andrew - the side you've never seen

2004-07-01T15:34:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,

So we are in florence right now (BTW..if there are weird symbols on this it is because of the weird keyboard they have over here). Okay..if uve seen us online its because weve been lucky enough to get free internet at the last two hostels we have stayed in. Geoffrey and Brian have been keeping daily written journals and i have been keeping a brief journal in between cities..of course i decided not to write a daily journal because we all know how good i am at that. Anyways, have a bit of free time here so gonna tell you what weve been up to. Hope Bernice and some people still check this.

July 1 - Today was our second day in Florence. In Rome we decided to take an extra day in florence and one less in venice so that we could take a day trip to the leaning tower of pisa. I donàt think that a person could possibly spend a day in pisa. Yesterday I saw a girl checking out a website for the west cost of italy, a town called "cinque terre"..i think cinque meaning 5 and terre meaning villages or cities..because there are 5 little villages in the area. We set off at 7 this morning to catch a 7:10 train to pisa where we spent about an hour an half..and yes we did the tour, took pictures, and the works all in less than two hours..hahaha. We then caught a 10:40 train to monterosso..the largest of the 5 villages in cinque terre. We got there and as always the weather is beautiful here. It has been basically +30 degrees everyday! We went to the beach and unfortunately had to pay 7 euros for a freakin beach chair..hahaha. We basically vegetated all day and I went swimming in the mediterranean a couple of times (geoffrey didnàt go in and b went in for a couple of minutes before we left). It was really nice to just relax today after +6 hours of walking everyday for the past 4 days or so. Brian ended up burning himself a lil and is pretty red now. After tanning we ate at a restaurant at the beachside. B and I had "gnocchi" with different sauces..I had a lobster sauce and B had a presto sauce. Geoff had lasagna with a presto sauce. We werenàt too impressed. Anyways, we got home..watched the football (soccer) game in the common area and basically now we are getting ready for bed. Apparently Geoff and I snore pretty loud with geoff leading the way as he ALWAYS falls alseep within 20 minutes of the touching down! So that was our day.

we missed Canada Day but we are all thinking about you at home. Okay..i wrote a lot..iàll stop there..miss all of you!

2004-06-14T11:20:00.000-07:00

YUP!!! I think it's about time for my monthly update! Just because Bern said that it was. She said that I can't be a blogger because I don't have blogger characteristics in me. She might be right.

Anyways...if you've all been wondering what I've been up, you should keep on wondering. JUST KIDDING! PREPARING FOR EUROPE!!! It's less than two weeks away. We're leaving on June 25th and will be back on July 18th so everyone that wants to greet us at the airport, you're more than free to do so! We've basically booked all our travel arrangements including airfare and rail passes...and almost all our accomodation arrangements! I bought a $200 back pack for the trip..YEAH..hahaha. Besides the trip, not much has been going on. I'm working for the summer still at Boxing. Softball wuz fun yesterday! I won't talk about it though cuz all we did for the whole night was talk about it. Makes you wonder how much you can actually talk about it?! Oh yes, CONVOCATION is happening this Wednesday. YES I FINALLY GRADUATED!!!

Hmm, I think I should get back to work! Bye for now!

2004-04-28T09:08:00.000-07:00

Here I am again...months after I said I would continue. Oh man..I totally forgot, until Bern reminded me. So let's see..updates updates. MEL got MSN at work so it's been kinda fun talking to her while we're both at work. YES..i'm finishing my work though! I'll be continuing on at Boxing Ontario for the summer. It works out well for me because hopefully i'll get paid a little and they don't have a problem with me going away to Europe for 3 weeks. Which reminds me I think i should pick up a second part-time job...NO MONEY!!! We finally bought our plane tickets last week for about $800. Pretty good considering we thought we'd be playing $1200. It works out to about that much anyways to get into France (we're flying into england). We still have a lot of stuff to plan such as our itenerary so if you know any good places to go in Europe please let us know!

I'm pretty much done school. Finished exams 2 weeks ago. Finished my internship report last weekend and finished my thesis revisions last night (SLEEPY NOW!!!). All i have left are a couple of annual general meetings, one this weekend for my school program..BORING!!! Then graduating in June. I can't believe it..oops, that's pending on if I pass my excercise physiology course..EVERYONE KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED!!!! That's about it for now.

2004-03-16T14:22:00.000-08:00

March 16...
it's really getting down to crunch time. My first draft of my thesis was finally completed last Thursday..that was truly a miracle..hahaha. Our group stayed at school till about 6:30 am when I had to go from YORK all the way to a Kinko's at Yonge and Eglinton to get it binded then head over to drop it off at my professor's house. It was a crazy night.

