Chris Coleman part 2

On victoria day long weekend, i went to laser quest with some friends.
You can click on the scoresheet to enlarge it:

















Here are some funny things to take note of:

1) Yes, i did name myself C. Coleman. haha! Luckily for me, Chris Coleman did not show up to play laser quest. Can you imagine if he did?!

"I'm sorry sir, that name has already been taken by that asian guy over there with the goodlife membership"

(C. Coleman came in 2nd, firing 2641 beams with a hit percentage of 7. Total score: 1686.

2) It was Jessica Sit's first time ever at Laser Quest. We thought of a good name for her: LQ VIRGIN! Is that not awesome or what? Unfortunately the guy typing in the names misheard her and it was only when she registered her gun that she realized that her laser quest codename was "LQ VERSION". hahaha.

(LQ version was shot a total of 9 times by C. Coleman. Twice in the back)

3) Allison's boyfriend Ray named himself Rainman. He wore a white shirt, putting himself at an even clearer disadvantage as Ray is already white himself.

C. Coleman shot him a whopping 17 times totalling for 170 points. The most points obtained from any single player by C. Coleman! Lesson of the day: don't wear white to laser quest. Especially if you are already white.

4) Eugene named himself Ewen after one of our roomates and Allison named herself Alli Oop. C. Coleman did not obtain any points from these two players. However, Ewen did shoot C. Coleman once in the laser despite making a truce with him. This would result in Eugene shipping himself some of C. Coleman's chief export: pain. (re: Chuck Norris facts)

Chris Coleman

If you havin' workout problems, I feel bad for you son.
I got 99 problems, but a gym membership ain't one.

Finally! Bell Sympatico has decided to turn our internet on! But it kind of sucks still because for some reason, i can't log into msn (i'm using windows messenger now) and i can't log into hotmail (not that i use hotmail).

It was even worse yesterday because i couldn't check my yahoo email! But we switched the router and yahoo is ok now.

So on to Chris Coleman!

The first Saturday that i was in Kitchener, Allison was helping out at this Hardy Hearts charity event (for heart disease) which also included a silent auction so i decided to go check it out with my roomates. One of my big worries about coming to Kitchener/Waterloo was where i would work out.

and then.... BEHOLD: WORD OF GOD SPEAK! one of the items up for bidding was a....

6 month Goodlife membership! ($300 value!!)

there were two bids so far: some guy bid $2.50 and a guy named Chris Coleman bid $35! Allison told me that Chris Coleman was the son of one of the guys on the Hardy Hearts Executive Board. After being egged on by Eugene and one of my other roomates, Ewen, i placed a bid for $40 and then hid myself behind a pole to find out what Chris Coleman looked like. Eventually, this big white guy wearing a bubble vest and a cap with sunglasses planted on them came over to the bidding table and bid $45.

It was time to get to work.

i watched him from afar as he checked up on the other items he was bidding on. i tried to send Eugene, Allison and Ewen to distract him so that he couldn't keep bidding but Eugene and Ewen were too scared and Allison refused because she knew him and didn't want it to be unfair.

Eventually i grew impatient that the auction wasn't ending soon enough and in my naivity, i bid $50. Unfortunately that just made things worse as he discovered that it was i who kept bidding over him. He stood beside me and started smiling.

"NOOO! don't do it Chris Coleman!"

He bent over the bench and bid $55.
i didn't know if i wanted to keep bidding at that point cause it was just going to keep driving up the price. i told him that he already looked like he had a gym membership and that he should go check out his other items. But alas, my pleas fell on deaf ears and he just kept smiling and chuckling. When he realized that i was serious about the item, you won't believe what he did.

HE BID $80, OUTBIDDING HIS OWN BID!

What the heck?! Who does that? i stood beside him and groaned in agony and "awwwing!" like there was no tomorrow while Ewen and Eugene just kept laughing at the developments.

An announcement then came on letting the bidders know that there was 1 minute left.
With less than a minute remaining, i picked up the pen and looked into Chris Coleman's eyes. He picked up his pen and looked at me and then his gaze fell to the bidding sheet.

