haaaay guise haaaay

Wow, I feel like it's been a long time since I last updated this. University life has been getting the best of me, I guess? Eventually, midterms just started piling up on me and I got a bit too lazy with everything else.

Since last time, I had another French test which I did surprisingly better on. I got back my Economics midterm and again.. oddly, I got 100%. Yay for me!? I got an 80% on my business midterm but I've been getting good marks on my projects/assignments for the class, so I'm pleased.

Now, I'm just waiting on my Legal Studies and Sociology marks. It's always so nerve-racking to wait for marks to come back.

Last week was hell. I went back to Waterloo with a French test on Monday, Sociology midterm on Tuesday, Sociology assignment due on Thursday and then an Economics midterm on Friday. But yes, I did indeed, survive. I'm such a soldier.

Oh yeah, so two weeks ago, my residence don knocked on our door and gave us this:

He calls them "stress-relief baggies" which actually sounds like some sort of drug and it was the sweetest thing! It was midterm-season and everyone was basically cramming in their rooms. There was juice, chocolate, apples, and a granola-like bar inside. There was also bubble wrap for us to pop when we get stressed! My don's amazing! :)

On another note...

I was microwaving my red-bean sticky... something. This Asian snack?
Well I put it in the microwave for 30 seconds and it was still cold. So I decided to microwave it for 28 more seconds...

My snack exploded! :(
I had to eat it with a fork...

Other than all this, not much has really happened? I'm still mildly-stressing over schoolwork, but I'm praying it gets better soon. When November's over, I'm pretty much free for an entire month! December is pretty much scheduled for final exams and I'll only be at school for maybe a week out of the entire month. When exams are done, I'll be back for Winter holidays and then I'll resume school again on... January 7th? Some time around there.

Oh yeah, so this song has been stuck in my head for the longest time...

and omg Ailee and HyunA are back!

k, sorry. I'm done.

- eggtarts

University Y01W08

Oh. My. Goodness. You do not know how happy I am that it is Friday. There are no words for the feeling of relief and joy I feel at this very moment.

Okay, not this very moment, but I felt pretty damn good about three hours ago when I got home and thought to myself 'I AM DONE.'

Technicalities aside, the past few weeks have basically been a bout of smashing as much information into my tiny, Asian head as I possibly could. Let's just say, that plan didn't work out too well.

My Psych exam... WAS CANCELLED... the first time at least. My teacher came in 15 minutes late and said 'I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that you're here, but you're exam isn't - ' -everyone begins to whoop in joy and my friend yells out I LOVE YOU- '- that was the bad news ! The good news is I don't have my lecture notes, so... I'll see you all Thursday. The midterm will be rescheduled for next week Tuesday.' Insert a vast amount of celebration here.

Then, I proceeded to go piece together a 5 page essay about Oedipus Tyrannus and Doctor Faustus... That was fun... I had 2 days, and I hadn't read the books yet...

My French test was a bundle of joy, in which I forgot to read the instructions for two of the questions and ended up doing something totally wrong, and yeah... there goes like 10 marks right there. (I'm actually pretty close, the marks just got posted... that sucks.)

Next up, my psych exam. This time it actually happened. That thing was so long. I'm praying I guessed right on all the questions I had to guess... this sucks. My teacher did put a fun question at the end though, and it was like a bonus question, so if all else fails, I got at least one mark.

Wednesday, the 24th, was our Campus Bubble Shop's first birthday! Haha~

The Cake! Isn't it adorable?!

The first piece of cake went to me ~ I think I got the largest piece :o ! This was my breakfast...

With the purchase of a bubble tea, you got the cake as well as this adorable little stress ball!

The other side of the stress ball~

Then, today, I had an Econ Exam. I don't know how I did, but I don't think I did well... that's for sure... I spent the day at DC studying and managed to get everything down... (It was also FREAKING FREEZING IN THERE... I felt like I was sitting in a freezer...). Then I got to the exam and was just like... dwat ?

Yeah... sounds good.

Also, my hands this week:

Lookin' healthy... basically... I scraped my left hand across the ceiling (I think I created 'ceiling burn' as opposed to carpet/rope burn), and cut my thumb with a knife... and then cut it again later with my umbrella... my right hand? I don't know what I did, but it hurt like hell.

It's been a good two weeks.

Anyways, so I got back from my Thanksgiving weekend and it was like mother-nature took fall and dumped it onto Waterloo xD

I found this walkway a few weeks back, and I just love it. Now the trees are basically naked... but it's still a convenient way to class, haha~ That leaf is from a bush/plant thing that grow around campus. The leaves all fall off like half red, half white, its beautiful... and very Canadian !

