Happiness #12

In the midst of nodding off, zoning in and out, scribbling down illegible answers to questions about statistics and being in a white hot chocolate coma, I ended up writing, "somethingsomethingstatssomething...like the scents of...somethingsomething, just love it. Oh, Toronto!"

I found it right as I snapped out of my reverie and drowsiness, flipping through the pages to make sure that I had at least written something down for every question, if not answered. It let me have a good laugh at myself, after a second most terrible day ever that I can remember so far school-wise.

But life is still good.

Happiness #10

I thought I'd do myself a favour and post what made me happy today earlier during the day. If you haven't already noticed, I am a big fan of run-on sentences and also sentences that aren't structurally the best, which incidentally, doesn't help me a lot with my Syntax class (a branch of Linguistics that studies the structure of sentences).

Onto the point! I'm happy that I had taken the time this morning (it really just took me a couple of minutes) to pack a lunch today. Mondays and Wednesdays are the worst for my money spending because I'm on campus from morning to night, which means that I usually need a lunch, some coffee and also a dinner. By bringing a lunch (cauliflower and eggs with some rice, one of my favourite dishes that my mom cooks, plus some tabasco sauce), I saved myself from easily spending somewhere around $10 and under if I got lucky. It makes me really happy when I realize that I saved myself from spending money. For those who know me really well, I'm not exactly the cheap spender or...I guess you could say that I just like shopping but not so much spending money on myself.

Wait, that last part didn't make sense. Anyway...

Hope your Mondays are going well! My morning was quite terrible but I think I can save the depressing story of a extremely slow subway and hard time getting out of bed for another time. aka never.

Happiness #9

I'm so tired. And for that, I am very, very happy that I will be going to sleep soon and that I had a very good nap this afternoon (though I woke up and still felt really tired -- is my body trying to tell me something?)

I'm also happy for good criticism. And from unknown and ridiculous reason, I keep writing as if it's things that I am thankful for, and not really happy about. But I guess you could say that it just makes me happy when people you know are open to critique and also open for suggesting criticism. It helps better you and it helps do things that you may have not thought were okay. So for the songs this morning on Sunday, I was told that I should choose keys that I could sing in and that were comfortable for me. Which, in one way, is kind of selfish but in a musical ...point of view, if the leading vocalist is singing a song that isn't comfortably in their voice range, wouldn't it be distracting and also not good at facilitating worship for the congregation?

While school may not be something for me to be happy about, life and good times with people is something to be happy about.

Happiness #8

So this is now on track, for Saturday, which will become Sunday in two minutes starting now. By the time I finish this, Sunday will have already started.


One minute.


Things that made me super happy today: worship and praising God & getting good sales.


I put it in that order because anything that has to do with leading worship and music and just all of that always goes first. I love it. And though you may not completely understand the real mentality or misinterpret it, I always say that if it were possible, I would do it for a living or my career or just for life. But alas, this world doesn't allow that easily. Tonight at my youth group was just really special and I think there are a couple of things that just did it so well for me tonight:

• Having a really productive and good practice -- we had a little nicks here and there but there was communication, understanding and time well spent
• The most random combination of kinds of food for dinner but probably the best dinner too -- fish and chips, chicken, rice, this BBQ'd meat, pork dumplings, etc.
• Praying together as a group -- I've grown to really love praying with other people; it's just crazy encouraging and helps get things off shoulders
• A great worship time -- I think that the flow went well tonight from song to song and it was just really refreshing to come back together with the youth after not being together for three weeks. 

Now...getting good sales. I'm not going to give away any numerical values but I will say that on my receipt, I had saved more than I had spent, which really surprised me. A lot of the things that I got were really practical and also final sale but I don't think twice about any of them. Yet. It was a 50% off sale items at Gap today (one of my part-time jobs) and I had made sure to put in some time this morning to stop by and get some stuff. 

And since I'm bored and I like looking at clothes online too (it's a terrible habit of mine...shopping, I mean), here are a few pictures of what I ended up getting:

Ribbed shawl-collar sweater in heather gray

Rayon racerback tank (i actually do have this intense orange colour already) in black (x2)

Knit inset skinny cargo pants in fatigue green (these i can think about...but i've always wanted a pair of green-ish cargo pants; just one of those things)

Ribbon-waist printed skirt in black print

Tie-lapel blazer in river clay

1969 belted denim blazer in light caicos

...there goes my uh. i think we call it narcissism? anyway, at least now all you sort-of noninexistant readers know. ...oh dear. that may not be good. haha. shameless advertising. i considered this my fall shopping spree. AND it was a super great sale. 

talking done. i will be zipping my mouth closed now.

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ps: i'm editing the time so it seems like i wrote this on saturday, which i did...when i started writing it but it's just so the day numbers of this challenge don't get confused with the actual days. 

let's try this!

after hearing about the “Happiness Challenge” from some good friends over at Lighthouse (college campus gathering) as well as newly following some people here on Tumblr, i’m going to take on both challenges and see how well i do: 

1. Happiness Challenge: write about something that made you happy every day for the next 30 days (they started mid-October, so i figured it’s out for me to start now as well)
2. Exercise Challenge: exercise for at least 20 minutes every day (this is my personal challenge)…so right now, I just did 1.3 miles on the treadmill; combination of walking/jogging/running to start my day off. 
3. Bible Challenge: read at least a chapter (any chapter) a day

i hope that…these two will, by the end, help me feel healthier and more active during the day and a little bit happier overall. 

edit: i added the Bible one last minute…could use a little more of God every day! fo’ sho.