December 28, 2005

Crispy...Danish...?

Today, I was browsing the internet and came upon a synonym of Santa Claus and Father Christmas: Kriss Kringle. Then it occured to me that I didn't know what Kriss Kringle meant, or where it came from. And that was alarming.

First I tried the direct approach: finding the definition of 'Kriss' and 'Kringle'. The easy part was 'Kringle'. I came upon many definitions, such as a thin Danish pastry, slang for boss, or triple looped, disulphide linked protein domains. 'Kriss' it appears, has no definition except as a slang for "crisp, cool" or a whore.

Wikipedia gave me no extra information, other than backing up a kringle as a Danish pastry with a proud Danish history. (Mmm...Weinerbrod dough...)

Finally Google informs me that it's just a crazy olde German dialect of sorts for "Christ child".

Are Jesus Christ and Santa Claus the same person? Conspiracy!? */blasphemous ignorance*

Happy Pre-New Year's!? <-- (Should be an interrobang)

December 26, 2005

Immaculate

Download this. Now. <-- Bolded

It's 3:15AM and I can't sleep yet. Silly Christmas parties...

And I'm too pissed off because some wanker took my Future Shop purchase. Out of my hands! So close! Ahhh retardddd *random whining* By which I mean this really happened online.

December 24, 2005

You better watch out...you better not cry...or else.

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This dude came to my backyard and watched me for a few minutes.

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His accomplice flew in and stared at us for a few minutes.

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They came together to deliberate, and literally watched us for 15 minutes straight.

I have good reason to believe that they are robotic furry animal spies sent by Santa Claus to check up on us.

On a related note,
Merry Holidays!!! and such.

December 23, 2005

Eqivocal

It's done! Execept for algeo. Which should be okay.

December 20, 2005

100% Inelastic Project Expectations

This week must end. Like, right now. *claps hands twice*


*checks clock*
...Didn't work, did it?

He's totally going to do this to me.
Seriously, there IS good stuff in there from time to time.

December 16, 2005

Let It Snow x3

The picture in the last post was what we were supposed to get, but we really only got this.

Good job weather, I had to do the silly calc test. Oh well <_<"

December 14, 2005

I've wet my pants. Now they're frozen.

IT'S COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if Friday will be a snow day. Not that it's particularily convenient. :(

Bite-sized portions

During one dinner, [Queen Elizabeth] sat next to a rather deaf and very dull admiral who regaled the Queen with naval stories, with especial reference to the condition of an old ship which had broken down. In an attempt to change the subject, the Queen enquired, "How is your dear sister?" -a question that the admiral obviously didn't hear, because he continued in the same naval vein, saying "She'll be alright when we've turned her over and scraped the barnacles off her bottom." The Queen's shoulders shook helplessly with laughter as she buried her face in her napkin.

Educationalists often deplore the use of abbreviated or slang words, and one of the most common used is Xmas, in place of Christmas. Wicked atheists have been blamed for using an X in the place of the word Christ, and thus "taking the Christ out of Christmas." In fact, the reverse is true. The X has been used by theologians for hundreds of years to denote the Greek letter chi, the first letter in the Greek spelling of Christ. The X represents Christ and the cross upon which he was crucified.

Punishment for sexual misconduct in 17th-century America was strict, with fines or imprisonment for adulterers and fornicators, and worse for convicted rapists. However, one cannot help feeling a little sorry for the joker Ralph Earle, who was fined 20 shillings in October 1663 for "drawing his wife in an uncivil manner on the snow."

Courtesy of: History Bites by Judith Millidge.

December 13, 2005

My feelings

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Conspiracy!

I would probably walk into that mural and get laughed at by French people.

December 09, 2005

The portion of honour

SNOW.

That sums up the significant happenings of today.

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That's the constellation Pyromus :O

w(t(f)))

I went to the doctor's for a check-up on my ultrasound results. My thyroid glands are officially fine, except the right one is a tad above average size. OK. I was also meant to get my flu shot. Somehow during the appointment the doctor though it would be prudent for me to get a blood test. He also decided that I should have it right then and there. So I had a blood shot on my left arm shortly followed by a flu shot on the same arm. Unfortunately, after that I stood up way too quickly and had a sweep of nausea from the screwed up levels of blood. ._O So...I did that "sit for ten minutes" thing. :P Now my left arm is numb from flu shot and irritated from blood test.

I still don't know my blood type and am really perplexed as to why none of my accessible birth records have the results or anything, according to my parents. And I still won't know because you need to pay a fee to get your blood type tested. Which my parents, who are supposed to know it in the first place but don't, don't want to pay for. =\

December 08, 2005

f(u)

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There's one of these fun comments for each fish and insect. *heavenly vocal chord*

December 05, 2005

He left for an EZ Smoothee

mIRC Chat
(Ben174) : If they only realized 90% of the overtime they pay me is only cause i like staying here playing with Kazaa when the bandwidth picks up after hours.
(ChrisLMB) : If any of my employees did that they'd be fired instantly.
(Ben174) : Where u work?
(ChrisLMB) : I'm the CTO at LowerMyBills.com
*** Ben174 (BenWright@TeraPro33-41.LowerMyBills.com) Quit (Leaving)

In current news, BIO BIO BIO DOOM.
That mIRC quotes page distracted me a ton. <_>

After this I can enjoy my DQ8 and AC:WW in peace.

November 24, 2005

The best of both worlds

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"The part where the dragon knocked Harry"

It seems that when slush touches the road, traffic completely dies. Everyone decides it's the best time to play bumper tag. Our bus arrived at the school at 8:25! Horrid! :o Luckily algeo was forgiving and the test wasn't immensely long.

So I call today the first day there was any real snow, not just the light flurries that dissolve when it goes near the ground.

It's windy.

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November 21, 2005

Itai

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Also, EUGE!

November 19, 2005

You are insipid iff you are innocuous.

Ah, so as report cards arrive the tests go away, so it's a relatively low-pressure weekend.

Plus snow! :O

It's a good time to hear hippos and piglets sing.

November 13, 2005

Too apathetic to make a post title

Let's hope none of you are suffering from Acute Senioritis! :o If you are, or think you might be, I have no idea who you should contact, so best look elsewhere.

On a different note, if physics where to whirl me in a circular pattern at the end of a rope with a velocity of 140 m/s, how long would it take until either the rope snaps or I snap?

November 10, 2005

Restitute!

Some of Hammurabi's Codified Laws:

128. If a man take a woman to wife, but have no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

132. If the "finger is pointed" at a man's wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband.

155. If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he (the father) afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water.

249. If any one hire an ox, and God strike it that it die, the man who hired it shall swear by God and be considered guiltless.


Obviously Hammurabi's Laws are great practice for Geometry and Discrete Mathematics in working with conditional statements.

