...I can't get the
Gorillaz album out of my CD player. I LOVE it. It's my summer album of 2005! And "DARE" is something I blast every morning when I get into my car...it just gets me into a good mood =)
I don't know why I haven't posted in so long. Oh yes I do. I am lazy :)
OK. So a whole bunch of stuff has happened since my last post. Went to the
Aqualung concert at the Drake Hotel. FINALLY, an event that made up for the extremely crappy concert year I've been having so far. Matt Hales is definitely very dreamy & charming...the best was when he told us about how he was in Canada when his wife was about to give birth so he had to rush home, and when he tried to make up a Toronto song. Wendy & I are going to see him again when he & his band return July 4th...I hope he'll have a T.O. song by then.
(Here is where I would have talked about the
Coldplay buzz gig had I gotten tickets :( )
Also went to the
Snow Patrol and
Athlete concert at the dreaded Kool Haus. That concert also rocked despite a relatively young crowd and some annoying people trying to push past us. The best though was when I went to
edge102 in the afternoon to meet Gary & Paul. (I know I'm making you jealous Janice...please don't put me on that List). They were so sweet & charming. And I couldn't believe that there were only about 15 people there. But that was good because it actually meant I could ask for autographs and take pictures =) (Unfortunately I just tried to upload them but it's not working and I am lazy so I will do so another time.......damn it must be this HOT weather.....)
OK. Also did the
runto, which was SO great! I know, I've sold my soul to the corporation. I think I may have mentioned this in another entry. But I don't care. Nike was very brilliant in this marketing/branding campaign. And I ran 10k. In only 67 minutes, surprisingly!! So there. My next goal is to do it in under 60 minutes :)
Wendy & I threw a BBQ for our friends this weekend. Yay summer! It turned out really well. Except we have so many chicken wings and alcohol leftover. Hmm...what to do with the alcohol ;)
However, this BBQ was marred by our extreme disappointment at our attempts to get Coldplay concert tickets to the ACC gig. First off, last Thursday we discovered we needed a new modem. Rogers said they can't make it till some time between 8 am and 4 pm on Saturday. WTF. I was in extreme panic mode. Thank goodness Hugo pulled threw for me. I arrived at his house about 9:40 am and started to mentally prepare. But I couldn't relax because f*cking Galen was not picking up his cell phone all morning. I called him at least 5 times, 3 of those times I left a message, one asking him to CALL ME so that I don't get an ulcer. But did he, no. I even tried to get his friend's cell # from Dinesh cuz I knew he crashed at Galen's...I was starting to regret the night before (drinking CAN be a real hazard!) when I finally got a hold of him at 9:55. GRRRR. As you can tell I was already in an extremely agitated state.
10 am on Hugo's computer's clock...tickets still not on sale! ok, so his clock was a little fast. But I managed to finally get in at 10:01am. I secured seats in the 103 section, despite a "proxy error," and then I fucking screwed it up!!!!!!!!!!!!! My ticketmaster account had the credit card that sometimes doesn't allow me to buy stuff online without calling them first (I set up the account a long time ago, so I didn't remember!!). So I LOST the tickets :( WTF. I was EXTREMELY ANGRY at myself. And then when I heard the rest of my concert gang didn't get any either, I was gonna cry. Galen called and said he couldn't secure tickets either because of some internal server error. But of course his friend managed to get 300 level seats and after I BEGGED him for 10 minutes he said he would sell them to us.
Fast forward several hours later, Galen arrives for the BBQ and announces that there are "conditions" to his friend selling us his tickets. He wanted me to give up my 100-level U2 ticket in exchange for a 300-level U2 ticket for another night so that he could sell it & his since he's going to China and can't go to the U2 concert anymore. I didn't like that option. So the other was that Janice, Wendy & I would pay him $100 each for the 300-level tickets. All right. We settled on that. I am still mad at myself about the VISA though. I apologize to my concert gang for not being able to pull through :(
OK. So less than 24 hours from now, X & Y will be in my hands. I have already tried not to have too much expectations for this album. It's hard. There is WAY too much hype surrounding Coldplay now. What to do.
If you're driving the motorcycle, what do you do? THAT'S RIGHT. You DON'T have to stop because you do not face a stop sign - you can drive through. In the past week, I have been in no less than three situations where it seems people do not understand what to do at an intersection. I have been behind the motorcycle in this photo, where the idiot in front of me stopped even though there was NO stop sign! I have also been the blue/red car in this scenario, where I had stopped first and then the motorcycle stopped and waited for me to go. WHAT A MORON. I am extremely road rage-y. And I don't think it's coincidental that all these situations happened while I was in Markham. All the drivers were Chinese. Idiots. I know, I'm Chinese (thanks for noticing!). Which is why I feel I get to complain more. All these Markham Chinese drivers are giving the good Chinese drivers bad names. I honestly think I'm a good driver. I know the rules of the road, I look at my blindspots, I anticipate other drivers' moves. But when someone says to me, "Chinese people can't drive," I tend to have to agree because of situations like this. It's unfortunate. But I can't fight them all. I can't even teach them. My glaring at the Chinese driver as I pass them (on the right, of course) doesn't seem to have an effect. In fact, they don't even notice. GRRRR.