...after much consideration i have decided to use http://helihello.wordpress.com as my primary blog (and blog archive of all my blog entries, keep reading for more details on this, haha).

this blogspot was indeed my first blog (starting on august 14, 2002).  since i am a dorky individual (who sometimes clings to nostalgia somewhat too firmly) and does not want to let go of my interweb past, i have not completely eradicated all traces of this blog...instead in the fall of 2011 my project became consolidating my blogs into one place [i have tried my hand at this blog thing on 3 different blogging platforms (blogger, windows live spaces & livejournal) since 2002].

long story short...on december 31, 2011 the wordpress based “the uncanny dorkiness of it all (revamped edition)” was officially (re)launched (with a complete archive of my past blogs uploaded).

in my NEW blog's pages you will not only be able to read a decades worth of interweb musings, but from here on out you will have a one stop (blog) shop to be informed about my various (mis)adventures, and have the opportunity to share in my observations about life and culture, and whatever other randomness inspires me to put fingers to keyboard.

with that, i bid blogspot goodbye, see you on wordpress and happy reading.

hugs and bisous,

-erika ;o)

Hello,

I am an avid fan of Harry Potter, a fact that some might find is a sad cry for help for someone my age, but for me is something I choose (and if you are a fellow potterphile you will share my feelings) to think of as a good thing...As such this post includes a countdown to the release Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (July 16, 2005 a date that is near and dear to my heart for reasons friends and family should be familiar with).



Laters,
Erika ;)

Erika’s 100 (actually 101 see number 13) Favourite Films:

So here is my list of favourite films that I have seen to date (i.e. Jan 25, 2004). I have tried to rank my favourite movies (up until 30, because I was given an example of a list from someone else [you know who you are, cough] that had that many. 30 is really an arbitrary number. I had difficulties ranking w/in this limit). This list is by no means a statement that these are the best movies ever made (cause they’re not; that would be a far different list…honestly as if a movie like Ever After is a cinematic masterpiece). What this list is, is a list of ‘my’ 100 (or 101) favourite films (not just movies I enjoyed watching). There are more than a hundred of films that I like (to some capacity or degree). To close this rambling introduction, the following 30 films are ranked by my personal preference of them (right now…let’s face it in thirty years this list will probably change) and the other 60 were also preferential and just as hard to narrow down.

1. The Godfather
2. Fight Club
3. Moulin Rouge
4. Can’t Hardly Wait
5. Aladdin
6. The Breakfast Club
7. Grease
8. The Lion King
9. Citizen Kane
10. The Full Monty
11. Ocean’s Eleven
12. Mary Poppins
13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
14. The Graduate
15. Forrest Gump
16. Dirty Dancing
17. Robin Hood Men in Tights
18. The Wedding Singer
19. Ever After
20. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
21. Les Invasion Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)
22. The Ten Commandments
23. Beetlejuice
24. Shrek
25. Dazed and Confused
26. American History X
27. The Virgin Suicides
28. Billy Elliot
29. Being John Malkovich
30. The Sound of Music

The following are the rest of my favourite films that didn’t quite make the list (31-100 listed in no particular order, because it was hard enough to rank 30):

N.B. I have tried to limit myself to a list of 100 [including the top 30] because after a while it gets superfluous…Trust me you do not want me to list all the films that I find enjoyable because I watch (and have watched) a lot of movies.

Lost In Translation
The Empire Strikes Back
Bring it On
Mean Girls
Star Wars: A New Hope
Ferris Buller’s Day Off
It Happened One Night
Bonnie And Clyde
Back to the Future
The Aviator
Catch Me If You Can
Ghostbusters
Edward Scissorhands
West Side Story
Death to Smoochy
Dogma
Home Alone
The Waterboy
Kill Bill Vol.2
ET: the Extra-teresstrial
Love Actually
Braveheart
The Godfather Part II
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Down With Love
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Some Like it Hot
Hackers
The Faculty
Almost Famous
The Truman Show
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Never Been Kissed
Dead Poet’s Society
The Addams Family
10 Things I Hate About You
The Lost Boys
Big
Risky Business
Hook
The Little Mermaid
That Thing You Do!
Batman Returns
High Fidelity
Old School
The Usual Suspects
Bollywood Hollywood
Animal House
Casblanca
Groundhog Day
A Walk to Remember
The School of Rock
Center Stage
Sixteen Candles
Fiddler on the Roof
My Girl
The Princess Diaries
The Parent Trap (the original)
Boggie Nights
3 Men and a Baby
Blue Crush
The Debut
My American Cousin
Igby Goes Down
The Matrix
Clueless (*this is an updated entry: as of Jan 31 Rushmore [which previously occupied this place on the random others list] has been pushed of the the top 100 because I completely didn't remember to include this teen classic at the time of conception of the list...my bad)
Love Story
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Men With Brooms
Legally Blonde

