I probably should have done this way back, but I've been pretty lazy about LJ, both updating and checking for friends' entry, so apologies all around. If you need to reach me, MSN and/or email is probably the way to go. I'm alive and around. Really.

So at the end of every term, I do this summary of what I thought of each course (a.k.a. whining/complaining). And thus, here's the 4A term entry.

Biotech 2: Too much information, mostly, and I hated the way he taught it because it was out of the textbook, and yet, not. -.-;;; Awful notes to study off of for midterm and final, although I give it credit for not having anything except that midterm and that final.

Cell Bio: Hated this course. Although mostly because I did poorly in it. ^^;;; It was too much information to remember and the prof was overly enthusiastic and I couldn't stand him. Plus, I was dealing with a lot of issues around the time for this midterm, so I was already in a rut going into the final. Also, the lab for this course sucked. That stupid lab report is one I hope to burn.

Evolution: I have nothing bad to say. It was an awesome course with an awesome prof.

Public Health: I think I mostly liked it okay. It was just boring sometimes and again, a bit of information overload when midterm and finals rolled around.

English: Don't even mention this course. I know the difference between "Reply" and "Reply All" in my email account, thanksverymuch. I don't need a paragraph explaining it to me. And stop asking me to write 50 million details in a proposal with a 1,000 words limit. I can do either the details or the word limit. Pick one.

MSCI (Organization Behaviour): Okay, mostly because I had such a laid-back group. I think I'd probably have a higher opinion of it if the final didn't have 30 (out of 100) questions where they asked about concepts I didn't even remember seeing when I was studying for this final.

Overall, I think this term was one of the best in terms of my university career, not in terms of my marks, because I think those were pretty poor in comparison to say, 1A XDXDXD, but in terms of me enjoying the term. It was a lot of fun and a lot of learning about Waterloo, the town. I didn't know so much stuff existed there before this term.

In terms of other news, I think I'll throw those into a locked entry, if I feel like typing it up, but so much stuff has happened that I don't think even I can keep up with the non-school/work events in my life, so maybe not. ^^;;;

So June told me awhile back that people were starting to wonder where I've disappeared off to, so I thought since I'm procrastinating, I may as well make an appearance. I'm not dead... and neither has real life been particularly busy per se, just somewhat confusing. There has been a whole series of personal issues going on that's taken a toll on me, and the truth is that I have been making LJ entries; they're just private for the sake of not dumping my problems on other people. (Plus they're private thoughts in general.)

Hmm, so to update on other life things: I seldom go home these days. Hahaha. One of the reasons is that I'm too lazy to move all my schoolbooks home and then move them back. Secondly, I'm finding that there's a lot of stuff to do as long as my friends are around, whereas if I go home, I just sort of... sit and stare at the TV while trying to beat the latest video game my brother had recommended me. Did a lot of shopping the past few weekends in preparation for the Math Grad Ball. Ah yes, the day of the Ball thing itself... it turned out we didn't really need to worry too much about the midterm time conflicting. I was done that midterm at 6:00PM. -.-;;; Although for the sake of everything, I did end up doing the make-up before the midterm, so I only had to change after. It was only 6:20-ish by the time I was ready to go, so I asked Holly to drive me to Eby instead since we had that slight transportation problem about the return trip. I figured since it was early, I could drive there and not worry about parking. As it turned out, my friends weren't even ready yet. -.-;;; In the end, I think we all left together at 6:45-ish. I don't think the Ball itself was anything special, although it must have been different from the perspective of my 2 graduating friends. I seem to recall a lot of picture-taking and leaving before the dancing portion even started for Kzone. XDXDXD The food was only so-so although I really liked the sauce that came with the chicken... cept there wasn't enough sauce so the chicken ended up feeling kind of dry.

Ah, some pictures in an F-locked entry if anyone's interested.

Otherwise, not much else to say. I'm kind of sad that this term is almost over. I don't think I've had such a fun school term since first year, so this term approaching its end makes me sad. *sigh*

So, I think I'm crazy. Wait, I already knew that, and so do most of the people who read this LJ. XD So, the dealy is: my friends are graduating this April, and they've invited the bunch of us to their grad ball.

