AAZ

  Been thinking bout getting a new tattoo but thinking about the area and the pain it comes with (in certain places) jolted me up back to Earth. My friends were like "man, its just temporary", but what I was thinking at the time was "yeah, but it hurts very much so". Also its very expensive.

AAY: Y2K19

  So I've just learnt that arachides is french for peanuts, and not arachnids (which are arachnides). So it is good to know that buerre d'arachide is peanut butter and not spider butter.

AAX: Was gehts!

  Nani?! Is this an update?!!!! After 3+ weeks of inactivity???? Is this possible?

  Well, if you're reading this, then it's probably real. That, or you know exactly how my typing style is like and this is totally 100% fabricated in your mind. Seems impossible aye? Well, that depends. If you push your mind real hard, you can totally fabricate anything. That's the power of the mind.

  Real talk though, lots happened in the past 30+ days. I don't know how much I want to and can type and talk about here. Sometimes when there's too much stuff (which means it will be a very long post), I lose interest and then don't write about it. Just like that, that entire just got lost into the ether unless you were there to experience it with me or I was ranting about it there and then (my DDR buddies definitely knew what's went on).

  So anyway, big-ish update soon I guess!

AAW

Some extremely grade AAA bullshit going on in my life right now for the past few weeks. Still alive, hanging in there. See ya when I see ya laddies.

AAV

  I'm reaching the point of the alphabet in where I have to constantly sing the alphabet song to know what the next alphabet is.

AAU

  Still applying for jobs, that's about it. That being said, what can a guy do for a low cost, while being completely new to the place?

AAT

  Arrived in Montreal safely.

Final St John's Post

My my, I believe it was around this time 5 years ago that I arrived in St John's. Look at me now, leaving around the same time too. It's like an almost perfect book-ends ending eh?

AASQL

  So the thing about my field is that, in the job application process, you do not get an interview first.

  No, no, no. My field is too technical for that. So what they do is that they send you a test, and then you gotta do it and send it back to them before the deadline. The issue with analytics is that every company uses different tools to do their analysis. 

  Good news is that I was given a test (as opposed to outright rejecting me from the application process). The bad news is that I have 72 hours to learn a new data management language so that I could actually do the test.

  As you can guess it, the language I had to learn was SQL (Standard Query Language).

AAR

  Now what?

AAQ

  Now that I think I'm getting better from that entire horrible week of not speaking, well, I guess I just feel a lot more better (physically!)

I think I have laryngitis

  Nothing serious. Diseases always have such scary names but upon checking, laryngitis is kind of like a DLC to the common cold. Not a DLC I want but it's what I get.

  Basically I have all the symptoms of the common cold + I now have puberty voice. My voice is constantly breaking and it sounds horrible. Worse part is at work, where I have to talk. This isn't a big enough of an issue to call in sick (unless I use the term laryngitis, then they'll go "oh no" and probably not knowing what it is).

Down with the Sickness

OOH-WA-AH-AH-AH

  Currently sick. Sore throat, headache, constantly tired, all that jazzz. My phlegm was black as souls.

  I have a few reason why I think I got sick.

AAP, Pretty much nuffin'

  I tried out Brazillian Jiu Jitsu for the first time.

  I've always watched the men aggressively hug each other on the map, but I never got it. So, when I joined the "fundemental class", literally there was only 2 complete newbies, me and this other girl. The other girl came and tried out because her boyfriend brought her here, which means that those 2 will be partnering up.

  So who was I partnered up with? Some guy who's like purple belt. Well, I learn A LOT from him. My aikido days definitely helped with some of the basic movements (like rolling and break falling), but the grappling is insane.

  Needless to say I got my ass handed to me. I lasted like 3 seconds on the mat before needing to tap out cause I'm just constantly getting destroyed by these folks. It was fun though!

AA(10)O: 100th post

  Title is pushing it. I'm trying to fit like a 100th post milestone into the title. Conveniently, after N is O, which kinda looks like the number zero (0). So that's why I think it would be great for it to be like 1OO or like 10O or something. Look at me, master of literary and teacher of math.

AAM Part 2, Music Music Music!

  Just started my violin lessons! For the first class, the only thing we did was to how to hold the bow. The teacher assured me that the next class will have lots of squeaks and scratches, but for now, we gotta learn how to hold the bow.

  Holding the bow is actually pretty tough. Just in a few minutes, my fingers feels so stiff and janky. It feels like I'm always almost dropping the bow. She then told me why holding the bow is so important, and she did this quick playing thing, and told me that to do that, it's all in holding the bow, and not the wrist or arm technique or something. I do not understand what she's saying but I trust her because she's the one who's been playing for decades.

  Stay tuned for next week when I'll play horribly!

AAN, (k)Nots on my body aghhhhh

  Follow up from last week, my back still is super "sour" (酸). It's a concept where it's not really pain or a sore... but it's just not pleasant and annoying... usually due to bad posture or over exertion or any of those things.

  In my case, I think my shoulder and back is riddled with knots.

AAM, Madnesssss

  Now we're at series M!

  I guess madness is a bit of an over exaggeration. This one is more like a... mundane sort of madness, y'kno? 

  I guess its much easier to understand when there's background. So basically, my body hurts, like physically. Mostly my back. But don't worry, this is not one of those kind of disease (I hope), but it just hurts and I think I need some massage or something. A hurt body sucks. It saps your energy and you don't feel like doing anything worthwhile. So what did I do when I have this? I got home from work then I stay and play video games. Such productive waow.

AAL, Taking My Life One Step at a Time

  After telling my friends about the pains about trying to learn the violin, all of them going "hey, it's not that difficult", I told them that the violin I have does not have the tape thing on the neck to show the notes. Then they said, why don't you just tape it then, then I said, cause it's government property (I loaned it from the public library, which is owned by the provincial government). Now, one of them is giving me her violin (with the tape on the neck) because y'kno the usual:

  Went abroad, decided to continue practicing their instrument, bought one, suddenly there's no time or interest anymore to continue practicing, maybe pick it up again in 3 months then put it down again; so she's giving it to me.

  All I have to do now is to go to her place and pick it up, then go to some music store and fix it (because it's also broken and she didn't bother to fix it, that's why she doesn't play it anymore I guess). Not trying to say she's bad at taking care at her stuff. No, she's recently graduated biochem in honours and is now studying for her masters. According to her instagram, whatever free time she has she goes back to her boyfriend's place outside the city (her bf is a local), so there's that. 

  People that play the violin has some level of class y'kno!

Violin in question

AAK

  So, this time it's K. So what about K? 

  Well, K could mean many things; but there is one K in my mind right now.

Long live the king

  Movie's too good man. Can't keep it out of my mind.

  Well, the story kinda sucks, but... I'm gonna quote a very short conversation I had with an old friend:

Me: "Hey, have you seen the new Godzilla movie yet?"

Him: "Not yet, critics said it sucks because there's too many monster fights, so that means I have to see it."

  K, k, enough bout Godzilla. On with the show.