Short Day - Tuesday December 28, 2010

Today was a relatively short day. I went to a friends house to fool around. In the end, I became her slave and helped her family move their broken bed. They were getting a replacement and I became another chore boy. However I was rewarded with some good "chao fan". Then we watched some tv and it was just horrible. I could not believe I couple choose that kind of horror movie. I was shivering in fear the whole time and I'm sure I will be having nightmares soon after.

After that, I went to Bestbuy to buy something which was out of stock and I was forced to order it online. First time ordering something online and it was a success. Now to wait until my item gets shipped here. YAY! I saved $80 too.

Gold CSP - Monday December 27, 2010

Today was the day we did our CSP, a community service project for our Gold Requirement in Vision Youth. We had made holiday hampers before hand to hand out to the homeless because it was the christmas holidays and we wanted to give a helping hand. We set off with high hopes and were still packing away as we took the subway to St. Patricks. It was a long ride and many of us were playing on their smartphones/iphones. Unfortunately I don't have any of those so I went to sleep as the train went chugging away.

And finally, we made it to the subway station to begin out hunt for people. At first we met a few of them and handed them our hampers out happily as there were people sitting on a warm furnace. However as we walked on and on, we found out that many of the people were not there because the weather was too cold. We, ourselves were cold as well, my hands were numb, my feet were freezing, as if they were getting cut off and my face was just dying. However we kept walking on and on until forever. Finally we made it to a park but we didn't find the place we wanted and so we went for a pit stop at second cup. My hands were just above to freeze by then and so I could not stop myself from buying a large coffee with lotsa sugar and milk. That was like the best feeling that I ever had and I could never forget the warm liquid flowing down my throat. I enjoyed ever mouthful of coffee until it was empty.

Then it was time to go on our journey to a shelter with renewed spirits. It was not long before we found it, however we still got lost a couple of times before finding that place. Inside it was not as bad as I thought it was. It was clean and very very nice with christmas trees, computers, Tvs, etc. I could even smell some good homemade cooking from the nearby kitchen. In the end, we handed out all our hampers and they were delighted to receive them with the addition of muffins(received from our second cup manager) and some ttc tokens.

After that, we went shopping. I was never much of a fan so I just returned home early.

What a long day with lots of walking. I need rest.

Boxing Day Sale - Sunday December 26, 2010

Before today, I believe on Saturday, I finally went to go to a driving centre to write my written test. The night before writing this test, I studied like nuts because my parents friend's daughter had barely passed the test apparently. So with that, my parents got scared as well and decided to study so many online practice test with the addition of reading this chinese character filled book about driving. Before the test, I was completely filled with facts of the driving test and I was totally ready for what would come. At the driving centre, we had to wait around 20 minutes before being able to write it and finally as the test sheet was handed out, I had grasped my pen and was ready to start scribbling. The test had only 40 questions, 20 road questions and 20 signs. In either of these categories, if I failed to get 16 questions or more I would have failed. Thankfully, I had gottan 18 questions for road and perfect on signs. I was proud somewhat but still, I got my temporary G1 License. Now I am finally licensed to drive a car BUT with an experienced driver beside me.

Today was finally boxing day sale, the day after christmas which I had wasted the day staying at home doing next to nothing. However thats the past and today I decided to get my parents out of this house and go shopping for clothes. Everything I saw was like 50% off sale but we went into a store with 70% off. So clothes which went from $20 was now $8. So I went crazy buying them and in the end, my parents had to pay around $100 worth of clothes and I was happily carrying over 5 bags of clothes home. But before this shopping, my parents could not find the clothes store in the mall called Promenade and we walked around for quite awhile. During the whole time, I was complaining how this was such a waste of time and how tired my legs were.

After this whole thing, my legs were totally dead and I told myself I would never ever shop again.

Dizzy - Thursday, December 23, 2010

Woke up to a good morning. Pretty early I must say, around 11 ish. Usually I just slept until 1 and wake up and work. Today I was gonna have some fun. But first I had to go to loblaws to buy pop. Usually, pop can come in cans or bottles but the cheaper one of the two would be the favorable choice. Today a 2L bottle of pop was only 99 cents, boy... what a deal. I could only hold 4 bottles and so I bought that. Its hard to carry it too with a bike on a snowy weather.

However I finally made it to my friend's house although I had passed it a few times before I finally found it. I had biked passed it, biked back and finally found it. It felt like such a waste of time but still, I finally made it. Outside, her parents were smoking and I was surprised but I went inside and it was so spacious. We ate lunch which was homemade pasta and ham. Good'ol western food warmed my tummy and I was filled. We continued to watch a movie and made a gingerbread house. Usually the gingerbread house has 4 sides and the roof to decorate. I decorated 2 sides and she did the rest. I believe my sides were well decorated while hers wasn't and we argued over that.

Then I found some beer cans in her refrigerator and drank 2 cans. Her friends came and we started playing video games on playstation 2 and played card games like mafia. Then we played truth or dare and it was FUN. I just picked dares to do because I refused to do tell any of my secrets. Dares included putting wasabi on my eyelids and it stinged like crazy, throwing me the snow, piggybacking a guy, hugging a guy for 5 seconds, kissing for 3 seconds with a plastic bag in between, etc. It was a fun night and when I returned home it was terribly dark.

When I was home, I felt so dizzy. I was guessing it was from the beer. Am I really that soft not being able to take only 2 cans of 0.5% beer cans? THIS IS JUST PHAIL. So I decided to go sleep.

In the middle of the night, I was writhing like crazy because my shoulders felt really really sore. No matter what I do, my shoulders were burning and I had a minor stomachache too. It was not a good night for me but I finally got some sleep. Thank god.

Teeth Removal - Monday December 20, 2010

Today finally came, the most dreaded day of my holiday. I have to go to the dentist to get my teeth removed both my wisdom tooth and teeth for braces. Recounting from those painful memories, I had already lost 3 of my wisdom teeth and after today, all 4 of them will be gone forever. I will never have to worry about it ever again. So basically, my dentist decided to take out 3 teeth on the same side so basically, now I have 3 wounds and 3 holes. Yay! Before taking it out, he gave me 8 whole needles to remove my feelings. As each needle poked into my jaw, the pain subsided because I was getting more and more numb. Then it became the big hard stick that the dentist shoved in my mouth. He stuck it under my wisdom tooth and started pushing it out and I could hear cracking sound. I was so scared because blood was coming out and it was a big pool. It felt like my life depended on this guyz actions and I was scared. I started shaking without notice and I was just scared. He complained to me how my tooth was too stable and how it took him countless tries to dig it out. Is that something to be proud of? I don't really know yet it was finally over. Half my face was drooping for another 3-4 hours and I was back to biting onto dressings. It took more than 12 hours of biting before the blood started to thin. In those 12 hours, I had to stay awake otherwise the pressure would be gone.

In those 12 hours, I was literally bored to hell. My legs were killing me because I had been sitting on the couch, on the chair and standing too much. There was nothing to remove the pain Except watching movies.

So I convinced my parents to watch Ip Man. Boy it was really saddening and exciting with kung fu involved.

