Chuckang's 2007 Blog - 1y Law: 2004

Christmas on a boat (o)
Thursday, December 23, 2004

Ah... all done (^_^). Right now I'm in a Holiday Inn in Ft. Lauderdale Florida (hogging the business centre) waiting for our bus to the docks. For the next week, we'll be on the Holland America Zuiderdam for christmas with my whole family (26 of us). I'm just glad that exams are done and I can rest a bit...

Posted byCharles Ang at 6:24 AM 1 comments

Hoorah Christmas is (almost) here !
Saturday, December 18, 2004

Whew !

I survived my 3 in a row, and suprisingly, i think i should do
well on all of them, even the third one (^o^). Right now I'm
in a bit of an incoherent state, but luckily i get 3 days to
study for my poli 380 exam.

I downloaded the second trailer that was released for final
fantasy advent children. If you don't know what ff:ac is, its
a sequel to the FF7 story, except its a cgi movie, NOT a game.
If it was actually a playable game, that'd be insane (o_O)...

It's pretty cool... brings back old memories ( that was the
first rpg i ever played ^_^ ), and the CGI is really good.
Its what the final fantasy movie SHOULD have been !
Definitely will want to get it if it comes out on dvd, and when
it comes out on UMD.

What's UMD ? Its the format for the Playstation Portable coming
out ( yah they're releasing movies on it too )

Man.... i'm looking forward to this break.

Merry Christmas everyone !

Posted byCharles Ang at 1:35 AM 0 comments

Wah... I haven't even started yet (@_@)
Saturday, December 11, 2004

Bleh, my first exam is not until this wednesday, then i have 2 more on thursday and friday, and my last one on tuesday. So far I've been studying pretty consistently, but theres a lot of reading to cover... especially history (>_<) grrr....

Friday I studied until 1pm, then my cousin picked me up so i could pick up my car ! Hurrah ! It looks as good as new, although it has that toxic paint fume smell to it now (o_O). I put it through its paces later that night.. hehe... no problems so far.

Also took a break on Friday night; played a little bit of badminton, and saw Ocean's Twelve.

It's very very different from Ocean's Eleven... I think so anyway...
Its a really funny movie though, the dialogue is great for the whole thing. I'm pretty sure its the best movie out right now (what else, Blade Trinity ???). When ur done exams, go see it ;)

Ai.... back to studying...
Good Luck everyone, Christmas is almost here !

Posted byCharles Ang at 8:48 PM 1 comments

It's that time of the year again... bum bum bum !
Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Oh look, another collage (^o^) !

Yup yup, last friday was the St. Andrew's Christmas Banquet. It was pretty fun, although the wine wasn't all that good (-_-)... oh well, i'm not exactly a connoisseur hehe.

It was good to let loose a little before exams.. I got to sleep at 3, but I still woke up at 7 to get started on my studying.. I also had one last essay to finish, but at least they're all done now !

Man, you'd think by third year that you'd be used to finals... but they're still scary, almost 50% of your mark is decided by a few days (o__O). Well, you know what they say about the third time... it's a charm... or something..... I actually dunno what I'm talking about (-__-)

Nehehe, I wanna try this cherry vanilla black tea that my secret santa gave me... should be useful for the next couple of weeks (^_^)

Oh yah and to all of these people...

... plus the others that I didn't draw for Meera's card ;)

Sorry I can't make it back this Christmas ! My last exam is on the 21st and my flight leaves on the 22nd, so it's pretty much impossible... heh I already have my ticket for February though.
Good luck on exams, and I'm sure u guys will have lots of fun without me (^_____^)

And to *certain* people who are reading this post... you should probably be studying now, huh ? hehehehehe j/k.... (^-^)

Posted byCharles Ang at 4:29 PM 3 comments

Things are looking up !
Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Heh... i've been kind of stressed out lately, but I guess that's typical at this time of the year...

but today I finally got my Poli 240 essay back (the Burke one that I complained about before)
I got 79%, which is an okay mark, but the highest mark was only an 83%!
I was really worried about it, since he said that the marks ranged from 45 to 83 (o_O). He made me wait for 15 minutes to get my essay back, too...

