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Sunday, March 04, 2007

[ late night talk shows ]

I'm pretty sure you've watched an episode or two of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Nothing, haha. It's just that I like the ads thing where Jay shows classifieds which have somehow mutated into knee-slapping articles people love to laugh at. It's funny. Plus the guests aren't duds, either.

Today wasn't a special day, but it's been a long time since I went to ATC with my mom, my dad and my sisters. I was starting to miss our old Saturday routine (which happened only on account of my going to Kumon). So yesterday I begged my mom to take us there. And today we did.

While my parents were out booking flights at a travel agency somewhere in ATC and Arielle was at a group practice in BF Park, my other sister Nadine and I stayed at Powerbooks. Mom had left three books about Canada and I got intrigued by the cover pictures, so I picked them up and started reading. You know how I am. Well, as you might have expected from reading tour books like I did, I learned a lot about the country we're going to, and specifically about the Toronto area. There was Yonge Street, which is the longest street in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, and the CN Tower, which was originally built for broadcasting and turned out to be a major tourist attraction. I also saw pictures of Vancouver (my cousin left yesterday and they're staying there for a week before flying to Toronto), and Nova Scotia, which is the next best place to visit if you don't have the money to go to Scotland.



CN Tower / Part of Yonge Street

It hasn't yet become real to me that we're actually leaving. I'm supposed to expect euphoria once we get there. Then disenchantment. Then acceptance. Then something else (I can't remember what). These are the stages of when you move someplace new. I don't think I want to get disenchanted. Or homesick. Or both. I hope I don't.

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

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