这就是一个人的生活：日夜颠倒的作息，没有规律的进餐，不去上课或懒得吃饭，都没
人会知道，没有人会管。

匆匆穿梭在人群中的我，没有人会发现。

已经到了秋天的深处，孤独的树和满地的落叶看起来那么忧伤。
但我安安静静的，不害怕。

窗外，松鼠在树上追逐嬉戏……

我没在发呆，我在思念未来。
有那么一天，我将完成我想完成的事。
有那么一天，我将遇到我该遇到的人。

这已成了一种信念。不要问我为什么，我就是相信。

因为相信，所以活着。听起来也许有点夸张，但确实如此。

现在，就让我这么眺望着，安安静静地生活。

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Toronto is a nice place.

It's great to live in downtown Toronto.

BUT, there's one imperfection. I just discovered the imperfection tonight, and it's so sad to realize what a fatal one it is: Everybody in Toronto wants to go to US for Christmas!! It's too late to apply for a visa now! Gone is my NewYearEve@TimeSquare plan.>_< !!!

(I was using the online US Visa Appointment Reservation System just now. And this is what I found: the consulates in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Halifax and Vancouver all have more than 50 timeslots available for visa appointments before Xmas. Toronto? Zero. I would be willing to travel to Ottawa if that's my only choice. But read on: one is only allowed to apply in one's own consular district.)

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Tuesday is usually my worst day, 'cos I have classes from 11am to 9pm. But it's been a pretty good day today.

1. I made a wise decision to skip the 2-hour CSC lab. I mean, since only 9 out 10 labs are counted towards the final grade, why not fully utilize this privilege to treat myself with an 9-hr sleep? I felt so refreshed when I woke up. And you know, when you have a good sleep, you'll suddenly find everything around you so delightful.

2. For the first time, Frank,our ECO206 prof from China, let us off half an hour eariler: his wife had just given birth to a baby! I feel so happy for him. He's a good prof, and I'm sure he's a good husband and father too.

3. Since I fixed the nullPointerException last night, the rest of the assignment has been progressing pretty smoothly. I'm only left with the main function to complete.

4. The dinner for tonight was awesome. Since US thanksgiving is coming(Canadian one was last month), we had turkey(with stuffings) and pumpkin pie today. And mashed potato with gravy! --as Chuck put it,"the best thing that a kid can dream for."

5. Got back my ACT test2 tonight.^^

6. I wanna go to US! Had a video-chat with mum just now, and she said it's up to me to decide where to go for Christmas! (I think I have given her the impression that her daughter has been working night and day under extreme pressure for these 3 months. That's why.=P) And then I consulted uncle about safety issues. To my surprise, he told me not to worry, US is not as dangerous as people thought, it's ok even if I have to fly to US on my own, as long as someone will be waiting for me at the US airport. Hmm, I was a bit hesitant about this when biby said he might not be going, but with uncle's assurance I'm not so intimidated by the prospect of flying to US alone now. But of course, I still hope somebody can take the flight with me. And I shouldn't be too excited about this now, 'cos there are still many uncertainties, the major one being how to get a tourist visa.

Anyway, it's been a nice day today. I hope my current mood will stay. =)

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Since when has the standard answer to "How are you?" become "Busy busy..."?

Too much work. Too little leisure.

Or perhaps there's more to it.

Too much pressure, that comes from no other than ourselves. Too little peace of mind.

Also, too much distraction, too little concentration.

Anyway, saying "I'm busy" is not so much of a complaint anymore. It's the normal state of our life.

We are all busy.

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小小声明

昨天的blog里那句《温柔》的原版歌词应该是 "明明是想靠近/却孤单到黎明" 。我第一次听这首歌时听成了“匿名”，后来知道错了，却再也改不过来了。=P

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It's 4am in the morning.

The NullPointerException is driving me crazy! >_<

I think I'd better go to sleep now. Maybe somehow I'll figure out what's wrong with the codes in my dream.

zzzZZZZ...

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Since I came here, I've been listening to old songs most of the time. And I can listen to the same songs every day as I don't bother to change my playlist. "A sign that shows you're aging", so said one friend. Oh well...

It's now playing 温柔 by MayDay.

"不知道不明了不想要为什么我的心/明明是想靠近/却孤单地匿名/……" Hmm, this song never fails to touch me.

