But overall, I had a great time. The incident with the hot waitress certainly didn't hurt either =) I'd elaborate but just to spite Hannah and Renee and prove them wrong, that's about all I'll say....but just had to mention it so that when I look back at this one day I'll remember!

Song of the Moment: It's Over by Bet.e & Stef - the best unknown Canadian jazz duo.

First off, this is my first time using the new blog interface, Dano. Pretty cool so far. Hope it's more reliable than the old one. But looks are definitely much slicker. Guess that's what we get when Google buys up Blogger....yay capitalism!

Went to the Jays game two nights in a row, both against Baltimore - last night with Carlo (which we ended up losing 9-2 but saw 5 streakers during the game, one of which almost got his head taken off with a vicious clothesline that he just ran right into) and tonight with Eric (which we ended up winning 13-8 and saw plenty of fireworks...and many repeated announcements warning fans not to run onto the field during the game or risk facing prosecution) - both games were the result of using the SARS entertainment package, which is SUCH a good deal. The Jays tickets were worth $29 for the Club 200 seats, which were really, really nice, complete with cushions and complimentary wings (but Eric insists it was only because the waitress liked us that they were free...who am I to argue).

Funny thing today at the game, B.J. Surhoff of the Orioles came up to bat. This mother that sat behind me commented, "Man, what kind of a name is B.J. Sure-Off? If I were him, I'd change my name." Everyone around us laughed, and subsequently, instead of chanting "Let's Go Blue Jays", we started chanting "We want BJs" "I want BJs" "You want BJs" "We love BJs"...absolutely hilarious. Problem is though, the mother's 5 year old kid started chanting "BJ! BJ! BJ!" We were all like, uhhh....obviously the kid doesn't know what he's saying....but the mother can't really say anything, cuz technically it's nothing dirty to just say BJ. But she painted herself into a damned-if-you-do, and damned-if-you-don't scenario.

Eric just came into my room and farted. Thank God he's leaving tomorrow, I've had it up to here with his nasty gases filling my room. Barbara, I have no idea how you can stand this guy. =)

On Tuesday, we went to 360 restaurant up on CN Tower, and I had the p.e.i. mussels, grilled atlantic salmon, and lemon blueberry cheesecake. Eric had the same except he got the three-way bruschetta instead of the mussels - and man, the meal was worth some $47, and it was worth every penny (especially since we didn't really have to pay, since it was included in the SARS package). The view was stunning, the food was perfect, and the service was 5-stars. My last memory of 360 was it was overpriced, underserviced, and overrated - a restaurant only for tourists. This visit completely changed my opinion of that. Funny, I ran into at least 6 people that I knew there, most of them were guys on dinner dates. I would've went to say hi, but I didn't want to intrude on their smooth moves. Man, this SARS deal is the ultimate macking tool. =)

Congrats to Tianne for graduating from high school! Thanks for the mailed invite to your commencement, but I can't make it for the obvious reason that I don't wanna fly to HK and die from SARS (which I'll prolly get it here and die anyway) and that by the time I got your invite, you already graduated. But I've got your grad gift waiting right here when you move here for university, little cousin =)

Song of the Moment: Turn Me On by Kevin Lyttle.

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Song of the Moment: Staind's So Far Away...which took me over an hour to find a working copy in Kazaa. Damn those fake copies. It's getting more and more frustrating to find a song. It's gotten to the point where I have to actually dowload the WMA version and manually convert it to MP3. Sigh....

I just witnessed a massive 7.5 hour concert, even though Eric and I missed the first two acts, Swollen Members (big deal) and Glenn Lewis (would've been nice to witness). We got there just in time for Sum41 (which surprisingly didn't hype the crowd up very well at first), followed by Remy Shand (which promptly drew boos from the crowd), Our Lady Peace (ABSOLUTELY AMAZING ACT...everybody stood on their feet mesmerized the entire time, singing along), Jann Arden (who got booed too...we just didn't like the ACC acts very much), Avril Lavigne (who started out tone deaf, but redeemed herself somewhat later on), Diana Krall (it was so hard to go from rock to jazz all of a sudden, but she was still her typical amazing self), Barenaked Ladies (who blew OFF THE ROOF, absolutely hilarious, completely kept the crowd entertained), Sarah McLachlan (the first ACC act that the SkyDome crowd actually cheered....though many started to boo when she went on for a whole hour since Sarah kept teasing us with "I'm gonna leave now...oh wait, I'll come back for another song"), and Tragically Hip (who, sadly, need to tragically retire).

