就是看透了

人家说猪朋狗友就是那些只会出来跟你吃的喝的， 那， 那些连吃和喝都不会出来的又算什么呢？难道他们就是连猪连狗都不如？

There was a time during these past few years when I have gotten so depressed and worked up over things that shouldn’t matter to me–after all, if it really was so important and really was so worth it, then it wouldn’t just disappear so easily. During that time, my mom told me something that was similar to what was written up above. I don’t often agree with most of the things that she says–especially as of lately since she’s been doing nothing but getting on my nerves about financial matters. However, there was something that she said back then that really helped me get over everything.

“In life, there are many people who come and go. However, not everyone who comes into your life will stay, but the ones who do, are the ones who you should be cherishing.” (at this point, she nudged-nudged-winked-winked me and added “family”)

and she’s right. If I gave it my 100% and it wasn’t enough, then why fuss over it?

It’s great to know that ten words can answer so many things.

Adventure Time in Key West & Cozumel with Carnival

This past month I took a one week long vacation with my family & Henry. We went on a cruise to Key West, Fl and Cozumel, Mexico. Our choice of cruise line was Carnival. We departed on 1/10 at 6 am to get to JFK to catch our 8:30 am flight to Miami. After arriving at Miami, we hailed a taxi to take up to the port to get onboard.

However, as much as I hoped it would’ve been a funfilled vacation, it wasn’t—in fact, it was rather disappointing because of the décor, the service, the weather, and my immune system.

1.  Décor

One word: Tacky. Compared to the Royal Caribbean cruise ship I went on two years ago, Carnival’s ship looked super tacky. In addition, the dining room was so dim and dark that it just felt somewhat uncomfortable to sit in. The main lobby was this ugly teal color mixed with gold which just didn’t look good—it didn’t look as grand. In addition, the facilities sounded GREAT on paper, but in person, it was just okay. I LIKED that there were two whirlpools on the ship because the Royal Caribbean only had one, which made it annoying cause it was always filled with a lot of old people…so I didn’t want to go cram myself in as well. In addition, the pool was a lot larger, but FRIGGIN COLD—the water was FREEZING COLD and salty as heck—but I expected it to be salty. The water slides—which captivated me the MOST, was disappointing. No where on the website did they say that the water slides were ONLY for KIDS—NO WHERE! However, when I got there, they told me it was only for kids. Then the guy looked me down and smirked and said, “But you can go on too.” Look, I know I’m short -_-;;.  The mini golf court was indeed incredibly mini. I didn’t get to use it, so I won’t comment too much on it. The fitness center however, was a LOT more welcoming than the one on the Royal Caribbean—I enjoyed it quite a bit…aside from the immense nudity experienced in the sauna & steam room…

 

2. Service

Horrible. Just simply horrible. Well, fine, the waiter who served us was super nice, as was our room attendant, but there were some horrible ones. I understand that when on a cruise, they like to encourage all passengers to get to know one another, especially since seating is often limited. I travelled in a party of 6, so we weren’t a small group. For lunch one day, we decided that we wanted to go to the fancy restaurant to see what they had to serve there. When we got there, the dining room was basically empty except for a few parties. However, they decided to seat my party of 6 (50% of which didn’t even speak English) with this one, poor Hispanic lady who didn’t speak English either. It wasn’t like they didn’t have seats—they had plenty of LARGE tables that were just sitting there, but they just decided to cram two of us onto a table of four with that lady who took up two seats, and then MOVE two additional two seaters next to the table so that ALL of us would fit. Now, wouldn’t it have been easier to just place us at a larger table? Especially since neither parties could even communicate with one another? My parents started complaining to me in Chinese,  and the waitress who seated us clearly saw that we weren’t satisfied, but she had the audacity to cross her arms, tap her foot and then ask us in an annoyed voice, “Is something wrong?!” Besides that, service during lunch is just incredibly unorganized. My parents and my aunt had to wait a good twenty minutes after my brother, my boyfriend, and I finished our desserts before they even got their own desserts—and they only managed to get their dessert because we kept bugging them to get it for us. The waiters just don’t have good communication with one another during lunch. In addition, they’re very stubborn—they REFUSE to pay attention to ANY guests OUTSIDE of their zone, even if they see us waving our hands furiously, they just ignore it. It really pissed me off how badly organized and how badly trained some of the staff members were.

