goodbye 2008, hello 2009!

so here's some of the things i learned!

1. when you're hurting, let go and accept it.
there is no use of crying and complaining about the same thing.
life isn't all fairy tales and happy endings.

2. the bad comes with the good.
you just need to wait.

3. i depend on wikipedia too much.

4. lettuce and cabbage are two different types of vegetables.
cabbage is evil.

5. high school is much more different than university.

6. you cannot force yourself to like someone or force someone to like you.

7. it's okay to ask for help.
no one's perfect.

8. god is always there for you.
it's up to you to let him into your life.

9. we tend to appreciate boy bands when they come back 10 years after their disappearance.
just look at what happened to new kids on the block or the backstreet boys.

10. sometimes it's nice to have a little space away from others.

11. it's okay to be different.
it's what makes you stand out from everybody else.

12. i will never like high school musical no matter how much i watch it or try to force myself.
vanessa hudges' character bothers me.
no one is that nice unless they're jesus.

13. if you want to change, you have to do something about it.

14. grudges will only make you angry.

15 when you're faced with something you don't want to do, suck it up.
sometimes we need to do things we don't want to.

16. your parents will find your hidden piercing or tattoo sooner or later.

17. converse shoes will not keep your feet warm during winter while you're waiting for the bus.

18. smiling or laughing will never be overrated.

19. i will never grow up.
but i like it that way.

20. life's full of surprises.
enjoy every moment!

anyways, happy new year's eve everyone!
i hope you all get a fresh start.
and enjoy 2009!

by the way, i am so obsessed with the songs pop waffle uses for their videos.
i am such an indie junkie.
if you have any of these songs, please share and send!
thanks!

merry christmas everyone!
i hope santa was good to all of you this year.
unless you were naughty, then you all really deserve those coals you got.

but anyways...

i really find it awkward when i meet someone new and they introduce themselves by shaking hands with me.
i don't know why but i just hate shaking hands.
not because i'm germophobic but just because i can't give good handshakes at all.
which really sucks.
if you ever meet me, you'll probably end up doing all the shaking.

another thing that bothers me is when i greet someone and they say, "how are you doing?"
i just can't find myself asking them how they are.
i've tried and for some reason i just freeze when someone asks me that question.
the best i can say is, "i'm fine."
and then i end up walking away.

i really need to work on greeting people because it just gets pretty awkward.

so, i was at a friend's house one day, when he says, "anna, you think differently from people."
i don't know if that's a compliment or not.
but i think it's just a way of telling me that i'm weird in a "nice" way.
which i really don't mind because i think so too.

so here are my reasons why i think i am.

1. i think it's a turn off when a guy drinks coffee.
i think it's because i see coffee as something mature people drink.
and i am far from mature.

2. i think contacts on asians are really ugly.
it just looks too unnatural.
especially blue.

3. i think blogspot is cooler than facebook.

4. the sugar plum fairy song scares me from the nutcracker.
it makes me feel like someone's watching me.

5. wearing make-up makes me feel uncomfortable and fake.
i only wear it on special occasions like formals.
otherwise, i'm all natural when you see me.

6. i really want to stick my tongue on a pole during winter.
i think it's just out of curiosity.

7. i'm probably the only girl that doesn't like the notebook movie.

8. i think basses are cooler than guitars.
probably because i'm biased.

9. when i'm talking to someone online and i'm not sure how a particular word is spelled, i actually go on dictionary.com just to see how to spell the word.

10. i get amused when people use a lot of exclamation marks in their sentences.
i think it's funny and i actually giggle.

there's probably more to the list but i can't think of anything else right now.

am i the only one that thinks and does these things?

Guess Who from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

remember this game?
ah, this brings back so many memories.
i loved it!
because i always won.
but i used to cheat most of the time.
i'd memorize where each character was on the red tray.
and then i'd give the person i was against with the red tray and tell him or her to put down his or her character.
too bad i lost some pieces.
boo!

on another note...

i was at the park the other day.
and me and my friend were on the slides pretending to be sailor scouts.
and out of nowhere, this 12 year old kid comes up to us and says, "you guys need to grow up."

everyone wants to be older than what they are these days.
it makes me sad.

i had this class in school called, "time based media".
it's basically like communication technology.
you get to watch and make videos.
and make monologues.
i'm not exactly sure.
yeah, i don't pay attention in class.
but who does?
but basically, you have to create artistic things to show the class.

on the second week of school, my professor gave us this assignment where you had to pick a contemporary artist and copy their style of work with a monologue or just present a brief biography on him or her.
the following week, he let the students who were ready to present about their artists.
there was one particular artist that caught my attention because her work was so ridiculously funny!
so i was sitting in class, waiting for this student to finish her presentation about this artist when she begins to show us this video.
i wished i paid more attention to the artist's name.
i would have linked it here.
but anyways, in the video, the selected artist and another artist are standing back-to-back against each other in the middle to two big pillars.
they are also naked.
now for a while in the video, they just stood there.
and then they both started running forward into the pillars trying to hit themselves again and again.
i couldn't stop laughing!
i didn't even notice that the guy fell down halfway in the video.
i thought it was so funny that i had to put my head down and bite my lip so nobody could hear me.
i swear, everyone was watching the video with mouths open probably thinking, "the pain they go through when they reach and hit the pillars probably represent obstacles in life."
or, "so deep!"
while i'm sitting there laughing hysterically and thinking, "what the hell is this?!"
at the end of the video, they both fall down.

i am so immature.

i used to go to this art university downtown in toronto called "ocad".
since i lived off campus, i commuted by bus and subway, which usually took about an hour and 30 minutes to get there and vice versa.
being a lazy person that i am, i scheduled all my courses into 3 days so i wouldn't have to go to school the whole week.
so basically, i only had school on mondays, tuesdays and wednesdays.

my parents always told me to be careful when going home.
"always stay with someone or with a crowd. never go anywhere by yourself," they would both tell me.
especially on wednesdays when i'd end school at 9:30pm.
but it was hard finding someone to go home with on wednesdays because not many people i knew were going my way.

one wednesday, i was on my way home when this guy in his late 20s comes in the subway.
now, the subway isn't usually full on wednesday nights so there were seats.
but this guy just stood near the doors.
after a few stops, he finally sat next to this blonde woman and started talking to her.
2 stops later, she got off.
after a while, he remained sitting on the same spot and then he sat a seat away from me.
i tried to ignore him but then he started talking to me.
"excuse me," he asked, "but do you have a cigarette?"
i scoffed quietly to myself and thought, "okay, do i look like a smoker?"
"no, sorry," i said.
"are you sure?" he responded.
"yes," i told him.
after a few minutes, we both just sat there and then he looked at me.
"can you do me a favour?" he asked, "can you smile for me?"
this was when i started panicking.
"i'm on a subway with a lunatic!" i thought to myself.
i laughed politely, "no, thank you."
this was when he really got on my nerves because he kept on insisting that i smile.
after a while, i finally did so he would stop talking to me.
but then he said "come on, bigger than that. show some teeth."
i laughed again, "no, it's okay..."
this is when it got scary.
he went around the whole subway trying to ask everyone to smile and when they wouldn't, he'd tell them, "i'm so sick of people being so serious on the f***ing subway! i'm going to make you people smile!"
i got really scared so i started praying.
"please god. if i live through this, i promise to be a better person," i thought.
i think i almost peed my pants because i was so freaked out.
i really thought i was going to die that night because i thought he had a gun inside his jacket or something.
in the end, he finally got kicked out.

see kids?
pot is bad!

i hate subways.