ffxi RANK5!

Happiest thing ever.. :D Well, lately anyways. Stayed up till 3am with my bro to finish it. Thank goodness we had some high level help and a good party (whm, blm, drg, pld).. I did the warping, my bro did the healing and crag teleporting, and the other two chopped. I decided not to take the airship though in hoping I'd bump into an elemental or two for some quick $$$.



Ahhh Full Metal Alchemist 25...! As a person who stopped reading the manga after the first chapter, I cryyyyyyyy~~~



I would have thought this week would be laid back but it turns out it's stress-filled.

Sunday, the interview was canceled because the boss is a retarded and didn't show up. The fact that I had to contact him and he still wasn't in after I tried annoys me like hell... so I might just screw that job and give it to Monica.

Monday, I was supposed to do two Japanese dialog presentations, so I crammed. However, we ended up only doing one, and postponing the other. Ugh postponing it forces me to keep reciting it every so often for me to do it Thursday.

Tuesday, my marketing group members are disorganized and messed up. Some of the members don't like to show up and hard to get in contact with. We finally finished the written part of the project last minute and then made me do the presentation because I'm the least FOB in the group. Luckily I convinced them the other guys haven't done anything and made them split the work. Now unwilling to wake up early (9:30) to meet up, I told them I'd meet them later that day. Now a member wants us to dress formally and somehow expects me to do something crazy good for the presentation. As a non-presentation person, I don't know what to show her. I'm too lazy to type up the presentation for my part now so I'll do it when I wake up tomorrow. As I waited for them to finish up the written portion, I caught a cold while napping.. *sniff*



When I was passing on the message some person left for my dad to my dad, I had trouble giving him the information because there was so much so I rushed and jarbled up my words. As a typical parent (make that parents AND brother), they began criticizing me for not being able to leave a simple phone message and said that I didn't have any skills whatsoever to even be an eligible secretary or anything related. Then they got off topic and criticized everything else they could get their hands on at the moment. That just left me feeling like crap so I gave them a piece of me. Bah, that just left them saying 'I'm just a kid cuz I'm so damn weak (emotionally)'? Yeah it's true, I get hurt easily AND I'm really bad at explaining things.



You could tell (at least the second half) from reading my blog entries and how I speak normally with anyone. Wow, I suck.



I've still got a 4 page long Japanese essay to memorize for Friday, phone up everyone for the birthday plans and keep that stupid dialog fresh in my mind for Thursday.



Dude, life reeks.



(Blame it on school.)

Another hellish week has passed... and it's yet to get better, hopefully.



My Psychology paper was returned the other day.. and holy SHIT I got another crap mark. Then we had a surprise quiz and [insert previous word], I realized I made so many mistakes after I handed it in. In that class.. I'm going to be a goner... I CAN'T DROP TWO COURSES! CURSES...



Oh! I finally DID drop my Geography... stupid old bald man. A class where I should be getting an A in, ends up to be a C-... totally messed. I can't wait to get the funny china man with the heavy accent XD!



Onto Marketing class news... we had another meeting again this week with my FOB group... I can't help but have to say "Um, I don't get it." after they try to explain something in their language I do not understand. The accent is sooo heavy I have to keep on asking them to repeat it... I really want to try and understand them but I CAN'T. I'm not FOB enough afteralll... ;_; On the other hand, we got an A in our case study omfg! But for THIS UPCOMING case study, we're going to screw it up because I didn't finish my part. Mainly because I didn't understand the question and secondly I'm too lazy to think too hard about it. I'm pretending not to understand and getting the other guys to think for me. Damn I'm lazy.



I forgot to go and hand in my resume for Zellers.. yay, imagine me working at Zellers.. hehe... BUT, I've been called for an interview at a pizza place.. DOMINOS! WAahahah... Thanks to May and Monica. :) I'm going to get very few shifts too, meaning I can work in the morning somewhere else! w00t!



No more English all next week. The teacher decides to be "nice" and lets us off (probably mainly because she doesn't want to teach anymore in the last week too methinks)... Cheers. :D I still need to read one of the novels though... one of the many people that didn't read it.



