She came back. *Clunk* the machine turned on. Turns out it was just a light. With a wet cloth, she blind-folded me. I didn't mind. The liht from the machine would have hurt my eyes anyways. Then, it began. Torment, agony, torture. Have you ever had a porcupine thrown in your face? Neither have I. (If you said yes, well I am VERY sorry to hear that. I hope the porcupine was ok.)I felt as if she was jabbing a blunt needle into my forehead. After a couple of attempts, she warned me, "This might hurt a bit. I'm taking the bad stuff out of your skin to make your skin smooth again." Take the bad stuff out. Sounds like something out of a kids movie. Bad stuff go out, in comes the good. I felt like a pin cushion. Another thing that annoyed me is how she went ahead and began the operation, THEN told me it would hurt. I ALREADY KNOW IT HURTS AFTER YOU JABBED ME IN THE FOREHEAD DOC.

(On a sidenote, this seems to be what a lot of girls like to do: Do something purposefully hurtful to someone, then apologize right after and expect everything to be ok. "I mean I already apologized, what more do you want me to do?" How about...DON'T DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. Picture this: If I shot you in the leg and apologized for doing so, would you forgive me? Then again, why would I shoot you in the leg for no reason? I WOULDN'T. But you get the picture. OFC this doesn't just apply to girls, guys do it too. We just generally don't really apologize after..)

The excrutiating pain continued. After what felt like an eternity of tense facial muscles and clutched fists, I thought it was finally over. Then the needle digged into my chin. Sometime between the transition from forehead to chin, she told me to open my eyes and look. "You see? This is what was in your skin." Tiny round shards of unknown substance laid on a cloth she was using to clean the needle with. Ofc, I also caught a glipse at the needle. Reminded me of going to the dentist except she was operating on my face and on my teeth. In face, this whole experience reminds me of a horror movie scene where the victim wakes up on a surgery table as the bright flourecent lights come on and the mad scientists craclkes as he prepares to operate on the helpless victim. My situation was only SLIGHTLY less dramatic.

After some more transitions from forehead to chin, to nose to cheek to temple and back to forehead, it was finally over. The battle was over but the war continued. "I'm going to sanitize your face with infrared light now. This might sting a bit." BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ I thought she took out a beehive. The Buzzing sound from what she was using reminded me of my nights in China where pesky mosquitos flew around you constantly. Those buzzing were usually followed by a large *PA* as I clap my hands around the pesky creature and relieve myself of its annoyance. I always found that to be very satisfying. However, I certainly don't think getting up and smacking Dr. P in the face would bring me the same satisfaction. I opened my eyes to see what sort of contraption she was using on my face. It was a clear metalic tube that was smooth to the skin. The moment the tool touched the skin, red light emits from the tube. I thought it was blood at first. Then I realize there was no way she could suck so much blood out of my face. She wasn't a mosquitoe now was she? (see what I did there?)

I had a feeling this experience was dragging on too long for me as it was for Dr. P. Why do i say so? Well nearing the end of my electricution session she was just slapping the tool on my forehead as if playing whack-a-mole. I hope she enjoyed her game upon the remains of my pimples.

After the jabbing and electricution ended, could feel the sweat building up under my clothing. My face was sore from all the tension and my body was giving out under the torture. Luckily, the last part of the facial involved putting what I assume was a mask on my face. I felt the cool mud-like substance rub onto my tense face. Very cool to the skin and gave me a minty feel. My consciousness gave out as I fell into a well deserved slumber. By the time I awoke, she had already cleaned the mud off my face and told me I was allowed to leave and she left the room. As I left, I felt faint. Perhaps still sleepy. The pimples were gone. All that was left were painful memories.

*AGAIN> Fictional account of the spa experience. It wasn't THAT BAD. I HIGHLY RECCOMEND A FACIAL TO WHO EVER IS READING THIS. Especially if you've never had one. IT'S SUPER RELAXING.*

"What do you do at a spa?"
"Nothing, haha, it's super relaxing :)"
And so it begins, our story tonight...

*This is pretty much happened during my first visit to the spa (sponsor). Not ENTIRELY accurate (slightly fictional lol) but pretty much what I felt was happening. For the purpose of the story I've made up names and you should be able to figure out who is talking.*

I walked in. A long set of spiralling stairs towered before me. At the end, a glass door on my right. I pushed. The door didn't budge. Eyes from the other side set their gaze upon me. I pushed harder. The door opened.

"Come with me." A lady led me pass the reception and into a bright room. "Have a seat." I sat in the chair on the right as the door closed behind her. Infront of me was a glass table and on the other side, another chair that looked more comfortable than the two on my side. I check the time, 4:48 pm.

