Be a teacher's pet.

hello!

2007-02-08T15:17:00.000-05:00

hello! sorry i've been quite lazy lately...and i was kinda internet deprived. anyway, so i hope you all celebrated yesterday (feb 7) since it was the most important day of the year. i hope you all thought about me. i celebrated it by first writing my one and only one midterm of the year, then 9 continuous hours of classes, then dinner with lots of shrimps, then chilled with my housemates who baked me a peanut butter cake. if you have absolutely no idea why feb 7 is important, you are no longer my friend.

so tomorrow is my last day in kingston. i start work again next monday, teaching science and math to little grade 9's. grade 9 is a funny grade. you see a great deal of flirting in the classroom. kids are still excited by the fact that they are now in high school not grade 8 and they are now suddenly cooler than before. so i will have 3 grade 9 classes. i'm sure there'll be lots of stories. yay!

i wish there's global warming right now (yea winter gets colder with global warming but i'm thinking about the summer time of it). i know it's bad for the environment and bad for the polar bears and all, but it's sooooo cold. i put on so many layers of clothing when i walk outside...if i put on more layers i can't zip up my jacket anymore. i put on my scarf (but the wind always finds its way to go through the little holes), gloves (which are never thick enough even if they are Thinsulate), hat (which never covers your entire ears), ear muffs (the 180s i have..always have the tendency to shift off my ears), and sooner or later i'll have to invest in one of those face masks...the ones that make you look like a criminal and make you look really scary. anyway, i just don't think humans were designed to live under -20 degrees conditions.

hm i feel like i should post some pictures, but i have absolutely no interesting pictures to show. i can post up my projects and pictures of my seminar that i did...but that's just boring. ok oh well. i am going to go bum around now. bye now!

busy busy busy.

2007-01-20T22:15:00.000-05:00

this time of the year is probably the most stressful for me. all these applications to do, and queen's is stupid enough to give us so many assignments this month. i can't write essays (geez i studied chem and math, purposely i didn't have to write much) so it's taking me forever. why can't faculty of education just give us a job?

anyway, it's getting really cold and i miss my down jacket. that one specific one.

hmm..i guess i should keep trying to write. and read. bye now.

8:30 classes are mean.

2007-01-11T00:55:00.000-05:00

i am so lazy when i am back in kingston. i only have one 8:30am class (on weds) and i almost died today. i had 7.5 hours of class today and by the end i was so grumpy and tired and hungry. waking up for work is so much easier than waking up to be lectured. actually maybe not...i just think i prefer my days to start at 12.

so, who wants to find me a job? wouldn't it be nice if the faculty of education finds you a job as well? all those deadlines for different school boards are coming up, and grad school deadlines are coming up too. err...i dont know what i want to do. i just want to sit at home all day, watch tv, eat ice cream.

so, since kingston is so chilled, i've got nothing else to say. here's the grossest man i have ever seen in vancouver:
THE SKIN MAN! ok bye now. time for bed.

kingston.

2007-01-07T18:24:00.000-05:00

vancouver was amazing. no snowstorm, barely any rain, good food, did everything a person can possibly do. and i gfinally got to see BODY WORLDS. yyayy!! thanks to eric for being such a good host, and keith for bringing me =o)

but...i'm back in kingston now. assignments and job hunting and all that fun stuff are gonna start. why can't holidays be a lot longer? boo. oh well.

ok bye now. got some cleaning to do.

vancouver.

2006-12-28T15:42:00.000-05:00

hello! i'm off to VANCOUVER tonight! oh noooo flying! but it's 4 hours..i'll make it. so meanwhile, don't miss me too much! i'll be back on Jan 4th.

byeeeee!

happy holidays.

2006-12-25T01:33:00.000-05:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!

so drained...

2006-12-20T22:24:00.000-05:00

i don't think i have ever gotten off so late for xmas break, and i still have 2 more days to go. well tomorrow my class is writing their unit test, and my other class is having a party, and friday is pretty much nothing. but still. i just want practicum to be done and over with. i want to sit at home and do nothing.

anyway, nothing else is new in my life. my students are all going crazy already. i played street fighter with a student on a computer today and i lost. i also got nervous when the students told me they know what car i drive. so i threatened them by saying i'm gonna fail them in math if they do anything stupid. hehe nah my kids won't. my students are also saying i'm becoming more assertive so that's a good thing!

anyway. gotta wake up at 6:30am tomorrow and start yet another day of work. err...why do we get off on the 22nd? honestly, 20th, 21st, 22nd are all the same. the kids stopped listening since monday anyway.

ok bye now.

almost there.

2006-12-14T22:07:00.000-05:00

1 more week, and i'll be done my practicum. kids are already starting to go crazy...but because they have exams right after the xmas break, teachers have to finish all the units before the break. so trying to fit in all the tests and quizzes while the students are going crazy is bad.

anyway, dec 28 - jan 4 i'll be going to vancouver. i know the weather is all weird at vancouver this year, i know i don't ski, and i know i hate flying, but oh well i'm sure it'll be fun. well keith promised that he'll make it fun so it better be fun.

i set up the xmas tree last weekend, and it's beautiful. we have presents sitting under the tree (i haven't received any presents so you guys better start planning). come visit me and take a picture with my tree.

all the tv shows are reruns tonight. =o( my thursday nights are usually very exciting but not anymore. boooooo. so i guess i should sleep early.

bye now.

yay for PD Days!

