2004/02/14
WTF?!?!
. . .Man, I'm really disliking my neighbour now... the blessed man really loves his bass... ... turns it up all the way, 'twould appear... Friggin' woke me up... ... and it'd deafening; I can't think or concentrate with that damned rhythmetic droning.
Happy Valentine's Day
. . .Wow, an actual topic to blog about. Love. What is love? Well, I'm gonna slay that opening with "blah!!". =) There's this moth/butterfly inside joke going around between myself and my friends... haha. For me, it's nothing big; just maybe a day for couples to splurge that money to show their affection for one another?
. . .But after browsing a few of my personal favourite online artists (at deviantart.com) I was sorta inspired to draw something "love-y"... haha. So I basically have yin-yang in human form in a sort of embrace. Only I sorta lost perspective half-way down and now it looks like the guy has kangaroo legs. o_O
. . .Meanwhile, I gotta somehow muster the strength and willpower to actually work this weekend. Cuz I'll be so screwed if I don't. T_T But at least I get the apartment to myself this weekend. haha, yay! One roommate is off on a winter retreat, and t'other is off in Texas trying to save the planet. Good for them. And then there's me, with a fun-filled weekend of math. *sobs* I don't know how much more of this I can take...
. . .Oh yah!! And happy birthday to Jörick! With a b-day so dangerously close to a "day of love" one wonders what all relationships for you portend...
. . .But after browsing a few of my personal favourite online artists (at deviantart.com) I was sorta inspired to draw something "love-y"... haha. So I basically have yin-yang in human form in a sort of embrace. Only I sorta lost perspective half-way down and now it looks like the guy has kangaroo legs. o_O
. . .Meanwhile, I gotta somehow muster the strength and willpower to actually work this weekend. Cuz I'll be so screwed if I don't. T_T But at least I get the apartment to myself this weekend. haha, yay! One roommate is off on a winter retreat, and t'other is off in Texas trying to save the planet. Good for them. And then there's me, with a fun-filled weekend of math. *sobs* I don't know how much more of this I can take...
. . .Oh yah!! And happy birthday to Jörick! With a b-day so dangerously close to a "day of love" one wonders what all relationships for you portend...
2004/02/13
2004/02/11
Terseness
. . ."Short and Sweet," as they would say. Having said that, one would wonder how this post might be... haha...
. . .Yesterday, I wasted hours in front of the TV just because it's so damned easy to do. And I discovered this hilarious children's cartoon -- "Teen Titans", from the producer of Superman, Batman : the Animated Series, Batman Beyond and Justice League, Glen Murakami. It's really given me quite a kick, and I think I've found a new sanity-preserver in this tasteless and unrefined lump of grey, ie Waterloo. What's it all about? Not terribly sure yet, 'cept that it has Robin (from batman), and some other interesting characters, each cool in their own way... (personal favourites are Raven and Beast Boy. :D)
. . .Funny egg incident happened yesterday... ... but it's more easily told with my wild gesticulations, so I'll save that story for when I'm back in Toronto. =)
A Japanese producer in an American company... no wonder the songs were in Japanese... hehe.
. . .Anyways, musn't digress... I have a lot of work to do, and much more to avoid. Tschüss~
. . .Yesterday, I wasted hours in front of the TV just because it's so damned easy to do. And I discovered this hilarious children's cartoon -- "Teen Titans", from the producer of Superman, Batman : the Animated Series, Batman Beyond and Justice League, Glen Murakami. It's really given me quite a kick, and I think I've found a new sanity-preserver in this tasteless and unrefined lump of grey, ie Waterloo. What's it all about? Not terribly sure yet, 'cept that it has Robin (from batman), and some other interesting characters, each cool in their own way... (personal favourites are Raven and Beast Boy. :D)
. . .Funny egg incident happened yesterday... ... but it's more easily told with my wild gesticulations, so I'll save that story for when I'm back in Toronto. =)
A Japanese producer in an American company... no wonder the songs were in Japanese... hehe.
