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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Drink motherucker Drink motherrucker drink motherrucker DRINK!
Ahhhh to an excellent, amazingly fun, awesome weeked!!!!!!!! I am SOOO glad I decided to go!!! I dob;t think Ive had this much fun in a while
So lets fast forward to driving to the hotel from the show.
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Went in dylan and evin's car, once we stepped out of the car at the howard johnson we were greeted by an excited amarah poking her head out of the car window exclaiming " Yeah we can't check-in yet! it's all under Kaylee's ( club prez) name!" duly noted, we moved into the hotel with the convoy who had come in three cars and we formed a line in the lobby, apparently the gala was to be held in the hotel itself ( great idea really) so i was to room with kaylee and erica in room on thse 1st floor ( another smashing idea knowng the rowdy college student crowd) we had ajoining rooms with steph and sara wwho were rooming with the two boys.
Kaylee and Steph headed to the showers, erica got started on her make-up. By the time I was going to shower, there was apparently NO hot water left. I still felt I needed to a shower, the water wasn't too cold but still unbearable to take a long shower in.
So I just had a quick shower and changed into my dress.
Once everyone was ready- basically everyone was wearing short tight dresses, i was the only in a white and blue 50's style strapless dress at least I had killer heels and nice earrings. Since we had the surrender the Cup ( which we had won last yr) we all decided to take a drink from it!! literally. Steph had stocked up on champagne which was poured in and everyone took turns drinking from it ( with the song which are simply to rude to but here it involves words like horse penis suck and meanest) and the title (above)
Everyone took turns drinking from it... justgives a bit of an edge when we see the other team take home that trophy.
Turns out we were the earliest at the gala and took our seats at the back of the ballroom, i was actually really hungry at that point. But just drank some of the left over champagne and talked with the girls. The champagne was actually really good, though I drank it in sips but felt the FULL effect ( faceburning, tipsiness) THen had intense conversations about dating and marriage ( ok maybe im pretty naive but it made me realise again just how independent women today have become, we're no longer the ones fawning over the boys, we're the ones contemplating realationships and are actually really happy being on our own)
Another note to add, is that in the OUEA it's mostly girls very few boys. SO it felt like a real evening of women empowerment. Women leadership, after all this whole organization is run by all girls, save evin and a cuple of other guys. I never really realised it till now but this is a chance for women to lead, it makes me really happy.
Food was good, maybe cos I was hungry and went sligtly overboard wit the pilling of food, realising that there was probably no time to get seconds.
fastforward past awards ( we got a couple of placings ) but didnt win high point or anything. To the famed " Stallion Auction" aka all-male talent contest. Dylan did a song and played the guitar ( evin on piano) decent performance. Evin, who can SING did a parody of " party in the USA" to " riding in the OUEA" which was fricken hilarious!! I wish he would post the lyrics it was fun fun fun " yeah riding in the ouea!" is the only part in rmb. The other boys did try their best but there weren't as good as our stallions!! hehehehe about time someone horsified the boys!!!! i love how much innuendo our sport has.....
ALthough we didn't win any stallions ( we wanted to buy curtis, a guy from some other sch's team) we decided to challange everyone in the dance-off , apparently all the teams that had won their stallion have to perform a song.So we got our resident " mare" the one-girl-party Brittany to choreograph a quick dance for us! we chose black and yelwlow ( i had no idea what to dO) the plan was to grab all the boys and get them to dance with us!! it fricken worked!!!! and was sooooooooo fun and hilarious!!!
After that, things seemed to be slowing down, but the uw team still stayed on to party on the dancefloor, althoug the music was sucking as the deejays would just play damn beats which are impossible to dance to. Ppl started to trickle off.... but we stayed on to dance dance dance ( i needed to get my damn fill and i was completely sober now and couldpossibly go on all night)
Eventually we left to go hang out in the rooms for it ( party was picking up slowly as some decent songs were placing) we returned to the room were steph and sara we flat out on the bed, with britny with amarah. Me, evin, and erica, amanda who were the ones who had returned sat on the bed.Britney started doing accent impressions ( jamaican, australian english) and i tried to do a Singaporean accent which turned someone pointed out to sound south african according to someone.
