New Year
I’m pretty excited about 2010 for several reasons:
- I’ll be working for eight months straight (January to August) for my co-op semesters
- I’ll also be taking two courses over the duration to lighten up my course-load for my last year in university
- The Ted Rogers Memorial Conference is happening in March, of which I am the Webmaster for
- I aim to come to a decision about forming my own company (related to digital media solutions) over the year
- ITMSA
- Not to sound narcissistic, but I will probably get on the Dean’s List (and receive an award or two in November) since my CGPA increased after the Fall 2009 semester (3.78 to 3.81, out of 4.33)
- By the end of the year, I would be just one semester away from graduating (aka freedom; I intend on going to Hong Kong/Japan for 2-3 months as a sort of reward for exiting the education system and also use up some of the money in my bank account(s) that I haven’t really touched)
After graduating (in 2011), I aim to devote more of my time to family and friends, since right now my main focus is building a strong “foundation” for myself in terms having a successful academic career in order to leap to newer, bigger, and better things (e.g. getting a steady, well-paying job in order to support my dreams of having a family). As a result, I’ve literally grown a few white hairs due to stressing about my courses and marks.
Some of the major challenges (aka new year resolutions) I forsee for 2010 are:
- picking a company for my “capstone” course to analyze and propose re-engineered business processes (ITM 700/800)
- maintaining (and/or improving) my CGPA, especially after eight months of work
- as always, time management and prioritization
- cutting back on my procrastination
I want to be able to fulfill more things on my To Do List over the year (minus some obvious ones like getting married or having children). Here’s to a good year for everyone!
If Life Gives You Lemons…
So, I think best when I’m in the shower, and I randomly came up with an idea totally unrelated to my exam on Friday.
BC – 0: If life gives you lemons, bash them open with a rock
0 – 1500: If life gives you lemons, slash away at them (too lazy to go into detail through each era)
1500 – 1700: If life gives you lemons, bring them with you on your ship to prevent scurvy
1700 – 1900: If life gives you lemons, invent a machine to make lemonade
1900 – 1920: If life gives you lemons, talk about it over the radio (not too sure when the radio was invented, but close enough!)
1920 – 1945: If life gives you lemons, blow them up
1945 – 1970: If life gives you lemons, write a guitar melody about it and paint lemons all over your peace bus
1970 – 1990: If life gives you lemons, create a lemonade stand and commercialize your lemonade immediately
1990 – 1999: If life gives you lemons, create a website on them using Microsoft FrontPage (complete with counters, animated page background images and Comic Sans MS font)
1999 – 2005: If life gives you lemons, post about them on AsianAvenue/MySpace
2005 – Present: If life gives you lemons, tweet/blog about them and/or post them on Facebook
A side-note: I lost my student card that has a really faded-out picture of me. Some lucky asian guy could very well be pretending to be me.
My Interest and Exam Time
When it comes to exams and other school work (essays, reports), it seems like my tendencies to be distracted and procrastinate are increased. For instance, I have two exams in two days, and I haven’t really started studying yet. Everything else is just so darn interesting! (Like that sunset below)
“Bedazzled” – Sensitive Elliot
“Compared to you, that sunset’s just… WHEN’S THAT DARN THING GOING TO SET?!”
My Online Playlists
Beautiful / Sleep / Study – melodic songs that can relax you and/or put you to sleep
Catchy – songs that stay in your head hours after listening to them
Epic – trumpets and goosebump-inducing songs
Good Beat – mostly light techno, but with piano and violin thrown in
Hardcore Studying – effective for when it’s the last hour or so before a midterm and you want to block off the world (mostly loud rock/techno, with unintelligible lyrics 
)
Romantic – songs suitable to be played at weddings (I’m a sucker for sappy things)
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You can listen to them on any Internet-enabled computer with audio! Enjoy!
I’ll be adding more songs to the playlists, so each time you go to them you might see new additions