Posts tagged ‘canada’

November 25, 2009

recap central: toronto, ontario.

Wednesday, October 15th
Woke up the next morning essentially to John screaming, “ROYGBIV, WHY WOULDN’T YOU LET ME SLEEP???” Haha. Probably one of my favorite lines someone has said to me! So funny. Personally I slept soooo well, like a baby! But I guess no dice for James and John. We eat pastries and mofe at a nearby place, and I have no money really, so I’m going to eat the leftovers from IHOP the previous day, which had been in the pretty cold car, but the Nurses guys literally will not let me! I mean, it really did LOOK scary, but I’m quite certain it wouldn’t have made me sick! Because I’m Chinese! C’mon now! John insisted on giving me a half a bagel instead, though. Whatever. Busters.


John trying to sleep in the car after not sleeping the previous day…

We stop by a truck stop and try to get poutine, butttt…………………….. we’re deciding between spaghetti sauce poutine and another kind, because we figure gravy poutine isn’t vegetarian. Turns out spaghetti sauce poutine wasn’t vegetarian here, either. Shoulda known, considering it was a truck stop. Ah, well, Aaron and I eat it anyway. Also eat some ketchup potato chips since it was the guys’ first time eating them, and 3 out of 3 Nurses agree that ketchup potato chips are fucking awesome!

We get to Toronto and I don’t really remember the rest of the trip there because I didn’t write down notes like I did for the other days. Oops. :P The Drake Hotel is a nice ass venue, like the fucking Doug Fir, kinda. I get a payout this evening, woo!! Eat fries and gravy for dinner next door at some place.

Their friends from Toronto — bunches of them — and some guys from fucking this one band I forget at the moment — oh yeah, Born Ruffians — are there. I run the merch table a bit. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

We eat poutine afterwards, and it’s derish. But my diet that entire day consisted of, potatoes, potatoes, and more potatoes!! So horrible!!!

Thursday, October 16th

Aaron and I stay with Luke of Born Ruffians that evening and James and John stay with another friend. We have to meet the guys at the van at 8:00am. SOOO EARLLLLY.


Aaron’s cold morning blanket pose.

They have to load their gear and all this junk this morning… James is still rendered sickly dead in the car all the while. Haha.

So, I have the day in Toronto, and they head off to Chicago after we get some coffee. Le Loup guys happen to show up at the same coffee place!

I head over to some coffee shop and do some work and hang out for the morning. Then I start walking around. I plan my day around — having to go to the Greyhound to drop off my backpack, then going to Medieval Times in Toronto! Hail yes! Throw in some mentally destablizing events, and it was a bit of a blur of a day.

The walk to Greyhound and back is mostly unexciting, but on the way to Medieval Times was pretty decent…


This park was amazing. The lawn was like barely ever walked on, I guess, so everything was covered with teeny tiny spider webs which were gleaming in the sunlight since the sun was going down. AMAZING! Seriously, one of the cooles things I’ve seen ever, although I couldn’t document it well with photos.


This is some weird club.


Medieval Times, outside!


Medieval Times hand dryer?!


Medieval Times, inside! It was a bit weird being in Medieval Times all by myself since everyone was with groups of people, but um, whatever.

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The yellow knight was the knight on my side of the room, and he was hilarious. His crowd was easily the loudest, but best of all, he had this dopey Keanu Reeves smile going on. LOVE IT!


KING!


Some epic shit, no?

The veggie plate I got for dinner was way better than what the meat eaters got. It had hummus and pita, a corn kabob I think, some potatoes, etc. etc. There were some girls next to me who got it but didn’t know what hummus was! WTF! MMM, craving hummus… the meat eaters got like. Ribs. And chicken wings. Like… zero veggies. It’s kinda ridiculous…

I had to leave the show early, and headed to the Greyhound to catch my late night bus to Montreal!

OTHER TORONTO POST (WRITTEN WHEN IN TORONTO) HERE!

November 25, 2009

recap central: montreal, quebec.

Tuesday, October 14th
The next morning, James‘ phone had the weirdest ring tone and it was like church bells chiming, and I’m like, “Where the hell is there a church in the middle of nowhere?!”


We go to IHOP and get greeted by menus with belly button ham!


