Prodigy's Omen

Best Deals so far this year

2010-08-20T15:20:00.001-04:00

Due to awesome friends and family, there has been 3 memorable “freebies” this year that has brought me much joy haha.

1) Autoshow 2010. Thanks goes to Daniel for getting us into the show free of charge because his uncle worked there. It was another fantastic day of taking pictures of cars and test driving Mercedes-Benz.

2) Toy Story 3. Thanks goes to Katrina who was part of my softball team this summer. She works at the Silver City at Fairview mall and got us in free of charge with some free coupons that she had I believe. Jess and I had a great night watching the last instalment of one of the greatest trilogies ever while saving around $26 on a friday night. yayah!

3) Toronto Zoo. Thanks goes to my sister haha. Since she works at the zoo (has been for the last 4-5 years) she got me in for free since employees can bring one guest in for free whenever they work. Since she also works at the Africa Restaurant I also got lunch half off! This trip also saved me $20+ which I’m very grateful for. Because I saved so much, I splurged $3.50 and went to see sting rays at sting ray bay. Pictures can be found on facebook in my random photo album.

That is all. I just wanted to remember the three free things I’ve had so far. =)

Experiences

2010-06-20T01:21:00.001-04:00

I wanted to post something here for quite a while now, just haven’t found the time to. NOW I HAVE! kinda.

So I’ve been doing a bit of volunteering this summer thus far and it’s been a great learning experience. At the moment, I’ve volunteered at East Rehabilitation Center by Kennedy and Finch, Friendly Rehab Clinic by Warden and Finch, and helped out to coach my church’s senior softball team.

East Rehabilitation Center (ERC) & Friendly Rehab Clinic (FRC)

So, I’ve mostly been watching the kinesiologist at ERC help out patients do their exercises and stretches. I really don’t have much to do there, I mostly learn the different exercises and help out once in a while when there’s more than 1 client in the room. ERC has a much larger exercise facility than FRC.

I don’t learn too much from FRC, but it’s been the place where I’ve been applying the lessons learned at ERC. I only started at FRC last week, but I’m already noticing some subtle differences. FRC has a much smaller exercise facility. I am the one in charge of giving out the exercises, so i basically take some exercises from ERC and implement them at FRC haha =P (are the letters confusing?). Because I’m in charge of the room, I can also have more personal time and when i get bored I can head out to the front desk and be with some company haha. Today, the physiotherapist was streaming the world cup while waiting for clients to come so I watched part of the Brazil vs. North Korea match with him.

Lessons learned from both places combined:

1) Client interaction. Most of the clients are from car-crashes. Most clients are also unable to speak English well. So, I’ve been learning to adjust my communication so the clients can understand me better. A lot of them also don’t want to do the exercises so you’ve got to push them to do just a bit more than they want to. The people who don’t want to do exercises are usually those in a lot of pain or really no pain at all (with exceptions). It’s those with moderate amount of pain that do the exercises seriously because they want that annoying pain to go away.

2) Time. It takes time for clients to heal and see the effects of treatment. Some clients have been to the clinic for a year and a half if not more and haven’t been released of their pain yet. It’s encouraging to hear stories of the clients themselves saying stuff like “You think i’m bad now? You should’ve seen me a few months ago! I couldn’t even move!”. They can see their own progress and it makes me happy because I believe it gives them more motivation to come in and do their exercises and actually take them seriously.

Probably got more to list, but I can’t remember them at the moment. Just a lot of insurance stuff that clients have to deal with. The more talkative patients are always fun to listen to. I love the older clients much more than the younger ones because they do their exercises and they also have a lot of experiences to share. Younger clients breeze right through all the exercises because all they want to do is go and it’s really hard to get them to do the exercises well. Finishing the exercises does not mean they did them well.

Softball

It’s been a challenging, but eye-opening experience to be a coach of a softball team from my church. It’s my first time playing in the league so I had a lot to learn. Being very inexperienced, I’m quite thankful for those who help me out – especially my co-coach. Because my co-coach is more experienced than I am, he does a bit more than I do. The only few things I’m able to do is run drills and do a bit of admin work.

Leading-wise, I’ve learned that experience really does pay off. It makes thinking of drills, creating line-ups, and coaching overall just a much easier task to do. I’m still just learning what to do and not to do for the positions that i play. I am thankful though, as I have gained an obscene amount of interest in softball now and how the game is played, the mechanics of throwing, catching, and batting… unfortunately I need it all to go to muscle memory haha.

airplanes?

2010-05-11T08:05:00.001-04:00

...
But that's just how the story unfolds
You get another hand soon after you fold
...

A post once in a while

2010-05-09T00:26:00.001-04:00

Haven’t posted in a while…

Playing softball this summer as a coach for my church’s team. Finished an ump test today which, if i pass, allows me to be and umpire in other games. I took it not really to be an umpire, but as a coach it’s useful to be carded as an umpire as it gives you some credibility.

Shopped around at fairview looking for a shirt. Took me 2 hours… daaaang it was tiring haha… and stressful =S

How is everybody else doing? Am i the only one here…?

New stuff of 09-10

2010-04-15T17:43:00.001-04:00

In the picture is my:
HP dv4 2154ca feat. laptop sleeve
Ipod Touch 2nd Gen
Sennheiser CX 500 in-earphones
Windows Mobile Mouse 6000

=) I’m very thankful for what I have. I use all of them regularly.

Things to Do:

2010-03-15T12:53:00.001-04:00

Read a Single subject design article for Research Design. List the strengths and limitations of the study and then explain how confident I am in the conclusion the author makes. Due Wednesday.

Read an article pertaining to food and water resources for Environmental Biology. This is a bit more simple. Find one that i like and send the article to the T.A. to make sure no one else is using the article in my class. Due anytime this week.
After, make a power point presentation on the article. Due March 30th.

Read articles related to kinematic analysis of rowing with a rowing ergometer. Recollect all the data and analyze. Write lab report. Due next monday.

Lost Data

2010-03-15T11:49:00.001-04:00

So… can’t find my USB key that held my lab data. This adds on quite a bit of work as I have to get all my data again which i spent all of last lab doing >.<

Guess it’s my fault as I was the one who misplaced it… and also was dumb enough not to back it up by putting the file on my laptop as well.

LETS DO THIS!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Birthday week

2010-02-22T12:37:00.001-05:00

For the week of my birthday, i shall:

1) study for research methods mid-terms which is the morning after my birthday

2) study for environmental biology which is saturday morning

3) work on my lab report which is due next monday

4) Possibly think about what to write for my intro to jazz essay and also study for jazz >.<

mwahahaha… wonderful.

Dear Immunology

2010-02-10T02:15:00.002-05:00

How I hate you.. with a passion.

Midterm coming.. my worst mark/subject right now in 3rd year..
I missed almost all the lecture due to a conflict/lab in the afternoon..
Listening to the lectures now.. but struggling through them
I guess this is why I ain't no immunology specialist and
should stay within genetics for my own sake.

14 hours of lecture to go... start the count down.. it will be a long week
Life = Busy lately.. Will update soon
I hope? (and with something more interesting)

Peace (2s)

Random rant

2010-01-27T01:04:00.001-05:00

a rant about environmental biology…

this has been the first class where I’m actually being marked on participation. We’re marked out of 10 each tutorial class. Attending the class will only get us 2/10. So if we attend and do nothing, we still fail somehow… stupid. In order to get a 50% for the tutorial class, we have to make an original comment/question. Depending on how many of these comments we make, we can get anywhere from 5-10/10. With 20 or so people in the class, how is it possible that anyone can get 10/10?? dumb!!! ugh!!!

The readings are so long!! I just find this class very self-absorbed haha. It thinks it’s the only course in the whole campus. Class is actually 50 minutes, leaving 10 minutes for people to get from that class to the next and if you’re like me who has to get close to the other side of campus AND change for judo, we are most definitely going to be late. I find ending class that late actually disrespectful. People do leave at the 45 minute mark, but if i leave I know i’m gonna miss some information >.< people have other classes to go to! Seriously!!!

Just the amount of participation we have to do even out of class! in the discussion boards, we are marked on the comments we make and what new topics we post up there. AHHHHHHHHH!!!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s an interesting class and raises a lot of awareness on what’s happening around the world and to this world that we live in. The work is just ridiculous. Sucks! blah!

New Laptop!

2010-01-26T17:09:00.001-05:00

Came back during the weekend and bought a new laptop!

HP Pavillion dv4 2154ca with 500 GB hard drive space and 4GB of RAM. All thanks to drakonen for going laptop shopping with me for the majority of saturday haha. $850 done rite there.

In other news, a month ago i also bought new in-ear headphones. sennheiser cx500’s… i think. don’t remember the exact model anymore. Originally $140, i bought it for half that price. SWEEET!

And of course I also bought an ipod touch which set me back $200ish. Daaaang I’m getting poor. major spending in 3rd year. No moreeee!!!

although I didn’t have to pay for my laptop… so meh… but still. Major expensive for 3rd year.

2010

2010-01-03T22:53:00.003-05:00

NEW OPPORTUNITIES AWAITS
Happy 2010 to y'all!

Hugely excited to what's in store for us all, even tho I am not too keen on waking up tomorrow at 7am as oppose to 2pm the past 2 weeks, I am still all smiles (absolutely no idea why).

I think it's time for some sort of a reunion sooner or later, now that UU is working downtown on his coop term (yes I have to update you guys on his life.. wish he can just do it). We just need echoes to be back soon, then it will be fairly convenient to meet up for ANYTHING.

Remember that list we had in the summer? Oh man we totally FAILED, let's make it more epic the next time around by actually completing at least HALF of it, but this post isn't about reminiscing about the past year..

It's a new decade, time for new things. So guys... I think it's time to...

ready, set, go...

On a side note, music recommendation:
So last minute but john mayer album battle studies absolutely rocks
Sample song (introduced to me by a friend, steph! Thank you :D) Friends Lovers or Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSpv5iMIVQ

Rekindling......

2009-12-30T00:17:00.002-05:00

I thought a post would come sooner than this.. was hoping for a spark of randomness where one would do the unthinkable (new post). However, that obviously has not happened...

Time to redeem myself, just quicks and ups with the life updates..

school
trying hard this year.. pretty good results.. just got my marks for some half courses.. guess it's true when you work hard at it, successes do come along the way. Another proof to myself that I am not dumb, JUST lazy at times and I can compete with the rest of the nerds at UofT.

play
Partying's been down since school started for obvious reasons, trying to focus and living at libraries rather than crashing over at friend's rez. Poker and bowling has been the story for this Christmas holiday. Got a 168 in bowling, and I am quite proud of that achievement.

girls
pretty good.. since the summer there was a few and now its one.. will keep you guys updated hopefully even tho it's hard to discuss on a public blog about this sensitive issue. I think there is something to this one tho as oppose to the others during the summer, however school and friends still comes first since I really do need to do well. =]

New year is coming up soon, will make a new year resolution and this time I will push myself.

Sorry this post is so simple and not written very well, I just to make a sneaky post before the new years and I think I owe it to echoes for at least one post this whole semster since he has been basicly carrying the load and keeping this blog to its true roots.. With that said, I hope this post can be some sort of spark that will lead many more posts to come..

thank you, come again
m&ms

Anime and God (Re: Major)

2009-12-17T14:31:00.001-05:00

I’ve had a similar post on my facebook notes, but thought I’d make another one here. I find these little connections between what I watch in anime and kind’ve what I know from the bible. So HERE WE GO!

-Major- Season 1

This show tugged on bits of my heart because it touches on what I’m currently learning. The first one is pride. There’s always someone out there who’s better than you at something. This gives you room to develop and grow. The next is perseverance. When trials or hardship comes, you’ve gotta press onward and fight to the finish. Trying your absolute best is all anyone can ask for, just don’t give up! The last is surrender. Sacrificing things in your life for one purpose.

Major is about a journey of a boy named Goro who loses his mom as a little child and soon loses his dad due to a wild pitch to the head by a well-known american baseball player, Gibson. Goro then goes through his life aiming to be a good enough pitcher to face off with his dad’s killer. Meeting many friends and rivals along the way, he grows from the mistakes and losses and celebrates the wins.

In comparison with other anime such as dragonball z, bleach, one piece – when they lose, they usually get severely injured or die… and they somehow come back to life somehow more stronger than they used to be. Not saying that the other anime’s are bad, I thoroughly enjoy watching and reading them, but major I find is more realistic – you lose sometimes, that’s how you grow and become better. Goro’s team doesn’t always win. There were a few major upsets throughout his baseball career, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The anticipation of facing his rivals or facing good teams motivated him and his team to train and develop their skills. Meeting people who are better at certain things does not mean they are a better person than you are. Though it does open up room for you to grow in that area.
"If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." (Mark 9:35)

Goro is simply passionate about baseball. When trials come, it’s simple, try your hardest because at the end of the day it isn’t about winning or losing, but having fun because he’s playing with many other players who share his love for baseball. When hardships come our way, we can’t quit.
“Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)
and…
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance” (James 1:2-3).
Goro’s passion for baseball overflows to other players motivating them to play harder as a team. Goro himself cannot win a game, as baseball is a team sport. He needs the support of his teammates to win. Shouldn’t our passion for God, for Jesus, overflow somehow to point others who may be in the same boat towards God? How does this impact me? I’m still thinking about… just writing down ideas… but,
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)

Gibson went through his life playing baseball so that one day he could face Goro. He even risked his life to fulfill a lifelong promise. Because of one mistake, his whole baseball career has been about waiting for the day that Goro would come and meet him for a showdown because he feels like it’s the only way he can be redeemed for killing his father. Though a lot of what Gibson is doing doesn’t ring true in a Christian sense, it’s his act of surrender and sacrifice that kind of stuck out to me. When stood on that field pitching against Goro’s team with a (spoiler alert) heart condition that may kill him if he continues pitching, I found it pretty touching to see him try his absolute hardest even with that risk to fulfill a promise he made many years ago. If we set God as our first priority, what are the things we’re willing to give up? Is it truly everything? Would we risk our lives for God? Sometimes I find myself wondering what I would do if I was persecuted for being a Christian. A gun pointed at me, person asking if I believed in Jesus… what would I do?
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Matthew 16: 24-28)

-Major- Season 5

Major

2009-12-17T03:44:00.001-05:00

There are only a select few anime’s that i still keep up with. The majority of them I just read on manga instead of watching because the actual anime has secret filler episodes that get annoying. They’re also very behind the manga as we all know!! Bleach, Naruto, One piece, and History’s Greatest Disciple Kenichi I read on manga, while Major is the only anime I still watch.

Just finished watching the final episode of its 6th season. Daaaang, had to actually search that up. I’ve been following it for 6 seasons. As I watch it, I just catch myself thinking that I love this show! It’s kind of like all the other anime that I watch, except it’s more realistic. Jess asked me if they had magical powers as I was watching it today, and I found myself quite shocked that they actually do not haha. Well, History’s greatest disciple kenichi doesn’t either but those characters are just superhuman (for more information on this anime, go on my facebook profile notes >.<).

I’ve grown to love this anime because there really is growth and great morals that are placed in more realistic situations. In a nutshell, its a show about baseball. The story is actually quite complicated… i tried to explain it, but it got too annoying to type so you may just have to go on wikipedia or just watch it. In the most simple way I can put it, the main character’s (Goro) dad dies of a wild pitch to the head playing baseball against a famous pitcher from America (Gibson). Goro seeks revenge by eventually being great enough to play in the majors one day and facing off with his dad’s killer. This event basically sets up the plot for the whole show until perhaps the 6th season. Though his goal is to face Gibson in the baseball diamond, he is still playing baseball because he loves it. Goro is a really simplistic, innocent/ignorant character who had that personality that affects everyone he meets (just like naruto). His love for baseball overflows to those he meets and inspires them. Now that I think about it, he really is like many main characters out there in animeland. Somehow, his persevering attitude affects me more than all the other animes i’ve watched.

