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Notes: 1 / 2 days ago
I’m gonna seem perfectly normal but I don’t think anyone will be able to fathom how much this trip has changed me.
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Notes: 2 / 3 days ago
Picture is blurry because I was backstage with the other groomsmen but I can’t even believe the spectacle that was my brothers wedding. Full scaffolding with complete lighting grid. Concert spotlights around the stage. Fog machines. Cameras on jibs and cranes flying around the stage. It was ridiculous. I don’t think I’ll ever again see a wedding like this.
Technical stuff aside, the way this works is that the actual wedding with the vows and flower girls and all the Western things happened in a church earlier that day but the actual 400 person dinner / reception happened here in this hall. This is where all the ceremonial things happened as well as the speeches from the best man, maid of honor and parents.
It was amazing. The production crew who had been following us around all day managed to cut together the entire wedding day in less than two hours and it was one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Made me feel bad for chirping them for bringing us to very inconvenient places to take photos.
Later, myself and the rest of the groomsmen stormed the stage with the bridesmaids to the tune of “Marry You” by Bruno Mars. It was way too fun. We were told to do something funny or casual on the way in so the bridesmaid and I improv’d on the spot. I smelled the bouquet, looked disgusted, and we tossed pieces of it into the crowd. Can’t get over how fun it was. That song will forever have a special place in my heart.
I’ll tell more stories when I get back to Canada but for now I will just say that it was an amazing night.
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Notes: 2 / 4 days ago
i’m currently holed up in a hotel in beijing because there was a delay in my flight that is making me stay an extra day. nobody’s with me because my family is all where the wedding was (chongqing) and it’s hard to communicate with anybody here. i’m annoyed, frustrated and just want to go home. i miss my friends and i’m incredibly burnt out. all that being said, the trip was amazing and awful all at the same times but i’ll re-tell it some other time as i have about 40 minutes left on my laptop battery (lost my charger). i’m just doing a quick post so people know i am alive. i never realized how much i relied on facebook/twitter/youtube until this trip. all three are banned in china and it’s very hard without it. it’s like being cut off from society and from my friends. this hotel sucks - it smells and it’s incredibly sketchy. i’m hungry but i’m afraid to leave my room, i’m bored and have nothing to do, i don’t understand anything on tv and i again, i just want to go home.
bon.c.chan@gmail.com - i wouldn’t mind hearing from a friend right now. i only have 30 minutes though.
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Notes: 12 / 2 weeks ago[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
sleeping in by the postal service.
“don’t wake me i plan on sleeping - don’t wake me i plan on sleeping in.”
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Notes: 2 / 2 weeks ago"Uh, for the first time today, I woke up, I came to the store, and I feel confident to say to you that if you don’t take this Michael McDonald DVD that you’ve been playing for two years straight off, I’m going to kill everyone in the store and put a bullet in my brain."- Paul Rudd, The 40 Year Old Virgin
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Notes: 7 / 3 weeks ago[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
jesus by brand new.
so three years ago i got accepted into seneca college and everything changed. i still remember where i was when i got accepted and i remember where i was when i made the decision to actually apply.
october 2008, i was visiting my first ex-girlfriend in toronto - i chilled with her then decided to go see my friends at yorku. on the subway back into toronto later that night, i was listening to brand new, specifically this song and staring out into the dead of night. i started to reflect, to think - i mean, really think if i could do the move, if i could handle it. flashforward three years, and here i am. i look back and wonder what life would be like if i never left, the kind of person i’d be at this point. good thing i left ‘cause i was spiraling into a dead-end nowhere life back in that shit hole of a city.
it’d be ridiculous to even attempt to list off some of the most memorable moments i’ve had since leaving because frankly, most of the best times of my life have been within the last three years and continues to trend that way. every memory is important - something as big as getting my first career job to something as random as the first time i got into the car with ben, arvin, rahul, and jesse and hear them all simultaneously scream, “we’re hooligans!”
life got off to a slow start after high school, a slow two-year start but kicked into high gear the minute i left windsor. that past three years has been a roller coaster and i fully intended to keep it that way.
who would’ve guessed that all it took was a bad break-up and this song right here?
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Notes: 20 / 4 weeks ago
“i remind myself i was lucky to have had any time with him at all. what i’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. we all complete. maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”
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Notes: 11 / 1 month ago[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
look what you’ve done by jet.
another song that’ll always have a special place in my heart. first heard it when i was in grade nine and it’s just escalated since then. this song has the notable distinction of being one of those sad songs i listen to that doesn’t make me feel any better. if i’m feeling like shit and listen to this song, i don’t feel any better. one of those things where i sort of just lay in whatever negative emotion i’m feeling.
that being said, i’m still feeling the effects of the last week or two and it hasn’t really gotten any better. but hey - sometimes things just don’t work out and that’s the way it is. i’ll listen to music that makes me feel better later - right now i’m gonna bask in being an emo kid again.
“you’ve made a fool of everyone.”
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Notes: 77 / 1 month ago[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
a lack of color by death cab for cutie.
i’ve posted this before but i’m posting it again. i think it’d be a dramatic understatement when i say that this song is one of my most important songs. it seems to somehow hit every emotional spectrum and i can listen to it no matter how high or low i am. that being said, i’m feeling kinda down lately. kinda really down. don’t really feel like expanding on it and this post feels too short so i’m going to just post some lyrics from the song that mean a lot to me:
“this is fact not fiction for the first time in years.
all the girls in every girly magazine can’t make me feel any less alone, i’m reaching for the phone - to call at seven-oh-three, and on your machine i’ll slur a plea for you to come home.
but i know it’s too late - i should’ve given you a reason to stay - given you a reason to stay.
this is fact not fiction for the first time in years.”
blah.
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Notes: 3 / 1 month ago
gold on the ceiling by the black keys.
incoming summer jam. this song is awesome and got me into the black keys which i something i should have done a very, very long time ago because they’re awesome.
went out with some buddies on saturday to musik for my good friends birthday. none of us were excited for it but it turned out to be a pretty fantastic evening of drunkenness. sometime before the party started, i was chilling with my friend and we sat around and reminiced on last summer (which was unbelievably amazing) and thought ahead to what’s in front of us this summer. all i know is that i’m jacked for this summer, it’s gonna be so awesome. it starts with my brother’s wedding and goes from there. it’s going to be sloppy, let’s get it going - one month!
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