2nd day of work - Tuesday June 28, 2011

After the first day of work, I decided to try and sleep early because I was feeling sleepy at work. I slept at 11:30PM and still I woke up with a sleepy mood. I woke up at 7AM with a sore throat. Even after my cold shower, I felt like sleeping just a little bit more. But I couldn’t risk getting into the bed because I might end up waking late and being late to work. I got on the bus and felt like sleeping but I was afraid I might miss my stop as well.

I finally arrived at work and my mood didn’t improve one bit. Tried going through my work but in the end I had to doze off for an hour before I could get back to work. From then on, I plowed through all my work.

My first two fears of the day are: my increasingly large debt from tuition and the dim chances of finding work.

First Day of Continuous Work - Monday June 27, 2011

Finally i got a job that will last for one month rather than my last work experience of only one day from the federal elections. Thank goodness, I was able to find this job otherwise I would have been unemployed and bored out of my mind during the whole summer. Now there is something to keep me busy. The night before my work day I had planned my schedule of getting to work.

I woke up early in the morning to get ready and got out at exactly the right time as planned. The bus was supposed to arrive at 8:02 but when I got to the bus stop at 7:58, I saw my bus leaving. I was like “NO WAY” because I would have to wait 20 minutes for another one. It turns out that the online bus schedule was different from the actual bus schedule. The bus was supposed to leave 7:57 and so I was panicking as I waited 20 minutes for that STUPID BUS. By the time I arrived at my workplace, I was late but not by much because I ran 2 blocks to reduce my lateness. Went inside with sweating like a pig and sweat was dripping everywhere. I was an ugly sight and all this would not have happened if only I had arrived at the bus stop just a few minutes earlier. This will be one thing that I will remember.

At work, my duty entailed typing in data in excel for seven whole hours every day. Within the first 2 hours, I felt so sleepy and almost dozed off. Thank god, my boss was not there because he was at a meeting elsewhere. I wonder how I’m gonna survive another month of this same work everday. Haha.

Graduation of High School - Saturday June 25, 2011

Its already the end of high school and I'm glad that I can move on to something else. Something bigger and better, start new and to have fun without my parents. During the Graduation/Commencement, we had to speak our names and the teacher would read out the university we decided to attend next year as well as any personal comments that we wanted to provide. There were the basic 'Ohhh's and 'Ahh's when the teacher said some State University or some other universities that weren't located in Canada. Some people gave some pretty random comments along with their university like he was gonna be chillin like a boss, I will make my parents proud, etc. I decided to write 'im going to be a big boy' but the teacher didn't pronounce my sentence with a chinese accent which I had wanted it to.

SAO meeting Today - Thursday June 23, 2011

Today was my Western's first Orientation meeting. So, my parents had to drive me 2 hours and a half to travel to London, Ontario to my university. We wanted to arrive between 8:45 and 9:15 because it was free parking and I woke up at around 6:20? So we were pretty late plus we also turned into the wrong street and got a little lost but we still made it in time with 2 minutes to spare before it turned 9:15. The feeling that there was a chance that we could make it as well as a possibility that we will not make it and have to the penalty of paying parking fees. It was a sort of exhilarating and scary feeling.

They welcomed the SAO students with an awesome Western school song which was actually really good... compared to my high school's school song. LOL. Then we went into small groups where we started planning our courses for our first year of university. I had already spent 4 hours yesterday night trying to plan my timetable and failed. This provided time for me to revise my courses as well as ask questions to the university students. Lunch came very soon and then there was a campus tour. Unfortunately, I had to leave my tour early because I had an appointment with my guidance counsellor about my course registration. It turns out that there was a very very very long line-up and we had to wait an hour and twenty minutes before we were able to get inside the room. I was supposed to get there at 1:00PM but I went inside at 2:15PM. But inside, the room, we still had to wait for our turns to talk to the counsellors. Finally it was my turn and I blasted all my questions to her. She was surprised that I was really prepared but I just kept asking questions non-stop and it took a very long time before she got through all my questions. But after that, we still had to register our courses through the internet. Fortunately, there were university students to help us out and also, I had already finished a bunch of my course registrations last night so that process went by pretty quick.

As we were waiting, I talked with friends in the similar programs. One of them was pursuing their career as a neuro surgeon. We exclaimed: "Your aiming really high" and he said he knows. He said that he was amounting to around half a million after finishing his undergrad and his med school and more. Haha, poor kid but my debt would be similar to that but a little less thankfully. Then he talked about how his sister who had a 94.3 avg in high school got a 97% avg in University. Im like "WHAT DA EFFF"!? How da hell is that possible... Anyways she was pursuing a career in dentistry, and apparently their first project was to learn to carve on a piece of soap! Hmm, I should try that someday.

Then he said that if you put two matches together, with a penny below one of them and you light one match, it will carve upwards in the shape of a "u"... thats pretty amazing yet unrealistic in my mind.. Gotta definitely try that out!

Then there was the long car ride back. My parents counted that there was a distance of 200km between London and Toronto. My mom even said that she will never ever drive me to Western again because it was too much work. LOL Guess I have to count on GreyHound from now on...

