stupid kids!

I'm so pissed off right now! I'm currently at Joo parent's convenience store in scarborough... I was sitting in the front of the store behind the counter where no one can really see where I am... but I can see them. Jooyong was in the back getting some inventory to stock up....

The magazine rack is right beside the door.. by the window

This kid was wearing a black hoodie and a back pack, took a porn magazine and just left!!! He rand off!!! WTF?!?!?!!?

I didn't know what to do. I was in a state of shock... thinking to myself if the kid actually did it.

He did.

I called Jooyong, he ran after him but he was too late.

I'm so upset that I couldn't do anything sooner. I couldn't. I'm so upset at myself now... I should've done something.

damn those stupid kids!!!! arrgghhhh!!!!

Winter is coming...

I'm not prepared for the bitter cold coming at all! Today, I wore my long trench coat to work and I was still freezing!
The only thing I look forward to during winter is my birthday! I know, I know, it's literally 2 months away and I still need to decide what to get for Jess, Lil & Kay. Not to mention all the guys - 'hesh, sam, rico (to name a few)...

Yesterday I asked Jooyong what he was thinking of getting me for my birthday. Last year he spent almost 400 on my beautiful, comfortable & waterproof boots. It was very useful as I don't like wearing running shoes. lol the year before that, I spent the whole winter wearing ballet flats! hahahaah yes, it was freezing but at the same time, I didn't know what warmth felt like until I got the boots! lol
Anyway, he mentioned things like another pair of boots, jeans, sweaters and a winter jacket. I think I have decided on a winter jacket because 1. my long collared one is missing a button :( 2. the other winter jackets are def out of style aka my brown jacob one, my white, warm aeropostale bomber... and 3. I want a long, warm winter jacket this time. Those TNA jackets are soo friggin' warm but I can't bare to see myself in them. aarrrgghhh I gotta go winter jacket shopping with Jooyong soon. I can't wait! Maybe we'll hit up Eaton's Centre and Queen's street some time :)
Since we're on the topic of my birthday (excitttinnnnnggg!), what do you guys want to do?
I'm thinking of dinner on Friday at my fav all-you-can-eat sushi place, Sushi on 7... I was there last week... wonder if they would like me make reservations for like, 10+ ppl; I think the whole restaurant seat only 25-30 :S
Now, I don't like eating a full meal before drinking so I'm thinking of doing a night out on Sat to
1. a club with bottle service (of course!)
2. a kareoke bar with all you can drink! It's near my house too! =D

I guess I'll decide on that later... but now, I gotta think of what Lil's doing for her birthday? A club? Halloween? Dress up? What should I wear? If all the girls go, maybe we can dress up as a group... like be hot cops! hahaha

Oh the other night I dreamt that my cousin went alllll out for halloween! This was the costume that she was wearing:

Sexy huh? hahahaha

I myself, always wanted to be catwoman for Halloween:

OR

But I need a killer body! Don't think I'll have my dream body for Halloween :(

Or... maybe if the girls want to dress up together, we can be SWAT, like this:

I mean, with this one, we don't need to go all out.. we can just find some really tight bum-huggin dress pants or maybe even a skirt, a black halter, a baseball cap that says SWAT on it and some really cool sunglasses! or or we can buy different types of black tops (like halter, tank, tee etc) and just iron on SWAT on it.. and we're good to go! lol i'm gonna propose this to them! hahaha

Ok, i'm getting out of hand now lol

I should get back to work. Ok see ya!

All you Starbucks junkies...

Starbucks has decided to go instant. Yep, you can now brew your own Starbucks coffee at home without the hassle of going to a shop.
I'm not a huge starbucks drinker not like a lot of those addicts out there... but I do prefer their coffee over Tim Hortons. With the high calorie intake I usually consume - I usually order a tall white chocolate mocha, skinny please! - it's not worth it sometimes but it does beat Tim Hortons coffee! Not to mention, the amount of cash you literally hand over to those barristers, compared to the Tim Hortons prices.
I don't really care myself if they had instant coffee or not. I have to admit, this new product does affect their image. I mean, one goes to Starbucks for their high end coffee, along with enjoying the quaint atmosphere of it all... but having instant coffee? Is that a step down for them?
Another thing they opened up was their drive through. Convenient? Yes. Innovative? No. Denies their image? YEAAAHHH!!!!!
So with all this being said, what do you think of all this buzz? Do you think Starbucks is going downhill because of the recession?!?! Or do you think they're appealing to more of an (affordable) masses?

