Wednesday, February 29, 2012

College Year 2: Day 60

Well its already Wednesday! With a blink of an eye! Yes absolutely! I woke up quite late today, nearly at 10:00am. Had to crave for noodles, but hell its green and it just makes me sick to my stomach!

At 11:00am, I left the house for school and arrived at 12:00pm. Since I had to return goalie equipments to a friend, I waited at the cafe for him. I almost ran late to class as I barely made it to my class in time before 12:30pm.

In class today, we lectured on Brezhnev and his power in the Soviet Union as well as Sakharov, Prague SPring 1968, the fall of Gomulka and Alexander Dubcek. We also got our annotated bibliography back. I got 8/10 on it :) Now its time to A grade my essay as well!!

After class I went home to have a little snack before watching my dramas. Later I went to do some research for my essay, had dinner, followed hockey, showered, did my readings and now blogged!! Time to sleep!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

College Year 2: Day 59

So its been one day since the Hodgson trade, things was normal again. Well, at least for me! Woke up at 8:30am instead of regularly 8:00am.

Had fried rice instead and then later got a ride to the Canada-line station to school! Arrived 15 minutes ahead of time and I basically just sat outside of my classroom until it was time.

In class today, we lectured on Education in Japan. As far as I'm concerned, the Japanese school system is quite a complicated process due to many levels of schools that students had to attend in order move on. We also watched a video on kindergarten schooling system. Lots of inappropriate scenes, if it was in North America.

After class I went to the Cafe to buy Triple O's to eat. Knowing I'd be starving to death by dinner time, I'd decided to get full first! After I ate, I went to the library to kill some time before heading into my History class.

We lectured on Stalin + Hitler and the second world war. Moreover the Nazi Soviet Pact as well as Operation Barborossa!!

After class I went home to eat dinner, didn't watch the game but got play by play update! Hated what happened in the end, but whatever. I'll take matters in my own hands now!!

Now its time to sleep!

Monday, February 27, 2012

College Year 2: Day 56

I will keep this post short. Only because it was a rough day and I have no interest in writing so much about it. Basically my day was pretty much paying to the brutal NHL Trade deadline and attended class.

Too bad Cody Hodgson was traded away, among all players. Now Canucknation is all pissed off at Mike Gillis! Well on paper, Buffalo wins this deal but it seems like both teams got what they needed so I don't really know! What do you think?

Sunday, February 26, 2012

TVB Drama Review: Let It Be Love

Well as you can see, the title kind of gave away what the series is all about. Yes its a love/romance drama series, not that I don't like it, it was pretty darn good!

The show featured Moses Chan ( 余鎮東/Andy), a long time fan, Charmaine Sheh ( Chloe), a superstar, later on became Moses's husband, Kenny Wong ( Cyrus) a sports news reporter, Elvina Kong ( Kelly) a news reporter later becoming Cyrus's boyfriend, Rachael Kan ( Hayley) a lawyer, King Kong ( Nick) a financer who is later Hayley's boyfriend in the end, Wai Ka Hung ( 鍾炳良) a Tobacco control inspector and Tracey Ip ( Elsa ) who is the Corporate affairs officer and is Wai Ka Hung's girlfriend later.

Basically, the show revolves around these 4 couples but they don't get together until the last couple of episodes. Moses and Charmaine first met when Moses was in the hospital and Charmaine went to visit him due to his dedication for her. Since that, they have been together and their relationship builts up. Eventually, Charmaine announces on television that she will marry Moses. Although conflicts do occur later in the show, especially about Charmaine filming while naked and Moses had objections to it, they separated for a while and later got together in the end.

As for Wai Ka Hung and Tracey's part, by far my favorite couple in the show, they both met inside a hospital while in wheelchair. They met when Tracey wanted to watch TV but an old guy was being ass about it and wouldn't let her and Wai Ka came to help her. Eventually they realize they both like one show that they both happen to watch and would talk about it. Later on, they both will meet much more and eventually get together after Tracey breaks up with her boyfriend and Wai Ka breaking up with his old girlfriend.