The door creeks as another lady walked through the door. "Hi I'm Dr. M. You must be Harry." She sat down in the comfy chair on the other side. "I'm afraid it doesn't look good."

"Give it to me straight doc."

"I'm afraid...YOU HAVE PIMPLES."

"NO IT'S NOT TRUE!" I heart pounded against my chest. "IT'S NOT TRUE!!!"

"On the brightside, you don't look fat so you don't need our slimming treatment! But I'm afraid you have to get...A FACIAL."

Dr. M's expression worried me. It was the expression that told me not to worry, but I knew otherwise.

"I will arrange you a room right away." She left for a brief moment as I waited in silence aside from the sound of my racing heartbeat. Then, the door creeks open again, "Come with me."

She led me pass a maze of doors until I came to a dim-lit room with a bed and a strange machine beside it. "This is Dr. P. She will be conducting you facial." Before me, a lady whose face was hidden behind a mask.

"Put your coat over their and lie down please." Said Dr. P. I did as I was told and she covered me with a blanket. While comfortable, I wondered what sort of twisted fate awaited me. At first, everything was ok. She gently washed and moisturized my face with a cloth and cold cream. Then, she turned on the machine. Warm steam breathed onto my face. The warm moist steam made it difficult to breath but bearable. She left the room. Although brief, as she left, I understood what it feels like to be a steamed bun. The only difference is that it was my face getting steamed. Again, it was still bearable.

*It's getting late and I want to practice sax before 12pm so I'm gonna stop the story here and continue tmr! Again, FICTIONAL. Hope you enjoyed part I, part II will be even better ;)*

Been pretty busy for the past days so no post, but I can't pass this one up, just too interesting.

So after dance practise, went home, ate, showered, and was gonna go to bed. Then a friend calls me to get to me go to Fabric nightclub. I was very hesitant at first but it became very hard to say no when he pulled a friend card on me -__- so at 8:50, he told me to be at waterfront at 9:15. And now this adventure begins.

Parked my car at Cambie and 49th and got on the skytrain to wfront. I got there on time at around 9:12 at which point i texted him and he replied: 5min. I waited the longest 5 minutes of mylife. felt more like 25 min. Did I mention how badly i needed to use the bathroom? A whole skytrain station and not a single bathroom. Who the hell designed that place? Anyways so after "5 mins", my friend picked me up at around 9:33 and we left. Nice to see him again, have a lil chit chat and catch up, arrived at the club, and i kid you not, but this is what happened next. We got out of the car, he tells me:"I have a meeting, brb, go stand over there" and dashed into the club (he was a promoter). after about 30 sec, i realize he just left me on the sidewalk by myself ._. for the next 30 min, i stood around looking at random people walk by. It was getting tiring standing so I leaned against a lamp post. This is when i realized...I look like a male prostitute waiting to get picked up LOL but good thing i wasn't dressed like one. Also, I have to give a shout out to a korean family of 6, grandpa grandma, mama papa and two daughters. Why? Grandpa in white, grandma in orange, papa in yellow, mama in blue, and the daughters wearing red and green jackets. It was like watching a rainbow walk by speaking korean. A KOREAN RAINBOW (too awesome).

K. Gonna skip ahead now, got in the club at 10:30 ish, went straight to the bathroom. Place was pretty empty until 11:30. I ran into some old friends, said hi, and also ran into my dance instructor >.> Man he is GOOD. If he taught me one thing in dance, its that I suck. His exact words were something like:"You're not good. You're never good, I'm not good either. There's no perfect, but you can be better." Well, seeing him dance certainly reminded myself that I SUCK. LOL but definately good to see him dance again =P Some gogo dancer showed up around 11:30 in very revealing clothing. At one point in the night, i ran into the white one and she said I was cute >.> In the spirit of being polite, i said she's very pretty and she gave me a kiss on the cheek. But in all honesty, when u dress like that, no one is looking at your face -__- Pretty sure she was too drunk since she got carried out by security at one point LOL.