First day of Holidays - Saturday December 19, 2010

Finally, the all awaited winter holiday is here. NO more school, no more stress and best of all no more work! I AM A FREE ANGEL FREE TO DO WHATEVER I WANT! Im so happy that I'm on the verge of crying. I can't believe its happening to me. Just 24 hours ago, I was dying as I finished typing out my essay.

All the sleeping and fun shall begin as of now!

Stuffed. - Friday December 17, 2010

This was officially the end of my all-nighters this year. I had 2 hours of sleep in total as I tried to finish up my law assignment (Annotated Bib) and boy it took me so long to do it. BUT I finally did it and now I can rejoice and celebrate christmas holidays just like everyone else. After going to school, mandatory I had to hand in a hard copy of my assignment to the teacher, I decided to go attend my last day of school and see the SOPSS assembly. The speaker made the assembly seem like it was really good this year, but in fact it wasn't. It was so-so, some singing, dancing, whatnot... typical for any assembly. There were some breakdancing and that was about it. Nothing special with just a hint of holiday spirit in all of them.

After school, I did not have anything to do and went to a friends house to watch them game. Apparently, they had no consoles and we just played Portal on his computer. It is a very very very dizzy game and it requires so much thinking too. I was tired just from watching it.

We went to eat at Wasabi after and boy I think I ate too much. I drank so much water too which made all the food expand and I was in pain. Felt like throwing up, but I endured it.

While I was eating at the buffet, I skipped fellowship again. They were watching Dispicable Me and I missed it. Oh wells, there's always an opportunity cost in everything. Its what u make most of every decision.

I have a tummyache. Gonna try and sleep it off.

Awards Night - Monday December 13, 2010

Today, I did my test and I was relieved from all the stress for just a few moments before I must dig into other subjects. After that, it was St. John's Awards night and boy I was tired already.

However I won some award so I guess its all worth it now that I can put it on my resume.

Apparently its called the Best Male Crusader Award.

Advil Saved My Day - Sunday December 12, 2010

From the start of this day, I wasn't feeling well. I had this feeling of hunger that lingered even when I ate my breakfast. In addition, I had a test that was coming up on Monday which was pretty important. But throughout this day, I had to volunteer from 9AM to 7PM at an International Expo. There are many cheap booths there that supplied like all kinds of different stuff and most well known was a 50% discount for all blue-notes items. Basically, I sat there from 9AM to 7PM on the same seat for 5 hours and another shift to another place and then placed my bum on that cold seat for another 5 hours. At first, I was doing fine but because of the coldness, my stomach didn't feel well. In the end, I rushed to the washroom and found myself puking into the toilet.

To my surprise, it wasn't a toilet but a big big hole where everything (your #1 or #2) could go and apparently, there was no chemical or anything involved. My fellow co-workers played around and decided to shout through the hole to the girls washroom which was on the other side. Boy our girl co-worker who was using the washroom freaked out when she heard a voice calling her name through the hole. It was an awesome story and pretty funny. But still, I puked and I kind of felt better afterwards.

Me being a fidgety person could not take sitting in one seat for like 5 hours without doing anything. I was bored out of my mind, I could not study cause there was a stage with loud loud music playing the christmas songs over and over again. I was just bored and my bum and legs got so tired. It was painful and then my head started feeling dizzy. Decided to take advil and it helped. I could think straight after it took effect and bought some cheap stuff with my bargaining skills as the booths were about to close and they were desperate to sell off the remaining stuff.

However this was not it, as I returned home, I decided to go to a friends house to continue studying before the day of my test or like 10 hours. We studied a lil, and then fell asleep and then continued studying. Boy her parents kept feeding and feeding us. I was content with all the delicious food.

New Toothbrush. Monday December 6, 2010

Yea... although maybe getting a new toothbrush may not be a new thing to you... but it is to me. Especially getting an electric toothbrush. Now in the mornings, I dont need to waste energy brushing my teeth, just put my toothbrush in my mouth and it does the work for me. I love it.

Scared Lifeless - Saturday November 27, 2010

Woke up at 2 in the afternoon after a long long sleep. It felt like I was hibernating and boy I was up and ready to take on math. Math class was 2 hours long and I was fine and learning like a good boy. Then I became a bad boy and things got pretty bad.

After my tutor, I went to some friend's birthday party and we were playing bomberman and some super smash bro brawl on the wii. It was fine and then things started getting bad. The host brought out the drinks and everyone starting drinking. One person was already done in like 10 minutes into drinking. He was falling off the sofa, couldn't walk straight and boy he looked dead. We told him to stop drinking yet he continued. Then he barfed onto the sofa and we were leading him to the washroom for him to puke some more but he couldn't make it and fell down at the room beside the washroom. We couldn't stop him after that and he just kept puking, the floor was like completely wet with puke and we just couldn't get him up. There he lay, lying face flat on the floor with the puke on him and it soaked into his clothes. It was a nasty sight and he was like that for over an hour. Once in a while, he continued puking some more until a big big puddle came.

Another just kept drinking and drinking and he got really really red. He just kept randomly laughing and was not as bad as the one before but he was done too. Others were just red and doing stupid stuff. Then there were the ones that went to go "bun" and "smoke". They got pretty high too.

I remember one was like saying where is the time while looking at his wrist, but there was no watch at all. Another had slipped on the ground and was like why is there water there when obviously there was not. It was just a bad sight.

Then suddenly, the guy who was puking said he needed to call an ambulance because he was gonna die and was telling us to bring a phone. We were reluctant because we were not supposed to be drinking at all. So we hid the phone but afterwards, we found out he had his cell with him and boy we all got scared. Me and a few others dipped right after hearing it and we even took the stairs instead of the elevator. When we were downstairs, there was a police car outside and we were scared lifeless. I ran home after that and I am still scared.

Why did I ever do this to myself. I am such a bad boy. Learned a big lesson and guess I deserved this. At the party, there was smirnoff and beer and some apple cider thing and boy I don't really like the taste of it. It just tasted like medicine to me, there is nothing wrong with it but just the taste. I can't take the taste and so I only drank like 3-4 to cups? not much compared to others who finished like half a bottle. Others were chugging it. Therefore, I was conscious while others were like passing out. I was lucky to react quickly and avoid this disaster. enough said, I was scared sh*tless

First day of absence - Thursday November 25, 2010

Sigh, I didn't feel well today and so I slept for the whole day. It wasn't fun and it was somewhat painful since my bleeding didn't stop at all.

So yea, skipped the whole day of school today. Felt like such a bad kid but oh well, it was necessary for me to re cooperate from this big incident I guess.

Wisdom Tooth Incident - Wednesday November 24, 2010

Today school was boring as usual and things started to go downwards when I went to the dentist. First off, I was expecting to lose the last two of my wisdom teeth however my dentist said it was too much work and decided to do only one. I remember the sight of him sticking that needle on my gums and that sharp pain and he squeezed the liquid into my gums. Then he continually did it for three more spots so I had like four needle holes just for one wisdom tooth. Then slowly, the right lower part of my mouth became numb and then soon, my right part of my tongue, then my lips and finally half my face was numb. Then he started the operation. Apparently, my wisdom tooth was growing sideways which would prove to be a little difficult. However he was able to perform it with success and I stared through the lens of his glasses as a big pool of blood was spilling out as he took out my wisdom tooth. Then he said that he had to sew it back because my wound was slightly larger than normal. The line that was used to sew my wound would dissolve in a few days so I do not have to go back to him to take out the string.

