tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52899822011-04-21T16:30:08.645-04:00wIckeD bUBblEa lil something about MEEE...clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comBlogger911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1112148923147526922005-03-29T21:03:00.000-05:002005-03-29T21:15:23.146-05:00thank god! the weather's finally getting warmer...still not quite spring yet, but at least i don't have to pile on layers and layers of clothing anymore!! hehe. it's around 7-13 here everyday, which is pretty nice, compared to say....toronto!! heheanyway, i went shoppint in tokyo on sunday with a friend. it was awesome. we went to a place Ueno and there were tons of shops there. we went to this clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1106526493485175832005-01-23T19:28:00.000-05:002005-01-23T19:28:13.486-05:00At the snowhill at Niigata clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1106526274034216102005-01-23T18:48:00.000-05:002005-01-23T19:24:34.036-05:00finally here!!! after..........3 months? haha
i went snowboarding yesterday with my teacher friends Stef and Christine and some Japanese friends, Tomo and Kasu. it was a lot of fun. we went to Niigata prefecture (where they had the big earthquake back in Oct) it was about a 4 hour drive to get up there. i fell asleep in the car and when i woke up, it was snow EVERYWHERE!!! it was so cool. on theclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1101152259092067302004-11-22T13:26:00.000-05:002004-11-22T14:37:39.093-05:00it has been quite an amazing couple of days. well, sunday night and tonight that is.
so on sunday, christine(one of the teachers) invited a few teachers to her house for a get-together dinner. well, she accidentally cut her finger when she was cooking and it wouldn't stop bleeding, after 2 hours!!! so after we finished eating dinner, some of the guys looked at it for her and they washed it. so, clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1100748894846151692004-11-17T22:30:00.000-05:002004-11-17T22:34:54.846-05:00holy, some people are so ....i don't even know how to describe it. but anyway, last night when a colleague and i got home, we found this bag of garbage sitting on our hallway with a note in japanese attached to it. it basically says that it is not the colour that our city uses (we use brown garbage bags and that one was green) so yeah, the note says that we shouldn't put out garbage bags that areclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1099998005316415112004-11-09T05:57:00.000-05:002004-11-09T06:00:05.316-05:00hi guys!!! i've been here for like almost 2 months now.....well, it's only been a month and 2 weeks actually, but it feels like i've been here longer.
anyway, i finally got internet set up at home!!!! i'm sooo excited!! i can finally talk to people again!! nothing much has been going on really. but i signed up for a japanese class, so hopefully, i'll pick up some japanese real soon.
that's it forclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1099997777632745342004-11-09T05:56:00.000-05:002004-11-09T05:56:17.633-05:00this is from halloween. aren't my kids so cute!!! can you guess if i was a cat or a mouse? clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1099997737383955692004-11-09T05:55:00.000-05:002004-11-09T05:55:37.383-05:00Some teachers got together and had Thanksgiving dinner at a teacher's house. It was an awesome meal!! clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1096170394388669332004-09-25T23:33:00.000-04:002004-09-25T23:46:34.386-04:00a weeks gone by here in japan. the weather is really weird. its hot and humid for 2 days, then it got really cool the next couple of days. but its ok. better than not having a summer in toronto!!!
anyway, i:m still trying to clean up my apartment and settle in. the place is so dirty, so i have to clean out everything before i can cook and stuff. so right now, i:m just eating lots of cup noodles clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1095826437372159282004-09-21T23:39:00.000-04:002004-09-22T00:13:57.373-04:00im finally in japan!!! its soooo hot here. i swear, i havent sweated like this in a long time. yeah. its pretty gross. haha
anyhoo, things are ok here. ive moved into my apartment already. it has a bathroom, living room and 2 bedrooms. the place it tiny, its plenty for me already, since im living by myself. its totally a residential area where i live. there is only one main street in the town clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1092759189948127572004-08-17T12:08:00.000-04:002004-08-17T12:13:09.946-04:00hey guys! haven't blogged since march. i've been busy with school and work, that's why i haven't had time to come up and blog.
guess what!!! i am finally going to japan to teach!!! i'll be leaving in mid-september. it's in a city called Chiba, an hour away from Tokyo by train. i'm soooo excited about going!!! thou it's scary at the same time, since i'll be all by myself. but it'll be an awesome clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1078979542297631242004-03-10T23:32:00.000-05:002004-03-10T23:35:27.200-05:00haven't blogged in 2 months!!! wow....that's a pretty long time. but then, i've have been kinda busy, so didn't really have much time to blog.
one more month and school's over for good!!! i can't wait for it to be over.