"If this woman is no wife to him, then he take a woman to wife, but have no intercourse with her." (true)

"If he shall be bound and cast into the water, then he betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he (the father) afterward defile her, and be surprised." (may be true)

November 09, 2005

The tops of taro and the roots of rice

If you were wondering how humans came to be according to a Chinese legend:

"[Fuyi and his sister] came across a turtle which said the two of them should marry. Fuyi and his sister said, "How can a brother and a sister marry?" and said if the turtle can come back to life after they beat it to death, they would marry. They beat the turtle to death, whereupon it laughed and crawled away. A bamboo also told them to marry; they cut it down, and it came back to life and laughed as they left. Venus spoke to them, and told them to build fires on two different mountains, and if the smoke columns joined, they could marry. They did so, and the smoke columns came together. Venus laughed, and the brother and sister married. They gave birth to a fleshball. Not knowing what to do with it, they minced it up and scattered the pieces, and the pieces became men and women."

November 06, 2005

Enthalpy of reaction of a tripeptide as it approaches x=3

(1) Tomorrow -> Chem Unit Test + Stress . . . . ΔHº=-52901 KJ
(2) Bio Unit Test + Calc Limits Quiz -> Tomorrow + Panic . . . . ΔHº=-7.94x10^56 KJ

Target Equ: Tomorrow -> Chem Unit Test + Bio Unit Test + Calc Limits Quiz + Death

Calculate the enthalpy change.

Ans: D.N.E.

November 05, 2005

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November 02, 2005

Somebody (flavour) shot the food

Try the Tim Horton's Hot Smoothee. Mmmmmm foamy goodness.

October 28, 2005

Umm...nasty.

My absence from school today was due to doctor's orders, because I've gotten Tonsillitis. Appearantly this is caused by strep throat bacteria which is why I can't swallow anything right now, and I got put on penicillin. Appearantly this is not contageous, unless I was misdiagnosed for another similar infection (but I wasn't! I hope.)

The initial problem is that my tonsils are already friggin huge. (If you go to the wiki link and look at the picture of tonsillitis, it's nowhere as...funky as mine.) I was floundering on the idea of a tonsilectomy since summer, since one parent is a supporter and one is a nay-sayer. I made my choice today by shining a flashlight into my mouth today and seeing what their size is. Usually smart tonsils have atrophized by now, but mine want to be special.

October 24, 2005

October 20, 2005

Passion of the Tryst

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The unclothed man you see was actually doing some serious RP-ing in the game. As in, role-playing the role of Mr. Honey-Tongued. He was using strange Victorian vocab and speaking style and putting the charm on the white dressed lady you see, who was obviously so amused she just had to play along. When she finally shook him off he too departed with a resounding, "Good bye, my sweet love."

Me plays the violin sadly.

BTW appearantly "tryst" is pronounced "trist", although it was a result for a rhyme of Christ. The internet fails me!

October 17, 2005

Sai Kick

Wow, silly projects.

So I recently found out the English ISP proposals were due this week, and so I decided to start finding books yesterday at 9pm. Luckily, something with a possibly workable theme came up so I wrote them down and snagged from the library today snazzy copies of Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper and Visions in Death by J.D. Robb. Reading the first chapters of both makes me more confident that they're both bearable books to read.

From what I can tell, Visions In Death is the rebel-with-no-real-cause-protagonist type book. I've named the protagonist, Lieutenant Eve, the Testostogen Lady, whom is the stereotypical: "Grrr me no like green dress hate being public with it want kill criminals now." Hunting Fear on the other hand is the intense gruesome crime story, with things like: "Her eye sockets pierced into my head, and from their pitch black centres a gharlish shadow dripped slowly and thickly down her face."

Also I was flipping to some random page near the end of Visions in Death to see how many pages it had, unaware it had a few pages at the end reserved for a preview of the next installment in the series. So the first thing I see on page 364 is:

"You and Mr. Speegal had a relationship. An intimate relationship."
"We fucked like rabbits all summer."


I demand the same calibre of writing in the real parts of the book.

Sooooo we'll see how they turn out.

October 12, 2005

He finds no door, only windows. Small windows.

  • School hurts real bad. University application pours salt all over open wounds.
  • I will not eat pickles for a long time. Not that I usually do anyway.
  • I really need to get going on my ISP proposal.
  • Only thing to look forward to is VGL in November.
  • October 01, 2005

    Fair enough

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    That is the coolest thing ever, or also a typo of Kangaroo. Haha.

    Courtesy of Laurier University's Viewbook.

    September 24, 2005

    I'm Afraid, You're Afraid

    I borrowed this silly book today called "I'm Afraid, You're Afraid" by Melinda Muse and it's about "448 things to fear and why". Although I don't completely believe all of the facts in this book, but it's still amusing to read through nontheless. So far I've read things like:

    Alaska: It's a cold fact that, of all the states, Alaska holds the lead in death rates from unintentional injury, and is also the nation's most dangerous state for children. From 1986 to 1992, the injury death rate for youths aged nineteen or younger was 45.7 per 100,000, compared to the lower national rate of 30.2. Officials are stumped, failing to offer reasons for the high death rate of youngsters, but a good guess might include the zooming popularity of snowmobiling. Alaskans are dying in snowmobile accidents at least twice as fasy as rides in any other state.

    Baby-Faced Boys: Looks deceive. Baby-faced boys are more likely to be delinquent and commit more crimes than their less cherubic-looking pals, divulges a recent study that suggests that the sweet-appearing juvies intentionally try to derail their submissive image by acting naughty, not nice. The behaviour of baby-faced girls, researchers note, isn't at all affected by their sugar-and-spice appearance.

    Cinnamon Gum: The active ingredient in cinnamon-flavoured gum, candy, and breath mints is the allergen cinnamic-aldehyde, which can cause white spots and sores to erupt in the mouth.

    Other interesting ones I'm too lazy to type up include Antennas, August, Bad Initials, Bible Quoting, Chopsticks, and Coffee Cups. I need to finish reading this.

    September 22, 2005

    Razzlefrazzle

    Since my random emergence of a fever the past weekend, I have been sick all week and taking antibotics. It's made me extremely tired all week, and it was hard to pay attention in class.

    On the other hand I got an MP3 player and Guiness World Records 2006 for my birthday, yay.

    Also, one of China's finest literary works:

    Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-To-Dragon

    "Harry doesn't know how long it will take to wash the sticky cream cake off his face. For a civilised young man it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body. He lies in the high-quality bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dudley's face, which is as fat as the bottom of Aunt Petunia."

    Note that the dragon in the book cover looks startlingly like Maleficent from Disney's Sleeping Beauty...

    September 17, 2005

    Shibby

    Nothing interesting has turned up. School is becoming more school-like and annoying. And...that's it.

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    September 09, 2005

    "A bunch of freakshows"

    Yeah, um, Guidance has some issues. With my issues. Because I lined up for 2 hours and 45 minutes today only to have them drop Comp Sci and leave me in AP Physics. I don't want to deal with them anymore...