My problem: The ball supposedly close their doors at 7 PM. I have a midterm that day until supposedly 6:45 PM, which makes it physically impossible. The thing is, I really want to go, because there's really no more chance for so many of us to do a formal thing together anymore.

So, I told my friend I'm opting to go anyways. XDXDXD She keeps asking me if I'm sure because she doesn't want me to pay for it and then not be able to go.

The rough solution: Holly drives, and we've tentatively looked at this midterm, which starts at 5:30 PM, and said "meh". XD Holly thinks that it can't take her the full hour and 20 minutes, and she's got this history of taking 2/3 of the time required for exams. So we're roughly estimating 50 minutes, which makes the clock 6:20 PM. If she drives to the midterm (and I'll pay for parking, cuz that's still cheaper than a cab ride), and we take off from there at 6:25 PM -ish, we can make it to Waterloo Inn before 7:00. XDXDXD Of course, that requires me to be ready ahead of time, so I'd have to do the whole shower/change/make-up thing before going to the midterm.

I don't know why we think it's feasible, but we've apparently decided it'll be feasible. XD Holly said to me "we'll finetune the plan after tomorrow" cuz we have the first midterm for this course tomorrow.

*DED* Yea, I think I need to start carrying around a sign that says I'm crazy. XDXDXD

I'm getting lazy. I used to update on the big events in my life on here all the time, but as of late, I spend more time away from the computer than on it, so hence the lack of updates.

Well anyways, on this school term, I think it's been one of the better/best so far, even though I'm taking 6 courses instead of the regular 5. 2 of my courses are distance ed, meaning I just listen to the lectures whenever I want, so scheduling my own times has been pretty good. The biology courses are mostly examination components, meaning I usually just have to do a little reading for each course, unlike accounting courses, where there were piles upon piles of work every week. -.-;;;

This past Tuesday (23rd) was my birthday. Let's not get into how old I am -.-;;; and instead focus on how awesome my friends are. The Saturday before, we went out for Happy Hour Karaoke, and then for all-you-can-eat sushi in Toronto, because some of my friends won't be in Waterloo the day of. We had a lot of fun taking random pictures, even if I was sick with a sore throat and decided not to sing very much. If I couldn't sing the day of, I would cry. XD

The day of was, of course, spent in Waterloo. Holly, Defne, Terie and Judy took me out for lunch at Symposium, which was delicious. Vivian also called to say Happy Birthday, and to tell me "what the heck? You sound like you're in first year!". XDXDXD Afterwards, our usual bunch took me to Sole for dinner, where I thought their mint chocolate truffle cake was beyond delicious. =D I personally thought the funniest part was when 3 of them disappeared into the bathroom and like... never came back. XD Even our waiter came at one point to ask where they went. XD And then off we went for karaoke. Originally, I thought about asking all my friends who were in Waterloo (or within reasonable distance) to come, but then some of them don't sing, or it would too late for them to go home, etc, etc. As it turned out, they gave me a shot for every one of my friends was there. -.-;;;; So um, in retrospect, thank god they didn't all come out. XD

That probably should have been the end of the story, but with my crazy friends, it never is. >.> They called me out on the 24th and tried to get me drunk cuz it didn't happen on the 23rd. -.-;;; If anyone was wondering, they were unsuccessful. ^^v And I've decided that they have to account for 70% of the business our local karaoke place has. -.-;;;;

Today, um, or yesterday, we went downtown for Winterlicious dinner. Hmmm, I don't think it was eventful enough for me to go into details, minus the part where the girls disappeared to the bathroom and the rest of us who were left at the table waited for so long we wanted to start taking bets on how long it would take them to come back. XDXDXD Oh, and also experimenting with our various cameras. Flash, no flash, lighting, different coloured backgrounds, etc. etc. etc. My camera has many functions they've figured out how to use that I don't know about.

On a more serious, but random note, I want to give June a cyberhug. XDXD I've sort of been distressed about some issues of my personal life lately, and needed someone who didn't know enough about the people around me to talk to. Basically, we've spun these theories and stories about some simple events in my life that's honestly hysterical. XDXDXD You know, I used to be hurt by some of this stuff. Now I'm just keeping a mental notebook so I can tell her about it and we can theorize like a couple of psychos some more. XD I can't even take my own life seriously anymore, but honestly, thanks so much! Cuz if I can laugh about it, it'll be okay. =) P.S. I have the next chapter! XDXDXD

Arg, I think I'm sick. And I hate being sick while at school cuz it makes me more unmotivated than when I'm not sick, which is already pretty unmotivated.

