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September 30, 2002
.11:56 PM
I'm about to sleep so I'll keep this short. This past weekend I volunteered and participated in the 'word on the street festival'.

Picked up two books:

Naomi Klein's Fences and Windows
Terry Woo's Banana Boys

I've read about Woo's Banana Boys from another source but never managed to pick it up. It was pretty cool because I got to talk to him in person and I even got my book autographed and personalized. It's nice that there's a voice out there for us banana folk who don't really fit in. And it's nice not to have to take sides -- but just to remain in the middle.

It's also refreshing to see honest and realistic characters from an asian writer. This ain't no fucking "Joy Luck Club" where asian men are portrayed as assholes. Fuck that. What we need more of is honesty. No more stereotypes. Break down the barriers.

I'm tired and i'm making less and less sense. or not.


September 22, 2002
.5:11 PM
Check this out: Last weekend when I was down at Yonge/Eglington to check out an apartment, I decided to hop into Arby's for lunch. I don't know why I decided to eat at Arby's, but that's not the point. I'll explain in some future post. When I went to pay for my combo, I took out a five dollar bill and gave it to the cashier. She looked at it slowly and actually examined the authenticity of the bill by putting it under a machine. WTF!? I know I'm from Scarborugh, but I don't think I'm THAT ghetto to make or possess counterfeit five dollar bills. Now normally, I would expect a person to do some investigation for a $50 or $100 bill, but a $5 bill? Man...


September 20, 2002
.9:00 PM
Okay.. the weekend is here and i'm sick -- runny nose, headche and the works. i just got up after taking a small nap after work. I'm really hoping that it's allergies and that it's not a cold. Blah. I'm pretty sure I caught it after visiting the gym after work. Shit. Also, I haven't been sleeping well this past week. Going to bed late and waking up early. It seems almost pointless to go to the gym if I'm going to end up with so little sleep. blah..


September 15, 2002
.5:39 PM
Dudes.. dudes. i'm sort of looking for a new place to live. I'm primarily interested in places along the subway line or downtown (as long as it isn't ghetto). Prefer a one bedroom bachelor pad or two bedroom (sharing with someone i know). Pricewise, I'm thinking roughly $1000 /month (less if if's 2 bedroom). I probably won't be moving anytime immediately. I'm thinking of possibly getting out the hood probably by January or next spring.

If anyone has a place to sublet, let me know. I'd rather have leads from friends than complete strangers. Let me know.. thx


.12:56 PM
There's one thing has bothered me about living at my current place. It's the fact that whenever I'm cooking something in the kitchen, my landlady will come downstairs and have a look at what I'm doing. A nosey thing that sort of irritates me. Anyway, yesterday she asked me if I cook my meals at work for my lunches. I told her I usually bring some left over pasta, salad, or a sandwich to work. She seemed surprised. "You don't eat rice?", she asked me in cantonese. I was like uh.. no. You see, I don't eat rice all that often, only because I hate leftovers, and I don't want to be stuck with enough old rice to last for a whole month.

So anyway, my landlady went into a rant telling me that I shouldn't be eating so much pasta and udon noodles because rice is supposedly 'better" for me. She alerted me at the fact that my health might be in danger if I don't eat rice. This is coming from someone that tells me that she can't turn on the AC when it's 30+ degrees outside because she's worried that it'll get cold. She's probably in her late 30's, is unemployed, doesn't exercise, and has osteoporosis (sp?) to boot. She shouldn't be telling me about health problems. I think she's got issues of her own.

Rice, is healthy. I like eating it. But exercise and a balanced diet are more important.



September 8, 2002
.8:17 PM
I just noticed that when this page is viewed on Opera, there are missing spaces in some of the words. Do yourself a favor and switch back to ie. Otherwise my webpage will look really fux0r.


September 7, 2002
.9:52 PM
Yesterday after work I met up with P at the museum subway stop. From there, we walked to the heart of the U of T campus to check out the live free events for the froshies. Originally there were supposed to be 3 tents: a hip hop tent, an alternative tent, and a techno tent. We walked around looking for the techno tent but found nothing. The closest thing to it was the Xbox pavillion. Damn. We spent most of the time walking between the hip hop tent and the alternative tent. People were feeling the hip hop tent more as 95% of the attendies were huddled around the hip hop tent. 4% of the others were lining for food. The other 1% was rep'ing big time at the alternative tent. I think Sam Roberts ended up playing to a crowd of about 30 people. The show was pretty good but the turnout was pathetic.

After the Sam Roberts showing, we headed to the hip hop stage. Some wack ass DJ was spinning top 40 hip hop without any beat matching or cross fading. Start a song. Stop a song. Start another song. Fuck. I could do that in winamp. Ok, I'll stop bragging.

The rascalz then performed a brief performance of hits. With the announcement of Big Sugar playing afterwards, we both decided to leave. Headed to bloor and yonge, saw heads waiting for rush tickets to the toronto int'l film festival. This lineup was huge. I wanted to ask some people waiting in line if they were waiting for the special screening of vin diesel's xXx but decided against it after looking at some of their faces. Heads looked serious. This was clearly a no nonsense event. I didn't wanna provoke anything with my smart-ass comments so i decided against it.

Today was fairly uneventful. I wanted to sleep in this morning but couldn't. Ended up getting up early headed over to the grocery store and bought groceries for the coming week. I was supposed to head to the gym in the pm, but I ended up not going because I felt really really ill in the afternoon. I'm positive it was something I ate in the morning.


September 5, 2002
.10:16 PM
Last weekend when I first heard about the toronto film festival I was all psyched about going and checking it out. Trouble is I found out that the pre-sale tickets were sold out earlier this week. I only found the day after. Blah. The only option left is to wait outside a few hours before a preview and hope to get rush tickets. Fuck that. There's not really a particular movie that i'm dying to see either. Last thing I need is to stand around outside for a couple of hours only to be rejected. Oh well, there's always next year.

It's only 10:10pm but I'm exhausted. I haven't been sleeping well the last few days and I've been quite moody and it's really not healthy. Anyway, go and download (or better yet... buy) some RJD2 and El-p. Simply put.. amazing.


September 4, 2002
.11:59 PM
Man.. high school kids and george brown college kids are everywhere and it's weird seeing all these students everywhere. Seeing them constantly reminds me that I was never made for this corporate world. I grew up too fast. Fuck that. I haven't grown up at all. I'm just as naive as I've always been. Everyone around me is growing up. People are getting married. People are buying their first cars. People are buying new houses. Am I the only one living this ghetto-ass life? no gf, no car, and no permanent address? wack....

Anyway, enough of the ranting. I need to take more control of my life. On a semi-related note, today I filled out the necessary paperwork to enroll in my a group rrsp plan. there was this calculator program which "scientifically" calculates the age that you'll die. I got 79.14 years.




September 3, 2002
.11:43 PM
delete your bookmarks to my imagestation page. they're demanding that you become a member before looking at my photos. instead of one person coming to my site each month, it'll be none. blah i suck.


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