I have watched him through his growth from a kindergartener to little league, junior high, high school, minor leagues, and now the major leagues. When he dislocated his right shoulder, he became a southpaw to continue playing baseball. His mom dying, his new mom, his dad dying, his new dad (haha… dang), witnessing the amount of work every season that he puts into becoming better and the hardships he has to overcome is inspiring. I think it’s his raw passion for baseball is what brings me to liking this show. [] Through many seasons he has played on many teams with many different teammates. Some characters continue to make appearances bringing a sense of nostalgia with the stories they each hold with Goro.

This is a rambling blog post >.< Just getting all my thoughts out.

The childhood rivalry, the many other rivalries, playing on the same team with your rivals, the growth, friendships, and most recently his relationships, I feel very attached to this character haha. It’s hard to compact 6 seasons worth of great entertainment in one post… just wanted to make a mention of what I’m thinking at the moment… especially for the 6th season. Just MIND BOGGLING!

Ok, i’ve rambled on for quite enough, i shall end it here… for now…

2/3 done my deadly weekend!

2009-12-13T00:12:00.001-05:00

With a lab due 2 tuesdays ago and a 30% lab due this past wednesday, I’ve only had 2 days grace period to study for 3 exams this weekend. I have finished 2 out of the three exams so far!

Lab due 2 tuesdays ago: 100%… my first 100…

Lab due this wednesday: don’t know mark yet, but handed in 1 minute before final due time

1st exam: this morning at 9. Took basically 2 hours and 50 minutes. 10 short of the full 3 hours because I was too tired to continue double checking. Result: DONE STATS!

2nd exam: tonight at 7pm. Took the full two hours. Brutal exam with many tricky and picky questions and answers. But nonetheless… rsult: DONE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY!

Tomorrow (sunday) I got Laboratory on Exercise Physiology at 7pm-10pm. Started studying… now haha. GG.

Also 7 months with Jess and I =D

And that is about everything my friends… who may not read this… ever…

The Little Gestures

2009-12-03T11:44:00.001-05:00

Just a random post

Was walking to class yesterday and had to open a few doors to get there. There was a guy walking behind me as I was opening the doors so I held it open for him and he obviously walked through it. However, in my mind there are two door holding etiquettes.

1) The door hold reach –> When people are in a hurry and they may not know you, they open the door with arm fully extended, outside leg may be off the ground so their next step is already in progress. This tells the person behind them that they’re courteous enough to hold it open for you, but they themselves have to get somewhere.

Response –> Person behind speeds up a bit showing their understanding that the other person isn’t going to hold that door forever. Responder also extends arm forward to hold the door so the door holder can be relieved of his/her duty to hold that door.

2) behind-the-door hold –> person is probably with you and is waiting for you to cross that door so they can continue walking with you. They are positioned beside or behind the door like a door man/woman, out of the way so the responder can walk through in comfort.

Response –> just walk through the door and say “thank you” ? haha

The first situation happened to me. I had to get to class, but there was someone behind me. I held the door with arms full extended coz I was in a hurry to get to my track practical. The person didn’t speed up, nor did he show any verbal/non-verbal communication that he was thankful. I think he was just having a bad day =S Still, he didn’t reach out his hand to hold the door, his arms was i believed crossed as he walked through the door. In my head, I’m just like “wth?”. It’s not a big deal, just something random that i noticed.

You don’t notice the little things until they’re missing.

Forgetful

2009-11-26T13:44:00.001-05:00

Wooowowowow! I’ve been pretty forgetful these past few days haha. Forgot my gym bag with my aikido stuff yesterday and panicked for a bit but found it after I calmed down. Actually left it at the place where i ate lunch. Looked there before, but I didn’t ask the people working there whether they found a bag initially. So the panicking is more of my own fault =P But I did ask after i ate dinner and they had my bag in the back room. Such a relief!!!

Today, don’t know where my lab manual is for fitness appraisal. I think someone might’ve taken my lab manual instead of theirs by accident. Or maybe I actually left it but someone who knew me took it to give it back to me because when I went back to the lab, it wasn’t there anymore. =S If anything I’ll just go to the bookstore and write notes off of the lab manuals they could have there haha. Or worst comes to worst I’ll either hopefully be able to borrow a lab manual or I’ll go buy another one >.< Rawr!!!

Testing stuff is about to begin. Yesterday, had my first track and field practical =P Yes, playing sports for marks FTW! We got tested on relays, so she marked us on where we are positioned in the lanes, when we start running, how the hand-off of the paton was, and whether the paton decelerates. It’s actually more technical than it looks =S. I think most of us got docked marks due to the paton decelerating when we’re handing it off. It’s hard not to decelerate… which is why that part of the test is only worth 1 mark. It was pretty easy, i got a 9/10 haha. Dumb deceleration (alliteration!)

Also got tested for aikido! Going for my 6th kyu! Daaang! haha. That’s just a solid orange belt instead of an orange belt with a stripe. Hopefully I’ll get to green before i graduate. Funny because in first year I had to do a goal setting thing for a kin course. My plan, if everything worked out perfectly was that I’d get to brown before I graduated. That was also assuming that I went to every class though.

Anyways, just a little something random for this blog as no one seems to like posting here anymore. I’ll just post once in a while when I have something random to post haha.

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Leave a comment if ur out there guys… lemme know you’re alive!!!

Daaaang Wednesdays

2009-11-05T01:46:00.001-05:00

Booooo… Wednesdays are my longest days as I believe I have previously posted about haha. I think I did… last post… hmmm… don’t remember. Track today… did high jumps! Spent the whole class slowly building to the final jump; isolating each skill on its own. Footwork is obviously important so spent a good deal of the class practicing which foot leads and which foot is the take off foot. Practiced falling on the bag thing haha, it was ridiculously isolated skills lol. It was still fun though, and I didn’t get too tired from it… too tired….

And then the lab. The lab wasn’t actually that long, but for what we had to do it was surprisingly exhausting. Had to run on a treadmill for as long as you could at 8.5 mph for males. It was faster than it looked >.< Only stayed on for a measly 36 seconds. The best in our class was i think 64 seconds. Taking your body to the limit week after week is interesting, but at a cost haha.

Aikido was a lot of test review. Don’t know if I’m gonna be testing, but had to do the review stuff anyways or there’d be nothing for me to do. Still good though, there’s always stuff to correct and learn in every technique. Again… pretty tiring, especially since i didn’t get a chance to recover enough from the track and lab before this. So going into studying right after was toughhhhhh.

Bit peeved. Apparently I leave dishes in the sink… when I’m rarely home. It’s kool… I just take clean dishes and throw them into the sink before i leave for school without real breakfast. –sigh-

Not enough

2009-10-29T01:04:00.001-04:00

A resting half-day was unfortunately not enough for me to recover. Wednesdays are now the longest day of my week. 9:30-10:30 is Physiology in Fitness Appraisal, 11:30-12:30 is Intro to stats, 2:30-4:30 is Track and Field, 4:30-6:30 is Lab for Exercise Physiology. After classes, I also have 7-9 for aikido. All this may not seem like much, but physically it’s pretty exhausting haha. Mentally, the lab reports that I have to do never ends…

Had to do sprints/relay, and shot put today for track haha. Pretty nice. Shot put technique looks pretty kool =P

Time to study… Exam exam exam exam tomorrow.

A resting half day

2009-10-28T00:42:00.001-04:00

So after hardcoring for day i usually try to relax the next day unless i have something really crazy to do the next day.

I had some pretty nice personal time today. Went to the mal, window shopped around winners, watched astro boy in theatres (yay finally! $5 movies… been a long time) and also got a hair cut. Don’t really have much time to relax this year I find… so these rare occurrences I do cherish quite a bit.

Astro boy wasn’t that great though which was pretty disappointing. It had a lot of potential, but the movie failed to convert that potential into reality. A lot of it had to do wit timing. Some parts seemed kind of rushed, and there were a few predictable scenes. I wouldn’t pay $10 for it, but it served its purpose today which was mainly to destress and get the craving for watching a movie out of the way.

Hope everyone else is doing well =S wouldn’t know as people don’t post. booo

Schoooooooooooooooooool!!!

2009-10-27T14:15:00.001-04:00

So last week, finished a stats exam and an intense exercise physiology lab report. This week, I finished an intense animal physiology lab report. The first lab report was a full one with abstract, intro, results, discussion, conclusion and references. The second one was just results, discussion and references but somehow seemed like the same amount of work. Lab reports are just a lot of researching, reading articles, picking out useful information, and fitting them into the report. Reading and finding articles take like 50% of the time, yet you usually don’t have anything to show for it. A lot of the time, many of the articles searched up is of no use and so reading it was basically a waste of time.

Lab reports… time consumer.

Typing this while semi-conscious. I don’t know if anything I say makes sense. Have an exam this Thursday. Haven’t really started studying for it yet… but I shall today… study, lab report, study, lab, study, lab, study, lab

Rinse and repeat.

The end.

Breaking the Silence

2009-09-30T01:30:00.001-04:00

Helloooooo

No one has posted in this blog for a while so I just decided to post something.

I attempted to recap my summer but failed. Wrote a fair bit but my laptop ran out of batteries and all was lost. So I chose to just recap what has happened during the school year.

September is almost over and exams will be coming soon. I have a few labs and therefore a few lab reports that I’m suppose to write. I have a lab in exercise physiology, fitness appraisal, and animal physiology. They’re all pretty interesting, but I’m not too big on lab reports so it will be challenging.

Moving into my new place is smaller and a bit inconvenient travelling to campus-wise. It’s a further walk to all my classes, though it matters not since I take the bus. But if i ever did want to walk… I would lack the motivation to as it is too far. I enjoy the company though at my house. Seeing friends when you wake up… pretty different. I’m liking it so far though, not too bad. Living with friends does have its perks.

Sport-wise I haven’t been playing volleyball… i’m at a volleyball withdrawal. Instead, I have softball (fast pitch) for one of the sport classes that I take for marks =) It’s interesting so far. Very complicated and has a bit of a learning curve in terms of techniques. It’s a pretty technical sport. Today was mostly practicing outfielding. The coach basically taught us to step into the ball and a bunch of other stuff to catch the ball and get it out of ur gloves faster. There was a LOT of throwing today and so my throwing shoulder and sides are pretty done. Catching balls that are rolling towards me, running to the ball and doing a crow-hop to continue the momentum that I gained from running making the throwing of the ball easier; throwing the ball to a relay person when the outfielder is too far out to throw it all the way into the infield; catching pop-flys and throwing them back to your partner… a LOT of throwing and movement as throwing is often accompanied by catching. Sometimes there are balls that are purposely thrown to make you run… and then there are those that accidentally get by you which forces you to run even more. All this was today… in the rain, though it was only a light drizzle, it was also damp and soggy outside. Overall though it was pretty fun and we got to get off of class earlier as the field was wet so no scrimmage. A lot of techniques and information to take in for each softball class. I know it sounds like I’m complaining… prolly much better than what you engineers are doing rite now haha. As fun as it is, it does drain the energy stores and therefore it is time to sleep.

Oh, in the morning i also went to the wrong building and had to get to the other side of campus within 10 minutes. Speed walked it all the way there. Also forgot my umbrella after class at the UCC so i walked down to a bus stop, then had to walk all the way back up which maybe took 10-15 minutes or so in total. Just a lot of unnecessary walking today haha.

That is all for my Tuesday. Hope to post here more.

Firsts

2009-06-21T00:57:00.001-04:00

This week was pretty fun. Day camp staffs bring in very interesting characters. This year may not be the same as last year, but it’s not a bad thing.

Thursday, we went to the executive director’s place in Whitby. It was a pretty ok drive… once you drive to london almost once a month… every other ride seems shorter. The place was HUUUUUGE. It was like a mansion. His yard was like the size of the park behind my house. Had burgers and hot dogs and time for reflection. Afterwards I got to drive ppl home in a car that didn’t belong to me =)! It was a very interesting experience. First time driving a friend’s car, first time driving in the express lane, first time having the tires squeal, and first time seeing a fox out on the streets.

Friday, I drove one of the staff back to his own church and I witnessed my first car accident! It was amazing!!! (not for the ppl involved… but for me). A car was about to make a right turn but stopped. The driver behind him was going too fast so he couldn’t stop and tried to swerve out of the way, but failed so the corner of both cars were hit. It was definitely an experience.

Apart from all the firsts, I went to a funeral today. It’s strange to dress formally for a wedding a few weeks before… and then dress up again a few weeks later except for a funeral. Both were a celebration of life in a way whether it be a joining of two lives… or a departure of one. The one who passed on was a sunday school teacher for me at church and I also know her kids. I think they went to Buchan as well… though a few years after us. She had been diagnosed with lung cancer I believe and it was a long hard battle. It was weird coz I actually got choked up and teary eyed for this one… and I blame it on the speech. Maybe it’s because all the other funerals were spoken more in cantonese so I often zoned out, but the father/husband shared in english and so did the kids so I understood everything and actually paid attention. That’s all I’ll say for now.

It was a fun-filled week. Look forward to the rest of my summer.

Post Here

2009-06-17T01:02:00.001-04:00

While unknownuser is taking on an expensive hobby, I’m trying to gain money… although he is pretty much gaining a lot more money than i am still…

Started daycamp training this week and finally met everyone together in one room. Just reminds me of the first year I did this (which was last year). It’s pretty fun so far. I look forward to the rest of camp. Hopefully it doesn’t get ruined somehow… =S

Too tired to post anything else. Drove a lot these past few days. Need a break.

Latest Hobby: building my own computer

2009-06-08T19:53:00.001-04:00

So two things came up to trigger this new hobby. 1) I had no idea how to go about doing this, which was sad because I was switching into Computer engineering. 2) my poor old laptop which I got 2 years and 2 or 3 months now has been struggling by for the past year or so. While i’m at it 3) a lifestyle change in university where I’m now in a new one year lease for a place off campus makes a desktop much more bearable to deal with. 4) there's a 4th!. Starting with co-op again this term, means quite a bit of extra cash so I decided to use a portion of those earnings toward this new computer. a budget of one weeks worth of pay. Sounds reasonable?

I think my first step was Wikipedia.. some sort of search for the components of a computer. Then about a few days after coincidentally at work, I wanted to get two monitors, so i told my boss and he said that my current computer couldn’t support it but if i fix up another one lying around, i could use that. So opening it away i went. It took me like 30 mins finding a philips screwdriver amongst the mess which is my work place and to dissemble the computer itself.

I was more than mildly disappointed…

As it turns out computers only really have 5 or 6 components to it, with 3 being more major ones. Not too complicated as I once thought. So let me throw up my planned computer and *looks around, Nim comment now! and/or anyone else.

1. There’s the processor or computer which can range from 100 ~ 400$?
    Want: AMD Phenom II X4 940? 220$

2. Theres the motherboard, which holds the graphics card and the processor, mother- board? 50-250$?
     Want: _______ something 100$~

3. A video card! depending on the brand, the number system is different and means different things, so higher is not always necessary better.
     Want: Radeon 4770? 110$

4. Ram, or more memory for the computer. a cheap way to boost a computer’s processing ability.
     Want: 4gb DDR2 1066? 60$

5. And a Hard drive, compared to the space in a laptop, these are so much cheaper for a desktop
     Want: 500gb SATA? 70&?

And then you just need the casing and the power supply for it and there you go, a simple computer.

still mildly disappointed…

the wedding

2009-06-07T23:53:00.001-04:00

woke up 40 minutes before the wedding ceremony
called dad to pick me up so I can get to the ceremony as he was already out
got dressed and cleaned up within 15 minutes
skipped breakfast
sat with friends on the bride side even though I was closer to the groom… though i also know both so it’s alrite
took pictures after ceremony
ate a bit of snack after photos… didn’t realize it would be my lunch. something I’d have to pay for in the near future
went to friends house to game. played rock band and sang karaoke and a game called ragdoll kung fu (very fun game!)
went to mcdonalds 1 hour before wedding banquet coz i didn’t realize the snack was my lunch. also ate a bit of expired snacks before deciding to go to mcd’s
went to wedding banquet
got bloated with the food… underestimated the power of mcdonalds

The wedding was very nice and I was very happy for the couple. Both were my counsellors at one point at fellowship… more so he groom (highschool fellowship) than the bride (university… i was at university and not in toronto so I didn’t talk to her as much). Both are very great people that I respect. You guys have prolly been to a lot of weddings and wedding banquets but this was my first time going to a wedding banquet so I had a great time as I had nothing to compare it to. It was a great and tiring day overall.

