Monster!

I bet there must be a monster living in my house. And it is secretly eating all my socks and books. I was packing tonight for my trip to Kelowna this weekend. Since I am preparing to be anti-social, I have to bring my book with me. I thought about bringing Harry Potter (not the newest one, but the last one. I stopped reading it for awhile since some stupid people decided to ruin it for me and told me what happen!!!), but I think that would be too heavy to carry around with me. So I decided to bring the one I brought with me to Tofino. Though I haven't started on it, I don't want to reading too many books at the same time. But I can't find it in my place. How hard could it be! There are only certain places I would usually put my books but it is not there! And my place is not that big, so I can't even imagine where to hide it. I searched every piece of my house and it is nowhere to be found. Urrrgh! So I conclude there must be a monster hiding in my closet / under my bed and secretly eating my books away. Same as the sock eating monster living in my washer. How else you can explain my missing sock! I swear I put both of them in the washer!

Sleeping In Class

Though I always fall asleep in company meetings, I never fell asleep in small meeting. Though sometimes it is hard to get thru meetings when food coma started, I usually don't dare to sleep when there are only few of us in the room. I mean in a big meeting, my boss won't notice my presence in a big crowd of 100 people. Especially if you are in a meeting that doesn't require your input, I could hardly stay awake. But if you are in a small meeting, it would be rather embarrassing to fall asleep, especially you don't know when you got called on. But today someone did fall asleep in a meeting (NOT ME!) We were having a meeting today with several people discussing some plan. My manager was talking about something and he needed some input from one person. But...but...he was sleeping. My manager has to wake him up. We have to get his input on that issue. I don't know how he felt but I know if it was me, I sure will be so embarrassed. It was as if you got caught sleeping in class, though I always did that back in the days of university. My friend and I would pick the center seat in the room and then I would fall asleep right after the class started. No one really care if you slept in class in university anyway. But I could imagine if my name was called in a meeting, I sure want to hide my head somewhere.

Stabbed!

When I took this position, I knew that dealing with people would be the hardest part of the job. I used to sit in my cubicle and worried about my own project. Coordinating people is always complicated. And I know that probably is worse part of my position. But I want to learn and I know if I want to move up, I need to know that. I guess I should really learn how to deal with people without getting emotionally involved. I thought we did the best we can to work on the customers issue last week. I guess I could have cancelled my trip to Seattle, but I don't know what I could have done if things really not working. Apparently things did break down on weekend, and luckily some people deal with the problem. On our recap yesterday, everything seem still fine. But today, suddenly people blew up at us, not at me particularly. But since I handled the project, it became partly my fault. I knew there is some process we could do better. But getting yell at in a meeting on how slow development's response made me stunned to say anything. I looked at my manager and we both tried not to say anything. Cause the meeting have other people and I don't think it was good idea to yell at each other. We could have worked something out. Though I disagree with some of the claim, I did admit to them that it was my fault that I didn't realize I should notify QA on Thursday when I found out the problem. It may give them more time to find people to work on weekend. But some other claims, I wanted to disagree badly but I know it would end up like pointing finger at each other instead of working constructively to streamline the process. I didn't feel particular bad about the whole situation cause I know I was learning something each time. Besides, my manager thought I did a good job handling the whole situation when I am still fairly new. That is all the matters.

Couch Potato

I was too tired from work last few days. I was so drained after work that I don't want to do much. I just sat on my couch watching tv. Well, I lied on my couch and played dead. I just watch TV that I have borrowed from friends for awhile. I didn't even want to read or do anything else. Just have my snack beside me and lying on my couch made me happy. My brain can completely turn off and not worried a thing. I finished off 2 Japanese dramas last two weeks. Though I knew it was bad for me. I was even more tired for work the next day and I think I may gain some weigh from all the snack. The worst is sometimes I would fall asleep while watching TV. I would sleep for an hour or so and woke up to watch more TV. I know I know. I know how pig it is to sleep after eating, but I can't help it. I was way way way too tired. I would worry about my weigh later when my energy level went up. My manager will be away again the week after. I wonder how dead I would be again. If everything went fine, for sure I would be safe. If not, I probably will be in panic mode for two weeks. May be I should take a week off right after to recover.