that's it for now, i'll wirte more next time, when i have more timeclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1072376139310981532003-12-25T13:15:00.000-05:002003-12-25T13:17:03.356-05:00hey all of you!!! merry christmas!!!! what am i doing on line so early? yeah i know eh........i've been onn ever since 9ish this morning!!! my mom woke me up so i can go on line to go on yahoo messanger to have a little online conference with my relatives in hk. it was fun......just a bit tooooo early thou! =P
i can't believe half the holidays have already gone by!!! i feel like i haven't reallyclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1072041592786816322003-12-21T16:19:00.000-05:002003-12-21T16:21:11.640-05:00FINALLY!!! everything's done and i can take a breather. all my assignments are finally done.....two weeks without anything!! nice
i went to a teaching workshop this past week, it's called "tribes". it's a really good workshop and i learned a lot. met a lot of people too. i really hope i will be able to implement some of the strategies that i learned into my own classroom. that'd be really good.
clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1071139354510665512003-12-11T05:42:00.000-05:002003-12-11T05:43:39.450-05:00it's been a long while since i last blogged. things got really really busy and hectic. but i just got this one major essay done, so now at least i can relax for a bit. only 2 more assignments to go, then my christmas will officially start!! oh i can't wait!!!
so much to do during the holidays........i can't wait though!! it'll be an awesome x'mas, i just know it.
anyway, more updates later, clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1069193499832789932003-11-18T17:11:00.000-05:002003-11-18T17:14:17.796-05:00i finally went to the docs this morning after being sick for 2 weeks. i wasn't gonna go originally, but a parent volunteer told me that it might've already turned into bronchitis already, so that kinda scared me a lil. but yeah, the doc did say that i have bronchitis and gave me some antibiotics. let's hope my cough will really go away soon...REAL soon.
though i didn't really get much done, thisclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1068976742334510442003-11-16T04:59:00.000-05:002003-11-16T04:59:32.170-05:00can't believe it!! it's already 330am. i was supposed to stay up and work until 3am, not sleep until 3. well, i guess i'll just start working after this then. anyway, things have been good since that grrr day last week. yesterday was a really good day in fact. it felt so nice to just relax and not think about anything for once. well, not think about nothing, but you know what i mean. it was just clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1068261276156727052003-11-07T22:14:00.000-05:002003-11-07T22:17:28.610-05:00toronto lost to new jersey. 0-1.
today is officially over for me. no work no nothing tonite. i don't care. don't wanna do anything. it was such a sucky day today. first of all, i got snapped at for no reason by this girl in my class, well, not just me. we (the girls who teach at my school) were meeting after class to discuss our research project, but then my friends were talking about a teachingclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1068006751035465442003-11-04T23:32:00.000-05:002003-11-04T23:33:10.076-05:00wow, i haven't blogged in so long. haven't really had time to actually sit down and blog. but here i am. yay!! hehe
something weird happened yesterday, when my friends and i were at school photocopying teaching materials. the special ed. teacher came rite up to us and started rambling about how he makes time to take care of everyone's problem kids and it is only rite that we make time for him. clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1067156838462129202003-10-26T04:27:00.000-05:002003-10-26T04:27:21.983-05:00my friends came over to my place for a potluck party tonight, we then went to this place called Haunted Adventures afterwards. it's basically like Screamers, but much better. we first went on this hayride around the forest, with things...well, people dressed up, popping out at you. we went thru this bridge and then they turned off all the lights. when they turned the lights back on, there was clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1066775069914351812003-10-21T18:24:00.000-04:002003-10-21T18:26:11.606-04:00the kids were off the wall yesterday!!! man.....i had to give these 2 kids time out twice!!! now, i don't usually give kids timeout, that's how bad they were. and pretty much the whole class kept on asking if they could go get a drink too, cuz the classroom was just really hot and dry. and this kid, i don't know how he did it, but when i turned around and look at his direction, he had a kleenex clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1066196506337442292003-10-15T01:41:00.000-04:002003-10-17T01:02:40.840-04:00this thanksgiving long weekend was pretty fun.....i spent most of my time shopping, which = fun!! haha, but of course i did other fun things too, just not this weekend. anyway, something really embarrassing happened this weekend while i was shopping. so i went shopping with my mom and cousin on saturday and we went to AE to get something. my coz got a jacket while i got a top and my mom paid for clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1065886359312467672003-10-11T11:32:00.000-04:002003-10-11T11:43:14.003-04:00the long weekend is finally here!!! yay!!!! the last 2 weeks have been pretty crazy. papers due and stuff. and i was always up in the middle of the night to do them. probably my own fault though. i kept on putting them off til the last minute. but i got them done, that's the most important part rite!! i guess my thanksgiving goal would be to start my essays earlier! but there are still so much toclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1064622335183266172003-09-26T20:25:00.000-04:002003-09-26T20:32:40.456-04:00haven't written here