Post to Post

2009-06-06T02:04:00.001-04:00

mmm… continuing on my streak of uninteresting titles

So instead of posting about my week I’ll concentrate more on today. This week has just been about bridletowne (daycamp) stuff such as workshops for lesson planning and music for kids, Jess being sick, and me doing a whole lot of nothing but chillin. Though we finally did get together for a night of movie-fail (except drakonen) + pool + kbbq. I’m sad I didn’t take pictures eventhough i brought my camera (though I’m sure drakonen is happy about that).

Today, basically went with Jess to pick up her guitar from twelfth fret. Her guitar sounded very nice indeed… though I still love my own guitar… just… ok i don’t wanna talk about this anymore. Also saw creepy motion sensor kid doll…toys??? it was awesome… haha

Most of my day was spent doing daycamp stuff. There was a Family Fair running at a nearby school (to bridletowne park church at warden and finch) and he daycamp staff “volunteered” there to meet the kids who may be coming to the camp this summer. Day started around 3 (chilled with the directors a bit as i was early =P) and ended around 9? It actually went by pretty fast. I was in charge of this… soccer… kick… station where we set up hula hoops inside a goal post and the kids just had to kick it in. There was on for gr.3’s and under which I manned, and another for older kids which was harder. Lots of kids came and it seemed like it would never end. My volunteers came and left randomly >.< so at times i manned the station alone which was brutal.

It was a lot of fun though. There was a cotton candy machine and a dunk tank. It was nice to see a lot of kids out with their parents. There was even a “bus race” where the kids in each grade made a card board vehicle and decorated it and they had to race them as a team. I didn’t actually see the race as I was distracted by the dunk tank, but the designs looked so nice. It was also sweet to be in an elementary school again… it just has a certain atmosphere to it that just makes you all warm inside haha.

Ended the day with watching dawn of the dead with Jess at my place, getting bubble tea, then me driving my sister and her friends home from prom. It was a nice full day =) and I enjoyed it all.

Have a wedding to go to tomorrow. Should sleep now. Bye.

Past Few Days..

2009-06-01T23:05:00.003-04:00

(*) Lots of grammatical error and unfinished sentences in the following paragraphs as well as illogical chain of thoughts.. but nevertheless enjoy!

With my tutor job and volunteering in two research labs. I have been quite the busy one. I just ate dinner at 10:30pm.. since I came home at 10pm. Now I am tired and bored.. been working too often these days, but I tried to fill in some gaps.

Here's some dates to keep you guys updated about me.

Last friday:
10AM-3PM. Volunteering at my professor's lab, finally I received a mini research project on callus and cell suspension. Basically it's just a small 2-3 month project on producing and maintaining cultures of undifferentiated plant cells. These cultures are the plant equivalent of stem cell in animals as they are able to take on any new roles required by the organism, or in this case for research proposes. I am learning quite alot in this lab and it's been a great experience. I actually get to use what I learned in class to my lab work, it's quite surprising really. Now let's get on to the fun stuff.

4pm-6pm. I was at softball practice with uoft friends, we are making a summer team and just playing for fun. This practice was the first one I have been to, while meeting alot of new people, I have rekindled my interest for softball. It is truly a great sport to play and socialize in.

7pm-9pm. Was at all you can eat sushi with uoft friends again, not the same people from softball, but more from my classes and close friends. However I definitely did not eat my money's worth!

9pm-3am. Poker night with softball people, almost lost 20 bucks.. but managed to pull even. Pretty lucky since I was playing really crappy poker, all I did was call. That does not win you poker games, so I am very fortunate I did lose alot of money even though luck was definitely not on my side. Also it was late, went to eat at golden griddle, got some pancakes... mmmm.. so goood :D then crashed at a friend's place until the morning where I had work at 10:30am.

wake up at 10am.. go out to eat and do it all over again. /i love college song lyrics.

Sunday:
Went with UU, and a couple of friends to see UP. The second 3d movie I have been to, and I absolutely loved it. The movie was emotional and touching, a movie for perhaps echoes and his gf =P I will add updated more often..

Soon.

Till then, this is m&ms and I approve this message!

Post to break the no posts

2009-06-01T18:21:00.001-04:00

seriously? no posts?

wow.

Not much to update. Just a bit of daycamp stuff rite now with a few optional workshops to attend and what not since i have nothing better to do at the moment. Mostly just sitting around and watching friends… or youtube… or just channel surfing on t.v. If anyone doesn’t have a life please contact me. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

that is all for now.

Subsequent Post

2009-05-21T00:39:00.001-04:00

So as for the other stuff that happened…

Had an Epic Summer Planning session with Unknownuser. Nerded it all up. For complete nerdiness you must look at the original copy, but for now I will type out the good copy of our plan.

Food
[ ]Kbbq                        [ ] Indian Food
[ ]BBQ                              [ ] Wings
[ ]Sushi                              [ ] Hot Pot
[ ]Pho                              [ ] Buffet

Activities (non-sport)

[ ]Go-Karting           [ ] Pool
[ ]Paintballing                [ ] Movies
[ ]Bowling                       [ ] Laser (quest), Playdium

Activities (sport)
[ ] Sports (include but not limited to:)
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Badminton
4) Soccer
5) …

Nerd Stuffs
[ ] ROM
[ ] Science Centre
[ ] Conventions

Epicness
[ ] Sport events
[ ] Concerts
[ ] Camping (road trip)
[ ] CNE

Campus Challenge was nice. I think I posted a bit about it already. Learned a lot from the people and from the overall experience itself both related and unrelated to the event. For more details about what i learned you can probably go to flow4him.blogspot.com whenever i get to it.

Edit: the list is without the marking scheme and the super epic road trip plans. those will be left on my actual sheet to preserve its epic contents

Work

2009-05-19T00:27:00.001-04:00

So i’ve been working at my co-op for about 2 weeks now, and finally I understand a little bit more about what I do everyday at my monday to friday 9 - 5.

It’s an interesting little small start-up company in the biotech field. A bunch of researchers at UofT decided that they had a product which others were interested in, and a few of them decided to break off from the university and create a company to develop and sell this product. A few people being Actually a “few” or 2.

So I have 2 other full time co-workers in this little company. Theres 1 product manager which deals with the customers and the managing and selling of the product. Another one is the machinst who goes about building the product in the little machine shop of his ( think grade 7 & 8 metal and wood shops? ). The main product which we develop or which i’m currently working on, involves a product which analyzes the thermal stability of proteins.

Working in my first software development job, i’m actually enjoying having complete control of the this entire aspect of the project by myself.

Now working once again is a new thing for me. 9-5s are more hours then what school takes, but then the nights are completely free to me, so there's that plus of having no homework.

I can see how its easy to fall into a pattern of working and letting time fly right by. 10 – 20 years of this can seem like a normal routine. will that be me? All the older people who I speak too, all tell me that job security is an important aspect. But doesn’t this mean they’ll be staying in the same company for a long time? I just don’t want to fall into a cycle for that long. We’ll see where I end up in 10 years.

I’ve also turned 20 last month, I don’t beleive i’ve posted since then either. But that whole new “2”s digit infront makes me take a step back and think about where my life is heading. I haven’t had any major epipanies or anything but its just a reminder that everyone should take a step back in their lives sometimes just to think about where their lives are headed.

The 12’oclock bug ALWAYS hits.

Like most days, i’ve attempted to post much earlier in the day, and my posting speed is at a slow-moderate pace. It usually culminates abruptly with it becoming too late and time for bed, and the pressure and race to finish posting begins.

Just Hoping to be cured for next time….

off ice al

2009-05-18T20:31:00.001-04:00

Disclaimer: It’s a whole post about a girl. I know how everyone loves disclaimers.

Hey guys, I didn’t post in a while. I was kinda hoping that someone would post, but I guess not.

Pretty exhausted from campus challenge. I was away for the whole Victoria Day weekend just getting to know other christians from other campus fellowships.

A few things happened from my last post to now. I can’t do a lot of it much justice as it has been a while, but we will see how good my posting skills are. I will devote this whole post to one thing and my subsequent post for the rest.

May 11:
Dragged drakonen out with me to do some shopping. My mom got laid off this day, so I had the car for the whole afternoon. (She’s doing ok). I went to the bank to take out some money and then I went to shop for a red rose and a box of chocolates. Found the flowers, but didn’t buy them because I wanted to keep them fresh. Went to STC to buy a box of chocolates. Got exhausted after driving around so that was that.

May 12 Part 1:
This was a pretty full day. Started with a Campus Challenge worship practice from 9a.m. to 12p.m. Then Jess and I went to celebrate a friend’s birthday at Sushi Bong. After everything was done, she went home and took a nap while I had to drive off once again to get the missing flower. Bought the flower and chose to go to STC again, but this time to buy a shirt for a date the same evening. I failed to buy a shirt for like an hour so I just went home and took a 1 minute nap. Then I was off to Jess’s house.

Intermission: brief background
This background information won’t do her justice either, but she knows she’s awesome so whatever. I met Jess Ngan at the first coffee house of the year at Western’s ACF (asian christian fellowship). I found that she was pretty open and friendly and I enjoyed her company that day (and still do). Didn’t really know her too well except for the short talks here and there either during fellowship (though i don’t really remember those talks) or during bio-psych or the jamming sessions we would have every so often. When she shared something that she had kept secret for a while, it took a lot of guts to do something like that. My overall impression was that she was a strong woman who’s honest and most importantly loves God. I was impressed, but didn’t think much of it as I was on my own journey of growth that year. However, when it came down to it and a question of “who am i interested in?” was placed on me, my answer was her. Don’t mean for this to sound very cheese or anything, just if i had to pick anyone… I thought of Jess. It didn’t mean I would make a move because I wasn’t ready and I didn’t know her that well still.

May 12 part 2:
Driving on the highway northbound at 5:50ish was not the best plan. Traffic was pretty bad and the fact that I was tired did not help the traffic go by any faster. Once I arrived, I gave her the flowers and chocolates. I was suppose to give a relatively short speech at her door asking her out, but I chickened out at that point. So I just drove her to Milliken Park where we took pictures. I was still trying to work up the courage to do the speech and ask her out so it was a while until i actually sat her down and attempted my cheese speech. A speech that would’ve taken 1 minute to get through took probably around an hour coz we kept laughing at my cheesy lines (+ they were true, not just lines). By the time i asked her, it was pretty dark. So we went to Swiss Chalet where I used to work and ate dinner there. Afterwards I slowly drove her home making stops at our respective church parking lots talking. Eventually got her home and sat by her front door because I was just that tired. Talked for a while and asked her to be my girlfriend shortly followed by her parents coming back to the house and me saying bye.

Blasted the radio on the way back so I wouldn’t fall asleep. But yes, this was my first date with Jess. Hopefully she enjoyed my very tired self =P

Just announcing this more publically because I found that hiding it this weekend was just very hard. I believe we both found it frustrating not to act like a couple because we didn’t want to disrupt the already established team chemistry of the worship team. Probably would’ve been easier to tell them, but I didn’t wanna just bring it up and have awkwardness… I suck like that haha.

That is basically it. Thanks for reading.

So Tired…[edit: I will miss you Scrubs!!!]

2009-05-09T00:53:00.001-04:00

I should not be sleeping for 5 hours during the summer when I sleep for more during school. Though this is kinda my fault for sleeping late.

Pretty exhausted from everything. Had an interview today with the people above the director position. I knew them from last year so it was ok, I didn’t feel as stressed as I have with my many other talks with other people. Whenever I have a seriousish talk with people, either my face, or my hands get numb… and sometimes both. Maybe it’s just a lack of sugar… or healthy food in my system.
Anyways, they just asked me a few questions… though it seemed like a lot. The interview was different that last years i think. They didn’t ask me anything situational based like “what would you do if you lost a kid at the science centre?”. They instead asked questions like “What do you hope to achieve this summer at daycamp?”. Overall, it went well, they were very nice about everything. I kinda caught myself slouching a few times though… not good. I was tired though…

Slept at 3 in the morning coz that’s when drakonen left my place as he was installing Windows 7 on my laptop. Woke up before 9 for some reason… I don’t know why… not used to that so my eyes were pretty teary for the rest of the day. But yah, lost the songs i bought off of the itunes store… i’m pretty upset. Hopefully there is a way to get them back. Have some of the songs on my ipod shuffle… so i just can’t sync it up with my laptop. Other than that… still have to recover a few programs that I lost. Windows 7 is pretty nice so far… don’t have the energy to personalize it yet. Also had a Pho craving so we went over to pho double eight at bamburgh circle to get some Vietnamese noodles at 11:30pm. Very satisfying. Well worth the gas… and the random impulse excursion was a pretty nice bonus to a fairly semi-epic day. Drakonen also managed to confuse a spider. It looked hilarious! It was just going back and forth from drakonen’s hands (yes… pretty nasty but hilarious) until we figured out the spider was building a web between his two hands.

Had to eat viet noodles at noodle star today though… with my pho craving gone… it was pretty hard to eat a large bowl. Maybe I’ll go back one day when my cravings are back at full blast.

BIG EDIT:!!!!
HOW CAN I FORGET? SO CRAZY THAT THIS WILL BE IN CAPITAL LETTERS. JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE LAST EPISODE OF SCRUBS. THOUGH I WATCHED IT IN TWO SEPARATE PARTS AS MEGAVIDEO DID THE 72 MINUTES THING ON ME. I WAS PRETTY ANGRY. SO MAYBE I WILL WATCH IT ANOTHER TIME THROUGH THE WHOLE ENTIRE EPISODE. IT’S USUALLY 20 MINUTES BUT THIS ONE WAS 40 AS IT WAS THE SEASON FINALE. IT WAS A BITTERSWEET ENDING. I’M GLAD IT ENDED AS THE SEASONS 5-7 WEREN’T THAT GREAT. THE 8TH SEASON WAS AMAZING IN MY OPINION! A MIXTURE OF COMEDY AND SERIOUS LIFE LESSONS. IF ONLY ALL THE SEASONS WERE LIKE THIS. I think that the fact that they now knew that the season would be over, the writers actually had to think of what to do and try hard to make it awesome. Lesson: Have a goal and deadline, you will cherish everything much more than going endlessly without a finish line in sight.

Scrubs… you will be dearly missed. The show has brought me so much joy during my 1st year at Western… and it will always remain a part of me. I would take everyone down memory lane but it would make for a substantially longer post so this is good for now. =( Bye Scrubs.

I tried not to post/guitar week

2009-05-07T02:12:00.001-04:00

Really? No posts by other people other than M&M’s? Really? Fine m&m’s you have my props

Don’t want to post long. Basically, guitaring all week… fun but tiring =P What is to become of my fingers? find out in the next post… I would explain everything in more detail but I’m not in the best state to do that. 2 in the morning isn’t the best time for anything.
With no further details:

Campus Challenge Worship Practice: Thrusday to Saturday 11am-7pm
Genesis Fellowship (Church fellowship for university students): 7pm-8pm? maybe…
Sunday Service (mothers day) Worship Practice: Wednesday 7pm-10pm (just finished)
Sunday Service: Sunday 8:15am-10amish?

Many hours pressing down steel strings. mmm…. very nice.

Hungry Hungry Hippo

2009-05-03T04:56:00.002-04:00

Echo Domination anyone? Too bad it had to come to an end. I'm sure echoes is getting all teary by this post already. =]

Nothing too exciting in my life, I still have one more exam so I will keep this short. Typing at 5am in the morning might not be too healthy, but I have mutiple urges to eat nowadays. I already devoured my cut in half delissio pizza. Oh my, was it just awesome!

Switching to my main topic, since you guys know I am going back to my home town in china during this summer and going along the food theme, I wasted alot of time googling up my favourite food in China since when I ate it as a little kid.

I want to share some stuff with you guys.
The first thing is STINK TOFU :D

YUMMMM YUMMM!

Second thing: "Hot Dry noodle" or 热干面

They have instant noodle version of these, I might bring some back.