I returned home, with my tooth bleeding like crazy and using up lots of dressings to suck out the blood. I was really tired and slept a lot that day.

Gahhh - Friday November 12, 2010

Woke up extra early today, earlier than my parents. 6:00am I was out of bed, first time I actually woke up this early. Everywhere was pitch dark and I had to bike in the dark as well. I usually wake up at around 8:20 ish which is a pretty big difference. Even some of my teachers were surprised that I was at school this early.

After that, finally I decided to have the courage to go up and talk to someone and boy I felt so good afterwards. I'm so happy just to talk to this person and yea... filled with happiness!!!

Then got home and went to Boston Pizza and ate a Super Perogi and boy it was so spicy. It tasted so good though even though half the time my tongue was burning.

Yea then big news happened. I don't really know what to do now. Time will tell I guess.

Preparation for Braces - Monday November 8, 2010

Yea... guess the inevitable happens sometimes. but before I talk about this. I studied all night for my IDC test (Financial Securities) slept for only 3 hours and did my test with like my eyes about to close every second while my fingers were shaking like crazy. Why do I tense up when I write tests, its as if my life depends on it and if I mess up its the end of the world. After the test, I could not keep awake, practically fell asleep in my math class. Teacher was asking me "what's wrong" I said, I stayed up all night to do what test. She asked, for what subjest, I was lost by then. Someone took advantage of me while sleeping and decided to write chinese on my arm and it doesn't seem to wash off no matter how much soap I use.

After school, I went to my dentist and took a foam shaping of my teeth. Apparently, I would have to lose 4 teeth for my braces and in addition with my 4 wisdom teeth. I would lose 8. My mouth would feel so empty without those teeth. While giving me the hardening things, the nurse asked me what flavour I wanted. I was like there are FLAVOURS TO IT!? Strawberry or Mint. Sure enough, I chose strawberry. Next question I asked her was, can I eat this? and she was like No. So uh what's the flavour for? its for your tongue. yea... me asking stupid questions but I just couldnt stop myself.

P.S. I really want an Itouch

To Save A Life - Friday November 5, 2010

Stayed up all night to study for my test which took a long time and when it came to test time, I was a complete failure. You know when you go to a test with your mind filled with all that information and when you are finally given the test, you suddenly become blank. I was frustrated and panicking so badly. One of the questions was name the 8 countries of the G8. I remembered vividly of skimming that page with the names of all G8 countries. When I listed the countries out, I could only remember 7 and not the last one. I was deducing whether it was Sweden, Norway or Belgium but they were all wrong, it was Japan. Guess I lost a mark from there.

After school, went to a friends house to play StarCraft II and boy it was cool. The graphics looks so awesome and boy there was so much new things. I sucked though but still, it was fun watching him own with Protoss. I must say, it is completely different from StarCraft I and a lot better? I guess. Then we went to work-out and boy I felt so weak then. My arms were tired after fooling around in the fitness room, playing with the weights, etc.

Then Fellowship happened. We watched an awesome movie. To Save a Life. It was like the most inspiring movie I have ever watched, brought me the feeling that I should follow his footsteps because many people are like this in the world, all alone, unwanted and invisible. It just makes me depressed when I go into their shoes and I guess it has changed me somewhat.

Doctor - Monday November 1, 2010

Yea, got back my Econ test. Got 46.5/50 which is a 93. Apparently, I am 2nd in my class, someone had gotten 47/50 so I was somewhat disappointed. Lost a few marks due to careless mistakes and boy, I got a lil mad at myself. Some girl got mad at me because I beat her, she got 91% and was QQing at me. Which was pretty sad, I must say.....

Also, I got to say, my foot really really hurts, been limping in the school. When I walk up the stairs I have to jump with only one foot up each flight of stairs. Its a pain in the bum and my leg still hurts. I must go see the doctor soon.

Went to see a child doctor afterschool somewhere closeby and guess what I was there from 3:45pm and came back out at 6:0pm. I waited literally 2 hours for this doctor to look at me and it took like 5 minutes. I really hate when that happens. Kids were all over the place, some crying, others were running around like puppies on the loose. They would not place their bums on the seats and do something that is quiet and choose to annoy me. I could not seem to concentrate and boy, was I mad.....

Corn Maze - Friday October 29, 2010

Today was fellowship day!!! But before I get on with that. It was the final day of our United Week, darn, it passed by so fast... didn't even get to enjoy to the max yet! So got my math mark back, getting a 95... IB mark is 93 and the rest, not too sure. I hope I can continue with such marks otherwise I am screwed. After that, I decided to check out Badminton club. It was filled to the brim with asians as usual and so I went to Chinese Cultural Club. We played a chinese version of "Bang!" a really awesome game.

After that it was time for Corn Maze. Before we arrived at church where we were carpooled to the corn farm. My friend got me a big box of rice cookies and 2 yogurts. I could not totally finish all that and I shared it amongst my friends. After that, we got a car-ride and basically it was just LONG. First off, we were going on Highway 401 and guess what, we were supposed to get on Highway 404 but we missed it. That added a bit more time to the clock but the most was getting lost as we got close to the corn farm. We had to call one of the management people to get to the location. The whole time, I was at the back seat getting my bum squished by people and I was bored. It was an hour and a half ride in total.

When we got there, the fun happened, we rushed into the corn farm and there was 3 different trails: one for children, one with mild difficulty and one really hard. We decided to try the really difficult one and we finished it in a pretty quick time. It was definitely a great experience in the corn farm being with a few friends and running all over the place and getting lost while we were at it. There were signs with questions about the Toronto Maple Leafs and I was just basically lost when I came to answering them. Then we decided to finish the mild one and that went by pretty fast. Lastly we decided to go in the really hard one again without any flashlights and boy we failed hard. We got lost for like 30 minutes on one trail and guess what, we had to call for help. This was just a terribly sad moment of my life and while we were waiting I was just disappointed at how fail we were. Finally the corn maze manager came to save us. He gave us two options, either to cut through the corn maze or walk along the paths. I suggested cutting through but my group didn't want to because they didn't want to get hurt. Bunch of softies!!!!!

So on our car ride home, my bladder reminded me of its fullness and I totally forgot about it during our corn maze action. Waited for like 33 minutes until we got back to the church and boy was I relieved when I emptied it!.

United Way Week - Thursday October 28, 2010

Monday was the start of United Way Week and the time when I did my all-nighter. In total, I slept like 2 hours because me and my partners had to prepare for this Financial Securities presentation. Constantly, he would have to go outside to get some cool air to wake himself up while I was like feeling high. It felt like I was dreaming but yea, we worked hard and guess it all paid off, when we were presenting. Just before the presentation, we had a United Way Assembly. Guess what we were doing, we skipped the assembly and went to practice our presentation. Smart eh?

