date: 1082497556

mood: daunted
listening to:enya – orinoco flow, although

i SO have no time! i want another 4 days to study for my exams. AAAAAAAAAAH!

i hope hesi’s exam went good!

Naigles (1990) presented 2-year-olds with video of event in which rabbit repeatedly pushed duck down into squatting position with left hand while both rabbit and duck making circles in the air with their right hands Some children heard event described as: ‘The rabbit is gorping the duck’. Others heard event described as: ‘The rabbit and duck are gorping’. Separate actions then presented simultaneously on two TV screens and child asked: ‘Where’s gorping now? Find gorping’. Children who heard: ‘The rabbit is gorping the duck’ looked longer at screen where rabbit was pushing duck down. Children who heard: ‘The rabbit and duck are gorping’ looked longer at screen where rabbit and duck making hand circles

date: 1080841290

mood: anxious
listening to:edge 102

thank you brazensix for the previous design.

my mood has changed from pink to grey and i decided to change the design.

life is not bad. stressfull, but i’ll survive.

date: 1079390729

mood:
listening to:

i just spent entirely too much time
going through colors/dresses at neiman marcus
and picking my favs
and THEN ordering them (!!!) (edit: putting them in order from most to least wanted type of thing)
in order of most wanted with reasoning.

enjoy.

pink http://www.neimanmar…splayImage=alternate this is PINK. and cool. and sporty. I WANT!!
pink airy http://www.neimanmar…splayImage=alternate aah just pretty
cool tank http://www.neimanmar…ml?item=prod11300024 so comfortable!
white http://www.neimanmar…ml?item=prod10930093 too cute but i still want.
orange http://www.neimanmar…ml?item=prod11110136 very bright. i dunno where i’d wear this.
black http://www.neimanmar…ml?item=prod10870177 because i can have a similar look with what i have.

oh yes, you don’t want to know prices. $200 and more.
i.e. the tank top is .. $110. and wrap is $260. *sighs*

i like clothing!
previous entry deleted due to repetition

date: 1077546059

mood: so happy
listening to:hits 1035

i’m tanned.
it was very nice.
i have a lot of photographs but no card reader and most of them are on a laptop which i dont have.

my muscles hurt like hell from the horse ride i had last day, but its all good.

i’m tired, but i’m not … tired. all stress and problems are gone. apparently sand is a great healer! :)

i’m going to go prepare for school.
11-12, logic, 12-1 CHINESE, yum, 1-2 computer science, aaaand i’m gonna go home.

speaking of which someone is home so im gonna go talk to them

date: 1074223925

mood: sleepy
listening to:leonard cohen – *

i feel so undecisive. i changed title 4 times. i used a wildcard in song because i keep switching, although its all the same artist.

anyway.
my day… or days.

assignment due in 207, which i diligently ignored for a while, and then with a friend’s help finished. thank you, captain! ;)

im so tired to type and hands are cold

and that would be my number one point.

IT IS SO FREAkING COLD OUTSIDE!!!!!!

whats wrong with this planet? come on, cut at least the poor univ students who have to walk between buildings and subways and busses and be outside every day a slack!

my number two point would be i wore glasses today. i have had huge complexes about wearing glasses for a long time now, cause … well, i got glasses about the same time i moved to canada, to a rather agressive high school so my associations aren’t that good. anyway, i woke up this morning, slumbered over to the bathroom mirror, looked up and realized i don’t look half bad in my old glasses.

so for practice i wore them today to class. i think it made me braver. i was the leader of a small group discussion and even spoke in class.

which brings us swiftly to topic number three.

i love my jlp language acquisition class

she was lecturing for about 1.5 hours, and even more and not for a minute i felt tired, for the first time in my life! i could go on listening to that lecture forever. so much fun! so interesting! aaah i want more classes that cool.

and as a bonus every class we have a 30 minute video! i love the material SO much that i even took notes on the video! aaah im a total geek! but it is SO INTERESTING!!!

ie… when you’re 11 months old and two (to my ear) very similar (to my ear identical actually) chinese words are said, your brain waves register that you hear a difference between them

if you’re 20 months old and a north american speaker (you know, english/american), the difference is already lost on you. your brain waves register no perception.

aaah so neat!
and ther’es stuff about hemispheres, and critical period hypothesis, and second language and its all so neat. i can’t even imagine what else can we study. and… yeah! she keeps mentioning something very cool and then saying “we’ll spend a few lectures on that later”.

