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Bad Romance

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:34:36 GMT

This is another song that I put on my mp3 player at the same time as Russian Roulette... I ignored it all weekend because I had heard a sample of it a month ago and it was incomplete and I thought it had no promise. But now that I listen to it... wow. This is probably going to be my favourite Lady Gaga song. I really do like the strange pop songs.

Lyrics

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-ma!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-ma!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it’s free
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)

I want your drama
The touch of your hand
I want your leather-studded kiss in the sand
And I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)

You know that I want you
And you know that I need you
I want your bad, your bad romance

I want your love and
I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
(Oh-oh-oh-oooh!)
I want your love and
All your love is revenge
You and me could write a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-ma!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

I want your horror
I want your design
‘Cause you’re a criminal
As long as your mine
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)

I want your psycho
Your vertical stick
Want you in my room
When your baby is sick
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)

You know that I want you
('Cause I'm a freak bitch baby!)
And you know that I need you
I want your bad, your bad romance

I want your love and
I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!)
I want your love and
All your love is revenge
You and me could write a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-ma!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-ma!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

Walk walk fashion baby
Work it
Move that bitch crazy

Walk walk fashion baby
Work it
Move that bitch crazy

Walk walk fashion baby
Work it
Move that bitch crazy

Walk walk passion baby
Work it
I'm a freak bitch baby

I want your love
And I want your revenge
I want your love
I don’t wanna be friends

J'veux ton amour
Et je veux ton revenge
J'veux ton amour
I don’t wanna be friends
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
I don’t wanna be friends
Caught in a bad romance
I don’t wanna be friends
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Want your bad romance
Caught in a bad romance
Want your bad romance!

I want your love and
I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
I want your love and
All your love is revenge
You and me could write a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Want your bad romance
Caught in a bad romance
Want your bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh!
Want your bad romance
Caught in a bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-ma!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

from: http://www.metrolyrics.com/bad-romance-lyrics-lady-gaga.html

Russian Roulette

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:13:45 GMT

This is the new Rihanna song - Russian Roulette. Most people don't like it at first, because she usually does more pop stuff, but this is slower and "boring". At first I disliked it... but I really like it now. I like her more "dark" songs, she seems more passionate singing them. Should be noted this recording is actually a little higher pitched than it should be, but I only found one other link with the proper recording and it didn't have her new album cover in the video.

Lyrics

Take a breath, take it deep
Calm yourself, he says to me
If you play, you play for keeps
Take a gun, and count to three
I’m sweating now, moving slow
No time to think, my turn to go

[Chorus -- JustJared.com]
And you can see my heart beating
You can see it through my chest
And I’m terrified but I’m not leaving
Know that I must must pass this test
So just pull the trigger

Say a prayer to yourself
He says close your eyes
Sometimes it helps
And then I get a scary thought
That he’s here means he’s never lost

(Chorus)

As my life flashes before my eyes
I’m wondering will I ever see another sunrise?
So many won’t get the chance to say goodbye
But it’s too late too pick up the value of my life

(Chorus)

Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/10/20/rihanna-russian-roulette-lyrics/#ixzz0UvB5VpJ0

My favourite part is when she goes a little off key when she says "He says close your eyes, sometimes it helps"; harmony in disharmony kinda idea.

For Erica.

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:06:39 GMT

Erica is begging me to update my LJ so she has something to creep. So I'm going to help her out with a few links.

I terribly miss her Facebook account :(.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR5p_bD3uLc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saoLvbaEeGQ&feature=player_profilepage

^^ I'm pretty sure I've showed you this dude before, but this is what I watch when I'm piss bored lol. He's got like 4 years worth of videos to go through.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1836/ Love these comics. Especially the "Depressing Comic Week" ones. Click random. Feel guilty for laughing.

http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ lmfao.

Ok, I have nothing else but I'll try to randomly update just for you when I have better stuff to share <3 .

Rihanna - Question Existing

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:01:02 GMT

I love her. Amazing message.

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:11:49 GMT

T-minus 10 minutes before I fail my calculus summative :D.

I'm just destined to fail, so it's okay. There's always Ryerson/Humber college (yes, I'm lowering my standards now aha)

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:40:13 GMT

Well, this has been an awesome awesome day.

