Departure
I'm off to the OK for 9 or 10 days. These past couple days have been most interesting and varied in activity. Feel free to email me when I'm gone. I'm going to miss Nanaimo. For now, to the next see (lit. au revoir).
Friday, July 22, 2005
Monday, July 18, 2005
True Summer Week
Well I'm long overdue for a blog post. It's been even longer than my title would suggest. From July 8-10 I was in Whistler. We did some street/trail biking, but no mountain biking. My cousin and Uncle are quite into that and have the $3000 (:) bikes to handle it. We also went on a canoe trip down something called the River of Golden Dreams. There is an extensive lake network (Alpha Lake, Green Lake, Lost Lake, etc.) around Whistler as you may well know and we canoed between two lakes.
The evening of July 10, my uncle took us to the driving range to hit some balls. On July 11 I dropped my mom off at YVR and then drove around Vancouver with my dad going to some random stores to get him a backpack and a "shell" (really thin outer layer of jacket to protect against water).
July 12, I saw Alana* shortly before she went camping. I rode my bike, then, to Woodgrove and that evening departed to Cowichan. There, it was David, Ted, Skyler, Richard, my dad and Uncle Stu. It consisted mostly of watching Smallville; however, on the 14th, we were granted a beautifully sunny day and calm waters. Perfect conditions for wakeboarding. I drove, David boarded, jumped, let go of the rope in the air, and landed on the other side of the wake. Then David drove, and I managed to clear the wake and land it, still holding onto the rope, while Dave was going 30 mph. (most of the time, we drive around 18-23 mph for wakeboarding). I was ecstatic.
I came home to be invited by Alana* to see a staff screening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Once again there was much food to be had and it was a pretty funny movie. July 15, KD graced Nanaimo with his presence. It was awesome seeing him after not being here for 10 months. That evening I drove out to see Alana*, and dropped her off at her Dad's before heading back home. That evening, we had a guys family gathering at Future Shop, I acquired 3 CDs and my dad rented the Pacifier. I watched it and it was interesting. :P
Saturday, was Alana*'s 18th birthday. Indeed, I am but 16. I scoped out her house and sat for an hour in front of it waiting to give her my present :P. It was worth the wait, and I convinced her to come and meet Kevin for 8 hours. That evening not as many people came as I expected, but it was really fun nonetheless. The people that did come were pretty close friends and didn't mind that there wasn't a huge party. We had lots of food, jammed and talked into the night.
Sunday marked Alana* and I going out for 3 months, minus some days off :(. Nous nous sommes réveillés à neuf heures pour carpe diem, mais ended up sleeping for 2 hours of the day anyways. We went down to Departure Bay after getting an excessive amount of Subway and foiling their illegal advertising price scheme. That evening, Chris came over to shoot some hoops and we rode to Devin's house. Devin came with us and we rode to the 7-11 on Terminal Avenue to get a GIANT slurpee (1.7 liters) to Bowen Park to 7-11 on Bowen Road (where I looked at LD phone cards) to the parkway trail from E. Wellington Road to Northfield back to my house and to Chris's. @ Chris's house we talked a bunch and caught up on what we had missed in one another's lives. Good friends they are. I got a bad news txt message and my stomach felt like acid was eating away at it, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. :)
Today, I woke up at a reasonable hour to hear my phone vibrating and got another text message. I ended up going to Westwood Lake with Alana*. Tonight, my mom gets back from Halifax and hopefully, Kevin and I get to see LA Confidential.
Alana* - my wonderful girlfriend. :)
The evening of July 10, my uncle took us to the driving range to hit some balls. On July 11 I dropped my mom off at YVR and then drove around Vancouver with my dad going to some random stores to get him a backpack and a "shell" (really thin outer layer of jacket to protect against water).
July 12, I saw Alana* shortly before she went camping. I rode my bike, then, to Woodgrove and that evening departed to Cowichan. There, it was David, Ted, Skyler, Richard, my dad and Uncle Stu. It consisted mostly of watching Smallville; however, on the 14th, we were granted a beautifully sunny day and calm waters. Perfect conditions for wakeboarding. I drove, David boarded, jumped, let go of the rope in the air, and landed on the other side of the wake. Then David drove, and I managed to clear the wake and land it, still holding onto the rope, while Dave was going 30 mph. (most of the time, we drive around 18-23 mph for wakeboarding). I was ecstatic.
I came home to be invited by Alana* to see a staff screening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Once again there was much food to be had and it was a pretty funny movie. July 15, KD graced Nanaimo with his presence. It was awesome seeing him after not being here for 10 months. That evening I drove out to see Alana*, and dropped her off at her Dad's before heading back home. That evening, we had a guys family gathering at Future Shop, I acquired 3 CDs and my dad rented the Pacifier. I watched it and it was interesting. :P
Saturday, was Alana*'s 18th birthday. Indeed, I am but 16. I scoped out her house and sat for an hour in front of it waiting to give her my present :P. It was worth the wait, and I convinced her to come and meet Kevin for 8 hours. That evening not as many people came as I expected, but it was really fun nonetheless. The people that did come were pretty close friends and didn't mind that there wasn't a huge party. We had lots of food, jammed and talked into the night.
