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I've been in Calgary for more than 2 weeks now and it's been quite awesome.

Work: Work is going pretty well, despite the fact that I feel so retarded, like I'm working and thinking at such slow paces. I'm getting as much work as I want though, so that's good. I really should try harder to be more efficient. The group I'm working in (Facilities Engineering group) is full of young engineers, so that's really awesome. They're all really helpful and seem to know so much more than me! I got to go to the field last week, which was cool. The wellsites are not as interested as I had anticipated them to be. I'll probably get to go again next week, but to a different site. Yay. =) I just love working downtown Calgary. Everything's so close by. During lunch, I always meet my roommate and other co-op students up for lunch, or we go shop around together. So awesome. =)

Home: Our house is pretty sweet, except for the fact that our walls our paper thin, so you can basically hear everything that goes on in the house. Haha. We have conversations with one of us downstairs in the basement and one of us upstairs in the kitchen. =P It's cool living with my roommates though cuz we get hang out together like all the time. Eat together. Go to the gym together. We got memberships at the YMCA, so we're gonna be working out more and more now. Yes! I need to gam fei. =P

Last last weekend: Went on a ski trip with a big group of people. We had originally planned to go to Big White but because of an avalanche, the highways were closed, forcing us to turn back and to go to Kicking Horse in Golden instead. It was so awesome!! The mountains were full of nice, fresh powder, which, from what I hear, is good for beginners to learn on. It was only my second time snowboarding but it was so much fun!! Man, I was aching like for a whole week after the trip though. Hahaha. I'm considering buying myself a snowboard, boots and bindings. =P Check out pics on facebook. =P

Last weekend: We didn't really do much in Calgary. Mostly cleaning the house, grocery shopping, facebooking (hahahaha), cooking breakfast and dinner, ddr (of course!) and movies. That's about it. I've been going to church at the Calgary Chinese Catholic Church (Our Lady of Perpetual Help) since I've been here, and meeting up with a few people for lunch and hanging out afterward. It's so easy to get disconnected from church when I'm not living with family, but I'm gonna make my best effort to go every or almost every week. Maybe I'll even start getting involved in the church here. Who knows. =P

This weekend: I will be going back to Edmonton to spend some time with my family and friends cuz I've got a long weekend. Woohoo. Short week! I'm excited, but at the same time I'm sad cuz my roomies are gonna have so much fun in Calgary without me. And our friend is coming down to visit too. =( Poo. I wanna be here. But I wanna be in Edmonton. Hahaha. I guess I can't be in 2 places at once......=P It sucks too cuz they keep rubbing it in my face how they'll have fun without me! =P

Wow, I talk a lot.

My December

Wow, it's been a whole two months since I've updated. It's difficult to keep up with my blogg. Not cuz of homework, but just because I'm lazy. Hahaha.

This December is going to be so incredibly busy - to the point where it's rather stressful. First off, I've got my finals to study for and to write. 12th, 13th, 15th, and 19th. Ooh. How fun. I am definitely not looking forward to studying for them. I just wish to learn the material, write the stupid exam and get them over with. =P

On top of exams, my family and I are moving into our newly built house on the 15th, right amist my finals. I think we're supposed to progressively move stuff over, starting from Dec. 6th, which is when we get possession of the house. I really don't know how much I can give my parents, with finals coming up so soon. I really should at least try to help them out a bit.....ugh.....that means I'll be sacrificing time spent with friends and stuff.=( That sucks. I don't want that...but maybe for once I shouldn't be such a selfish brat and actually take a load off my parents back. Argh. It is SUCH an inconvenient time to move.

As well, I need to preparing to move down to Calgary. From January to August, I'll be working in downtown Calgary for Imperial Oil! I'm soooooo excited because 1) I'm working in downtown Calgary 2) I'm living with my engg friends and that's gonna be so awesome. 3) It's gonna be so much fun. But there's the moving down part, which is kind of a pain in the ass. So basically....we move into our new house and like a week or two later, I gotta move again. Packing, unpacking, and packing again. Wheeee. Fun stuff. @_@

Christmas is always a time of get-together-ing. There will probably be tons of Christmas party and dinners. Lots of spending time with friends and families. I really love Christmas. It's my favorite time of the year. With so many get-togethers though, it's gonna be busy busy busy.

As much as I love shopping, I must say that Christmas shopping is quite stressful. I haven't even started to think about it. I don't think I'll have time to shop till after the 19th. That leaves me 6 days. Oh dear. It's like "ready, get set, shop". Hahaha. I despise going to the mall when it's jam packed and everybody seems to be in a hurry. It's kind of....overwhelming. And shopping with a specific purpose and time limit is always less fun than the casual shopping.

