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I'll write a proper update on my holiday tommorrow or Sunday/Monday at the latest. ><; But for now I have to be quick since I really need to finish up my English ISU. Ugh...it's taking forever. ><***

My last year's resolution:

1. Get a summer job. (I really want to spend my own money and get stuff that I want. - [failed] I went to summer school instead, but wasn't too terrible and meet new people. And besides, it's helping this year since I get to have two spares (one for each semester =D).
2. Stop spending money on sationary if I don't need it. ^^; - [completed] It's true, I didn't buy and new sationary stuff, the only thing that I did buy was a lead pencil, ruler and a pen since I really needed it. Otherwise, I have no more gel pens (I don't really like them anymore =/) that are really useable or it's not a big interest to me anymore. =)
3. Stop spending money on stuff I don't need [working on it] - Realistically, I think I did alright with that since I didn't really buy any new summer clothes, more on winter and I've been alright. ^^; I think so...though I have spent more on food these days. =S
4. Relax and enjoy myself. ^^ - [failed] HA! This is the one is a lie. I've been so tired in and out since the semester started, it's so fuesterating! Grade 12 English is brutal...actually, annotation is brutal.
Anyways, I'm just want to post some resolution for the new year:

1. Make some more time with friends (I really been in and out with them this year...=/)
2. Do well in school so that one of the universities would accept me
3. Be more considerate and kinder to other
4. Spend less money on food (more importantly candy)
5. Write in my journal more often

Now back to English...*grumbles*

I'm so creative with title! =P I couldn't come up with anything terribly special since my brain is still dead from all the annotation and responses. x-x

I still have to do one more, but considering in the past four days that I finished the rough of everything else (with an except of two articles with bin Laden, but it's just a couple of paragraphs =P), it's pretty good. =) I'm happy. =D Too bad I still have to do the essay, I don't think it'll be too hard since my author's style is very distinct and so many of her strageties keep repeating itself over and over (i.e dashes, climaxing sentence, juxtaposition, etc.). Fun stuff. ^^;

I'm so tired these days becuase I can't seem to get proper sleep since I keep waking up to go to the washroom. =/ I don't drink before I go to bed or anything and yet I still keep going. ><; I couldn't go to bed until 2 last night, just lying around in my bed forcing myself to trying to get to bed. I should have just continued to colour code my annotation during that time instead.

Anyways, I'll recap this winter holiday:
We went shopping on the first weekend to Markville. My sister and I went on our own, while my mom and my dad went shopping somewhere else. We walked around til we went to Espirt where they had a sale of 50% all regular priced items! =) My sister bought a really nice scarf for her friend and it was like 60% since we ended up signing up for the Espirt E-card or something like that, so it was an extra 10% off first purchase. =D

I also visited my cousin and it was so nice to see her. =)

It was my sister's birthday on December and she was 18. Gettign old, it was so cold that day so I didn't get to go shopping as much as I wanted to (I think it was like -35C). It didn't matter though, since my dad bought cheesecake home for my sister. =D It was good. ^^ We all loved it and ended up eating like 2 pieces or so. I don't remember, but it was nice. =)

We went dim sum once and my sister's driving is horrible. I know I'm being mean, but it's better than nothing. =P After dim sum, we went to Shoppers to look around and I bought a small tolberone candy. =)

We went shopping later on that week to Markvillie. I felt kinda bad because my grandma didn't know we were going there, she thought we were going to Pacific Mall, so we kinda scared her. ^^; And the weather was terrible going there. It was cold and snowing hard, but we got there safe. =) When we got there though, I saw my English teacher in Jacobs. I was a little freaking out since I wasn't terribly close with my teacher and it was just weird, I quickly told my sister and got out. ^^; It was so weird, I think she was with her fiancee too. I don't know. ^^; Anyways, we ended up buying a CD for my brother (Green Day - Americian Idiot) and my sister bought some lotion for her friend. Then I went to the library to pick up this Friends book, which contains a lot of images and stuff from the past ten years. It was really good and fun to look at. Very long to read though. ^^;

On Christmas I ended up going to my cousin's house to eat turkey. =) My dad brought it over to them and it was good! =D I love turkey. ^^ Then after lunch (we had it a little earlier since I think my uncle had to leave so he'll be missing it) my cousin and my brother end up watching House of Flying Dagger. The movie had a good idea and everything, but the ending is horrible. ><** Otherwise, I thought the plot twist was veyr interesting and the fighting scenes were good. =) During about half way in the movie, we cake to celebrate my "por por" birthday. It was so good! =D Some of the people were playing "mah jong" and I sort of slept (I was tired). Then we used the tiles and played some ghetto Jenga. The loser had to rebuild the whole thing again. It was so much fun, even though I lost at the very begining. We ended up staying for the rest of the day and ate turkey again in the eveing. But I was so stuffed. x-x The "tong sui" was good as always and I watched my cousin play Maple Story.

