I just found out that Skye the golden eagle at the Greater Vancouver Zoo has died today! Apparently she flew into the lion enclosure and three lionesses hunted her down.

This is so saddening. Golden eagles are my favourite birds. It is hard to believe she is gone. I was just there a month ago. Rest in peace, Skye. Rest in peace.

I bought my first stock today. Or rather I submitted an offer and I'll have to wait until the markets open to find out if they will buy it at that price for me. I'm buying 100 shares of BMO at 42.55 (hopefully). I only have enough money to buy 1 stock. LOL Well, we all have to start somewhere, I guess.

Ha! I got a 40 gallon aquarium today! My friend and my dad helped me bring it home. It is used so my dad is going to fix it up a bit before I can use it. It comes with a wooden stand. It is black so I think my dad is going to help me repaint it.

I'm planning to keep a pair of german rams, some neon tetras and ottos in there. It's going to be a planted tank too. I'm going to have to move my 10 gallon downstairs...If I can clean up down there.

I recently found out about a local fishkeeping site bcaquaria.com! There are so many people interested in fishkeeping! I didn't realize it was so popular! There's a store called Pets Beautiful near Dunbar Loop that sells fish and fish products and the owner is apparently very nice. I'll have to visit someday!

Hahah one of our neighbours have wireless internet set up but didn't encrypt it. There is a weak signal that my sis' connected her laptop to.

This is why it is important to properly set up your wireless connection! Some one can leech off bandwidth from you!

This year we had a white Christmas. It started to snow at about 11 in the morning on the 25th. So we just spent a quiet day at home as we had our Christmas dinner on Sunday already.

I was already eagerly awaiting boxing day...I slept early at 11:20. I fell asleep BUT woke up an hour later! Then I couldn't get back to sleep! So I just spent the night tossing and turning all the while thinking of what I'd get today. Hahahah!

I got up at 4:30am as Karen and I planned to be at the Metrotown BestBuy before 5:30. Our dad wasn't going to go this year but our mom made him come with us anyways! He dropped us off at BestBuy then lined up at Futureshop.

It was SO CROWDED! There were about 300+ people in front of us already. But we got everything we wanted. Hahah my credit card is going to blow up! We bought so many DVDs!

After we went to Lansdowne mall to for lunch and to check out the other BestBuy. It was SO crowded. It was so hard to find parking. There was this aggressive lady driver who STOLE our parking spot! Someone was leaving and we were in right spot to get the it. There was a car in front of us and SHE was in front of that. She had the audacity to reverse and wave at us to backup! >>>=( Stupid lady! Once you're past you can't claim the spot! The nerve!

Well, eventually we found a spot. We just ate at the food court since all the restaurants had lineups. Then Karen and I went off to BestBuy while our dad went to look for phones at Rogers and Fido stores. There wasn't anything much I wanted to buy anymore. It was still very busy there compared to Burnaby.

Heehee another productive boxing day. Tomorrow? Round two!

Hahaha I think it is fitting that I got a dog for a daemon.

The test said:

"Your profile reveals that you are: Flexible, spontaneous, modest, dependable and passive. You are therefore matched with the Whippet Daemon."

I got dragged to an Avril Lavigne concert yesterday in the middle of a BLIZZARD! Ok maybe it wasn't quite a blizzard but it was snowing pretty hard. I had to stand in Swangard Stadium for about 2 and a half hours. She was an hour late showing up.

My cousin was too short and couldn't see anything so I made her a snow pile to stand on! Hahaha. Everyone else started to copy me after that. Heeheehee. It was about 1 and a half feet high. The highest out of everyone's. Everyone probably thought I was crazy rolling snowballs around.

But I guess the concert was okay. My sister had gotten VIP tickets so she HAD to go. And my cousin also wanted to go therefore I had to go in order to watch over her since we had regular tickets.

We got some freebies though. $5 off coupons for BestBuy and Telus bags! The Telus bags are the best. They were also giving out little BestBuy flags (this concert was put together by BestBuy) but why would anyone want those?! It's just garbage. They should give out lanyards or something that people will keep and use.

I was freezing after the concert. We hopped over to the Starbucks at the corner and had mochas and hot chocolate. That Starbucks had such good business. It was SO crowded. Everyone wanted to warm up after standing in the snow for several hours.

After coffee , we took the bus to Bestbuy. I wanted to buy another nunchuck because my sister bought Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on Friday and each of us needed a nunchuck to play 2 player.

Afterwards my aunt and uncle and parents went to Uncle Willy's for dinner. I don't know but for some reason my dad really wanted to go there. I thought there was nothing to eat there. But then I don't like buffets anyways.

Sigh. Another study day wasted.

I want to watch Enchanted so badly!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=21557772

"I've been dreaming OOFF" Heehee!

Too bad it comes out so close to the end of term. I'll probably busy with finishing up projects and assignments.

I got my wisdom teeth pulled today. I only have two top ones. I have no room for the bottom ones. These top ones are already growing out at an angle at the end.

Hurts. Can't eat anything but congee. Sucks because still I'm hungry.

I got the chance to go to Calgary today! Just for the day for an interview. lol I didn't get a lot of time to go anywhere though. I just spend one hour at the Chinook mall before I had to go back to the airport for my trip back to Vancouver. Not enough time to properly go shopping! =( Oh well. Next time.

