I can climb walls!

So today I took my belayers(sp?) test. And I PASSED! Woot! This means that I can now go in to the climbing wall and CLIMB! This is awesome! So I think I'm going to be climbing walls and trying to get over my lame fear of heights. It's a little tough! You climb and then look down and think... I don't wanna go any higher... or in the other case, you get to the top and then realize, you're at the top! Look down and cower in fear. Then you go through that whole process where you prepare to rappel down the wall. But in order to rappel down, you need to lean back. I find it to be very unsettling. I hope I get used to it!

Lousy Mornings

Yay another post. I'm terrible at being consistent with my postings. Oh well! So, this morning that's what I'm going to talk about.. well not really talk... more of a typing type of thing! Anyways, so I got up this morning when my alarm went off. Which is somewhat unusual as I'm usually really tired and require the second alarm to go off before I can drag myself out of bed. Thankfully, it was just the long weekend so I'm all rested up. Although, feeling a little sick while at school, probably nothing but still a little bit troubling. NOT THE POINT! So I had plenty of time to get ready for the day. Got up, did the hygiene thing, ate breakfast, more of the hygiene thing, pack my bag and my lunch and get ready to go. But I felt as though something was missing! But I was too lazy to think what it was. Anyways, get into the car with my sister, who is driving, and we go. Shortly after, I think to myself: "Man it's really blurry out today... wait.." So I check my face, and realize. I'm not wearing my glasses... so now I don't have glasses and I have classes to attend. Yippee.... Taking notes is gonna be tough.

Worst subject for a project!

Alright so today I got assigned a project in one of my classes at school. The course is one of science and at the moment, we are going over infectious diseases. The project is that we are to make a book. Not just any book, a children's book. So I've got my group and we're ready to start research but we still need a subject of research. So guess what happens, we get to draw our subject! Hooray... Normally I'd be pretty happy with this but the results were just awful. Keep in mind that this is supposed to be a book made for young children from ages like 8-12. So anyways, the infectious disease we get to talk about is called:

Cryptosporidiosis

Now, I'll let you look that up on wikipedia or google. Whichever you prefer. I don't really feel I want to talk about it on my blog! Well happy researching!

Oh yeah now I remember!

So for those of you that didn't know, I sorta took a year off last year. Pretty much, I did absolutely nothing... though I'm not too proud to say that. So instead of saying I took a year off to do nothing, I say I took a year off to try to figure out what I wanted in the future. Essentially, what the heck I'm going to try to get a job as. So anyways, during that year I found I was constantly saying, "Man I miss school!". Now that I'm back in school, well I remember why I wasn't the biggest fan. That reason being the homework. It's actually a lot more than I remember. But on the other hand, I didn't really do my homework in High School so that might have something to do with it. Oh well, I still am really enjoying the whole school experience! I'll try to think of more random things to blog about, but... it's harder than I thought... which seems to be a common theme with me!

New School

So, lately I've been thinking about the manner to which I make friends. The reason I started thinking about this is because I'm at a new school, well post-secondary and well, having started a few years after my high school friends, I don't really know anyone there. I find this to be a little troublesome the reason being that it does get a little lonely, I won't lie, I spend a lot of time alone at school. I have been told that I don't really need to make friends, but I disagree, I find friends are nice to have. Though making friends is very challenging since I'm an incredibly shy person in real life! Most of my current friends who are at other schools or I don't get to see often probably know that. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to try to figure out how to not be shy. In the meantime though I think it's going to be a little tough.

On a less depressing note! I'm really liking my new school. It's a very nice school and the teachers are nice and the building itself is quite nice! They have a place for me to workout and such, but I have yet to go... I really should or else my physical condition will get worse than it already is! I'm out of shape... I really need to work on that...

Anyways, if anyone found my last post somewhat... oh I don't know... offensive. I apologize. But I just couldn't help myself!

Strange encounters

So this topic is going to be a little bit uncomfortable... for me at least. Don't really know about you - the person reading this. So I was in the public washroom today, and another guy comes in. Now, just so you don't get any wrong ideas, I did not talk to him nor him to me. No eye contact or anything. Pretty much we both minded our own business. So I was washing my hands and he was using the urinal. Anyways... while washing my hands I suddenly hear the guy grunting. In addition it wasn't quiet, it was loud and very very audible. After hearing him grunt a few times, I left the washroom as quickly as I could.

By the way, just a quick note for you people, when you use the public washrooms. Please, practice good hygiene! Seriously, too many people don't wash their hands... personally I think that not washing your hands is disgusting! Just in case any of you are going to say something like, well I doubt you wash your hands all the time! Well you'd be wrong... terribly wrong.

Books and Grr!

So first thing I have to say is. I haven't been posting at all lately. I just haven't had any random thoughts to talk about on my blog pop into my head...grr. Technically, I could talk about the Olympics and such, but I decided not to. The reason being, so many people are already talking about it. Whatever opinions I might have, are probably already somewhere on the net. Even if they aren't, well, I just don't feel like it...

Anyways, so recently I've been reading a book by Terry Pratchett. It's called the, The Light Fantastic. It's a pretty funny and interesting book, although I'll admit, I haven't gotten very far. But it's very funny! One downside is that there are no chapters. So it's a little difficult to know where to stop reading. From what I've been told, Terry Pratchett's books are very fun to read, so please go and read them!

Learn to Drive!

So lately I've been saying, "Hey, I should get my drivers license!" And people around me reply by saying things along the lines of good for you, you should do that. Unfortunately, I for some reason won't do it. I don't really know why, I just keep putting it off. There isn't even an excuse for it either. I just put it off... I really want to be able to drive. I feel kinda bad having my friends or family drive me around all the time.

I'm back!!!

Well hopefully! I've been a little bit busy with life lately. But I've mostly been busy with not knowing what to really talk about! But I plan on updating a lot more now. Hope there are still people that check this! Anyways, that's all for today!

Christmas Time is here!

Or at least I'd like it to be. I don't know why either. Summer vacation is just starting too. But for some reason I want it to be Christmas really badly. Well, I kinda know the reason. That being the fact that I've been listening to Christmas music. I don't know why, I just felt like it. So after listening to it, I want it to be Christmas. I'd have to say, it's probably my favorite time of the year. I won't lie, I really enjoy getting presents. But in all honesty, that isn't the reason I love Christmas! It's the truth... really! The reason I love Christmas is because it's probably the only time of the year that comes with the guarantee that I'll get to see family! Also, to me, it seems like people just seem happier and in a much nicer mood. People become generous. I'm very much aware of the fact that many bad things still happen during that time of the year, and that some people are less fortunate. But it's still my favorite time of the year.

Treasure!