For the past week, I've been struggling with last minute stuff to hand in today, and it's finally ALL over :D. I woke up lucky today - I managed to get to the bus on time (the bus driver has been picking me up on the way to the next stop, lol)(not that I really care but still), then I found $10 while I was walking off the bus, and Nam taught me a little bit of Calc during spare which proved to be enough for my calc quiz today... I think I might have got perfect or at least close to perfect (I added in a random negative sign where it didn't belong :( ). Then, I skipped IB (not skipped, mind you, told Nadin that one of the Prom sellers was absent and someone had to sell for them) and wrote up cue cards for our West and the World presentation today, and 4th I semi practised, semi made new cue cards. Vickita, Satveer and I ran through it once quickly and then we had to present. Needless to say everything was pretty bad. At that point, however, I really didn't give a damn. I was barely even nervous when we started the presentation, and I'm usually pretty nervous. I think we ended up getting 9, 9, 9 and 8 on the presentation in general, and then individually, I got 10, 10, 10 and 9 (it might have been 8.5, I can't remember very well now).

I went to walmart to order new contacts, they're sending me a trail pair of some Bausch and Lomb contacts... I've got a REALLY awkward eye size (it's too flat) so not a lot of contacts come in that size.. and if they do, they don't have a lot of water in them... meaning they get dry quickly, and then they suck. My best option is disposable, but they're way too expensive. So my predicament leaves me always trying new contact lens brands. Joy. Hopefully the next batch will be gooodddd!

After that, I went home and returned my business pants I bought from Mischief in Westwood, thankfully they accepted it, and was really tempted to buy one of their really whorey club tops, but I thought better of it as I knew my mother would be like wtf? when I got home. I ended up grabbing 2 pairs of jeans to compensate...and getting pissed since they didn't fit very well (which isn't unusual... I've got one awkward size). I spent so much time in that store trying to find something I liked that the Transit thing where u buy tickets from was closed... those fags.

Anyway, I'm done wasting my life away on LJ, will continue later :P. One of my luckier days tho... it was fun :) hopefully I can sleep well tonight to make the day perfect.

P.S. T-Minus 9 days of school left :|.
P.S.S. My dad fixed my laptop this weekend :D FINALLY! I miss it so much.. *pets it* I won't hurt you again precious :).

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:04:57 GMT

Homan, this week has been stressful. We're the first presentation in West and the World and it's not going very well. Presentation = Monday, we aren't even done yet!

Of course, facebook and LJ have not made this any easier. Oops :|. My mom is sleeping all weekend though, so I have nothing to do but homework, and I've got plenty of it. Japneet woke me up at 8 AM today so I could start working... hearing London Bridge while waking up... is a new experience, let's just say. I'm going to change my ringtone sometime soon... daddy might kill me because of the phone bill, but hey, I don't really care. I'm thinking about volunteering at the YMCA so I have to get a police records check done... I might go to the headquarters sometime soon. I also need to go shopping for like.. professional-ish clothes for Monday. I also need to go and buy contacts, because I'm practically out. No more dailies, they go fast :(.

Steph and I are going volunteering for 3 hours on Sunday... good luck to us, eh :|. Kinda insane, but we can do it. We'll like pass out from allergies, but we'll live!

Yesterday after having a pretty laid back/tension filled day, we went to volunteering @ Petsmart. It was boring at times, but fun as usual. Then we went to Stephanie's house and ate some food in her sunroom... and said a lot of stupid crap we can't remember. It's not that we were drinking, we are just retarded :|. I remember saying "I'm going to put that in my msn name!" but I can't remember why... and Julia said "scramble the damn cards, bitch" to Steph... LOL it was pretty funny. And then my contact popped out of my eye by itself, so I gave it to Stephanie so she could play with it, and then Steph had the urge to put it on her touge... and then said she's licking my eye jelly... homg. She's an intelligent one! Yeah, and then she drove me and Julia home.. and it was such a fun, relaxing ride, I wish it lasted longer :P. They made my Friday. Like usual, actually, because it's been like every Friday together for the last little while.

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:22:16 GMT

Random chilling... x4235345

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:28:07 GMT

Like a week ago, I kept thinking "man, my crew has become so freakin' anal. They don't want to chill with us anymore, they don't give a damn about us anymore, all the best friends within that group have disappeared and now I'm just stuck with my 3 best girlies... what the hell happend?" Not that having only 3 best friends is a bad thing.. it's just that... they're still my friends but we used to be so much CLOSER... I miss it. Then today I realized something... I'm an idiot. I just had to go bug them enough to do something, and tell them that I missed all the times together and BYAMM! I solved the problem. I told Alex that I missed the good 'ol times when we'd talk for hours on MSN and we'd go out and chill - today we went to Timmy's alone and chilled and talked all the way there :). Last week sometime, we managed to drag Eldon out to Dixie with Julia and I where he could hear all our perverted conversations and still have a fun time. Today afterschool, I walked onto Stephanie's bus and said I wanted to do something, she said she was free, and I ended up going to her place for a while with Alex who we invited along last minute too :D. We had fun chilling at Stephanie's house, even though we did nothing but eat a medium meat lovers pizza and go down memory lane. I still miss the old get togethers and the giant group we'd walk to Caesars with, but hey, I can work on it :P. I won't let our groups relationship die on MY behalf, anyway. I'm going to still keep it thriving. I swear it.

