Places: Darkness & Light / El Cielo / Patt's Place / What I shoudn't have / Where Am I? / '04 entries: Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec / '05 entries: Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov + / ChatBox / Nov 30th '04 (11:59p.m.) : Starbucks overboard It'll be December (be it central or pacific time) by the second I am done with this entry, but I'm simply too lazy to change the background of the page yet. I have couple of them ready to go up, but it's just so much hassle to change the coding. I'll do that, once I have a bit of free time. The next little while I'll be busy as hell! Art & Theory term paper due this Friday; Altarpieces in Renaissance Italy in-class exam next Monday; Roman Historical Art term paper due next Wednesday; lastly Classical Mythology exam on the 15th, then it's time to fly home on the 16th! Can't wait! Proper chinese food, something I have been craving very much lately. Canada Room irritates me; so does religion. I think it's important for a person to have faith, to believe in something, otherwise there would be no point in life (that's a depressing thought eh? you do so much but in the end there's nothing? be it a reward or punishment or whatever) Religion provides that, and good for those who believe in god, a higher supereme power, life after death, karma, and what not. It just irritates me so much when a person devotes so much into the rules and sayings of one book, namely the Bible. It serves as a good guideline to a good conscientious lifestyle - for instance, for the sake of this argument, you should not engage in sexual activities with the opposite sex until marriags. Reasons I can think of why not: (1) potentially exposing yourself to various sexually transmitted infections (2) building will power; ability to control personal desires and in the process shying youself away from other temptations, and so on. However, if you do have sex: sex with a long time partner (but not married yet! god forbids!); sex with a stranger; sex with a room full of people; sex in the missionary position; S&M; fetish, whatever, would that make you abnormal and repulsive, just because all of the above falls out of the supposed 'norm' according to the bible? Let's think about that one shall we? In the meantime, I shall continue this until some other time. I really should get some sleep. Bye kids. Oh, and a little fun fact: there are 53 Starbucks within 5mile radius of where I live. Here's a little picture, the purple star is where I am, and the numbers are approximately where the stores are (I personally love the little clump at the southeast corner; and stores 41-53 are a little bit up north): - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nov 26th '04 (03:54p.m.) : Bad haircut Monday night the university's film studies department arranged a free screening for "Alexander" which was to open on Wednesday the 24th. As university cheap asses, few friends and I waited in line for 3hrs to see the movie; I want my time back, although that shouldn't suggest it was a horrible movie, just mediocre. The first half of the movie is good, but everything goes downhill after he had conquered Persia and gained control over Babylon. Angelina Jolie looks gorgeous in the movie, if anyone now needs a reason to see the movie. After two years of waiting, I am finally going to be a Canadian citizen. I don't know if that is something worth celebrating for, since nothing really changes except I'll be able to vote in the next election. W00t? I did get a bad hair-cut afterwards, that was my celebration I guess. I went to the see a citizenship judge on Tuesday to discuss my application. Long story short, I missed two citizenship tests while I was back in Victoria, and my case needed to be reviewed to see what happened / what went wrong / why. Anyway, that's done now and I just have to wait for the ceremony then I'll finally be a Canadian citizen. Again, w00t? Week and a half left in first semester. I should get started on my term papers. *_* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nov 17th '04 (07:51p.m.) : Healthy schedule or what? In the past few days or so I have not stayed up past three in the morning, and went to bed at latest ten o'clock in the evening. Yesterday I even managed to sleep at around eight and wake up at six this morning. Interesting fact: of the fourteen meals per week I have for my meal plan, I have already used up six, and it's only Wednesday; for once I might run out of meals, when usually I have three of four missed meals at the end of the week. For some people this might seem like a great sleeping pattern, though I personally prefer staying up at least til one and wake up past breakfast hours. I don't particularly get hyped at this hour, sort of feels depressing and mind-numbing in a way. Anyhoo, hopefully I can get back into my regular sleeping schedule soon. Aside from sleeping weird, nothing less has happened in the past week or so. Hell week #2 came and gone; it wasn't really hell, just a second mid-term and essay due, which weren't so bad afterall. I surprised myself by writing an essay on two Italian altarpieces in about 5hrs, and what's more, it's that I didn't attempt to cheat my way through by stretching the font size and type. I wrote a 5-page paper with 12pt Times New Roman; I thought that was impressive, for me. As for the midterm, I think I had a good finishing paragraph, but everything before that was probably all mixed up. And to make things more interesting, apparently the prof will mark it harder this time because our first mid-term some people managed to get well over 90%. Go me! Time is going by so quickly! I have probably said it many times, but I can't help but keep saying it. We're already in mid-November, the next thing you know exams are already approaching in about three weeks. But shortly after that it'll be Christmas break! It'll be good. After the break though there'll be some changes in res. Not particularly looking forward to it, but what can you do? Gotta live with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nov 9th '04 (03:00a.m.) : Happy Birthday Tom! Time is going by quick eh? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nov 2nd '04 (11:32a.m.) : Election day! Election 2004, bah, technically I shouldn't care because I am not American, I just want to see the Bush adminstration crash and burn. Who's with me on this one? I saw some polls on CNN yesterday, apparently Americans who listen to country music will most likely vote Bush; while those who are regular shoppers at Wal-mart will vote Kerry, plus some other random stats. Right. I guess they do need something stupid to alleviate the tension regarding the election.. but allow me say: what the fuck? CNN, you make me sick. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - November's featured artist: Otsuka Ai. Site updated and maintained by Me.