In a distant galaxy far, far away.................
Man, it's been awhile since I've blogged anything. Saturday at fellowship was about absolute truth and gray areas. Kinda interesting, but not much discussion-wise. We then went to Sweet Potato Cafe for some bubble tea. Next, it's off to MK for some dinner since some people have not had dinner yet. Along the way, I met my parents and relatives. Now my aunt thinks that Sheree and I are going out... sheesh people imagine too much = ). And no, there is nothing going on between me and Sheree, just in case some of you readers have vivid imaginations and misread this blurb. Well sunday's worship was very vibrant, fresh and exciting; definitely a change from the usual. Maybe it's because Sam was leading worship, he likes to try new songs. When pastor Dan went up to start his sermon, the logo for Prince of Egypt came on, yup he had the video cued up for the end of his sermon. Nice powerpoint slides too, he sure has learned alot about PP. Unfortunately, now I have the "When you believe in miracles" song stuck in my head. Sunday school was very interesting to say the least. Dr. Penny Hall was talking to us about Covenant & Promise: The Concept of Covenant & Inherent Promise. To sum it up, God makes a covenant with us, He took the oath, not us. He does not demand any oath from us, just expects us to believe and have faith in Him. There's so much more things that I do not know about Genesis, I guess when you make it a career to study and discern information from the bible, you'll find those things too. Next week, she'll be talking about Moses and David, it would be a shame if anyone missed these two sunday school classes.

After lunch at, guess where? That's right! Man's Kitchen. we went rollerblading by Colonel By Drive, along Dow's Lake. Man! Are those paths every rough, my eyeballs were shaking non stop for awhile. Took it easy on the blades for awhile to get used to it and for Em to get used to hers. Then it was full speed all the way back. I noticed there were alot of fish in the lake this year, maybe MJ should try fishing there sometime = ) We went through Loeb building to get to Dunton where we left our stuff in my cubicle of an office. Concrete is so much nicer to blade on, and good thing the janitors weren't around or they would have chased us with their shriner carts.

The rest of the week went pretty slow, got caught in a freak rain storm while walking to MK for dinner. We took shelter in Chu Sing waiting for the rain to let up. Josh came later and he was soaked, he walked all the way from home. Saturday I got myself a decent pair of shoes at the Bay since my old pair were all worn out. Later Em and I met up with my parents and relatives for dinner at Oriental Palace. Dinner was good, haven't been there is years. It was G'mmel's birthday that day too and he was having dinner with Simon, Dennis and someone else who I don't recognize at the same restaurant. Later we met with Garvin and Sheree at the Met and proceeded down to Sussex to catch the remainder of the Benson and Hedges Symphony of Fire fireworks display. Italy was the competing country. It was good except for the lack of music accompanyment. We went to Zak's for some snacks and a meal for Sheree. Garvin drove us all home, thanks Garvin!

Sunday worship was excellent once again, Sam was leading. The atmosphere was certainly "energized". We had a slide show from VBS which was held this past week. It certainly looks like the kids had a lot of fun, so did Chris! The lecture from Dr. Penny Hall was good. She finished covering the Moses and David portions of the lecture. There were more people this time, I guess they managed to corral and herd the high-schoolers to the class. Studied for the rest of the day for my final on Tuesday.
-> The End <-

I can hear the crickets.....
Yup, that's how uneventful this past week has been. Need some extra excitement to break this spell of bordom.
Anyhow, went "shopping" with Em to get Aaron his birthday present. It was something that would bring out his feminine
side. : ) After that we met up with Aaron and Winnie at MK for dinner. While waiting for the bus home, we shared some personal life stories. It allows you to get to know someone better. Friday was Praise and Prayer at Lon's crib. We did the usual, opened with some worship then we entered into a discussion on the Holy Spirit and being spirit filled. The discussions were quite interesting, especially listening to everyone's definition and understanding of the subject matter. Roger's keyboard was tre tre cool, with accompanyment sampling, fader, padal and lots of different instrument types. We had ice-cream too, cookies and cream. Yummy!