After you mix the sauce it looks like:

That's all for now. I will be adding more later, hopefully I can take lots of pictures and do some vblogging during my trip there :D

Signing out...

Update April 30&1

2009-05-02T02:50:00.001-04:00

So moved out of my place north of campus and moved to my new place south of campus. It was tiring with a big of rain but it was done. I left my slippers there… I will see if i can still get it another time.

Other than that I’m back in Toronto with a lot of stuff to unpack. Throwing clothes out that I won’t be wearing anymore coz I don’t have enough room for my london clothing (I just backspaced like 3 times with the intention of capitalizing “london” but just went “whtever”)

I don’t wanna do job stuff… I just feel like relaxing but I know I can’t. Plans for the summer? Nimalan can post the list… as he says he will post on saturday… we will see whether he goes through with it.

blechgh? I just feel very blah… maybe it’s coz it’s almost 3a.m.

Oh yah… having that extra screen is actually pretty nice. Yay split screen. So much extra space… mmmm…

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

2009-04-28T02:45:00.001-04:00

Saw a shooting star when walking back from just chillin with people who still had exams. Wasn’t really annoying them, I had a book to read and was also looking for a summer job. Still nice though since it was my first time seeing a shooting star. It was epic in my eyes. It had a trail of ice behind it as well. Did I make a wish? does a cow go moo? I don’t know

Oh twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are…

(don’t get science on me, i know what it is. u’ll only ruin everything)

Edits: “It’s not about how many times we fall, but how long we stay down”

Taking a little glimpse back from the start (ironic post?) [a thought post]

2009-04-27T14:59:00.001-04:00

Don’t have enough time or energy to post a full look back at where I was in September to where I am now so I’ll just jot down some stuff that I thought of while brushing my teeth.

I don’t think anyone ever sees exactly what they’ll be like at the end of a journey. Second year went by fairly quickly as did first year. Some stuff seemed like a long time ago eventhough it was just this year such as swimming and volleyball. Others like my trips back to Toronto, friends coming over, seemed like just yesterday. The point of this paragraph is to say how thankful I am for this year. It was a rough start academically mostly because I overloaded my first semester… and I had swimming, but coming out of this year I am able to swim and appreciate other sports more, and I also have a larger understanding of the human body and how it all works. I would have never expected this much growth in knowledge (that I may lose over the summer), or growth in other parts in my life.

I do find myself looking either in the past for hindsight or looking forward for foresight. I think many people do that though, learning from the past and applying lessons to the future. However sometimes you just have to look at the present. Just concentrate on the todays because the tomorrows will worry about itself =). Make each day count because unfortunately the world is unpredictable and this moment might just be your last. I haven’t been doing that, but hopefully one day I’ll be able to enjoy each day as it is instead of looking forward to another day thereby missing the present. Follow?

With that said, looking forward to the summer and our third year.

That’s enough for today i think.

Done Last Exams

2009-04-26T02:11:00.001-04:00

Let me walk you through today…

First Aid/CPR at 10am. SO HOT. we had maybe 3-4 breaks including lunch. Maybe two 15 minute breaks, and one 1 hour lunch break. Maybe it was three 15 minute breaks, i don’t remember. But got through the first 8 hours of training realizing I had no notes to study for my Children’s Lit course coz I left 80% of my notes at my future house… dangs… I shake my fist at the one who might be laugh at this.

Anyways, finish about half an hour early. So I go to the library to do last minute cramming of memorizing authors and main characters… which actually ended up failing at. I forgot one author’s last name and another main characters name. Hopefully I just lose part marks for that… common english! part marks please!

The children’s lit exam actually requires a lot of strategy:
Part A Question 1 => choose 5 out of the 8 passages and state full author and title + character who spoke it and who else was involved
Question 2 => Out of the 5 passages picked in Question 1, Pick 3 to elaborate on any themes, important developments that occurred from this passage, etc. You cannot use any of these books for Parts B or C

Part B
Pick two out of the five short answer questions to answer. You cannot use any of these books for Part C.
It basically made you compare 2 books that had a similar theme to it. I chose comparing the use of clothes in Cinderella and Peter Rabbit, and comparing the values that were in Treasure Island and the Story of the Treasure Seekers.

Part C
Pick 1 out of the 5 essay questions.
I chose to talk about how authors use death in children’s books and why they do it. I used Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, White Jade Tiger, and Briar Rose.

So you basically couldn’t reuse books that were used elsewhere in the exam. Which means you had to go over the whole exam first and pick and choose the right combination of books that would be the best fit for each question and give you the highest mark. Of course because I didn’t read every book, my choices were limited. Parts A and B had set books while Part C was choose any 3 books of your choice to compare. I enjoyed strategizing… mostly because it worked and I actually finished my exam this time. I couldn’t finish my mid-terms coz I just wasn’t used to the style. I didn’t expect much out of this exam. I went in pretty hopeless, but came out pretty hopeful. All I can do now is hope that the exam mark doesn’t make me hopeless again.

Overall I am pretty satisfied with the exam. It went ok. I could’ve done better, but I did my best and it all worked out. Yays. =)

Update: The New Jacket

2009-04-25T01:42:00.001-04:00

Trying my hardest to have post titles… they’re hard

Bought a new jacket 1 or 2 days ago depending on how you count days… technically 2 days but because i haven’t slept yet it’s still yesterday. Yah? get it? yah.
I’ve been complaining a while that I needed a spring/autumn jacket because I don’t really have one except for maybe my formal matrix looking jacket which I don’t wanna wear every day. So yah, $30 at winners… I WIN!!!

Today was a pretty hot day. I wanted to wear my jacket… but I couldn’t. It was just hot. It’s ok though… i finished my Treasure Island book today… the one i started during reading week… and never finished. Started Treasure Island in February and finished 2 other books in between haha. Just because I wanted to write my essay on one of the two other books i read. Good motivation. So yah, finished that book, bought another book, started the new book AND finished it in the same day! WHT WHT??? Pretty proud of myself rite now… despite the fact that there are still 4ish novels left unread in the book list that I should’ve read. So i don’t really know how great I’ll do for my exam without 4 books worth of knowledge. I will just try my best and hope for the best… because that’s pretty much all I can do. But yo… “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”… pretty nice book. Very interesting and contains pretty nice lines that just make you wanna say “gg”.

Have my STANDARD First Aid/CPR C saturday… or today… or tomorrow… seeing how you count days =P from 10am to 6pm, then exam from 7pm… to… most likely the end. –sigh-. Tomorrow will not be a nice day. I wish I’d have more time to relax coz the next day is the second part of the CPR course. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I just have to get through the weekend… and I will have to worry about summer. Oh Summer… summer… summer………. =)?

Dang it! not even cold enough tomorrow for me to wear my jacket. I HAVE NOTHING! nothing!!!

Edit: Also got a free soup from Timmies!!! I was so happy! coz… i didn’t see her give free soup to anyone else… YAY. ‘Twas delicious.

Goodbye Anatomy

2009-04-22T16:29:00.001-04:00

Just finished my anatomy exam both written and lab. 100 multiple choice for written and a 30 station bell ringer for the lab. This marks the end of me working with cadavers. It truly is a blessing when you think about the lives those bodies must have had when they were alive.

I never got to say goodbye to Clyde the Cadaver… haven’t opened him up for a few weeks. Though his muscles were amazing, his organs were not. With an enormous heart, a burst lung, and a really messed up G.I. system, he was good to us and it would’ve been nice just to pay our respects once more. I’ll never forget the experience and knowledge that I gained from working with you Clyde. I only wish I worked with you more.

The group i worked with was also amusing. It started off productive, but as we got more confused in the course, we just started to play around. No longer following the lab instructions, we just cut and explored the human body. They just make me laugh every time with their smart remarks and brilliant insults. Hope to meet up with them again someday.

Time for some children’s literature.

Update/Thoughts

2009-04-21T12:17:00.001-04:00

Weird title… because all posts are either updates or thoughts…

Finding happiness in the little things and being thankful that I can actually afford them… for now. Ran out of body wash and hair gel (well i have an old container of hair gel but it’s been so long I don’t think it’s gel anymore). Bought new ones yesterday… can’t wait to shower… and then style my hair. This new excitement will only last a moment though… but it’s the little things that get you through the day.

Starting to feel the weight of the stuff left unstudied. Anatomy is mostly all memorizing with some application to case studies. Exam is tomorrow. Starting to worry a bit. I’m not a big worrier because I know that worrying doesn’t get you anywhere. Sure, maybe it amps up your sympathetic (flight/fight) system so all your senses are like heightened but it’s a big waste of time if you don’t do anything productive. It does get you the initial drive/inspiration for action though, and I think I need that drive or motivation to go all out. I know I will try my best though so that I may be at peace with the result and not give too many excuses (too many does not mean none =P eheheh).

Got me thinking about Security. Everyone needs to feel secure and safe though there are people who like to live on the edge. We all measure the level of risk in our heads and try to go into a decision where there’s the least amount of risk. Sometimes it’s out of our control though. So what happens to our sense of security then? Where is your sense of peace?

Just a bunch of questions. Where are the answers? Stay tuned for the next epi… jk.

Good Weekend?

2009-04-20T01:17:00.001-04:00

Hey people… yah it’s obviously me. Because my birthday was 2 months ago, everyone in the blog has started to not post. My birthday present is dying!

So went back to Toronto on Thursday and have seen Jon and Nim 3 days in a row (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). Also saw Peter… finally haha =P ‘Twas nice seeing everyone… prolly should’ve taken a blog picture but that would’ve been awkward on Jon’s birthday… just maybe.

Everyone heard about the Thursday… but the friday is still left. Saturday I will leave it to someone else… so they can have something to actually post…. please… post it… do it….

Friday was a nice day. Spent it downtown because Nimalan had to get a jacket for his sister. Thought I’d go too seeing I need a spring/fall jacket myself. Didn’t end up looking for one. For more epic details… consult your closest blogger coz I’m not posting the rest. Some pictures are on facebook.

Main reason why I went back was because of Jon’s birthday, but I also had other plans on top of that. I accomplished 2/4 of the plan. Now, some may ask “why don’t you reduce that fraction to 1/2?” and I say “because I didn’t take math for 2 years, and because I had 4 plans and accomplished 2 of them.” What are those plans? One was to give some stuff to my dad from London to take home so I don’t have to carry everything when I have to move out. Second was to talk with the parents… yay talking.

Just watched x-men origins: wolverine online. It was pretty ok… better than stupid dragonball evolution. The CGI stuff wasn’t complete so I might want to watch it in the theatres. I found it hilarious and entertaining. When I can’t stop watching… it either means it’s really good… or so bad I just wanna know how else they can mess it up… like dragonball…. GAAAAAH!!!!

Is anyone else gonna watch it so they can fume with me? or… disagree with me? I need a fuming partner!

Edit: I need to buy new hair gel and body wash! Bar soap is annoying…

Just another update

2009-04-17T14:11:00.001-04:00

I was suppose to post for Jon yesterday. Maybe I’ll redo his post after mine.

No one wants to post so I’ll just post for them. That’s the way it goes… and I WILL make you look bad. haha jk. –cough- Anyways, I’m back in Toronto because someone invited me to their birthday. I should be studying but another person said we’d go jacket shopping. Yet I haven’t heard from him ever since… he better not be sleeping at almost 2 in the afternoon.

Yesterday was pretty nice. Wicked awesome weather, coupled with a relatively productive day. Woke up before 12pm! I congratulated myself. Did a little youtubing, but figured my day was pretty short so I had to get moving. Emailed my parents telling them that I will most likely go back home the same night. Went to campus to 1. Find out when the last day was for handing in a copy of our CPR/First Aid certificate; 2. Register for a CPR/First aid class for the weekend after; 3. Buy Greyhound ticket to get back home; 4. Buy any children books on the booklist that I haven’t bought yet; 5. Buy lunch

Everything was done in that order. Went home to eat lunch and pack my stuff so I can get to the station on time. Found out the book i bought was the wrong book… I was quite sad. I think i posted about why I needed to do another cpr/first aid class… stupid emergency first aid instead of standard first aid. All that took… everything… almost. Once i got back to Toronto and bought more tokens… THEN i was broke. I actually have no money in my wallet. It is quite sad.
So after everything was packed, lunch eaten, I headed out. I missed 2 buses to get to greyhound on purpose coz the campus looked so beautiful that day that I had to go and take pictures of it! I also knew that no one goes back to Toronto on a Thursday… that’s just too random. I was right! Got on the greyhound bus and there were SO many empty seats! It was pretty niiiiceee. I was so happy… oh the little things that make everything so enjoyable.

Got home, ate dinner, Nimalan calls me, we all go to Jonathan’s place. Mostly chilling… youtube… them talking about computers and everything related… amusing time destroying jonathan’s facebook status and annoying everyone… back to the computer stuff. Go home around 2a.m. and decided to climb up our elementary school’s roof. Nimalan succeeded… I did not… but I will this weekend! I WILL!!!!! maybe.

That is all.

Jonathan’s Post:

Hi, I’m jonathan and I’m too kool because I’m finished school now. Not with ease though as I did have many exams crammed into a few days. Moved out of res once and for all and got back home in Toronto around 2pm yesterday. It was sad… my room mates and I hugged for a long time… we will miss each other dearly (that might have been made up).
Now I’m back in Toronto getting ready for my awesome co-op job which will be in the markham area. I have lots of learning to do. What will happen next? Stay tuned… for the next filler episode…

Girls and Relationships Pt.2: “Love is…”

2009-04-13T01:02:00.001-04:00

Yo… I should so be studying. I WILL study after this post. That’s right, you just saw my mental power at work there. Impressed? We’ll see what happens after this post…

Nothing specific here about this post so if you’re looking for dirt, there ain’t any so you can just leave and go study.

I don’t usually post anything that may be thought of as “spiritual” here because I think it might get annoying and make people feel uncomfortable which I don’t like to do despite popular belief that I do like to make awkward moments… which I do… just not this type of awkward. But, it’s a topic that is relatively known to everyone so I feel like I can just put a glimpse of my most recent thoughts on it. Love….dating… marriage… so complicated!!! Let’s have some funnnn…

Most people knows or knows of the quote I’m about to ctrl-v on this post. Usually said at weddings? I’m pretty sure everyone has heard it in movies.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

You know about it… but you never really think about it. Or at least I don’t really think about it. I don’t just hear it and zone out and start thinking about it… although I could… but then I’d miss a part of the movie or the wedding and that’s not kool. I’m not gonna go too into it because I do have to study… prolly take a shower first and then… laundry… and then study. BUT I WILL STUDY. Anyways, back on track.

I see dating as a path to marriage. You don’t date and not plan to get married. Using a metaphor I read from a book called “I kissed dating goodbye” it would be like climbing up a mountain with a partner who suddenly decides they’re not really sure they want the responsibility of holding your rope while you’re 2000 ft up a mountain (Harris, 28). <-I am so doing that for fun. So before you dive into a relationship, a few things cross my mind.
1. Am I able to place her needs before my own? Or take care of her as if she were of my own flesh? It’s not about what you can get, but what you can give

2. Will i be able to forgive her if she has wronged me, work things out, and keep no grudges?

3. Will I be able to guard her heart and keep her pure in mind and body? Protect her life as if my life depended on it? Dating and marriage are separate things. We shouldn’t introduce important elements of marriage into a dating relationship if we do not have the level of commitment to go through with it. There is a certain level of intimacy that comes with the level of commitment.

4. Will I be able to open myself, get vulnerable, and trust her with my own life? and am I responsible and reliable enough to receive her trust?

5. Will I be able to stay positive, keeping hope alive in situations where it may seem utterly hopeless?

6. Will I be able to endure hardships and be able to overcome them? When times get tough, will I stay faithful and continue to support her?

A lot of the ideas are connected. Enduring and being patient. Gaining trust and protecting that trust. It seems pretty niiice if you do experience this type of love. The really nice thing is, there is no such thing as “love fail” and if it does seem to fail, it’s not the love, it’s probably a “you fail”.