Yesterday, joo & i took a nature walk after dinner. It was incredible beautiful - well, not to mention that i was freaking myself out because joo said that there were snakes but that is beyond the point. I love my bf, regardless how much he annoys me and how much can be such a jerk.

I can't wait to move out of the house! hahaha not because i have problems with my parents, in fact, they spoil me to death sometimes and i really do appreciate their hard work...

This can be a little superficial... the only reason why I want to move out is because I want to start designing my future fabulous kitchen... and not to mention the washroommmm!!!!

ahhhh whenever I think about it, i get soooo excited!

k, gotta get to class! *tata!

Twilight

I finally saw the movie, twilight!

My cousin referred me this book a while back - before it became big - read it... at first, I thought it was good but as I thought about it... I realized that it's not my type of book at all. I didn't like the character Bella - I thought she was annoying and immature - and I thought that edward was too perfect sometimes! lol not realistic at all...

now in terms of the movie... here are my thoughts:
- they captured the atmosphere of the book very well
- bella wasn't what I imagined in the book; same thing with edward
- i thought bella would be a little bit more perky and not so dead; edward, i thought would be a lot more handsome, more dark-haired, deep voice... in the movie, i felt some awkward times which i felt didn't capture the essence of edward in the book at all... aka, i think they should've picked a better actor to portray edward!
- they mixed up some plots in the book
- i thought edward's house was wayyyy too modern for their family! it wasn't white enough!

& something on the side:

vs
In the movie, they're complete enemies... in real life, they are both considered really friggin' hot!
I have to admit, once Cam entered the movie, I couldn't take my eyes off of him!
I don't even think Robert is even attractive... I find him soo awkward, so clumsy... kinda like a clown, espcially with all that white make up on him! lol although, somtimes, there were parts of the movie where he was attractive... but...
Sorry, Robert, I think cam took my heart away! oh how I heart cam... he's soooo friggin' sexyyyyyy!!!!!! Just look at him! he's such a bad ass!

There was something that I wanted to say.... but then my mind was interrupted by reading my cousin's blog that I totally forgot! arrrgghh, it's killing me!

oh yes... I remember now...

This is what my boyfriend (not a frequent facebook user) said when I told him that I changed my profile pic on facebook:

"You are so busy on facebook! You have to manage a restaurant, a farm, change your profile pic... reply to messages/wall posts/events...!"

As he said this, I was like.. whoa! that's sooo true! Facebook does consume my life and it's such a pity because well, that's the only interaction I have with people outside my group of friends! hahaha how pittiful of me... oh well!

that's kinda creepy! lol




On Friday I went to the Manifesto with Rhea... It was good! It was different than what we're used to at York... There was a lot of urban and street art... much of it, looks like from urban youths... nothing like we're used to at our up town, classical training at york at all!
I wished I took more pics... but this was the only one i took (from twitter).
I wouldn't say that a lot of these works were very profound or very political/etc... I think it's more like aesthetics if anything, but I could be wrong.
So with this, I wonder what is urban art anyway? I mean, does it have to be graffitti? spray-painted? various mediums? Illustrations? Does graffitti even constitute as art?
What I'm trying to get at is... what is art? What constitutes as art?
For example, a lot of people can argue that design is not art but others might disagree.
I understand, fine art and design are completely seperate from one another even though - in my opinion - they are under the same large sphere of visual communication...

Last year's Nuit Blanche was... well I wouldn't really know myself! hahaha This year should be good. I'm trying to gather a group of people to go.. hopefully everything works out! :)

itching, itching!

to post something sooo inspiring that you will think of...

i have nothing

womp womp womp....

it's crunch time at school again.. I've been busy-ing myself with assignments and projects. On top of that, I can only work about 8hrs/week aka i'm broke like a mofo :(

I had my photo critique today :D it went VERY well (according to my smile over <----- there )

I would really like to post my work up but sadly, I am too afraid of people stealing my ideas. I know, i'm so selfish lol