I went for professional massage on Friday with my mom! After I got off school, we headed off to Richmond for some food and then headed to Empire. We walked around the desolated mall before our appointment. It's so sad it's -so- underdeveloped inside. And it's right between two other popular malls too. So anyways, I got a short, skrawny lady as my massager. She's not as weak as she seems >:D... Really relaxing and comfortable... I even insisted she put more oomph into it, and she did! And that lasted for a whole hour in a supposedly quiet room (except the floor was made of wood so the loud obnoxious ladies talked and stomped noisily) while I heard and smelt the strange aroma coming in through the vents. Anyways, good stuff... I want more. XD



Now I'm waiting for SOMEONE to get on ffxi so I could hurry up and help them with the Bastok dragon. But apparently that person is nowhere to be FOUND!

Wow was so glad the weekend was over yesterday but I didn't realize how difficult the psychology paper was. I didn't start until around dinner time and was hoping I'd finish early enough to play some ffxi... BUT, I fell asleep doing it, woke up at 7am to finish it. Bah... there goes the stupid day.



The strangest thing.... Jo told me to pray for the answer to my geography course problem and guess what! The answer came from my BROTHER! All of a sudden, before I started my Psychology paper, I was reminded about the unresolved issue with that class... Feeling frustrated again, I decided to talk to my brother again. Nothing was exactly solved or anything but I felt like I shook off the heavy load after the talk. No worries now, I'm dropping it for sure. :P I'm just being a nice guy and waiting for a fellow class dropper to do it with me at school, haha...



Now there's nothing to worry about until finals arrive... well yeah there'll be the occasional quizes of course, but relatively calm until then. NOW! I need to focus on ffxi again... THE PS2-ERS ARE COMING TODAY!! O_O!!!

Made it through the rough weekend... *gasps for air*



Started working on the english essay yesterday and finished with only the intro paragraph done. My other main points/arguments on the essay were still sorta iffy so I couldn't start yet. Instead, I started and finished my Japanese essay... My topic derived from Irene's topic, which was about Internet, while mine is about Homepage Visitors.. :P Lots of bs of course, but quite fun nonetheless. I could concentrate yesterday so I went and played some FFXI late at night to find all chocobo prices were as high as shit... bloody JPN players lol. Ah well.. XD



I woke up late this morning with a headache (slept too much again I guess)... started on the essay again and shut myself away from all instant messengers (by logging off of course). Started a bit, got stuck, listened to a few songs and started up again and it went through the whole day like that... pretty much. 'Cept I watched the first episode of "Smash Hit", BBS moderated and other miscellaneous procratinating things... BUT, very minor compared to the previous times. Went out to buy $16-worth of McDix at around 3PM (three combos and supersizing and everything.. most expensive mcdix meal ever. And finally I finished around 1AM (an hour ago) then I went on to do my english film review which took another good half hour or so.



I'll go memorize the japanese dialog and do my psychology paper tomorrow.

Had enough for today... treated myself to an orange earlier... mm~



dododoododod watashi ga shijita kiseki / watashi ga eranda mirai / watashi ga tsumui da monogatari subete / aiseru you ni~

*sings to dream - identity ~prologue~ and goes to bed*

Bad day...



Started with an argument with my parents about dropping Geography. Left me psychologically unstable... drove to school, got there to find that the girl I borrowed notes from didn't show up at her meeting spot. Got the results of my Japanese midterm... total disappointment. Then in the geo lab, the assignment was difficult and frustrating; made me waste so much time... I left around 1pm. Went and grabbed a better edition of the novel, Beloved, but still not the same novel everyone else was using in class. Started drizzling. Got to metro, walked around and loitered aimlessly. The longer we walked, the more uneasy I started feeling... We watched the dancing competition for a bit and caught a glimpse of a Z95.3 DJ... Old men, an old short lady and a ditzy girl budged in to block my view throughout the event. Came home and saw my dad; he saw me... we said nothing. Had two close encounters with other cars on the way there and back... Seems as though my mind was blank throughout the whole day. Now I feel like crap... with an english essay, english film review, japanese essay, japanese dialog, psychology paper due for Monday and Tuesday. I've yet to start........