All in all, it was the best concert I've ever been to, regardless of the terrible acoustics in SkyDome and the fact that even though the ACC acts were booed somewhat, I still enjoyed most of them...but really, the Tragically Hip need to tragically retire. Seriously. I know I said it in the previous paragraph but I need to say it again. They were absolutely terrible. They didn't play off the crowd at all, and sang songs nobody ever even heard of. For the last act, you would've expected them to get the entire crowd on their feet like Barenaked or OLP did. But nope. Even the diehard Hip fans, complete with Hip T-Shirts, were sitting down. Many got up and left before the act was even halfway through. That's how disappointing it was. When they finished, we were like, FINALLY! It's mercifully finished.....only to have them come back on stage for two more songs and drove a majority of the crowd to the exits.

And to think, I would've gotten a good 1.5 hours of studying done if I missed the bland last act. But Eric convinced me to stay, and I'm going to beat his ass in for wasting my time. But the highlights of the night...music-wise, Our Lady Peace, hands down. I had great respect for OLP before, and now Raine Maida's made me a big time fan. Entertainment-wise, Barenaked Ladies, no doubt about it. "Gimme a S! Gimme an A! Gimme a R! Gimme a S! What does it spell? QUARANTINE!"...and they promptly put on face masks. I couldn't stop laughing!

Anyway, now I have to focus on 328. My exam's on Monday and I'm SO screwed.

Song(s) of the Moment: I dunno...pick any one of the songs that OLP/Barenaked/Sarah McLachlan/Diana Krall performed today. But I'll take OLP's Somewhere Out There, Barenaked's One Week - "Chickity China, the Chinese Chicken.....Chickity China, the Chinese Chicken.....Chickity China, the Chinese Chicken.....", Sarah McLachlan's Sweet Surrender, and Diana Krall's Fly Me to the Moon.

And while I'm at it, congrats to Bonnie, Lyds, Frank, Kitty, Vicky, Grace, Jacqueline, Raissa, Catherine, Rich, Loretta, Chris, Dorothy! Sorry I couldn't make your convos, but may God continue to bless the journey through your lives.

I'm going to the SARS concert!! 11 kickass acts, and I've got FLOOR SEATS in SkyDome thanks to Eric!!

Song of the Moment: Pink's Feel Good Time.

By the way, I've finally put in new pictures and actually have a real gallery now. Check out Ibiza. Lately it seems like my gallery has fallen off everybody's radar because not only have I not updated it in ages, but there aren't any pictures period. Well, I'm back with a vengeance, and I'm here to retake my crown. I'll be putting it firmly on my head now, thank you very much. All hail King me.

Song of the Moment: These Dreams by Heart.

And the new name? JackFM?? Hello, anybody remember shades of the failed radio station Alice @ 92.9? The name's the same, the music's the same. It didn't work for them, and Mr. Ted Rogers, JackFM sure ain't gonna work for you.

I'll tell you why Kiss92 failed. Recently I started radio station surfing, looking for alternatives. Why? Because Kiss92 had become nothing more than a Flow93.5 clone. All urban music, all the time. In fact, while switching stations, Flow93.5 heartily welcomed Kiss92 listeners who had made the switch, as did Z103.5 (which vaguely follows the Top 40 format, except with a heavy dance/house aspect), whereas 104.5 CHUMFM said nothing. Kiss92 had completely deviated from its Top 40 format, and became 100% urban, even though it advertised itself as "Today's Hit Music". I remember when it first came out not too long ago, maybe 6-7 years now, it did used to play today's hit music - everything from Aerosmith's I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing and Santana and Rob Thomas's Smooth, to Backstreet Boys' Quit Playing Games with My Heart and 98 Degrees's Invisible Man, to New Edition's Can You Stand the Rain? and Dru Hill's How Deep is Your Love. The TRUE Top 40. A nice mix of Rock, Pop and Urban.