Although, I probably should have expected to get it eventually. When 3 of your close friends are sick and you're sitting with them for 4 hours in a 25-feet-square room using the same microphones, it should only have been a matter of time (i.e. last night or this morning).

Now drugs are my new best friends. =P

A lot of stuff happened between the 15th and now. I've just been too lazy busy with exams to put it all down, but I figure now's as good a time as any, before I forget everything. XD I mean, other than the bad memories, this journal's also supposed to have some good memories recorded, after all.

( Deloitte party, end of finals, Christmas. Warning: REALLY LONG )

Tomorrow, my family and I are going to the States for outlet mall shopping, so I hope I'll be able to find some stuff I couldn't find today. And strangely, I'm really looking forward to next semester, when everyone will be back in Waterloo. ^^

Ahahahaha, I'm finally done! After everyone else has been on vacation for like... a week. -.-;;; And now, I'm going to go do nothing =D and not feel bad about it. =P

As promised, my complaint about Consolidations! I hate that course; I really do. I hate everything about it: the material, the prof, the textbook. (We even started a tally to count how many times someone says they hated the course in study group.) I spent the last 4 days at Defne's house doing group studying for this course, and over the course of those sessions, have reviewed every chapter TWICE, which is probably more studying than I've ever done for any subject.

And yet, the final still manages to kick me in the butt.

If I manage to accounting-pass this course, I'll probably look back and laugh hysterically at the way Murphy's Law likes to screw us over. The story is: 5 of us, not understanding how the bond interest elimination thing works, finally decide (after being thoroughly confused) that we just won't do it. (Defne: Forget this! How much can bonds be worth on the final anyways? It's pre-midterm stuff!) So of course, the final had to include a weird bond question that I CAN'T DO! As Holly said post-final, "at least I knew it was a gain; maybe I'll get 3 on that question".

Also, I hate the apparently newfound hobby of my brain to review the final questions in my head. My housemate said a couple hours ago "So you subtract dividends...." Me: What dividends?! I can't remember having read anything about dividends in that question! So I have this ridiculously huge foreign exchange loss, and now I keep trying to remember if they said anything about paying out dividends! I don't think so. I thought I went through every question and underlined the key points, and I don't remember dividends being part of them. There was a question with dividends, but that was in a different question. But she seemed absolutely sure there was.

So there's that. And the bonds. And the fact that I was reviewing questions in my head, I also realized I had forgotten Future Tax Asset in one of the questions. >.< And that accounting-pass looks further and further from reach. ;_;

Yes, it is 2:26AM. I don't know why I'm not in bed.

And I'm screwed for the Diseases Final because there's SO MUCH STUFF! We tried to summarize our notes: me, Holly, Defne, and Terie, and I think we're at something like... 20 pages, with the urogenital tract diseases and the general info stuff still outstanding! O.O

And we're continuing at 10AM tomorrow, so I'm going to bed... I swear!

(Watch, 3 days from now, I'll post again complaining about Consolidations, the course I'm failing. >.>)

I should be studying... instead, I am typing up random thoughts on the various anime/manga I watched/read over the past week because I'm procrastinating. (Like dude, what else is new? XD)

( DGM anime. No spoilers. )

( Death Note Anime & Manga. Contains some Spoilers. )

( Saiunkoku Monogatari anime. Minor spoilers. )

Let me start by saying that I don't like making these. I have something like OCD when it comes to shopping, so anything I see that I like that has a reasonable price would have been bought when I saw it. Hence, my wishlists are usually full of things that are 1) ridiculously overpriced/expensive or 2) impossible to find anywhere. I feel terrible making these because I feel like I'm asking my friends to buy me expensive things. -.-;;;

But chibi_tenshi24 said making a list would help her, so I made one.