Tackle

We went dinner after we came back from Seattle last night. At the end of dinner, a friend got to the bill first and tried to pay for all of us. We tried to put money back in her wallet secretly. But she found out in the end, and we started a long discussion on how the money should be. We said how could we even let her hand on the bill in the first place. We are all Chinese and we should be good at tackling people when they tried to pay the bill. You often see two guys fighting in a restaurant and each tried to get to the bill. Last time when I had dinner with my cousin, at the end of the meal, she had her husband tackled me down so I couldn't get to the bill. They were both wearing suit and we were eating at fancy restaurant. I can't believe they get physical and so determined to pay for dinner. I quickly gave up to grab the bill back cause it is embarrassing to try to fight for it. At least I felt embarrassing for them. My parents used to do the tackling at the table too. They would take a seat outside so it is easier to get the bill. But now they changed the strategy and my dad would secretly go to the counter to pay the dinner. I wonder why all Chinese people do that. Does Chinese just more anxious about paying?

Border Crossing

I went to Bites on Seattle with some friends today. But before we went to Seattle, we stopped by the new shopping outlet. I got a sweater but some of us got a lot of new clothes. It seemed that everytime we crossed the border, the biggest thing is how to smuggle/declare what you bought. If it is a day trip, you basically would be taxed on everything you bought. So the tricky part is now to hide what you bought. I remembered one time I shopped with my parents and we did declare the jeans that we bought and the customer officer said we had to be taxed on. It ended up more expensive than buying it in Canada. Ever since after that, we always wore crappy clothes when we crossed the border. So when we did indeed buy anything, we would put it on and throw away the old clothes. There was one time I went with a friend to Seattle to shop. When we came back, the officer asked us where did we go and what for. I told him Seattle to shop. He asked if we bought anything, I told him we didn't (which was actually true cause we were too cheap that day) and of course we were so suspicious. So he ended up searching my car. So today when I came back, I wasn't sure I should hide it or not. In the end we did declare what we bought. We didn't get taxed. We must be lucky somehow. Or it was late and the officer didn't want to do more work. Anyway, I ain't complaining that I got to keep my money.

Crazy Friday

As if things already not bad enough, it has to be more crazy at work. The very same customer that I am working with is having even more problem today. They encountered more database corruption. Support tried to run a script to fix the database, but the script took too long so they decided they need developers to take another look to speed thing up. I knew the issue yesterday and I knew someone was working on it. But what I didn't know is that we need QA to test it before releasing to customers. Now think back, I should have asked when I heard developer was working on the utility script. Support mentioned that we need to release the script by Saturday afternoon. Being a last minute thing, for sure my friend in QA is very happy with me. Especially he was planning to go away this weekend and asking volunteer from his team to come in on weekend last min, he wasn't particular pleased. At last he found his volunteer. Now I have to ask people in development to stay on call thru the weekend in case anything happen. I have to "ask" particular people since they worked on the problem. I don't like asking people to stay late, especially right before weekend. But I don't have a choice. And since I already have plan on Saturday, I have to my other coworker to stay on call as well, even though he didn't know a thing on what happen. Now all I could do it to keep my finger crossed and everything just turned out great.

Customer Is Always Right?!

Everything fell apart last two days. One of the big customers system decided to fall apart on the week of my company's user conference. The user conference basically gave a chance for our customers to meet with each other and the executives. So the system picked the perfect time to fall apart. The management was freaking out when they heard how bad the situation was. The customers were not happy we didn't keep them up to date on the progress. Though we fixed up their database, they demanded an answer why this happen in the first place. Since they are one of our big customers and it would make us look extremely bad if they talked to other customers (especially we are announcing a new release). With my manager not around, I became the point person in development to deal with the issue. I know it is urgent, but there is only as fast the developer can work on the issue, especially a random goose chase. If the customers could give us more information, it may be easier to trace back how all these happen. But since they don't even remember, the developers could just speculate what happen. I have been running around between floors to find out answers. If I kept this job and things still this crazy, I may not need more exerecise.

