Loooong Weekend

Whenever there is a long weekend like this week, I just tend to leave all my work to the last day or minute. This is exactly what is happening now unfortunately. It is a hard habit to break and one that will not break for a loooong time.

So far, I've been watching movies that I got from my library holds, wasting time online and volunteering. 
 
A couple of weeks ago I took my sibs out to watch a movie, it was my brother's idea that we watch The Avengers. The farthest I ever took my sibs out of home was to the library, which is within the neighborhood. So having my mom tell me I had to take them was a bit of a shocker. A few months ago, I signed up for the movie theater's points card, so I was happy I got to use it and got discounts on the popcorn and hotdogs. I didn't know what kind of movie the Avengers was, but I tend to watch almost any movie I watch. After the movie, I had to rush to the washroom, so I missed the previews that Marvel movies tend to put at the end after their credits. I did not knew this until, I got hooked to watching other Marvel based movies. So far, I have watched The Hulk, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I have watched Fantastic Four, the older X-Men movies, and Spider Man series, but the Avengers really opened me up to watching more.

Some goals, I wish to set for the upcoming week is to start career counseling and start research on the essays due this month x__x;;;.

Hope everyone has a great loooong weekend!!~~

Cold and Short Winter

This winter has been a strange one. Some days it would be all mushy with slush, other days, super chilly despite having no snow on the ground. During one week, the temperature in Celsius would be in the low negative's, opposed to the temperature being in the 10's during the previous week before. I guess that is to be expected where I am now. I always make myself ready for the harsh winter no matter how toasty it may look outside. We had a few times where there was good playable snow.

During one of the weekends, I took my siblings out to play. They made snow angels and a mini snowman, while I made a snow piano on a bench. The idea came to me all of a sudden over boredom. Then it dawned to me that I completely forgot how the keys on a piano looked like. =___=;; Fortunately, I had a piano app on my phone!

This may not look like much, but it required lots of patience and careful precision to make.

It's all nice and summery-like outside, and here I am blogging about the winter, I guess I miss it maybe?

Back to Blogging

The winter term has ended. And spring courses had started since Monday already. Quite a whole bunch of things has happened. One of the things, I hope to work on this summer is keeping up with blogging. My dad took my camera, so there will be no photos in my posts sadly =(

It's been too long, and I have no idea where to start....

Blogger looks so different now @__@

I will continue blogging tomorrow.

Been avoiding this blog x___x

Life's been pretty monotone, so I never find any inspiration for blogging about my life. When I think of blogging, I think of writing meaningful (to me) long posts. I don't expect anyone to read my blog, everyone is free to do as they wish. Maybe I could post small things instead, but that would sort of feel like I treat my blog as if it was a tumblr. =/

Been progressing a bit in school, not stressing this break about my marks =) I want to step it up next semester. And actually start volunteering. I want to make life a bit more interesting despite school. Perhaps volunteering once a week could help my mind take a break from academics for a few hours, instead of just staring at the computer.

I hope everyone (anyone out there) is having a happy holiday with family or friends! ♥

Back to school

I still haven't found a volunteering position yet. However I did apply to be in a mentoring program where I can be a mentor to a first year student. I just have to wait to be matched up with someone, this waiting makes me quite nervous x_X So far first week of school was okay, we went through course outlines and had introductory lectures. I can somewhat feel the tide is about to crash on me soon, the difficulty of the courses may be immense. And I gotta prepare myself for the worse this weekend by studying. I have bought all my textbooks except for one. I went to that class and the professor says "previous years book", which is quite confusing, I asked him if he knew the title or edition and he said he didn't teach this course last year so he doesn't know =/ And some of my friends were thinking we just use the textbook that we used in first year. Since both courses are similar and we didn't cover everything in that textbook.

