风化千年的誓言 一切又重演

the lyrics are a tad slower than the vocal @_@"
I fail at attempting to sing this, the geographic names are such tongue twisters in chinese.

爱在西元前－周杰倫

古巴比伦国王颁布了 汉摩拉比法典
刻在黑色的玄武岩 距今已经三千七百多年
你在橱窗前 凝视碑文的字眼
我却在旁静静欣赏你那张我深爱的脸

祭祀 神殿 征战弓箭 是谁的从前
喜欢在人潮中你只属于我的那画面
经过苏美女神身边 我以女神之名许愿
思念想底格里斯河般的蔓延

当古文明只剩下难解的语言
传说就成了永垂不朽的诗篇
我给你的爱写在西元前
深埋在美索布达米亚平原
几十个世纪后又出土发现
泥板上的字迹依然清晰可见

我给你的爱写在西元前
深埋在美索布达米亚平原
用楔形文字刻下了永远
那一风化千年的誓言 一切又重演

祭祀 神殿 征战 弓箭 是谁的从前
喜欢在人潮中你只属于我的那画面
经过苏美女神身边 我以女神之名许愿
思念想底格里斯河般的蔓延

当古文明只剩下难解的语言
传说就成了永垂不朽的诗篇
我给你的爱写在西元前
深埋在美索布达米亚平原
几十个世纪后又出土发现
泥板上的字迹依然清晰可见

用楔形文字刻下了永远
那一风化千年的誓言一切
我感到很疲倦离家乡还是很远
害怕再也不能回到你身边

爱在西元前
爱在西元前

going once...twice...

Auction at JA was so jokes. Jennifer was so intense and at the end refused to pay 20cents xD. Got myself some nice boxes (planning to use for christmas), twine, ikea cup and some free chocolate and popcorn.

While waiting for Janice's dad to come, I climbed up the short stone fencing outside. Advantages of being short #2 (ha janice!). #1 was that flying balls would hit taller people first. It would be nice if the stone fence was by the sea and I had some sea salt ice cream, mm *u*

caught a cold ;_;

woe is me

blahhhh @ science test.
think I did really badly on it.

Shouldn't have attempted to nap during lunch. Should have studied more yesterday night. Lots of things I should have done, but didn't. So that' that. Oh, should be using this as motivation to study history, but I just feel very blah xD

Instead of wasting the time before dinner away, I decided to make some goals for the summer break:
1. Read my whole list of books on investing. Including but not limited to: The Elements of Investing, The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing, One up on wall street, and Real Money. Suggestions are welcome.
2. Finish my other normal book list that I didn't get to during March Break. So far: Omnivore's Dilemma, This Side of Paradise (1/4 left! *u*), Stones to School (sequel of Three Cups of Tea). Gonna be adding some literary classics on there to keep mommy happy.
3. Start to work on Shad application. I WILL get into that.
4. Study the physics 11 textbook that JANICE will bring TOMORROW. (yeah you better!)

goal making motivates me o_o"

brunch: udon with additional spices

Noodles is officially the default for brunch every time I forget to plan ahead, which is pretty often.


Udon with napa, poached egg in a cinnamon, bay leaf, star anise infused chicken broth topped with sauted king oyster mushrooms.

If I take away the green onions and the spices on the side, the bowl would be monochromatic.

and as dessert:

Yogurt mixed with maple syrup and brown sugar. Would have been perfect if I had some crushed walnuts to go with it. They should totally sell this flavour, taste even better than maple syrup ice cream *u*

shopping ban: broken

After a good 3 month, I gave into the temptation e_e"
rather, I needed some things for the Impact party next saturday.

