Christmas is Approaching
You know when i finally realized this? When I was walking as part of the Santa Claus parade in Waterloo! Kitty's friend Rosalyn corralled me into getting up really early on sat to help give out candy to kids lined up along the parade route. I was part of the Engineering Society float...hard hats, dune buggy, race car and all. I was waking beside the float (actually a big flatbed MAC truck), but there were so many kids that i ran out of candy a quarter of the way through it. But it's warmer if you don't have to give out candy with your bare hands! On the whole, I think it would have been more enjoyable if it wasn't so damn cold. I really, really hate the cold...and it was plenty cold that morning...I froze my ass off for two hours walking on a very long parade route. I was still cold after drinking a burning soup... But at least it was nice to see so many families out to see Santa Claus.
My Electrical class doesn't have that much spirit. Although our ECE departmet spirit event was fairly successful at few weeks ago. I was helping out by manning the casino horse race game. It was set up as a casino night/Cove(ie free video games)/free pizza type of event, and a lot of people did show up...but i think it was mostly for the free pizza... I mean that's why i showed up last year! I had to leave early and go to my night class, but I had a lot of fun yelling out the all the winners and losers :) (and btw, that game makes tonnes of money....people really do lose a lot of money playing that game!) So watch out next time you're at the CNE.
But for our class event, one of our profs is a big soccer fan and wanted us to organized a class soccer game. So we did.
It was held this sat at the Columbia IceFields (an indoor gym other than the PAC) and i'd say about 30 people showed up! What a great turn out! But our guest of honour, Prof. Shahram Yousefi had some car trouble and wasn't able to show up....but at least our TA's made it to the game! I'm not a big soccer fan, but soccer is pretty fun, even if it is indoors. I even managed to score a goal! Actually my team was dominating...Edmond was in goal for our team and he had no shots on net....so he had a shutout....but he did stop a lot of passes and broke up a lot of plays. After the class went to a bar, but I had other plans...
It was Cynthia's bday party on saturday night! Went to Ennio's, the pasta house...again! We had reservations for 8:30, which is pretty late to start dinner, but more on that in a bit. Cynthia had a very big gathering of about 24 people! What a popular girl! And another thing - they were all guys!!! Except for Kitty, my gf, the rest were guys from Comp/Elec and CS. Whanger had baked a cake for Cynthia and it turned out really good...I think Kitty has some ideas in her head now...because her bday is coming up at the end of this month (but i can't bake!!!). Anyway, we stayed there really late...so late in fact that all the other customers had left. Around 11PM, the waitress came in and completely cleared all the tables. And then we saw the light dim a bit. We were all joking around about when and how they would kick us out. We joked that we would leave when the vacuum cleaner came. Finally when 11:30 rolled around the waitress came in and asked us nicely to leave. Yup, so we got kicked out of a restaurant.
--Nelson
You know when i finally realized this? When I was walking as part of the Santa Claus parade in Waterloo! Kitty's friend Rosalyn corralled me into getting up really early on sat to help give out candy to kids lined up along the parade route. I was part of the Engineering Society float...hard hats, dune buggy, race car and all. I was waking beside the float (actually a big flatbed MAC truck), but there were so many kids that i ran out of candy a quarter of the way through it. But it's warmer if you don't have to give out candy with your bare hands! On the whole, I think it would have been more enjoyable if it wasn't so damn cold. I really, really hate the cold...and it was plenty cold that morning...I froze my ass off for two hours walking on a very long parade route. I was still cold after drinking a burning soup... But at least it was nice to see so many families out to see Santa Claus.
My Electrical class doesn't have that much spirit. Although our ECE departmet spirit event was fairly successful at few weeks ago. I was helping out by manning the casino horse race game. It was set up as a casino night/Cove(ie free video games)/free pizza type of event, and a lot of people did show up...but i think it was mostly for the free pizza... I mean that's why i showed up last year! I had to leave early and go to my night class, but I had a lot of fun yelling out the all the winners and losers :) (and btw, that game makes tonnes of money....people really do lose a lot of money playing that game!) So watch out next time you're at the CNE.
But for our class event, one of our profs is a big soccer fan and wanted us to organized a class soccer game. So we did.
It was held this sat at the Columbia IceFields (an indoor gym other than the PAC) and i'd say about 30 people showed up! What a great turn out! But our guest of honour, Prof. Shahram Yousefi had some car trouble and wasn't able to show up....but at least our TA's made it to the game! I'm not a big soccer fan, but soccer is pretty fun, even if it is indoors. I even managed to score a goal! Actually my team was dominating...Edmond was in goal for our team and he had no shots on net....so he had a shutout....but he did stop a lot of passes and broke up a lot of plays. After the class went to a bar, but I had other plans...
It was Cynthia's bday party on saturday night! Went to Ennio's, the pasta house...again! We had reservations for 8:30, which is pretty late to start dinner, but more on that in a bit. Cynthia had a very big gathering of about 24 people! What a popular girl! And another thing - they were all guys!!! Except for Kitty, my gf, the rest were guys from Comp/Elec and CS. Whanger had baked a cake for Cynthia and it turned out really good...I think Kitty has some ideas in her head now...because her bday is coming up at the end of this month (but i can't bake!!!). Anyway, we stayed there really late...so late in fact that all the other customers had left. Around 11PM, the waitress came in and completely cleared all the tables. And then we saw the light dim a bit. We were all joking around about when and how they would kick us out. We joked that we would leave when the vacuum cleaner came. Finally when 11:30 rolled around the waitress came in and asked us nicely to leave. Yup, so we got kicked out of a restaurant.
--Nelson
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