breathing

receiving

2009-11-09T23:59:00.000-08:00

more, Jesus, more. you are so so good.

alive

2009-07-13T12:30:00.001-07:00

(and kicking). yes it's true!

Vancouver

2009-05-04T09:19:00.004-07:00

welcome to my neighbourhood :). I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, because it is a total and complete lovely gift from God.

Jakeeni and the Disco Maggots

2009-04-18T12:06:00.003-07:00

coming soon to your living room from
The Canada Institute of Linguistics.

intermediate

2009-04-14T06:53:00.003-07:00

I feel as though I had been holding my breath for the last few weeks, and now am cautiously exhaling. It's not all over yet, but it's a significantly lighter atmosphere this side of the mountain. The grace of our God is good!

sunday

2009-04-05T18:05:00.004-07:00

i arrived early this morning glad and expectant
but on the verge of tears and overwhelmed.
i left four-ish hours later with a song in my heart,
and even more joy, if that's possible.

now, to finish well!

a visual on my procrastination, in progress

2009-04-04T14:42:00.004-07:00

what began as spacing out in class.. and moved into extended paper writing procrastination... well, at least it is somewhat productive. the 'm' is georgia. can't wait to colour it all in..

i like (crayola) crayons

2009-03-27T14:24:00.004-07:00

here is a neat blog post about crayola crayons, a bit of history, and a complete colour chart of all available colours. What other brands of crayons are less waxy (not like the ones at restaurants or from kids plane packages) and therefore colour more uniformly? photo taken from link above.

japanese masking tape

2009-03-12T13:22:00.002-07:00

as seen on oh joy.

the end of february

2009-03-03T00:47:00.004-08:00

Lately I've been shown again and again that my God is an incomprehensibly gracious Father. He loves me so much. Thank you. I don't know why I'm continually surprised :).

Graduating comps were procrastinated from, studied for, and furiously written last week. I kind of miss them now...

Fred Rogers

2009-02-22T19:31:00.004-08:00

Fred Rogers explaining and defending PBS in the US senate: 1969
Yo-Yo Ma visits Mister Rogers' neighborhood: 1985
An archival (4.5 hrs!) interview with Mr. Rogers by TVarchives: 1999

breakfast

2009-01-22T23:24:00.003-08:00

trying to hit that elusive homemade muesli/granola balance. getting closer! i found that i like mine raw and chewy and bland, rather than the toasted sweeter kind. this one has:
oven toasted large flake oats
regular rolled oats
unsweetened coconut
sultanas
salted pumpkin seeds
raw sunflower seeds
chopped walnuts
miniscule pinches of: sugar, cinnamon, cloves, ginger

even better with a cut up banana and time to soak in a little milk. don't drown the muesli!

a few happy, 'unfancy' kitchens

2009-01-21T15:36:00.004-08:00

go to: doorsixteen.com
one that particularly makes me smile:

photo taken from: x, originally x.

by my window

2009-01-17T19:03:00.000-08:00

trying out piknik within flikr

winter saturday

2009-01-17T18:22:00.004-08:00

UNIFORM studio

2009-01-17T17:03:00.001-08:00

uniform-studio.com

loveliness

2009-01-08T21:47:00.002-08:00

lovely design
anna maria horner
curious bird
soule mama
all buttoned up
geninne (watercolours)
two straight lines
oh joy
nienie dialogues

and the LORD saith

2008-01-21T22:48:00.000-08:00

Obey Me;
Learn to pray;
Come to Me and be still.