After weeks of stress, more stress comes after...



Hmm, so I messed up my Marketing midterm #2...It was awfully hard compared to the first... it pulled down my mark quite drastically... Gotta work harder again... now it'll depend on my marketing project/presentation and cases with my other FOB team members... *sigh* so so so so worried. The big chubby guy that never comes to class an taw lai di yu no suggested a bunch of solutions to HIS lack of availability time to the rest of the group. The mainland china girl seems to feel that splitting up the group (so one solely works on the project and the other on the cases) is a bad idea, like me. Toothpick girl apparently didn't suggest or give opinion on this neither did the chubby guy's friend. Hmm, however they seem quite capable of doing it despite their horrible accents and FOB language. SO! I'm going to strive to do the least in the group by editing and doing computer technical stuff we'll require for the project. Lets just hope my persuasion works. Kekeke~



When I wanted to give up on my Psychology, I didn't study TOO much for the midterm. Though, when I took the test, it didn't seem difficult at all -- I was WRONG (again)... I got the results back to find that I got a crappy mark AGAIN.



In English, we had to do a Mes en Scene, where you choose a photo that caught your eye and then you analyze it. I chose a Always Thong Pantiliner ad that I found in an old lifestyle magazine that was lying around. The greyscale picture had a naked woman with her back to the camera with only a thong on. Yep, how COULDN'T it catch your eye!



The geo lab we had last Friday was awfully difficult. I was glad someone took my usual spot and grabbed one right beside a bunch of brainy dudes. Thankfully I got some assistance from them though I took too much time doing the first time, I lost track and had to rush the end of the 2 hours. I was hoping I'd get off early to revise my english film review which I last minute picked a movie I didn't want to really review at all (was Infernal Affairs II btw). I arrived to the class late and rambled so badly, the teacher stopped me and began asking questions instead... urg, so embarassing. I had to made up a few reasons for the movie -- why it was good, why it was not -- and when she asked for examples, I froze. It made it too obvious I wasn't prepared at all... Bad day, bad day...



We tried out the new Bubbletopia that opened right beside Bubble World on Granville. The customers were mainly CBC's for some odd reason when we were there... They had a $2-$3 opening discount, which was kind of nice.. but NOT when when you have to ADD another DOLLAR for pearls! That was a rip off... However!! The drinks were quite good... :}



WE WATCHED INFERNAL AFFAIRS III FINALLY! URG, Leon doesn't look like he belongs in that movie. I didn't like the ending either... well I like Andy that's why. :< We also had BEEF NOODLES for dinner that day and we tried to get in contact with Eleanor ALL DAY and luckily we were and she came. ....NO! I DIDN'T LIKE IT!



I didn't study as much as I should have for the Japanese midterm. I mainly practiced kanji but apparently there was this one particular character I didn't know, and that was for 'attention'... baah. Everything else went fairly well so I have high hopes for this.... lets hope it doesn't get crushed again by disappointment.



SO FINALLY! I got my geo weather report back, which I worked rather hard on to find that I GOT ONLY A PASSING MARK! The rest of the day was ruined... dammit to hell, the teacher's a prick. I recalculated my geo average when I got home to find that my mark's actually as bad as my PSYCHOLOGY! Holding this super shock, I think I'll drop Geo intead of Psychology now. I wasn't planning on taking summer school and I still have no intention to now but apparently a good teacher that lots of other people recommend is teaching in the summer. Now I just wonder if that same teacher'll be available in the Fall semester instead... should I take the chance and wait or take one course in the summer? I was hoping I'd only work in the summer, instead of a one hour class everyday that'll require either $2 for parking or $4 bussing DAILY, which is dumb, I think.



Mmm... Jo and I went downtown yesterday for the Hiring Fair. We parked 1200-800 = 400 digits away from the destination, so we had to walk in the rain. We arrived to find that the lineup was so long, we wouldn't be able to get in before it closes. We shrugged and walked back and visited a few stores along the way. We called up Eleanor and Fish to find that they were bubble tea-ing and suggested that we all go out and eat. We met them at Daimo, ate and talked and planned birthday things.