in a long time now. not cuz i don't wanna but i haven't really had the time to just sit down and think, or "reflect" on what i've done, as the faculty of education profs like to say all the time. i've been busy, but not too busy. you know, it's those days when it seems like you're always doing something but in the end, nothing gets done. that's me. i haven't done ANYTHING!!! clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1063593051871020352003-09-14T22:30:00.000-04:002003-09-14T22:30:51.793-04:00i survived the first week of school!! that wasn't so bad......though i fell asleep pretty much in all my classes. thursday was the worse though. my prof didn't even show up in class!!! i could've been at home sleeping. but the worse is that after waking up at 6:30 for 2 weeks, i can't even sleep in anymore. it sucks not being able to sleep in!!!!clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1062628549315390652003-09-03T18:35:00.000-04:002003-09-03T18:35:49.256-04:00holy!!! compared to yesterday, today's just.............and pretty eventful too. we have twins in our class today. now, if they were good, it'd be ok. the problem is that they're not!! they don't listen at all! and one of them just started crying like crazy after their mom left. to make it worse, there's this other kid who won't stop crying either..........so 2 really loud crying kids in the clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1062555928650602622003-09-02T22:25:00.000-04:002003-09-03T18:01:31.673-04:00i survived my first day teaching today.....i had a pretty easy day. this year, i'm placed in a kindergarten class. i was expecting a a lot of crying cuz everyone has told me that the first week of kindergarten's aweful! but it wasn't bad at all. in fact, it was really fun. i'm not sure about tomorrow thou. we're getting another class. tomorrow's class is the one that i'll be teaching all year. clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1062392320724388912003-09-01T00:58:00.000-04:002003-09-01T00:58:40.520-04:00yeah people!!! i went to tonic last nite. and yup, that's my first time clubbing!! it was pretty exciting for me! hehe. although i've been to "clubbing" events at other universities, those just don't really count cuz it's just different cuz i was still within a school setting. it was soooo much fun!! i loved it, but i probably won't go a lot. i went with some friends that i worked with at the clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1061961817545853062003-08-27T01:23:00.000-04:002003-08-27T01:32:55.976-04:00i was suppose to go to high park and watch a shakespear play with my friends tonite. but one of them got sick. so we thought we'd do something else when he gets better. i then ended up watching uptown girl with my coz. i'm sure most of you have heard about it. it's not a bad movie. i kinda like it. it talks about how a rich 22-yr-old girl lost all her money over night. she then had to get a job clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1061615600967684602003-08-23T01:13:00.000-04:002003-08-23T01:13:20.953-04:00last day at c21 as a "full time" today...back to normal in sept. i can't believe i only have one more week of holidays. i have to start teaching rite after labour day. then school the week after........this summer has gone by sooooo quickly. too quickly infact. i still haven't gone anywhere this summer.
anyway, i've been working full time at c21 this week. it's not so bad. but really busy. i wasclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1061353046095499382003-08-20T00:17:00.000-04:002003-08-20T00:18:14.973-04:00for those of you who can read chinese.......
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（Tomorrow is Another Day)clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1060978038349718632003-08-15T16:07:00.000-04:002003-08-15T16:33:27.480-04:00as most of you know and experienced, there was a power failure in toronto and the east coast yesterday, starting from about 4:15pm. i thought it was only gonna be a short term thing, but it lasted for at least 8 hours. it was a funny day. everything was out. no tv, no computers, no cd player, no nothing!!! it was soooooooo boring. we ended up bbq'ing for dinner, as it was for many other people. clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1060626665512904042003-08-11T14:31:00.000-04:002003-08-11T14:31:05.490-04:00yup, lots happened yesterday. might not seem so exciting to you. but it was definately tiring for me.
i got down to pape at around 12 with my friend from work for taste of danforth. we ate so much there. we walked around for around 2 hours there. just eating and stuff. can you imagine how much we ate. just walking around for 2 hours and eating watever we saw! haha......it was so bad. but i don'tclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1060582029953319442003-08-11T02:07:00.000-04:002003-08-11T02:07:36.750-04:00it was such an eventful day for me today. but rite now........i'm just way too tired to really write about them. so i'm gonna let you know tomorrow instead.
nitez people!clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1060493635758432082003-08-10T01:33:00.000-04:002003-08-10T01:33:55.656-04:00today was actually a pretty fun day for me. went to a friend's bbq/belated birthday party. he came back from hk actually. he teaches english in hk now, so we haven't seen him in a couple months. it was nice to get together and see him again. they were having a water fight in his backyard when i got there. but i stayed in! hehe....cuz i didn't bring a change of clothes. so i stayed in and watch clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1060233556071086912003-08-07T01:19:00.000-04:002003-08-07T01:19:16.106-04:00don't know what got in my mind this evening, but i was just sitting there watching tv, then all of a sudden, all these weird questions popped into my head.
here are some questions for thought:
+ why do we need money to live. can't we live like ancient people did?
