Hey everyone, hope everyone had a good weekend. I had trouble sleeping last night again-- I got up like countless times-- so often that it seemed like i didn't sleep the entire night. Now, I'm kinda dying today-- a little lightheaded. Which isn't good because I had to finishe off the minutes that I took from Friday's staff meeting. Word of advice, don't leave minutes to be completed after a weekend-- you won't remember that happened. I had to search through that little Planning brain of mine-- which was not fun-- but now i have a bit of time to fool around and blog before I head on home.

So yeah, I'm sure if you all picked up the newspaper (thanks leo for the link), they've found Cecilia's body. Although being missing this long is never a good sign, I was quite shocked to hear the news. I can even imagine how the family and friends of Cecilia must feel-- losing a daughter and a loved one-- and to have no idea who or why a person would take a way such an innocent and pretty little girl. All I can picture at this moment is that video of her birthday-- what a cute happy little girl--and i'm quite amazed that a Chinese family took footages of their little girl's bday-- I've never been in a Chinese birthday party that had one-- they must really love their daughter. :(

It is amazing the how great the community came together at times of need like this. The sponsorship of monies for Cecilia's return, the folding of cranes of hope, the devotion ceremonies-- it's great to see a community in unity-- but it's a shame that it is only at tragic times does this occur. My blessings for the family.

work has been okay-- tolerable right now-- time seems to be going just a tad faster than usual-- the magic number is five, FIVE weeks until the Spring Term. Goody goody! On another (but somewhat similar) note, I got myself a Spring term part-time position for the School of Planning-- doing office admin work. See, this I like-- I wouldn't mind doing what I'm doing on a parttime basis. Much better this way :D So, me happy.

The carport (or a open garage) in Waterloo was near collapse apparently over the weekend. Apparently, the landload come over to demolish it. I come home on Sunday night, and i'm like whoa, "Did it collapse of the Weekend?" Completely freaked me out! AH!

Whoops, it's home time, so blogging is going to end. :O :O my big boss came to talk to me again today! What's going on? This is odd, very odd. :D

ipod! gimme gimme gimme! anyways, i hope you all like my new layout. i really like it, it's gives me orgasms just looking at it. (By the way, that one of the left is ME-- with the help of this picture!) this was inspired a few weeks ago when i got off the very super-duper cool St. George subway station, which has been plastered by the iPod ads [ Take a look ] . They're obviously marketing to lovely university kids like ourselves. well, i really like their advertising campaign (maybe a little more than the product itself :S )-- the silouette with a bright colourful backing, really gives it major umph. i like a lot! not that's a powerful ad!

i finally got to see passion of the christ this weekend. it definitely was the most emotional movie that i've seen to date. for a few seconds in the movie, i was stunned, literally stunned, by what the Romans did to Jesus. The whipping, the degradation, the nailing, the torture really took me.

You know, Jesus, just like one us, went through all that suffering-- and then here I go complaining about petty crap like roommates, the boringness of my job, and all this. I can't even come to imagine how that must've felt for Jesus. I'm really going to try to complain and rant less and be more positive. I think it's really sad of me to be affected only after seeing the movie, yknow? It's not like I don't know or haven't read the story-- and I've been through 20 Easter's already. As a sorta-practising Christian, I'm quite disappointed in myself that before the movie I was not even one bit affected by Jesus' suffering. Even though it the basic core belief of Christianity. Yeah, I cried in the movie like there was no tomorrow-- ask Bowie, she witnessed it all :(

But yes, only until a movie comes out do I truly realize it. I know I'm the worst person to attempt improve my character-- perpetually. but I really am going to try to be more of an optimist and not fret about petty crap. I might need to be reminded-- so I must buy that DVD when it comes out and watch it whenever I rant about "Bob" again.

Speaking of Bob, my upstairs roommates found sublets. And I thought I could have a little more quietness in the Spring. Ah well. The saddest part of it all is that Gary won't be able to live with me!!!! NOOOOO GARY! And I have to be stuck with the "lovely" two-- Jaime and "Bob". :: thinking positive:: :: thinking positive:: Maybe gary can just take my room and I'll live somewhere else :P Good idea, Matt, good idea.

Hey! The sun just came out, much more awake now. It's been so gloomy for the past few days. Where's that Mr. Sun? and of course, now it's blizzardy. What the heck is this?

First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENN AND LIZZIE! These two chicks are both 21-- so many March Birthdays-- which brings me to the conclusion that adults like to do it in June / July. I've yet to do some extensive research on why that's a prime time to do the funky-monkey-dance. If anyone has any input on this topic, please feel free to contribute below. Nevertheless, have a great 2-1, ladies. LIZ: Have fun in our sponsored NY Hotel Room. JENN: Rememebr to take some nude photos of me-- it's free with camera purchase ;) ;)

Also, I managed to see John-- it was a lot of fun! He's from North York so I played "Markham tour guide" and showed him around Main Streets Unionville and Markham. He seemed to enjoy it, and then walked a bit at Toogood Pond. He took a plenty of pics to his photography collection. Went to the Pickle Barrel-- they had pretty good food! Wow, the interiors is soo nice! Superdelicious and enjoyable!

I had a pretty darn good weekend. Went to see Mamma Mia! Wow, what a happy-cool production. Was on that little snoozey dramatic-plays-streak for the past months so it was definitely a change. Pretty voices, pretty people, pretty stage setup--just magnificent! We got excellent first row balcony seats which was fantabulous! Spanx Bowie for an superb evening.

