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On Spirituality

Inspired by this weeks Glee episode, I decided to dedicate a post on spirituality.


Ever notice how the older you get, the more spirituality curious you become? I've noticed this with a lot of my friends/acquaintances. It's like, the older we all get the more we realize that there really has to be something else worth living for, besides getting a good marks and a great job. It's as if we all have this void we want to fill.

Anyway, as cheesy as this sounds, I pray with Tabitha on the phone every week. We talk talk talk talk, then pray. We're not even praying about hard core stuff, just like, about our friends, people we care about, school, light house (This Christian club we both go to, come check it out!) I always feel a lot calmer after praying, and oddly more accomplished even though I didn't really do anything.

I do keep a prayer journal though, just this little notebook where I write down everything we pray about. I'm just trying to see at the end of the year if any of my prayers have been answered. There's this general misconception that prayers have to be answered right away. Wrong. It takes years for some prayers to be answered. Trust me, you need endurance.

Ok, that's enough Christian talk for now.

I'm attending this suicide conference very near in the future. Not that I'm suicidal, it's a three hour conference that teaches you how to talk to people who are suicidal. Is it weird that I'm excited to do this? It's kinda like CPR training, you eventually help save a life.

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Polar Ice Caps

Things we can do to help save the polar ice caps/glaciers/ice sheets in the Antarctic:


1) Change light bulbs

Incandescent light bulbs waste a lot of energy while producing more heat than light. Compact fluorescent light bulbs use less energy and produce the same amount of light.

2) Unplug electronic devices when they are not being used

Such as cell phone chargers, hair straightners, toaster and even your TV when it’s not being used. These unused electronic devices uses up to 10% of your electricity.

3) Buy a Hybrid Car

Hybrid cars uses both electricity and gas and produce less air pollution

4) Buy appliances that use up less energy

There are existing technology today that uses up less energy, examples would be energy efficient washers and dryers as well as refrigerators.

5) Reduce your carbon footprint

-Reuse and recycle
-Use Reusable water bottles rather than plastic ones
-Turn of f the lights in a room when you’re not in there.
-Take public transportation, walk or use a bike instead
-Increase your plant consumption (more energy is being used to produce meat than plants)
-Buy local products/foods that are more in season.

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It's already been a month since school started but it wasn't until today that I felt myself crash. I was at Cecil today, setting up the tables and decorating the basement for the Thanksgiving Dinner this Friday (Which I sadly can't go too) when all the sudden I was like, "Dude, I'm exhausted."


For the past month, I've only been coming home to sleep. I wake up, albeit late, and head out the door right away, and come home around 10:30-11:00 ish, sometimes later. I basically have been spending the whole day downtown running around places, but most of the time nerding out in the library.

I hope I won't be burnt out too quickly, at least not until after November.

Here is my survival guide for commuting students who are basically out all day:

1) Drink a lot of water
Water is important! Especially when you're commuting in nasty, dirty busses where everyone sneezes and coughs without covering their mouths because they have bad manners. Everyone lately has been getting sick, but I've managed to stay healthy because I drink 8 glasses of water a day. (Even though most of the time it's tap water from the water fountain)

2) Get Exercise
Though you're already lugging your heavy backpack around campus and could be counted as exercise, hit the gym and be active. I've been trying to do this with little success, but I still try! This keeps you healthy.

3) Pack your own lunch.
I pack my own lunch/dinner (Sometimes even breakfast, which is why my bag is so heavy) and this saves a lot of time and money. Pack lots of fruits because they are easy to toss in your bag when you're on the go! An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

4) Join a cooking club
Or in my case, crash a cooking club. I have a friend who has a cooking club, and I just go after the meeting sessions to eat the food.

5) Nerd out together with your friends
Or sister. It's always better to go to the library with your friends because then you have company and won't feel so lonely.

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Homlessness

Enough depressing posts.


I went to the AGO today with my friends because they managed to get free passes, the same way they managed to get free passes to the zoo. So instead of diligently studying in the library/ doing research in labs, we diligently became art critics for one afternoon. It went well, because anything free is good.

So I'm starting a couple of projects soon. Recently, I just finished one, which was to make bookmarks and hand it out to my fellow nerds (this is a lot harder than it sounds). I'm stepping it up for my next project, which will be to help the homeless. Here are my ideas:

1) Sandwich run
Which is, to make sandwiches for the homeless and give pass it out. (and run while doing it, hence the name)

2) Sock donation
Get a bunch of socks and hand it out to those in need of socks.

3) Some kind of dental hygiene kit
Because we all know living on the street gives people bad breath.