Ok not really, but it kinda relates to what I'm going to talk about. So this weekend, and by this weekend I mean the past weekend that happened... Sorry it's a little late and I'm a bit tired so if I don't make sense... well hopefully you'll be able to sort it out for yourselves and figure out what I'm trying to say...

Anyways, this weekend I go to watch a movie on both Saturday and Sunday! Woot, this rarely happens and it's a bit of a treat for me! Movies are always fun! Well... not always but usually! But I noticed there was a bit of a theme. They both had something to do with treasure hunting. On Saturday I got to watch National Treasure. A pretty fun movie. I liked it! And Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I think that's what it was called. I'm just feeling too laazy to look it up. I'm also aware of the spelling error I just made on lazy but too lazy to correct it. If it bothers you, too bad >_<

Anyways, both movies were very entertaining to watch although, there were parts of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that I didn't like. But I won't say anything to avoid spoiling anything for people who want to watch it. One thing however, I noticed that I'm very easily influenced. After watching these movies, on both occasions, I had a quick little thought. "Hmm, it would be pretty interesting to be an archaeologist or some sort of treasure hunter when I grow up." Two things are wrong with this little thought. First, I'd be terrible as an archaeologist or treasure hunter, I get lost easily and get bored of things if I find them to tedious. So trying to decipher anything or to dig anywhere would probably get old fast. Not to mention, I'm not really built for manual labor! Secondly, it has to do with the "grow up" part. Technically, I have grown up, the only kind of growing I can look forward to, is my weight and width. Some people say I still need to grow up mentally, but they're just being mean... I think. Oh well, though I do believe I need to be a bit more mature in certain matters, I think I'm going to be a child at heart for a very loong time! (the error in long was intentional to any picky people!)

Youtube musicians

So one thing that I enjoy doing is looking up musicians on Youtube! It may not be very interesting to you but it is to me. And when I say "looking up musicians" I mean people who post videos of covers or original songs. I find it's just fun to see. Not to mention it makes me want to play my guitar more as well. Which is always good because I really need the practice (^-^)

So this one guy that I found, he has an original that I really enjoy listening to. So I felt like sharing this. So I'm going to try to post his video here on my blog. By post on my blog I mean give you a link!

Here's the link!

In the case I didn't do that hyperlinking thingy right, here's a link for you to copy and paste!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtVN55FGJw

If you like this video you should check out his other videos too!

Password problems

So I recently read a post by Bubbles, talking about similarities between her and well, our mom! Well this got me thinking. A little while earlier we were talking about our dad and his strange use of passwords. And by strange use we mean, his passwords are really complicated. I don't think I'd ever be able to guess them. But here's where the two come together. I find that with me, I'm always thinking of how I can make my passwords harder to guess. In which I eventually do find a way. I like to have passwords that would be hard to guess and have it so that I can type them quickly so no one can see. But the problem with that, is I seem to forget to change some passwords. Eventually, I have so many passwords I start to forget and then everything turns into a disaster. *Sigh* Realistically, the current password I have is good. I hope I don't end up changing it for some reason...

Apologies and guitars

So I have to apologize. It doesn't look like I'll be posting anymore pictures of my vacation. Because I can't seem to get them... LAME! So I apologize for saying that I would and then didn't.

On another note! I have started practicing guitar much more frequently. Mostly because I just had a "Jam session" with a friend. Well, he says we jam, I say he just teaches me how to play the guitar. (^-^)

Anyways, hopefully I'll be able to keep up this trend for a longer period than, oh I don't know... my usual two weeks. I'm aiming for keeping up my practicing for at least a month! Yeah, ambitious I know but you have to be ambitious in life!

On another side note! Bubble tea is delicious!!!! I wish I had some right now!

Still waiting! (pictures)

Still waiting!

So yeah I know I promised that I'd get you dear readers some pictures of my vacation in February... months ago! Well you see I'm waiting to get some pictures from people. For this time I didn't really take any pictures of my vacation. I figured there's already 3 or 4 people in my group taking pictures. Why have add another? What an unbelievably large mistake that was! Well not really, I got to relax just a little bit more during the vacation. Not to mention I didn't have to carry around my camera all the time. It isn't that heavy... but meh, I just didn't feel like carrying it around with me all the time! But I did take some pictures. However, they're mostly pictures of planes from the museum. The Midway!... I think! I'll post up some of those! Unfortunately, because of my terrible memory... I won't be able to tell you anything about these pictures. TT-TT

I apologize!

The Dentist

So I went to visit the dentist today, and get the whole routine cleaning. One thing that I noticed though, was that they have this new device! It's kinda nifty, it shoots water at your teeth to loosen up any kind of plaque or anything before they start scraping away at your teeth. I for one found it to be somewhat pleasant and also somewhat unpleasant. 50/50. I say that because, it was good because it made the awful scraping part go a lot quicker. But it was kinda uncomfortable at times. It hurt to be more precise. Also, when the lady got to my molars, I found my ears would ring while she was spraying away.

I lied, I noticed one more thing. As I remember it, when they polish your teeth, they never ask, what flavor you want. But today they did. Apparently there are different flavor polishes now. But I went for mint, that's always a safe bet... err... usually.

To finish this post with good news, I have no cavities!!! (^-^)

Mount Royal Worries

So as some of you may know, I'm applying to go to school at Mount Royal College. Which I really do want to do, though, as the title of this post may suggest, I'm worried. Mostly about whether or not my marks were good enough to actually be accepted into the school. My sister says that I'll be fine. But I still worry. I've been reassured by the open house I went to because they said that there are other things that I can do instead that will work just as well. But I'd still much prefer to get into the program that I have initially signed up for.

Also, I don't find out until the end of May, so I've got a long time to worry about this... Oh well... I'll find something to get my mind off of it... I hope.

#101

Rejoice! Not actually though, but you can celebrate with me if you want! This will be my 101st post on my blog! I'm honestly a little bit surprised that I have been posting this long! I plan to continue with my posts from now on too.

Unfortunately, I didn't do this on my 100th post. I didn't realize that it would've been my 100th post so instead I posted about Bubbles instead. Oh well (^-^)

Inspiration...I guess?

Well, lately I've been thinking while trying to get pictures of my vacation. "I wonder where I get my blogging ideas from?" As in, where exactly do I get topics from, to be more specific. While thinking of this I came up with a number of conclusions. One of which happened to be current events and my opinions on them. But as I thought about this more, I found out where most of my inspiration comes from. Be exited Bubbles, for it is you! (^-^) Yup! My dear elder sister, though she's not actually all that old, is my inspiration! (err... for this blog) I found that about 87% of the time I read her blog, Hooray for Everything, before I post anything on my blog. So here's to you Bubbles! Thanks for the inspiration!