I was still up for dancing as I was completely sober andNOT tired. So most of us save for sara and steph stayed back. We returned to the ballroom to continue dancing, by now the party had picked up a little and me and evin did " sweet caroline" together . The night ended with " journey" which of course everyone knows and was such a blast to finish off the night.
side note: next morning, woke up at 8.45 am, by kaylee going" does anyone want breakfast?" everyone( including the 3rd room which ended up going to bed late ) was out of the door by 9.10 am. I was thorughly impressed by these horse people.
So lets fast forward to driving to the hotel from the show.
h
Went in dylan and evin's car, once we stepped out of the car at the howard johnson we were greeted by an excited amarah poking her head out of the car window exclaiming " Yeah we can't check-in yet! it's all under Kaylee's ( club prez) name!" duly noted, we moved into the hotel with the convoy who had come in three cars and we formed a line in the lobby, apparently the gala was to be held in the hotel itself ( great idea really) so i was to room with kaylee and erica in room on thse 1st floor ( another smashing idea knowng the rowdy college student crowd) we had ajoining rooms with steph and sara wwho were rooming with the two boys.
Kaylee and Steph headed to the showers, erica got started on her make-up. By the time I was going to shower, there was apparently NO hot water left. I still felt I needed to a shower, the water wasn't too cold but still unbearable to take a long shower in.
So I just had a quick shower and changed into my dress.
Once everyone was ready- basically everyone was wearing short tight dresses, i was the only in a white and blue 50's style strapless dress at least I had killer heels and nice earrings. Since we had the surrender the Cup ( which we had won last yr) we all decided to take a drink from it!! literally. Steph had stocked up on champagne which was poured in and everyone took turns drinking from it ( with the song which are simply to rude to but here it involves words like horse penis suck and meanest) and the title (above)
Everyone took turns drinking from it... justgives a bit of an edge when we see the other team take home that trophy.
Turns out we were the earliest at the gala and took our seats at the back of the ballroom, i was actually really hungry at that point. But just drank some of the left over champagne and talked with the girls. The champagne was actually really good, though I drank it in sips but felt the FULL effect ( faceburning, tipsiness) THen had intense conversations about dating and marriage ( ok maybe im pretty naive but it made me realise again just how independent women today have become, we're no longer the ones fawning over the boys, we're the ones contemplating realationships and are actually really happy being on our own)
Another note to add, is that in the OUEA it's mostly girls very few boys. SO it felt like a real evening of women empowerment. Women leadership, after all this whole organization is run by all girls, save evin and a cuple of other guys. I never really realised it till now but this is a chance for women to lead, it makes me really happy.
Food was good, maybe cos I was hungry and went sligtly overboard wit the pilling of food, realising that there was probably no time to get seconds.
fastforward past awards ( we got a couple of placings ) but didnt win high point or anything. To the famed " Stallion Auction" aka all-male talent contest. Dylan did a song and played the guitar ( evin on piano) decent performance. Evin, who can SING did a parody of " party in the USA" to " riding in the OUEA" which was fricken hilarious!! I wish he would post the lyrics it was fun fun fun " yeah riding in the ouea!" is the only part in rmb. The other boys did try their best but there weren't as good as our stallions!! hehehehe about time someone horsified the boys!!!! i love how much innuendo our sport has.....
ALthough we didn't win any stallions ( we wanted to buy curtis, a guy from some other sch's team) we decided to challange everyone in the dance-off , apparently all the teams that had won their stallion have to perform a song.So we got our resident " mare" the one-girl-party Brittany to choreograph a quick dance for us! we chose black and yelwlow ( i had no idea what to dO) the plan was to grab all the boys and get them to dance with us!! it fricken worked!!!! and was sooooooooo fun and hilarious!!!