This weekend will be music study (yup, music exam.), maybe some piano practising, some exercise, I might hit up the mall~

TO SLEEP I GO ~

-fishandchips

University Y01W05

I remember the first week of September when I was all gung-ho about posting every other day/week of the year talking about my university experience... yeah, so much for that...

Anyways, I'm trying. Even my book review blog is feeling a little neglected at the moment.

Since I'm on the topic of books, I the ARC of Black City by Elizabeth Richards :D I just started it this morning and am already half-way through. It's really good !

On another note, I'm back in Toronto for the first time since I started university. I missed my bed so much... and my family, I missed them too (: Haha~

Let me tell you the story of my trip back here. So I got a ticket for the school's buses, and they're your regular yellow school buses that you'd take during a high school trip, nothing fancy. And they're all like 'we should be back to Toronto around 4:30, since we're leaving at 3pm'. And I'm just like 'aiight, let's get going then~' THREE BLOODY HOURS LATER, we get to our destination. I honestly wouldn't have minded if I hadn't had to go to the washroom really badly about two hours into the trip. I also wouldn't have minded if I hadn't had such annoying people on the bus. Like they wouldn't shut up. When we got to Jane and highway 7 some person was like OMFG I SEE JANE AND FINCH. I'm just there like bro, NOT EVEN CLOSE... Then we pass my neighbourhood, and one of 'em's all like OMG WE'RE NEAR WONDERLAND. And again I'm just there like NO. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Now this was only for Vaughan, where I knew where everything was. But throughout the whole trip they just kept stating these random places that they insisted were around where we were. I'm guessing about 99.99% of those place weren't actually within a 10 km radius of our bus.

Anyways, now I'm home and currently skyping with friends, which is pretty fun ~

Also, our aerial photo was released!

So awesome ~ Hehe ~

I'm really behind in psychology... that's like my main task this week... well, also my freaking English essay but like you know... -sigh-

Anyways~ Off to bed with this one ~

-fishandchips

EAT ALL THE FOOD!

The third week of university has officially ended. Once again, as anyone can guess, I'm back in Toronto for the weekend. I'll be leaving in an hour or so for Waterloo. sigh. 

When I went back last Sunday, my roommate and I decided we should get a birthday cake for our friend. We pooled in some money and got her a small ice cream cake from The Marble Slab and if anyone doesn't know... that place is way to fucking expensive/overpriced. At least it was for a cheapass like me.

We split the cake between 6 people and none of us could really finish it since it was WAAAAY too sweet except for fishandchips but we're all pretty sure she's gonna get diabetes afterwards.

The rest of the week was pretty much dedicated to going to classes and cramming for tests/exams.

Making notes/reviewing for French test!

I had my first French test on the Wednesday and I got a 93%. I mean, I could have done better but... stupid mistakes tend to always gravitate towards me. I never fully read any questions properly and then I end up regretting it. Oh well, my mark is nothing I should complain about.

The same night, my Economics professor created a study session/lecture from 7:30PM - 9:00PM where he went over the material that would be on the midterm on Friday. I felt pretty confident with the material in class since it was taught in high school but there was some stuff from the textbook (which he didn't cover in class) that I wanted clarification on. Halfway through the lecture, it felt like he'd never clarify those questions and so I went back to my residence.

Walking to the lecture at 7:00 PM..
sky looked pretty :)

Walking back to res around 8:00 PM...
so dark and cold ..

On Friday morning? .. Thursday morning? .. my roomie made me this for breakfast:

k so I probably gained like 10 lbs from this, but omg so goood!!

So the Economics midterm was alright. I don't think I did as well as I did on my French test but I'll take what I get as long as it's over 80%.

So anyways, since the Econ midterm was at 4:30-5:20PM, we weren't able to catch the FedsBus. Instead, we took the GO bus from uWaterloo to Square One. It was $4 more but I gotta admit... so much more comfy! From Square One, we transferred onto the GO bus that took us to YorkU. By the time we reached YorkU, it was already 8 PM and it was dark as hell. Forget the fact that I wouldn't know my way around in broad daylight... I couldn't see shit at night. We walked for like 20 minutes until we got to an empty field of grass...

YorkU ... plaza? Food court?

Looked really cool though!
YorkU at night is quite lovely :) 

Anyways... it's about time I started getting ready to go back to uWaterloo. sigh.

- eggtarts

The Bane of My Existence...

... is Economics. Honestly, I've spent like four days going through the textbook, writing notes, and I've gotten through chapter one... and chapter two... that's it. Nothing more. It's just so boring... and ugh. Mind numbing.

On another note, I love my music class, which I just got back from an hour ago. My teacher says like the randomest things, and has a hatred for Nicki Minaj. And only in my music class would you hear the teacher speak of searching for porn online and drinking...

