S & V's Wedding: 08.16.08

our shannon is married! she is someone i literally grew up with since birth, one of my best friends, and now she's victor's wife. :) i'm honoured to have had the privilege of standing up there with you shannon. congrats again you two!

from zero to thirteen

no need to feel embarrased anymore! zero medals in the first week, but thirteen medals in the span of a few days in the second (including one gold by an asian - sweet!) we've already beat the medal count from athens, yay! keep them a comin' team canada. :)

p.s. how beautiful are these medals? those rings inlaid in the gold, silver, and bronze are 100% jade - i love the asian influence! china really went all out for the olympics (right down to the medals) and continues to impress me with their hosting of these games. canada has a lot to live up to for vancouver 2010. o_O

canada, where are our medals?

beijing 2008 has been so exciting to watch (especially women's gymnastics and swimming - the water cube is the coolest building ever!), but sadly it has also been a really bad olympic games for canada so far. with the US with their 29 medals (darn them!) and china with their 27 (yay china!), our zero medals to date has been nothing short of embarrassing. (no offense, but even mongolia has a medal.) i know that the athletes are trying their best and i recognize that i could never even come anywhere close to doing what they do so all the power to them, but i'd be lying if i said it hasn't been frustrating to watch. i think this kind of sums it all up.

nevertheless there's still time and so there is still hope. come on team canada, you can do it!

hnic anthem challenge

so i did it. i took the plunge and submitted my attempt to fill in the big shoes left behind by 'the hockey song'. at first i was pretty hesitant, but i figured i didn't really have anything to lose to at least try, so i threw something together using garageband (well, after i figured out how to work the program, haha), tweaked it a little bit here and there, and this is what i came up with.

i suppose the worse thing that can happen is that i don't win, but i'm not even really going into this with any expectations so i guess i'm in a pretty good place. let me know what you think.

the 29th olympiad

so the 2008 summer olympics in beijing have begun! hello days of sitting in front of the tv, watching hours of sports (usually unheard of for me), and trying to soak in as much of the olympics that i can while it's still here. can't believe it's already been 4 years since the last one...

i'm especially excited for swimming, women's gymnastics, diving, rowing, and some of the running. can't wait! i'll be cheering on canada, australia, and china. alright, let's go get us some medals!

carrying the banner

so i finally got my hands on a copy of newsies this past saturday and although the last time i saw this movie was at least 7-10 years ago, it was like being reunited with an old friend. i've already watched it 4 times (not including watching clips of the movie here and there), sung all the songs at the top of my lungs, and watched all the bonus material. hahaha. i'm freakin' amazing.

i miss good quality movies like this - they're just not the same nowadays. my apologies to the high school musical fans out there, but newsies totally kicks high school musical's arse over and over again. the dancing is better. the singing is better. the music is better. the storyline is better. everything about it is just better. oh and did i mention that christian bale is in it? (i love christian bale - loved him ever since newsies!) come on now let's be honest, zac effron has got nothing on christian bale. i mean can you imagine zac effron as batman? eww, gross.

p.s. speaking of batman, i watched the dark knight with justin last friday and it was so good! scary at times (yay for justin letting me peek through his fingers!), but really good nonetheless. heath ledger was phenomenal as the joker. it's easy to see why he would have been so disturbed and unable to sleep - that joker is one deranged lunatic - its too bad how things turned out. so tragic. in any case, he was great and i really do hope he gets that oscar.