wishing you a very...

have a good one. :)

edumacational goodness

instead of surfing the net because you're bored and looking for something to do, check this out. for every word you guess right, they'll donate 20 grains of rice through the UN to help end world hunger. (yes i took that right from the website.) i know 20 grains of rice doesn't really seem like much at all, but the number of rice grains donated will grow exponentially if everyone pitches in. plus you get to broaden your vocabulary. and it's fun! well, in an erudite kind of way. :P (oh take that gre prep!)

so hurry up and get on the free rice edumacational goodness bandwagon! everyone's invited. :)

best buy, you suck

best buy has the worst customer service ever. i guess that's to be expected when a company hires a bunch of gits to work for them. what does this say about the company? it's the biggest and dumbest git of them all.

twenty-four and still a boar

get it? twenty-four? year of the pig? i'm so clever. and i can rhyme. heh!

happy birthday justin - today, my last blog post is dedicated to you!!! *<|:)

switchfoot | 24

Twenty four oceans
Twenty four skies
Twenty four failures
Twenty four tries
Twenty four finds me
In twenty-fourth place
Twenty four drop outs
At the end of the day
Life is not what I thought it was
Twenty four hours ago

Still I'm singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
And I'm not who I thought I was twenty four hours ago
Still I'm singing Spirit take me up in arms with You

Twenty four reasons to admit that I'm wrong
With all my excuses still twenty four strong

See I'm not copping out not copping out not copping out
When You're raising the dead in me
Oh, oh I am the second man
Oh, oh I am the second man now
Oh, oh I am the second man now

And You're raising these twenty four voices
With twenty four hearts
With all of my symphonies
In twenty four parts
But I want to be one today
Centered and true

I'm singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
You're raising the dead in me
Oh, oh I am the second man
Oh, oh I am the second man now
Oh, oh I am the second man now
And You're raising the dead in me

I want to see miracles, see the world change
Wrestled the angel, for more than a name
For more than a feeling
For more than a cause
I'm singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
And You're raising the dead in me
Twenty four voices
With twenty four hearts
With all of my symphonies
In twenty four parts.
I'm not copping out. Not copping out. Not copping out.

how to uglify an electric

i don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that a guitar company is actually manufacturing an electric guitar with that on it's face, or that people are actually buying it.

the hello kitty craze is so annoying. someone please, make it stop!

rachmaninoff and rosemary

this is happening this coming thursday at roy thomson hall. the repertoire as a whole is great, but i'm most excited about the fact that jon kimura parker is playing rachmaninoff!! and not just any rachmaninoff piece. he's playing rach 2 - my most favourite piano concerto of all time! you don't understand how much i love this piece. this concert is going to be sooooooooo great!!

too bad i won't be able to make it. woe to me, i am crushed. :( *sobs*

on an completely unrelated note, earlier this week (and for most of last week) i was feeling pretty sick - my nose was running away, i went through way too many boxes of kleenex, and i kept sneezing no matter what i tried. anyway, one day while i was adding another tissue to my tissue mountain, i heard my sister start to sneeze and at that moment i decided to attempt to be domestic and make us some chicken noodle soup.

i found some chicken broth in the fridge (leftover from dinner the night before) and started breaking/boiling some spaghetti noodles, and ripping apart some cold-cuts to put the 'chicken' in my chicken noodle soup. everything was going great until it came time to spice it up. i started going through our cupboards for "something green" (i was looking for oregano), but when i couldn't find any i decided to use what i could find - rosemary. word of advice: don't use it in chicken noodle soup. it will make your soup taste wierd and make you, the cooker of the soup, feel both sad for messing it up, and bad for the people drinking it.

other than the foul aftertaste thanks to the rosemary, i thought it was pretty good. oh well, i guess a little of the wrong spice can really mess up an otherwise great meal. (i could come up with some cheesy life-parallel here, but instead i'll leave that up to you.) ;)

update on my feelings re: sondheim

it is time for me to eat my words. well, maybe just chew.
sondheim isn't that bad. he's just horrible to have to sight-read.

my comment still stands for tesh though. he's just cheese. as in john cheese. i mean, cleese. (i love john cleese!) ok, maybe cheese isn't the right word for john tesh then - i definitely do not love him (not that i know him or anything anyway). or his music.

