That's all you need for a nice, delicious steaming hot bowl of phở! Pronounced something like 'fuh' rather than the atrocious 'foe' that I hear all too often. I cringe every time I hear it. It's actually a little old, been in the fridge for a little bit. Doesn't taste as good as it would at the folk's place.

This was the day after A Week with Kenn 50. It's felt like such a long time from then to now, but it really has only been four days. After finishing class at 1130, I hit the malls to get myself a new pair of dress shoes and a bow-tie for Sataurday & Sunday's concerts. 

Yes, I realize the mask is too small for me. One size fits all doesn't seem to be one size fits all after all. Will eventually find bigger masks. Hoping to make my own once I can find a mask that fits to use as a template.

Spent much of the day lolling around. I actually can't remember what I did. I think I was playing Pokemon Ruby. I'm pretty sure I was. Got dressed for the performance, and hit the road. I suppose it would be awkward to see a young man dressed to super formally playing a seven year old game on a Game Boy Advanced SP. Anywho, made the trek up to North Vancouver. Ben got there pretty early. Played more Pokemon while waiting for the pre-show rehearsal to start. They turned on the AC so that we didn't burn out before the show started. I can see why they don't want it on during the show though. It gets really cold. Performance went without a hitch. For the most part at least. I screwed up on the Jabberwocky. Also was very, very hot on stage. Full suit, standing shoulder to shoulder with about 150 people on stage under a set of rather warm lights while singing is not a very fun thing to do.

Again, I spent much of the morning playing Pokemon. Almost forgot to eat breakfast. Anywho, I hit the road suited up once again, for the final performance. This time, Joe was kind of early. I continued playing Pokemon while waiting for the pre-show rehearsal. Like yesterday, the AC was on for the rehearsal. Also like yesterday, it was very hot on stage. Sunday's performance went by faster than Saturday's. 

Again, I spent much of the day playing Pokemon. Had a killer, quite literally, sandwich for breakfast, and skipped lunch as usual. It's got a sliced hard boiled egg, a cheese filled smoked sausage, slice herb cured something of beef, jalapenos, and lettuce. A tasty combination of sodium, saturated fats, and proteins.

My choir final exam was today. Played Pokemon on the bus up to campus. It's a wonderful thing to have a one and a half hour bus ride for a 15 minute exam. Forgot to do vocal warm ups before leaving, though I don't really think it would've helped, seeing as I'd still have a long trip before I actually sang anything. I felt that I didn't do all that great. I don't think my high notes were on pitch, though Lars thought otherwise. Glad that I practiced Libera me so much. Was on the exam. The actions for Dubula were rather difficult without the soprano's singing though. The bass part comes in rather late. Vocal warm ups probably would've helped for The Battle of Jericho because of all the low notes. A low F is the lowest note I believe. 

Picked up some tasty treats to get me through the week of studying for the crim final. Hot & Spicy Calbee chips, two bags of Wasabi green peas, and a small bottle of Pocari Sweat. People who can't handle spicy foods will probably be in shock that I called these tasty treats. There was a candy thing that came with small dresses that might fit my figma, but I kind of didn't want to pick it up. The awkward looks would kill me. Plus, I wouldn't be able to return it if they didn't fit the figma. Not sure what I'd do with it then. 

Anywho, no song of the week after all. I'm just too tired at the moment. Will continue later this week for sure. I'm going to be cleaning out my room tomorrow, so I'll have a photo dump. Possibly. Will also got to a three episode review for the spring anime. Eventually. Same goes for a new layout and template for the blog. Still unsure of whether I want two or three columns. =/

Some sticky rice thing that my mom bought. They're small, plain sweet sticky rice pyramids that my mom says are eaten with sugar. We ran out of sugar, so I used brown sugar as an alternative. It's surprisingly quite tasty, though it's pretty small.

Can't remember when this was from, but this Crispy Crunch was my lunch. =3= I think it was a day or two before my piano recital.

Speaking of piano recitals, mine was yesterday. Lots of people performed, most of which were singers. They were good, but all the singing was rather...boring. I apologize to the singers, but their songs were rather quiet. My mind often goes on autopilot when I'm under pressure and stress at performances. I don't remember a single thing from my performance. People I know who were there said I sounded good though. Need to be able to perform without going on autopilot.

Bought this as a reference for citations. There are many good sites out there that can do it for you, but you've got to be able to do it yourself. ^^; It covers the three styles you'll need to know if you're a North American student. 

My sustenance for the week. Roasted wasabi green peas, Calbee Okonomiyaki chips, and a bottle of golden oolong tea. I finished them in two days. Peas yesterday, chips while working on my essay. The peas really burn if you eat too many of them. Need to find a bigger package of them though. 