(gonna list them cause I put them away before taking a picture)
-MUFE full coverage concealer in #2 porcelain
-F21 pale pink sheer vest
-H&M high waisted black pencil skirt
-Le Chateau dark navy satin peep toed pumps with knot detail (as you can see, I'm trying my best describing the things)
-Clinique toner&cleanser goooooo bonus event *u*

I think I look a little awkward in the outfit for the party, I want to tuck in my shirt, but my mom keep saying it looks really bad. Hmmmmm @_@"

1/4

3 tests left to tackle, one tomorrow morning.
2 active assignments, 1 kinda sitting there, more on the way I'm sure <_<"
other stuff...JA's wrapping up, impact microcredit competition, coop stuff, lit test, volunteer stuff, people's birthday stuff, and misc stuff.

did you know that the Toronto Public Libraries are going to lend out video games?

and somewhere in between there I gotta fit in more sleep. So grumpy these days e_e"

(Y)

lotsa work to do.
go me gooooo.

bounciness!

First day back, much less sleepy and much more productive than I expected.

Less sleepy cause tech teacher was really nice and gave us the last 10ish minutes of class to sleep. Laurie and Nick taped stuff onto me while I slept, meanies!
More productive cause Rui came over afterschool to work on our science summatives. Shoutout to Janice: arguuuuuue and be more assertive. Rui was really picky about finding the scientific word for BOUNCE (looks at Gil for an answer). We worked hard and finished the whole thing *highfive*


Holland chocolates courtesy of Jacky and Rui.
(woah, lots of name mentioned in such a short post xD)

So now I relax for a bit before slaving over note making for business.
While I relaxed, I found these purely awesome book cutouts.





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March Break Warp Up

I admit, I didn't do much.

Below is by far my biggest accomplishment:

Oathkeeper! *u*
I had to do something KH related, it just didn't feel right finishing the game without fully completing it. I'm weird, I know. (I was gonna do oblivion as well, but that alone took my the entire week plus interruptions)
Traced the outline from the official image and coloured the rest painfully pixel by pixel. Very very painfully. So much blending involved e_e" The wings were the hardest, yellow to pale blue is actually a lot harder than yellow to purple. Oh well, it's done, looks great, I'm happy :]

Next would be...the mediocre notes that I made for science and SAP.
Science I'm not too worried about, know the methods, just need to know some names and formulas. Sap..oh ho ho, I don't remember a thing. The videos we watched in class covered a lot of stuff, hope my notes on them were relevant.

Had fun with friends in the lovely weather that is now gone. give me my summer baaaaaaack. Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to Summer Wars, I'll watch the whole thing in 1 go once it's complete.

Things to get ready for:
-Tests, bunch of them.
-Impact Microcredit Comp, think of good idea&assemble awesome team.
-Science summative, I refuse to let this one end up like last year's. Will do well.
-Looking for a summer/part time job and long term volunteering place.
Motivation better kick in soon.

brunch: kroket (potato pancake)

Would kroket be pronounced the same as qorquet? o_o


Korket with walnut and peanut puree congee.


Close up of the korket. It has a ground pork and onion filling.

Recipe based on nibbledish.com

Let's say that this dish is still at it's experimental stage.
I was lazy and decided to eyeball everything, resulting in the potato mixture being too soft. Had a really hard time molding and flipping it. As with pancakes, I failed at flipping and the one in the photo (out of 5) was the only that retained it's shape.
Taste wise, too salty on it's own, but perfect when eaten in the same bite with some congee *u*

...crap I forgot to put in the cilantro! I actually realized this just as I am typing the post up.

March break wrap-up coming later today, go double posting!

maybe on earth, maybe in the future

^ the above is the alternate title for Blame! If anyone read it, please explain the ending to me @_@" I don't get what happened. Killy fell into the water and the embryo...activated?

Onto actual post:

I finished Kingdom Hearts II (a while ago) ;D
Stupid game glitched, so I didn't bother leveling up my forms and just went straight into the final battle. The 3rd final battle (one with the big ship and really high jumps) is so annoying -o- The ending movie is really long and nicely animated, accompanied by a good song (same as opening) too :]

Pretty pictures from KH's art book

I have that in wallpaper format, so pretty *u*

it's the wind's fault!

and the overly bumpy ground.
Nice weather = nice mood. Yesterday felt like summer break, good times haha.

Now it's back on the couch. Finished Black Blood Brothers today, pretty good series.


Shinkirou-Loveholic. The quality isn't very good, best youtube has to offer.

