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What's up?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:16:55 GMT

Wow, it's been so long... with the new interface and bells and whistles, I couldn't figure out how to make a post!

Oh well, that is development for you. Things with me have been quite active lately, just started the track team back up for the season, and just started a new business :). More to come soon, lots of travelling planned for the future so much is to look forward to...

That is all for now.. perhaps again soon... or I'll just make another blog :P.

Till then, Cheers!

Life

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:40:12 GMT

Life is tough, deal with it :)

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Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:27:43 GMT

A post for the sake of a post ^^

It's been awhile now Xanga...

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:03:39 GMT

Wow what a trip. Couple hundred dollars for less than 3 hours of snowboarding and a torn muscle woot. During my 2nd run (literally), I took a jump alot faster than I should've and landed on my pelvis :(. I almost ruptured my spleen but it's not so it's allll good :). Spent the rest of the trip at the condo. yay...

It's that time again!

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:01 GMT

Have no fear, Simon's Here! I was a slob so it's time to blog!

Wow, holidays went by so quickly during rest, yet so slowly during the work. I'm glad to finally report that I am a straight A student for the first time! =D crazy eh? But the courses were pretty easy and I'm honestly not surprised if over half the class had the same outcome =p. My winter break was work filled madness! =D.. and I still have a client that I've yet to see... Doh.. oh well, immediately after school was over, I had work =(, I suppose I should be thankful as it would be difficult to pay off next semesters tuition otherwise let alone my christmas/boxing day bill. It's been nice though, I've been getting out late nights for a change and hanging out with my old friends from my Tupper days again. Christmas was full of food and family, Christmas eve alone I made dinner for a big portion of the family. It was a total gong show though as I tried to enforce communications but my parents did thier own thing without letting me know and made everything alot harder for me =/...(being rant) It get's rather frustrating with things being hard enough as it is... how can I say it without hurting them? Fuck it's annoying that no matter how I say it they just don't get it.(end rant).

Boxing day was nuts, went to Metrotown at 11:00am, then to downtown Pacific Center around 1:00pm, NCIX on Burrard at 4, and halfway to Oakridge Center at 5. Spent around $200 thanks to my dad not paying for something he got me to buy for him grrrr... *mutter mutter curse mutter*.... Here's the list..

          HMV - Metrotown
                $5.99      DVD              Doom Extended Version
                $9.99      DVD              Kingdom of Heaven
          Futureshop - Downtown Robson
                $15.99    CD               Snow Patrol
                $15.99    CD               Billy Talent II
                $0.00      CD               Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones
                $29.99    Game         Battlefield 2142
                $29.99    Game             Guildwars - Nightfall
                $9.99      Game             Lineage II - All Chronicles + 1 month play
          NCIX - Burrard
                $27.00                        OCZ 1Gb Flash Drive
          Apple Store
                $56.00   Printer          Epson Photo Print Express

..Then yesterday I went to Seatle Premium outlets for the first time and spent another $56USD... aosijoifjsdo ^^;
It feels good to acutally spend money on myself for a change... I haven't bought myself anything in months with exception to food... Oh well, I deserve it ^^.

Relationships

People these days.. they're just getting more and more sensative and reckless. Do people even understand what's the point to dating? It's always about the dream, but too often nothing but the dream. Maybe it's just me... but isn't relationships about enjoying the happiness between one another and the bonding that it involves? Why is there always so much pride involved with it? Why do people involve so much greed into it? It's pathetic how some people react to the decisions of their partner, without trust, without logic, without communication. Communication is something that should be well practiced in any relationship I find. It leads directly into understanding and that leads to trust... right? But people are negligant. Fucking Negligant. Some things just make no sense =/... (this requires revision)

How are you Auntie? I hope you're doing well, things have been a bit messy here and there but we can't compain. I hope everything's well over there, we all miss you lots as always and wish the best for you.
Merry Christmas Auntie.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:15:03 GMT

Life of an entrepreneur

Yup, it's time for a well overdue post on my unappreciated (on my part of course) blog. Indeed I do have lots to complain about, but I don't see why I should bother with that, unless everybody wants to know of course. I suppose that's why I have this to being with huh? silly me. Stress? I may not have any mid-terms but I think I really messed up my project that was worth 20% term mark. Projects are just as stressful in my opinion as the deadline is relatively strict. Deadlines for school are pretty easy to meet compared to those of my clients. While acidemic deadlines are usual quite far apart (1-7 weeks), the clients I contend with frequently request projects to be completed the next day (and often I get these calls in the evening too). Though simple as most of the tasks are, problems always seem to pop up and delaying my sleep later and later into the night. Which pretty much explains my puncuality habits in school... Oh well, that's the price to pay for a brighter future.

Officially a Paid Graphics Designer

Closed my first real case today with a client . The ones I did in the past don't really count as the charge for design was implied and not official :P. I can now officially say I get paid $+20/h as a designer for my own company. Don't all bug me for Christmas presents all at once, I only get so many clients a month let alone ones I charge full price. I was really happy at how I closed the deal though, now I just need to send off the package through UPS and recieve the payment.

3 people in the house

Granny's out having fun in China, Sis is apartment/dog sitting out downtown, which leaves myself the parents and the car. I'll need it since I dropped my bus pass... two days I've cooked dinner now, and only once was I happy with the results =/ they liked it both times though so I guess it's fine... Things have been pretty rought though lately getting along with the family, my sister's been rather neglagent to the family let alone to finishing my own favours, dad's been bugging me everynight right after work about helping him with photoshop/apple printing and such and such leaving me little time to finish dinner and complete homework, and then there's mother who always seems to find something to bug me about be it concentrating on homework, work, reading, helping with family, getting along better with dad, taking the bus more, either keeping the car or pay back the dept, or checking up to see if I'm still single (and yes I am ). Everything is such a blur that it often seems like one big contradiction, like they're asking for two opposites. Which would pretty much sum up why I'm a bit down right now, I don't have alot of money to spend (lots of bills to pay...) , and nobody has time to hang out whenever I'm free (and I'm free at the absolutely most random times in the world). Sigh... it's hard enough to get a date as it is even without a tight schedual -_-... Oh well, someday. I'll get cha, and I'll get cha good .

