alive

Bless the weather, and the early ending of school today. Had lots of fun recounting the past and being cynical with Rui ;P

but back to reality Hamlet for the remainder of the day. Must keep average up for scholarship e_e
English and chem, kill me now.

Songs from Big Bang's 5th album is on repeat to ease the suffering.

hehe they're so cute :]

break march

(link to comic, they're hilarious) 

This sums up my break nicely.
This and the amazingness of Tower of God. It's Sunday release overwhelms the dread of school starting the next day.

freeze-dried romance

Too lazy to do any work, school or not. Let this not haunt me later on.

Instead, a speech on sustainable food by Prince Charles, a song by Train:


very appropriate song to listen to as I try to work on my SES presentation.

and a list of materialistic delights I would like to obtain:

• Loafers, maybe in soft leather.
• Summery skirt.
• Well made and soft white tee. (depending on uniqlo)
• These shoes, for prom. Love them sooo much!

fish cakes

Warm weather is nice.
Catching up with friends is nice.

This song is nice too :]

boarding

So I spent the night before Blue Mountain browsing through ffxii's tag on tumblr while simultaneously praying for a HD release for the ps3.
Then I remember the ridiculous amount of hours with those goddamn treasure chests (not to mention all the bounties and optional bosses that I decided to skip)... so perhaps I'll just borrow it again and continue from my saved files.

And the morning of the departure was spent reading brainpickings.org Found a much better destination for all the times when I don't feel productive enough to do actual work but not tired enough to be a complete vegetable. This is likely going to be a concise summary of how I will spend the remainder of the break.

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Anyways, onto the actual trip. It's not terribly exciting as I stayed in the cottage the majority of the time. Got some work done, watched a lot of movies, and played a hilarious game of Cranium. Mel and I are an amazing team :]

The cottage was really nice, love the window of one of the bedrooms that is directly over the living room. It's such a convenient way to transfer objects between floors ;D


The food was also good too. As always, we brought waaay too much of it.

The top row is dinner out in the village. I've been converted from bread+butter being the best combination to bread+olive oil and vinegar, especially fruity olive oils *u* (@Rui: we need to buy a bakery together LOL). The main course was great too, the highlight being Mel's slow roasted beef brisket (the plate on the back, left).
Bottom left picture is an unexpectedly delicious bowl of instant noodles. Plural being a keyword, there was at least 4 different types in there, the original pasta from the chicken noodle soap, followed by Billy, David and mine instant noodles xD Last photo is lunch at Wild Wings. The pulled pork sandwich was topped with a really spicy slaw that gave the whole thing a nice kick.

unrelated detour: I've realized that the iPhone camera is pretty crappy in low light situations. Pictures have a lot of noise and flash...oh gosh that's atrocious e_e" Guess all the more reasons to save up for a x10.

To sign off, here's us being sleepy while waiting for the bus to come.


Also might have gotten David sucked into Triple Town XD

(V)

Back from UT civ eng applicant dinner, got unofficially accepted whoo! ;D


Was so happy for a while, then panic from English test settled in. Off to analyze quotations.
After that test I'll be freeeeee, and this entry will then contain a lot more sustenance.

English was baaad.Ugh I prepared a lot of material on existentialism as 7/10 of my quotations were pertaining to that. But nooooo, Mr. A had to choose the completely nonexistential one "orz Did absolutely terrible relating that to the theme of the novel. Plus there wasn't enough time to edit my work, so spelling/grammar mistakes galore! e_e

But you know what, it's over with. My march break can start! Many events to look forward to :]
(see, I'm better at being an optimist now)


Moving on, these two photos were from a visit to UT last week.
I was really interested in the research of Dr. Bass, from science expo, and asked if I could visit his office and learn more about the projects that he was working on. Fortunately he agreed and down I went.


The awesomeness of the alligator and paper kyuubey is overwhelming. Think I embarrassed myself a little when I walked into the office. "omg kyuubey!! [turns around] omg alligator!"



Visited UT again yesterday for the civil engineering applicant's dinner. Was a good event, (would've been better without English nagging me -o-")

Hart house has gooooood food.
Another strong point of the evening was the short and sweet speeches. I was very impressed when an alumnus, now a senior manager at the world bank, flew in from London in the morning to deliver a short address. The chair of mineral engineering also gave a hilarious speech: "I had a gathering with thirteen thousand of my closest friends this weekend [pause] at the Prospectors & Developers Association convention." I was completely unaware that Toronto is apparently the mining capital of the world, learn something new everyday eh?

In even better news, I am unofficially accepted to civil engineering ;D Got a card that said the official acceptance will arrive on the 23rd. time y u no flow faster! Actually it's fine, I'll enjoy my glorious week of break *u*

to be or not to be

In the space, in the near future of tomorrow, will have a post on TEDx and other stuff.
It's suppose to be up today, but I'm feel like a zombie, an extremely tired one.
Yeah it's only 10, and there's chem to do, but screw this. sleeeeep.


"orz

Promised kept. Key is to not put off blogging till the night. All motivation to do any sort of work evapourates by like 9 lol.

TEDx went pretty well, thanks to my amazing team :] Pulling off successful school events requires a  group of motivated people (or at least ones that you can count on getting their assigned task done) and a dedicated staff member. I felt really proud when one of the teachers who brought his class in for period one came back and asked if there was space in the afternoon blocks.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see much of the conference. However, I managed to watch this amazing one:

Waaaannnt.

Rest of the week was devoted to acing the calc test, which fortunately I did. 98 transmission mark yehhhh. Take that UT! (I'm sad that you still haven't accepted me, please do soon D: )

And the rest of the weekend shall be devoted to English IRP quotations and chem test (need to redeem myself after a disastrous chpt 5 test).
To start things off, hilarious sketch of Hamlet featuring Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie (click through, embedding disabled).

Commence attack on work, chargeeee.