Meh… semi-spiritual but whtever. Just been on my mind and thought I’d share something that had some depth to it unlike my other posts. This is just maybe 30-40% of what goes on in my head.
Love is hard yo. Are you ready for it?

Peace out…

… did i really say “peace out”? dang…

-Additional Thoughts/Edit in Green.-

Apparently I had a part 1 back in April of 2008… so I post the second part a year later.

Are you a gay fish?

2009-04-11T02:30:00.005-04:00

If male, proceed!
Do you like fish sticks? If yes, proceeed!
Do you like to put fish sticks in your mouth? If yes again, proceeed!

What are you? A gay fish? Hahahhaa =]

South park is awesome! Busy with school and life lately, add me on twitter guys come on!
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Posting Beast!!!

2009-04-09T04:18:00.001-04:00

It’s 4 in the morning and I’m eating chocolate covered almonds. Not studying… just… up.

Had a random urge to post about my sister’s hamster. Not sure if i posted a story of the hamster, but in memory of my sister’s late hamster… now laying in the backyard, let me tell you a tale of an adventure like no other… not really.

Woke up one day to find my sister going crazy and yelling my name. I come downstairs to the living room where i find my sister at the scene of the crime. The hamster was out of its cage. How did it happen? We believe that our dad cleaned the cage (which is often very much needed as my sister is sometimes too busy with school, talking with friends, or chillin with the boyfriend) and he didn’t put the wheel on properly. Our hamster slept in the wheel that he was suppose to run on which he did… but he got old and started sleeping there instead. So the wheel fell over night, and the hamster escaped. So the epic adventure began.

We looked everywhere… under the piano, in corners behind tables. No where to be found. I believe he may have been under the couch at first. Oh… the hamster didn’t really have a name. It was just hamster… and I think it was a he.
It took I believe a whole day to catch him. He ended up going to the kitchen hiding behind the oven, and apparently we had a hole in our bottom cupboards coz he got in there with the plastic shopping bags, sauces, cleaning supplies, and green bin. I was actually pretty concerned it would chew on something poisonous. I let it roam around a bit because everyone deserved a taste of freedom instead of being locked up in a cage. I think it may have been his happiest night. However, the fear of poison did kick in and I couldn’t let him chill in the cupboards/drawers any longer. So I did what any owner would do… set up a trap. Put the ball thing that the hamster could run in around the house with food. Left the ball open so the hamster would climb in and grab the food. He eventually did and I caught him. I felt pretty proud. Put him back in his cage and his adventure had finally ended.

Couldn’t pick him up coz he was scared of people touching him. You could only stroke his back when he was eating. Otherwise he would run. And even then, he would still crumple up into a ball if he feels too nervous getting touched while eating, or it would start trembling. Poor guy.

R.I.P. again Hamster

Post Master!!!

2009-04-09T02:15:00.001-04:00

I have no idea how many posts I’ve written this week… daaaang, i must be bored.

So, just streamed the dragonball z: evolution movie thingamabob. When I first watched the trailer… i thought “dang… this looks horrible”… but you know wht? Yah… it was. I know you all expected me to say that. Quiet you… fun-destroying…people

The action was ok, it was a cam version that I watched so the quality wasn’t super great but it was still decent. Being a very big fan of dragon ball, dbz, as well as dbgt, there were a lot of things in the movie that bothered me. Pretty sure people of this blog are big fans too. I don’t wanna say too much, and it’s just my views. A few things you can already pick out from the trailer include Goku being white… i mean… Caucasian. Nothing wrong with that… it’s just… my mind somehow sets Goku as being asian than anything else even though he may technically not be. He is a saiyan afterall… Despite Goku being white though, I don’t think his character was portrayed correctly.

Ah… getting tired of fuming about the movie. It could’ve been better. It’s kinda like the first hulk movie. I hope there’s a redo like there was for the hulk as well. ahhhh….!!! So much more to say but my brain really isn’t working after that movie.

Edit: Scrubs season 8 is so niiice. I’m liking the humour. i think I will be satisfied with them ending the show off with this season. I think they may be doing another season but with a change in the key characters… but whtever. Just enjoying this season =)

Poor!!!

2009-04-09T00:41:00.001-04:00

Last day of classes was today. It’s all over. Half a year of classes finished. Lightest semester that will ever occur in my entire life has been completed… I wish I treasured it more. Only 3 exams… 3.5 exams (i count lab exams as 0.5) although if you do put it that way then it’s 4 as I had 2 lab exams. Whatever.

Don’t wanna reflect on my year yet… it’s still too early for that.

So I got my new dress shoes today. Pretty expensive, but I’m hoping to wear it for a long time… hopefully. Leather both inside and out, and the soles have traction!! Sick! It’s like running shoes at the bottom, but no one can really see. So deceiving. I likeeee.
Also got another Kin clothing. So far, my western clothing consists of a kin zip hoodie, western hoodie, and now a kin black long sleeve t-shirt that says “we play sports for marks” at the front and kinesiology at the back with University of Western Ontario on one of the sleeves. Sick too! Hopefully I’ll be able to stay in Kinesiology as I still need my standard first aid!… dang… that brings another side story.

Basically, got certified for CPR C and Emergency first aid when I worked at a daycamp last summer. I thought it would do, so I kinda procrastinated in handing it in until last month. Then I discovered I needed standard first aid and not emergency. So apparently I have to take another course all over again. AHHSDAKFJ;KJ! Very annoying.

But yah. Still have to pay $40 for my aikido test and I owe my housemates some utility money. Still wanna get a new dress shirt. Maybe get a spring jacket later on…. not all at once to ease my psyche into it.

Dream 2

2009-04-07T11:51:00.001-04:00

Continuing with the theme of dreams…

Just woke up… just so I can post this before I forget everything. I actually don’t remember much of it anymore except for the one last scene. The scene was just my dad and my grandpa outside probably walking towards a church of some kind because it was my dad’s wedding day. My grandpa looked just like my dad now and my dad maybe looking a bit younger. I somehow knew that my grandpa dyed his hair… Yo… I just remembered something about the dream (thinking out loud). This was a dream, about me telling my dad about a dream. I was telling my dad about seeing him and his dad. Anyways, my grandpa looked happy and he was smiling while walking. My dad was obviously smiling as well because it was his wedding day.

It’s not much, but it’s mostly the reflection that counts! I’ve only remembered seeing that grandpa twice. All my relatives live in Hong Kong so I’ve only remembered seen any of them maybe just twice. The last time I went to Hong Kong was 5-6 years ago to visit my grandpa because he was dying. Which did end up happening a few weeks after we left back to Canada. Got the news with Nimalan beside me cause we were gaming when I got the call from my aunt. The point was that from the last time I saw him, he had no smiles, he was pretty sad. Maybe because he had no energy, or maybe because he was anticipating his own death which is a very scary thing. Seeing him smile in my dream actually brought me manly tears of joy.

Every time I went to Hong Kong I felt closer to my family; both direct relations and just my relatives. I’m not that close to my family rite now, but this dream somehow got me to feel a bit closer… somehow. I sometimes do wish that I had relatives to visit like everyone else. Daniel and his “aunt colony”. He has so many relatives… Nimalan with his set of relatives going to his house once in a while. Jon with his relatives living like right across from him. Don’t know peter… sorry peter… maybe you can comment about yourself =). I want to chill with my cousins and aunts and uncles. Even if they were here though it’d be pretty hard to communicate as they would most likely talk in cantonese and I suck at that right now coz I haven’t really spoken it for possibly 3 weeks straight since the last time I went to Hong Kong. Feel blessed you people with relatives. Some of us don’t get to have that bonding time. Well my relatives do… with each other.. just not with us here in Canada. Sad.

Mweh? haha… such a nice sounding word.

Studying

2009-04-06T15:52:00.001-04:00

Not really studying as we can all see. Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting something.

Though I am at the library with a book open reading about muscle hypertrophy and hyperplasia. I just felt like posting coz my last post was actually pretty emo. So to lighten things up more with a 2 day break to clear my mind and relax let us commence posting about what’s going on in my mind.

There is an ACF (Asian Christian Fellowship… same thing as CCF for Jon) banquet this thursday and I’m not happy? Why am I not happy some may ask? Because I need to buy dress shoes. But doesn’t shopping make you happy? Yah… but at the moment I’m too lazy to look for the right shoe. And also, he dress pants that came with my suit has been M.I.A. for 2 years… I think I’ve ever worn that dress pants for prom. I have to settle for the dress pants that did not belong to my suit.

I remember last year, when I was at the library and our university community centre every day studying day and night. I think it was because I wasn’t used to seeing 70’s so I worked my butt off to get 80’s (which i don’t think really happened…). Still passed though, and now I’m here. I think this year has been the easiest year and will probably be the easiest year. Instead of taking 2.0 credit in science like last year with biology and chem, I only took a 0.5 science credit with “Patterns in Life’s Diversity”. I need 1.5 more science credits to graduate in BSc Honours Spec Kinesiology. I think… Ideally I should’ve taken more science credits to lessen my load for 3rd and 4th year, but I didn’t. I was a complete n00b at selecting courses this year. The only real struggle i had this year (school-wise) was swimming. I wish I had the motivation to study like I did last year. Especially since I’m gonna need a lot of studying for anatomy.

should study… ran out of things to say.

Blah

2009-04-04T03:10:00.001-04:00

Bad start to the week.

A bunch of stuff just hit me today… figuratively speaking?

It seems that every time I speak, something wrong comes out. That’s usually why I like to listen more.

Fetal position looks awfully good right now. But hiding away won’t do anything. I need to sleep and recover.

Getting pwned continuously isn’t fun

So “I have a dream”…

2009-04-04T02:25:00.001-04:00

one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created eq…

wait wrong dream, it’s not even my dream. Google it for points. I actually had another dream lately, for me my most vivid dreams happen when I am beyond tired, usually on a nice afternoon where after my morning classes which I survive through on a single coffee, ends up hitting me while I’m studying, and somehow I go from studying at my computer to asleep on the bed by 2pm. Run on sentence, –1 point. I really should work on grammer, and I also really like this font.

My recent dream has reaffirmed me that dreams are loosely related with thoughts in my head that have recently happened, or been thought about. In my dream, it was about a girl. And the idea behind it, was directly what I was thinking about the previous night, only somehow exactly that in picture form. I have no idea how my brain was able to translate it that well.

brb studying for the next two weeks. bye. i’ll pop by occasionally,

April 1

2009-04-02T00:06:00.001-04:00

No April fool pranks. Score.

Just realized my space bar is so oily I can see the reflection of my thumb as it presses the space bar.

Exercise Physiology lab exam tomorrow. Have no idea what 1 of the 4 labs are about. Well I do know, I just don’t know what to do for calculations. Hopefully there will be very little of it.

Got my orange stripe belt for aikido today! Kinda miss my yellow belt… it was my first belt. Weird enough… the white belt was the second belt I got because the white belt comes with a dogi or uniform and I got the yellow belt before I got the uniform. So yah, I’ve basically been wearing my yellow one for… the majority of the time I practiced aikido except for the first term when I wore gym clothes and no belt to class. Have to start breaking in my belt.

Went to M&M meat shop today and the lady there was so nice. There was a discount for those who had a Max card. She so wanted me to have that discount even though I didn’t have the card, so she just searched up someone with my last name, and pretended she was a relative and used her card instead. Hilarious, but I’m thankful =P coz I got 4 dollars off for having a fake relative. Ended up getting the card anyways… it was free. See a discount at M&M meat shop? call me up.

My stomach had 3 days of meat in a row. It’s either missing the meat… or it’s paying up for it rite now. Very annoying to be with… even though I need it.

Still missing my iPod… I’m not even that sad about losing it. It just bums me out that I also lost my $40 earphones with that ipod. It’s like a critical hit to my music listening abilities. Gah….!!!

I post when I have nothing better to do… and don’t wanna study…

Drakonen

2009-04-01T23:52:00.001-04:00

Drakonen thinks he can post in other people’s comments. Luckily, he has a loyal blogmate that won’t let a good post come unnoticed

“Your dream is cool and all, but I was captain of a large flying sailing ship in my last memorable dream. I was half through the dream and coming up on a thick clouds when i thought, this is a ship, i can just sail under them.... somehow ended up in a Buddhist temple in a japan hiding behind statues trying to pick of ninja.... weird eh?”

Loving windows live writer… i don’t have to sign out of my new gmail account in order to access my old one just to post.

Strangest Dream

2009-04-01T13:17:00.003-04:00

Well it’s not the strangest, it’s just I haven’t remembered a dream in a while.

Basically, someone apparently very important to me died (though I do not remember exactly who it was). All I remember is me singing “Have I told you lately” by Rod Stewart (at least that’s the version I know) in a very emo way. I was just crying and singing at the same time so there was a lot of voice cracking and… it was just emotional. Too scary for me. Going up an octave every so often.

I don’t know what that was all about. Dreams are interesting though so I’ll just put it up here in case it’s of any significance in the future =S

Edit 2: Bored... so I thought I'd include lyrics for fun

Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you theres no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles thats what you do

For the morning sun in all its glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
You fill my life with laughter
And somehow you make it better
Ease my troubles thats what you do
Theres a love thats divine
And its yours and its mine like the sun
And at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray
To the one, to the one

Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you theres no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles thats what you do

Theres a love thats divine
And its yours and its mine like the sun
And at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray
To the one, to the one

And have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you theres no one else above you
You fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles thats what you do
Take away all my sadness
Fill my life with gladness
Ease my troubles thats what you do
Take away all my sadness
Fill my life with gladness
Ease my troubles thats what you do

Edit 1: Oh, and I seem to have lost my iPod.... MY IPOD!!! THAT I PAID A LOT FOR! NOOOO.... MY OSAP MONEY!!! It must be somewhere... if i can't find it, i just hope the person who does find it is blessed by my awesome ipod that is in a pretty nice condition since it's in a case... that I bought.... .... I'm so bitter...

Weekend Over Already?

2009-03-30T01:55:00.001-04:00

Went back to Toronto this weekend for a practice/meeting while in the process taking care of groceries and spending time with family. Mostly ate chinese food coz it’s hard to get it in London. Although now, after Nimalan (I’m assuming we’re all going for first names now) introduced me to his restaurant site, I spent a bit of time researching places to eat in London that looks interesting. I may try them out sometime. Mostly the ones that were rated with 4 stars and up that make asian (whether viet or chinese or japanese) food.

Feel like watching Monsters vs. Aliens. har har har…
and possibly I love you, man

Couldn’t sleep last night… went to bed around 2:30. My mind was oddly tired, but active. I was just tossing and turning in my bed ‘til what seemed like 5am. So I was super tired the whole day. Got some shut-eye during the ride back to London though… although my mind didn’t drift off until the last 45 minutes of the trip. Beginning of the trip was mostly comprised of me shutting my eye, but eavesdropping on conversations occuring in the car i was in… lalala. Yah… my mind just seems to be very distracted. A lot going on…

On a brighter note though, I bought laundry detergent and i am not afraid to use it! mmm… nothing quite brings the happiness that comes with clean, nice smelling clothes.

Maybe i’ll put some of my frustrations down in an actual post… but i’m distracted with songs blasting in my ears rite now so I’ll leave it for later.

one month-ish?

2009-03-27T17:14:00.001-04:00

Its been a month since the new resurgence of posts… really? already?

Anyways, had my aunt’s wedding on Saturday… who new it was so hard to put together a wedding? It worked out well, although I’ve never done so much heavy lifting, and I’ve never seen us not have enough of almost everything, in completely unpredictable and unrelated numbers. We’re either down by 50, 4, or a 100. Still, the end result was gorgeous, and fun, and made my aunt cry…. in happiness, mainly because she only saw the end result.

So that’s that, and all I can say from it is that you really do get a really large swath of personalities that go to a temple,both saints and sinners, a really unusual bunch. My aunt volunteers as a event organizer at the temple near her house, her father’s the equivalent of a pastor, so she deals with a lot kids. I guess sticking with school sort of filters out all the peers who skipped school and spent time doing other things, usually more notorious. Still, its amazing how well faith reforms people.

