Travel Bag

Travel Bag
Originally uploaded by Mike KC

So, This is the first time i am blogging a photo. So i dont know how this will look like on the blog, i hope it looks good. =P
Well, this is really the last post before i leave for hk. Im leaving tomorro!
argh!
i'm excited.
I'm worried too - as usual
gonna take lots of pictures
packing was fun, when i was packing alone. But then when it got to my mom, it was hard, cause she didnt know what she was doing. she was confused and didn't agree with me. Calvin was worse. I told him fifty thousand times to pack but he didn't and tells me to pack stuff last minute. - terrible. But i guess it's okay. We're just going for a family vacation - haven't done that in a while. So yeah, open mind, optimistic. Everything should be fine!
Post later! - i think i'll post when im in hong kong. i hope i do, but if i dont, its either bec ause i am too tired or my brother is using the computer!

Bike ride

Well, that wasn't the last post before I leave. Anyways.

I finished tutoring and I went out for a long bike ride. Acutally I didn't expect it to be that long. But when I went out I just didn't want to go back home. I was looking for a moleskine, but I couldn't find one at staples. So I took a ride from my house to futureshop, just because I had to go in there, and then to staples, then to markville and then back home. It took 2 hours. I was super tired and still am. However, it was a nice ride. Too bad I cant ride bikes in hk.

I'm actually having a lot of fun on flickr. I didn't know that you could do all that stuff with it. Although it's a bad waste of time =(

Anywho, gonna take more pictures!

Last Farewell?

Well, this might just be the last time I post before I leave for hong kong. Just depends on the level of busyness. Lol. Yeah, I didn't even plan to blog today, its just that my cousin is sleeping so he took over my room and I woke up early for tutoring, but then she changed the time T.T. so I'm here doing nothing. =( - might as well blog!

So for the past little while a few things happened. My dad got a bike too… so he's gonna ride with me. I've been a bit better with homework. I've packed all my stuff and uploaded all the songs I need. I cleaned out my whole room yesterday again! I didn't expect to do two cleanups in one summer, but I guesss its okay. Cleaning is always good. I put everything on my table away because I don't want the stuffs to be spider infested and dusty when I come back.

I took a ton of pictures and I'm gonna take more in hong kong – hopefully. =D

Check the pictures out on the flikr link ß that way!

Yeah, what's bad is that I haven't gone out with friends any more… I saw Christina at markville! But that's about it. I went to the gym two more times, which is quite bad… but eh

Uh oh… time for tutoring! Integration substitution method! Yay!

Post later… I think

Simple, beauty, happy

So, once again, it's been a long time since I posted. I've opened up a document so many times trying to type a post. I have so much that I want to say, but I am always just so tired or too preoccupied doing something else that I don't end up posting.

Anyways, my summer so far has been really good. I've enjoyed it, spent a lot of time with my family and gotten a lot closer with them, however the only thing I am missing is my connection with my friends. I know lots of them hang out with each other a lot… however, I usually blame that on the fact that I don't live close enough, it's not like I can get out the door and walk 10 minutes to a friends house. But I guess that's just an excuse. Anyways, I still enjoy spending all this time with my family. I've enjoyed it and feel fortunate to be able to do that, cause lots of people cant, and I thank God for that.

See, this week went by so slowly… it seems like the things that I did last Sunday was done two or three weeks ago. I've just done so much stuff this week that it feels like time passed slowly. It's not that I didn't enjoy myself, it just feels like I was doing the things for a really long time. Anyways, last Sunday I went to a park. A really big park, overseeing parts of lake Ontario and there were lots of people there. It was just my dad and me though. I wish more people came. It was really nice there. And it was a great time to think about the past. I remember when I was young like grade oneish, my dad would always bring my brother and I there. It's really nice, and I really miss the place.

Oh and last Thursday I got myself a DSLR. It was really expensive, and I feel really bad for getting it. However, I am still really enjoying it. I really love taking pictures and now with the dslr I can take even more pictures and make them look even nicer. It was really hard to decide which one to get. I have been thinking about it for months now and I've asked a lot of people online and done lots of research. I thought it would be really easy to take lots of nice pictures like everyone else. But then I realized that that wasn't the case. My pictures look really bad, better than before, but still bad. I hope that I will be able to take better pictures though, I know I just need practice. But the thing is lots of people fix up their pictures on like photoshop or hdr it on photomatix, although I have photoshop, I'm really not good at it, and I don't know how to do much things with it, so I cant really make my pictures look better with it. However, I know that a good picture needs a good photographer, and I'm willing to try to be that good photographer. Anyways, I've got lots of practicing chances in hk and japan in august, so I will take lots and ltos and lots of pictures =D

I also went to Niagara falls. That is a place that I go to every year with my dad. He says that he likes to go there every year just to see the falls. And he always wants us to go with him, so of course I went. However. This year, because calvin had summer school he did not go, only I went with him. Although it was just the two of us, we still had a good time. The good thing is that I got my camera so I took lots of pictures. We went out to the street to walk around and stuff which was relly cool.