On the other hand, Eldon said something really amusing to me today online:

Eldon got Jello? [P-BSH] Mali 06 - Dota <3 says:
no matter how far you go someone out there will think your stiff lol
Eldon got Jello? [P-BSH] Mali 06 - Dota <3 says:
and no matter how little you do someone will probly think your a whore lol

I never thought of it that way before, but it's so true. Damn Eldon's philosophies. Eldon is that month-older brother I've never had, except he knows my friends and he WILL use that fact against me. Little faggot - it's all good though, since one day he'll die and I won't have to put up with him anymore. <3. Nah, I'll cry forever when that day comes, just like I'd cry forever for any of my other friends. I wonder which one of my friends is going to die first? Or am I going to die first... *stares at the jumbo Toblerone sitting on her counter* probably, since my arteries are clogged by all the shit I eat.

Anyway I'm going to go - thanks for driving me home today Steph, you don't know how much I need these uber random chilling days sometimes :).

yes true you got a man but the party ain't gunna stop so lets make it hot hot

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:32:10 GMT

Me no like going to my ortho. They make bigger gaps in between my teeth so the teeth can move. Bigger gaps = places for food to get stuck :(.

SUV without back suspensions is uber scary while going over bumps. Feels like the car is going to collapse.

Waiting for McDonalds and half cleaning my room.

... and I just realized that the brampton 5 from Westwood goes to Trinity Common. HUHWHAT?! Why didn't I know this before. Je suis une idiote. Also, the 30 brampton from westwood basically goes to where my bus stop is in the morning. The transit by my house is just amazing - now only if they had a direct bus to Julia's, Erica's and Dota's... I've already got one for Stephies.

My brain hurts today. Haven't figured out why. Enna what did we do in West and the World? And Steph? Calc + IB?

One more thing... this reminds me of Vicko somehow.

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:52:55 GMT

They've came out with a lot of bad comics in the past week... but... the last slide just cracks me up. "I put the 'sensual' back in 'nonconsensual'."

SEMI 2006

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:40:10 GMT

Semi Formal 2006 kicked ass.

Thursday night I went to Bramalea City Centre last minute to buy a random pair of silver shoes to go with my dress. It was hectic. I couldn't find a pair that I liked and they all sucked, etc, etc. Just really annoying. Then I went to this random store (again, since I had already been there earlier in the day) and told the lady I'm leaving with a pair and to just find me something that fit properly. I also bought brown nailpolish, pantyhose and random cushions for my sandals. I was supposed to be home by 6 PM, but I ended up getting home at like 7:15. Took me only 7-10 minutes to drive from Bramalea City Centre to home... it always seems faster when I'm driving, I unno why. I go at the speed limit too... maybe I'm just so entertained I dont notice time passing lol. Yeah, I really enjoy driving alone... music + driving around = fun. Anyway, then I did my nails (and messed them up) and my legs when I got home.

Didn't sleep any that night, then I got up at 5:30 AM and ate, took a shower and went to school with two bags (my school bag and then clothes for sleeping over/my dress). I don't know how I managed it, but I did :D. Calc was boring, I.B. we did our summative presentation randomly (and failed) and then in West and the World we went to the library. I was dead all day long; I had a headache, I was tired and I was hungryyyy. At lunch, we went out to Dixie as a group like good 'ol times... a group being.. Alex, Eldon, Aeron, Julia, Dota and I. Still not the normal sized group, but hey, it's a start!

Julia and I went on Dota's bus afterschool and ate pizza at her house before her grandpa came and picked us up and we went to their house. They live in Rexdale like 5 minutes away from the hall, so it was just the perfect place to get ready. The night was so hectic when it came to taking our pictures... like homg. We had to wait and wait and wait, then people would get bored and bail and then we couldn't find people when we had to take our pictures... yeah, it just didn't work out. We eventually got them taken when the music had to be turned down for 10 minutes because the hall nextdoor was reciting vows and we were too loud :D. The buffet was cool... we got to pick what we wanted and stuff, but waiting for food was annoying but hey it's all good. There wasn't any spills or falls so it's pretty good. The rest of the night was just dancing :D it was so much fun. Most of the people we were sitting with stayed at the very front because the music was loud and stuff... but the fog and the jumping got to me. I didn't like getting stamped on/trying to jump... so I went further back. I ended up grinding with like 8 people... but we won't get into that! Hopefully the rumours won't be too bad on Monday; that would just suck.