    On another note, the major patch in Guild Wars has been keeping things interesting, and the AoE3 Demo is out, although for me it has a ton of bugs. Hopefully that'll all be gone in the retail version.

    September 07, 2005

    Harry Potter + Substance Abuse?

    Exerpts from two versions of Harry Potter: HBP.

    American: "...look," said Fred, pointing at a number of weird-looking black horn-type objects that were indeed attempting to scurry out of sight.

    British: "...look," said Fred, pointing at a number of weird-looking black hooter-type objects that were indeed attempting to scurry out of sight.


    American: ...many flourishing potted plants in brass containers.

    British: ...many flourishing pot plants in brass containers.

    Deflection

    Oh noes, it's my rant about first days of school post.

    Chemistry - I don't know any anyone in my class, Mrs. Hubbell is pregnant, and we got some 50 mark review homework. Oh dear.

    Biology - Mr. Jamieson is cool, loves biology and has a cool website. Yay.

    Func and Calc - Most of my class seems rather pacified by math, Ms. Oliver is nice, but normal and bland, and we got a bit of factoring review homework. Eeeh.

    English - The only class on Day One to break the dreariness of science and math. Mrs. Corry is still very good, and no homework. :o

    Geo and Discreet - Mrs. Chow is really crazy, and we had a DEAR session. Although, this is probably going to be the most challenging course.

    Comp Sci - Oh noes, to be dropped!

    AP Physics - I did not sign up for this, but was put here anyway to keep the class running. Consequently my name in the school database has been labeled "tool". I'll have to hestiantly do my chapter of homework, and ignore the suggested ones...But it is hilarious that we have three textbooks.

    Classical Civ - Sweltering, stuffy classroom + split with Gr 3 Latin = Classical Civ is hot.

    September 05, 2005

    Happy Teacher's Day!

    ...in India. However for us, today is Labour Day. Yay for people who labour for us! And yay for Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan which Teacher's Day in India is appearantly celebrated in honour of.

    OK, so, Chun Yi Kung Fu was really good, it was a show that would actually keep you interested the whole time because it's all action packed, without the drowsy artistic moments. That of course made it a little short, only 1.5 hours! I wanted more Buddhist monk action.

    Wonderland was average, because it was such a busy day that every ride had a minumum 20 min lineup. Actually the only line that was that short was for Nightmare. So we definitely didn't go on as many rides as usual. There was also that suspense of where Puiyan was after she didnt show up, and all her family could tell us was, "She's at Wonderland!"

    The lesson of that day is that we are all at the whim of the YRT.

    August 30, 2005

    Friggin hard year

    Day 1
    1: Chemistry - Hubbell
    2: Biology - Jamieson
    3: Lunch
    4: Func & Calc - Oliver
    5: English - Corry

    Day 2
    1: Geo & Dis Math - Chow
    2: Comp Sci (spare) - Berry (spare)
    3: Physics - Nowikow
    4: Lunch
    5: Classical Civ - MClaren

    August 28, 2005

    "Questionable Words/Phrases: 17"

    Oops, so Hurricane Katrina became a crazy Category 5 recently, which blows. (Heh) I hope the disaster can be suppressed by the evacuation efforts. There's also this other Hurricane Talim, Category 2, which is gonna hit eastern China sometime. [Edit: Katrina downgraded to Category 3.]

    So this week is full of:
    Sun: Jason's Party
    Mon: Last day of volunteering at MS Hospital
    Tue: School Registration
    Wed: Chun Yi Kung Fu
    Fri: Wonderland

    It is also noted that Kung Fu Hustle, according to Roger's Video, has approx. *points to title of post*

    August 22, 2005

    Interpretive

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    I'm going to see that Chun Yi Legend of Kung Fu show next week. Yay.

    Poem'd

    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
    Susie Asado.
    Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
    Susie Asado.
    Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
    A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
    When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow,
    it is a silver seller.

    Excerpt from Susie Asado - Gertrude Stein

    ...and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes
    and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower
    and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him
    down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes
    and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

    Excerpt from Ulysses - James Joyce

    August 19, 2005

    D'oh

    Things have happened today which must have been displeasing to people. Firstly is that the gas prices shot up again because the Middle East was playing with missiles and generally being frigged over. However the large diesel spill over the highway this morning must've helped alleviate the bad news.

    Then there was the crazy tornado warning which is now a severe thunderstorm warning. The roads now have big pools of water and some underground parking lots have flooded. Those people who parked underground in Scarborough Town Centre to hide their cars from the bright shining clouds need to wade to their vehicles. Appearantly it was really insanely wet and gale-like in southern Ontario.

    EDIT: Article

    August 12, 2005

    Rotary gyrator

    Meet the world's longest palindromic sentence.

    Also, this has got to be the best poem in the world.

    Doppelganger - James A. Lindon

    Entering the lonely house with my wife
    I saw him for the first time
    Peering furtively from behind a bush --
    Blackness that moved,
    A shape amid the shadows,
    A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes
    Revealed in the ragged moon.
    A closer look (he seemed to turn) might have
    Put him to flight forever --
    I dared not
    (For reasons that I failed to understand),
    Though I knew I should act at once.

    I puzzled over it, hiding alone,
    Watching the woman as she neared the gate.
    He came, and I saw him crouching
    Night after night.
    Night after night
    He came, and I saw him crouching,
    Watching the woman as she neared the gate.

    I puzzled over it, hiding alone --
    Though I knew I should act at once,
    For reasons that I failed to understand
    I dared not
    Put him to flight forever.

    A closer look (he seemed to turn) might have
    Revealed in the ragged moon.
    A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes
    A shape amid the shadows,
    Blackness that moved.

    Peering furtively from behind a bush,
    I saw him for the first time,
    Entering the lonely house with my wife.

    August 11, 2005

    Apricock

    This is both clever and silly.

    Note that it's an advertisement for the Apricot bidet toilet. I think bidets, especially public, are the nastiest thing ever. Although having never tried one before, I can't back it up.

    Yak's Aerobics

    The robbery at "Banco Central" involved months of creating a well-made tunnel which included lighting and air conditioning. They then broke through the steel-reinforced concrete vault and ran away with lots and lots of money.

    This proves that all public buildings should hover.

    August 05, 2005

    PEI-back time

    Yay, it was a fun detour this summer. Although basically all sightseeing. And disapponting lobster dinners. In general, the further east you went, the nicer the hotels, and the scarier the gas prices.

    If you ever go to the Maritimes and see this interesting McLobster sandwich, you should NOT buy it, unless you'd like to be ripped off of about $6 and feel what a 9:1 lettuce-processed mashed lobster ratio sandwich tastes like. If it weren't for the bread you'd have thought you ate nothing.

