dum dum dum.

okay. so i'm a little dizzy at the moment... andrea and i did soooo much walking today! hahaha. and it's only like 3:45pm. wahaha. after having lunch together, we went shopping at the eaton centre (driven by my need for highlighters and her need for staples) - and ended up actually shopping shopping! wahaha. girls will be girls right? keke. oh. and just to note - our room really smells now. hahah. don't get the wrong idea though! hahah. we've been exercising our culinary mastery - and so our room has this funny smell of like laksa, chicken, fried chilli peppers and a whole bunch of other wafty fragrances. independently, all of those meals were great! but collaborated together??? i dunnooooooo. it smells pretty awful. hahahahaha!!

so anyway, i had class this morning - and i was actually good bcoz i woke up at 7:30am to wash my hair and take a shower hahah. even more suprizing, i was actually early for class today (which really is something new! =p)! anyway, so the unit is called "politics and human needs" - it's all about how political systems are based around the meeting the needs of humans and how it all differs from country to country (it's really a comparative politics course - quite up my alley actually)... and anyway i reckon that the lecturer is one of the most pompous men that i've ever met! i mean, it's good that he's at least confident that he knows his stuff.. but for real hey, some of the things he says is like... OMG! oh not to mention he likes his swearwords too. hahaha. okay example. ryerson's got an electronic plagarism program called "turnitin.com"... and across the uni, most professors tell their students that they have to turn in their assignments electronically to be scanned for plagiarism. so being himself, this lecturer goes "okay. i want you to know that i do not use turnitin.com. firstly i believe that it's a total invasion of your rights and secondly, it's only good for catching certain kinds of plagiarism. i, however, am fantastic at catching ALL kinds of plagiarism and i do a much better job. i tell you now, you will not meet someone who is as well read as i am. i'm serious. come to my office. i have all kinds of reading material on display. and all have been read - they don't just sit there to make me look as smart as i am. so please, remember that you must not turn in your assignments via turnitin.com, that is unacceptable - but instead, you must hand them directly to me". lollllll. i'm telling the absolute truth here hey - no exaggeration. it's unbelieveable. well i mean, HE'S unbelieveable. lol. there's just something about him!! lol. but i dunno. at least he knows his stuff (i hope..?)

okay okay. now on to the more interesting stuff! so on friday night, andrea heard that hilary duff was singing somewhere around queen st and she really wanted to go to see some stars! hahaha. knowing me, i wasn't THATT pumped about it - but i went along nevertheless. =p long story short, after dinner (we cooked laksa btw.. hehehe), we took the subway down to queens st and went in search of the red carpet. true enough and luckily enough - it was right there, next to much music (which is apparently the canadian version of mtv)... so andrea and carolyn managed to score the last 2 free passes into the "mosh pit" area - they were super super super close to the stage!! luke and i however weren't as lucky - but we still had a pretty good view of the whole thing. oh, and right behind us was the red carpet - there were stars that were being interviewed when we were there- but i think they were canadian stars, hahahaha. so we had NO IDEA who they were. lol! anyway! here are some pics from our little adventure:



so this is what the concert stage looked like from the outskirts... hahah.
honestly though, it wasn't as packed as i thought it would be.. don't get me wrong there were still heaps of people - but it wasn't like singapore crazy crazy packed. haha.


wahaha. there's ALWAYS gotta be at least one of these guys, otherwise it just ain't right!
oh, if you can't read his sign, it says "hilary, be my prom date?"


hilary singing...


since they were filming for a much music tv episode, there were commercial breaks - if you were wondering like i was, yes, they do get "made up" every commercial break haha. that's how they stay pretty! btw. don't u reckon the guy (whose face you can see) looks hell seedy? hahah. i bet there were all sorts of thoughts going through HIS head!

lol. okay... so she sang three songs that night. i really do wish that i was an avid hilary fan - coz then i would've known what she was singing!! and because we were right next to the red carpet, the music wasn't acutally turned up that loud - so the atmosphere wasn't THAT hyped hahah. but nevertheless, i still think she put on a pretty good show. =) and thankfully, andrea shot some movie clips of her dancing and that - hers are heaps better than the ones that i got bcoz she was sooooo close to the stage! hahaha. anyway, the clips are pretty funny. =p at this point in time, let's also thank God for youtube. =) *grinz*



so lastly, the whole adventure was then even funnier because on sunday night, carolyn came running into our suite and was like - "turn on the tv!!!!" hahahha. turns out that they were showing the actual episode - and andrea and carolyn were on TV! hahaha. woot woot. lol. it was all quite funny. =p oh - and tv makes it all look a lot more glamorous than it actually was. haha. that's the honest truth.

haha okay - so on saturday we hit the hockey hall of fame - no biggie really. lollll. =p but sunday day... after not going to church (i know, naughty me), we took luke out for his b'day - we went into chinatown to dragon city for dim sum. yum yum yum! we were soooooo stuffed afterwards hey. hahahah. but the food was really good. =) and better yet, it wasn't that expensive either. afterwards, we went to the bloor-yorkville district... it's pretty much the upper-end of town, where all the 5 star hotels are and where all the "A-list" celebs are conglomerating (is that a word?) because of the toronto international film festival. so there we were walking along bloor st west, and we walk smack bang into a movie scene setting! lol... the crew had to stop us from walking across the road (again - we had seen another set just down the road from our hotel - they were filming a movie set in michigan in 1970s with heather graham in it)... so yeah - once we had crossed the road - i stopped to look back bcoz i found it really incredulous! hahah. and yes - i took pictures so here's a couple:


you can see the director guy and the camera man... it's so "authentic"! hahaha.

and then...

this is the actual actor who was acting his angry scene... the scene was actually him yelling into his cell phone making some gestures, and then walking over to his cab, putting his stuff in the boot and then... i dunno after that - coz that's how far they got! hahaha. does anyone actually know who he is? hahah!

lol. so anyway, after discovering through the bloor-yorkville district, we rushed to wycik (another student residence) to meet a guy from riSEXc (ryerson student exchange committee) because we had to pay for our tix to the jay's baseball game - which is tomorrow!! (the blue jays are playing the new york yankees in a commemorative 911 game) woohooooo!! (if you can't tell, i'm stoked about it... lol!) anyway, we found out that matty works at the park hyatt as a valet and had been parking cars for brad pitt's and sean penn's parties!!! oh oh oh. and he also got to meet them! and!!!! he got to meet vigo mortesen!! if u don't know, he acted as aragon in lord of the rings. hahaha. =p but yeah - it's all pretty funny. he told us how he stalled a car like right in front of one of the celebs hahahha. tt must've been sooooo embarrassing. lol. =p anyway, after chatting with matty, we headed back to the primrose (where i'm staying) to crash and end an eventful weekend with a quiet night in. =p

so yes! that just abouts speeds you up to what i've been up to in the past couple of days/week! hahah. =)

well, just for the record? even though i'm having a blast over here- i still miss not having my car hahaha. =p oh, not to mention missing family and friends too!! hahaha.

anyway! until next time, i bid you adieu!

luff lots,

pheebs.