Im excited for university now and finished with the boring high school life that I led.

University Planning - Monday June 20, 2011

So many things happened today. Firstly, went out to buy new sandals, buy new pair of glasses and much more. Got bored and read a little of Twilight too. I really don't know why they hate the book. Its a book with a romantic story, nothing wrong with that. I understand their reasons for disliking the movie but the book is normal.

University Planning is a bummer. I have no knowledge of my university and any courses and I need to do some hard researching on everything from the courses, my prerequisites for future courses and the conditions to stay in my program. Its all such a pain and confusing especially trying to navigate on the website.

And now, I need to find my courses ASAP, otherwise it will fill up soon.

Such an unbusy day - Saturday June 18, 2011

Is unbusy a word? I guess not but it does convey the meaning so I guess I'm gonna make it my word now. I spent my whole day renewing my experience of video gaming. I completely missed it while I was finish my grade twelve year and finally I can get to forget about all the stress that I have accumulated from the whole school year through my game. Then my brother and I bargained a deal where I would help him write a 20 page essay for $60. I wonder if it was worth it with all the research, reading and all to write this essay. Oh well, I got bribed for the first time and it feels bad. I usually get bribed with food and not money because I'm not that fond of money and I don't exactly revolve around it. Finally finished it and i'm proud of myself!!

Then my brother told me to throw him a loaf of bread because he had to take medicine. The medicine as always is bitter and has this disgusting taste and so he was using the plain bread to cover the taste. So I decided to throw him the loave of bread but he couldn't even catch a loave of bread. Unfortunately, it fell right on his cup of medicine and it spilled on the floor immediately. Guess who had to clean it up? ME... sighhh.. what a pain in the butt.

Selena Gomez is actually so hot!!! IMO

Gr 12 Officially Over - Wednesday June 15, 2011

After my 2 hour long accounting exam, my gr 12 year has come to an end. Hopefully I dont have to repeat this again because I don't have enough credits to get my high school diploma. That would really suck. My teacher asked me why I wasnt in class for the end of the school period and I told her my sleep was more important!! Haha, I bet she laughed!!!

Exams over... Summer has started. Too bad it will be my last high school summer before university!!

Had another large argument with my mom again. She's one person that no matter how I reason with, I won't ever win. Its sad and when usually I just have to listen to her demands and just swallow my anger. Its terrible and its just one reason why Im leaving tdot maybe forever!

So basically, there was this tv show that talked about the transition from children to adolescent, where their hormones are changing and they have more mood swings. The parents should understand that and try to encourage them instead of scolding. My parent didn't even listen to this comment but continues to scold me for everything from working to playing games. When I show her my report card, she says she doesn't believe in the Ontario school system anymore because I get high marks too easy. I am like WTH, I work hard yet you just say this... Great, how am I supposed to prove that I work then? Then she says I dunno. I AM JUST WOW. literally speechless because shes just so darn DUMB. sighh pissed off at her.

Watermelon Maniac - Sunday June 12, 2011

My hair is still up from yesterday though its not as spiky as before. Anyways I was bored and I was looking around my house when I saw a big yummy watermelon lying on the floor. I decided to try something out and to cut it in half and eat half of it with a spoon. I was stuffed after eating half the watermelon with all the juice and meat. All the goodness is inside my stomach now!

First Haircut Ever - Saturday June 11, 2011

Well... ever since I was born, I had to put up with my haircuts from my mom. It was just terrible because they aren't exactly professional haircutters and they just could not cut. But I had to put up with it because it saved us money! And finally I decided that it is time to get a haircut from an actual haircutter!! But the joy didn't last long because the price was a whopping $28... I was scared out of my mind at that moment. But it included washing my hair and conditioning it so I guess it might have been worth it. Just a little.

Anyways I wanted to make my hair spikey because I like my hair to be up instead of just lying flat on my head.

First Exam Obliterated - Thursday June 9, 2011

Haha, I had procrasinated and watched korean drama way too much. Once I find something I like, I won't stop until its finished including drama. Although the exam was looming ahead, I had ignored that fact and continued to watch it until the day before the exam. Then I decided to pull an all-nighter and cram. Thats when I learned my lesson about my stupidity. When I started studying the first few chapters of the textbook, it was alright because I was still conscious and the material was easy. However as I went in depth into the material from reading the later chapters I found that the content was going through my eyes and into my head. But as I kept reading, it just seeped away from my mind and was forgotten. In addition to that, it felt like forever before I finished my studying and by then it was already 6AM. Dawn was arriving before I put a blanket on myself and went to sleep. Woke up in 2 hrs to continue my studying and was mildly prepared for the exam. It was 13 minutes before the exam and I decided to bike to school. On the way, my bike broke down and I had to fix it with my bare hands. In the process, my hands became black from the oil and I couldn't even wash it off. So I was in the exam room and was handed my paper. Excited as I was, I took my time to answer each question with the best of my knowledge but when the teacher said 25 minutes left, I had only finish half of my exam and I had to write 5 pages of essay. I was so screwed then and I learned another lesson, to be aware of the duration of ur exam.

Quote of the day: what is love? how much is it worth? (I am pondering about this in my mind)