+ why do people need friends and families?
+ why can we all be even nicer to the people around us?
+ why do most girls like shopping clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1060148967850514552003-08-06T01:49:00.000-04:002003-08-06T02:07:37.470-04:00it's been a while since i've blogged. as tired and dead as i am now, i just have to tell you what happened today. the most disgusting thing happened to me today at work. see, i wasn't really feeling too well today. i kept sneezing and stuff this morning before i went to work. and i started getting really dizzy when i got to work. so basically, i felt really sick. then all of a sudden, i felt likeclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1059457738382101742003-07-29T01:48:00.000-04:002003-07-29T01:51:49.743-04:00went to watch Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl tonite with my friend. it's actually a pretty good movie. better than i though it'd be. i didn't really expect a lot when i went to see it, cuz every time i go into a theater with really high expectations, i come out disappointed, so this time, i just went in and sat down... i just wanted to go see it cuz it was jonny depp! and clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1058936982609194282003-07-23T01:09:00.000-04:002003-07-23T01:13:04.860-04:00my brother works at the same golf course as me and he just got his pay cheque today. he said they didn't pay him the rite amount. so i checked mine as well. and not surprisingly, they didn't pay me enough either. they paid me $1 less per hour!!! a dollar an hour means i'm getting paid 80 something less. it's not a lot of money, but hey, i worked hard for it. and also, i calculated all my time, i clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1058762492196988902003-07-21T00:41:00.000-04:002003-07-21T00:41:32.173-04:00went to Casey's at Kenney Commons for dinner tonite. it was a friend's b-day...so many birthdays lately. anyway, it was a really fun night. lots of laughs........the food kinds suck thou. the pasta was all mushy and stuff. and the waiter? he was really bad....all my friends had something bad to say about him. but we still gave him a fair amount of tips. cuz we're nice people!! haha.....you must clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1058509377194189952003-07-18T02:22:00.000-04:002003-07-18T02:22:57.133-04:00it's about 1:45 am and i got home exactly an hour ago from work. it was pretty busy tonite. there was a tournament at the golf club. people from mon sheong came for a tournament, then they had a buffet dinner there. even though they left at around 9ish. there was so much to clean up afterwards. all those wine glasses and plates.....there were stacks and stacks of them. though it was tiring, it clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1058246027902808622003-07-15T01:13:00.000-04:002003-07-15T01:13:47.876-04:00i finally went to the beach after the weather turned nice this summer. one of my friends had a birthday bbq at woodbine beach. it was such a nice out yesterday. it was really sunny, yet not too hot. in fact, it was a lil chilly cuz of the breeze. i felt really stupid though. cuz i wore pants. i was gonna wear shorts, cuz i thought it would be cold, since where i live was really cloudy. but as i clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1057898214297508162003-07-11T00:36:00.000-04:002003-07-11T00:38:52.930-04:00two weeks has gone by so quickly. i didn't even have time to go out. except to the taiwanese market on saturday after work. but then i had to leave really soon cuz i had work at 9:30 the next morning. but at least i went out. it's really crazy working at the golf club. i have to work til at least 10:30 every night. that's why i told them i'm gonna switch to part time. i was gonna quit completely,clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1057156370830964652003-07-02T10:32:00.000-04:002003-07-03T19:14:56.480-04:00first day or work yesterday. it wasn't too bad. and the staff there are really nice. and the stuff that i have to do, not hard at all. but i ended up working for 11 hours yesterday. 11 hours!!! my hours were suppose to be 11-3 and then 5-9, since i live only 5 min away. but i ended up working from 3-5 as well and stayed til 10:15!!! i've never stood for sooooo long before. not even for yee hong clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1056902923171826612003-06-29T12:08:00.000-04:002003-06-29T12:24:30.126-04:00went to watch wrong turn yesterday with a friend. let's just say that it was a really really really gross movie. there was soooooo much blood!!!! it's basically about these 3 mutants that live in the forest. they would put barbwires on the dirt road so that when cars stop cuz of flat tires, they come out and kill all the "normal" people. they usually cut them up and store the body parts (eyes, clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-1056686783550623162003-06-27T00:06:00.000-04:002003-06-27T00:08:04.010-04:00i've finally found a summer job, after......2 