So anyway, yeah, my bday came and went, really uneventful. I was like most people, totally engrossed in studying for Macro, too hardcore to really care that it's supposed to be my special day. But I guess I'm used to it by now. I haven't done anything special on my actual birthday ever since I've come to university since my bday always lands on exams...sigh. At least when we went to dinner I got a chocolate bundt cake compliments of Gabby's.

More later. Time to study. Remi and I have a monopoly booking all day for Study Room #1. Muahahaha.....anyone who wants to die in stats with us, come to the Trin library. Hugh and Wayne come save us! I can't believe they finished the entire stats exam package yesterday. Smart bastards.

Song of the Moment: Matchbox 20's Unwell. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. I know, right now you can't tell...

So just wanna say thanks to all those that have remembered my birthday...if it wasn't for you guys, I really would've forgotten cuz all I'm thinking about are exams now....to take time out and wish me happy birthday during crazy stress time really means a lot to me. So to my boy Rick, the first with the bday wishes this year (tho he was 2 days early); my sis' Tina & Hanna, the first with the bday call (right at midnight sharp too); my man Oliver, the first with the bday email (5 seconds after Rick); Carolyn, Grace & Alison, who tied as the first with the bday ecards; Angela, the first to sing me happy birthday; Pegs, the first with the MSN msg; Remi, the first with ICQ; Angie, the first who posts a bday wish on her blog; the Toronto Maple Leafs, my beloved hockey team that somehow managed to lose in the first round to Philly and the first to send a generic commercial happy birthday email....and Eric, Ken, Beatrix, Vicky, Carlo, Henry, Kitty, Davin, Dawn, Mike, Denise, Danny, Brian, Fiona, Milesa, Renee, Amy, Ernie, Darlene, Sue, Sun-Ching, Dave, Bonnie, Josie, Mindy, Tu My, Justin, Jon, Pino....I'm really hoping I'm not forgetting anyone, but especially thanks to you guys for making the twenty-four hours of my birthday special. It really means a lot to me.

Even if you're not on this list, it just means that I've already done blogging for tonight....your wishes mean just as much to me. =)

And of course, thanks to my parents...

Song of the Moment: Chantal Kreviazuk's In This Life

Let me show you what I'm made of
Good intentions are not enough
To get me though today and this life.

You're in the basement watching the TV,
I'm on the second floor watching the ceiling.
We sleep underneath the same big sky at night.
I dream the same dream we can fly

You can run from me
You can hide form me
But I am right beside you
In this life.

Let me tell you who you really are
You're my comfort
You're not a superstar
I can reach up and bring you back down to the ground
And give you everything you dream about

You can run from me
You can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life.

I'll give you all the things that I never get
Give you all I have and have no regret
Take you to the places that I've never been
Forgive you all the things that you can't forget
Take away the pain with my healing hands
Wash away your sins and set your spirit free

You can run from me
You can hide from me
But I am right beside you
In this life.

Let me show you what I'm made of...

22 years later, I'm still trying to show the world what I'm made of. All you commies/eco students, let's show them idiot savant profs what we're made of and smoke some macro and stats exams. =)

And best of luck to all~! Keep on pluggin'....

Don't leave me in all this pain....
Don't leave me out in the rain
Come back and bring back my smile
Come and take these tears away
I need your arms to hold me now
The nights are so unkind
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me....

Unbreak my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt that you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked out of my life
Uncry these tears....
I cried so many nights....
Unbreak my heart
My heart....