Laters,

-Erika ;)

A Blogspot Test:

Well first of all I figure that no one reads this. As I am completely clueless when it comes to more complex computer activities (and therefore do not know how to include a guestbook on this site since they changed the format) I thought I would put out a challenge to see if anyone actually reads my msn profile (was led to this website) and went on to read my crazy ramblings (as of late). Oh my....I am a rambler. Anyways if you for whatever reason visits my blog and reads this entry (and perhaps the previous ones as well) e-mail me at helihello@hotmail.com. I don't care if you visited my site randomly, or if for some reason I am on your MSN list, you hate (or are just acquainted with me) and thought you would explore my profile to see what a pathetic loser I am.... So who ever you are out there (I shudder in hope I am not creating an opening for psychotic megalomaniacs to contact me), e-mail me if you visit here and read this post. I don't care if you read this 3 years from the post date or if you read this entry right know. Just let me know, cause for whatever your reason you took time out of your day to read my ramblings....and that my friends (or random reader) is news to me.

Laters,
-eRiKa ;)

Happy 2005 (to the people out there who for one reason or another actually read this entry),

So I am back at school once again, Christmas is over... And a new year is here. So what have a been up to since the summer (I don't really update this blog enough do I? What did I say in may last entry something on the lines of not wanting to promise more frequent entries because the next thing I know it will be 2005. Jesus Christ, I am psychic, lol). Well nothing life changing has occurred (persay, although I endured one of the most dramatic episodes of my life this past November courtesy of my Tatay [as usual], but I haven't done anything myself that is super major). None the less I have had some fun times and created some good memories. I have some great friends and a great family, so there is a lot about 2004 since the summer that should be remembered. I am still as confused about life as ever, but I seem to be finding my strengths. I am beginning to learn what I want from life, what I think I am good at and enjoy in the everyday.

Second year of University, eh... I seem to think about my future a lot. I mean there are still a lot of things I need to get a handle on and I have to decide what I am going to major in by the end of April. I need to start motivating myself to do things, to take those risks and deal with the "fish of the day". If you have seen my room in all of its cleanliness you will notice just how damn anal retentive I am, I need to start transferring that organization savvy into the day to day. All my life people have been telling me that I am a bright creative person (hell I tell myself that all the time), but I don't think I really believe it. Perhaps, all this procrastination and the like is just a reflection of my insecurities and my fear of failing at something I am passionate about. I have never had a calling (well if I have had one I am just to much of a dork to follow it). I have just done things that make my life simple, I don't take that extra unexpected step. Am I complacent? Yes, and that freaks me out. Will I be 35 sitting on the couch watching TV, with no significant other and a stupid desk job. I fucking hope not...

This leads to me and what I hope to accomplish (it's now or never, lol). I don't want to set specific goals for myself because that is just not my style, its too keener for me. I may be a dork, but I sincerely hope I have some chicness somewhere in there. I just want to try a little harder and maybe focus on things, instead of doing the least amount of work in life and getting average results. People tell me I can do it, here's to starting to believe in those statements (cheers!).

As for the rest of life. Going home this past Christmas has lead me to solidify a few conclusions. One I am a different person than I was in high school, two it isn't the same place that I grew up in. Well it's the same place, but I doesn't feel the same. It's still my home, but I am not up with the town goss, I am disconnected the friends I had in high school. They have there lives and I have mine (at the UBC). I still have my good friends that will always be there (you know who you are), but there are some people I haven't really talked to since I left. That is ok, life happens you move on, you grow. But these people from the past will always be part of my life, someday I will go home and see them. We will go have a drink and forget about all the years we haven't talked and remember simpler times. So people might not want to talk to me anymore (right now), its up to them I hope the are happy whatever they are doing.

I want to just be a happy person. Not that I am not happy (cause I am damnit!), but I want to figure out what I want to do, quit talking about it and actually do it. [Be the best Kakang I can be, lol.] As a wise woman who happens to be very close to me has been saying for the last couple of months..."DON'T COMPLAIN, DON'T EXPLAIN". Life will move on and whether or not you are happy with it is up to you. Don't dwell on the past, so here is to a happy and life epiphany full 2005. All the best, for you and for me....

-Erika ;)

P.S. This entry isn't up to my usual comedic standards. I will try to rectify this problem in the future. Maybe this will help a quote, as someone (my former wife and ex-roommate Kate) just reminded me: "Never deny yourself the pleasure of going pee." As far as the life lessons I am trying to learn this year. This one will always take the cake, it's basic, simple and just damn freaking true. Laters, y'all....