Also, a cool website for wallpapers: IntefaceLift

Song’s been stuck looping

Sickness

2009-03-27T11:29:00.001-04:00

Not as sick as Nimalan was a week or two ago, but i’m coming down with something. Darn you runny nose and sore throats.

coming back to Toronto this weekend. yay…

Aikido

2009-03-26T11:54:00.001-04:00

I should be writing my essay which was due last week… yet I am here posting something. So I should make this quick before I forget what my second point is in my essay.

I haven’t actually been going to aikido all that much because I’ve either been really busy with meetings or I just got lazy and wanted to chill. Whenever I do go though, it’s a lot of fun. The instructors are hilarious and the people there are pretty friendly. You can feel their genuine care when you’ve been gone for a while. It’s a nice feeling =).

Yesterday was my aikido testing day; going for 7th kyu which is an orange stripe belt. I should be testing for an orange… but I missed the test last semester so I’m a bit behind the people that I started out with. It’s really encouraging when the instructors were the ones who pushed me to test because it shows that they do have confidence in you. It’s apparently a general unwritten rule that if the instructor tells you to test, you’ve already passed. Unless you mess up big time of course… then you fail.

Also made it as one of the Western Aikido Club exec. I was suppose to be president this upcoming year, but since I haven’t been going as much, it’s been decided that it would be better if we see someone else who has been going more regularly to apply for it. So now instead of president, I’m VP secretary. I take care of the attendance list and some if not most of the admin stuff… which is mostly sending out emails.

Guess i should be going back to work now.

Videos Watched: 9,092

2009-03-23T23:10:00.003-04:00

What the… YouTube video watching has gotten out of hand. I am afraid to count how much time that amounts to. My nights when not outside, revolve around me with my two monitors, usually multitasking like mad. right now I have:

- music from an ipod dock playing in the background.
- an episode of 30 rock playing on one monitor.
- a firefox browser open with 5 tabs, one including the youtube page where I found that particular statistic.
- two msn conversations open in the background
- a program in one of the corners monitoring the temperature of my computer
- a pdf with my calculus assignment in the background
- another pdf with the answers to the calculus assignment ALSO in the background
- my c++ programming assignment ALSO in the background
- AND my calc textbook and notebook in the sliding part of the desk in front of me

The horrors of computers taking over. This is making me want to go out for some fresh air. Just a reminder to take a break and stretch once in a while.

Life

2009-03-23T22:55:00.002-04:00

http://www.fmylife.com/
The end.

Actually, just a few quick updates in my life. Got a much needed haircut, and there goes my analogy of my life is as messy as my hair. I have a long chemistry lab 8:30am tomorrow that will last until 12, and I am catching up on the pre/post lab for tomorrow. Last week was death to sum it up.

I will give out some new music recommendations soon as I separate myself from this chaotic period and during my much needed peace before the storm(finals).

My appolgies to UU for stealing his colour(a serious crime in the blogging community) I will start to post with one of my other favourite colour.. orange!

One of the Bloggers

2009-03-23T00:14:00.001-04:00

you people and recommending/rating artists and their albums.

I don’t have an artist or album to recommend. Like I said in the last post, i’m watching a lot of scrubs. I get most of my songs from scrubs… lol kinda sad. Anyways, My Road by Quinn Walker sounds pretty nice… better if you can hear the bass… probably.

One of the many untitled posts

2009-03-22T23:35:00.001-04:00

So, let’s get on with a few updates.

Coffeehouse. I distinctively remember the first and what was the only coffeehouse I helped out (performance-wise) in was very traumatizing. I was close to having a nervous breakdown. My heart was beating mad fast before I had to go on. I even had to stay outside and stretch. Very unpleasant. However, once I got up there, I did ok. I was satisfied with what happened on stage and I had a sense of peace.
This coffeehouse was the opposite of that. I felt nervous… but it was the kind of nervousness that I always have before playing in front of a crowd of people. I wasn’t as nervous beforehand this time because I knew most of the people watching whereas last year it was the beginning of first year when I didn’t really know anyone. However, whether it was because the song was sung very low during the verses or I just got really nervous or the combination of them both, my voice started shaking and I couldn’t project my voice (and even when I do, it’s still pretty soft). To this day, I’m still playing that moment over in my head and beating myself up for it. How could I mess up like that? Many debates are currently going on in my head… even though I should just let it go because it has already passed. Also thankful for the friends there that just encouraged me when I was putting myself down after.

The skit was a bit more fun to do. After putting myself down the first act, my thought was that nothing that I was about to do would be worse than what had just happened. It went fairly smooth. Maybe one minor timing glitch but it wasn’t noticeable.

Pretty much finished Fable… I could do a bit more, but I should actually really study. I haven’t really taken my studies that seriously. I have however, been reading a lot. Except it’s not for school. Maybe i’ll post something about it when I’m more bored than I am now. Got up to date with the 8th season of scrubs that I thought would never exist coz I thought the 7th season was the last. The 8th season is actually pretty funny. Or at least more so than the more recent seasons. Also watching the 8th season of friends. I forgot where I left off a few years ago after the…. incident….. dot dot dot.

dot.

spilled a bit of sauce on my bed sheets and now i have to wash them all! (with my house mate’s laundry detergent coz mine ran out. Was suppose to buy detergent today but I couldn’t decide which one was the best. Bad decision skills).

Windows Live Writer

2009-03-20T01:12:00.002-04:00

Fine… I’ll use it just because it has been recommended twice. Peer pressure…

I probably won’t be using this type of font on all my posts because it’s just too much trouble to select everything. We will see. Anyways, found out I had an essay due today that has already been extended 2 weeks… I just didn’t notice that the 2 weeks ended today. So i basically have to write an essay before next week or i will fail (not really… but still… fail)

As for coffeehouse stuff… I’m not totally sure how ready I am. I am in two acts, the first one being me singing and on guitar with another friend singing; the other is a skit. I’m interested to see how nervous I’ll get right before I go on. Last years coffee house was the most nervous experience in my life. Definitely will be an interesting night.

Other than that… had an awesome time in the anatomy lab taking out the large and small intestines and cutting open a human liver. It’s actually pretty small. People usually think it’s huge, but it’s actually contained in a lot of fat and a sac so once you open everything up, the kidney is only like 70% of it’s size before.
Our cadaver had so many surgeries done due to having so many things wrong with him. I kinda wonder what his life was like before he died. He died from his right lung kinda exploding, but when you open him up there is so much more than that. His heart was ridiculously huge… or rather it was just larger than what it’s normally suppose to be for a guy his size. He had heart surgery… we think he got his valves replaced. His digestive track is just DESTROYED. He couldn’t do his number 2 normally. He had part of his intestines rerouted out of his belly and into a bag.
Can you just imagine that?
What is life like when you can’t even poo normally?
I know my whole group kinda felt sorry for the guy. He also had gall stones and a cyst on his kidneys. If he didn’t die from his lungs, he would’ve died from other stuff. I think he also had cancer on his intestines too.

What will happen when I get old? What’s happening in each of our bodies? It's all a mystery

Oh life…

I had to post it, i just had to.

2009-03-19T00:32:00.004-04:00

Guys we have a new theme song. See below.

[EDIT]: Err... I'm a noob. Why isn't this working? Can one of the more technically adept members help to fix this?

[EDIT2]: It actually SORT of works and can be viewed if you click one of the video links in the bottom of the video bar once it loads and the message pops up.

How is that not cool? I personally don’t care too much about the dark vibe feelings from the video, but the beat i have to admit is pretty catchy.

Everyone sound’s like they’ve been enjoying themselves lately, well nim did have a weekend of enjoyment before that… I think i’ll include myself in this group. I do have to agree with Gary and say that the weather brings out the best in people.

Perfect weather yesterday. I went out twice yesterday to play with a soccerball around the res where I live. When a group of people can just get together and kick a ball around, in some sort of field/parking lot mix, then it must be something special.

Working inside with the windows open and a gentle breeze blowing in, is one of the nicest feelings which I can remember in my recent memory. Wait, Driving with the windows slightly rolled down and a breeze blowing in as I drive Might top that.

This warm weather also reminds me that summer is next term. Summer in toronto will be amazing, no more having to study while everyone has fun which happened to me last year.

Nimalan: Removed a chunk of white space... er black space... didn't seem intentional.... also, thanks right, this is on the aligned to the left, BOOYAKASHA <---(Firefox's spell-check says it should be boneshaker)

Regurgitate

2009-03-18T16:31:00.001-04:00

Oh where or where to begin, with good news or bad news? Might as well go chronological!

Last Saturday I went to the South Asian Alliance Show, and went as part of University of Scarborough’s Spirit team. That ended up happening because I couldn’t initially go to the show, but when the day cleared up, my high school buddies called me up to see if I was going and that they were buying tickets right then. So I ended up going to the show as part of the UTSC spirit team, which is basically where all 14 participating universities had people come who weren’t participating in the stage performance sat with their respective universities and had to both cheer and perform a special intro cheer right before the stage performance. The UTSC theme this year was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the cheer we had to do (which me and my friend from waterloo learned in the lobby of the Hershey’s Centre) was us unwrapping larger chocolate bars with university names on it singing “whose got the golden ticket” as if we were Oompa Loompas. Suffice to say, the winning golden wrapper was in the UTSC bar, and the one minute cheer went straight to a Willy Wonka themed Bollywood dance off. Did I mention this is a competition, which is judged? Waterloo won I think like 9 of the 19 awards, including the top award of Best Performance. Their theme was university life, with the different styles and themes within south Asian culture split up to represent the different faculties. They definitely had the best funding, and the best usage of props and stage sets, which made for a good show, but sad competition. York was second with a Super Mario theme, which curiously University of Toronto Mississauga campus also did. Third was McMaster, which did a take on the movie Night at the Museum. Others worth mentioning is Western's Mafia movie theme performance, where their cheer was a trailer of sorts, UTSG did… I can’t seem to remember for the life of me… I just remember UTSC people feeling depressed for not winning anything (we should’ve won best spirit team). It was a fun 5+ hours of pure exhaustion (we cheered louder then most, and led the entire group a lot of times since we were in the middle). Also, there were so many hot brown girls and not enough guys to watch them, so a great sight everywhere!

So that was Saturday… Sunday was spent making pancakes with me and my cousin since we woke up at 8am somehow. It wasn’t my first time making pancakes, but I botched the batch since I couldn’t find a whisk, and used an electric mixer instead. In my stupidity, I used it in a shallow bowl and ended up ejecting a good portion of the egg yolk. Too hungry and lazy to start over, I went ahead and made them. I messed up again because I left the heat too high in the pan which caused the pancakes to burn easily, so I lowered it. Well, instead of lowering it and waiting for heat to dissipate, i went ahead and made the last bunch. Now, if you want to not burn things, you put them in lower heat, or you put if for less time. I chose the latter, and resulted in undercooked pancakes. Luckily, maple syrup masks all… too well….. My cousin was too hungry, and nice to complain, so that was that…..

For him at least (dah dah daaaaaaaaaaaaah)

The rest of the day was spent with me, my cousin, my sister, and three other cousins taking a cousin a newly arrived cousin from France shopping with us at Orfus Rd, to which I have never been to personally but is the outlet street for Urban Planet and Stitches and Cosa Blanka and wherever else girls show (they got tops for $5!?!). Last time I apparently met this cousin was 10 years ago, where she was a flower girl with my sister for our aunt’s wedding. Now, this aunt’s youngest sister is getting married, and she’s back. She’s never bought so many close in her life, and neither have I, nor any of the guys there. Hell, it was more then my current wardrobe! How many times can you split $200 into $5 increments? Yeah, exactly. I was hilarious because the French cousin could speak French, German, Italian and Spanish…. but not any English, so we all had to speak Tamil. Which none of us are the greatest in. So I had fun with family that day.

So finally, 4am Monday, I wake up to a stomach ache, go up two flights into the washroom, and throw up, a lot. After four complete upchucks, I rinse my mouth out and tried to sleep on the couch. I ended up up vomiting up four more times, with at least three upchucks each. I don’t think I’ve ever been so dehydrated. So I took two glasses of water. Who the hell throws up water? Its like my body was waiting for me to give it a medium to upchuck. Hell, I threw up some more after that, and there was no more bitter acid taste, just tasteless vomit… which I gagged so hard at one point that half of it came out of my nose… ugh. So a trip to my family doctor (whom I haven’t seen in more then a year) basically asked me what I think I should do, since it was clear what the cause was at this point. I ended up with a liquid diet for the last three days, a shot of gravol injected into my ass (literally) by the doctor so I could actually eat something and survive, and antibiotics since I was coming down with a slight fever. Last three days have been locked in bed, random light vomiting, tasteless food, clothes that I have yet to buy for a wedding on Saturday, and my buddies posting how nice the weather is and how much fun they’re having! SPRING FEVER!

Oh, and my cousin had no problems, so he’s enjoying his march break.

Login

2009-03-18T15:00:00.002-04:00

I hate how in order to log into this account, i have to use my old gmail/google account and not my new one. It's annoying coz I can't check my email while typing a post as they are on different accounts. GRRs.

Anyways, fantastical week so far. Nice sun, moderate a.k.a. PERFECT temperature. mmmmmm...
So yesterday, had to skip basketball... mostly coz i hate it... but even if i hate it I still go. So this time added on to the hate, my hips and knees were pretty bruised up from practicing a skit I'll be helping out with for our second Coffeehouse. It was a nice and relaxing hour and a half (the other half an hour was spent traveling to the next class).
Went to Anatomy... and then re-read and took more notes on a book that I will later go more in detail with.
Then I went to a workshop session where they talked about interview skills specifically pertaining to medical school. I don't plan on going to medical school, I just went there to learn more about interview skills.
Couldn't stay long, as I had to go bowling. Went bowling for Men's Cell. Got there around 7 and waited a while for a lane to open up. Played 3 games which took about 2 hours. So by the time we ended, it was about 10 something.
Went to eat afterwards at Crabby's. 39 cent wings... are niiiice. Didn't go there this whole year. By the time we ended, it was about 11:30 or so.
After that, went over to a friends house and played poker. The game lasted until around 2:30 maybe. The losers started playing Rock Band so after the game finished everyone just joined in and played rock band until 3:30.

It was a fun... and expensive day.

Not sure what else I wanted to post. I'm really sleepy... g'nite.

Spending a lot of money on Orange juice

2009-03-18T01:42:00.001-04:00

I have found myself spending alot of money on orange juice lately, or well not just recently but more so throughout all of my past and present university terms.

I have funded “tropicana” with countless amounts of money over the past while. They somehow make their juice taste so good in a way that, the 1.99 carton of pulpless so called orange juice does not. In our fridge, or well in my section of it anyways, there always must be at least some form of tropicana orange juice within it.

I probably cannot go more than a week without seeing it in my fridge. Sure here and there I splurge for the odd fruitopia, or fivealive carton to make up for it. But more often than not i find myself buying the same thing week in and week out, and it has really put a strain on my wallet.

I can go grocery shopping and somehow spend 35$ somewhat dollars and it only accounts for a few meals, the mystery of the missing money at the grocery store still puzzles me.

stupid 8:30 classes.

Things i’ve found when doing the laundry

2009-03-17T00:47:00.001-04:00

5$ and a calculator. I have no clue how it got there. But the 5$ was a nice find. I guess the calculator is useful, for school?

The weather IS nice, no i haven’t gone out on any wacky adventures like Gary has. But i have enjoyed being outside. So many possible summer ideas do come to mind though which have made the last few days more enjoyable. Just waiting for others in my class to get a job, as many of them are having a tough time given the current economy. It’s tough to talk about anything fun without inadvertently (misspell most likely and i can’t find the spell checker) causing them undue mini-angers. I know the feeling of seeing others get jobs before me and how i felt in my previous job-less state.

I Just found one of those daily pill/vitamin boxes which I have started using and it actually Does it’s job of reminding me.

Perfect Days

2009-03-16T17:28:00.002-04:00

The weather outside is just awesome! I love this weather. The smell outside brings nice memories.