2006-12-08T10:38:00.000-05:00

this week has been awesome! started off with a field trip to the science centre on Tuesday, then a PD Day today! that means not teaching for 2 out of 5 days! yyayy!

field trip: it was absolutely choatic. i felt like i was watching a bunch of kindergartens but i was actually watching grade 10's. first they wouldn't wear their identification stickers cuz that "ruined their outfits", then they were swearing at little kids, then they were trying to steal from the vending machines, then a bunch of boys got into an argument with a worker who found a $10 bill at the cafe but the boys insisted it was theirs (it was obviously not theirs) and they threatened to fight the worker. the only good thing out of that field trip is i got to watch a movie at the IMAX dome theatre.

PD Day: TDSB schools have PD Days today (professional development day) and all staff have meetings throughout the day. my associate teacher said it's extremely boring and said he'll pretend i'm there. so he gave me a day off! so now i'm sitting at home doing nothing.

I started teaching a new class this week..i think it's going alright since i bribed my kids with chocolate yesterday. chocolate or candies are teachers' best friends.

ok bye now.

second week over.

2006-12-03T00:11:00.000-05:00

hi! so second week of practicum is over....nothing new happened except one student asked me to quit university and stay at her school. haha..i guess that's a compliment. i gave the class a super hard algebra quiz and no one failed! yay i'm doing well.

thursday was my mom's birthday, and i got her the whole package: cake, card and flowers. i got ripped off for the flowers. yea not too happy about that.

i got my car back! after a good 2 weeks i finally got it back. stupid audi people. now i feel like i'm driving a new car..gotta get used to driving it again.

anyway, keith is here for the weekend, and once again i've been eating way too much. vietnamese, japanese, western, chinese..hmmmm foooooood.

this is very incoherent so i better stop. anyone want to do a whole unit of lesson plans for me? I'll be teaching similar triangles and trig stuff....i actually taught this unit before and i gave the following question to the class and one of the students, instead of giving me a numerical answer, came up with the following answer (in blue):
ok bye now. time to sleeeeep.

first week done.

2006-11-25T10:36:00.000-05:00

so my first week of practicum is done! nothing much happened..all the same...kids still love me.

my brother is back and he's leaving for HK forever on monday. i have been eating out for every single meal for the past week...i feel like my belly is gonna explode soon.

so more and more of my students are missing classes, because of jail. hmm..there's just no way to change these guys. it's kinda sad forseeing their futures..the only thing you can hope for as a teacher is they will still remain in school when they return from jail so at least they'll get more education and that way will keep them off the community. attempted murder, robbery, assault...you name it, i have it at my school. =o( sad isn't it.

ok bye now.

insomnia....but come play at STAO this weekend!

2006-11-15T18:24:00.000-05:00

STAO! (Science Teachers' Association of Ontario). I'll be going to STAO this weekend, and i was told that i will be getting a lot of free stuff and i'll be able to buy fun gadgets and stuff for my science classes. Yay! attending these conferences make me feel very important. And it's nice since I can still get student discounts at these things. so hopefully i'll be able to find some fun lab stuff that involve explosions and fire to bring to my science students.

but i'm leaving kingston again =o( i'll be starting my second practicum in toronto starting next week. sooooo nooooot looooking forward to it. nope. i want to be a student and nap as much as i want everyday. but then again for some odd reason i havent been able to sleep for the past few days. i walk around like a zombie, and whenever i close my eyes in attempt to sleep i have all these thoughts going on in my brain. the thing is, i have absolutely nothing to stress over. well other than not wanting to start my practicum. hmmm...maybe there's something wrong with my brain. or maybe cuz i left my beloved teddy bear in toronto.

but anyway, keith got his job! whoohoo (this is really just in case he reads this so those of you who are not keith you can skip down to the "ok bye now" part). congrats! yay! good job! whoohooo! you're a genious!! now go buy me lots of stuff.

ok bye now. time to channel surf on the tv.

Resume Workshop

2006-11-09T23:32:00.000-05:00

so i went to a resume workshop last night, a workshop that taught us how to write resumes and cover letters, and it lasted for 2+ hours. it gave us specific headings to use, fonts, formats, pretty much what school boards look for from each teacher candidate. they encouraged all the teacher candidates to attend the workshop at different times throughout the week. the workshop was really helpful, but now when i come to think about it, it means that all the teacher candidates that will graduate from Queens will have the exact same looking resumes. Same headings, same formats, everything will be the same. how do we make our own individual ones stand out then? hmm.....i better start doing something crazy to put on my resume so i can stand out.

ok bye now. i dont know what else to say. not particularly in a jolly mood today. =o(

i have an OFFENCE.

2006-11-03T16:27:00.000-05:00

so the parking lot for my apartment was full this afternoon so i parked on the side street. then i forgot to move my car back, and when i realized at 2:36pm that my car was still on the street i decided to go park it back at the parking lot. then i saw this thing stuck between my windshield wipers:so, at 2:24pm, 12 mins before i got to my car, officer #04312 ruined my record and gave me my first ticket ever. kingston police must be so bored and have nothing better to do.

then i realized that my cheque i sent in to pay for my tuition last week bounced. apparently i am currently very poor and my TD account doesn't have $4000. so, i had to write another cheque today, AND pay for that $20 ticket.

but, i found this while walking through downtown kingston today:last time i had this was in london, england in may and i have been craving it ever since. hmmmm that made me feel soo much better. i'm gonna go to the new downtown Ben & Jerry every day now, even if it's 0 degrees outside.

ok bye now. it's friday. go play.

kingston!