WEEEEEEEEEEEee.

date: 1072755835

mood: all mixed up but happy kind of mixed up
listening to:edge 102, dunno what

i went for my last ice cream as 19 year old girl! aaah. i can’t believe i’m turning 20.

it sounds so mature and stuff. this is the decade when im gonna find a job, finish study, hopefully in that order. possibly get married. freaaaky.

scarfy got me the BESTEST gift EVER. its so hot.

http://www.thinkgeek…goodies/lights/59e0/

in blue!

its absolutely INSANELY HOT. and it matches my room like … *drool*. its blue! and silver! and my room is blue and silver!

my parents are gonna have a new years party, and theres gonna be a prize for whoever can guess what it is. mwahahahahaha.

so cool.

date: 1117466688

mood: HEADACHE. kill.
listening to:delerium songs

i’m going to LA in 2 weeks!11!!oneoneone.

date: 1112439975

mood: constant buzz after finishing all the horrible assignments. a+++++++++++
listening to:di.fm euro trance over mac mini. we got 2 win laptops,1 mac mini, and 1 linux box. and a kvm. (google it) and a psp. and a x31. and wireless mice. and lcd screen. and like 10 cellphones. techie heaven!

man, you know, you don’t know life until you had 3 days of insane lack-of-sleep mixed in with horrible nightmares and strange sleeping and waking up and back to sleep patterns, combined with insane assignments and handing in stuff 2/3 days late (who knows how much they’ll take off for that essay), followed by 2 nights of awesome going out with incredible funny, intersting, cool, diverse people who are open to heading to a chinese place at 4 am to get some “cold tea” aka beer served in tea pots. combined with a till-5-am night of drinking after handing in the above mentioned assignments. basically, going to bars and/or house parties is just kick ass. u of t makes you realize life to the fullest. intense thinking, intense work, intense relaxation. life is about the extremes, man.

extremes make life what it is. crash badly, rise highly, and thus crash again, only to come back to the high. that’s how i live my life now, and for what its worth at this 5:51am moment buzzed-on-cold-tea, its awesome.

hell, i bought a shirt today and some stuff from la senza! and make up. new mascara. yay. i can be a girl AND do cs. maybe i’ll fail the cs part, but hey, i can still be a girl. a girl who kicks it with 5 guys and fits in.

man, i wish i realized when i was 16 that life has all this stuff ahead of me. we’re young, and we’re living it up, and that’s how it works.

in other news, tim got himself a psp. what’s a psp? view and weep. i hope to be able one day to just figure that today i want to get an awesome toy and some games for it. or like a camera. cause at this rate, its the same cost.

i’ve been swearing a lot today. i guess it comes from drinking with guys-only for 2 days.

so far:
thursday: drinking with CS people in einsteins.
friday: drinking with CS people @ tim’s place + china town
saturday (yet to come): drinking/eating with maha, scarf, tim downtown.
sunday: ???
monday: PROFIT

[if you get this joke please comment.]

and to wrap up, photos: (just to kill your bandwidth)

modified
unrealized plan of moscow.

ouch!.

canadians were un P.C.!.

date: 1108881080

mood: exahusted from this suppsedly relaxed week, at least it’ll be over soon.
listening to:abba – does your mother know

went to the hospital, taking antibiotics. sinus infections are painful and not fun, don’t get them kids. not fun. blah. midterms.. not ready…

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in other news

this is what happens when olya goes through old photographs. YOU might be next! mwahahahaha!

You’re so hot, teasing me
So you’re blue but I can’t take a chance on a chick like you
That’s something I couldn’t do
There’s that look in your eyes
I can read in your face that your feelings are driving you wild
Ah, but girl you’re only a child

Well I can dance with you honey
If you think it’s funny
Does your mother know that you’re out?
And I can chat with you baby
Flirt a little maybe
Does your mother know that you’re out?

(yes, and an emberassing song to boot too!)

date: 1105687079

mood: irresponsible
listening to:scarf music just in my head cause he aint giving it to me

i hate this country.

now that this optimistic statement is out of the way, i wanted to share my week with you. each day, i had classes starting at 1 (except today, 12, and i was a fantastic loser and was 20 minutes late… i ended up not even finding the room. it wasn’t a class, but a one time tutorial. i presume its not the end of days. otherwise i’m on the ball, more or less. this weekend will show how well i can work, considering i have 4 assignments assigned for next 2 weeks, and a huge essay that i should start preparing for now…). so, yeah, 1. then an hour of class. then an hour break, or 4 hour break, which i invariably ended up spending with profs or studying. after that another 2 hour class, and another break, and then 6-9 class. i mean, you saw my schedule, but all that empty space is filled up in my palm pilot with hues of red, blue and green (i have a 9 color coding system, for classes, meetings, tutorials, h/w preparation, friend meeting, stuff i should do, etc)

yeah, im tired. i guess i am not used to this 9 hours a day of thinking… it sounds like a little, but it feels like hell of a lot more.

so, yeah, churches.

europe is full of churches. its nice in a way, i don’t look at them as a religious thing, but a nice thing of old architecture and silence, and peacefulness aside.
and it seems that each city makes it responsibility to have a church of our lady. i understand mary is a big deal and all, but translated it “notre dame”, which freaks you out quite a bit when you’re not actually in paris and see this sign.

the photo is in luxembourg, by the way. the church is called notre dame. and despite crappy weather that we caught when we went there, the city was soaked through european with charm. over canada, i would take that. even though it was not nearly as nice as other cities (which grantedly, were far warmer, and less grey-weathered).

i’m still not over it. i miss it. i want to leave this place.

oh yeah, and the no words thing? i guess i wasn’t being truthful. but its my blog, so no words just means the photo is the key… i guess… or something. next time it’ll be all silent again.