oh twitter...

so twitter's the 'new thing' now i guess... i heard about it back in like sept of 2008 but didnt really look into it. finally caved at the end of 2008. but didnt use it much since like no one else i knew had it. it was sorta a myspace thing, where i got it only to 'follow' 'celebs'. haha... like who? well... like kevjumba. and mcfly. and ajrafael. and davidchoi. but meh.. didnt really use it much.

but then... suddenly.. guess who else got twitter? WongFu.! and then... Quest Crew! yup... a crew account, as well as indiv members. yay! so i began following. then gradually, more friends got it. hah.. so i guess ppl can now see the 'following celebs' side of me. =P since no one else i personally know uses myspace or bebo. but i think twitter is catching on. 

but y'know what i realized? ive always been twittering. maybe not under the 'official name' of twitter. but i have. it goes back to like what.. gr7? when i first got msn. ive always been one of those ppl who changes their msn name a lot. and i mean.. a LOT. haha... like as often as i update twitter now. except msn didnt archive the changes, until saving msn history came along. but it doesnt save the status, just the msn name. and now that im on a mac and using adium, it doesnt save your msn names either. so i guess the archiving of msn names stopped. but yeah.. the msn names were similar in length to what twitter is now (actually, even shorter) and it was brief updates of my life. 

the longer version would be AA or blogspot. i got AA back in gr7 and blogspot back in gr9. and those posts would be elaborating my msn name pretty much. or i would blog just for the sake of blogging something? haha... and these would be longer versions and/or detailed explanations of the msn name. 

then along came facebook, with the status updates. these sorta got archived, but short term. i got facebook back in gr12 summer, when i got my uwo email account. y'know, back when facebook was limited to college/univ students only? yeah. those days. haha... 

and now.. its twitter! im not sure if i like it or not yet. i mean.. its great htat i can 'follow' some celebs, depending on how much they wanna twitter. but at the same time, its really brief and generic. its still not as detailed as a blog post. sure, it can be more often, and it fills in those 'gaps' between blog posts. but at the same time, i feel like this generation is getting too precise and simple. just get down to the point and get out kinda thing. im not sure if thats a good thing. eventually, everything will just be binary then. a yes, or a no. tahts it. even many IT ppl nowadays just reply to emails/txt with a simple yes or no. heck, the GIS programs im using at school are also based on binary coding. it either IS, or ISNT. and tahts all you need. dont need explanations or anything. its either 0 or 1. 

its interesting to see how generations change.

need another example? in toronto, try walking into a restaurant, and if theres kids there, chances are, they're holding a ds. i admit, i have one too. =P but even lil kids at the age of 5 are playing with a ds. 

or how about going back 10 years. how many ppl had a cell phone? or.. what can you do on the cell phone? certainly none of this internet business. and those phones were the size of a brick! you could only call and receive calls. no colour screen, etc. haha.... 

oh technology. waiting for the day i, robot, or wall-e comes true. hah.!

dont get me wrong.. im not hating on technology. and im guilty for relying on it too much. but just wanted to point out how much its influenced our daily activities.

nerves...

things never go the way i planned it to be. and i feel kinda queasy about it.

and im a person who likes knowing whats up ahead in the near future. 

for example:

1) i was planning to call back into my work place. do a bitta chitchat, y'know, stay friendly. and confirm that i can return in the summer.

what happened? i called, went to voicemail, name change. whoa.! diff person. now what? i hung up. and now im gunna go into the office in person 2mrw. sorta not knowing what to say. what if the person who hired me is gone/transferred/retired and i dont get hired? i mean.. i sure i'll see someone i still know there. no way the entire department is gone since the beginning of january. so yeah... and i hope the new person in that position didnt hire someone else yet. =\

2) stats course. i got gg'd on the midterm. i admit that. but i planned it all out. work my butt off. and not only get the mark i need, but get waaay over what i need. the assignments showed my hard work. got my 87, then 98, then 100, then 97, then 98, then 100. sweet. walk into the exam with a 70. walk out with a 57. i need a 60 in the course. what the deuce... 

what happened? well, the entire class bombed the final. i got 50 on the dot. the average of the final was a 53. meaning majority of ppl failed (and they did). and the final course marks average is a 69 which is not too bad so i guess no bell curve. arranged a meeting with prof 2mrw, hoping to explain my situation, ask, then if not, beg for the 60. lets hope my prof has the understand of at least the average human.

bahhh.... found out both those things this past thurs. and hopefully both will be 'resolved' 2mrw (mon). lets pray and hope and have faith that things will go according to plan this time. lol.. 

as cliche and overused this verse is, here it is again. =P 

"now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" Hebrews 11:1

if i fail at either or both, i have a feeling that the hk/beijing trip will be not so epic. bahhh...

its a beautiful day!

a few nights ago, friday night i believe, it was one of those really beautiful weather days. 

not too hot. not too good. sorta warm with a really really light breeze. it was perfect. 