After that, it went by and Thursday came. This was United Way Fundraising event where each class held a booth to fundraise money for United Way. Basically, they were just snatching money from student's pockets as they buy overpriced items and food. There were booths selling water, canned drinks, cookies, muffins, coke float, candy, ring toss, haunted house, bubble tea place and a lot more. I decided to buy bubble tea which was $2, and guess what, I was given a cup of powdered strawberry flavoured drink with some nonchewy tapioca. Total RIP-OFF!!

The one booth I loved the most was silly string assassin. Basically, you pay $3 to get one of your friends get sprayed with silly string. I decided to pay $6 to get some person silly stringed twice. One after another. It was my happiest moment ever. and funny. Then I found a can of silly string and started my rampage of silly stringing my friends. AWESOME TIME and I lost a lotta money too. Oh well, guess its worth it since its all goes to United Way!

Guyz Night Out - Friday October 22, 2010

Today, got back my math test but at the same I had to do my math quiz. I did quite bad on the math quiz since it was out of 10 marks and I didn't understand the last question at all. It was worth 2 marks so at most I could only get 8 marks. Math test was pretty bad, got a 31.5/35. Pretty bad but I will definitely have to try harder. Math is getting so hard nowadayz.

Went to go brawl at a friends house and hurried to fellowship.

Was late but I was still there, which all counts! Basically, today was called the Guy's Night Out where all the guyz hang out together and do stupid things. First we had a scavenger hunt where we had to take picture with Canadian Tire employ

ee, pet a dog, sing 'O Canada', chase a bus, lie on the road, switch clothes, take a picture of a personalized car tag, sleep on a bed, hang upside down on the monkey bars, take a picture of a traffic light as it get to 2 and many more things.

After that, we went out again to a nearby park to play some games in the dark. First off, it was man-hunt where everyone had a tape behind their back except 2 people. Those 2 would go after the rest and continue to take the tape of every

one's back until everyone's are off. Then we played a game where we were separated into teams of 5 and 4 people would hold a kind of grip to lift up the one light person. This light person would act like a shooter with a can of some party squeeze thing and spray it on the opposing teams. Lastly, we had a game where everyone was separated into two teams and they would have to lift the opposing players up and say british something and they would recruited to the other team. It went on for awhile until a lot of people got h

urt, there were tackling and a lot of rough stuff happening.

Then we went indoors because it started getting really dark and cold. Firstly, we decided to use all our cell phones to see if the popcorns would pop caused by the radiation of all the cell phones. It failed. Then we had everyone call the girls who were doing their girl's night out all at the same time. So all the girls would have their phones suddenly ringing at the same time and then us on the other end, yelling into their phones. After that, we tried playing pass the pocky with toothpicks and marshmallows. Basically, we use a toothpi

ck to take the marshmallow from the other person and pass it around. It failed though so we played chubby bunny. You just stuff as many marshmallows as you can in your mouth and each time you stuff a marshmallow, you try and say the phras

e chubby bunny. I could only stuff 6 in my mouth. SO SAD.

After that, our counselor bought us KFC, and we ate double down. It was my second time eating it and it tasted so good! and we actually finished all the food within minutes of receiving it. It shows how much guyz eat. After that, rock band on the play station! I was playing guitar and drums and getting better at it after each song!

Cool new games. - Sunday, October 17, 2010

I must say, after Friday's push-up's my arms are terribly sore even after 2 days of rest. I am so out of shape. Too much sitting on the chair and using my brain. I should get more exercise but work comes first as always. Today, I was lucky enough to get a car ride to a coordinator's house otherwise I would have to walk 45 minutes. I hate walking, its so slow and boring. Enough said. When we got there, we watched an awesome video of people doing drills. They were like beast, basically there were two groups of 6 by 6 people. At first, they are lined up like 20 ft from each other and they walk in a diagonally in the shape of an X. If you can picture it, usually you would imagine things colliding at the point of intersection on the X. However I was so surprised when they were able to pass through it without any crashes and they were able to do the same thing while walking backwards as well. Then they even ran in an X as well which was just AMAZING. I am pretty sure that took a lot of practice.

At his house, I was looking around when I spotted a

StarCraft II box and boy, I was amazed at all the new things in StarCraft. The cover looked awesome as well.

My friend came across the new wii-mote thing for PlayStation III, it looked exactly like a wii-mote but cooler. There was a squishy ball at the front. Apparently its called a motion controller. IT LOOKS SO COOL!

Push-ups - Friday October 15, 2010

My arms are numb/sore from doing so many push-ups. During lunch, we played a game called indian poker. Basically, each person is dealt a card and they must put it on their foreheads without seeing the card. Then they look at the cards of the other people and bet push-ups or other stakes. A would be the highest card and 2 would be lowest. Usually our bets resulted in 50 push-ups in the pot and the loser would have to do it all at once. It is a game based on luck and tactics too. Pretty fun!

Awesome Lunch - Thursday October 14, 2010

For once, I spent my whole lunch period in the cafeteria. Usually, I would just finish my lunch quickly and get up to the school library to continue studying and working. This time, I was done with any tests and homework and so I went to have some fun. Some funny dude introduced a new game which was saying a pick-up line to a random girl in the cafeteria. Basically, each person would be dealt a card and the person with the lowest card would have to say that "pick-up line" to the girl. I had opted out because firstly, too embarrassing and secondly, I don't do these things! Usually they said the lines to the a girl I knew so it would be even worse having to say it to someone you know. You feel bad for them but at the same time, you get all embarrassed.

I can only list two(actually three) examples of the pick-up lines and the rest I had forgotten.

First off, I will describe the situation. The guy had lost the game and we had picked a girl from the table across from us. I had known her and she had a boyfriend and stuff. He said he was ready and walked behind her and put two hands on her shoulder to get her attention. He said, "you must be tired because you have been running through my mind all day". The girl's expression was hilarious, she was lost and bewildered as he said the line. I was laughing so hard with a few others at our table

Next, another guy had to say, "I see a mirror in your pocket cause I can see myself in your pants". The girl got so red, her friends were laughing so hard as well.

Finally, it was nearing the end of the period, the person who had came up with this game had lost. He just randomly picked a girl walking by and walked up to her and said, "Is that a keg in your back pocket? Cause I'd tap that ass anyday" The guyz that were walking beside her laughed so hard!!

After that, my day became terrible. It began to rain and I had to go to tutor. While I was waiting on the bus, we had lots of traffic and with the addition of the main road, yonge getting cut off and with the rain, it was just terrible. I was on the bus for like one and a half hours when it usually took 45 minutes.

Photoshop Newb - Monday October 11, 2010

(first time using photoshop don't laugh pls)

Yea... I admit it, in all my years using a computer, I had never even given any thought about using photoshop. Finally, I have found that photoshop is necessary if you want to make some pictures that look good and reflect the ideas that you have in mind. Rather than just copy and pasting a picture from google, I can just do some brush up on the pictures and make them look even better.