2006-10-29T22:15:00.000-05:00

im back in kingston. it's good to be back. i am looking forward to the numerous naps i can have, and sitting in lessons other than giving lessons. but it's so cold here! i feel like the trees are gonna all fall down soon because the wind is so strong.

anyway. it's good to be a student again. yea..i dont know what else to say. so bye now!

1st practicum over.

2006-10-28T00:47:00.000-04:00

hello. really nothing exciting has happened lately. today was my last day of practicum and i am heading back to kingston tomorrow. wouldnt it be nice if i can just hop onto my car, press a little button and my car can find its own way to kingston? then i can just sleep the whole way..i've been lacking sleep for a while.

on a happier note, my students had a quiz today and the class average was 83.9%! my gr 10 applied kids did algebra! and of course i bribed them with chocolate afterwards so i'll be getting good comments from them. hehe.

throughout this past month of teaching, i can't help to think that wouldn't it be nice if i can wake up the next day and be a highschool student again. better yet, elementary. i have no recollection of my kindergarten days other than bringing carrot sticks to school to feed the rabbits...so let's start with elementary. i mean all i had to care about was whether my shoes matched my outfit or not, whether i would make it home on time for sailormoon, whether or not i would get ice cream that night or would i have to wait til i get another tooth pulled out. highschool was pretty smooth sailing for me too...school, tv, movies...none of this taking on responsiblities, dealing with relationship shit. fear of growing up? i dont know, but i wish i can just leave and go to istabul or egypt or hawaii or something. on my own.

actually...maybe somewhere that doesnt involve flying..cuz i dont like that. ok bye now.

last week of practicum.

2006-10-22T17:10:00.000-04:00

hello! my last week of my 1st practicum is approaching, so next weekend i'm heading back to good old kingston. i am actually happy...i think i enjoy being a student more than working. so i better enjoy it this year.

i watched "man of the year" with amy my lovely best friend last night. it recommends all the ladies out there that if you were to get some breast implants, add in a little squeeze toy to make it more entertaining. eeerrr..geez miss cheng that is so inappropriate. yea, that was the lesson i got from the movie. it was an ok movie...funny. just the mood i was looking for after all those lesson plannings. speaking of lesson planning, i made up a math test for my grade 10s and i realize i'm quite the evil teacher. i like to put in random fractions just to trick them. but then again it wouldnt look nice for me if i fail my whole class on my first test i'm giving. but then again putting that big red "X" beside a wrong answer is so much fun. hard to decide.

oohh amazing race tonight! go watch it! ok bye now.

weekend.

2006-10-14T21:31:00.000-04:00

yay it's the weekend! and it was only a 4 days week, yet work was once again very tiring! wake up at 6:45am, shower, breakfast, drive to school, 2 classes, lunch, 2 more classes, drive back home, 3 hour nap, do some lesson planning here and there, dinner, sleep again. oh and some CSI and ER in between. that's pretty much my daily schedule. and i've realized the hardest part about teaching (for me) is the whole professionalism thing. i've been dressing all grown up (hoodies and sneakers are only allowed on weekends now), but it's so hard to act grown up. i normally act like i'm 10 but when i'm in front of my students i gotta act like i'm 30. that's hard! but nonetheless teaching is very fun.

so i have a criminal in one of my classes. i was told to be careful when i approach him, and always ask him before class if he's in the mood for math today. if not, i have to leave him alone at the back of the classroom. but he has been absent this past week cuz he was suspended...poor kid lives in shelters too...and he goes to jail a lot..yea..

ok bye now. it's so cold outside i just want to curl up into a ball and hide in my down blanket.

long weekend!

2006-10-06T17:02:00.000-04:00

Hi! Yay it's a long weekend! happy thanksgiving. although i've only been at work for one week, i've been waiting for this long weekend to come for a while. honestly guys, being a full time teacher is not easy. and for a person who needs 10 hours of sleep to be happy...it has been quite a challenge. this weekend, i'm going to screw lesson planning, reading textbooks, making up tests and quizzes, and just sit on my couch all day and sleep. i think all of you guys should really respect the teaching profession. it's so tiring!! but at least i get to steal stationary and all, so i guess that kinda makes up for it.

ok bye now. nap time.

yay toronto.

2006-09-29T23:26:00.000-04:00

hi! yea i'm back in toronto to start my teaching practicum on monday. i'll be teaching at some ghetto public highschool in scarborough...i hope i won't get bullied. apparently some teacher broke her arm while trying to break up a fight at that school...yay me.

anyway, so i stuffed myself with sushi tonight. so yummmmy~ hmmmm sushi.

ok, here are some pictures from the summer. i know it has been a while...but i just managed to get all my pictures together and i'm computer stupid so that really takes me a while. here are some random ones:

at my brother justin's request: (pictures from teaching in HK this summer)
at my cousin kevin's request:

posting pictures take forever. ok bye now.

yay kingston!

