Fri
Short workout, 35mins. Skipped skating. Left work at 6.
Had nutella/banana/almond crepe and half a small piece of beef for supper. Very nice.
Played pool. Won 3 in a roll! What a miracle.
Sat...had a nice time
Woke up at 6:30. Fed my fishes.
Worked out, did about 40mins run and 5mins walk.
Went to work... till 5:00.
Had supper at President's Cafe. It's very nice and not too expensive (w/ the coupon)
I liked my duck and the dessert, Ginger creme burlee. Yum yum!!!
Went to T&T and bought baked almond cake biscuits.
Saw "Ray". It's very good!
Sun
Woke up at 7. Fed my fishes. Went to church. Today's topic was about the worst sinner makes the best saint. People that have nothing to loose can hold onto faith more.
Worked out, did about 40mins run, 3 mins walk.
Went to friend's recital with John. It was very nice.
Went grocery shopping with John. Got many stuffs. I got a bar of soap, goat milk.
My left ankle is hurting more and more by the day.
Went to Richmond center to buy new shoes. Got a pair in Aldo. Not cheap, but I'm willing to spend to get a nice pair than to get one that is cheap, heavy, uncomfortable/painful and falls apart after not too long.
To test it out... I wore it and walked around Richmond Center. It felt so good.
But, the downside of it is that I ended up buying more stuffs.... 4 tops and one new pair of pants. I do need more dress pants, I could return 2 of the tops if I wanted to...but the one that I could return goes with the one that has discount (i.e. non refundable) on it.
Went by Pet Habitat. Saw some fishes. None that looks interesting / big enuf for me. The neon tetra is about the nicest looking ones... but they're so tiny so hard to see. I still wanted to buy another bigger tank with some new fishes... altho I still have no idea what kind I really wanted. And, the bigger tanks are all above 100 bux. Some are even close to a thousand. Yikes!
After shopping, had 2 big pieces of lemon herb chicken at John's place and watched a lil oscar and washed a whole lot of things, just with hot water tho not with detergent. I hate to see things got stuck on the plate.
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
Busy beanie
Been so busy lately, didn't have time to update my blog :(.
Lets start with the valentine week.
Fri nite....nite market
Went to the nite market with my sister. It's the smallest nite market I had ever seen.
Paid 5 bux for 3 paper towel nets and got 9 red common gold fishes!! It was so very easy to catch them. The "tank" (or tub) was very small, and I had lots of practice spooning out my fish at home. My first 2 nets broke fast just because I tried to capture the big ones.
Food: half a scoop of Tiramisu gelato, fish siu mai, chow mein, 3 dragon beard soft fluffy candies. The gelato was very filling.
Afterwards, went to see John. Originally planned to see a friend from HK but she had forgotten. I probably played pool with John and lost most of the time.
Sat nite....Valentine's
Worked out then went to work, being a good girl.
One of the new fishes died. The biggest one, almost 2 inches long :'(
After work, went out to celebrate Valentine's day with John.
We went to Herons in Fairmount Hotel. It's very nice. I had the "apple crisp... sugar loaded squash flan". It felt like an appetizer but it's very nice and unique, never tasted anything like that before.
John had the Minon, two big pieces of it. It's very nice as well.
For dessert, we had the banana flambee with dark chocolate tart. The rum sauce on the 1/4 banana was very nice. I just wished that there were more of it.
We went back to John's apartment and played pool.
Sun....Shopping for fish supply
So, I bought a 10-gallon tank startup kit (tank, filter, thermometer, water conditioner), 2 bags of gravel (one red one white), Cycle (to nutrify nitrite), AquaPlus (to remove chlorine and stuffs from tab water), floating color enhancing fish pallets. Everything costed about 75 bux. I used the 20% (up to $20 discount) and got 22 bux off.
I washed everything under hot water (washed the gravel 5 times), assembled the filter, put in the water, put in the conditioner, and the fishes seemed to be very happy.
But, then during the week, the water started to get murkier and murkier and had a weird smell... On the 4th day, it's the worst. The whole house smelled funny.
At nite, went to John's parents' place for supper. We had delicious salmon, and fried veggies. I esp love the veggies. It tasted exactly like what you'd eat in a chinese restaurant.
Last weekend...relaxing
The weather was so nice, couldn't bring myself to work.
Enjoyed the whole weekend.
Sat...