Math & Scholarships - Saturday October 9, 2010

GAAAHH I am so sick of scholarships and math. In the morning, I spent like a few hours looking up all kinds of scholarships from small to big like Loran Award and TD Bank Awards. I am pretty sure I cannot win the big scholarships because to be honest, there are a lot of way smarter people out there. It would be a waste of time to write a few essays to enter for the large awards when you know you have a slim chance. It would be better to focus on the smaller ones because there is less competition. While serving on the net for some small scholarships, I find out that many of them have some kind of requirement which is barely applicable for me. I hate this... then there are those that don't seem to be trust able. It seems like they are just fake and trying to take your information.

If I want to try for the scholarships from lets say studentawards, I will be competing with lots of people while some small scholarship sites would have less visitors. Its always a trade-off.

After that, I spent another few hours trying to get ahead in math. My math totally fails, I spent like 3 hours just to understand one subsection of a unit.

Gawwd - Friday October 8, 2010

Today I thought we were going to receive our IB tests but I guess I was wrong. I wasn't looking forward to it because I didn't do so well. I must step up my game otherwise .... bad things will happen. Today I had to go see the librarian and she gave me an assignment. Basically I have to research about TDSB's Code of On-Line Conduct. I think you should have a slight idea what I had done. It was like this, it was period 5 and I had a spare with a bunch of friends. We had a big CS party in the library and unfortunately, two of us got caught (me included). And now I have an assignment to do and if I don't my account will get disabled. Oh well, this is me being a bad kid.

After school, I had to go see the doctor at 4:40. Guess when I actually saw the doctor? 5:50. I waited there for over an hour but I had brought books along to pass the time. Unfortunately, I sat next to a spouse who had 3 little kids. The kids were crying the whole time and that's like an hour. I could hardly concentrate with the crying going on.

Learned how to finally use a semi-colon!

GOOD Website: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

Stressful - Thursday October 8 2010

Yea its been a whole week since I have updated this blog. Sigh.. everyday its school that I am worried about. This is the final year of high school. Yipee and finally I can leave my horrid house. Basically, for this whole week, I have been visiting several doctors. On Monday I saw my dentist and he told me that my last 2 wisdom teeth have grown out and are ready to be taken out. FYI, I have already lost 2 of them already. He says that some dentists usually take out all 4 wisdom teeth at once and your cheeks actually get swollen. But he wants to allow me to eat more easily so he would only take out 1 wisdom tooth every like 2 weeks or so. Also, he told me I had to go see another dentist to get braces.

On Tuesday, I went to go see a chiropractor. Nothing much happened.

On Friday, I am gonna see my family doctor about some "disease" I have, which my parents say.

Got my accounting test today, got a 31/35. Pretty bad if I am aiming for a 90+ avg. Next time I will do better for sure. I was so pizzed when I got back my test but for some people they thought my mark was good. Oh well, people have different standards and I guess my standards are just a little wee bit different from theirs.

Gonna get back my IB test tomorrow.!!

Been a month already - Friday, October 1, 2010

Its been a month into school now and boy oh boy, the workload is increasing as each day goes by. I don't know how I can manage in the future. I have been going home, sleeping for like 2 hours and then straight studying and working till 2am. This goes on and on even during weekends and I barely finish all the work.

This month has actually passed by really fast and I am worried about university already.

Just a few days ago, actually 2, I had an accounting test. It was basically 6 multiple choice questions and 4 financial statements with some analysis of those financial statements. I finished the multiple choice in pretty fast except for one question which baffled me. I was digging into my balance sheet until I noticed it didn't balance. I was so worried because there was 20 minutes before the test was over and dr and cr column didn't balance. I said to myself, if I must fail, then I guess I will but guess what I finally balanced it in like 10 minutes. I was so happy but I was still not finished at 3:30. Worked for another few minutes before the teacher threatened to leave without our tests. By then, I finished and was happily handing my test in. My hand was numb from being nervous and having to write so much.

Some people in this world are ridiculous - September 27, 2010

(I dont look forward to math tests)

Basically, today I just posted this on my facebook status:
"How could I get only ... 33.5/35 on a test... and some dude got pity marks from the teacher... what is this..... Life sure if unfair"

Then this girl comments on my posts how I should not brag about my mark and that some people were sad about their marks which were lower than mine.

Then my friend says: "if you're chinese, its not bragging unless you get pefect in math"

She replies and says: "Are you implying that chinese people have superior knowledge in math than every other race? Or are you implying that they have no life? Or both? F**king Racist. Everyone can get 100 in math maybe you two just like to brag to the whole f**king world. Learn to be humble."

He replies: "no i was saying that chinese people place high expectations on themselves in math... and when did I say I liked to brag?"

She says: "Everyone has expectation for themselves to some degree. Shut up with your stereotyping. This Status better be deleted by tomorrow. "

Another one of my friend says: "Ben's point is perfectly valid. It is in the Chinese culture to be hard working (I did not imply that others are not, if you did, you're at fault), and to strive for the best. The chinese culture as a whole has always been unsatisfied with ...that they have. If they learned to be satisfied, they wouldn't fight all of the wars within their own borders. If Stephen truly believes that it is a bad mark, then the constitution provides him rights to sulk about it. Freedom of speech. And since he's not infringing on your rights, there's nothing you can do about it. On the other hand, your freedom of speech rights are not protected from what you said, as the freedom from harassment right is above freedom of speech, so if you were to truly pursue "right/wrong" judgement, you're in the wrong."

She replies: "Funnny. Took you long enough to write that eh? Lifeless f**ks(dont wanna include swear words in my blog). Get a f**king life. He's complaining about test which he got 96%. my friends and classmates are actually f**king upset about their results. Aside from all those fancy "legal terms" think f**king morally. If a guy who got 96% on his test fucking rubs in everyone's face how would you fucking feel?both in class and out of class? It's a f**king supermodel complaining to an obese girl how fat she is. Sure he has "freedom of rights" what's he gonna do? Sue me for violating his rights? Good luck with that. F**ktards "

This guy replies back: In everyone's face? Either you went on his page, or you've visited his page enough that he shows up on your news feed. What are you going to do when you hear someone who is worth 50 million whine that they lose half their net worth? You can always choose to ignore it. If any Hobo had your point of view, they would mug you just because you have a fucking iPod. Or when you complain that you're broke when you only have $20 left, but wear $200 on your body."

Boy there was a big and hot battle between these people about freedom of rights when I was just saying what was on my mind. I was just pizzed off that I did not really do well on my math test. It was a really easy test.