Another annoying thing with carnival is that they LOVE taking pictures of their guests—at ANY given opportunity. Everytime I turned around, there was a staff member there with a camera asking to take my picture. After they take it, they’d develop it for us to see and would charge us $20 for them. We didn’t even get to pick what size we wanted either. This is a HUGE problem—it’s not eco-friendly, and it’s friggin annoying. I have my own camera—I don’t really need you to come up to me every five minutes to take a picture of me.

One last thing that I wasn’t satisfied with in regards to Carnival was the lack of support when it came to getting to a new port. There weren’t really any support or material to tell us what each port had or even a map to better navigate around the ports with. In addition, the amount of time allotted at each location wasn’t too long, so it limited all travelers with regards to where we could go.  As a result, Key West wasn’t fun because it seemed like all there was to do there was to go bar hopping…which you can’t really do when you’re with your family and your parents are conservative. When it came to Mexico, our ONE shore excursion was cancelled due to the weather, so we stayed on board instead of venturing out because of the weather and our lack of plans.

3. Weather

We chose a horrible year to go to Mexico. It hailed. Yes, it HAILED in MEXICO. Florida was beautiful. Mexico was rainy, cold, went, WINDY, and icy. That’s basically all I have to say about weather.

4.  My immune system

I always thought I had a pretty decent immune system, but I was proven wrong. I got motion sickness all four days of the cruise—though I’m pretty sure it’s because the ship was pretty tiny (only 70,000 in tonnage) so it rocked like crazy—esp when combined with this weather. On top of motion sickness, on the third day, I came down with a fever—yes, a fever! Then my fever went away and I was left with a cold and a throat infection which then morphed into an ear infection as well on my plane ride home.

So yeah, that was my trip in a nutshell. In conclusion, I really hope to revisit Mexico and Keywest…just probably not with my whole family—probably just with my boyfriend or with a few friends and I will NEVER embark on a cruise with Carnival ever again.

Changing Surroundings

陌生感，害怕，紧张。。。这些都是一个人在成长当中都会感觉的吗？难道不变就不会大？

变。。。可以是一种很好的事，也可是一种很坏的事。。。好与不好之间就在乎你想不想变。 如果你是想变，那无论那个变是多麻烦多坏，你都不会介意， 可是如果你不想任何东西变，那无论是多好多美丽，你都会好讨厌。

可是。。。变也是种很奇妙的事。。。有时候，就算你不想变，也躲不了

Tomorrow marks the big day when i’ll be moving from New York to Philly. To be honest, i’m not too thrilled about it–sure, working at a big company would look really good on my resume, be really good for after graduation, and provide me with experience i can’t find elsewhere–but in exchange, i’ll have to give up being home with my family–with the people i havent seen for the past six-seven months. It’s a big sacrifice on my part considering how summer was usually the time i looked forward to in order to spend more time with the ones i love. Sure, i could always go home on weekends cause it’d be convenient, but i dont think i’ll ever get used to going home to an empty apartment and surviving on my own cooking–on a happier note, maybe my cooking will FINALLY improve since i’ll have to cook for myself.

Perhaps this would be like a mock trial of how it’d be after graduating if i end up working full time in Philly. It’d suck—that’s for sure. The current negotiations with the studio condo i placed a bid on earlier this year is still on going. According to the agent, it’s looking pretty good. If everything goes through then i’d be a heck lot poorer, but i’ll be able to expand my job search to another city.

But…i guess this is how are changes are–you sacrifice A in order for B to happen…but what if i’m afraid of change? What if i’m too comfortable in my comfort zone to step out into what others call the ‘real’ world?

Three Down, Two More To Go!

Three finals down, two more to go. At this point, i’m not even worried anymore because all of the hard finals have already been completed. I’m more worried about how much lower my GPA will be dropping this semester since i’m not confident of getting A’s in about 2-3 of my classes. Isn’t that sad? I’m only confident that i’ll get an A in two of my classes. T_T

Anyway, i’m rather excited to move out. I can’t wait to NOT have to see a specific someone anymore!

This summer is going to be fun. I’ll be working in Philly and working on my honors research hardcore! I really wanted to go somewhere with Henry this summer, but i don’t want to spend too much money so i don’t know how that will work. 😦 I guess this means i have to strategically plan out a dream vacation with a very low budget…

One bad thing about working in Philly is that it’s not NYC, but i WILL be in NYC for my internship during the first week of it hahaha! I get to stay in a hotel in manhattan for free! How sweet!

