April Showers bring May Flowers

Yesterday evening, as I walked out my front door into a spring twilight, I inhaled a beautiful scent, much as Amay had, as mentioned on her blog. I walked with Chris to the junction of Sherwood Forest Rd. and Sir Lancelot Rd. where we parted ways. I continued to Alana's house. We met up and, as we were walking, it started drizzling and eventually a heavy spring rain poured down upon us. Strangely, it was not cold, but it wasn't muggy either. It was just perfect to keep us cool, although I had not a jacket, I was pleasantly contented with my surroundings.
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In contrast with my title, we did not have to wait until May to witness flowers. There were, in fact, numerous blossoms upon the ground and falling at our very feet. I am not usually one to extoll spring as it oft signifies the end of the ski season at the inopportune time when it is too cold and rainy to swim outside. Yesterday was an exception to the rule. I happened to stay up until 5am or so and saw the moon setting with clouds sparsely hanging in front of it. I, regretfully, did not capture it on camera, but the image is, indeed, engrained in my mind, and I will, once more, randomly interupt my sentence with some adverb or conjunction.
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Back to Friday. I took a cab to the ferry, got on the ferry, fell asleep, (waking up isn't too marvelous of a feat), got off the ferry, met my uncle at Horses Hoe Bay :P, went to my grandma's house, was treated to a 3/4 lb. beef burger at Wendy's and then attended this hardcore SFU function. It was held in the new residence dining hall which is specifically designed to be "loud", according to the designers, because it was believed that students liked such an atmosphere. Anyways, there was catered food, a jazz combo and whatnot. I got to mingle with some hardcore administrators at SFU and meet some other scholarship winners. I shook hands with a guy I didn't know, got a free folder and left.
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Afterwards, I was incredibly tired, so naturally, I went to a late movie with my Uncle Stu starting at 10:40. I debated ordering a Whopper at the movie theater, but I didn't need any more beef that day. I saw The Interpreter and definitely recommend it. That night, morning rather, I slept quite well. {Saturday} On the ferry back, I was gonna sleep, but I first went outside and did some French hw. When I came back in, I did some more work and then this guy from France saw what I was doing and we started talking. I asked him some random questions about auxiliary verbs and prepositions for getting onto/into cars and buses. He ranted a little about how Quebeckers speak weird French.
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Getting back home, I slept intermittently until Gregg arrived to give me a drum lesson. I pretty much did quads while sleeping, but then improved a little. My BDC is way crappy. Refer to top, for the next timeframe.
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{Sunday} Those brackets look cool. Today I played the piano for at least 2 hours, practiced the guitar for 1, played tennis for 1 and studied for 2. Now my mind is foggy and I hope for 11 hours of sleep. I decided to learn a really hardcore piano piece, but I'm not sure if I can put in the effort. If I do, I know it'll be 100% worth it. Guitar comp. is this week, but sadly I didn't enter. Maybe Richard, Adam and some shredders will go in. Jesse wanted to enter, because he has his six string bass, and I mean, c'mon, six strings. That's crazy awesome. Listen up for some decent noise emanating from our school this week.
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Oh yah. Prom is this week. Party on Garth. Party on Wayne.
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Speaking of such, I tried to play Bohemian Rhapsody today on the guitar . . . somewhat unsuccessfully if I might add. Nonetheless, a humbling, yet awesome experience.

Trouble in 421

subtle allusion. Well four dot dot two oh has come and gone. The milk run was ironically, but perhaps strategically placed on 4:20, so they could do locker searches when we were out running. I managed a time of 13:17 min. in a 3K run over some hills so I was quite happy with myself. I think it was the hardest I've ever run and I finished 3 places behind Chris Ruiz.

This week has been pretty awesome. I have a s/o. Also, I've been eating lots of raw eggs lately. It sounds hardcore, but my brother makes these awesome shakes/smoothies out of fresh fruit, ice cubes, orange juice, milk, yogurt, vanilla, brown sugar, raw eggs, C2H5OH sometimes, etc. mmmm. Je les adore. I watched Dawn of the Dead and part of Troy. I also happen to love "Troy". As of late, I've been cranking out the 311. Make no mistake, I'm loving the Zeppelin, but 311 is such happy music and great for just chilling. They remind me of Incubus a lot.

First term is over. Only 40 days of my high school career remain. What up?! Aussi, la promenade is next Saturday. I got some accompanying gigs for a violin recital in late May. As of now, that, tutoring and allowance are my sources of income. My expenditures are 6" Double Meat Ham Subway subs, Coke and Doritos. I'm also thinking of buying some Led Zeppelin or 311 records. Thank you for tuning into for the in depth financial outlook of my life.

I can't believe school is almost over. I have a scholarship reception evening tomorrow evening at SFU. Eventually I'm hoping to graduate with a B.Comm. or a B.Sc. Unfortunately for me, I applied to applied sciences at SFU; however, my application at UBC may have been carried through in the Faculty of Sciences. Hopefully, summer 2005 will be sweet.

"Along the way to close my eyes; I lost where I was going"

It is Friday Tomorrow

Most people like Fridays.

