queen's homecoming, kingston, september 16-17, 2006



my first official homecoming as an alumni. what can i say about it? it was FANTABULOUS. though i have regrets about missing out on the sidewalk sale and not being able to get my yearbook! :( you know, the yearbook editor in me has every yearbook since i've been in kingston!

anywho, i wanted to highlight my 27 hours in kingston and the awesomeness of being there in the small and "ghetto" town i called home for 4 years.

anyways, i wanna say thanks for all these memories (see below) this weekend:
- lunch at "wok-in" with my sister, henry and alan and bumping into maggie, ada, jess, gideon and jacob there too
- walking downtown buying a card, looking at shoes@heel boy, books@indigo, kitchenstuff@kitchen stuff, games@minotaur
- going to 311 and seeing diane and grace
- upstairs to apt 11 and seeing gavin and matt
- walking to 184 with gavin and eventually playing tennis with gabe, jon li, alvi, beni, warren, jo ho, eric (also making esther come over to see me for a bit)
- going to the "frosh house" at 41 clergy and having japchae by daewon, meeting ryan, hanging out with stephen and james (fong)
- going back to 311 and seeing steph, vanessa, grace, and pete's friends
- going to panama reunion dinner with gladys, jackie, james fong, kevin lee, greg, and our special guest johnny wong
- visiting jackie's far-away home on king street and having talks
- finally seeing judy at 311
- sleeping at apt.2 and seeing queenie and vince
- waking up to michelle, becca and sammi... i love waking up to familiar faces (thanks again for letting me stay)
- bumping into kat on the street and having a really drunk 55-year-old man serenade us with two songs on a guitar and telling us that "God and Jesus made us special" (which was neat but strange at the same time... )
- going to church@KCAC and seeing chewy lead worship, hearing random-point-sermons by pastor lo and singing my favourite version of doxology
- seeing familiar faces at my lovely adopted church (KCAC) and seeing so many people serving (i.e. chewy singing!, alicia on piano, eleasa ushering, liz teaching sunday school, etc.)
- sitting in on lunch@VIP with sausage fest: terry, chewy, edmond, pat tang, joshy (who's visiting too!), gavin, ivan, jon lee, sam lee
- finally bumping into lincoln, mike, kwan and derek on the street because i didn't have their numbers all weekend!
- having real lunch with johnny, pat, steph, van, esther, will, alysa (uh-oh... i'm not sure how to spell it), and oliver
- saying goodbye to people
- finally getting in a car with grace, james fong, and victor heading back to the big TO
... i really miss that small ghetto town called kingston! :( i luf you guys and i hope i can have another reason to go up again soon