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Friday, April 28th, 2006
7:34 pm	big in japoland im in the middle of nowhere in poland, on a month-long vacation with my nuclear family. we're visiting relatives and exploring bits of the motherland ive never seen. i forgot how awesome my overseas family is. but anyway, LEAVE ME YOUR ADDRESS (or email it to pleasetravel@gmail.com) and i'll send you a postcard, even if i dont know you. promise. (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
12:02 pm	right. so, about two months ago i drove down with my buddie(tte)s lindzy, fergus and erik to key west. since i dont remember enough of it to fill a written update, and the fact that im a trip photo whore, im just going to post the following puppies ( west keys on ma jet skiis ) (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
2:18 am	i dont know why i keep posting these summer pictures; im a shmuck. anyway. im starting to learn that, generally, things happen only if you make them. for some reason, i always thought i was more awesome than everyone else, and that crap would just work itself out perfectly for me - i would just have to go with the flow, and every life fantasy would eventually be fulfilled. i learned this lesson last week when i had to run my ass off to catch a bus back home. i was surprised that it didnt magically wait for me, and that i had to hussle to get it. i learn really simple lessons from really stupid things. i think this post had to do with med school and life plans. i really need to get in gear and start working harder. im stubborn, and even though it happens to practically no one, i still think ill land some really non-conventional career of traveling around the world, helping out with foreign aid, having a sweet saab, and get lost in some crazy love world with my wife ... without the smallest inch of effort. tonight im staying in to read about bugs in the environment, and ace some quizzes. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
2:46 am	i had a really, really awesome summer. ive gathered a library of photos from the summer and last semester. and its a little lame, but i can sit on my compy in the evenings, and just scroll and scroll through them. ... and get those heavy 'man, life is sweet' sighs. it feels like im in some golden age or something. everything's deep, everything flows, and everything's fine. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 26th, 2005
3:44 pm	oookay. before i talk about anything else, here is the really late mehico entry. actually, im not going to talk about anything else in respect to this trip's gargantuan impact on everything. two guys, two girls and a purple van. we left the brampton go station and began driving. thinking back to the starting moments, it was seemed so matter-of-fact that we were just driving down to somewhere along the east coast of mexico, without any real plans. i had been planning and thinking about the trip for two months prior. aaaand, im still thinking about it, a month later. ill be honest and say i was super uptight during the first few days; things weren't going exactly according to what i had envisioned, and i realized im a stupid baby. but, the third night when we drove onto that calm beach, with the salty ocean breezing and crashing in the dark, everyone's pissiness(read: mine) dissolved. holy crap, that night was intense. it was completely dark, with the sound of waves crashing all around you. we set up our tent, took off our clothes (most of us) and walked into ocean. it was the strangest mix of feeling like your insides were going to explode with excitement and joy, and this surreal, transcending serenity of all sitting in the shallow waves and simply being extensions of the night. siiigh. the next five days were spent in mexico. first impressions crossing the border were not good. petty 'salesmen' weaving through stop-light traffic and demanding money, crazy driving, run-down buildings, giant, smelly puddles everywhere. we stopped at a money exchange place. the inside smelled like raw sewage, and one of the women behind the desk had a bandage over half of her face, and the other half was caved in. like complete tourists, we constantly thought everyone was going to mug us, steal our car or stab us. even when we stopped at the walmart for a breather, no one spoke english and the phones barely worked. although i was peeled to the window the whole time with interest, we were all really scared. its hard to explain ... i guess it can just be summed up as culture shock. buuut we got the hang of spanish, sorted out our official document problems, and realized that we are paranoid tourists. everyone we encountered down there was more than willing to help, and laughed along with us at our shitty spanish. people are people. when you finally open up and let yourself go, you realize how beautiful every single aspect of that country is. along with driving onto the beach at night on the texan coast, the other overwhelming moment was crossing the tropic of cancer. the sign came out of nowhere. we all saw it, started shouting and pointing, and paul squeeled the van onto the shoulder. before we came to a stop, i was opening my door to jump out and indulge my senses. my brain had an orgasm; krysta and i began hurling out laughs that wouldnt stop, and later all i could do was walk around on the road in amazement repeating 'holy crap, holy crap'. we were in a valley, with mountains all around us, sun like youve never seen, and just perfect postcard beauty. it was like eden. mountains all around us, lush semi-tropical forest everywhere, and we were sided on the shoulder of a long strip of calm, quiet, highway in the middle of all this. our most southern destination was tampico - about 7 hours south from the us/mex. border. i was thinking we'd drive onto secluded, emerald beaches and eat bananas. in fact, it was a little crowded and really dirty. garbage all over the