The inevitable has happened, in which the likelihood of  fellow Waterloonians discovering this journal has increased. Er.
As such,
 

Summary of the past three days since My Return to the Institute of Death:

-The difference between hardware and software in CS100. (our prof, after half an hour of going on about nothing: "and x plus y equals z. The numbers are calculated. And z turns into 0 and is stored in memory. Understand? Now, let us repeat what we have learned so far." Our entire class then groaned in UNISON, and I fell asleep.)

-Learning grade twelve math, first thing in the morning, at the speed of light. Our prof answers her own questions, and we sleep in our comfy, elevated chairs, dead from all our readings the night before.

-Contemplating skipping tuesdays and thursdays in general as ECON102's notes are all available online anyways.

-Realizing that I have instead entered a strange, creepy realm where I just spend all my non-class time READING TEXTBOOKS. Friends? Socialization? What is that? (And strangely enjoying my managerial accounting text so far. I blame this on the impossible hotness of my new accounting prof?)

-According to PSYCH253 (my only elective, the love of my life), loneliness is defined as a combination of shyness, uncertain purpose in life, and low self-esteem.


I do wish I really was a good student, though. I kind of marathoned Merlin on my laptop repeatedly while studying *cough*, and as a result have fallen in love with the way Merlin SMILES WITH HIS EYES ASFGHJKL; and TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN and how Arthur says "Guinevere" all purposefully. EVERYONE SHOULD GET TOGETHER WITH EVEYONE ON THAT SHOW, SERIOUSLY.

CATCHING UP ON JOURNALS. NOW. PROMISE! ♥

Sigh, I have been staring at he computer for 12 hours now, and my accounting marks are STILL not posted. Considering that I only finished half the exam before time ran out, I can get max a 50%, and I need exactly a 50% for my overall average to be 75%, which is the cut-off if I want to stay in the program. SO MUCH STRESS. Yet our prof decides to torture us further by not posting our marks on the day that they are due.

(I failed to mention to my mother that my econ exam was at 9 in the morning, and I woke up at 9:10. Alas, I did manage to finish the exam after arriving late in my pajamas, so there's no harm in leaving this little detail, right?)

Also, BACK FROM THE BAHAMAS. People, go on cruises. THEY TREAT YOU LIKE ARISTOCRATIC GODS. And our housekeeping boy was SUPER SUPER adorable and cute. :D

I've forotten why I hated living at home until Christmas break. "Yun, put on more foundation! Your acne makes you look like a monster" "Stop eating, you are so fat now", "Go sing kareoke! DO IT! Go on the stage now! You don't have a choice!" etc. etc.  University life's a lot less eventful than I expected (though I suspect it's because I ended up in the nerdy overachieving university and mostly interact with competitive accounting students), this is much worse. I don't even want to go back to Waterloo, given how painfully boring my program is (I'm doing well in every course EXCEPT for accounting - that's definitely a sign), but it's probably worse to just stay here.

All in all, an interesting break. Still wishing to run away from my life, but with no directions to follow, again. I'm content, though. That's a good sign right?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 

My day:

1) The Boy has a girlfriend
2) Lost election to the guy who answered his cellphone during the middle of his improvised speech

Alas, maybe reality is quite needed in times like this. I should actually study now; no distractions. :P

p.s. oh, and I just got back from MUSIC100, where our teacher decided to play a series of secular medieval music that all just happeend to be about UNREQUINTED LOVE. MEDIEVAL MUSIC! Oh life, you are too funny.

I just ran an election in front of an entire lecture hall.

tragically enough, it's basicallly a popularity contest, consisting of speeches involving stripping, drinking vodka, and spinning a textbook non-stop for two minutes. And having no focus on the actual work. Kinda like the lj advisory board elections, lmao.

My partner and I managed to get more than a few laughs form our accounting jokes, and one of the 4 pairs competing against us answered his cell in the middle of his speech, so hopefully we got it. They do have a lot more friends, though :S

So yeah. Quite proud of myself. :)

So Canadian television apparently refuses to broadcast anything non-Canadian related, and can't mention China even for a whole minute without bringing up politics. UM, RIGHT, AS IF YOU ARE JUST "PEACE KEEPING" IN AFGANISTAN AS WE SPEAK.

Anyways, so we have been watching NBC non-stop for the duration of the Olympics so far, and I think I have fallen in love with American commercials. They are so enjoyable to watch, wtf.

