I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut

I arrived back from Maui on wednesday morning, for I flew through the night back home. I had a wonderful time, but almost cried at customs, because I love Canada so and was glad to be back. For those who have seen me, they realized that I got burned. I used no sunscreen on the last two days, and just lay in the sun, as to get a nice burn and, eventually, a souvenir tan.

I am truly refreshed from my vacation and my state of mind is quite content. :D School is a little bit of work but fun, I won a bursary for piano & I got into SFU with at least a $4000 scholarship. I'm also hoping to make this summer an awesome one with much travelling and hanging out with friends. Of course I must save up money before then, so I need to either pick up more tutoring students or get some ridiculous part time job.

Some highlights from the Maui excursion: going up the 10,000 foot volcano, Heleakala, in the early morning (4am) and, from above the cloud line, watch a stunning Maui sunrise; driving the most hardcore road I've ever been on (highway with only one lane in some places (for both directions) and hairpin turns every 20 meters) to travel to Hana and the Seven Sacred Springs; seeing large waves at Ho'okipa and Paia beach, but daring not to venture into them. I took almost 300 pictures, soon to be narrowed down to the 4 or 5 that you will see :P Hopefully, one will be good.

Ah yes! The shopping was also good. There was lots of board stores (Billabong and Quiksilver Boardriders Co.) and some stylin' stores like Banana Republic and Guess. I probably spend about 150 USD on various articles. We rented a 3 bedroom, 2 washroom, full kitchen, living room and lanai condominium for a reasonable price. It was located about 2 minutes from Kamaole beach 1 in Kihei and had a wonderful view of the sunset as we were on the southwest of the island.

On Easter Sunday I went to a local church, and proceeded to a wonderful buffet at the 5 Palms restaurant. For 30 USD per plate, we got all-you-can-eat catered food. Everything from fresh fruit to buns to crepes to belgian waffles to custom omlettes to bacon to prawns to cheesecake was served. It was some of the best food I've EVER had and was worth every last penny.

I quickly found the new rock station in Maui and tuned in regularly. As a result of that, "Scars" by Papa Roach, a totally whiny emo song, became my favourite song. I also heard new NIN, Beck and Unwritten Law. They play a lot of Three Days Grace in Maui and I cheered every time a Canadian rock song came on.

"My weakness is that I care too much"

I love the cephalization of humans and how the reams of brain cells can allow what appears to be random thought. It allows me to keep coming up with new ideas constantly and use the good ones and throw away the bad ones even though my mind cannot fathom the process of its own workings. Anyways, the current organization of my head probably has some effect on how good I'm feeling right now. Props to good friends; it is good to be back.

P.S. I'm still catching up on my computer things so my apologies if I am delayed in response to people's emails or neglectful of their blogs.