a dream is an answer to a question you haven’t asked..

A screenshot Robbie made when the new microsoft search engine came out.

Hah. I bet Mhe’s laughing right now.

When You Were Young - The Killers

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now … here he comes!

He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined when you were young

Can we climb this mountain
I don’t know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let’s take it easy
Easy now, watch it go

We’re burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane that started turning
When you were young
When you were young

And sometimes you close your eyes
and see the place where you used to live
When you were young

They say the devil’s water, it ain’t so sweet
You don’t have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now here he comes

He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined when you were young
(He talks like a gentlemen, like you imagined when)
When you were young

I said he doesn’t look a thing like Jesus
He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus
But more than you’ll ever know

if this doesn’t make you want to buy a ps3, then you should go ahead and live under a rock.

Knight Story by Level 5

And this one’s a video of the very first ever paper FPS, Paperman.

translates to: so what if you have a 1 (1 - 5 scale, 1 being highest), are you from engineering?

Stee shared that pic with me. Tugged at my heart when I saw that. I miss Eng’g in UP. I wished I finished my eng’g degree too. Oh well.

And I want one of those damn shirts. It’s the frustrated eng’g-ot in me.

I was going to put off blogging about the free david usher / emm gryner concert until I got the pics from abi but I had to write about it before my enthusiasm and fan-girl mode dies off. Needless to say, friday was one fun but wet day. The rain was on and off, which put off a lot of people from coming but die-hard fans wil wait under the rain for david usher.

The concert itself started late because of the rain. After two indian dance performances and the chinese dragon dance, Emm Gryner was next. Give her a site a visit and try to look for her tracks, Girls Are Murder and Sunshine.

After Emm Gryner came David Usher’s much awaited performance. By this time, we’ve been standing for a good 2 - 2.5 hours in the temperamental rain, something die-hard fans would do. I’m not a die-hard fan. Mhe is the big fan amongst us. I’m more like a convert. But the anticipation seems to creep over the crowd, and soon enough even I was drawn into it. To the point I hardly cared about getting my newly dry-cleaned suede blazer all wet, nor holding my pee for how long. And magically, I’ve managed to position myself in front of the middle of the stage, on the second row of people. Mhe and Abi were standing by the railing, with me and Louie standing behind them. We were that close to the stage, and it was just awesome.

In prep for the free concert, I grabbed his entire discograpy and listened to everything at least twice. Nothing sucks more than attending a concert without at least knowing something about the artist or their music because you can’t appreciate the experience. I’ve always known David Usher is a popular artist, but only last week did I realize he was an amazing lyricist and musician. Somebody with substance, talent and heart. And incredibly beautiful. I think it’s the asian in him, but the man does not look 40. Just like Johnny Depp.

Anyhow, I’m sharing some of the songs he sang. I’ll link the videos and pics as soon as I get them.

The concert finish a few minutes before ten, and we headed out to Queen and Peter to get some all-you-can-eat Japanese food. Standing for more than 4 hours is quite tiring. While we were waiting for our food, we all got into the discussion of top fives. Here’s my list.

Top 5 Celebrities that Should Be Cloned
1. Johnny Depp
2. David Usher
3. Raine Maida (from Our Lady Peace)
4. Hugh Laurie (House)
5. (who was it again? no, it wasn’t brad pitt)

Top 5 Fave TV Shows
1. The Simpsons
2. C.S.I.
3. House
4. Friends
5. Sesame Street
(yes, no Smallville!)

Top 5 Fave Bands
1. Our Lady Peace
2. Snow Patrol
3. Greenday
4. Oasis
5. Nirvana

Times like these, with the free concert, damp yet perfect autumn night and great company, remind me how beautiful living in Toronto can be. I just wished I had the perfect picture to show for it.

David Usher is heading the 7th Annual Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon’s welcome concert tomorrow at Nathan Phillips. My friends and I are checking it out, and I suggest everybody else check it out too. What better way to end a work week but with some good music and great company, and maybe some sushi train later on? The concert starts at 7 but come early to get yourself a nice spot. Remember to grab a coat, temperatures are dropping since it’s officially fall.