You are my Father and King; my Saviour, and my Guide. You are True.

psalm 119: daleth

2006-04-10T17:18:00.000-07:00

say what? i DONT KNOW. i dont knowwwwww ahhhhhhhhhh i feel half confused. yes that is a quarter confused and quarter frustrated. at myself, that is. the other half is REDICULOUSLY praising God because HE IS SO GOOD and FAITHFUL and i keep seeing that in the people around me and in stories of what He is doing in China. oh crazy crazy madness. my brain is not connected to my mouth, most of the time, but it improves if i practice it over and over again.
Father, I am so nothing before you.
I BELIEVE that i am saved from myself. i AM AM AM AM AM.
break my heart, make my heart as flesh. i know you have already given me this. but I want the Holy Spirit to flow uninhibited, i know there is more.

eternity

2006-03-21T21:42:00.000-08:00

in august, doreen and i were driving from toronto to ottawa for our exec retreat. it was a gorgeous day and we were pushing that civic about as fast as she should go. (but clearly, glendon's van could go much, much faster. it was fueled by disney songs.) somehow we got to thinking about what we thought were the most awful things, ever. we decided that two things were definatly on that list: utter lonliness, and guilt.
hell is like that - you are completly alone, because God is not with you. he does not identify with you, and you are not His son. there, guilt is not only a feeling, but an eternal reality. you will Be guilty.

this one's for you.

2006-03-21T21:21:00.000-08:00

pastor Junior encouraged us to keep a record of what God is showing us. dren and i were talking about how, while some people have decided to refrain from online journaling for lent, in our cases, we should probably decide TO write. doing so as an exercise in both dicipline and practicing to sort out our thoughts so as to be able to communicate them - and be understood. which is something i find amazingly difficult.

flash flash *flash

2005-04-08T23:26:00.000-07:00

yawn.. so in the spirit of sharing photos and because i cant remember who i promised to send photos to... all my photos from tonight are here for download if you so wish. sorry for all the "me + someone" photos, but well you know how it is. um thats all for now just want to zzzz first. :)

skype

2005-04-07T07:20:00.000-07:00

my dad is so cute. i finally convinced him to download skype, telling him it'll only take a couple minutes to get set up. after five, i msn him asking whats taking so long... : "the agreement is sooo long to read"! haha.. he's the only person i know who reads the entire agreement things when setting up new downloaded programs... i suppose its probably a good idea.

frightening, hilarious, or just wierd?

2005-04-05T08:20:00.000-07:00

so i heard google maps have satellite now, and decided to look up my house here in london, and then maybe check and see if i could see joshua and friends walk to school in caronport. as expected, you can only zoom so far, and so i ended up with a muddy airplane view of caronport and a general outline of western rd, gibbons park and the thames river. but then... i thought i would check out if my mom was out doing something in the garden.... and to my surprise... if she was out there... i just might accually be able to see her.... it's like in MIB...

"hey mum..."

oh its the red one. i TOLD MY DAD a red roof was a BAD idea. haha.

washington crossing the delaware

2005-03-23T22:10:00.000-08:00

okay friends, family, and strangers. please prepare to be blown away: complete with wide eyes, gaping mouths, a little drool and a strange sense of squirmy giggling behind covered lips. this is the poem i promised you a couple weeks ago. the one from the class reading.

a sonnet (1936), by david shulman, based on a famous painting:

Washington Crossing the Delaware

A hard, howling, tossing water scene:
Strong tide was washing hero clean.
"How cold!" Weather stings as in anger.
O silent night shows war ace danger!

The cold waters swashing on in rage.
Redcoats warn slow his hint engage.
When general's star action wish'd "Go!"
He saw his ragged continentals row.

Ah, he stands - sailor crew went going,
And so this general watches rowing.
He hastens - Winter again grows cold;
A wet crew gain Hessian stronghold.

George can't lose war with's hands in;
He's astern - so, go alight, crew, and win!

okay now. so this is a reading on the "untranslatable" (oh it's for the translation unit of my applied linguistics course). the author of this reading is a pretty funny guy, and he is giving examples of (mostly) poems which at first seem like they are certainly untranslatable, but he perseveres and often shows that there is, infact, a way; employing a splash of genius and a truckload of creativity.

