Thursday, November 29, 2007
last call
one more day to the end of the semester. im barely breathing...oral exam, applications, presentation + final term paper...
this is getting so so hard :(
ilovetotwirl at 2:47 PM
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
hell week
its always at these moments; when i am supposed to be going to bed or studying when i have the sudden urge to blog.
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i kid you not about the subzero temperatures. even icicles are forming off the trees on the street
eggspectation! lovely brunch cafe :D
so its finally the last week of school of fall. yet another semester that has gone by over the past 13 weeks in a whirl. im so glad to be back in ithaca though; travels to lake placid and montreal have been like a visit to moscow. it was so cold in lake placid that a whole thin layer of ice formed over our car (think igloo) and in moscow, the winds + snow was horrible and was reminsicent of the crazy snowy weather of ithaca in february. coming back, having to experience 0-2 deg celsius of cold doesn't seem so much like a bad idea after all.
montreal is such a paristan city. i love love love the french food. we had days and days of 3 course meals + lovely brunch which has definitely done severe damage to my wallet. i have to admit that i havent been keeping track of my expenses at all this semester and im already broke even though school's not out and my dad did allocate me extra money to save on at the beginning. :(
aside from the little digression, i am really psyched that some things have finally gone underway. my internship for winter may have been pooped but im finally getting somewhere with a summer one. i'll be heading down to the city after finals (yays!) and hopefully get to shop + watch the nyc ballet perform george balanchine's nutcracker :) soo happie about it. and today a kind alumni has offered to host me for a day at her firm on Wall Street. im keeping my fingers crossed that everything will fall into place. to think that i wasnt even planning on going down to the city this time round but guess now i have a reason to shop in NYC!
somehow this week is going to be intense (oral exam + driving test + final project + elections + info sessions....) and i wonder how im going to be survive it. good thing there's the frat formal to look forward to :) and meanwhile, i think i should just end it here and crawl into bed and keep wondering how my school life could ever get so hectic here.
okay im really should be snoozing now. i'll prolly get back to more photos from my trip when i have the time. ciao.
ilovetotwirl at 10:29 PM
Saturday, November 17, 2007
pathetically poor
Its 8.34pm and I'm sooo hungry. I haven't had anything since pecan pancakes in the morning. And I'm so pathetic because there's no one at home and I don't have enough cash (only dimes and pennies) to order takeout thai salad. I really should start complaining to my mum about this lifestyle I'm leading which has reduced me to a maggi-mee-dinner-girl due to the lack of time for once, money. This is so not right :(ilovetotwirl at 5:34 PM
Sunday, November 11, 2007
if every weekend could be like that
How nice it would be if I had the luxury to live like that everyday; waking up at 12noon, lazing around till Brunch. Order my favorite scones at Just a Taste and then head back to do menial stuff like grading and Japanese homework (while watching desperate housewives) instead of cramming for a prelim or getting stressed about papers and applications. And of course, have the (new) toasty heater blowing hot air at my toes and then watching violin performances on youtube.I'm so glad I'm done with prelims! :) I've been cooking everyday to celebrate my new found freedom. On Friday, we had chicken rice with kangkong, and then yesterday it was Guo tie with Ornee. I was so bo liao I actually bought yams, steamd, peeled and grinded them and made them into yam paste. The yam here tastes different though; my Ornee tastes abit wierd and I wonder why :( Later its going to be wonton mee dinner and Haemul Pajun! :D
It has been really really really cold all week and yesterday it dropped below freezing point. It was so cold that the grass patch outside had turned crunchy from all the ice forming on it and our steps were extremely icy. Slipped and fell while wearing those heels running down the steps because I failed to realize how treacherous it was :( how embarassing. The party was good though, there was a live band and free flow champagne + chocolate dipped strawberries and they played Shakira which was our song. Haha. Partying has become such a treat nowadays; compared to Freshmen semester living with all the crazy girls, I'm such a nerd and I've only been to two fraternity parties this semester.