 

Also picked up a new pair of pair of slacks. Need more formal wear if I'm to be performing more. New horse photo too. It's almost how I'll be dressed for Saturday and Sunday's choir performances. Looking forward to getting it over with, though I'm not particularly excited to be crammed onto the risers. 

In the rehearsal yesterday, we were on the risers. I can't say it was comfortable by any means. With almost no space to hold up our folders, it was very, very warm and stuffy. We need a bigger theatre up at Capilano. Actually, I think every building needs to be bigger. 

My lunch today. I apologize for the terrible picture. My camera batteries were dying, so I was in a tad bit of a rush to take the shot. For those who can't tell what it is, it's a Vietnamese sandwich, or as Andrew would say, a 'banh mi'. I guess in Vietnamese it'd be 'banh mi bo', since it's got slices of beef in it. Quite tasty, and fresh made by my mom this morning. Probably better than whatever Andrew's eating. :]

A midnight snack from earlier this week or something like that. Very tasty, and equally as healthy. Ancient grain flakes, with a sliced up banana, strawberries, dried cranberries and oatmeal (oats). Milk makes my stomach hurt a lot the next day though, so I tend not to consume milk when I have classes the next day.

Breakfast from earlier this week. My mom made it from a cookbook she has. It's apparently called a Mandarin pancake. Anyways, ate it with a mix of chili paste / ketchup, hoisin sauce, and soy sauce. Wasn't so tasty =l. 

=3= I've been eating a lot of these lately. They're sweet potatoes of sorts. Not sure exactly what kind. I think I ate at least five of these this week.

A small snack after school. I don't often eat at McD's because the lineups at them are always so long. 5 piece chicken nugget meal. 

Whenever I'm at the piano, our dog usually hangs out with me on a cushion by the piano. Have been at the piano a lot this week. Recital is next Wednesday.

Spent my three hour 'break' working on my arrangement of 'You'. It's for the violin and piano. It's sounding pretty good, even though I'm only about half way done. Hoping that I can convince Natural to do the violin part. The last time we tried a duet, I failed miserably. 

Some of the many iPhone/iTouch wallpapers I've used. Quite fond of all of them actually. I can't seem to find the post that I showed my most recent one in. It's the Dollars logo though.

Left school today. Convinced Richard to take the bus with me. He lives down in Richmond, so his routes are identical to mine. His usual requires four bus transfers, not including skytrain and sea bus. My route is one bus transfer. His is by far faster, though mine is much easier. Talked a lot on the bus. We missed the 430 at Metro, and ended up killing time by walking to the food court and back.

We discussed a true fact: music students at any school don't have lives. We're not social people. Well, we might be, but we never have time. Music is an art that requires constant attention to the finest of details. There is no such thing as perfection in this performance art. 

Will have to follow Richard on his route on the sea bus in the future, though I absolutely hate taking the 100 from Marine Station.

It was storming out today. With 70-100 km/h winds causing the rain to become flying needles, being inside was by far the best option you could take. ^^; The wind was quite scary. Sounded like it was going to break my windows at times. 

Anywho, all three of the PSPs are back and working fine. =3= Costed a bit more than I had hoped it would be, specifically the repair needed on my brother's PSP. 

Lunch from last Sunday. It's rice, with cauliflower, tomatoes and ground pork. Quite tasty after you add hot sauce and soy sauce.

Today's lunch was wonderful. Healthy too. Noodles in a soup from my folk's restaurant, with thin sliced beef, bean sprouts, and greens that I've forgotten the names of. The soup is usually clear, but I added a tad bit too much chili oil, resulting in the rather red look of it in the photo.

These funky looking greens are tastier than they look. There are two different greens there for those who can't tell. One is thinly sliced banana flower, and the other was lost in translation when my mom explained it to me. They taste good, and are probably good for you, and that's pretty much all that matters!

In other news, just watched Ｂ型Ｈ系. I went into it with an open mind, and boy did it pay off. Probably don't want to watch it with the family, especially with your parents, children, or any younger siblings you might have. Read on the forums that B could refer to the main characters bust size, whereas the 系 apparently translates literally to theory, making the title B Cup Sex Theorist (H = Ecchi, not exactly the same but similar).

Also just finished watching the first  東のエデン　movie. Oh how I've missed seeing the characters. Juiz seems to act up too ^^;

On the manga front, I was hoping to do a few more than I'm doing. For now, only Kenichi is done.

Even if his opponent was a discipile, the three hit combo was very impressive. High kick, guard crush, strong punch? The old man seems to have an ace up his sleeve too ^^;

Anywho, will be busy for the next month with essays, exams, recitals and performances. Feelin' the crunch now, but TK's just finished up his essays, so he'll probably be updating his blog more often than he has been recently (which is like, never). Drop by and give him some love (and oogle at my lovely banner(s) while you're there).