Selfish?!

I finally finished watching the Japanese drama that my friend lent me. It was especially bad for me cause it was sooo good that I can't stop watching. And this week I was extremely busy with work. So I end up not having enough sleep. The dram was about politics in a hospital between doctors. There was a scene that one of the department heads got sued for malpractice and the other doctors had to cover up for him. Hence, they rewrote the patient's medical record and made up story. They each have their own reason to lie. Some wanted to keep their job. Some wanted to be a team player. But most just want to protect the hospital and didn't want it to lose its credential. I got so frustrated when watching it. Isn't a doctor's job to save people's lives? How could they value those over lives? Shouldn't they stand on justice side? What kind of doctors are they! I thought when someone decided to become a doctor, it was their dream to save people. How could they forget that and lose themselves? Then I realize, they are still human. I tend to forget they just doing their job. They are still human like us. Though saving lives everyday, they still have their own struggles and concerns. I tend to forget that and thought they are saints or something. People in the fields that save people's lives make us think they are hero. They should value other people's live over their own. But in the end we are all human. How could I expect others to do more than I would?!

Screw Up! Big Time!

I screwed up big time today at work! A customer requested an urgent hotfix and I made one on Friday. QA did some preliminary test on Friday but wanted to do a more thorough test today. We were pretty confident that everything seems fine and should be released to the customer sometimes around noon. But right before then, a support manager just out of curiosity and looked at the hotfix and found out at that I missed out something. That is when I turned in panic mode. The coworker who made the build for the hotfix isn't around so I can't even hack my way around. We have to start everything from scratch. And the time estimate to redo the hotfix is 2-3 hours. That would put us in a very tight schedule if we hoped to release that to customer. And we are being optimistic that the screw up is only on my part, the developer fixed the issue correctly. After a whole bunch of time evaluation, we told support that we "hoped" to release that tonight but tried not to be too optimistic (hehehe, I had my friends helped me to write a diplomatic email) I felt very bad because I kept screwing up when making hotfixes. I know I am still fairly new on the position. But because of my screw up, my friend in QA needed to work OT and I knew he wasn't very happy about it. And he couldn't even yell at my screw up (may be because I gave him that pathetic look). I know people said I shouldn't be too hard on myself. But I want to get up to speed sooner!

Locked!

I can't believe I got my car locked out again! I went to church today and I went to lunch with a friend after service. We figured instead of driving both cars, we would car pool and come back for my car later. We did that before. How could I imagine the gate in the parking would actually be locked! I didn't even notice there was a gate! And I desperately needed my car cause I was going out tonight and I was supposed to pick up my friend. Now I needed to call her up and said I might not have a car. I didn't know what I should do if I couldn't get it back today. How am I supposed to go to work?! How am I supposed to go back to church to pick up my car?! I called some other friends from church and they said apparently some people would come back later in the afternoon. I called my parents to pick me up from my place. I was kind of anxious that it took my parents a while to get to my place because I didn't know how long those people would stay in church. My mom said worst case, she can lend me their car (yes...lend...errrr) I was more than excited when I saw the gate opened. And my car still in one piece. Now, I decided I will never leave my car out of my sight ever!

How to Be Happy

I chatted with some friends tonight. We had a discussion on how to be happy. One person said she can't feel excited about anything anymore. Even going to vacation, she doesn't feel the excitement about it at all. They asked me what makes me happy. I said I got to play ultimate last night and that made me really happy. I wonder whether they think my answer is retarded. I felt I gave a lame answer after I said it. But I was real excited that I got on the field. (Though I regretted it when my bones hurt the next day. You never know how much it hurt when you didn't run for 7 weeks) I think simple thing still make me very happy. I remember I told my friend one day that I was happy because I got a fresh bagel. I went to the bagel store and they had bagel that I wanted just fresh from oven. I was so happy that day. My friend couldn't believe I was like a kid. Having a good meal, joking around with my friends, playing with healthy ankle, planning a vacation, even sitting at home doing nothing makes me happy. I guess I am easy to please (at least not on my cranky dates).

