the pictures from Tuesday after school when I skipped Dixie to get my physics project done. I went to the grade 11 photography class and got all the stuff to start developing the film. I then proceeded to take the film out of the camera. This was the part I always forgot. I could never remember how to get the film back into the canister, so when it wasn't working I asked the teacher how to do it. She starts like getting nervous like the film wasn't on the reel properly. I put the camera in the bag then open it.

There was no film.

I'm running out of time to develop film... I have to get these pictures tommorow... Then I have to get it developed Monday. Tuesday - Thursday I have to get the positives. Thursday night I have to write my conclusion / Analysis. Or else. Presentation is Friday.

So during my spare I watched Fairy Tail and Bleach. Yuss. Anime during spare = stress relief. I should have been studying or researching for bio test or essay, but whatever... It's due next week. I'm fine xP. Also, a week ago I learned of this website that gives you formated Bibliography entries if you tell it what work you cited. So, that's a good half-hour of work I don't have to do anymore. xP. bibme.org I think.

Lunch. Last Music Council meeting this year. Fun stuff, kinda, not really, but we ate the leftovers from the bbq, so, xP.

Calculus was oddly fun / confusing. We had Mr. KD as a sub. He's a gym teacher, so ya... it was also a ridiculous lesson about 3D planes and scalar equations and stuff. That was the confusing part. The note was progressing slowly, so SZ told me to get a Sudoku book. I got a sudoku book that also contained other japanese puzzles. Theres a puzzle called bridges where there are a bunch of "islands" with numbers in them that say how many bridges can be attached to them. bridges may not overlap, and all islands must be connected. Go! Me and SZ solved like 3 or 4. http://www.puzzle-bridges.com/ lol. fun.

Physics was slightly interesting. I mean no marks on the line, it was kinda interesting theoretically, but very boring what we were doing... looking a graphs and doing simple math calculations... What the heck is a pion..? And what does it have to do with me??? So ya...

One Acts rehearsals outside... not a bad day.

Kinda sneak-peeked some of the art show. It looks good.

I had supper then played tennis with my brother. I actually won for once. It was kinda fun. My first serves were "kinda moderately okay." I won 6-3 6-5. I was up 6-3 4-0 I think, but I usually lose, so whatever. My brother hasn't played in a while. As the match went on he got better. He usually does and it's kinda annoying. I kinda always at a consisten mediocre so I don't care. The few things I do care about in tennis are always hitting it before the double bounce, always going for it, always getting the balls that have gone off the court and getting it over the net. If it's a terrible lob from behind the baseline I don't care, as long as it goes in. I don't get many winners, but it depends on the level of play. When my brother is playing badly I do a lot less good shots, but when he starts cranking it I have to try harder and so many more good flukes happen. Whatever. If it's fun, play it.

Ya. I'm procrastinating. I also kinda have to study for a Japanese exam on Saturday... whatever, it will work out.

D.Fa

P.S. They actually had 400 pieces of bread, ie more bread points then the 2nd place teams total.... 2nd place had like 96 points...

P.P.S. My brother walked in and saw my old post, and was like "I thought you liked the other lollipop..?" "Your not making your followers vote on which one is better are you?!?" Great Idea!





Vote in comments. xP Plz and Ty.

* (?) signifies that I don't know her last name. I often know people's last names.

Very Shallow

So, Ya.

This blog will update you on the few days I had no computer in a sudden and very strange way:

Sunday: "AL, I don't have a girlfriend, but I can sing and have a job, so I should be able to get one. And, yes. We are sold out of lemons."

Monday: "AL, I still don't have a girlfriend... Maybe if I play more tennis and patch up my relationship with my family..? Or I could just sleep in."

Tuesday: "AL, I don't have a girlfriend. Maybe if I didn't work so much or procrastinated so much I could do something about it..?"

Wednesday: "AL. Sorry if you don't like spam, but you told me to do it! I don't have a girlfriend yet! I probably should have told my parents where I was today / knew what was happening today... Also. My pants are in your car."

So. ya.

Quick, shallow, random update. Including today..?

I just can't be that quick with blog updates. I like rambling... xP It's what I do...

So. Ya. There is a reason for that intro for today's blog. It both vaguely updated you, which kinda annoys me, but I don't have time to go into much more detail... Or at least, I don't want to take over an hour to write blog posts anymore..? Also, the main reason originates from Sunday School.