Dim sum with family in the Chinese mandarin restaurant next to Yaohan.
Did a ~40-45min workout. My legs were so sore, almost couldn't complete it.
Changed the water in the tank. Didn't quite know how to use the gravel vacuum, did too much in one area and didn't have enuf water to do the rest.
Saw Constantine with John and Amanada. It felt too long but it's pretty interesting. There are some things that I don't quite get, like how come the Angel is helping to bring in a demon to Earth, doesn't make much sense. My sis said it's boring, so boring to the point that she is paying attention to the lil crookiness in Keanu's teeth. After the movie, we went for bubble tea. I had the hot grass jelly again. It's very good. This time I remembered to request to skip the topioca.
Sun...
Went to church, did not workout.
Went to Vancouver public library, it's huge. Each level is bigger than the one in IronWood or Brighouse. There are at least 4 levels. I borrowed 2 goldfish books using John's card. I better remember to return them else I would have to pay interest.
Went to 3 stores for fish supplies. Went to Petecetera, Daiso, the fish shop near Hazelbridge, and Pet Habitat in Richmond Center. I saw a new store in Richmond Center, Morgon. The clothes are very nice and different from others, but very expensive. Everything seems to be above a 100 bux but some do have 50% discount. But, my mind is not in clothing anymore.
Got some decorations: fake orange plant, fake big rock with 2 holes, ball with 5 holes 4 on the sides and one on the bottom, fake sign saying "No Fishing" with a seahorse holding it. I now regretted that I only bought the 10-gallon tank, cuz I can't put anymore fish or decorations in :(.
Got medicine: Nox-ich.. since 2 or 3 of the fishes seems to be having ick. Saw one of them scratching its body against the gravel. The infected ones all had white beads on their bodies, esp the tails.
Got new food: Slowly sinking crumps for goldfish.
Got cleaner: B-clean, enzyme to uncloudy the tank due to excess organic matter from waste or food, and new tank syndrome. Effective in 24-48 hrs. I wonder if I should have gotten the P-clean. It says it will uncloudy the tank due to suspended particles and algae, effective in 1 hr.
Got air pump, airtones, and air tubing.
The fishes are still getting used to the big rock in the tank. Only 1 or 2 dare to go thru the holes in the rock.
After some searching on the web, I did notice that I did several things wrong:
- should not mix chemicals, I think I mixed B-clean with Nox-ich, and Phstablizer with Start Right (should use it when first started but forgot about it so I used it when changing the water), a lil AquaPlus, and Cycle. I think mixing those water conditioner should be ok.
- should leave the aquarium without fish for a few days without fishes after setting it up.. which I didn't
Skating
On Aaron request, the coach is teaching us some off-ice axel exercise.
Still cannot do it.
Had super sore legs on thurs and fri. Still couldn't do an axel on the ground.
The coach is starting to put a program for us for the show. It's just simple boring stuffs, nothing fancy. I better start practicing my scratch spin and "sit" spin. He asked me to show him those last time.
On friday, I went to 8-rink to skate. It didn't feel as cold as I remembered it. The ice wasn't as terrible as I remembered it as well. It's just a lil hard. I actually find it easier to skate there, probably because harder ice gives u better indication of where ur edge is.
I saw Mira again, didn't stay there long enuf to watch, only saw her popped a loop jump. It's so crowded in the figure skating rink. I wonder how they can get their practice done.
Today
This morning I felt stressed and over-ate... besides the skim milk, I had two chinese buns, one plain and one with seasame, pork shreds, and margarine.
Worked out for only 40mins... pulled a joint/muscle on my right upper thigh.
Trying to catch up on work but had a very long meeting... so long that I had to skip my skating :(.. but probably a good idea.
Went out for lunch with colleagues, we had Japanese food. I think I had too much rice. I feel fat today.
Unbelievable...
Spent over an hr checking and rechecking my web.xml file.
It kept complaining about my servlet-mapping tag is not closed... but I rechecked and rechecked and it is closed....
Not after I got so frustrated that I deleted almost everything there and started from scratch then I realized that I forgot to put in "\" in the closing tag... so my closing tag is like an opening tag.... URGHHHH!
Lets start with the valentine week.
Fri nite....nite market
Went to the nite market with my sister. It's the smallest nite market I had ever seen.
