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!