Sunday marked Alana* and I going out for 3 months, minus some days off :(. Nous nous sommes réveillés à neuf heures pour carpe diem, mais ended up sleeping for 2 hours of the day anyways. We went down to Departure Bay after getting an excessive amount of Subway and foiling their illegal advertising price scheme. That evening, Chris came over to shoot some hoops and we rode to Devin's house. Devin came with us and we rode to the 7-11 on Terminal Avenue to get a GIANT slurpee (1.7 liters) to Bowen Park to 7-11 on Bowen Road (where I looked at LD phone cards) to the parkway trail from E. Wellington Road to Northfield back to my house and to Chris's. @ Chris's house we talked a bunch and caught up on what we had missed in one another's lives. Good friends they are. I got a bad news txt message and my stomach felt like acid was eating away at it, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. :)
Today, I woke up at a reasonable hour to hear my phone vibrating and got another text message. I ended up going to Westwood Lake with Alana*. Tonight, my mom gets back from Halifax and hopefully, Kevin and I get to see LA Confidential.
Alana* - my wonderful girlfriend. :)
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Well maybe not all over
As you may know, my homepage is my blog, because I have links on it to pretty much any site that I'd want to go to. For some reason, I insist on typing in www.blogger.com even though there resides at the top of my blog an ad-bar with a link to it. I guess, I don't want to support the random intrusion, even if it might prove useful. Kevin, I recall a blog a while back of yours that said how to get rid of it. Does that still work?
The days starting this July have been a learning experience for me. They were quite rough, but I quashed my pride and solved a problem I believed to be unsolvable. Now, life is quite sweet. Alana and I had some good talks and I would have to say that we are really happy.
I spent time at Cowichan Lake with my Mom's parents for two days after dry grad. On the day I came home, I saw Amay briefly, to whom I have not spoken much in the past while. I also spent time with Alana. We went to Tim Hortons, where we ran into Jenn. We proceeded home and I signed up for my courses on SFU. I'm going to have to walk to the next building in between my lectures. >:@ It was fun talking to Alana.
That evening, I went back to Cowichan to see my Dad's sister, his wife and their two children. I didn't fall asleep until 2am that night, because I was thinking. Then I woke up at 5am STILL thinking. Anyways, I couldn't phone Alana until this decent time of 8:30. Business doesn't really start until then, so I just did some pre-office hour work and wrote my thoughts down.
I selfishly woke David up at 6 o'clock to go wakeboarding cuz I had an inexplicable source of energy. We also got up my dad so we could go on the smooth water at 6am. It was pro. I busted out a small indy grab (my first ever so I was ecstatic). It should be noted that it is virtually impossible to jump the wake in our boat, cuz we don't have a tower, so when I landed my indy I was in the middle of the wake. I tried it again, but I bailed harshly and hit my head on the water, but I didn't really care after that first wave of euphoria that comes from landing a new trick.
I did end up phoning Alana at 8:30am. I humbled myself and said what I wanted to say. That day was spent counting down until 6:30pm when I said I'd call her again. I broke down and called her at 6am, but just got Catherine. From 6:30, when I did get Alana on the phone, we pretty much talked until 2:45am. There were a couple breaks for my dinner and letting my uncle use the phone, but virtually the whole time was talking and talking and talking. That night I actually slept well.
Today, well it is still Wednesday in my mind, was good. I got up at 11:30am (still at Cowichan remember) and ate lunch. I was excessively stiff, considering the minute amount of physical exercise I had done. Besides wakeboarding, the most strenuous things I had done were rocking out to Slipknot and Korn on David's half-broken iPod and probably having my neck in weird positions while on the phone.
Wednesday was a lazy day until getting home. When I got home I drove to pick up Alana and we went to Swy-Alana. I ran an errand to Save On to get milk for my Mom and also got chocolate. Alana and I went to Starbucks at Country Club and then chez moi. That is how we came to be happy.
I am home one more day Thursday and will be taking the 5:10pm ferry on Friday and going to Whistler. I have no idea why they gimped the ferry schedule after the ferry crashed, when they ended up keeping the ferry at fault in service anyways. If I seem neglectful in computer/blogging/telephone upkeep then I apologise. Hopefully, this blog will keep ppl posted.
I'll probably get to your email in the next couple days Kevin. For now, you angrily souled folks, I suggest checking out some "System of a Down", "Slipknot" or "Korn"; however, if you are feeling more at peace with yourself, try some "Our Lady Peace", "Alter Bridge" or "Stone Temple Pilots" (The newer the STP stuff, the more emo and popish it gets, so listen to it at your own discretion. The core of good STP is actually found on their album "Core")
The days starting this July have been a learning experience for me. They were quite rough, but I quashed my pride and solved a problem I believed to be unsolvable. Now, life is quite sweet. Alana and I had some good talks and I would have to say that we are really happy.
