random thoughts

i don't own an umbrella. probably not a good idea considering on monday, i was drenched after walking home from the bus stop which takes no more than 3 minutes (no exaggeration). i was thinking, though, today that if i had the technology, i'd attach a tracking device to an umbrella and give it to someone who was being drenched by the rain and tell them to pay it forward. i'd try to see where and how fast the umbrella travels - are people as nice as i hope them to be?



i really like the song's lyrics - "can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars; i could really use a wish right now"

ottawa photos

tunney's pasture in front of brooke claxton building - database training


national art gallery... i dont' really.. like this piece....


canada day breakfast - sausage, scrambled eggs, fried peppers and mushrooms topped with cheese and a multigrain piece of bread with nutella! oh nomnomnom


such tourists! in front of our parliament


this apparently never burns out!


more of parliament


our view for fireworks - quite awesome actually


walking home at night

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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