Reading this vivid poem, could anyone fail to feel the raw whipping of the winds, the violence of the waves, the threat of the oncoming Brits, the bravery of our valiant Johnnys..
Well, yes - it's a little odd, I admit. Some of the lines, like the one about the redcoats, are a bit hard to parse. And does "anger" really rhyme with "danger"? Here and there, the poem seems somewhat forced. Still such defects mught be excused when one considers that David Shulman, its author, was working under duress when he penned it sometime in 1936. Like a poor soul penned in jail, Shulman was deprived of certain luxuries. Indeed, paying a kind of complementary lipo-service to Varaldo in his Latin incarnation, Shulman deprived himself of "u", though he allowed himself all other vowels (accually, not "y" either). Well is that all there is to it?
As a matter of fact, no. In vain will one seek any of the letters, "b", "f", "j", "k", "m", "p", "q", "v", "x", "y", and "z". Now we're starting to talk contraints! Indeed what letters do appear in this poem? The answer - and I hope this knocks your socks off - is: exactly the letters in the poem's title, and no others. This is quite a lipogram, after all.
And yet, there is more. Notice that on every line there is a "w". Or rather, two of them. But why? Because there are two "w"'s in the poem's title! ... and so on down the line. In a word, in this fully metric and rhyming sonnet, every single line is a perfect anagram of the title, and still the whole thing basically makes sense. ... If you're looking for tangledness of medium with mesage, this is about as extreme an example as I think you're likely to find. It is a wonderful, inimitable word-carving inextricably ,married to the English language.

so i guess it goes without saying that that is an example of an untranslatable piece of text. haah so now that i have bored you to tears...

fourteen again

2005-03-21T17:01:00.000-08:00

i just recieved - in the mail - nine, (count'm, NINE!!!) dvd's worth of wallflower vids spanning more than ten years. oh online wallflowers community, how much fun i've had all these years. all nine dvd's are a compilation of all the music video's, interview clips, commercials, and recorded shows that we have stashed on various unmarked vhs' for the last ten years.... and they are ALL put together now...

onward, brothers

2005-03-10T20:56:00.000-08:00

everyday-life is running full ahead at a fantastic speed; when i get home i feel like i just was swooshed around by a dancing partner and wide-eyed catching my breath. somewhat tiring, strangly invigourating, mostly hilarious - and certainly lots of fun.
have some freaking cool stuff i read in my required papers for a class the other day, i thought it was awesome! was laughing out loud in the library. i want to share it with you guys right now, but perhaps tommorrow will be more forgiving in the time aspect.

children, rinse your reeds.

2005-03-03T23:12:00.000-08:00

my throat hurts when i swallow. it feels kind of like i have a cut on the left side of my esophagus. (unfortunatly, this does not stop me from eating). i'm not sick, so my only explaination for this is that i picked up some nasty bacteria from my yucky-tasting-never-been-washed-sax reed. this is my only explaination.

in other less gross and infinatly more exciting news, i've been reading two REALLY COOL AND EXCITING articles. i am pretty convinced if it wasnt for God, i would not be reading these REALLY COOL AND EXCITING things right now. anyway they are papers about the history and state of the dong orthography. the dong are a minority group of China which we got the privledge to live with for a short time last summer. orthography is a word lillian taught me to pronounce two weeks ago. it is basically language written down using symbols. the curious way by which i have these papers in my greasy little hands is this: joshua-elijah - whom nearly always has the dong people on his mind, tongue and heart - met a man (in the happening place of saskatchewan) whose daughter and son in law are language M's in china. pretty cool, eh? after excitedly conversing through email (with the abundant use of exclaimation marks), they passed his email on to another couple who work mainly with the dong people, and thier language. hmm. yep, and they sent us those aforementioned papers on the development of that orthography. there's some more sock burning cool stuff about that, but in all honestly i'm wary of this ultra public internet-ness, so in the spirit of not wanting to get anybody in trouble, ask me about it and i'll be more than excited to share with you!

testing

2005-02-04T21:31:00.000-08:00

wow back to the internet world. like i dont spend enough time on here already!

2002-11-24T17:33:00.001-08:00

the rumours are true. im still alive.