I went to Nathan Philips square and other places down town with my dad as well. The cool thing is I spent some time walking outside… although I was born here and all, I've never actually walked outside. So it was a good experience and it was really cool there. I also took lots of pictures as you would have guessed.

The next day… Wednesday, I went to the gym. Finally. I always say I will go and I want to go and blah blah blah, but I never end up going. It sucks. But yeah, I finally ended up going and im happy that I went. But now my triceps are sore. Haha. It's a good thing. I hope to go more… but then there isn't much time for me to go because im going to hk… although there is a gym there, I only went once last year.

On Friday I went out to dim sum with my family and it was a nice relaxing morning. And then the rest of the day and majority of today my mom and my uncle were discussing about booking a cruise for the Christmas holidays and we were looking for good deals and plane prices online and stuff. We finally booked it today. It took a really really really long time. But in the end we booked it. I don't really think that we need to go on a cruise… cause it's expensive and all, but my brother wants to… so I cant really say anything. But I guess its another chance for me to take lots of pictures haha…

So yeah, majority of my mind revolves around my tvb, hk, pictures and am trying to push myself to do homework.

Anywho, it's late… or should I say really early.

I never get enough sleep. It doesn't make sense. It's summer, so I should be able to sleep in and sleep more, but its either I cant sleep at night, wake up half way, or someone wakes me up in the morning.

Anyways, hopefully I will post again before I leave for hk next Sunday. I will be on in hk too.

So see you guys soon!

Love you all =D

 

closer

It's been like forever since i last posted. =(
sorry

anywho,
it seems like everyone is having their own cool experiences (including myself) throughout this wonderfully awesome summer! it's really exciting here and it's just gonna get more exciting - hong kong soon!

I'm trying to learn how to take more pictures, more BETTER pictures, but that just means more pictures.

i need to do calculus! i'm gettting lazier and lazier. what's worse is i havent read any of the novels i initially wanted to read, i just read random books. AND i havent touched my bio for a week now. i'm really bad, aren't i? Come eat me!

I've gone to a bajillion malls a bajillion times. It's real fun actually. It's like, evertime i go, it's a new experience. Iunno, i'm werid. But the good thing is i'm spending a lot of time with my dad. A LOT of time. well, maybe to some people it's not that much, but considering my circumstances and in comparisoin with the past year, this is considered a lot. i still want to go to so many other different places with him. Also, i'm seeing my relatives, well my grandparents and aunt from my dad's side a lot more too! - once a week, in comparison to the usual once or not even, a year.

so yeah, i guess it's all good. But i'm never home, and when i am, i waste time reading random stuff online. So yeah, not much time to do things that i should be doing.

anywho, post lateR!

Camera fun

Well, it's been a while since I've posted two days in a row. I guess it's because I ran out of tvb. And I ran out of star paper. Bad luck much? O.o

So today I woke up extra early, and I went to the mall with my dad. It was, like the past few times, quite an experience. I really enjoyed it. We had a good time. It wasn't anything special, but it wasn't anything bad. It's better than some of the old times. I guess its because I approached it with high hopes, with an open mind. I made compromises, walked slowly, stayed calm, and restrained from arguing. So it was all good.

What's bad is I didn't get to go out for a bike ride today. =(

However, I spent a couple of hours taking pictures. Which is really funny, cause half of my pictures were just me playing around. Now let's see if I can use photoshop for the first time. Hmm,…

Okay, that's it for today, there isn't much that's new.

The past, the now.

Hmm…. I don't know why I decided to turn on my computer and write this post

But something did

So I am going to type

Basically I was just rereading a few letters that some special person wrote to me a long time back. It's really quite an experience to reread, remember and almost relive the moment. It brings back many happy memories as well as troubled ones. It makes me think. Did I make the right choice? I don't know. And I will never know. But we've all moved on, or pretended to for that matter. I've suffered, pretended to be okay, hidden my thoughts, still hide them now, and recovered. But that's life. And that's the cool thing about it. We will all face obstacles, and we all have the strength to overcome them.

Next time you are faced with an obstacle, look towards it as an opportunity. A chance to redeem yourself, to prove to everyone that you can do it. To show yourself that you are capable. To keep up your self-esteem. Think of it as a stepping stone to something bigger, something stronger, to the future YOU.

….. …..    ……

I am really thankful for everything and especially for this summer. No matter what happens from today on, I will still be grateful to be able to just let go of everything, of all the stress and all the worries and just enjoy myself and enjoy life. It's been the longest time since I've been able to just sit down and do whatever I want without worrying about unfinished work. Now, not only can I choose wherever I want to go, and do whatever I want to do, I can relax and do it with the people I love. Every night I can stay up late and read. I can sleep in and not worry about being late for anything. I can do whatever studying I like, whever I like. Basically, I'm in charge, for once.

