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Saturday, October 28, 2006
daylight savings
I wasn't planning an update until after Wednesday when I free myself from the chains of Midterms and school assignments. But heck, tonight is Daylight Saving Time, which means an extra hour for us! I suppose I'm going to invest it in sleeping and blogging.
One last Midterm on Monday for Environmental Science, but where's the drive? I think I blew/scored on my recent ones: I don't know how it went! I should seriously go back to study and/or watch hockey instead. Go Toronto Maple Leafs! 4-2 lead, keep it!
One last Midterm on Monday for Environmental Science, but where's the drive? I think I blew/scored on my recent ones: I don't know how it went! I should seriously go back to study and/or watch hockey instead. Go Toronto Maple Leafs! 4-2 lead, keep it!
Sunday, October 22, 2006
particle man unveiled
After one full year, I finally changed my layout. This is especially so to mark three years of blogging on November 1st. I know I would be freakingly tired then (I have Midterms on next Wednesday, Thursday and the following Monday, and a MAJOR lab report due on the following Wednesday), so I decided to put it up now..
So Happy 3rd Birthday, My Bloggie!
Just a short note, I love the Marie Antoinette movie. Watched it yesterday.. Definitely very different (even the trailer was different in the sense that there was no dialogue, just music). The movie stands out in the fact that it wasn't about politics, but more of the life of Marie Antoinette's sad life. Sure, she lives in the Versailles, eat good food, have fabulous clothes and accessories. But she was torn away from her teenhood, being married off to a foreign land at 14 and then becoming Queen of France at 19.. The only way to get her attention off her miserable life was to splurge and cheat like she did. I like a scene where they were ironically talking about their NOW, when to us it's our PAST, the 18th century.
I will understand why people would dislike the movie (abrupt ending, little dialogue, kind of repetitive), but heck it's so artistic (superb scenic views of Versailles, cool music, lavish costumes and props). And Kirsten Dunst was perfect as MA. So the plus outweighs the minus for me. Anyway, the song playing now is from the soundtrack of MA. Oh, and the funny thing is there was a pair of Converse shoes deliberately put into one of scenes. So cool..
On Friday, a few people went downtown to the CBC Museum as part of the ISC Van-Go program. Was okay, kind of boring. But on the bright side, we ate at Salad King. I haven't had a meal there for a long time, so yum! Well, the nex Van-Go event is most probably to see the theatrical play, Wicked. It would be after my Midterms and more fun, so I'm more enthusiastic for this event.
Gah, time for some studying but I feel so exhausted and sleepy..
So Happy 3rd Birthday, My Bloggie!
Just a short note, I love the Marie Antoinette movie. Watched it yesterday.. Definitely very different (even the trailer was different in the sense that there was no dialogue, just music). The movie stands out in the fact that it wasn't about politics, but more of the life of Marie Antoinette's sad life. Sure, she lives in the Versailles, eat good food, have fabulous clothes and accessories. But she was torn away from her teenhood, being married off to a foreign land at 14 and then becoming Queen of France at 19.. The only way to get her attention off her miserable life was to splurge and cheat like she did. I like a scene where they were ironically talking about their NOW, when to us it's our PAST, the 18th century.
I will understand why people would dislike the movie (abrupt ending, little dialogue, kind of repetitive), but heck it's so artistic (superb scenic views of Versailles, cool music, lavish costumes and props). And Kirsten Dunst was perfect as MA. So the plus outweighs the minus for me. Anyway, the song playing now is from the soundtrack of MA. Oh, and the funny thing is there was a pair of Converse shoes deliberately put into one of scenes. So cool..
On Friday, a few people went downtown to the CBC Museum as part of the ISC Van-Go program. Was okay, kind of boring. But on the bright side, we ate at Salad King. I haven't had a meal there for a long time, so yum! Well, the nex Van-Go event is most probably to see the theatrical play, Wicked. It would be after my Midterms and more fun, so I'm more enthusiastic for this event.
Gah, time for some studying but I feel so exhausted and sleepy..
Thursday, October 12, 2006
snow in the october sky
The first snowflakes fell to the ground in Toronto today. I was in a bus at Scarborough, and I heard mutterings of 'Xia xue le' over my earphones. I looked out of the window, and indeed, flurries.. It lasted only for a few minutes at where I was. Nora said it was longer downtown.