Since I'm going to on a ski-trip in early January which I am so very excited for, I really need to find some time over the Christmas holiday to learn snowboarding. I've never snowboarded before so I think I'll need some lessons on the bunny hill before I hit the mountains. I hear you spend like so much time on your ass on the first time you snowboard. Hahaha. Great. =P

Oh, and I guess there's another "major" event in December: my birthday. Hahaha. It's like sandwiched between all my exams. I'm used to not being able to hold birthday parties near the actual day of my birthday because of exams. Usually, I spend my birthdays studying. Woohoo. How fun. And usually, I have a bday party like after Christmas or after exams or something. This year....I dunno. There are too many other things going on and I'm kind of lazy to be planning a party. Hahaha. I think there isn't really time. I'm leaving on the 28th of Dec. for Calgary which is quite early. But I start work on Jan.2, so I guess the 28th is about right.

And that's a wrap-up of what will be happening in my December. Man, it's gonna go by so quickly. I just know it. =P

I am:

...soooooooooo mad because all the time and effort I put into my 390 assignment is now down the drain because I am stupid and forgot to send myself the stuff I had worked on. ARGHHHHHHHHH. I think it's time to get a memory stick...

...playin my new guitar. It's sweet! I'm far from being good at it and it hurts my fingers like craaaaaazy but it's fun nevertheless.

...going to interviews like almost everyday. I almost forgot to go to one yesterday!! Freaked me out like mad, but it went rather smoothly in the end. Got 1 tomorrow with Petro-Can and 1 on Fri with Imperial Oil. I hope I get some good offers!

...slacking off like mad because we have an easy semester.

...wondering why I am even writing in this blog. Is it so that people can know what I'm up to? Because I sure don't need to let myself know what I'm up to. And if so, do I really want everybody to know details of my life? I guess it's nice that they care about me but really, my life is not all that interesting.

...feeling lonely. The Ft Mac days where everybody hung out together everyday is totally gone. People are always busy now, it seems. As for Engg family? Haha...it's not first year anymore.

...torn.

...going to work harder in 401 cuz I bombed the quiz.

...going to stop blogging. =P

Yet Another Awesome Weekend in FM

Because:

1. OILERS are advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals!!!!! Woohoooooooo!!! First time in 16 yrs man! So sweeeeeet. Last night's game was insanely exciting. My heart nearly jumped out, especially during the 3-man advantage, which we killed off beautifully. =)GO OILERS GO!!!

2. Went neon bowling Friday night. That was incredibly fun, even though I lost in BOTH games. Awwww...I suck...=P Ah well, I won some ice cream though! Hahaha. Winner treats loser to ice cream. I guess I get double the ice cream. Nice! ^_^

3. Went to SG's after bowling. Interesting experience....that's all I'm gonna say.

4. Played soccer for the first time in I-dunno-how-many years. It was actually quite fun, and I got good exercise out of it. The stupid mosquitos were swarming my face though. Sick! And there was this big puddle at one end of the field that I totally jumped into. The

5. Watched this very very weird comedy about video games and getting high and stuff. Not my kind of movie at all...

6. Got to chill with some awesome people ^_^

7. Played badminton. *sniff sniff* Season's almost over. Nooooooo. Last time on Wed. I hope they can book the gym for the summer too cuz it's my biggest source of exercise!!

8. Saw a leng jai...muahahahaha

9. And got to gush about the leng jai with another girl. Yay! I'm not the only girl anymore. ^_^ Thanks Car!

I was gonna make it even with 10 things, but I can't think of another reason. Hahaha. Weird. I'm enjoying my weekends in FM....=P

And I have to work tomorrow. Damnit. I shouldn't think about it. Let me enjoy the rest of my weekend......

BYE!

Go OILERS!!!

Woohooo! Oilers have the chance to eliminate the Sharks from the playoffs tomorrow night!! Go Oilers go!! It'd be INSANE if we get to advance to the 3rd round of playoffs. Sweet.

Now the dilemma: badminton or oilers? On one hand, I already paid for badminton, so I should go. And it also lets me do more exercise, which will be very good for my health and gam fei. BUT Oilers might get to advance!! That is incredibly exciting. What shall I do, what shall I do! Argh. I hate making decisions. Hahahaha. Part of the immature me coming out.