in other news, autumn is coming. can you feel it?

into the crap.

i really don't care if into the woods won a million awards, i don't like the music. and i when i say don't like, i really mean LOATHE. i'd choose the music of jason robert brown, adam guettel, or stephen schwartz over stephen sondheim's anyday. lemme put it this way: i'd rather listen to john tesh, and that is saying a lot. :P

fullscreen vs. widescreen

i've always thought that widescreen dvds and fullscreen dvds were the same except for those black lines which on square tvs just made the picture smaller. i figured full screens were for square tvs and widescreen were for, well, widescreen tvs (makes sense, no?) apparently i was wrong - turns out they are not the same. at all.

don't believe me? see for yourself.

i was shocked at the difference. oh well, most of my dvds are in widescreen anyway except for *looks through dvds* hoodwinked...and all my harry potters. mama nooooo!

i wish someone had told me about this earlier, but at least now i know. and now, so you do. :)

hogwarts on the brain...

Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?

i'm a hufflepuff! i was kinda hoping for gryffindor, but i guess i'd rather be in hufflepuff than in ravenclaw. and well, anything is better than slytherin. haha.

p.s. i absolutely loved the seventh harry potter book! (i finished it the day i bought it, which was also the day it came out.) i think it's actually my favourite of the lot of them. i'm pretty sad the series is over, but at least it was good brilliant while it lasted. :)

complete randomness



today one of my coworkers casually told me that he was friends with a christian singer. ok whatever, was my first thought.

then i found out that his friend was mark masri. apparently they grew up together and are actually really good friends. (he even showed me his facebook as proof. haha.) i was expecting him to name some completely random unfamous dude so i was actually kinda impressed. mark masri is actually kinda famous. kinda. liz has his cd (from way back) and i remember justis used to sing one of his songs at the top of his lungs. :P

then he said he also grew up with another christian singer, hiram joseph. ehhhh not as famous as mr. masri, but ok. still kinda pretty impressive i suppose. i heard him sing somewhere sometime once or twice. he seemed like a nice guy with a pretty nice voice.

BUT THEN HE PULLED OUT THE KICKER.

coworker: "you know who tarzan dan is right?"
me: "yah! the radio guy that was in that metal camper thing on the Hit List!"
coworker: "yah...well, he's my brother."

WHAT????!?!?!?!?!?! :O :O :O

you know you're an 80s baby when you think that the fact that tarzan dan is your coworker's brother is totally cool. haha.

potter weekend

from reading the last book to seeing the movie, this past weekend was definitely harry potter weekend for me! to be perfectly honest, i thought the movie was kinda 'meh'. yah there were a lot of cool special effects, but i liked the fifth book better in my imagination. :P

it's been even longer...

...since i've updated my picture albums, but i did! well, i updated my imagestation at least. one can only do so many in one night. haha. :P

click here to see pics from winterlicious 2006, summerlicious @ toula, a softball game (illuminate vs. david's mighty men), and summerlicious @ auberge du pommier, along with other albums that are way old. enjoy! :)

it's been a while...

...since i've updated. i know, this post has been highly anticipated by the masses. (by masses, i mean my three faithful readers.) haha

it feels like many things have happened in the last little while, but to save you all the trouble of reading oodles and noodles of words (and myself the trouble of typing everything out) i'll give you the short condensed version: the highlights if you will.

- finished my clinical hours for my internship (best feeling ever! ok no, i lie.)
- finished helping out with kingdom kids (oh those little ones...)
- started working some job contracts (i am a free labourer no more.)
- met up with some lccf friends for a summerlicious dinner (good times!)

...and that's pretty much it (hmm, maybe not a lot has happened afterall. haha.) until next time, later dayz. :)

twenty-seven on the 27th!

happy golden birthday liz - hope you had the best and shiniest golden birthday ever!!! *<|:)

tough week

this week has been hard. very hard.
it's weeks like this week that make 9-5 deskjobs look so appealing to me.

lazy legz & crutch

i'll let the videos speak for themselves.


