Home Stretch

Things I would like to talk about but either do not have the time or patience to do so:

1. The likelihood of me graduating earlier than I expected and suddenly afraid of what comes after graduation.

2. Finally doing something worthwhile with my spare time and trying to get the most out of college- Getting an internship

3. Being retrospective of the relationship I had with Eamon and how insensitive I was to others

4. Hoping for the best with Alex

5. Being ridiculously poor yet living way beyond my means and feeling extremely guilty about it

6. Dealing with the last week of school and then finals and having to deal with 18 credits every quarter till the summer

7. How my career goals have changed dramatically (no big business!)

8. How I feel that teaching children would be rewarding (Teach for America/New Teacher Project)

9. How I hope my parents will support and be happy for me considering I refuse to work for a company for the sake of making money

10. How it is fun to drink and socialize and dance(in that order)

11. The substantial weight I've put on in the last year and how my appetite has gone through the roof!

Are any of these topics particularly interesting to you that you would like that I address? I will take requests.

Eating Poop

Mrs Whyte scooped up what she thought was compacted chocolate, but by the time she realised it something other than ice-cream, it was too late.

“The minute I put the spoon to my lips, the stench went through my nostrils. I retched and spat it into the napkin,” she told Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

She said one of her sons screamed at the hotel staff: “you’ve made my mum eat poo”.

You know how I feel about poop related business.

On why I want a cat (again)

On getting exercise tips

According to my mom, I shouldn't eat "dunking donuts", instead I should opt for fresh fruit. While I understand what she means by this (although slightly off content-wise), the situation wouldn't be as weird if she had not segued from having my brother "off her list" for not calling anymore. At this point there is no doubt that my conversational skills are hereditary.

My mom and I talked about how I have been eating a lot more lately, attributed to my newfound interest (or epiphany) in cooking for myself. I had mentioned that I feel like I have been gaining weight and she responded that I should 1. stop eating rice (which she has mentioned many times when she had taken notice of my growing ass) and 2. in lieu of riding my bike, I should "jump around" my apartment as a form of exercise. These alternative means to losing weight/exercise seem to be doing wonders for her. Apparently, her recent weight loss is a direct relation of her dancing with my niece, Reena, when she babysits. There are more helpful guidelines to my diet but I will save you the ridiculousness of it all. You know how parents are.

Aside from me gaining weight and my impending weight loss regimen, I feel overworked from school. For example today I had a Operations Management midterm, tomorrow I have a Finance quiz and will be on campus till 8pm, Friday I have a Chinese quiz, a group meeting for a Finance project and another group meeting for I BUS and finally (not really), I have a Chinese test on Monday. For the next three weeks, my schedule will probably resemble this structure. How would I have ever survived with a part time job? I realize that this workload is probably a piece of cake for some but still, is it really necessary to constantly test our intelligence and dedication to the subject matter? Do our teachers really not trust us?

Probably not, considering that I spent a good amount of time replacing words with "cock", "penis" or "vagina" or making any sort of reference to sex or blowjobs at the end of sentences, as well as drawing penises on the pictures on Tom's notes in class today*. I am probably a decent model for how our teachers do not trust our dedication. And I want to be a teacher...

Which brings me to how I also spoke to my stepdad about my prospective internship this summer. In the end, I am guaranteed an internship in either Singapore, mainland China or Taiwan in some kind of hotel. While this is great considering I don't have to actually compete for a spot, I haven't broken the news about how I hate big business and would rather do nonprofit/education work. Then again, I still need to do an internship in order to graduate with a CISB degree. It's tough!

I mentioned my work intensive week but I am doing nothing to relieve any (future) stress, like studying or doing research. This is what I am doing- eating hot Cheetos, sitting in my underpants, listening to music and planning on reading some comics. This is what I want to be doing- writing my essay for that China essay contest, applying for internships that I would enjoy, have time to read the new comics and magazines I bought and eating more chips.

On Being Able to Handle Six Hours of Straight School

My Winter quarter is as follows:

Monday through Friday:
10:30-11:20 CHIN 303 3rd Year Non-Heritage Chinese

Mondays and Wednesdays:
12:30-2:20 MGMT 320 Business, Government and Society
2:30-4:20 B ECON 300 Managerial Economics
4:30-6:20 MGMT 300 Organizational Behavior

Thursdays:
6:30-7:50 I BUS 491 CISB Seminar

Those business classes sound terrible. Let us hope I don't get lazy with all that free time during the rest of the week!

Silly Chinese Characters!

凹 - ao(1)- To Concave

Can you believe that is a Chinese character? It's ridiculous!

In other words, I hope good things come out of today. Do you?

On Posting Explicit Content

I briefly posted two images of some of the "doodles" I drew in class but removed them because I felt that they were a little too controversial in material. I felt like it had the potential to compromise everything that I had worked towards (such as my reputable citizenship) so I decided against it, especially if I had mentioned in the previous post that I wanted to be a schoolteacher. At the same time, I don't think you would understand the humor in some of these drawings. However, I think that these images are some of the best works of art I have ever produced. I get some of the best material when I'm in class. So my solution is if you would like to see it, I will gladly email it to you!

Here is a sample of what you will receive-



I believe it is an accurate representation of myself, encompassing both my physique and worldly talents, something that is not easily done!

There is more where this comes from, and uncensored too!