no bull

I've been re-watching grey's lately and bawling my eyes out. I've forgotten how emotional the whole show is and am definitely excited to watch the season premiere in the fall!

End of term drinks

Cute pub that I LOVE in Ottawa. Great food and great beer. They have a beer bible with over a hundred beers to choose from. Pretty sweet.


The alleyway to the kitchen Is really charminggg


1. Learned that a 10 oz is nothing.
2. Really like harp (English beer) but drank almost all before I remembered to take this photo

end.

this made me so excited today..

i can't wait to go back to school

this is what i want to do

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:

By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:

By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more:

With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty:

A master's degree deepens that specialty:

Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge:

Once you're at the boundary, you focus:

You push at the boundary for a few years:

Until one day, the boundary gives way:

And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.:

Of course, the world looks different to you now:

So, don't forget the bigger picture:

Keep pushing.

Double decker bus in Ottawa. What?! So much fun to ride













end.

home

I went home last weekend and to be honest, it was a little stressful.

It was a combination of:

• cousins over from the states
• many errands to do
• presentation due on tuesday when i took monday off

and then there was the aspect that I wanted to spend time with family but I had so little time.

I've realized that home is a lot more special to me than I thought. In waterloo, I can come home for a relatively low cost with relatively no time wasted. It's close enough where a weekend is enough time to do whatever I want at home and go back to school late at night.

In Ottawa, however, a trip home takes half a day on Friday and half a day on Sunday. The ticket is $110 round trip and if your bus happens to break down and greyhound refuses to bring a new bus and you have to wait 2.5 hours for a tow truck... yea. doesn't seem worth it. But the moment I see my mom and dad, I have an urge to cry or get really excited to the point my voice shakes and sounds like I'm going to cry.


I have a friend who hails from a different province and is constantly away from home. I give her mad props. I have a couple of friends who's family is all the way in hong kong. I have no idea how they do it.

My conclusion: I cannot live more than 2 hours from home.

documentaries

so i've been watching a ton of documentaries in hope of "expanding my horizons."

I must say I'm learning a LOT from them and they're a lot of fun to watch. Documentaries have come a long way. From the boring literal documents to the narrative-like pieces of today, I think I'm learning to appreciate that these movies don't tell a story with a happy ending. The mere reality - happy or sad - make it that much more beautiful and heart warming or wrenching.

Born Into Brothels tells the story of a photographer trying to find a better life for the children of the brothels - the red light district. It's really sad because even with a possible solution, the way the society works won't let them leave. But there is hope!


I think if it wasn't for a couple of my friends asking tons of questions, I would have cried watching Tiger Spirit. I remember crying watching the trailer the first time i saw it. It's truly a reality that breaks my heart.



A movie that definitely shows that the moving picture can educate people, Food Inc is a shocking tale of the current state of our food industry. When I have a stable job and no tuition to pay, I am going to buy organic. I have given up ground food for good.



Still on my list
- bowling for columbine - the story of the columbine shooting and gun laws in the states
- Planet Bboy - bboying around the world
- spellbound - the spelling bee mania in the states (i think we need more programs like the states)
- murderball - stories of paralyzed people accomplishing great things
- enron: the smartest guys in the room
- man on wire - a man walking tight rope between the twin towers
- which way home - horrors of children riding trains to sneak into the states from mexico

sickening! love it