2006-09-22T23:50:00.000-04:00

hello! so my life has been more or less back to normal, and hence the blogging starts again. i have many hours of classes that includes two night classes (errrr), but my courses are pass or fail so no pressure at all. i will be heading back to toronto next week to start my first practicum. yay. i actually want to stay in school. i dont want to work again.

living with 6 other people is actually not too bad. but i find myself hiding in my room a lot...other than going to the living room to watch the amazing race, CSI miami, CSI new york, CSI vegas, ER...hmm that's actually a lot of hours. wait til apprentice comes on too..whoa...

random pictures time:
China! what an artsy panoramic picture...we all know gigi isn't artistic at all so obviously i didn't take this picture. but i was there! me on the plane. i'm not crying! everybody be proud of gigi.
home sweet home. my house is on the left.
kingston! part of my room.

ok bye now. i ran out of panorama pictures to post.

bye grandma.

2006-09-12T23:35:00.000-04:00

bye grandma. I'll miss you always.

back to reality.

2006-09-06T07:56:00.000-04:00

Hi friends,
so I left HK on sept 4th, and after about 17 hours of flying i finally arrived in Toronto at about midnight. Security was crazy at every gate since my plane stopped over at Anchorage, hence via the US. We weren't even allowed to bring water onto the plane. anyway, so as usual i cried like a baby, didn't sleep, starved myself for the whole ride, and kept staring at the clock hoping that time would go a lot faster. Then I got to the Toronto airport and waited forever for one of those luggage trolleys. They had millions out at the parking lot but the workers were typical Canadians and took as much time as they wanted to bring the trolleys back. The good thing is since Canadians are so lazy they didn't open my luggages this time unlike last year. yay!

then, i woke up the next morning, ate, grocery shopped, unpacked, packed again and drove 2.5 hours to Kingston. that was the hardest drive ever. i would have slept while driving if it wasn't for keith's company and McD's french fries. anyway, so never drive long distance if you're jet lagged.

so i have class today, and even worse i have a night class today. I have three 8:30 classes this term. it's like first year all over again.

anyway, it's 7am and i should try to sleep before i head to school. miss you all! bye now.

Hi!

2006-09-02T12:31:00.000-04:00

Hi! I am sorry that I haven't updated since I came to Hong Kong. I hope all of you had a GREAT summer and hope all of you missed me a lot. I had a great summer in Hong Kong. I had two jobs: teaching at Summerbridge KGV and teaching at a local school for a week. These two jobs pretty much took up my whole summer and all my time in HK. That explains why I haven't had time to update (and also because i steal wireless internet at home so it gets cut off easily and i get frustrated).

anyway, i will post some pictures later to give you my summer in a nutshell. but here are the main highlights:
1). i went to HK disneyland and saw the ugliest Tigger. it seriously looked like a giant orange high-lighter. and i went on the space mountain, TWICE! yes, gigi on a rollercoaster twice. everybody please applause.
2). i got 3 pairs of puma's.
3). hmm...oh my boyfriend taught me how to bike but my legs are badly bruised right now. but I CAN BIKE NOW! yes everybody applause again.
4), let's see what else....oh i got an ipod nano from keith, and i got some fake accessories to go with it cuz i'm too cheap to buy the originals. $200 vs $20, look the same. which one would you choose?
5). i did facials in HK and i like to believe my face is now perfectly smooth and flawless.
6). i also got my HK driver's licence which is good for 10 years.
7). i saw a really good concert but the downside is that it took up a chunk of my salary.
8). i went squid fishing, TWICE, and didn't catch anything.
9). i went to mother china TWICE.
10). i lost a lot of weight. ok everybody don't give me that "i am disgusted" look. i ate a lot! blame the heat and humidity.

i will tell you more about my teaching jobs next time...when i'm back in toronto/kingston! i'm flying on monday, sept 4th. so everybody pray for me cuz we all know how freaked out gigi gets. oh gosh....i'm gonna start crying now.

bye now! miss you all.

saddest day ever.

2006-07-02T01:34:00.000-04:00

no more England. soooo close to winning =o( last night was like my saddest day ever..well maybe other than the time when i bought a double scoop ice cream cone from baskin robbins, and while i was happily licking away while shopping, the ice cream part came off and i was left with only the cone. the England team will be so different next world cup...all the players will be too old to play so they better start finding someone good now.

anyway, other than poor England losing, everything else is normal. the hot, humid weather, the tiring training sessions for work, oh i'm finally meeting my students this week! yay.

ok i'm going down to McD to grab something to eat. they have all day breakfast here so i get to have my sausage egg muffin AND they have chicken wings meal. i love McD here. ok bye now.

HI!

2006-06-28T07:44:00.000-04:00

yea i couldn't think of a better title...so HI! i'm alive in HK, despite the crazy heat and typhoon that's going on right now. i started training for work, but then again i don't think i need training cuz i'm already such a good teacher. i haven't met my students yet, and as the meeting day approaches i'm getting more and more scared. HK teenagers are a lot scarier than the Canadian ones.

so what's new...hmm oh england is still in! but my poor poor michael owen...i don't even want to talk about it =o( oh i hit my head the other day. the back of my head in such a stupid way that again i don't even want to talk about it. so i've been walking around dizzy for the past couple of days. i feel like i got dumber from that too. if that's possible.

oh i witnessed someone trying to commit suicide last night. it was so funny that like the rest of the people that happened to be there at that time, i stood and watched for the longest time. the girl was crawling on the street, and attempted to get hit by a car. she was crying so hysterically that the sound resonated to the next block. anyway, she was definitely faking it. so no sympathy for her there.

anyway, hope you're all enjoying the summer. come visit me in HK!
oh look at him. poor guy. no more owen =o( ok bye now.

greetings from HK.