Funniest couple would happen to be Rachael Kan and King Kong, who basically met at the bar, because King Kong spends pretty much his free time after work at the bar and meet girls. King Kong in the show has problems with losing hair and after getting to know Rachael, she decides to help him with financial things and let him be her client. He did attempt to seduce her at times and none bigger than the fact he tricked her with a friend and got laid for a short while until she found out and pissed off at him. But things later resumed back to normal and in the end they still end up being together. Best quote from him I remember was when he yelled at the waitress to not distract him, because he publicly announced how he would be able to get her to go to bed with him if he can't talk to her properly!

By far my least favorite couple of the 4 group is Elvina Kong and Kenny Wong, who both works as news reporter. Those 2 kept mentioning about relationshiop problems as Elvina tries at first to hook up girls with Kenny and report back to her. Pretty useless. Those 2 won't get together until in the last episode when the UFO appeared and he found her and took her with him! How boring!!

I must say, this show is pretty serious but funny at the same time. Lots to learn about relationship, but I guess relationship is something you learn as you experience. Tips are useful but experiencing is very important!

Overall: 8.5/10!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 19 Recap

Woah, this week ended already! Thank goodness. This was pretty ugly, way too many struggle to gain advantage on everyone else. Just 3 more weeks to go until the playoffs!! Definitely will be great!

In my NHL League, I played Team Justin, previously defeated on the New Years Eve Week. This time I managed to beat him 9-5, although had lots of struggles between my players' NHL club. Niemi was pretty terrible this week, with the injury of Cam Ward, I've lost an option of a goalie to start. I also happened to trade Jeff Carter away from superstar defencemen, Nicklas Lidstrom. Its fine, because I still managed to reach 200 Faceoff wins!! Starting tomorrow, I will be playing Team Top Ten AKA TTT. I'm not sure if I really need to play my players because I'm pretty sure I will beat him with ease. I still lead the league, but I just don't understand how I'm still 1st, when I'm only leading by 13 points and Team Captain finishes this week, 1 point more than my lead over him. 17 categories in total, I lead by 13 points. I won 9-5, he won 14-1. Win difference = 5 categories, = 10 points + he has fewer losses by 4 which gives him an additional 4 points, making it 14 points! Although I will check tomorrow!

In my VCanucks2012, I played Team Infineon Novellus. Due to the struggles of the Sharks and Niemi, I lost but barely loss in the bitter end. Lost 7-6. Its pretty annoying to lose against him, considering his team practically sucks ass! Well, I dropped back to my desired 2nd place while Team HKL is first, for beating up the last place team, 15-2. Well, I don't know if I've clinched a playoff spot yet, I will assume so, even if I lost by 1. If I haven't, I will for sure secure it by next week, latest!!!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

College Year 2: Day 58

Well I must say its a gorgeous day today! Love the brilliant weather and such. I woke up at 8:10am and slowly packed my stuff and went to eat. Though I left the house at 9:15am which was way beyond late for me as I usually leave at 9:00am instead, only because I had make sure I get a download link going for my dramas.

I arrived at school at 10:15am, way beyond late for my schedule. I went to my Asian studies class and we finished lecturing on Religion and supernatural phonomenon things. In my opinion its more of Japanese superstition, like myself! And this is what we had to discuss as well!

After class, I picked up goalie equipments from a friend at the cafe and then went to hand in money for gym rental at Kensington, then I bussed to McDonalds to eat and bussed back to school, just in time for my History class to begin.

In class today, we lectured on the show trial and purges in which Stalin purged many people that he thinks would be a threat to this political views! Later on, we spend the rest of the class watching Battleship Row, the movie.

After class, I went home to watch the Canucks game. I was already 1-0 Detroit, but after watching the rest of the game, Canucks finally snapped Detroit's 23 home winning streak! Pretty proud of my boys here, but they have a game tomorrow in New Jersey, but whatever!