Anyways, end of the club, my friend who was driving me had to go to a meeting so I had a lil chit chat with my dance teacher. Then all of a sudden he just walked away cursing. 5 min later, he came back and turns out his car got towed >.> Dunno what happened after that but he just left. At this point, i resume my job of being a fake male prostitute and waited for my ride. An old man was cleaning the sidewalk. The drunk white gogo dancer was still in her costume waiting for her ride with the help of a promoter wearing red. I heard some people walk by and say "that guy in red's a weirdo". I wonder if they were talking about the promoter =S. The old man came up to me at one point and said "can't help but stare eh?" I'm guessing she was refering to the gogo dancer and I smiled. We had a chit chat. Turns out, he's 52, been with his wife for 22 years, have 4 kids, works a job of cleaning the sidewalks on friday and saturday, then have two other jobs during the weekdays. What a hard working man! and dedicated husband and father from the sounds of it. I thought it was pretty cool meeting him. Anyways, eventually my friend came out to drive me, dropped me off at 49th at cambie and I drove home. I think i got home a lil bit before 3 =\ all in all, not bad not great, some ups (KOREAN RAINBOW+AWESOME OLD MAN) and downs (LOOKING LIKE A MALE PROSTITUTE WHILE WAITING TO GO TO THE BATHROOM FOR 1.5 HOURS) throughout the night, meh =\.

K so many random things happen from time to time it's hard to keep track of everything I wanna write on my blog ._. I wonder if chronology matters...but i'll try to keep it in order in this post.

So first, yesterday was the first Hinson/Crystal dance session with instructor Teddy Kim (MASTER KIM). It's been a while since I've danced so much...quite enjoyable =D (Other than the fact that I was sweating like a pig.) Anyways, I was sweating too much so i used my shirt as a bandana, something i learned from my old dance instructor. Crystal (the champion from last year) said to me: "Impressive what you can do with your shirt!".....I'VE IMPRESSED THE PREVIOUS CHAMPION. MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. LOL JK but it did give me a sense of accomplishement..ish? =P Afterwards, some contestants went to the nightmarket (check out their blog to see what they did =]) but I went home to a romantic dinner...with my dog. Had some leftover and a lilttle something to drink. SO ROMANTIC. (My dog's pretty cute tho =])

TODAY, I was prepared. I brought the shirt i wore yesterday as a bandana and brought a change of shirt. WIN. The fail part is me thinking that the rehersal was at 6 when it was in fact at 4. Cancelled my previous plans made at 4 and felt like an idiot >.> Big face palm. Made it to the studio, someone asked "Where were you?" in which i replied: "I was on a date...with myself. xD"  Hardcore dance moves today, so much fun! and so tiring. Had dinner with 8 other people. So that means two people on each side of the table and one person in that awkward lonely corner. Guess who that was?....NOT ME!.....ok I lied, it was me..lol But it was K cuz i had Byron with me <3 whom made my day with the following dialogue:

Setting: Apparently Hannah bought a hair straightener, but I thought it was for Byron so I asked...
H: "Hair straightener? Dude what is there to STraighten, you have like NO HAIR"
B: "My personality *wink wink*"
H: LMAO

K, to wrap things up, busy day, finally home (on granville, the friend's place I'm staying), walked the dog, fed the dog, (he's getting a lil fat).
Called mom, apparently she hurt her waist...oh man...Just when I thought I can sleep, I have to go home (Fraser) and take care of Mom and Travis.
It is now 11:33 pm, I'm going to start packing my things and the dog..Yay I get to sleep on the couch again...Yawn. ;(

So I'm sitting here, debating to just starve until my mom goes home so I can get into my house and eat, or go out and eat alone.

Recently I've been having a lot of positive feedback about my blog as many of the staff enjoy reading them. (Entertainment at the expense of my pain WooT)

Had dinner yesterday with Henry, Nancy, Byron, and Hannah!...Henry held Nancy's hand, Byron held Hannah's hand........I held my own hand NO PROBLEM LOL. The food was good and that's all I cared about xD.

Picked up my sax and clarinet from the shop, all polished and fixed up, so excited to play them again! After the sessions with Raymond, went to lunch with the whole group. Again, food was pretty good, aside from the excessive amount of bugs we found in our food and tea (Cliff had some extra protein from his tea). Then we went to K and imitated Kevin & Cliff's singing LOL Henry did a VERY VERY good job imitating Kevin, you should check out his or Nancy's blog and hopefully they uploaded the video =].

End this post off, bringing back to what I was saying in the begining, Left K and came home only to sing K some more. Good life. Have decided to not eat until I can get home. I want steak.

Still no fotos...DEAL WITH IT.