    July 30, 2005

    Shrimp chips and silky pork

    Today as we were returning home two birds flew into our garage. After we made one fly out (it was reluctant) we had to find the other one huddled up on the floor. I thought it was dead because I prodded it for 10 minutes with a stick, but after finding signs of life I tried to manually handle it out, but it hid under the car for another few minutes before it ran outside to the neighbor's yard. I can only guess that the first reluctant bird was a parent and the smaller one was a child because it couldn't fly for too long. I guess by getting it outside the parent will come back.

    Anyway I'm leaving in the morning, so I'll see you all next week.

    July 27, 2005

    Axebanger

    I finished that book finally after putting off a lot of reading. I got really impatient and read half the book in a day. Oh the cliffhanger *tear*

    I'm leaving Saturday on a bus tour to P.E.I., although I'll really only be in P.E.I. for a day. It's a seven day thing, a nice break from staying home all summer.

    You China peeps better not have come in contact with that swine pathogen spreading around Sichuan.

    July 24, 2005

    I due.

    In the afternoon I went and watched Wedding Crashers.

    Consequently, I attended a wedding afterwards.

    July 22, 2005

    "Slughorn turned on Dumbledore, his expression shrewd."

    I received my copy.

    I'm pretty sure this certain sentence fragment contains a typo:
    "The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled..." pg.42

    The definition of fug, a steamy, humid and murky air environment, doesn't seem to fit in the sentence.

    In conclusion, the London bombings were probably caused by Death Eaters.

    July 19, 2005

    " oGMZz SNaPR KILZ dDUNBleDORE!!@!"

    ..is all I've been hearing on Guild Wars by attention-starved tweens. However seeing as I did not run down to my friendly neighborhood Chapters/Indigo that fateful Saturday midnight, nor did I anytime after, I do not currently have possession of Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince. I did however order it online, and in doing so saved about $3-4 than if I bought it at the bookstore. (~!!!) This is OK, because I'm still in the process of finishing another book, so when I receive the book in the next few days its arrival will be greatly welcomed.

    July 14, 2005

    The Norse Heaven

    In Norse mythology, Einherjar (or Einheriar) referred to the spirits of warriors who had died bravely in battle. The einherjar live on in Valhalla, the Norse Heaven.

    Every day they are woken by Gullinkambi, a rooster, and march out to great field of Idavoll in the heart of Asgard to fight against each other in merry (and mortal) combat. At dusk, when they are all cut to pieces, save perchance a few, they are miraculously healed, and marches back into Valhalla, where Andhrimnir, the chef of the gods, has prepared a meal for them from the pork of Sahrimnir, a pig that is reborn every day, and the mead milked from Heiðrún, a goat feeding on the leaves of Yggdrasil. The einherjar then spend the evening and night in feast, served by lovely Valkyries, until they all fall asleep, solidly drunk. And yet, they never experience hangovers or other mishaps from this daily inebriation.

    Source

    The mystery is revealed! That's pretty cool. Posted by Picasa

    July 13, 2005

    Best Career Choice

    latrinalia - bathroom graffiti

    latrinology - the study of bathroom graffiti (latrinalia), coined by a professor at Berkely who made this an academic specialty

    July 12, 2005


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    July 11, 2005

    Swelter

    Today's high temperature broke the records! Go humidex! And I got to sit outside in it doing nothing for 3 hours straight!

    Therefore, come to Markham Stouville Hospital if you're interested in buying tickets to Wonderland for $36.00 each, weekdays 10am - 4pm. Sold at the front door, beside the ice cream.

    Luckily, since Hurricane Dennis got tired out from terrorizing southeast USA, he's gonna be coming up here in a few days and spraying us with a little water.

    July 07, 2005

    When Smilies Go Wrong

    I've never liked this smiley: <3

    It does not look like a heart. It looks like a piece of Tolberone with two round tumours on it, or the top view of a horizontal nose. If it were to symbolize a heart, it should then be more of a broken heart, with the big white space in the middle of it and all.

    Also when people say: "oMG I luv u <3". When you express your love to someone, you usually don't tell them: I love you lesser than 3. This can imply that, on the grand list of people he/she loves, you're in the fourth position or lower. How gratifying. Or maybe it just implies that he/she has an unhealthy obsession with the number 3 and you have to understand that you'll always be beneath the number 3 in his/her mind in order to have a healthy relationship.

    OK I'm done now.

    July 01, 2005

    /cheer

    Canada is now 138 years young. Go Canada! Go independance! Go Canadian flag which is now slightly inaccurate and it's all Nunavut's fault! (Referring to the 11 points on the maple leaf)

    June 25, 2005

    Relief

    School is over.
    The lockers are empty.
    My binders are empty.
    The knapsack is empty.

    Therefore, the only thing I can say about school is: *plays Blockbuster No Late Fees commercial song*

    June 13, 2005

    Plural of Amen

    Appearantly, my blog was one year old 8 days ago! Yay!

    [06/16/05]: Soooooo close...only...week...more...
    [06/20/05]: Last full school day!
    [06/23/05]: So so so closeeee!

    Coming Up

    Tues: Physics Sound Unit Test
    Thurs: Biology Genetics Unit Test
    Fri: English Presentation

    Mon: Chemistry Exam
    World History Presentation
    Tues: Math Unit Test
    Wed: Physics Exam
    Thurs: Latin Test
    Latin ISP
    Fri: Motor Project

    Mon: Math Summatives Due
    Computer Science Exam
    Thurs: Math Exam
    Fri: Biology Exam

    June 10, 2005


    I just ate a Kit Kat without any wafer. Clearly I am displeased. Posted by Hello

    June 09, 2005

    Omitted words are

    Jess posted:
    "http://www.megadoomer.com/users/jess/images/bigsnake.jpg

    This snuck up behind me while I was reading on my patio. It was about five feet long, but non-aggressive. Boy, was I surprised..."

    Nookmeister responds:
    "woah. I would of either freaked out or whacked with something big and heavy. What did u do?"

    June 06, 2005

    The line's dead.

    Coming Up

    Tues: Physics Sound Unit Test
    Thurs: Biology Genetics Unit Test
    Fri: English Presentation

    Mon: Chemistry Exam
    World History Presentation

    Tues: Math Unit Test
    Latin ISP
    Wed: Physics Exam
    Thurs: Latin Test
    Fri: Motor Project

    Mon: Math Summatives Due
    Computer Science Exam
    Thurs: Math Exam
    Fri: Biology Exam

    June 04, 2005

    I was flashed by a camera =(

    Today's three subject meeting only partially worked out. The first hour was full of Jason's sushi making. Then there was Warioware Twisted and God of War and...........in the end no World History was done. There were some half-hearted attempts at brainstorming an activity...but that was it. Instead Arthur called up and came and then the motor was motored. Later my computer threw itself into a perpetual start-up loop and managed to drive me into a helpless depressed rage until it miraculously fixed itself. wtf~~~~. Then I Comp Sci'ed up all night. Therefore the day wasn't completely wasted...

    May 30, 2005

    Oh My Ga-od x30

    It turns out Vesak Day is a very important holiday observed prevalently in Southeast Asia by Buddhists. Go figure.