As well, throughout the first week my dad was renovavting the computer room so then the computer was outside next to the TV. =D But very dirty again. ><** He ended up finishing around Boxing Day, since we moved everythign in then. It's nicer now, but a little bit more colder in the basement. =S

On Boxing Day, my sister woke me up early. >=( We went to Markvillie and I didn't find anything too appealing, since everything seemed more or less the same (since the last time I went ^^. So in the afternoon we went to Jacobs Outlet where the clothes were like 50% off. =O! I bought one new off the shoulder top that I love!! It's such a nice colour too (dark red-ish) and my sister bought a new top too.

I think we also went to Costco that day too. And we bought two turkery (one for my cousin and one for us) since it was for a good price. So we had turkey again a day or so afterwards which wasn't too bad.

When my sister when dim sum with her friends, we went shopping for awhile. My dad bought some new staple for his staple gun at Home Depot and I bought new gloves at Jacobs. We went to "won gok" where we got a new carpet for our basement. =) It's so pretty and we finally have some sort of place to sit in the basement (we rennovated it too). The only problem woudl be that my sister and I were kinda squashed to one side of the car since the carpet was in the way. ^^;

I end up talking to Nick a little eariler this holiday and it was so much fun talking to him. =) There's a lot of things that happened over the past months and I felt bad that I couldn't talk to him longer. One of these days we have to go shopping again. =)

My winter holiday was very simple this time around, but then that's alright. =)

First day back to school and it's not too bad. My teachers were all out of it for the most part, so we didn't do too much aside from Art which we spent a day of doing another lesson of art history, this time on Pop Abstract. It was rather an intense and quite boring class. ><** I like Art History to a certain extent because it is interesting, but some things are rather distrubing. ^^;

On a happier note, my English ISU is due next Monday instead of Friday so we get an extra weekend. =) Which means we get to relax and such, no need to stress out too much for this week and I can finally give some sort of concentration on Calculus. =D

Another happier note is that we got back our English Hamlet Essay that we wrote a while back and I got a pretty decent mark on it. =) So happy becuase I usually do really alright on it, now it's pretty good. It makes me feel that I can do really well.

It's ISU... but oh well. =) I'm really working hard on it, (well...to be honest, I've been slacking becuase I've been ahead of the game =P), and I'm almost done). I still need to write another arguement to my essay, which should one of the easier aspects of it. =) I'm so happy I stayed home and did some of my ISU over the holidays. =D

Otherwise, my days has been very normal, there hasn't been anything special becuase it's all been the same pretty much, aside from the work. There hasn't been anything out of the ordinary, I need to go shopping to STC or somewhere with somebody. I've been somewhat bored out of my mind. ><; I need to do something!

I want to buy a necklace that basically has a charm then have two lines of the chain dangling from it at the bottom of the charm. I just need something unique becuase I don't want another necklace with just a small, "cute" and simple charm. But I don't want one with a thick chain and a huge charm on it. ^^; I find those rather bold and too much. =P I want more clothes though. ^^; I think I have a little bit too much, but I'll see, I want to buy more summer clothes though.

I'll see. =)

It's alright I guess, it looks a lot more professional I must admit, but then I need to make another colour template. I kind of wish they kept it kinda like LJ when they changed it becuase then they would have had the old one backup just in case the people don't like the new style. =/ It's okay, I'll get used to it, I would like it. =)

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Argh...my calender is gone. ;-; I really need a layout for this, I promise I will do it this time around! *is determine*

Finally done my ISU! =) I'm so happy, it's over, it's handed in and mines was the most unique. =P It was rather ghetto, but my little English baby. Honestly, it's so home made while everyone else bought thiers. =/ Nyah, I ended up saving like $2, since I only used bristol board for it. Har har... >xD But the most important part was that I didn't stay up worrying about it and I feel really good about it too since my annotations are alrighit I think.

On a happier note, I did so well in the English BNW first test! =D So good, even though I did little stupid mistakes. I think I can pull off a good mark for English now, if I can just do well on my second test, then I will be much more happier. I think I didn't do as well since it was a little bit more harder than this oen I got back. Hopefully I did.

