Pengling's Sporadic Online Journal
July 31, 2001
I don't really know why I'm writing this journal. It's not like I'm bored or
anything. Ok, maybe a bit. It's really because I've got this free space and I don't
know what to do with it. Anyway, I was trying to set up home-networking but so far
I've only got one computer onto the network. I guess it's really not much of a network eh?
If any of you comp sci or engineering kids know what to do, drop me an email.
August 3, 2001
I'm watching the Simpsons right now... the one where Lisa enters the beauty pageant. Funny
stuff. Krusty just got shocked. Oh what will I do when school starts and I don't have the
Simpsons to watch?
Oh dear, a month from now and I'll be back at school. Dammit.
August 4, 2001
A friend came up to visit for the day and it was interesting. I thought the only reason
why he came was for rescuing his book (I also refer to it as "the pillow" since
it's so goddamn thick) which I held hostage, but he claimed that we were the reason why he
came up. Maybe I should have more faith in my friends... nah.
August 22, 2001
Just came back from Europe and I'm dead tired. During my trip, I
figured out what I wanted to be in my next life if reincarnation exists: a Swiss milk cow.
I've noticed that they don't eat much beef there and the cows in general look like they're
having a good time basking in the sun. Better than the life I lead now. Hmm.
September 2, 2001
This summer has been awfully weird... besides making some money which I'll end up spending
on textbooks anyway, I haven't accomplished much. Didn't do much with my friends, didn't
get to see my usual summer bunch, didn't see enough movies... ok, so I did go to Europe,
but that was semi-disastrous. And I haven't finished packing even tho' I'm leaving
tomorrow morning... damn damn damn. Better go finish that now.
September 11, 2001
Disaster day. I'm in shock. How can anyone be so sick? And how can people actually celebrate this?! Yes, so they hate America, but it's the government and politicians they hate, not innocent civilians!
September 12, 2001
'Tis the 3rd day of school... spent about an hour and a half waiting in line to return my physical chem textbook because I found a place where they sold it for 2 bucks less. After talking to so many people, I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually taking the right courses for my program since nobody else is taking the same stuff. I'm worried. Anyway, it's my mom's birthday today. Happy birthday, mom. It's also J-God's b-day. Happy birthday, Jason.
September 16, 2001
I was browsing the internet when I came across this song/poem: My Ruins. It pretty much sums up me and my life. For those of you who has hurt me at some point of time, is hurting me right now, or will hurt me in the future, pay attention to the first two lines.
September 18, 2001
A conversation with Tiff today:
Tiff: The moon rises from the same direction as the sun, right?
Wendy: The moon doesn't rise, neither does the sun... the earth rotates. But yeah, the same direction.
Tiff: Oh I see. The west.
Yeah, well, she's usually very bright. Really. You have to trust me on this one. I guess astronomy's just not her thing.
September 21, 2001
Oooh I'm drunk again... and I want an omelette. Very badly. I think I'm going to cry if I don't get one. Omelettes are the best thing anyone came up with. I was looking up omelette recipes on the web and I came across this one:
"Serve with home-grown sliced tomatoes and freshly baked bread, rolls, and home-made james. Serves 2." -- Big Shrimp Omelette
Homemade james eh? How do you make james in the first place?!
September 27, 2001
I never got omelette that night I was drunk... Oh, if anyone has actually gone to check out that recipe, you'll find that in the list of ingredients, they asked for SMALL shrimps, even tho' the recipe says it's a BIG Shrimp Omelette. Hmm... False advertising? And while we're on the topic of food... I opened up a packet of Lindt liquer chocolate (with Kirsch... yum) to find that the alcohol has evaporated, leaving behind crystalised alcohol/sugar inside the chocolate. This is extremely annoying....
September 29 2001
Ohohoh, I got a haircut yesterday. It's not quite what I had in mind, but then they never really cut my hair the way I want them to. Anyhow it's pretty cool. I don't know if I've ever had my hair this short. Now I need an extremely strong gel or hairspray to hold my spikes up...
October 16, 2001
I really don't feel like studying for my chem midterm tomorrow. Maybe I should get myself locked in the 14th Floor of the Robarts Library like some of my friends did last week. Yeah, Ellen and Siuki got themselves locked in and we had to get the UT Campus Police to save them. Or I can go play Diablo2 till 4am every morning. Or pursue a career in bead-necklace making... hmmm... so many options.
November 8, 2001
Hmm... it's been nearly a month since I last updated this page. Midterms, y'know. Hate those things. Anyway. Last week was Oana's birthday. After dinner at a fancy restaurant we went to Bedford Academy for a drink. Marianne had her eyes on a cute guy working there... and as an excuse to talk to him, she asked him for coasters. He gave her a shitload of 'em, so I took a few, wrote her name and number on the top one, and returned the coasters since "there were too many of them." I wonder if Dave has called her yet?