I don't know why, but lately, I've had trouble sleeping. And in the middle of the night, I'd suddenly get up 2 to 3 times a night. It has really been made me not- so-ready-to-work in the morning. I don't know why. I feel like I'm thinking a lot more again. I've talked to my co-worker, Angie, who is the big lifestyle, health and well-being guru. She says it's two things: Anxiety, and eating meals late in the evening. Then I thought to myself, 'You konw what, she's right'

I've been a bit worried about some of the things at work. I wanna be rest assured that my boss is impressed with my work. Back at Chapters, it seems so easy to impress bosses: just shelve, condition and sell sell sell! But now, with the "high" quantity of work that I do, and my current issues with the Grad Office and issues of misunderstanding--it seems so much harder to impress.

I've also been worried about my parents. I donno, I've not been spending enough time with them-- I feel like I'm obliged to do more but not achieving it. Weekends are so precious to me now because I don't have a lot of "Toronto time" and I wanna do as much as I can during those times and it has sorta sacrificed valuable family hang out times. I sometimes feel caught between family life and social life. Grr, it's just so hard tossing these two around.

I'm goona end the entry now, cuz i'm off work now! YAY! Be back soon!

yes, i can slack again. this feels good. a nice little break. the video documentary was a big success. well, that's what the prof and the co-associate-psychologists claims. I think its a cool video, I'll put it onto an MPEG so you guyz can take a look :D seriously, my next computer is a mac. :)

It's good old thursday, so I'm really happy about that. I really can't wait to go home this weekend. it's been an exhausting week. I managed to make my first potato salad on Tuesday! I'm so proud. The contents of it was kinda funky, I had a can of corn and muchrooms, and a pack of sausages, and boom you got yourself a meaty salad. YAY! people said they liked it-- i don't know how true these statements are, but I personally thought it was okay. I made a tonne, so whoever wants any, and I'll have it personally delivered. tee hee.

i was reading an intersting article in the Post today about how they now have this new function on your cell phone where you can put fake background music to disguse the your location. So there's background music of perhaps a dentist office, traffic jam (that's a good useful one for work!), or static on the phone so as to cut off the person. I think it's a pretty good gadget to have, but what about morality issues? or is this for fun? hmmmm.... maybe i can make a background to sound like i'm doing it-- that would definitely be fun.

FYI: Hilary Duff is coming to Much next saturday! setting standards of annoying little tween girls everywhere. mmmmm

Hey, what do you know! It's Thursday! It's good old Imprint and Friends day. The best weekday of the week (excluding Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) Actually, Sunday sucks cuz it's basically Monday-preparation day.

Anyways, things have been pretty calm. Again, not much going on. Same old work. The Bike Path documentary is coming along pretty well, and hopefully I could have it done by Monday. I'm pretty much finished the lovely Planning Website-- except for the Graduate Studies information because i'm not getting much cooperation over there. (8 more weeks folks!)

I think I've finalized my classes for the Spring-- after lots of rearranging and thinking. GIS (PLAN255), Geography (GEOG222), Consumer Finance (ECON344), Organizational Behaviour (MSCI211), Microeconomics (ECON201). A total of 17.5 Hours. I'm sooooo psyched to go back to school! GO SCHOOL! WOO!

Hollywood is here in the School of Planning! There's an associate prof who looks likes Richard Gere! :O :O His actions and this facial features, like wow! Haha, Matt likes old sugar daddies so that I don't have to work and be a domestic engineer and watch Oprah. (Shima, I'm looking at both our financial futures!). But yeah, really a nice guy, let me continue stalking and see what class he teaches! lol.

So yes, to add to Shima's entry regarding the lovely "Immigrant Room", which is just between my office and Shima's. Yes, me and shima were always wondering what goes on in there. People who come in and out of the room, mostly Chinese international students, all look kinda sneaky and suspicious. They always close and lock the door on their way in and out. The room is always dark and no lights are ever on. I was talking to my Ecology TAs, Justin and Wendy (Wendy is pretty), and yes, it's confirmed that it IS the workroom for Planning graduate students.

So yes, we have come up with the fact that the Planning masters students are preforming some covered up illegal activity. Perhaps some plan to break zoning bylaws, violate height densities, or maybe starting an urban underground path to China (probably an expressway throughfare with major urban sprawl with dozens of desireable walmarts and other big- box devils) to transport pot, opium and other goodies . BAD PLANNERS! AHHH! We better keep an eye on them!

Oh the feeling of Spring, it feels so nice, so orgasmic. Just in time to fulfill my dirty "Lenten Sacrifice". Spring is nice. No more ugly blistering winters, no more ugly poofy jackets, and things come to life again-- birds, trees, and everything. Makes me really happy.

Anyways, this weekend was good-- despite stupid car trouble. We won't get into that. To sum it up, Canadian Tire sucks shit, Midas kicks serious ass. Managed to go to Markville as the shit-ass-nissan was the the process of fixing-- no, i stand corrected, in the process to be told that "the car can't be serviced today". Seriously CanTire has serious customer service problems. Dammit! I waited 3 hours to find out they can't service my car, what the fuck! I'm so mad!!!!! They can take an exhaust pipe and shove it!!!!!!!!!!! Car diagnosis: Brake pad worn.

Saw Melissa Manickam at the Gap, where she works. She's doing okay-- it was nice seeing her. Also, I saw Jono, TWICE! Once at Peachtree, and once at a Mei Chuen with Dian-ers. Was cool to catch up on each others stuff-- they both work at PricewaterhouseCoopers-- don't mix business with pleasure, you two. I enjoy bumping into people. Maybe I'm nosy and I like to know what other people are up to. lol.

Expect a new layout soon. I'm tired of this one-- the poor quality of graphics is bothering me.