Just another day

I stood outside on the balcony and had a high of 5 seconds (This habit has got to go soon) I breathe in the cool night air and I shiver. But I stand there for at least half an hour until my fingers feel as if I've left it in the freezer. I watch the sun go down and it makes me wonder, what have I been running from... I ponder on questions that I know would not be answered - not in my lifetime at least.

Remember Hey Nostradamus!, the book I'm reading for my English course..I was reading it and I had a pang of thoughts whirl in my mind : "Will you just tell me why it is that the only way we ever seem to take steps forward in life is through pain? Huh? Why is exposure to pain always supposed to make us better people?" Those were my thoughts exactly... I've been having my head in the clouds for a few days too long. This is not like me. And then reality hits and I'm back to running.

You say you know someone. But do you really? Who knows anyone through and through anyway? We don't. We never will. I don't even know myself. We all have our secrets. We all live our lives because what else can we do? Shit happens and so what? You live through it. And one day when you look back... it's just a memory. A fucking memory.

"Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:
And yet salt water blinds them not so much
But they can see a sort of traitors here.
Nay, if Iturn my eyes upon myself,
I find myself a traitor with the rest."

Use your love

I've been addicted to this song. It's not the greatest but it's been replaying over and over my head. Why do songs to that to you? Why does it just get stuck? Can you imgaine trying to write a Biology paper with those lyrics floating around in your head? It gets a wee bit distracting...

Ponder this.

What has made me like this?
Why do I feel this way?
I was wondering...
Is it so bad if I'm using a substitute for you?

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This week went by in a blur. And I have a Bio lab exam and Managerial Accounting exam within the next week. JOy. I am not even having fun. I thought time passes quickly when youre having fun. I had my English paper due yesterday. Not like I had enough time to do it anyway. It's a lost cause now. The new baby beluga was born on Sunday which was pretty kool watching it live on the webcam they have at the Aquarium. I got a job. I have the messiest room a girl could have. The weather is killing me. COME TODAY, RAIN! My lips have cracked. and my skin is so dry. Haih. My arms are aching due to the build up of lactic acid (it's a bio thing) I worked my ass off on Monday playing tennis and sprinting 3 times around the courts and now, I'm reaping what I sowed. My thighs are aching... My neck seems to crack on its own. And I have a Chinese guy hitting on me at the tennis courts. So much for leisure time. Why is it guys pick the wrong place and the wrong times to pick up a girl? I mean... Can't you see I'm playing a game? Or practicing my surfs or something? Pick me up when I'm actually dressed for it. Not when I'm in shorts and an oversized polo shirt.... Jeez... It was a pretty random week. So, this is a pretty random post.

The road to...

I was in Managerial Accounting lecture just 10 minutes ago and sometimes I really wonder why I bother going. But this lecturer doesn't audio record her lectures so I can't just sit at home and listen to her whine away. Instead, I get out of bed to literally hear her whine. The thing is, I normally wouldn't bother but she's a sneaky one. She gives her tips and midterm highlights in the damn lectures! Yester-night wasn't so bad. I had about 7 hours of sleep give and take a few minutes of waking up to sleep in a better position. But even so, I am so tired when I'm up. Why is that? Anyway... Back to my other ranting...

In between breaks, I read my English assigned book for the week - Hey Nostradamus! - and I swear, I always have a good laugh reading this book. The best English book assigned so far. The characters are genuinely funny and it's life in a nutshell: "It's astonishing how willing we are to believe whatever story we're tossed simply because we want to hear what we want to hear."
Were downright stinkers, aren't we?

3 posts in a week... That's gotta count for something...

Doodle

I never knew it could be so hard to sleep (I'm supposed to be the best at that) I'm like a bat in the night now. I can't friggin' sleep in this heat. I know I keep complaining about how rainy it is here. But come on.... I didn't say to go away forever. The heat wave is killing me! I don't have a friggin' fan in the room either okay... Give me a break... I'm so sleepy in lectures sometimes I wonder why the hell I even bother going. I can't remember shit after that but I have to attend it BECAUSE... studies is not cheap. I need sleeping pills NOW!No, wait... I need anything to kickstart my sleeping pattern. I need alcohol. I think I should stock up on beer.