November 10, 2001
Ottawa. It's great. I went pool playing with Katrina. Anyway, that morning, Katrina's car stalled near the pool place as she was going to her geology midterm and she had to push it into the parking lot to get it out of harm's way. Barely made it to her test on time. Well, guess what happened when we were on our way to my house? Of course the car stopped right at the red light and wouldn't move. We managed to get it parked to the side on the street and eventually her parents came to the rescue. That was amusing, as Katrina's mom was quite tipsy from drinking lots of alcohol at Ashbury. (Hmm... there's something odd about this...Ashbury? Drinks? Katrina's mom?) At least that kept her warm. My lesson for the day: When your friend tells you that her car is gonna die, don't laugh, cos very likely you're gonna be stuck with her in the cold waiting for help.
February 28, 2002
I almost forgot this page exists... Which reminds me that I have to do some major updating... Oh wait, I promised the Trinity AIDS Awareness Committee I'd
update their page for them too.... oops.
Other than that... Team Canada rocks! What a memorable game! I'm still in post-Olympics withdrawal... I can hardly wait till the 2006 games at Torino,
Italy....
March 15, 2002
Go Sens Go! Go Leafs Go! I'll cheer for these two teams until the playoffs... but I'll have to stop cheering for them when they play each other in the first round. If I cheered for the Leafs during playoffs, Aly will kill me... but if I cheered for the Sens, Icieey and Cecil will see that I meet a horrible fate. Best course of action: STUDY AND STOP WATCHING HOCKEY. I got the Spring/Summer MEC catalogue today and saw the cutest baby outfit... Had some fun with photo editing...
March 25, 2002
Yay... Finally found an apartment for next year... It's such a sweet apartment! Icieey, Minion 2, and I will be proud neighbours of Mats Sundin!!!
Also happy news: converted Icieey (and Andrew?) into David Usher fans! We (minus Andrew... he's in UK) saw David Usher at Lee's Palace on Friday... oh my god that man is beautiful. And talented. And hot. And a good singer. Did I mention that he's beautiful? Icieey and I listened to his CD at least 3 times straight on Saturday cos he was so damn good.
The band that did the opening for David Usher was John Ford (tho' I don't think anyone in the band is called John Ford)... the band consists of Frodo gone horribly bad, a yellow-bandana-wearing bass player, and guitarist who likes to grind against his guitar, and a drummer who looks good from the neck up. They weren't too bad really... Just not very appealing to look at.
About the Oscars... Black Hawk Down should've been nominated for best picture... Would've been nice if Amelie won the foreign film category too... and what the hell was Gwenyth Paltrow wearing???
April 9, 2002
I think the standing ovation at the Molson Centre lasted at least 8 minutes long... (and that's not including all the cheering during the pre-game practice.) Saku Koivu, captain of the Habs, played for the first time since he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma (a life-threatening form of cancer...) and now the cancer's in remission. And the Habs made it to the playoffs for the first time in 4 years.
The Sens are letting Roger Neilson coach his 999th and 1000th games of his career. Neilson was also diagnosed with cancer when he was coaching the Orange Pylons... The Sens are such a classy club. Must be an Ottawa thing. =)
April 16, 2002
Ah... almost exams time. So a little recap on what I did last week. Went to the Hockey Hall of Fame last Friday... I TOUCHED the loonie that was buried in centre ice during both Salt Lake men's and women's hockey gold medal games!!! Ahhh... it was so satifying.
Then we went to Ikea on Saturday... mmm... spent five hours there. That place is just too much fun.
Sports day on Sunday... the Masters, Cart racing, Curling (yay Canada won gold!) and the Junos! (ok, fine, so the Junos ain't sports related...)
'Twas the perfect weekend.