Sometimes people whom I love the most have no idea that I care about them so much... =)

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It's 5am in the morning. I was chatting with an old friend on msn for the past 3 hours.(Before that I went to watch movie with my usual clique. "SpongeBob Squarepants".Please don't laugh at me.It's just for fun.)

Champ Lin, my old classmate back in China, is now in his last year in SFU/UBC. We lost contact after graduation from Junior Mid Sch, so it's quite pleasant to meet him again after 5 years, and to know that we're on the same foreign land. He seems to be doing pretty well in uni.

I now appreciate any friend here who shares similar background with me. I kinda took it for granted back in Singapore, where there were so many PRC scholars around me. I didn't realize how important their presence meant to me until I came here.

I've made many hi-and-bye friends here. I also have a small "clique" here, with whom I dine and hang out.

But I want something more.

Friends who I can talk to. Talk about more than craps.

This reminds me of the little conversation that guorui, gongting and I had today. Seems everybody is bothered by this topic of friends.

At this age, we all have certain expectations on friends, or gf/bf. We are all expecting, anticipating, waiting...

When will they appear in our lives? When are we gonna meet them?

Hopefully, it'll be before we lose our patience, or worst still, faith.

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刚给爸妈打了个电话。

我说数学发下来了我没脸见人了。爸在电话那头嘿嘿两声。

他说星期天不出去走走啊。
我说拜托现在这边是星期五晚上，你那也不过星期六吧？

他“哦”一声说这几天玩得太愉快了（他们上个周末开始在云南旅游）,都不太记得是星期几了。
我说为什么你们在玩的时候我却在考精算法语统计学三科考试啊，为什么。
电话那头又嘿嘿两声。

这时妈说她昨晚梦见我回家了。
哎，离明年夏天还有半年多呢。

后来爸说同行的人都在等他们了，下一站丽江。
那么就先说到这了。

挂了电话，我叹了一口气。
haiz...
心情就这样好起来了。=)

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Today is Chuckie's birthday!! Unfortunately I couldn't go out for dinner with them, 'cos I had a test and a lecture at night.

But we(about 6 girls I think)gave him a big surprise by hiding in his room and shouting "surprise" the moment he came back and turned on the light. He was so shocked that he jumped to his feet! Yeah! =D

Really envy him for having so many people to celebrate birthday for him. I'll probably have a friend-less birthday next month.=(

Feel a bit guilty that I didn't make any souvenir or buy some present for him. If only I wasn't so busy... Sorry lah! I'll try to make up next year, ok?

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It's a Friday night, and I was sitting there alone in my room.

I, am, bored.

Scrolling down my MSN contact list, I saw YangXi's name. I asked him if his gf would allow me to borrow him for a while.

So one hour later, when he came back to residence, we went jogging outside the campus,along the sparkiling streets that are so typically downtown. It's the first time that I jogged at night and under such a cold weather. I was in thick sports wear, so only my face was in touch with the cold air.

We kept jogging. Involuntarily my mind started to revise everything that happened in these 3 months, like a movie replayed. I wasn't sophisticated enough to think about the meaning of life as I looked back at the past. What occurred to me was simply this:

"This is my life. I'm gonna enjoy it."

I felt refreshed.

P.S. thanks for your company, YangXi...I really appreciate it. =)

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Screwed up my MAT237 test.

Lost about 30 marks as far as I know. I thought I would do much better. I still thought I didn't do so badly when I left the classroom.

But when I checked my answers with others later, I was shocked(and sad...)to find how many mistakes I had made. I felt like crying. To think that I went into the test center with an expectation of getting a perfect score...

I will do my tutorial questions from now on.
好好做tutorials.
好好看书。
好好学习。
好好生活。

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I'm still doing CSC assignment2. Actually it may not have taken me so long if I just concentrate on doing my own things without reading the bulletin board so often. Sometimes I help to answer other people's questions, and as long as I post something, I will usually wait to see how other people respond. And sometimes I will reply again after I see other people's response. And this goes on and on.

But actually it's quite enjoyable to communicate with other students on bulletin board. I like sharing and interacting with them, although we don't know each other.

Hmm, again this proves that learning will be much more fun if there is discussion.

Music, csc assignment, bulletin board, potato chips.

What a pleasant Sunday afternoon.=)
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I'm so fascinated by BoA's dance. Once I start watching one video clip, it's not possible to stop before I watch all her clips that I have.