On another note, why does everyone I seem to know that isn't family, hate fast food. More specifically, McDonalds? Is it because of the general health concerns that were brought up when Supersize me came out? Or does nobody enjoy the taste of the food? Am I the only one out of all my friends that simply enjoys the taste and convenience of fast food?

Last 2 Days at sea

So on the last two days at sea, we didn't really do much. We mostly lounged around on the deck reading. That's why I can put them both into the same post! I'd have to say the highlights were dinner, playing house of the dead 4 and watching the shows. One was a magician and the other was a comedian. Both really entertaining to watch. Although the only problem with the show with the magician was the fact that we ended up sitting in the lamest seats ever. so you couldn't really see what was happening. Well that was the last 2 days at sea. Wow, that ends my vacation that I had in February. Took me long enough eh? I'm sure I missed some things about the trip because it's been so long. I apologize but I will post up some pictures soon. Look forward to them (^-^)

Manzanillo

Or at least that's how I think you spell it! Anyways, this day was going to be our last excursion. After that it would be another 2 days at see. Which also meant we were almost done with our vacation. Ugh so depressing! Anyways, for our excursion again we went snorkeling as you may already have guessed or read in an earlier post. I'd have to say the boat that we were on wasn't as neat as the last one. But we got on right off the ship. So it was a little bit convenient. It was essentially going from one boat to another. So we get to our destination and we get our gear and go. The water this time was almost as clear as the second time but just a little bit worse. We saw plenty of fish which is awesome, saw some coral which is also awesome. But I'd have to say that the guides for this trip were better than the rest. These guys were really good. They actually caught a few fish and brought them up to show us which was pretty neat. I think they caught a water spider and a blow fish. Put them in an aquarium for us to look at on the way back. On the way back as well, they had some entertainment ready for us. Mostly just some music and a drinks. Which ended up being a drinking contest on the way back. I didn't participate but I did have a drink. Just one! Once we were back on the boat, we did the usual sit and read on deck. Well, until dinner. After dinner we did something but I don't remember, but after that we went to the show they had ready for us. This time I'm not sure but I think it was this musical thing. Were they had the cruises dancers perform various scenes from different musicals. One that I remember was they did a dance to Pinball Wizard by the Who. It wasn't very good... the singer just didn't sound quite right which made the song sound funny. Also the tempo of the song was different as well... I'd say it was slower than the original. After that sleep!

Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa

First thing I'd like to say is yay to my new blogger template. The only problem with it, is that I can't make a new post right from my blog. I won't explain :P

Anyways, back to blogging about my vacation that happened months ago. So at this port we got to go snorkeling again! Woot! This time however, it was a small village so the port wasn't big enough for the boat to dock. So we got on smaller boats that were on the ship and went to shore that way. It was really nice there! I'd say out of all the stops, this one was the best. One thing that I would like to point out, is the number of armed soldiers at the dock was a lot higher than I expected. To be fair, I wasn't expecting there to be any armed guards.

Just so you know, I'm not saying much about the morning because I don't remember much of a morning. I'm pretty sure I slept through 90% of it! So we got to shore and we were waiting to start our excursion. We got to ride small boats again, but this time we headed for a boat that wasn't quite as large as our cruise ship. None the less it was still fairly large. Anyways, once everyone was on the boat, we set off to go to our snorkeling area. The sky was clear the scenery was beautiful. It was very relaxing. Once we started snorkeling, I realized that this was much nicer than the first time. The first time the water was kinda murky and green. Here the water was clear and much less green! Still very salty though :P

After the snorkeling was done, we set back to the dock. The crew of the boat were very friendly. Overall, this was the best snorkeling trip we had gone on the entire trip. Well, in my opinion. We got back, we went shopping in town. It wasn't too far. There we bought vanilla. Lots of vanilla. And apparently high quality vanilla! After that we went back to the boat and ate dinner. After that I'm pretty sure we hung around maybe walked around the boat a bit, and then headed for a show! Unfortunately I don't remember what the show was... I think it might have been a hypnotist. It was very entertaining to watch. There was a safe for everyone to enjoy show and a show for adults. Nothing terrible really happened in the adult one. But I guess it was a little less safe for kids. I somewhat regret not volunteering for the earlier show, I think it would've been interesting to be hypnotized. Oh well!

Are Arcades Dead?

Well are they? I remember back when I was younger, one of the things that I loved to do, was go to the arcade with my cousin and my dad. Eventually this would become my 2 cousins and my dad. Then it became my 2 cousins, my dad and occasionally another person, either another cousin or sometimes even an uncle and another cousin. But that doesn't really matter. All that did matter was the fact that going to the arcade was fun. One fond memory would be this arm wrestling game. I remember my cousin, my dad and I would team up and we beat the arm wrestling game together. Yea, it's technically cheating but still it was fun. Also the tickets you got from playing some of the games was also pretty awesome. You could get prizes afterwards. I don't actually remember using any of the tickets because we would always say, we'll save them for that big prize that's worth a whole bunch of tickets. Also, it was awesome to see your initials at the top of that list and then when you come back after a month or so, your name is still up there but the names underneath yours were different. That was always satisfying (^-^)

However, nowadays, the only arcades I see are those tiny little ones with about 4-8 machines in them. I don't know why but I think the idea of an Arcade is gone. People would rather play the games like Halo 3 or something on their X-Box 360 rather than go out to an arcade and spend money. Although I can see the appeal of not having to spend what used to be 25 cents just for one play. It's just not quite the same as an arcade. The atmosphere is different. You don't hear the numerous different machines playing their own soundtracks at the same time. One thing that I liked about arcades was that you could go with friends, instead of sitting in a room.. alone. Sure you could have friends over and they could play at the same time, but it's still not quite the same. I think it's more fun to spend time with your friends outside of the house rather than inside one. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy spending time with my friends no matter where we are, I just think there's more variety of things that you can do outside of the house.

Oh well, I guess if ever I want to visit something like an arcade, I'll have to go to the theaters. (-_-)

Songs I'd like to learn

So recently I've been thinking about what songs I'd like to learn. For the most part, the songs that I've been learning are mostly Rock. Songs like "Stranger things have happened" by the Foo Fighters and "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. I don't know why but I kinda wanna learn more soothing type songs. Not that I'm saying anything bad about those songs. I don't really know how to put it. One song I've been trying to learn is "My Name is Jonas" by Weezer but progress on that one has been slow to say the least. But that song is pretty close to what I want to learn. If you know of any songs and where I can get a tab for that song, please do let me know.

Err about that picture if you see it, it means my little experiment worked and I can post pictures! Yay! And if you were curious, that would be one of my guitars! I have one more and it's an acoustic rather than the electric one you may or may not see!