    In other words...oooooooooooomg the projects. So overwhelming...all due within a day or two from each other. It's going to make the coming of exams a huge smack in the face. First dealings is the Comp Sci Presentations due Monday, then Latin Essay and Creative needs to be dealt with by Friday, Physics motor is going to be an underlying threat, World History needs to be shoved into a pretty package by next week, and English will constantly annoy me with stupid prose test and presentation as time goes by. While that goes by Chemistry and Physics decide to stick in exams for fun, then I get assaulted by a full year's content of Math and then Biology, which is never all that fun to study for.

    This is a good time to vent. Which is why some dudes are coming on Sunday to clean my home's central venting system thing.

    May 29, 2005

    Tick Tock Went the Bomb

    I finally got around to stealing that funny clock cursor because I'm that original. But it's fun watching the day fly by so I'll keep it for now.

    May 24, 2005

    A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Duane

    Appearantly our Singaporean friend switched away from his crazy butterfly layout. Har. He also refers to Victoria's Day as Vesak Day?

    Reebops will be eaten into extinction.

    May 23, 2005

    ...whoa?

    Haha, so I decided to click on Jenn's blog's link...only to find this. Appearantly it has been invaded by a Singaporean boy who likes butterflies and bright text colours. I think I shall remove it from my list...eventually.

    May 22, 2005

    It's 3 AM idiots.

    Last night was John's party, and we got him the most wonderfully ingenious card. Sort of. After the television, there was Monopoly, where Cooper got himself so angry he eventually jumped onto Jason and began the whacking.

    Afterwards was a time of unpeaceful sleeping hindered by allergies and a crazy gang of drunk teenagers. The gang wandered outside onto the lawn across the street and at first were simply babbling incoherently. Eventually they began spontaneously shouting profanity, calling for beer, and wrestling. Someone began taking random photographs, and the flashing was really bright and annoying. If anyone got into a car we would've called the police. The sound of beer bottles meeting pavement was heard, and a particular small man who was the most drunk of them all began to smash a bottle. With the level of alcohol, things began to get...pretty. (harhar) Climatically the man shouted for water. When obtaining it, he shouted, "If this water has alcohol in it I'm gonna fucking kill yous." Then they wandered inside, probably brooding over a plan on how to get sober. Oh, and at the same time, setting off fireworks. In the end they all came back out and walked down the street in a large pack, thankfully without their cars.

    Sleep overcame me, and upon awakening at 8 AM...they were heard outside again. Returned from...wherever they came from. But yes, that whole fiasco was really amusing. I will now finish off those crazy assignments and test studying.

    May 19, 2005

    Portugese Urine: Roman Toothwaste

    Since E3 '05 is going on lots of pretty new gameplay videos have been released on Age of Empires 3 and the game looks very very very good so far. The graphics are the first obvious thing, but their new physics operations are amazing. The buildings, contrary to most other RTS, don't just enflame as they take damage or begin to disintegrate, but parts of the building fall off gradually, becoming hazardous debris towards units. Trees will collapse around targetted areas. The water will make realistic splashes and ripples. When units get hit their guns and hats will actually fall off and roll around, and they'll bounce off buildings if blown into one. This gives me a new respect and hope for Ensemble Studios after Age of Mythology, which had fair gameplay in its own right, but wasn't what I was expecting. The game will be out around September or later this year and you'll surely find it on my wishlist.

    You got Bio'ed

    If you didn't know, the U of T Biology Competition 2005 results are up. My haphazard guessing got me into a lot of trouble. In the end I ended up not passing the contest :P

    Correct: 20
    Inccorect: 15
    Blank: 15

    Total : 15/50 (Correct - 1/3 Incorrect)
    Excuse: 70% for effort.

    Therefore, if I do it again next year I should have a bit of a better chance since I should've covered all of the topics in the contest.

    Overall Markham District did not perform very well. We were about 65th or something, which, compared to some of the other schools around us, was so-so. No particular student from Markham did well except for this one Asian kid (his name says so) from Brother Andre. Darns.

    Note: One of the links in the site to the answer key doesn't work, so in the address bar change the "2004" to a "2005" in the URL. Then the actual page appears. Like magic.

    May 18, 2005

    The mountains showed the river.

    The streak of field trips has ended! The zoo was fun and musky-smelling, and I got ripped off sixty nine cents by an evil Harveys cashier. Now I have to figure out what's happening in Physics since I will have missed three consecutive clases in a row in a combination with tomorrow's Avogadro Exam.

    May 13, 2005

    Cerris Wheel

    Wonderland was wonderful.

    The Italian Job was a bit of a let down, in terms of it not being worth the 35 minute wait. Or maybe it's because I've already been to other thrill rides such as Test Track and Return of the Mummy that outrun the ride by a mile. I guess it's as good as we'll have it back here in Ontario though.

    Buuut Wonderland is always fun no matter what. Except for the fact that it was fricken cold, and after any ride with metal bars the hands would become an intriguing shade of reddish-pink. Basically after the initial class photo it was Arthur, Dennis, Zaheer and I, who decided to head for Drop Zone area first since the other 99% of the class ran away to The Italian Job direction. After going onto Dragon Fire and such, we went onto The Fly and took an in-ride photo that almost paralleled the one from before in greatness, especially due to Arthur's amusing flattened face expression, which he claims was completely unintentional. It would've been a great photo to except for the fact that we didn't want to pay $2.50 each for a $10 photo. Darns.

    Now I can look forward to zoo on Tuesday! Then I can look forward to the stash of Day 1 homework waiting for me.

    May 10, 2005

    Saving Classics saves trees, the animals, and famine victims.

    EDIT: PETITION: From the Latin root word "to beg, to ask for".

    What did the protester with a runny nose do? Picket.

    But I digress. If you took Latin Level 3 you would learn the derivative of the expression "but I digress" while reading the fourth book of the Aenead. If this is the case, those poor intermediates currently being denied of Level 3 Latin will never learn the essence of "digressing". That is but one side-effect that will outcome if Latin Level 3 would stop.

    Classics will continue to support the arts and humanities. It represents the roots of today's Western civilization. If history is important, than why shouldn't Classics receive the same priority? If the principal and vice principal would pull me into a security room to plead me to join AP Calculus and AP Physics along with the current 15 or so already, why can't they at least give Level 3 Latin a split class opportunity? You don't have to pay $100 for the exam in Level 3 Latin. You can learn the roots of the terms you'll use in mathematics, science, and law. It would be surprising for a Law student to throw latin terms at a latin student and for him/her to answer accurately without having studied or looked at law before.

    If you could ask anyone at all who has attended Classics of their opinion on it, they will give you a positive response. Any course that can do this must mean something. Any course that consists of such a close family of students and offer so many events such as movie nights, Certamen, Saturnalia, Myth Contests, Conference, and downtown lectures...I can't see why the school would not want a program such as this to run. Is the fact that university students and university graduates who had taken Classics return to visit and volunteer for Classics to be ignored?

