October 22nd~ Interesting Riddle

I received this in an email message from Alexk, its a riddle... but sorry... chinese only... cuz its a play on chinese words...sorry janine (most who read my blog are chinese.. hehe)... but there are some lovely pictures as fillers u can look at!!!

Riddle:

日字加一劃你最先想到什麼字

動動腦來做測驗囉~~~

(可別偷看答案喔 )
日字加一劃你最先想到什麼字, 想一想再向下...

Pictures as fillers (pics of my site)

Shadow of Vincent, Peter and I

Vincent and Peter (chatting away... )

田：最好的人
目：最精明的人
由：最善的人
電：最惡的人 (電字 的簡化字)
舊：最毒的人 (舊字的簡化字)
甲：最狠的人
申：最狡猾的人
旦：最懶的人
白：最想做愛的人
巴：最刁鑽古怪、存心找麻煩的人

October 21st ~ Update

the past week has been nuts!!!!

list of things to do:
- studio (never ending)
- learn to sawder (like welding leh... i dunno how to spell it)
- accounting midterm
- peer helper training, continues
- commonwealth scholarship, deciding on schools in england
- go to "city of ottawa" for zoning info and building by-laws... (wasted time)
- groceries shopping
- wallacks (lifedrawing with color conte now)

well... not that i've reached the end of the week... some of those things still need to be done...
first of all... the peer helper stuff is interesting... i'm enjoying myself outside of archi...
as for studio.... sawdering is interesting... i'm killing braincells as i sniff up the fumes.... but thats ok... i probably have no more brian cells...

accounting midterm just finished earlier this evening... it was good... i think i did well... :)

happy things this week...
---i used the id shop to use their hot wire cutter to cut styrofoam... its a good machine.. just not very healthy... the fumes again... but.. while i was there.. i saw Q !!!! alex's suitemate last year... it was a pleasant surprise...
---and. in the tunnels.. i bumped into mike... u know.. engineering mike leh?.. that was a surprise too...

what else... um... sad things:
---bickering with alex... sigh.. lets not go into it... i call it the "FACT of LIFE" theory ... from grade 11 and 12 Cote math class... ..so this is how it goes... cos (squared) + sin (square) = 1
well.. i think alex and i are cos and sin... we live on different frequencies.. haha... one up.. the other down... anyways.. somehow...we add up to 1.. most of the time... BUT... there are instances... like now when i feel we're doing the "tan" graph... we never meet up... goes to infinity...
sigh.. this is what Cote does to u.... scar for life...
---other sad thing... um... kinda burned myself doing sawdering... ok la. not bad burn...
---bruised myself when heavy wood fall on me... sigh.. stupid mdf!!!!


other than all of this... life is good!!!! Maud's bf Francois (of Frank- en englais) haha.. is coming next week... she's going to montreal to meet him tomolo.. and they return together on sunday/monday... so jealous.. 1. get to see bf... 2. go to montreal

i just love havign guests all the time... because i have international suite mates... they always have ppl visiting them...so exciting... where are my visitors?

October 17th ~ Fiona's mom and dad~

it was such an honor to meet Fi's parents... they have been travelling for so many weeks now.. and finally.. they've made it here to see how their daughter has settled into Ottawa!!!

They were staying at Chateau Laurier... yes maddy... our secret hide out.. haha
it was such a lovely weekend... her parents were so kind... so generous... so friendly...
here are some pics of our lovely evening:


Kai and I (above)


Maud: eating chocolate fondue.. yum yum


Fiona: so beautiful


who's peaking from behind the champagne glass??? hehe
silly maud

The champagne glasses were so nice... here a pic of it:


well.. that's it... it was a lovely evening!!! Thx Fi!!!!

October 15th ~ Kosmic ~

KOSMIC!!!!

yeah... i went this year... i went with maddy, one of her housemates and her friend wheelock... i think thats how u spell it...

anyways... it was alright... not many ppl went.. quite sad actually... but here are some pics:



















yup... thats pretty much it... it was a good nite... i relaxed.. chilled.. go so tired.. haha

then.. trying to work on sunday... sigh... they locked up the studios lor... didnt open them till late afternoon... sigh...

October 14th ~ feeling better ~

thx everyone who drop me their "get well soons", i'm getting better by the day...
its probably just gonna take me till the end of this weekend to really be back in shape...
i'm already gaining my appetite back.. and eating so much everyday.. haha :)

just to back track a little and update on what happened in toronto... well. actually not that much.. just saw family mostly.. eat lunch... dinner...my cousin joanne came back from Atlanta... so sunday was the big family dinner ... and my cousin sheena brought a surprise guest... hehe :)
it made the dinner very interesting... which is good :)

we went to "hay fook lau"... i forget the english name... but the food was alright... the funny thing is... we had 13 ppl rite?.. and we ordered a 10 person meal... (couple weeks ago: 7 ppl for dinner.. also a 10 ppl meal)... we've come to conclude that our parents cannot do the math.. haha

anyways.. because we only ordered a 10 ppl meal.... and that the servings were small... plus we were all super hungry (weird... for the first time)... so.. there was not enough food to go around... as kids (although we're all adults.. except maybe adrian.. my youngest cousin) we complained and complained... in the end.. we ordered more noodles.. haha

but.. that was a good meal for me... cuz i finally had some appetite... and felt like eating a whole cow.. haha.. a little exaggerated.. hehe

so... the same day... i found a junk yard up on major mackenzie!!!! close to mcCowen, but between Kennedy and McCowen... too bad i didnt have camera... i really need to carry my camera out more... anyways... we just happened to drive by it.. my mom and i... and we pulled over to have a look... its like this run down farm house... in the middle of now where.. and there's just piles and piles of stuff...

