1000th summer

thank god for wireless communications.
seriously.

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A phone call woke me up this morning, at around 6:30ish. Since my mom was already up, I let her pick it up and listened to the conversation. Turned out it was my dad, who delivered some shocking news.

There's been an earthquake (7.8 magnitude, aka HUGE) around 90kms NW of where my hometown, ChengDu, is. (I would provide a map, however google failed to find any quality ones)

Thank god that neither he nor my grandpa is hurt. I swear I can imagine the police calling and saying that they're in the hospital...or somewhere else which I'd rather not think...

The earthquake was one of the biggest in China's history, it could been felt in Beijing and Shanghai, which is like...half way across the country. He said that the quake made our TV fall and the water in the toilet to spill out. Heard that there's over 8000 deaths so far, only 20 in where I lived. phewww. In the small town between where the quake started and my hometown, a school building collapsed and buried hundreds underneath @_@ Compared to those people, a TV's a really small price to pay. Also is another town that's in midway, a chemical factory exploded and spilled toxic chemicals all over the town. To reduce the risks of a gas explosion n stuff, the government cut off all gas, electricity AND water, he said that some people even pitched tents to sleep outside in...

I'm pretty darn glad that cellphone signals can't be cut off that easily.

dusk&dawn

2 more weeks of hell and hopefully I'll be through most of the work for this school year!
*cheers*

seriously, spending 6 hours on a french project is NOT fun. especially after other classes and a very tiring shopping trip. Let's see, it's roughly like this

shopping for supplies: 30mins (friday night, the dollar store just didn't have the paper that I wanted!)

art class: 1.5 hours
shopping: 3 hours (surprising how much energy that can drain from you, and I just HAVE to buy new shoes.)
art class homework: 2.5 hours (page of faces...much harder than the hands)
project: 3 hours. (after dinner when I'm the most sleepy/blah mood)

next day

class: 3 hours (2 more to go...2 more to go...)
shopping: 2 hours (didn't find any suitable shoes last time, need a pair for grad, running, and flats)
project: another 3 hours, yayy.

I'm proud to say that I made a huge mess on the table.

end of day 1. Thank god for that cheap paper cutter thingy. I swear I would have damaged my TV if I had to mark where to cut with a pencil and ruler.


I'm guessing this isn't very environmentally friendly...

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sucks that this doesn't count towards my art mark.

fortress of daylight

Gosh electric monopoly is evil! CN tower with 3 houses is like..15mil. Can't/don't even want to imagine how bad it is with a hotel...*shivers* Crazy how Roy had both of them and ended up giving it to Alex as payment, so lucky! Even more crazy that Tony and Alex got in jail one after another, rolled consecutive numbers (1&6, 2&5 I think? not really consecutive but meh), got out of jail after another and landed on Sam's properties side by side, a pure 'lol' moment. Although I lost first, at least I got Parliament Hill at the huge discount (minus the no rent), I had to offer more than triple the price but Tony still wouldn't accept it, pssh.

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Remind me NEVER to lick the ice cream scooper after, my tongue actually got stuck. (Not that funny compared to how I almost fell climbing out of Roy's car...naturally clumsy!) Took a huge tug to separate them, it was fine for a while...then blood started coming out. Still bleeding, (around 30mins already), I'm starting to get use to the taste of it. Too bad there's no special band-aid for inside the mouth injuries...

re-run

I swear this is just as good, if not better than that limited edition Haagen-Daz honey and vanilla flavour. Just in case the pic's too blurry, it's vanilla ice cream+honey+granola. Awesome taste&texture.

I know what to look forward to afterschool everyday~

criss crossing of sun beams

I never knew I had so much illegally copied movies (namely from China). Now I know how my eyes are gonna die during summer break, yayy!

To Watch (in no particular order):

1. Bourne Ultimatum (well, all three)
2. I Am Legend (was suppose to watch this at treater, but too young -o-)
3. Victory (Not sure if that's the actual name, 胜利大逃亡 in chinese)
4. Eighty Below
5. 300 (don't have that yet)
6. Bunch of 007 (plays theme music)
7. Another bunch of ancient Chinese kungfu/drama. Some are pretty good, minus the special effects...
   

Also really want to see, but too cheap to pay for ticket. (I mean c'mon! $12 a ticket is ridiculous...)

1. Forbidden Kingdom (Jackie Chan AND Jet Li, how much more awesome chinese kung-fu can you get?)
2. Ironman (just cause Tony/Alex is making a big fuss about it)
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (even Maclean's had a good review about it)

Guess there goes my wallet too.

11:11

huck huck huck, I (well, Grace did) FINALLY found a four leaf clover. (insert some complains about my webcam quality, etc etc). She found it while taking her rollerblades off, such good eyes!
Now that it's all dry and paper thin, I hope I don't loose it...or accidentally break off one of the leaves... oh dear. So many things can go wrong between now and then.

forty seven

Nothing beats coming home with Mango Pudding cake waiting for you in the fridge.