Driving through Connecticut and Vermont (?) to Montreal = most beautiful stuff!! Aaron drives while John ends up using my computer, so I sit up front with Aaron and he grills me and asks me a million ridiculous questions about things people do in China and about what celebrities I would choose to be with if I had to choose. Silly questions that I don’t really remember, but it was stuff, like, “Do people in China brush their teeth?” would be not a question that’s out of the question… I say my celebrity of choice would be Brandon Boyd, and he says that maybe in old school era Brandon Boyd woulda been cool, and that’s what I meant, really, but I guess Aaron has a friend now who knows that Brandon Boyd is dating this super young model girl? No idea. He DOES suck nowadays, though.

Anyway, we honk at the Le Loup guys while we’re driving to Canadia cause we pass them, and they don’t seem to notice, which is hilarious because well, there’s not that many freaking tour vans driving from Connecticut to Montreal! We see them at the border, and I’m smuggled across, weeeee!

We arrive to the Montreal venue, Il Motore, late because Google Maps is wrong (which is hilarious, because Xinlei tells me the next day that I should beware of Google Maps in Canada because it’s inaccurate). It’s also hilarious because the Le Loup guys also used Google Maps and did the exact same getting lost moves as we did, EXACTLY!


When we first get to Montreal, we see this speed bump sign, and below it three old people are walking real slowly, so Aaron says that each bump represents an old person. Really funny. (Not that funny in written retrospect.)

As we’re unloading the van in Montreal, I’m helping them hold open doors, and John and Aaron are constantly screaming, “ROYGBIV, HOW DID YOU GET ON TOUR WITH US!” ROYGBIV turned into my new nickname, along with Bel Viv, which I’d hear before, but ROYGBIV was best. Although it turned into ROY at some points, and ROY is a wee bit less exciting, haha.

They got apparently a real yummy veggie meat sandwich but not I, boohoo, because I didn’t get a payout from that venue. Cheapskates!

Everyone sat down during the show, which was a little weird. I got a bit drunk cause more free drink tickets since James was like, dead.

Played the drawing game with Aaron and really embarrassed him cause I guess I was a bit loud during Le Loup’s quieter parts, oops, whatever. There was massive talk of getting poutine afterwards since, well, Montreal = POUTINE! But no dive because everyone’s way tired afterwards. Bummer! We get a super expensive hotel on the way to Toronto, and they wouldn’t let us say we only had two people because there was no back entrance; there was only one entrance that went up through the front desk, and I guess the front desk lady was mean-ish.

It was a tonna money, so I tried to give John $40, but he wouldn’t take it even though he should’ve. So I ended up giving him $30.


Everyone’s happy as crap in this picture, because someone set along this funny rap remix of Nurses’ “Caterpillar Playground” and it was really funny, goofy, and I dunno if I’d call it good, but whatever.

OTHER TORONTO POST (WRITTEN WHEN IN TORONTO) HERE!

October 18, 2009

hostel.

cool hostel i’m staying at in montreal, but i just took the HOTTEST godamn shower ever. if you thought cold showers were bad, scalding hot showers are REALLY bad cause you literally can’t even take the shower. i had to sit there spooning occasional spoonfuls of water onto myself (but sometimes i couldn’t even do that when it was super hot). ugh. and i went out and bought some late-night poutine (and got a free coffee, yay!) and now i can’t say that i feel like the greatest because i probably shouldn’t have eaten that anyway. well, shit.

i’m pretty sure the guy who gave me free coffee at the poutine place also said “je t’aime” to me… woooooo! he was quite good-looking as well. but i was just like, “HUH!!!!???” and he said something else in french and i was like, “HUH?!!!!”

being in montreal for sure feels like canada is a foreign country, x 100. i can’t even imagine what quebec is like!

October 17, 2009

better than us.

yeah, okay, canadians are better than us.

montreal pretty rules, i can tell already.
other than the fact that it’s cold as a motherfucker.

even toronto rules and toronto is considered “blah”-ish.
so much awesome art there — wish i woulda had more time to check it out.

oh well, at least the knight i was supposed to root for at medieval times had a freaking “aduhr” keanu reeves type smile. HAHAHAHAAHAHA. got some good pics. pics soon. need to update journal. bad.

