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july 2, 2002
.10:51 PM
The heatwave just won't go away. I've been sweating bullets all day (even in my cube). As it turns out all the other areas in the building have AC blasting away at full blast except my area. It might be that the AC isn't working in our cubicle farm or something. It's been a rough day. Even in the morning, at 8:30AM I was struggling to walk from the king subway stop to sherbourne for work. I made the mistake of venturing out again during lunch to get some money from the bank machine only to experience a beating of a lifetime. Today was one of the rare days I actually enjoyed sitting on the subway and buses because it actually meant that I got to breathe recycled air vs. smog filled thick air. Pick your poison I guess. Enough of my ranting about the weather.

Today I attended a breakfast for new hires at my company. We met up with the head honchos of the company and the other new hires. It was an hour of pure small talking with strangers. Not my idea of a cup of tea but I played along. By about 30 minutes, I started running out of things to small talk about. For a few minutes, we stood looking at each other well aware of how awkward the moment was. Small talking brings out the worst in everyone (even myself) especially when they are forced to do it. Forced laughter, awkward grins, and ass kissing was everywhere. uggh.


july 1, 2002
.11:24 PM
This past weekend was quite possibly one of the most exciting canada day weekends of my life. not because there were spectacular fireworks, but because it was pretty much the first or second time i've ever been to ottawa and montreal. We left toronto early in the morning, taking E's car up to Ottawa. After a brief stop in the morning to get some sunscreen and other things at Walmart, we headed back on the road. Arrived at Thrify rental car at 1:45pm, picked up the Camry, and said bye to E. We went to pick up some of L's friends and then we went grocery shopping for the BBQ the same night. It was weird because I saw Julius in the parking lot. I think both of us were surprised to see each other. We talked for a bit and reminisced about our time working as co-ops in california. how i miss those days.

The next day, we headed to Montreal. We managed to arrive there around lunch time after managing to miss every exit possible along the way. At this point, Brazil had just won the world cup, and the streets were jumping jumping (Destiny's child style) with brazillian fans. We then ate dim sum in chinatown before heading down to the St. Laurent rapids for some white water rafting. It was everybody's first time so we were all pretty stoked about trying it. By the end of the adventure, we were all soaked from head down. With the sun beating down on us, everyone managed to dry off pretty fast. We then walked around old montreal and ate dinner at a mexican restaurant, wandered the streets for awhile, and finally headed up to Mt. Royal before leaving for Ottawa after.

On Canada day we did the typical touristy things like visit museums, and art galleries while the streets were packed with patriotic canadians. Click here to view the photos from the weekend.


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