So, Sunday School. Sunday Mornings. But this week there was a retreat and a number of people (about 50% or so) from our church were there instead. Also, it was a long week end, so other people were away too... So anyway, there were only seven people there. Five highschoolers, one university student and the pastor's wife.

So, at the end we always pray in groups or whatever, so AL, RL and me were in a group. Usually we quickly talk about things in our life before we pray, like so that we know what to pray for, and RL was all like "What's that D.Fa, you have a girlfriend?" or something, and AL turns quickly with a giant smile on her face, "Why didn't you tell me?!?!?" So, I say "Hey RL, You have a girlfriend?!?" She turns the other way quickly. Of course we were both joking.

Then I'm like "Hey Al, why didn't you tell me you had a boyfriend?!?" and she's like "You know why." I was like "Oh... right.... hehe(awkwardly)..." She kinda told me a secret and I kinda told the guy it was about and she couldn't trust me, because she said not to tell him... So, as like a test or something, she didn't tell me for like month(s?) about her boyfriend. Like, the secret wasn't that terrible, but like... she taught me a lesson... I guess. I don't think I really wanted to know about her boyfriend anyway... xP... I mean... ya. nvm.

So, the point was, after the awkward laugh, she was all like, "You should give me daily updates!" Rl, was like "You mean 'AL, I still don't have a girlfriend'?"

And it was all like what if we message you on facebook? Won't that be bad if your boyfriend sees it? Won't it be creepy if anyone sees that, a whole page of "I don't have a girlfriend" ??

So, ya. I forgot on Sunday because I had work and my computer got taken back to futureshop. They have to like empty the computer of anything so that they can be sure the virus is gone. We only got it back so we could back-up the files we wanted to keep before having them wiped.

So, ya. Today was busy. Straight from waking up, to school, to music bbq, to dixie gig, to a Night for MuSic. I got home at like 9:30. I left around 7:40. It's normal in my life. xP... but I didn't tell my parents. I did tell my brother, but only because he wanted to play tennis tonight, which wouldn't have gone well... It was 42 with the humidex........ Celcius!

So, ya. Not having band in the morning kinda messes up the bathroom schedule because like If I wake up at 7ish, I can't get into the bathroom until like 7:10, and I have to leave by 7:45. When I woke up at 6ish, no one would need the bathroom. And my dad leaves at like 7:20, so I have to be out of the house by quarter to or else I'll be late, like before if I was running late I could just get a ride. xP

During spare we made battle sounds for VB's Writer's Craft radio play. It was amusing. I also accepted my offer to Carleton, Biochem, and did very little else. At lunch I hunted down Miss CW for a couple community servie hour signatures. I also wanted to catch Mr. BF, but I had to go to to dixie practice because I missed the one on Tuesday doing my long over due Physics summative. So, I was asking people where Mr. BF was. I started asking some people in Japanese (only people I knew, or at least thought, would understand the simple sentence "BF sensei wa doko desu ka?") MM thought I knew where he was and reacted like she needed to find him. So, I explained I needed to find him (he's in charge of making the slideshow for the Chicago Trip and wanted pictures.)

So, I had to go to dixie, so I gave MM my pictures. DS also had pictures and MM had found Mr. BF, so she was sent again because DS is also in the band. So, we practiced. Apparently we were supposed to wear our music t-shirts to the gig tonight. There was also a permission form, but I'm over 18 and can sign them myself now. xP

So. Music bbq. I went to Metro and bought cookies and chips. I was skipping one act rehearsal to go to the bbq, but it was the last music bbq, for me ever... also, I know my lines. When I went to beg the whole cast was like "Ya, he knows his lines..." So they let me go, but EM said I owed her an Ice Cap. KG said I owe him some fancy Starbuck's coffee thing, but he's not a director, so... Although I'm fine with buying him something, I'm a bit too broke for it... Especially Starbuck's! lol.

So every year. At the bbq there would be fun, unofficial awards which we vote on, the next year's co-prezs would be announced, there would be a scavanger hunt, a semi-potluck type bbq and games.

The co-prezs had been decided yesterday because only two people stepped forward for the election, so it was already announced. Also, I won the "Worst Concert Screw-up" award... fun. The scavanger hunt was kinda difficult. It wasn't semi-random ordinary everyday items it was like "can you make / prove this object for points and / or creativity points?" Like, a LIVE unicorn. RP wore a pointy hat. We had a video of Charlie the Unicorn (hilarious. youtube it!) We both got points for it. The winning team won because (I think) they had a pile of tiny pieces of bread. Pieces of bread were 1/4 points each (bring multiple!) They had like 110 or something... They ended up winning with like double the score of the second place team.

