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.:Wednesday, April 27, 2005:.
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Testimonial
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luscious L"
To: "Tre"; "TDow"
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:15
Subject: RE: M's bday prezzie
Damn hot-ass Lena,
Hot-ass blondie who has all sorts of men liking her hot-ass smile
And super hot-ass Tre who has the best blog in town!
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As the arbitrary assigner of points, I arbitrarily give ourselves a plus 3.
1:40 p.m.
posted by tre
.:Monday, April 25, 2005:.
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The good thing is I am finally Open Water Certified...
so last week's plus/minus ended up at minus 3... plus 2 from the bouyancy & baked goods that Luscious & AWhore were so kind to add... so at minus 1, this week we add:
plus: 90% on Open Water final last Wednesday
minus: first time in a drysuit, not so dry :(
plus: sushi, twice in one week
minus: The Price of Sushi in the Vancouver Courier
plus: scampbe arrives thursday for 2 months!
plus: 2-hour lunch break next week!
plus: completed the sun run by running 6 out of 4 km
minus: 89:00 time
plus: reversible lululemon pants
minus: waiting for them to be hemmed
plus: getting them done in less than one week
plus: getting my first pair of lululemons re-hemmed for free
plus: real diving in Whytecliff Park!
minus: diving in miso soup-like conditions. damn plankton bloom.
minus: losing snorkel, friggin $50 piece of plastic... grr!
minus: carrying 100 lbs up and down hills 4 times, awkward handling of just about everything
minus: freaking out at 60 ft in complete darkness
plus/minus TBA: going at it again from a boat next weekend
plus: stereophonics concert
minus: moshers at stereophonics. seriously. kids, dreadlocked hair is so 1997. do yourselves a favour and wash it for once, and lay off the ecstacy pills. or save it for Glastonbury.
looks like this week we are at zero. an improvement.
Issues:
Diving: not very encouraged after having lost my snorkel, and having a near-panic attack at 60 ft (did I mention in almost complete darkness?). Even though I am technically open water certified now, I don't think I am anywhere near confident to go diving with say, my diving buddy Blondie. At least not in BC waters. Hopefully our dive next weekend will calm some of my concerns.
Stereophonics concert: ok so, this is probably the fourth or fifth Stereophonics concert I've been to (first at Commodore, second at GM Place when they opened for Our Lady Peace, third... I think I missed, fourth at the Commodore (acoustic show), then last night). There were a lot of people there that were probably at some of the previous shows, so I think we're mostly in our late 20's and not into moshing so much anymore. So imagine our surprise when, after the first couple songs, someone starts flying overhead crowd surfing. With dreadlocks. She ends up on stage, and throughout the concert, does this 3 times. I'm actually surprised she didn't get kicked out altogether. Anyway she and her other dreadlocked friend (so nasty!) start slam dancing with each other, whilst ignoring everyone else's dirty looks. Honestly it's really hard to pay attention to the concert itself when there is a lot of distraction around you. The 'phonics played most of their new record, plus a lot of stuff from their first album, one song (only!) from my personal favourite, Performance & Cocktails, and a couple others from their third & fourth albums. Kelly Jones is so hot. It's a shame he's too short.
10:40 a.m.
posted by tre
.:Tuesday, April 19, 2005:.
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Committing Musical Blasphemy
I'm going to admit it. I don't like Radiohead that much. Yeah so they have a couple of good songs but by and far, I find Thom Yorke's voice more whiny than soothing. So imagine my surprise when I found out that OK Computer was voted #1 Album of All Time as voted by Channel 4 listeners. From the UK. So maybe not the #1 Album of All Time, just the #1 Album of many Brits.
And I can't help it if I like what their music eventually spawned, so-called wannabes such as Travis & Coldplay. I can't help it if they are musically more 'accessible' for me. I like music I can hum along too, or belt out in my car when I think no one's watching. Music overwrought with meaning gives me a headache. Honestly, if you have to think about it too much, you are trying too hard to like it. That is not to say I like only mindless music... (heh, Kylie anyone?), I just don't like Radiohead, the granddaddies of modern Britpop, all that much.
Interestingly, on that list, Coldplay's "Parachutes" was #14, Travis was nowhere on it, and Robbie Williams, my hero, was #91 with "I've been Expecting You." Further reason to not give credence to this list? #98, Dexy's Midnight Runners "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels". Come on Eileen??? Hellooooo, one-hit wonder! Who did they poll for this list?? Bloody Brits...
6:03 p.m.
posted by tre
.:Friday, April 15, 2005:.
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Plus/Minus
Plus: scuba instructor Darren told me with really wide eyes after class that I had "perfect bouyancy" yesterday. Woohoo!
Minus: new mask kept fogging despite the toothpaste cleanout.
Minus: going to bed annoyed.
Minus: hair does not enjoy chlorine. lacks shine and feels much too heavy. this afternoon my receptionist proclaimed that i needed a haircut. i gave her a dirty look and told her i had my hair cut 2 weeks ago. it's true. then she tried to save herself by saying that my big curls were in style now, and that she wants to do that to her hair. smooth.