After that, things seemed to be slowing down, but the uw team still stayed on to party on the dancefloor, althoug the music was sucking as the deejays would just play damn beats which are impossible to dance to. Ppl started to trickle off.... but we stayed on to dance dance dance ( i needed to get my damn fill and i was completely sober now and couldpossibly go on all night)
Eventually we left to go hang out in the rooms for it ( party was picking up slowly as some decent songs were placing) we returned to the room were steph and sara we flat out on the bed, with britny with amarah. Me, evin, and erica, amanda who were the ones who had returned sat on the bed.Britney started doing accent impressions ( jamaican, australian english) and i tried to do a Singaporean accent which turned someone pointed out to sound south african according to someone.
I was still up for dancing as I was completely sober andNOT tired. So most of us save for sara and steph stayed back. We returned to the ballroom to continue dancing, by now the party had picked up a little and me and evin did " sweet caroline" together . The night ended with " journey" which of course everyone knows and was such a blast to finish off the night.
side note: next morning, woke up at 8.45 am, by kaylee going" does anyone want breakfast?" everyone( including the 3rd room which ended up going to bed late ) was out of the door by 9.10 am. I was thorughly impressed by these horse people.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Ok I think I can post now, that I have calmed down a little
* calm self*
First- the landloard,
me ( summed up as) : If i tell you I want to renew the lease for next yr, right off the bat now, you can't just let the room be available for me?/ as in NOT show it to others !!!!
Landlord: " nothing has yet been finalized..... blah blah.... will take your request into consideration"
ERHHH what does that MEAN? !!! what nonsense is this? Am i missing the damn plot, as far as I know, i thought if tenant wishes to renew lease, that party informs landlord, landlord agrees to it and doesnt show room to anyone else and as current tenant wants to renew the lease !! does that make sense or is that not how it goes ( cos thats no the norm them someone please telll me)
So I should go looking for housing right? i dun want to be stranded homless in the falll term should my landlord ignore the request and throw me out on my ass
* calm self*
First- the landloard,
me ( summed up as) : If i tell you I want to renew the lease for next yr, right off the bat now, you can't just let the room be available for me?/ as in NOT show it to others !!!!
Landlord: " nothing has yet been finalized..... blah blah.... will take your request into consideration"
ERHHH what does that MEAN? !!! what nonsense is this? Am i missing the damn plot, as far as I know, i thought if tenant wishes to renew lease, that party informs landlord, landlord agrees to it and doesnt show room to anyone else and as current tenant wants to renew the lease !! does that make sense or is that not how it goes ( cos thats no the norm them someone please telll me)
So I should go looking for housing right? i dun want to be stranded homless in the falll term should my landlord ignore the request and throw me out on my ass
maybe's there's a shark in the water
At home, bored, know I should be studying at this moment, reading chapter i-dunno-what-of either psych or chapter 9 of my labour relations text.... erghhh
* OH NEWSFLASH * Just made a fricken member of BOAR TRIBE!!!!!! hahahahahhah yayayayayyy
now not quite so upset
finally after waiting.....
Ok now I dont feel like angry/emotional posting anymore
Im too happy
dammit
* OH NEWSFLASH * Just made a fricken member of BOAR TRIBE!!!!!! hahahahahhah yayayayayyy
now not quite so upset
finally after waiting.....
Ok now I dont feel like angry/emotional posting anymore
Im too happy
dammit
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Quote : Dance competitions may smell of hair spray, lip stick and powder, Horse shows smell leather, hay and horse shit
Surviving on lack of sleep ( hence look like crap) and juggling multiple assignments, eg grp projects, mid terms, assignments, readings. I just want this term to end, and another part of me likes this excitment and bussiness
Anyway, here's how our waterloo ouea horse show went. Due to the shift in times, woke up at 4.41am ( really 5.41)steph was coming to pick me up to at 6 so i had to shift into high gear, meaning no shower or breakfast. Chugged on t-shirt and arts sweater under my black winter jacket and grabbed a scarf, lady bug hat and gloves before heading out the door.
