blogONEToday was quite an epic day, since some of us elementary school kids met up and hung-out for the entire day. Our story truly begins when Jermaine, Peter and I met up to take the 95 to Ellesmere and Birchmount in order to have our Pizza Hut buffet lunch. Of course, being with me…we got there early — perhaps TOO early, so we decided to walk to a Home Depot and venture around the MODEL KITCHEN area. And so we did that, and an idea came up for “Cooking For Success”, which would definitely get us in trouble with law authorities of some sort…
We began to notice the time dwindling closer to 11:30, and began our journey back to Pizza Hut, when Hari called me to figure where we were. He valiantly drove to Home Depot to pick us up…but got into another entrance and had me chasing his car for 5 minutes until he finally parked his car.
Once in Pizza Hut, we began our epic food journey (beginning at 11:30) and slowly, one-by-one (or in Andy and Andrew’s case…two-at-once) our compadres began to flow in. We all thought Vivek wasn’t going to make it (to the meet-up), but its damn good that he did! We continued to “Eat, Laugh and Share” (that is Pizza Hut Canada’s slogan, ironically), but were constantly getting displeased looks from the manager and the staff. We paid, and loitered in the foyer for around 15 minutes, when we were finally kicked out. Upon this, we loitered and laughed and reminisced in the parking lot, catching pneumonia, for another 15-20 minutes. In the end, we headed back to Vivek’s place for some hot Wii action at the time known as 1:30pm. My only comment towards the hot Wii action is that using the lightguns actually hurt after a while, or just in my case, since my arm positioning was awkward…haha, GG Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.
When our party was finally complete, and after a few phone calls…we headed out to the somewhat-borderline-more-likely-probably ghetto STC to mission down to the Eaton Centre. It was here that I randomly bumped into a friend: John Hou, whom also helped out at CLBC VBS. Off at Bloor-Yonge to get ma monies…and then rendezvous with Andy again. While on the train there, random meet-up 2: Rex Chan from church, heading to the Sheridan for C4C’s winter conference. It appears that we went to the Eaton Centre to do something we could not accomplish in Scarborough: go to Best Buy. After giving up on Best Buy, we went exploring a bit (just a bit, because too much would be death), and then decided we’d do something unimaginable…
…go watch a movie. AT THE PARAMOUNT (now renamed to Scotia Theatre). But before we did that, we headed to the Apple Store for my first visit. To be truthful, it was just as I expected it, to be modern and chic…but I also felt very sick inside the store, because it was spewing commercialism and capitalism in all its square footage. Yes, despite being on the same floor as all the other high-end, expensive stores, I felt sick in the “almighty” Apple Store. Like Andy said,
What gives, there’s not a single apple in here!
Now, mark random meet-ups 3, 4, and 5: my cousin Kristy, whom I did not shout and say hi to; Nurse Connie Yang, from TC; and Mary Tam, also from TC. Unfortunately for Mary, she dropped her laptop, and needed to get it fixed, but she was also in town for the winter conference for C4C.
After much deliberation, we agreed upon watching THE GOLDEN COMPASS (since at least ONE person saw everything else in the theatre and did NOT want to watch it again). It was supposed to be a PG movie (especially since there’s hella violence), but hands-down…the minds of myself and the others turned it into PG13+++. Nobody expects kids to have their mind in the gutter when the polar bear asks the girl if she wants to ride him, but lo-and-behold…we exploded in laughter; we were the only ones laughing in the theatre…hahaha. Horrible, yes. By the way, there’s going to be a second, third, fourth, x-th sequel…since they’re all adaptations of the book series (ie. Harry Potter, LOTR), but yeah…we’re all rooting for more polar bear death and epic mis-interpretations in the future films.
Question: “What kind of Indian food place doesn’t really sell Indian food?”
Answer: The place across the pizza place in Queen’s Market.
It was definitely a good day (and night) of laughs and memories. Epic. Truly Epic.