*Sigh* Understandable I guess...

Well I posted something asking for opinions and got none (T-T)

Not that I didn't expect, but I still got my hopes up a little. But then again... it is a subject that isn't very easy to comment on. Not to mention most of my readers that I know of, are in the middle of exams so instead of checking my blog, they should be checking their text books for the material they need to study. But still, it's a little bit discouraging to see that no one is leaving comments. Please... no pity comments...

Anyways, I've actually gotten a little bit tired of this whole stretch of serious topics that I've been posting up too. Once I finish posting, I just feel... not quite angry or sad or anything... it's just not happy. Which was kinda the reason that I made this blog in the first place! So I'll go back on track with what I wanted to do originally. Post up stuff about random thoughts or little things about what I've done. Nothing depressing will be posted for a long time hopefully. On that note, I think I'll get back to my posting about the vacation that happened awhile ago. (^-^)

Question! April 9th

Ok I'd really like your opinions on this one readers. Oh yeah, I'm going to refer to anyone that reads this blog as my readers. Alright, so in Florida a group of teenage girls brutally beat another. I'm going to go into more details just hold on.

For a better idea as to what I'm talking about, here's the story that I found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeVfQ_yvKw0
(your going to have to copy and paste this link since I can't get it to work, sorry for the inconvenience)

Yes, I'm aware that it is youtube but still it's a real story none the less.

Ok so there were 8 teenagers, 6 girls and 2 guys. The guys didn't really do that much in this one but they did stand guard at the door of the house in which this happened. I guess they were standing watch to make sure no one came in and no one could help. Moving on, the 6 girls had invited another girl to this house and once she was there they beat her up. 6 on 1. Yeah... that's fair. The reason I bring this up is because, it's stories like this that really bother me. I don't really know what other people think about stories like this, or how the people should be charged. Me personally, I would prefer to see these people that gang up on one person get beat. I'm very much aware that it will never happen, but I would still like to see it. Just as a side note, I'm not telling you readers to go find these people and beat them, it's just an opinion. I'll put my trust in the legal system, in that it will find an appropriate punishment for these... people.

Another thing that bothers me about this, is that some people will try to blame anything else but these stupid kids. I'm sure I'll hear things like, "it's because of video games", "violence in movies" or other things. I disagree with these statements, because these kids are simply messed up in they're heads. Another example of messed up people, not too long ago a man was beaten while he slept in a park. He had moved to here to find work and since there's a housing problem in the city, he was sleeping in a sleeping bag in the park. In which these guys, we don't know who they are, came and beat him. He's in the friggin' hospital now. These people are quite simply bad people, and I don't know if I'd feel any remorse if anything bad happened to them.

Err... now that you've heard my very negative opinion on these types of people please leave comments, with your opinion. I'm very interested to read them. I'll be posting again once I've heard some opinions in response to your opinions. Well I might...

Acapulco

So this is now our first excursion! Yay, we made it to a port. Now we get to do more tourist-like activities. Although there was a draw back. One of our group which will from now on be referring to myself, my sisters and my sisters' roommate, were separated because the activity that we tried to get into, was full. So only three of us could go. My sisters' roommate was the one who ended up separating from the group to do snooba. Something like scuba diving. The rest of us went snorkeling. I have to say, the water was much colder and saltier than I had anticipated. Hey, don't judge me! I think it was the first time I've ever been in the sea! So how was I supposed to know! It's not like I went to the sea one day and jumped in and tried to drink some of the water, that's just weird and kinda gross. Anyways, the snorkeling wasn't too bad. It was my first time and it was pretty neat to see the fish in the water, though, it would've been better had the water been less... murky. You couldn't really see much. But still fun none the less. I didn't get any pictures of this unfortunately so you won't see anything for my trip to Acapulco.

After snorkeling for a little while, we went back to the boat for dinner and a little bit of rest. The reason I say a little bit of rest is because we had another excursion planned. We were going to go see the cliff divers. Sounds neat doesn't it! Well if you do end up going on a Carnival Cruise line and you go to Acapulco and they have this option for an excursion. I'd recommend going to the earlier one, which is also a tour of the city. If a tour in a little bus isn't your cup of tea, then just don't bother. To be honest, the one at night, isn't bad, it's kinda neat because there will be a guy that jumps off with only torches for lighting. But your sooooo far away, its hard to see anything. So bring binoculars if you go unless you don't want to see guys in speedos jumping off a cliff... in that case, just don't go on the excursion. Save your money! Before the actual cliff diving, they brought us to a little store where you could buy some neat things, but I didn't bother purchase anything. Nothing really caught my attention. But that's about it for Acapulco.

When leaving though, the city lights were very nice to look at when we were sailing away. And it was also pretty interesting to look forward from the bow of the boat. Which would be the front of the ship for those of you who don't know! Don't worry I'm not mocking you, until I searched it up on Google just now, I didn't know either! Anyways, when you looked forward from the bow of the ship, you saw nothing... it was just complete darkness. You couldn't even see the water. It was a little bit unsettling but whatever, can't do much about when you're on the boat. It was still neat though. Also, just in case I forgot to mention this, on Carnival Cruise lines, it would seem they always have ice cream dispensers on deck. So if you ever want ice cream or frozen yogurt, you can get it anytime you want! So about 90% of the time I was on the boat, I had an ice cream cone in my hand! Mmmm ice cream!

Day 6

So day 6 was also pretty boring. A few things sorta stand out in my memory though. One of those would be the quick half hour disco lesson I went to. It was pretty useless, well for me! I don't mean to brag or anything, but all of the moves they taught, well I already knew! Most of the time, I was just sitting on the deck with my sisters and that guy that my sister's room mate. And we mostly just read books while sitting on the deck catching some rays. The evening was enjoyable, the food was good and well, not much happened. We did go to see the show that the cruise had ready. If memory serves, there was a comedian. A kinda old lady, but funny none the less.

Sorry it took me a while to update my blog, I just don't seem to have the motivation to blog everyday. Which is bad. On the plus side though, I think I'll be able to post pictures of the trip once I'm done going over the actual trip. So you'll have to wait. Also I'll have to ask a friend how to post pictures :) No wait, I think I know how.

Day 5

So day 5 was the first day at sea. It was... apparently not very interesting as I can't remember much of it. This isn't the result of alcohol, because I didn't drink any while on the cruise... I don't think. Anyways, I think the day mostly included walking around the boat. The only thing that I really remember was the formal dinner. We got dressed up all fancy like, which I learned my cousin truly hates. Unlike me, for some strange reason I enjoy getting all dressed up in my suit and tie. I guess I'm weird. I think the dinner was lobster tail. Which was delicious and I also think that our waiter showed us a neat little magic trick involving moving an empty can of Coke from one cup to another without touching it. It was really neat and entertaining. After dinner I believe we went to a show were the cruise had dancers perform. And I think there was a comedian but I'm not sure. I don't really remember. I don't know why but the first day at sea is the only day that I can barely remember. It's a mystery.

