2010 Recap

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White Eric just called to say he's on his way - I've finished my rum, and the Grand Marnier chocolates, too!

This is the 2010 Recap. Fitting for the last day of the year, no?

JANUARY

* Watched Manos: The Hands of Fate, Howard the Duck, and Once Upon a Time in the West at Nathan's with Christon, his brother, Jon, Harmony, Isabel, Jeremy, white Eric, Jen, and Randal for BAD MOVIE NIGHT 2 / New Year's.

* Skipped MissionsFest in favor of attending Billie's 20th birthday party, then slept over in Coquitlam again because I wouldn't really have a way to get home afterwards. Good times with Billie / Patrick / Patricia / Sean / Alana / Scott, indeed! Attacking Jello and cake was good, even if I had a cold!

* 24 premiered, so watched that with Steph / Christon / Eric.

* Dave cooked for the very first time at a Sunday Dinner - WHEE! The salad was unintentionally salty, thanks to Christon. I had a good time telling people the BULL MEMBER story, hahaha.

* Got caught out TWICE in a WEEK when I was just wearing sweats - darn you, Jeremy / Lily / Hannah / Sarah!


FEBRUARY

* Went out for a meal with Dave and others for the first time - it was SO GOOD at the Angel Café!

* Hung out with Auntie Ying at Lougheed Mall - the notebook purchase was disappointing, since I was trying to NOT buy them anymore! However, I did pick up two dark sweatpants (to go with new sweatshirts and new wine-colored shoes) - and bit the alteration cost too. Saw Paula Bednjak for the first time in years later on, as well! Oh, and I had deep-fried cheesecake for the first time ever!

* The Olympics hit town, so I was serious about taking in some free stuff, like the OUR LADY PEACE concert! Also caught Kathleen Edwards, Bedouin Soundclash, Hawksley Workman, and more.

* Made a stand again.

* My LJ was largely inaccessible for a week... the development team finally patched it, said Support.


MARCH


* Got all the Olympics mascots, and learned that Frances and Mel had given their second son a GOOD name, Isaac!

* Hung out with Auntie Ying at my place - it was good!

* The church's 35th anniversary... EPIC DINNER! I had to eat lunch with a certain person, but meh!

* Grandma turned 90, so of course we celebrated that!

* I thought I had a good CL reply as regards a new place, but the lady owned a huge dog... NO GO!

* Harmony's birthday dinner... I got to transit home!

* Corey went to Taiwan again, this time for a year or so to teach... the original school screwed him over because they watched him on hidden cameras to say he didn't smile enough, among other things!

* Saw Jon's band - The Engine and The End - perform a gig at Holy Trinity church. It was good to see Dilys again!

* Went out to lunch at the Reef with Dave and others... pretty good stuff!


APRIL

* A bunch of people put together a farewell for Richie since he was going to Calgary again, so of course I went! Got to make REJECTED references on his giant card (but Melia and Emily started it), talk to a bunch of people, and be crazy with Eric. HAHAHAHA!

* Hung out with Angela, Ceci, Steph, Jon, and their friend Silas. Watched the Canucks beat the Kings 3-2 in overtime, then went for izakaya downtown at Kingyo.

* Was spontaneous for once, and had a pre-Fellowship dinner at Hawkers with Wesley / Dave / Dianne / Christon. Good times! (lots of restaurants which we want to try, for sure!)

* Went to Joe Yu's wedding - thanks, Eric!

* Auntie Ying treated me to a noodle house near Aberdeen.

* Hung out with Billie in Richmond - hot and sour soup rules!


MAY

* My parents finally left for China - I made a bad decision to come over early, because Auntie Teresa reminds me of Mom way too much! Jon also signed me up for a SERVANTS service project - AIYA.

* Went to Pho with Fred, Kelvin, Jon, Harmony, Dylan, Deb, Eric, Jon, and Johnny as part of a unity exercise. Good times! Eric and I had to sit with Steph and Grandma since she insisted on treating him - and then she hijacked him to go grocery shopping.

* Grandma treated me and Jon to Master Hong's BBQ House for lunch. Later that day, Steph treated us to dinner at Brown's Social House.

* Had the 24 series finale at Steph's place. Cute - on the 24th!


JUNE

* Hung out with Auntie Ying at Boston Pizza, but I was actually more looking forward to hanging out with Dave Wong soon afterwards! Walking at Ambleside, Park Royal Village, lots of eclectic humorous conversation, Michigan Noodle Shop, Twinkle, and going around town was fun times. :D

* Andrea and Chuck's wedding was fun!

* Had Megan's baby shower and the Awana BBQ on the same day. Pulled a "Jon" and left one event early to bus late to the other. ;)


JULY

* Had the postponed Canada Day BBQ - good times!

* Teunis came over for about a week before going to California... crepes, Fireside Cheesecake Café, apples / potatoes / carrots, the dollar store, BABYLON 5, Surrey, meeting Alysha's dad, and more!

* Went to Jon and Harmony's old place for a BBQ.

* BAD MOVIE NIGHT 3 at Daniel's new place... Troll 2, Warrior of the Lost World, clips of Love Story 2050 (Bollywood!) and
Equilibrium, clips of Bollywood stuff and EQUILIBRIUM, Auto Tune, Video Sift, memes, and Double Rainbow!

* Watched the Holland-Spain World Cup final at Steph's - DIVING!

* Hung out with Chrystal in Richmond again in the evening so she could take the Canada Line! Hung out at White Spot / Shoppers Drug Mart / London Drugs... CHOCOLATE!