Originally started watching it cause I really like the ED song (and sequence), saddddd. Plot wise it's good, not the most original story, but interesting enough. Huge array of characters, Jirou's costume looked ridiculous at first, but it grew on me. +1 for no hate-able characters.
My rant (spoilers): I really wish Alice gets resurrected at the end, I don't feel Mimiko can compare to her. Never would have guessed that she was the sage from the flashbacks in the first few episodes. Cassa's motives behind killing Alice isn't explained either, would have liked to see more development on her part. Another thing that confuses me is that if Alice is the great sage, why does she need a bodyguard, she should be pretty darn strong.

Highly doubt it's gonna happen, but an OVA follow-up would be so nice.

e_e"

ending of Record of Fallen Vampire makes me want to crawl back to bed and cry.
T__T"


onto actual post:
I'm becoming an Epik High fan

One


and Loveholic-One Love

brunch: more udon

belated post


Udon with napa, tomatoes, and medium over egg :]

I accidentally grinded some szechuan pepper instead of black pepper, tasted pretty good. Otherwise, same old, same old. I think I'm capable of living only on noodles *u*

things

Marrrrrch Breaaaak <3 oh how I do not miss school.

Went over to OD's house with everyone on sunday, lotsa video gaming. I played COD for the first time, damn I can't aim <_<" Tony's such a jerk in video games, I never know how he gets behind me suddenly and knife me. Janice has too much excitement when playing games, funny funny. Then Helen and I proceeded to watch wake-up pranks on youtube, think we laughed too much, the cod playing people looked at us funny xD

After Grace came, we went to grab dinner at Michi. It's a Japanese restaurant near yonge&sheppard. It has really nice decor and plates, reeeeally nice plates. I ordered curry katsu don, t'was pretty good; the meat was breaded nicely.

Sleepover is a very deceiving word, not much sleep occurs. Randomly gossiped, ate, and watched tv from 8 till 4. We ate...alot o_o hungry people are scary. Janice is pro at flipping pancakes, something I can never do haha.I don't think that Donna and I are very comforting people. Janice's floor is really hard, which I usually like. Usually, because I can't fall asleep unless I turn on my side, but if I do, my hip bone and rib cage pokes against the floor, ouch. Maybe that's how I ended up staying wake till 4. My sentences aren't flowing again, more sleep is needed.

Got haircut

I can't wait until my skin clears up e_e"

-o-

Grr.
something's wrong.

Starry hill won't show up -o-
I'm finished all the 5 houses, in fact, I REDID them, some more than once.
but noooo, it's still a blank.

there goes my hope of beating sephiroth.

march break plans

I feel that this March break will be much less productive than the last.

It will consist of: sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, movie, sleepover, sleepover, study, study, study, study, study, stare blankly outside window, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, read, read, read, read.
The number of repetition corresponds to the frequency of the activity.

Oh, coke business.
That went pretty well, gonna try to sell the last case tmrw. Shouldn't be hard since there's rugby practice. According to Rui's frantic calculations during lunch today, I should have made a little over $20 over the course of these 3 weeks, which is a 1000% return on investment. Not bad, not bad. Interesting experience it was.

JA's gonna end soon. Must sell gift basket and gum e_e"

wanted:

along with a ps3 of course.

Three Cups of Tea

inspirational book.
It was recommended to me by my civics teacher (she's cool), definitely an empowering if not good read. It's Greg Mortenson's life story and how Central Asia Institute came to be.

What we're trying to do might just be a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of the missing drop

Greg's paraphrasing of a famous Mother Teresa quotation.

What amazed me the most was not how successful he became (that itself is amazing), but how he persisted throughout the numerous obstacles and hardships. My fatal flaw is that I don't follow through on my goals, so reading this book was a "gosh weijie, your tasks are nothing compared to this, stop contemplating and just go do it!"

so I will try to follow my own advice.
...good book, go read it!

brunch: good ol' pasta

Penne with what I call as my blend of stuff for sauce.

"my blend of stuff" is actually really good. Tasty, filling, super easy, and probably cheap enough for me to make when I move out one day. Yes I like planning ahead, actions are overrated, go thoughts! (don't listen to that).