So what is new in my life.  I haven't had anything life changing happen to me and I am still living a pretty simple teenage life.  But things go on and there is always something to ramble on about and my blog is the perfect place to do it, eventhough i barely ever do, haha.  I realize no one prolly reads this.  Well that is alright but if you do I hope my rambles are somewhat uncanny and amusing.  For if they are I am doing my job, or am I?

It's July and I am 19, I can't believe I am this old.  My birthday went great had a classic filipino feast and then spent the day in Grande Prarie with the girls...I also bought my first official lotto ticket in BC and won ten bucks, talk about luck of the draw (insert sarcastic laughter here).  And with over a month left in summer I can now say that my summer job is somewhat boring (althought it will be a memorable job and time in my life from now on, lol), but alas its a paycheque. 

 
I am getting anticipatory (i realize this isn't really a word, but is that really relevant to the situation?)  for school, the new setting of ritz-ubc should be interesting, and hopefully something happens and places open up in the full film classes that i desperately need.  
 
Also I have a new phase obsession thanks to Christina and Terrisita via Saved by the Bell DVDs.  After all the gloom and violence that was my Godfather/mafia genre phase, its good to get back to the simpler things in life.  The tube dresses and cheesy story lines and my first TV character/actor crush (which brings me back to the summer that I was 7 years old) Zach Morris/Mark-Paul Gosselaar.  Saved by the Bell is quintessential late 80's early 90's pop culture and good times.  Gotta love it!  Cause it's Saved by the Bell!
 
I think its good to go through little obssesions once in a while.  It makes you have something to think about and is a good way to fill up time in those boring summer days.  It's a hobby and makes it easy to build up a gallery of pointless references to use in future conversation. 
 
So yeah that is it.... for now perhaps i will right more often, but I won't promise it.  For if I do the next thing you know it's 2005 and I haven't written diddlysquat.   Happy Trails Y'all.
 
Laters,
erika ;) 

AH the life of the university student.....a.ka. me and all the rest of you (you know who you are) out there. I felt like i should really write on this silly webpage....sure no one reads it, but i should at least try to post something. Also as a first year student i should always be in pursuit of new procrastination techniques, and posting something on my website seems like a plan. So what has happened since this summer, when i last posted? I turned 18 which would be exicting had I lived in Alberta. And I worked, and attended the fall fair as per usual. As well I started university, UBC is the place to be and it's right by the sea (rhyming, hehe). It's weird already being here, it seems like yesterday I was walking through the mismatched halls of SPSS, and now there is one more week of class before finals. I only have one final, thanks to arts one and geography being one year classes...I am such a slacker. Besides school though...I live in this place called 5th Shuswap in Totem Park, go REDS (not any affliation with the colour of the UBC engineers, cause bigger is better arts kicks ass....i am going to get hassled for the preceeding comment). Life here is interesting to say the least I could write for hours about how the last 3 months have been, but I shall try to some it up in a few headings:

-'The English' are hilarious (even more so when in groups and trying to skate).
-Roomates are great when they are Kate, (p.s. what's with the peanuts and milk, and bowls of cottage cheese)?
-Katie (not Kate mentioned above) is cute and fairy-like, even though she won't admit to it because she hates being called cute.
-U-Passes are great for random shopping impluses after classes
-The import, and the jock are the queens of Buckingham.
-Glouberman is the king of the one shirt a week-ness....(its still gross, eww)
-Regular movie watching is necessary.

more to come.....

Later,
eRiKa ;o)

So yeah its been like forever and a day since I posted anything new. A whole school year has been had and I am older, gosh almost 18, july 16th baby. So much has happened, to me, to my friends, to the world...or I think a lot has happened. Alrighty, so what has happened since I last told the world (yeah the internet isn't the whole world, since not everyone has it, but it is called the worldwideweb, eh....yes eh I am canadian by birth right...i am really off track..back to what i was saying) what's on my mind? A lot really happened to me. I went to the T dot (a weird thing to call Toronto in my honest opinion) in October of last year, we had christmas, then I went to Vancouver in March for spring break....the rest of the time was spent completing the Grade 12 in Dawson Creek, working the coffee/donut industry as a Timmy ho (I really need to get a new job), how exicting. Also GRAD 2003 happened recently, which really was all it was cracked up to be, who knew?

Grad was great some advice to future SPSS, and other high school grads:
1. females were flat shoes, heels look great, but they also hurt like a bitch after a night of dancing and standing for pictures
2. males learn how to dance the spaztic seisuresque movements are memorable, but the ladies like men who can dance....wait it doesn't really matter if you learn who to dance as long as you actually dance with the girl you bring instead of making excuses....dancing even bad dancing is good fun.
3. for both sexes, never underestimate the power of a certain clear, judgement clouding, amusing liquid beverage. Because it my cause you to do and say things that are funny, but quite embarassing (i am thinking of fountains, angels, gravel and stairs....yes you should be confused I am rambling)

Continuing on so I am out of school and set up to have a great summer....lets just hope my parents really to take there little vacation in a few...then off the UBC...I think i may start actually writing in this so-called blog*spot more often....oh well. It's getting a little late...so it's time to be bookin' em danno....

