No, it's not my birthday. We're about six months away from that, actually. But last night, one of my best buddies from high school, Tu (pronounced "Toe"...it's a Vietnamese thing...not a french name meaning "You"), celebrated his big 3-0 in totally drunken style at a pub on the UBC campus ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a nice and full and active day ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week for me with some ups and downs - but mostly ups, and full of ridiculous fun. I really needed that too, after being dragged through the emotional trenches in recent months. I actually got on on a road trip that was actually FUN ( Read more... )

A wrote a few weeks back that when I saw my brother act in his high school's production of Macbeth, I was suddenly very nostalgic for high school. A day or two later, I was invited to a birthday shindig for one of my best buddies in high school, Tu - and a number of my high school cohorts would be there (among many others ( Read more... )

After seeing my brother perform as Banquo in his high school's rendition of Shakespeare's Macbeth - my personal favourite - I was hit with a sudden wave of nostalgia. Not just for Shakespeare and the stage arts, but for my own high school experience. Everyone has ups and downs during those years, but I wish I could go back to mine - and relive them ( Read more... )

Recently I've been quasi-obsessing over a new Facebook application named "Scrabulous". Now, I'm not one for extra apps - most of them suck hard, and are boring after a day or two. But this is fun, because it's a full-blown Scrabble game you can have with virtually anyone on your friends list. I love it, and currently have 9 games going on ( Read more... )

Three reasons why today was rad.

REASON #1

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Does anyone out there think that it's at all strange that, out of the blue today, I realized that today is the birthday of a teacher I used to have a crush on ( Read more... )