It's OVER!

Thank goodness...



The week before exams, I tried studying and really didn't get anything done at all. Luckily I was able to borrow the English text we needed to read from Tiffany and took the whole week the read that. I even tried reading at Bubble World to find a bunch of UBCers instead that prevented us (or at least me) from concentrating. Oh well, had good bubble tea nonetheless.



Amy's birthday on Saturday. A last-minute decision, I believe. Turned out a little wonky, but overall successful. I only showed up for the second part (bbtea) because I was desperate to finish the damn english novel. Felt really out of place when I was there though... the majority were from UBC, and they all talked within UBC only... Sat around... did nothing... contemplated on whether to buy myself bubble tea or not... then checked up on Tony and Sally... couldn't help the couple.. shrugged and returned, had cake and disbanded.



Crunch time come Sunday and Monday and did my English Final Tues morning @ 8:30. Wrote nothing but bs. The poem was somewhat hard to comprehend... and the quotations from the films and novels were hard to identify. Then we got our final essays back from back then to find that I almost FAILED IT. (C- btw) With quite the shock, I read her notes to find no more than two sentences saying the strengths of my essay were uneven throughout the essay. And that was IT. Learning absolutely nothing from her feedback, I scanned through the rest of the essay to find edits but they were scarcely written... Oooh, so frustratated and confused. Tiff almost failed hers too (super shock to her as well) so we asked some other people about theirs... Most people did a screenplay (FUCK I SHOULD HAVE DID A SCREENPLAY) but I was too chicken to attempt.. and I had the minimum required grade to do it too.. dammit dammit DAMMIT.. and they got high marks. ;_; URGA... moving on.



Later that same day, I returned to do my Marketing Final in the gym @ 1:00. It was awfully difficult compared to the previous midterms we had. The other students in his class also agreed with me.. *sigh* At least we were able to get a B+ for our marketing project with the FOBsters. Like Jo said, they weren't as bad at the end afterall... The toothpick girl's kinda weird though... at the final, she couldn't stop smiling and looking at me as if she was going to laugh (not AT me but...) so I'd look over to her and smile and... sorta look like I'm laughing and then.. I look away knowing she's still looking.. and grahgra, that was strangely awkward.



Relaxed for the rest of the day and more crunch time the next morning for Psychology that following night @ 6:30. The final didn't feel really balanced between the two chapters we were supposed to study. He repeated questions using different analogies but had the same answer which puzzled me... perhaps out of ideas? It was textbook heavy like he said and the gym was really cold as usual.



My dad's car started to die that night... Had to bring it to fix the next day with him so I could drive him back just to make it in time for my Japanese final. It was surprisingly straightforward and wasn't too hard. Irene and I decided (last minute) not to go to the Japanese "Farewell Gathering Dinner Thinger"; left the teacher sort of disappointed. Bleh, if it wasn't in Downtown and if my dad's car wasn't screwed I might have gone. Oh well, I'm sick of seeing the people in that class anyways. Which reminds me, we were given a collection of all the essays that were done this semester by our class... While I was waiting for my dad to pick me up, I read through and found there were a strange number of essays that were related to the internet. AND that little elementary school kid in our class is INDEED a typical elementary school kid -- his essay was about A-KO-GE (anime, comics and games -- he made that up) wtf.. :D And he talked about RPGs and Doraemon... yeah, typical alright. Kinda like another guy..(s) I know -- *coughhoandkincough*.



Returned to the world of Vana'Diel... had a really good Japanese party. 2 1/2 levels in a few hours. The day after, I got the slowest party that had major downtime, long battles and crap experience. Then, I was introduced to RO again by the users of my BBS that made themselves a private server (ohoho..). Wasted loads of time there, leveling up at every or every other kill. I'm at like 64/39 or something after starting a few hours... I don't know they're doing that yet but it's fun how people use the GM fuctions to do stupid things. :p They might try out another emu though and start again... oh well, wouldn't take too long to level up anyways.



I'm prone to writing long entries filled a week or more worth of events... I should stop that.

My new earring hole hurts.. ~_~



Wed: We winged the marketing project presentation. I panicked so much I just started reading off the powerpoint slides instead of my notes. But compared to the other groups, we were relatively good, I think.