Congrats to Cliff for being today‘s 主场之星！(For the press conference)

Some things that happened today in no particular order:

1. Mom said I look fat in my out fit at the press conference. yay.
2. Had three plates of food after the press conference...I wish I had an extra stomach to hold the DELICIOUS FOOOOOOD.
3. Realize that out of all 8 contestant, everyone's got a phone with a huge screen and uses the phone for MUCH MORE than just texting and phoning except me...also out of all 8 contestants, I ordered the least tickets, leading me to think perhaps I really DO have the least friends ._. (Truly forever alone LOL)
4. Saw the promotional videos! THEY WERE GREAT! THANK YOU GOES OUT TO FRANCIS AND LEO AND THE WHOLE TEAM! YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!
   (K I still have trouble with the uploading pic/vid so if you want to see our awsome promo, go check someone else's blog or go find it on Youtube xD) <--I am #1 tech loser..HELP ME AMBAAAA >.>
5. I think I'm coming down with a cough. Gonna take the next 5 days to rest up!
6. After a long day of work, I come back home to a crying baby and a dog that needs to be walked. I guess walking the dog will save me from the dreadful shrieks of Travis...its a good thing he's cute... VERY cute  =] Once I figure out why there's no addfiles after i click Upload, I'll put some pictures up.

Ok. So we had accapella training, then a normal lunch at the food court. Just an ordinary day.....then Cliff 'exploded' on me. X.x

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NO. K LET ME EXPLAIN: He was trying to get like honey mustard sauce on his teppan rice but it was stuck. He then proceed to press the bottle harder. As I motion to tell him to put the bottle down and shake it a bit, the bottle exploded; the sauce ricochets off the table top and on to my trench coat. Yes. He pressed the bottle THAT hard. And yes, he wanted that sauce THAT bad. lol.

So apparently my posts are really depressing! Well I only speak truth! and that..is depressing for me. For ex. another day of people speaking canto and me just smiling and pretending i get whats going on. Amber gave me a good suggestion tho...from now on, when people are speaking canto, I'm going to join in the conversation and speak the only canto i know: count from 1 to 10 (even if it doesn't fit the context whatsoever. LOL). "Ya yi san sei mmmm lo qia ba gou sam!"

Today was the vt shoot. Arrive at 8:30, make up and hair, shoot begins at 10, lunch at 12:30, shoot again at 1:30, dinner at 4:30, shoot again at 5:30. We got off earlier because director Tasman got sick D= I hope he feels better and we'll resume work on Friday night! For lunch I had the saltiest chow mien EVER. I swear the chief like took a pound of salt and soy sauce and just dumped it in a pan with noodles. Luckily, Rita gave her rice to me and Cliff and we didn't have to dehydrate. Another interesting thing was that I suspect our make-up artists had secret powers.. She electricuted me and Henry's face, as well as Cliff's (he got shocked three times LOL ouch).

I tried to buy the eye drop to cure my red eyes but they've been out of stock twice now -___- Guess I'll have to deal with it for a while longer. Today, there was a huge blood vein in my eye and it looked so creepy when I pulled it back xD Also, I suspect I'm catching a cold. My allergies CAN't be the ONLY cause of so much of my nasal problems ._. And on a final random note, I love our hairstylist =]

爸早上回国了，小宝想爸爸闹了一天，把我妈累死了。明天下午上课，可是我早上要帮我妈去办事，感觉好象没有一天消停着！我只希望小宝今天晚上不要闹...让我好好睡一觉！

Today I learned...Byron's brother is big (I mean buff).

So today was the roadshow at Home Delight Furnishings and we had a whopping 15 audience or so, most of which were Byron's friends/family lol. When I read out the raffle number i drew out of the box called out Byron's brother name, all I can think as he walked towards me was "if he punched me I would die." LOL, but thanks to Byron's lovely supportive family and friends, we had audience! THANKS BYRON <3 oh and special thanks to Henry for showing up!! =D

On top of the "forever alone" guy, I think I'm now also a 吸血僵尸 to the other contestants...lol. My allergies are making my eyes really red these days and when I get make up on, I look really pale like I lack blood cells...I wonder how my photo shoot photos turned out >.>

关于小宝，这几天认识我了，指着我的照片然后再指着我说 “哥！“ 有进步！

今天小宝回来啦！ ＝D
好久不见又不认识我了。。。动不动还指这我乱叫！
时差还没倒过来，估计想睡觉了。
家里有多了一个小宝，又要更累了！

And...Regarding the competition...apparently I am known as the 'forever alone' guy, or 'forever mando' guy.
It gets pretty frustrating when everyone's speaking canto and all you can do is just smile and nod while thinking about what you ate last night for dinner..o.O Then when they ask if everyone understood, you look like an idiot shaking you head..LOL good stuff. At least everyone's kind enough to explain to me afterwards, but all the jokes and laughter gets lots in the translation...X.x oh well =\