HG Nail Polish!!!

I have been looking for this nail polish for the longest time... OPI in Metro Chic!!!

This colour looks really boring and ugly in the bottle, I must say. I would never consider even picking this nail polish up. However there's been many raves for this nail polish and it was sold out everywhere before. So it got my interest. I swatched it at Sephora and instantly fell in love, definitely looks better on than in the bottle! The name totally suits it -a subway metro shade but at the same time totally chic and sophisticated. Too bad it was sold out there too, so there was only trial bottles left. I found out the day they restocked and grabbed myself a bottle!!! So excited!!! -I know, over a bottle of nail polish. Seriously if I had to wear one nail polish shade for the rest of my life. This would be it.

I also bought 8 polishes in the last week, but ofcourse incomparable to Metro Chic. Probably going to pick up some more cheap nail polishes at CNE this week. My collection is ever increasing, I guess I'm gonna do a giveaway soon.

Here again.

So I finished my last exam. YAY TIME FOR A BREAK! but not long enough before I have to come back to Waterloo again in 2 weeks for co-op.

But hey, at least it's not a study term. I've had 3 study terms in a row!!! So tired of this bs school work. I finally have some time on my own and I do some things I've wanted to do for a while. Let see by the end of the term, if I accomplished any of them. Just for my reference, probably boring for the rest of you.

Here are some things I have in mind:

• Take 1 course - might as well since I'm in Waterloo probably biochemistry to get the hard stuff over with
• Ballroom anyone? - I really want to learn ballroom dancing. Maybe I'll join in next term but I need a partner!
• Be more active in school - I haven't joined any clubs since first year and I'm third year now! gotta fatten that resume! I need to get back on DECA etc.
• Increase program languages - Yeah I know I'm such a geek but I wanna expand on html, javascript, xml, css, and learn new useful languages. Can anyone suggest any useful popular languages I'll probably need for work. I hope to one day start my own web page one day.
• Driving school - I still don't know how to drive, well I do live in DT Toronto... so really don't need to. but I need to get my g2 and g before my g1 expires!!
• Photography - I've always had an interest in photography but it's such an expensive interest so I never really looked into it that much. We'll see...
• Hit the GYM! or do some yoga? - I really should exercise more frequently, I'm so unfit. I have a hard time running from dc to the bus stop in front of dc. I end up huffing and puffing like a mad woman.
• Catch up with my Asian-ness and watch more dramas - I haven't watched any Asian dramas for a year or 2 because I know once I start I can't stop, and it's no good in the school year. Any recommendations?
• SC SC! - I don't like to play Starcraft but I have to practice. Apparently the guys made bets on who would win an SC tournament between me and Annabelle. The stakes are high, and a lot of money has been laid down. I haven't played SC for so long and Annabelle's been training so much! God damn gotta show the girl who's boss! Plus Ja is going to give me $50 commission if I beat her.
• Read - I honestly don't remember the last time I read leisurely. I mean being in school I feel even guilty to even think about reading a novel, when I should be catching up with chapters of reading in my text book. So does anyone have any good books to recommend?

More to come... these are just a few in my head for now. gosh I still have to eat. I haven't eaten the whole day because of exams!!! gahh

Life in Loo

Living in Waterloo for so long I almost forgot how it was like back home. Being raised in Downtown Toronto, Waterloo would seem very dull in comparison.

I`ve lived here for close to 2 years now and this place is starting to feel more home than my home city. Studying for 3 study terms in a row in Waterloo plus going back to Toronto, at most once a month has really gotten to me. When I actually head back to Toronto, it's like "Oh my god! it's diversity!!". Come on, spending so much time in Waterloo, especially on campus all I see are students everyday, especially Asians. Once I step into the subway there are old people -people of different ages, black people aren't rare, and overall multicultural! Going back home seems more refreshing than familiar.

Right now, it's exam week and I manage to take a break after getting owned by another final. Many sleepless nights, a whole crapload of all nighters since I'm here in Loo. I average out to sleeping around 4am during a week day. Seriously I still have my high school mentality that I can still get things done last minute, and I'm in third year now! Maybe it really takes me to get kicked out of my program to really start working hard! I beg to God, that I able to stay but if I don't I know it's my fault. Once you're in Waterloo, you are smart, well atleast academically. However everyone gets downgraded a level or two. So if you're consider smart before you enter Waterloo, you are now average, or even below. Top student in the school? You're just slightly above average. Actually nevermind... everyone mainly gets downgraded or in rare chances upgraded to average once they enter Waterloo.

Okay back to exam week now, the typical DC-ing (DC = Davis Centre a.k.a Waterloo's social library) that everyone does. The library has changed to be more quiet during exam week though. Gosh exam week is just so dull and boring. I notice I can hardly get work done alone or with people, I can only work when it's the day before. However I found my new study location EIT (aka Waterloo's dinosaur building, yep real dinosaur), there's no reception so you can stay disconnected from the world, while you study. How convenient.

The other day I studied there from like 9pm - 4am. Yes that's right, 4am. And even then I only worked the last 2hrs and somehow managed to A.D.D myself. I don't know, I always walk alone around Toronto at night all... walking through Waterloo campus can sometimes be a little eerie for me. It's just so quiet, you can hear the vents in the restaurants, buildings, everything's just so empty.

But anywhoo... Nayema dropped by my house to head to Mels Diner at 5am. Yep, that's Waterloo -always have buddies that have the same messed up sleeping time as you do.

Walking down University was dead as ever, no cars. Maybe that's why I get a little creeped out here more than in Toronto, at least if I do get raped randomly in Toronto, someone would see.

As boring as my life sounds now in Exam week. Waterloo is actually not as bad and boring as I thought it would be (well in normal days, exam week inevitable). Although I have to admit it when I first got to Waterloo and living in a random dorm room with no one I know around, I was crying on the phone with my mom haha. I never lived independently before and this has made me learn to take care of myself, cook, clean, laundry etc and also managing time (still need to work on it).

Toronto is busy and exciting but Waterloo is more close knit. In Toronto, it's such a large city everything needs to be planned. Whenever you want to hang out with friends you need to make prior engagements make sure everyone's okay with the time, date, and location and you need to figure out what you're doing first. But in Waterloo things just happen spontaneously. I mean Nayema creeping up my house at 5am for food, is a good example of events just happen without needing to always think of what to do because things just happen. Everyone here are students, we all live closeby, not stretches away like in Toronto. And of course you can do whatever the hell you want without parental restrictions -things just feel so liberating here.