Paid 5 bux for 3 paper towel nets and got 9 red common gold fishes!! It was so very easy to catch them. The "tank" (or tub) was very small, and I had lots of practice spooning out my fish at home. My first 2 nets broke fast just because I tried to capture the big ones.
Food: half a scoop of Tiramisu gelato, fish siu mai, chow mein, 3 dragon beard soft fluffy candies. The gelato was very filling.
Afterwards, went to see John. Originally planned to see a friend from HK but she had forgotten. I probably played pool with John and lost most of the time.
Sat nite....Valentine's
Worked out then went to work, being a good girl.
One of the new fishes died. The biggest one, almost 2 inches long :'(
After work, went out to celebrate Valentine's day with John.
We went to Herons in Fairmount Hotel. It's very nice. I had the "apple crisp... sugar loaded squash flan". It felt like an appetizer but it's very nice and unique, never tasted anything like that before.
John had the Minon, two big pieces of it. It's very nice as well.
For dessert, we had the banana flambee with dark chocolate tart. The rum sauce on the 1/4 banana was very nice. I just wished that there were more of it.
We went back to John's apartment and played pool.
Sun....Shopping for fish supply
So, I bought a 10-gallon tank startup kit (tank, filter, thermometer, water conditioner), 2 bags of gravel (one red one white), Cycle (to nutrify nitrite), AquaPlus (to remove chlorine and stuffs from tab water), floating color enhancing fish pallets. Everything costed about 75 bux. I used the 20% (up to $20 discount) and got 22 bux off.
I washed everything under hot water (washed the gravel 5 times), assembled the filter, put in the water, put in the conditioner, and the fishes seemed to be very happy.
But, then during the week, the water started to get murkier and murkier and had a weird smell... On the 4th day, it's the worst. The whole house smelled funny.
At nite, went to John's parents' place for supper. We had delicious salmon, and fried veggies. I esp love the veggies. It tasted exactly like what you'd eat in a chinese restaurant.
Last weekend...relaxing
The weather was so nice, couldn't bring myself to work.
Enjoyed the whole weekend.
Sat...
Dim sum with family in the Chinese mandarin restaurant next to Yaohan.
Did a ~40-45min workout. My legs were so sore, almost couldn't complete it.
Changed the water in the tank. Didn't quite know how to use the gravel vacuum, did too much in one area and didn't have enuf water to do the rest.
Saw Constantine with John and Amanada. It felt too long but it's pretty interesting. There are some things that I don't quite get, like how come the Angel is helping to bring in a demon to Earth, doesn't make much sense. My sis said it's boring, so boring to the point that she is paying attention to the lil crookiness in Keanu's teeth. After the movie, we went for bubble tea. I had the hot grass jelly again. It's very good. This time I remembered to request to skip the topioca.
Sun...
Went to church, did not workout.
Went to Vancouver public library, it's huge. Each level is bigger than the one in IronWood or Brighouse. There are at least 4 levels. I borrowed 2 goldfish books using John's card. I better remember to return them else I would have to pay interest.
Went to 3 stores for fish supplies. Went to Petecetera, Daiso, the fish shop near Hazelbridge, and Pet Habitat in Richmond Center. I saw a new store in Richmond Center, Morgon. The clothes are very nice and different from others, but very expensive. Everything seems to be above a 100 bux but some do have 50% discount. But, my mind is not in clothing anymore.
Got some decorations: fake orange plant, fake big rock with 2 holes, ball with 5 holes 4 on the sides and one on the bottom, fake sign saying "No Fishing" with a seahorse holding it. I now regretted that I only bought the 10-gallon tank, cuz I can't put anymore fish or decorations in :(.
Got medicine: Nox-ich.. since 2 or 3 of the fishes seems to be having ick. Saw one of them scratching its body against the gravel. The infected ones all had white beads on their bodies, esp the tails.
Got new food: Slowly sinking crumps for goldfish.
Got cleaner: B-clean, enzyme to uncloudy the tank due to excess organic matter from waste or food, and new tank syndrome. Effective in 24-48 hrs. I wonder if I should have gotten the P-clean. It says it will uncloudy the tank due to suspended particles and algae, effective in 1 hr.
Got air pump, airtones, and air tubing.
The fishes are still getting used to the big rock in the tank. Only 1 or 2 dare to go thru the holes in the rock.