Now, you are not obliged to get me anything on this list. Send me a Christmas card; it's much cheaper. But of course, if you give me a present, I won't say no. XD

( A Holiday Wishlist )

I always end up eating my words. >.> When I finished watching Gundam Seed and chibi_tenshi24 told me GSD was terrible, I said I wouldn't watch it because it ruins Athrun/Cagalli. Then I found that the group that subbed Seed also did Destiny and because I wanted to get the most out of my Waterloo internet, I went ahead and downloaded in the end. >.>;;;

When this J-Drama of DC was first announced, I swore it off because I said no actor could play my mind's vision of Shinichi. Then last week, I got bored and went ahead and downloaded it anyways! Bah...

( Summary of DC J-Drama. Possible Spoilers )

In other news, I got the some of the Pinky:St dolls I ordered. =D The person I ordered them from gave me an extra as a gift. O.O How nice of them!

Yea, so about that consolidation midterm, I passed. But didn't exactly do good. Actually, terrible would probably be a better description. I should be upset, and I was, but I've had a few days to get over it, and now, it's aim for the final. Today in class, I found out that despite my terrible mark, I'm sitting at above average, and since the 2 profs agreed that everything will be belled to a certain percent, I think I'm going to ride the bellcurve and hope things work out.

Came home, and while working with Judy, her friend in the other section of consolidations class message her and says their prof said:

"Those of you in the 40-49 range, you are doing fine." and
"Who said 50 was a fail?"

For some reason, I thought that was hysterical. And now, I'm done spamming my F-list.

Impending Sense of Doom (TM) is creeping up on me. Audit midterm is exactly 2.5 hours to starting and I feel like I haven't studied anything. Maybe the truth is that I really haven't looked at it all that much, but after staring at my notes for 3 hours last night, I still feel like it'd be no help. Not really a surprising feeling since it's case-based. Regurgitating (sp?) everything I know (which isn't all that much...) wouldn't be getting me any marks. Tried that on the first one, didn't work.

I can only hope some practicality from co-op work terms kick in, because I tried the sample question... and realized that I would have done it the same way (a.k.a. not well) even if I studied more. I'm not really sure what to feel about this, relieved that I don't need to memorize the 14 steps of sampling, or scared that I see the imaginary axe coming down and can't do anything about it.

I never thought I'd say this, but I have an amusing story from Cost Accounting, of all courses to have amusing stories in.

For the record, my class is at 8:30AM, an evil time, in my opinion, because it's way too early, and lasts until 9:50AM. Today at 9:00, a random guy walks into our classroom and sits down next to me, which was odd because 1) he's half an hour late for class and 2) I don't think I've seen him before. But, I attributed it to the fact that he must be from one of the other sessions and just came to our class because he couldn't make his own class.

Then, a minute later, he leans over and asks me if we got a new prof. My reaction: whuut? ?_? We've had this prof since September. He looks confused, and I'll bet I looked confused and I turned back to the lesson. Another couple of minutes and he leans over and asks what class it was. Me: AFM 481? And at this point, I see he has pulled out a report of some sort, on which the title page says "AFM 476", so I added "Maybe you're in the wrong classroom?"

He looks more confused and then the girl on the other side of this dude leans over and says: "Daylight Savings Time; it's only 9 o'clock right now."

So after he leaves a few minutes later, the whole class started laughing a bit and Holly and I hold this whispered conversation:
Holly: It's been 2 days...
Me: Well, I don't blame him for Sunday. Maybe he stayed in the whole day... I didn't realize it was Daylight Savings until late in the afternoon on Sunday.
Holly: Okay, fine. Then what happened to Monday?
Me: XDXDXD

Also, Happy Halloween to all of you who celebrate! May you get lots of candy and don't forget to hit the grocery store tomorrow for discount candy in bulk! =D

The Xenosaga III entry I meant to do for awhile but haven't had time to. Memory's a little rusty though since it's been about 3 weeks since I last touched the game, but oh well. XD

( Xenosaga III. Spoilers. EXTREMEMLY long. Don't say I didn't warn you. )

In real life news, I still hate school. The term's been going badly. 'Nuff said. I'm also slowly accumulating an insane amount of miniature foods and items because I'm so sad, so I keep buying things. -.-;;; Next on the list: the Megahouse Import Goods (the bar of butter with the brand name "Bullshit" is so much coolness XDXDXD) and the Megahouse Ice-Cream set. Still waiting for a bunch of stuff to ship from HLJ. *hums* I need more display space.