2006-06-20T09:47:00.000-04:00

hi! i arrived safely, after nearly 18 hours of flying (including a stop over at anchorage). HK is as usual, hot, humid, yucky. and i'm about to sue Cathay Pacific soon and here's the reason why: they lost my luggage. it was a direct flight from toronto to HK via anchorage, and my flight was like the last one to leave Toronto Pearson that night. i don't understand how they can manage to lose it! ahhh Canadians sometimes drive me nuts! so now i have no toothbrush, shampoo, shoes, bags, and most importantly, no hairdryer! ahh. oh and not to mention i was freaked out for the entire day today since my graduation gift from my parents was in that suitcase too.

then i got a call from Cathay saying that they found my luggage. it's still in toronto. oh gosh. they are flying it over tomorrow and delivering it to my house. i still want to sue Cathay. ridiculous.

well..i spent the whole day today with my cousin who's leaving for Australia tomorrow...and i'm trying to stay awake right now in order to be awake for the England vs Sweden game at 3am! yes..3am! 12 hours ahead difference from Toronto.

ok bye now.

im leaving....again

2006-06-17T18:40:00.000-04:00

hi. so England is doing very very well....they played so well on their last match against Trinidad! England 2:0 Trinidad. nice.

so their next game is June 20th versus Sweden. go watch!

As my title suggests, i'm leaving again on a scary plane tomorrow. I will be heading to Hong Kong tomorrow night at 12am, CX829. ahhhhhhh i really don't understand why i put myself through this...that's 3 round trips via the plane within 6 months. i don't want to go =o( someone come steal my ticket please...or someone come on the plane tomorrow and knock me out before the plane takes off. i don't like planes...oohh and that Superman trailer that's been playing so much on tv..have you seen it? the plane in it...ahhh Superman won't be there to save me tomorrow.

anyway, i'll update when i'm in HK. i'll be back in sept! so miss me everybody. i'll miss you allllll. bye now.

FIFA fever.

2006-06-13T02:07:00.000-04:00

So first game was England 1 : 0 Paraguay. Not bad but it would've been nice if England scored their own goal. But, I still love them so GO ENGLAND!

the past days have been pure tv, snacks, and instant noodles. i read somewhere that on average, people who non-stop watch the world cup gain 17 pounds because of all the junk food and they lie around too comfortably. they're lying! in my case, i can already feel i'm losing weight. now considering how i am already, i don't think i should lose any more weight. like i was even rejected from the blood donation clinic a couple years back since i was underweight and they think i might faint and they would have to waste extra blood on me instead. anyway, just to let you know, if you want to lose weight, go watch the world cup.

so next England game is this Thursday, June 15th, 12pm. watch it during your lunch hour or something. it's fun! ok bye now.

ole ole ole ole

2006-06-07T19:41:00.000-04:00

June 9th is fast approaching, and i've been busy stocking up on snacks from Costco and those Chinese supermarkets. i'm going to be the biggest couch potato for a long time..well maybe not that long since i'm going to HK soon...but anyway it's FIFA World Cup time! my dad is the biggest fan in football (not soccer according to the Brits) and i guess that influenced me. i love watching the world cup...and i've been watching almost every single game for the past 2 world cups. and yes, i am a girl.

so, as much as i love being asian, i am unforunately not cheering for Korea or Japan. and as much as i like having the states as our neighbouring country, i am also unfortunately not cheering for the US. as for the rest of the countries, i realized i haven't been to any of them and i'm sure their players are all very talented....but i gotta say ENGLAND's gonna win it all.

so, for those of you who are not cheering for england, you and i are gonna be enemies for the next little while. and you can stop reading this blog...now.

these signs were all over london when i went last week. oh mr.wayne rooney, why must you fracture the base of your fourth metatarsal of your right foot right before the world cup starts? whhhhhy? he is currently on the line-up, but the other teams are just gonna take advantage of that and break his ankle again. oh well it's ok cuz we have michael owen to the rescue.

oh mr.michael owen you're just toooo good. and i met him! look! well the wax version that is. he's gonna be my hero i can feel it. he's gonna score all those goals for england. too bad he's married.

so how good is the english team you ask? they even have chocolates made for them. everybody loooovess them so you should too if you haven't decided on which team to cheer for or you don't watch the world cup at all or you have no clue what i'm talking about.

so all in all i'm a very devoted fan for England. and no it's not because of david beckham. so, go join ESPN or Sportsnet if you're in Canada, tune in at 9:00am this saturday June 10th to watch them play. you know you want to.

ok bye now.

class 06

2006-06-04T20:30:00.000-04:00

i'm quite disappointed with how the diploma looks. you would think that after 4 years worth of tuition they would give you a nicer looking piece of paper, and your name would be printed in a fancy sorta way. also, why didn't they give us a graduation hat? i didn't even attempt to make my hair look pretty that day thinking that i could cover it with the hat...the last time i wore a graduation hat was when i graduated from kindergarten. i was so looking forward to that hat.

anyway, it didn't rain most of the day and i managed to keep my balance well on those heels. so, it was a good day! so here are some pictures:
the family. the next time i see my dad and my brother in a suit would be my next grad...so next year.the boyfriend. those flowers he got me spelled soooo good. and look, i'm almost as tall as he is! the chernoff. yes everybody Celebrate CHEMISTRY. you know you love it.
the standard shot. i wonder who wrote "flash light" there..

ok i pretty much look the same in all the other pictures....so you get the idea. ok bye now.

oh BSCH.