A Day in the Life - David Usher, Morning Orbit

Did you feel small today when everyone had gone
‘Cause I was beaten up and jaded by the news
And underneath the skin the truth is breaking through
So they just sewed me up and spit me out
And I can’t change it
I can’t change this

You you take away the world
And I don’t even know myself now
So how can I know you
And I don’t want to die
And I don’t want to leave this place yet
Just give me one more try

My thoughts are floating as reality explodes
I’m whispering to each of you my friends
And every moment seems to freeze frame through the room
All the colors are electrified
But I can’t see now
I can’t see now

You you take away the world
And I don’t even know myself now
So how can I know you
And I don’t want to die
And I don’t want to leave this place yet
Just give me one more try

And I’m drifting through myself again
Tell me how I got so high
Where the conscience bends the air is thin
And I can’t change it
I can’t change this

You you take away the world
And I don’t even know myself now
So how can I know you
And I don’t want to die
And I don’t want to leave this place yet
Just give me one more try
And I don’t want to die
And I don’t want to leave this place yet
Just give me one more try

One more try, yeah
Just give me one more try
One more try, yeah
Just give me one more try

ubiquity (yü-’bi-kw&-tE) : the ability to be present everywhere or at several places at once : presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously : OMNIPRESENCE.
Etymology: Latin ubique everywhere, from ubi where + -que, enclitic generalizing particle; akin to Latin quis who and to Latin -que.

Needed a break from all this reading. Either I blogged about this word that distracted me in the first place, or play LocoRoco. LocoRoco is an addicting PSP game, far more addicting than Katamari.

I fear that with LocoRoco, there’s no turning back.

Since my locoroco obsession has reached new heights today, I’m taking the time to share the site where you can download the demo and theme songs, and read the incoherent lyrics. The songs were sung by a half-japanese half-canadian 9-year-old girl.

So guess what my new ringtone is. Lol.

Happy 26th to Jilen (15th), belated happy birthday to my dad (12th) and Sharon (14th)!

Too tired to blog. Will blog soon to share you about ‘can you pls call the cops?’

TGIF people!!!

I haven’t been in a classroom for more than four years. It’s been that long.

Truth be told, I couldn’t sleep last night. I was up til 4 in the morning and barely caught a few Zs when it was suddenly time to wake up. I wasn’t that tired this morning. I was excited. I couldn’t turn off my brain. I kept running scenarios of what the first day would be, what I would wear, what would I do to find my room, etc. I miss being in school, talking to other people, feeling educated. I would stay in school if it wasn’t such a blackhole for time and money.

Needless to say, I actually got up late. It was bloody cold this morning, almost nipular. I got to work at quarter 9 when I’ve been meaning to get there at 8:30. I needed to leave by 4:30 so I’d have time to find my room. Ryerson might not be as big as U of T or UP, but they set up classes in weird rooms. For example, I have Business Law at the Engineering building. Why? I have no idea.

I hate being late for class. All those stares you get when you enter a room. I was running late for class and I couldn’t find my room. The registrar wrote the room as ENG II so I went looking for room 2. After asking a few people around I finally found it. Just as soon as I’ve settled the teacher starting writing on the board: PSYC 101.

Great, just great. I’m running late and barely a minute seated, I already have my first day blooper. I started gathering my things, trying to make as little noise as possible so they wouldn’t notice the girl who entered the wrong classroom when change fell from my pocket, clanging on the floor. The room was setup like a theatre, with rows and rows of staggered swinging chairs. Down went my change. As I got up and left, I hear a bunch of Flips talking behind my back. Something amusing for the first day.

The people outside the room whom I asked previously for directions already knew I went into the wrong classroom. I took a good look at my registration again. ENG 11 not II. Stupid me. I passed that room half-way down the hallway. Walking briskly, I went inside the room dreading stares. A bunch of young people, some people in my age bracket and some oldies. The instructor wasn’t in yet, cutting down the anticipated embarrassment.

Maybe a few years back, my blooper would’ve embarrassed me to death. The beauty of aging is that you learn the grace of handling embarassing situations ergo the poker face. I’m not good at keeping a poker face, but it is a necessary skill esp. when you need to deal with not-necessarily bright people. I have yet to master the complete art of BS-ing.

I sat somewhere in the middle since I’m not such a geek that I’d sit in the front rows and I wouldn’t be able to see if I sat in the back rows. I sat beside a nice and well-spoken lady, whom I’m assuming is taking law because she wanted to know at what firm our instructor worked at. The class itself was interesting. We started with English history and how the current constitution is intertwined to American history. I’ve never taken a law class ever, even as an elective. Considering I wanted to be a lawyer before, I was actually looking forward to taking this class despite the amount of reading Robbie was warned me about.