October 16, 2009

so useless today.

sitting at tan coffee shop in toronto, and i am completely worthless today. on top of sleeping for only like three hours, i’m just……. in another fucking world and my mind is complete trash. :\ too much to think about! aaaah. unfortunately, it’s all private knowledge. you aren’t privvy to it. unless you’re one of a few privileged humans…!

plus side: period’s here! not preggers!
downside: period’s here! gotta go get pads :{

plus side: medieval times has a branch in toronto! sure, it costs $50, but i think i’m there tonight. followed by an overnight trip on the mothafuckin greyhound to montreal.
downside: it’s going to be rushed! really freaking rushed. show starts at 7:30 and is like, two hours long. bah.

MY BRAIN IS MUSH
MY BRAIN IS MUSH
MY BRAIN IS MUSH

total mush. so useless i am today. i’ve been at the coffee shop for the past……………….. i wanna say………………………………. four hours. and i’ve done pretty much nothing except for chat. brain is not working on higher brain functions today. i need to go for a walk. really soon.

by the way, yesterday’s diet consisted of:

bagel (half of john’s) for breakfast.
poutine (with meat, omg) for breakfast/lunch.
potato chips for lunch/snack.
fries with gravy for dinner.
poutine with gravy for dinner/snack.

POTATOES POTATOES POTATOES
every.
fucking.
meal.

so digusting, haha.

parted ways with nurses this morning. they’re off to chicago. i’m off to montreal. tonight. post medieval-whatever-the-fuck. times. yeah.

October 15, 2009

french canadia canada canada!

not much pictures to speak of, to update of, to something something something!

motherfucker! i’m in a venue in montreal. it’s called il motore. i dunno why i am quite so tired but i am tired as bones, jones!

granted this isn’t exactly the right poster, but close enough!

feel so weird in the minds.

on tour with nurses for a couple dates from new york to montreal, not so many, but it’s cool and exciting to see shows by a band in numerous cities when the band is a band that is actually good… it’s cool to see how stoked people are to watch them perform, for sureskis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

exhausted, exhausted.

crazy google maps gave some massively insane directions!

it’s cold as balls!

need more clothes!

need to shower? nahhhhh.

and then what? who knows!

i’m confused! my brain is on vacation! it’s like a haze of something something.

sleep, need more sleep, need more sleep sleep sleep.

mmm. i’m sitting in the back room of this venue just rambling. i have so many pictures and thoughts to update from my however long of traveling but yanno what, i don’t feel like it! that shit is gonna take forever!!!!!!!!!!1

dude, it’s like 3′C here — like 20′F!! CRAZY SAUCE! so cold!! so much colder than i’d expected! so not enough clothings do i own!! insanity! sheer mind-boggling insanity!

November 19, 2007

the beginnings of engrish.

i’m in taiwan right now. what does that mean? engrish. maybe not as much engrish as in vancouver, surprisingly (see TRNGSFIRMERS below), but it’s still good:


TRNGSFIRMERS ARE FROM VANCOUVER. amazingly, only TRANSFORMERS reside in taiwan. i’ve seen no copies and i’ve seen no fakes. too close to home? i don’t know.

so right now we are staying in a hotel called the sunworld dynasty hotel… pretty nice hotel, a little old, but you know, all good. but then this pops up:

awww jea. i didn’t notice it until phil pointed it out but boy am i glad he did. this is fucking amazing. anyway, i was using it at first, but now i am stopping, because it’s fucking made in china. click here to find out about toothpaste made in china. i ain’t fucking around.

anyway, battery is running low and i need to plug it in on the other side of the room because this side of the room doesn’t have three-pronged outlets, so until next time!!!! by the way, yesterday’s thirteen hour plane ride was just about THE most miserable international flight i have had yet. god, it was awful. and you know what’s worse? since i’ve gotten here i haven’t really felt like eating. have felt a little sick. what’s the point of being in taiwan without a will to eat?!! that’s like being alive without a will to live!!!

October 1, 2007

multi-day vancouver and victoria canada recap.

september 22nd, 2007
xinlei came today so i picked her up and we headed straight to canada cause we’re fucking hardcore, biatch.


the border crossing going INTO canada. when you’re going into canada it’s all fucking nice and pretty — coming into the united states, however, it looks like a piece of shit.

