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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