This is actually the set up of our home: we sit at the table in between the kitchen and the living room so we can more or less watch the television from both rooms at the same time. The living room TV is on NBC, and the other's usually on CBC French channel, as they seem to at least broadcast gymnastics from other countries. At breakfast, all televisions would be put on NBC while we eat so that we can still catch the action while sitting at a round table. In the middle of the table is my father's laptop, for up tot he minute Chinese updates, lmao. He's just so upset that we're barely able to get Chinese footages at all.


Ah, the isolation of living without the Olympic-obsessiveness of China has driven us to this.

My mom and I have pretty much been hopelessly dazzled by Michael Phelps so far (No, seriously, everytime he smiled on camera she'd shout out, "vampire!" because of his teeth, it's hilarious), making "Oooo" and "Wooooah" sounds non-stop everytime he took off his shirt, haha. Thank god it's a swimming competition. Though she did say that he looked more "handsome" in his underwatershots, lmao. We've inanimously decided that all American swimmers are gorgeous.

That relay was insane, btw. The entire team is so endearing too, sigh.

Gymnastics is still the most interesting to watch, of course, and during commercials we mostly laughed at how I'm seventeen, and those tiny slightly-older-than-elementary-schooler Chinese competitors were suppose to be SIXTEEN. 

And we had a few moments like this:

*Japanese guy effortlessly doing a routine on that pommel horse thing*

My Mom: "I want him to fall. Fall!"

*Japanese guy suddenly stops in the process of lifting his legs and slides to the ground like he's going on a coffee break*

SO MUCH FUN. It's probably the most perfect way to spend my last week weeks of summer with my parents before moving to res, ever.

OMG LAST.FM SUCKS. I banned ONE ambient song from Basement Jaxx' similar artist radio - ONE SONG. Because it was vamping unneccesarily. So now it decides to play me Such Great Heights instead. HOW IS THAT EVEN ELECTRO MUSIC OMG. I JUST WANT TO DISCOVER NEW MUSIC, NOT LISTEN TO ONES I CAN SING FROM MEMORY.

I miss Pandora so much. No other internet radio even bothers to analyze the music itself instead of  the genre the artists represent. :( But nooo, stupid american laws decided that international listeners can't access the site. I THOUGHT AMERICANS CONSIDERED CANADA ONE OF ITS STATES, jeez.


Beijing Olympics in 2 days! My dad is pissed off because he took the day off work to catch the opening ceremony, but is going to ahve to miss the first hours driving me to my music history exam. And my mom is just sad that she can't take time off work to catch it. WE ARE A VERY PATRIOTIC FAMILY.

I MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH!! Catching up on my lack of commenting now!

My residence stuff came today. I am now living in South 8 (cell)block of Village 1, and it just so happens that, out of all 20-something blocks, it's the onyl one of two that's completely isolated with no interconnecting tunnels or anything, and the furthest from ALL SOURCES OF FOOD. Winter missions to the cafe (especially during snow storms) will be... well, interesting, lol.

And, because I did not realize the res problem until after they made us pick our courses, I now have 2 courses that end at 9:50 at night, and which point I walk back to my residence in complete darkness in snow. Luckily rapests aren't very active outside in the dead of winter!

I finally watched Narnia. Oh. My. God. Skandar is unbelievably irresistable with his dark, dark eyes and that armor and he gets the most amazing lines in the entire movie (it's completely legal for a 17 year old to lust after a 14 year old right? At least I hope so?), and William was all ANGRY with his ISSUES and like, actually ridiculously attractive in a heterosexual way, and then to top all of that was Ben Barnes. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO FOCUS.

So as expected, I've basically been reading amazing slash RPS the past few days. :P

Bla, I rejected my UfT music offer :( Just in time too, since my flute broke like the day after i rejected it. It's a sign!

School's officially finished as of thursday. Now I wait for my exam results, and it's off to UW next year. Seriously, it's never a good thing when you ahve to tell people that you go to the 'Loo. The Water Loo. I'm not very looking forward to next year.

Anyways, more importantly, I was on CBC radio!!!! Listen to my sad attempt at a docuumentary here: http://www.cbc.ca/outfront/ (scrow down to "Assets and Liabilities" by Yun You Xu and click). It's basically as melodramatic as my lj but I'm getting paid like 900 bucks for it so OH WELL. Plus the NATIONAL WEATHER was broadcasted right after the show, so it was very very exciting.

I should post pictures from prom.

How is summer?????