whole months!!! but i'm not sure when i'll be starting yet. even the owner isn't sure cuz they are still renovating the club bar. but he said i should be able to start either next week or the week after. i'm hoping as soon as possible. then i won't be stuck at home everyday. now that i got a job, it seems like there are so many things that need to getclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-959279782003-06-22T20:23:00.000-04:002003-06-22T20:23:14.486-04:00don't mind the bottom 2 posts.....i think i clicked the wrong botton or something......clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-959207672003-06-22T14:25:00.002-04:002003-06-22T20:03:15.000-04:00it's the 4th of my summer holiday. what have i done besides going to meet with my ap next year? nothing...i've been bumming around in the house pretty much every day. i've cleaned every corner of my room. i cleaned out the all my jackets and clothes in the guestroom's closet too. cuz my coz from hk is going to come live with us starting july. she's going into g.9 in september. we used to be clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-959207662003-06-22T14:25:00.001-04:002003-06-22T14:25:20.983-04:00it's the 4th of my summer holiday. what have i done besides going to meet with my ap next year? nothing...i've been bumming around in the house pretty much every day.clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-959207652003-06-22T14:25:00.000-04:002003-06-22T14:25:20.953-04:00it's the 4th of my summer holiday. what have i done besides going to meet with my ap next year? nothing...i've been bumming around in the house pretty much every day.clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-958831052003-06-20T23:44:00.000-04:002003-06-20T23:50:55.000-04:00finally!! summer school's over....so glad. it was a really interesting class though. nice prof, nice people, nice assignments. everything was good basically. but now that i'm done, i find myself so unproductive. it's like there's nothing better to do. i just bummed around in the house all day yesterday. it was so bad. but today was better. me and my friends got to 16th ave. p.s. by 9am this clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-957387682003-06-16T22:48:00.000-04:002003-06-17T22:29:53.000-04:00this weekend was AMAZING!!!! me and my friends (12 in total) went white water rafting at ottawa river at this place call equinox rafting adventures. we camped there too, they have this camp ground there, it's really nice. but the washroom is really dirty. here's a lil overview of what happened:
day 1, friday:
we were suppose to leave at 10am, but we didn't end up leaving til like 11:30 which wasclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-956181802003-06-13T01:10:00.000-04:002003-06-13T01:10:37.593-04:00i went out for dinner with some friends tonight. i haven't seen one of them for....hum....2 years. yeah, that's cuz he works in germany now. cool eh!! he came back this week for his friend's wedding, so we just got together and stuff. it was some good times. some of the stuff that they said were just hilarious!! i couldn't stop laughing. at times like this, i need to laugh more......so i'm not asclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-955280612003-06-10T20:28:00.000-04:002003-06-10T20:30:15.000-04:00hey ya again. my presentation actually turned out pretty well. i talked about everything that i was suppose to within the time frame and people liked it......or maybe they were just saying that......who knows, hehe. but i'm happy either way. i was sooooo nervous before it was my turn, i couldn't sit still. it was pretty bad. but then once i got up there, i was fine. i wasn't nervous anymore and clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-955069252003-06-10T10:37:00.000-04:002003-06-10T10:37:26.366-04:00after staying up all nite, i finally got my presentation done. my first time using power point too. so proud of myself. now let's hope it'll work later on in class. now i just have to get ready for school. wish me luck. adiosclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-953947182003-06-06T22:58:00.000-04:002003-06-06T23:00:58.000-04:00haha, kids are just soooo brutally honest or maybe it's just my kids! i went in to school to drop off some pictures that i took with the kids so they can look at them until the end of the year. when i got there, the first thing that these couple of boys said to me was "i don't like you new hair cut" not even a hi or hello! ai......and i was just like, "really? thanx!!" and some of them were like clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-953541092003-06-05T23:10:00.000-04:002003-06-05T23:13:30.000-04:00today was such a waste of time. there was supposed to be four presentations in class today. but then the department made a mistake and didn't order the computer for the power point. however, all presenters did their presentations on power point. so basically, our class was cut short cuz no one could present and we got to leave like an hour later.
