When I move to Vancouver in September I'm planning on living in residence at UBC. Or at least that was the plan, until this weekend I was talking to a girl I went to school with (she's been at UBC for a year already). Apparently accomodation for student's is really scarce in Vancouver, so her Dad has bought her a house in Burnaby, then when she graduates in 3 years time he will sell it. She lives with her boyfriend (I know him too), and another girl. They have a spare room, and Rebecca said I could move in. I'm trying to weigh up the pros and cons of living in residence vs. living off campus. For your first year at university you're guaranteed a room in residence, after that you have to enter a lottery system …. so there's a chance I'll have to find another place to live next year. Residence: House:
PROS
- living right on campus, 5 mins from the beach and 10 mins to downtown Vancouver
- meet lots of people, lots of parties
- cheaper
CONS
- might get stuck rooming with a dick
- I'll probably have to look for different accomadation next year
PROS
- living with friends
- I'll get my own room
- I already know the people I'll live with
- living in proper house, with a real kitchen and laundry
- theres only 1 rule …. there are no rules
CONS
- I really can't think of any
last year my stepdad and his brother & best friend decided to go into business together .... they bought a little sports bar & turned it into a wings restaurant. everybody loves wings right, what could go wrong? well it was a busy little restuarant for the first couple of months, and then after that business got a bit quiet, but it was doing ok. the problem was none of the three partners actually worked at the restaurant, Roger hired his cousin to be manager. A couple of the employees were totally dodgy, they used to take half the beer & spirits that as they were being delivered right off the truck. Plus they stole a heap of food and probably some cash too. So Gerry & his brother (with a bit of a push from my mom) decided 'forget this' and they closed the Wing restaurant.
John McCain made his 8th trip to Iraq on the weekend, Hillary Clinton's been to Iraq and Afghanistan 3 times, and Barack gave a speech in 2003.
Juno - it was decent, it had a good message – most teen movies these days are about “ME” and “what am I going to do”, but pretty much everyone in Juno chooses to do the right thing for someone else. Ellen Page is Canadian so I’d be happy to see her get the Oscar for best actress.
Last night my dear dear friend Jamie rick rolled me, in the middle of a msn conversation he posted the URL to the website that plays 'never gonna give you up' by Rick Astley, you have to click 'ok' about 100 times to make it stop. Obviously I copied the link right away and IM'd my friend Mike, it was hilarious. Then because it was on my clipboard, all night whenever anyone on AIM/msn sent me a link to something, I replied back with the rick rolled link. It's awesome how every guy reacts the same way when they get rick rolled, and every girl reacts the same way. Here are some of the reactions I got: Jack: "damn you" And the ladies reactions ….
Charlie: "you're fucking hilarious"
Billy: "WOW. What an asshole"
Dan: "fucking asshole"
Jordan: "that's so old, you didn’t do it right"
Jeremy: "what the fuck was that?"
Stacey: "OMHG what did you do?!?"
Julie: "lol I love that song"
Carrie: "how do I stop it"
oh, and on a completely unrelated note, check out this really cool website I found ...... www.icecreamandboobiesandotherawesomestuff.com
I think 66% of the stuff they teach you at school is useless that you would never use in the real world. I was helping my brother with his science homework today,some of the questions were:
What are you saving up for?
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an imac, and i'm going to Spain this summer ..... oh yeh, and college i guess
]]>]]>What were your top 10 favorite songs or albums of 2007?