Fortress

After a whole bunch of whining and screaming, I finally have my wall at work today. One thing I really hate after I moved to my new seat is the door next to me. We got promised that no one would walk thru that door. But IT people use that door everyday. They would pass by me 10-20 times each day. If it is just the door opening noise, I could use my headphone to block it out. But each time someone opens the door, there is a breeze and I could feel people walk by. It is rather distracting. Another thing is whoever in my manager's room could totally see my monitor. I hate my desk being so opened. Everybody can see whatever I do on my computer. So I was real happy to see there was a wall set up behind me when I walked into work today. Except that there is a hole on the wall. My manager started threatening me by saying that there may be mouse and mosquito and bugs crawling out from the holes. And of course my coworkers being annoying as usual, have to find way to annoy me. So they slam the door harder and shake my wall to make sure I got distracted. Now I am thinking if I set up something on the remaining open side, then really no one can see what I am doing and whether I am in my cubicle.

Mr Postman

Despite all the complain we had about Canada Post, I was rather impressed with them tonight. A friend called me last week to ask for my address. He was in Czech Republic and wanted to send me a postcard. And being a smart person, I screwed up the address. I combined my mom's and my address and gave it to him. I don't know what got to me that night. I didn't notice until couple days later. I can't even reach him to tell him I screwed up. So I was kind of upset because he told me it was expensive for him to make that call. He is being a nice friend (don't get the wrong idea, he is married!) and wanted to send me a postcard. And here I am who can't even get my own address right. But when I opened my letter box today, I found my postcard in there. I was sooo impressed. Though I only screw up the unit number, I thought most likely the postcard would be sitting in the lobby because that unit doesn't exist in my building. But no, it is sitting nicely in my letter box. I am sooooo impressed with Mr Postman able to find my unit number. Though our postal service may be slow, at least it arrives safely

Movie Night

I watched two movies lately. I went to watch Mr & Mrs Smith on the weekend. Despite all the bad comment I heard about it, I actually quite enjoy it. May be I was biased because I really like Angelina Jolie. But I think the movie entertained me enough. For sure the plot is lame and something doesn't make sense. But I had fun watching it. Tonight I watched a Japanese animation Steamboy. It is from the director of Akira. I haven't heard of it till today. I did some quick search and some people said it is the "best" animation released in North America. Turn out I don't really like it. He put his message very explicit. He should have just display that on screen if he was afraid people would miss his message. That may be less annoying. He overdid the movie and made it kind of annoying. The characters are not interesting at all. I still like Miyazaki's work way better. While trying to deliver his message thru the movie, his movie is still pretty fun to watch. And his work has a lot of diversity too. It can be dark like Princess Mononoke or fun like Totoro. Seem like I usually enjoy the movie better if I have low expectation. If everyone told me it suck, usually I would walk out and thinking it is not that bad. But if people told me it is a great movie, I usually come out not satisfied. May be I expect more from it and it usually just a normal good movie. Next time, I definitely walk in the theatre expecting it is going to waste my 2 hours and hopefully it will have a great turnout.

Vacation

Everybody is planning vacation this time of year. Some of my friends already went for their vacation. Though I will have 5 weeks of vacation this year, I still don't know what I want to do with it yet. Several months ago, I kind of want to go to Portugal. I watched a show from Food Channel and the place looked awesome and of course the food showed look awesome too. The other day it showed Vietnam and the food looked pretty tasty too. Hehehe..yes this is how I plan my vacation: where I can get good food. But I guess I am pretty content to stay in Vancouver during summer. I am not in much mood to plan my vacation these days. Though I did think about some possibilities. I could go Montreal cause a friend is studying there. It would be free to stay. But I probably too broke to go more east which I kind of want to go too. I could go to eastern Europe. My friend once told me it was fun, but a friend just went and his pictures didn't look that interesting. I don't mind going Vietnam and Cambodia. But I doubt my parents like that idea. HK is definitely out of question. I went back 3 years in a row and I got pretty bored of the place already. I guess it is too early to say anything. If my wallet is too empty, nothing can be plan. I could just take some days off and rest at home. That would work too. No work is always good.

Damn Phone Call!

I am not sure how other people are when they wake up. I would say I am not exactly the nicest person when I wake up, especially when I got woke up by other people. I am very cranky. Since I didn't sleep well last week, I planned to sleep till I am dead or wake up when I feel like, whatever happened first. So when I woke up by my friend, I wasn't exactly happy. Especially I got called several times this morning already. I was thinking how could my friend be so persistent to call me. But it was some other friends. So I returned all the calls. I guess I must sound sleepy and my friend was shocked to hear I still sleeping. I was so tired and I said yes. She said how could you still be sleeping, it was 1pm. That was when I started to lose my temper (though I don't sound like it cause I was too sleepy) and told her to give me a break I was tired last week. She had to keep pushing and said what did I do last night and how could I be so tired. Can somebody just want to sleep? This was the first weekend I actually get to catch up my sleep. There was another time my mom's friend called to look for my mom. I couldn't even be rude to her. But she kept saying how could I be still sleeping. When I told her my mom wasn't around, she hung up. Then she called again and apparently not pleased with my still sleepy voice and asked when my mom would be back. She hung up and called again 5 minutes later and of course shocked that my desperate attempt to get back to sleep still. Why don't people understand some people like to sleep? You know as you get older, there is less and less time you can sleep till late. It was soooo precious that I could actually sleep pass 12pm today. Urgh! Next time, I will turn off everything in my house that makes noise!

My Dog Ate My Homework!

Despite my continuing effort to get to work early, I don't think I once attend my daily first meeting on time. I felt especially bad yesterday because my VP started to attend that meeting as well. I went to work late, saw he was there, wimp out and didn't go into the meeting. So today I tried extra hard to get up early to go to work on time. I actually woke up early. And usually if I woke up early, I would start doing other stuff and end up being more late. But today I was very on time when I walked out the door. I was all happy thinking I finally could get to work on time. I could imagine my manager would be all shocked when he saw me walk in. While I was driving to work and happily eating breakfast in my car , I made a sharp turn and spill it on my jeans. See, I was having congee this morning. So the stink mark was very obvious and it was kind of embarassing. (It looked like I pee in my pant ) Since I didn't drive too far, I decided to go home and change. When I was at home, I thought about sending an email to my manager explain that I would be late. But then the excuse seem silly and dumb and I could totally see him and my friends would be laughing like crazy. I gave up and just went to work. Of course when I walked in the office, my friends had to give me hard time for being late. And of course stupid me decided to say what happened. You can imagine what their reaction was. Next time I will keep a set of clothes to change at work!! (Or come up with a better excuse!!)

Blast

I am sure everyone heard on the news today regarding bomb in London. That was the news I woke up to this morning. But since I was half awake, I didn't pay attention much to what I heard. Not until I got to work a friend told me that. She had family there but they were all fine. It must be very confused feeling for people in London. They won the bid on Olympics the day before and then such disaster happened right after. Looking at the pictures about the blast was pretty scary. Bus blew up into pieces. Tons of people got stuck underground. Traffic is all mess up. I emailed a friend who is working in London now to see if he is okay. At first I want to just say "are you still alive". But I thought if he indeed got injured in any case, it wouldn't be funny at all. Luckily, he replied and said he and his girlfriend were both fine. Another girl from my old ultimate team emailed my captain saying that she was safe and sound too. While I am happy my friends are safe, a guy from my ultimate team said he has a lost cousin. He hasn't been able to contact his cousin because the phone network is crazy over in London. His cousin doesn't have a computer or email too. Hopefully everything is fine.

Hot!

Would guys ever understand when we girls check out guys, we don't care how less clothes they have on? We girls are different. I know when guys look at girls, first thing they notice are how naked the girls are. We are not that shallow. At least for me, I would definitely look at the face first. Today when I went for lunch, there was a topless guy walking towards me and my friends. I did look at him a bit. His body was pretty well built and he wasn't bad looking. Today was a bit chilly when we left for lunch. Taking off the shirt, seems a bit showing off. After he walked pass us, one of my friends said he was waiting for me to turn my head to keep staring at the guy. I was like whatever he wasn't that cute. They started to comment on the guy. One friend wondered if that guy wax and another friend answered no, that guy still had chest hair. We were shocked to hear my friend looked at the guy to such details. (He is not gay, I think ) When we got to the lunch place, there are tons of young girls wearing short shorts. Apparently there were some volleyball tournament and those girls probably were from the volleyball team. I was kind of impressed even though I know my friend were looking, they were all very subtle. I didn't see them staring at all. Usually I could see them turn their head or their eyes focus at one point. But I guess their stare-at-girl skill improved a lot. Hehehe..no wonder they love summer. I missed my window seat.

PS. To that person who always argues with me which guy is hot, this guy in the picture is what I consider HOT. He is an actor from Japan named Yutaka Takenouchi.

Impose

My friend who is getting married in Sept said some of his friends asked if his wedding banquet is a Christian one. We were all surprised and asked what is a Christian banquet. I supposed that would mean doing a prayer in the beginning. I can't imagine the food would be any different. My friend explained and said they referred to the games. They said if it is a Christian banquet, then the games shouldn't be x-rated. So no rolling egg thru pant, no using mouth to eat the candy on the bride's body, no fun! Basically, any touching is a big no no. My first reaction was to ask my friend if he is allowed to sleep with the bride that night. And I guess there will be no hugging so my friend should kiss the bride without touching her. Wait, not even kissing. That is touching as well. I wonder if you are allowed to hold hand or hug your girlfriend if you are a Christian. I can understand if he or his fiancee are shy or traditional and request not to have x-rated games. But called that a Christian thing, it seems a bit overboard. Another friend who is a Catholics said he never heard such a thing before. I think we like to impose our person values or altitude and called that Christian way, even if it is not from bible. Or like in this case, people just magnify on one point and add more rules around it. Sound like we are Pharisees. I wonder if eventually we will follow the Sabbath rule again. You only allowed to carry certain weigh to certain distance. If you walk more than 1 km, you break the rule. If you work on Sunday, you will stone to death. Woohoo, no more OT for me then!

Long Weekend?

The office was awfully quiet today. I think at most 10 people show up at work. In the end of last year, HR decided to move the statutory holiday for Jan 3 to July 4. So we can have a "nice, longer" weekend in conjunction with July 1. Some of us went to talk to HR because some people already planned the Christmas vacation and assumed Jan 3 was a holiday. Turned out that we could take either day. I didn't care much either day, but since back then I wasn't sure if I would still stay with the company for another half year, I wanted to make sure I didn't get ripped off on my statutory holiday. I decided to sit at home one more day after new year. So poor me still working in the same company after half year needed to go to work today. I thought about slack off and called in sick since I was sure my manager was away. But since I was on tight schedule, my friend probably won't be happy with me when he found out tomorrow that I was behind schedule. (We worked on the same project.) I thought about working from home so I didn't need to drive. But I think I may get distracted from TV and all the other stuff. I may as well force myself go into office and really get some work done. It was actually not too bad today. It was nice and quiet. No one would walk behind me and distract me. No meeting at all. I could actually sit at my desk and work the whole time. Well, I did slack off here there a bit and chat and fall asleep. But I did work most of the day. I even didn't go to ultimate today to finish up some work. (Well, I was scared I may hurt myself again.) I was such a good kid today!

