M.I.A

christmas season and making the kcf banquet video for u dub is going to keep me from blogging for a while.

I'll make sure to take tons of photos and catch up later though.

iTunes Challenge: Day 1

According to itunes, i have 6.4 days worth of music. I havne't listen to all of the songs so I've decided that before the new year, i'm going to listen to everything and blog about my favourites :) It'll be good considering I just downloaded a whole bunch of albums of korean artists that are non-mainstream and I have yet to listen to all of it.

Going to organize everything by file size so I don't listen to the same artist and get sick of them. I'm not expecting much out of the first couple cuz they're all intros or snippets of songs.

chestnuts roasting by the open fire

It's snowing like crazy outside and I took this last year, but it seriously gets me every time how much it can snow in waterloo. And listening to Michael Buble while being toasty in the library

soundtrack in film

I was thinking of what courses to take and I realized I think i want to take some fun non-program related courses. After all isn't university supposed to be about exploring what's out there and broadening your perspectives?

So one of my friends suggested Soundtrack in Film. They're 3 hour lectures (boo) but it sounds pretty cool.

Here's the course syllabus:
Week 1: Course Introduction, What to Listen For in Film
Week 2: Technical Details, How It’s Done
Week 3: Early History, The Silent Era
Week 4: The Birth of Sound, and the Orchestra in Hollywood
Week 5: Film Music Comes of Age (1940-1950)
Week 6: The 1950s and Hitchcock/Herrmann
Week 7: The 1960s/Goldsmith
Week 8: The 1970s/Williams
Week 9: The 1980s/Horner
Week 10: The 90s
Week 11: Music From and Inspired by the film

Considering I used to think of my life in terms of soundtracks, I think this might be a cool course to take hehe

first exam of fall 2010

wrote my first exam today - coronary. It was open book so it was quite okay. My notes were so sick and pro at being tabbed that it was really easy to go through.

Ruth, Sarah and I have been sleeping in the living room (we sleep on mine and ruth's mattresses) and we were supposed to all wake up together and do morning devotions before going into this exam period but 1) i was frantically trying to print all my notes and 2) we woke up quite late.

HOpefully we can do it tomorrow :)


Currently in dwe with a couple friends studying. It's kind of depressing considering there's no windows and there's a huge drawing of mcdonald's on the front chalkboard with "공부하자 - let's study" written right next to it.. WHAT a tease...

ugly ducklings

"i'd rather be rough around the edges than smooth and pretty. i think it gives me character"

a couple of us were talking about how the 88 girls of KCF are so girly. The 90 girls are too. We were wondering what happened to us. I thought maybe girliness skips a generation but even the 91 girls are pretty girly. Yet us 89-ers... we're so manly, kind of scary, sometimes cynical, jaded, violent, etc.

but it doesn't matter. I'm loving getting to know the 89 girls more in depth this term and especially living with two of them has been a huge blessing. Getting to know each other on a deeper level and learning to pray and encourage each other not only in our school lives but in the spiritual aspects has gotten me excited for next fall when we're all in waterloo together (minus a certain ditcher who went to pharmacy =P ). When the ditcher came back, it was quite awesome to see how we've changed and yet how we are still exactly the same as our first year selves.

i love the quirkiness of these girls and to be honest.. i think we're quite exciting. I laugh every day because of them (and at them sometimes hehe). Gah, I can't wait to grow old with these girls =)

photo update

Really hate blogspot's photo uploading.. seriously considering switching over to tumblr. Thoughts?

studying with philemon and reminiscing about old photos teehee


will and his pink tie that he refuses to wear to banquet


the ghettoness of philemon's door


Birthday cake from someone's birthday - I have to admit, it looks pretty but definitely was one of my least favourite cakes


icicles sarah and I found outside of DP on a tree


Aw joseph yoo is so cute hahaha


leuis is a justin beiber wannabe...


after a bit of drinking, leuis is crazier than ever =P


Ruth is just crazy on her own =P After doing a mask



decapitated gingerbread man. muahahahhaa


owning jocelyn in monopoly deal

psalm 42

I'm not going to post the whole passage but two people gave me this chapter as encuoragement which i thought was pretty cool. Just how the whole passage is about how the writer feels really down and is so earnestly seeking God but doesn't know what to do at the same time - I know that feeling so well. And then at the end, it goes

¹¹ Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

Seriously, like let that be true in my life too!

I slept like crap yesterday just because I think I'm really stressed about a lot of things. But in the words of a great friend,

you just need to finish exams
hahahahaha
i know it's a long way away.. but once you're done! trust me... you'll feel a lot better =(

being direct

"One productive day is always followed by an unproductive day" - Lillian Leung

Day one. 9.5 hours at DC library
Day two. sleeping and rolling around
Day three. playing and eating
Today. it was gloomy outside. that's my excuse

starting to feel the stress

i need a car..

because i got timmies today and the coffee was BURNT!
the only close enough alternative is williams which is mad expesnvie...