from me to you...

google people = creative geniuses

from the olympics to chinese new year, you can always tell when it's a 'special day' by looking at the google homepage banner.

exhibit A:

"happy birthday edvard munch!"

i'm always so impressed by their banners, and today...well today is no exception. how the google people come up with this great stuff is beyond me. here's how my happy birthday edvard munch banner would look:

"happy birthday edvard munch - please don't be offended."

...and this is why i'm not part of the awesome google people creative genius team. heh.

give me my picture back



i don't know why, but for some reason, the first time i saw this commercial last year there were freakin' tears in my eyes. t e a r s. i kid you not. it's hard enough holding it together when the grandpa pulls out the picture of "right wing" son, but when his grandson scores and he announces it to everyone in the stands all proud and everything...omg...

freakin' timmys and their freakin' coffee commercials. *sniff*

anyway, i was watching tv the other night and it came on again. this can only mean one thing. winter's coming/here. that, or the olympics are on again.

...and suddenly i have a craving for donuts.

snowdays



the more snowflakes created between now to the end of the year, the more money popular front will donate to the salvation army. (and who or what exactly is popular front? honestly, i have no idea. all i know is more flakes = more money given to the salvation army, and that can't be bad thing.)

make a flake, make a difference.
dang. i should be a slogan creator.

click here to be part of the snowflake-making goodness.

the worst kind of blogger

i switched over to blogger beta because usually anything associated with google is pretty good, but after seeing how useless the switch was, i really wish i didn't. and now i can't go back. stupid blogger beta. oh yah, and i guess my archives knew how bad blogger beta was because as soon as i switched over, they ran away and now they're gone. please come back.

don't do it. don't switch to blogger beta. consider yourself warned.

ok, i really need to stop procrastinating. haha. :P

two months in...



so i've been interning for about two months now and even though the pay sucks crap ($0/hr and no, that's not a type-o) i've generally been enjoying myself. most days work doesn't even really feel like "work" which i suppose is a good sign. haha. :) in retrospect, not getting into grad school was a huge blessing in disguise. sure there are days when i wonder what my life would have been like if my own plans for myself had become a reality, but at the end of the day i'm glad things turned out the way they did. i guess, at least for now, He has plans for me in this field.

there are still times when i worry about whether or not i'll be able to find a job after my internship is over, and other times where the thought of working as a music therapist scares me for some reason, but there isn't really anything i can do about it at this point. the only thing i can do is take things as they come, know that He is looking after me, and trust that things will be ok.

twenty-three and still silly

to the greatest boyfriend in the whole world,
you deserve nothing short of the greatest day ever.
happy birthday justin! :)

the feeling and the fray

on the left:the feeling; on the right:the fray
last night i went to see the fray concert at the kool haus in toronto. since the dvp was closed all weekend, the trip downtown (via yonge st) was a pretty crazy ride full of morons turning left and idiots stopped on the side of the road for no apparent reason. oh well, no matter. we managed to get down safely and even though we didn't get that free parking spot at least we got there and didn't have to wait in line TOO long (we stood in line for about 45 mins) despite leaving my house at around 7:20pm.

the opening band for the night was the feeling and they were wicked awesome! i am so a fan of theirs now. so incredibly entertaining. at one point the lead vocalist/guitarist got so crazy with his dancing he started kicking one of the drum crash cymbals with his foot. then at the same time the bassist went to the drums too and was bashing away at the set with another set of sticks while the actual drummer kept playing too. i was laughing so hard it was so freakin' hilarious. those guys were so fun to watch because it was so evident that they were having so much fun themselves. oh and did i mention their accents? they're from the uk so they had these great brit accents that reminded me of my cousins. i wish i had an accent.

honestly, after watching the feeling, the fray was less entertaining to watch. maybe it was because they generally seemed more into their music the last time i saw them live, but everyone has their off days i suppose. also, isaac (the lead singer) is at a piano so it's not like he can dance around and kick the cymbals with his feet. (haha that was so gold.) nevertheless, they still put on a great show though and they played two new songs which were pretty good. towards the end of the show this guy (i think he was groupie) came out because it was his 21st birthday. everyone sang him happy birthday then during the next song he proceeded to sit on the piano and drink. seriously, this guy must have been so wsted afterwards. he drank one kegger full and at least two bottles of beer in the span of like 4 mins. the drummer was laughing so hard that i was surprised he was still able to play. there was literally a stage guy whose job for that song was to hand the birthday boy more alcohol. that whole part of the concert was kinda dumb.

oh well, i still had a good time. :)

pictures from the night can be found here.

nick lachey | resolution

there's something about this song that gives me the chills. everything about it just seems so...vulnerable. poor guy. great song.



that high B nick hits during the verse...wow. simply, wow.

unnaturally green



as part of my birthday present from liz, we went to see wicked yesterday and i thought it was freakin' awesome!! from the minute i stepped into the canon theatre to the moment i stepped out, i was so excited!

in terms of our seats, i couldn't believe our luck when we purchased our tickets. never before have i ever sat in such good seats at a musical (orch row EE seats 25 & 26 - fifth row centre.) it seriously doesn't get much better than that. i swear one of the performers in the ensemble looked right at me during the musical! haha. it was awesome being so close. i got to see everything from facial expressions and stage make-up, to costume/set design and spit flying out of the performer's mouths. very cool.

as for the performance in general, i thought that it was done really well. the performers were great, and the musicians in the orchestra pit were right on. (omg i would LOVE to play in a musical.) i guess if you were to compare our performance with the original soundtrack you'd hear a lot of discrepancies, but i really liked hearing it live. i loved hearing how the performers really personalized their roles in the little things they did to tweak their part. seemed all that much more...real.

i waited a looooong time to see this musical and it definitely didn't let me down. the plot was great, the singing was great, and the music was awesome! i totally recommend this musical to everyone.

so what did i think of wicked? i thought it was well...wicked. ;)
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totally random...

so during the intermission i walked out of the theatre and into the main foyer area when i saw this guy who looked really familiar. i guess he thought i looked really familiar to him too because we just kinda looked at each other. then we kinda walked towards each other going "jeremy?", "sharon?", "jeremy ross?", "sharon man?" hahaha. i seriously couldn't believe the randomness of it all.

anyway, he was one of my classmates back in grade eight. it was cool seeing him again and hearing what he's been up to lately. i guess despite turning 23, i still look the same as i did when i was 13.

i'm still trying to decide whether this is a good thing or not.