. . .Anyways, musn't digress... I have a lot of work to do, and much more to avoid. Tschüss~
2004/02/09
Yay! ...D'oh...
. . .I got my combinatorics midterm back today! =D And I passed! ...with an 85%... which I guess isn't so bad... 'til I realized that some people got 115%... ... which just isn't so cool... T_T And aside from the obvious 20% I lost (out of a hypothetical 125%) I lost another 20% on really stupid mistakes... I'm kinda scared to ask what the class average was... (average of like, 10 people or something...)
. . .BUT! At least I learned something out of it, and I actually understand the concepts! Had I not crammed those two days, I shudder to think what sort of awful marks I would have received. Ah well... I had a weekend of play... which was very relaxing for me. I guess today and tomorrow should also be filled with work. Whee!
. . .And just to show how much I enjoyed my weekend, I'm gonna make a shoutout to everybody I saw o'er the weekend! (In chronological order) :
Jessica :: Wow, it's been such a long time, eh?!?! It was crazy-coincidence, but it worked out pretty well, don't you think? haha... Yes, I still like Toronto more... :P We should get back into the habit of writing letters, eh?
Jennifer :: "ch" in German can take on three different sounds, depending on which vowel it follows... it's like, a "hard" -ch if it comes after an "a" or "o" or "u", but it's a "soft" -ch if it comes after an "i" or "e"... or something like that. o_O Keep on singing! I don't have to speed up anymore for Journey to the Past anymore! =D
Jörick :: No, I'm not bitter... hahah... I didn't know that your ears were that good at night... lol. I hope you're still drawing; I wanna see some new stuff in your sketchbook next time I'm back in town! ^_^
Edward :: Rubik's cubes are cool. Thx for teaching me some other algorithms, eh? ^_^ I know, it was sorta nerdy, but hey, we'll probably end up as some other guy's boss, right? haha... Come to Waterloo for Software Engineering! ;)
Brandon :: Sleep more! ... and study more too while you're at it! LoL.. kinda hard to do both at the same time, eh? haha... games aren't that important, and technically neither is school... but we're all Chinese here, so... ;)
Lena :: I henceforth dub thee "Ellie". =) You have such an awesome array of music!! Where do you find all of it anyways!? No, I'm not jealous... lol. And thx a million for the ride home, eh? XD
. . .BUT! At least I learned something out of it, and I actually understand the concepts! Had I not crammed those two days, I shudder to think what sort of awful marks I would have received. Ah well... I had a weekend of play... which was very relaxing for me. I guess today and tomorrow should also be filled with work. Whee!
. . .And just to show how much I enjoyed my weekend, I'm gonna make a shoutout to everybody I saw o'er the weekend! (In chronological order) :
Jessica :: Wow, it's been such a long time, eh?!?! It was crazy-coincidence, but it worked out pretty well, don't you think? haha... Yes, I still like Toronto more... :P We should get back into the habit of writing letters, eh?
Jennifer :: "ch" in German can take on three different sounds, depending on which vowel it follows... it's like, a "hard" -ch if it comes after an "a" or "o" or "u", but it's a "soft" -ch if it comes after an "i" or "e"... or something like that. o_O Keep on singing! I don't have to speed up anymore for Journey to the Past anymore! =D
Jörick :: No, I'm not bitter... hahah... I didn't know that your ears were that good at night... lol. I hope you're still drawing; I wanna see some new stuff in your sketchbook next time I'm back in town! ^_^
Edward :: Rubik's cubes are cool. Thx for teaching me some other algorithms, eh? ^_^ I know, it was sorta nerdy, but hey, we'll probably end up as some other guy's boss, right? haha... Come to Waterloo for Software Engineering! ;)
Brandon :: Sleep more! ... and study more too while you're at it! LoL.. kinda hard to do both at the same time, eh? haha... games aren't that important, and technically neither is school... but we're all Chinese here, so... ;)
Lena :: I henceforth dub thee "Ellie". =) You have such an awesome array of music!! Where do you find all of it anyways!? No, I'm not jealous... lol. And thx a million for the ride home, eh? XD
2004/02/06
Endlich~
. . .I wrote my Combinatorics midterm today... and I could actually do all of it!!! Granted, I probably lost some marks for failure to explain what exactly I was doing, omiting therefore statements, etc... and I forgot to do 2.c, but overall, I think I was ok.... ... at least, I hope so... haha...