On a bright note, here's a vid of a really funny video about type! lol

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766

Dear Mr. West

I've been thinking about your actions and I do believe that you went on stage sporadically, not thinking about what Taylor would feel. With this being said, we all know - including yourself - that it was such a selfish and evil act you did.
After reading your first blog entry, I truly did not feel that your apology was quite sincere. You contradicted youself by indicating that you "GAVE [your] AWARDS TO OUTKAST WHEN THEY DESERVED IT OVER [you]" which meant that Taylor did not deserve her award and Beyonce would have won. You know what, that's your opinion. I respect your opinion but your could have gone about in another sincere way. Perhaps in the future, you would consider keeping mean actions or thoughts to yourself.
Now in terms of you being "real," I agree, you were being real but everyone does not need to know how "real" (aka an asshole) you can be.
After seeing your Jay Leno interview, I am convinced that you are truly sorry, especially when Leno asked you how your mother would have felt if she was here with you. You choked up. You couldn't answer the question. I understand how you feel, especially if you lost your mother to a mere restorative surgical procedure. And I am sure that if she was here, watching that clip, that she would feel quite embarrassed that she has a son that would do such a thing. There is no doubt she would have lectured you until you realized that your big head does not consume the world. But hey, maybe if she was here, you would not have done it. Who knows?!
I apologize for my rude manners in this letter. I am sure that you probably heard all the horrible comments that people have shared through facebook, twitter and all over the internet, television and radio stations.
As for Kelly Clarkson and what she said on her blog, you deserved it. But Ms. Clarkson, it was a little harsh.
As for your rude ways - this was definately over the top - please consider other people's feelings.
As your 99th fan (sorry I'm truly not your number 1 fan - even before this whole thing), I was very disapointed. You are a very talented man whom every kid aspires to be you. Think about how your actions have affected little kids. You are a celebrity, nonetheless.
I hope this letter helps your realize how your actions - not only this one - affects not only you but other people in the world as well.

Sincerely,
Ms. Tran

p.s - I was a big fan of your first album. Your music lately has been pumped out of the pop machine. Please make more meaningful and sincere content that just does not talk about yourself.

School's back!!!

& I'm sooo happy to be back!!!!

My first class was photography. I came in late but thank god Cheryl saved me a seat right next to the door. It's so nice to see everyone again. Along with the busy-ness of school, I also missed everyone in my class.

I truthfully think we have such a great class! Everyone is friendly to eachother and helps everyone out. However, with this being said, I know that everyone (ok, maybe just me) is still thinking of our competitive internship program in 6th semester. I want the best placement I could find. Hopefully they keep me as a full time employee after the internship =D

But I leave this quote:

Creativity is Curiosity

Labour Day Long Weekend

mmmm I had a great long weekend. I was quite a busy beeeee. Here's what I did :)

Friday - After work, Joo and I went to STC to get those dollar balloons for my lil' brother who turned a whole six years old! We then headed over to Wasabi for dinner. When the server came out with the ice cream cake and everyone sang happy birthday, b was soo shy lol he was sooo cute! hahaha
After dinner, re came to pick us up. We headed over to Wegz for Josh's birthday. I played flip cup tournament for the very first time and I got drunk! hahah I wasn't supposed to drink that night but I thought the tournament would be really fun (which it was). hahah getting drunk randomly is soo much fun! hahaah

Saturday - I brought my sisters to STC to shop for some jeans. Bluenotes has really nice jeans for only 20.00!!! I wanted to buy a pair but I figured that me having the same jeans of my younger sisters was not cool lol
After, me, rob and lil went for dinner at congee queen. We spent a while there.. It was great because I haven't seen rob and lil for a while :)
I then headed over to Dave&Busters for Prathap's farewell. He left for the states yesterday to study as a chiropractioner. Quite proud for him as he wanted to go to med school for a while now!

Sunday - I volunteered for the South Asian For Life organization. My friend's mom is suffering from leukemia and has been in and out of the hospital for nearly 2 years now. With this event, I had to supervise people for swap tests to ensure they do it correctly.
Side note - If you'd like to donate blood or perhaps under go a bone marrow donation, please let me know. About 2 hundred odd people are in waiting for you to save their life. Save a life.
After the event, I headed down to the Howard Johnson Hotel for a great night of just us girls! We had appies and infinity amounts of drinks lol By the time we were out of the hotel, we were stumbling to get into the club. Cabana was a disapointment. There was no one there at all! arrgghhh!

Monday - We had some great dim sum at pmall... (I had my tofu-fa! yaaayyy lol) I dropped everyone home, headed for the shower then went to go pick up jooyong. We went over to his place, took a nap, went out for dinner then headed to ram's for some poker/jitz/ufc.

When I woke up this morning, I was sooo excited to go to school. I can't wait to leave work now and head over to see everyone at school! yaaaayyy!


The other night, me and joo had a serious conversation. I think we will be undergoing another milestone in our life. (Please inquire within if you are curious).

