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January 24, 2012

Look Who It Is

A lot has happened since my last post. I always forget that I have a blog here too since I post at several different places. I managed to pull through with the long semester and surprised myself with pretty good grades considering how much trouble I had with it. While I was doing that, I managed to get a co-op job! I was so relieved when they called me and offered me a position here. (Right now I’m at work waiting for the server to co-operate and load the screen!)

So I’m taking an eight month co-op term working here and I’ll be back in school in September for the last two semesters of my diploma. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing after that, but that’s next year and I’ll worry about that later.

At the same time during that too, I bought an iPhone 4! I really wanted one especially since I’ll be commuting to and from work which is over an hour long each way. I needed the music and the apps and the TV shows.

As usual, you can find me at BCIT’s MyLife Student Blog where I’ll talk about my experience at school or at work.

I have also updated my movie list from last year. I managed to hit 100 movies for the first time and ended the year with 111! The last movie before the year ended was Moneyball.

I made a new list for this year. I’ve seen 3 movies this year. I’m sad that Tinker Tailor Solider Spy didn’t get nominated for an Oscar, while Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close did. I won tickets to an advance screening so at least the movie was free. It was definitely way too long and could be much shorter (2 hrs and 9 mins). Mission Impossible 4 was actually really good so I’m glad we picked the right movie to watch. The downside to both these movies was that both times I had the person behind me kicking my chair. First it was a man and his long legs. Second it was a woman my age and every time she jumped from a scene, she’d kick my chair. THANKS.

I also made a list of books read this year. I’m trying to get 50 this year since I don’t have school for the first part of the year. Right now I’m at 3. My current book is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It’s quite long so it might take me awhile to get through it.

That’s all for now :)

My breakfast on Sunday at Pearl Drops

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November 2, 2011

Bend and Not Break

It’s a new month. Finally November. Even though it’s an arbitrary line that says we’ve entered a new month, it is a new start in my mind.

Despite the last few weeks being the most difficult time in my life (wish I was exaggerating, my life had been really calm before then), it is a huge learning experience of how to juggle all these things and still make it out alive.

The next month and a half will not look pretty, but staying positive will help me get through all these assignments and exams and I will leave this semester in one piece. They did warn us that this semester will be hectic, but I never imagined it to be this crazy.

I have been bent, but not broken. And there’s nowhere to go but up.

PS: You can find me on the BCIT‘s image slider! We’re still kicking around at the end of those images. I’m the Chinese girl on the right hand side!

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October 10, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving to My Canadians! + E-Portfolio News!

I’m already thankful for the long weekend. It is a nice break to just rest and move at a slower pace for just a day or two. With this time, I worked on creating my e-portfolio. It really looks simple and straight-forward, with some things still missing such as a skills section and what not. But I still managed to get a lot of the information up.

I also managed to write about the workshops I attended last week with the Peak Leadership program from BCIT. I attended two workshops: Personal Branding and E-Portfolio. You can read up on that at my portfolio. I think that site will mainly focus on more professional things that occur in my life, whether it is workshops or conferences or such that I attend.

I’m still debating if I should have my picture up. I’m not sure if it leaves a good or bad impression with employers or whoever looks at it. But then with one look at my name, they already know I’m Chinese and female. So…

Also, I got published! Well, it’s in my school’s newspaper, but still. It is actually something I also put in my portfolio, under a section called Publications. Since my school’s newspaper website is still not really up and functioning yet, I managed to screencap the PDF of the issue and posted it there instead.

I wish I have more photos to post, but it seems like I have zero time for the post-production of any pictures. I don’t mind taking the pictures with my camera, but the hardest part is transferring them onto my laptop and editing them, even if it is a really simple procedure. I rather spend the time working on my assignments!

Fingers Crossed with the Co-Op front. I haven’t hit the point where I’m worried about it yet. I will reached that point soon and I’ll start applying to all the jobs. Right now, I’m still applying to a lot, but mostly the ones where I’m really, really interested in.

Hope everyone had a great long weekend!

P.S.: Despite not having a Thanksgiving dinner this year with my relatives, it turns out we end up buying a tiny portion of Chinese-prepared turkey. It’s pretty salty, so I’m not sure how much I’ll enjoy that.

I have the Canucks game PVR’d. I didn’t even watch the Season Opener! I was busy at school working on fixing the final question in my Database assignment.