On another note, my sister finally convinced me to get a copy of Rock Band. It's similar to Guitar Hero, except that they included a drummer and singer. It's not just guitar. It's pretty entertaining and I like it and all, but it was really expensive. Oddly enough, I don't actually play it that much. I don't really like playing alone, because it's just me standing in a room with the guitar, playing. I don't know why but I just don't like that... at all. But I'm fine playing my guitar (the real one) alone. Another mystery for you.

Day 4

So this day was the day that we would get on the boat and start the cruise! Oh man it was exciting! I'll be uploading pictures once I'm done with all of the days. Unfortunately for you, I'm not likely to upload pictures with myself in them or any people for that matter. Well I might change my mind. Anyways, so the boat was huge. Very big. It actually caught me by surprise! Moving on, we had to go through this security check, like an airport just a little less extensive, and then we got our passes to get on the boat. These passes were neat, because they acted as a charge card, room key card and a ID card to get on and off the boat for excursions. Unfortunately, we hit a problem, after we loaded our luggage and such so it could be put on the boat, we found out that my sister had left her passport in her bag. Which we needed to get onto the boat in the first place. So we had to wait for her bag to get to the room so that we could get her passport and then let her on the boat. The guy was kinda being a jerk about it though. First he was telling us that she needed her passport no exceptions, and then when we had the passport he didn't want to see it. We just told him we had the passport and someone was coming to show it to him. His response, it's ok, just get on the boat. I guess it wasn't that jerkish of him but still. It was annoying. So we were a bit worried about leaving her behind because of the luggage problem.

While waiting on the boat I did a little exploring. I found the gym that I never used, as well as the running track, which I didn't use. I also found a club for teenagers... I think it was ages 13-17. Club O2 it was called. I went in, and they didn't suspect I was older than 17. I don't know what to think about that one though. Also I found out where you can get ice cream 24/7. Delicious! I think I had at least one cone everyday! Then I looked around a bit more, found a club for people that are older than 18 only, as well as the casino, for 18 or older only. But I didn't feel like gambling... yet! Then came dinner time, we went to the dining room, and met our waiter and his assistant waiter! I've got to say, the staff on the cruise were most pleasant. Very nice people, almost always smiling! Some weren't but that's ok, I don't expect people to smile all the time. Anyways, the meal was delicious, I think I had,

Day 3

So because it's taking me a little bit longer than I thought to get all of these recaps out, I'm starting to forget exact details of my vacation. For some people when this happens it's understandable, they're usually busy with real life. That is not the case with me... I've got the time to be able to do this but I've just been lazy... *Sigh*

Moving on! Day three! Hmmm not much really happened in the morning, other than breakfast and er... maybe a little bit of shopping. Mostly it was for things like the essential things that we forgot back home. Then after that, we went to one of those more trendy places, where it seems all of the people like to be. So we walked around there for a bit, saw the shops and proceeded back to the hotel. This day, mind you, was the day that my sisters and friend would be arriving in San Diego, so my parents went to get them. I was left in the hotel room to do whatever I wanted. What I did wasn't interesting either. In the evening we went to fashion alley with my sisters and friend and walked around the mall. We then went to eat at a place called... P.F. Changs. At least that's what I think it was called. We had already gone there for lunch once already. At dinner we had a generally good time, my sister accidentally ate a chili pepper, and then I was coerced into eating one. And suffered... man I'm no good with spicy food. I like it... sometimes. After that, we went back to the hotel and I think did nothing until it was time to sleep... well nothing interesting. Oh I got my Dad to try those breath right nasal strips! It helped with his snoring until if fell off in the middle of the night. But I personally think it was because he had to remove it and put it back on before going to sleep. I tried it too! It wasn't much different from normal sleep, for me at least. I also got my ear plugs that I forgot at home. My sister kindly brought them with her! YAY! No more listening to people snore for me! But I worry I won't hear things like, oh I don't know, fire alarms! That's one thing I don't really like about ear plugs.

Day 2 and a quick note...well maybe not so quick

Alright so day 2! Well I didn't get up very early... so we didn't really do anything in the morning. So nothing interesting there. Well I can't say that, we went to fashion alley or something like that and went shopping. But if you don't find that kind of thing interesting then ya... nothing interesting there. The afternoon we went to a museum of an aircraft carrier. The Midway Museum! Yay! It was neat learning about the aircraft carrier, learning is fun! One of the things that I will always remember was the flight simulator. Not because it was something neat, but it was something that happened while in the simulator. So you would have 2 people in the simulator at the same time so my dad and I got in. We had the option of switching who the pilot was and the gunner. At first I was the pilot and we flew around trying to shoot down other planes but failed. Instead we got shot down once or twice, in which you would simply restart. Then we switched to my Dad as the pilot. At first it was similar to when I was piloting... but then he started flying downwards towards the ground for some reason... as you may have already guessed, we crashed into the ground. TWICE! He did the same thing twice! I couldn't help but laugh about that one. We also got shot down while he was the pilot... though I'm pretty sure that they didn't need to, since we would eventually fly into the ground anyways... The rest of the museum was incredibly interesting, I recommend you go see it if you're in the San Diego area.

The evening was better than the first! We weren't as tired so we decided to go for a walk and look for a restaurant to eat at. While we were walking we saw plenty of people doing the same thing as us or something similar. However, the only thing incredibly interesting about that evening was that when we were walking back to the hotel after dinner at TGI Fridays, very similar to places like Chili's, there was a homeless man asking for money. When my parents refused to whip out their wallets and give him money we were yelled at. But the interesting thing was what he yelled. He said, "GO BACK TO KOREA!!!". This leads me to ask, do I look like I'm from Korea? Why Korea? Why not China or Japan? Whatever. Then we returned to our room and proceeded to sleep. End of Day 2.

