for the love of...

tip of the day #165:
if you ever finish writing an exam early and there are still people writing, leave the room before you start talking/being loud. especially if the room is large, concrete, and super echoey.

for the last 5 minutes of my physiology midterm today, the room was louder than a chinese dim-sum restaurant before 1pm. aghhhh.

"everyday is the fourteenth."

i don't usually post videos, but i figure it's valentine's day and i really like this one so for today i'll make an exception. :) for your viewing pleasure here is "i'm yours" by wongfu productions, the same people who did yellow fever. (yellow fever is FUNNNY. check that one out too if you haven't seen it yet.)

happy valentines day to you, you, you, you, you, you (ermm...everyone!) and especially you. :)

woe is me. and my noodles.

story of the day:

so i was making instant noodles for lunch today. for me, cooking instant noodles is a three step process: 1) boil water and throw in noodles to cook. 2) drain the water from the pot using the pot lid, NOT a strainer because that means more to wash later. 3) reboil water for soup and whatever else is to be added to the meal (i.e. meat, veggies...etc.) anyway, step one was successful and i was about halfway through step two when BAM. the pot lid shifts and my noodles come tumbling out of the pot and into the sink.

it was horrible. i stood there in shock with the pot one hand and the pot lid which failed me for about 10 seconds. meanwhile, my stomach continued to grumbled as i watched the sink mock me while it ate my noodles. aghhh.

at first i considered just scooping everything back into the pot, giving it a good rinse and then reboiling the water. then i thought about it some more and came to my senses. (can you say, DIRTY DIRTY?) the good news: i managed to save some of the noodles (see third picture.) the bad news: it was definitely nowhere close to being enough for a meal. it was quite the sad little bowl of noodles. :( anyway, i ended up making another pack of instant noodles. bah hah. *sigh*

moral of the story: when you're too lazy to use a strainer and insist on using pot lids instead, BE CAREFUL!

r a n d o m n e s s.

i'm in the mood for some random blogging. it'll be interesting to see what comes out. here are the first 10 things that pop into my head starting...now:

1. these physiology pop quizzes are killing me softly with their song.
2. it was my cousin's birthday yesterday so i sent him an e-card and he responded with an e-mail. they call presents "pressies" in the UK! heehee. i thought that was funny. it was nice hearing from him. :)
3. i'm so sleepy.
4. "just keep swimming"
5. winnie. the. pooh! (i'm looking at my pooh mug. why "winnie"? it's a short form for winnifred isn't it? pooh is supposed to be a boy bear, so why not something more masculine? like bob, tom or frankie. haha. frankie the pooh.)
6. i went to area E for 3 years to represent my school in triple jump. bah hah. how did that happen?
7. where did that thought come from?
8. my gilmore girls download is almost done!
9. this is harder than i thought.
10. ten. ten. ten. what a round number. what a great number. i'm done!

wow. that sucked. it's hard to be random on purpose. hahaha. :P

flickering lights, sparks, and firetrucks...oh my!

whoa.

so i was working on my session notes from my individual music therapy placement this past tuesday and was in the middle of session note-ing our xylophone/piano improvisation when all of a sudden the lights in my room started flickering. at first i thought it was a power failure-ish type thing because of the winter storm warning in the waterloo region but the lights just kept flickering without them ever fully going out. then i realized everytime the lights in my room flickered i could hear a popping from outside my window, so i looked out the window and saw this:

SPARKS. and not just one, but a lot of them happening one after another.

i seriously thought that some idiotic kid had set off fireworks in the trees until i realized it was the hydroline in our neighbour's yard that was exploding. (aghh! the hydroline! AND their line goes through TREES.) ok maybe exploding is a little over the top, but sparking hydro lines are never a good thing although the green and yellow sparks flying everywhere were beautiful to look at. i think i sat there for a couple of minutes just staring at them. so dangerous but oh so mesmerizing. (it's like those blue bug lights that the bugs can't help but look at even though they must know the light could potentially kill them. yah, blue bug light = sparking hydroline, bug = me. haha. :P) it was quite the commotion: people living in the houses around ours went into their backyards plus there was yelling and everything. there were also some brave morons who tried to get a better look at the sparks by getting as close to them as physically possible (omg, so dumb.) thankfully the sparks didn't catch on fire. that would have really sucked as all the little war houses (including mine) in this area are made of wood. someone was definitely looking out for us tonight.