Minus: Dopey has added me to his MSN list again, he is still blocked. Take a hint! Guys are stupid.
so we're at minus-3 for the week. If I had to think about it more I'd be minus-more, but I think I'll leave it at that.
2:15 p.m.
posted by tre
.:Saturday, April 09, 2005:.
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So high school...
Was reading about some of the behaviour of certain world leaders during the Pope's funeral yesterday and was struck by how juvenile some of the comments were. It's a funeral, for God's sake. You're supposed to put away your differences and pay attention to the scripture/rituals and whatnot at hand. Who cares if someone (Robert Mugabe) uses the 'sign of peace' as a political 'in' on someone else (Prince Charles).
It reminds me of high school - when we had the big school Masses in the gym, it was always a big deal to be seated next to/in front of/behind your best friends/boyfriends/crush. The jostling for position beforehand is a struggle to prove more about how popular you were, not so much about how holy you were. The most important part of the Mass, it seemed, was not Communion, but rather the 'Sign of Peace' before it. One quickly learned that the more people you hugged/shook hands with, the more sociable you seemed... hence, more popular. But there was also a flip side to that - the snub. If, for example, one was seated next to/near their sworn enemy, or ex-boyfriend/girlfriend, one could effectively snub the other in a rather public manner during a holy moment. The fallout is personal, political - confrontations & tears after the fact, from these moments may have lead to divisions among friends or created a new pecking order among the teenage elite.
Of course when I was in high school, it wasn't that big of a drama, but you can imagine... raging hormones and incessant need to belong (for the most part!). Mass has never been just about worship... and when you think about it, that's kind of sad.
Anyway, in regards to the links above, read the first one about "Iran denies contact with Israel"
Then read my high school translation below:
Irene denies contact with Iris
Iris' boyfriend Monty Katsav said hello to the boyfriends of Sylvia and Irene at the pep rally, the school gossip has reported.
Such exchanges between boys of different stature (computer geek vs jock vs drama nerds) are unprecedented, and usually avoided at such occasions.
Sylvia's best friend later confirmed that an exchange had taken place, but said it didn't mean anything. Irene denied her boyfriend didn't say nothing to Monty.
Irene and Sylvia do not like Iris. Sylvia and Iris are officially enemies.
Monty first nodded and said "Hey," to Sylvia's bf, Bart Al Assad, who was seated behind him, as the pep rally began.
Bart later initiated a second exchange as the pep rally ended but Sylvia's best friend who apparently saw what was going on said it didn't mean that they were going to work on the school play together.
"The pep rally was like, for everyone to be there, just cuz Monty said 'hey'doesn't mean they are going to be friends from now on."
Irene's history:
Monty, who dated Irene at one point, is reported to have exchanged inside jokes about Irene with Irene's new boyfriend, Mo.
But Mo vehemently rejected the claim. "These allegations are false...I have nothad any conversation with my girlfriend's ex boyfriends," Irene's best friend is supposedly to have heard him say.
There were a lot of people at the pep rally, including computer geeks, drama queens, jocks, and goths.
Monty 'accidentally' told the school newspaper gossip columnist that the first "hey" occurred when he turned to grab his soda from the nearby Swiss exchange student.
"Sylvia's boyfriend also stood there, so we all said 'hey'."
"During the pep rally, it was all really exciting, and it was Sylvia's boyfriend who said 'hey' back..."
Monty, trying to play down the dirty looks from Iris, said that as he was leaving Bart really did say "hey" to him, he wasn't making it up.
The two guys were reported to have talked about the game which they were gearing up for. Even though Bart doesn't do sports.
According to reports, Monty was being a bit of a manwhore in also talking to Eugenia's boyfriend Abdul. Eugenia and Iris are also not on speaking terms.
'No ice-breaker'
Monty's sidekick Henry spoke to the class mouthpiece, calling the exchanges historic in terms of class cooperation, but said it was too early to say whether the 'hey's' would lead to the reduction in number of jock/nerd wedgie incidents.
"There is no doubt that this is a precedent, it was a historic moment and aunique opportunity," Henry was quoted as saying.
But Monty himself played down the significance of the encounters: "When you're at a pep rally like this, you gotta be civil. I don't think we can really saythe wedgies won't happen from now on - we shouldn't attach too much importance to such politeness."
Students were seated in alphabetical order, at least as well as the teachers in charge could manage. Bart was seated in the row behind Monty, Mo was seated three seats to the left of Monty.
Sylvia, Irene, Eugenia and Iris placed themselves strategically next to their boyfriends and with at least one or two other girl friends with which they could make rolly-eye faces with between feel-ups from their boyfriends.
11:07 a.m.
posted by tre
.:Sunday, April 03, 2005:.
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i think it's a record...
Yesterday I flirted with three different guys and two of them asked me for my number. Well, the scuba instructor doesn't count though, does it?, since he needs my number for recording purposes anyway... but still... nice little ego boost - yay me.
3:40 p.m.
posted by tre
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