Anyway I'm kinda too lazy 2 write details right now - let's just say SEMI WAS AMAZING and PROM BETTER BE BETTER THAN SEMI.

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:36:44 GMT

Semi tonight.

Omg.

I have to recap on stuff for the last week, but I'll do that later ookay?!

Now Alex is complaining about me typing too fast and too 259l25982829... loud. Good ol alex :D

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:34:08 GMT

I bought my semi dress. It cost (in total) $142. I only bought an expensive dress because I'll use this one later in university :D. Also the other options were, a) too slutty, b) the stitch wasn't worth the money, c) too formal, d) fit awkwardly in some areas. So we're like, "Meh, might as well buy the more expensive dress." I have to buy heels for it still *slices wrists quickly*.

Tomorrow I have a calculus quiz on some unit I don't understand, and we have our business plan due in IB (but of course, we've had 3 days [4 for Steph] to do it, so we decided that HEY! Let's procrastinate one more day! And yea. Business plan will be a day late :). On Wednesday, I have my Travel Presentation [Note to Steph: Bring Laptop or we shall be dead :O] which is a piece of CRAP right now. We should really work on that, but again, procrastination is a powerful, powerful thing. I'm more concerned about what I'm wearing that day than the actual presentation, haha. I'm not wearing anything special other than black business pants. But whatever keeps my mind occupied!

SEMI IS ON FRIDAY. HOMFG. Decisions, decisions... like.. should I bother attempting to wax my legs? Or just fuck it and Nair the beastliness off. The second option is sounding much more appealing right now. Looks like right now we're just going to Stephanie's after, and hopefully we can pull an allnighter (which will be SO FREAKIN' HARD because we wake up UBER early for the day and have to stay lively until like MIDNIGHT). But we're going to do it. Otherwise, we're going to have like a shot of vodka or something so we can be completely knocked out. Better yet, we'll give Jenee that shot, because the rest of us won't have problems falling asleep if she shut up :). I love Jenee!

Anyway, time for more food. Food food food.

More highschool memories...

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:58:16 GMT

*sigh* It's like I'm forever going out... yet I have no life. How do these things work?! I'm so tired, I'm going to make this a really simple entry lol.

Anyway, Julia and I had to start our IB Travel project on Finland, so I bussed to Medowvale Town Centre and her mom and her picked me up. I could've bussed all the way to her house but they wouldn't have it. We worked for a straight 2 or 3 hours, then got a severe case of A.D.D. and stopped working :). We went to Dota's house to sleepover and were planning to go see Borat with some people, but that failed since we weren't willing to go all the way to Square One for it. We ended up talking for a while, then we decided to go to dinner somewhere (Swiss Chalet). Julia and I wanted to wear something nicer, so we made Dota dress us (we felt uber special because Dota wears expensive brand names... I was wearing a pepe jeans shirt at one point... and omg I wore a parsuco sweater [with nothing under it] all night. I decided not to bring a winter jacket with me, so they decided to do the same. Then we actually got there, I asked for them to give us a secluded table, and the phrase of the night came up: "Guys... we can't be this stupid...". Basically, we can't manage dinner menus, forks or knives... Dota couldn't figure out why my straw bent so easily because she put her straw into her cup the wrong way.. we couldn't decide on what to eat so we all got the same thing... there's more.. that was just the beginning of the night. Then while we were freezing waiting for Dota's dad, Julia thought it would be terribly amusing to unzip my sweater while some people were leaving Swiss Chalet. Uber awkward moment in my pokadotted bra. Oh yeah, Julia was wearing a sparkly Bebe Sport shirt.. so while watching her reflection in the mirror she'd do this little jig to see it sparkle. Yeah, people looked at us like we were pretty retarded. We went home, decided to go into the basement and play... JENGA?! Yeah, tottally my fault - I have urges to do different things. We ended adding a little risk to the game... which turned out really bad... no comment on it here though :D. I was doing SOOO WELL at the beginning, but then I started getting careless and I couldn't pay attention very well... yeah. Bloody hell. Anyway, then at around midnight, Dota's mom came home and was going to go with Carol to drop off this random truck... after bitching for a while about us not answering the door we went to Timmys with Carol.. yeah... she's so fuckin' funny!!!!!! Carol STRADDLED Dota's mom in Timmys.. we were dying laughing. I'd tell you the things we talked about but...yeah I'm not going to. Went to sleep at 2:30-3:00 AM, didn't actually fall asleep, left at 10:20 and got home at 11:30ish.