place. still, it was amazing. the water was so exotically warm, with shells and crabs running amok. giant straw parasols lined miles of the beach and we spent a full day lounging around and taking in the experience. along the beach were little markets and incredible eateries. we stuffed ourselves with crab, beef and tequila. everyting was so authentic and ... and just freakin' right. our only worries were how to get back from the beach onto the long, entrancing stretches of highway. highways through cacti forests and mountains! holy crap holy crap. our route back through mexico took us through cuidad victoria. it was the first real rest we had. it was an old, gorgeous city at which we arrived after dusk. students and marketplaces were buzzing around, creating a warm stir. we spent the night at an old victorian-looking hotel with marble stairs and chandeliers; it came to $12US each. incredible! we all picked up sweet scenester ranchero belts at the market, and crammed gourmet tacos down our throats in the royal saloon at the hotel. most nights we stayed at hotels, and none were more than $10-12 each. half the fun was staying in those and entertaining each other. r is for rotisserie. u is for undermines my authority. family roadtrip bonding was a huge part of the chemistry. spendig so much time together in our 'bubble of canada', darting across mexico and having all those firsts together (yea, even those ... but not really) was suuuch an connecting experience. siiiigh. we all took turns getting annoyed, but i was the king. the last two days in mexico were pretty much spent driving back towards the border. we'd stop at hotels and see the cities a bit, and it was still a beautiful drive. we took a route closer to the interior of the country, so mountains were looming everywhere. im definitely going back sometime soon. we only explored a small corner of the country, and it has so much more depth and culture to get into. everyone felt a lot more clear afer the trip, y'know, that whole breath of relief feeling. slumps disappear on trips like this. these are a fraction of the pics i took. krysta has more that i havent seen, greer has yet to develop her slr, and paul's editing the videos he took. mehico party soon! soooolid. l is for likes to be in the sun. p is for prefers to be nice. 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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
4:01 pm	i bought a real journal to keep track of some thoughts and stuff, and instead, im starting to update this with shallow weekend recaps and pictures. so, um, here's another - i drove down to paul's friday to jam/chill, then sunday drove up to seb's in toronto. we planned a little get-together; everyone cancelled. then everyone uncancelled ... after i made a friendshipfun spell. ( thank you, sweet little minicam ) oh yea, i went to a wake last night for the first time. it was for our neighbour. i wasnt super close with her or anything, but it was definitely a shock, and im still not sure how i feel. makes you wonder about some things. i was in a weird mood after, so i went to the library and checked out some books on philosophy and consciousness. i think my mind/brain have been more expanded and stretched this summer than ever before ... im like a beaming lighthouse of enlightenment. but seriously, im also more muddled than ever before. mind is not brain! (21 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
4:30 pm	aight, so this kind of sucks; rescue played a show in burlington three nights ago, and i had no idea about it. i thought they were breaking up or something, and then out of nowhere comes a string of southern ontario dates. what? this is similar to that time, two summers ago, when mars volta first came to canada and i was obsessed with them. i went to toronto the day of to find tickets, but they were either sold out or the scalpers were pricks. i swear, i was in a slump for the next 5 days. but i got to meet the omar guy, and stuttered/sweated up a storm just from shaking his hand. what else is new? ill tell you. i went camping a couple weekends ago, and it was awesome. maybe ill find some pics to post. ive had a couple open mics, and theyve been awesome as well. thanks again to everyone who showed up! you guys took up half the bar. oh yea, last week. last week i was in a mini mental breakdown/restlessly reflective/confused state, then had a talk with youknowwhoyouare, and surprisingly cleared/cleaned a lot of things from my head. later, this past weekend, i found that life spark or whatever and felt super good; friday night, i drove seb and i down to hamilton to hang out with my cousin. alyssa joined us, we all went to see final fantasy and the great lake swimmers, and then walked around hess afterwards. my cousin's awesome, my friends are awesome, and the show was REALLY awesome for some reason. the bands were great, the vibe was really good, and ... i dunno. saturday, i hung around with seb and bought a bunch of things to feed my artsy/sparky mood. now i feel a lot more artsy and sparky ... and good. sunday night i missed rescue, and now feel like an idiot. yay for feelings. (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
9:38 pm	my birthday's coming up. last weekend was fun. well, all my weekends this summer have been full of stuff. im trying to get out and away as much as possible, and just live. saw seb, went to christine's party, and drove down to paul's for the remainder of the weekend to jam. his farm is awesome. we have a music room, and our band is totally sweet. my birthday's coming up. enough about me - here's some pictures of me, and others. (  totally sweet  ) my birthday's coming up, and my parents are my best friends. Current Music: casket lottery (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