Basically it's: chopped up onions, ground beef, roughly chopped up tomatoes, and whatever spice and sauce you like, personally: oregano, basil, and ragu. First you brown the meat, then add in the onions, saute until the onions are whatever colour you like (me likely just turning translucent), add in the spice, tomatoes and sauce and cook until the pasta is done cooking.

today's dessert:

Milk served granita style. Forgot to drizzle with honey before taking the pic.

I'm pretty sure granita isn't the right terminology, but it's close enough in texture and consistency. Made it with the same method too, sans sugar. I would love to have this for breakfast in the summer *u*

Panda hat

hahahaa..haha.a....hhahahahaha
I suddenly remembered all my adventures in rf last night, which resulted in me laughing myself to sleep. Good times hahahahaa.



Let's seeeee: ghc days were fun, stupid people that lured the dl to the center, made me waste so many gems. Then it was av, fun watching people pk in the caves. Followed by...lou, which was basically a repeat of av. Then I trained in niff and rachel or way too long, probably cause I refuse to use honeys. I remember how insanely happy I was when I finally had enough to buy that rudra...

Somewhere in between I joined sps, love that guild :] Awesome people in there *wink* Guild wars was so hectic, I was pretty useless XD Lots of thanks for getting me all the way to 99 and back up to the 80s. One specific event that I remember was the kieh quest, we tried sooooo many times. Darn the mobs right before the boss, always died there. Tried at least 20 or so times before the entire party was done.

I've finally achieved my goal of having a real life panda hat >D

错过惊世的依恋

Oh how I wish my life was an adventure of epic proportions.
On second thought, nah. Normal's good enough for me :] been reading too much ares.

v really good drama. I've said this before, but damn what a sad ending. They completely changed the later part from the game, game = happy, everyone lives, drama = everyone but 2 (different couples) dies, some very grueling death. You can skip the first 30 secs or so, just some intro. Video includes clips from the actual show, the main character looks intensely cool in his previous life armour.
bonus points: 飛魚, one of the singers, comes from the same place as me ;D



此生不換-青鳥飛魚

时光穿不断 流转在从前
刻骨的变迁 不是遥远
再有一万年 深情也不变
爱像烈火般蔓延

记忆是条长线 盘旋在天边
沉浮中以为情深缘浅
你再度出现 我看见誓言
承诺在水天之间

回头看不曾走远 依然目光此生不换
要分散不习惯 怎么算都太难
分开之后更勇敢 愿这爱世代相传

唱不完忘情泉 不让你如烟
前尘再怀恋 望剑如面
挥舞的瞬间 别再闭上眼
错过惊世的依恋

回头看不曾走远 眷恋一人流连忘返
多少汗够温暖 你哭喊我呼唤
听清耳边的呢喃 别害怕风轻云淡

回头看不曾走远 依然目光此生不换
要分散不习惯 怎么算都太难
分开之后更勇敢 愿这爱世代相传

To meet each other in our present lives, we must have had at least 3000 encounters in our previous lives

forgot where that came from. seems fitting.

coming/going

So my dad leaves again.
It's just a regular routine, somehow this time feels wee bit sad. I think I know why: somewhere deep down in my mind, I'm scared that he might not come back, and this time I have basis for my fear.

but some much greater news: ARES V22 IS OUT <3 *happy happy happy*
I am completely crushing over Icarus. he is perfection *u*

resolution revists

Since Canada has achieved it's goal of winning gold in men's hockey, I should check on how mine are going.

....it's not going hahaha.
Olympics pretty much screwed my sleeping. Most events that I watched started at around 9 and lasted till 11/12. So much for sleeping BEFORE 11 eh? Funny speeches at the closing ceremony though (FLYING MOOOOOOSE <3).

So obviously long term goals, at least regarding sleep, aren't my thing. Time to try some short term ones:
1. Shopping ban till march break! grrr. This will be tough, very very tough. Haven't bought anything major (except for a carbtree&evelyn lip balm) since January, going well.
2. Read more booooooks. I have a whole list of things to read.

may my lovely fortune tree bring good luck

my webcam skills are inferior to kenn's D: