Auf Wiedersehen 2009!

I wasn’t going to re-cap on this year because I was feeling really scrooge-y but looking back at some posts actually cheered me up a bit between the sneezing and nose-blowing.

January

• was mostly annoyed by pretentious person in my class
• thought about getting my cartilage pierced and was too chicken to do it
• made a delicious cheesecake with my friends

February

• had a bad hair cut
• danced with domokun
• celebrated three years with Oscar :)

March

• got sick
• finished the fashion show website for dsc
• was really into school for some reason

April

• talked about the swine flu
• fed some bunnies by the library with Oscar
• complained about smelly people on the bus

May

• finished a paper about FGE whilst learning a lot about human sexuality (thanks family studies!)
• worried about the environment

June

• became super stressed and went to the doctor’s a few times
• found out i did not have gonorrhea or chlamydia, my doctor assured me it was stress
• saw some cows
• went to good ol’ paris then london

July

• played a lot of pet society (I can just hear Karin yelling in the background)
• went to a wedding
• started going to yoga

August

• went to victoria to see julie
• got a new goldfish, named it wally

September

• bought a leather jacket
• developed my first fisheye roll
• saw a lot of art
• got my wisdom teeth removed

October

• attended my first protest bbq
• fell in love with metric

November

• finished my projects for school
• celebrated halloween by getting really, very, quite drunk
• i think wally died, and then eve died a few weeks later :/

December

• played a lot of games
• listened to new music
• watched a lot of Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, got sick, and continued watching Grey’s
• took down my fishtank

there is one more day before 2009 ends, but we all know that this day is spent with lots of alcohol to smooth the transition from one year to the next, as smoothly as that can go, without one wondering what exactly did one do with that last year, and why it’s so unfair that it felt like yesterday when we were all celebrating the beginning of 2009 and why i’m a year older and why i’m getting wrinkles and what is the point of life.

never-changing view

what a nice view, i’ll be here for the next 12 hours because i feel so miserable.

symptoms: stuffy/runny nose, itchy/dry throat, low on energy, dizziness, in desperate need of a hug :( sadface

remember to wash your hands kids! holiday germs are no fun at all.

Merry Christmas!

and a jolly good new year :)

mane

I need a hair cut. it’s reached the height of my belly button, i think it’s time.

suggestions? anyone?

primary

things I remember about the 1.1 years of attending elementary school back in Taiwan:

1. the older kids always scared us with scary stories about ghosts being in storage rooms in school or in our lotus pond… legend has it, some lady jumped off of the roof of the school into the pond and spends her spare time haunting primary school children >_>

2. we had uniforms, and they were blue.

3. my mother always thought it was too cold so I rarely wore the skirt uniform and instead wore pants and an ugly itchy cardigan. this one I am wearing in the photo is the “sporty” version I believe… it was a sports day event.

4. some kid pooped his pants during the first day of school, and it smelled. and the toilets were the squatting ones in the ground, not the ones you sit on like in canadian schools. when I had my first day at school in canada, the water fountain was shaped exactly like the squatting toilets, except 1/4 of the size and sticks sideways out of the wall in the hallways… I was really, very confused. until someone used it to drink water and I giggled.

5. we had biandang (obento) for lunch and mine had a pink velcro strap to keep it tightly closed. and they came heated! the school would heat them for us, steamed, not microwaved :)

6. I was not very good at school. my writing sucked and I rarely got good marks :P my chinese-school failure streak continued in canada, until my mother finally gave up on me. now i am pretty much illiterate in chinese and have problems remembering most adjectives -_-

7. one time, I stole someone’s lunch money with my friend. I was so badass, wtf? then we got caught and the teacher smacked our hands with a ruler in front of a class and told our parents. … … OBVIOUSLY I NEVER STOLE AGAIN. *shifty eyes* >_>

things I don’t remember about elementary school in Taiwan:

1. missing so much TEETH. kinda looks funny when the front one(s) go missing, eh?

(I’m on the right, in case you can’t tell the difference between little asian girls)