* Billie and I finally got to have a Richmond sleepover! NERD PARTY WITH TEUNIS!

* Teunis came over again before doing other stuff, through to August. Yaohan mall shopping, seeing Kaili, respectful co-existing, church, lunch at a ramen place with Christon, video games, crazy videos, interesting food (falafel?), and more!

* Deb and Dylan gave me Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader, which replaced Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader #12 and Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. A few days later, I gave those and an extra copy of Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader #22 to Teunis. (plus some ONE STEP hand sanitizer that smelled like ASS!)


AUGUST

* CHURCH GRAD BANQUET!!!

* Saw Inception with Teresa and Henry - interesting movie, which made us question reality with its ambiguous ending!

* Had a Sunday Dinner at Jeremy's featuring Jandek - afterwards, it was the WORST TIMING EVER for an emergency! Poor Teunis and Kailee! *sad face* (Teunis left the evening after)

* Hung out with Vanessa H. while she ran errands. Saw a Caribbean store in New Westminster which Dave Wong would LOVE!

* Met Auntie Ying and her mom for lunch at the Spicy Court Restaurant, then had a Fellowship BBQ later that night!

* Volunteered with VBS for three days - Victor C. thought I could be a cop, haha. Kids were interesting!

* Mr. Creep was not here anymore, as he got a job in Victoria. GOOD RIDDANCE OF EVIL!

* Had a Sunday BBQ at Eric's place - met Lisa, and Teunis' friend Jordan. Also saw Robin again after a couple of years - very interesting conversations, for sure!


SEPTEMBER

* Finished backdating ten months' worth of Blogger posts, mainly for my and Dawn's sake.

* Went to the Richmond Night Market with Jeremy, Nathan, Wesley, his Calgary friend Michelle, and Christon - ONE DOLLAH SKEWAHS! :D

* Went to De Dutch Pannekoek House quite unexpectedly with all the Morrills - sweet stuff. :D

* Teunis was here again briefly from Robin's before going to Rhiannon's - I got to experience the blessing of spending my birthday with him here for the second year in a row! (Chapters, THE EXILE, and more silly fun stuff!)

* Mom had a dinner combining my birthday with Nathan's farewell at a Richmond Pho place. My actual birthday was free! (yay for long personal conversations and bubble tea!)

* Went to Ray's "beat-down" party since he's back here for a few days! Met Peggy, Josh, and a few others!

* Mandy (a_phoenixdragon) unfriended me after FIVE YEARS! SO SAD! :(

* Dave Wong actually came to church to visit after a few months. We'll see whether he really does want to go out for coffee... Purdy's sounds interesting, though! I went to Burgoo later with Jeremy and Eric.


OCTOBER

* Jason and Karen's wedding - FINALLY, haha!

* Had a Sunday Dinner to celebrate Christon and Jeremy's birthday! Too bad nobody was in the mood for it because of Pastor John's SHOCKING RESIGNATION NEWS earlier!

* Calla and Stanford's wedding - yes, these people get married on Thanksgiving weekend!

* Phil and Grace became parents to baby Micah!

* hung out with Steph and Lisa after visiting a sleeping Grandma in the respite centre - pasta dinner and ice cream at Marble Slab!)

* watched a bunch of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT episodes that I'd never seen before at Steph's with her, Lisa, Christon, Jon, Harmony, Jen, Randal, Eric, Patricia, Jeremy, and Albert... also led little Mattias - a new big brother to baby Marcus - upstairs by the hand for the first time!


NOVEMBER

* had a dinner at Steph's with her, Lisa, Jon, and Harmony

* found out that CHINESE ERIC WAS BACK IN TOWN... YAY!

* hung out with Billie in Richmond (since I lost my bus pass - otherwise, Metrotown)

* FINALLY hung out with Chinese Eric, and met his sister Erica - also got the NEW LAPTOP with large keys!

* got the international cable hookup for the laptop, then Chinese Eric and I went to Jon's annual Birthday Extravaganza at Jeremy's

* Jon's surprise birthday party at SERVANTS, the day where I almost KILLED myself leaving the second house - stupid night vision and steep steps! - and watching the modern OCEAN'S ELEVEN at Dylan and Deb's since the original was too slow-paced

* Had a Sunday Dinner for Jon's birthday at Jeremy's - Chinese Eric demonstrated his giving nature again by giving me a ride there and back. I do cherish our friendship as well. :D

* Had a family dinner the next night in cold temperatures at Latitude Restaurant - Grandma didn't particularly like the restaurant's ambience, haha.


DECEMBER

* Started to get cards and things from my friends and the people at holiday_wishes - SO AWESOME! :D

* John and Ada unexpectedly treated me out for dinner at Vivacity Restaurant after Awana. SWEET!

* Joule finally works again!

* Got sick and couldn't make it to my weekend obligations!

* Found out that my mom's neighbor Barbara was killed by the recycling truck - what the?!

* Hung out with Vanessa H. to run errands, watch TV at the condo, and get BBT... it was a nice low-key hangout to prepare me for the weekend immediately afterwards!

* Found out that MR. CREEP IS BACK IN TOWN - NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

* Watched AIRPLANE! and SPY HARD with a bunch of people at the townhouse - luckily, Grandma could also get something out of the visual humor in the movies! It was nice to see Nathan again, and of course make plans with Chinese Eric!

* Finally finished a bunch of posts which I had to do - YAY!

* Christmas dinner at the townhouse - REN AND STIMPY!

* HOT POT AND MOVIES AT JEREMY'S!