2006-05-31T22:26:00.000-04:00

so i'll be getting my BSCH tomorrow. i checked last week and it said i'm eligible so i'm pretty sure i'll be getting that diploma tomorrow. i'm actually not particularly excited...maybe cuz i'll be returning to school next year. but...Bachelor of Science Honours, MJM with Chemistry and Math. Makes me sound smart doesn't it?

I do have one concern though. I'm not good with heels at all, and for some odd reason I decided to wear heels tomorrow. So, hopefully I won't trip on stage or something.

ok bye now. gonna get some beauty sleep so i'll look beautiful tomorrow.

hello i'm back.

2006-05-29T12:04:00.000-04:00

hello i'm back. hope everybody missed me. first off, happy birthday to my big brother who turned 25 yesterday. couldn't post yesterday cuz i was high up in the sky most of the day flying in that scary airplane.

so, london. as much as i love those old buildings and red double decker buses and preppy looking english guys, i have decided that i would never live in london and here are the reasons why:
1). the weather is too depressing. it rained almost everyday, and i had to carry my umbrella with me everyday which means extra weight to carry in my purse which means hurting my shoulder after a long day of walking.
2). all that walking. i mean it's nice to have exercise but living in london gives you excessive exercise which i'm sure can't be good.
3). crazy subway aka tube system. i mean the tube gets you to everywhere you want but there's so much walking up and down and turns it really stresses you out.
4). dangerous subway aka tube system. they do announce "please mind the gap between the train and the platform", but holy crap those gaps were huge! i'm pretty sure i caneasily fall through them, let alone little children.
5). you can never drive. my friends and i were brave enough to rent a car for a mini road trip, but other than major highways you are guaranteed to be stuck in traffic wherever you are, whenever it is, for a really long time. i mean it was like 10 in the morning when people should be at work and children at school, so where did all those cars come from?!
6). people speak weirdly. i had great difficulty ordering a sandwich one day, when i couldn't understand the guy trying to say tomato, butter and salad. or there were other moments when i would reply with a huuuuhhh.
7). there's too much shopping. it's like....you'll feel bad for not going shopping.
8). chinese food sucks. i can't live without rice.

ok that's about it for now. will show some pictures later. thanks friends! it was a nice trip =o) ok bye now.

london here i come.

2006-05-20T02:32:00.000-04:00

so i'll be leaving for london, england tonight for a week. i am surprisingly not excited at all. my brain is so overwhelmed with the whole plane ride process that i can't think of anything else. like i've always been scared of flying, but this time it seems like it's the worst. then i realize why: the image someone drew through msn keeps appearing in my head. the image is of a plane exploding...oh gosh....then the whole United 93 trailer i kept seeing on tv keeps appearing in my head too...plus toronto and london will be raining, so that makes it bad weather for the ride. yes you all think i'm scaring myself and i'm being crazy..but honestly it's driving me insane so someone help me and pray hard for me.

i really wish i can just stay in toronto and give my plane ticket to someone else. i don't want to go anymore =o(

on another note, as much as i like travelling, i can't imagine bringing my future kids on family vacations. Packing for myself is already such a hassle, so i can't imagine packing for ALL my kids. gotta make sure they have different clothes for any sudden change of weather, gotta make sure all the clothes match with each other AND match with that one pair of shoes they'll be wearing during the vacation, gotta make sure they have enough socks and undergarments....the list goes on. oh gosh.

ok bye now. enjoy your week everyone. i'll be thinking of you in london!

bad day.

2006-05-17T17:53:00.000-04:00

so today didn't start off so well, and i won't go into details. but you ever get one of those days where you feel like the whole world is against you? and as much as you love staying at home and sleeping on your own bed and enjoying your own washroom and being fed constantly, you just want to leave and go somewhere else? yea so i feel like the whole world is out to get me today.

on another note, damn my friends are smart. 3 best friends, one's in law school, one just got into med school, and i myself...am gonna be a teacher. yea that makes me feel stupid...a lawyer, a doctor then a teacher who's gonna make just enough money to afford daily necessities. but here's what amy the soon-to-be doctor said:

"u're a SMART teacher! teacher's are the ppl that shape little minds... you influence all students! u have a very important role, ya know!"

yea i guess that makes me feel a tad better. but anyway very happy for them! ok bye now.

weekend's over.

2006-05-16T00:18:00.000-04:00

well, although everyday is like holiday for me, the past weekend was truly amazing. keith came to visit me, and we ate everything from all you can eat jap, korean bbq, demetre dessert, korean food, yum cha, to his favourite cheap place that has hk style milk tea 3 times. we also watched MI:3 and played tennis. well playing tennis is more like me missing the ball and running around the whole court like a chicken to retrieve the balls. it's good exercise, i bet even more than just playing real tennis.

well, i'm going to england for a week this saturday with 2 friends and meeting up with two of my bestest friends in london. it's amazing how i'm still close enough with my highschool friends to go on a trip with them. however, here's the problem. as most of you know (or you should know if you think you know gigi), there's the flying issue. 7 hours!! oh gosh i'm gonna start having nightmares soon someone please save me. why can't someone just join all the countries together and invent this super fast train or car or something that stays ON the road so we can travel from one country to another safely and happily? or i wouldn't mind if they invent this super fast submarine and we go under water. as long as we're not 100000000000000000 feet above where we usually are. who's idea was it in the first place?! oh yes the Wright brothers...grrrrr...i gotta stop thinking about it, starting to scare myself already.

ok bye now.

another attempt.