The bbq ran late (40 minutes.) so we had to rush to the gig. I didn't have my music t-shirt at school. I was going to go home at 5 to get it, but the bbq wasn't done... so in the end, I was not in uniform, but we were not late, by much.

DD had to play "Oh, Canada" but didn't like the arrangement he had just been given and was not confident about it, so Mr. CR was like "Don't worry, we'll all sing along and the piano will be drowned out." So we all sang. It was in a kinda high key, but I only octaved the ending. Yuss. I was told that it was in F, ie the high note was F, ie I can sing high F if I want to. Yuss. If only I could sing high G if I wanted to.

Also, the Night for MuSic was awesome. Great singing and jazz. Good job OC! She's goes to MHS and her mom was diagnosed a couple years ago. She organized the event and they raised over 5000$ for MS!

Ya. That's about it.

See ya.

D.Fa

Amazing Grace

So, ya.

For a couple months I've had a physics project. It is something about SLR cameras. I'm not actually 100% on what it is, so ya. xP The point is, I should have had more of it done on time. It was due yesterday. I really had barely started on Monday and then I kept procrastinating. By the end of Wednesday I knew I had very little time left.

Thursday I had the "Grand Finale". It was the last school concert I'd be in at Merivale. I also had a softball game right before it. I thought that it felt better then normal, but it definately sounded a bit worse... xP. We had a substitute teacher in place of our conductor, so ya... she also didn't have the conductor scores for all the pieces... Also, dixie kinda fell apart. We probably shouldn't have played new music for the final concert. I missed all the rehearsals for the two weeks before (total 2) and only got the music on Tuesday and didn't play it until Thursday at 3:10. The drummer also didn't have music for it. At all...

So, ya. The concert ended (including photos and cleanup) at 10 and a bit. My parents had left because they don't help clean up and my dad wanted to watch the montreal game, so they told me to call to get a ride when I was done. I did. For 10 minutes. The phone was off and so I couldn't call them. I walked home. I think I did some work, but I definately went to sleep earlier then I should have.

I also woke up later then I should have... like 7:30..? I could have woken up at like 6:00 and finished it... probably. Instead I decided that my physics mark is so low already that it's not going to be in my top 6 either way and decided to be well rested instead of not stressed. I had also thought of skipping classes to do it, but then I'd be sacrificing my bio and calc marks to keep my physics mark at a "good" mark... I thought I could just do it over the weekend.

My teacher has recently been becoming more and more annoyed at late submissions... Like some people have been handing in labs months after they were due, so he wanted it in. Friday. So... I had to email it to him by midnight. He said to anyone who didn't hand it in to start working on it immediately and to not take any breaks until it was done.

I had rehearsal and then work until 11. I was going to try to get off at 9, but I couldn't get off until 10, which is normal... I got home and started working at it at 10:30. I emailed him at 12:33. I just couldn't finish it in time... I was tired... So I slept in until like 12:30. xP

It was really cool. I had two different dreams. In both of them, me and a couple / several friends worked together to accomplish some goal. In one we were at this like giant obstacle course thing where the goal was to get to the very edge of this like four-part falling apart bridge thing, that like when you walk on it it starts bending down. I think I was too scared to do it, so JP did it... DS was also there. Then in the second dream I think we had to beat kid koopa or something..? Oh, there was also something somewhere about a projector in my room and blinds covering my windows..? I don't remember very well anymore. xP...

Today was awesome. After all the days waking up after like 5 hours of sleep, I got to sleep in. After I woke up I had "breakfast", played tennis for an hour, walked home in the sudden downpour (lol. so fun.), cleaned my desk, washed my sheets (finally...) and then watched Reborn. It was a boring filler ep. I then went to church for Worship team practice. It was awesome. We sang part of a song acapella in 4-part harmony. I Really like vocal harmonies. We also sang a bunch of songs I really like. Like, this week a chorus from some song was stuck in my head. We sang that one! Usually we just sing like 3-5 songs. This week is pentecost and so Pastor DB invited anyone who wanted to to be on team this week, so I came, and so did another 6 people(2 A/V, Bass, Drums, Guitar, Singer and Piano. Yuss full team!), we are singing like 3 sets of songs, like 3 mashups, except not mashed up, just directly into the next one and for one of them we sing the final chorus of the first song after the second song.

