another one of those

Name: Tiffany
Birthday: July 27
Birthplace: Hong Kong
Current Location: Toronto
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Auburn
Height: 5'2''
Right Handed or Left Handed: Ambidexterous
Your Heritage: Chinese
The Shoes You Wore Today: My teddybear slippers
Your Weakness: Impatience
Your Fears: Losing Lee/Losing my Grandma Jane
Your Perfect Pizza: Not a big fan of pizza, but I do like a lot of sauce and pineapple on my pizza
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: *shrugs*
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: um...
Thoughts First Waking Up: Why am I up?
Your Best Physical Feature: My tushy
Your Bedtime: Whenever Lee tells me to go to bed
Your Most Missed Memory: The memories that I can't remember
Pepsi or Coke: Coka Cola
MacDonalds or Burger King: MacDonalds
Single or Group Dates: Both, fun in their own unique way
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Nestea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino
Do you Smoke: Used to
Do you Swear: Unfortunately
Do you Sing: Of course, I love to sing
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: I'm in university
Do you want to get Married: Yes
Do you belive in yourself: Yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: Sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive: Of course
Are you a Health Freak: Not in particular
Do you get along with your Parents: Sure
Do you like Thunderstorms: Not in particular
Do you play an Instrument: Yes, many
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Yes
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: Never
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Too cold
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Nope
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: Never
Ever Shoplifted: Tried
How do you want to Die: In my sleep
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Uber wealthy
What country would you most like to Visit: Denmark (Lego Headquarters)

In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Brown/Blonde
Short or Long Hair: Depends
Height: Tall
Weight: Fit
Best Clothing Style: Depends
Number of Drugs I have taken: Lost count
Number of CDs I own: Enough
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of Things in my Past that I Regret: 0

harry potter

yesterday, i volunteered at yee hong (the old people geriactric center at midland and mcnicoll). i had to wake up at like 8 in the morning to get ready. it was fun, we sang to the old people and did a little puppet show for them. as evil as i can be, i happen to really like volunteering for some really strange reason. i got a lift home afterwards, and i got re-ready for lee to pick me up for lunch.

we went to boston pizza for lunch, it was so good and filling. after lunch, we wondered around LCBO, Payless Shoes, and Walmart, to waste time before heading to go see harry potter. it was fun dragging lee through stores looking at everything that bored the crap out of him.

when we got to the theatre, there was already a huge line-up for harry potter for getting seats, and it was like 45 minutes before the movie begins. that's crazy. anywho, lee bought me cotton candy, because he knows i love eating cotton candy in movies.

i think this is my favourite harry potter movie so far. aside from the hot guy that played the character of viktor. lol. okie yeah, i am totally crushing on that guy. i like fully googled him when i got home with lee. lee just rolled his eyes at me. hehe. i love lee. that guy is so cute. anyways, back to the movie, this is so far the movie where i had the least questions to ask, and i thoroughly enjoyed the harry potter experience. lee and i think that we would probably go see it again, when we don't have to line up to just get in.

anyone wanna come with us to see a movie for free?

read my mind

" I approached the 2005 edition of the Forbes 400 issue with a certain ambivalence. Every year in October, the normally bi-weekly Forbes magazine puts out an extra edition to catalogue the 400 wealthiest people in America. Four hundred sounds like a lot of people to me. I’m pretty sure that’s more people than I know. So, naturally, reading the Forbes 400 List makes me feel that everyone’s a billionaire but me. And that’s what causes my ambivalence.

Actually, what I feel may be more like anxiety. I’m curious, you see, about who’s on The List and who isn’t. I wonder how their stories have changed from one year to the next. So I have to buy and read The 400 every year. But, I have to admit, I invariably feel a sense of failure when I do. Because these folks are all – every last one of them – just crazy rich. That makes me feel like I’m running out of time to join the club. *sigh* There’s that anxiety again. I have to take a deep breath – deep breath.

Now, despite my earlier comment, I realize that not everyone is a billionaire except me. It turns out that you can get on the list with just $900 million. But the fact remains that 26 people on The List are not billionaires, and are only in the upper ranges of centimillionaires. Somehow, though, I don’t find enormous comfort in this. Fully 93 percent of the 2005 Forbes 400 are packing a net worth of 10 digits or better.

Or better, you ask? Um, yes. Quite a number of folks need 11 digits to measure what they’re worth. You can feel my pain now, right? Eleven digits. The net worth of several generations of my entire family is a rounding error for these people. I am crushed by this.

Make no mistake. My pain is all about me. I don’t begrudge these people their staggering wealth. God bless ‘em, and good for them. I’m perfectly glad everyone else is a billionaire. It just irritates and embarrasses me that I’m, well, not. I see it as a personal failure. After reading The List, I am always left feeling that if one doesn’t have at least $900 mil, well, what the heck have I been doing, anyway? (There’s that anxiety again. Hold on a minute while I breath deeply into my paper bag…)

You assume that I am kidding about all this, of course. But I have to tell you that it is less that I am kidding and more that I know this to be absurd. I do feel those things. And things like The Forbes 400 List exists because I and others feel this way that. There is an entire industry built around selling envy. Sure, it’s fascinating to look into the lives of the rich and fabulous. The reality is, of course, that 400 super-rich people out of the 296,000,000 souls that currently live in the United States represents a scant 135 millionths of a percentage point of population. So not even close to everyone is on The List. In fact, it would be generally true – if not perfectly statistically accurate – to say that virtually no one has that kind of money. It is only because enormous media resources project those people into our attention sphere that we know that they exist at all. And it is because of the media ubiquity of these people that we feel a sense of familiarity with them, and feel like they are everywhere. They’re not. They barely exist at all.

Wow. Think of that. Statistically they barely exist at all! I’m feeling a lot better about myself already.

Of course, that they barely exist at all in numerical terms doesn’t mean they don’t hold a rather conspicuous share of available wealth. The combined net worth of The List adds up to $1.13 trillion U.S. dollars. For comparison, the GDP of Canada is quite a few U.S. billions less than this. That’s significant wealth for an insignificant number of folks. It’s worth noting here, perhaps, that many of those people were also significant contributors to the building of wealth in society. The folks that build great enterprises are not just aggregators of wealth – they are often creators of wealth.

But at the end of the day, a lot of the zeroes in a net worth statement are merely abstract notations, and are poor measures of real success or happiness. So after contemplating the remarkable stories and amazing sums of such fortunates as those on The Forbes 400 List, it’s useful to tally one’s own blessings. And then, despite the potential for envy and even in comparison, I find that I am still blessed beyond all justification. "

John Caspar