Feeling rather proud of myself.

I actually churned through a bunch of Matlab code while at school today, and got it to work too. I'm a little stuck on the Engineering Application problem, but if I really can't figure it out by Wednesday I'll just hit up the TA's office hours and it'll all be good. But I am really feeling significantly proud of the fact that I am getting up when my alarm goes off and going to school. A lot of it really has to do with IW and how wonderful he is about sending me to the bus stop on school mornings and work mornings. And I know he would rather be at work earlier, so I really appreciate all the time he takes with me. I should really just tell him this to his face, but sometimes I don't know if he gets how sincere I'm being because he'll just change the topic to something else completely unrelated and it'll be as though he just glazed over what I said. So sometimes I feel like saying nothing at all is an easier way to be sincere.

Anyway, I'm feeling a little more confident about MATLAB this year, although I have to say that I really am not feeling the same way about Process Control. I've been really mulling over the "what if" I fail that class again. For the last time. I will be really pissed off, but I think that no matter what, I couldn't just drop out. It'd be one more class, I'd have the opportunity to focus on that one class and one class only, and I'd just work like hell the rest of the time to make up my rent money and all that. So that mum wouldn't have to worry about a thing. I feel so guilty when I think about how stretched out my education has been and what it's doing to her retirement fund. If I really do fail this class again, I'm going to just cut myself off from my family completely till its done. Sometimes, I need to be away from them, not because they're not encouraging, but because I need to be alone. I feel like they're always breathing down my neck, even when they're not. I feel the burden on my shoulders that is the expectation of me to graduate, and it makes me want to balk, even before the game has started. It's a pain in the ass.

Yeah, I really need more chocolate in this household. And milk. Apparently (and mum will kill me for this), I've got osteopenia. Gaaahhh!!

Djoko Susanto - You Make Me Feel Like Summer - Roman Foot Soldiers

Djoko Susanto - You Make Me Feel Like Summer - Roman Foot Soldiers

Super proud of Pria and his band! Plus, you know, it doesn't hurt that I totally love their music.

Ray Allennn!!!!

Yous my hero.

I need to clean my ears.

"These Kobe sixes will make you obese"

Wait, whaaat????

Oh right, "a beast".

Getting my Mac fixed!

Okay. So it turns out that I really owe my mum for getting AppleCare because the motherboard died and it would cost $750 to fix. So although I have to wait a day to get it back, I'm really glad I don't have to pay jack-all. And I'm glad I don't have to get the unibody Mac because I like mine much better. Yay!

Still, I was imagining life, barren without my Mac and I was lost. I'm too technologically dependent. Don't get a Mac. They're addictive.

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Every Little Bit..

I really want one of these eco-friendly lunchbags! Mostly because I hate seeing I carry his lunch to work in a safeway bag. It's just so ghetto, and it doesn't fit in his work bag.

These laminated cotton canvas lunch sacks come in a variety of fun patterns for all ages. Avoid boredom at lunchtime by choosing a kid's lunch bag that's original and fun. Plus, its easy to clean.

* Fully insulated, with a hook-and-loop closure
* Card for ID information and a handle strap.
* Non-toxic and lead-free according to Canadian, European, and US standards.

Measures 10 x 6.5 x 4.5 inches.

Machine wash, line dry.

Here's their website.

But even more...

their Snack Taxis are awesome. I don't really have a good picture of one, but it's basically waterproof material on the inside so can eliminate ziplocks from your life. AND! They're $8! Imagine how much money you save on ziplocks. And, it's all machine washable, although of course handwashing is preferred. Waterproof interior lining. Plus they look so cute.. here's me, 3rd post and I'm already material lusting. Tchah.

On the way to school...

We're sitting in the car, singing along to another horrible badeyedpeas (I KNOW I KNOW THEIR MUSIC JUST SUCKS ALRIGHT?) song.. the one about "you're so 2000 and late"

B: Gotta-get-get..
I: That's Vera's line! Gotta kiet kiet.

I was speechless. BTW, kiet kiet is Vera's baby blanket, which she still has.

I don't believe in your world.

Here's the reason why I'm starting this blog. I'm tired of reading blogs where a person photospazzes and all it's really about is their lust, love, admiration, lore of things. Just photos and photos of their latest acquisitions, things they would like to acquire, and past things that can now be discarded, having outlived their usefulness. It's.. boring. Where's your personality? Your passion? Are you really that boring? Here, it's not that I don't occasionally love to take photographs of the things I own, but I'm not obsessed with them! Neither do I think my life revolves around the stuff I have and what I've done whether to get them, or along the way to getting them. But well, we shall see just how true I am to my scorn of others. Maybe I'll end up being a photospaz too.

Also, I kind of miss writing. I think having a blog really encouraged a lot of self discovery. So, let's see how I do now that I have an identity and a mind I really understand.