Nothing major happens, but there are some small stuff here and there. There's always the little things if you think about it. So this post is more about the "little things", because it's always about the "little things".
As noted, my insurance ran out, so I guess no more therapy and only self care now! Of course, like a regular person, the first thing a person should do a few hours their last session of physio would be to immediately resume their martial arts training! Lately, Chin sensei (the OG sensei of our club) has been teaching Tuesday classes, and his lessons are way more hardcore. He teaches aikido as though as it is some other "harder" martial arts (as opposed to soft, not hard as in difficult). He told us how our stance and posture sucks, as we're super open to a fist to the face or a knee to our kidneys and stuff, and he teaches us how to avoid those and open up the throats of whoever and karate chop them in the throat. He also say don't do that, because we're all friends here.
I remember during weapons training class, he gives us examples on when to use the weapons. The weapon we train with is a jo staff (which could be used as a walking stick I guess), and he basically taught us how to go from "casual old man with a walking stick" to fight mode. The examples he gave is when there's an assailant rushing towards you or when a bunch of stray dogs are attacking you. Important note: Chin Sensei grew up in Malaysia, he migrated to Canada when he's around 20 I think, but his childhood is mostly in Malaysia, so stray dogs are a very common thing (but muggers are universal).
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| Figure 27.1: Jo staff (or a long stick) |
Lots of the older students always joke about how he has some kind of vendetta against dogs, and there's this French girl who was completely livid about that story, she ways constantly complaining on the fact that he's hitting dogs, but man, stray dogs attacking you are no joke. You can't outrun them, and they usually travel in packs of at least 5. When my family goes out for walks, my dad always carries a "walking stick", which he says is to defend himself against robbers and stray dogs. My dad is no martial artist though, but I would assume robbers who pick on a guy without a stick rather than a man with a visible stick. Also, we try to avoid stray dog territories, and if we do see them, we just do a 180 and walk back. It's not worth it.
I'll take one lift, your ride, best trip
Wednesday was extremely sunny. It was also The Royal St John's Regatta (Regatta Day). Everything was closed (except the 24hours McDonalds, God bless you), and there was a festival going on in Quidi Vidi Lake. We took a bus there and it was just all people. It was 人山人海 (People mountain people sea (No matter where you look, the mountains or the sea, there are people // Meaning: A crowded place// ) There were food trucks, carnival like booths and stuff where you play games and win prizes. The last time I went to Regatta Day was 3 years ago, and it looks like nothing much changed.
I got my face painted for a hefty price, and I had some perogies. We didn't do much, just walked around the place. I think we stayed there for too long though, my bottled water ran out and I refuse to spend $2 on bottled water, so I guess I was pretty much dehydrated for a few hours. We took the bus back and had a refreshing smoothie at the 24 hours McDonalds. The funny thing is that everyone wanted to stop at their respective bus stops to go home, and that's when I told my housemates: "Hey, rather then going straight home, lets stop by McDs for some smoothies", and suddenly everyone stayed and we were all in McDonalds. ALL of us then stop by our house and we played some games I guess. I went to sleep early that night, I was extremely tired, but I heard that the guests left around 2am. I wonder how they could stay up for that long.
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| Figure 27.2: There were also slides and stuff which I didn't go to ;__; |
Always, I know, you'll be, at my show
Remember when I said time is my worst enemy? Well that thing carries forward to my job too. Not only must I wait for all the things I've said many times, now I have to wait for all these different parties to reply me.
So basically, my job right now is to organize the coming semester's orientation, which means contacting lots of people, and hoping they would show up and talk to the freshmen or something. This job is usually given to students, and the adults tries not to interfere. Their method of helping is bringing out documents and stuff because we students have no access to it. The problem now is that apparently MUN decided to streamline lots of things, so we no longer have access to lots of things. There's no "organizers email address" anymore as it is linked to our boss' account, so we're using our own personal email addresses. Our budget also have been reduced because they merged 2 departments together (including ours) but they didn't merge the budget (WHY?!).
But now that's the least of our concerns. Our concern now is that no one's replying to our emails. We emailed a bunch of student bodies, faculties, and a bunch of other things (Some merchandising company, event rental companies, etc.). My colleague even tried calling them, but it goes straight to voice mail. She left a bunch of voice mail already but still no dice. Our deadline is approaching and it's back to waiting again. As for the faculties, they don't reply to our emails! They only reply after we told our boss: "Hey, none of them have replied us and it's been a week!" Then our boss picked up the phone, made a few phone calls, and then suddenly everyone's replying.
The other way how we get people to reply is basically very passive aggressively state that "Hey, we've already contacted you 2 weeks ago but you still haven't reply yet. We're gonna go ahead and if you don't reply now, we're not saving a slot for you."
That being said, the people at my job is super nice. I spent 15 mins just small talking about toasters with this office lady in the office pantry. It was such an experience, I feel like an adult that time, with my small and toaster talk.
Watching, waiting, commiserating
The last little thing I could think of (well it's not little to me, it's a huge deal, but probably EXTREMELY little for you), remember my "A Blog Post about Nothing", back in the 20th of November 2016? Well, I've been going back to Binding of Isaac, and I've been trying to complete the game (I haven't bought the latest DLC yet though), and huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh, I did it.
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| Figure 27.3: Mega is only unlocked if you defeat Mega Satan with ALL the characters! |
That's not just it, I also finished all the challenges, including the extremely stupid and difficult BRAINS! challenge. So right now, I literally have 100% on my achievement..... 2 years ago. But cause there's this new DLC, I'm only at 68%. I'm currently contemplating whether to buy it or not. The reviews for the DLC wasn't stellar, so I'm a bit wary of it. It's a bit of a dilemma for me right now, ugh.
The upcoming week is my finals week. I can't wait to get it over with, then I can finally.... actually I don't know. No plans yet. Do more stuff?
Say it ain't so, I will not go,
Turns the light off, CARRY ME HOMEEEE
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| Figure 27.4: The face paint was really expensive, so I kept it for a while more |
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