Hide

I didn't go to church again today. It was two weeks in a row. I wonder if people would notice if I keep not showing up. Or I could slowly fade away without anyone noticing. I did have an "excuse". My friend leaving town today and I "had to" drive her and her husband to airport. I am not sure I am having my spiritual low or what. I just don't feel enthusiastic about church at all. I didn't even touch my bible for quite awhile. I told my friends I am having my doubts. I know I believe and I still do. But some value that I have is contradict to what church holds. Like, same sex marriage. My personal value, I think I care less. It is a personal choice and we can't force our value upon people. I do have friends that are gay and if they find their partner, I am happy for them. Now I feel even if I say congrats to them is doing wrong things. I just don't know. Another struggle I had is I don't know how to trust people. Being Christian mean you should learn to love everybody but I know I don't. So I have to "try to learn" to love people even though I may not like them. I am not sure if I should say I am "trying" hard or being fake. I feel I am not at ease or as myself anymore. I am socializing. If other people hang out with me, I know they like me and want to spend time with me. I sometimes wonder if my friends from church, when we hang out, do we like each other really? Or just "trying". Is that even a friendship if everything is just surface and shaky? I don't know.

Yet Another Wedding

I attended the 3rd wedding of the year. My wallet finally got to rest for 2 months. I haven't attended a wedding and don't need to help out for quite awhile. Result, I got drunk. Well, that is a bit exaggerating. I did get a bit hyper. I got no complain on service cause this time my glass almost never run empty. In the end, I drank quite a bit. When my friend came to each table to make a toast, my other friend offered him a glass of coke and made him to finish it. Usually people would make the groom drink alcohol. My friend was on diet and quitted drinking coke last year. Since we were such good friends, we helped him break the rule. (Well, hmm.....it was to celebrate his wedding) Later on that night, we figured no way we would let him walk away not drinking anything. So my friends and I mixed a glass of coke and red wine. One of my friends said she was scared the bride would be mad at us. Since I was a bit hyper, I was brave enough to bring it over to the head table and tried to make my friend drink it. For sure my friend didn't finish the whole glass (I know, such a wimp). He took a sip and then passed it to his best man. His best man, who is also my friend, thought we only mixed little red wine and quickly finished the whole glass. We didn't even have time to stop him cause I kind of worried his intolerant of alcohol. He did have instant reaction and his face turned red right after. But he didn't die. We went bubble tea after to let us all get sober (Yes, we were all dress up in bubble tea place) It was definitely a fun wedding. I think any wedding that I got drunk is fun. At least I have fun.

My Trip To Tofino

Just went to Tofino with some friends before long weekend. We all have been to Tofino way too many times that we didn't have much plan. My friend and her husband went to the hot spring cove. I went with other friends to a short hike. Before we walked into the trail, there was a sign about recent sighting on coyote and bear. I was kind of scared to go in. My ankle wasn't completely heal and I was scared if I run into one, I couldn't run away at all. So I stayed alert the whole time I walked the trail and every little sound made me startled. I was so glad when we finished the trail. Weather was the usual Tofino weather. That means it rained all the times. Our original plan was to have BBQ for dinner. But looking at the weather, we were not sure what we should do. My friends and I were not sure if we should pan fried all the food. But the cabin we rented didn't have an oven and the stove was very small. In the end, we decided to do half and half since the rain seemed to become smaller. Once we all set up the BBQ, it seemed to rain harder. We just gave in and BBQ in the rain. There were tons of people walked by our patio and I bet they must think we were nuts to sit outside in the rain to BBQ. But it was actually not bad. The next morning we went for a walk on the Long Beach. All my friends think that I couldn't walk for an hour on my ankle. When they saw a beach wheelchair in the visitor centre, they all wanted to rent it for me. They got more excited when they found out it was free. So, my first wheelchair experience. It was kind of embarrassing because we saw older people walk and I was on wheelchair. My friends were having fun pushing me around and doing sharp turns. When I finished my "exciting" walk and returned the wheelchair, I had to pretend to limp around a bit because a lot of people from visitor centre were watching me on the wheelchair. I felt very bad if I ran around right after I got off the wheelchair. We didn't want to come back too late so we left early for ferry. My friend's mom called and told us about the accident in Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. We tried to find out which ferry terminal wait was shorter but it took us several tries (including using a cell phone to record the radio broadcast) to find out the sail wait for each terminal (shame for all of us who claimed our English is good). The wait to Horseshoe Bay was actually shorter. When the ferry got close to the terminal, everyone on the ferry wanted to see where the accident was. But we couldn't see anything. Oh well, it was a nice relaxing trip and I sure had fun.