5:01 pm	it feels a little weird to be back. after leaving for 8 days with 3 friends, and spending 9218374 hours with them, with complete freedom, and on the road, its almost like a downgrade to be back at home. the trip was amazing. the weather was great, the scenery and beaches were beautiful, and the people we met were so welcoming and awesome. we left last last friday afternoon, right after my friend laura's exam and brought along the hitchiker, who we dropped off in windsor for some gas money. we took our time on the way down, which lapsed two days, and stopped off in nashville, some places in ohio and kentucky. our first night we slept in the car, and arrived in mobile (big city in alabama, on the gulf of mexico bay) on the second night. we camped out on an island in the gulf for three nights, and then headed out to new orleans for a day. we met some awesome southerners while on the island, who took us fishing and fed us proper meals of buckets of crawfish. new orleans was beautiful; the city had a european feel to it, and was super vibrant and full of people and colours and everything. i cant do the trip justice ... the above is really condensed, and im rushing through it so i can put up some of the pics. ( aaalabama ) important people, check your mailboxes. "somewhere along the line I know there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line a pearl would be handed to me" (21 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 8th, 2005
9:02 pm	holy crap, im almost in third year. im getting old waaay too fast. anyway, so we're planning a roadtrip to slow down time. joe gets ready for some gulf of mexico love. luke gets ready for the backstreet boys in concert. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 4th, 2005
12:50 am	baaahaha, this is awesome. you're all next. (25 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
8:20 pm	so, the days are getting brighter for the most part. i've been on a snowboarding kick recently. i went twice this past weekend, going to montreal on thursday, and planning on a trip to vermont in march. ( glen eden ) the eastern front is up and running, sort of. im recruiting any musician-y friends to jam with me at open mics, and adopt crew alias'. morda morda. if you want to hear it, call me and ill sing over the phone. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
6:30 pm	" ... and the award for the most difficult and unbearable time in life goes to lukasz aleksandrowicz" oh wow; holy crap. with all the suffering, hunger, loneliness, corruption and misery on the globe in the past while, im surprised im getting this award. thank you's, first and foremost, surprisingly go out to my family; dariusz, mom, dad. thanks also to any friends i still talk to and actually connect with. thank you sleep, for helping me not be awake. thank you stomach, for keeping me alive on limited food intake. thanks hayden and some others on my playlist. thanks for memories of bunnies, scrabble, cookie, b&b's, cuddling, being snobby and picky to no end, yet fully adoring each other. thanks to camping, ~*~magic~*~, being in-tune, wions and speedy ladies. thanks to gifts and trips, drives, best friends and an awesome family i couldnt reciprocate at the time. thanks for missing, caring and supporting, teaching and the showing of a better, more wholesome life. also, thank you yearbook and fairy tale beginnings. no thanks to emptiness and depression; you both suck. deep and really sincere apologies extended to screwing things up, emotional/personal upheaval/pain i caused, and any idealism i dissipated (which i think ive been infused with recently. welcome home.) :( (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
10:50 am	the trip to florida was awesome, thanks to the amazing ashley elliott. ( portugese attack! ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 29th, 2004
2:58 pm	fixed. ive been up to some things recently, ( namely ...  ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 25th, 2004
11:35 pm	relationship advice "uhh ... dont show any emotions, and dress really good." (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 2nd, 2004
1:12 pm	im sitting at work, just recently returned from lunch with ashley. she's awesome; she came up to visit me, and brought me a whole buffet! we had opposite days off (her today, i yesterday), so we did the ol' lunch-visiting-switcharoo. yeee, and tonight we're off to the strawberry fields. band is up and good. we recorded some crude demos in timbo's basement, and i have a name for the band - after i ask permission from the other kids. we still need a bassist though. al;sgdjf;alsdjf. just one show this summer. that's all im asking for. oh yea ... biking is awesome. im really starting to get into it recently. im starting a mountain bikingclub; everyone's invited to come and get your butt toned. hah. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 10th, 2004
6:24 am	holy crap. im going to be up this early everyday for the rest of the summer. Current Mood: sleepy (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 27th, 2004
12:10 am	ahhh, this weekend is going to rule! a lot. so i got a retarded forward today. i usually dont care about them, but this one was especially retarded. it went something along the lines of "gas prices are going up. let's be smart consumers, and manipulate the fuel companies so they'll lower their gas prices, thereby letting us drive our cars more. for longer. and faster. and then we'll be happy" ... but in a "we're so smart and socially aware" context. ?! no. you're dumb. and backwards. Current Music: murder city devils - i want a lot now (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
10:11 pm	woo ... i think im picking up a new guitar. well, its used. but sorta new. and new to me. alright, so the house plans aren't working out as well as they i thought they would. three people dropped out, and now joe and i need to fill two spots in our house. any takers? who remembers grade ten? ... 'cause i dont. ( history ) Current Music: small brown bike (7 Comments |Comment on this)