My first Midterm of the year is on Saturday evening. Crappy. School is already taking its toll on me. But I do feel more 'open' to school now: the people, schoolwork, surroundings. This is exactly what it should feel like to be a second year undergraduate.
Thanksgiving seemed so short. Spent lots of time eating. The potluck dinner on Saturday wasn't bad. There were lots of food (my brother made curry, and I made pasta salad). We played this "Murder Mystery" game where we each took on a role and had to find out who was the murderer. I portrayed the South American businessman who is in actual fact a drug dealer. HA! On Sunday, went out of town with ISC to a countryside farm where we went for activities like apple-picking and finding our way out through a Dinosaur corn maize. Dinner was this buffet which wasn't so bad. We have so many apples, that everyday we take one. Got to speed that up otherwise they will all go bad.
Welcome to Pingle's Farm.
SWEET me and CORNY brother. LOL.
Up atop a stack of hay.
Corn-Maze!
Blocking the view.
Genetic variety in corn. Biology.. Bummer.
In the maze.
I sat on humongous pumpkins. By the way, Halloween is approaching.
Two fingers salute the Pingle's Pumpkin Patch.
1-2-3, and pluck the apples!
Among the rows of sweet-smelling apple trees.
Rolls of hay on a pumpkin patch.
A llama, two sheep, and a barn.
Where we dined at.
ISC gang at the Thanksgiving Dinner.
Got to go study, do some work, whatever..
My first Midterm of the year is on Saturday evening. Crappy. School is already taking its toll on me. But I do feel more 'open' to school now: the people, schoolwork, surroundings. This is exactly what it should feel like to be a second year undergraduate.
Thanksgiving seemed so short. Spent lots of time eating. The potluck dinner on Saturday wasn't bad. There were lots of food (my brother made curry, and I made pasta salad). We played this "Murder Mystery" game where we each took on a role and had to find out who was the murderer. I portrayed the South American businessman who is in actual fact a drug dealer. HA! On Sunday, went out of town with ISC to a countryside farm where we went for activities like apple-picking and finding our way out through a Dinosaur corn maize. Dinner was this buffet which wasn't so bad. We have so many apples, that everyday we take one. Got to speed that up otherwise they will all go bad.
Welcome to Pingle's Farm.
SWEET me and CORNY brother. LOL.
Up atop a stack of hay.
Corn-Maze!
Blocking the view.
Genetic variety in corn. Biology.. Bummer.
In the maze.
I sat on humongous pumpkins. By the way, Halloween is approaching.
Two fingers salute the Pingle's Pumpkin Patch.
1-2-3, and pluck the apples!
Among the rows of sweet-smelling apple trees.
Rolls of hay on a pumpkin patch.
A llama, two sheep, and a barn.
Where we dined at.
ISC gang at the Thanksgiving Dinner.
Got to go study, do some work, whatever..
Friday, October 06, 2006
thank god it's thanksgiving!
Finally, a long weekend is here thanks to Thanksgiving. Got to make the most out of it since after this, the next holiday will be Christmas, which is in about 2 months? The funny thing is that today is the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, and here we overseas Chinese are celebrating Thanksgiving rather than 'Zhong QIu Jie'.
My prospects of carrying out plans to study these few days seem bleak. My first Midterm is next week (on a freaking Saturdayin fact!), and lab reports and assignments keep coming in. Tomorrow will be a full day of feasting.. First, Thanksgiving lunch at home with about 15 people gobbling down a meal of turkey, salad and mashed potatoes, served with wine and desert. Then, a Thanksgiving potluck dinner together with ISC people and friends. Sunday will be the ISC Thanksgiving Apple-Picking & Dinner event all day. Leaving Monday as my only free day, which I most probably will waste it by slacking..
My prospects of carrying out plans to study these few days seem bleak. My first Midterm is next week (on a freaking Saturdayin fact!), and lab reports and assignments keep coming in. Tomorrow will be a full day of feasting.. First, Thanksgiving lunch at home with about 15 people gobbling down a meal of turkey, salad and mashed potatoes, served with wine and desert. Then, a Thanksgiving potluck dinner together with ISC people and friends. Sunday will be the ISC Thanksgiving Apple-Picking & Dinner event all day. Leaving Monday as my only free day, which I most probably will waste it by slacking..
Sunday, October 01, 2006
perfuminize
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