Fail Cooking - September 25, 2010

Today was still University Fair weekend. My plan for the University Fair was, I would gather general information of the universities on Friday and then do some research at home. On Saturday, I would go again to ask specific questions. While I was sleeping somehow I was thinking and I had already decided not to go today because firstly, I was so tired. Secondly, there was only 4 universities that I was interested: Queen's Commerce, York Schulich, Western Richard Ivey and Waterloo Co-op program. I don't really know why I didnt want to go to U of T Rotman or Laurier. Just no reason at all I guess.
So I woke up at around 12 to leave to a Transition to University session. It was very informative and was a definite benefit to preparing me for my 1st year of university and what I would have to look out for. However the people that talked about their own program was computer technician from Waterloo Co-op, an elementary school teacher doing a concurrent teaching program at U of T, an asian culture professor doing Phd at U of T, an engineer from somewhere and basically no one talked about business which was somewhat of a disappointment.
After that, I went to a birthday party which was all guyz. Not much fun, just video games and non-stop eating. We ate like 2 whole pizzas and emptied a bag of chips, 3 cans of pop and were searching through the b-day boy's fridge until we came upon a moon cake. We were reluctant to eat it. However we found a big box of instant noodles. Someone decided to cook 4 instant noodle packages in one bowl which was a total fail. The noodles were sticking out when it should be in water and after cooking it. The guy had poured out all the soup and the noodles were just dry and tasteless. That was so fail..... and we had to cook more instant noodles because it was so bad.
After that, some guyz decided to do something that was very inappropriate. I shouldn't talk about this here.

University Fair - September 24, 2010

Today, I was going to wake up at 8:07 but I slammed my alarm clock off. When I finally woke up, it was 8:47. I had 3 minutes to get school which was literally impossible. I had to shower, brush my teeth, eat breakfast, prepare lunch, pack my backpack and bike to school. In total, it took me only 15 minutes and I arrived to school at 9:00. Pretty good I suppose. I decided to go for only 2 classes because during lunch, I would leave for university fair. Although our guidance counsellors suggested us not to go because it was for those students that were not from the GTA. However I thought to myself, if I don't go today, its gonna be definitely busy during the weekends because all the schools will be off and everyone will be rushing to university fair. However during lunch, my surname got called up for the photos for my SAC/TTC card. Me and my friend who had almost the same last name waited in a long line-up and we were able to cut the line as we got card for our photo before the rest. It saved quite a lot of time and in like 10 minutes we were done, which would have took at least 20-30 minutes. Then I was off to University Fair. I thought I had arrived when I was at the skywalk and saw tons of universities, such as University of Alberta, Manitoba, etc. but I was wrong because many of the main universities required a little more walking to arrive.
When I arrived at the Metro Convention Centre, there was a big line-up for security check which went by pretty fast. When I was inside, there was like tons of students, you can barely walk fast before you bump into the person in front of you.

As I arrived at the big room which held all 21 universities, I was awed by the amount of people. I checked Schulich York, Richard Ivey Western, Math Waterloo, Queens Commerce and that was about it. I got bored pretty fast and my shoulders hurt from walking so much. I found out that I ain't much of a walker. Other than that I was pretty bored.

The next thing I realized, if today was this busy, no doubtedly it would be even more busy on the weekends. It was good of me to skip part of my school to go!!!

Dont feel Good - September 21, 2010

Today, received my first assignment back. I got a fail mark, 7/8 ... so fail that I was mad at the teacher for the whole day as with the rest of my class. Few had gotten perfect and unfortunately, I was not one of them. Basically for this assignment, we had to summarize an article in 3-5 sentences and comment on it in 2-3 sentences. I had summarized it in 5 sentences which he had said was the magic number for this assignment. However I did not get full marks because apparently, I didnt fulfill one of his specific requirements of having that particular detail from the article inside my summary. like what the eff yo, you cant just deduct 17% of my mark for that. Many others were mad at him for the same thing but for other reasons as well. Some of them got like 5/8 because they wrote too much and others wrote too little. This teacher is so picky, I must be more careful next time if I want to do well in this course.

Guess what, I got perfect for my math quiz. Yesterday, I was so scared that I bombed it and it turns out all my worries were for nothing. I did what I had to and got full marks for it.

Life feels so sad. - Monday, September 20, 2010

This day will remain as one of the few most important memories because things that shouldnt have happened, happened. These things were never my decision in the first place or did I desire it to end this way. It just happened and no matter what I do, it cannot reappear again as they way it used to be. I really wonder.. why must this happen to me... but I guess that's life and everything must move on. Although I am reluctant to, I will not forget about this day though. For it will remain in the deepest part of my heart and be locked away inside my brain forever.
Not only did one bad thing happened, but a second one. While, I was doing my math quiz, I felt like I bombed it because once I received the paper, my whole brain went blank. I was freaking out.

Hate this..

I hate it when you gotta work for long periods of time. Just today, I worked like a madman on math. I can't believe I will be like this for a whole year. I wanna go back to the moments where I could fool around, play video games and sleep all I want. Now, its a whole different lifestyle. Just because its the transition to university. Marks are important and so is extra-curricular activities. However if you don't get about 90% u get cut-off, so its how you balance both your academic and your activities. For me, my grades were never that good and so I must work extra hard for this 90% ...
Really really hate just working on and on and on. Every minute feels like an hour and by the time its dark, my head is so tired.

Starting to wonder why I took Af+Calc

As I continued on working ahead on my Advanced Function textbook. I found questions harder and harder with the addition of my tutor homework which was like an add-on to my school-work. The reason why I took a tutor at STS(Success Tutorial School) was because I know my math was not that good even though I have like 90+ for Gr. 11 Math. Gr 11 Math and Gr 12 Math is a different story.. completely two different levels of math. I am pretty worried how I can do well in this course now. Af+Calc is a semestered course so we have only 20 weeks to finish Advanced Function and another 20 weeks to finish Calculus. In those 20 weeks, we need to finish 8 units which means 2.5 weeks/unit. Within the units, there are 5 subsections. The course material will be taught so fast... and I am quite worried about this. What if I can't catch up? What if I fail? (me thinking too much again)

Busy

Oh boy, its been awhile since I updated my blog. I haven’t been feeling well kinda moody and sick as well. Today, school was pretty depressing with the addition of a cloudy morning and afternoon. As I started biking to school, I felt small rain drops coming down and I sped like a wild chicken (excuse my simile). Thank god, I didn’t get the big rainfall or else I would have been soaked. During my first period class, my eyes were drooping the entire time. I felt like sleeping but I stopped myself. At the end of the class, my teacher commented on one of my classmates. He said to her, you almost fell asleep twice in my class. Other than that, pretty boring afternoon.

After school, I had to rush to my tutor. And after my 2 hour long tutor, I was rewarded with some fast food!!! MAC D’s!!! I haven’t eaten it for like 4 months now and it felt so good to eat something western like hamburgers and French fries. Can’t stop lovin’ them.

It's Time....

Yes... Gr 12 surely is the time to work hard. Personally, I feel that you can fool around in Gr 9 and 10 and still do well. All you have to do is work hard in Gr 11 and 12 and "BAM" your good to go into university. I should have done that but its too late. Hmm when I got home, I slept from 5-9:30. Way longer than a power nap but oh well, I couldn't stop myself from sleeping. I just dozed off and when I wake up, its already 9:00. I stare off into space for another half an hour before I get off the bed. Then I start my homework. First it was economics, spent over 2 hours reading just chapter 1 and taking notes and doing the homework.

Boring Day - Sunday September 12, 2010

(a gloomy picture to describe how I feel atm)

It has been a boring weekend for me. Just work and work and work. Just the feeling that this kind of work schedule will go on for the rest of the year makes me frustrated. I am so bored.... why is working so boring...