I still haven’t figured out how the transit system works in philly though…

Things i want to do this summer:

Restaurant Week (!!!)
Dessert Rampage
Six Flags (I WANT TO! :[)
Karaoke
Sushi!
SHANGHAI DUMPLINGS
Bike/Rollerblade by the shore
Bowling

Dude! I SOUND LIKE A FRIGGIN PIG! More than half the list revolves around food. 😦

Tour Of Asia

The long awaited Tour of Asia has finally passed! I’ve finally gotten some decent sleep–no longer am i just rolling around in bed pondering about the endless responsibilities that i have in regards to my intervention or Tour of Asia.

In reflection, i thought that the event went quite smoothly–sure there were some bumps, and i really wished i had a chance to perform, but it’s okay. I knew if i performed, i wouldn’t know who to entrust the teching stuff to since no one really wanted to help out. =/ In addition, i didn’t know what to sing and i didn’t want to increase my headaches. 🙂

I thought the performances were all pretty good with the exception of a particular person’s singing, but it was better than last year. The skit was funny and well put together, except for some of the missing subtitles and the accident with the korean skit. However, i can’t blame eddy, he’s been working on it for a very long time ON TOP of all of his other obligations, i feel so guilty already about making him go without sleep already.

The food, was horrible. Wismer really ruined asian cuisine this time. Everything was messed up–especially at the price of $2000 for the whole catered event.  Then again, i shouldn’t have expected too much–afterall it IS wismer we’re talking about.

Decoration wise, it wasn’t as great as last year, mainly because of the lack of help we got. Seriously, when i tell people that i’d be there starting at 1:30, i don’t mean that i’d be sitting around waiting for them to show up at 4 pm before i started decorating. Thank god Henry was here to help keep me sane. I feel kinda bad for making him do so much work–he was sweating excessively the whole time–i could’ve probably taken a shower with the amount of sweat he had–but of course, that’s just disgusting. -_-;;

However, i must say, that everyone was a HUGE help AFTER the show ended in helping out with cleaning the area–decorations, chairs, and tables were ALL completely cleaned and taken care of within 1/2 an hour. I was so happy!

Looking back, i am SO glad i won’t have to deal with this madness again next year. However, i DO plan to return to perform if i end up working in Philly after i graduate 😀

This past weekend was quite exciting. Henry got an offer to work for Chartis, and he’s starting tomorrow ^_^. However, he needed to buy new clothing cause his old work attire were all either too big or too small. We ended up going to the outlets today to help him. He budgeted $300 for his new work wardrobe, but ended spending only $210 and bought a WHOLE lot more than he had planned to. He’s decided that Perry Ellis is the cheapest men work attire store ever and that bostonian clark is the better brand for shoes. I’ve decided that Henry is VERY picky when it comes to apparel and shoes–and he’s very lazy. He doesn’t like trying things on, and he won’t even take a second look at something that might be really comfortable and affordable if he thinks that it looks even remotely funny. -_-;;

On the other hand, i went to king of prussia this morning with henry to return some items to AE to avoid shipping costs. I ended up exchanging my merchandise for a blue skirt. I also bought a short sleeve sweater with a cowl neck from BCBG. It was only $9 and i decided i needed to start building more business casual items to add to my closet to prepare for work after graduation. I also wanted to buy this really cute dress shirt that i’ve been eying since the beginning of the semester and i was grinning like crazy when i found it on the $9 rack, but then i found out that it was just misplaced -_-… I also bumped into a student that i TA-ed for and worked with in another class while at BCBG…and it was awkward.

Yesterday was also exciting. Henry and i went to Philly to see a few places that i might end up renting for the summer and to meet up with my parents and my dad’s friend. The first place i arrived at was Academia Suites. It’s supposed to be a place that offers summer housing to students at really good prices, but i was outraged when i got there to see that the door to GET to the leasing office was locked. When i called the office to ask what to do, i was RUDELY dealt with. Basically the lady gave me an attitude and told me that she couldn’t help me at all–not even to provide with an alternative phone number to call to ask to be let in–i had an appointment too! When i used the door-service-dialing system, the same lady answered and HUNG UP on my when she realized that it was me. I don’t care how cheap this place is, i refuse to rent anything from it.

The second place i looked at was from Carlton parks, and it’s really nice. The neighborhood is very pretty and the rent is MAD cheap. $450 a month only. I would have a roommate, but she’d be in a different room and she wouldn’t be here most of the summer. The only obstacle right now is that the girl’s lease ends on 7/31 and i have to stay in Philly till 8/6. 😦 I’m not sure how that’s going to work out yet.

