[ live a life of ease ]

So, went to Toronto for the Tim Burton exhibit thing. It was ok! Had a bunch of sketches and writing, and some sculptures and costumes from the movies. There wasn't really anything I hadn't known about before though, so that was a bit meh.

Then, went to China Town and bought a bunch of ( manga! )

All in all, pretty good day!

So, I've been reading Ultimo online and man, I totally looooooooove it~! The actual manga chapters are so so much better than that pilot chapter thing, it's just awesome. Reading it, it reminds me a bit of Butsu Zone, and that makes me really happy. :3

And~! Going to China Town tomorrow with Shyne-san~! Gonna go to the usual stores and these other malls in Markham that we found out about, Pacific Mall, and probably the Splendid China Mall. Yay~!

Guess who's working now? XDDDDD

Yeah, got the job. I'm going to get a call again tonight to set up an orientation thing with the night crew manager so... yay. Tyler said I could possibly start work tomorrow night, which isn't too bad, but I thought he (maybe Brian) said it was usually thursday/friday/sunday. Oh well, whatever. Work is work.

I just hope it doesn't mess up wednesday. D:

EDIT, 7:28pm // So, I'm working tomorrow & wednesday night from 12-5am. Not too shabby. Doesn't cut into China Town at all, so yay! Also have to go in tomorrow at 2pm for orientation.

Just got back from house-sitting, yay!

Went to China Town with shyne_san on thursday, was lots of fun! :D Bought lots of good stuff:

( yay anime )

Also, it's Ukrainian Christmas! Yay! :D It was at Aunt Barb's this year, and everyone was up. It was nice. Kutia! :D

Holy monkey! it's about time I updated!

Weekend was awesome~! Here's what happened!

Was picked up from my house on saturday morning (8:30am) by Jackie, her parents, and Whitney (RIGHT?!), and drive down to the Yorkdale mall in Toronto. Took the subway to the Spadina station by Bloor, walked from the station to China town, bought a whole bunch of AWESOME stuff~ ( the list )

Had lunch at Kom Jug Yuen, same place as always, so gooooood~ :3 There was also some sort of Anti-Communism protest thing going on, since people in China were being persecuted for practising Falun Dafa, so I got a bunch of pamphlets from people about it, and a dvd of the 2007 Chinese New Year spectactular! I haven't watched it yet, but man! Cool! There was also a guy on the street playing an Erhu (SQUEE!), but he wasn't that good at it. I gave him some money anyway. I SUPPORT MY FELLOW ARTISTS!

It was raining while we were walking back to the station by Bloor, so we got kinda soaked, but oh well. Good times! Took the subway back, and I gave a bunch of money to a guy playing guitar in the walkway thing of the station at Yorkdale. I'M SO FREAKIN GENEROUS. He was good though. And he was like, "Thank you so much!" D'awwwwwwww! :D We got back to Barrie, and kinda sat around reading our manga, then we had dinner (it was crepe things... right?), then went and watched Millenium Actress. Yay Satoshi Kon! It was pretty good, though also slightly confusing. Read some more manga, talked a bit, watched Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, talked some more, read some more, then went to sleep. Watched a bit of Shaman King in the morning (episode 9 and a bit of 10), then left for Toronto again.

Wonderland! :D Jackie's brother Kevin came with us, and we got there pretty early, around 9 or 10am I think... and went on some rides, the Italian Job rollercoaster, and Whitney and Kevin went on the Minebbuster as well. We sat out of that one. XD Made out way over to the water rides and waited for those to open. When they did... man! We were SO there. Possibly the greatest rides there (White Water Canyon and Timberwolf Falls). We got SO SOAKED. My jeans were so freaking heavy from the water but who cares! Fun! :D Jackie and I did the Star Trek 'live long and prosper' signal to the one guy in the tower who controls the first geyser (since we were pretty sure it was the same guy from the last time we were there.), and he was like, '...I'll try.' He's a good guy! We kept yelling stuff at him. XD Fun fun! Went on that about three times, though they didn't let us just stay on the raft thing like last time. Oh well!

Walked around and went on a bunch more rides like Thunder Run, the Wild Beast, Spinning Cups, and... um.. what else? Haha! Brain is starting to fail me. Kevin got lost for a while so the three of us hung out and played some games, I ended up wining nothing. Haa~ We found him later, he went on The Bat, but the line for it was so long he ended up waiting that whole time that we were looking for him. XD Later on we went to a show that they were going, "Swining to the 60's"! It was pretty good, but most of the songs were fron the EARLY sixties, so it was really fifty-ish music. Oh well! Kevin skipped out on it to go on some rides, but joined us later since it has started POURING! We waited in the tent where the show was for a while until it died down, then we left and went to have lunch at Subway, since everything in the park is so expensive. Played some more games, bought a bunch of candy, Kevin and Whitney went on some rides that Jackie and I didn't... walked around for a while, then went back to Barrie. :3

Ate some pizza and ice cream sandwiches, then went and read some more manga! XD Watched The Producers later on, then Whitney went to sleep, but Jackie and I stayed up and made plans! Plans for super revival and perfection of our Shaman King OC's! Yay! Also working on creating (read: re-creating) a character for our team. Whee! Talked about that for... a couple hours, actually, then went online for a little bit. Good stuff! Went to sleep a bit after that, then got driven back to my house in the morning (around 9), by Jackie's mom. Then I went to sleep! :D