Now that the stupid prelims are out of the way, there seems to be so much to look forward to. Brunch with LB, taking the 1.5hr drive to Syracuse this Friday, a short school week next week, spending Thanksgiving with ck at Lake Placid and Montreal, going for his fraternity winter formal, and then stupid finals before going home for the holidays.
So happy (: !
ilovetotwirl at 2:29 PM
Monday, November 05, 2007
A day in the life of...
While i am supposed to be doing something more useful (i.e doing applications, finishing up assignments, studying for TWO TWO TWO more prelims), I decided that I should maybe take a breather and backtrack, and see maybe how my typical day (and perhaps life) is heading at the moment.Monday 5th November 2007
[630] alarm goes off; unheard and unbothered. SNOOZE!
[700] realizes that its seven, 30mins into preenrollment. jumps off bed and scurries to the dell laptop.
[710] gets all 4 classes for spring semester easily. looks at clock and decides to zzzz.
[800]bounces off for bed and start thinking of breakfast. realizes its yet another info session day. pulls out business formal attire. (which has been unwashed for the past 3 weeks or so...)
[835] runs downstairs for breakfast. 5 mins good enough for a banana and strawberry cereal. first time in a week i managed to wake up early enough for breakfast.
[905] arrives at Rockefeller. Japanese class begins.
[955] Jap class ends 5 mins earlier than usual. Run to the hotel school to pick up Financial Acct prelim.
[957] Runs to Uris Hall for office hours. Tried talking (in vain) to an almost deaf 80 yr old econs professor about the deindustralization of Singapore. (barely) sourced out relevant information for a term project due later on.
[1035] Walk briskly to Goldwin Smith Hall. Tried looking for a career advisor but was told none was available. Was told to return tomorrow at 1030am . :(
[1105] climb up steep slopes in uncomfy shoes and finally reach Malott. Grab a copy of the Cornell Daily Sun at the cafe along the way. (and think about how cold it is yet again)
[1115] Cognitive science lecture commences. Try not to go off tangent and focus....(and yet again coming out clueless from class)
[1205] Yet another horrible lecture done. Desperately dials for lunch dates. Sadly, no one picks up.
[1215] Decides to brave the cold and walk to the Biz school for a yummy Pesto Chicken sandwich.
[1234] waits in line and think about all the 1001 things to do later, tomorrow, the day after, the day after the after....
[1240] sits down in peace and wishes that no one catches the undergrad sitting in the grad assigned area.
[1248] gobbles sandwich and weighs the pros and cons of self-study or attending lecture. decide for the former. Runs to Music Library for solace = more studying.
[1355] Starts packing and decide to head down to Uris Hall early so as to be first in line for office hours.
[1420] Anxiously waiting for the TA to move on with irrelevant points that would never be tested on the prelim.
[1500] Abandoned by the TA, heads to Labor School Library to mug mug mug Finance before JFCI leadership meeting.
[1515] Compulsively checks emails and messages along the way. Reads the 4th online shopping request in the week and try to make a mental note of errands to complete.
[1520] Finally started working on Chapter 2 & 3 of Corporate Finance.
[1630] Head down to Uris Hall for JFCI meeting. Studies while no one is looking/talking/noticing.
[1700] Meeting adjourned. Leaves Uris realizing that the sun has set way too early. Remembers the gloomy days from freshman year and stupid daylight savings. Navigate through in the dark.
[1705] Arrive at the Industrial School Lounge for yet another round of studying. Prolly the 1465th one for the day.
[1730] Phone rings and heads of to Collegetown for Sheng Mian dinner at the Asian Noodle House.
[1825] Scurry around the Hotel School looking for the ML info session. Sign-in and go in to check out the bevy of pros whom I wannabe. Tries Diet Pepsi offered along the finger food line.
[1928] Leaves hurriedly without networking (and with regret about not networking) and head to Collegetown for office hours without going for the evening Finance lecture. Cold Cold Cold. Thinks about the weather forecast for snow on Wednesday :(.