Seriously, I have no idea why I'm doing this as... I have a midterm in 2.5 hours that I should be studying for. Regardless...

Meme 1 (yoinked from sn1987a)

Comment with the name/title of a fandom I'm aware of, no matter how obvious you think the answers will be, and I'll reply to you with the relationships -canon or not- from it I ship. I'll give favorite romantic relationships as well as favorite platonic ones. Also, you're free to reply in subthreads and ask me why I ship or don't ship something.

Meme 2 (yoinked from chibi_tenshi24)
( How Asian Are You? )

Ah, yet another entry on my fight with the bio lab. So, on Monday, we got these unknown mix cultures of 2 bacteria that we were supposed to isolate. Mine... refused to grow... Or rather, one of my culture refuses to grow. I keep getting just one type, so I'll be in the lab for most of next week too. *sniffles* I'm so sad... because I have another 2 midterms to study for. If both bacteria had grown, I could stop going in. ;_;

As a result of my bouts of sadness, I ended up buying more things. Like a huge list of Re-ment miniatures. >.> Like I told bro, when other people are sad, they beat their pillows, or go to the gym, or watch tv. I... either drive on highways at 140 km/h to blow steam... or spend money. >.> So yea, my Pinky dolls will have lots of oversized food. The good thing is that most of these are actually backordered, so I have some time to decide whether I really want all of these things (and cancel if I decide not to buy a week later). XDXDXD

Also, finished reading the last volume of M.A.R. ( Impressions and spoilers )

( And the new fic idea... )

First, thanks to all the people who expressed concern over my lack of life. All well wishes are appreciated. =)

I'm clearly alive still, seeing how I found 10 minutes in what was supposed to be studying time to go through LJ and yoink this from chibi_tenshi24.

( A Halloween Meme )

Also, Happy Birthday to Yvette!! Apologies for the lack of present, but I'll lump it in with your Christmas gift. I don't have time to shop for anything as of late. >.>

A couple days ago, June told me on MSN that I don't rant on LJ. I laughed at her. XD Because I think I rant a lot. If I'm in school, LJ entries are usually stemmed from anger, bitterness, and frustration. Although, unless something really pisses me off, I'll keep it to "whining" instead of all out "cursing life". And by cursing, I do mean with the profanities. XD

Now, I think I've ranted how the bio lab (that was an elective >.>) ruins my life. Now, I'd prefer to think of it as ruining my regular schedule.

Today, I woke up at 7, just so I can be IN the lab by 8. That's right, 8AM, before the first classes start, when most people are stuffing their backpacks together for their morning classes (or in bed), I was already in the lab with my Bacillus. Why? Mostly because of poor planning on the school's part! For some reason, the scheduled timeslot for the lab, which is 3 hours, usually only take 2, of which 1 is the TAs explaining stuff. So really, only 1 hour. Now, the follow-up, where you have to inoculate everything, you have to set aside 2 full hours that they didn't schedule you for and do this in a room meant for 30 with 50 other people. We were there at 8 because we'd like to work comfortably and NOT with 50 other sweating students who want to label their 20 biochemical tests.

I had to skip my 8:30 cost accounting class for this, which I was told was a wise choice from the people who went to class.

After biotechnology class ended at 2:30, we went to the BFG building, which was located in the middle of nowhere, for an extra flowcharting crash course. On that thought, I'd also like to say that the building is labelled "The Institute for Quantum Computing" from the outside. Why that has been shortened to "BFG" completely baffles me. Course went okay, although now, I have to fix up some of those flow charts.

I also have a huge list of stuff to do: SCAD is due 19th, also biotech midterm on 19th, have to go back to the lab to check results every day of this week and early next week too, 26th is Diseases midterm, dichotomous key is due 27th, cost accounting midterm on 28th (P.S. I've done nothing for that class....), lab case on the 30th, not to mention all the readings I'm supposed to keep with for class. Oh, and after attempting the consolidation questions for the 3rd time and not getting past the first question, I gave up.

I think "I currently hate life" sums that up nicely.