So little time, so little money

I finally have job!! I've been working in North Vancouver for a few weeks now to earn some long-overdue monies! Although after my first paycheque I spent a good amount of it buying things I've been wanting over the year... but I'm very determined to save it for next year.. when I will hopefully go to Europe to do some teaching (assisting) for English. I was always thinking of going to France and doing it, but now I'm taking German again in summer school and I'm thinking maybe I could go to Germany instead? Or do one after the other...

Either way, I have to save a s***load of money for it. To be even more ambitious, I still want to go back to Switzerland in December, and at the end of August I was thinking of going to New York and Montreal, and in February (while the Olympics are here for two weeks) I was thinking of going to Peru or somewhere in South America. Am I crazy or am I crazy? From the looks of it, I think I might just stick to Switzerland in December and then France/Germany next September. Sometimes I wish my family would somehow win the lottery and then I could do all of this. But that would be the dream of mine and almost everyone else's (winning the lottery, that is).

Keep working hard people, hard.

Eventful night?

Last evening, I was hanging out with my friend from high school, Katherine, and we had dinner at Milestone's only to run into 3 other people we knew from high school that worked there!! After, we walked down Robson Street, I suggested True Confections, and I knew Katherine would say yes to cheesecake and cake!! She had Lemon Heaven, I had a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake. Anyway, after that, we walked down Denman and went to English Bay and sat down on a log for a bit. We chat, and then find that these people were looking at this tree behind us that had a HERON on it, and it had just dropped a wet bomb on the path below. Do herons usually hang out on tree tops?

So while we're looking in that direction, these two men - maybe about 30yrs old? - come up to us and ask "Do you know what kind of bird that is?". Well, that just started a whole line up of conversation that we did not anticipate to have with them. Basically, they wanted to take us out for a coffee, and they were wondering why we weren't out going to a night club (as it was a Saturday night). We had a feeling they wanted to take us out to a night club. Well, they continued to ask us more questions, like: "Are you guys best friends?... Oh, take the best friend quiz!!... Which one is the 'good' one, which is the 'bad' one?..."... and then they proceeded to sit down on either side of us.

Aw, crap.

Not that they were... creepy... or anything, it was that they were both quite talkative and interested in knowing more about us and seemed to want to take us both out. I kept slipping into the conversation I had with one guy that I had a boyfriend, and Katherine had to come up with the excuse that she had "a boyfriend" with the other guy she was talking to. They were both very talkative and really wanted to take us out for a coffee, but they finally took a hint and I think after half an hour.. or something... they finally left. I don't know what their real incentive was; they could have been two guys just wanting to make friendly conversation, or wanting much more... but that was interesting, kind of awkward, and very random. One of them even called himself charming.

The hunt begins...

To start off on a sad note, my dearest Daniel has left :'( He has gone back home to Switzerland after spending three-and-a-half weeks here in Vancouver with me. I am sad that he's gone, but it's part of life, and it's part of how we chose to do things, and part of being together yet apart. Well, that just means that next time, I'll be heading over to Switzerland :)! The past few weeks involved a lot of walking and a lot of Vancouver. I have now fallen in love with the Drive, and have renewed my love for old films, antique stores, Wonderbucks, and painting. I hope to learn oil painting this summer with a family friend of Daniel's, and I want to get back into dance and ballet.

Just living the Vancity life while getting back that summer skin.

Anyway, now it's hot as heck, and I'm on the hunt for a job! Summer school starts in a couple of weeks, I'll be continuing German, and I already have e-mails from my instructor. I'm hoping to just work work work and earn some money while improving my German this summer. No big plans - it'll be low-key for the next three months, but it'll be nice.
Hope you guys are staying cool, wherever you may be and whatever you may be doing :)

School is finally over!! Well, it's been over since April 8th, and I pretty much started my summer that day, since my exams didn't start until the 24th and ended on the 28th, but I only had three exams. So..since April 8th I have been watching movies and tv shows such as the O.C. (I watch it for Ryan and the Cohens) and the Office (SO funny, and I love Jim). I also went to a k-os concert with a friend of mine and that was pretty awesome, just dancing around to his music and chilling with the crowd... on a Thursday night too!

I am very excited for May 11th though, because that's when my boyfriend from Switzerland is coming to visit, and I have been waiting for this since I left Switzerland in January. So.. now it's his turn, and I'm going to take him around town and have him meet my friends, and hopefully he'll enjoy it all and like my friends, and that they'll like him too!! He's been to Vancouver before.. but only for a very short time and the only good impression that Canada has on him is our beautiful natural landscapes... so, I'm going to show him that there's much more to that and not every city is perfect, but that hopefully he can leave with more of the good impressions of this city. I mean, a city that's just too perfect would be... odd - wouldn't it? Too good to be true?

"Same Same But Different"

I think I have a new love. I had watched The Reader not long ago (when I should have actually been writing papers/studying for exams) and I instantly fell in love with the movie. I also think I have fallen in love with the actor who plays the main character of young Michael Berg - David Kross. Wow what a cutie! Now he's going to be playing in the movie Same Same But Different with another beautiful co-actress. Looking at the production blog of the movie really makes me want to visit Southeast Asia again (it's set in Cambodia)...though they also have pictures of fried tarantulas and other yum-yums... but I haven't gone back to Malaysia in maybe 13 years? I just don't know if the movie will be released in Canada or even North America because it's directed by a German director (Detlev Buck) and will be released in Germany in October. It just sounds like such a beautiful movie, and it's based on a true story! Anyway, this is my fangirl moment of the day. I will likely have more entries about David Kross and this movie later on... just thought I'd share my new boy-actor crush ^.^; (because UNlike just about every other girl I know..Robert Pattinson is kinda weirding me out).

Karl Marx speaks Mandarin

So I was in Switzerland in December visiting my boyfriend. We went to Luzern after visiting his mother in Göschenen. We were walking around the city and about to cross a street to view the water (Lake Lucerne). Across the crosswalk, there was an older man in a suit. My boyfriend whispers to me that he looks kind of like Karl Marx. We start chuckling a bit, and then it's time to cross the street. As "Karl" walks toward us, we try to keep a straight face. When he passes us, he says in a very low voice to me: "Ni hao". This could be because there are many many Asian tourists in Lucerne but for some reason not in the rest of Switzerland, and since I'm Chinese, perhaps he was trying to practice his Mandarin on me. After "Karl" passed us, we immediately burst out laughing as we cross the street. It was the funniest and most unexpected thing to have happened in Lucerne. So we concluded that Karl Marx lives in Switzerland and speaks Mandarin.

Bill to the S and Phil Sid.

So I'm writing my final term paper for my English class that specializes in the sonnets of Shakespeare's famous tragedies (Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear). And while writing this paper.. and sometimes during lectures, I strongly think about William Shakespeare being alive and imagine him walking in on a lecture and saying: "What? That's not what I meant! What the eff are they teaching you?!". Of course I'm not discrediting any information regarding him, nor am I insinuating something "wrong" in the multitude of interpretations in the world, and I barely know anything about the guy.
But I often w o n d e r.
This also goes for any other famous historical literary figure.. like for instance Sir Philip Sidney. I'm using him in my paper to compare to Shakespeare, and wouldn't it be nice to interview these guys for a paper? The most primary of primary sources imaginable.
Now back to writing.