I spent time at Cowichan Lake with my Mom's parents for two days after dry grad. On the day I came home, I saw Amay briefly, to whom I have not spoken much in the past while. I also spent time with Alana. We went to Tim Hortons, where we ran into Jenn. We proceeded home and I signed up for my courses on SFU. I'm going to have to walk to the next building in between my lectures. >:@ It was fun talking to Alana.
That evening, I went back to Cowichan to see my Dad's sister, his wife and their two children. I didn't fall asleep until 2am that night, because I was thinking. Then I woke up at 5am STILL thinking. Anyways, I couldn't phone Alana until this decent time of 8:30. Business doesn't really start until then, so I just did some pre-office hour work and wrote my thoughts down.
I selfishly woke David up at 6 o'clock to go wakeboarding cuz I had an inexplicable source of energy. We also got up my dad so we could go on the smooth water at 6am. It was pro. I busted out a small indy grab (my first ever so I was ecstatic). It should be noted that it is virtually impossible to jump the wake in our boat, cuz we don't have a tower, so when I landed my indy I was in the middle of the wake. I tried it again, but I bailed harshly and hit my head on the water, but I didn't really care after that first wave of euphoria that comes from landing a new trick.
I did end up phoning Alana at 8:30am. I humbled myself and said what I wanted to say. That day was spent counting down until 6:30pm when I said I'd call her again. I broke down and called her at 6am, but just got Catherine. From 6:30, when I did get Alana on the phone, we pretty much talked until 2:45am. There were a couple breaks for my dinner and letting my uncle use the phone, but virtually the whole time was talking and talking and talking. That night I actually slept well.
Today, well it is still Wednesday in my mind, was good. I got up at 11:30am (still at Cowichan remember) and ate lunch. I was excessively stiff, considering the minute amount of physical exercise I had done. Besides wakeboarding, the most strenuous things I had done were rocking out to Slipknot and Korn on David's half-broken iPod and probably having my neck in weird positions while on the phone.
Wednesday was a lazy day until getting home. When I got home I drove to pick up Alana and we went to Swy-Alana. I ran an errand to Save On to get milk for my Mom and also got chocolate. Alana and I went to Starbucks at Country Club and then chez moi. That is how we came to be happy.
I am home one more day Thursday and will be taking the 5:10pm ferry on Friday and going to Whistler. I have no idea why they gimped the ferry schedule after the ferry crashed, when they ended up keeping the ferry at fault in service anyways. If I seem neglectful in computer/blogging/telephone upkeep then I apologise. Hopefully, this blog will keep ppl posted.
I'll probably get to your email in the next couple days Kevin. For now, you angrily souled folks, I suggest checking out some "System of a Down", "Slipknot" or "Korn"; however, if you are feeling more at peace with yourself, try some "Our Lady Peace", "Alter Bridge" or "Stone Temple Pilots" (The newer the STP stuff, the more emo and popish it gets, so listen to it at your own discretion. The core of good STP is actually found on their album "Core")
Friday, July 01, 2005
It's All Over
Dry Grad ended at 5am this morning and my friend circle left prizeless. It was some of what I hoped for and was a decent wrapping up of Graduation 2005. It is hard to believe that the last time I woke up I wasn't graduated. Already, the ceremony seems so long ago.
They had sumo wrestling and another MXC type battling activity. I didn't end up gambling, because I (among many others) was hoping to play Texas Hold'em poker. It was all blackjack and roulette. I went to see a psychic. I raced the cars. I did horizontal bungee jumping with Chris. Chris, Emily, Alana and I went skating for a while. Devin was doing Karaoke that whole time, I think. We met up with him and Chris, Emily, Devin and I headed off to the pool. There wasn't many people there, but it was fun. A dance started a couple hours into the party and continued until the end of the night, when I was there. They played Bohemian Rhapsody and almost played November Rain, so I was pretty happy about that.
I would have to say the most killer parts were the free food (pizza, timbits, pop, milk, water, fresh fruit, chocolate-covered fruit, hamburgers, hot dogs) and the karaoke. There was two booths. Devin and I were the first two people to do karaoke and we sang Drive and Cowboy. Later the in the evening, we sang My Sacrifice and I sang Plush.
Afterwards, I drove Alana home and we ended up watching a sunrise of irony.
They had sumo wrestling and another MXC type battling activity. I didn't end up gambling, because I (among many others) was hoping to play Texas Hold'em poker. It was all blackjack and roulette. I went to see a psychic. I raced the cars. I did horizontal bungee jumping with Chris. Chris, Emily, Alana and I went skating for a while. Devin was doing Karaoke that whole time, I think. We met up with him and Chris, Emily, Devin and I headed off to the pool. There wasn't many people there, but it was fun. A dance started a couple hours into the party and continued until the end of the night, when I was there. They played Bohemian Rhapsody and almost played November Rain, so I was pretty happy about that.
I would have to say the most killer parts were the free food (pizza, timbits, pop, milk, water, fresh fruit, chocolate-covered fruit, hamburgers, hot dogs) and the karaoke. There was two booths. Devin and I were the first two people to do karaoke and we sang Drive and Cowboy. Later the in the evening, we sang My Sacrifice and I sang Plush.
Afterwards, I drove Alana home and we ended up watching a sunrise of irony.