2002-09-10T10:12:00.001-07:00

hi guys... im in the library at uwo dutifully checking my email... no internet connection for me yet - so updates may be few and far inbetween. these wierd netscape browsers here dont even let me view this site. be back asap. drop me an email anytime. son_ja@breathe.nu

2002-08-21T21:16:00.001-07:00

i have a hamster in my room. his name is tumbleweed, and he is a very aged little rodent. my seven year old cousin marcus left him on the front porch for me to take care while he is in new hampshire. he called later on, and the first thing out of his mouth was, 'is he dead yet?!' ... i've never had a pet, save a couple of doomed goldfish. i've stopped buying them, as it is a form of cruelty to animals.

2002-08-19T00:05:00.001-07:00

a picture update.... weekend happenings. click!

2002-08-16T06:46:00.001-07:00

pour some milk on; we'll call it a day.

2002-08-14T10:09:00.001-07:00

for updates, linking, & random madness, use breathe.nu. (p.s. anyone know how to fix the positioning of the 'content' part of each of these pages? if you are using a mac, you'll know what i mean. its all out of place. & i dont know what to do! the horror.)

2002-08-12T11:25:00.001-07:00

erm, the index page to breathe.nu is different. that 'weblog' there is even more pointless than this one! can you believe! neither of them accually say anything important. and it will stay that way. for now. however, i will update that one every four seconds.

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2002-08-11T17:14:00.001-07:00

zet, i just tried calling your cell, but dialed the wrong number. i spoke with some woman for five entire minutes until she finally told me that it was the wrong number. am i stupid, or what?! but she was quite convincing. *shakes head* ... anyway, for your amusement:

son (dumb girl): hey zet!

woman (852 8017): hey!

son: how are you?

woman: pretty good.

son: what are you doing?

woman: on nothing really.

son: you sound really different.

woman: oh. i have a cold.

son: oh. you poor girl! are you at home?

woman: yep! what are you doing?

son: oh... just internet and stuff...

woman: thats always fun.

son: yeah. (wondering.... "why no jokes?, this conversation is making me feel uncomfortable...") are you okay?

woman: yeah, ofcourse!

son: i feel like i've called the wrong number or something... hahah.

woman: thats funny..

son: yeah. you sound so different!

woman: heheh

son: i still feel like i've called the wrong house!

woman: thats because you have!

son: hah. what?!

woman: its the wrong number.

son: what?! youre kidding.

woman: just thought it would be a fun story for your friends and you!

son: that's so funny. sheesh. sorry

woman: no problem!

son: take care!

woman: you too!

*click*.

that is hard proof that i need serious help.

2002-08-07T20:45:00.001-07:00

world is crazier and more of it than we think,

incorrigibly plural. i peel and portion

a tangerine and spit the pips and feel

the drunkenness of things being various.

-LM

2002-07-30T21:25:00.001-07:00

i have to redo this site now. it looks rediculous on a mac. the end.

2002-07-22T14:19:00.001-07:00

i still have confusion over the fact that 1/2 of 100 is 50 and 1/2 of an hour is 30; as demonstrated by my burning of the popcorn. two and a half minutes... 2:50. right.

2002-07-19T11:42:00.001-07:00

i just realized; once chung switches to rogers, my entire sitemeter details will consist of "rogers.com" . how sad. hahaha.

2002-07-19T11:38:00.001-07:00

this website was intended to revolve around helicopters and popsicles. clearly, it does not.

2002-07-18T09:54:00.001-07:00

hm. never know what to write for those "about myself" sections.

2002-07-17T11:43:00.001-07:00

computer day. breach (wallflowers) is company. i sponsered someone for that blogathon thing.

2002-06-28T08:11:00.001-07:00

construction.

2002-06-27T18:19:00.001-07:00

random shots from yesterday. i dont feel like putting them in any kind of order or fixing them, but there they are.

