Randoms throughout the day

Man I'm blogging a lot.

Today at work I was trying to figure out how to code for a regression plot when I had a realization.

If life were like a regression plot each point has the ability to sway the line of best fit in one way or another. However when the point wanders too far, it's deemed an outlier and is forgotten and neglected. Yet when many points move as a group to an extreme, there is significNt change in the line.

Stats can be sometimes be so profound.



On another note, I love the random French in my office and regret not taking it through high school.




My goals and gantt chart for my studies. And a script for how to answer the phone in French -.-


My really big monitor


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Get up and go

When you work full time it's often easy to slip into the idea of "I just want to go home and do nothing". Mind you, I have been watching a ton of movies that I've wanted to watch but never have seen

Dead poets society
Meet the parents
Marley and me

And I've baked and had ppl over a lot which is something I looove doing

But I was reminded today by a good "younger brother" that I should go out and meet people. Maybe not random people as he said but I do have a ton of people I can get to know. I'd rather stay with church or kcf people than to meet new ones here, but i hate it when people stay in the past and don't move forward.

So my objective for the next two months is to be less obsessed with going home or to loo and to meet people here. Afterall, I AM in the capital of our great nation =p


Bet u didn't know parliament was on a cliff


On the way home


Outside my work - dows lake


Outside my work- a statue haha

friends that last a lifetime

Had the greatest weekend ever.

1. Had emailed my mom earlier in the week so I could surprise my dad. Got home Friday night to the reaction of an overjoyed father who kept exclaiming "woah! What?!"

2. Went to uncles house on sat afternoon for family gathering like we do every years on fathers day. Had the greatest guacamole in the world courtesy of my awesome aunt. Watched a great world cup game in which another african team unfortunaly lost hope of moving on. Argued with my grandpa about how it's virtually impossible for all of Korea, n Korea and japan to move up (he lives in a fantasy world). Listened to extremely crude jokes that were funny primarily because they were done by him. Took my grandpa grocery shopping after which he said that he misses me, a HUGELY rare thing for him to say.

3. Went to my grandparents house to visit them as a surprise. Took some overpriced but tasty pastries whcih made my grandma cry. Watched videos of my cousin singing the national anthem at his high school graduation - apparently an honour rarely given to Asians.

4. Went out with two friends I haven't had a chance to actually talk to for a while. Although missing one of our usual group members, I've never laughed so hard in my life. I swear I lost a full pound from mere laughing.

5. Went home to play WoW, my latest obsession. Started out playing alone only to end up playing with a new friend until 5am.

6. Went to church. Dads leaving for china to teach. Mad proud of him and definitely praying hat godll do amazing things through that 1 month in his life as well as the lives of others.

7. Went to meet up with one of the friends I met up with on saturday, again. Satisfied my craving for pho and spent a half hour in indigo sitting in front of the wedding books section.

Deinitely miss home alreDy as I write this post on my way to Ottawa. Yet as I talk to people from Ottawa via ebuddy, I realize I just need to warm up to them. This week, might;

1. See toy story 3
2. Go to the library
3. Go karaoke
4. Bake apple pie
5. Play tons of wow (more like definitely)




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dear 허정무 감독님....

can we fix our defence?
can we be more aggressive?
and can we please please play this man more?

on a side note.. i never found german a pleasant language.. until now

One of many graphs I'll be making this summer. I'm loving this job more and more. And falling in love with spss while falling out of love of sas.

Makes me think I might want to be an analyst later on? My boss saidsoemthing interestig the other day... A lot of policy is made on assumption because of the lack of analyzed data. That's.... Absurd!!!! Maybe I could do this for the rest of my life... But maybe not in Ottawa.

new background! and my job?

This background makes me so happy!

But anyways... so my work. What am i doing?

To be honest... I went in today and was utterly confused and terrified that I would be this lost for the rest of the term. The SAS (statistical software) that they use is Enterprise which is a more user friendly version rather than straight coding. However to Audrey, straight coding is more user friendly. On top of that, my boss wants me to become "bilingual" in SAS and SPSS (another statistical software) meaning I need to teach myself SPSS.

Nevertheless, I'm excited. This is my first real job where I get to use my brain and think on my own. Basically I'll be constantly asking myself, "What is this data saying?!" Here are some of the projects I'm going to be working on:

1. comparing data between 3 different tools to test for diabetes.. seeing which one is better
2. comparing screening frequencies between cities in canada among new immigrants vs. canadians as a whole - is there a difference?
3. developing an online tool people can use to calculate their chance of getting diabetes based on various risk factors

possibly later on, i'll be doing some more economic studies ie. which tool is more economically friendly and are diabetes treatments really making an impact that makes sense to spend that much money on?

it's pretty cool and practical stuff. although daunting, i'm definitely looking forward to learning a lot this term!

finally...

... i'm sitting down to blog.

I know blogging should be a joy but I have to admit I've been going through a sort of writer's block / laziness . I blame it on blogspot's unfriendliness towards picture uploading as well as my lack of a camera.

Excuses aside, I blame it on my plain boring life. I feel like I'm always writing about the same things - school, goals, what i did... is this what a blog is supposed to be? my life, I realized, isn't that exciting and quite the average... how depressing.

I think most of all though, I've been finding a joy in people rather than myself and the internet. I'm finding a 5minute msn conversation can bring me more to life than a couple hours of big bang theory or a couple of movies.

A friend told me this past weekend "you've come a long way since the beginning of the year".. and it's true. My lack of faith in people hasn't disappeared but it's getting there. I'm starting to love people more and forgive people even more. I no longer get angry at people but more frustrated with their problems.

Oh man... PD (Professional Development course) is actually useful. I'm taking conflict resolution and the "motto" is "focus on the problem and not the person"... so true

I was looking through my iphone photos which have been accumulating since Christmas. I realized a couple things:
1. I'm such a camwhore
2. I take a lot of photos of sunsets
3. I take some random photos
4. I definitely need an actual camera...

Sleep

Even if i was going to wake up, if I'm woken by an alarm, it always feels like I didn't sleep well


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