Steph was obviously jacked up on coffee, she was highly energetic for 6am, we fetched another girl along the way and were on our way to the barn.
reached the barn when it was nearly light AND freezing, went into the barn and the viewing gallery to plonk down stuff, then kaylee briefed us volunteers on which horses we were assigned etc. I was assigned a strawberry roan mare called Grace, she was slightly chunky, but not overly large plus she was kind, sweet and quiet. Probably the issue I had was figuring out where the hell everything was, someone went to get me tack ( they had a tack locker room which was interesting) and found brushes and pronounced grooming and tacking up, as her class was going first and she was needed in the warm up arena.
The morning was spent walking in circles with a blanketed mare, and giving the riders pony rides, it ws fun talking to the competitors, 99% of which were from non-uw schools. Prizes would go to Trent who seemed the most " together" as in they seemed to emit the most school spirit and teamwork, everytime one rider came into the ring the team coach and at least one other member followed!
However, as the day progressed I started to get more and more tired, my plans of returning back at UW by 5 seemed to slowly driftig away. YEah five, no way. So emergency texted the grp posponing it to seven.
It was an exhausting exhausting day, split between, grooming, untacking, tacking, blanketing ( motherfucking blankets) unblanketing, walking. By 2 pm I was ready to sleep.
Weren't done till 5 and even then, thre was still sweeping, sorting and cleaning to do in the barn. And no, unfortunately i don't think UW going to win the cup again this year sadly...
Rushed home reeking of horse and rushed to school for the meeting, ending up 42 minutues late, but it was all in all a successful meeting.
Anyway, here's how our waterloo ouea horse show went. Due to the shift in times, woke up at 4.41am ( really 5.41)steph was coming to pick me up to at 6 so i had to shift into high gear, meaning no shower or breakfast. Chugged on t-shirt and arts sweater under my black winter jacket and grabbed a scarf, lady bug hat and gloves before heading out the door.
Steph was obviously jacked up on coffee, she was highly energetic for 6am, we fetched another girl along the way and were on our way to the barn.
reached the barn when it was nearly light AND freezing, went into the barn and the viewing gallery to plonk down stuff, then kaylee briefed us volunteers on which horses we were assigned etc. I was assigned a strawberry roan mare called Grace, she was slightly chunky, but not overly large plus she was kind, sweet and quiet. Probably the issue I had was figuring out where the hell everything was, someone went to get me tack ( they had a tack locker room which was interesting) and found brushes and pronounced grooming and tacking up, as her class was going first and she was needed in the warm up arena.
The morning was spent walking in circles with a blanketed mare, and giving the riders pony rides, it ws fun talking to the competitors, 99% of which were from non-uw schools. Prizes would go to Trent who seemed the most " together" as in they seemed to emit the most school spirit and teamwork, everytime one rider came into the ring the team coach and at least one other member followed!
However, as the day progressed I started to get more and more tired, my plans of returning back at UW by 5 seemed to slowly driftig away. YEah five, no way. So emergency texted the grp posponing it to seven.
It was an exhausting exhausting day, split between, grooming, untacking, tacking, blanketing ( motherfucking blankets) unblanketing, walking. By 2 pm I was ready to sleep.
Weren't done till 5 and even then, thre was still sweeping, sorting and cleaning to do in the barn. And no, unfortunately i don't think UW going to win the cup again this year sadly...
Rushed home reeking of horse and rushed to school for the meeting, ending up 42 minutues late, but it was all in all a successful meeting.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
This time change our hearts
Ok, so maybe this comes a high from going to ash wednesday mass/ lentern season ( i mean the chapel is on campus DUH i have no excuse right?) But I just felt compelled to write this... moved by the holy spirit? maybe? Im not like one of those uber christians who go around praising god everywhere and to everyone.
But here we go..