Not so sore legs = )
Legs not so sore now. Another boring day at work. Nothing much to log today. Oh yeah, I saw the Great White Shiek today while going down Bronson, (plate number GWS 400). I saw four tires stacked nicely at the back of the car. Yeah that's about it, nothing much happened today.
Buh Bye!

......sore legs..........STAIRS!!!.........
It's been a dull boring day, not much work to do. Have a class at Southam tonight and the class is on the fourth floor. Either I take the stairs or the really slow elevator. Legs still sore, maybe I'll take the elevator for once. Welts are fading, yay! = )
Maybe there'll be something more interesting in class that I can blog later...

Saw a "souped up" VW Golf, with wide track tires while walking down Bronson with Jon. Well not really wide track tires, just had his wheels sitck out further from the wheelwell than normal. It looked so rediculous, and the paint job was like a faded baby blue. I wished I had a camera, then I can send the picture to Riceboy Page. We finally went to Thuy Do for dinner since Man's Kitchen was closed on wednesday. Alot of chinese restaurants were closed on tuesday, except for Pho places. After dinner, went home and crashed after talking to Phuong and Em.
nites y'all.....

Paintball: The Aftermath
Was kinda sore on Sunday, legs were painfully sore. It got slightly better, I could actually walk up and down the stairs without too much trouble unlike some people [Ah Gong Dom and Ah Por Em : )] Sunday........nothing much to do except finish my case work.

Monday, legs were still sore but manageable. Met with Em on my way to work, it seems everyone is still sore from paintball. Had to walk the extra distance to the office cuz they closed off the bus stop there. Work was uneventful. Sometimes non-internet savvy people irritate me, especially if they are insistent on wanting something that can't be done without a major change over of a website's structure. Well if they want a major changeover, they'll have to pay me more and make it a full time position cuz I ain't working even more hours at a part time position.
Need to sleep early, hopefully there'll be something interesting tomorrow.
See ya!

All's Fair In Love And War.....(Well Maybe Just Love)
Friday was a pretty boring day, finally got some more information to input into the website. Left early to St. Laurent to drop off Jon's bag, got a cleaning kit from Jon which was in camo prints, cool. After that, I caught the bus home and bummed around. Phuong called me later and complained that I wasn't at Carleton, since she was there. Oh well. = )

Packed all my stuff for Paintball and bought a replacement battery for the sight on Sheree's gun. Em treated me to ice-cream at Baskin Robbins, chocolate chip mint. Yummy! Tried to do some more of my case questions before getting some much needed sleep before Paintball the next day. Like I said, it was a pretty boring day.

...Then Cry Havoc And Let Loose The Dogs Of War...
PAINTBALL!!! baby!
Woke up at Oh 6 early and took a shower, hoping it would wake me up; didn't work. Got some breakfast and got all my gear ready and into the car. Made sure Aaron, Em, Dom and Josh was up. Forgot to call Chau to get up, sorry Chau. She still sounded dead when I called her later. = ) We met at Timmy's, which was next to Place Orleans. Everyone saw me decked out in my combat fatigues and some were saying, "I wanna be on Marc's team." = P Intimidate the opposition! heh heh. The whole group was running late but we got there just after half-past eight.

The only problem I have with Commando Games is that they don't allow you to bring your own paint which would be cheaper. We played seven games but I sat out the last one, was too tired. The only beef I always have while playing paintball is when people don't follow the rules and just break them. I got my list of kills and I captured a flag as well. That was the 2nd game of Fort that was played towards the end. Surprisingly, our team only had one casualty while we killed off the opposing team. = ) Andy got a nasty welt on his head, kinda reminds me of Mikhail Gorbachev. ; ) The welts don't seem to hurt much this time and they aren't turning purple. A lot of the rounds that I got hit with didn't break, hence the round welts. One of my mistake was not setting the sight for further ranges, but rather I had calibrated it for closer ranges and i had to compensate for longer ranges. Lon got wasted during the village game, which sorta remind me of urban warfare training or rainbow six. My brother, Keith, rushed up to the hut that Lon was hiding in and sprayed the hut. Apparently, he had fired so many rounds at Lon that his back was painted and the side of his ammo loader cracked after being hit by so many rounds. My legs were sore from running and squatting behind bunkers.