Later,
eRiKa ;o)

.....whoa the pain whoa the pain of it all, "Walking" the silent bringer of pain. Most of the world is unaware of the earth shattering pain that walking can bring to those who aren't careful. I am here to tell you "watch out" you could be headed to work at
Tim Hortons first thing in the morning "walking" and find yourself slipping on the stairs and unable to bend or move. That was what happened to me this morning and now i can't bend or sit for too long. Walking isn' the innocent action that you all know. Ignorance to this fact is how people find themselves braking something or hurting themeselves "Walking". It is the most common cause of accident its not as innocent as you think "be aware" before you stand up and take that first step....

The 5 most common accidents related to walking (These are true things that have happened to me on several occasions):
5. Being hit in the head by projectiles such as frisbees or large rocks (while walking is not solely responsible for this one it plays its part as one of the factors)
4.Tripping on the side of your foot (not over something). Your own feet could cause you to fall and twist your ankle so watch out!
3. Walking into a walls, doorknobs or other obstructions (You may think this is silly, but it does happen)
2. Sliding on slick surfaces, ie. Stairs which are icy (I am a witness to this one)
1. It's just to painful and gruesome to state this accident, but i will tell you one thng it has something to do with walking.

Anyways I am off to sleep and get hopped up on some pain killers that are for my back which I hurt "WALKING"

Later,
Erika ;o)

.....For some (well like the two peeps who visit my silly site), you my be looking at my site's guestbook wondering what in the world is a "Timmy Ho". Is it a ho who is pimped by Timmy? One of the ho's that little Timmy frequents on 8th street. For you non Dawson Creek citizens 8th street is the infamous home of dawson's ho's. For those of you who defined a Timmy Ho as such, it very well is not and a scold you for thinking in such a upsetting perverted manner....(didn't that sound snobby and proper, I was thinking in a posh british accent while typing that piece, wait i am side tracking back to the point.) My Special Edition of Erika's Imaginary Dictionary's definition of the term is:

Timmy Ho: noun ; 1. A server of coffee and other beverages, baked goods, soups and sandwiches; 2. A female worker of the mighty Tim Horton's Chain; 3. One who must be always fresh; Sentence: "The Timmy Ho threw out a pot of coffee after 20 minutes"; Antomyns; Robin's Ho, Country Style Ho, Dunkins Ho (all which are poser names for Timmy Ho's are the shit, the real deal in the always fresh business of donuts and coffee.)

....now that you visitors of my wonderful site know what a Timmy Ho is enlighten your friends with your new knowledge....for Timmy ho's know best

Later,
Erika ;o)

....I don't have any idea of what to say tonight and i haven't written in a long time....so i'll make a list of the...
TOP 6 REASONS WHY "DAWSON CREEK, BC" SHOULD BE CALLED A 'TOWN' NOT A 'CITY'

6. The automobile of choice is a pickup...
5. We have a Joey's Price$mart (whose ever heard of a Joey's?)
4. Tourists only come here because its on the way to Alaska.
3. We have a movie theatre that plays one movie at a time (long after it has been released)
2.The fact that we have no shoestore, musicstore or bookstore.
1. There is nothing here, hence the fact we are called 'MILE ZERO'!

I am sorry this is a stupid entry but I am out of ideas for now......

I am sitting here infront of my computer wondering..."What the hell am I still doing up?"...it's like 2 in the freaking morning and I have to work tommorow morning, why am I not sleeping. I know why because I am fixing this blogspot thing, duh. :p. So what did I do today? Well, I took Tracie shopping. That's what! We had a day on the town frequenting Dawson Creek's lovely town and businesses....and the no existant shopping mecca. She got a Rusty wallet and $19 for her birthday. I hope she enjoys it. Am I even making sense right now? I know not! Again, it's freaking 2:10 in the morning....When I was Shad this would have been a sensible hour, but back in good ol' D.C. I am the only one still up. Sheesh....
Shout out there to anyone how reads this. Do you think I am crazy yet? A little weird? Well, first hi Christina, Tracie, Danielle, Tara. You already know I am bizarre....but not as weird as our foody friend ha Trace? (Christina for you that means the Pop...i hope you can complete that word with -ester-, get it). Anyways, I am going to be shit tired if I don't get to bed....sign my guest book.
Later,
Erika ;o)