I'm leaning toward Oilers. Once in a lifetime opportunity. I may change my mind tomorrow. Hahaha. Who knows. =P

Ft Mac and the Lack of Females

Ft Mac is totally lacking in females. Everybody who has lived in FM knows that for a fact. Two weekends ago, a bunch of us co-ops went to BP's for a farewell dinner. There were approx 18 of us....and I was the only girl. Hahaha. You would think I'd feel soooo weird and kind of out of place. But having been in engineering for a few years now, and having lived in YK and FM for a little bit, I'm totally used to it. Last night, a bunch of us were hanging out again - probably about half a dozen of us, with me being the only girl yet once again. =P They were all doing guy talk (i.e. looking at pics and saying "which girl do u think is hottest, cutest" etc.), and, I felt totally fine about it. I even participated in the conversation (I can totally tell which girls are pretty, which ones are hot). I feel like I'm turning into "one of the guys". hahahaha. =P

Even though I'm totally ok with hanging out w/ only guys, and I'm getting so used to it, I'm scared that doing this too much will turn me into one of those girls that can't stand to have other girls in their circle. Hahaha. In my life so far, I've met a few females like that. Like, they have to be the centre of attention of all the guys and feel threatened by the prescence of other girls. It's quite funny actually, cuz I've met this one female that seriously felt threatened by me cuz because I'm a female also. Not that we'd "fight" for guys, cuz we would never in a million yrs go for the same guy. It was simply because I was female. Maybe also cuz I'm younger than her. Kinda weird how that works. Hahaha. When I found out, I was laughing so hard. It also made me feel pretty good cuz that means I have the potential to threaten other females. =)

Anyways, I really really hope I don't turn into that kind of girl. Sometimes I feel like I'm leaning toward becoming one of those girls and that scares me cuz often, those kinds of girls are hated by all of girls, and I never wanna be in that position. I better slap myself before it gets to that stage (or my friends will slap me). I think I'll need to go to Edmonton more to push myself away from there. Hahaha. Or if I could just be more social and hang out with more girls in FM too. I said last night that I'd try to be more social and meet more people and socialize with them and everything but.........ya, it didn't happen. I ended up hanging out with the same people yet agian. I guess, in a way, it's a good thing cuz hanging out w/ the same ppl allows you to get to know them better.

There's a potluck dinner tonight for 4 co-op students' bdays. It'll be a small party - just some of us hanging out, eating, chatting, laughing. A much bigger party is happening over @ #10 w/ like all the Suncor/Syncrude students. That party will be where everybody's gonna get frickin hammered. Maybe I'll go. Maybe I won't. I dunno yet. But now, I'm gonna get off my ass and go work out or go for a walk or run or something. It is so incredibly nice out.

Leave me a comment if you're reading this. It's nice to know who is actually interested in what I'm up to. ^_^ Especially you, Jerk. I wrote an entry JUST for you, yet you didn't leave a comment. Thanks a lot. =P

I am anti-social

Just for you Jerk, so that you have something to read during your study breaks. Study hard!! =)

There were quite a few parties at Penhorwood (street on which I live in FM) this weekend. Friday: Big keg party & BBQ. (Ppl partied till like 4 in the morning and just devoured 2 big kegs of beer) Saturday: Easter egg hunt in the afternoon and bon fire at night. Sunday: nothing. hahaha. =P I didn't really go to any of those things....hahaha. Stopped by the keg party for the BBQ. Stayed at the bon fire for like 5 mins. There were so many ppl there I could barely stand next to the fire. Parties like that don't really interest me. You're standing around a bunch of people you barely know the names of and just drinking and drinking and drinking. It's pretty boring to me......I guess considering how I don't like to drink much and I suck at it. haahah. During the parties this weekend, I mostly stayed at my friend's house and just chilled with a smaller group of ppl. Watched some hockey, some stand-up comedy. We went outside and threw the frisbee and football around. The weather was soooooo nice out. Awesome. I find doing things like that just so much more fun. I guess you can call me a pretty boring, lame and non-party-animal person. hahaha. That's just the way I am. Anti-social. hahaha.

Woohoo. Edmonton time again! My uncle's coming to Edm this weekend from HK so I'll get to hang out with him. Sweet. My friend's also having a campfire thingy in her backyard so I'll get to go to that. Oh, and I might go karaoke. Awesome! Haven't done that in awhile. hahaha. Ah.....Edmonton weekends are so great. Even greater cuz work sucks right now. Man, I lose my temper so easily and I struggle so incredible hard not to yell at some people. Hahaha. It's bad. I always end up taking it out on the other co-op students I work with. I'm sorry. I shouldn't do that, but I can't help it!! Hopefully work will be better after this stupid software I'm using is over with. @_@

Tomorrow is another boring 'ol day. Come home from work. Run around the track. Cook dinner. Eat dinner. Surf the net/watch tv. Sleep. Ah, man. Gotta write that rap for camping announcement. Oh dear. It's gonna be so hard and will come out sounding cheesy and stupid....great......