Ima go back to doing my nails... later yall <33.

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:58:07 GMT

Today was pretty random. Julia called me up and asked me if I wanted to go to a Christina Aguilera concert (she's being introduced by the Pussycat Dolls). I said yes. Tickets went on sale at 10 AM and we got really good seats. Then, I attempted to study for west and the world, I believe I got a pretty good mark on the first part, but a bad mark on the second part. I was a tad bit out of it and my contacts were like "UR AN IDIOT, WHY DID U WEAR ME WHEN U KNOW UR SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING A TEST?! IDIOT." so I had to like... look away all the time. Cut it to the last minute for the essay... and I forgot to double space it... bah. I hope he doesn't deduct marks because of it... oopz :D.

Julia and I decided to stay after school last minute for Graydon Reaching Out meeting... we're going to collect pop can tabs... I have no idea why, but after 10 hours of it, I get an activity point. While we were leaving, we were trying to figure out if taking the 8 would be faster, or taking the 5 to the .. other random bus that Julia was convinced was faster. After finally winning and convincing Julia it's the 8, we saw Stephanie just outside the doors of the school. So we bugged her for a while, while she was drunk off her jap culture meeting and asked her to drive us to Square 1. Originally, she wasn't going to come with us, but we made her call that clothing place she wanted to see and SHOCKINGLY ENOUGH we saved her ass one helluva long trip to Bramalea City Centre since her pants hadn't come in yet. I think she found a really hot top at square one that she's going to buy (I'm pretty sure it was the one I saw, but I'm not sure because she apparently went to Bram City Centre afterwards and I don't know if she found another one or not). I really liked this red dress I saw there, but its $120. My mom agrees to pay for it, so I might get it. I really like the black and gold one too... but the only thing that throws me off is the random gold chain thing.. I'd show pictures but I don't have them.

I had to walk home alone in Malton at night, which FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER was not scary? It was dark it was so pretty... I love being outside at night <3. I think I wasn't scared because a) with the 7 I cna get off like 5 minutes away from home, b) I convinced myself that if I got jumped it would be one cool story to tell... haha I'm so intelligent.

Anyway I have to go... random update = done.

Random

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:44:33 GMT

I woke up at like... 9 AM today... like wth is wrong with me? Way too fuckin' earlyyyy... *dies*

Can't wait until Semi. I need an outfit to get it off my mind - that's the only reason why I'm thinking about it, I've got no bloody outfit :D. Last time I saved it for the day before, this year that's not going to happen, I swear!! BAHH!

Tell Me by Diddy and Christina Aguilera is a good song. Now I'm going to go waste my life a little more :)

Back to procrastination!

K I had to.

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:47:21 GMT

*back to procrastination*

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:40:14 GMT

I went Volunteering again today for a few hours. OMG so packed - Steph you should've been there. The lady (corin or something like that) is like.. insane. I think she runs the organization. They assume I know everyone and all their names or something - it's hard to catch up. Steph, btw, theres two new itty bitty kittens there, a little bigger than Smudge. Smudge was almost sold today, an asian family came in and were really interested. They filled out an adoption form I think. I'm thinking about going again tomorrow, but I doubt I'll go. I have to ~~study~~ learn calculus tomorrow and possibly go shopping for Semi stuff - I can't possibly leave this to the last minute again. We gotta plan out our tables too, this is what I'm looking at so far:

1. Sam
2. Steph
3. Jenee
4. Julia
5. Dota
6. Vicko
7. Eldon
8. Alex (?) - He said he doesn't want to pay $90 [christine's ticket too] so I don't know if he's actually coming
9. Christine (?) - ^^
10. (?) - I think I'm missing someone.

I went to York University this morning too, it's 15 KM away. Bloody hell, must it be so close? The campus is absolutely massive. My Dad built a lot of it (he worked there for a damn long time) so he gave us a "tour" of the Campus. They have the most retarded roundabout I've ever seen in my life... one where you YIELD to traffic coming in once you're in it at one point... how stupid is that?! Anyway, the campus is pretty decent overall, the buildings are quite nice, and nothing is old. I still feel like U of T suits me best though, just when I think about it, it feels right if that makes any sense. 'Cept it's harder to get into, and with my marks... well, anyway. Let's not talk about things like that when I have a 68% in Calculus. Bah.

