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.
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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... ;)