Here's a question for all you readers out there. Should the need arise for you to ask someone for a ride, do you:
A) Ask them nicely to give you a ride
B) Just jump into the car when everyone is leaving
or
C) Assume that people will be driving you home, ie. they are your chauffeur (Home, Jeeves!)

Well me tired..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

It Was A Grey And Windy Day.....................

Blah Blah Blah Blah. It's such a Blah Day today, grey, cold and windy. It's wet and miserable, it was sunny early this morning. Was going to go rollerblading today, guess not.

Saw a Ford Focus ZX3 mod kitted at Place Orleans this morning and I was thinking to myself, why would any one want to modify the Focus? Sure the ZX3 is a zippy lil' car but it's not a sports car per se. Must be the Rice and Congee syndrome.

The stupid fire alarm went off again, either some idiot pulled it for fun or the fire dept. has nothing else better to do and decided to have a fire drill today. I wish they would standardize how fire alarms should sound. I grew up with those fire alarms with the actual bell ringers, now these newer buildings have those electronic whiny sounding alarms. I almost forgot that it was the fire alarm that went off. Yes, it's definately dangerous when people don't recognize that the fire alarm has gone off. That's why standardization is always good.

It's gonna be one of those days where there's not much work to do on the website. I'm sitting here talking to Em on ICQ and to Jon on SMS. That's now freaking bored I am, maybe I'll work on my website or I could read my Case assignment, hmm decisions... decisions...

Why are there more asian girls acting like players and always front'in with guys. It makes them look so cheap and slutty, and rather shameful and disgraceful (I know, I'm rather old fashion in this department). It's just so disgusting.

Well, that's my thoughts for the day, tune in tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel............
I'm outta here!

Are Fantasies Really Final? Final Fantasy: The Holy Spirit Within

Someone wrote an extra 0 in the bank account for Commando Games and the bank teller Jennifer was kind enough not to laugh at me when the computer couldn't find the account. Finally straightened out the whole mess and paintball is ON! Aaron got his friend Henry to take MJ's place for paintball so now we are set! Woo Hoo! Had a short work day today, did most of my work for the website updating. Then went to St. Laurent for lunch with Jon and Chris (his room mate) at East Side Mario's. The waiter we had wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. He forgot about Chris' soup and my drink refill until we reminded him. After that, I went to Sport Check to check out the door crasher sale. I finally got a golf bag = ) now I don't have to hand carry my clubs to the driving range. Will check out the rest of the sale there and at Sports Experts.

Gonna go watch Final Fantasy at the Coliseum tonight, hope it is as good as it was hyped up to be. Dom got us our tickets in advance, thanks Dom! Since today was the opening night of the movie there's sure to be lots of people there. Got back from watching the Final Fantasy, boy was it packed. There were two paramedics standing by in the theatre as well, probably just in case people get too excited and pass out from all the excitement with the movie. The movie was a bit confusing at the beginning, especially for those who do not follow the Final Fantasy games. Maybe that's why Jay Stone, movie critic for the Ottawa Citizen gave the movie two stars only. The 3-D animation was very well done on most parts, especially the rendering of each hair strand and skin texture but there's still a bit of overly smoothness to the skin texture. There were some character facial deformaties at certain scenes but barely noticeable. I give it 4.5 / 5 stars. The movie wasn't really Chau's cup of tea : ) but she enjoyed it. After we got out of the Coliseum and headed back to the car, we noticed some green things covering all the cars. At first I thought they were leaves or seeds from trees since it was rather windy. On closer inspection, they were bugs. Good thing Keith wasn't there, he hates bugs. This is a wierd phenomenon for Ottawa to see all these bugs on cars. For a second Em, Aaron, Chau and I thought that it may have something to do with the movie, but that silly notion passed.

Trip home was uneventful. Sleep now, work tomorrow. Hasta Luego, muchachos!

Memories.................
Stardate 200107.06........ what the heck am I writing about? Hmm must be the midterm, been studying too much =P. Yay, paintball is coming up this Saturday. Can't hardly wait, brings back memories of welts and bruises, bug bites and someone poisoned by poison ivy.