Finally Weekend! - Saturday September 12, 2010

Today, I spent the whole day outside doing lotsa stuff. We went to retrieve some stuff from my 3rd Uncles, shop for clothes, buy food and shop for food. My parents had to go to someone's house to fix their scanner. While they were there, I was on their desk doing math homework. But the good thing was, I was fed. I got a McMini, a carton of chocolate soy milk, 2 big slices of bread and MAN I was full. You know how its like, when you eat bread and drink something, the food expands and you get really really full. My stomach was hurting afterwards.

School Time! - Saturday September 11, 2010

You heard me!!! Its the first week of school and its been already pretty busy. With University just up ahead, I know I must work hard.. but its so hard to bring myself back to school life. School has not actually started because many of us have not received our textbooks yet. Many of the teachers are away on some religious holiday and so, all we have had are supply teachers who have done barely nothing.

Day 12 of Toronto Exchange - Sunday September 5, 2010

Today was the last day before the Vancouver Exchange students would have to leave. It felt like they were leaving so soon. Already, I would miss them but school was starting and I wanted to concentrate on school anyways. We had our lunch at Yee Hong Centre which was basically 2 big plates of sushi for 40 people. Many of us were not full but the food was just so darn good. Then they were off to the airport. My father was one of the drivers and we made it to the airport in 45 minutes. We helped them bring their luggage to the terminal and waited for the rest of the people to come. Suddenly, one of the Vancouver kids received a text that their Vancouver kid which was on another car was pulled over for not having a seat belt. They needed the number for the flight receipt but none of us had wi-fi to view the flight receipt. However I had to leave so I could not see what happened next.

We had to go shopping for miscellaneous stuff before school started and most of the malls closed at 5:00pm. I bought a watch and a wallet and that was it.

Day 11 of Toronto Exchange - Saturday September 4, 2010

Today was City Mosaic Day. Basically, it’s a race where you complete challenges at designated checkpoints. I felt that we as planners were totally not ready because we were still working on it last night. It was so last minute and we were still not ready at the morning. I got paired up with a silver team and off we went to our first challenge. We had 4 places to visit: Yorkville, Kensington Market, Pawsway and Music Garden. We decided to visit Kensington Market and boy it was sketchy. We bought a large burrito at The Big Fat Burrito Store and I watched my team eat chocolate crickets and maggots for their challenge at the checkpoints. Then they were off to Pawsway where they ate dog food and last off Music Garden. We had to meet back at 3:00pm and the teams would be disqualified if they were 30 minutes late. We arrived at 3:22pm which meant we were safe but other teams were not so lucky. They arrived pretty late, around 4ish but they were not disqualified I believe.

To be honest, not many teams were really honest because they cheated. Some of them just searched it up on Internet while others were going to photoshop their team pictures. They thought of schemes that I would never have thought of. In Vision Youth, I have learned one and only one thing. Many of them are lazy and if you start doing the work, they will shove their share of the work to you as well. So, you would be doing the whole teams work instead of your individual part. It would be better to be lazy and not do work at all.
After that, we went to Pacific Mall for our dinner at Golden Regency Restaurant. However we were really early and so we had to waste some time before dinner was ready. Many of us didn’t have anything to do at Pmall and we just played Big 2 the whole time. Although we went into the arcade, many of us didn’t want to spend money. The dinner was awesome and it was the last dinner for the Vancouver kids because they would be leaving tomorrow. Aww, its already the end, the start of school and the end of the exchange. Time sure passes by fast when its fun.

After dinner, we went cosmic bowling. I was pretty fail at bowling but I was improving. I got a few strikes at the end and learned a big lesson. When it is times up and your game has finished, don’t go and start a new game because you will have to pay for it. I had started 2 lanes and I was on the verge of paying for it. Thank god, the worker let me off. I was glad to not lose my money.

Day 10 of Toronto Exchange - Friday September 3, 2010

Today I was totally psyched because we were going to Wonderland. Today I doubt there will any parts that will be boring or that we need to listen to some guest speaker talk. I always hated the boring parts and I had looked forward to today. We took the Viva and then transferred to another bus to arrive at Wonderland. On our way to Wonderland, I encountered a St. John’s member who was going somewhere. Our bus ride felt really long and most of us fell asleep because we were really tired.

When we arrived, a Vancouver kid found out that food was not allowed inside Wonderland. I guess we didn’t inform them about this before hand and so he had to trash his food. Another friend had remembered that he had brought a knife along and had to hide it away somewhere. I thought that we were not allowed to bring water inside and I started emptying my bottle. But I found out later on that water was allowed. It started raining a little bit and everyone started freaking out because they didn’t bring any rain gear.

As we entered, we decided to go to Bungee jumping but we decided to do it later. And so, we went on “Top Gun” known as “Flight Deck” now. I felt dizzy after the ride because there were many loops and upside-downs. Another ride we went on was the “Sledgehammer” which was pretty scary as the arms suddenly rose and suddenly fell. We were lining up to go on SkyRider before it started pouring. Then they had to shut it down for safety reasons. because of all the rain. In addition, the SkyRider’s brake system was pretty sensitive and because of the rain, it will undoubtedly be affected. We were pretty pizzed because we were about to go on the ride before they delayed it. We had to wait because there was a reported sighting of lightning 3 miles within the amusement park. We had to wait until the rain died down which took over an hour. So we hid in the shelter and the workers showed us a poster of a new ride that will be coming out next year. It’s called “Windseeker” and it would be higher than Behemoth and I was surprised at the cost which was $5,000,000. It didn’t look that appealing because it was just like a merry go round at a really high level. We waited until 12:00 and we had to leave for lunch.
We ate lunch at Mr. Sub and had to share a large sub between two people because otherwise we would surpass our spending limit. The food at Wonderland is really expensive and totally not worth it. After my lunch, I was still hungry. We went on other rides such as Behemoth, Shockwave, The Bat, Drop Zone and Behemoth again. The lines were really long and going on Behemoth was just scary. During the Behemoth ride, I chose to ride at the last row because apparently it will feel like it goes faster because it is the last cart of the roller coaster. I had a big stomachache after that. At Drop Zone, I was just terrified and a fellow friend had to pull me on the ride. I was just scared out of my mind because it was so high and basically it will fall down really fast. I hate the feeling of free-falling because it feels like you will fall down to the ground but in reality you won’t.

Last of all, some people wanted to do bungee jumping. It cost $20/person and basically they will be pulled up to a very high height and be dropped like a swing. Apparently it was really worth it but I chickened out.

Finally it was nearing the end of the day, we left to a friend’s house to eat dinner. We ate pizza with garlic sauce instead of tomato sauce. It tasted pretty weird and I kind of preferred tomato sauce more. We played a little of mahjong, halo, guitar hero and we watched a horror movie. It was really really scary especially when you watch it in the dark and in a basement. It was better though because we watched it as a large group and many of us literally screamed when something scary pops out. The movie was called The Amityville Horror, a really scary movie indeed.

Day 9 of Toronto Exchange - Thursday, September 2, 2010

Today I woke up so early to take the bus to Yee Hong Centre where we were to meet for our Niagara Falls tour. As we waited for the bus in the morning, we were at the station for 20 minutes before a bus finally came. I was so worried that we would be late and the bus would leave without us. However we arrived like 20 minutes early.