2006-05-08T15:22:00.000-04:00

a several people have messaged me and taught me how to upload pictures, so I take that as they are actually interested to see them. seeing that all i'm doing these days is sit at home and do absolutely nothing, I might as well give it another try. i can't put the pictures side by side...does that mean this will be a page long? oh gosh..i swear this is like learning a brand new skill, and when you're 23 years old, that may take a long while.

like i said, i did graduate from Harvard. they just forgot to give me a black gown. nonetheless, it was a very happy day.

then i got invited into the Trump boardroom to meet the donald, george and caroline. it was hard to keep a serious look on. i think i have the potential to be the apprentice.

i was then invited to meet the ER cast. it's still one of my favourite shows. for all of you who converted to watching scrubs or grey's anatomy...ER is still the best.

we didn't have a chance to watch a broadway show. crazy chinese tours use up every second of your time possible. we passed by the huge mamma mia banner near time square, and here you can see keith preparing for his audition. not bad eh?

ok. don't mind my head being a bit too big in this picture. we took that cruise thing around the liberty island, so the statue is really small in all the pictures.

seeing that all my pictures are either myself, keith himself, or keith and i, it's hard not to include a picture of us together. this is one of my favourites: clear blue sky, nice green trees, and if you look close enough you can see the sniper i mentioned before. see him? at the top of that little white building aka the white house?

just in case this blog makes it seem like i'm self-obsessed, i decided to include a picture without me in it. keith the poser found this monument very interesting: "freedom is not free". hm...that's deep.

so on the last day we went to this glass museum thing, and being a nerd that i am, i found a glass display of the whole periodic table. you can only see the transition metals section here (ie the middle section). that's my little bit of chem major pride.

wow i posted my pictures in a zig-zag format. but i'm getting bored now., so i think 8 pictures is enough. bye now!

my pictures are too big..

2006-05-06T13:24:00.000-04:00

so i've been trying to post some pictures from my trip to share with you guys. the thing is, i set my camera to 7M...the highest resolution. therefore, my pictures are huge! i don't want to shrink my pictures one by one and save them somewhere and then post them here...that's too annoying. apparently there're these programs that you can use to upload your pictures on blogs...hmm..but anyway, i dont know how to do it.
here's a sneak peak at one of my pictures.

Canada is the best. even the US agrees since they have a monument for it.

ok bye now. time to bum around.

back in Toronto.

2006-05-03T18:35:00.000-04:00

So I came back last night from my 4 days trip to Boston/NY/Philly/Washington. It was very tiring (morning calls at ~6 every morning), but nonetheless it was amazing. Had a fabulous time with keith alone. I won't go all mushy here so let's just leave it at that. I took more than 1GB of pictures...I guess I'll post a few later if anyone is interested.

Brief highlights:
1). thank goodness, the whole trip involved no plane rides. (except they played "the day after tomorrow" on the bus, and the plane turbulence scene made me cry).
2). I got the whole bus of 50+ people to sing happy birthday to keith which embarassed the hell outta him.
3). I graduated from Harvard. I have pictures to prove that.
4). I bought from victoria's secret. please don't start imagining what I bought.
5). I went crazy in the NBC store. yes i love tv.
6). I couldn't resist and bought one of those rip off tourist pictures they take for you upon boarding the cruise to see the statue of liberty (you know, the ones they take for you when you're on a rollercoaster or something). to make it worse, you don't see the statue itself anywhere in the picture.
7). I went crazy at Abercrombie. yes i dress white.
8). I found my hershey kisses peanut butter chocolates.
9). I took the dodgy NY subway AND metro train and didn't get mugged.
10). I got one of the snipers on the roof of the white house to wave at me.

ok. dinner time.

bye!

2006-04-28T13:30:00.000-04:00

Exam yesterday went really well...well considering I had 3 weeks to study for it, I better say it went well or else someone would beat me up. 150 MC's done in a an hour and a bit. I'm a genius.

I slept at 6 am last night (well more like this morning). it feels weird to sleep when the sun is already up. makes you feel like you're wasting your time away.

I'm going to toronto today and for the next few days, I'm going to Boston/Washington/NYC/Philadelphia. I have been to all of those except for Boston. Hopefully I'll be smarter when I come back from the trip....after getting brain vibes from those Harvard nerds.

bye to all those who are leaving kingston and never coming back again (well for school). I will miss you.

finally!

2006-04-27T00:14:00.000-04:00

About to go to sleep and wake up for my 9am exam. i've been waiting for so long and finally I get to write it. I just want to get it done with.

Brief update, I watched "The Sentinel" last night. Oh Kiefer Sutherland's role is exactly like what he does as Jack Bauer. I want to see him in a love movie or something although I hate sappy movies. Movie wasn't very good...nothing smart happens like 24.

ok. goodnight. anatomy here I come!

Sad day...but sushi came to the rescue.

2006-04-25T19:46:00.000-04:00

Hi. While the majority of Queen's students are done their finals, I'm still sitting here, studying for my one and only exam, which takes place this Thursday, second last day of exams. I do believe that the material I've been studying over and over again for the past 3 weeks or so....is slowly leaking out of my brain without me knowing. I don't know how that happens, but it's quite sneaky.