Luca 'Lazy Legz' Patuelli - born with arthrogryposis in his legs


Bill 'Crutch' Shannon - born with bilateral hip deformity

whatever happened to my lunchbox?

my internship is starting to wind down. i have about a month to go before it's finished - so close, yet so far. i have mixed feelings about this. on one hand i'm excited - excited to be done, excited to move on, excited to get a job and finally start making some moolas. on the other hand, i'm fully aware that once my internship is over i'll really be in the real world, doing the music therapy thing, and working without the security net of being in school or being just a music therapy intern. i'll miss my security nets, oh yes i will.
________________________

Here I stand
6 feet small
and smiling cause I'm scared as hell
kind of like my life is like a sequel to a movie
where the actor's names have changed
oh well

more than just a movie...

'the plan' worked and she never suspected anything! yay! the first of the musketeers - i wish nothing but love and happiness to you two!

CONGRATULATIONS SHANNON & VICTOR!!!!!!! :D

p.s. thanks for letting us play a part in your special moment. ;)

confessions of a swollen-eyed girl

ok, i confess: i'm one of those people who itch their eyes when they're itchy. i know i'm not supposed to do this, and i try my best not to (i really do!) but sometimes i just can't help it. :(

...NEVER again.

so yesterday, when i was at work, my eyes started to get itchy. i tried to ignore it, blink hard, or do something other than scratch, but sooner or later my finger found its way to my eye and began doing its thing. at first things were ok...then things got bad. really bad. it kinda went like this:



lovely, no? anyway, it's been almost a day since this happened but for some reason my eyes are still puffy (aghhhh). wierd thing is, i've never looked more asian in my life. the puffiness made my double eye-lid fold thing disappear, shrunk the size of my eyes, and now i look like cristina yang.

lesson learned. don't rub your eyes.

sidenote: today i went to work with puffy eyes, but oddly enough, the only person to comment on the puffiness was the only other chinese girl working there. it's like the others didn't even realize they were puffy at all...haha. :P

oh well, hopefully the swelling with disappear by tonight. i'm watching shrek 3 with the girls... ;)

mac on the brain

lately i've had my eye on getting one of these babies. i don't really need one per se, but i'm a total sucker for all the ads and marketing apple does. :P (and well, let's face it, macs are just so much easier on that eyes than pcs.) so with all that being said, i want one. haha. actually, i was debating whether or not to get a macbook or an imac, but after thinking about it for a while, i'd probably shell out the bit of extra money and get the macbook. i'd miss the portability factor too much i think.

oh well, if i do end up getting one it probably won't be for a while (i heard something about leopard coming out in october, and it looks pretty awesome) so my laptop now, despite the fact that it is getting a little too slow and laggy at times (it's turning 4 years old this year! it's almost ready to go to kindergarten!), will have to do...for now. ;)

anyway, before i go, here's a video that i thought was kinda funny in a really geeky way. :P

oh procrastinator me

so i have a little "accompanying gig" tomorrow. my ex-supervisor's husband is having an end-of-year concert for his students and they asked me if i could help them out, and i said yes. this means i will leave work early and go accompany to make a little extra money. yay! soooo, he gave me the music probably almost a month ago and, until just recently, it stayed right where i left it - on a spot on my bedroom floor. heh. i actually kinda forgot about it until i stepped on the pile of music and unearthed it from beneath a pile of clothes. ooops.

anyway, i finally came to my senses and realized the concert was THIS saturday on wednesday, so i got out the music and played through the pieces. most of it is ok, but one or two of the songs are a little harder than i expected. o_O oh goodness. i wish i had another day, but i don't. *sigh* we'll have to see how things go.

oh procrastinator me...once a slacker, always a slacker. :P

may already?!

what the crap. what happened to april?! :o
only two months left of my internship to go! the countdown starts now.
time is passing by so slowly but so fast at the same time. it makes me feel...confused. :P

i've become one of the masses...

so today i finally took the plunge: i joined facebook. recently my sister joined and kept going on about it, so i decided to get in on it too. haha, conformist much? :P i oh well, i suppose it was a long time coming anyway. seriously, it kinda felt like when i joined icq for the very first time - apparently everybody but me already had it. (or at least it felt that way!) at first i was scared it would be like friendster all over again (friendster was the suck), but so far...it's been a whole lot better.