While I was listening to the lecture, my mind kept drifting from one thought to another. I imagined myself as a lawyer, which I found funny. I think I have ADD because in a few seconds my mind can just from one idea to five others. Being a lawyer requires a lot of concentration and discipline, of which I’ve been told I greatly lack. Remember the chant? FOCUS. Lol.

I admired this lawyer/instructor of ours. He’s been talking for the last 2 hours but he still has the class’ attention. Few people can hold university students’ wandering attention for long. And what’s great about him is that he seems so real. He’s maybe in his early 50s but he can communicate with students without all the hoo-haa jargon. He even says chill. Imagine your grandpa saying chill and tell me if you didn’t find that amusing.

Hopefully tonight my brain would give me some peace and let me sleep. Tomorrow is only tuesday. I have a long week ahead of me.

Thanks to Louie for wishing me luck. If you didn’t, I would’ve probably made a bigger ass of myself today. Lol.

I haven’t got the energy nor time to blog these days. Been busy. Very busy.

For starters, work has picked up. Had another meeting at Oakville at CBSE. It’s quite dreadful to be asked questions about software you vaguely know about. The guy kept asking me questions about Microsoft SourceSafe, like what does this menu item do, blah blah. I don’t work for Microsoft nor did I ever say I was an expert on it. I am a programmer, not an administrator. I should feel disheartened by the fact I couldn’t answer most of his questions, but I don’t really care anymore. I’m not one for pretenses about things I do or do not know. You might think it’s stupid to not even attempt to feed people BS but often times that backfires. So sue me for being honest.

I can’t remember most of the things I’ve done the past week. I do remember going to CNAnime with some of the clan (Mark, Sarah and Josh), Quy and Lillian (Quy’s gf). It was held at the MTCC and had a ton of attendees. The novelty of seeing dressed-up otakus, nicely and badly dressed alike, has worn off a bit and I spent most of my time actually oogling the goodies. I’ve uploaded the pics and it shows how much I’ve forgotten to use my camera. I completely forgot you can control the flash’s brightness by focusing on a point with less/more light to have the flash adjust itself. Most of the pics I took didn’t have the flash on, thus it kinda looks blurry. Lol. I should learn some pointers from Jilen.

Anyhow, check out the pics. There’s one of astroboy, a gundam with a real person inside, some bleach characters, a nurse from resident evil, pikachu, princess usagi, the guy that plays mini-me and some other people I couldn’t figure out.

I’ve been busy but it’s gonna get worse. For one thing, school is starting. Yes, I am officially a Ryerson student! (Did I just hear boos?) I’m taking night classes 4 days a week, mondays thru thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30. After much hoo-haa and argument, aside the fact that Ryerson denied me admission to their Computer Science program (so stupid), I’m pursuing a BCom Information Technology Management degree. It’ll take me maybe 2 years but I’m happy the balls rolling. Next up would be working on that certification.

Sometimes I catch myself second guessing my decisions on my career (or lack thereof). I dunno if the elders ever have these moments, but I’ve been unsure about a lot of things. Telling me what to do just irks the rebel in me because I feel like I need to justify all my choices. If I can live with my choices no matter how bad they are, couldn’t the rest of the world do the same? I’m worried about my future too, but there’s no need to add pressure when I already feel stifled by my own expectations.

Enough of that. Negativity eats too much energy better put into work and play.

What else is up for this week? Jilen wanted to check out some movies from the Toronto Film Festival. I wanted to see Borat (Ali G), Babel (Brad Pitt) and Stranger than Fiction (Will Ferrel) but the convenient times are sold out. I can’t exactly ditch work and watch a movie at 9 am just because Brad Pitt is in it and I highly doubt Jilen would be able to either. Guess gotta keep digging for other movies and flexible times.

Sunday’s our early celeb party for my dad’s 49th birthday. I can’t believe he’s that old already. I’ve always looked at my dad as some invincible person, but the bouts of gout and gray hairs make you realize even your own personal heroes are not perfect. They too succumb to old age and life’s odd humour. And although we failed miserably at celebrating my mom’s 50th birthday, I promised to myself my dad’s 50th would be different. It will be a blast. To aging and more drunken parties!