RICHMOND NIGHT MARKET


richmond night market. this is funny, but only if you think about it. a little. just read the text and laugh. they did get “ray ban” right, though, i guess, so i suppose i should be impressed?


hahahaha. so photoshopped are their tattoos.


feed… my… tummy!?


some terrible dog show / karaoke contest / badness abound.


nothing like a sea of bras to make you feel right at home. richmond night market, you think of everything.

HOOKAH, OR AS THEY CALLED IT, SHEE-SHA


hookah with random hostel people. say hello to random german man with camera. i like german english accents, for some reason. this korean chick named molly met us at the hostel and she was drunk and we were drunk and she was like, “YAY! THERE ARE NO ASIANS HERE BUT YOU GUYS!” so she invited us along but we didn’t talk to her the whole time rofls. her friends were cool, though — they were also people staying at the hostel long-term.

SAMESUN BACKPACKER LODGE


the hostel we stay at every time we go to vancouver, pretty much. we usually always get brazil on our door, but unfortunately, this time we got a fucking hockey flag. not even a real country flag. a hockey flag. i took a photo of brazil’s flag before, but hockey flag was just so lame i didn’t even take a pic.

september 23rd, 2007

vancouver has a lot of homelessness. like… a lot. this entire street was like, homeless people. at least, it seemed that way.

CHINATOWN



gotta love chinatown. it’s my gecko on a stick!


this is honestly, like the funniest thing ever.

ALL HAIL THE SHABUSEN!

STANLEY PARK

so ever since going to japan and biking around tokyo i’ve been obsessed with biking in foreign cities, so… i made lenny and xinlei rent bikes with me to bike around stanley park. we didn’t have much time to do it but it was pretty much the best time of their lives, they said. well not really but close to it!!!!!!!!!!! BIKE IN FOREIGN CITIES. YOU WON’T LOOK FLATTERING BUT THAT’S OKAY.


this guy, like the guy in fremont, stacks rocks. he’s awesome. unlike the guy in fremont, though, he’s not very talkative. i tried to make conversation and got one line out of him, but that’s about it.

THE VICTORIAN HOTEL

new place to stay for night #2! the victorian hotel. we had originally opted for a cheaper room but the guy gave us a free upgrade so we got a giant king-sized bed!! i’ve never been in a king-sized bed. anyway, lenny and i checked in and xinlei snuck in. we’re ghetto.

september 24th, 2007

more chinese marketness. how lame.


so i’m like, obsessed with these winnie the pooh toys. i think i satisfied my lust for it for life on this trip though. i kept saying, “ANYTHING BUT PIGLET” and i would get piglet every time. godamnit. like, i started saying it jokingly thinking it didn’t matter — certainly i am not cursed — but quite the contrary. i am cursed.

FERRY TO VICTORIA


it was fucking expensive. do *not* take your car on the fucking ferry. seriously.

VICTORIA


darth vader of the violins. he even played the like, march song. i dunno what it’s called.

i should mention that in addition to spending made loads of money buying a ferry / car ticket to victoria from vancouver, uhhhhhhhhhh we were just going to take the ferry all the way back to seattle from victoria but we just missed it. by like, five minutes. all because i said, “what’s the worse that could happen?” sooooo. we had to rush to take the last ferry from victoria back to vancouver (might i add that whereas the way from vancouver to victoria was a normal ferry, the one from victoria to vancouver was a fucking luxury ferry. it was literally like an airport. two arcade rooms and one GIFT STORE. i shit you not. ridiculous!!!!). anyway, once we got to vancouver i had to drive the two hours back down whereas everyone else got to sleep… woohoo! awesome! *_*

May 27, 2006

my greatest (largest) wtf moment to date.

i figure i need to update this becacuse i don’t feel like doing anything else eally at the moment, so why not, right? blah……. since my last post, which i wrote in canada, i will give a recap of things…