After some searching on the web, I did notice that I did several things wrong:
- should not mix chemicals, I think I mixed B-clean with Nox-ich, and Phstablizer with Start Right (should use it when first started but forgot about it so I used it when changing the water), a lil AquaPlus, and Cycle. I think mixing those water conditioner should be ok.
- should leave the aquarium without fish for a few days without fishes after setting it up.. which I didn't
Skating
On Aaron request, the coach is teaching us some off-ice axel exercise.
Still cannot do it.
Had super sore legs on thurs and fri. Still couldn't do an axel on the ground.
The coach is starting to put a program for us for the show. It's just simple boring stuffs, nothing fancy. I better start practicing my scratch spin and "sit" spin. He asked me to show him those last time.
On friday, I went to 8-rink to skate. It didn't feel as cold as I remembered it. The ice wasn't as terrible as I remembered it as well. It's just a lil hard. I actually find it easier to skate there, probably because harder ice gives u better indication of where ur edge is.
I saw Mira again, didn't stay there long enuf to watch, only saw her popped a loop jump. It's so crowded in the figure skating rink. I wonder how they can get their practice done.
Today
This morning I felt stressed and over-ate... besides the skim milk, I had two chinese buns, one plain and one with seasame, pork shreds, and margarine.
Worked out for only 40mins... pulled a joint/muscle on my right upper thigh.
Trying to catch up on work but had a very long meeting... so long that I had to skip my skating :(.. but probably a good idea.
Went out for lunch with colleagues, we had Japanese food. I think I had too much rice. I feel fat today.
Unbelievable...
Spent over an hr checking and rechecking my web.xml file.
It kept complaining about my servlet-mapping tag is not closed... but I rechecked and rechecked and it is closed....
Not after I got so frustrated that I deleted almost everything there and started from scratch then I realized that I forgot to put in "\" in the closing tag... so my closing tag is like an opening tag.... URGHHHH!
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Sore...
Watched "24" at John's place, and helped rehearsed his speech.
Had beef barley soup, and a whole bunch of Muslix.
After I went home I saw walnut cake, and finished that as well. Quite a lot too, about 4 handfuls of it.
Did too many flip jump yesterday. They were much better than before so I got obssessed with it. Progressed from hopping to really jumping.
My left inside thigh hurts so much today, I have trouble lifting my foot up to put sock on. However I's still able to run on the treadmill, using different muscles I think. Didn't do too much, about 13 laps 40mins.
I had a big breakfast again, one cup of skim milk + 1 toast with margarine and splenda + 3 Ritz crackers + 1/4 cup of 2% chocolate milk. Then after workout I had 2 pieces of meat and a few strings of kale.... while I was packing lunch.
Was planning to work late today, but mom wants me home for supper tonite since it's the nite before Chinese New Year. I'm so behind at work :(. And, my fish desparately needed clean water.
Had beef barley soup, and a whole bunch of Muslix.
After I went home I saw walnut cake, and finished that as well. Quite a lot too, about 4 handfuls of it.
Did too many flip jump yesterday. They were much better than before so I got obssessed with it. Progressed from hopping to really jumping.
My left inside thigh hurts so much today, I have trouble lifting my foot up to put sock on. However I's still able to run on the treadmill, using different muscles I think. Didn't do too much, about 13 laps 40mins.
I had a big breakfast again, one cup of skim milk + 1 toast with margarine and splenda + 3 Ritz crackers + 1/4 cup of 2% chocolate milk. Then after workout I had 2 pieces of meat and a few strings of kale.... while I was packing lunch.
Was planning to work late today, but mom wants me home for supper tonite since it's the nite before Chinese New Year. I'm so behind at work :(. And, my fish desparately needed clean water.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Lazy weekend
Fri nite
Rented "Shaun of the dead". It's quite funny.
Sat
Woke up at 6:00am, watched some Alias, then went back to sleep.
Didn't workout till eleven.
Went to John's place, watched some TV, then went to family chinese new year dinner. I love the dessert. John didn't have a good time. Cousin was 10-15mins late and they didn't really talk to us, but I'm used to that.
We then played pool. I won 3 out of 5 games... i think.
Sun
Went to church. Talked about how the world is all in conflict, that religion is a private matter and got pushed to one side, that that is not true, that it is in every part of our life....
I find that I'm paying more attention in church now... cuz John might ask me what I'd learned in church.
