absolutum dominium

on sat, i went to cypress mountain to snowboard with ben. was the first time i was going to cypress. we had to take the 7.45am bus from burrard and 4th, and we reached cypress a little before 9am.

got our rentals, passes as well as lessons with a good hour to spare before lessons began, so we tried out boarding for tt hour or so. ben had never boarded before, but tt didn't stop him.

i finally learnt how to turn on sat. albeit really really sporadically and lousily. as always, my highlight of the day were the number of times i fell - on my butt, on my knees, face-first. you know, the usual. the stuff tt gets the snow into your jacket, gloves, pants, beanie etc. and makes your butt really uncomfortably wet. brr.

and it was so cold at cypress! base temp of apparently -11 degrees. and it had to snow. i thought snow would be good coz powder is ALWAYS good, but not when it just snows consistently, it's windy, and you are dealing with snow half the time and ice the other half. cold cold cold.

but yeah, post-lessons we took the chair lift a couple of times. and besides me consistently falling off the chair lift, we took on a few runs. tmd ben is better than me. his first day and he can already turn in both directions. i'm still trying to turn in one. BAH.

when the sky started darkening close to 6pm (yes. we were boarding for 8 hours, excluding lunch, coffee and cigarette breaks!) we took the lifts up to the panorama run. and then somewhere along the way, ben fell into a ravine. which was a horribly traumatic experience for him coz it was cold, he was alone off the trail, and it was sheer hell to get back up. besides the fact tt it was quite some fall and he'd lost all his cigarettes.

but it was all good, cold aside. we took the 7.15pm bus from cypress to lonsdale quay, wet and cold from the melted snow, esp the snow in our pants. brr. were severely famished, and i was developing a cough (i had been falling sick prior to cypress. but with cypress, i was no longer falling. just sick).

craving soup, we decided to brave more cold and travel to the end of robson st for korean hot pot. which was REALLY good, esp considering tt it could be our first meal (the first was half a burger each for lunch, which is quite insubstantial) of the day. hot pot with ham (luncheon meat), sausages, tofu, rice cake, mushrooms, onions, and tau gey in this kim chi based soup. YUM. i was so hungry and happy tt i just gobbled down everything tt i could. it really helped chase away the cold. for tt time in the restaurant, we were warm and happy.

until we went back out into the cold. and my cough came back. i bought a hot chocolate to warm my chest, which worked for a while, except tt in the end the chocolate served to irritate me further, such tt i spent the rest of the bus ride and walk back to totem hacking and coughing so much tt i couldn't even form a coherent sentence. tt wasn't fun. sigh.

and my body rejected the food too. argh.

beyond tt, i concussed at around 1am last night.

only to wake up past 2pm this morning with my legs aching something fierce, with aches in my arms and upper back... and with super huge orh ches from the boarding. my knees are 2 big orh ches, and my butt hurts when i sit down or laugh suddenly. bleah.

but today was rest day, fortunately. if you consider rushing your assignment due the next day and a project thingy due this very night restful.

nonetheless, i got both done by 9pm. met ben for dinner (but only coz i needed cough syrup and i'd realised to my horror, tt my dad *hadn't* packed cough syrup into my bag) at our 2nd fave hangout, and then went over to ka cheow diana. for almost 3 hours. wahaha.

the high and low note came when we ended up watching stupid videos regarding 2 chinese boys lip-syncing to cheesy bsb songs on her laptop.

and so it's 1.48am. and i think i ought to sleep. my cough is irritating the hell out of me. my neighbour actually asked me if i was choking.