canada (05/26/06 – 05/27/06): went to canada with the parentals. it was well… alright. actually, it was fairly miserable. the first thing i was faced with was my mom made me some food, so she brought it up with me. obviously, when she saw the apartment, she bitched a fuckload, and of course came to the conclusion that, “all of the mess in the living room is yours, right?” when not all of it is… particularly messy was the living room video games, but those are communal, you know? onwards… then we went to denny’s and there was a buttload of talk about how my clothes suck and how my job sucks, and how i should get a job for google, oh look, all these people are getting good jobs, and so many of them live in california, why don’t you come back to california? obviously because you bitch all fucking day long… the last thing you make it is for me to want to go home. so of course, after their monster buttload of bitching, they follow it up with, “we would really appreciate it if you came home,” which is nice and all, but it would only be nice if by itself, but not if it is followed by hours of saying how fucking terrible i am. uh ok. in canada, we didn’t honestly really do that much: we got there, went to eat i forget what, and went to their family friend’s house for some home cooking. that was alright… i mostly worked and played a little bit of zuma. but mostly it was boring, and we got back to the hotel to sleep. the next morning, we got up and went to the capilano suspension bridge, which costs like $25 a ticket, and is really not very big or exciting at all. all in all, going there was pretty much a waste of money, but i didn’t pay, so whatevers. after that, we went to shabusan, where i treated them to lunch, and we ordered way too much, cause we really can’t eat very much as a family. then we drove home, and on the way, we went to some outlet stores because they were so insistent on buying me new clothes. i fucking hate who i become around them, because i get super fucking moody and negative, because there is so much negativity. it seems like an excuse, but i have attributed my defensiveness to my family. there’s really just so much negative energy… perhaps it is the way of the asian parent… i don’t know… i can see aspects of that in myself also… i should like to change it. anyway, i didn’t buy anything other than some skirt, blahblah.

upon my return, i just wanted to fucking relax and get something positive. but negative. i read an angry xanga post from eva which essentially said that she hated me (i didn’t even know it was me at first)… for what reason, i don’t know — i tried calling her and writing her posts on xanga. i would IM her but i think she blocked me. whatever… i think whoever passed on the information of shit i have said about “her, her family, and her friends” are terrible people, and you know what, i have a suspicion of who it is, and if that is true, they have said a shitload of crap about eva as well. in addition, they have told me things that they said eva said about me… i was told that she and farm thought that i acted “helpless so that guys would come to my rescue,” or something to that respect, and was i like, “FUCK THAT BITCH?” no… i was just very sad at the amount of contempt she had for me. in fact, she was like the only person i have ever cried about, asides from lenny. rofls. only. and to make it worse, in her post, she addressed me as merely an “acquaintance”. such bullshit. i’ve known her for five years and lived with her for three and all she can think of me as is an acquaintance? i’m sorry. if you heard the shit your supposed “friends” had said about you, you’d really think twice anyways. i hate that now these people can walk around, thinking they have conquered me somehow, and in fact, maybe they have. i was behind eva and ray in line at the bank today, and i couldn’t even bring myself to be like, “hello,” because i was so worried i would just get rejected again. it’s not fair. i’m tired of these assholes saying shit like, “i hope she gets what’s coming to her because what goes around comes around” shit they’re saying about me, cause that’s fucking bullshit. what goes around does NOT come around, the world is NOT just, and well, fuck these bitches. like they have never talked shit in my life. like i even know what the fuck i said. i don’t honestly believe i said anything that worthy of anger, and i do believe that it was blown out of proportion by a third party. after all, everyone knows that third parties passing on information makes things worse and is not entirely accurate. it’s not fucking fair. you know, i hate arlen, really, i do… and he is the first real person i have hated, at that… but i think it’s bullshit that people are pinning it on me saying i am manipulating the opinions of people around me. BULLSHIT. i was not the first person to talk shit about arlen and farm… if anything, other people’s opinions influenced mine more than i have influenced theirs. which is not entirely good, no shit, but i am not manipulating shit. oh really? people can’t have their OWN opinions? uhh ok. but fuck that, you know, if i hate arlen, that’s my fucking business. no one else needs to be involved. you don’t know how many people say, “i hope he gets his ass kicked,” or, “i’d like him to take a swing at me so i can kick his ass,” and it’s not shit i am saying. i’m not really that fucking powerful. even though farm calls me a “turd” and has nothing nice to say about me, i don’t hate her, which is more than she can probably say about me. and as for eva, i am convinced she is misinformed. but no matter… i don’t like burning bridges like this, but if people won’t talk to me, i don’t know what to do. whatever. just fuck this christian shit, though. all loving and forgiving my fucking ass.