NOW! Today I went to a funeral, since Mike Rekis' mom died a couple days ago. Boo. Went to Toronto to the church on Jane St., then went to the cemetary. I don't remember/know the name of it, but it's the same one that Dedo is buried at. After the burial we (my family) went to Dedo's grave for a bit. The moths were crazy, so mom and I walked around for a bit looking at the other graves. There was a really nice one with a lotus on it. I think I'd want my grave to have something pretty like that on it. :3 There was a HUGE Chinese one, and it was like, for an entire village in Guangdong! It only had two people's names on it though, but their birthdates were in the late 1800's! Awesome! The woman (wife, I'm assuming) lived a long time too! And she looked pretty good (there were pictures of the two on the grave)! We walked around a bit more and saw a grave with red writing on it, so we went and checked it out, and majorly creepy! It was another Chinese one, and it had the man's side filled out, but the woman's side (her name and some other stuff written in Chinese), which had the red writing, her name was Winnie! That happens to be the name of Mike Rekis' wife, who is Chinese, so mom and I were kinda weirded out by that. Left the cemetary and drove to the Latvian Center, where the... whatever-its-called was bring held, and ate there. The food was really good, but the pieces of beef I got were really fatty. Ew. Hung out a bit there, and it started raining super hard again, so we waited a bit before we left. Now I'm home! I mean, I didn't just get home, but... yeah.

So that's pretty much it! You're all caught up now, yay! This was a pretty long entry! Wow! :O

Oh yeah! I got some stuff from OSAP in the mail, so tomorrow I'm going up to Georgian to hand it in or whatever. Also probably getting my picture taken for my student card, then going to the bank to change my account type. I'M SO FREAKIN BUSY!

Someone buy this for me plzthx?

ARG. SO FUCKING CUTE. Fwee~ adorable. Mom promsied that she'd take me to China Town this summer when I get back from Europe, and I am SO going to buy that if I see it. I need new manga. Now. Mankin manga. I think the series is finally over, and I want to see how it ends, although I've heard bad things about it. It's eating away at my soul! I want to know!! ;_;

My room is seriously temperature challenged. It is boiling in here, but everywhere else in the house is really cold. WTF. Anyway, I finished watching Minami-kun no Koibito today and.... I am so confused. I'm gonna watch the last bit again. x_x

Uekiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. *_* So CUTE. He can turn garbage into trees. And he's a candidate to become god. How awesome is that!? I downloaded the second episode, but I haven't watched it yet. I love this series... so adorable. FWEE!

Went to Toronto to fill out papers for my visa to get into the Ukraine, and wow. This is just so cool. Oma is living next to a grow house. A FUCKING GROW HOUSE. Some new people moved in a couple weeks ago (maybe more), and they are growing marijuana in there. *dies* There were cops in front of the house and everything. Best day ever. :3 It was kinda creepy though, because if you looked out the window you could see the cops there. It felt like I was under house arrest or something. x_x But hot damn. A grow house. Wow.

[I went on gaia and updated that journal (WTF?! Come on April, stop posting over there! What is that, your sixth entry? Jesus christ. *slap*) and omg. New clothes. I want that Scot hat. So cute. Much love.]

I keep reading all these MantaxYoh fanfics (Manta seme! hehe) Fwee~! They're so cute~ *dies from the cuteness* Ah, I love all you Mankin authors, squee! I wish I could write a good story... *sigh* I'm so untalented in that area, blah. Hee. So many good angst/drama fics too, yay! ...what a strange combination, angst/drama and romance... I'm so odd. >__>

Nyaa~, I need to go to the library. I'm in desperate need of a Japanese-English dictionary for translating songs, and various parts of my Mankin manga, yay! I would be lazy and get them online... but the volumes I need are like, #17 and up, and none of the websites I've been to have translations for volumes that high (and I have been to a LOT of websites). *sigh*

But, in my search, I found a website that has episode scripts! *explodes* So now, even though I don't have my tape (curse you Mike! *shoots*) I can still have Mankin! Whee~ I love the internet.

Arg! I'm so poor! *cries* I only have like, $50... and there's no way I'm gonna have $200 by the end of August. Arg! I probably won't be able to visit shyne_san in Manitoba for like, a year or something. ;__; Hopefully I'll be able to visit her sooner though... crap! I have to draw pics for her still! Sweet angry Jesus, I'm so lazy. x__x I should seriously get started on that.

Arg! *shoots Kazaa* Stupid Kazaa. It doesn't have any downloads for the Japanese version of South Park.

...

WHAT?! I just want to download it because supposedly, Paku Romi does the voice of Tweek in the Japanese version. *dies* I love Paku Romi... and Tweek is my fave South Park character... well, besides Stan. Hee. GOD, I wanna see an ep so bad... just to see if she does do Tweek's voice.

Ooh! I finally got the pictures from San Francisco developed. (Took long enough!) Hm. Turns out my Aunt took a picture of me while I was sleeping on the plane. OMFG *dies* At least my hair was covering my face. I would post some on here but... my aunt likes to just come out of nowhere and take pictures of me, so in half of them I look really shocked/surprised and stupid. -__- So... no. No pictures. Not of me anyway. Maybe some landscapes or whatever.

Arg... my fingers hurt from typing so much. Haha! That just reminded me of that episode of Invader Zim, "Nanozim" When Dib said "Arms... like... noodles!" With his arms flapping around. XD Jhonen Vasquez is a genius.

Later days~