Just another day...

it's new year eve...

sent diana off this morning... been a tiring week... but it was nice catching up :)

revelations (from the past week):

1. im less dependent on the internet than i thought (msn especially). i have officially stayed off msn since the day of diana's arrival... and have not been using the internet for more than 30 mins during the entire duration of her stay..

2. im blowed my budget BIG time! i got both the external hard drive AND the mp3 player.. PLUS i've been eating out wayyyyy too many times to count.. and somehow i seem to have spent quite a lot of money on all sorts of other things..

3. im bored of eaton centre... i've seen all that i can afford.. saved myself the trouble of seeing things i'll never afford.. and browsed through things i cant really afford... i'd love to stay away from eaton's for sometime.. but i just remembered i need to get some cards soon.. so i guess i'll still have to make a trip there.. hopefully i can get enough cards in one trip to last...

4. i just got a letter along with a bookmark from kx's today.. a sweet thought.. thanks yang! :)

5. classes are going to start in 2 days time :( this break was wayyy too short...

6. my taste in shoes and men do not correlate too well :p

7. i still have no plans for the new year celebration even though its about 6 1/2 hours away.. but if there's one thing i know.. its NOT going to be at nathan phillips square..

8. my food intake has increased a whole lot since i got back..

9. i love the almond croissant from La Maison du Croissant.. not cheap but yummy :p~

10. i have the worst luck when it comes to trying new food

11. st lawrence market isnt that far away.. and i can actually walk a whole lot more than i thought :p

on the side note the weather in toronto is a unpredictable as ever... after the cold week.. it was actually a suprising 9 degrees today! not exactly warm coz the wind was really strong and it was drizzling all day.. but still a huge change from the - 10 degrees.

also i havent gotten around to trying that cheese cake yet.. i have all the ingredients (i think).. now for the energy to go over to edmund's to get the stuff :p

oops... forgot to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS! and a happy new year! :)

well its been a while... or at least it feels like its been awhile since i last updated my blog... one week of holidays had passed by... too quickly!

although i did not make any plans for winter break.. i havent exactly been resting at home either.. on recap i actually went out the past 5 out of 7 days.. did all the different kinds of shopping generally..

went to j - town yesterday.. town is definitely the wrong word to use... the whole place is made up of a small 'fish market', a bakery, a tiny eating place, a grocery place and a video rental store.. since that didnt take up too much of our time to explore.. we went to pac mall after.. since it wasnt too far away.. didnt spend too much time there though..

tired out by the time we got back.. so i took a nap.. and suprisingly i didnt screw up my sleep time too badly.. i was tired again by 3... had a short chat with ym last night.. was the line horrible or what.. i keep having to repeat myself coz we keep breaking off.. and everytime i speak i hear myself twice with a 5 secs delay in between!

plans for the coming week.. going to walmart then dinner tonight with 'everybody' (who's still in toronto).. tomorrow's xmas.. so i'll prolly stay in.. bt i'll have to clean up the place coz diana's coming on boxing day! :) boxing day will be shopping shopping.. then pick diana up from the airport.. too bad her flight arrives in the evening.. or else we can go boxing day shopping together.. now wouldnt that be fun! anyway.. she'll be staying til the 31st.. haha! (i'd always thought 3 days was a tad bit too short!)

well after that i guess i'll just laze the last 2 days and prepare for classes to begin again.. 2 weeks is just too short for holidays.. i dont feel rested at all...

on the weather side: there was a snow storm the day before.. so yesterdays trip was slushy! yucks! and the wind was blowing strong! gosh.. considering shaving.. coz my hair goes haywire everytime the wind blows.. can be especially frustrating when all you're trying to do is not step into a puddle of dirty water or slip on ice or fall... there were 2 very very cold days last week.. the wind brought the temperature down by more than 10 degrees.. *brrr* went out the first day.. and was smart enough to stay in the second day :p now im just praying the weather will be nice during diana's stay *fingers crossed*

its over!! read O-V-E-R!!!! hahhaa... woo hoo... finally! ok.. i need to chill a lil... exam's are finally over..

went to futureshop and got my external harddisk right after the exam.. then went around to eaton.. this is the second time i went out right after my finals and stayed out til night... maybe i'll make this a 'tradition'? :p

well biochem was sucky... history wasnt too good either.. good thing i wont ever have to meet my history ta in person again... i absolutely made a fool out of myself today in my essay... by being 'creative' (read: creating 'facts' to lengthen my essay) i think he's gonna absolutely laugh at me when he marks it...