As for the quick note, today I went out with friends for a birthday thing. Technically I should say 2 birthday things since two people had a birthday on the same day. Anyways, late in the evening after a BBQ for lunch, hanging around, playing "Street Ball" or simply put Basketball and eating dinner at Pho So, we went to this place called Cafe Med. It is a sheesha bar which is something new to me. So I decided that I would try it out. What sheesha is, is a pipe like contraption in which you smoke something... I don't really know what it is, but my friends say it's good... now that I think about it, that's not really a good thing to say. Whatever! Moving on, the evening was enjoyable, but I'm not a huge fan of sheesha, I found I left with a headache and an odd but still very painful pressure behind my right eye. But none the less, an enjoyable evening. When I got back home and told my parents about my evening, my mom was very dissapointed with me. She seems to think that the sheesha bar is very similar to an opium den from the past China. She was telling me that those kinds of places are where people go to do drugs such as cocaine and smoke pot. She also seems to think that what is smoked in the place is dangerously addictive... I kinda have to disagree...

Recap

So as I'm pretty sure I said in my previous post I would start to tell you of what happened during my vacation last week or so. Anyways I'm going to try to do this in a each day is a single post type format. Unless I did too much or have too much to say. But none the less you'll know of what day I'm talking about and general time and such. Alright so I guess I'll start with day 1!

It wasn't all that exciting since it involved lots of waiting in the airport and flying. During the flight I either slept or listened to my Ipod. Not very exciting. Oh, occasionally I would look out the window to see the clear skies and the clouds below. It's something I enjoy doing while flying. The waiting and flying lasted from about 9:00am Calgary time to about 5:30pm San Diego time. The flight was in the afternoon but we got a ride from my dear sister to the airport. But the only time she could do that without interfering with her work was to bring us to the airport at 9:00...ish. Once we got there, we went to get the rental car that we would be driving around in. In which the shuttle that was supposed to pick us up was late. I didn't mind that much but we were kinda tired from traveling so it made us a bit cranky. Remember that for the rest of the post... I don't think me or my parents are usually unreasonable. Anyways, we get the shuttle ride to the rental, then we find out they made a mistake with the rental. They tried to give us a 4 door sedan when we asked for a minivan. Easy mistake right? So instead we get this really big SUV, the Secoya? I probably spelled that wrong and got the wrong vehicle but whatever.

After getting the car, we decide it's time to go to hotel to get our room that we booked. So we get directions from the guy in the rental place and head out. However, the place he pointed out was the wrong place. Another simple mistake, but still we were very annoyed. After getting lost 4 times and taking a wrong turn 3 times, we finally arrive at the hotel. My dad gets angry because he can't find the underground parking, but eventually we find it. We get to the room and my mom tells us it kinda smells funny. But it's your generic hotel room. It wasn't the best I've seen nor the worst. Kinda in the middle. Moving on... we sit around a bit looking at everything in the room and seeing what we can see from the window. We then decide that it's time to eat dinner... at 10:00pm local time. We decide we're to worn out to go eat out at a restaurant so we opt for pizza instead. We get our pizza and some hot wings and return to the room and eat said food. We then call it a night. I struggle to sleep through my Dads very loud snoring... I didn't know he snored that loud...

I have returned

Quick little side note: Starcraft is boat loads of fun!

Anyways, so I've finally returned from my vacation down in the US and various parts of Mexico. I would talk more about the trip but, unfortunately, I am very tired. I do not think I travel well. Either that or I'm just tired because of the large delays during my trip back. We left for the airport in San Diego at about 11:30 in the morning and our flight was scheduled for 4:43 or something like that. It ended up getting delayed to 5:05pm. We then reached Denver and got delayed again from a flight at 9:05pm which didn't leave until 11:35pm. Which also we got downgraded to a smaller plane and the flight ended up being overbooked by 34 people! 34 PEOPLE!!! So everyone with a seat number higher than... err.. 20 I think... ended up being stuck in Denver until the flight at 9:00 tomorrow evening.

So now here I am writing this post for you at 3:55 in the morning. I hope you keep reading, I will try to tell you about my trip... if I can remember :)

For those of you...

Alright so as you people who read my blog know, I posted not too long ago about me not posting on this blog anymore. Well that was only half true. I did post a comment on my own post, but I realize that some people aren't weird like me and check comments on other peoples blogs. Well, I only check comments on the blogs of people I know. But I guess it's still kinda creepy anyways. Well I don't know how many people believed me and actually stopped checking my blog.

Anyways, the reason that I made that post was because for the next little while, I probably won't be able to update my blog or anything due to a lack of internet connection. Well technically that's not true... but it's really expensive to use the internet. Which is money that I don't have, as you all may know. Not to mention I may be a little bit busy doing other things. But I will continue blogging afterwards.

And now for something that's somewhat blog-like. So today, I got to my destination to start my holidays. So, because of where I'm vacationing and the fact that I find it's a little too cold to wear a t-shirt when leaving my home town, I wore a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie as well as a rain jacket, as there is a chance that it will rain here at my vacation destination. So first, on the plane, I was getting a little bit hot, and while trying to get my jacket off, I kinda got tangled in my jacket and hoodie. So while sitting there on the plane, mid flight, I was struggling and looking like an idiot trying to take off my rain jacket. Then when I get to my vacation destination, I find that the weather is much warmer than I thought it would be. I felt like I was going to die! Not actually... I was just really uncomfortable. Just for you people that might be thinking, "Why didn't you just put your jacket and such in your carry on bag or something?" Well I say, I would've done that because it makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, my carry on bag was already full of stuff and I couldn't fit anything more into it T-T. Currently I'm in the hotel... it's ok... I've seen better, but I've also seen worse. I'd say it's kinda in the middle. For the people that went to the same high school as me and were on the same sports teams as me. The room is fairly similar to the kinds of rooms we got during the trips we took with the school teams. Nice, but not that nice. I hope you know what I mean. Well I hope the weather is pleasant wherever you are. I hope it remains pleasant here at my vacation destination.

- Jon Mah

3 More Days Until the End

So I'm just going to let you all know, that you shouldn't bother checking my blog anymore. The reason being that it won't be getting any posts put on it. I won't be writing anything anymore. I might post some things that catch my attention in the next three days, but after that, I won't be. It's been fun!

See ya!

Apology

Ok so in my last post I mentioned that I received some hot chocolate from someone. I also mentioned that it was Starbucks brand hot chocolate. However, it's actually from Second Cup. So I apologize for giving you incorrect information as well as apologize to the person that gave me the hot chocolate! You know who you are :)! Thanks for the hot chocolate from Second Cup!

As a side note, it's the end of the first month of the new year! Celebrate! Why? Why not!

Consumption

So I've noticed something very interesting. Well by "interesting" I mean interesting to me, I'm not sure about any of you. Anyways, I've noticed that I've been drinking a lot more hot chocolate than normal. I don't know why, I just love the stuff I guess. Though, I think I haven't had chocolate since... the year... I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure I haven't had the stuff since the middle of junior high. I'm not quite sure what got me back to the stuff though. Well it doesn't matter does it? As long as it stays delicious, I'll continue drinking it. One mix that I like the best is this one where I use one heaping teaspoon of this Nestle brand hot chocolate and another of this new Starbucks mint hot chocolate that I got fairly recently. So thanks to the person that gave it to me! (You know who you are!) Anyways, you get the mint flavor from the Starbucks one, and the creamy-ness of the Nestle brand! It's delicious!