actually, it kinda reminds me of asianavenue, only all ethnicities are invited and people generally do not TyPe LiKe DiS. *rolls eyes* good grief, let's just put those days behind us, shall we? :P

anyway, ever since i joined the book of faces, people have been warning me about the addictiveness of it all. i saw people when they went through their myspace fetish, but supposedly facebook is supposed to be even worse...ahhh! wish me luck. o_O

goodbye school. for real this time.

even though i graduated from laurier last year, i enrolled in an evening course (human anatomy and physiology) at ryerson's school for continuing education so i suppose technically one could say that i was still in school. once a week, since september, i made the trek downtown (there are some really strange people on the subway), but now those days are finally done and over. yesterday was my final exam, and i think it's safe to say that i bubbled in my last scantron bubble for a long time. feels good.

now comes the worst part: waiting to see how i did. o_O

so much more than just bunnies and eggs

He is Lord,
He is Lord,
He has risen from the dead and He is Lord,
Every knee shall bow,
Every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord.

the Lord is my Shepherd

even though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
- psalm 23:4

my kingmax super stick = super crap

my so-called indestructible, waterproof, and tinier-than-life (okay i made that last one up myself) kingmax super stick is now unrecognizable by my computer. i'm no techie, but i think it's safe to conclude that it's broken. good thing i backed up all my work files at work. i guess the store knows it sucks too, because when i bought it i paid $35. now it's selling for $12.99. piece of crap.

i knew i should have stuck with my original choice (a sandisk usb key that HAD a case and no exposed parts.) i knew i shouldn't have given into the whole "but it's waterproof" thing. (like i'm going to go swimming with it.) i knew i shouldn't have thrown out my receipt. (goodbye warranty. you need your receipt for it right?) :/

oh well, hindsight is always 20/20.

fling into spring

here's to...

...longer days

...warmer weather

...rain instead of snow

...blue skies and sunshine

...flowers instead of snowmen

...not having to brush snow off cars

...not having to wear bulky puffy coats that make you feel like the 'michelin man'-like marshmallow monster thing in ghostbusters

you've been fun winter, but now it's time for us to move on. see ya.

edit.

point taken chow - thanks for the heads up. i actually googled my name and my internship site just to see if my blog would come up (incase there were some snoopy people going around) and yah...it did. so i decided to erase my old post just incase. in my opinion i didn't say anything bad, and i doubt that my supervisor would ever come across my little online space, but i figured it's best to stay on the safe side. :P

just like the elementary school kids

this week is march break! usually i'd be like whatever, but this year things are a little different i suppose. my supervisor at bloorview let me and the other intern take it off as well so now i don't have as many sessions to do this week. i'm so glad. i totally needed this break.

you know, when i was still at school i thought that after i had graduated i'd have so much more time on my hands because of the whole "no homework" thing. i was so wrong...

anyway, before i go, here's a video from the three funny asian boys.

one week, two engagements...

...yup, i suppose it's been one good and productive week. haha. :)

congratulations clinton and evie!
congratulations leo and ann!

i'm so happy for all of you!!!! :D :D :D

session block #2: (almost) done.

i have one more session to do at the bloorview nursery school and then my second ten-week session block will be over! (i'll still be doing inpatient sessions, but at least my community clients and preschool sessions will be done.) i actually just finished off the last of my saturday morning/afternoon sessions today. this means that i can now sleep in for the next four saturdays. sweet deal - oh how i've missed my saturday mornings! today was exceptionally hard to get out of bed. i woke up to the sight of grey clouds, light rain and gloominess. the only upside to the gloomy weather? the rain had "washed" my car leaving it relatively salt-free and much cleaner without me having to pay some dude (ermm, corporation?) at a gas station to clean it for me. :P

p.s. happy national sharon's day!!!!!! ;)

bring on the pig

happy belated chinese new year everyone. it's my year this year - yay for pigs!

has it already been 12 years?
last time the pig was here, i turned 12.
this time around, i'm turning 24.
this means next time the mighty boar (haha) comes again, i'll be turning 36...

...time is flying.

because nothing says it better than this train

...and by "you" i mean you!! :)

happy valentine's day everyone!

needing grace

it's so frustrating when you realize that the biggest obstacle in your life is yourself.