i dug for an hour... and found some good stuff for "found objects" for studio project... but the happiest thing was finding a projector machine for my mom!!! its for all her 8mm video's from like 20 years ago... b4 my times... her old machine broke.. and alex and i both have been trying to find parts to fix it.. or a 2nd-hand working machine... and finally... we found it here...
the guy sold it to us for $20... which is an amazing deal... considering a lightbulb for some machines.. cost $30.. haha... old stuff is like this ga la...

so... when i tested the machine on monday... it worked!!! and i saw what my mom was like in her 2o's... in her bell bottoms... and funny glasses... long curly hair.. haha... the best part is.. these videos are soundless... haha.. so... my mom has to talk beside it...describing where she was and stuff.... i cant wait to see all her video's.. ahha.. and make fun of her :P

so... thats pretty much it for the excitement in toronto... coming back to ottawa was a drag.... i spent the last few days getting better... sleeping lots... now i'm alot better...

i've been working in the wood shop now... and wearing a mask... in the woodshop.. and in studio... just to keep the dust away.. so i dun cough as much... but.. ppl make fun of me.. haha.. say i have SARS... sigh...
oh well.. because maddy donated the mask to me... (thx hon).... thats why i got better... so i dun have to sniff up the dust...

so.. its kosmic this saturday... i still dunno if i will go... i guess only if i can get in (without paying).. haha... if not.. its a good rest day... :)

October 8th ~ Thanksgivings!!! ~

there are many things i give thanks to this year:

1. thx to the wonderful first 4 weeks back in school... all that resulted was a bad cold!!!
2. amazing benyln...(i think thats how u spell it)... that puts me right to sleep as soon as i take 10mL of it... (just took my 2nd dose)
3. vincent for driving me back this weekend.. really...thank you!! (this i really mean it)
4. thx to all my friends who understand why i cannot leave the house to see them... if only i could breath properly...
5. ...and i could go on about this cold bashing....

i really hate getting sick... all your plans to do things just gets killed over... i wanna be productive... but its not working... it seems i'm being unproductive...

i've actually been fighting this cold off for a few weeks now... its actually never gotten this bad.. like i guess it was dorment... now it has finally erupted... there's a saying in chinese " you're so busy that u have time to die and no time to be sick"... meaning when you're so busy.. sickness doesnt get to u... but once u relax and take time off... thats when it gets u...

and this is exactly the case... i've never slept so much...and been in such a relax mode for a month now... and what happens?.... nothing good.. this whole cold thing just started last night/this morning... right when i begin to enjoy my holidays... thx man

so... some things to be happy about.. um.. i had "steamed pork dumplings" today... so yummy... and then slept for ever... haha... oh... and i got the job for as peer helper for coop that i interviewed for earlier in the week... i had a great interview, i knew i had done well ... so happy...
it seems like an awarding position, good resume content type job, which is good :)

i'm home for a few days... leaving monday night.. hopefully i'll feel better to go out tomolo... sigh... call me at home and we'll chat (to all my friends)... my nose cannot stand crowded places... sorry... i like home :)

October 5th ~ studio goes on . . .

yes... its thanksgiving weekend... finally a small break!!! i'm heading for toronto this weekend.... so happy!!! anybody free?? janine, kristy, laura? how are u girlies doing???? i havent talked to u guys since last time we met... didnt seem that long ago actually... i'll give u guys a call when i come back :)

how's ceci and leone?? i wanna do the paper hot pot when i come back!!!

mabel.. cally? and gilbert... i havent seen him in ages.. did u guys go celebrate his b-day? if not.. we should do that... and good luck to mabel on her first job interview... way to go mabel...

did i miss anyone? oh .. mary.. i talked to u the other day.. haha.. have u seent he new sogo in TST?? ... haha.. my friend said its mostly cosmetics and food :)

yes.. karin.. thats u... remember to buy me lots when u come back to toronto to visit!!! i've came up with a new wishlist!!! i'll have to send it to u...hehe

i'm really starting to miss all of u ppl now that i start thinking... oh.. and alvin!!! hang in there.. you'll do fine... just like you always do... i have faith in you!

thats probably it... let me know if i missed you... hehe. i'm sorry if i did... ..now as for me... i'm still hanging on in studio... after 3 weeks of battle.. i'm back to where i started.. my first design... sigh...why didnt he say it at first leh? .. and made me go around in circles... take a big detour... and end up back at teh beginning... sigh.. the first thing is always the best... but .. at least i've dug myself away from a "F"... haha... so glad....

so... aside from studio... design economics is a joke... its useless.. absolute sleep class... i hate going to it... then there's accounting... i find it somewhat more useful than design econ.... so sad... the department should just make us take economics/marketing/accounting/finance instead of the design economics... or perhaps design management in engineering... the course needs to have more concrete business concepts rather than ramble on about past experience...

anyways... perhaps i dunno enough to make such comments... but i dun see how the course is helping us... anyways... enough rambling about that... lets see.. i wish i had other exciting things to say.. life has been so boring for the past month... the leaves are starting to fall off the trees... its funny how i reflect on these things when i sit in the cafeteria eating...

so thats all for now :)