Moving your imagination away from that odd image, Kat Zhang, author of the debut novel "What's Left of Me", spoke of her publishing experience while she was still in college. It was entertaining and a little daunting. But I thought I'd share it~

My Twitter account is acting up, like an upset child. Honestly, even the virus advertisements aren't working... (I don't know how to get rid of them... any suggestions? 'Cause I'm tired of seeing stupid stuff like 'SINGLE ASIANS IN YOUR AREA' and garbage like that...(I already tried AVG and Malware Bytes, Avast doesn't work on my computer for some reason unknown to me))

No real other things to note about these past few weeks.

Tomorrow is my first university test. It's in French... we'll see how that goes. Then I have my Econ test on Friday... This week kind of sucks. But not as much as three weeks from now when I have an English essay due on the same day as I have my Psych midterm... I guess that means I'll have to work ahead...

Know what I hate? When people don't answer your texts. I do that every now and then, usually 'cause 1. I'm avoiding said person or 2. I am busy at the moment and take like 30 mins or so to answer. But I'm not talking about people doing that. I'm talking about people taking like 5 hours to answer your text. Bro, what were you doing in those five hours that you couldn't take 1 minute to text me back the amount of rice and water that I should be using to cook YOU rice.. o-o... c'mon...

That irked me today. I know it wasn't exactly their fault, per say 'cause they were doing class work, but that still doesn't mean it didn't annoy me a little (a lot).

Anyways, back to my useless studying... -rolls away-

- fishandchips

Toronto > Waterloo

Ahhhh, sweet, sweet Toronto!

Every time I come back to Toronto for the weekend, I just want to stay here forever. School has been okay but I've definitely fallen behind on my readings so I need to catch up ASAP. Yet I'm here making this post. I figure I'll do a couple of quick updates and then head back to note-making.

Economics class has been treating me VERY week so far. I love the prof. I think he's definitely my favourite prof so far and I adore his humour and lessons. I've learned a lot of the material covered so far in high school already, so I feel prepared for the midterm this week but I'll still be working hard. Unfortunately for me, I have French class right before Econ so I end up having to run across campus and ending up having a terrible seat in class.

My seat the back of the room. Right in the middle!
Queen of the world, ladies and gentleman :) 

French is also pretty chill. I have that class with fishandchips so it's pretty fun. My prof's a bit weird but you can tell that he's a really good teacher. He knows his material and I like that he's enthusiastic about what he teaches. The only downside is that French takes up a lot of time and there's also Tutorials and Labs that come along with it. My Tutorial and Lab prof is ... very young. He even has eyebrow piercings and my friend finds him very attractive. I think he's alright but the fact that he speaks pure French can be kind of a pain especially when you're not too comfortable with the language yet.

Legal Studies is alright. I constantly find myself wanting to sleep in that class. I've been falling really behind in this class's readings so I need to catch up soon. The material is somewhat confusing too...

Free hot chocolate and Tim Horton treats outside Legal Studies building!

For Sociology, I have probably the coolest prof. He's super fun and awesome. The only downside is that he talks at the speed of light, so I end up falling behind in note-taking in class. So far, we've been studying the history of Sociology so it's been pretty boring. My other friends are learning about brand-names and other cool stuff like that. I hope we get to that material soon!

My Business course is that one course that I despise the most. The material is long, the prof is incompetent, and it's a waste of money. The prof constantly assigns these readings that are extremely long. He then makes powerpoints for us to follow in class but the powerpoints are absolutely useless and are just filled with horrible graphics. He can't teach properly and stutters/uhhh-ummms throughout the whole class. Then, he's making us purchase this game called Mike's Bikes and it's going to be worth a giant portion of our grade. We're going to be put into groups with 3-5 other people and just... UGH. I absolutely hate everything about this class. It's a waste of time, money, and just life in general.

No.

Also, I have so much complaints for my residence too. The shower-head is so weak. It takes me almost double the time I normally need to take a proper shower and I still don't feel clean when I come out. I mean... I want a shower not a mini drizzle. Then, the toilet is stupid too. Not to sound crude, but I have to flush at least 3-5 times every time I take a dump. I mean... omg, can you just FLUSH PROPERLY? SHIT SON. Then, we only have one compartment/hole? For example:

We only have one... side? As opposed to two...
- Image from Google

It makes washing dishes really inconvenient and it frustrates the hell outta me. Then, our living room is oddly placed so that the chairs that face the TV are at an angle where you can't see the TV directly. We can't move the chairs either cause then we'd be blocking doors and it won't allow for proper walking space.