Awesome. xP. Then was YF. We sang one of the sets. We then brainstormed for WestFest planning. Then we went out and collected trash on the way to DQ. It was fun. xP

I was told that I was hyper. I think I was. I like being hyper. XP

so ya. See ya.

D.Fa

I was obsessed with Lollipop and my friends were all like "Lollipop 2 is better" ... I like them both now...

Taking a Trip From Yourself Part 2

It's 6:06. I woke up 16 minutes ago and its raining with thunder and lightning! yay! >.>

Cell phone:

It's 7:47 and we have just had breakfast downstairs. There was a waffle maker. Almost everyone was making waffles... They were pretty good.

It's 8:20 now. We are on the bus heading towards the drama workshop. Apparently BP has not been looking forward to it. So ya... Apparently BP and SD are annoyed by RP and GM so they switched places with CK and CK. Today I'm wearing a new white striped shirt. I usually wear dark colours. BC thought I was AG. Lol... It's hard talking about so many people at once...

It's 9:13. We just got to the worshop and are being seated. It's going to be fun.

Paper 2:

It's 10:13. the games were fun. We played a bunch of circle games. I want to bring them back to Ottawa and play them sometime.

It's 11:15. We just got on the bus and we are on the way to Magnificent Mile for lunch and shopping. I have to find a pharmacy to buy advil. We just had a film audition workshop. It was okay.

It's 12:40... I am out of free shopping time. I didn't buy much/anything important, just food... I don't know how I'll be able to get the advil pm...*5

Comfort Suites Note Pad:

It is now 2:55. The intermission is going to end shortly. The show has been really cool so far "There should be no introduction or finale." I agree. Debussy's music is so cool. I'm sitting beside some woman and TS. lol... The theatre hall looks so awesome. Everyone is falling asleep though... lol.

It's 4:02 we are on the bus again heading to the museum of contempory art. I've been taking pictures and playing pokemon and having a conversation about kpop with JA and JT. There was this awesome pair of cylindrical buildings. I will diffinately link/post pictures.*6

It is 4:24. We are on the bus on the way to dinner, somewhere. The museum was messed up. It was pretty funny, the second we got in everyone went to the gift shop... Best part? Possibly. I'm serious.

It's 6:24 now. We just had supper and are still at the restaurant. There are 10 people at each table. I only know 2 of the other 9 kinda well and only 4 others by name, so it was kinda awkward...*7*8

It is now 8:56. The blue man group was so awesome!!! It was so awesome and hilarious and so funny!!! I can't see what I am writing because the lights aren't on in the bus... I didn't like the poncho though... It was quite hot...

It's 11:06... *barf* It's curfew now. Me and DS had the most disgusting competition ever. At lunch I bought these jelly beans. There are 10 colours and 20 flavours. each colour has a 'good' flavour and a 'bad' flavour. No one would eat the anymore and DS had real candy and root beer so we separated the beans into colours and on the count of 3 we each would eat the same colour. More than half were bad jelly beans...Every bad one made me want to barf, but mouldy cheese and rotten egg were the worst... If I eat anything else right now, I'm gonna barf...

It's 7:29 now. DS's alarm didn't go off so we were like 30 minutes behind our shower schedule. Now everyone except TS has had a shower. He's still in bed. lol. Today we are going to 6 Flags! yay! I think this shirt is a bit small...

It's 8:28. I'm done breakfast and have gone back to my room to brush my teeth and pack.

It's 9:33. We are on the bus waiting for Mr. BF to get on the bus we've been here for a while... We were counted about 10 times before someone finally got an attendance list.*9 We were all there the whole time... Everyone except Mr. BF. A lot of the people on this trip don't want to go on rides... We have 6 hours there... lol. Mr. BF was on the school bus in front of the tour bus. Nevermind, he just went on it to see if that was our bus.

It's 10:11. We are on the way to 6 Flags. It's something like an hour bus drive from the hotel. I traded ipods with JT because I really wanted to listen to Wedding dress by Tae Yang. lol. She has a lot of songs on her ipod... Epik High is pretty good.

It's 11:42 vertical velocity was intense. Our group got split...

It's 12:29. It's kinda cold...

It's 2:00. We just got off the orbit.

It's 2:32. We are hiding from rain. lol. It's not even that hard.

It's 3:30 TS and BC have been gone for a while. We're gonna go on the American Eagle now. I bought a hoodie and am much warmer now.

It's 4:30 now. We got off American Eagle at 4:04. People won dragons. There are now 5 extra people-sized stuffed dragons on the bus.