Well that's all I really felt like typing about today!

Vancouver self defense

So I was reading in the paper that there's a new form of self defense that's being taught in Vancouver. As some people may have heard, it rains a lot in Vancouver, or at least it supposedly does. I can't say whether or not it does because I don't live there. Anyways, so the new form of self defense being taught, teaches people how to use your umbrella as a weapon against an attacker.

I don't know about anyone else, but I kinda thought that self defense with an umbrella would be pretty obvious. I mean, wouldn't it be used similar to a club or stick? Apparently not... it's to be used more like a sword! And not just any sword, a rapier to be more exact. In other words, you'll be stabbing your opponent with an umbrella. Interestingly enough, it has to be one of those umbrellas that have a point at the end. It can't be like the one I use where it's blunt at the end. Or at least that's what I got from the story.

The thing that bothers me the most about this story is where they teach you to stab. I can't say for sure if they teach you anything else, but from what they said in the paper, the people are taught to stab at the eyes, nose, throat and temple. The reason this bothers me is because of the fact that you'd be using a pointed umbrella. So stabbing someone in the eye could be really awful, same thing with the throat and temples. I dunno, maybe I'll google it or something.

As a side note, it was really cold today. With temperatures reaching -51 degrees celsius with wind chill. Brrr...

Better than poker

So I assume that most of you know what poker is. And when I say you know what poker is, I mean you have a general idea on how to play. Also that you know it is a gambling game. However, I have found an even better game to play. It also is a gambling game, but can be equally fun without the part with you losing money. This wonderful game is called Mahjong! Although, this game can only be played with four people, so I guess it kinda sucks if you have more or less people to play Mahjong. The rules are sorta complicated, but it's fairly easy to get used to them.

If I can, I really hoping to see if anyone I know would be interested, then I'll know whether or not I should buy a set of tiles. Until then, I can only recommend it. And just in case some people aren't quite sure what Mahjong is, I'll give a very brief description. As many of you may have seen, on your computers, there used to be this game where you have a bunch of tiles put together in some sort of manner, like a pyramid. Your objective was to match up tiles, that could be removed without moving another tile, or something along those lines... I never played it much. Anyways, Mahjong is played with those very same tiles. I don't know what that game was called, but I can guarantee it is not Mahjong.

Anyways, moving on with some basic rules. First of all you build a box-ish like structure with the tiles. Essentially everyone builds a wall that is about 16 or 18 (depends on how many tiles you have in your set, I think) tiles long and 2 tiles tall. You put the walls together to get your box. Then, after deciding who is first, you go in a counter-clockwise order and everyone takes 4 tiles at a time until everyone has 12 tiles. Once everyone has their tiles, the game starts. While playing it's pretty close to pick up a tile, and discard another, until you have a winning hand. Although, there's many more rules to the game than I have described, it would take a really long time to explain. If you are interested, you can either look it up on Wikipedia and hope that works for you, or you can let me know, if there are enough people interested, I'll buy a set, and I'll explain then.

Although, it may seem complicated, once you get the rules and learn how to play, it's a lot of fun to play.

Ninja Top 10 List

I don't really have much to actually say about this one. I just found a video listing the top 10 and giving a few reasons why. Wanna find out? Check out the link.

www.gametrailers.com/player/24269.html

So I tried putting a link, but if you saw this post earlier there wasn't anything. I'm not sure what happened so I'll just put the site, you'll have to cut and paste yourself.

Sushi is delicious!

It's true! I love the stuff! I used to get it fairly often with my friends... however, that slowly changed. Now instead of going out for sushi, we usually go for Vietnamese Noodles at a place called Pho So. Not that I'm complaining or anything, the food there is also very good. But still, I think I still prefer sushi!

Oh another thing I love is Dim Sum! But I guess I'll talk about that one later!

Yay food! It's delicious!!!...usually ^_^

I'm sure this applies...

So the first story that was on the newspaper that caught my attention for some reason had to do with pregnant women. Apparently researchers in California discovered that caffeine doubles the chances of a miscarriage in pregnant women! I don't know why this caught my attention, nor do I know why I would post about it. From what I can tell, I don't think any of the readers of this blog really need to worry about this kind of thing for awhile. I say that, because I'm pretty sure I know who the readers of this blog are, this doesn't really apply. But what I do know, is that this would mean that drinks like coffee, and one of my personal favorites, Coca-Cola, would be included in the list of drinks that would double the chances of a miscarriage. Enough of that topic, since it's making me a little uncomfortable.

Second story would be about a man that woke up in the middle of a wake. Doesn't sound all that interesting does it. Well what would you say if I told you that the wake was for the man that woke up! So this 81 year old man in a small Chilean village woke up during his wake. Apparently, his family had found him cold and limp, and decided that he was dead. So after the family found him, they decided to call the funeral home... not a doctor. In which, during his wake, the family was grieving his loss, when one of the family members was looking down, looked away, and when this person looked back, the 81 year old man was looking right back at him! So the good news, is the man is fine, and very not dead. On the other hand it makes the family look kinda foolish. Oh also, included in the article, apparently when he woke up he asked for a glass of water. Not that it's terribly important to the story, I just felt like including it.

On that note, of the 81 year old man waking up, I wondered, what would I ask for? I don't know, but what do you think you would ask for Mr. or Ms. person that is currently reading my blog? Please do leave a comment telling me what you think you would ask for!

Money and Cats

Alright so I figure, from a comment I received recently, I'm going to add a little bit on current events on each of my posts to keep friends that are unable to see the news or read a newspaper wherever they are can keep a little bit in touch with current events. Though I guess only one or two stories that really only interest me aren't too helpful but hey what do you want? I'm not going to post every article in the newspaper. That would take a lot of time. Not to mention the readers which would be you and any other people that read this, might not even read half of the articles I post up!

Moving on, I have two articles that I'm going to talk about today! Alright, first would be for all of you people that do online banking. For those of you that don't, you should still read about it if you do online shopping... maybe. Alright the article was about this new computer virus out on the net! Apparently, you get this Trojan Horse virus from any site that you visit that has been infected. Or at least that's the impression I'm under, since in the paper it simply told me that you can get it from surfing the web. Anyways, this virus is made so that when you go to a online banking site, or anything like it, which I think would include your online shopping since you use your credit card numbers and such, it allows the hacker to see your passwords and your card numbers. Supposedly allowing them to empty out your accounts of all of your money. I talked to my dad about this one after hearing it on the local news as well. He said not to worry too much. Mostly because of two reasons:

Reason #1: The virus supposedly can only get put onto your computer through sites that you download free software or actually download anything off the net. But I'm not too sure about that one, he also said something about active X, however, I don't remember what he said about that one, so I'll have to post about that one a little later. But please do be careful about where you go on the internet. Basically, don't go to sites you know you shouldn't be going to, I think those are most likely to be infected.