I haven't been staying for lunch with my friends as much these days becuase I've been going home and watching Detective Investigation II! =D I know, it's old, it's predictable, but damn it's still good to watch. =) I love their plot twist and I adore "yee jai" he's so cute!! =) Too bad right now he's like so depressed and such. I also adore Gigi, even though she's being terrible at the moment. Oh well, she's the most real charcter in this show. Jessie is too jealous type and so full of it sometimes. Oh well. =) I don't like "Guyn Sir" too much, he's reasonable, but sometimes he's just too agressive. His sister is rather ditzy and can be rather annoying. Good show still nonetheless, I think I can watch the whole show before second semester starts. *crosses fingers*

Now I really need to concentrate on Calculus now...so worried about my mark now since I'm doing so poorly, this hands down has to be the lowest mark I gotten ever in high school. =(

Time to shower.

Not really, but from DMB, it had a very interesting topic about how your life changed in five years. It basically ask you the following:

Anyway, in the past five years, how has/have your

1. appearance changed?
2. faith changed?
3. politics changed?
4. definition of "Success" changed?
5. view of "Love" changed?
6. view of "Family" changed?
7. surroundings changed?

I think it's because everyone does change in five years, even if it is minor things, here are my answers:

1. appearance changed?
I'm a little bit more "girly" and I'm wearing more form fitting clothing. I used to be such a tomboy and wear such loose clothing (Large and Extra Large >xD). My favourite store used to be anywhere and particulary Stiches, but now it's more Hong Kong clothing and Jacobs. I haven't changed much as in weight, though I think I'm a little lighter. My hair is definately longer than it used to be though. I'm a little bit more cautious of my body though. ^^;

2. faith changed?
I'm not resligious, but I'm a little bit more aware of other's religion and I would really like to go to church, when I'm a little older with people.

3. politics changed?
I feel so much more inform and more critical. I used to think that it didn't really affect me much and I could hardly care less. Now, I really want to see a difference and I want change and more from my Government. Another thing is that I think that becuase I know a little bit more about politics, it makes me more aware of the world. ^^ World Issues rules. =P

4. definition of "Success" changed?
I'm starting to see a little bit more clearly that it doesn't mean that I have to be a Pharmacist to be succcessful or anything else in the science field since it's' so not me. I think now I'm starting to see success as in being happy and doing what I like. I know I jave to have a job nonetheless, but I've been so lucky to have my parents give me approval to go to an art or fashion school afterwards. =)

5. view of "Love" changed?
Love is something I haven't yet to experience, but then I'm still that hopeless romantic. But I have learn to let things be in my control a little bit more. I learn to be more picker and that school comes first over love...for now. =P

6. view of "Family" changed?
My family has always been very biological, but now I have some really close friend and to me it's my extension. With my real family, I've gotten much closer and feeling much more thankful to have them. I see other people who can't stand or do things totally aganist them (their family) and I realize that there's nothing more closer you can get than your own family.

7. surroundings changed?
I'm not in high school where I'm in a more independent environment and busier too. I haven't really moved much though.

It's interesting.

It just really dawned on me that I'm graduating. =S I got some of the letters to the school I applied to and from yesteryda's group grad photo, it's kinda scary. I don't know, kind of scared now. But hopefully I would be alright.

I'm not that cocky, maybe a little, but meh. I was just estimating my marks for this semester and and this person thought I was cocky. I'm just being optmistic and setting realistic goals for myself, kinda. They were a little high, but hey! I worked hard this semester and I deserve the marks that I'm getting. =P But if I don't get it, I would be dissapointed. Oh well, I won't mind, after this semester I will never have to suffer through Calculus for a long time. Actually...I still have to and I'll probably have a it all year long too now that I think about it. ><** Nooo...I'm planning to take a Calculus course at UofT to help review and I still have my Calculus school to go to ever Saturday. *cries*

I'm hoping to get a 73%-74% for Calculus and beg my way to a 75%, I know it's really cheesy, but then I really don't want to take summer school and why should I have to when I only need 1 or 2%? That's just from my view and many other.

Another thing is that in Art, pretty much all of my art was up this semester with the exception for my Culture Project, but maybe I can get it in. =) I was so embarassed after I hunged up my Expressionism Art becuase someone started to compliment it saying it was "hoa lang ah". =D Espically since it was next to this really nice Pop Art painting. ^^; w00t!