Take back that sad word good-bye...
Bring back the joy to my life
Don't leave me here with these tears
Come and kiss this pain away
I can't forget the day you left...
Time is so unkind
And life is so cruel without you here beside me

Don't leave me in all this pain...
Don't leave me out in the rain
Bring back the nights when I held you beside me

Unbreak my heart...
Come back and say you love me
Unbreak my heart
Sweet darlin'
Without you I just can't go on
Can't go on

It's 4am. I guess it's just one of those moments....this is for you who said I'm incapable of being sappy. I'm not so cold after all.... =)

(1:30am) and we're now at Robarts trying to finish the damn thing. If I didn't go over to Renee's for dinner tonight I think I would've lost my mind a while ago with this project...she made a "casual" dinner, with this ultra-expensive fruit spritzer to start off things...a baby greens / spinach with segmented oranges, pine nuts, and grated parmesan cheese salad...for the main course, a gourmet pizza, with hickory BBQ sauce, parmesan cheese, smoked turkey sausage, roasted peppers, and shittake mushrooms...and for dessert, a fruit cobbler with raspberries and strawberries in an apple pie cover with apricot brandy on top. All this, prepared in front of my own eyes. Wow.

And it's just a "casual" dinner? I can't wait to see her complicated ones. =)

(5:07am) You know you're home late when the morning paper beats you to your door. After driving Anna and stopping by a Timmy Ho's with Carlo (I order an apple fritter and I got a dutchie instead!! Damn you Timmy Ho's!!!.....mmm...so good.....I wanted an apple fritter!!...mm....dutchie.....) I just got home. I'm gonna hopefully wake up at noon tomorrow. That's the bad news. The good news is, we're finished our project. Finito. Not without the three of us totally losing our minds first though. But it's done, and we won't have to look at it again for a while.....phew......

Song of the Moment: Somewhere Out There by Our Lady Peace.

But while Caban was the appetizer, Mexx was the main course. We had a 20% off everything card, at a private invite-only shopping event (they were really anal about it, they insisted that everyone had to have their own invite!). I've had my eye on a pair of black Mexx jeans for a while, but held off until now. Little did I realize I would find two other pairs of pants that catch my eye...along with a sweater and a dress shirt with the coolest hook buttons. Renee tried on maybe 6 different outfits, while I sat there trying to debate whether to get the white jeans or the beige linen pants, or neither at all. She told me to just get one or the other, but I ended up getting both - pretty much buying everything I tried on. Meanwhile, she buys just a single top out of everything she tried. You can guess what's coming next: "You shop worse than a girl!" Sigh...but I'm happy, I'm done my spring shopping! I ended up dropping 3 bills there, but to me, it was money well spent....I hope O_o.....

So Kitty, Dan, James and I watched Anger Management on Saturday (that's where the "I feel pretty" song is from...which was taken from West Side Story). To be honest, since it starred Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, and the previews looked hilarious, I was totally expecting to be rolling around laughing my ass off. I wasn't. Half the movie I sat there cringing instead of laughing, but maybe it was just me, because the woman next to me was laughing her ass off the entire movie (and she was really loud too - even when it wasn't even supposed to be funny!)....at least I didn't *totally* feel like I didn't get my money's worth....but if I had to do it again, I most probably wouldn't have seen it. 1.5 out of 5 for me.

Song of the Moment: an entire CD this time....Paris by Night, 12:00am on the Paris Lounge 2 set.

Then I went to Amy's for her birthday party/dinner....which was really nice because I don't get the chance to spend much time with her anymore. Her mom cooked a feast for us....Tammy is so cute, she made the pineapple & sausage cocktails, and she was all beaming and happy when she saw me say it was my fave dish....haha.....

I stayed there as long as I could before I rushed downtown to just barely make the Innis boat cruise by 8:30 - at least, that's what Justin said, because he had my ticket and he was near the front of the line - until we realized that the so-called front of the line was actually only the middle, because they extended the line to loop around...making us wait out in the cold for over an hour. By the time the boat actually left the dock, it was already 10. But it was worth the wait, cuz it was an absolute blast - but with terrible pizza and a dance floor the size of my room at Vic in first year (which was pretty damn small!). Especially interesting watching Dave bump and grind with all the girls...didn't see that side of him before =)

Afterwards, we all went to go eat at Xelua (or as we call it, train) at 1:30am. When my car got there, they were like, "5?" "Uh, no...there's more coming....more like 20." They literally kick out a bunch of teen hoodlums out of their restaurant so they could make space for us. Haha...we were there for a good 2 hours actually, until it was time for us to get kicked out for a brand new group of punks. And now I just get home at 4, and what's the first thing I do? I blog. =)

Anyway, best of luck to everyone who's writing their finals. Make sure you say your prayers, get enough sleep, and eat your vitamins so you don't contract SARS.