Well, I've decided to have Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page teach me somethings about guitar. Je suis en train d'apprendre comment jouer "Heartbreaker" et "Black Dog" sur la guitare. Speaking of guitar, I just finished composing my first song in a long time. I'm hoping that learning those songs will take my guitar soloing skills to the next level (from level 1 to level 2). Some well-known guitarists and their relative levels:

Brad Neilson - Level 1
Sean Steele - Level 21
Mike Einziger - Level 54
Tom Morello - Level 72
Kurt Cobain - Level 75
Eddie Van Halen - Level 203
Jimmy Page - Level 572
Jimi Hendrix - Level 666

Anyways, life is random. I got 59/60 on that midterm. My cousin is moving to Texas near the end of the month so I'm going over to Vancouver sometime for a going away dinner. Also, I got a bunch of semi-casual clothes at Moore's so I'm happy. I came to realize that semi-casual is where it's at when you are at university. In high school casual or preppy is good, but at university you gotta up it a notch. That cousin of mine knew where it was at with dress.

I was randomly listening to songs and discovered that "The Dolphins Cry" by Live is a good song, even though its been out so long and I've had it on my computer but haven't listened to it.

Phono

The last week of my life has been amazing. Everything in it seemed to go right and awesome stuff just happened. Wednesday was the choir competition in Victoria. I somehow managed to miss 4 tests that day when I only have three classes this semester. I believe Wednesday was said exhalation. Arriving back at school on Thursday, I discover that the calculus test was for Friday so I didn't miss that. Thursday was, nonetheless, a day of work.

I wrote a Bi test on DNA and protein synthesis, on which I received a grade of 100%. w00t. I also finished my GED in good time. (not a huge accomplishment, just something random I did). I also wrote a small French quiz, but French 11 is somewhat of a joke class. For example, a project I did on a childhood keepsake went something like this: "When I had braces my orthodontist though it might give me happiness if he gave me a stuffed bear. I was not happy with the bear or with him. By the way, the bear was white, but now he is gray. He used to have a shirt, but he lost the shirt and is now naked. Sometimes the bear helps me with my homework." Yup. a big hoax.

That evening I found out that I won the Gordon Shrum Entrance Scholarship to SFU of which they only give out 40. WHISTLER GOT 4 FEET OF SNOW IN ONE WEEK. What is this?! It is April. What the devil is going on? I thought they were toast, but they made an amazing comeback, recovering from injury and scoring a quater of their entire seasons snowfall in one week at the end. Well I wasn't about to miss that, so I cleared my weekend. Thursday evening was the puzzle pieces falling together; turns out that I didn't need to wait until it didn't matter to me. Friday, I wrote my calculus test and my biology midterm (0nly took 32 min) which I felt quite good about.

Friday evening I was off. My dad got his van insured and I drove the sea to sky highway, much to my excitement. I slept 10 hours after practicing the beaten-up piano there for 1.5 hours. Saturday I had a sweet day of skiing with lots of sun and some soft, oh so beautiful, fluffy, snow. That evening I went to see State of Shock (much too cocky) and Finger Eleven in Whistler Village. Finger Eleven got the crowd going pretty good and there was a sweet mosh pit. I moshed to maybe three songs near the beginning and then moshed really hard to "First Time" and "Good Times". Ah good times. What a crazy day!

Sunday witnessed a heavy day of skiing. It started snowing near midday and fog enveloped parts of the mountain; hence, skiing was a little more difficult not being able to see, but I had some great runs. I was sore from moshing and skiing the day before and totally worn-out from a full day of skiing. Now I sit here ready to venture forth into another week where I find out what I got on that midterm.

P>S> Oh yah. I almost forgot. While at Whistler, I rummaged through my father and uncle's old record collection which happened to be stored up there. I found maybe 20 LP's worth taking home including Led Zeppelin II, III & IV. Ah, this is how it was made to be listened to. I also acquired other such favourites as the Beatles' Let it Be, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, White Album and the Beatles 1967-1970. ahh vinyl. Incidentally, we have a new record player that my dad bought a couple years ago for some purpose that it never ended up serving.

Rock On!!!

Blog

I am at a total loss for what to write. I'm once again in the state of mind where I'm tired and not thinking too straight, but it isn't as bad as last night. I have a choir performance tomorrow. Lately, I've been working on some piano songs, writing some guitar tunes and trying to get exercise in where I can. Often I can play basketball with Chris. I'm missing 4 tests at school, somehow with only 3 classes, due to a choir trip.

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I left all of the pieces and I'll explain it someday when it doesn't matter to me.

Onion

As sweet as Hawaii was, I am now peeling like an onion. lol. Luckily, it doesn't hurt.

Thursday and Friday were average days at school. I came home after a pleasantly short day to plop myself at the computer and chill. Eventually, I discovered that my drum lesson was cancelled and phoned April. I was talking to Alana and she was saying how she got off work at 8:45, but it would take her like 45 minutes to get home with the ridiculous buses, so April and I surprised her and picked her up after work to go to a movie. We saw the Ring 2 which had some jumpy parts, though the storyline was cheese. Speaking of cheese, I watched "Sin City" this evening. It was confusing, and coming out of the movie my thoughts were, "wtf just hit me. what was even the point of that movie?". It made no sense: the yellow Ferengi man. It it is depressing to see people review the movie as "beautiful".

After the movie on Friday, I came home to talk on MSN. I was talking, and became exceptionally happy due to something that happened in one of the conversations. Anyways, I slept quite well that night ;)

Saturday, I slept in, worked on a song, then phoned Rahim. We went to the mall, Pizza Hut, his house and then to Sin City. These are the occurences preceding the Daylight Savings Time of 2005.