My first impression of the area while waiting for the bus to arrive:
The houses around Royal York station look like they leaped straight out from a classic fairy tale. I'd expect some poor princess exiled from her kingdom by an evil witch living in one of those houses waiting for a prince charming to come through the surrounding trees on a white horse *u*
Must be the combination of luscious gardens and wooden accents on the facade. Bet they're cheaper than downtown condos too T_T
Think I'm quite fortunate to have my placement at a small company. They give me sooo much to do, there's some task to be done literally every minute. Two benefit of this include that I gain a lot more experience and that I don't fall asleep. Getting better at the latter.
Off to friday! The day everyone looks forward to cause we get off at 2pm~
Also excited for saturday, meeting with 2 other shads, Sarah and Patricia, for shopping&dinner date. Can't wait till bigger reunion later in the month!
04 August 2011
02 August 2011
internship: start
6:15 wake up.
6:35 out the door.
Been a loong day haha.
Cronos is niceeee. Will expand on that once I'm feeling less dead @_@"
6:35 out the door.
Been a loong day haha.
Cronos is niceeee. Will expand on that once I'm feeling less dead @_@"
31 July 2011
bridge
The two days that I've been back have been insanely productive (relative to usual summer days).
My proudest accomplishment is definitely laundering.
Instead of my usual routine of waiting for mom to come home and sorting everything out for me, I decided to employ the "can-do shaditude" and take matters in my own hands (lolol so cheesy) :] Machine washing was more of a challenge than I thought, the one at home has a way more confusing dial to choose wash setting than the shad one @_@ Hand washing, however, was a lot better than expected. I remember making up every excuse imaginable to get out of washing stuff years ago, but now I find it quite alright (similar experience as creaming butter and sugar). Spent the better part scrubbing socks, to the point of having 2 scraps on my fingers e_e"
Probably should get started on learning the rest of the cleaning skills, university is right around the corner.
On a lower note, I came home to find the house damaged from flooding. Apparently a flood happened a week ago and since then the management has came in and inspected for damage. Though actual fixing would probably take a few more weeks. Currently furniture and stuff are all over the place, holes in ceiling, 2 rooms are unusable, etc. Think I'm coping with it alright, only ever sit on my sofa anyways ;P Plus I've survived a whole month in half a dorm room.
My proudest accomplishment is definitely laundering.
Instead of my usual routine of waiting for mom to come home and sorting everything out for me, I decided to employ the "can-do shaditude" and take matters in my own hands (lolol so cheesy) :] Machine washing was more of a challenge than I thought, the one at home has a way more confusing dial to choose wash setting than the shad one @_@ Hand washing, however, was a lot better than expected. I remember making up every excuse imaginable to get out of washing stuff years ago, but now I find it quite alright (similar experience as creaming butter and sugar). Spent the better part scrubbing socks, to the point of having 2 scraps on my fingers e_e"
Probably should get started on learning the rest of the cleaning skills, university is right around the corner.
On a lower note, I came home to find the house damaged from flooding. Apparently a flood happened a week ago and since then the management has came in and inspected for damage. Though actual fixing would probably take a few more weeks. Currently furniture and stuff are all over the place, holes in ceiling, 2 rooms are unusable, etc. Think I'm coping with it alright, only ever sit on my sofa anyways ;P Plus I've survived a whole month in half a dorm room.
29 July 2011
Shad Roundup
Most amazing 26 days.
It's really impossible trying explain what the shad experience felt like. Looking back at my texts to friends back home, most of them were complaints about how sleep deprived I am. Although that is an integral part of the shad experience, there is no way a collection of words can even come close to describe what the month of July was like.
^cheeeeesy but true. I'm only starting to feel the impact of everything that happened and more importantly how everyone helped each other grow. I was nervous meeting the 48 other shads, but discovered that each of them are amazing in their own ways yet we all have so much in common. It's really the people (including the staff!) that make "our time together a dream like journey"
Summarizing everything that happened would be way too much work, so here's some memorable quotations/cool stuff/inside jokes that I hope I'll still get when I look back at this years later:
It's really impossible trying explain what the shad experience felt like. Looking back at my texts to friends back home, most of them were complaints about how sleep deprived I am. Although that is an integral part of the shad experience, there is no way a collection of words can even come close to describe what the month of July was like.
^cheeeeesy but true. I'm only starting to feel the impact of everything that happened and more importantly how everyone helped each other grow. I was nervous meeting the 48 other shads, but discovered that each of them are amazing in their own ways yet we all have so much in common. It's really the people (including the staff!) that make "our time together a dream like journey"
Summarizing everything that happened would be way too much work, so here's some memorable quotations/cool stuff/inside jokes that I hope I'll still get when I look back at this years later:
- "When I don't have to sleep for my dreams to come true"-Rochelle
- "Don't hold back because youhave no experience, that's what you get when it's too late"-Tim
- SWAG, what our business plan was full of. Of course standing for Sophisticated Wild Ass Guessing. Two important things came from the completion of the house project: the realization that I can (albeit miserably) function with a lot less sleep and that my bs skills leveled up by a logarithmic scale.