Song of the Moment: Everybody Falls in Love Sometime by Tanto Metro.

I should've known better, studied earlier, worked harder, made better use of my time. Here's to finally turning the corner.

And I'm glad I did.

It was a really tight game, with both teams playing a physical defensive game (at least when I was watching, anyway) until I witnessed Kaberle rush up the ice with Renberg just slipping in behind the Philly D, Kaberle passes to Renberg and he redirects it through Cechmanek's five-hole....I went nuts! Minutes later, with Cech on the bench, Mogilny manages to get his first career hat trick, and the Leafs end up winning 5-3 and taking home ice advantage. This is really gonna help cuz we need all the time we can get to get our injured guys back, especially Dougie, whom I can just feel him ready to explode on whoever we're facing....I have faith! Garland said Philly in 6, but only cuz of our injuries...I would've said Toronto in 5 if we were healthy....but now I'll say Toronto in 7.

Afterward, I was just channel flipping when I happened upon The Bachelor and the rose ceremony. I was curious as to this guy's taste, and honestly, he did pretty well, but his final rose, he gave it to the girl that was nervously twitching, blinking and head jerking from side to side the entire ceremony? Her name was Liz or something like that? I was like, you gotta be kidding me. That girl has stalker material written all over her! I can just see it....she'll be blinking her eyes rapidly, with her whole body jerking randomly holding an ax above her head..."not give ME a rose, will you!!" Hahaha...

Brought my comp in yesterday to Canada Computers (AGAIN) to fix the damn random reboots. If they don't fix it again, I propose we all boycott the damn place, even though I've been the one suggesting it to everyone. Hopefully the only reason why it wasn't fixed last time was because I brought it to the store at Pacific instead of the warehouse. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll find the problem and fix it already.

So I haven't blogged in a week. So I missed out on blogging about Grad Dinner and the stats midterm on Monday. It's kinda past the moment now, so I'll just make it brief: Grad Dinner was pretty cool. Took a lot of pictures, none of which I'm gonna post up for a while since I haven't even finished working on my studio yet and decide on how I'm gonna post the pics up. But the stats midterm....taking a quote for Justin Chung: "Oh. My. God. For whoever wrote the stats midterm tonight, pass the lube." I've never seen that many people come out of the midterm crying. We were all statistcally raped, and I haven't even used that term in the longest while. I mean, it was absolutely THE worst midterm I have ever written in my entire life. The only thing that kept me from flipping out was looking around and seeing everybody else's exasperated expressions on their faces, so I know I can ride the bell. So we'll see. Afterward, Justin, Will, Tu My, Anna, Hugh and a couple of others and I went to Gabby's to drown our sorrows in 1/2 price wings, only to find half of the other ppl who wrote the midterm already there too. Man. I still have to write the makeup on Friday with Hugh, so time for more regression lines...sigh.

Song of the Moment: Chantal Kreviazuk's Time, which is something I desperately need for this stats midterm.

Cross my fingers and pray to God that another miracle will happen.

Song of the Moment: Will Downing's Almost Like Being In Love, as heard from MoonTaxi's jazz station.

Chris Jefferies.

Yup. Last year's late first-round pick acquired from the Lakers. By all accounts a failure as a rookie, whose game is so atrocious that even I, a cripple, can probably take him to school. But he was the Raptors' secret weapon. Why?

Because he had a runny nose.

Even his own teammates told him to get out of the locker room. That's why you'll find a "DNP - Illness" beside his name on Sunday. Sigh, if only I knew before....I'd totally have bet on the game....with the Raptors sucking as much as they do now, I'd get a pretty big payoff too =)

Time to study micro...less than 24 hours and I need to cram....

Song of the Moment: Aaliyah & Timbaland, We Need a Resolution.