Anyway, I know some of you reading this will roll your eye and wonder why on earth I would want to help the homeless people of Toronto. My answer is, why not? I have no good valid reason for doing this except that I want to. Most homeless people are not homeless by choice, they just unfortunately ran into a series of unfortunate events ... and may or may not have become mentally ill afterwards as a result.

I also want to plan the halloween party. Amy and I have already thought of awesome entertainment/games that everyone will take part in. One of them involves a lot of tissue paper (not to wipe your butt with) and another game involves toe sucking. I know you're all dying to play it now.

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GoodbyeGoodbyeGoodbye

I have to admit that although I might think I'm coping well with the recent events that had to happen, I'm probably not. I haven't been able to talk about it with anyone, not my best friends or even my sister. I haven't told anyone details of what happened, and I probably should at least write it in my diary so I won't forget.


But why bother remembering?

Perhaps the reason I haven't been willing to talk about it is because it's all convoluted in my head and to have to go into a single narrative of it all is daunting.

In any case, in short, it just sucks. Sucks to know that I will have to wait for a while before I can try and make an attempt on being friends, sucks to know that while he'll be saying good night and good morning to my friends, he won't be saying it to me. Sucks to be thrown out of someone's life so abruptly, to suddenly come to a complete stop.

Onto the next chapter, pls.

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Moving out/ Jane Eyre

Lately, I've been thinking about moving out a lot more often. It's not commuting that I've gotten tired of, (Although yesterday when I was busing home by myself this guy kept on staring at me and I swear he contemplating in his head of kidnapping me, luckily his stop was before mine.) but rather it's the freedom that I'm longing after.


There's so much more freedom living with your friends downtown, and you're never alone. If I wanted someone to have dinner with, I'd just call someone. Or if I wanted a break from my readings, I'd just step out and voila, entertainment. And I wouldn't be breaking my back lugging my textbooks around downtown. It'd be like having a sleepover all the time, we'd stay up talking all night, playing board games, baking, reading etc.

I have a couple of friends moving out together next year. I WISH I COULD MOVE IN WITH THEM. Unfortunately, I need money for that.

I've thought about who i'd miss if I moved out: I know I'd miss my sister my most and my parents the lease. I've never formed an attachment to them, maybe because I didn't grow up with them, unlike normal people. Maybe I'd miss my mom's cooking, but that's about it.

Ok so Jane Eyre.
So the reason it took me so long to read Jane Eyre is because I've been fiercely loyal to Jane Austen, and in my head, it was either Austen or the Bronte sisters, and I chose Austen because I was hooked on Pride and Prejudice at a very early and impressionable age. (Kind of like how you can't be a fan of Twilight and Harry Potter)

As I begun reading Jane Eyre, I realized that you really can't compare it to Pride and Prejudice. (Again, just how you can't compare Twilight to Harry Potter, simply doesn't make sense and wrong on so many levels) I like Jane Eyre though, it's like a mystery and Rochester is completely insane. I'm not done yet, so I can't say anything about the ending.

Anyway. I will blog more often. It's faster than writing in my diary.

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Dear life,

Ever have one of those moments where you go, "Wow, my life is not bad. It's actually decent."


I just had one of those, even though technically I'm suppose to be crying my eyes out, finishing the roll of toilet paper I like to keep by my desk faster than if it was in the bathroom. My recent wow-my-life-is-awesome revelation happened gradually when I realized how awesome the people in my life are.

I went to visit my grandparents today and spent the day with them since they're going to Europe soon and I had to teach them how to use my camera. After dinner, my grandma asked me what was wrong, since I looked depressed. I didn't want to tell her the reason, since it seemed petty, but at the time she asked me I was actually having a pretty pleasant time just hanging out with them. That's when I realized that my life was pretty good, to have caring grandparents who know me well enough to see that something was wrong.

Then at work the other day, my coworker Natalie, burned a season of Baccano for me to watch. To her it was no big deal, but I was soo touched she'd actually do something like that for me. I was like, NAT YOU'RE SO AWESOMEEE!! Also, a big comfort to me recently has been my good friend, Manley, who not only listened to all my emotional babblings but also volunteered to come over to my house and comfort me with ice cream. (I was at my grandparents house so she couldn't come.) This seriously cheered me up ^.^ , just knowing that I have such a fantastic friend.

I'm also really thankful for Tabi for being my companion in ... just life I guess. She's dragging me to the gym with her tomorrow after we're done with clubs day at light house to help me get rid of my belly roll fat.

This post is feeling too sappy.
Tomorrow is Friday. I'm determined to make it a good day.

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