This year my courses don't need access codes to online assignments. Thus, I bought used books. For one of my classes, we were required the newer edition so I bought it at the DIscount bookstore. Two of my books (that comes with solution manual) cost $226.95 and $183 at the school bookstore. I bought them used for $50 each with solution manual, as a result, I saved tons of money, and they were in very good condition, the previous owners seemed to have taken very good care of it o_o

I hope everyone will have a relaxing weekend~

Summer Filler

Since the last time I've blogged, I've been doing nothing interesting. I went to the mall with my mom to get school supplies for my siblings. We also went bra shopping for me....I really hate bra shopping with my mom, because she has to see how the bra actually fits on me in the fitting room. Even though I'm an iron board, she wants me to fit in and look normal, so we bought some with a bit of padding. It's always embarrassing for me because the employees of the store look at me with that "what-does-she-need-a-bra-for?"-face. =____= Honestly, none of the bra's in stores are ideally my "size". The cups are never filled (if you know what I mean). So we just go with whatever band size fits properly. Perhaps one day I shall go to a specialty bra store that associates with people like me. *siigh*

Besides that, I've been stressing a lot. I was only able to take 4 courses because of my probationary contract, however I got out of it after my summer grades came out, but the system wouldn't let me enroll into 5 courses. And the class I wanted to get into, ran out of sections to enroll in. So I was stuck. Yesterday, the contract got cancelled somehow (I sent an e-mail and left a phone message to my academic counselor and they prolly cancelled it for me) because when I tried to enroll in a section that was open (happiest few seconds of my life), it worked!

I've also been stressing about tuition fees, and how it took a while for the system to update, showing if I paid off my fees or not. Next summer, I will try to get a job because my parents are losing quite a load of money due to my education.

For now, I will attempt at writing out a resume. It was always suggested by a high school teacher that you should update your resume once every year. I should have took that advice but I was lazy and lost my previous resume, so I'll have to start from scratch and memory. The reason for writing a resume is to apply for volunteering, something to do during the school year. I know, school work is going to pile up and I may not manage but it is worth a try.

I completed the kdrama, Lie to Me a week ago and am moving onto Miss Ripley now. On Rogers on Demand, I've been catching up with some episodes of Hell's Kitchen and it's fun to watch as usual.

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their summer!~~ ^_^

Wispy Clouds in Blue Skies

This summer, I witnessed many go on vacation. When I mean many, I mean many, I mean 2 close friends and a bunch of other facebook friends hehe. One of my friends visited her relatives who live in Switzerland, so she got to tour around Switzerland, Brussels, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, and Rust. Now that I think about it, that was many places! Unexpectedly, she brought Swiss chocolate with her to share and it tasted so smooth!! The chocolate instantly melted and formed a bed sheet on my tongue allowing the chocolate-ness to delight my taste buds. *___*

This morning I finally got off my lazy bum and went out for a jog, after three months of hiatus. I felt much better after jogging and stretching but walking home, my legs were so wobbly. But I'll keep going at it until school starts.

After summer school ended which was a couple weeks ago, I've been idling around, watching dramas, going to the library, meeting up with friends, and somewhat pre-studying. I've been watching the Korean drama Lie to Me (almost finished with it) and I will move on to Miss Ripley soon.

Next summer, I plan to volunteer, since I haven't done so for more than a year now. I really want to build up my self-esteem and gain more experience. I'm going into my second year this upcoming September. In third year, I plan to retake first year courses to boost my grades up. So it would most likely take me 5 years to complete my Bachelor. Yesterday, I did some "accounting" work and realized the amount of money that went into schooling. My parents don't let me work, so I heavily rely on them for financial support, and they've been providing me for my education. Asian parents don't really show implicit affection towards their children. So I guess my parents wanting me to have a good future serves as them caring for me. It hit me, that I do need to take my education seriously, so I will try very hard not to slack off and procrastinate like I did in first year and aim to be a better person each day.

The weather this summer has been beautiful lately, not too hot and not so cool. I hope everyone will have a terrific week ahead!!~~~