Counting down the hours...

woohoo! so it's the last day of work for me, and 12 hour left till VEGASSS <3. it's kinda hard to concentrate and work when i'm so overly excited, so i've decided to spend my last hours here at service reflecting on the term....in a less traditional way.  And here's what i've come up with:

Mary's List of  Things She's Glad were Invented (after this past coop experience)

1. Flats. Seriously they are 1000 times more comfortable than any shoe that can be worn in the office. Although i must admit, they are not as professional as the tradition black heel, I see some of the females in my office wearing them and it kinda helps justify the acceptability of it. But then again I have never seen the upper level females wear anything else but stiletto high heals. So I guess its some kind of trade-off between the ability to wear comfy shoes and a million dollar salary... Hmmm.. I guess I don't really  have anything to worry about anytime soon.

2. Casual Fridays. Cuz honestly I don't think I can stand wearing black white and grey for any more than 4 days. Even if they do come in different patterns.

3. The PATH and other tunnel pathways between buildings. It's awesome, you  never have to go outside or breath fresh air going to, from, and while you're at work. But it definitely beats getting caught in those random rain storms.

4. Pizza (and other one handed eating foods). Without it I probably wouldn't have time to eat dinner during busy season. That and its cheap so the company is more willing to expense it. ..even if we aren't technically working overtime. =P

5. Headphones. Nobody can work 8.5 straight hours at maximum efficiency. That means there must be downtown....in the form of shirking.  And if I'm going to be slacking off surfing and watching videos, I might as well enhance it with sound where ever applicable.  Now if only they had something to mute my laughter as well.

I think that sums up my workterm at FirstService pretty well. =)

My Unicorn.

So today someone msged me and asked me what was wrong with my blog.  It was kind of suprising considering I haven't updated in a million years. I figured i couldn't have written something bad if i haven't written for so long.. haha.  Anyhoos I later realized he wasn't referring to the content but the page itself.  so I logged on and fixed it up now. Turns out I supposedly have a song on loop on my page? funny cuz i don't remember embedding it...

And since i'm here i might as well write something so the blog dustmites don't come.

So it's another friday.  Another week soon to pass.  It's almost going to be mid-august and I haven't gone very far with my work. And the worst part is i'm referring to both my DE course and in the office. It's probably cuz I always get home so late from work and get too tired to study.  And why do i get home late? because I always have to stay late to finish my work.  and WHY do I have to stay late? Because I take super long lunches. I always go take a breather outside and end up walking off for like 30 minutes in a random direction.  I think I can semi-confidently say that I am familiar and have entered every store/restaurant/shop in a 3km radius.  One time me and rob were walking thru holt renfrew and I think he was disgusted at the fact that I knew where everything was.

Anyways enough of what I do at lunch. I don't know if any of you remember, but about a year ago I wrote a post  about a store that I randomly stumbled upon.  Ever since then, I have attempted to go back to the store but when I try to go and look for it again,  I could never find it. Even with my random walks. At some point I thought I just imagined the store.  but lucky for me today I found it again! I was actually speedwalking back to work from an over-extended 2 hour lunch when the extremely quirky and cute objects in the window display caught the corner of my eye.

 
The tag on the yellow blob says "super juicy chicken". common now. How can you not want it?

It's like magic, I don't find it, it finds me (okay probably not, but you get the point). It always appears when I least expect it.. and never when I actually have time to go inside and look at all the nice things thoroughly.  Oh well, At least now I know I didn't imagine the store.  And I took a picture just to make sure.

The store front. make sure you go inside whenever it finds you! =)

I felt like such a tourist but i just HAD to do it. Cuz you know, things like this are too good to be true. (How is it that i want EVERY SINGLE THING in that store?! ) And when it's too good to be true, it usually isn't. It's kinda like unicorns.  Something you've always wanted but never thought would really exist.  And now, I have found my unicorn. 

Wait, no..... I have two. =) <3

Anyways, sorry for the random direction-less post and the continual advertising for this store. (no wonder it's called propaganda....-___-") Lesson learned today is: "don't eat lunch or you'll fail your DE course."

kthnxbye.

hum dee doo...

The tragic flaw of society.

Though I was never a huge fan of him myself, I had hoped that these reports were false.  Unavoidably, after being bombarded by media tributes, I knew Michael Jackson was dead for real.

This morning during my routine commute to work, I did the usual: look around at the people on the bus, read the paper of the guy/girl who is sitting beside me, and try to sleep.  Not suprisingly, every newspaper had MJ's story as a headline.  I decided myself to take advantage of my $50/month phone plan and blackberried some stories regarding the death.  I stumbled on a page that had all these comments of other musicians, producers, actors, and how they all felt like it was a tragic loss of great talent and a great man.  Another forum had the same type of comments that came from regular people.  After getting unbearably carsick (sucks. i can't do ANYTHING in the car/bus/train without wanting to puke every 2 minutes) I stopped reading and just sat there.

Uncontrollably everything assocated to the words "Michael Jackson" rushed in my head.  Every song I knew, every news report, every family guy episode, every rumour, and every joke that was made on his "freak-like" nature.  I began to think about the effect that the media has had on us on our perception of MJ.  Was he really the way we thought he was?

That very same day, I heard MJ's songs being played on almost every radio station.  Even when I went to Rob's house after work I heard his playing brother playing it on his computer, while he himself had some rendition of "Thriller" playing.

And so, I finally started to understand why people say that only death can bring a person to the peak of their fame.  It's because (mind the cliche-ness) people don't really know what they have until it's gone. I admit for also being one that has given him more attention now that he's dead than when he were alive.  We'll of course I paid attention for when he was being charged for child molestation, bleaching himself to a vampire, and waving his child over the balcony, but never about anything more galmourous.  Why did michael jackson live a life of being humiliated in the media, but praised and appreciated when he died? Is it because we feel bad for how we've treat him, or is it because now that he's gone we realize how great he was?  Either way, I felt that he would have gone so much happier had all the tributes and praises happened just a day earlier.  But he'll never know.  I guess that's just the way things work in the world. Society can be so unforgiving...I hope I don't have to die in order for the people around me to forgive me for all the wrongs that I've done... =(

I hope you can finally rest in peace Mr. Jackson. 

work. work work. work...break!

so it's been so very very long since i've posted.  completely wrote off my pre-term reservations. might have something to do with the fact that it' 7pm and i'm STILL at work with a bit of work to finish up.  >=(

but anyways, with the 15 minute break that i am giving myself, i decided to come and update my life.  Nothing too interested has happened, just always occupied with work.  I have noticed myself becoming a little bit envious of everyone around me who is graduating tho.  Seeing all those grads with smiles on their faces as they live in the moment of their rite of passage makes me want to graduate too.  By the time I graduate, everyone will be emotionally passed the hype of graduating cuz it'll be super old news.  =(  oh wells. it'll be well anticipated and nonetheless rewarding for me. The day I am free of stupid SAF will definitely be a day for celebration. >=D

anyways, was just having a conversation with one of my friends during work, and a little bit of my ambition for the future came out.  I don't know how it started, but it was probably me ranting about how I hated working for the firm I did in first year called "Chan and Company"....

Friend: lol, you can start your own firm and save your good name

Mary: guh. i need to start it with someone with a cool last name. i need my firm to sound cool. not china. so i'll need to marry someone with the last name "awesome".  that way, my firm will be "Awesome Associates"

Friend: yeah well, you're on the wrong path right now.  At this rate, it'll be Average Joe Associates".

LOL.
any awesomes out there interested in signing up to be Mary's future partner?

(......at my FIRM of course) =P =D