I'm really enjoying this summer. I feel like I'm back in grade 8 again, where I was able to do whatever

It's good good

But I'm also hoping that I continue to do what I hoped to do this summer. It doesn't seem like I will finish anything, or much for that matter – I guess ill just have to work my hardest

Im excited for hong kong. =D

Short & to the point

Well, let's see… it's been a while since I've posted, but I've also been really busy since I last posted. So let's see… I've gone to a few more malls and ive done some more work and read a bit more. I finished two books since I last posted! Yay!

I've gone to markville mall a few times with my mom and for some odd reason, it brought back many good memories of when I was small. It was really fun too, we didn't get much but we had a good time.

I have to still do my calculus work, which I don't really want to do, but I know I need to. I've cleaned up my room, finally. I've been meaning to do that since the summer began, but I've made excuses not to. My next step is to clean and organize my drawers and stuff.

I went to the gym today… and everyone was staring at the world cup.

I got mail! From people =D and I wrote mail. A LOT of mail. My hand was tired from writing it.

I've also watched a lot of television lately, a little too much which isn't good… but it's hard to stop once you've started.

Anywho, wish I could talk more, but I have to do math,… bye for now!

Fast-paced everything

It has been quite a while since my last post. Which is quite surprising. I originally hoped to post everyday, or at least more often than this, but I guess as no one could tell the future, I cannot predict what will happen. And I didn't. I never expected my summer so far to turn out like this. It's good, don't get me wrong, however, it's different. Just different, and NOT awkward.

Oh jeez, it's been like almost two weeks! Nvm, exaggeration, like one week, but that's still long & That's not good… so I guess I'm just gonna have to quickly go through everything I did… haha

Let's see for the past week, I went to Fairview mall four times, markville mall countless times, Vaughn yesterday, sherway gardens, bayview village, yorkdale twice and Oshawa town centre. I've been everywhere but eaton's. haha. Well, I didn't go for shopping. Mostly I went with my dad, when I go more than once, I went with my mom. But the reason I kept on going out to malls is because well my dad won't come in my house, thus the only way for us to spend time together is to go out. And I didn't want to leave him alone and stay at home (which would have been better for me) so I went out with him. There really isn't anything for me or us to do. So we went to malls. We like looked at different stuff in the stores just cause I thought it was kinda pointless to go to a mall and not walk in any stores. But I guess it was a good experience cause we had a lot of time to talk. I'm just a bit worried about the next few weeks, cause I have run out of ideas and things to do with him.

I went biking last Thursday. It was fun, but very tiring. Oh my goodness, it was really tiring, I felt like I was gonna fall off my bike as I rode from my house to the new mandarin at box grove. And when I met up with melisha and heather, I realized that their bikes were double the size of mine and same with their wheel. Which meant that I had to pedal twice for every time they pedal once, which meant that it was even more tiring for me. So yeah. It was fun nonetheless. Didn't take much pictures, but still it was fun.

I also watched the last airbender with my mom, which I thought was really good, but I guess that's because I didn't watch the television series – I didn't even know there was one. The day after I watched toy story 3 with my cousin. It was really really good. I really liked it. Made me want to go look at my old toys to make sure they know I still love them. Hehe.

What's good and bad is that I went out to lunch with my grandparents (my dad's parents). It made me realize how distant I was from them. The last time I saw them was exactly one year ago. I also realized that they really wanted to see me. They kept on asking my aunt and my dad to 'hook us up' so that we could meet. I didn't know that. However, I still thought I should see them and throughout the years' time I asked my dad countless times to find a date where we could meet. And I guess, he thought it was too much of a hastle all the time. And that short lunch meal we had together wasn't enough. Then we had to leave. So I suggested to my dad that we should meet them again the next day since I didn't know what to do. He said that it was unnecessary. What do you mean unnecessary. That's just absurd. He said that we don't need to see them two days in a row. That was really weird for lack of better wording. I don't see why we can't see them twice in a row. Just doesn't make sense. But I guess, that's just my dad. He doesn't make sense to me lots of times. And I know sometimes im a pain when I keep on questioning his actions and opposing his opinions, but I just can't help it. It doesn't seem right to me, it seems… foreign.

Uhm I went to the gym once. Lol, so far. That's good, no it's not. I feel bad, I should have gone more, but I guess with my mom, it's hard to find a time to go together. But we went, yesterday. There was a lot of people and it was really hot inside. But it was still a good workout. Now my arm is sore.

What else is good? Well, I'm doing work and I'm reading a lot. So far I finished three books, and that's quite surprising, considering my usual slow pace at reading. But I like to read before I sleep every night – something I can't do during school nights, so I do that everyday now. Also, I started making bio notes. I made some progress today at the library and I realized that I don't have enough time to do all the work I hope to do, considering I only have the rest of this month. I am working on calculus as well. It's pretty cool, but the work is kinda boring.

Anywho, this is 900 something words, and that's a lot. Let's stop here. Thanks for reading, have a great summer, whoever you are.

Post as soon as I can find the time to.