I started noticing they don't play any kind of rock, much less even pop anymore. Just urban. A lot of pop artists started moving to Urban too - like Justin Timberlake - so that sure didn't help. Sure, Avril Lavigne would get the token play here and there, but that was as close as you'd get to anything other than urban music.

Faithful Kiss92 listeners, did you even know that Third Eye Blind, of Semi-Charmed Life fame, came out with a new hit song, Blinded? Michelle Branch came out with Are You Happy Now?, and Matchbox 20 has Unwell topping the charts? No? I didn't think so.

For not truly playing today's hit music, Kiss92 has nobody to blame but themselves for their own demise.

Kiss92, you were our savior after the demise of AM640, and now you're gone. We now wait for your successor in hopes that they will truly follow the Top 40 format. RIP Tarzan Dan, Mad Dog and Billie the slut (that miraculously young girls looked up to), and the rest of the crew....we hardly knew ye.

Song of the Moment: Staind's Price to Play.
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So past couple of weeks it's been getting quite annoying for me to even entertain the idea of a birthday thing for anyone. I wanted to just spite everyone and never go to another birthday again. God then sends some smiles my way, as over-a-month-belated-as-it-is....and shows me that sometimes a birthday promise can still come through even when it's so late. What made it really nice was that 3 came all at once.

Jo got me probably the most useful yet sentimental gift ever.....hair gel. But not just any hair gel. Bloody expensive hair gel (the most expensive I've ever seen, let alone used) that I fell in love with in Hong Kong, and for the longest time wasn't available here in Toronto even tho it's by L'Oreal: Gel'O. If you haven't tried it, man, you really don't know what you're missing out on. It doesn't feel like I've got gel in my hair, and it washes out just like water. It just came out in Canada, and Jo grabs me enough to last me a few months. Then this morning, Hannah gives me my card that she wrote on my birthday but didn't get the chance to give to me earlier - and man, she wrote an essay of a card. Later on, Renee surprises me with treating me to a private sushi lunch, catching me pleasantly off guard which is really nice, because I don't get to spend as much time with her as I'd like to.

Times like these, really opens your eyes to who your friends are....

Anyway, I've got a midterm tomorrow. I'm pumped with 3 tall lattes today alone, so I'm completely wired and Henry's over helping me cram cuz I just realize that dang, this midterm potentially is worth 60%. Yikes.

Song of the Moment: Sympathy by Goo Goo Dolls.

Yes, on Monday, I did go to the Canadian Idol auditions. Why? Just for kicks. With Ricky, James, Gina, and Tony, we got there at 7:30am on Monday morning. The web site said as long as we got there before 8am, we were guaranteed to be heard. Yet as of 4am on Sunday Morning, 1000 people were there. Now, we were nicely lined up in a civil, peaceful lineup, near the end of the lineup as we shood be, when at 8:15 we look up and we see a stampede of people running all of a sudden. Now we're just trying to get our way back into what was some terrible resemblance of a line, and somehow we end up with people that had lined up since 6pm on Sunday. Fools. Why bother lining up so early when you're guaranteed to be heard if you come on Monday anyway? Though you could tell who wanted it most - in the front of the line were the 16-17 year old girls, squealing teenyboppers. As you move further back down the line, you get progressively older, and more guys, til you reach people our age.

Now, I'm absolutely under no illusion that I'm a Ruben nor a Clay; but maybe about 70-80% of the people there believed they were superstars yet there were COMPLETELY TONE DEAF. Seriously. And then there James was, freestyling terribly, and Ricky, croaking out Hero like a dying frog. Now those two can normally flat out sing. But the rest of the crowd sounded like James and Rick when they were joking around! So why is it that I don't like to talk about it so much in front of everyone? Simple. Because no, I will NOT sing you my song, and NO, I will not take any kind of crap from anyone about it. Jon says that if it were good, I'd have broadcasted it out for sure, so he says that automatically makes what happened bad. Two years ago, sure, I admit, that'd be true. Not anymore. Now I realize there are a lot of things I'd rather just keep under wraps; I just don't care for others to know every little detail of my life. So here's my official response to all those that ask: callbacks were Wednesday. That's about all I'll tell you.

Song of the Moment: When I Fall in Love by Nat King Cole...my audition song.