. . .You have no idea how good it feels to know what's going on again. For the past month, I've been sitting in class, totally lost, hoping that if I sit long enough, things would just fall into place. But no. It took two half-days of full-blown study/cramming to get things going. And know I understand some stuff... (and can appreciate why it's easier than my weird counting method.)
. . .I'm now back in THE Candian city, aka Toronto. Cuz, ya know, it's big, dirty, and inpersonal. Just like America! Yay... haha.. seriously though, it's the only centre of civilization closest to Waterloo.. *shudder* Aaaanyways... yupyup... still got a lot to cram for... and if I get overzealous in my cramming, I just might even be ahead by a lecture or two... That'd be very cool. =)
. . .You have no idea how good it feels to know what's going on again. For the past month, I've been sitting in class, totally lost, hoping that if I sit long enough, things would just fall into place. But no. It took two half-days of full-blown study/cramming to get things going. And know I understand some stuff... (and can appreciate why it's easier than my weird counting method.)
. . .I'm now back in THE Candian city, aka Toronto. Cuz, ya know, it's big, dirty, and inpersonal. Just like America! Yay... haha.. seriously though, it's the only centre of civilization closest to Waterloo.. *shudder* Aaaanyways... yupyup... still got a lot to cram for... and if I get overzealous in my cramming, I just might even be ahead by a lecture or two... That'd be very cool. =)
2004/02/05
Erudition
. . .It never fails to amaze me, but apparently, studying pays off!! Well, maybe with that added ingredient of adrenaline cuz my midterm's tomorrow... but wow... Combinatorics are finally making sense to me. =) The notation, concepts, everything! w00t. As for German............ I went to the berlin website, and I was supposed to find 5 interesting facts, but... I don't know what counts as "interesting"... =/
. . .Coming back to Toronto this weekend... yay! :D Gonna do some fun stuff. I'll get to play piano again! Yay! And hang out with some people I haven't seen in a long time. =) Yay!
. . ....And now back to Combinatorics.
. . .Coming back to Toronto this weekend... yay! :D Gonna do some fun stuff. I'll get to play piano again! Yay! And hang out with some people I haven't seen in a long time. =) Yay!
. . ....And now back to Combinatorics.
2004/02/02
Orange Pekoe
. . .I think I'm developing an addiction to tea... Tetley's Black (Orange Pekoe) Tea, to be exact. I think I added a tad too much sugar into my cup, so maybe that's what I'm getting addicted to... mweeheehee.... in any case, I've been getting at least 3 cups a day of tea since thursday... o_O
. . .But as my MSN nickname said last night, "Tea -- the civilized way to pull an all-nighter". Not that I actually did... haha... but I did manage to deprive myself of sleep and still wake up on time for class. =D German is getting interesting; the grammar's starting to click again... (after getting two bloodied up assignments... T_T) So the moral of the story: Study. lots. Ah, Frank, why can't I be more like you? Hrmm.... scratch that thought... :P j/kj/k~
. . .And now for some Combinatorics cramming...
Added 11:21pm
Oh yah... interesting thing happened today in German... aside from the fact that I went to all my classes... haha... we were practising the genitive case (essentially, possessive for nouns)... Our instructor gave us the example, "the snow is the wintercoat of the earth", in which case Earth is the genitive noun. And then she made us make up examples. I was like, "the rain is the tears of Heaven...?" to which some of the girls (with german-speaking backgrounds) were like "aww..." And then my instructor says, "you've stolen all the girls' hearts." o_O Ah well. My instructor's pretty cool... ...though I'm sure I shouldn't skip class so much... ha-ha...