anyway, no more than 2 minutes later i heard a siren coming closer and closer to our house. at first i thought it was the police but it turned out to be a firetruck full of firemen coming to check things out at our neighbour's place. but really who cares, i'm still super impressed with 911 in waterloo and their speediness. i guess everything checked out okay and because within minutes the firemen left.

thankfully now the drama is over: the lights are fine, the sparks are gone, the firetruck isn't there anymore...and everything is back to normal in my little corner of the world. :)

when soul meets body...

i've been listening to death cab for cutie's latest album, Plans, for the past couple of days and i really like their stuff. liz introduced me to them when she showed me the music video for soul meets body. such a funny video complete with floating music notes that slowly run out of energy, get caught in electrical wires and fall into puddles. hahaha, so random it's great.

anyway, good news: they're coming to toronto in april! :) the bad news is our exam schedule hasn't come out yet, so i'm not sure if i can go. booooooooo. i already can't go to the fray concert this month on account of me being in stink town, waterloo, (it's the week AFTER reading week)...i'm missing out on everything!! but in exchange i'm getting my degree so i suppose it balances out. :P bah hah.

oh well, if all fails at least i have wicked to look forward to in october!! :D

in a rut.

call it a blip, dip, ditch or hole, it doesn't really matter. i've been in denial for the last little while (i was trying to fool myself into thinking things were going fine) but i'm past that stage now. goodbye denial, hello acknowledgement. okay, here goes...

i, sharon, am in a rut.

i suppose one could say i'm going through my version of the 3pm daily workday period of suck. you know, the time when you know your workday is almost over but every minute, every second, seems to be go by soooooooo slowly (and as a result you lose motivation and get real lazy.) yah, that's pretty much how i'm feeling right now. i've tried to tough it up and just DO things because i know there is an insane amount of things to be done, but at this point my overall drive/motivation is almost non-existent and unproductiveness levels are at an all-time high.

idleness and time-wasting are the worst. now if only i wasn't so good at it...*sharon pulls out a sudoku puzzle...* haha, kidding. :P

'jook sings' love jook

here it is: my post that is not about school! instead it's about something much better and more liked by everyone....FOOD, more specifically...JOOK! :D

i admit that when i was little i hated jook...until i discovered thin jook. my grandma made it for dinner one night when she was looking after me. it was SO good. just like that my congee hating days were over.
things got better in OAC when i got my wisdom teeth out. since i couldn't chew anything my mom made this THINNED out jook that was just scrumptiously delicious! (my mouth is starting to salivate. honest. haha.) i ended up affectionately naming this style of jook, "wisdom teeth jook".

none of this thick business, i like my jook watery and thinned out. ohhhh yeah.

mmmmm. i want congee wong now. :d

four things you might not have known about "jook":
- you can look it up on wikipedia (i'm telling you, wikipedia has everything!)
- the word congee was derived from the Tamel word, kanji
- it's considered part of traditional Chinese medicine food therapy
- some people make jook using brown rice

time for another quiz...

You scored as Art. You should be an Art major! How bohemian! Art 75% Philosophy 58% Sociology 50% Linguistics 50% Dance 50% Psychology 50% Theater 50% English 42% Anthropology 42% Mathematics 42% Journalism 33% Engineering 33% Chemistry 33% Biology 17% What is your Perfect Major? created with QuizFarm.com

hmmm i guess this explains why physiology is so hard for me.
i mean, it's a biology course and obviously bio is definitely not my perject major. at all.
...and these quizzes MUST be true right?

oh dear, these quizzes are the worst. (yes, i say this knowing full well i'll probably do another one eventually.) :P

ok back to reading physiology. i'm determined to get a non-crappy mark in this course this term. i want to finish off my undergraduate university career strong but i think more than anything, i just want to prove to myself that i can do it.
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ughh. two posts about school in a row. i promise my next one will be about something better. :P

done and done.

today i spent at least 3-4 hours going through each and every one of the entries on my online orpas application form again and again, then again some more. after checking, re-checking then going back to check my re-checked information about 20 billion times i got the courage to click the submit button...only to chicken out and recheck everything "one last time". what can i say, i'm paranoid. :P

anyway, i finally mustered up all courage i could find, hit the submit button and just like that it was finished. after months of talking about it, taking required courses for it and going through the tedious process of filling out all the required application forms, i have officially applied to graduate school.

now for the fun bit (and by fun i mean worst): waiting.
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p.s. more news on the street: it's someone's birthday today too! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADRIENNE!!! *gigundo birthday hugs* :D