- a darkness swallowed (05/30/06): lenny, andy [crossett] and i went to watch “a darkness swallowed,” the first movie i saw as a part of the seattle international film festival. it was just about fucking terrible. i wouldn’t entirely have minded staying until the end, but it was definitely like a 1/5… it was like macro film images of a bunch of random crap like spider webs and stuff… some stuff looked alright, but it would be a few minutes per scene, unmoving, or something… and it was mostly just very, very stagnant and boring. how did a movie like that get on the international film festival? no fucking clue, but i’m sure any filmmaker in that audience would be fucking pissed that their work wasn’t on it and a shitty piece like that was. that being said, the theatre held like 50 people, and by the time we left, like 10 people had left, not including us. that was probably about 1/4 of the way through the movie; who knows how many people walked out by the end hahahhaa. amazing. after that we went to eat some pizza at a family-owned pizza shop in ravenna… not a cheap place, but the other place we could have gone to was pagliacci, and i guess supporting the little guys is more important :] so good deal.

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December 18, 2005

canaaadiaaa.

i’m listening to… … kind of like spitting, hellogoodbye, death cab for cutie, michael bubble, the vells, keith urban, blood brothers, kanye west, sufjan stevens.
i’m feeling … hokai.

rofls hae pueple text is lenny
4:46 pm — i shoulda written in this the day after we came back, but i wasn’t feeling like writing in it, unfortunately. SUE ME. but now is the time to write. weeeee. bring it awn!

so we woke up @ like 10 on saturday morning but didn’t leave til like noon to go to canada.. it was me, lenny, arlen, and farm. stopped by the mcdonald’s and the 7-11 to grab some phat disgusting unhealthy eatz(vee’s choice of tims cascade was jalepeno while mine was the superior wasabi flavor), wewt wewt. DOWN WITH MCDONALD’S GIFT CARD SLOGAN: “it’ll not only give you good food, but good times!” SHUTUP. SINCE WHEN DID MCDONALD’S GIVE ME GOOD TIMES?! maybe if good times = heart attacks and fatty fats, bitch! i got apples from mcdonalds!

anyway. so i drove the however long it took to get there and was … so sleepy. so very sreepy. :[ T__T and everyone else in the car was sleeping. teh bastards. got to the border and everyone else had birth certificates (DUDE LENNY HAD A BIRTH CERTIFICATE THAT’S LIKE A CREDIT CARD, WTF!) and i only had a liscense… the lady said we might get some trouble on the way back (which makes sense, sorta, since anyone can get a liscense)… but yeah. let us in. the lady was like the american border inspection people are anal! you could be held up for 4+ hours ect ect, we were scared

first thing was did was exchange some money at the tourist booth. I found some cool rock salt on the ground and put it in mah pocket! la la la. but much to our discontent, MY CAR WOULD NOT START. we sat there for like a half hour waiting for it to start. went inside after a while to try and call for a tow truck, but most of them were like AAA, where you need to be a member. the guy there was trying to call around and find a place for us, but luckily, since we popped open the hood for a while and it got to cool down a little, and it finally worked… after numerous failed attempts!!! hurrah, though.

didn’t want to stop the car again, but we had to at the hostel. drove the half hour or hour or whatever that it took to get to the hostel in mid-vancouver. didn’t know where to park, so we parked in this one lot without paying, but it was like… $3 per hour from 6pm to 6am or some bullshit. so i’m like, FUCK THIS SHIT. so we went inside, got our room, and then came back out to move the car. once again, the car did not work. bitch. so we waited around for another while and went to chinatown to walk around. but then i decided chinatown was boring, cause all it is is like 50 dry goods shops, 50 fruit shops, 50 pastry places, 50 roast meat places. sick!!! and unexciting!! i wanted to go to the underground shoppig mall, but we ended up not going, since when we were leaving chinatown, MY CAR WOULDN’T START AGAIN! we decided it needed a break, and went to the holiday inn down the street from our hostel, cause the hostel front desk lady said we should go there to park since it was $13 for 24 hours. excellent.

afterwards we started walking from our hostel (which was #13somethingsomething on granville st.) to shabusen (which was #2993 or something on the same street). unfortunately, i am n00b, and i directed us in the wrong direction. didn’t realize it until we got to like #600-something. so. we had already walked like a half mile, and we had to backtrack to walk three miles in the other direction to shabusen… ROFLS. it seemed like it took sOo long. i think it took at least an hour and a half or something. good exercise though! i guess?!