[Edit]

I'm no longer a regular at UBCH anymore, showed up only to find out that the talk I got two days ago meant not to come in anymore unless called upon. As if that's not bad enough, I had to find that out when I got to the office. Today I called the day off school to help my dad send something off for a client as he may not be able to with his level of english comprehention. I got home, forgot about it and slothed around for a bit. Then I went to work, I mean the hospital =/. After that I was pretty depressed, not knowing what to do and all, so I hung around a few of my sisters friends that I ran into for a few hours. Then my parents call me (consecuatively) and tell me that I forgot to mail the client the tracking number. Now both parents are stupid pissy about it, about proffesionalism, skipping school, screwing around and not going to work, list goes on.
(I hate to wish for anything in the world, but I can't help it.).
I wish my parents were a bit more considerate and patient. Though I can't say I'm the most patient especially when it comes to my parents, I do find it difficult to uphold all of the responsibilities that I have. And I honestly think that I am very underappreciated where I stand in the family, everyday they expect more from me... I find myself to have a relatively high standard as it is too..but obviously that's not enough for them. Just turned 20... I knew this was going to happen, a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. The things I do seem to mean less and less to them, or maybe it's just increasing their expectency out of me. I think I'm just going to go to sleep and call it a week...

if somebody could assasinate me I'd be cool with that, I'd give ya 10% of my insurence policy

~~Can't wait to get my Wii next saturday~~

Simon

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:32:42 GMT

Here I am again, it's been awhile and my nets been down for the longest time -_-.. so sorry for the lack of pictures but i'll get em up soon (today/tmmr).

Twenty

It's been awhile since I've gotten some time for myself, but now that I have; nobody around me really notices how much I work around my days anymore. Maybe that's why my parents don't think I work hard enough. Guess 4 hours of school, 6 hours of work, and 6 hours of sleep isn't enough of a sacrafice on my part. After all, father works to the point where he has long term work injuries.. maybe that's what they want out of me as well. Now he's arguing about other things with the other side of the family. After lecturing my cousin who tried to scam me into paying his taxes of course.What a week to grow older on huh? Where does the time go? It's been over a month now and I'm still in debt from tuition, but $5000+ for first semester is a pretty high price to pay off in 3 months even for a full time wage earner. Another year older.. I can't help but to only see more responsibilities, cell phone is in process of being transfered over to my name, as well as high speed internet. Soon it'll be time to sell the car and buy a cheaper one. Hope it hasn't depreciated too much...

Today there was a smelly woman on the bus, I wanted to talk to my friend whom had sat down near her but I had to move or else I would've lost my breakfast. The bus driver almost ran over somebody but that's ok because he didn't and it wasn't my fault. Class was boring and I nodded off a few times. I got to work and a co-worker made me a truffle mound (cake) from melted truffles, and plastic confetti, she's awesome but other co-workers had complaints of my screw-ups. Dinner plans had to be moved over to movie plans which ultimately got cancelled anyways for a family dinner but that was fine. I felt bad for the three people involved though.. nobody really looked at one another at the table in the restaurant though, clearly there was an argument before my arrival from work.. I almost didn't even want to eat.. it almost hurt to celebrate anything, all of a sudden i was reminded of Christmas.. sorry Auntie..

Orlando Trip Pics

Seatle Airport and Departing from Dallas

Food for the timeless traveler at Wal Mart and a view from Galla Night

Pictures from English 190 Venue Night

Venue at Cafe Soma and two classmates

Licorice and beer, and I swear I wasn't drunk that night let alone in that picture!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:32:16 GMT

Summary of my summer

July 24th - July 30th - Orlando Convention of Champions (WFG)

Flight from Vancouver to Seattle to Dallas to Orlando was tres fun =D awesome first flight ever.
got food and pictures. Orlando was HOT, VERY HOT. Sucks that I couldn't go around town for fun or anything.. lived off of WalMart liquor, sandwiches, and omlettes that I personally made myself .

August 22nd - August 24th - White water rafting at Resort REO past Hope

Forgot how to swim for 10 seconds =D, bumpy bumpy bumpy paddle paddle paddle fun fun fun camp :).

September 4th - Yellowcard Concert!!!!

Effing awesome!!! Mosh pit was crazy for a short bit, played half songs from Ocean Avenue ^^. Ran into a few old friends along the way. Gooooood times

September 5th - First Day of School

Realized how deep I've become in debt =d oh well it's the managable kind so meh. New Lappy on the way...

Everything Inbetween

School, work, family, school, birthdays, work, drink, go out, school, work, fun, work, school, birthdays, work

Pictures by request :)

Simo

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:39:29 GMT

Tadaiimasu

No time to type blog, more in and photos later (Y)(Y)

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:35:39 GMT

Reminiscence

For all the times I've disappeared, I will leave a dozen more
For all the times I've let you down, I'll do it again even more
For all the times you've been mad at me, you'll be a few more
For all the drinks you've had because of me, you'll have another hang over

For all the thoughts you've had of me, there'll be one more
Forget the past and I'll depart
Forgive the rest and forever more

Simon Li

Goodbye Vancouver hello Orlando

[Edit]

..drinking and driving? Your friend's should know better than to let you do that. And I thought you would as well. Guess I was wrong like with everything else. All my fault right? I've said enough, don't bother talking to me if you're going to ever do that again.