Friday wasn't much better, I had to go into work in the morning as usual and around noon my dad called me and told me that my grandma in Malaysia passed away that morning. It was hard for my dad needless to say and I went over to his house on Friday night for dinner. It's the first dad i've ever seen my dad cry like that when he talked to his older brother. Please drop my dad a line if you get the chance because I'm sure he would love to hear from all of you (dmychin@rogers.com). It was also hard for me because I didn't get a chance to see my grandma before she passed away and it has been about 3 years since I last saw her. I talked to her every couple of months or so to say hi but my dad always told me to call her by myself to talk to her because you never know when something is gonna happen, but of course I never did.

ANYWAYS, on Saturday evening I went to Cobourg to visit my girlfriend and in the middle of the night her sister let their two dogs outside but fell asleep. In the morning the dogs were gone and they assumed that they were just out and about. Unfortunately, on Monday morning, they got a call telling them that one of the dogs was found dead on the road and was hit by a car. The other dog returned safely to the house the night before. It was definitely a difficult weekend to bear. I hope all of yours were better than mine!

2004-03-11T10:26:00.000-08:00

22 hours and counting...
1st draft of our thesis is due. Well it was supposed to be due today at 6pm but somehow we got some kind of extension until noon on Friday. What am I doing? Well, Tennis Canada is our sponsor and we are basically looking to change their membership structure because it's so screwed up right now. Basically they have 11 members who are the provinces of Canada but we/they want to change it so that they gain individual membership instead of having only the provinces as the members. Does that make sense?!

So anyways, we're about 1/2 way done I think. Why does my whole group have to be constant procrastinators. Why couldn't I just have been in a group with hard working people because everyone knows how big of a procrastinator I am!!! =)

AGEEEE..when are we going to go work out??!?!? My lean, muscle clad body is starting to disentegrate!!!!

2004-03-09T11:26:00.000-08:00

OKAY!!! I know i'm gonna get into MONSTER trouble here seeing how I haven't posted for a good two months. But you know me..once I heard Nathania was stopping it was good invitation for me too. But actually I can't believe it's already been two months. Where has all the time gone?

You're probably all wondering what is going on with me so let me just update you okay?!?!

1) This week I'm SUPER SUPER busy!!! I have a Excercise Physiology midterm on Wednesday and the first draft of our thesis paper is due on Thursday. So needless to say the next couple of nights will be all-nighters!

2) Badminton - I've been playing in a lot of tournaments on the weekends which is probably why you haven't seen me around. This past weekend I played at Humber College as part of a team event with my friends that we ended up winning...sucked cuz we didn't even get any prizes.

3) social life - yes, by now you have probably all heard that I have a girlfriend. Yes yes yes..her name is Adrienne..she's 20..she lives in Cobourg..don't ask me how we met..she's working right now and going to start school in September at Windsor. What else? Some of you have met her already so why don't you tell me what you think!

WHAT ELSE!?!? That's pretty much it. I'm tired..OH YeAH..I'm interning at Boxing Ontario now. What the heck is that??!?! Boxing Ontario is the provincial sports governing body of amateur boxing in Ontario. I work there 3-4 days a week but I don't get paid which kinda sux...cuz I HAVE NO MONEY!?!?

Geoff, Brian, and I are supposed to go to Europe but I don't even know where I'm going to get my money from!!! Oh wellz..let me a note or something and I'll get back to you oka?!?! Miss you alL! PROMISE

2004-01-16T21:45:00.000-08:00

11 am: wake up
noon: eat lunch
1pm: cut hair
5:15: Watched Along Came Polly. You all have to watch it. Ben Stiller is master of comedy. Jennifer Aniston was funny too. Must see must see.
7:00: Christmas party for badminton team. A little late? Kris kringle. I ended up getting an Umbra photo box. What did I give you ask? let's just say I got polo socks (3 pairs) and a women's undergarment...hahaha...just for fun =)
12:30: going to sleep soon. Gotta be outta the house at 7 am to get to belleville for a tournament tomorrow.
Night all

2004-01-10T18:54:00.000-08:00

hahaha, i never imagined i would cause a stir with my feet. I know it's bad, but hey, at least it's getting better right, and it's not like it STINKS (that bad =) ), it's just that it's blistered. But enough about my feet. So I was stupid enough to go snowboarding yesterday, which coincidentally happened to be the coldest night we've had this winter. It was so cold we took maybe 3 or 4 runs and then we had to come in and get some hot chocolate. I think i'm a trooper but yesterday was just ridiculously cold!!! Anyways, it turns out (and I feel really really bad for my friend) cuz we ended starting around 2 something and then we decided to call it quits around 5:30. So my friend ended up spending';return true;" onMouseOut="self.status=''; return true;" onClick="window.open('http://truth.addnsservices.com/kwin?cl=FM2G3W4KB3TSV2163NZLROR8XFE944OJ&kw=spending','_new', 'toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');" href="#">spending';return true;" onMouseOut="self.status=''; return true;" onClick="window.open('http://truth.addnsservices.com/kwin?cl=FM2G3W4KB3TSV2163NZLROR8XFE944OJ&kw=spending','_new', 'toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');" href="#">spending like $70 for 3 hours of, umm, not so much fun! At least when we came back to Toronto we went out for some all you can eat hot pot...mmmm...just what the doctor ordered. Has anyone watched Scarface!?!? That was such a good movie and I've never watched it till yesterday! The longest friggin movie but it was still good.