"Set me free from my prison,
that I may praise Your name..." - Psalm 142:7a

mozilla firefox > internet explorer

i've been using firefox since justin introduced me to it back when we were still in university, and since then i've never looked back. with tabbed browsing, favourite icon quick link thingies (can you tell i'm not a computer geek?) and not as many annoying pop-up ads, i've never felt the need to go back to explorer. and boy am i glad i didn't.

so, i was at my parent's computer a few nights ago and was going to show my mom something when i clicked onto this page using the web browser my mom was using, internet explorer, and was greeted by the most ugly of uglies page. a fugly page if you will. too bad it was mine. haha. my pictures were HUGE, my banners weren't aligned and were also HUGE, and although i'm no graphic designer, i knew that what i was looking at was real bad. not to say my page is the best looking when it looks like what it's suppose to look like (because like i said, i'm no graphic designer), but let's not have the world's fugliest blog either if you know what i'm saying.

anyway, upon discovering that my page looked like that, i battled with the html (which still baffles me at times, but i am getting a little better at deciphering what codes do what) to try to get my page in explorer to look the way it does in firefox. yep. nothing worked. i managed to fix *some stuff* (i.e. at least my pictures aren't huge anymore) but still. things aren't working/looking right, and my poor blog is still fugly in IE...

...and i really need to stop procrastinating. haha.

the mid-way point

today is mid-term evaluation day for my internship. i really hope i don't get a whole bunch of ones and twos (out of five). :/ that would just...suck.

can't believe my internship is already half over. only 5 more months left of free labour! yay!

al st. louis | freedom

taken off his website, when words are spoken.

FREEDOM

10:48pm
Apr 17th 2005

In the beam of skylight my twilight zones in on the exact location of pimps ghosts and goblins goblin all of our natural resources but have we become the same?
Because most of us gobble gobble like feathered fowls living foul trying hard to peck our way through the maze this coop… driving coupes sedans jeeps and trucks… lost smoking fags and rolling blunts in hopes that the material will subside the yearning of the spiritual
But who designed this style of freedom where my brothers and sisters are starving on my mothers land?
And are we truly free working a 9 to 5 to survive in world where survival is a must?
Trust in God they say and he will see you through they say
But no one is saying how to trust in a being that doesn’t seem to be seeing the plights that I might go through on a day to day
So I find freedom in nickel sacs rolling zigs to zags just tryna get back to the man that I used to be… free
Before I became who I am… I was
But societal pressures now pressure my blood making it boil so my mercury rises… but skies the limit where God is and I’m doing all that I can to find it
You see I was… now lost in foreign lands doing all that I can this man in me just wants to be… free again
To express my deepest thoughts… to say what is and to refute what is not… to stand and fight for the right to be heard… to vote like my forefathers did carried on boats like my forefathers were… then to break the chains of slavery allowing my future seeds freedom like my forefathers now are
A star in my own right… but still got my own plights… so with pens and papers I write the whole truth… and nothing but… freedom of speech is nothing but… and somebody said that the truth shall set me free… but… there always seems to be a but…
So brothas hustle making ends meet… but ends are low so sistas depend on subsidy with no father to father the fatherless there’s no money to give to the homeless so more and more homes go up in B-town but downtown more and more lives are free to lay down on vents
Everybody cries for freedom… but most ain’t willing to search for her ‘cause she’s found way down deep within
And searching takes a bit of time and a whole lot of effort… but who has time in this new age of technology that is supposed to be free-ing up our time… cell phones fast cars palms on-stars…
And poor kids… ‘cause all parents see stars in ‘em but because their not they try hard to live free through them…
Gobble gobble… between work and managing a family where does it all go?
Gobble gobble… time is necessity and freedom a must so parents try hard to have both dividing freedom into mini blocks of little time while balancing 2 ‘n 3 jobs… 3 ‘n 4 lives… 4 ‘n 5 personalities
But personally if you were to ask me about freedom… I’d tell you that it is a state of mind…
What you envision you become… and only those who can stretch beyond known mental limits encompass freedom
So I make time to take time and find that place where my soul is at rest and unwind from stress filled days… because while society continues to stress subliminally sayin’… you need more pay to be free… I realize that I don’t
Freedom is where I walk… Freedom is where I stand… Freedom is knowing who I am… and Freedom is not giving a damn who you perceive me to be…
Freedom is waking every morning thanking your God for being blessed… and Freedom is knowing deep down on the inside… that you truly are as free as you Choose to be!