Later I had dinner and then rested for a bit before watching my dramas, took a shower and now blogged! Time to sleep!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

College Year 2: Day 57

A pretty gorgeous day today unlike yesterday where it was raining like a bitch. I slept like I was dead until 10:00am today. Got dressed up in good form and went downstairs for breakfast.

Typical Wednesday which my dad has no work which we had to eat rice. Oh well I won't complain. After breakfast I left the house for school. Arrived 15 minutes ahead of schedule. I then sat around until 12:15pm before heading into my history class.

Today, we lectured on the Vietnam war and the Richard Nixon era. Basically the Americans lost the war because they had no idea where enemy was and they didn't know what they were fighting for. More Americans troop dies in the war than the enemy itself.

After class, I went home to eat something first and watched my drama before doing my readings and had dinner now blogged!! Time to sleep!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

College Year 2: Day 56

I must say it was a pretty shitty day today. Weather was pretty darn bad because it was raining pretty much the whole day but stopped at times.

I woke up at 8:30am, knowing I don't need to take the bus to the station. Had sandwich for breakfast, but of course it wasn't enough to last until 4:30pm. I left the house at 9:30am and took the skytrain to langara 49th and walked to campus.

I sat for 15 minutes by my classroom until 10:20am before heading into class. While in class we first got our midterm back and our latest quiz. 26/40 on the midterm and 11.5/20 quiz. Oh well! We spend rest of the class lecturing about Japanese religion.

After class I went to the library to kill time before 2:00pm and then went to my history lecture. We lectured on Arts and cultures in the Soviet Union. As well we were shown some art works.

After class I went home to get updates on the Canucks game and then had hot pot dinner later. Pretty bad day for hockey. Everything went wrong but luckily Phoenix won which I will say could be the turning point of this week!

Monday, February 20, 2012

College Year 2: Day 55

Well, school resumed right after a one week reading break! Although I pretty much spend my break doing my annotated bibliography for my two history classes.

I woke up at 9:00am this morning and packed my stuff ready to go to school early. I had macaroni and had 10 minutes to eat because my mom had to leave soon! We left the house at 9:40am and I arrived to school at 9:55am.

I pretty much spend the whole time in the library reviewing my history notes for my midterm which occurred at 12:30pm today. The midterm wasn't really that hard considering I pretty much got the answer to most questions. The essay wasn't really that bad, we had to write about the cooperation of the Soviet Union and the United States. Prediction 19/25.

After the exam, I went home to watch my dramas and ate something. Later, I just went to look over my Asian studies notes and talk to a few friends about hockey!

Had dinner later, then showered and now blogged!

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 18 Recap

First time I was pretty darn late to blog about this only because I had to prepare for my midterm all the day yesterday and didn't have time to blog about week 18

In my NHL League, I played Burnaby Thunder last week and after many back and forth trading huge lead, I managed to sweep the season series with an 8-6 victory. My goalies weren't all that great but was good enough to capture enough of the categories to preserve this win. His skaters definitely was better than mines by a bit. But it was still not enough to beat me. I managed to preserve being 1st and I'm the first team to clinch a playoff spot!

In my VCanucks2012 league, I played Team CanuckLegend who currently ranks dead last in the league. While his goalies was spectacular, I managed to capture almost all of the skaters categories, giving me a convincing 11-4 win and now tops the league for the first time this season! My players had timely points which helped me preserve this win. Starting today I will be playing Team Infineon Novellus.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

TVB Drama Review: L'Escargot

Well, sorry to be late for this but I didn't have the mood to blog about this since I was pretty exhausted for the past few days at the wrong time.

Well I finished the drama: L'Escargot, which featured primarily Michael Mui and Sonija Kwok as husband and wife. Pretty much this drama featured these two characters trying to seek a place where they could settle rather than having to live with their other family members at a very small apartment place.

Michael's job was to renew houses and apartments by replacing doors, windows, and many other house objects with his master and other crew members. Until one day, Michael Tse ( Ko Wang Chim) a very rich Estate Agent had an order for the group to work his house. After appreciating his work he admires him and those 2 get along.