Saw my high school friends, one of them came back from HK. I mostly only talked to Sabrina. She said she'll make her boyfriend have dinner w/ us someday, but not next weekend. I ordered the hot grass jelly drink. It's extremely good. I loved it except for the tapioca pearl and the beans that they put in there. I feel heavy after finishing all the beans and tapioca.
We'll be having another gathering coming Thurs nite, after 9:00pm. Time is ok for me since I have class till nine. I'm hoping to bring John but he might be too tired after his class.
Rented "Shaun of the dead". It's quite funny.
Sat
Woke up at 6:00am, watched some Alias, then went back to sleep.
Didn't workout till eleven.
Went to John's place, watched some TV, then went to family chinese new year dinner. I love the dessert. John didn't have a good time. Cousin was 10-15mins late and they didn't really talk to us, but I'm used to that.
We then played pool. I won 3 out of 5 games... i think.
Sun
Went to church. Talked about how the world is all in conflict, that religion is a private matter and got pushed to one side, that that is not true, that it is in every part of our life....
I find that I'm paying more attention in church now... cuz John might ask me what I'd learned in church.
Saw my high school friends, one of them came back from HK. I mostly only talked to Sabrina. She said she'll make her boyfriend have dinner w/ us someday, but not next weekend. I ordered the hot grass jelly drink. It's extremely good. I loved it except for the tapioca pearl and the beans that they put in there. I feel heavy after finishing all the beans and tapioca.
We'll be having another gathering coming Thurs nite, after 9:00pm. Time is ok for me since I have class till nine. I'm hoping to bring John but he might be too tired after his class.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Waste of time
Yesterday lesson was a waste of time.
We did a lot of warmup:
1. forward crossover when reaches the side of the rink then skate on 2 feet and bend down to glide to the other end of the rink, and repeat
2. do the above but backward
3. do '1', but while gliding on 2 feet switch to 1 foot and extend it backwards
4. do '3', besides extending it backwards, bring it to front and extend it in front of ur body.
After he went thru the beginner and intermediate group, he had no time for us :'(. Not fair...
We need the last 10 mins to prep for the show. He's still trying to figure out what we can do. We did pumping while holding hands and forming a circle then stop and rotate and do it in the other direction, we did a line that rotates, and we did stopping on his command.
I think I should join anothe class, there is just too many ppl in the class now.
We did a lot of warmup:
1. forward crossover when reaches the side of the rink then skate on 2 feet and bend down to glide to the other end of the rink, and repeat
2. do the above but backward
3. do '1', but while gliding on 2 feet switch to 1 foot and extend it backwards
4. do '3', besides extending it backwards, bring it to front and extend it in front of ur body.
After he went thru the beginner and intermediate group, he had no time for us :'(. Not fair...
We need the last 10 mins to prep for the show. He's still trying to figure out what we can do. We did pumping while holding hands and forming a circle then stop and rotate and do it in the other direction, we did a line that rotates, and we did stopping on his command.
I think I should join anothe class, there is just too many ppl in the class now.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
:(
Lost my necklace at the rink yesterday :(
I'm gonna go there and check again today.
TV nite
New episodes yesterday, "Gilmore Girls", "One Tree Hill", and "Judying Amy".
Got a chinese TV series DVD and VCDs from my friend.
So far it's a bit disappointing. Many things are just too unrealistic.
Using the mind to make a call to a cell phone?! I think that's a bit too far fetched eventhough I like to watch Sci-Fi and supernatural stuffs.
And, I'm not so sure if I did watch Vol II. They were showing scenes from the previous episodes and I couldn't recall having seen it.
Good run
Had a good run yesterday and today. Both about 45-50mins. Did have a lil cramp this morning and had to stop for a min at 20mins. But, afterwards, I felt fine.
I'm gonna go there and check again today.
TV nite
New episodes yesterday, "Gilmore Girls", "One Tree Hill", and "Judying Amy".
Got a chinese TV series DVD and VCDs from my friend.
So far it's a bit disappointing. Many things are just too unrealistic.
Using the mind to make a call to a cell phone?! I think that's a bit too far fetched eventhough I like to watch Sci-Fi and supernatural stuffs.
And, I'm not so sure if I did watch Vol II. They were showing scenes from the previous episodes and I couldn't recall having seen it.
Good run
Had a good run yesterday and today. Both about 45-50mins. Did have a lil cramp this morning and had to stop for a min at 20mins. But, afterwards, I felt fine.
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