not a thing

Shad (and McKinsey YLF) covered a large portion of ESP. I feel like it's simultaneously a really useful and useless course @_@"

Done PR! Group made it through without biting each others' heads off, we get along rather well haha. Let's hope this continues into CDS and beyond.

This must be the nth time I've mentioned how awesome my calc prof (and TA too ofc) is. A graphical explanation for lin alg helps soooo much. I totally get eigenvalues and eigenvectors now, and yes they are cool / useful.


Onto midterms...
weekend say hello to a hundred calc practice problems :]

midterms

I forget whether I first heard this from my grade 7 or 8 teacher, but "the feeling of impending doom" is a perfect description of how I feel at the moment of the titular subject.

and ESP, just ughhh. 

hurry for tea & music for keeping me sane focused.
(it's not thaaaaat bad, I'm prone to exaggeration when stressed)

.04 & others

So the $300 I spent buying textbooks won't be so useless after all. Chem was already fun to read (or as joyful as reading a textbook can be), but turns out that Lin Alg textbook explains the concepts quite well. And just maaaaaaybe I'll finally be hitting the Statics textbook for practice problems (though I much prefer to do past midterms and problem sets from other sections).
ESP...yeah shouldn't have bought that.

ANYWAYS
Had a good afternoon, so I treated myself to some donuts and internet wishlist-ing :]
hehhehehee (in the least creepy hehe possible).

Some office wear lusts from Club Monoco:

jacket / shirt & skirt, perhaps together?

My point: I actually have no business formal wear. Yes I have blazers and pencil skirts, but none of the match (navy and grey for blazer and black for skirt, plus the skirt is quite short). Debating between whether to get a really nice wallet (either this (can't decide between green or black) or this) or a pencil skirt (why nice ones cost the same price as a leather wallet is beyond me, but it'll be an investment).

I was going to get a watch with a metal band, but luckily I was able to mooch off some super glue and fix my current watch (leather band broke). Really happy that I get to wear it again, it's

• light weight
• comfortable (leather whoo)
• has both silver and gold colours on the face so I can wear whichever other jewelry that I want

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Woah haven't made a long post in a while, so therapeutic haha.  Signing off with a view of the sunset:

(disclaimer: photoshoped, but to match reality)

rockets

Summary of past 2 days in (mostly food) photos:

Friday night spent working on HiSkule, the variety of materials in the supply bins is astonishing. Spent a good 4 hours playing around with those before heading off to pho for some much needed dinner.

Trainhead!
Soup is well seasoned (not too salty, unlike pho 88), and generous portion of meat all for $5.50. I remember the frosh handbook noting that cheap food is food under $6 haha.

Fancier food was consumed for Mel's birthday dinner.

The sushi were really good, especially the one with black rice (interesting texture).

Had fun catching up with highschool friends, haven't seen most of them since my birthday back in August durr. After party at Janice's was also great, fell asleep to the intense clicking of people playing League xD

determinates

^cool stuff
So is 0.1 microns and thick paper to take notes on *u* Though that's no where near the level of a guy who uses a Rhodia pad with fountain pens and writes the most amazing cursive!

Anyways, priority for now goes in this order:
Not failing > extracurriculars > social life > sleep > high gpa

so far so good.

I always have ideas for posts when I have no access to the internet. Once I'm free to actually make a post, the idea is long gone.

.03

You need progressively less sleep
So far my bed time has shifted back by 1 hr each week, lets hope this trend doesnt continue.

Then theres always my mug of tea and shot of espresso.

stroke in a cup

Days ago, I went to the newly opened Momofuku in Toronto ;D
So awesome that it's just a 5 minute walk from my dorm too.


They have THE most amazing pork buns:

The drinks are pretty good too, most reviews suggested the Seven Spice Sour, which really lived up to it's name of spice and sourness xD

Had the ramen for the main course and it was alright. Points for not having an overly salty broth (as well as having slices of that heavenly pork above).