our prof told us something that happened to him clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-953065822003-06-04T20:08:00.000-04:002003-06-04T20:17:09.000-04:00i'm finally back to school after my 5-day weekend. yeah, our prof decided to give us 2 days off so we can work on our presentations and essays. but i haven't done anything so far. i got some books today, so i better start reading them. i wish he would just give us the whole week off so i can work on my presentation and essay.....or to relax and shop some more!! hehe
haha, guess what.....i have clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-952239402003-06-03T01:06:00.000-04:002003-06-03T01:06:45.076-04:00went shopping downtown today again. i was hoping that i could get this top from a store called zara. but then they were all sold out!!! and by the time i walked to the other branch, the store was closed. at 6, on a monday............*argh* doesn't matter i guess. i'll see if i can get it some other time. i really liked it. should've gotten it last time i saw it. but i guess it's one of those "cuzclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-951733092003-06-01T22:27:00.000-04:002003-06-01T22:31:21.000-04:00read an article from cosmo, june issue about guys' eating habits and what they are like ~
meat-and-potatoes man: a dude who digs into stick-to-your-ribs fare has a practical, pull-no-punches personality. so chances arehe's straightforward and hardworking. and his carnivorous appetite suggests he'll be just as aggressive in romantic pursuits.
health-conscious hunk: if he opts for salads and clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-951074032003-05-30T23:32:00.000-04:002003-05-30T23:32:43.826-04:00had a funny lil dream last night too. a friend of mine told me that a friend of his wants to ignore/avoid someone just so he or she can forget someone? something of that sort. i don't remember clearly, but there was a whole bunch of details that i forgot already. i dunno, what do you think? do you think it's really gonna work? you know the whole thing about how the harder you try to forget or clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-951072262003-05-30T23:26:00.000-04:002003-05-30T23:26:58.010-04:00went to play badminton with a highschool friend yesterday after school. the weird thing was that my friend showed up with these 3 other people that i went to chinese school with. so it was like a chinese school reuion. it was funny. we went out for all-your-can-eat japanese food. we were all really full!! hehe by the time i got home, i was so tired, that i went to sleep a short while after, whichclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-949253352003-05-27T00:24:00.000-04:002003-05-27T00:27:08.000-04:00went to mackenzie house yesterday with my best and our friend. it's suppose to be a haunted house, but didn't really see anything there. thou there were lots of cool antiques. i was more interested in those than seeing if there were any ghosts. we went to eaton center after, for a lil shopping..........and i ended up getting another bag!! aiya....yup, adding to my 39th collection. but it's clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-946657842003-05-20T23:05:00.000-04:002003-05-20T23:05:38.313-04:00talked on the phone with my cousin in england. she's also my bestfriend in the whole world. we talk about everything.......from school to guys to parents to food.......just everything!! i've known her since....i was 4!! yup, that's when she was born. one month older than my brother. it's sorta weird though, cuz growing up, we never really played together, although there was tons of family clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-945646162003-05-19T00:39:00.000-04:002003-05-19T00:39:42.393-04:00jen in dawson's creek said "you can't rely on someone to make you feel lively, it's an internal job" it's sooooooo true, everyone has to do that themselves. it's like a full time job that we all have. we are the one who have to make sure that we are happy and feel lively. it's not someone else's job.clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-945639582003-05-19T00:21:00.000-04:002003-05-19T00:26:05.000-04:00went bowling with one of my closest friends last night. i haven't seen him ever since he went back to waterloo for his school term. so it was really nice to see him again and just hang out with him and his friends from waterloo. haha, let's just say i got my butt kicked.........i haven't bowled in so long that my bowling skills was kinda rusty....hehe. just need a lil practice. we went to this clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-944827332003-05-16T23:19:00.000-04:002003-05-16T23:19:56.010-04:00 i finally sat through the whole 2-hr season finale of dawson's creek tonight. it's the last show ever! can you believe it? after 6 years. i still remember how i used to watch this show religiously with my bestfriend every friday night at 8 o'clock. we'd watch it together. either at my house or his. if somehow one of us had to miss it, the other one would tape it and watch it the following mondayclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-944259982003-05-15T22:48:00.000-04:002003-05-16T00:17:26.000-04:00man......haven't played badminton is so long. it feels sooooo good to get out and play and sweat!! hehe........yup yup, sweat!!! i'm kinda surprised that after not playing for more than a year, i still know how to play......and wasn't too bad either. but i got tired really quickly. i should play more often, now that i'm at school four days a week, i should go after my class.