It's 6:17. We are at the restaurant. There are 15 of us at table 20. The waiter is funny. The restaurant is designed as a 1920's speakeasy.

It's 7:38 now. The main course has been done for a while now. The waiters are ridiculous! The meal was soooo tasty! It's almost time to go home...

It's 8:53 now. We just got our sherbet dessert. All of the waiters and waitresses sing ad dance! It's quite entertaining.

It's 9:44 now. We are about to depart for CAnada. I'm tired...

On the back of the Itinerary:

It's 1:25 according to the bus' clock. I don't know how far we are yet, so I don't know what time it is here... everyone is "sleeping" or at least being quiet. When I went to sleep they were not...

It is "3:48". nothing has happened. Just more sleeping. We will get to the border around 4:00 am.

It's 4:01. We have just crossed the border into Sarniaand ya, it was easy. She asked us a couple questions, looked at DS's passport (he's american) and told us to have a nice drive. What a different process.

It's 7:32 now. We are way ahead of schedule..! We'll be home around 11 instead of 2. I must be allergic to something... My nose gets conjested a lot of the time. A while ago I realized that this is kinda like tweeting. lol.

It's 8:37. We are at a Denny's in Beleville. Everone is tired and wants to pay with american money. so they are going to let us.

It's 11:06. We are nearly home. We just finished watching "Up" it's a really good movie. A lot of people were opposed to watching it, but then they were all laughing, so I'm glad I brought it on the trip.

That was the last note I took.

We got back around 11:35ish. I went to work to see my schedule... uhggg... then talked to my parents about the trip then watched One Piece. I should study/have supper now. It's 7:19. When I figure out how, I will post the pictures on facebook and link to it.


When we were away a couple things happened... The final dnace was cancelled(various reasons) and someone that was in the Musical died in a car accident on Saturday. I can't believe it... T.T he was awesome.

So here's the video for a song that KC was talking about in Calc the other day that was on JT's ipod.



*5 On the way to the Concert Hall, I saw a CVS pharmacy down a street and Miss ML let me go. I got the advil and it was less expensive then expected.

*6 So, for some reason my camera won't turn on anymore, at the moment, so pictures will be post poned... T.T I took like 800 or so...

*7 I aked one of the 4 what the names of the other 3 girls were. Less awkward then asking them myself... xP

*8 ******** started getting too long and tedious, so I made it into *8.

*9 The reason counting wasn't working is because we were on a different bus for the ride to and from 6 flags and there were more free seats and we were all in different seats.

Taking a Trip From Yourself Part 1

So, Hey. I havn't posted in a while. This is because of the Musical and the Arts Trip to Chicago and the various projects I had due this last week.

Anyway. Before the trip my mom joked that I should email her all the time about everything. This actually led me to email myself on an hourly basis. Usually I go on these trips, have fun, but then forget most of it. I figured doing this would make more of an image in my mind when I think back, partially because it's written down, but also because it is from my perspective, not just an itinerary. So, ya. I also took way too many pictures. We left school at about 6 pm Wednesday.

So here it is, my unedited (with some "*" comments) "Hourly Blog Post" for the Chicago Trip:

Cell phone:

It is 8:35. We are about to leave Kingston after a 30 minute dinner break. I went to the bulk barn with CK and CK* and bought candy.

Its 9:30. We are on the bus. I'm being tempted, but I must resist. Luke 14?:27* If you cannot take your cross and deny your self and follow me daily you are not worthy of becoming my disciple, or something... I must fight through this with His help and move onto another day.

It's 10:29. I've been "sleeping" for a little while and we are now starting to watch "Mean Girls"... I don't think I've seen it, but I think I'd rather "sleep". Lol.

It is now 11:36. We have stopped somewhere... I ended up watching Mean Girls. Lol... It's so shallow... The guidance councilor was about to talk to all of the girls about how they relate with each other... Anyways... I'm thirsty...

So, "Mean Girls" just ended. Cheesy happy ending. It's 12:20. I'm awake right now. We're going to watch "Semi-Pro" now. Many people are opposed to watching another movie... It's 12:20... So, ya.

Ok. So it's 1:44. We are now approaching the border near Detroit..? Anyways, I didn't watch "Semi-Pro" I listened to my ipod with my noise cancelling earbuds. It was nice.

Ok... It's 2:27. We are nearly done going through customs... In other years the officer would just take all our passports and do all the stuff himself. This is the first time that we all had to wake up, put on shoes and stuff and individually go through customs.... It's 2:30 in the morning... Pity us or something.... -_-...

