if you wanna kill time, then this is for you.

<-- my little piggy.

i found this personality test on naomi's site and basically you draw a pig and afterwards the site goes on to tell you about yourself. haha. i don't know if it's a valid test or totally bogus. well, i really doubt that's it real. but then again, what do i know? (other than the fact that it was fun to draw.) teehee.

click here to take the test.

anyway, all this 'pig talk' reminded me of the sign that hangs in waterloo park's petting zoo in the pig pen. this is what it looks like. -->

i remember when i first saw it i was a little shocked. :O (just for a second though.) it's a family zoo with little kids for goodness sake.

oh "bacon" and "eggs". if only those two little pigs knew that their names were referring to their relatives and the could-have-been relatives of their chicken friends who 'didn't make it' and were eaten for breakfast.

bah hah. :P
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okay, i couldn't resist. i just HAD to do this. yet another way to kill time: take a quiz to figure out what your harry potter alter-ego is. (teehee.) mine is:

You scored as Remus Lupin. You are a wise and caring wizard and a good, loyal friend to boot. However sometimes in an effort to be liked by others you can let things slide by, which ordinarily you would protest about. Remus Lupin 70% Albus Dumbledore 65% Hermione Granger 65% Harry Potter 60% Ron Weasley 60% Sirius Black 60% Draco Malfoy 55% Severus Snape 50% Ginny Weasley 50% Lord Voldemort 45% Your Harry Potter Alter Ego Is...? created with QuizFarm.com

grey hair and wrinkles, here i come.

so today in physiology my teacher was talking about homeostasis, the negative feedback loop, and heat stroke (which can occur when the negative feedback loop fails.) anyway, one of the examples he used was Gabriele Andersen-Scheiss who suffered from heat stroke during the first women's marathon race at the 1984 olympics. thankfully she survived to tell her story. never realized how deadly (and i mean that literally) heat-stroke is until today.

anyway, as my teacher was talking about Andersen-Scheiss he was like, "yah, many of you were probably born by the time this happened in 1984 right?" and i sat there nodding my head, because i'm a 1983 baby. but as i looked around everyone else was sitting there SHAKING their heads and saying "no". (physiology is a second year course.) i even saw a girl in the row in front of me turn around and say to her friends who were sitting beside me, "i feel so young." after seeing the response from the class, my teacher said, "man, don't i feel old."

so do i.

the saying goes...

..."the grass is greener on the other side", right?

well, i never really gave much thought to this phrase that has probably been passed on from generation to generation until today - when i looked out the window and saw that it was true. their grass IS greener (as in, the grass belonging to the people who live in the house located directly behind ours.)

note the brown patches in our yard (vs. their seemingly smooth, non-patchy grass) and the huge (it looks even bigger in real life) weed(s) that are trying to take over the patio area.

the picture does a crap job showing the difference in colour between the two yards, but believe you me, there is a difference.

then again, the people that live in the house behind ours are definitely not students...unless they're still taking classes at the age of (at least) 70. must be annoying for them to live in a neighbourhood full of university students...sometimes it can get kinda rowdy and annoyingly loud.

but somehow, i doubt that's what the saying was really trying to say. heehee. ;)

what a completely stupid, useless post. bah hah. :P okay, back to my books. aghh.

the first week of school is almost over...

...and i must say, this is by far the hardest year yet. there's just so much reading. so much expectation. so much anxiety. so much to do. so little time.

in the middle of the week i was feeling really overwhelmed by everything. things seemed to have gotten way too busy, way too quick and i felt...like giving up. on the third day of school.

anyway, that night as i lay there in the darkness and quietness of my room somewhere between reality and sleep, the following verse popped into my head:

"Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28

and with that in mind i smiled, went to Him, and got my much needed rest. :)

week one in waterloo

despite the fact that classes haven't started yet, this week was still crazy. from moving, to cooking to running around campus to sort out my schedule, i came back to toronto feeling totally exhausted. i'm starting to get jitters for the first day of school but even so, i still feel this year will be a good one. it'll be tough, but i'm sure it'll be good. :)

highlights of the week:
- moving into our new house // i didn't think that moving would make such a big difference, but it has. i have great housemates, the nicest landlord (soooooo much better than lousy krafa), a cozy house and cable. what more can i ask for? haha. it's been really great catching up with amy again too. it's nice living with her again, plenty of talks to come this year. :)
- lccf booth at campus clubs day // although it was brutally hot on willison field that day, it was good seeing and meeting new people/frosh. it was also nice connecting with some people at lcf (laurier christian fellowship.) i really hope the two fellowships will have more contact with each other this year. that's been on my heart for a while. it's exciting to think of what God will be doing in both fellowships.
- frosh progressive dinner // it was the first time we've ever done anything like this and i thought it went really well. even though we thought we wouldn't have enough food, everyone was able to eat an adequate amount and we didn't need to go into the 'emergency lasagna'. it was also nice to connect more with some of the frosh and have a chance to talk to them. they're a good group. they also said that our food was better than the food they had been eating all week, so that was a nice compliment. :) first time making fried rice...it turned out alright, but next time i must add more salt. oops.
- getting into the courses i needed // as always, God has been so good. not only did He make it possible for me to take the physiology course without the prerequisite, He also let me get into the lab that i really wanted to get into - even though it was full. (now i can go to lccf!) also, i cross-registered in 'intro to linguistics' DE at waterloo. if that works out (which i think it will) i'll be able to have all my prerequisites for graduate school under my belt by the end of this year. phew. i'm pretty relieved and happy about that. just hope that i'll get the material soon so i don't miss too much in the beginning!
- coming home // no matter what, it's always nice to come home to my family in toronto. :)

est. 2002

...and three years later we are still together, feeling blessed and happy.

it's been a crazy ride, with our share of ups and downs, but somehow we managed to get through it all. together. with His help. and really, in my opinion, that's what relationships are all about.


happy three year justin. :)

so long, summer.

i can't believe it's september already. feels like just yesterday i was packing up my bags and heading home from another year at laurier. i also can't believe that i'm going into my final year of university. it seems so surreal.

but no. it has been a good three years since the first time i set foot in residence, ready (well, kinda :P) to start my university career. and it's been a good four months since i came home for the summer...which means only one thing:

summer is over.

although i think i would have felt more productive if i had gotten some kind of part-time job on top of everything at the end of the day, i'm happy with how things went. i got a lot of much needed experience in the speech pathology world and really, that was one of my main goals this summer. and with the exception of two things on my 'summer to-do list' (the biology brushing up and the violin practicing - which really i don't care all that much about) i managed to do everything else on it, not to mention hang out with some very special people too. :)

here's to hoping your summer was as good and as relaxing as mine, and to another fruitful year. kampai!

p.s. that picture isn't mine and i'm not sure where it was taken, but there are some pictures that liz brought back from italy that look just like that (if not better.) aghhhhh. my one regret this summer? not going to italy. :(