so after a week of clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-942493412003-05-13T02:07:00.000-04:002003-05-13T02:08:47.000-04:00aiya.......it's 1:30 am, i should be in bed sound asleep!!! but i just don't wanna go, cuz for once, i don't have to teach the next day, so i don't have to be all awake and alert......though i have summer school now. it's like i'm trying to make up for lost time. yup, first day of class........for me anyway. class actually started last monday, but cuz of my block, i missed the whole first week. clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-941763592003-05-11T21:50:00.000-04:002003-05-11T22:20:25.000-04:00i got a book called 501 tips for teachers 2nd ed. for my birthday but i haven't really read through it cuz i've been pretty busy. now that teaching's over, i've been reading it now and then...... and some of the tips are really really good. isn't it ironic though? i should've read it before i started my teaching block, not after.
i like these ones so far:
a: discipline with your eyes. looks clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-941587712003-05-11T14:41:00.000-04:002003-05-11T14:41:36.223-04:00went to see aida last night at the canon theater. it wasn't as good as i expected it to be, but not bad generally i guess. the songs were pretty good. we went to marche after the play. i had 2 coffees in total last night, but i was still dead tired when i got home.clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-941031042003-05-10T09:46:00.000-04:002003-05-10T10:06:46.000-04:00i didn't realize how tired i was until i came home from watching bowling for columbine. i fell asleep right away, after getting into bed. i didn't even read. we actually got in for free cuz my friend's bestfriend works there and he left us passes to go in. nice eh. anyway, we went to watch it because we talked about it in class and some people mentioned that it's a really good movie, so we clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-940811202003-05-09T20:17:00.000-04:002003-05-10T10:11:51.000-04:00today was the last day of my teaching block. although i was happy that it was over, i had a really sad feeling as well, probably cuz i know i'm going to miss my kids. it was an easy day today though, mostly just watching medieval times related movies and art activities. i was really tired today cuz i stayed up til like 2 to mark their 2 tests (math and medieval times) and i still wasn't done.....clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-939518572003-05-07T17:58:00.000-04:002003-05-07T18:13:48.000-04:00we went on a field trip today, to the medieval times, at cne. it was a really good trip, partly because it was an all day trip, so it took away our teaching time...hehe, but apart from that, it was still a good trip. a friend told me that it really smells there cuz of the horses. but it wasn't so bad at all. i could smell it only when i got really close to the horses. there were six schools thereclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-937601432003-05-04T16:36:00.000-04:002003-05-11T15:54:57.000-04:00it was my friend's birthday last night, well, her b-day was three days ago, we just celebrated it last night. we went to hot house cafe (on 35 church, clost to front st.) for dinner, it's a really nice resturant, and the food's amazing!!!! especially their banana chocolate cake...we then walked all the way to panorama at manulife center. it was almost a 20 min walk. though it was warm day, it wasclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-937055222003-05-03T10:40:00.000-04:002003-05-03T10:40:39.033-04:00have you ever had a feeling that you don't know what to do and don't know what's going on? and you can't and don't want to do anything about it. so you just stay in this daze until you come out of it on your own.clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-935759602003-05-01T00:29:00.000-04:002003-05-01T00:29:35.243-04:00another easy day!!! this week has been really really good. we worked on their castles all afternoon again, but they finally got them all done. i'll be marking them tomorrow.
i've found from last year and this year that being a teacher, you really have to have good self-discipline. you have to go to sleep at a certain hour and wake up at a certain hour. then between the hours that i'm home from clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-935090202003-04-29T23:43:00.000-04:002003-04-29T23:43:22.506-04:00today was basically an art activities day for my kids, they made medieval maps with bristol boards, using grids, 3-D shapes and legends......basically just what they've been learning for the past 3 weeks, they spent the 2 periods before lunch doing those, then after lunch, they had drama again. for the last 2 periods, i had them make castles, with cardboards, shoeboxes and toilet paper rolls. it clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-934443682003-04-29T00:06:00.000-04:002003-04-29T00:09:33.000-04:00today went sooooooo well!!! my prof. came to watch me during 2nd period, and she totally loved my lesson!!! she said she really loved what i did when i taught them the different parts of an armor, and how well i managed the class, soo good!! she's usually never this nice........mind you, she's the prof. that gave our group project a B+ and said it was the best one......so i was really glad. kids clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-933523852003-04-27T14:32:00.000-04:002003-04-28T00:43:45.000-04:00bye bye shreddies......after months of trying to look for them in the grocery stores......it's come to an end. i will stop looking.