well i posted my top 10 songs yesterday but here are my top 10 albums:
the Shins, Wincing the Night Away
Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer
Tokyo Police Club, A Lesson In Crime
the White Stripes, Icky Thump
Queens of the Stone Age, Era Vulgaris
Kanye West, Graduation
Kid Rock, Rock n Roll Jesus
Against Me! New Wave
the Bravery, the Sun and the Moon
Kaiser Chiefs, Yours Truly,Angry Mob
here are my personal top 100 songs from 2007
| Silverchair | Straight Lines |
| the Shins | Australia |
| Of Montreal | the Past is a Grotesque Animal |
| the Hives | tick tick boom |
| Foo Fighters | the Pretender |
| LCD Soundsystem | North American Scum |
| Modest Mouse | Florida |
| Klaxons | Golden Skans |
| the White Stripes | Icky Thump |
| Cold War Kids | Hang Me Up to Dry |
| Architecture in Helsinki | Debbie |
| Tegan and Sara | the Con |
| the Operation M.D. | Sayonara |
| Calvin Harris | Acceptable in the 80s |
| Immaculate Machine | Jarhand |
| The Bravery | Believe |
| Kanye West | Stronger |
| the Bees | Listening Man |
| the Apples in Stereo | Energy |
| Arctic Monkeys | Brainstorm |
| the Bicycles | BBBicyles |
| the New Pornographers | Myriad Harbour |
| Tokyo Police Club | Your English is Good |
| Against Me | Americans Abroad |
| Metric | Grow Up and Blow Away |
| Queens of the Stone Age | 3s and 7s |
| Of Montreal | Suffer for Fashion |
| the Shins | Phantom Limb |
| Rilo Kiley | Silver Lining |
| Arcade Fire | Intervention |
| Tilly and the Wall | Bad Education |
| 1990s | You Made Me Like It |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Heat Dies Down |
| Rilo Kiley | Silver Lining |
| Panda Bear | Comfy in Nautica |
| John Butler Trio | Funky Tonight |
| Bloc Party | I Still Remember |
| the Weakerthans | Plea From a Cat Named Virtue |
| Bedouin Soundclash | St. Andrews |
| Scary Children Scaring Children | My Darkest Hour |
| Imperial Teen | Room With a View |
| the Killers | Sam's Town |
| the Bicycles | Australia |
| the Cat Empire | Won't Be Afraid |
| Junior Senior | We R the Handclaps |
| the Shins | Turn on Me |
| Modest Mouse | Dashboard |
| Motion City Soundtrack | This is for Real |
| Kanye West | Can't Tell Me Nothing |
| Feist | I Feel it All |
| Rhianna | Umbrella |
| Kings of Leon | On Call |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Ruby |
| the Go! Team | Grip Like a Vice |
| the Flatliners | KHTDR |
| Silversun Pickups | Lazy Eye |
| Kisschasy | Strings and Drums |
| Maximo Park | Our Velocity |
| Against Me | Stop |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Down Boy |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Sick Sick Sick |
| Of Montreal | A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger |
| Stars | Take Me to the Riot |
| Powderfinger | Lost and Running |
| Eskimo Joe | New York |
| Arcade Fire | Windowsill |
| Nine Inch Nails | Survivalism |
| Jay Z | No Hook |
| Architecture in Helsinki | Heart It Races |
| Junior Senior | Can I Get Get |
| Timbaland | Hello |
| LCD Soundsystem | Time to Get Away |
| the White Stripes | Conquest |
| The Bravery | Angelina |
| Ben Lee | What Would Jay Z Do |
| Flight of the Conchords | Humans Are Dead |
| Hot Hot Heat | Let Me In |
| the Wombats | Patricia the Stripper |
| Spoon | You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb |
| Alexisonfire | Rough Hands |
| the Cops | Out of the Fridge / Into the Fire |
| the Mess Hall | Keep Walking |
| the Pigeon Detectives | Don't Know How to Say Goodbye |
| Chris Lilley | Naughty Girl |
| Le Husky | Mourir Comme un Chien |
| the New Pornographers | All the Old Showstoppers |
| Peter Bjorn and John | Up Against the Wall |
| Tegan and Sara | Hop A Plane |
| Jump, Little Children | Education |
| the Bicycles | Paris Be Mine |
| Sum 41 | So Long Goodbye |
| the Chemical Brothers | the Salmon Dance |
| 50 Cent | Ayo Technology |
| Paul McCartney | Dance Tonight |
| Mika | Grace Kelly |
| Seeing Scarlet | Bumblebee |
| Tricot Machine | L'ours |
| Giant Drag | My Dick Sux |
| CSS | Music is My Hot Hot Sex |
| the Rapture | Get Myself Into It |