    It's horrendous that society would want to give up this course for the sake of money. It goes against what Latin teaches you: the roots of humanity and society. Being in Latin 3 right now, I don't want the memories and experiences gained this year to be abstained from others who have just as much rights as I did to be priviledge with this course. Arts courses are great, as courses like music have brought me to many concerts before, and the histories to many museums. But no other course has let me experience anything like Conference, and downtown lectures which are FUN. The most exhilarating Math/Science excursion I've heard of is the Queens trip, but that requires you to be GOOD to be able to go, putting pressure on students to aim for numbers, not the sustenance of the courses.

    But to wrap up this huge thing: SAVE CLASSICS.

    I can't emote.

    This site is probably old news to most, but I've just found it. Some of the emotes are amusing. Check it. Out.

    May 08, 2005

    I EPLACE L UNGE

    Conference was very swell, and very fun. I didn't worry as much about studying as last year, so I think I did worse in individual tests. But it was still very much fun. The administration was a bit screwed and among those "technical difficulties" encountered included bathroom buddy-less people (ex. if you left your room key in your locked room it's off to Admin Services) and the complete absence of food or drinks from delectatio. Even with these "difficulties", they still managed the liberty of including a new award category: Host School Trophy. =\ On the other hand, to my current knowledge, it seems that we didn't have anything disqualified. :O

    Hopefully I will be going again next year.

    May 04, 2005

    Boci

    It's Conference time tomorrow...off to four days and three nights of fun. I feel less prepared for anything than I did last year. Darn.
    ...Why was I put into grammar...I'll do as well on that as I do in Roman History...maybe a little better with lucky guesses.

    May 02, 2005

    Today is Labour Day!

    ...in Australia.

    I decided to find my other two agendas from high school and compare this week.

    Monday
    Gr 11:Physics Forensic Presentation in Pit
    Comp Sci Level 4 Arrays Test
    Math pg. 648 #1
    Gr 10: Classics Skit Meeting
    Math Unit Test
    Careers in Comp Lab
    Music Theory Homework
    Gr 9: Appearantly, nothing

    Tuesday
    Gr 11: World History Gladiator Essay Rough Draft
    Chemistry Graph Assignment
    Gr 10: English Visual Verba Essay
    Comp Sci Algorithms
    Gr 9: Appearantly, nothing

    Wednesday
    Gr 11: Math Copy pg. 641,643
    Math pg. 648 #2-4,5b,6ad,7-9
    Gr 10: Classics Skit Meeting
    Summative Double Work Period
    Canadian History Essay
    Gr 9: Appearantly, nothing

    Thursday
    Gr 11: CLASSICS CONFERENCE
    Gr 10: CLASSICS CONFERENCE
    Gr 9: Latin Sheets

    Friday
    Gr 11: CLASSICS CONFERENCE
    Gr 10: CLASSICS CONFERENCE
    Gr 9: Math Test
    French Cashier pg. 151

    Appearantly grade 10 was more hardcore than I had previously remembered. I guess living through that last year tells me that I should be perfectly able to endure what's coming in Grade 11.......which SO FAR isn't as compacted as last year was. It also makes me reflect whether grade 9 was really so easy. I can't recall the feeling anymore.

    In conclusion, I let stress get to me very easily.

    May 01, 2005

    Power outage? Encore!

    Soooooo Thursday went by all Bio Contest-like, and after checking on the Internet a lot of my guesses were wrong. Darns. Friday was all Computer Contest, and my team won first in Grade 11 which was nice. Except all they gave us were empty Maclean's envelopes and then left. wtf?

    Yesterday was the power outage during which I grabbed one of the 5 flashlights in the house stragetically placed since the summer blackout, and sat there eating sugary Fruit by the Foot until the power went back on. Not touching any electronics except the lighting afterwards was a good idea, since the power went out again. Stupid power. The double blackout caused our fish filter and freezer to stop working for a while that night and pissed us all off. After we brought our two goldfish up to the second empty tank, the downstairs filter went back on. wtf.

    April 26, 2005

    Effusive

    I'm going to be missing so much school in the next half month, it's not a good thing. Especially Day 1's. Starting this Thursday, I'm missing the last period and a half of Day 2, and on Friday the last 3 Periods of Day 1. Next week I'm away Thursday and Friday missing a Day 1 and Day 2. The following Friday on May 13 I'm missing another Day One, and the Day One after that might be missed for Biology. Sigh~~

    April 25, 2005

    A widow's peak is caused by a dominant allele W...

    I just read last year's Bio Competition and I feel pretty crushed. My chances of doing well are pretty slim now. The questions are all definitely not really meant for grade 11, but if you still do very good as a grade 11 you are deserving of a scholarship.

    There are a ton of questions on biological diversity and genetics that suck, like:

    23. What DNA sequence information is NOT present in a sequence of complementary DNA (cDNA)?
    i. Introns
    ii. Exons
    iii. 3' untranslated region
    iv. Promoter

    a. i and ii
    b. i and iv
    c. ii and iv
    d. iii only
    e. iv only

    The answer is B =\

    April 21, 2005

    Move your Seoul

    This Korean guy does some really awesome things with an overhead projector and a pile of sand, choreographed with music. Check it out.

    It turns out I did ok on the Bio Bellringer which is a relief. Now looking forward to Chemistry Practical Titration evaluation and Latin Poem Exerpt Performance.

    Yet another reason has been added to why May should come faster. There was a Bio Zoo Trip I had forgotten about that comes after the Wonderland and Conference and Opera. Yay.

    April 20, 2005

    Roll initiative.

    The Biology bellringer was very uncertain, and in some questions I had a very faint idea of what the thing at the other end of the pin was. On the same subject, the Biology Contest is next week Thursday and I haven't studied whatever there is you can study for the contest. Maybe I'll read up on hot biology topics in the news.

    I'm still looking forward to the good things coming up, starting the end of next week where I get to attend an opera...well I haven't attended an opera before so at least that'll be a little fun. But after that is the Latin Conference, and after that is Math at Wonderland. Yay.

    Crazy long FF6 Flash on PSP dictatorship - Awesome

    April 14, 2005

    nihilominus

    The newest MSN Messenger Plus is just the best thing ever. Until something else becomes the best thing ever.

    April 11, 2005

    Leyenda

    Crazy week is alllmost over. We began with that fun Math test, Chemistry quiz, Certamen, then moved on to Bio test, English journals, Latin test, Comp Sci Assignment, and soon Biology Bellringer and World History Essay. *fizzles*

    April 04, 2005

    wtf

    Blogger decided to publish that post I tried to make a week ago 9 friggin times. And they can't be deleted.

    EDIT: It's fixed...3 weeks after. I think Blogger was just being stubborn at the time.

    (:@)

    When I actually had better stuff to post, Blogger wouldn't let me post. =\ So yeah.

