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Name: Shaina


Interests: Food, books, music, bishies, coffee, Japanese language and culture, sleeping in on a cold, grey, dreary day, j-drama, Angela Aki, Yuna Ito, chilling with my friends, hanging with my kid brother, singing, dancing, Michael Buble, gelato
Expertise: talking without making any sense! Being hungry, virtually any time of the day
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Member Since: 5/15/2004

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Martha and Dmitry go home tonight.
Sigh, I am going to miss that handsome, sexy Russian man. Man, could those legs ever move. Did I already mention that he has got to be one of the best looking Russians that I have ever had the pleasure to behold? Not to mention, I love his style of dance. People should appreciate it more ^^.
I don't know if it's just me, or if it's just this season of the show, but in my opinion, dancers seem a whole lot friendlier and less diva-ish than singers. Am I exagerrating? Well they just seem nicer.

Ian came home with a modern rendition of a mohawk today. Needless to say Papa was certainly not happy with it. And of course I start worrying. But i discovered today that what I worry most about is that Ian is not strong enough or wise enough to let the comments roll off his back. I am glad to admit that I am wrong on this. My brother is strong - and yes it may be biased for me to mention - but Ian Patrick is also one of the best people I know and I am extremely proud to call him my brother.

I am going to miss him very very much.
BUT no tear works yet. I have two weeks and a farewell speech to work on. Count on Filipinos to make a farewell party bigger than it should be. Or in this case, my mama.

I bought a book at Chapters today. I've been meaning to get it all week. Do any of you know of Paulo Coelho? I think his most popular work was The Alchemist, which I really should read after. But the book I bought was By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept:A Novel of Forgiveness and what caught me good was the opening paragraph, and I want to share it here so whoever lands on this can experience the art of Coelho.

                                                        By the river Piedra, I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river - leaves, insects, the feathers of birds - is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget - prologue, page 1.


Thursday, July 13, 2006

NOOO they are breaking up the dance couples in SYTYCD and they have to pick them randomly every week!! No more Donyelle & Benji or Allison & Ivan (and those two were beginning to grow on meeeeeee).

Dagnabbit, Dmitry ended up staying and they sent Musa home.  T_T (okay fine I will admit that I did like looking at Dmitry's lovely abs while he was jiving across the floor...woooo)

Ahhh gotta love la t?/font> folks. This is what it does to you. It makes you coo coo in the head and you somehow end up screaming like a lunatic at the screen, yelling out declarations of love to people you will probably never ever meet.  (I you BENJI!!!!!!)

Crazy, I know.

Now pardon me while I get me some Ritalin....


Wednesday, July 12, 2006

私はまた一つの大事な事を忘れちゃった:

「日記を書いている間に自分のために書かなくちゃはならない。」

時々これを自分自身を覚えさせなくちゃ。そうしなかったら自分の言葉、自分の気持ち、
両方の意味が失うかも。
だから!シャイナ、これを忘れるダメ!

もう、私の日本語が少しずつ悪くなる!\(--)/ マイッタ
また勉強、勉強!学校がもう終わったのに!!!!

(続く)

Okeys now.
I am back.
After watching Benji and Donyelle dance a broadway routine from "Hairspray".
Can I stress enough how much I love those two?
Yeah.
Um.

I LOVE THEM!!!!!

Cursed American show, us Canadians have no right to vote. Which is all fair and all but stillllll.
Alright now, put your tranquilizer darts away, I have locked my fangirl in its cage.

I think I am going to hit the hay early today. During work the poor gerbil kept falling off the wheel. Or as Kuya Glen put it, it fell off the wheel and died.

Soooo I shall dream of dancing. And hope that I can dance again (or try to) and bring back that feeling the year I was a member of the UBC Dance Club. Those were awesome times. I wonder where my partner is now. Sig hasn't been online in ages. If he didn't go to Japan for exchange the following year, we would have gone onto the next level! But alas! No point looking back! Forward hoooo!!!

(x-posted with the LJ - Didn't I say this was going to happen?!!? Didn't I?!?!?)


Monday, July 10, 2006

my thanks


This is my out of nowhere expression of gratitude.

I have to say that I have the most awesome predecessor and am very lucky to have her to ask pesky questions. THANK YOU Capt. Jane!

oh but she doesn't have to put up with me alone! I also have another senpai. Mark - who has filled me in on things that I haven't even CONSIDERED. And who will probably end up being my Tech Support when I am there LOL!

I truly do not know where I would be or what state I would be in if I ended up going without the wise advice of such awesome senpais!

Thank you. 本当に感謝しておりますわ~

(x-posted with the LJ)


Saturday, July 08, 2006

Hopping On

Virtually over night, I became a Dashboard Confessional fan. Wow.

Went to Metro to track down their latest cd and came out with one of their older ones as well (and four underwear from American Eagle! Yay! ahahha)

Gosh I want to play the guitar, but last week I broke the G-string when I accidentally tightened it too much. For that deed the said string lashed out on one of my fingers and got blood in return for being broken.  Heh.



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