It was so nice that I decided to have an adventure... by myself again. Mostly coz I don't think anyone I know would be stupid enough to do it with me. I'll explain what I really did, then try to equate it into Toronto terms so it's easier to understand.
The goal of this adventure was to go to a place called Upper Room. It's kind of like Mitchells (since Jon knows of it) basically a christian book store. Now, London buses are very annoying as they make unexpected turns which tend to make you lose your sense of direction. I've taken the bus I took many times before, but never to the goal of today. I usually take this bus to get to the Wal-mart superstore. Which... is what eventually ended up happening. So I walked from the Wal-mart superstore which is at Hyde Park, to Wonderland Rd. which is where Upper Room is. That took maybe 20 minutes. Spent about an hour in there looking at books, bought a CD. Then I didn't bother taking the bus coz it's just annoying so I chose to walk home. That would be walking from Wonderland to Richmond (Masonville).

So to kinda put things into perspective. It would kinda be like walking from Kennedy and Sheppard to Fairview Mall. Starting from Kennedy, and walking to Pharmacy. Then walking from Pharmacy and finishing the trip off at Fairview. Although rite now, it seems really easy in my mind. That's only because living in Toronto, you develop landmarks to know how your progressing. This was a new adventure... so I had no idea how far everything was so it did seem a bit longer than it probably was. Still, I got my sun time, and I was reading as I was walking. There were a few hills on the way, but good exercise overall. And then I walked home. Which is another block of walking.

No Weekend Posts?

2009-03-16T04:36:00.000-04:00

Was it all just a splurge?

Did it come, and already go?

This weekend I “watch”ed the “watch”men.
( first real hyperlink, it better work )

Having heard about this movie from various people who watched it last weekend ( opening weekend ). One thing which I was warned by many to do was to read up on it first. So that I did. Wikipedia Obviously. It wasn’t enough. By the end of the 2hour and 25somewat minutes I was still left quite confused by the whole thing. It was a very slow paced movie, which went into excruciating details about every single characters past in the story. Most of which just made it more confusing. Why’s and why’s I was left with. Aside from that, it had all the makings as to what could have been a very good movie for me. Or it may have been, to someone very familiar with the story.

7 / 10

First time I feel smart

2009-03-13T02:35:00.002-04:00

After coming to university, my marks have dropped drastically from 80's in high school to 70's. First few 70's during university was a bit shocking... but ever since its become a trend my bar dropped and that's what I'm getting satisfied with. I haven't really thought of 80's ever since the first few months of university.

So it's really nice when I found out that I got an 82 on one of my Exercise Physiology exams and a 90 on an essay paper for children's literature. I am quite proud and thankful.

i am also glad that my posts weren't as pointless as Jon's two random posts lol. Although they were quite entertaining i must say.

This is

2009-03-12T01:38:00.001-04:00

cool.

See curling is intense

2009-03-12T00:17:00.006-04:00

Drakonen: Edited it from a link which you had to copy and paste into an embedded video... these noobs

Pressure

2009-03-11T01:27:00.003-04:00

What's with all the posts by unknownuser? Too much pressure to post something.

The Fable-craze is starting to die down as priorities begin to set in. I've been very thankful for a lot of things this past school year. With my new sense of appreciation of life and how easily it can be taken away one would think that I'm just about thankful for everything. However, I think i've been taking a few things too lightly... or for granted. With relationships and school, I'm just not that great at organizing my priorities.

With a new sense of transparency, let us dive deep into echoes mind and see who he really is underneath that mask.

So who is Echoes? He may talk a lot at times when it seems fitting, but he is actually quite an antisocial guy. When nearing the socializing quota, he hides away in his room and gets distracted by the internet.
This explains the random mumblings and awkward situations he gets himself into... or where the first case leads to the second case. Talking just takes too much effort and energy, but echoes is frequently happy to go out of his comfort zone to make new friendships and build relationships with others.
With his low self-esteem and antisocial behaviour, cubicals or slightly solitary areas are the place to be and the place to study. It surrounds him with people, yet there is no pressure to talk. Though Echoes doesn't mind talking once in a while, he does occupy himself in a world inside his head where he's not such a big loser. =P.

Wow... this is beginning to sound like a suicide note. I've just been reflecting on my manhood (subject for insults yes... set myself up for that), and I just can't help critisizing my faults and problems with my personality. I've just been talking to a few people about relationships and it's just been a beat down for me as people continually tell me to take charge and to be a man, stop being so complacent (that last one was just me). I know they probably meant well and said it to encourage me to step up a little. I guess the approach to it however didn't really sit well with me and it just fueled the critisizm that continually occurs in my head of the things I need to do and the things that i'm lacking to the point that I'm just breaking down.
You can tell me to step up, and be a leader... but those words just don't inspire me. I know i have to take more initiative and be more balsy but I need to know how. I respond better to stories, of people who were in this situation where they felt inadequate but somehow battled through with a reasonable amount of hard work.

This post just took up my shower time.... this is what unknownuser made me do. You made me dirty unknownuser. That sounds wrong. I will take a shower tomorrow morning... if i wake up for it... ok maybe i'll just wash my hair. Ah whtever, i'll take a 2 a.m. shower. Wht up!

edit: I should probably finish the point I was making with school and relationships. Basically I have to start taking them both more seriously instead of just brushing them to the side. I need to start going hard core studying and hardcore reflection and thinking/prayer if you will.

This is hilarious

2009-03-10T19:35:00.001-04:00

Click the picture to see full size in link to source.

I swear...

2009-03-10T19:03:00.000-04:00

John Mayer and City and Color sound the same.

Sleeping Patterns

2009-03-10T18:51:00.002-04:00

I'm beginning to wonder if coffee is more psychological than "physical"? is that the term?

Some people hate it, some can't live without it. I remember back in middle school and early high school, as coffee being this weird foreign substance which didn't taste very good. I mean, sweet hot chocolate, bubbly coke, or pretty much anything with sugar in it, pretty much >>> coffee.

Why would Anyone possibly want to drink something which was bitter and didn't taste very good? My jump to coffee was so strange, and i still remember when and how it happened. Well its a bit fuzzy now that it was a bit back, and possibly repeated use of coffee may have dulled my memory. But anyways,

it all began one summer when I was working at a music camp for younger students, Quite a few late nights , and somehow I needed a way to stay awake as I had quite a bit of responsibilities throughout the long day. So I resorted to drinking this coffee thing, people spoke of. I remember it being very black at the time, and me not a fan of seeing myself put too much sugar into coffee drank it that way. After a few days in a row, coffee made the transition from ew to mmm. red rover red rover i call coffee over. go coffee mon.

I came back from the camp in addition to many other lessons learned, with a new found joy for coffee.

I have invented the time machine.

2009-03-10T00:21:00.001-04:00

Sort of, I really have.

More like an ability to add one hour of time anytime i want.

Due to my class schedule, I am granted with a terrible lack of sleep due to All my classes beginning at 8:30 am everyday, all clumped together one after another, for a nice morning of classes til 12:30 or so day in and day out. Meaning minus days with four hour labs in the afternoon which have become much less frequent due to an improved ability to finish it without even really going in during lab times, means Long afternoons.

Having long afternoons are not as healthy or productive as they seem. Time seems to drift away, slowly but surely. The secret, is to "*"

Alright so I got the job in toronto, Pretty excited about moving back and living at home. One thing for sure is i'll get to live with my sister before she goes off to wherever, the offer letters are coming in one by one, so her choices are expanding, with most being out of toronto. Another is I guess to stay with parents before the empty nest phenomena may happen. Shut up nim, it works back you know.

* set all your clock an hour ahead, Except for your alarm. it's 1:30 right now, wait no its 12:30 so i've technically gained an hour.

I don't mind this black background at all.

Bap Bop De Do Bop

2009-03-09T22:33:00.001-04:00

I’ve added two more albums to my current playlist, Kasabian by Kasabian and Perfect Symmetry by Keane and am looking at the newest album by Ne-yo which i never got around to. Did anyone else know that the wiki page for albums automatically collects and displays “professional reviews”? It would be interesting to actually go through it and see how “professional” critics see, or hear, the music we listen too, although i suppose metacritic.com is much more powerful at aggregating it….

I think I have a think for British rock, with mild to heavy electronica, or maybe its because I’ll never hear it on local radio

Things seem to be going smoothly, I’ll be going to the South Asian Student Alliance show that happens every year. It happens with all the universities in Ontario with their respective south asian clubs/alliances/groups. I didn’t go to last year’s one, but people said it was well worth it, which i will find out this coming Saturday. The after party is also said to be eventful, if your into after parties of mainly westernized south asian kids… hopefully the guy:girl ratio isn’t abysmal.

On a completely different note, how awesome is the Naruto manga going? Am i the only one who reads it? After all, you can read it online, so its not like you have to put to much work into downloading and extracting anything. I mean, there’s been non-stop action for a long time now with massive losses for both protagonist and antagonist, always loved it when the author is willing to kill of characters that were prominent, unlike others… *cough*

My computer keeps shutting down

2009-03-08T22:00:00.002-04:00

My computer keeps shutting down
down down down
down down
down

Overheating apparently? In the whole process of upgrading to windows 7, i was blessed with nicer looking backgrounds and themes, and much faster gaming?? but anyways my core temperature is pretty high, like high enough to almost boil water sometimes, so its constantly being monitored which is quite the hassle, Higher temps = lift laptop and attempt to blow. Not really but it helps a little bit to just lift it up at an agle at certain times, so the next thing i need is some sort of fan mounted thingy.

Another thing which bothers me is that my fan, Blows out COLD air, while the temp is still quite high everywhere else.

Good / Bad ? more-technically-abled-people-DISCUSS.

Fable...

2009-03-08T21:57:00.002-04:00

I am kinda addicted to fable now... after playing fable 2 on Nimalan's (i'm assuming we're all now using real names) xbox 360... I felt the urge 2 weeks later to buy fable on pc. Unfortunately, i don't think my laptop is built for gaming, therefore i'm getting a lot of lagging and really really long lags a.k.a. frozen... although if u do wait long enough, the screen will move.
However, there are moments of smooth play which is awesome. Fable is quite different from Fable II... or should i say the other way around as Fable was the original one. Controls are different largely due to me using a keyboard now... (without a mouse...) instead of a controller. But even then, the way we place experience on different skills is different and the transportation. If there wasn't so much lagging, i might actually enjoy the game more. There's actual mana for fable whereas in fable 2 u can just keep firing off magic with no consequences... which i likeeeee haha.

... Fable time...

Things to do on a saturday in waterloo..

2009-03-08T00:01:00.003-05:00

"When all your friends have gone back to toronto, but you can't because you're going back the following week."

Sleep in til late! followed by lazily cooking up some leftovers, by popping it into the microwave requiring little to no work at all. Followed by catching up on the usual engadget, cnet tv, tsn, etc. Then an afternoon spent, episodes and episodes of how i met your mother combined with attempting to study to make myself feel like the day was not wasted, catching up with music downloads, gathering the few people left in waterloo for a dinner, and some msn time then we get to right now, where I have just set my clock an hour forward, and realize that it is once again a 1am post.

A short post to make myself feel better about posting and to make others post more.

Name change?

2009-03-07T01:11:00.003-05:00

I Looked at the post and I find that it has once again quickly changed. It all fits now, titleA actually matches the titleB!

Just landed a very possible chance at working at a small biotech company in markham for the next co-op term, woot. small = 8 people. Peter / Gary i may need to draw on some of your uber bio / chem skills. We'll see how it goes, Just need to go confirm this. And some programming? ( Visual Studio . NET, PHP ) so i may be asking Nim for some help? And the owner of the company is an electrical engineering grad. nice..

Hmm i know i had a few other things to say,

Just came out of christian fellowship today where they had an intense dsl? discussion. I understand one of you a bit more now... probably not anyways, but it provided a nice insight into how christians view relationships , dating and it all.

Why is it always 1am>~ by the time i get to posts? i'll post earlier next time

Reasons why I want to become a frosh leader: a) ... to be continued in the next post

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( mocking garys centering and peters use of the turquoise font and nims weird font )

World Record Time

2009-03-05T21:49:00.002-05:00

3000 words essay in 7 hours? A record to me.

I had massive writer' block last night.. so I woke up this morning at 7am. to finish my 12 page essay. The problem was that it was due at 6pm, and I was looking around youtube until 10am to seriously start.

Timeline:
10am: Introduction done without thesis
2pm: Thesis + first main point
4pm: two main points complete
5pm:rushed my last point + conclusion in one hour along with references..

Handed it in at 6:20pm. =]
I'm quite proud.. and the essay wasn't half bad either!

Well, I'm going to go have a break now!

P.S. Drak's font sucks!

R.I.P. Assassin's Asylum

2009-03-05T14:10:00.002-05:00

I'm waiting infront of my anatomy lecture rite now...

Should be studying for tonight's exam but i checked the blog just because my blog senses were tingling. And they were tingling for a reason.

We will miss you Assassin's Asylum.

And yes... it is an alliteration. Mmm.... rhetoric devices.

I’m Just messing around here

2009-03-05T04:22:00.002-05:00

Does this font look like segoe print? And in how many places? as this font is only available in vista and up? and yeah, i changed the name of the title hacked together a title image in paint….. if you have a problem

then just say something, i’ll switch it all back…. Assassin’s asylum had good alliteration (i think that’s the one), but Prodigy’s Omen is so much of a slicker and more imposing name? yes? no? maybe so? this has the makings of being Legen…. wait for it….

screw you, never saw a single episode :P

Posting to Catch Up?

2009-03-05T00:25:00.002-05:00

Dang... for the first time in many months I feel pressure to post because everyone else is posting. It kinda makes me all teary eyed.

In other news, I shouldn't be posting right now coz i have an exam... today... haha. Although I think I know my stuff... I probably don't. I have Exercise Physiology at 5:30pm to when i finish which is no later than 6:45. So here is how my day looks.... some of you may beat me... but... whatever:
12:30 to 2:30 -> Basketball ( I will rant about this later)
2:30 to 3:30 -> Anatomy Lecture
3:30 to no later than 5-> Anatomy Lab (looking at abs for this lab... yay cadavers)
Lab finish to 5:30 -> last minute review of exercise physiology exam
5:30 to 6:45 -> ex phys exam
7 to 10 -> Children's Literature

All in all... about 9 hours on campus doing actual class and not just studying. And to start off the day, Basketball.

I don't know what image you have of me in sports, I am in no way, shape, or form good at basketball. Volleyball is nice... tennis is kool (yay i can play tennis now! i challenge u!)... but basketball? Ok ok, swimming was PRETTY horrible. But I can understand that, water and I don't mix well; plus, there were other people who weren't that great at swimming too. But basketball??? I think everyone in Kin is actually good at basketball... like wow... of course there are those who aren't as "experienced", but ahhhh! My stamina... does no exist. I think my heart is like the size of a pea... I go on for 5 minutes and i'm done. It's actually very annoying and frustrating. I'm not super competitive, but I don't like to feel inferior to everyone else... even the girls man. I like to be not superior, but good enough that I can play pretty decently and help out the weaker players. I guess it's another eye-opening experience to see how it feels to be a weak player... ever since i've been playing volleyball and tennis I've just taken the sport activities lightly. Perhaps a build up of hidden pride? Time to be humbled and actually have to try to get good marks.
With that aside... somehow the instructor of the course knows my name... and just seems to only know my name. I don't remember what his full name is... but maybe his first name is the same as mine. I'm just sorta weirded out how I'm always hearing "good job Gary" (but to me, i'm actually doing a bad job... but that's not the point). Yah... don't know what's happening there.

Anyways, maybe i should get some studying done. Maybe I can do some studying whilst posting. Exercise physiology. Basically going over the respiratory system and cardio. So, the lungs and the heart and how it reacts to exercise and influences exercise as well. First off, learning how the basic system works. How blood gets oxygenated and deoxygenated. Knowing why and the processes that help blood get oxygenated and deoxygenated. Having high partial pressure of oxygen in the alveoli and low pp. of oxygen. Yay diffusion. Knowing what tidal volume, vital capcity, expiratory reserve volume, inspiratory reserve volume, etc... is... when we exercise what happens in our bodies that let us compensate for the lactate generated and the oxygen usage and carbon dioxide production.

ok you know what, this is kinda getting boring. Hopefully, one of u readers figured out how boring that paragraph was getting and skipped to this one. Even I got bored. Ok. Time to study. Hopefully.