Hi God,
Ive never been so public about this, but I feel like Im taking a risk by doing it and being so personal. First off, I love and will always have faith in you, I can't imagine a life without you, without you I would lost a huge chunk of who I am, everything I grew up with. I know some people don't understand what it's like to have faith in an entity that's not visible, is highly personal, and may be a social and mental construct? Yet, to be brutally honest and this I am sure I am not completely alone here, I have wondered about your existence? hell why am I worshipping something I cant see? isn't it the same as just talking to a wall ? how can I be sure if anyone is listening to me? isn't my belief in you something in my head? is praying just like wishing ? ( ok technically that part was from a psych of religion class) Won't it be sooo much easier to live a secular life? not have to follow all the rules? and not live according to mandated guidlines? it would be easy....
I meant I admit I have issues with some of the church's viewpoints, but at the end of the day is having my certain differing opinions going to be make a " bad" catholic/ christian? and that I should give up on God at all? I can;t do that, deep down I can never ever ever leave the catholic church. Who is to judge whether Im a good christian or not? not someone human i know. Ive realised now, I shouldn't just give up and not care so much abt my faith just because of differing opinions. I mean, i believe you could still be gay and christian ( oh no! oxymoron much?) Christianity is not perfect, and neither are we. Ive learned in University to think for myself, and I was opened to so many opinions and views, so different then what I was used to. I love being this open-minded about things. I know Ive changed a lot, but I don't ever want to lose my faith, though I know Im not the best or perfect example of a catholic, I don't go to church that often anymore, or confession or say the rosary much, or pray as much as I should, read the bible as often as I should. But what I want to do, and know I am capable of is to love, to not judge, to live a life god wants us to live. To be peaceful and grateful for what I have in my life, and to always try to remember my worth, cos God loves me.
I won't be overzealous and force religion on others,( i get annoyed sometimes when mormons approach me) they have their own beliefs for a reason, and it's up to the individual to chose. I know Im no fricken angel at all, am so imeperfect in so many ways, but hey I do try. Every single day.
Thanks for listening
But here we go..
Hi God,
Ive never been so public about this, but I feel like Im taking a risk by doing it and being so personal. First off, I love and will always have faith in you, I can't imagine a life without you, without you I would lost a huge chunk of who I am, everything I grew up with. I know some people don't understand what it's like to have faith in an entity that's not visible, is highly personal, and may be a social and mental construct? Yet, to be brutally honest and this I am sure I am not completely alone here, I have wondered about your existence? hell why am I worshipping something I cant see? isn't it the same as just talking to a wall ? how can I be sure if anyone is listening to me? isn't my belief in you something in my head? is praying just like wishing ? ( ok technically that part was from a psych of religion class) Won't it be sooo much easier to live a secular life? not have to follow all the rules? and not live according to mandated guidlines? it would be easy....
I meant I admit I have issues with some of the church's viewpoints, but at the end of the day is having my certain differing opinions going to be make a " bad" catholic/ christian? and that I should give up on God at all? I can;t do that, deep down I can never ever ever leave the catholic church. Who is to judge whether Im a good christian or not? not someone human i know. Ive realised now, I shouldn't just give up and not care so much abt my faith just because of differing opinions. I mean, i believe you could still be gay and christian ( oh no! oxymoron much?) Christianity is not perfect, and neither are we. Ive learned in University to think for myself, and I was opened to so many opinions and views, so different then what I was used to. I love being this open-minded about things. I know Ive changed a lot, but I don't ever want to lose my faith, though I know Im not the best or perfect example of a catholic, I don't go to church that often anymore, or confession or say the rosary much, or pray as much as I should, read the bible as often as I should. But what I want to do, and know I am capable of is to love, to not judge, to live a life god wants us to live. To be peaceful and grateful for what I have in my life, and to always try to remember my worth, cos God loves me.
I won't be overzealous and force religion on others,( i get annoyed sometimes when mormons approach me) they have their own beliefs for a reason, and it's up to the individual to chose. I know Im no fricken angel at all, am so imeperfect in so many ways, but hey I do try. Every single day.
Thanks for listening