leakage

i'm becoming more and more unaware of time as i kept on misjudging arrival times of my long distance travels.
left home at 4pm, assuming i'll get to London by 7pm.
of course, being sick and stupid, i totally didn't put into consideration that rush hour starts at 3:30pm nowadays and got stuck somewhere on 401.
took a panic detour into 407 for 2 junctions without knowing that i'm actually heading into the Hamilton direction rather than straight west.
sigh...
got to the rehearsal at 7:15pm.
again, being stupid, i didn't prepare food to eat so i had to buy a muffin from Timmie's so i won't starve to death in the rehearsal.
i've only had 4 bowls of congee the whole day.
luckily without taste buds 'cause i'm ever so sick, i couldn't taste how bad that muffin is. i really don't like the food they have in Timmie's.

now i only have 1/8 tank of gas, no lunch, and no dinner for tomorrow.
however, i do have a shit load of drugs in my bag.
let's see... tynenol regular strenght, tynenol cold day/night extra strength, strepsils, DM, advil, and tons of halls. also a few packs of those chinese herbal teas for early cold symptoms.
too stuffy now.. better get off and go to bed for the morning rehearsal.
nitey nite.

i'm officially sick

this is familiar...
aching jaw line, teeth, muscles, and head. plus difficulty inhaling, and an irritated oesophagus.
even my dad told me to take some of his DM medicine.
i've taken an allergy pill last night which should last till tonight, so ruling out the symptoms from allergies.
really shouldn't have eaten that curry chicken last night and this afternoon. but it was so delicious and addictive!
this time i'm gonna go with over the counter western medicine. can't afford a chinese doc no more.
and of course, sleeping before midnight is a must.

on a happier note, i spent the whole day arranging the Beethoven romance.
1 down, dozens more to go!

minor grunts

i'm truly amazed at how people who work at PC Financial's customer service don't know how to truly help people.
don't get me wrong, i'm not saying they're stupid. i've talked to a few nice people there, well, the Canadian ones anyway.
but they really don't know their system well enough.
long story made short, i had to get the job done with my own brain power and tell those people how to do their job.
they should really pay me instead with their paycheque.

it's a long and collaborative process to plan out the Banff trip.
but i think we're on the right track.
just have to get a lotta things straighted out and booked before we board the plane and kiss Ontario goodbye.

got tons of arrangements to do before the end of the month... which is in 2 days...
and that big copying job is still at the tip of the iceburg.
hope i can get everything done soon!!!

yes, it's 3am and i'm still awake... the sleep time for the past few days has been sabotaged.
and i'm having this ridiculous cough that's making my pipes sore.
hopefully it's not a cold that my dad is infecting the whole house with.

pissed at yet another company

i spent almost 3 hours trying to figure out how to register for that fucking mastercard securecode thing.
why? 'cause strangely the card doesn't approve my attempt to purchase a $421 round trip ticket on AC.
i called the card centre 2-3 times, with the same probably indian guy answer the phone.
he's not of any help, neither was the probably indian woman at the security department.
so i've sent an email to both pc financial and mastercard's securecode departments asking for help.
fuck this. ruined my sleeping hours again.
will have to call again tmr morning so i won't get an indian person.

strangeness

had a very bizarre dream last night.
i was somehow greeting the queen at my old apartment in hk and also escorting her around like a body guard.
we went to a huge warehouse that turned into an art gallery and market. pretty much like the distillery district.
there was a dart shooter there who shoots out poisonous darts in semi-slow motion. the queen caught the first dart by hand, and then the shooter kept shooting at me instead when i tried to help.
eventually he ran out of darts, i got hit twice out of the 30 shoots or so. then a sniper took him out just in time before he reloads.
and then some bad cops showed up to kidnap and/or kill the queen so we had to escape to my other apartment in hk. then the team from csi (lv) showed up and they were trying to break their way in.
we found a way out to the back alley and we ran from there to a main street. got onto a cab and zoomed away to Nathan road where there's lots of people as cover.
then i decided to wake up 'cause i find it very confusing.
and i had to do some last minute practising before heading out to Peterborough.

happenings

did some late night grocery shopping with my mum tonight.
when we go to a grocery store, we go CRAZY.
my dad wasn't feeling well, so he demanded to stay while we ga-ga in the store.
i bought myself a nice old coconut. took me about 10 minutes to get it opened.
the water was kind of salty. would much rather prefer the young coconut juice instead.
it was fun cracking open that shell. took a while to fully clean off everything to pure whiteness though.
my mum was wondering why the heck i would buy such a difficult to eat food.... o well..
now the fun part is finding a recipe where i can cook with the meat.
and i found a vegetarian dish! here's to share with you:
http://www.nownews.com/videosite/program.php?avId=253&page=9&sid=2&avStxt=

today i did quite a lot of the copying work.
but looking at really bad handwritten music is very, very tiring.
only managed to put in about half of the first movement in the full score.
gosh... i'm gonna have nightmares tonight with ugly notation whipping me with their excess body parts.

speaking about sleeping, i was on the aid for 2 nights straight.
i think i should increase the dosage to 1 instead of half when i come back from Peterborough.
it didn't really do anything for me...
could it be because it's a Life Brand?

pledging myself better habits

starting from tonight, my latest sleep time is midnight.
right now i have 30 more minutes to go before hitting the sack.
so i'm gonna take a sleeping aid to make sure that happens.

gotta get my stuff ready for tomorrow.
gonna head up to Aurora to meet a client for deposit.
before that i'd have to go downtown with my dad to renew his retail license.
and i'll make sure to get my free mug of starbucks coffee - in Aurora, for a shorter lineup.

got a sad news from my parents today...
my favourite korean bbq restaurant has closed down =(