Stats About Me

I found this app on fb through one of my friends' status... so with my curiosity, I tried it. This is what I found out:


According to http://www.statsaboutme.com I have 220 friends, 100 more than average. 64% are male, 36% are female. 34 are single, 56 are dating or married. If I contracted a deadly variant of flu, I would likely infect 10 people, 1 of whom would die. ...If I died today, an estimated 410 people would try to attend my funeral. Based on my Facebook profile, I have a 90% probability of getting married. I am likely to earn US$3.6 million and have 2.2 children over my lifetime.

Here are my thoughts:
- I can't believe my male friends encompasses more than half of my total friends! hahahah I guess I am very charming! lol i joke i joke!
- only 10 people eh? lol You know what, those ten people would most likely be joo, my cousin, katie, lil, re, sam, rony, ram, rico & perhaps rico... or maybe even lx because he would probably contract it from my cousin... and he gets sick pretty easily too! lol I think the person who would die would most likely be joo (knock on wood) just because he's so close to me. hahaha
- WHOA! 410 people!!!! fawk, I don't think I even know 410 people!!! ahahahahaha I think more than half of them would probably be male as well! hahahaah
- yeah, let's stop at the m.
- and yes, 3.6 mill isn't a lot for a lifetime. I would rather earn 3.6 mill a year! hahah
- and you know what, i don't understand how these stats are calculating .2 of a person? maybe miscarriage? but 2 children is likely because I do want a boy and a girl... or just two boys in general.

Changing subject...

Yesterday night, my cousin and I headed over to the sauna after our bodycombat class. We planned to be in there for only 10-15 (recommended) mins but ended up staying for an hour. After we headed out for dinner at congee queen near the gym. It took us 2 hours to leave the restaurant. For the whole night, I had such a profound and intelligent conversation with her about various things in life. This is why i love her so much! She points our perspectives and theories that I haven't even thought of yet she understands what I try to say <3 (She pointed this out before but) I feel like her relationship with her bf and exactly a mirrored version of my relationship with jooyong. Very rare, I know.

other than that, I'm posting to the world that I lost my versace sunglasses. I am truly sooo sad right now =(

Masters

One of my friend's status' today was "nervous/anxious/excited to start school next week!" She graduated from York last year and is now moving on a post graduate certificate in a college (i believe).
With this is mind, the thoughts of me getting my masters are currently emerging. To persue a higher level of education is what I think I want but not sure if I should go ahead and apply after my program at Seneca.
This morning, I was researching into master programs and here's what I found:

- Master of Design at York University
The Master of Design (MDes) program is a two-year, practice-based program that investigates cultural, social, cognitive, and technological dimensions of communication design, information design, interaction design, motion graphics and design studies within the parameters of Visual Communication/Graphic Design. It prepares graduates for careers as designers, design theorists/researchers and educators by engaging students in design practice, theory, methodology, research and management strategies.
The program provides strong supportive design studies courses which provide a foundation for doctoral studies in the rapidly developing areas of Design Research and Design Theory.
The program embraces intellectually curious students interested in experimental and investigative approach to design practice, theory and research in Visual Communication/Graphic Design.

- EMDes in Advertising at OCAD
The Executive Master of Design in Advertising (EMDes) degree is a unique, cutting-edge program available through the Ontario College of Art & Design. It is specially designed for advertising and marketing professionals who want to improve their thinking, advance their knowledge and become leaders in a rapidly changing industry. It is the only advertising executive master’s program that allows you to keep your job while you pursue an advanced degree.

- Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media & Design at OCAD
The Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design challenges students to investigate, research and produce creative works that combine art, design and cross-disciplinary academic study to create new, hybrid forms of visual and social research and production. Each student’s primary discipline and chosen emphasis between studio practice and theoretical inquiry will determine whether the degree earned is an MFA, MDes or MA.


I know, I know what you're thinking... "heck, just go find a job and stop going back to school..." and yes, I am very eager to go to work but i'm also eager of learning something more. I felt like my 4 years at York didn't do much for me... and even thought I just finished my first semester at Seneca, I feel as though the competition of earning a decent job after graduating is increased. Heck, I'm not even worried about getting a job... I just want to learn more... learn more on a higher level other people... and learn more about what i love to do....

I am considering of applying for the Interdisciplinary program at OCAD after when I graduate because I can fully utilize my honours fine arts degree and my advanced design diploma.

Please let me know what you think about this. Am I just going through a phase or do you think I should wake up and smell the coffee?