On a happier note, I am HIRED! by the Pacific National Exhibition as a Rides Attendant. This is going to be an experience... CHECK IT OUT! FUn fuN FuN right? Well, let's hope my summer here is better than the winter. I have a ton of homework and assignments due and I haven't exactly started. Instead, I sit here writing a post of random things just coming out of my head since I can't fucking sleep.

Anyone up for a game of poker?

Check it out!

Forgive my laziness, but I have been busy getting as many stamps as I could before the 31st of May. As a volunteer for the Vancouver Aquarium, I got this Tourism Passport Challenge booklet that allows me free admission for TWO to all the famous tourism spots in Vancouver. Of course, I used up my weekends to do all the visiting. I like visiting the hotels. Everyone knows what youre after when they see you with the booklet (because they do have it - ALL staff and volunteers in the tourism business have it). Everyone is all smiles. Well, let's start off the tour, shall we?

First stop: ALL aboard the Constitution! I was surprised to meet my friend, Bowie when I went to get tickets. I didn't know she worked there. The Constitution takes us on a ride around the Burrard Inlet. It's a pretty cool ride. Slow. But cool.

There are many of these planes docked around. I want to learn to pilot a plane. Where are my pilot friends? You guys are teaching me how to drive one when I get back! Ooh, anyone interested in skydiving? ;)

There were a couple of seals too. They stink, but how can you resist them? They are so cute!
There was a cruise ship that just docked for the day while I was on the Constitution. If you look in the background for that tower looking building towards the left of the picture, that was my next stop. The Harbour Centre which is also the place where SFU's downtown campus is at. And speaking of my university, guess what I could see with my little beady eyes from the towers...
Not that great a picture, but my camera can't zoom in THAT far... Humour me. See the middle mountain? That's where my university is at. Cool eh?
Remember my biking trip? That's Stanley Park right there... with Vancouver Aquarium along the way and a couple of beaches too...
The same cruise ship that docked for the day. Just another view of it... Those white tents you see is Canada Place where the Imax Theathre is at. I got a discount to watch a show there too! So, of course I headed there the next week with a friend to watch Under the Sea in 3D. Cool stuff...

I hopped on the Trolley. They are so noisy...It wheezes all the way as if it's going to die but it was good fun waving at people. HAhaha.. I wave at everyone... Just for the fun of being a "tourist-for-the-day"

I think that concluded one day. Yesterday, I went to a couple other places too... One including a giant golf ball... Welcome to the Telus World of Science. It is uber fun. At least I do. I become a kid all over again there. I still am mostly. But at least there, I can show it and not be embarrassed =p Come and meet me new friend... He's huge...
I can't remember his name though... He did have a name... Heubert or Wilbur or something like that... I imagine an intellectual having a name like that you know. The type that's short and pudgy-looking and thick glasses... I'm stereotyping... Not that all Heuberts and Wilburs are like that =)
I believe there are supposed to be our ancestors those few millenias ago...
This time, I hopped on the BigBus. Can't really wave from here. I was too tall (for once).
Got a shot of Granville Island while on the bus. Didn't go there this time since I've been there last year. Time is stamps!

Stopped by the Vancouver Art Gallery and I saw a street performer. He was juggling knives while walking across the torch of fire. Random...
Another random finding of mine. While walking down Gastown... there's an alley called, and yes you've guessed it, Blood Alley. Quite a few murders happened here. Apparently ghosts haunt this street. Hehe. Actually, no. It's called blood alley because it used to be a butcher's street where blood use to stain the bricks of the alley.
I think this was in the Vancouver Police Museum. Police used to ride this?? Well, sign me up!

So, I take a step back from the modern-day life and go-green over at VanDusen's Botanical Garden...
Ever seen apple trees grown this way?
These, I can't remember what they are called...
This is the flower of the garlic I think...
It's got "Bell" in this one's name...
This is Monkey-something.... I'm so bad with names aren't I?
Can you spot Malaysia? or Australia? You'd have to be really blur to not spot the Land down under...
Tulips are so friendly-looking aren't they?
And they come in all kinds of colours too...
And then I wondered into China... At least, a replica of it in the Chinese Gardens of Chinatown.. Lots of stories but I'm getting lazy to write and youre already getting lazy to read.

I got 26 stamps!Woot woot!

Toodles...