one down

sometimes i wonder how i ever get things done! and more often than not i feel like i let things slip and i just get lazy and "forget" to do things - which really isn't such a good quality to have now is it! do you ever get so caught up with thinking about how things SHOULD be, so much so that you temporarily forget how things actually ARE? i think it's a process of actualisation which i'm yet to "discover". LOL.

okay well enough of that. so you'll be glad to know that i've FINALLY actually completed one assignment. hahah. for a couple of weeks now i had been feeling really weird because it seemed that everyone around me was working so hard, churning out assignments and having tests and what not - when all i've done up til now is write my communication class tasks each week (which i must admit are pretty darn easy). lol. so the assignment was so summarize 2 articles and write about how they connect. sounds simple enough right..? WRONG! lol. the catch of the assignment was that both articles were roughly 2000-3000 words long, which in total gives you 4000-6000 words to summarize. and worse - the word limit for the assignment was only 750 words!! how stupid huh. lollll. so basically, you had to summarize each article in 300 words, and then spend 100 words on showing the connection between the two. AND the professor for this unit is extremely well read, and i have a feeling he expects a "higher" standard of analysis. so anyway, after thinking about the assignment (it had a rolling due date hence the flexibility), for the longest time - i sat down, and just churned it all out. hahhaha. here's a little exerpt:

'These two articles were printed in the New York Times and were part of the series, ‘Class Matters’. Both articles make similar judgments about the prevalence of the class structure in American society and the implications of status and wealth upon the education and healthcare systems... The widening gap and disparity between the rich and poor is accentuated by both articles as they similarly conclude that class status predetermines access and equity to both education and healthcare in American society.'

hahaha. sounds fun right? LOL.

okayy. next topic! haha. i forgot to post up some pictures from sunday, when we went out to spadina [chinatown] for dim sum. =) i made some pretty funny observations and discoveries too hey. =p enjoy!


me with the FIRST HALF of the food =p


the girls: sarah, andrea, xinying and carolyn. yes.. i'm the one taking the photo. haha.


nice and pricey. NOT. lol. but we did manage to plough our way through a tonne of food. kekeke =p


look! =p this is just ONE aisle of like... the 10 or more. hahah. the chinese shops here are soooooo much bigger than the ones at home! hahah. AND i gotta admit, i felt so at 'home' once i was in there hahah. weird huh.


remember these??? hahahhaha! brings back memories hey! =p i swear that i grew up on these. hahah. and plus there's the whole gold-moment-memory of having to run them under water because they were just sooooo sour! hahahah. =p

funny huh. =p i think that chinatown is probably gonna be one of the top things that i miss once i'm back home. hahah. there's just streets and streets and streets of azn grocery men shouting, market-style shops with super super cheap fruits and vegies, overcrowded stores packed full of pirated vcds and dvds, and not to mention the tantalizing chogie food!! it's all just so authentically blended together and compacted into it's own district! beautiful. absolutely beautiful. hahaha. =)

alrightey! i'm off - got a tonne of work to get through and i gotta make up for time lost on our lil shopping outing this arvo. hahaha!

byee!

-pheebs.