    This week really sucks.

    The sparrow was honey sweet
    and knew its master well.
    But now it's in my bosom
    jumping around here and there
    and constantly chirping
    going through the shadowy journey
    to that place where no one returns.

    - (Phrases from) Catullus (Except maybe line 3)

    March 31, 2005

    Aspartame full.

    I just finished exploring the world of Atkins diet and I don't ever want or need to do it. Thank the greater forces.

    Ahh next week is going to be one of those not-good weeks, especially at the end. Lots of Math and Latin. I hope Chemistry and Bio don't do anything to interfere.

    March 27, 2005

    Places to avoid during Easter.

    In the Czech Republic, a tradition of whipping is carried out on Easter Monday. In the morning, males whip females with a special handmade whip called pomlázka. The pomlázka consists of eight, twelve or even twenty-four withies (willow rods) and is usually from half a meter to two meters long and decorated with coloured ribbons at the end. It must be mentioned that while whipping can be painful, the purpose is not to cause suffering. Rather, the purpose is for males to exhibit their attraction to females; unvisited females can even feel offended. The whipped female gives a coloured egg to the male as a sign of her thanks and forgiveness. A legend says that females should be whipped in order to keep their health and fertility during whole next year. The females can get revenge in the afternoon when they can pour a bucket of cold water on any male. The habit slightly varies across the Czech Republic. Some feminists allege it is a disgusting medieval tradition. Link

    If you thought having Easter Sunday on March 27 was a little early this year, in the year 2008 Easter Sunday will fall on March 23, and won't even be that early again for the next 12 years or more. However technically in terms of the layout that month, it would be similar to this month (4 days in between March Break and Easter weekend). However St. Patrick's Day isn't within March Break anymore. It's on the first Monday back.

    March 26, 2005

    "The taste has that wonderful fruity "wang" that I love so much." Link

    Being in denial made me jump into the Nile.

    On today's news: "Jason's blog gets plastic sugery...without months of rehab!" Oh the fibre, potassium, vitamin C, and 8 essential amino acids goodness.

    I downloaded the "Pretty Khaki" Gap commmercial and watched it several times. It amused me greatly until the 5th viewing, and by that time I didn't want to see anything pink for the next 5 minutes.

    EDIT: Juli's blog also got a new makeover. Roses have always been admired flowers, and as early as in Mesopotamia rose water was being used as incense. Cleopatra had her palace floors layered with rose petals each day and some of her pillows and mattresses were stuffed with rose petals.

    March 24, 2005

    "And by dancing I mean making love."

    Once upon a time there was a movie named King Arthur, and I watched it.

    That's because I went to latin Movie Night, the first movie night I'd gone to with any major issues.

    The first was that right before the movie began, we found out the person whom was thought to have the movie...didn't have it. Therefore it had to be rented and after half an hour of "Something Funny Happened On The Way to the Forum" or something like that...King Arthur began.

    But after the movie, it appeared the pizza delivery man hadn't arrvied yet, even though the pizza was ordered almost 2 hours ago. So after another while he came, and we managed to get $19 in credit for next purchase.

    But even after that it was still fun. It appeared there were less people than usual at tonight's movie.

    March 21, 2005

    Proving My (Trigonomic) Identity

    I really want an ocarina, and this site sells good quality ones. Unfortunately they're all extremely expensive. If I were to magically obtain one of their ocarinas, it would be the fairy ocarina with extended range, and a songbook. Very pretty.

    Age of Empires 3 isn't going to be out for a while, the earliest is probably October this year. Darn. The new screenshots coming in are so nice.

    March 20, 2005

    Decrastinate.

    It's the last day of March Break, darn.

    It was a nice time of not caring about anything school. Now...it's time to go back for a four day interruption, where tests occur, then continue with our fun Easter break.

    Eat vegetables with every meal, or else your lips will start to peel. [Episode 3]

    March 15, 2005

    Things to talk about at the crossroads

    I picked up a trivia card game of sorts, which is like a heaven of information to me. So I'll share some fun ones.

    The Food We Love
    - An acid in spinach and rhubarb builds kidney stones.
    - Carotene, the chemical that gives colour to carrots, can cause jaundice.
    - Kidney beans can be toxic if cooked improperly.
    - Lima beans have cyanide in them.
    - Fortune cookies, egg foo young, chow mein, and chop suey are all American inventions.

    Money Spreads Trivia Around
    - The Newspaper Association of America named K-Mart its "Retailer of the Year" one day before the company filed for bankruptcy protection.
    - A New York City coffee shop charged rescue workers from Ground Zero $130 for three cases of water.
    - At the conclusion of a co-sponsored contest, AOL and Coca-Cola inadvertently informed more than 100 people that they had won the grand prize of $10,000.

    Scary.
    - The creators of Kellogg's Corn Flakes intended the cereal to be a sexual repressor.
    - When you convert the initials NYC into the Wingdings font using Microsoft Word, you get a skull and crossbones, the Star of David, and a thumbs-up symbol.

    March 11, 2005

    March Broken

    March Break has arrived!

    Other good events include the fact that we finally renewed our Internet security and was able to kill the friggin worm that was preventing me from sending or receiving Hotmail attachments and was lagging my Internet. Stupid worm.

    I am not eating delicious sushi at the moment. Factors include my sister being here, my dad at work, and my mom currently in different country. Alas.

    So...I'm guessing that the groundhog predicted a longer winter? If not we should stick to radars and not groundhogs.

    March 07, 2005

    A guy walked into a post.

    I haven't been paying very much attention in classes recently, waiting for the holidays to roll by. I'll be taking notes, but only sub-conciously. But I'm just being lazy. Even though I had my share of a few quizzes and projects recently. I should probably just throw in the effort, since we're going to have 7 school days off within the next two and a half weeks. But seriously, now that Easter's shoved itself into an improper month, it's going to be about two months until the next holiday. Fun ol' Victoria Day. By that time we're probably all immersed in some sort of summative frenzy of projects and tests. The May flowers will try in vain to stop the insanity of the end of school year surge.

    On another note:
    I hope Italy and France trip people have fun!

    March Break must come.

    March 03, 2005

    Palmed

    I decided to read on palm reading for fun. That thing on my right palm is actually called the Simian Line (A huge line that horizontally crosses the whole hand). I'm supposed to have only a trace of either the Heart line (the upper-most deep line) or the Head Line (the middle deep line) but it seems I have a bit of both. Which they say usually never happens. But my heart line is more appearant.

    Yeah...I had nothing else to do.

    March Break must come.

    February 25, 2005

    Uh...

    Word of the Post

    Embolalia:
    The use of... um... virtually meaningless filler words, phrases, or... er... stammerings (or so-called hesitation-forms) in speech, whether as... uh... unconscious utterings while arranging one's thoughts or as... like... a vacuous, inexpressive... you know... mannerism.