Squash was surprisingly fun

2009-03-04T23:32:00.003-05:00

Just played my first game/hour/session of squash today, with a few friends and i do have to say, it is not as lame as it looked before. It was like tennis, but only you get to hit the ball more frequently, and no more chasing of dumb balls that go astray. So it has been decided to go play squash once a week with this group of people. Now to attempt to hunt more lame sports which will become fun when I actually play them, like... curling, and darts... etc.

Edit: so all in all, i recommend this. Raquet, ball, court, game face, done.

Tangent

2009-03-04T21:42:00.002-05:00

The Elegant Universe

If your bored, and you don’t mind watching documentaries (or an entire season of one), the above link will give you a pretty good idea of the current popular physics theories on the fundamentals of the universe.

Sigh, I have the last three episodes of House downloaded on my home computer, and no time nor the patience to actually see them through, and you people want me to watch all these other “great” shows and movies…. maybe on the morning/afternoon commute, somehow.

*Edited for clarification...

Quick Post

2009-03-04T01:43:00.004-05:00

Another essay for my awesome history of china is due in two days.. and I do not know my topic yet.
I welcome two sleepless nights without lucid dreaming!

So quick post before I get started on reading my history text, nothing too interesting in my life. I am however trying to email some profs on getting a volunteer position in a research lab so I can both work and volunteer during the summer and won't be bored out of my mind! I'm hoping this summer will be legend.... wait for it =P DARRRY!

I watched way too many eps of HIMYM lately, please forgive!
Alright, Peace Out "Bros"!

P.S. UU! I do have imob, but i'm never online due to the lack of wifi around me!
I am around lvl 9? I tend to forget, but I wasn't very good. I was a mongol I think! Complete opposite for a kid studying in life sci.. but that's how I roll not in RL!

March 3, 2009

2009-03-02T21:45:00.002-05:00

Having finished my midterm era, I now move on to the calmer parts, or "filler"s of my life as some might like to call it and find myself with some time. Where I hopefully will be able to complete one post. As an add-on to posting today, I've compiled a small list of things to hopefully get done during this 1 or 2 week period free from exams. So technically this my reading week, free of reading. I'm never actually free, a "light" day such as today consists of probably at least 4-5 hours of studying to catch up from falling behind during midterms.

- Make a few cell phone ring tones, I've got a couple that I have in mind, but just never having time to sit down and find a music file editor, AND find where i misplaced the usb to phone connection, unless i wanted to go into bluetooth between my laptop and the cellphone, but that again would take more researching.

- Sort music, put in ipod, listen!, i've been listening to things from months and months ago because I haven't done this in so long. So difficult to keep things ordered and i haven't found a music program that I like.

- Day 1 of using a planner, please let it continue...
This list was alot shorter than I anticpated, I think was just the "official" version of it but anyways onto the next topic, not as formal as everyone else, I did listen to the fray's new album and I actually did like, it is true that many songs did sound similiar, but i felt like they kept true to their original album which worked out well for them the first time around. Lately though, two albums which have been on repeat for me have been akon's "freedom" album and kanye west's "808 & heartbreak" album. A slight change, but throwing in different genres here and there do help me to get that mix from when i lazily play through the whole albums rather than stay with a comfortable playlist, in the attempt to get more albums lsitened to, however bad they may be, I tried scarlett johannsen's 2008 album recently, i believe its a year old. To be blunt, it was very strange and she sounded like a man.. i had never heard her sing before but pictured the type of genre i thought the album would fill, it didnt. I'll probably give it another attempt another time to make sure I wasn't biased but it did not leave me wanting to go back for another listen.

30 second Rant section (not really wanting to use proper grammer, although not like my grammer was very good anyways): What's twitter, i keep hearing about it, -m&m go get imob, its fun. if you do friend code, now., - note to self: stop playing tetris on facebook, sprint mode is addicting, - I do agree with standardizing our blogs title with the url name. It has always confused me, someone post a story of what it meant. Although i'm sure someone already did, Repost!, - People say 30 rock is good, i should find out for myself, as are - slumdog millionaire, waking life, and...

Finally...

2009-02-27T22:38:00.002-05:00

It's friday... or saturday now, but it was friday when I started writing.
Finally an end of this chaotic and hectic week that it has been.

To start, I apologize for not updating and posting on the blog for the past year or more. Frankly, things got in the way, however I have not forgotten about it. I do in fact check this blog regularly.

Let's just start off by what happened this week with my 2 midterm, 2 prelab/post lab, and a couple of quizzes during this week alone. Despite all the time I had in reading week, I still ended up exhausted from studying. I probably slept about a combined good 15-20 hours this week? Averaging around 3 hourish from 5am to 8am or sometimes I get lucky (overslept) and wake up at 10-12 in the morning to realize how truly screwed I am. [/sarcasm] I manage to do okay on my labs and tests without too much difficulity for once my attempt to study did not end up as an epic failure.

You would think after high school, you would be used to cramming, and the way I go through high school and 1st year definitely made me think quick on my feet. Some of the techiques I am about to share are top sercet and 100% animal tested!

1st - Since you have been skipping for quite some time now, 12 hours of lecture awaited my cramming session. Solution? Speed up the lecture recording by 3X, 12 hour lectures in 4 hours? Simple and efficent! However requires 120% focus and mental concentration!
2nd - Further expansion from the pervious point, do some work during commutes. I was able to listen to the equivalent of 12 hours of lectures in similar two round trips on the subway.
3rd - This point is rather abstract: invent a time machine and go to the future when you are done the exam. No more cramming!
4th - Probably the best one yet, one must understand that reading week is called reading week for a reason!

Furthermore, let's look beyond this depressing life of mine and into the summer. Stupid winter, why does it seem it lasts forever! That's it, I am moving to vancouver! Then I do have to wear my fcuk scraf which I had lost recently. I know, just my luck. However if unknownuser manages to find it in the back seat of his car then please tell me =]. My memory is foggy about its location, prehaps it's from the lack of sleep. Running on with this, did you know? (family guy music/eps) that infact people tend to make up fake memories when they don't sleep very well. I guess that is probalby the reason I tend to fabricate my own theory on test and protest about it after I get my test back! Oh I forgot, this was suppose to be my summer, hopfully I can find some other interesting job other than tutoring, but what I am looking forward to is to finally travel to china!

Hopfully, I will learn and fix my whitewashed/broken up chinese! However, I did order at bubble tea in chinese! Amazing indeed! During my time in china, I hope to post here more often and label my posts as Peter Finally Goes To China Day X!

To continue, I saw drak recommending a few albums, I will definitely check some of them out (the electric/pop one), I thougth I would give reviews to some of the new albums that I have listened to recently!

Let's start with
The Fray - The Fray 3.5/5 - I know that drak has been listening to this album as well as u.u, but I must say.. it's a disappointment for me. Their last album was way better.. one hits/album wonder? We will see

Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You 2.5/5 - Only amusing song on this album is "Fuck You", youtube it.. I find myself smile-e-e-e at this. If you didn't catch my drift there.. listen to Smile - Lily Allen from her old album

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Lonely Road 4.5/5 - It's similar to the Fray's album, but with more style and vibe rather than the monotone stuff you heard on the Fray's latest album.

John Legend - Evolver 4.5/5 - This one is for some of you guys that might not listen to alternative rock, pop rock or just regular o' rock.. John legend was always one of my favourite artist, and his lastest album is something worthwhile to check out..

Gym Class Heroes - The Quilt - And lastly, a hip hop album but with a twist. Just listen to some you guy will see even though I know you guys arn't big fans of these.

That's it for now, I might add more later. I have been sampling alot of main stream music, I will dig up some indie band later!

Btw, I got twitter! It's boring but add me if you have it =]!

It's 5am, I am too tired even though this is my regular sleeping time noadays anyways, hopfully I will make a new post soon enough..

Until then.. Enjoy this insightful paragraph concerning M&Ms
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=SurvivalofthefittestMMs.

P.S. What's with my username? Maybe I should change it... any thoughts?

Blog Renovations

2009-02-26T12:15:00.003-05:00

This takes me back to the Year 2005 when we just started out and had to think up of a name and template that would represent this blog. Countless hours on photoshop and trying new layouts... those days...
...
ARE BACK

oo... colourful. since Drakonen won't post up his post about his proposal I'll just post it in for him so when we all read this we can actually get the train of thoughts going. Basically, as great as the name "assassins asylum" is..., and it's pretty nice... aliteration + the word assassin ftw, it boggles the world when our URL for the blog does not match our title. Are people in the right place? Who knows.
So what Drakonen is proposing is we:

1. Change our blog name
Maybe to match our site address? Prodigys Omen. Or maybe if you can think of something else that everyone else would agree with.

and what I'm also proposing is we:

2. Change our blog layout/template
We may possibly have a meeting about this but for now, just something different than what we currently have? Perhaps something that represents what this blog is about/reflection of the blogs name.

This may or may not keep us busy for the next few months... maybe.
Anyways, I'm out for my 2 in a row.

Stepping in Before the 4th in a Row

2009-02-26T00:24:00.003-05:00

Drakonen seems to have gotten himself a streak of posts that I never would've predicted. Though I am both shocked and pleased (I was shaking from joy) I shall now break his streak because i'm evil like that.

So yah, my birthday was a few days ago and it was spent studying. I basically woke up, went to class, got a hair cut, and then studied. It was pretty sad, but I'm antisocial like that too. Though this may get some depressed, my birthday was celebrated the next day thanks to a friend. It was a relatively nice Tuesday, eventhough I do miss my movie tuesdays. The reason I don't watch movies on Tuesdays anymore is because I don't have time =(, but for a good reason i guess. Let's explain (otherwise this post would fail in comparison to Drakonens).

Tuesdays used to consist of one class in first semester, Anatomy. That was from 2:30 to 3:30. Then I had all the time I needed to buy a ticket, go back home to relax, then go back out for the movie. Buying the ticket ahead of time saved me the trouble of the long line ups during the evening. Now, my tuesdays consist of a sports class from 12:30 to 2:30 which used to be tennis, now has changed into basketball. In the afternoon after Anatomy, I have a bit of time to relax until I have Men's Cell. Fellowship (talking about the Asian Christian Fellowship) at school is pretty big and it's pretty hard to get to know one another. That's where smaller groups branch off, one of them being Men's Cell which is basically a group of guys that meet about once a week to talk about manly stuff... just to put it vaguely. So far, we talked about purity and how to stay pure and currently we're going through a series on leadership. It's pretty helpful and I'm learning a lot. Putting it into action i find more difficult. We'll see what the results are soon I guess. But yes, this currently takes up the time I would normally take to watch a random movie for ONLY $5. So I an now currently not collecting scene points... therefore no free movies anytime soon.

Just to somewhat follow along the lines of applying the field of study to the posts, this was a thought that lingered in my mind since last year when we were learning about the reproductive system. I don't need to explain what that is because everyone should already know unlike Drakonen's very technologically advanced friendly speech was found to be very confusing to me... although I got the gist of it. But when we attempt to reproduce, one egg is attacked by thousands of sperm. Out of those thousands of sperm that swims up towards to egg, a few make it to actually try and break through the egg and get inside. And out of those few who gets the privelege of attempting to break inside, only one makes it. You and perhaps your life could have been so much different if it had been a different sperm with a different combination of chromosomes broke into that one egg and fertilized it. Perhaps one sperm was just micrometers away from breaking through that wall... but another sperm was just one micrometer ahead of it. You are who you are now because that one sperm made it through, and the others didn't. Way to go.

Anatomy is also pretty interesting. It just makes you realize how fragile the human body really is. So many things can go wrong inside your body that it just makes me thankful that I'm healthy (at least that's what I think) or relatively healthy right now. There are people around the world who are constantly battling some form of disease caused by genetics or some alien virus or mutation. Don't take life for granted, it can be so easily snatched away from you any moment. So sad.
Perhaps when I'm desperate someday, I can go into a little more detail.

In other news, I just finished my anatomy bell-ringer today. Basically had to go around to each station and either identify a structure or identify its function. If people hadn't told me some answers, i would've totally failed. Obviously though, I had to be able to know when those answers are appropriate, but still. I need to study a lot harder. =S.

Edit: had to take out a prefix... i remember doing edits and actually putting the edit in a post... so useless but awesome

Wordle

2009-02-25T02:44:00.001-05:00

A list of the top 150 words on this page, with size representing reoccurrences. Click the picture and it will link to the website I used to make it… now back to studying…

Two in a row? yes, this is a collapse of a time space continuum… by 1/10^100092 of a second…. so you didn’t notice

2009-02-24T16:08:00.002-05:00

Err…. this will be short, but I find that Jon and Gary have comparable tastes in music, and they always drop band names, but at times when no one has an opportunity to listen (another excuse to get a data plan). So I have three albums I've been listening to lately, since I get my music in album form, instead of individual songs. So without further adieu:

Empire by Kasabian

Coming to Terms by Carolina Liar

The Fray by The Fray

I’d post video of a song, but that's too much of a hassle as all the official links don’t allow for embedding, and the unofficial ones might be pulled down at any time… so yeah…

Also, I’m writing this inside a program called Windows Live Writer, which was one of the optional downloads when you installed the newest version of windows live messenger…. its a better editor then the default on on the blogger dashboard, but you more clicks away from the internet….. maybe there’s a Firefox plug-in that can do just as good a job?

will figure it all out

from square one

2009-02-23T11:32:00.001-05:00

I'm going to go ahead and start from scratch and try to get past all the deserved criticism that I should be getting but hopefully won't be. I've decided to posts things that I find myself thinking about randomly to myself, but get frustrated over when I find I have nobody to share them with. Whether I need someone to reinforce my train of thought or someone to criticize and hopefully clarify them,at least this way I can look back on them and wonder what I was wondering when I wondered about wondering.

Well, I'm not sure how I got to technological singularity, but I basically found the real name of a concept which I’d kept onto the back of my head as soon as I had the slightest idea of the theory of evolution and the concepts of artificial intelligence. In short, the idea of the singularity basically defines a paradigm shift that will occur when man created artificial intelligence, one which is self aware and is thus capable of not only understanding itself but learning. The entity will be able to learn exponentially beyond the capabilities of its creators, and thus be able to create a better version of itself. In other words, the point in our future when we create a robot that is able to create a superior version of itself within its own power. How this is accomplished or when it will be accomplished is debateable, but the general consensus is that is it leaves considerable discussion towards the state of humanity. Still following?

Finding the article was like finding a lot of the discussions I’d had in my own head on paper, which ends up being a fairly unnerving by ultimately cool experience. It also made me wonder if the reason I decided to move away from Life sciences and into software engineering was in fact to aid in what I feel as an inevitable outcome of our species, maybe to get sympathy point from our robot leaders? I don’t know, or rather, don’t want to know as I’m might be found accountable to such thoughts in some time in the future.

This is made that much more complicated when you realize the limitations of our current understanding of our universe. For example, mathematics is a tool of standardized logic that we use to define things. But it is only as useful for this were there is cause and effect, or in other words, a problem and solution. Mathematics are used to describe the changes that take place to allow us to go from the state of a problem, to the state of a solution. Its a finite loop. That leaves out all the problems without solutions, and solutions which are not finite. I came across an idea that if people have learned how to do computations before mathematics, then we’d have a very different understanding of our universe. Why? Because the universe appears more and more like a computing structure, and less like a random bunch of arbitrary laws.

So to bring that random dump of nonsensical information together, can we create computing artificial intelligence within a computing universe? If that's possible, how many layers in are we already, and can you dig yourself out? This just makes me wonder….

So that was some of the things I’ve had on my mind today, and it actually feels good to put it out on in words in front of me. Hopefully, I can actually do this again sometime soon….

P.S. Consider this my birthday present to you Gary, err, a continual one....

P.P.S. I’ve changed the theme of the blog back to something basic, because I had trouble reading it (sorry Gary) and also… its time to retire Assassin’s asylum…. Prodigy’s Omen is so much better…