Jo apparently found a job classified that would suit me and surely it does... I can't wait to send in my resume when I get home~! XD

I seriously need to drop Psychology...

*listening to KOTOKO's major debut album promotion CD again and again*

Can't wait till the actual album comes out *dies*



Worked on my Geo Weather report all day... and only gotten around 2 pages done... wow it's... boring. I've yet to call my other teammates for the rest of the missing information from our charts damn... *looks at the time* I don't feel like it anymore... Hmm, I'll go shower and see if I feel any different afterwards.



Then I'll have to study for my marketing midterm...

Don't feel like that either... though I haven't seriously reviewed anything for that subject yet. That's no good.



I suddenly realized I haven't visited my favourite bookstore this month. Got a number of things to get... magazines and manga. Mmm... maybe I go down on Friday. Hn, I could have gone yesterday...



I'm itching to do some photoshopping... damn. Damn school. :<

*throws a tantrum*

Another hectic week... Watched Flower & Garnet Wednesday... Ugh, most annoying and disturbing movie ever. No wonder our teacher didn't even recommend it... damn cirriculum. About a corrupted family with family problems... not my type of movie. Lemme spoil it for you! Mother dies because of birth of second child. They grow up as a three person family. The youngest kid, Garnet, without motherly support does whatever he wants without much parental guidance. The kid does retarded things like eat dirt, sprays perfume on his arm and stole her sister's underwear. Okay, so his sister, Flower (what kind of name is that) falls in love with this guy and has sex and gets pregnant. She tells the guy she's pregnant, and the guy leaves forever. She tells her dad she's pregnant and the dad goes berserk. She's determined to keep the baby and from avoiding the dad's abuse, runs away from home. Meanwhile the dad frequently has sex with the children's auntie... the auntie finally gets fed up by the dad's attitude towards life and children and leaves him. He finds a replacement. He gives Garnet a bb-gun for his birthday (wtf)... The kid's good at shooting... He starts shooting birds and then shoots a dog. Yes, kills them all. He grabs the dad's real gun and runs around with it. And then it goes on... ick.



So Thursday... a while after Jo decided to curse me for not giving her a Krispy Kreme donut. We are assigned to new marketing teams. Yay, better chance for a better team (with less FOBS!). Before that, we got our last report back and we got an "A"! I was SUPER HAPPY AS HELL! Feeling giddy the teacher called out the new teams that were for the next three cases AND for our major marketing project... So the first person in this team was called was this FOB who the teacher CANNOT articulate her name correctly EVER. Next, MY name was called. Ok this was my team then, no worries one FOB. Next name called was THE TOOTHPICK HO SITTING IN FRONT OF ME. I couldn't BREATHE! D: My brain stopped fuctioning or something because I wasn't thinking of anything except swearing like mad in my head. NEXT another name was called and this other guy sat at the very front (another total FOB)... then this other guy called in my team didn't show up. We then gathered afterwards to discuss our project and such together. Wow... completely surrounded... bad english everywhere. It was...... devestating. Next class I'd like to suggest to appoint me Editor again.. I seriously do not mind cleaning up the mess. ANYTHING TO CLEAN FOB LANGUAGE FROM A SUPPOSEDLY SOPHISTICATED REPORT. And for my team... I'm stuck.



As for today... Had my Japanese Aural/Oral test. The woman's voice on the tape was horrible... Then I attended my Geo lab... The lab assignment this time was awfully frustrating.. instead of on hands work, we were told to write paragraphs. Then I mad dashed to the geo resource room, picked up last week's geo weather reports and typed-copied the reports like mad in the library and sent it to myself. Then I mad dashed to make almost $2 worth of photocopies of the diagrams. And I return to the resource room to find that they closed it for lunch break. I met up with a team member and discussed randomness while I waited for the room to open again to return the sheets. He suggested that we postpone our team's assignment because of a number of unfair factors... Hmm I might consider... though I do not want go through the reporting and photocopying again...



Midterms week coming up again... geo weather report due... english film review due...



I hit the ground hard this week.



Hopefully I get my new monitor today...