I was so brave I actually talked with my cab driver and the passenger sitting next to me on the plane! Wahahahah! I would usually just avoid talking to people. I felt so proud of myself. lol

I don't have any photos because my sister gave me dead batteries. >=( She took all the good ones to her trip to Bamfield. Battery hog! I wanted to take some pictures of the rocky mountains they looked very nice.

I rearranged my aquarium (again) today. I actually went out and bought some driftwood and slate so that I could start aquascaping. So here is the result. The left is still a little bare...I'm waiting for my plants to grow first so that I can take some cuttings and filling in those bare spots.

I also bought some proper lighting and test kits. I found that I was using only a 3000K bulb. So I went to Home Depot and bought a 6500K compact fluorescent. It is way brighter! Maybe that is why all my plants were looking miserable. lol. This is costing me quite a little fortune...And still I want a 55 gallon.

I also have about 23 baby guppies O_o hence the small plastic tanks I'm floating in the corners. They are growing so fast!

Hehehe it seems this has become my aquarium blog...

Yes, that's right I saw one of my guppy females (the big amazon one) plop out a baby guppy! I wish I had taken a video clip of it! This was last night. Today I have several more babies that I fished out. I'm going to run out of places to put them!

Ah I'm so sad! All my fish died! Well not ALL my fish, just the tetras and the oto. :( That's 3 glo-lites and 5 neons gone. I think it was a heater malfunction. The water was sooo hot. They got boiled to death.

This morning I found two of the glo-lites had died. I thought it was odd but didn't do anything about it. I thought I'll fish them out when I get back from work...When I got back they had all died! I'm so sad. They were so fun to watch. The sucker fish was still swimming around at that time but it was slowly dying.

Amazingly the shrimp is still alive. So are the six guppies...and the baby guppies! Yes, I found 5 more baby guppies in the tank. I fished them all out. Heehee. Some are not very strong looking. Maybe they haven't had any luck in finding food to eat...or effects of the boiling water.

Stupid heater. On one of the hottest days of the year too. >=(

Yes! One of my guppies has given birth! I didn't see it happen though...and there are only two. Maybe the rest were eaten. Too bad. It was not like I have anywhere to put them all anyways.
I've isolated the two and they are doing quite well I think. At least they are eating. I still have the powdered food left from the whole white cloud fry fiasco. Baby fish also makes me happy. XD

Happy Canada Day!

I spent today at home gardening. Look my freesia are in bloom! I stepped into the garden and it smelt so nice! I cut a whole bunch and put them in the kitchen.

Blooming flowers make me happy. The is a sense of joy when the flowers you planted thrive and bloom. I love gardening.

If only the weeds grow slower! I put one up and ten more come up! LOL The front yard has been neglected for a while now so there are so many weeds. And all the plants are in a disarray. I plan to dig up everything, plant new things and organize it a bit better. I want flowers to be in bloom all summer long and I like only the fragrant flowers. :)

Woohoo! I bought the Wii! I went to Superstore today to get my Grandpa some of those European weiners he likes so much, so I stopped by the Electronics department. I saw they had a Wii box out and I asked if they still have one. And the girl said yes they still have one and did I want one! Of course I said yes! Haahaha! She reached inside a big cardboard box and lo and behold! I had try so hard to hide my glee! Heeheehee!

I was surprised they still had it since it Superstore started advertising it last Saturday. Karen went to check if they had it at Metro (I got it at Marine Drive) but they didn't and when she asked the people to check the other stores if they still had some in stock they refused! They said that it was probably sold out anyways and so they didn't bother to check. >:(

I was a little suspicious though so I asked I asked if it was a return. She said no. They just got it this morning!

I'll be playing it tonight!

Ok for a while I've had blue-green algae growing in my tank. It spreads over the substrate in the front of the tank and climbs up the sides and some grow on my plants. Sob! I've tried cleaning and manually removing it but it kept growing back then I bought some erythromycin antibiotic to kill it but that just seemed to slow the growth down. So I kind of gave up getting rid of it. I just try to get rid of as much as I can during my water changes.

But today most of it was all gone! The sides of the tank and the ground are nearly clean! My hungry guppies ATE the cyanobacteria! Hahaha! Yay! I love guppies!

I finally bought some guppies. I bought 3 females on Wednesday and 2 males today. The males are so pretty I think. Now the tank is so active! They are always swimming around all the time! The tetras just like to lurk in the plant forest and come out only once in a while. They don't swim as fast as the guppies. I might get 2 more females because I think the males are harassing the females too much.

Well from my previous post you probably know that I went to Disneyland. It was a nice break from co-op. I went with my dad and Karen. We left on April 30th and came back yesterday. We spent first day in traffic and the last day at the airport. >_< We spent the middle three days at Disneyland! Yay!

We rode Indiana Jones like four times! Hahahah! This year we lined up for pictures with the characters. I spent 1 and a half hours lining up for 3 princesses! Karen went off on her own and got a pic with Goofy WITHOUT ME! When we finally got to the front of the line Cinderella LEFT! NUUUU!!! She's the one with the prettiest dress! *sniff* We only got Jasmine, Mulan and Belle. And Mulan isn't even a princess! Humph. We also got a pic of Ariel!!! She's my favourite! And I told her so. Heehee. She said "Thank you!"

Pictures later.

I came back from Disneyland to find myself hacked on Gaia! I can't log in and all the stuff I was wearing is gone. Sob.

Well. This is a sign I should quit playing.