How I wish I could dance like her! It's not possible, I know...But well, I can at least learn some of her steps and dance as well as I can. After all, to me dancing is more of an excellent self-entertainment than a skill to impress others. I feel good when I dance. So I shall continuing to dance, to enjoy myself through dancing. ^^

If I have a daughter years later, I will definitely send her to dance classes, including ballet, latin, jazz, hiphop, and any other types of dance! <--- the poor daughter of an unfulfilled mother... =P

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This is the first time that I teach somebody with learning disability. I don't think I'm very good at it. I'm more experienced with teaching normal-though-not-very-smart kids, 'cos I know how to explain difficult concepts in simple layman terms. Teaching a kid with learning disability is very different. Background knowledge isn't that important, but qualities such as patience and flexibility are absolutely crucial. Well, as the training teacher at the Frontier College said, "the best way to learn how to teach, is to teach." I shall just try to improve my teaching skills as I go along.

Somehow I feel that the first thing that I need to do is to like the girl and to make her like me. The former isn't difficult, 'cos Amelia is a very polite and nice girl. But I'm not very confident in achieving the latter. As a foreigner, I didn't watch the same cartoons or read the same storybooks in my childhood as she does now, so I lack the background which can help me to get closer to her. This may seem very trivial to other native tutors, but it does give me a disadvantage. Hmm, I shall just find some ways to compensate that, yah?

P.S. For the last two blogs, the titles don't seem to go together with the content, haha. Well, I wrote down the first thought that came to my mind as the title, and didn't realize I was digressing after that. =P

P.P.S. I just remember today is a special day! I've studied in UofT for exactly 2 months!! -_-" haha, nah, that's not what I wanna say. What I wanna say is: Happy Birthday to my Mum!!!

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I just re-read yesterday's blog and, hmm,I guess writing such a sad blog as a second entry for my homepage doesn't bode well, yah? So I've gotta do some make-up here. Actually yesterday's trick-or-treating was really a wonderful experience! The neighborhood near our campus is awesome. They are benevolent people--we collected one big cart of

canned food in half an hour! Not to mention the chocolates, cheese sticks etc etc that went to our stomach.=P

And OMG, the kids are so cute! You've gotta look at those sweeties dressed-up in Halloween costumes.And I really jumped to my feet when a ghastly statue suddenly stood up in front of me--it wasn't a statue, it was a real man!I almost had a heart-attack. And there were people dressed up in Scotish kilts and played hornpipe. We also saw a little dog dressed up with a pair of angelic white wings, the cutest thing I have ever seen.

After visiting our neighborhood, we went on to the business district. I didn't know there are so many high-class restaurants and lovely pubs near our campus(all I knew were China Town and Korean Town).This time our efforts were less productive, 'cos the restaurants couldn't give out food unless the people-in-charge were there. Nevertheless, we managed to get some tea, fruit jam and pasta.

Issac and I went into this Japanese restaurant, where none of the people there seemed to know English well. After Issac told them what we were there for, the waitress hesitated for a while and pointed to the menu: "Maybe you can look at the menu, see what you want?" And I was like: Okie...you mean you'll donate whatever I order from the menu?? Haha, of course I didn't say that, but it's funny.

We went into an ice-cream shop, and the shop-keeper felt so sorry about not having any canned food to donate that, he gave each of us an ice-cream. Wow, ice-cream,on a day with a temperature of 6 degrees celsius.

Anyway, we had great fun. My only regret was that I didn't dress myself up. Issac got himself a pair of horns. Derek was in his lab gown and looked ready to perform a surgery. Danny wore black suits(which looked really formal and cool), with a name tag that says "FBI". And there was a girl with engineer gears. Next year, I shall also get myself dressed up!

Happy Halloween one more time!

P.S. People carved pumpkins and put candles inside as decoration for Halloween. The pic above was one of the funky pumpkins that we saw(Jasmine took the pic using her cellphone cam) How artistic!

P.P.S. I just checked my email and heard from Deb(our house don)that we collected the most number of food items for our house! Yes! Well done!^O^

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So here it is, my very first personal webpage. I wanted to make a better one,but considering the time constraint and, more importantly, the fact that I'm such an IT-illiterate, I shall give myself a pat on the shoulder and be contented. Yoyo, this is my homepage!^^