It took us over 2 hours to get to Niagara Falls which was located at the borders of United States and Canada. I fell asleep in the bus and woke up just in time to get off. First off, we went to Niagara on the Lake. I don’t really know what it meant but all I saw was a very small village that sold ice cream and lots of delicious items. I decided to go into one of the ice cream stores to buy ice cream. However I could not find my wallet and I remembered that I left it in my bag on the school bus. Oh my god, I felt so dumb and so I was starving at that moment. We walked around for a bit and then had to leave.

Then we had a tour with some dude wearing a british costume. He was posing as a british soldier and he told us a brief history of the civil war or some war that happened between United States and Britain(or Canada). This was determined whether Ontario would stay as British Territory or be taken by United States. In the end, the british soldiers claimed this land and it became what is now known Canada.

We went to the Butterfly Conservatory for lunch. Our lunch was a piece of pizza and pop. That was definitely not enough for my starving stomach and so I ordered a second slice for $2. Guess what, my slice of pizza was so miniscule and I felt like I was scammed.

After lunch, we went inside the Conservatory and went to watch a short video about the butterflies in the Butterfly Conservatory. The girls were like all screaming as they saw what they say as gross pictures of caterpillars becoming butterflies. I was like this is part of nature and you shouldn’t be scared of it. Then we went inside and “whoosh” we were swept by so many different kinds of butterflies ranging from different sizes, colours and shape. The girls were running like crazy looking for the exit because they could not bear looking at the butterflies for a moment. It cost us $30/person to go inside and they left within 5 minutes of entering the Butterfly Conservatory.
Then we finally went to Niagara Falls. Apparently Niagara Falls is made up of American Falls and Horseshoe Falls. As we parked the school bus for us to get off, I found out that it cost us $40 to unload our bus. That was such a rip-off. We went inside to the gift shop and then a candy shop. After waiting for a while, we finally got our tickets to go see Niagara Falls for ourselves. We had to wear rain ponchos because we would get wet. I was ready for like huge waves of water falling on me but I was disappointed when I came across just breezes of vapour falling on me. Nothing interested me then.

Then we went to watch Niagara Fury, The creation of the falls. It was exciting as it gave us a first person view of how the Niagara Falls emerged. Totally worth your money.
Then we had free time. Many of us ran to Clifton Hills for the arcade. The girls were going for the fudge factory. As we got to the arcade, many of us did not want to pay to play the games which was a huge disappointment. So, we ended up not playing any games. However it was nice to visit a busy street with a lot of different amusements.
We had dinner at CHAKO (Korean BBQ) and it was awesome!!! I ate so many pieces of beef and chicken!

Day 8 of Toronto Exchange - Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Today I woke up really late because my head felt so tired from all the events that has been happening for the past month. It has been non-stop action and I was sleep deprived and finally it was just small rest before school would start. Well I woke up at 11:20 but I should have been awake at 9:00 because I was supposed to join the Vancouver people at a Toronto Downtown Tour but I had to go see the dentist. So I had to skip this tour to see my dentist because it was somewhat important. Guess what I was going to see the dentist for!? You guess wrong! Apparently my wisdom teeth was taking up too much space and I must take them out.

Usually to arrive at the dentist, I would have to take the bus but today at the subway station there was a long line up. I thought I would be late because of it and I was somewhat right. I had to run to the dentist place just not to be late. When I arrived, I was dripping with sweat from my forehead down to my neck. My dentist and his assistant was terrified and told me to wipe it off. At that moment, I was so embarrassed but it was worth it because I was not late. I was totally ready for the loss of my wisdom teeth. But when I saw the hand that held the needle come nearer and nearer, I was terrified. What if my dentist failed, what would happen to my teeth? But after rethinking, this dude is experienced and must have took out people's teeth numerous times so what is there to worry about. I calmed down and felt the sharp pain as the needle went into my gums and the fluid was sent into my gums. He placed two needles on either side of my teeth to ensure that it was fully numb. After just a few minutes, the chemical kicked in and my upper right side felt so numb. I could not feel that part anymore.

After that, all I saw was a small metal stick that was put into my mouth and a few cracking noises from my teeth. Then he took out a clamp and clamped my wisdom teeth out just like that. In all it took just like 3 minutes and it was over. And now I have a hole in my mouth and blood is pouring out. He told me that I cannot eat for 45 minutes and that I must renew my clothe if it get too bloody. In 4 hours my anaesthesia will go away and the pain will come. I have lost 2 wisdom teeth in total and I will lose another 2 in a few weeks.

After that, I went shopping for school bags and other stationary. We returned with 3 school bags, ice cream, blueberry muffins and other sorts of groceries.

Day 5 of Toronto Exchange - Monday August 29, 2010.... Survival Camp Day 3

Today was the last day of our Survival Camp. We went along a long in search of blackberries. With the hands of 30 people we were able to fill up 2 nalgenes with blackberries. Many of us were just stripping and eating the blackberries. It tasted so good with its sweetness and abundancy. Some of us got bored and decided to play with the rescue dogs that were with us. They would throw the branch into somewhere and the dog would chase after it. Then we had to use a compass to navigate to our campsite through the spiky bushes of the blackberry trees. Finally it was party time, and they sent us up to their house to eat a barbecue. There were hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, pop and so much. Most of all, they had so many dogs there. After lunch, we had free time before we had to go. Some of us went to take a dive in the river nearby while me and a few others went fishing. My fishing hook got stuck several times and I had to find help to get it fixed. However I was not able to get any fish which was a big disappointment. A friend beside me had caught two sunfishes already.

Then we were off on the bus to our Residential Project at a Shrine. I had done this residential project before so it was all pretty boring for me.

Day 4 of Toronto Exchange - Sunday August 28, 2010.... Survival Camp Day 2

In the morning, many of us were desperate for water because it was depleted. Our only way of getting fresh water was through filtering water by the river nearby. However we had only 3 water filters for 30 people which took quite a long time. I laughed as one the people had slipped into the water and came back all drenched. He had slipped on the slippery rock and took a swim in the river. Today, we learned about making fires such as making an SOS Signal. It should be made before hand and should be fully on fire in 30 seconds. The fires were placed in 3 places in the shape of a triangle. So when the airplanes that flew overhead, they would see the fires in a shape of a triangle and understand that we needed help. Then we went repelling off a round cliff. I tried jumping off but instead of falling down, I went back up. I tried jumping off again for the second time but I just moved downwards a little bit. But for every step that I took, I felt like I was getting better until the end where I had to land on the ground. While I jumped off to land on the ground, I hit the wall and it hurt.

After that, it was getting dark and they made us sleep without our tents. Finally, we were put to the test and me and 2 others decided to run off into the woods to sleep. We were supposed to make a shelter but instead we decided to sleep in the open, without a tent or a sleeping bag. We were not supposed to eat as well because it would attract a bear but we decided to eat roast beef jerky. It was so good but too bad we didn’t have much. In addition, we had a big bonfire which lasted for a long time before it died out. I slept without a sleeping bag.