kids, today's word is "ambiguous"

oy. i think i'm losing my "english" touch.

i've been trying to figure out this word that's been bugging me for the past couple of days now, and for the life of me, i couldn't remember it. and lately, with my mind being temporarily set on "brain-fart", i've been a little more "out of sorts" than normal.

the description i've been giving my fellow "english-oriented" friends was as follows:

"it's a word that starts with an 'a'... and it means something along the lines of 'going one way or another' ... (followed by an unsure pause) ... if it doesn't start with an 'a', it definitely starts with a vowel."

and finally, after a myriad of word choices from "equivocal" to "inconclusive"; and almost drawing to the point of believing that perhaps i may have conjured this word on my own, cristina was finally able to ease my troubled mind by hitting the jackpot with... "AMBIGUOUS" -- doh. 2 days later and one too many msn conversations later... yeesh.

but after all's been said and done, at least i managed to make cristina's day that much more... "amusing".

*sigh*

i find it rather funny how people - particularly english majors - have this wonderfully stubborn trait of refusing to be stumped by a word, and that they'll practically go to the ends of the earth to figure it all out before accepting defeat :oP

hmm... perhaps i should consider getting better better acquainted with my dictionary before school starts again in august. :oP

... and me without my camera!

driving home after work, traffic was unusually slow on the 403. i could see from a few kilometers away that a police car was taking up most if not all of the left shoulder, its lights frantically going on and off.

as trafiic finally picked up again and i was able to drive closer to the core of the traffic pause, i saw the procession - a grounded flock of 20+ canadian geese had seemed to have found their way on the 403 eastbound, and were attempting to waddle to safer ground; the police car trailing very closely behind, and escorting them through and guiding them away from oncoming traffic. amusing thing was that these geese appeared to know *exactly* what they were doing, and almost looked like they were intently strutting their goosey goodness on parade :oP - and rightly so, a very good reason to stop traffic. :oD

sometimes you can't help but smile at the comical moments life presents you with. :oP but what saddened me was that this was one photo-op i totally missed out on... poops!

and at the end of the day...

yay for girly tea parties avec des chapeaux drôles!
yay for charred meat shared among good people!

:o)

jubilant june

i woke up this morning to blue skies and sunshine :o) - lovin' it!


courtesy of jasiel :o)

last night, on a quest for seeking temporary escape from all things responsibility-oriented, i decided to take my friend jasiel on a post-weekend night on the town by attending the raul midón concert at the mod club downtown toronto. and though he didn't actually come onstage 'til about 9:30pm, our waiting time was nicely complemented by a couple of opening acts; some local soul/jazz artists who were quite pleasant to the ears and eyes. one of them was a gentlemen (whose name i didn't catch) who spoke with the loveliest british accent and did a fairly good rendition of "come together" by the beatles; and the following act was lori nuic, an up and coming soul artist whose voice i thought reminded me of somewhere in between joss stone and mariah carey... but the moment raul midón walked onstage and made that first strum on his acoustic, everything else before that just faded away - and once the rich sound from his vocal chords fell out of his mouth and into the microphone, it was more than the confirmation we needed that our waiting was certainly not in vain.

wonderful times, indeeed! then again, you can never really go wrong with great music and fatastic company to share it with - such a beautiful combination, really. :o)

note to self: this whole getting-out-of-the-house-more-often thing is something i could really see myself getting used to :o)