2002-06-27T18:12:00.001-07:00

going to sleep now because my mind is playing with itself, so i'll shut it down. ive cleaned, organized, read, & written too much today, its absolutly mind numbing. i've been waking up very tired & very early the last couple days, although not for a real lack of sleep. been having extremely vivid and fast paced dreams all week and i think they are tiring me out, even before i wake.

picked up the whirlpool by jane urquhart yesterday afternoon at 'the book market' with tizian. afterwards everyone went searching for a restaurant that wasnt there. at local heroes, i kept spacing out because everywhere i looked, there was a television screen. for no reason, it made me watch. the highlight of the evening was undoubtedly driving down prince of wales 'dancing' to a cassette - - laughing at josh and denise sticking thier heads out of the car windows ahead. we were sure that one of them would get decapitated by a passing car. oh, and that mandy moore poster.

the whirlpool was fantastic. devastatingly beautiful.

j urquhart is undoubtedly my favorite canadian author. (so far).

2002-06-17T17:49:00.001-07:00

cleaning out and re-organizing files on my little section of hardrive.... wheeeee

2002-06-12T07:58:00.001-07:00

one music exam today = zero school. i enjoy math. for your viewing pleasure, or not.

2002-06-08T22:47:00.001-07:00

humour me and comment, boys and girls! *laugh.

2002-06-08T22:45:00.001-07:00

i got a digital camera today. it was comparativly disgustingly low priced. but i guess thats reflected in the resolution. hahah. but thats fine. snapshots are all i want. and my mom got sol and i popsicles today. so that + that = this. uh yes thats all for tonight. zzzz!

2002-06-04T17:23:00.001-07:00

yet another "there are so many people in china, that..." kind of thing, but i thought it was... interesting? funny? i dont know. but anyway, DID YOU KNOW, that if they lined up adult chinese shoulder to shoulder all along the border to russia and kept walking over non stop; at the current birth rate in china, they would never run out of people. uhm yes. imagine that. [p.s. dont even know if its true. cant believe everything you read!]

orange, turquoise, and green.

2002-06-02T16:22:00.001-07:00

for his entire life, my dad thought "crab apple trees" were "crap apple trees". last sunday afternoon on the drive home from church, solomon and i were commenting on how our crab apple trees were blooming quite prettily. my dad wondered aloud why they were called "cra(b/p)" apples, and sent sol and i off onto some rediculous tangent about crustateans on trees and such. our completly confused dad could not figure out the connection between the lobsters, scallops and the poo that he had in mind. of the apples, he wondered, "do they really taste that bad?". when we finally figured out what he was thinking, we couldnt help but laugh (for a very long time) ...errm.. with him. not at him! silly chinese accents... ;).

2002-06-01T17:15:00.001-07:00

pear yoghurt. surprisingly good. yesterday, i had my last piano recital with my teacher and that bunch of lovely people whom i see a couple times a month to "share music" (as she calls it) together. was a bit sad. after intermission, the second half players went to backstage and proceeded to fret like the nervous people we are. we have these

habits that we all do to try and calm ourselves down. will just keeps talking and talking - sarah kind of sits there and thinks, wringing her hands a bit - irene is the picture of calmness - rebecca kind of makes a very worried face and trembles - and i stand under doorframes, making faces at r'becca. it went pretty well, although i trembled through both pieces - while yelling silently at my forearms for them to *stop! *stop!!!!!. teah.

there is a very cool button on the camera that allows me to take multiple exposures; so hurray for people's heads staring at themselves... staring at... themselves.

in other sonja news, there is none, unless you want to hear more about piano. (p.s. my students played very cutely today at our recital this afternoon. joanne even performed a song that we wrote together during class. its called "blinker". )

its ridiculous how i have entire conversations in my head with myself (but im sure you do too! yes, you!). once in a while, there are guest appearances as well. they probably wouldn’t appreciate my putting words into their mouths though. ah well.

2002-05-28T21:45:00.001-07:00

~~this is becoming a habit. coffee runs on the way home from piano rehearsals and/or isu group projects - to help me stay awake for the rest of the evening. well... yum anyway. these 'fun-f~~

k, yeah nevermind... forgot what i was going to say anyway. probably nothing. =)

2002-05-21T14:15:00.001-07:00

fun things to play with. mouse on - mouse off ..... on - off - on .... okay so it wasnt *that exciting.

so make a picture. click.