After looking at those two places, my parents took me out for Dim Sum with my dad’s friend and his daughter. Henry later told me that this guy is his idol, haha. Wanna know why? Because he’s everything Henry supposedly wanted to be. My dad’s friend dropped out of college, but is mad successful. When he was still in college, he worked in Wall Street and made $100,000 a year. he couldn’t deal with the fact that his professor didn’t know ANYTHING about Wall Street was teaching him something that contrary to his experiences at Wall Street, so he stopped attending school. On top of that, he was already making more money than his professor. After he stopped working in Wall Street, he became a cop for a few years. Later on, he started his own import/export business. He’s a very rich and successful man now and he’s quite charming. He has a demeanor that demands respect, regardless of how he dresses. Oh yeah, he also has a gun license (from being a cop) and he has a scooter (it’s no motorcycle, but it’s close).

Anyway, the reason my parents met up with this guy was because my parents were interested in buying a loft/condo in Philly. They heard that they’re all at a really good price right now and that now is the time to buy if we were interested. My mom wanted to purchase one because she figured it’d be more convenient for me if i end up working in Philly. On the other hand, if i end up not working in Philly, we could always rent it out and collect rent. The only thing i wasn’t aware of until we started looking was that she expected me to pay it off. T_T She said since i wasn’t going to be renting a place, i can pay off the loft/condo each month as rent. This was also because my dad’s friend told him that the government is offering a $8000 credit to first time buyers, but this offers only lasted till June–which is why my mom wants me to pay for it. My dad’s friend didn’t help when he told me that he bought his first house when he was only 20 (he has about 10+ properties now), and my dad rubbed it in my face that i was now 21. Damn it. hahah -_-;;

I’m not sure how this would turn out since it’s one of those bidding things with the bank since it’s a foreclosure, but we’re currently still going back and forth with the real estate agent.

Unfortunately, since Henry starts work tomorrow, he left me already 😦 Then again, i DO have a lot of hw to do…

Minimal Responses

Minimal responses is defined by Pamela Fishman as monosyllabic utterances, such as “huh”, “yeah”, “mm,” that are used during conversations by both men and women. However, while women use minimal responses as support work–to allow for the conversation to continue–to let the speaker know that she is listening, men usually use such minimal responses to show lack of interest. The way to differentiate between the two is to listen to how they are used in conversations. Typically speaking, when someone is using minimal responses to show lack of interest, the placement, or timing of the minimal response is usually lagged or delayed by a bit. When someone uses minimal responses as “support” work, minimal responses are given through out the other speaker’s turn–they often overlap with the other speaker because the person uttering the minimal responses wants the other speaker to know that he/she is listening actively and very much intrigued by what the other speaker has to say.

I personally HATE minimal responses. They don’t add on to conversations–they don’t contribute to topics. Whether they are used as support work or as indications of lack of interest, i just absolutely abhor them. When one uses them as support work, they become misleading because when I hear minimal responses, i tend to think that the listener/person saying them agree with me, as opposed to that they are just listening to me. I remember reading about how different genders are taught to interpret such minimal responses. Apparently, even when men are interested in the topic, they will only use minimal responses in the “support” work style if they agree, whereas women just use them to show that they’re listening. I guess in that sense, i’m more like a guy…? But that’s not the point of this post.

The point of this post is for me to rant about how much i HATE minimal responses. I don’t care if they’re support work or not, whenever i hear it, it just pisses me off. If you agree with me–if you’re listening to me–if you’re interested in what i’m saying, respond with something more contributory to the topic instead of using monosyllabic utterances that hold no meaning on its own. This is why whenever i hear them, i automatically think that the person is just not interested in what i have to say, because if they WERE interested, they’d be able to elaborate more on whatever the heck i was talking about.

Now, you might be wondering, why the heck am i suddenly ranting on and on about this specific speech strategy used in conversations! The truth is, a specific someone has been using ONLY minimal responses when talking to me, and it’s been aggravating me like crazy. Whenever i hear the person use it, i want to bite their friggin’ arm off. I’ve confronted the person about it, but they don’t seem to care and CONTINUE to use it. I mean, dude, seriously. If i say it pisses me off like there’s no tomorrow, i honestly mean it. STOP USING IT. And no, it’s not funny when you blatantly use it as a joke or to aggravate me.

And yes, i know i use it too. I’m a hypocrite, but i’ve tried to cut down on my usage of them, and if you tell me you don’t like it when i use them, then i’ll try my best to NOT use it around you.

You’re Perfect Head to Toe, My Little Miracle ;)

Hint hint, ivan! hahaha Don’t you feel special?