9:04pm
Apr 20th 2005
Created by Al St. Louis

winterlicious 2007



tonight, thanks to justin's persistence in making dinner reservations during winterlicious, we had dinner at auberge du pommier. the restaurant was homey, comfortable, and the atmosphere was so...relaxing. as for the service, even though we were probably the youngest people there (minus the little children with their family), the service was still excellent - unlike at other restuarants where they treat their younger customers like crap. with respect to the food...well...i'll just say that my tastebuds had the time of their lives yesterday. :d there was literally a party going on in my mouth which lasted 1.5 hours straight. the food was absolutely amazing. i'll never be able to eat salmon again. haha. anyway, i know i'll never be able to describe the food, so here are some pics.


starters: salted olives and some kind of spread they gave us for our bread.


appetizers: Salad d’Hiver // Potage of Golden Potato & French Shallot


main courses: Salmon Grillée // Entrecôte de Veau


desserts: Warm Brioche & Butter Pudding // Tart au Chocolat // Mignardise


great restaurant, great food, great company...thanks justin for a great night - i'm a lucky girl! :)

snowflakes keep fallin' on my head.



well, the canadian winter has finally found its way to toronto. snow is on the ground, it's not abnormally warm, and things feel normal again. there's something about snow that makes me feel like a 6 year old...i love it! i love the way it crunches beneath your boots, the way it falls and sticks to your hair and coat, the way it sparkles in the light of street lamps at night, and the way it covers the earth, making it look like someone spilled a bag of frosting sugar everywhere. yep, snow is great! well, until it turns into brown slushy crap. ughh.

so get on your toques, scarves, mittens, boots, and winter coats and go on outside! just remember, stay away from the yellow snow patches. o_O

monday nights on global



i used to think that prison break followed by heroes was good, but now monday nights on global have gone from awesome to freakin' awesome. prison break, heroes, and 24 all in a row?! good thing i'm not in school anymore. bah hah.

the craziness starts at 8pm. i'll see you at the tv.

relient k | be my escape

I’ve given up on giving up slowly,
I’m blending in so You won’t even know me
Apart from this whole world that shares my fate
This one last bullet you mention
Is my one last shot at redemption
Cause I know to live you must give your life away

And I’ve been housing all this doubt and insecurity
And I’ve been locked inside that house all the while You hold the key
And I’ve been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there’s no way in knowing where to go, promise I’m going because

I gotta get outta here
I’m stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I’m begging You, I’m begging You, I’m begging You to be my escape.

I’m giving up on doing this alone now
Cause I’ve failed and I’m ready to be shown how
He’s told me the way and I’m trying to get there
And this life sentence that I’m serving
I admit that I’m every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair

Cause I’ve been housing all this doubt and insecurity
And I’ve been locked inside that house all the while You hold the key
And I’ve been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there’s no way in knowing where to go, promise I’m going because

I gotta get outta here
Cause I’m afraid that this complacency is something I can’t shake
I gotta get outta here
And I’m begging You, I’m begging You, I’m begging You to be my escape.

I am a hostage to my own humanity
Self detained and forced to live in this mess I’ve made
And all I’m asking is for You to do what You can with me
But I can’t ask You to give what You already gave

Cause I’ve been housing all this doubt and insecurity
And I’ve been locked inside that house all the while you hold the key
And I’ve been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there’s no way in knowing where to go, promise I’m going because

I’ve gotta get outta here
I’m stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I’ve gotta get outta here
And I’m begging You, I’m begging You, I’m begging
You to be my escape.

I fought You for so long
I should have let You in
Oh how we regret those things we do
And all I was trying to do was save my own skin
But so were You

So were You
_________________

bumpy or not, as long as i go down this road hand-in-hand with Him, I'll be just fine. :)

2 . 0 . 0 . 7

happy new year everyone. :)

do you think that jan 1st sets the stage for how the rest of the year will turn out?
hope not, or else i'm in for a bumpy ride.