2002-05-19T20:43:00.001-07:00

according to beliefnet.com, i'm:

1. Orthodox Quaker (100%)

2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (95%)

3. Seventh Day Adventist (86%)

4. Eastern Orthodox (83%)

5. Roman Catholic (83%)

6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (70%)

7. Islam (60%)

8. Orthodox Judaism (60%)

find out what faith you are. *squint.

2002-05-19T18:16:00.001-07:00

long weekend.... horray for haircuts. y'all are invited to [.......please] my arct recital on june sixth. dont miss it!

2002-05-09T19:04:00.001-07:00

sheesh youre smrt. i got 142. hmm.. =)

2002-05-07T17:10:00.001-07:00

my fish is dead

2002-05-07T16:15:00.001-07:00

my fish is dying

2002-05-07T14:03:00.001-07:00

allergies and hayfever. pshhh. arrived at school today with eyes so red and watery about a million people asked if i was okay - and commented that i looked like i was bawling. the highlight of the morning was receiving benadril from elishka. its in this amazingly cool hot pink pill. ofcourse, it made me drowsy and i fell asleep during first period physics and nearly fell off the stool. hmm. going to go set the rest of my messed over high school career right side up now. or atleast on its side. how exciting.

2002-05-04T17:43:00.001-07:00

went through my brother's desk drawers in search of headphones ... and what's 'hidden' in the bottom drawer? ..... seeds. packages of pumpkin seeds, spinach seeds, yellow pepper seeds, sugar peas seeds, flower seeds. got to love that kid. *laugh.

2002-05-01T18:28:00.001-07:00

wonderland tommorrow. semi excited. hey the x key on the keyboard isnt very good. hard to press. just got back from stars on ice. .. i left during intermission lest i get butchered when i got home =). it was.... interesting. hmm. hahah. well, fun to make fun of anyway. ! that concludes my test blog for the day. asdjkfl;asdfjkl;./

2002-04-29T16:27:00.001-07:00

success! i finally got ftp working on this computer. finally. after a month of trying to figure out what was wrong and d/ling it five times! yay!

2002-04-16T18:51:00.001-07:00

nightly report: i lay on my deck at dusk. for twenty minutes i let the wind play around my toes and arms and hair ... or rather, it let me sit in on it's fun. i'll spare you my incessant chatter about all this; but i invite you to go outdoors yourself this evening, and you'll know why it is an absolute compulsion to write about it. lovely to savour all for myself, but its something that brings more contentment when shared with someone else. all i could do was whisper prayers ... and they became very alive. real, pulsating meanings.

undeniably, i have what they call spring fever.

2002-04-15T19:59:00.001-07:00

had the most wonderful experience this evening, it was incredible. it wasn’t anything particularly out of the normal, but it was very special. and very powerful. if i didn’t have work to do right now, i would be outdoors. everything touching all my five (or six?) senses was devastatingly beautiful. here, put you in my Vans: blood rushing and skin tingling from two straight hours of piano music with the most musically inspiring woman you know, and stepping out into the night - surprisingly warm and smelling of ... camping. the car drives absolutely liquid on the pavement, and that crazy opera lady shapes words in languages you will never understand. stopping at the red light, the window rolls down and you are genuinely shocked at how brightly dark and clear it is. fascinated, while the light turns green and trucks blare their horns at you. arriving, with the most delicious feeling, smelling, everything... there were patches of fog on march rd., i drove amongst the clouds; it was like being five. somewhat delayed, i remembered to remember to thank Him. its tingly to think of how it will be like when this world is over.

the hour has come for you to wake from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. the night is nearly over, the day is almost here. so put aside your deeds of darkness and put on the armour of light. romans 13:11-12 [denise and my verse of last week.]

2002-04-15T15:14:00.001-07:00

tzah-hah! ive finnally recieved my first official email at son_ja@breathe.nu . horray. exciting event indeed. netcomments is down for a week. *frown* ... if it keeps doing this....

stuff....

