finally...

... i'm sitting down to blog.

I know blogging should be a joy but I have to admit I've been going through a sort of writer's block / laziness . I blame it on blogspot's unfriendliness towards picture uploading as well as my lack of a camera.

Excuses aside, I blame it on my plain boring life. I feel like I'm always writing about the same things - school, goals, what i did... is this what a blog is supposed to be? my life, I realized, isn't that exciting and quite the average... how depressing.

I think most of all though, I've been finding a joy in people rather than myself and the internet. I'm finding a 5minute msn conversation can bring me more to life than a couple hours of big bang theory or a couple of movies.

A friend told me this past weekend "you've come a long way since the beginning of the year".. and it's true. My lack of faith in people hasn't disappeared but it's getting there. I'm starting to love people more and forgive people even more. I no longer get angry at people but more frustrated with their problems.

Oh man... PD (Professional Development course) is actually useful. I'm taking conflict resolution and the "motto" is "focus on the problem and not the person"... so true

I was looking through my iphone photos which have been accumulating since Christmas. I realized a couple things:
1. I'm such a camwhore
2. I take a lot of photos of sunsets
3. I take some random photos
4. I definitely need an actual camera...

Sleep

Even if i was going to wake up, if I'm woken by an alarm, it always feels like I didn't sleep well


end.

ottawa...

is gorgeous!

Not only is the european feel very addicting, but the lifestyle and the amount of things to do is amazing. I love how I can go 15 minutes from my house to the Byward Market, chill on the patio of the hundreds of restaurants. Or if it's too hot, I can sit inside with the A/C next to a gigantic opening in the wall so it's LIKE i'm sitting outside. Definitely not environmentally friendly but definitely audrey-friendly.

I love how there's so many flavours of gelato that my friends and I have decided to try them all before we leave. I love how people are so active here that it makes me want to be active as well. I love how our parliament hill is on a cliff and I never knew that but when I saw it, it was one of the most gorgeous sights I've ever seen. I love how I can hear random french everywhere I go or how the asian food sucks so I'm forced to try new white food.

Going to a Ottawa garage sale for charity tomorrow. Hoping to pick up some furniture(?) or at least some useful things to use in our Waterloo home.

i heart law and order

Being at home having nothing to do is a great time to watch series that are old yet you never got to watch. Take law and order for example... according to tv shack, there's 417 episodes in law an order... that's not including law and order: _______ fill in the blank.

I don't know what it is... the acting sucks, the fashion is so old school
but i love the stories!

and not to metnion this man
ben stone.


i don't think he's particularly good looking... he's kind old... but i think i need to marry a superhero or something or someone who fights for justice like this guy... its just so.... 멋있어!! hehehehe


ANYWAYS

Went to pastor will and pastor joe's convocation today.
con hall is gorgeous and has so much character! For some reason.. i can only imagine myself at convocation in the pac for some reason...
but two years... and we'll be graduating.. for now, i'll enjoy congratulating those who are facing "the future" now and enjoy my time in school!!

the short athlete life

My cousin just competed in the Ontario winter olympics for figure skating. She got a gold medal. And now she is ranked 10th in Canada, number 1 in ontario. Good for her! Mind you, she's still pre-novice, which is a long way to go, but she loves it and honestly, she has a talent for it.

We got onto the topic of Kim Yuna.
She did her first triple axle at age 11.
Some girls never get enough power to do a triple in their lifetimes.
Its' the equivalent of a guy doing a quad.
Mind you I don't think she does it in competition but still... 11!

For those who have been clearly out of the loop, Kim Yuna killed her own world record for scores at the Van2010 olympics, winning the gold medal hands down.

People say she should retire.

Why? Because she's top. It's undeniable that she's the best out there and people say that's good enough. She has enough money to support herself for the rest of her life and she could probably do easy gigs here and there.

But really? She's so young. She's 1990.. i'm 1989.. Freak man. If my career was over at 20, I don't know what i'd do with myself. Wouldn't I want to keep challenging myself? Go for a gold again! Or keep beating my old record. Try a quad. Add triples in competition... Would I be that scared of defeat that I would retire when i was at top?