I haven't been very good with blogging these days, mainly as there is nothing too inspiring that is truely worthy of blogging relative to the time that I have to spare. Perhaps this will soon change as my time frees up in 1.5 weeks when I return to Waterloo.

I spend most of my commuting either sleeping or thinking. Mostly sleeping. But today, there were many questions I asked myself, but with no proper response.

Here we go.

1. How can you ask a stranger what they're wearing that makes them smell nice, without totally freaking them out? Is it even possible?

2. Let's say that you take interest in someone romantically, and this person has given hints of disinterest. You want to continue but are torn as to where to draw the line between (1) being persistent and (2) being plain-out annoying? Perhaps responses can only happen depending on the actual scenario? I don't know.

3. What is the etiquette for hand shaking? Should a person always provide firm handshakes as specified in UW Co-op? Or should the intensity of firmness be relative to the 'receiver' of the handshake?

That's it.

Addendum:
These questions seem appropriate for AskMefi. Also, there was severe grammatical errors and unclear sentences in this entry. My apologies-- it was written in two minutes.

I've been very lazy these days, and one thing that I have put off doing is to prepare for the looming school term. I think I have mainly been putting it off because I seriously don't even want to think about school right now. The weather is still warm and Toronto is still happening.

But alas, here is my first attempt at getting ready. I am here to open the Matt Marketplace. As you might know, I will be moving to Uptown Waterloo come September, and my roommate Patrick and I are looking at a few larger furniture and appliance items. If you happen to have any of the following items that are no longer in use, please let me know. I am willing to pay a fair market price for them.

For the living space:
Kitchen table
Living room couch or chairs
Window curtains
Television

For the personal space:
Bookshelf
Bedroom dresser
Mattress

Home cleanliness and organization:
Vacuum
Door Mat
Shoe racks

Let me know if you have any of these items sitting around unused.

Pardon my tween language but... OMFG!

It was announced officially on thespicegirls.com that the Spice Girls are coming to Toronto for their anticipated world tour after the huge response from TO fans from the Spice City competition! Here's the latest note from the website:

We set this [contest] up to give all our genuine fans the chance to turn their hometown into a SPICE CITY. This was all about making your own city a SPICE CITY and since we launched there have been literally millions of votes for us to play in hundreds of cities including places like Rio, Chicago, Melbourne, Manchester, Paris, Alice Springs, Baghdad, and Diss (in Norfolk England)!

But one city had to win and we are now delighted to announce the winner is... TORONTO. Thanks to everyone in Canada who voted for us to play there - we’ll work out the date over the next few weeks and let you know.

Oh man, I'm so proud of Toronto. If you haven't been following the Spice news, there was initially no Canadian date for the tour when it was announced June. Then three additional dates were added to the tour in late July, which included Vancouver as its Canadian date. But now that's all about to change, as we are Spice City! Thanks eager Spice fans who voted, because they helped to put Toronto on the map.

Beat that Chicago! We might not have Millennium Park, but we've got Spice Girls! Na na na-na nah!

Toronto will now join the 14 other concert cities including San Jose, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Vancouver, Buenos Aires, London, Koln, Madrid, Cape Town, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

Oh man, I totally want to go. Who's with me?

PS: Do you remember back in the days when Muchmusic played music programming? I swear, I watched every show that involved the Spice Girls. Oh man, those days were fun.

Fans vote Toronto onto Spice Girls world tour - [cbc.ca]
Your Spice City - [thespicegirls.com]
Hi Ci Ya, Hold Tight - [torontoist.com]