today was such a warm and sunny day! but i stayed in to mark my students' homework most of the afternoon (at starbucks on main street)....had a friend help me too. but when we finished, we went out and walked around. it'd be even nicer if it was warmer, like 25 clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-933320422003-04-27T02:21:00.000-04:002003-04-27T02:21:39.363-04:00some friends and i were gonna go to demitre's for desert tonight, but then it was packed when we got there. we had to wait for at least 30 min, so we went to this chinese desert place instead. you'd think with the whole sars thing, people would stay home. if you go to a chinese place or resturant though, they're so empty. but then if all the chinese people go to other places, wouldn't it still beclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-933214322003-04-26T21:50:00.000-04:002003-04-27T21:25:57.000-04:00went to a friend's place to watch Go last night. this is my second time watching it. didn't really understand it the first time. but this time i did. it's a weird movie, but pretty good overall. it's divided into 3 parts. they're all the same story actually, just that each story was about a different character in the movie and what happened to them individually.
the past 2 days have been really clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-931542932003-04-23T23:22:00.000-04:002003-04-27T21:25:38.000-04:00went to milestone's on hwy 7 and warden for dinner with some friends tonight. it used to be some italian resturant, i didn't even noticed it changed to milestone's. but the food was really good. i tried their grilled chicken salad. it was very delicious.....guys, most of the waitresses there are very good looking! haha, pay them a visit. the resturant was actually quite busy today. all the tablesclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-930899682003-04-22T23:47:00.000-04:002003-04-22T23:49:03.000-04:00first day back was good! prep first period then it was gym. it was my first time teaching gym!!! it was sooo fun!! i loved it. maybe i should be a gym teacher instead, haha =p today was very good actually. since my teacher said i had to be more stern with them so they'd be more quiet, i did, but in a nice way. and it worked, they were so quiet when they worked on their seatworks. but today, i hadclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-930250752003-04-22T00:04:00.000-04:002003-04-22T00:04:59.043-04:00the weekend was generally very nice. nice weather, nice people, nice places......just very nice overall =D i love this weather, not too cold and not too hot. just about right. it'd be nice if the weather stays like that, but nop, it's gonna rain next week. but i still can't wait til summer comes, then i can go to the beach, go camping, go rafting, get a tan play tennis under the sun, and a lot clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-930242522003-04-21T23:50:00.000-04:002003-04-21T23:50:42.936-04:00sometimes, i just get sooo annoyed at people who treat you so well one minute then treat you like dirt the next. it's like "what are you thinking!!?!!" i mean, make up your minds. either you like 'em or you don't. either you want to treat 'em well, or you don't. i don't need people messing with my feelings and stuff.....not some kinda toys which you play with whenever you're bored, and throw awayclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-929215402003-04-20T02:00:00.000-04:002003-04-20T02:30:10.000-04:00in regards to the blog on the 17th, maybe people should learn to "let go". if things don't work out the way you want them to, maybe it's not meant to be. try to accept the fact and move on, that's how people grow.....it's like grocery shopping. you've always liked eating shreddies, but you've ran out of shreddies and for the past couple of months, whenever you stopped by the grocery stores, theyclarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-929202602003-04-20T01:26:00.000-04:002003-04-20T14:32:36.000-04:00such a nice day today, though it wasn't like 25 degree nice, it was still warm enough to just wear a sweatshirt. since it was so nice out, i went shopping downtown with my friend, (well, actually we planned it like a week ago =p) we just lucked out cuz it's suppose to rain all week, starting tomorrow. though i was telling a friend that i shouldn't spend anymore money, i did anyway, cuz they are clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-928753972003-04-19T01:32:00.000-04:002003-04-19T01:39:17.000-04:00it feels soooooo good to be able to sleep in!! i got my friend to come over and help me with marking and cutting & pasting for my lessons next week. i got another little helper too. she's a family friend, only 7 years old. she was so helpful. and she sure could paste things together faster than i do!! =D pretty much just spent the whole afternoon doing that...oh yeah, hot pot tonight, lotsa clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-928178852003-04-17T23:55:00.000-04:002003-04-17T23:58:41.000-04:00so, the first 3 days of my block's over. stayed at school for 2 hours to photocopy and prepare for my lessons for next week. pretty exhausted right now. the kids were crazy today!!! maybe it's cuz easter weekend is coming up and they know they don't have school for four days. but they were generally fairly good =) they're MY kids, under my lead! haha, of course they have to be good. but the clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5289982.post-927413062003-04-16T18:26:00.000-04:002003-04-17T00:00:46.000-04:00the last couple of weeks have been really weird. so much has happened...school, teaching, friends......but it's all over now, everything's back to normal (well, sorta). exams are finally over!!! i've started my 16 day-teaching-block yesterday. first day was soooo tiring, though i've been teaching for the whole year, yesterday was the first day back after 2 weeks. not used to waking up at 6:30am clarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03615246291375542720noreply@blogger.com