Anyway, I gotta go back to shunning calc homework and whatever else I have to do.

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:25:07 GMT

Is Chocolate Really Good For You?

From Richard N. Fogoros, M.D.,
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Chocolate and cocoa may improve vascular health

Updated: July, 2005

By DrRich

Researchers reported at the 2004 American Society of Hypertension Annual Scientific Meeting in New York, that consuming dark chocolate and cocoa improves the function of blood vessels.

In one new study, consumption of cocoa in healthy volunteers, aged 18 to 77, resulted in significantly improved vascular responsiveness. (The measure the researchers used looked at the "stiffness" of blood vessels. In patients whose blood vessels are "stiff," hypertension is common.) The beneficial effect was most pronounced in patients over 50 years of age.

In a second study, after volunteers ate 100 grams of dark chocolate (the sacrifices one performs for science!) vascular responsiveness was again significantly improved.

And in a July, 2005 report in Hypertension, Italian investigators showed that feeding 100 grams of dark chocolate daily to hypertensive patients improved their systolic and diastolic blood pressures - and lowered their LDL cholesterol levels. (Control patients fed white chocolate had no beneficial effects.)

Investigators postulate that it is the flavonoids in chocolate that causes vascular improvement. Dark chocolate contains more flavonoids than lighter chocolate - and adding milk to chocolate (i.e., milk chocolate) inhibits the absorption of flavonoids. So any benefit gained by eating chocolate may be limited to dark chocolate (and cocoa).

Why you shouldn't eat a lot of chocolate based on these findings.

The findings reported this week are interesting, but don't begin eating chocolate like it's candy.

First, flavonoid content varies markedly in chocolate products, so you might not be getting the healthy stuff with that candy bar. (The flavonoid content of the chocolate used in these studies was carefully quantified, but such quantification has not been done for commercial chocolate products. It is likely that chocolate manufacturers will begin reporting on flavonoid content in the future, however.)

And second, along with the flavonoids, chocolate products also deliver lots and lots of calories. 100 grams of dark chocolate, for instance, yields approximately 500 calories, and eating this much chocolate daily without adjusting for the increase in calories will produce a weight gain of about 1 pound per week. So any benefit you might gain by eating chocolate could be completely negated by making yourself obese.

Furthermore - and importantly for those who adhere religiously to one or another mutually-exclusive dietary philosophies - these extra calories are packaged both as fat and as carbohydrates. This means that adding chocolate to your diet will violate both low fat and low carb dietary dogma.

LINK here: http://heartdisease.about.com/od/otherriskfactors/a/chocolate.htm

Lazy Friday

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:36:39 GMT

I've got like nothing due today (randomly) so I'm pretty freakin' bored. Thank god. I like being bored with no work :). It's so chill!

I'm going to see Erica tonight, where we will attempt to go to Trinity and get myself home before dinner, which is looking to be quite impossible.

York Univeristy Fall Campus Day tomorrow... but I have to fit volunteering somewhere? Bah.

I'm going shopping with Julia and Dota for semi on Sunday... no wait, I think that was cancelled. I can't remember now. Dota's schedule is way too busy and full to remember. I'm just going to assume she's busy.

Steph attacked the door to the Cat Area in Petsmart yesterday. It was really funny, I just didn't tell her that at the time :D.

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:50:46 GMT

Omg, Ahmer, Aman, Kanwar and Rupin were dressed up like refs today. FOB. Victor dressed up as a cowboy. ... Victor looked half decent ... but the others... ... ... ................ well, there will be pictures sometime anyway. Stephie wore her Orgi cloak and was wondering if they'd mind if she put "Orgi" in the yearbook... lol, I wonder if they'd let her do that. Our school is so anal about some things, I wouldn't be surprised.

Sugar Factory

For IB we went to Redpath Sugar Factory. It's fucking Hallowe'en. They didn't give us any candy. Fuck them. *IS ANGRY*. Although I did learn that it's bullshit that brown sugar is better than white sugar. Well, it's slightly better for you, but I doubt you'd want to eat 250 tablespoons of brown sugar to actually meet your daily requirement and reap the benefits of the "healthier sugar" - which is kind of weird for a sugar factory to advertise. We went to ... the Queens Quay afterward (I don't even freakin' know).. it had a really nice view of Toronto.. but yeah, shitty stores. The place we went for lunch was pretty expensive... apparently Il Fornello is one of the top ten restaurants in Toronto, but I didn't think their food was that great. In fact, it was so unappealing that I didn't even finish HALF of my Fedaccini Alfredo (which I spelt wrong) - and it wasn't even that much. Stephanie and Julia ended up buying some crappy silly putty stuff, so we ended up kicking it around until Josh kicked it and it hit someone ahaha. So we bailed the mall and then ended up playing there, where Josh destroyed his finger some how and the poor little putty ball turned black and a pidgeon ate part of it... yeah don't ask. Felt kinda bad for the pidgeon after that.

