Its Friday, yay!  Nothing really too excited about, its just another Friday.  Got nothing planned, so it'll just gonna be a boring weekend.  Life without food is just NO LIFE.  The real joy of life is really FOOD; without it, its just so plain.  I used to really look forward towards my weekends, bc that's when my dinning outs are; for the last couple weeks, its been just soups and soups.  This week has been a bit better, I'm starting in some more solid food, like well cooked rice noodles and veggies.  Hope things get better next week.

School just started this week.  Both courses seem to be really tough.  One of the course has a really boring professor.  I actually fell asleep in her class; sorry, I tried my best but couldn't stay awake, sigh, not really looking forward to it :(  Ryerson's bookstore is a rip off.  I bought a book from there on Wed and decided to return it the next day since I was able to get it almost new for less than half the price; but the bookstore is not willing to give me a refund; instead, they gave me a store credit with an expiration date, yes a store credit that expires in 4 months; unblievable!  This taught me the lesson to never ever buy it from the bookstore untill you are 100% sure you can't get it anywhere else.  Now, what do I do with the credit?  I won't be taking courses next semester as I'll be going to Taiwan in mid March, wonder if they could extend that date for me.  Shoot them an email, still waiting for an answer.

Question, question, what should I cook tonight?  It's been the same question for the last couple weeks.  The answer, fish,  fish and more fish.  There's nothing else that I can eat/chew aside from fish; or at least not that I can think of.  I guess I'll have fish for dinner again.

I got the Bold delivered to me on Wed and returned it to Rogers the very next day.  I can't say its a bad phone, but its just not for me.  Its too corporate! I need something more sexy looking and more phonelike device.  I think I'll get the Sony Ericsson c905a, but would have to wait till they reset my account; sigh, would probably have to wait for another 10 more days.  Ah, this just reminded me to call them to remove the data plan from my bill.  Anyways, its Friday, better gotta get going.

As you can see, my swelling has come down alot, but still the part around my nose is very swollen.  Feeling wise, my left nose's feelings are coming back bit by bit, but the chin area....nothing, still completely numb.  I can be bitting on my lower lips without feeling anything at all.  That's why I get lots of crancker sores in my lower lips.  Today is labour day, the last long weekend of the summer, but I stayed at home the entire day doing nothing....just playing with the DS.  Oh man, that DS saved my life, how could I live without it.  Staying at home isn't the best thing to do on long weekends, especially when you are by yourselves, I rather be at work...at least I feel somewhat useful. 

Last night was an awful night, couldn't fall asleep till like 5am....I think its due to the tea I had with my dinner, was sooo awake, and worst of all, I woke up around 9ish am this morning, barely got enough sleep.  I'm so tired now. I'd better go to bed early tonight and head to work early tomorrow.  As you can see, my Labour Day was a very very boring one.  I can't wait till school starts and get me busy, I don't like taking holidays when I have nothing to do and have to stay at home.  It can bore me to death.

Two weeks after I signed the papers to get my GTI, I got this GTI fast delivered to my place.  Although I don't know exactly what's it, but it looks kinda cute:

Today, I finally was able to succefully enroll into my fall courses.  It's been such a hasle just to get them into my timetable.  When everything was fine, no conflicts, it complains that I haven't completed the prerequisites...sigh, I'm so glad is settle and over.  I'll just need to head to school to pay the fees.  I hope next term should be easier.  I kinda understand why this is happening; they've just accepted me as an undergraduate, so its not strage that they haven't updated my status everywhere.  Just hope that from now on, I won't have to go to school to do any work, I mean, any enrollment related stuff.

Current mood: as beautiful as this picture:

I've just received email from Ryerson saying that I could email them my pictures for my OneCard and here are 3 of them that I've cropped from old pictures *prior to braces*

Now, just wondering which one they'll pick......

When I first attended a bilingual school back in Honduras and heard the teacher said "a piece of cake", I didn't really know the meaning behind it; I was actually thinking a real piece of cake...LOL...but I was asking myself what does "a piece of cake" has to do with the context he was into? That's when I threw him the question, what do you mean by "a piece of cake"? haha, see, there's always a story behind everything.

Long before my surgery, I did lots of research about the pre and post of the surgery, what to and not to do, what to expect, risks, recovery etc etc, then I was telling myself, ah, this is a piece of cake, they'll just knock you off and once you wake up, everything is finished and done, and you stay in the hospital for 2 days, then recovery at home for 6 weeks, and boom, that's it, and over and ready to be normal again.  I was thinking, yeah, 6 weeks with your mouth shut shouldn't be an issue, time flies, it's gonna be just 1.5 months, it'll pass by without me noticing.....blah blah blah...when I said that to myself back then, I was very positive and very very brave.  Now, only 3 weeks have passed by, and time passes by soooo slowly.  What I thought would be a piece of cake isn't really a piece of cake.  Although I've read couple blogs of people undergone the surgery and how they don't regret doing it, better yet, they state it was the best decision they've done in their lives, I don't feel it that way...or at least not yet.  This recovery period has been very exhausting for me.  First because I never feel like eating anything.  I'm a very picky eater, and refuse to eat things that I don't like, like boost, ensure, blended milkshakes etc etc. All I've been surviving on is mashed potatoes, frozen meatloaf, canned corned-beef, chicken broth, home made veggie soups.  I'm not into sweet stuff; I've had only 3 scoops of ice cream since I was back to home from the hospital.  I know I'm not taking in enough calories, but I don't know what to do.  I know my blood pressure is getting low, and lips are turning so white and I get dizziness once in a while, but I still don't know what to do.  I try my best to eat more the stuff I like, but that doesn't seem to be enough.  I also know I should be eating more often, but once I've brushed my teeth and put the bands on, I stay awake from food till next time I'm really hungry.  I know I'm not supposed to be doing that :(

Life is like that.  Listen/watching people going over difficult times, we tend to think its a piece of cake and not seeing/feeling the difficulty till we actually experience it.  Yes, we need to experience it to understand exactly how  difficult the situation really is, without the experience, we would never truely understand those people going through it.  The web is a public spot and you can see people posting content of others without their consent.  For instance, Gillian's incident.  When it first happened, I hear people commenting on how she should have just faced it and give an explanation to the public.  It is really easy to say, but it's extremely hard to do.  We witness people going through hard times, but yet we don't know exactly how hard that time is.  We can vision, imagine, but again, we are not them, we can't experience their pain until we actually go through it ourselves.  So, what might seem a piece of cake for us, might not actually be a piece of cake at all!