i was walking home from the bus stop after my 2pm exam and fail'd attempt at studying, so this was at around sunset time, and i couldnt help but think about how awesome the weather was, and my past. y'see, back in gr5-9 (elementary and jr high), i would have to walk like 15-20min to school (one way) every day. and remember? it was a consistent 8:45am-3:10pm kinda sched, mon-fri. every morning, i would be those kids who'd sleep in as much as they could, scramble out the door, and speed walk to school in the span of 10-15mins. but afterschool was a different story. no matter how hot or cold (i dressed according to weather. yay!), i would always take my time  afterschool. on average, the average walker would take 15min. but i took from 30-45min no problem. i mean... this was no short walk. down an entire street, thru a ravine, then down another entire street. and these were some of my favourite times spent with God. a consistent 30-45min everyday, no one else lived my way so i had time to myself to think. to meditate. to observe the neighbourhood, and boy do i live in a beautiful neighbourhood. =) both streets that i walk down, the ppl keep their lawns quite nicely. i also pass by my elementary school. then thru that ravine. wow... the bridge and the river. it was clean water. you could see the rocks at the bottom. super clean! unless it just rained. it would look like white water canyon at wonderland. haha... then the trees on either side of the walkway. as 'nature' as you can get in the city. then i would also pass by my 'then future' high school. all those walks, i used it as time to talk to God. reflecting on my day. what was to come. definitely some of my favourite moments in my walk with God. and this past friday's walk home from the bus stop was as close as it got to what it was before. y'see, when high school came along (gr10-12), i lived 8.5 houses away. (8 houses, then cross the street. hence 0.5 haha). like, i was soooo close to school that i used to go home to go to the washroom =P or when i said i was going to my locker to get a book, i would go home and get it. heck.. i think i forgot my locker combo cus i never used it. so the walks home were just like... going next door. haha... 

i really enjoy walks. its something i should do more. but this london area doesnt seem that nice. campus is really nice. i remember always going for night walks in 1st year after my night class. maybe i can do that again next year when im living at beaver =) 

but yeah... thinking about the past, i went thru my blog just now, after my exam today. not just this blog, but i have another blog too... that one was since 2004. and its true... ive seen how much ive grown/change. remembered some memories, some tough times. now i cant wait to get back to toronto and read thru journals! (dont ask... yeah.. i keep handwritten journals as well as typed blogs...)

after 20.5 years of life, or just a bit more than 7 years of baptized life (haha), ive realized that in a lot of my prayers, my 'go-to' default word when i dont know what say is "thanks". y'know when ppl say "umm.." or "like..." when they cant find the words or have nothing to say? yeah... if i really dont know what to pray about, i just go to something that i can thank Him for. and i guess that reflects what i think about most of the time. what am i thankful for? and i never have nothing to say. never. amazing huh? always constantly reminded by speakers, sunday school teachers, ppl sharing, and many others to think about 1 thing that you would like to change in your life right now cus it sucks. and 2 things in your life right now that make you feel blessed. and y'know.. the blessed always outweighs the crap. psychologically, ppl would just "thats just called thinking positive!" but how i see it, there truely is more goodness than bad in my life. 

anyways, all this 'alone time', aka, studying, is actually putting more than just academics thru my brain. =P

i never know how to conclude blog posts. haha... man i suck at writing.

but whatevs...!

im.. back? probs not for long.

ppl dont really blog anymore.. do they. or even if they do, ppl keep it quiet and its not advertised on msn names and all that anymore. 

back in the day, it was all about AA/xanga. and once in awhile, you'd get a blogspot link. ppl would be like "i gotta get home and xanga this!" or "haha.. that! didnt you read my xanga? i posted about it!" or ppl would write updated blurbs on AA cus they didnt wanna sign up for another site like xanga. blogger (or blogspot) never really caught on too much. but if ppl decided to do a team blog or something, thats what would be used! now its fb notes. ew... haha...

so.. its now middle of april. im sick with a cold (seriously.. in april. what the deuce. stupid virus...) and since my last post in february, its been quite a busy life. mainly colluni, TC REC, marching band, many late nights playing db (hah!) and now sball planning! plus in the midst of all that, weekly academics (3 lab courses and 1 tutorial this term. killer!). but with so much going on, this term has been my best term (academically) in my entire univ career! im quite surprised. i dont know how. the most extra-curricular activities, yet doing swell in the academics department. wow... its times like these i dont understand the way God's plan is working. but regardless, He's in control, and things are working out better. i still dont understand it. and it wasnt easy... but things are working out. =) 

- academics achieved (well, plus 3 exams to go)

- bonding with other bros and sis here at western (4ams at least once a week!)

- God's amazing work at TC was seen once again

- half time show and mtl st patricks day parade with the WMB

- colluni's winter retreat was epic!

im definitely excited to see whats in store for summer. for me, summers are usually even busier. haha.. and things are no different this year. kicking it off with a family vacation, 2 softball leagues, work, plus plenty more to come! 

but now, back to studying. lets pwn these 3 exams first. finish strong. =)

PS. study fail. supposed to be studying, but ended back up on blogger. lol...