went to eat and we didn’t make a reservation, but we lucked the hell out because it was 7 or something, and someone who was supposed to show up @ 6:30 but never did. so the guy gave us a table, saying that we HAD to be out at 8:30. and he kept checking up on us every so often. MOTHERFUCKER!!! but yeah, the food was fucking GLORIOUS. i’m dreaming about it right now :0 i wish i could eat it! it’s basically just sushi and fried rice and REALLY GOOD tonkatsu and more junk and food and tofu and food and sushi. actually, we were kinda weak sauce with the eating and really did not eat that much. i’m rather disappointed with myself. but mmm spicy shrimp rolls for the win… although the all-you-can-eat sushi place in hawaii is much better. cause it had soft-shelled crab rolls 8( and a cute waiter. and potato hand. and giant bag of ice :0 but god, shabusen’s tonkatsu was… REALLY good. yummyyyyyyy.

ANYWAY moving on. as we were leaving, we ran into jun and lewis, which was pretty much FREAKY. they didn’t make a reservation and shit, so i wonder if they ever got in. they were with their RO guild or something — like 10 people or some shit.

on the way back we stoppd by this coffee place called blenders or something. farm got a hot cocoa and WHOA you can pick white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. HOW FUCKIN AWESOME!>?!!? so lenny and i decided to get one, only i wanted to try the orange hot chocolate one, and lenny thought it was pretty gross, and i thought it was okay, but it kinda made me sick… ROOFLS.

we walked back the two and a half miles to the hostel wee, and it was a helluva lot faster than the way there, although it was just about the same distance! lenny kept picking up the pieces of salt they spread on the ground and kept it or something. i think he thought about taking it home to make ramen with it.

on the way back, we walked over this giant bridge, and farm and arlen were walking ahead of us and this cop car stopped right next to em… we thought they were gonna talk to them or something, but they didn’t. behind the cop car stopped a counterterrorist van thing… we concluded someone was going to try and blow up the bridge. EXCELLENT. only, it never happened. too bad. but it mighta! and maybe they caught it JUST IN TIME WEWT WEWT.

we stopped by this sex shop on the way back. didn’t buy anything, except lenny bought two condoms cause he felt bad for going in and not buying anything or whatever. the shop owner loved corny jokes. corny corny. i don’t remember any of them except for the one he asked lenny before we were leaving. he told him to imagine he had two dice. “what number did the first one roll?” he’d ask, and lenny said, “three.” “did it remind you of your first sexual experience?” and he said, “no.” then he told him to imagine what was on the other die. the number was four. same thing. and then he told him to roll both of them together. and was like, “does THAT remind you of your first sexual experience?” ROFLS. you have to picture it to get it, i guess! :D

then we went to this arcade, which was the weirdest thing because most of the people in it were GIRLS. WTF. weird. one of these old ladies was supposedly giving farm lesbian eyes. they had time crisis three, which after 80 years, i am still determined to beat. GODAMNIT. i swear, if i had five dollars to waste on that fucking game, i would have long beaten it. but i always play like two or three bucks and never get through it. godamnit. some guys were taking pictures of the screen for an art project supposedly (i’m not sure what kind of supposed art project that is), but they were playing so shitty. i seriously wanted to volunteer to help them beat the game, cause they put in like $5 worth of coins for what would normally take $1. st00pit.

there was also a karaoke booth HAHA. it was just like going to noraebang, cept it was a little room. they also had a buttload of sticker machines, which cost like $8 each now, WTF. i remember when they were $3 and i thought, WTF HOW ARE THEY SO EXPENSIVE?!!! i can’t even fathom paying $8 for that fucking shit! there was also some weird samurai shooting game where you go around shooting ninjas and tetris, bubble bobble, beatmania, guitar / drum games, ddr, pump it up, etc. etc.

after we got bored of that area, we decided to head to the other arcade down the street. this one had a sign outside saying “men’s theatre” or something, and it was decidedly LESS exciting and MORE dirty. god. in the back, there were like 8 white booths and if you put in a quarter, you get a one minute clip of porn. sick. there was also a strip poker game which i won two hands of, but one quarter only gave you two hands, so that’s as naked as the girl got. retarded. it was like, from the 70s too. haha.