    February 24, 2005

    Spiqua Fruit

    School is going along at a nicely moderate pace. The heart dissection went by stinkily (literally), and tests went by uneventfully. It's pretty boring...February. At least it's with the absence of that extra day. Today was Black History Month Day which was percussion-filled and cookie-filled too.

    I am looking forward to things like Classics Conference and the Mostellaria filming; hopefully those go well. I have a Chemistry and Biology contest to expect.

    In your school films, please don't loop one (or two) particular section(s) of the movie about 20 times, and then showing a few rewinded shots and then a few slow motion shots...making that 2 second happening culminate into 2 minutes. It's painful to watch the last 1.5 minutes after you stop laughing.

    February 16, 2005

    Go omnivorous!

    Ahh! Just finished a strange homework spurt, attributed to by two Physics lab, busy work package from Biology and Chemistry, Math quest, and that English paragraph thing.

    Arthur got the funniest pro-vegan sticker today :o

    Course selections! I have to finalize my choice by Monday...at the latest. I should probably not take 8 courses, and I'm torn between whether to take two histories or not. I'm probably going to take triple science and single math.

    (( (6) | |

    February 11, 2005

    "I was only mildly intrigued."

    I did much better than I would think on my report card. I'm probably going to have a hard time sustaining it...

    We saw sheep hearts in biology. The ones we have to cut so that part of it is on a little hinge. I might mess that part of the cut up. I also don't like the thought of being squirted with dead fluids.

    They had the exact same colours as wonton.

    And holy crap those fetal pigs are huge.

    February 07, 2005

    Accumulatives

    Today and tomorrow are all "Get-Exams-Back Day". The ones I got today are pretty good. The ones I was sure I did so-so in didn't drop my mark too much. I'm pretty sure the killers would be Math and Physics, and probably English.

    According to the Chinese caldenar this coming Wednesday marks the beginning of year 4702, whereas our's says it's 2005. It's the Year of the Rooster. All roosters celebrate! :o

    "The sign of the Rooster indicates a person who is hard-working and definite about their decisions. Roosters are not afraid to speak their minds and can therefore sometimes come across as boastful. They make good restaurant owners and world travellers." - Link

    "Fu is a lucky word. It is very easy to say it." - Link

    Yoko Ono was born in the Year of the Rooster. :)

    February 05, 2005


    omg it's 3D Posted by Hello

    Colonize me captain

    Yay it's Age of Empires 3.

    It looks to be very pretty.

    February 02, 2005

    There's so much Ragu

    EXAMS ARE OVER?!

    It's time to celebrate by listening to THIS for half an hour.

    ICS3M

    Only one more exam ~~~~~~
    And it's all on the computer so no study for me this morning.

    Yay it's teh Groundhog Day! Will Spring be coming earlier this year? Or not at all? Stay tuned.

    January 31, 2005

    Ow my valves.

    Today's exams were all excrutiatingly painful. The bulging pain in my right wrist reminds me so. 10+ sides of foolscap later my brain doesn't seem to have any motivation left to keep performing properly. Latin and World History are a hurtful partnership. And I still have 3 exams...

    January 28, 2005

    Your head asplode.

    Update (02/02/05):

    Biology Exam
    Math Exam
    Latin Exam
    World History
    Physics Exam
    Chemistry Exam
    Computer Science Exam

    OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

    January 26, 2005

    Funga!

    Exams begin. Good luck everyone on your exams! :o

    This is still one of the most in depth sites ever devoted to Harry Potter I've found. Whichever site can compile THIS much information on the smallest details of the books is amazing, not to mention they have at least 1-2 updates daily by different staff.

    January 25, 2005

    About Stuff. Much Ado

    Usually with the last two years there are exams which in my mind I know are more of a concern which I would concentrate more on.

    However now there's not really any exam that I can say is less important to concentrate on (except for comptuer science because it's an all on-computer test). That's good in the sense that I take all subjects more seriously, but it causes me to be more worried and lose focus easily. x_x

    to say. Whee...nothing else

    January 24, 2005

    X A.M. 00'00'00

    Biology Exam
    Math Exam
    Latin Exam
    World History Exam
    Physics Exam
    Chemistry Exam
    Computer Science Exam

    *dies heptepicly*

    January 20, 2005

    Alack

    The first whiff of exams went by...and now it's time to study. More.

    I found Spoonerisms yesterday. A Spoonerism a phrase with exchanged sounds to create humour. Good examples include:
    "We must drink a toast to our queer old Dean"
    "The lord is a shoving leopard"
    "Can I sew you to another sheet?"
    "We'll have the hags flung out."
    (i.e. Try switching the sounds of the first syllables of two words)

    Named after professor William Archibald Spooner, he talked frequently with Spoonerisms. Once he said angrily to one of his students, " "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain." (Quad : yard, courtyard)

    >Posting and You<

    January 18, 2005

    I'll chop her into messes! Cuckold me!

    Today I went to some doctor who checked my neck and throat area (i.e. it hurts now from the pressure of being squeezed over and over)and apparantly I'll have to get a surgery sometime to remove the tonsils. Ugh...

    In better news, exams are coming! Hah...

    January 17, 2005

    When you think that New Year's Day it became dim and was repaired travelling it becomes dim? Well, because it does not go yet!
    I found it on the Internet and decided to put it back.

    I Aorta U

    School is only causing excessive brain tension. Too much forcing of study. There's this issue of putting lots of tests right before exams...

    I can't recall any enriching field trips this year except for Latin Conference. There may have been one I missed. I'm not sure the chance of field trips will increase next year.

    January 15, 2005

    kik kik kik

    Yay, the new computer is set-up and operational. The old computer was basically defunct because it was crammed with viruses and almost 7 years old.

    January 12, 2005

    "Asses are made to bear, and so are you." - Katharina

    I got my Physics exam moved from the three exams in a row thing, but I couldn't move it onto the Wednesday =\. Instead of being on the day with Comp Sci it's on the day with Chemistry. Darn.

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    January 09, 2005

    Eat healthy. Stay fit. Die anyway.

    Perfect Future Present: A passing grade on the Latin exam.

    January 06, 2005

    Please release your seatbelt to end the ride

    January is never a good year for school. Especially when this year you have exams for all eight subjects, and three of them happen to be on the same day. ;_; All I have coming up until after exams are tests and tests. At least it's not a tests and projects and tests thing like in November.

    January 01, 2005

    My calendar will never be the same

    It's the Year 2005. It's an odd number now. It's also greater in value than 2004. Obviously, 2004 and 2005 are very different.

    Yvonne's party was really great, and Jason's afterwards thing was good too. There was fruity tea. Tea of various fruity flavours. In total that night I watched 3 movies.

    First thing eaten in 2005: Baby carrot
    First thing played with in 2005: Cardboard disk from frozen pizza
    First thing resumed in 2005 after celebrations: Watching The Day After Tomorrow
    First time sleeping in 2005: From 12 PM - 4 PM Jan. 1 x_X