Random Urges

After I got home from school, around 5 pm I decided I wanted to steal the SUV for a few minutes and drove to Walmart - in freakin' Airport road TRAFFIC going North. Hardcore traffic. Took me 20-25 minutes to get somewhere which would've only taken 5 minutes. I ordered $30 contacts, Acuvue 1-day 30 pack.. which is stupid, now I realize, because its only 15 days worth of contacts then *punches self*. I could've got monthlies.. no wait, there was a problem with that... *can't remember now*. Oh well. I better like these goddamn contacts. I bought new lipgloss (16 hour) after searching for a particular (cheaper) one that only had one left and that was freakin' opened *kicks everything around her*. It's uber unnoticeable, hence why I like it... HA BITCHES! ... see another random urge!

Volunteering

MUCH better than volunteering with old people and going through a million tuberculosis tests for no reason. If I'm going to die soon because of it, I'll deal with that problem then. I don't want my childhood to be spoiled NOW once it's almost over :P. The kitties are so adorable.... I just want to cuddle them and play with them... 'cept they don't want to cuddle with me. Poor kitties though, all cooped up in their cages. $150 per cat btw, almost all of them are spayed/neutered and have all their shots. Good price, considering getting them spayed/neutured costs like $300 and updating their shots costs at least $150 each time. I'm happy I found this volunteering place, pity I didn't find it before though, they're leaving on Sunday until December, and I don't know if I'm going to be able to get ALL my volunteer hours before February like when they [our school] want them. I'll figure something out, I always seem to. I have faith in myself [and I just jinxed myself]. Peaches is now Pebbles, and Missy is a loner/bitch but I love them. Shadow is so purry and loving I <3 him, and Angel is such a snob :D but I love her too. Sam, don't get attached, don't do it, just don't *inner struggle*.

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:43:20 GMT

Yah, pretty damn busy weekend - it was good though =).

So Julia and her mom picked me up at 10:30 AM Saturday morning, after I had waken up an hour late, took a mad quick shower and inhaled some random food I found around the house. We missioned to Kipling subway station without the lovely 427, and hopped on a train to St.George. We walked around the ~~bloody massive~~ campus. The buildings have a very traditional and classic look - I <3 that. Trees everywhere, and really random walkways everywhere too. Once you get to King's College Court or some shit like that, it gets so sexy. HOWEVER it might have been because there were like 6 soccer games going down at the time.. and it was all muddy and rainy so they were all wet and stuff :). I want to go into Commerce now, because it leaves like 3000 doors open when it comes to business. I wanted to go into Business Administration but they have Management instead (same thing)... but for whatever reason you can specialize in management/human resources through Commerce. I figured it would be better because then I will know some financial stuff and also I've heard really good crap about the program. Eldon's sister, Paula, is in Commerce at UTM and shes got 4 job offerings and they're paying for the rest of her tuition and letting her work with them nd paying her quite a few grand.... awesome awesome. I want to be guaraunteed a future.. is that so bad :). Julia's going into Commerce too, just because thats the program you apply to there. At York or something she'd be going into Finance. After getting donuts, being shocked at the amount of asian people there, getting scared because I wasn't seeing anyone from our school there, and getting on one really fucked double decker bus, we went home.

