vacation at varadero

Hey beautiful ladies!
i just wanted to let you girls know im going to varedero, cuba leaving tmr. We got last minute deals and bought tickets for a bargain! 650 for 7 days at a 4 star resort.
its my first real vacation with darren so im kinda nervous.. honestly i think i would get sick of him having to see him everyday for a full week. haha.. well we'll see what happens..

Thi when i come back i will go visit you at the branch, sign up for a visa, take out a loan, line of credit or whatever you want.. lol

take care in Toronto or Japan

Anne

Seto

Hey girls, just thought I'd drop in and say hi since I don't really get internet all the time. I wore a kimono today! That belt thing they tie around their waist (obi) takes forever to put on, and it took 2-3 people to help me get all nicely wrapped up. Now that I think about it, I guess guys back then would find it very erotic to take off a kimono. The women really do look like nicely wrapped presents in these things. It was also very hard to walk, I couldn't move my feet in big strides, and I had to wear these slipper things (geta) that were too small and it hurt like crazy! Also very hard to breath after they tied the obi on me. But even after all that it was a very very good experience. Oh yeah, there were 6 girls there and 3 people to help with the kimono fitting so it took us a long time to get ready, the guys had to wait outside the temple since there were nothing but sliding doors to hide us.

I find when I'm in this country I'm in a very giving mood. All I can think about is getting gifts for people back home and also the people around me here. I guess it's contagious from the other students and people. I love this country, I think Kyoto is my favourite city in Japan, there are quiet places and then there's Sanjo, the shopping district which is packed with people. If I ever move to Japan, Kyoto would be where I'd want to live. I have all your presents, Shanno, you probably won't get a Mario and Yoshi plushie since everything here is made in China, and I can't find one, maybe when I get to Tokyo, I'll keep looking. Ganbarimasu! As for candy Thi, there is so much to chose from here, I don't know which to buy. I'll decide after I try them all.

shirbo

SUCCESS! First day done and many more to go. Thi, Mike and I went jogging today and Mike made both Thi and I look stupid because he lapped us twice. But it was a good first day, haven't done that much in years! Next week's looking good too, nice and sunny and not as cold!

I know I haven't wrote anything here for the longest time. It's just because I don't have anything new to write about other than just sleeping in and doing nothing. I still haven't eaten yet because I'm waiting for all the other guys to wake up to go eat together. =S

While I'm waiting, I was just surfing around Facebook. I realized something. Although I have so many photos of my cat on my page (especially the big photo ones), I still can't manage to stop and look at her pictures. Every time I scroll down, I need to scroll down her pictures fast so I can pass it. I think this is because I'm still not over the fact that she's gone. If I were to look at her pictures I will definitely start tearing. As I'm writing this I'm already tearing. I gotta get off this topic, I just wanted to share that with you guys.

thi

starting june 2nd i'll be working at the branch located on Kennedy and 401 ( kennedy commons) as a financial service rep. bring me your business ladies!! lol

Seto in Japan

Hi girls, just wanted to let you all know that I've arrived safely in Japan. I'm surprisingly very calm about all this, no culture shock whatsoever as of yet. I just feels so normal to be here for some reason that the excitement that is supposed to be here is not here. Maybe once I start seeing the city everything will change. It was pouring cats and dogs yesterday once we got off the plane, quite disappointing but we were all so tired from the flight I think we didn't really care. We still braved out into the bad weather for food though. For food we will do ANYTHING! I'll upload some pictures when I get the time, it'll mostly be of the food I had, I think Anne will like that.

Happy Birthday Thi!

May 10th Thi's Bday

hey ppls

we are going to go bowling!

Let's go to the place that has cosmic bowling... I know that one of you know the address to this place :)

So, let's meet here at 10pm. Don't be late :)

Club 300 Bowl
146 Old Kennedy Rd, Markham, ON L3R 0L5

(905) 477-0894

P.S. make SURE you wear or bring socks and wearing white is extra cool for cosmic bowling. Someone should bring their camera too :)

Seto

Hey girls, just wanted to let you know that I went out and bought a car today. Looking forward to see you all soon!

Edit
Okay so it seems you all not too happy with the vagueness, and actually, Shirbo, it really did seem like that. I was just gonna ask the sales person some questions and stuff and then my dad was like "so if we're planning to get it today, do you have any stock?" Next thing I know, I'm sitting in the office negotiating prices. I don't think I got THAT good a deal on it but I get a new grad discount and they took some more off so there was savings of about...$1500? Not too sure, my math skills have gone down the drain since university. Type of car is a Corolla S, the car of all Asian 'see lies'! The sales was pushing the red and blue colour on me. I wanted blue to begin with but she was basically telling me that they ONLY carry red and blue, she wasn't giving me any other choices. So that's all the details

Also, it seems my vagueness has pwned all again because you're all confused with my plans to go to Japan. I am STILL going to Japan, but only the Japanese language exchange that'll last for three weeks. The plans to teach in Japan for a year in 2009 have been canceled, well, at least postponed until further notice. I'm leaving next Monday at 8:30am and coming back June 4th at some time in the afternoon...I think...I have NO clue how to read this electronic ticket I printed off.

Also, I'm currently sick and my voice is doing funny things. This stupid sickness better go away before I see you girls on Saturday!

Things I'm currently doing:

• finishing off my last work term report
• getting all my school assignments done so I don't have to worry about a thing while I'm in Japan
• securing references letters and updating my resume so I can apply for the following companies
• HP
• Mitsui & Co. Ltd.
• Front
• madly reviewing my Japanese so I'm not complete retarded while I'm in the country
• trying to clean out my room since I'm going to be permanently staying in Toronto
• getting auto insurance quotes
• applying for parking permits
• worrying about debts and the endless payments that are about to come

So there you have it, I've given you all the details and if you found that long winded well...I dunno, just suck it up.

I wanna meet Dave! Thi has been hiding him!