Saw another Landrover today, again a 110 Defender series, green this time, driving along Colonel By Drive next to Carleton. Didn't know there were any in Ottawa.

Atlantis: The Lost Kingdom was an excellent cartoon movie. It seems Disney wants to move away from its kiddie toons and into more mature or grownup settings. After Tarzan, Disney has been using a more angular drawing style for its characters, moving away from cute and more "lifelike?"

Ever wonder if adults really grow up? Reason I'm asking this is that at work, I have to chase down people who are "adults" to get their inputs on their portion of the School's website. I mean, telling and indicating that I need their inputs ASAP and still some will take their own damn time to get their stuff to me or even forget and just leave for holidays or conferences. This sets back the project somewhat as there will be portions that won't be online for awhile. That's my beef for today.

Man.... that was a long midterm. 80 multiple choice questions and a very interesting case question on Robin Hood??? How does Robin Hood factor into Strategic Management? That's what happens when academics try to be creative. Met up with Aaron and Chung(Andrew) at Pho Bo Ga for dinner. Pho has never tasted so good to a starving person : ) Aaron was "working" at Pho Bo Ga the whole time we were there. Then Jon finally showed up, he was held back by last minute customers at the kiosk at St. Laurent. Got a ride home from Aaron's parents. It was interesting listening to his father reminiscing about the past when he was living in Singapore in his youth. Quite a peaceful day, except for the midterm.... paintball..... need to find another replacement for MJ.... well that's for tomorrow to worry about. Time to hit the sack........Lates y'all........Zzzzzzzzzzz

First BLog......
Okay, this blogging thing seems to be catching on in Ottawa. Must be a virus or something that probably came from one of the waterloo immigrants. ( ^_^ ) Heck, even I'm doing one. Oh well, more interesting reading for the can then. This summer has been very interesting for as long as I can remember, even more than that time I went down to Portland for Canada Day. So much has happened within a span of 3 months that usually would take at least 6-7 months to incubate to fruition.

(Voice of experience): Never sit next to a horizontal inwardly challenged person (aka. *FAT*). It's amazing how the human body can produce so many different levels and types of body odors. Perhaps this links to the theory of why people wear such THICK coats in the winter, heavy doses of perfume and the lack of atrocious body odors. It all comes out in the summer!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toy'r'us kid......" Somehow this little ad jingle seems to be stuck in my mind for some reason, started around late April. Can't seem to get rid of it.

My end of Ottawa seem to be producing a lot of Riz and Congee cars, yes Orleans!. Riz because this is the French part of the city, french for Rice. There's one guy who drives around in a baby-blue Honda Del Sol with a 3" pipe and tacked on aluminum 10" baby-blue wing. *Baby-blue is clear for take-off!" ; ) Saw another Riz-car on Saturday while driving down highway 174; a black Honda CRX, tinted and lowered (yes, it makes the car go much faster) with the much needed 3" pipe and clear light covers and blue side turning indicator lights.(so blue seems to be the new standard for turning indicators). *Sigh* So many delusional people out there, maybe more so since Fast and Furious(or as Dom calls it Rice and Congee) came out. Installing a cold-air intake, bigger pipe, lowered wheels doesn't make the car go any faster, especially if the engine is a 1.0 - 1.6L and a 4 banger at that. You need at least a 2.0L engine to be able to achieve higher compression ratios (ie. S2000). Final word on Riced-cars; yellow color, racing stripes, fat pipes, new airfilters, lowered wheels and tinted windows doesn't make the car go faster, it's all about horsepower to weight ratio (ie. go swap for an engine with a larger capacity). nuff said.

Saw a Landrover Defender 110 series today while on the bus heading back home. It was kitted out in the safari model. Tres cool. In my opinion, the only true "SUV" per se is the Landrover or the original Chrysler "Geep" or now known as Jeep. The Landrover has been tested and proven to survive all known terrains. But why do people need SUVs for city driving anyways?

Hey this blogging thing is rather fun and therapeutical, heh heh. Get to rant and rave all I want. Maybe that's why people are starting their own blogs. Oh well, that's it for today, going back to work! See ya!