Now because I've been doing to do something different, Julia invited me along with her to her Mom's Friend's party - this is like a pure Romanian party. They live in a condo near Yorkdale, and on the main floor they had two rooms just for parties, so we were in there. After some REALLY awkward introductions to Romanian people (lol the first question was "are you canadian?" and they all got really happy when they heard my background.. lol) I met Daniel who I had ~~flirted~~ talked to online a few weeks earlier at another one of their crazy romanian parties. I met a few other people... I'd tell you their names.. if I could remember them... they were freakin' hard man.. mirukana or something.. and.. kozman.. or something *hurts self*. They were really cool and open, it was so refreshing. We had a cup of rosee wine.. so freakin' tasty... only way you'd know it's alc is if you tried to down it and felt a little burn. We couldn't have ne more since it's uber expensive and there was only one bottle.. and all of it was gone basically. Since... kozman's (?) mom was hosting the party and she lived upstairs in the building, so we went to their place and chilled. We were watching Scary Movie 2 and listening to random music (Dan's a DJ)(or a wanna be anyway) and Dan showed us this random card trick which confuses the FUCK out of me. It's like.. he has this rigged deck of cards or something but when you check them you can't find ne thing weird about them... and he'll flip through all the cards and they're all random, then he does it again and says they'll all be 10 of hearts.. and they are.. but.. HOW!?! Ugh me no gets it. And he wouldn't tell me either. Fag. Oh btw, just throwing this in, he has the FATTEST cat I've ever seen. It's like... 20 pounds.. it can eat most dogs.. and.. holydamn. Like, I feel bad for it. It makes my cat look anorexic. Anyway, then Dan let us try some of this.. Romanian hard alcohol mixed into orange juice... but he only let us have a bit since we already had Rosee and didn't wanna over do it (we were fine but just incase, mixing = not the best thing). That shit was horrid. The orange juice REEKED because of it. I only had half a glass and then made this random guy there down it for me.. Julia did the same. We also had a cup of home made red wine and then there were no bagel bites left so there was no point for beverages lol. We went to the billards room to play pool, and then we went to the weight room randomly (where the guys attempted to show off their leet lifting weights skills but failed at impressing), and then we went to the video store down the road and rented "Thank you for smoking" which is a movie that makes u think a lot.. about how to argue things and stuff like that. It was a really chilled evening... a whole lotta sitting on the couch and watching the television and hearing mirakuna (? oh god thats spelt so wrong) talk about everything that came up.. she was so funny :). It was just good 'ol laid back fun with people who you don't know and like to burst out in random Romanian. Funniest part had to be when one of the parents walked in while we were watching the movie with a part of his pants missing and rambled off in romanian and they all stopped and startedt translating for me ahaha. Really random. Yeah, I mean the evening wasn't uber fun but it was just very.. out of the ordinary and different. Me likes that! When we went home, we stayed up for like 3-4 hours and talked on the phone with Aman and Aaron (WHO HAS THE SEXIEST PHONE VOICE IN THE WORLD)... I really don't get how our group of guys never talk to each other away from parties and you have that group of guys who will basically do absolutely anything for each other and are willing to put up with two annoying girls in the morning and actually talk. Brown guys... man they have it figured out.. education (med school or nothing), family (no one gets in the way of family.), friends (uber loyal until shit starts n always there for eachother), and girls (.. no comment.. all I know is that they must have gone to flirting school). Yeah I ranted, but it wouldn't be my LJ if I didn't.

Steph picked me up from Julia's and we went to Heartland to deal with some volunteering things and buy bristol board. However, due to the bloody time change, we were slightly fucked up (time wise) because of it. We ended up getting what we needed done though :). I'd write more about it but damn am I tired. I gotta go read other pplz entries... will expand on this one later :)

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:47:47 GMT

Looking forward to Semi Formal in a month. Yeah, that's pretty much all I have to look forward to. I unno what I'm going to look forward to after that... I guess the last day of school before the holidays? I don't know.

My satalite's out, so I can't watch my soap opera ~~*cries and dies*~~... and my room is a mess but I'm far too lazy to clean it. Tomorrow, I'm going to St. George Campus @ U of T... just to check it out and stuff. Julia's mom is picking me up and we're going there by Subway together. Another party on the subway... bah! We were going to take the GO Train (I've never been on it before tehehe!), but it doesn't go to the campus *big huge question mark?!?!*... so yeah. After that, Julia invited me to go to her mother's friend's halloween party. Theres only going to be like.. two other people our age there (Danny whom I've talked to online, and some other chick) so I hope we'll find something fun to do. Better than me rotting away at the computer for another day, I guess. Then after that, I'm transiting to Steph's house (not that she knows yet - she'll have to read her e-mail first) and then I'll be most likely taking the transit home.

Note 2 Steph: We have to go to the volunteering place on Sunday to fill out applications. Then after that, we have to buy two bristol boards and rush through our project, because we'll be getting the same mark anyway, haha.

Anyway, yeah. I'm all of a sudden really dreading packing my bags and getting ready for tomorrow. They're picking me up at 10:30 AM. BAHH @ GETTING UP EARLY TO GET READY *attacks everything around her*. Yeah I really hope this party is good... oh well, we'll find something to do :D.

VID: Fergalicious

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:34:41 GMT

I hate it.

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(downloads it)