So I was definitely not complaining too much when I discovered I had to walk home from massage therapy during the blackout. Took me 3.5 hours, walking from campus to Davisville before finally catching a bus, but at least I got home. Got to take care of some odds & ends like tidying up my room and laying out the speaker cables so my room would be perfect when the lights came back on. At night, I got a nice little reminder of why I used to go camping when I was younger - without light pollution, you could see every single star. The night sky was absolutely breathtaking - I just sat there watching the sky for a couple of hours. Got my power back Friday at noon, so I was pretty lucky.

Then came the storm. My relatives, their flight stranded in New York, arrived late Friday, and all hell broke loose with 4 screaming kids running amok in my house. It was nice seeing them again, but I can't believe I had to relinquish my brand-spanking new room to Tianne and Christine while Jon and I sleep in the family room! And not to mention, after finally having my room picture perfect, it was destroyed into a wretched mess within no more than 3 hours. Sigh...

Saturday night was weeeeird. I got the chance to see Mofo Jon Ho for the first time since HK last summer - we just missed each other last time I was in Montreal. Anyway, I get to Congee Wong, and the first person I see is Barbara! I'm like, what the heck...woman, you're not allowed on my turf without Eric. Heh heh. It was so weird though, cuz then we discovered that everyone at our table except for one person was somehow interlinked - but nobody knew until I got there. So here's how it worked:
-Barbara is Eric's girlfriend.
-Jon is Eric's classmate at McGill.
-I'm Eric's cousin.
-Jo and I hang out together all the time.
-Adrian is Jo's godbrother.
-Adrian is Eric's new roommate for the next year. (and they don't know each other!)
...so weird. Anyway, the one girl that wasn't involved in everything, when she introduced herself to me I thought she said her name was Pita. I wanted to ask her something, but I wasn't sure about her name, so I went to Barb and said, "psst, your friend, is her name Pita?" "No, Pikka." "Pika? As in Pikachu?" "Uh, yeaaah, something like that...." Hahaha. I felt so bad after...

Sunday morning, finally checked out Oasis since I promised Carolyn and Jimmy for so many weeks now. I figured I might as well since it was pretty much my last chance to go for a while, and I've been meaning to check out other churches in case Tianne doesn't like TCBC. It was pretty nice, reminded me a lot of NPAC back in HK - not very big, in a rented place, and the pastor wasn't conventional. Pretty cool.

Dinner I took Jon and Ti with me to Korean BBQ to meet up with Mofo and Jo to eat. Hadn't had such greasy food in a while - it reminded me why I loved all you can eat KBBQ all the time before =) Jon was sporting his new mohawk and I was sporting my new bald head - and man, I can't believe how much he's grown. He's an inch shorter than me and he's only 13. If he grows anymore I'm gonna chop his legs off to keep him short. There's no way I'm gonna be the shortest guy in my generation. Grrrr.

Anyway, long post, and it's now 2am...only 5 more hours before I leave for my surgery. It's really hitting home hard now that I realize it's only a few hours away, and I'm definitely not looking forward to the long road of rehab ahead.

But even with all the accolades on my room, I gotta say I couldn't have done it without my army of help. James, Tina, Hanna, Kitty, Lyds, Mike, Alison and Carlo all helped me immensely. Without them I'd prolly still be sorting out my garbage right now! I'm ecstatic with my room right now. It's everything I imagined it to be and more. =)

Now with my room blog part out of the way...onto the rest of my blogworthy notes. It's almost 4am so I'm just gonna rush thru it.

- Tina left for Japan last Saturday for an entire year! Sniff sniff...miss ya already sis...have fun!
- I have too many things from Ikea now, it's gonna be hell returning some of them. I ended up with two desks, the Galant and the Effectiv. The Effectiv is the discontinued model, and the Galant is the new, expensive version but has exactly the same amount of desk area as the Effectiv. AND I "shoplifted" from Ikea, which was really interesting - the sales guy who actually gave me customer service got me the LAST Silver Effectiv desk, but it was short a couple of recessed legs. He reaches into a cabinet and grabs me a couple of legs and says, "take it with my compliments...put it in your bag or something so you don't have to pay for it...." Adrian & I looked at each other, we're like, oooookay...shrugged my shoulders, and put it in. Man I love Ikea. I've lived and breathed Ikea for the past 2 weeks.
- Speaking of customer service, Home Depot is terrible. I hate Home Depot guys. They're cocky, arrogant, and too busy scoping out big-busted women than to help me with my question. Not to mention there aren't enough sales guys for me to ask questions to.
- Back to Ikea, I went there every single day for 9 days straight, and only one day left empty-handed. Now I've gotta return the Galant desk (since I have the Effectiv now), a couple of drawers (since my grandpa can't use them anymore), and a chair (since I found a better one).
- Last check of what's new in my room: new desk, new chair, new bed, new drawers, new filing cabinet...all from Ikea.
- Had quite the experience trying to dismantle my old desk. James and I spent hours on it and ended up breaking it instead as we tried to get it from my room to the garage. Now we still gotta find someone who has a big enough van to take the desk downtown so Jean can use it.
- Congrats to Nancy & Simeon on your wedding!
- Went to Baun's place for Tina & Jon's farewell party the Friday before...pretty nice to see all the SCBC crowd again.

Well now that my major project is relatively finished, I can once again be not-so-anti-social...for the next 5 days before my ACL surgery. Kinda worried about it, but knowing that I've got an army of friends praying for me and supporting me is quite a relief =)

I'm gonna slowly re-integrate myself into society again now...man, it feels like I'm so out of touch with the world. Hey, anyone who's on Friendster who's my friend, add me! Just look me up by my name...last check there were only two of me, and it's not hard to recognize me when u can see my pic =)

Song of the Moment: Someday by Nickelback.