The show didn't really turn out to be great until Michael's younger brother got scammed after he ordered products and owed $600,000 in debts. Michael's younger sister's boyfriend, Ron Ng ( Ting Koon Fung ) tried to help by gaining money from buying stocks but eventually crashed and then owed $300,000 in debts, making the situation much worse. However by then, Michael already was had a secret crush on Linda, Ron's girlfriend therefore he stepped in and easily repaid all their debts. At the cost of Linda agreeing to go to bed with him which she didn't have a choice of.

Because of this, Ron later found out, freaked out and decided to end the relationship. Eventually Ron gets another girlfriend who happens to be Michael Tse's younger sister, JJ Jia ( Joyce) who is a very shy girl and stutters a lot. Ron at first just wanted to piss off his former girlfriend which did happen but Ron decides to continue on his relationship with her.

On the otherhand, Michael continued to pursue Linda while Linda is very reluctant to do so but most of the times she didn't have a choice but to let him help her and such on. This eventually triggered a problem with his original wife, Joyce Tang ( Lee Man Wah ) who was being very suspicious and decide to follow them only to find out it was Linda herself.

After having a talk and slap in the face by her in the later episode, she decides to divorce him which Michael didn't want to. Until she loses her baby at the same time had her friend to close out all the sponsor that Michael gets money from, to his company he realizes its time to stop.

Because he ordered his crew members to get people to cut powers off from the apartment building that they decide to hold back, it caused a fire accident which caused several deaths. Michael later went to turn himself in as he holds responsibility for the accident. Which his wife later forgives him.

Moral lesson for this show: Cheating is very wrong. Stay loyal to whoever is with you! Don't be so greedy!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 17 Recap

Week 17 is finally done. I can't be upset about it, actually it was pretty good. I guess its because it went according to how I wanted it to be. Well here it is.

In my NHL League, I played Team BieksaAllent, on a week I had no intention of winning but still tried not to lose purposely. Well I got what I really wanted. I did end up losing 10-5 for him. His team did put up an excellent performance, skaters put up 55 points and his goalies was amazing! Good effort! Too bad its still not enough to reach what I wanted. I guess my lead in the standings is too much and will take a more blowout loss to get pulled back down! Starting tomorrow I will be playing Team Burnaby Thunder, trying to sweep the season series against him. Hopefully when I beat him, it won't be a blowout!

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played Team Patrick, AKA my Arch-Rival team also the team I hate the most. Both of our skaters produced exceptionally well! The difference was that my team was able to produce a little more as well my goalies was far better this week! I managed a 12-4 win and moved 2 points behind him before I dethrone his first seed spot that he had been holding for a long time now! Tomorrow I will be playing Team CanuckLegend, the worst team. Pretty sure I will topple Patrick after this week! As long as my team is decent enough!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

College Year 2: Day 53-54

I didn't blog yesterday because I had to prepare for a midterm which occurred today. I woke up at 7:00am today because I wanted to get to school a little earlier. I felt tired so after this I'm going to sleep!

I had rice for breakfast, something not unusual when my dad has no work. After that, I got a ride to school from my mom. Since I was quite early, I spend time at the library studying.

At 10:00am I went inside my classroom to study and had the exam right away. It had an essay about Hikikomori and matching as well as multiple choice. The whole midterm was 1 hour long, in my opinion wasn't long enough so I didn't have all the time to put in a great essay. Prediction: 24/40.

After the midterm, our class went to the main Voyager for the Asian Studies event. There, we get to explore things as well as get free food. Pretty cool, I stayed there for a good 45 minutes before leaving for the library. While at the library I was surfing the net for the next hour or so before entering my History class for seminar.

After the seminar, I went to commerical-granville stn to meet a friend before going back to his place to watch the Canucks game. We also played NHL 12, where I pretty much beat him every game except the very last one!

At 10:00pm, I left to go home, took a shower and now blogged! Time to sleep!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

College Year 2: Day 52

Another day just ended today. Since I need to sleep soon I'll just quickly go over my day. I woke up at 8:30am with the exception I get a boost to the Canada-Line station without taking the bus!