On another note, I got uWaterloo sweater. It looks like this:

There was another dark grey one and a light grey one, but I found this one to look better since they're the Waterloo colours :)

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Other random crap:

I was digging through my baby photos the other day and I found this:

AREN'T I JUST ADORABLE? :)
ohohoho

Anywho, I'm off to do more notes for a class I hate ~

- eggtarts

*collapses*

The first week of University is officially over! ... and I'm tired as fuck.

On Sunday, the day I went back to Waterloo, I had really wanted to visit Conestoga Mall but none of my friends/roomies wanted to go with me so we ended up staying in and playing Chinese Checkers.

Our friend from Ryerson University paid us a visit over Skype :)

On Monday, I had one class which was Economics from 12:30 to 1:20. The first class was just intro stuff and my prof seemed really awesome. He's a really chill guy and I always look forward to his classes. After that one class, I found out that we can switch our schedule around so I ended up switching around my classes.

I now have French and Economics lectures on Monday along with French Labs and Tutorials. Tuesdays and Thursdays are Legal Studies, Sociology, and Arts and Business 101. On Wednesday, I have French and Economics with Arts and Business 100 every other week. On Fridays, I have Economics again and that's it! I was originally going to switch my Sociology class to Monday from 6-8pm, but then I'd have a night class, and that was really unappealing. My schedule still looks horrendous compared to my other Arts classmates. Aside from Wednesdays and Fridays, all the other days make me want to cry. But then I cheer myself up by looking at Engineering schedules.

Later that night, our high-school group gathered for a dinner. The dinner was originally planned for 6PM but we ended up having to wait on a bunch of people who had assignments and other duties to finish.

Roommate 1 (left), another pal from High-School (middle), and fishandchips waiting
in the lobby of my building/residence for the other guys to arrive. Yes, I was shunned.

The nine of us went to East Side Mario's. I got some... dish and it was fucking expensive. Like, it was so expensive that I had to use a cuss word to describe the price of that crap. It didn't taste amazing, quite frankly and $22 dollars for it was TOO DANG MUCH.

Blurry pic... but omg so expensive.

We waited 45 minutes just to get our food and by then I was already full from my saliva, ok? I couldn't finish the food and actually wanted to doggy-bag it home but breakfast but since my friends kept mocking me... I couldn't. Hmph. Overall, excluding the food, I really enjoyed that night. The place itself was pretty, and we all laughed a lot. Long story short... there were jokes, gossip, and one great prank call.

The rest of the week went by way to damn slow. I was constantly pissed off by roommate disagreements, annoying schedule of classes, and just... ARGH. When Thursday night rolled along, we all kind of just gave up with readings and other work since we all just had one class on Friday and it was in the afternoon. fishandchips came over that night and watched "Prom Night" with me and another my other roommate. At 10pm, our building had an ice-cream event where everyone brought that own bowls and went to each floor to get ice cream, toppings, cookies and other stuff. It was pretty cool :)

On Friday, I added my final class of the week and then went back to Toronto for the weekend. We took the Feds Bus which is actually just a school bus. The bus ride would have been fine if it wasn't for the horrible traffic at Mississauga. Apparently, there was a car crash and it delayed us for almost an hour.

By the way, I'm typing this with an hour left in Toronto before I head back to Waterloo. Someone hold me. I don't want to go back. -tears-

Speaking of tears, do you guys know that fishandchips pronounces tears (cry) and tears (rip) the same way? ENGLISH MAJOR. 

SO ANYWAYS... I don't know how to slip into this next topic but...

Top 4 things I hate about Waterloo
1. My schedule. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I have to run across campus in 10 minutes for my next class which causes me to miss to chance to grab a good seat. I have to end up sitting at the back. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have a 1.5 hour gap between each class. Walking back to residence takes me 15 minutes and it takes me 15 minutes to go to the next class. I can't even do anything in an hour...

I have to go through like a forest, cross a bridge that's over this lake to get to class.
On my way, I also slay dragons, leap over giant craters, and swim across a pool of lava.

2. One of my roommates. I mean, I love her but I hate her at the same time. She's constantly displeased about so many things and it just gets on my nerves the way she speaks to me sometimes. Just darejghjllks!!!

3. Independence? I mean, I don't hate being independent but it's a lot of work. I'll admit - I was babied all my life. I know how to cook, clean, and take care of myself. I have to constantly be on top of my work and readings and omg. Fffffuuuu --

When we're too lazy to make food, we grab lunch.
I treated my roommate to BK and she treated me to this.
Marble Slab Creamery? Tasted so good! :)

4. Money $$$. Uhm, over 10k on education. I have to pay out the ass for textbooks, clicker, netbook, and other crap. Guys, that's almost 15k a year for education, ok? I want to slit my wrists just hearing that number. Who wants to pay for my tuition and doesn't expect me to pay them back? Leave a comment. Seriously.

- eggtarts