Reason #2: My dad told me the only reason why this virus made it onto the news is because, well its a very sophisticated virus. Simply in the way that the virus was put together and such. He even told me that it is likely that this virus is constantly being updated, which is one of the reasons why it was so interesting. However, by keeping your firewalls up, and ensuring your computer security is not being compromised by getting your virus scanners updated, keeping your firewalls updated and such, you should be fine.

Oh and as an extra note, my dad is in IT (information technology)at his workplace so I figure that the information he's given me is reliable.

Second story, would be about the recent animal abuse case. Alright so the story is about a cat that was put into a microwave and killed. Personally I think this is disgusting and the kids shouldn't be given any lenience when it comes to their sentencing. Anyways, the kids were 4 kids, 3 of them being 15 and the one being 13. They had broken into this house 2 times, and the second time they broke in, they took the family's cat, and microwaved it. The "teens" have been brought into custody and are faced with charges of unlawfully killing an animal, unlawfully causing pain or suffering to an animal, break in enter and theft, mischief and finally possession of stolen property.

One thing I found was odd about one of the charges was the unlawfully causing pain or suffering to an animal. I mean, there's a lawful way to cause pain or suffering to an animal? That's just weird. Killing I can understand, because of things like hunting, but causing pain or suffering, that just seems like it shouldn't be allowed in any case... unless it's self defense but I don't consider sticking something in a microwave as a form of self defense. I can't help but get the feeling that these kids are going to be let off the hook with something like a little bit of community service and having to go to some counseling. Which I think is ridiculous for what they did... what can you do about it other than complain?

Well those are two of the stories that caught my eye today, but I'm not going to post every story I found was interesting sorry! This post is long enough as it is! ^_^

Implementing a new system in the workplace

So I was reading the newspaper today and came across a rather interesting article. Well at least I thought it was interesting. Anyways, the article was about Microsoft. It would seem that they are developing a new software to monitor workers in offices. But the interesting thing about it, is that it actually monitors the persons health. This system works by using wireless sensors that are supposed to detect the employees heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement, facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure. Also it's supposed to be able to detect frustration or stress and offer and provide assistance accordingly. Another interesting fact would be that this technology is supposedly already being used by pilots, fire fighters and NASA astronauts. This was all from the newspaper and it is also possible that I made some mistakes in trying to recall what the newspaper had written!

So anyways, the article had addressed the whole privacy thing as well. Saying that it would be rather intrusive. I agree. They also mentioned worries of people getting, fired (or sacked, dismissed or whatever other term you would use) based on the computers assessment of your physiological state. Which I also would be a little worried about. However, I would like to address something else. What exactly would these wireless sensors be like? Will they be like cameras? If so how would they work? Or are all workers going to be walking around with sensors and such attached to them. To be perfectly honest, I think that would look really stupid. Can you imagine an entire office with workers with all these little sensors all over their faces, arms? I didn't mention their bodies because, well I don't think you'll ever see a worker in an office with his/her shirt off. I may even go as far to say, you will never see anyone topless in an office. Well that's all that I really had to say about this.

Speaking of technology though, I'd like to quickly mention something. The other night I went to visit my dear sister at her home along with the rest of the family. While we were there, she showed us a new keyboard that her roommate had purchased. It was so incredibly nice! I really want one. Mostly because it's nice, thin, wireless and when you type it sounds kinda like a laptop. Either that or just really quiet, unlike my current keyboard which is really loud and very clacky! Pretty sure I just made up a word or simply spelled it wrong. Unfortunately there is a problem with me getting one. Well maybe 2 depending on whether or not her roommate was right. 1st and most importantly, the keyboard itself costs a painful $300.00! $300.00!!! That thing is quite possibly more expensive than a Nintendo Wii! Luckily for the roommate, it was purchased during a boxing day sale for a third of the price. However, whether it will go on sale again is another question. Not to mention whether or not I'm willing to spend that kind of money on a keyboard. 2nd, this is less important but still, it has no number pad. I'm sure I could get used to it, but I'm not too sure how much I use the number pad anyways. I'm pretty sure I don't use it much but who knows, maybe I just don't notice it. But then again, this keyboard would actually make me want to type. But on the other hand, that's $300.00 I don't really have... ¯-¯

Am I a dork?

So I was talking with my friends after playing a little tennis and one of them brought up an interesting topic. Well not so much as a topic but more of a made a suggestion. The suggestion was that we play Starcraft. For those of you that may not know what Starcraft is, I will explain. Essentially, it is a video game. More specifically it is a real time strategy game. By the way, a real time strategy game is one that you take the point of view of a commander or leader of some sort. And you control numerous people on the ground from I guess a bird eye view. Usually these games involve some sort of war. So to recap, it is a computer game where you command soldiers in a war. Also when I say a real time strategy game, I mean that there is no such thing as turns so everything happens at the same time... I guess... I hope I both explained correctly and clearly. If not... I apologize. If you do however, want to correct me, please do so! I will give you credit and edit this post!

Anyways, so I installed the game, on my computer, and I found... I'm really bad at it! I keep losing over and over. I guess it means I need to practice or something, but I still enjoy it a lot. In fact I've been playing it much more than I used to. But does enjoying this kind of game make me a dork?

New Year, New Language!

This year I have decided that I will try to learn a new language. The language being one that I probably could have learned as a child but never did. That language is... *drum roll*... Chinese! Yup! I decided that I'm going to try to learn Chinese. The reason why? Well... why not? I think it would be interesting so I'm currently learning from my family. Well from the ones that actually speak the language. Unlike the others! You know who you are!!! However, every one of you people that don't know Chinese in my family, you seem to have learned another language that I can't speak, whether it be Spanish or Japanese! I guess you could say I've fallen behind in terms of languages.

So far, I've only learned very basic things. Such as simple greetings, counting to 10 and how to order food at Dim Sum. Which will be interesting to try someday when I gain a little more confidence in my ability to speak the language. Who knows, maybe after I learn how to speak the language, I'll learn to read and write. Wish me luck! ^_^

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone enjoyed their New Years Eves and also enjoyed New Years Day!

Best wishes for the new year and best of luck with anything you decide to do!

^_^