[2015] AFter bombing the TA for almost an hour, decides its good enough for the day and should head off. Calls bf for a ride to friend's place.
[2019] Heads home first, run upstairs to grab textbooks (for bf) and cooking stuff (for friend) and run out back into the car.
[2023] Arrives at West Campus. Meets friend. Pass everything to him.
[2027] Nearing 10 feet from home, decides that pontanging class is bad. Gets bf to U-Turn and head back to school for evening class.
[2040] Dropped off at hotel school. Enters lecture room with a sense of satisfaction for attending class eventually.
[2042] Professor announces that class will end early today. WHAT WHAT WHAT! :(:(:(
[2043] Desperately phone everyone for a ride home; but no one responds.
[2100] Walks home alone in the cold with wind smacking me in my face. Take wider strides.
[2115] Enters home and room which feels so cold. Mental note to get the toasty heater over the weekend.
[2135] Start designing posters and coordinating logistics for Malaysian booth at the food tasting event tomorrow. Send out more emails. Check more emails.
[2300] Finish online window shopping and finally start on work. Realize another accounting assignment is due tomorrow. Reads Psych and gets zero returns from the textbook. Starts panicking.
[2440]Blog!
[0008]Another day has arrived but the night is barely over....
Zzzz. I really should be studying now. Shall continue with this another time.
I wish more people could empathize with me. so sick of the frivolity of ppl bombing me on msn or the (lack of basis) of comparison of school lives.
ilovetotwirl at 9:42 PM
Thursday, November 01, 2007
fall
The past 4 days have been brutal. 4 prelims in 3 days; bombed almost all...and the worst thing is that there are still 2 more to go next. Sometimes I wonder why school can ever be so crazy here. Its America but still, everyday its studying and more studying, prelims after papers, endless pile of academic work that creeps behind you, in front of you and everywhere around you. Thinking back about how I led my freshman year, I realized that perhaps, it has always been like that. How pathetic can my schedule be if I realize that for almost every lunch in the past 2 months, I'll be chewing on a sub while reading my notes/doing homewk/prepping for office hours, and not having to meet any of my old friends from Freshman year since we all moved off-campus because everyone has been so bogged down by schoolwork. Everytime you think about dropping by or hanging out, the looming deadlines for XYZ and ABC starts to bother you again and then maybe you'd just erase the idea and shelve the catch-up for another time that doesn't happen.
I'm almost done with the semester and I'll probably be heading back in 1.5 months time. I hate to think how busy my holidays will be with the internship and all the catching up. I practically have less than a week for myself to shop and meet up with old friends before catching on the 9-5 routine. And not to mention all the career prepping I have to do over the holidays. Geez. There isn't anything to look forward to; no time, no sleep no fun :(
I'm almost done with the semester and I'll probably be heading back in 1.5 months time. I hate to think how busy my holidays will be with the internship and all the catching up. I practically have less than a week for myself to shop and meet up with old friends before catching on the 9-5 routine. And not to mention all the career prepping I have to do over the holidays. Geez. There isn't anything to look forward to; no time, no sleep no fun :(
Fall finally came last week with a bout of heavy rain and now the temperature's finally stabilized to about 10 deg celsius in the day. The sun is setting much more earlier everyday and very soon we'll have to switch back our clocks by an hour and then dusk will settle at about 4pm. Those scary days when you come out of lecture at 4.10pm and realize that the sky outside makes it seem as though it is 8pm back home.
So last Friday, I decided that I should stop procrastinating and finally climbed the clock tower to get a good 360 view of the lake, the trees turning crimson red and the nicely-mowed campus lawns. :)
I think all I really need now is a nice long break so that I can snuggle into my sheets and sleep 10hours a day instead of thinking of how badly I did for all my exams and making an emo mess out of myself because of everything and everyone. THANKSGIVING PLEASE COME NOW!
ilovetotwirl at 5:25 PM