............................................................

you know you shouldnt have a blog when you dont want to post whats on your mind. school [english] school school. okay now im done. phew. (force of habit: recount my day...

1/ woke at 3am, 5am, and 7am.

2/ decided to give up on eng for the day. lunch date with denise. gorgeous day outdoors.

3/ internet checking compulsions.

4/ taught piano.

5/ have p. lessons again tonight.

i'd say all in all this has been one great day.)

oops got to go. write a real post when i get home.

2002-04-13T18:15:00.001-07:00

peshwanfda!

kasdfplalagn kal al ka ka !5

karah akrh! kahgrakahr!

feodorae chinopari souyili shejocluna!6

lahguhg digigh alss

lackasada lacahsadee lakahshenae! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!7

im going to go change all your peoples comments now to say "SONJA I LOVE YOU." yes.

checkm out! 8

(p.s.) the numbers are contributed by denise who is beside me. 9

2002-04-10T10:59:00.001-07:00

i need to post to force it into a scrollbar thing so i can see my scroll bar. harhm....

yesterday i got the best smelling lotions in the world (well probably not) and i cant stop smelling it now. its so nice. one smells kind of sweet tasting, its supposed to help you sleep (?!) ... and the other is a refreshing and cool smell. uh yes i love to talk to myself too. i guess i'll delete al lthese when i finish my site... yes. or i can keep them on as proof of how i really dont have anyhting of use to say ? im at school and ive never ridden in a helicopter before. im the type of person thats scared of heights, but doesnt know it ... until she is up high somewhere. even now im planning to go skydiving one day (if it wasnt so expensive) and use one of those glider things in the air and fly around ... but i'll probably be having a heart attack as i fall. oh well. atleast it happens...! okay this is enough text now. !

2002-04-06T21:36:00.001-08:00

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2002-04-06T21:05:00.001-08:00

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2002-01-04T12:22:00.000-08:00

oh my i love my brother, and its hard to live with your parents again after having them away for half a week! im applying to mcGill online right now and catching up on email and blogs. i walked into the kitchen and sol was there making tea. i asked him if both mugs of tea were for him, and he was like 'yes!' ... then i watched him as he smelled the milk to see if it was curdling and him telling me very proudly of how he has one mug of tea with milk and sugar, and one with just black tea. as he was putting back the sugar, i said, wouldnt it be funny if it was salt. and then he looks up at me with his mouth open. and i laughed and laughed and he poured out his tea. what a silly boy.

2001-12-17T16:46:00.000-08:00

*yawn... im not sleepy anymore though, horray. as is the wanting of myself, i'll recount my uneventful but lovely day to whomever is willing to read.... although theres only really one or two potential readers. one being myself. mwah. hmmm... so last night sol and i were in bed by midnight... slowly drowsing off to sleep when my mom yells at me to get up cause she wants me to drop something off in morgans grant for her right that minute. i paid sol five dollars to get up and come with me. heheh. so we went for an excursion in our sandals and pajamas at quarter after midnight and it was cold! this morning i grumbled cause i had a test in history that i knew liteally nothing about... i tried to study through calculus class, but for some reason, my eyes wouldnt focus on the page and i couldnt read even though i wanted to! on a nicer note, matt was really nice and brought the second lord of the rings book for me to borrow and i didnt even ask him. hm. and i won jon's bet with me, so now he has to buy me a house. hah. and denise showed me the gift that we got for chung boy. yay. and everyone in calc agrees that candycanes are wrap then bend.

i literally slept through algebra, i put my head down and *slept. i dont even think i was tired that much. there was no reason to be... because i had plenty of sleep last night. oh well.. .. some things just cant be explained. hmmm... then in history.... surprise! we convinced our teacher to give us the test tommorrow! horray!! that is the best in the world. ahhhhhh... im so happy about that. and from that second onward it was a wonderful day. hehe. i got home and taught piano... my kids are so sweet, joanne, who is in kindergarten bought me a gift herself and wrapped it herself too. its this dalmation dog thing and we named it spotty. she reeks of cuteness. and the occasional devilish little girl ways. catherine came next and she was awesome as usual, she just dyed her hair and it looks really nice on her... maybe i'll get matching hair with her... hmm... she gave me this yummy smelling honeydew bath stuff.... i never ever get that stuff for myself cause i wouldnt use it but she gets it for me every year anyway so its funny. hehe. so that made me really want to take a shower and smell like honeydew (we both decided it smelled good.) so thats what i did right when she left.

