Triple H! Hot. Hazy. Humid. It hit 32 degrees Celcius yesterday. For Americans, that's about 100 F (100 something F?). In any case, it's pretty darn hot. I'm staying at my aunts house for a couple of days because my parents are going out of town. They have a webcam sitting on top of the monitor I'm using now. Sorely tempted to see how it works, but am afraid I'll break something (which I probably will).
6.30.2001
6.28.2001
Mmm...street meat... Went to Costco's today with my aunt, my mom and my two cousins. Strange family outing. The building looks like an old abandoned warehouse that was spraypainted a geriatric white and hosed down to get rid of the chalk outlines. Inside, it's essentially a mall with all the mannequins and plastic plants removed. Or a Home Depot store stuffed full of clothes, food and various other things instead of circular saws and 2 by 4's.
We actually had lunch there too. My cousins, 12 and 10, are going through that "I-love-fast-food-feed-me-Mickey-D's" stage and insisted on eating at the little canteen type place in the store. So. we all had hot dog's for lunch. Hence the street meat title.
We must have spent an half an hour digging through piles and piles of clothing, left behind by hordes of mostly middle-aged women pulling wheelies around the store after they had found $10.99 sweaters for their husbands' birthday presents. But the clothes were alright, the same quality as you would find in other, more expensive stores.
The whole time we were there, all I could think about was the old Adam comic strips, with Adam driving home with a huge bottle of maple syrup strapped to the roof of his minivan. Hee hee hee...not too far from the truth.
WARNING: Whining ahead. Why is it so hot? This is TORONTO, not Miami. This summer has been unusually warm from the very beginning. I think it hit 30 C way back in May, and now Mother Nature is doing it again. This entire week has been comprised of alternately flopping around by the a/c, consuming massive amounts of ice cream, and trying to ignore the humidity while reading Pern books. Ah, the icy coldness of between.
6.24.2001
I'm baaaaaa-aaaack...Well San Fran was fun. I have so many impressions and experiences that it's impossible to describe them all. Cable cars are fun. I want them in Toronto. The fare is too expensive, though. US $2 for a one way trip! Sheesh. Fisherman's Wharf was very fishy, cold and toursity. My mom and I went on a boat tour of the Bay. Again, cold and windy. People kept on thinking we were Japanese tourists.
We did a lot of shopping. Our hotel was located next to Union Square, so we walked around Macy's and the like for a while, but left after 5 minutes in each store. Is it just me, or is everything more pricey in America? We had bought a Gundam model kit (Custom Sandrock - Endless Waltz) for my nephew in Toronto for about $20 Canadian. Later, he told us he bought a Custom Deathscythe (also from the Endless Waltz series) for $25 American, which equals about $37 Canadian.
6.17.2001
Leaving on a jet plane...Okay, so it's not a jet plane, but I am leaving. The 'rents and I are going to the lovely city of San Francisco for about a week. My dad has a conference to go to and we're tagging along for the ride. So probably no updates for about a week (unless I can find a computer or internet cafe with a decent price).
I've never been to the west coast. Well, at least, not at an age when I would have remembered it. We'll be going to visit my cousin and her kids (my nephews!) and unloading a wagonful of presents from my grandma and co. for them. I feel a little bad because when my older nephew came to visit us several years ago, my brother and I tormented him to no end. ^_^'
Also a visit to Lake Tahoe (some 2 hours away from San Fran) for a day or two. We have to bring some warmer clothes because of this. *Grumble.* It'll be a nice change though, seeing that in Toronto it's been like an oven for the past week or so.
6.15.2001
6.14.2001
Like a dead fish. It's too hot. I can't move. 31 degrees Celcius today, 40 degrees with the humidex. One of those days where you just want to lie on the couch and try not to stick to it. Eventually, you peel yourself off it and lie on the floor because hot air, rises, ne? Flop around a bit, and then decide to dig a hole in your basement and join the bugs it the cool, damp earth. Ahh... ;)
6.13.2001
6.12.2001
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6.08.2001
Turn up the music... 'cause I'm done school! WOOOOO! No more exams, tests, assignments, stress, early mornings, class meetings, beer teacher and tiny hallways for another two months! Time for mangoes, sunshine, friends, movies, and reading and drawing to my heart's content. I still have to find a job, but I'm not going to let that daunt me (yet). First, I need to sleep off my ice-cream headache...ow.
6.06.2001
Eat The Roses. Spiffy! Earlier on, there was a sort of campaign for people to read this comic so that Meg, the artist, would get 10K hits. She's reached that goal, but go read it anyway. It's funny and romantic and a mystery and all the characters have really good hair. Poor Gabe...
I find this very amusing...
Patient orders revenge on hospital boss
An irate patient who ordered large amounts of high-quality sushi under a hospital's name to strike back at its director has been arrested, police said Wednesday.
Officers alleged that the patient, an unemployed 36-year-old from Mitaka, Tokyo, was so infuriated after the director told him off for abusing sleeping pills that he requested some 13,000 yen worth of sushi be delivered to the institution.
In addition to ordering the five portions of high-quality sushi on May 24, the man allegedly filled the keyhole of a hospital door with glue in mid-March. He also ordered diamond necklaces and other mail-order goods under the hospital's name in April.
Other food delivered to the hospital in May included pizza. The number of orders and other incidents the patient carried out to irk the institution totaled 60, police said.
The man had entered the hospital for treatment in January. The director scolded him over the pills in March.
--Mainichi Daily News
6.05.2001
I think I'm in love. Download Accelerator is a whole lot better than GetRight. At least, so far. Now I can download an mp3 in 15 minutes. And you, yes, you with the cable modem/ insanely fast university connection, stop laughing. I have a 56K dial-up so 5 MB in 15 minutes is good.
6.04.2001
Today is the 12th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. On this day in 1989, thousands of pro-democracy students protesting in Tiananmen Square were killed by the government troops. If the students didn't die on the streets of Beijing, they passed away later in overcrowded hospitals.
And they had the gall to say that no one died.
6.03.2001
6.02.2001
6.01.2001
Gorillaz! The Band, by fans.gorillaz.com:
2-D: "Hit twice on the head when young, 2D is a sweetheart with a blank sheet of paper where a brain should be. He has really good hair. People think he's cool and enigmatic but he's just got a migraine."
Murdoc: "Self-taught bassist, wannabe frontman, he's the band's warped back seat driver who knows that good tunes aren't enough to succeed. You need good looks - which he hasn't got - and a twisted mind - which he has."
Russel: "A hip-hop hard man from the US of A, Russel draws upon spooky spirit mates to help guide his beats. The funkyphantoms live within Russel's hunking frame and pop out every so often to provide some undead rapping."
And my favourite, Noodle: "Noodle arrived in a crate. She's a kick ass riffmeister, the Asian axe princess. Doesn't speak more than a word of English, and that word is 'Noodle.' "
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