"Go ahead.",
Chris Coleman challenged.

I then did what any decent man would do in that circumstance;

I sniped the membership a la ebay

with about 30 seconds remaining, i placed the nib of my pen on the sheet and wrote my name as slowly as possible. i then looked at the bid column and looked at Chris Coleman. i wrote an 8 as slowly as possible and then kept my pen at a standstill and looked up at my adversary. I held the pen there until an announcer declared,

"PENS DOWN!!"

I quickly finished my bid at $85, smoting the larger Chris Coleman. He threw his pen down on the bench and turned his head in disbelief at what had just happened.

10 minutes later

Chris Coleman won a large, alloy, golf driver among other items.

Realizing that Chris Coleman won a large, alloy, golf driver, I redeemed my goodlife membership and got the heck out of there.

Brian, one.
Chris Coleman, zero.

Mom

I've got a good mother
and her voice is what keeps me here.

For the first time since finding out that i didn't get Toronto for my clinical placement, i got emotional. It was pretty stupid. i'm heading into Kitchener for good tonight so its the last time that i'll see my family and friends. My brother's at school and my dad went to work already. My mom made me lunch and as i ate, i asked her a question. i asked,

"so are you going to miss me?"

i don't even know why i asked that. i think it was to illicit a response from her. See if she'll actually say yes. See if she'd get emotional. Boy did that backfire! As she flipped through store flyers on the ground beside me, she replied in chinese,

"What do you think?"
(pauses)

not looking up, she sighed and added,

"it's just a year, it'll go by fast. We'll go visit you and you'll come out to visit.
It'll be really fast."

i started tearing! what the heck? Do guys get pms? i started looking at the tv and not looking at her and i even went into the kitchen to throw something away and to wipe away my tears so that she couldn't see. That's what happens in asian families who don't usually express their feelings to each other through words. I'm freakin' tearing even as i write this!

Ever since i was a baby, my dad worked a lot and my mom was the one who stayed home and took care of my brother and i. In a lot of ways our temperaments are the same whereas my brother's temperaments take after my dad. Basically, i've lived my whole life with my mom very close to me, providing for me and taking care of me. i've never moved away from home.

i remember last mother's day, she really wanted perfume and i bought her Beyonce's True Star perfume by tommy Hilfiger (haha... pretty funky eh? But really, it smelled quite mature and motherly and not bootylicious, attracting many-a big black men). i made her give me a kiss on the cheek before i gave her the perfume. She was so happy. i love my mom.

Lessons of the day:
Don't try to make your mom cry. It'll backfire every time.
Treasure your moms. She won't be taking care of you forever.

You showed me
When I was young just how to grow
You showed me
Everything that I should know
You showed me
Just how to walk without your hands
'Cause mom you always were the perfect fan.

Displaced

When peace, like a river, attendath my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

As most of you know, i've been displaced to Kitchener for the clinical portion of my radiation therapy program. That means that i'll be in Kitchener from May 2006 to May 2007.

To tell you the truth, i haven't really given it much thought. Reasons are two-fold: 1) i haven't had much time to because of a busy exam schedule leading right up to me moving and 2) because i haven't really wanted to think about moving away for a year from everything i've known and am comfortable with in Toronto.

i've approached the moving with a very neutral attitude. i'm not totally ecstatic about moving but at the same time, i know there's gotta be a reason why God is sending me to Kitchener and i'm excited about what He has to show me there.

i think this is my first post in almost a year! Heh....can you believe it? Almost a whole year without any bri-brand blogs. No sushi buffet reviews, no embarrassing stories and an absence of just ridiculous things that happen in my life!

Well, i thought it'd be a good idea to start this thing up again to keep you guys updated on what's going on with me. With that said and to keep this intro short and sweet; i'll miss you guys. You guys have been wonderful friends during our time together in Toronto and i definately place a high value on our friendships.

We'll meet again! seeya!