Left the house at 9:30am and arrived to school at 10:00am. I just sat outside by my classroom door until the other class all had left before I went in and waited for my instructor to come.

We finished our lecture on family. We were suppose to start on religion but decided that we shall do it after the reading break!!

After class, I went to the library to study until 2:00pm and then went to wait for my History class to begin. We lectured the 5 year plan, as well as the Great Famine and Stalin vs Trotsky's idea. Where Stalin's idea of an industrial state being self sufficient seem more compatible than spreading world revolution.

After class I went home to catch the Canucks game. But at 6:00pm, I went out for dinner my family and we finished watching the game there. Canucks won 4-3 in a shootout! Another shootout win!

When we got home, we had cake since it was my dad's birthday. Later I finished watching my drama and then now time to sleep!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Hockey Pool Year 4: Week 16 Recap

This week sure lasted for a while! Well its finally over and thank god! I didn't expect myself to blog this early well only because the Superbowl game is later today and all the NHL games are now done.

In my NHL League, I played Team thething, an opponent I couldn't beat the first two times I played him. But this week is much different. Everything went well for me. Scored a season high 52 points. My goalies was also pretty good. I managed to capture most of the categories which I didn't really care if I did or not. Well I managed a 12-4 win over him. I won't complain. I didn't want to be first and with this win, it pushed my lead higher than everyone else!! Tomorrow I will be playing Team BieksaAllent for one last time!!

In my VCanucks2012 League, I played Team HaHaHalak, an opponent I failed to beat in the first two tries. This week I started off really strong and then eventually fell apart but still managed a tight 8-7 win, bringing me back to second place! And now move closer to Team Hugh Jazz. I must say after this week I have developed a hatred for his team, only because his teams are a bunch of flukes who find ways to get back to the game. Its very pissing but whatever I win! Tomorrow I will be playing Team Hugh Jazz. My most hated team, but with a full and healthy lineup!

As for now, I will be worrying about the Superbowl!!!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

College Year 2: Day 51

Well, its the last day of school week for me! Thank god, I'm finally done for the week! Well this morning I had to wake up at 8:00am. I packed for school and went to get a bowl of Shanghai Noodles to eat.

After breakfast, I went to school. Public transit today was pretty bad. I can't believe 2 straight bus in a row came and I've totally missed both. I had to wait 15 minutes for the next bus to come. When I got off, I walked towards the Canada-Line station and couldn't get on the train because it was already ready for take off. I had to wait for another 5 minutes for the next one to come. It was pretty pissing!

I arrived to school at 10:00am and studied my notes for the quiz for Asian studies. We began the quiz right when class began. Surprisingly it was quite confusing, especially her choices of words. I still think I passed. Prediction: 10.5/20. Later we began talking about Japanese families and Social Hierarchy.

After class, I went to the library and spend time inside the computer lab surfing the web to kill time until 2:00pm where I head to B Building, to my history class is held. Since its a Thursday, its a seminar group discussion. We basically went over the discussion questions that we had to take home for readings.

After class, I went home to watch my dramas, had dinner and went back to my computer where I will get updates from a friend on the Canucks game. 4-3 shootout loss to a brilliant Detroit team!

Now time to relax!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

College Year 2: Day 50

The middle of the week just came to an end today!! First thing, brilliant weather! Unlike yesterday's gloomy raining day! It was sunny today!

I woke up at 10:00am today because of my afternoon class. Started packing when got out of bed and then went to eat!

After that, I went to download my dramas and then went to school!! Arrived to campus at 11:55am. I then just sat on the bench outside my classroom before 12:30pm when class began.

In class today, we lectured on the death of Stalin as well as the aftermath of the Soviets and the rule of Khruschev, who publicly denounces Stalin as an evil dictator. He would also start making concessions with the West which allowed people to start having hope for a better life!

After class, I went home to watch my dramas and then finished my response for History. Afterwards, I went out for dinner at a hot pot place. However it wasn't hot pot that we had, but just a normal dinner meal like every other restaurant. Later I went home and now time to prepare for my quiz!