I was going through my song folder today and came across it. 🙂

Anyway, it’s been a while since i had posted. Finals are approaching rapidly, so I have ten feet of work piled up around me. My econometrics paper is due Thursday, and i haven’t the slightest clue whether our data is good or not…but we DO have about 10-12 pages so far…just 20 more to go & a powerpoint to accompany it. I’m not worried about the presentation–not at all. I figure if i can get the paper done, the presentation would be easy. I have another presentation for Freedom of Expression tomorrow on Campus Hate Speech. I’m not quite confident in that one because it’s CALLED a presentation, but it’s more of one of those you-teach-class-for-a-day deals. My finance exam is tuesday–which is completely STUPID! Finals is next week and we get an exam THIS week?! What’s the point?!

I’m rather excited to return home though. I’ve only been able to go home twice this semester so far and i’m hating dorm life this year. I’ve never had this much trouble with living at school before, but this semester proved to be aggravating.

On a side note, for those who are worried that you’d have NOTHING to do this winter break, check out the recently completed Korean Drama, “You’re Beautiful.” Wonderful chemistry between cast members and very charming and attractive ones too, might i add. THe storyline is a cliched one, but i’m a sucker for cliched storylines. Follow Minyu as she embarks on a 1 month (?) adventure as a member of the popular Korean Boy/Idol Band A.N.Jell (pronounced Angel) where she takes over her twin brother, Minam’s identity in order to secure his position in the band while he hides in the US due to a surgery gone wrong. The male lead, Jang Geun Suk, is very, very droolworthy…when he’s not donning eyeliner. However, i have to say, after completion of the drama, he’s making eyeliner look pretty darn sexy on a guy. His hair and wardrobe is another story. I don’t think ANYONE can pull off the clothes he had to wear in the beginning of the drama…or the hair. Seriously, who’d ever look sexy with hair that’s slicky and greasy looking like Count Dracula’s?

Oh wells, i guess that’s it for now. I must return to my business law study session followed by my finance study session–all spelling in clear letters my impending doom as the next two weeks pass by. T_T

Innocence

I’m extremely impressesd by how ridiculous some people can be.

First of all, if it’s YOUR project, why would you expect OTHER people to complete and plan it for you? Second of all, if i only said that i’d partially sponsor you up to a sum of $300, why would you think that i would increase it at all–especially when i KNOW it does NOT take more than $250 to cater a lunch from the restaurant?! Third of all, DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE A FRIGGIN CAR TO BE YOUR CHAUFFER?! and Finally, WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE TIME TO SEND ME A GODFRIGGIN EMAIL WITH THE DETAILS OF YOUR EVENT?! You have time to read my email, you have time to call, but you don’t have FRIGGIN TIME TO SEND ME AN EMAIL WITH TWO LINES?!

Dude, you are ridiculous.

However, the topic today is not on my irritation, but rather, on Innocence.

I engaged in an interesting class discussion today about innocence–and by that, i mean a child’s innocence. The question was, whether or not children need innocence. In today’s society, we live in one where laws or regulations to protect our children from obscenity online would become infringments on our freedom of expression to some. Some argue that such regulations should be left up to parents to regulate and to decide and that the government should play no rule in deciding what we should and shouldn’t look up or read or watch online. However, those who argue in favor of that also question why we need to protect our children. If they are going to grow up and learn everything already, then why do we have to lie to them in order to protect them from learning it earlier? Why can’t we just leave everything out in the open and allow our children to reason through what they personally think they should and should not know? Why prevent something that becomes inevitable even for a second? If children are bound to be exposed to obscenity, why protect them from it and try to maintain their innocence? They’re going to lose it anyway.

Personally, i don’t know how i feel. I feel like if the child wanted to know, regardless of what other try to do, the child will find out anyway. However, i feel like we SHOULD protect a child’s innocence, even if it’s only for a few years because at least they’ll have those 2-3 years (hopefully longer) to look back on and to reflect on the days when life was simple and carefree–life when they still have their innocence.

I don’t know…what do you think?

Farewell~

Farewell my dear friends, for i might just possibly die within the next three weeks. Between now and then, i have four exam, two quizzes, two papers, and a research paper to work on. If i live to tell the tale three weeks from now, i demand to be treated to a sushi buffet. *coughhinthenryhintcough*. 🙂

Anyway, i spent all of friday watching this new drama–Good Fortune Happy Life starring Joe Chen En Qiao and Blue Lan. It’s quite interesting and addicting, but after episode ten, it kind of just dips down in my opinion. I feel like they’re dragging it too much cause really, a lot of things could have been easily solved or been left out to make it end faster without dragging it out like crazy. However, as a result of watching it, i now have a new celebrity crush–Mister Roy Qiu. Gosh he’s dreamy and hot (after he shaves, that is, and his hair, i can just ignore).