there was also the classic area 51 there… tetris again, and some hunting games. i’ve come to the conclusion that i would seriously be good at shooting guns. i swear i need to try sometime… although i’m against guns and all… i still think i would be a really good shot, and i’d like to test it sometime. :0

but yeah, that place smelled like BO. too many dudes, and lots of greasy ones :0

afterwards we walked around a little bit more and lenny got a crepe, but there wasn’t really much else to do since we were poor and underdressed, so we went back to the hostel. they gave us a coupon each for a free beer, but for some reason, none of us redeemed ours (well, i wouldn’t have, but everyone else should’ve!). we chilled around the lounge for a while… lenny and i tried to play pool but didn’t want to pay money to play. just tried shooting the ball around, really. lenny’s never played pool before really. then we just started working on this 1,000 piece puzzle where a shitload of pieces looked the same (it was of a marina, with like tons and tons of boats) and a bunch of pieces that DIDN’T fit FIT. ghetto puzzle!!! :X we spent like 3 hours and got like oh, i dunno, 200 pieces or something done. talked to random hostel folk here and there along the way. one fobby chinese guy who had been living there for like a month and a half, some guys from eastern canada, and yeah… there were a couple of aussies looking to see if this certain door was locked, and lenny’s like, “it’s locked; i already tried.” and i guess they were like, “how would you know? guess everyone’s lookin for a place to shag,” and lenny’s like, “yea,” and apparently they gave me a weird look or something! i’m too young to be shaggin omg!

finally we went to bed and woke up the next day to go to stanley park. arlen asked why it was called stanley park, and i told him it was named after vancouver’s founder, mark stanley. he believed me. ROFLS. owned. arlen was quite gullible that day and believed a lot of lies.

before going there, however, we stopped by chinatown and picked up some roast duck, some buns, and some roast pork (SICK — GREASE CENTRAL!!). i didn’t eat any of that shit; i only ate part of a zhongzi… and it was fine. we ate it in the middle of the park on some benches… it was excellent. i kept thinking frost on the ground was snow, cause it was fucking thick. wish it coulda snowed.

finding stanley park was a bitch cause there was only one exit from one direction, and if you missed it, you had to cross this bridge into north or eastern vancouver. and we missed it at first, so we found a gas station in northern vancouver or whatever, and bought some coolant for my car. AND THEY HAD BANANA MILK YAY. it was like this little mini-jug (like a miniature gallon jug)… so CUTE. and so NUMMY. we drove back across this bridge but i thought there’d be two exits from this direction when there was only one. MISSED THE EXIT AGAIN. had to turn around AGAIN to enter the park. after the park, we just drove to richmond. would have been nice to hang around the park, really, but i guess it was just cold and… i dunno, i guess we really should have. stanley park is MASSIVE yo. MASSIVE.

at richmond, we just went to this daiso store and bought some random crap. it was in this mall that had a LOT of really bad asian drivers. GO RICHMOND, ASIAN CENTRAL, AKA BAD DRIVER CENTRAL!!!!! we were throwing quarters from the second story into this fountain on the first story (above that they had like, a planetarium ceiling, omg!) and we were throwing it rather far, but farm threw one that landed like right behind this guy’s head. funny to see them all bewildered! and i left my mini-jug of banana milk IN THE TOILET. NOOO.

after leaving, we stopped by a gelato place and ate some ice cream. lenny’s first time having gelato, and i think arlen’s too. :D yummy nummy in my tummy. the difference between gelato and ice cream: instead of using heavy cream, gelato uses non-fat or low-fat milk. NOW YOU KNOW. and then we came home :0 on the way back, lenny drove, and there was some weird ass filipino guy who had a power trip, and he’d be asking us questions (farm and i), and we’d answer him, but he wouldn’t hear us, and he’d be like screaming, “answer me when i’m talking to you!” and he tapped on the car to… check for drugs? who knows, yo.

oh yes, the day before this trip, i went and bought farm an engagement ring from arlen because arlen is a carless scrub!! wewt wewt. i still have it — it needs to be returned — but did you know that they only make rings in size 7?! how freakish. so you’re like… REQUIRED to change the size. those jackasses. who the fuck has size 7 fingers?!

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