. . .But as my MSN nickname said last night, "Tea -- the civilized way to pull an all-nighter". Not that I actually did... haha... but I did manage to deprive myself of sleep and still wake up on time for class. =D German is getting interesting; the grammar's starting to click again... (after getting two bloodied up assignments... T_T) So the moral of the story: Study. lots. Ah, Frank, why can't I be more like you? Hrmm.... scratch that thought... :P j/kj/k~
. . .And now for some Combinatorics cramming...
Added 11:21pm
Oh yah... interesting thing happened today in German... aside from the fact that I went to all my classes... haha... we were practising the genitive case (essentially, possessive for nouns)... Our instructor gave us the example, "the snow is the wintercoat of the earth", in which case Earth is the genitive noun. And then she made us make up examples. I was like, "the rain is the tears of Heaven...?" to which some of the girls (with german-speaking backgrounds) were like "aww..." And then my instructor says, "you've stolen all the girls' hearts." o_O Ah well. My instructor's pretty cool... ...though I'm sure I shouldn't skip class so much... ha-ha...
2004/02/01
Prismacolor_(r)
. . .My first weekend in UW and I get a person above me who's playing loud base... not cool at all... or fun, for that matter... It's giving me a headache... (and I'm wearing ear plugs too... ) Not cool at all... ... I've n'er met this person who lives (above/beside) me, but I must say I am not impressed.
. . .Suddenly losing the will to work/live. Why can't I be happy here in UW? Or am I subconciously refusing to allow myself to enjoy the more simple things... *shrugs* Meanwhile, dreaming up a layout for what I hope to be my own corner on the net... If only I had a scanner...
. . .Suddenly losing the will to work/live. Why can't I be happy here in UW? Or am I subconciously refusing to allow myself to enjoy the more simple things... *shrugs* Meanwhile, dreaming up a layout for what I hope to be my own corner on the net... If only I had a scanner...
Breeze
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and cure.
When you're chewing on life's grissle,
Don't grumble; give a whistle,
And this'll help things turn out for the best... - Monty Python, Meaning of Life
. . .I've been told I haven't been blogging as much as of late... ... though I'm unsure as to what one could possibly mean by that statement... o_O It's only been 2 days or so... ><; Anyways... first weekend in UW... Finished my Calc. assignment, so I'm happy. But I failed my second combinatorics assignment... so balance is restored. T_T
. . .German is mediocre. =/ Not doing terribly well, but not able to fail miserably either. And as for life in general... well, It's busy. Taught my roommate how to cast on (for knitting) -- knitting for the needy. It's a pet project, with a current goal of ehh... 30 articles of clothing, I think? like mitts, hats, scarves... Does a pair of mitts stand for one or two articles of clothing? Hrrmmm...
. . .So busy, and yet so unmotivated... origami, here I come!
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and cure.
When you're chewing on life's grissle,
Don't grumble; give a whistle,
And this'll help things turn out for the best... - Monty Python, Meaning of Life
. . .I've been told I haven't been blogging as much as of late... ... though I'm unsure as to what one could possibly mean by that statement... o_O It's only been 2 days or so... ><; Anyways... first weekend in UW... Finished my Calc. assignment, so I'm happy. But I failed my second combinatorics assignment... so balance is restored. T_T
. . .German is mediocre. =/ Not doing terribly well, but not able to fail miserably either. And as for life in general... well, It's busy. Taught my roommate how to cast on (for knitting) -- knitting for the needy. It's a pet project, with a current goal of ehh... 30 articles of clothing, I think? like mitts, hats, scarves... Does a pair of mitts stand for one or two articles of clothing? Hrrmmm...
. . .So busy, and yet so unmotivated... origami, here I come!
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