Thurs: Went out for an expensive dinner with the family, because I requested so. :D Just had to go enjoy the taste of Alaskan King crab again... so THAT was my bday present from the family. Even though they ran out of bigass crabs and got a smaller than wanted one, it was still made perfectly. Ho-Ho-Ho... so worth it. XD



Fri: Started memorizing my japanese essay yesterday and realized it was more difficult than I thought. So I went and presented it half-ready and got a crap mark, as expected. He took marks off for my speed (;_;) and a question that HE couldn't even ask properly and promptly skipped in the middle of repeating it. Grr... he didn't give me another question to replace it either. Ghey.



After, went to Richmond for Richmond activities: eating, library and shopping. Sort-of bumped into Amy's bro.. I saw him at first, he didn't see me. His girl-friend saw me, pointed at me, he looked around and saw and then laughed or something and then walked as fast as he could away from me. Strange lil guy. Later that night, Jo, Amy and I went to visit Cheesecake Etc. by Downtown. The selection of cheesecake was small but nonetheless v. good cheesecake. Jo's driving's dangerous.



Sat: Woke up at ~10:30. Got ready and called Moni to find that she stayed over at Boom's so I didn't have to pick her up. Couldn't get ahold of Sty. Attempted to call a few more times and finally Saboo picked up. Found Sty half dead in bed and didn't feel like coming, so she didn't. Because of her I ran late and met up with Moni at Richmond Centre at 12. She gave me my b-day present -- more earholes! It was painful, yep. But we got jipped (sp?) and paid more than we should. Went and picked Boom up at his house from which he locked himself out of and headed to White Spot to find two very bored people waiting for us. :D We got to ordering as the waiter kept flirting with Boom.. lol. Since our schedule was all messed up, we decided to watch a later movie. After food and a mountain dessert, we headed to Aberdeen and and MORE dessert. Visited the new stores and the newly opened hardcore foodcourt with more than 4 different types of chairs and crazy design. We lost track of time, having too much fun in Daiso, so we rushed to Riverport for the 3:45 show of Hellboy. The movie was good, 'cept the sappy love-theme... Yay, I love the fish man. :D Thank goodness he didn't die. With time to spare, we headed to E-spot to meet up with a few others. Played a few games and had Time Crisis 3 eat my money. We didn't have the chance to play Street Fighter Turbo though. We met up with the rest of the few others at the dinner location, Tropika. We pointed at all of our desired food dishes that were displayed gorgeously in the menu and ordered like mad. We chowed on mango cake afterwards and was then presented the coolest present that night...! $60 at Iwase Books! Kee! Can't really get a lot with $60 sadly (4 mangas or maybe, not even, an artbook...)... I can't complain though, Iwase's stuff's expensive and imported but goood~ Still need to figure out how to spend it... Use it once every month for a magazine and finish it in 4 months or buy something different like an artbook, calender or fanbook of some sort... Anyways, Tony C left early to go work at Burger King night shift (lol, poor him.. so funny though) and the rest of us headed to a Lovegety-like place to take some sticker pics. We messed up the first machine, wasting $10 and only got ONE picture (out of 6 we wanted) with only 2 visible people, 3 half covered in the background and everyone else not visible at all. So we chose the biggest, high-quality version. It had a silly story we didn't bother listening to because they constantly made us squat and stand up to get the right camera about 6 times (up and down, up and down)... fun but frustrating and $10! We tried again with another machine and did much better with that one, with everyone that time. We finally made out way to Bubble World. Everyone already looked dead tired, so we just loitered a bit and everyone gradually disbanded. I drove Boom and Moni to Boom's place and got lost for at least a half n hour while coming home. I turned the wrong way and then kept turning around randomly and ended up at No.1 Rd... I called for help, but didn't get much assistance. Luckily, I had the mini yellow pages and found my way. It was dark, lack of cars and there were quite a number of police cars here and there. Bah, scary.



Throughout the whole day, Mike was trying to make everyone's lives miserable, even my own. Boom got plenty abused by Moni. My camera's batteries died when we arrived at E-Spot. I think I caught a cold too... either that or really bad hay fever. Oh, and my bro moved out and rented our basement to roommate with this other friend of his while I was gone all day. Oh, he just came upstairs to take a shower. LOL.

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!!!