So this is my official advertisement for myself. I'm looking for an internship in the SPORTS MANAGEMENT field and if ANYONE has ANY leads, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me! Arggg..i need to find my internship SOOOOON!!!! HELPPPP!!!

2004-01-07T21:00:00.000-08:00

I AM SOOOO SORE!!!!!!!!!! I spent all day playing badminton and volleyball it was ridiculous. For all of you that know my feet and how bad it gets, well yeah, it's just that bad! At least you aren't here to see it! I got a new cologne from my friend cuz she felt bad over an incident that happened on new year's so if I smell good you can thank her.

2004-01-06T15:03:00.000-08:00

I think that this last semester is going to the toughest one yet. I'm already scared about all the work that I have to do INCLUDING my stupid thesis that's going to take forever!!!! Not to mention my internship that I still have to find, PLUS excercise physiology (that's scary!!!). Man, i'm frustrated and it's only the second day of school. Work hard, that's my new year's resolution for this term.

2004-01-02T22:55:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I wanted to write this yesterday but kinda had to do something else but I just before you read on, I'm writing about the whole Sweet8 initiation and if you don't want my opinion on it then don't bother reading on but I'm hoping that you will read it. I don't mean to start a ruckus and it isn't my intention but just wanted to give my opinion. You know that I respect all of you and your opinions. Okay, scenario first, how would you feel if me and 7 other close guy friend's made one of our new gf's do an initiation night and have to prove herself to all my friend's by going through a bombardment of questions. Can you seriously tell me you wouldn't stick up for her and think that it's unneccessary. I think it's already hard and intimidating enough for new significant others to try to meet and fit in with friends of the ones that they are going out with. What happens if they don't want to go through the initiation? Does that make them not worth your time? Does it mean they have something to hide? I don't really think so. To me, I'm all for the idea of having them meet all your friends but to have an actual initiation seems extreme. I had other stuff to add but it was all last night in the heat of the moment so I'll stop now.

2004-01-01T21:44:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year everyone! I don't know why but lately i've been thinking a lot about relationships or maybe why I'm not in one. Maybe it's because of getting together with all my friends who have their significant others already, I dunno but it's been bugging me. I don't think it's the fact that I don't have one, but rather why I can't find someone that I think is right for me. I just can't seem to find a single person out there that has what I'm looking for or we just haven't crossed paths. Okay, enough bout that, it's just been on my mind.

Tonight was good seeing everyone and having dinner and having lots of good laughs. I can't believe how michelle, and curtis, and even clara are growing up. It's kinda ridiculous to think that we were once their age. What were we doing then? 16/17??? Can't remember..trying to be cool..wishing to be cooler..hahaha..

2003-12-30T21:45:00.000-08:00

So what's everyone doing for New Year's? I decided to spend New Year's with my friends at...drum rolll...ATLANTIS..yup, going to be at a club this year..hahaha, kinda cheese but oh well. I wanted to find a badminton picture to post up but I can't find a good one for the life of me. I kinda nervous cuz I have a big national tournament this weekend and I really haven't been playing at all lately, not to mention with christmas and the holidays i've just been stuffing my face, but I felt okay playing tonight, felt like I could still move a little..hahaha..i can picture nathania picturing me in her head and just laughing.

2003-12-28T15:19:00.000-08:00

Okay, so i'm TRYING to fix this up because I don't want it to look like mel's (no offence mel..just trying to be different). Imagine this, 4 auntie's you've grown up with golfing and then bowling...hahahaha...funniest thing I've seen in a frigging long time!!!

2003-12-25T13:22:00.000-08:00

okay, this being christmas and all I just wanted to say that even though sometimes I think I don't tell them enough or show them enough I am thankful for all my good friends over these years that have seen me through some rough times.. bern, al, nafania, vida, mel, bren, age, anfia, avlin, caleb, of course geoffrey and brian, did I forget anyone?

2003-12-25T13:10:00.001-08:00

Okay, so it's christmas and thanks to bern and B i've decided to start this BLOG thingy ma jig. Merry christmas to all my friends and to everyone reading this (probably no one =0).

2003-12-25T13:10:00.000-08:00