- "Life is a lot like a shad schedule, full of lies and misinformations"-Mike
- This is the environment that I want my future company to have:
- Shad Valley of Despair (similar to The Dip)
- Wicked problems. Jenny's seminar was amazing!
- "There's 2 rules to success: 1. Don't tell people everything you know"-Kevin
- Sprouts, Nim and Clobber, math games seminar ;D
- "Ask Mike" our unofficial moto
- "Can-do shaditude"-Lisa Marie.
- Words of wisdom from Rick Nanson, my favourite guest speaker:
Would someone be able to differentiate you from a computer? (Alan Turing)
What you do in your career, can it be digitized? (Kurt Vonnegut)
Never start calculations until you know the answer (his physics prof, so to develop intuition)
Simple, complicated and complex. World is complex, we're trying to solve it like it's complicated.
"There's known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns"
"God grant me the serenity to accept the thngs I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference"-Serenity prayer
"In the times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equiped to survive in a world that no longer exists" - "Here's a map of Nova Scotia, by a fluke g geography, PEI also happens to be there"-Mike, trying to keep our camping trip to PEI a secret.
- Businesses must be scalable.
- Construction noises following us where ever we go. Had to change lecture rooms 4 times.
- Burrito style sleeping bags
- Dal dictionary (shamelessly stolen from the monthbook)
Bears: mythical creatures that Mike tell us scary stories about.
Bottle: a weapon to hit someone...or to pass around messages.
Curfew: a suggestion, not a rule.
Dum Shad: what we become when we don't get enough sleep or coffee. (usually the latter)
Explore Program: French kids who invade the cafeteria. (and hate us for "cutting" in line)
Harry Potter Movie: a crushed dream.
Schedule: The vaguest source of information, complete with spaces intentionally/unintentionally left blank. (Really wanted to do "embracing serendipity in an unserendipitous world") - "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the Shads adjust the sails"-Shruti
- "Shad is like pi (or 2*pi),-natural, irrational, and very important"-Clark
- Pomegranate Phone
- The Last Lecture-Randy Pausch
25 July 2011
Shad Cup
Business plan is done and submitted.
Felt like UT Space Design report all over again, except this time we were only 3 minutes late. Improvement.
But forgot to attach a bunch of stuff, now I'm scared to death that it'll piss the guy sorting everything for the judges (Mike) out. @_@"
Strategy to deal with these kind of situations is as follow:
Now onto presentations for tmrw ;D
edit: presentation doneeee *house team fist pump* I can now sleep in peace.
Felt like UT Space Design report all over again, except this time we were only 3 minutes late. Improvement.
But forgot to attach a bunch of stuff, now I'm scared to death that it'll piss the guy sorting everything for the judges (Mike) out. @_@"
Strategy to deal with these kind of situations is as follow:
- Load up on sugar before beginning.
- Find a song in a foreign language and set it on repeat. Note it is important that I cannot sing along to it.
- Work work work work work work work work.
Now onto presentations for tmrw ;D
edit: presentation doneeee *house team fist pump* I can now sleep in peace.
23 July 2011
19 July 2011
Shad meal plan
"orz
It's waaay too easy to overeat at buffet style meals, so this is the plan that I shall implement:
Breakfast
-1 glass of chocolate milk
-1 small bowl with 1 scoop of yogurt topped with cereal
-half a grapefruit (no idea why they dont cut it into chunks like the oranges...)
-1 slice whole grain bread with peanut butter (no more cream cheese & jam, what a delicious combo that is)
Note: fast to obtain, fast to eat, aka more sleeping time ;D My alarm went from 7:50 to 8:00 to 8:03 and hopefully to 8:05 tmrw.
Lunch
-1 bowl of soup, 1 ladle only.
-1 plate, half must be green.
-no burgers, fries, pizzas etc. Preferably no pasta either.
-1 small bowl of dessert, either eaten here or during dinner. Choose between ice cream or dessert.
Dinner
-1 glass of chocolate milk or another bowl of soup if today's is especially good.
-1 plate, quater must be green.
-same thing for dessert.
Willpower will be spent half sticking to this and half to not procrastinate (point: making this blog post instead of doing research for business plan). And some extra for sleeping earlier.
It's waaay too easy to overeat at buffet style meals, so this is the plan that I shall implement:
Breakfast
-1 glass of chocolate milk
-1 small bowl with 1 scoop of yogurt topped with cereal
-half a grapefruit (no idea why they dont cut it into chunks like the oranges...)
-1 slice whole grain bread with peanut butter (no more cream cheese & jam, what a delicious combo that is)
Note: fast to obtain, fast to eat, aka more sleeping time ;D My alarm went from 7:50 to 8:00 to 8:03 and hopefully to 8:05 tmrw.
Lunch
-1 bowl of soup, 1 ladle only.
-1 plate, half must be green.
-no burgers, fries, pizzas etc. Preferably no pasta either.
-1 small bowl of dessert, either eaten here or during dinner. Choose between ice cream or dessert.
Dinner
-1 glass of chocolate milk or another bowl of soup if today's is especially good.
-1 plate, quater must be green.
-same thing for dessert.
Willpower will be spent half sticking to this and half to not procrastinate (point: making this blog post instead of doing research for business plan). And some extra for sleeping earlier.
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