Its 4:52... Other than the moon its pretty much black outside.*** Everyone is "sleeping" by which I mean they close their eyes, but only about half are actually asleep and the other half are tossing and turning, like the guy beside me, DS. Also, because everything around is black, I feel like the whole world is just flying by... ***

It's 5:20... We've been at a gas station for about 15-20 minutes.... There are many bright lights and everyone woke up... BL was telling everyone to go back to sleep...

Ok. I'm kinda awake now. My battery is going to die soon... Which annoys me because I'll have to write these down on paper... It's 7:40 eastern time, but we are in a McDonalds in Indiana, so here it's 6:40. We don't go to the hotel until like 10 tonight.

It's 7:47 and my battery is going to die very soon....... Uhg... Anyways. We are now paying a toll to go onto the Chicago Skyway..? So ya...

Paper 1:

So, it's 8:30. We are still on the bus... I've been taking pictures. It's fun. =D but I'm bored now. DS and AG are playing my DS. They are supposed to be training my bellsprout. We are kinda in Chicago now.

It is now 10:36. Me, GM and RP have seen most of the aquarium. It was pretty awesome. Both cell and camera batteries are dead... I need to find new ones.

It's 12:02. We are waiting in the aquarium for the show fantasea. My camera batteries are bugging me. We don't get to go back to the bus until 6:00... I had spare batteries in my bag on the bus...

Ok, so it's 1:01. Fantasea just finished. It was actually really boring... Some "random" girl from the audience got taken on a magical adventure... There were dolphins, penguins, belugas and a hawk. They didn't do much... Apparently we get to go on the bus at 1:25. yuss. spare batteries!

It's 1:45. We just arrived at the navy pier. I have new batteries and we have 2 hours.

It's 2:26. I've been running around the Navy Pier taking pictures. lol. totemo tanoshii desu yo. "before we go back on the bus I need to buy more batteries!" Jamba Juice. =P.

It's 2:53 and we just passed the top of the ferris wheel! It's kinda cold and windy... lol. so awesome! DS, CK and LT are here too. Gondola 24 FTW! DS is scared out of his life. lol.

It's 3:49. We just got on the bus. I got 4 AA Energizer Lithium batteries for 13$... We were all looking at those rip-off necklace and ring stands. I remembered how I really want a necklace with a cross on it, but not just any cross, I want one that is unique and cool but simple. Probably metal on a black string. I didn't find one. I think once I get one, I'll wear it everyday after I'm baptized.

It is now 4:43. I am running out of paper, so I shall have to write smaller... Me and RF(?) have just been served our pasta. DS and BG were also just served. We will eat now. When we got here there was a pitcher of cola on the table. It was pepsi. We drank it. There is a new pitcher. It is... Coke!?! I don't like either...

It is now 5:30. The band started playing about half an hour ago. The band is a jazz combo, string bass, drums, piano and bass trumpet. The bass is so cool and the bass trumpet sounds like a trombone in the mid-upper register. It's sooo cool! The band is awesome. I had baked pasta for supper. For dessert we had chocolate chip cookies. They were the best cookies I've ever had. I have just confirmed that RF's name is R. lol.

Paper 2:

It's 7:07. Art. What is art? I'm walking around with JA, JT, and CK taking pictures of art and people. It's so cool.

It's 8:02. Mr, BF is yelling out room configurations. They are unchangeable. We are on the bus heading towards our hotel. LT is mad at my photographic style while JT agrees with it. I think it is much more interesting to take a picture of someone admiring/pondering art rather then just art. It may sound cold, but people are used as objects in my pictures. I really like this new piece of paper JT gave me.

It is now 10:05. Cerfew has just been called. We ended up me and TS on the beds, GM on the "floor" and DS on the "couch". I havn't read yet today. I definately will tommorow. I'll be waking up first, probably.****


* I had actually written their first names there, but changed it now. I later used initials and discovered they have the same initials. lol.

** I was actually thinking mostly of Luke 9:23 "Then he said to them all: "if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."" as well as Luke 14:27 "And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple." They were both from a study I had done the night before and hadn't fully memorized them. xP. The point of the study was that when our path crosses with His path, we have to choose to follow His and give up our own desires if they conflict with His path, or something like that.

*** I then noticed that there were stars. It was also because of this wooshing sound.

**** I ended up reading that night before bed while TS was in the bathroom. lol.