Had instant noodles for breakfast. Was too lazy to do anything else. My mind was being saved for last minute memorizing of notes for piano. 

With Rudy (piano instructor), we talked about confidence. It all started when I said that I wasn't very confident in the piece that I had memorized. 

He drew a few visual diagrams, and we even went into a mathmatical diagram. Then we talked about the controlling interest (51%), saying that you only need to have 1% more than 50/50 to be confident. 

I did better than I thought today. Hoping my hard work can be reciprocated at the end of the semester. 

Just went to check on my recital date. I've got a piano recital on April 14th, and then choir performances on the Saturday and Sunday of the same week. After that are exams. Sounds like a whole lot of fun.

The bus driver walk talking to someone and drove right past my stop, which happens to be the last stop of the 430 that's in Vancouver. Had to wait until it stopped at Bridgeport to get home. Took the Canada line, and was reminded how much I hate the 100 going to 22nd station. The unintended trip means that I crossed through 4 cities, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Vancouver, and Richmond. So much fun. Not.

Now to saddening news. A pad underneath the DPad on my PSP moved a bit, and screwed up my DPad. I'm pretty sure I know how to fix it, but my dad refuses to let me open up my PSP as he's worried that I'd screw it up. So he says to take it to a repair shop. Hoping I don't get charged more than $10 for such a minor repair. Will see if I can get a circle button for my old PSP while I'm at it. 

Well, headed up to Capilano this morning. It's strange not seeing any students on the bus. Had to wait a half hour up at Phibbs for the 239. Only comes once ever 30 minutes.

Joining us in the rehearsal were the Capilano University Singers, vocal students, and the two soloists, George Roberts and I forget the soprano soloist's name.

Ran through the Requiem, Oh My Luve's Like a Red Rose, Sure on This Shining Night, Dubula, and the Jabberwocky.

Jabberwocky was fabulous fun. We had all the instruments, well almost all the instruments, going when we did a run through of the song. The guy sitting beside me was playing the toy cymbals. People playing instruments can't hold their scores, so they look on with someone beside them. I held my score up so he could see his notes. My arm is a tad bit sore now. 

Anywho, on to the picture gallery. 

Found this at our front door. It's a metapod! In a few days, we'll have a butterfree.

Lots of wooded areas up and around campus. Lots of trees, but they're not densely packed. Not sure if animals live here though. Birds and squirrels for sure, but not so much bears and deer.

I see a lot of these plants growing on campus. Not sure what kind of plant it is, but I do know that bees are constantly buzzing around them, which means that I avoid going near these as much as possible.

More trees. This is along the path to the Maple building. There's construction on a new building near there too. 

Most of my classes are here. This is the Fir building. Almost all of the music courses are held here. Certain facult offices are also on the upper floors. It's much bigger than it looks.

The library again. It's a unique building on campus because it's round, as to all the squared building. I've talked about it before, so I won't talk much about it this time.

This is a side of the library. A picture of the trees growing on the South Campus. They're the tallest trees on campus I think. The Birch, Arbutus, Film Studio and Childcare center are down in the South Campus.

This is down on the way to the Birch and Arbutus buildings. There's a park table slightly off center in the background. Would make for a lovely spot to eat lunch outside, if it weren't for the many bees.

Birch building, if you can't read it. This building houses the cafeteria, as well as my favourite place, Tim Hortons. The registrars office, Performance Art Theatre, and Bookstore are also located here.

I'm wondering if those two trees you see in the center are Arbutus trees. They're very rare, as they only grow at certain elevations and only in specific soil conditions. It'd certainly match the building name though. From what I can see, the trees around the buildings don't really match, though it would be mighty impressive if they did. Would be lovely.

The steps down to the doors at the Arbutus building are really, really wide. Feels a tad bit odd walking on them.

A tree by the Birch building. This is one of the trees in the picture earlier where I talked about the South Campus. Just gives you an idea of how tall these trees are.

Outside the library, there is this interesting checkers / chess board. I often see people playing on it. 

This is outside the Fir building. This bike isn't going to be stolen anytime soon. 

A shot of...well I'm actually not too sure what that is. It's a shot of North Vancouver, and the building in the distance are probably in Burnaby.

Back of the Birch building. Parking lot is behind, so that you don't have to park far from the PAT (Performance Arts Theatre).

Not sure what this is, but the school has pretty much a whole forest to it's side.

Trees and then mountains, for as far as the eye an see.

One of my light bulbs burned out, so I replaced it today. Was a massive pain in the ass to change, because the cover for the light was a tad bit more than impossible to remove. I've changed the bulb, but what was in the cover was quite disgusting. It's a biology class!