However, mr.rumjahn took quick action and bought me sushi today after reading my previous post. yuuumm..salmon sushi and spicy salmon sushi. So life was pretty good when I indulged them.

oh. took the hard drive out of my old laptop today and mr.rumjahn brilliantly bought a case for it and turned it into an external hard drive. Supposed to work like a huge usb drive, get to put 30G of material on it. it's now gone from a useless piece of junk that sat under my bed for a year to a slick looking piece of fancy technology.

So, props to keith for rescuing me with sushi and rescuing my old laptop from being forgotten. If you see him on the street, please give him a pat on the shoulder.

ok bye now. studying again.

Skeletons are my new best friends.

2006-04-24T12:31:00.004-04:00

Hi! Nothing much has been going on for the past few days...except I have learned about skeletons in full detail. Test me on any piece of bone of the skeleton and I should be able to tell you the name of it (hopefully...if not it means I'm dead for Thursday's exam). So, I've been spending quite a bit of time getting to know this new best friend of mine. He's cool isn't he?

I want some of this now. Doesn't it look so yummy? yummm. That tasty vinegared rice topped with a thick piece of fatty salmon, served with a tint of wasabi and sweet soya sauce. Sushi is a lovely invention.
ok bye now. i need to take a nap.

I hate bugs, and birds.

2006-04-21T18:55:00.000-04:00

In the middle of studying, I decided to look up to admire the beautiful weather outside through my dirty windows. And there it was, this huge spider web, hanging from the corner of my left window inside and looks like it's happily expanding. My bed isn't very far from that left corner of my windows, so I do think it's possible that a huge spider will end up finding its way into my mouth when I sleep tonight. What should I do? Tape my mouth together tonight, or take up the courage to climb onto my desk and destroy that nasty looking thing?

On another note, I came to the conclusion that birds don't like my car. I constantly find bird poo's all over, no matter where I park. I guess my silver car is so shiny and clean that birds think it's a good toilet bowl. I don't get it.

ok bye now. I am doing musculo-skeletal anatomy today.

Contracts.

2006-04-20T19:53:00.000-04:00

I signed my contract yesterday for my summer job in Hong Kong starting this June-August. This may sound bad, but this is the first time I'm officially hired for a summer job. I've been hired for the past few summers as my mom's shopping buddy, my dad's tv buddy, my friends' gossip buddy and I started my own summer camp last year in mother China (yes I finally did something productive and I finally got paid), but never had to sign a contract for any of them. Signing that sheet of paper yesterday made me feel like I was signing a field trip consent form for my kid. Scribbled my signature, printed my name and the date underneath and that's it. Is that how companies hire people now? Just take 5 seconds to fill out a form and tada you're hired! But the tricky thing is, signing that paper makes you feel soooo good. Makes you feel smart. Weird isn't it?

So, that being said, I'll be doing this again real soon. Look, the kids do listen to me!

Ok bye now. Studying the exciting digestive system today.

Now Hiring: Massage Therapist.

2006-04-19T19:45:00.000-04:00

So, for some odd reason, my neck has been killing me. Must be something to do with my posture when I study. I think my neck and back are trying to tell me to stop studying so hard.

On another note, I watched "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbits" last night. It was 1:30am, and it was either that or something like "Hostel". As much as I like gore, I decided to watch something light. So, I was all hyped up when I walked out of that 24 hour self serve video store that features something like an Astroboy/Mario/Instant noodle boy figure on their banner outside the store (if you're wondering it's beside Domino's pizza on Princess...then you'll know what I mean).

Little clay figures walking around. Pretty cute at first, but got a bit annoying afterwards especially after I found out the main character Gromit the dog doesn't talk at all. He's smart enough to walk on only his hind legs, smart enough to be an anti-pesto worker, yet not smart enough to talk. disappointing isn't it? Long story short, I didn't quite enjoy the movie. I don't think clay figurines are my thing. It further proved that oscar winning movies are usually bad.

ok bye now. gotta study (and watch the amazing race).

I want to go outside.

2006-04-18T16:54:00.000-04:00

Look outside everybody. Clear sky, nice clouds, and the little weathernetwork.com icon at the bottom right corner of my computer screen tells me it's currently 19 degrees. It's beautiful!

But here's the dilemma. I got all these latin names to study for so I shouldn't be going anywhere but my room and I shouldn't be thinking about anything else but basic human anatomy. I can't open my window cuz the holes on the screen are too big and annoying little bugs come flying in. I don't get it, I don't have any meat on me and not like my blood is extra tasty, yet the mosquitoes and bugs tend to love me. So, I have no fresh spring air, and the only outside thing I can see is the little patch of blue through the crack of my curtains. I haven't been outside for 3 days now. sad isn't it.

my housemates think it's sad too. well other than elim.

ok bye now. time to learn how my brain works.

In the middle of exams.

2006-04-17T19:50:00.000-04:00

Say hello to the debut of my blog!

Seeing that my one and only exam is on the 27th, the last days of the exam period, I decided to start this. I wonder if anyone is interested in my life.

I don't know why I chose Anatomy as my elective for fourth year. I mean it's nice to know how my blood flows and how i breathe and where my kidneys are and all....but it's a lot of memorizing and I think my brain doesnt memorize very well. All those latin names all seem the same to me. Can't they just name all the arteries and veins under 1 same name? I don't get it.

ok. bye now. I'm gonna drill more latin names into my brain.