newest hypothesis: when a person leaves the exam hall too early... its either the paper was too easy... or the paper's too hard... in my case it's the latter... i have been leaving my exam halls earlier and earlier with each paper i take.. 20 mins for bio... 35 mins for nutrition and 1 hr for biochem... NOT a good sign..

well not much i can do about that for now... i'm actually aching now from carrying that stupid hard disk on my shoulders for the whole evening.. think its slightly over 2 kgs? sure feels alot heavier though..

watched wimbledon over dinner with bertina.. haha.. just what i'd have expected out of that movie... light hearted romance.. good for a few laughs.. and gosh the baby boy at the end was sooo cute! :p

well diana confirmed she's going to come over... the question now is when exactly.. she hasnt booked her tix yet.. so will have to wait for her to update me on that.. cant wait to meet her :)

the noise downstairs is really getting to me! argh!! how am i supposed to study when they keep drilling and knocking like that?!

more bad news: not enough time.. crappy mood.. very tired.. and frus!

its been a good day today so far :)

even though i havent been as productive as i should be.. i did manage to go sit through 3 1/2 of bishop's lectures (a very big achievement considering i have never been able to sit through any of his actual classes without falling asleep :p)

AND... i've finally figured out the perfect xmas gift for matthew! :D just out of the blue i thought about this book i received a couple of years back from my friends.. (prolly i was also 14 then? lol) but i think he'll like this book.. or at least i hope he does.. coz i sure do! one of my all time favourites! i can still remember some of the stories in there.. even "live by them" sometimes :) as for sharina.. well i'll prolly get her one of the things she mentioned she liked the last time i was at her place.. its so much easier to shop for gifts for girls! at any age at all...

diana said she's coming over during xmas! :) havent seen her in soooo long! cant wait!!

also i checked out the deal with the external hard disk.. 160 gb for $149.. talk about getting a good deal! it's going to be on offer til the 16th.. still considering if i should go pick it up on the 16th itself (after my last paper.. as a gift for hanging on til that time :p) from the shop or should i just be lazy and just order online..

now as for that mp3/recorder.. saw a neat one that's slightly over a hundred.. still thinking about it.. really busting my budget if i do get it... but i do want it.. and well i guess it really will be helpful for me if i could record lectures.. which is the main reason im thinking about buying it in the first place.. hmm..

oh.. and i made french toast just now.. with butter flavoured maple syrup... boy was it good.. the maple syrup i mean! yum~~ the smell reminds me sooo much of McGriddle... mmm mmmmmmm~~~~

oh well.. that's my break.. too short.. but im happy! i need to live through the rest of bishop's lectures... hopefully by tonight... 3 1/2 more to go! i started at 11.30 this morning.. and now's 5.... that means i took 5 1/2 hrs.. goodness!! im going to have to be listening to him for another 5 1/2 hrs?!! :( (hmm.. bishop sure knows how to bring my mood down... well i guess at least im starting to understand what he's talking about.. but unfortunately in biochem.. understanding and being able to score in the exam are 2 VERY different things)

10 signs you're really stressed:

10. major acne attack
9. cant stop eating -- even when you're not hungry
8. distracted by nothing
7. calculating the minimum score you need on the finals based on marks you already have
6. cant sleep at night -- even though you're tired
5. looking for any excuse at all to not study
4. by the time you get to the end of the chapter you forgot what you read at the beginning of it
3. by the time you get to the end of the page.. you forgot what you're reading about...
2. coming up with very creative ways to defer the exam -- even when it might be bodily harmful and the #1 sign: knowing you have all the 9 symptoms above and not able to do anything about it..

my score: 10 / 10

of coz.. why else would i be bloggin now instead of cramming for chem?

exams so near... sooooo near :(

had 3 hrs of bio help session today.. wasnt too bad... at least i did learn a few things that i didnt quite catch during lectures/labs...

the week went by too quickly.. havent been as productive as i should have..

good news: i dont have any class this coming monday! yay! :)

bad news: im regressing on chem and based on my calculations i wont have time to study biochem at the rate im going...

sigh...

food's been occupying my mind like just about every hour im awake.. i might turn into a pig before exam's over *oink oink*

back to the books.. need to go into reclusive mode...