May 24, 2002
So I was walking down Spadina today, and I came up with this new hypothesis/observation/random madness. Here goes: if you see a tall-ish guy with naturally dark curly hair (preferably short)... he's very likely to be good looking. Not that I'm saying guys with straight hair can't be good looking, but curly hair seems to be strongly linked to good-lookingness is guys. Some famous examples: James (he better feel honoured), this guy I met today who's doing his Ph.D on bioinformatics (ahhhhhh... nice eyes too, and nice smile, and nice arms... you get the idea), my Comp Sci TA, and a guy who was riding his bike on Spadina (hence this theory)... Please feel free to email/message me with new additions. Note: I'm still in the middle of developing Part 2 to the above hypothesis... which is: the aforementioned guys also tend to be somewhat... umm.. how should I put this nicely... oh I know, "academic", (except for the bike guy, but that's because I don't know him.) July, 2002 Icieey met Alex Tagliani and Patrick Carpentier today... Took some REALLY NICE pictures with them and got their autographs. Tag remembered who Icieey was! Icieey's in cloud 9 now. September 8 & 9, 2002 School officially starts today. Damn. I'm scared. I want my mommy. So Cecil persuaded me to get an Alyn McCauley picture and to get it signed. So we waited outside for McCauley (well, Icieey and I waited for him... Cecil was waiting for Yuschkevich) and I swear my heart just stopped when I saw him. Why couldn't I have met him in high school and married him instead? Why? He's so perfect. *sigh* So now I have his picture with his autograph on my desk... Pengling will be spending a lot of time staring at that picture... So I took Icieey to the Elmwood Spa here in Toronto for her birthday. That was the first time I've ever been to a spa, and I have a feeling that it won't be the last. That evening when Icieey was happily cheering the Canadian Juniors on during the Raptors game, I went skating at the Nathan Phillips Square... let's just say that all that money my parents put towards my figure skating lessons was a royal waste. And speaking of Raptors games... Icieey took me to my first Raptors game ever... too bad they lost 84-99 to the Hornets. I blame Foster (or Uncle Fester)... he's such a useless piece of crap. Even the mascot can play better than he can. Someone please hurt him so that nobody will have to watch the Raptors suffer anymore! School has just started... *sigh* I'm already stressing and it's only the 2nd day of school. January 14, 2003 Thingy expected me to still stick around everytime she disappointed me... I can't say I'm the most patient person around, and there are limits. I have my own well being to look out for too. She's exhausted my patience with her, and it's not fair that I have to go and worry about her shit and pick up after her while she goes and have a good time. She expects me to trust her when all she ever does is lie to and pacify me (and Icieey). And suddenly I'm the bitch because I'm not there for her, and that I don't like to be her puppet and be manipulated. My academics suffered because of her dammit... and I know I'm not the only one. A whole bunch of us were worried sick for her-- nobody got work done because of her-- and when we tried to help her, not only did she reject our help, but she also stabbed us in the back, and then slapped us in our faces with her lies. Then she tried to suck up to us. I've already given her enough second, third... god knows how many chances I've given her. I may have been stupid enough to be her friend once upon a time, but even an idiot like me learns eventually. And then there are her "other friends"... I just feel sorry for them. I've gotta wonder (and again, I'm not the only one)... where the hell were they when we had to put up with thingy? If they were such great friends, why don't they deal with her problems, instead of leaving the job up to me and Icieey? Why don't they just take her in and have her live with them instead? Some of these friends are my friends too, but I can't help but feel bitter... I remember that when we moved out, a lot of them didn't exactly want to live with her. So now I'm the bad person cos I've had enough abuse? Because I was actually nice enough to keep her as a roommate? If they're really sorry for her, why don't they live with her? It's so easy to undermine the problem when one is not in the midst of it. This is so damned frustrating. Argh. January 23, 2003 Whoa... big day tomorrow. Papa and Mama are coming to visit! I haven't seen them for 2 and a half years, and I'm actually kinda nervous. I hope I get new toys from them, hehe... April 17, 2003 So I went to my first Leafs playoff game ever... It went to 3 OT's before stupid Philly's Recchi scored. Good ol' Eddie... he did a pretty good job keeping the Leafies alive for most of the game. There was this obnoxious Philly fan sitting in front of us, and he was just annoying the hell out of everyone. Too bad he didn't get ejected, but we were tempted. The only consolation was that I got free icecream, thanks to the Icieey connection. Oh, I also saw Walter Gretzky... that was kinda neat. Ottawa moved on to second round tonight after they beat the New York Islanders 4-1, both in the game, and in the series. Mwahahahahaha! Take that, Yashin!
It's been 2 weeks since I started working at TGH... programming from 9 to 5 everyday. Ahhh... such irony.
Cujo's gone. Sad day in Leafies land. G'luck in Detroit.
Watched the Men's final at the US Open today. Sampras beat Agassi 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. It's Pistol Pete's 14th title... *sigh* And who said he doesn't have it anymore?
October 24, 2002
Went to my first Leafs game ever... It was against the Florida Panthers and the Leafs lost 4-1. =| Not too impressed with that... I can't believe I skipped class for THIS. It was still fun tho', the seats were good. However, Antropov scored for the Leafs... Hopefully that'll give me a few more points on my Fantasy Hockey game.
This is pissing me off... I've been staying the hell away from one of my roommates lately to keep my own sanity and now thingy is accusing me of not being a friend. Honestly, I don't have too many regrets in my life, but knowing her tops the list. Why? Because thingy (that's what I call her now) had abused my friendship over the last 2 and a half years-- she never respected me, she took me for granted, she treated me as a second-rate citizen. (here's a good one... she's repeatedly told me that I could have the guys she discarded... WTF? Please, I actually have SOME taste in my men.)