and so now im warm and clean and listening to jill sing and having water in a glass glass (theres just something about that that makes me think of katie, and thats good). and typing nonsense for no reason. the piano awaits me again and i should give it some good banging and learn my songs. afterwards which i will pull a late nighter to study for my test and get information off the internet for my history essay. hmmm. karen is picking denise and i up for lunch tommorrow. horray girls.

i bet sam is home almost.... maybe i'll check later on... hmm... and youre probably doing your exam right now.... how was it? studying with you was fun. you see, we accually learned, right? thats good, isnt it? chung is at work and denise should be working on christmas cards right now. deej is probably doing homework and karen is probably out, or at home being done and im not. ;). really dont have time to work tommorrow, but ah well. thats awesome that your parents are comming on sunday.... is steve too? i guess so eh? ;). he is so.... unresponsive and undramatic that it makes me laugh to death. i bet hes not really like that, right? sol quit piano this morning, but he is practicing right now... i find that kind of funny. no more lessons for him anymore. you officially owe the internet world so many blogs that its rediculous. well maybe thats exagerating. well you can write about serious stuff and i'll stick to dumb recollections of what i do each day. you are officially hanging out with me all summer and this and next christmas break. because i said so. yup.

2001-11-27T11:26:00.000-08:00

one two three four school is nothing today i work at five. backlog of piano to catch up on, crazy drivers in parking lots at staples yelling at karen and i. laughing too much. indifferent starbucks barristas. cramps. flourecent lights.

2001-11-25T18:06:00.000-08:00

so my brother and dad are arguing about chemistry, my mother is watching tv and I am trying to read about marxist philosophy for my homework with one finger in my ear trying really hard to drown out all the noise. I cant think! hehe. what I wouldnt do for a computer in my room. ah!

update: so im turning into a spaz. (yay!)… now my mother is still watching tv really loud and there are strange highland music and crowd noises from there… my brother is banging out a song on the piano and my dad is making dumb jokes and comments and generally bothering me… and im still there with my ear(s) covered up and now I have joined into the noisemaking by reading out loud in a very very loud voice. im never going to finish at this rate! can you just picture our household? its always like this. hehe

2001-11-24T20:20:00.000-08:00

my dad is dubbing manderin casettes, and its on really loud ( in the chipmunky tone ) and it has been on for an hour, and my head feels like its about to explode. ouch. work was okay, felt a bit long. but sundays off two weeks in a row is very nice.

2001-10-10T14:19:00.000-07:00

blogger is crazy. what is with all this unavailability and losing my old blog and giving me my EVEN older blog? frustrating frustrating.

i got a velcro shirt today though! horray.

2001-10-10T14:12:00.000-07:00

try again

2001-10-10T14:08:00.000-07:00

Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?

Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;

Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,

Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.

Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?

Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht?

Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif?

Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif.

Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!

Gar schöne Spiele spiel ich mit dir;

Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand,

Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand.

Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht,

Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht?

Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind:

In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind

Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn?

Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön;

Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn

Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.

Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort

Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort?

Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau:

Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau.

Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt;

Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt

Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an!

Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan!

Dem Vater grauset's, er reitet geschwind,

Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,

Erreicht den Hof mit Müh' und Not:

In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

Goethe

2000-11-29T14:07:00.000-08:00

why doesnt this work

2000-11-28T16:13:00.000-08:00

that is all

2000-11-28T16:11:00.000-08:00

once again

2000-11-28T16:01:00.000-08:00

hello... is it different yet

2000-11-28T15:52:00.000-08:00

just wanted to see if this works yet....
my run on sentence space.