But anyways, yesterday, i went to Philly to buy mooncakes and fruits for the moon harvest festival next saturday, in preparation for SASA’s first campus wide event. Then i spent the afternoon doing hw and continued watching dramas at night. As a result, i was stuck with studying for two exams today. I finally finished studying for econometrics, but i’m reluctant to study financial markets. I absolutely hate it. It just doesn’t make sense to me no matter how hard i try to understand it.

But i’m getting distracted. Really, i just want to curl up in bed and watch the rest of Good Fortune Happy Life right now.

T_T

Finals, how i despise thee

As the end of the semester wraps up for Ursinus students and students from other colleges and universities as well, we must all face something deathly yet popularly known as “Finals.”

and i must say, Oh dear Final, how i despise thee.

For the first time since i stepped foot into college, i’ve received a final from every single class. Communication Theory and Research gave me a group paper and presentation. I never realized how much i hated group papers. Normally i wouldn’t mind if everyone in my group were capable of writing, but there was a frat boy in my group and let’s just say that stereotypes played out really well during this past week. If you asked me two weeks ago whether or not a college student’s writing would make me cringe, i would laugh in your face and say no. This guy, however, his writing made me shudder and cringe–it wasn’t even just because his content was lacking in substance (which makes it even worse considering how i gave him a detailed outline in regards to what to include and discuss in each paragraph. My outline called for a total of four paragraphs–he gave me two.) but the grammar of the paper…oh lord. I’m one of the worst people when it comes to grammar and even i couldn’t take it. The presentation was even worse. I mean, heck, if it was just the paper, the person revising the whole paper at the end could’ve just fixed up his part, but the presentation–no one can really fix up what he was going to say before hand. I really don’t understand it…he was present at every meeting, he SEEMED to have understood every concept and idea that we had discussed, yet when he was to reiterate what we had planned and decided, he made a total fool of the whole group.

Anyway, moving along. Media and Society gave me a take home exam that went from one page to six pages by the time i was through with it…in size ten font…single spaced.

Managerial Economics was the test i was freaking out over for the longest time cause i wasn’t sure whether or not i had truly grasped all the concepts. I spent three days studying for it–one of those three days i even spent three hours with my professor one to one just to discuss the concepts i didn’t understand too much. Surprisingly, i do believe that it was the easiest final i’ve had this semester so far.

The last one that i have yet to take is for neurology. I’m completely frightened by it, but despite how i SHOULD be studying for it, i find myself blogging instead. Why do i bring this on to myself? I have twelve chapters to read, twelve quizzes to review, twelve chapters worth of notes to remember…yet instead, i’m blogging. Procrastinators unite, yeah?

Looking back at this semester, it went by really quick. I guess it partially has to do with how i’ve been so friggin’ busy all semester. I thought this semester was going to be some what easy–i was so wrong. Professor woodstock is one tough professor, and i’m taking another class with her next semester. It’s going to be a 300 level course too–fun, huh? However, i must say, despite the overwhelming work load i’ve had this semester, it was also one of the most interesting semesters i’ve had. I actually liked all my classes. I might not have enjoyed the teaching style of my neuro professor, but that concepts i learned from the class were definitely interesting. Managerial Economics made me reconsider what i’m concentrating in. Economics never really quite appealed to me until this semester when i learned it with Mudd. As for the two media courses taught by woodstock? I must say, i am very intrigued. The concepts we learned about made me completely readjust the way i consumed media. It gave the entertainment industry a completely different light for me.

As for next semester, i’m not quite sure how it’ll be. On one hand i think it’ll be a little okay just because they’re predominantly business courses and those don’t really give a lot of homework, but on the other hand, i’m overloading with three 300 level course plus i’ll be president of the asian club and i’m still keeping my Tourguiding and office assistant positions…let’s just say if i end up passing out in the floor of my dorm, we know what’s to blame.

On the side note, i’m sick. T_T
I had a fever last night and my throat is killing me.

No…it’s not the swine flu. -_-

I went to the wellness center and they gave me antibiotics. Last night my roommate gave me a massage and a Tylenol for my oncoming fever.

I’m feeling a lot better now, just still a bit of pain in my throat.