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Wednesday, December 03, 2003 Thanks to one of the two 24hr McDonald's here on campus I can have a hashbrown at 4:15 in the morning right before I go to bed. I haven't had one in a year I think. Maybe more. Or is this discovery that McDs is 24hr a bad thing? Dude...Hawaii...must be disciplined. Once again... Is anyone else interested in forming a team to play at Trinity church on monday night? Please let me know or contact me for more info! It starts Jan. 19th. Not too late to sign up! posted by Sewa at 5:12:00 AM # Tuesday, December 02, 2003 Break Part II Shopping!!! Craziness I tell you. I woke up at 6:30 to go shopping at Twelve Oaks. Met up with Anna at 8:30 and we shopped for about 6 hours. By the 3rd hour I was already tired so we were literally dragging ourselves around the mall or at least I was trying to find more. And I was thinking why didn't I just go later? But the thing is there's some stores that only do early bird specials! Argh. I didn't even make it to Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond. Does anyone know if the sales are any good on the day after Christmas? I want to buy CDs...so many cds. (Charlotte Church, Sarah McLauchlan's Afterglow, more Enya, the Love Actually Soundtrack...that's just to name a few) Friday night I went to visit KPC. The KCF praise band was putting on a concert and the youth group there was doing a fund raising auction. It was so encouraging. Their youth group is monstrous though compared to anything I've been in. And the idea of the auction to fund raise for supporting children is absolutely brilliant! I remember back at CBC in my discipleship days we had a hard time even supporting one child and we were often in the red. I wonder if they still do it now. But yeah they did an awesome job. The goal was at least 600...they raised 838! God is so great and he provides. That was definately a talented & creative bunch. I was crackin' up all night long and singing at the top of my lungs and screaming. My voice was most certainly shot by the end of the night. Saturday was just some good ole chillin at the restaurant. And playing with my puppies. Although one is super old I still love him to death. The other is really just a puppy. But she's so big and so cute now. I can't wait till we get our other new puppy in a couple of weeks. I hope he's gonna be big too. But yeah now it's the final two weeks of this semester. I hope I can plow right through this grueling grind. Huff puff! *roar* posted by Sewa at 2:34:00 AM # Monday, December 01, 2003 The break was certainly nice and way too short. Just a small recap cause it was so nice...(sorry to those who hate recap blogs) But read on to see the diff btwn chinese vs. american grocery stores! Tuesday night we come back from a movie to find Cassie's room and part of the living room flooded from a girl on the third floor cause her toilet exploded and it soaked right down to the first floor. But luckily it's fresh water from the pipes...not some uh...ya know...poo. So now Cassie is camped in the living room with the rest of her furniture it's...interesting. Maintenance is on it thank goodness. For thanksgiving, my mom, younger brother and myself went to Toronto. I just chauffered my mom around because she never gets to go as much as I do and I'm goin' again come Christmas vacation. We went to Grand Yatt and we had a table that could fit 5 or 6 but ordered enough food to fill the table. THe waiter was like "wah...why order so much?" I took her to T&T, the biggest chinese grocery store that I know of. It was great watchin' her eyes light up. She looked like a kid in the candy store. I love this place cuz it's so clean and orderly, doesn't smell and has a bakery in it and a sushi sit down station (like a little ceasar's station in Kmart back in the day) and then a chinese bbq station right next to it! It's like a chinese farmer jack! Except some dead give aways it's a chinese store even though it's in an american plaza: 1. There's hanging chinese sausage, duck legs and fat slabs that have been dried right in the middle of the store for you to pick and cut off whatever you want 2. The assortment of fruits and vegetable is way different 3. The meat dept is full of beef neck bones/tails...pig feet/bones...no so much alot of meat but more like all the diff types of bones for those soups chinese people make and is a third of the size of the seafood dept. 4. The cheese selection is really no selection at all (like four types) unlike at the american ones you have like the gourmet case too 5. The seafood dept goes on FOREVER with about ten tanks of fresh live fish...lotsa diff kinds of crabs...snails...oysters...shrimps...eel....all LIVE and you can pick your own! I love seafood! Chinese style steamed fish is the best! 6. The ramen selection is ENDLESS...korean kinds...japanese kinds...chinese kinds...udon...and vermicilli (cellophane/mung bean noodles)...you name it. Yeah...so I still get excited about this store. I had to stop myself from naming more things. But my mom...sheesh our cart was already 3/4 full by the time she was only half done with the store and we were combing EACH aisle. By the time she was nearing the seafood dept she was jumpin' outta her pants and I had to literally say to her, "ok mom slowly now...let's start at the beginning and you can take your time." She ended up buying 13 or 14 whole fish and more frozen fish too. My poor younger brother was just guarding the cart as we kept putting stuff in it. And after two hours of letting my mom run wild in there, the final damage was $522.95. I still can't believe she spent that much at a grocery store. Then more shoppin' at good ole Pacific and then I took her to an acupuncturist and then headed down to old chinatown for some yumym Goldstone food! My mom called the waitress back over three times each time to add food and the third time to order carry-out. By this time the waitress was like oh my goodness their table is already full and my mom was just like "I'd like six dozen dumplings...two orders of beef something (don't know the name in english)...one duck...two orders of the soup and somthin' else. The waitress froze and I started laughing. I couldn't help it. I said "she's for real...you look shocked." The waitress started laughing too. ^_^ I think the Wongs go crazy when it comes to food. I'm only starting to get used to cooking for 3 and in smaller portions. So funny...I can so see where it comes from now. But I still love toronto...best bubble tea...egg waffles...good chinese food...super cheap vietnamese subs...just to name a few more highlights. Oh and how could I forget...my FABULOUS hairstylist! I get to visit again in a month wahoo! Ok since this is so long already...I'll do a part two tomorrow...the awesome auction! posted by Sewa at 2:48:00 AM # |
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