But I'm really happy with my mark... its definitely the biggest thing I had to do this term, and I did it relatively well (Yay !). I also got my Hist essay on the holocaust back today, and got an A on it. Wah, if I keep it up, I might actually have a shot of getting into Law ! (^O^)- w00t !

Finally it seems like I'm starting to get more consistent grades, with essays neway.

So right now, I'm very very...

happy... :p

On Sunday, I was in aberdeen and bought pretty much all of the candy canes that Sweet Factory had on display. I was saving them for Friday, but I just felt like giving them out today.

I haven't been in this good of a mood for a while :)

Posted byCharles Ang at 1:57 PM 1 comments

Things are starting to look more red & green (^__^)
Tuesday, November 23, 2004

In other words, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas ! Everyone in our dorm is participating in Secret Santa ( there's only ~34 of us ), and in addition to getting a gift, secret santas have to decorate their person's door when they're not around. These little creations popped up in the last few days :

See that pink one in the top right corner ? Haha that was done for a guy's room... and frankly, he had it coming ( he crossdressed for halloween... of course thats gonna come back to haunt him later on ). That barbie thing on his door is actually a chocolate advent calendar, which is actually a really good idea (o_O) why didn't I think of that ?

This is the door I did for Adam. He's totally convinced that a girl decorated it for him .... i'll take that as a compliment (^_^)

And today I came home after a long talk with ICBC ( btw, its pretty much a sure thing that I won't have to pay for any damages, thank God ), and I came home to a nicely decorated door. Its blue and shiney (*o*)...

Arigato secret santa...
I gotta buy a gift for my secret santa person this weekend. We're exchanging presents next friday, after a formal christmas dinner (O__O)... hehe should be interesting...

Aiiii....i hafta start studying for finals already !

Posted byCharles Ang at 8:05 PM 3 comments

And now for something completely different !
Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Bleh, my blog has been so whiney / depressing lately... I need a change of pace.

Hehe this photo always makes me laugh (^__^)

... Cuz Mimi (my sister) is so GROSS in it ! mwahahahaha !

I dunno, at times like these I should really rely on my favorite verse:
" Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus"
(Philippians 4:6-7) ^_^

Yup... I need peace right now thats for sure.... i want my headache to go away too (-___-)

By the way, Schindler's List is a really good movie ( of course it's very graphic and violent, hence the R rating ). Europa Europa is MESSED UP. Don't watch unless you have to... it's one of "those" european movies (@_@)

Posted byCharles Ang at 7:51 PM 0 comments

This would be the 'kicker'... of a horrible, horrible week <:((
Monday, November 15, 2004

Wow. This was probably the worst week I've ever had... definitely the worst week of my university life.

Monday, worked like crazy finishing up my Poli Essay; Tuesday studied like crazy for my cpsc midterm; Wednesday wrote a probably mediocre midterm... finally got a decent night of sleep (prolly the best day of the week); Thursday got unlucky... cop pulls me over for not making a full stop at the stop sign on chancellor (went through it at 10km/h...) and gives me a 140 dollar ticket. Friday, worked on my polisci assignment and handed it in... at least the night was pretty fun...

And then Sunday:

Waiting on a green light to turn left from Oak Street to Park Drive. The light turns yellow, and two cars in the incoming lanes of traffic come to a stop. I start to angle my car left... by this time the light is already red. Then, Mr. Black Civic on the inside lane of incoming traffic decides to accelerate at this point of time instead of slow down.... so yah the rest isn't hard to figure out. He blows through the red light and smokes the driver side of my car.

The result is all this horrible, horrible damage that was inflicted on my poor, poor car:

ARRRRRRGH.... good as new a few hours before, now look at it !
And yah, in the third photo those are both of the airbags after they deployed....
Dumb thing punched me in the face and gave me a bloody nose...

Relatively Good News: I have the testimony of a witness who confirms that the black civic went through a red light. In other words, he's leaning towards my side, and to my knowledge, he's the only witness to the accident that offered to help.

Bad News: The guy who hit me is from Washington. This means 2 things - dealing with insurance will be a bit more complicated; and since he's from the States, theres a pretty good chance he's going to try to screw me over somehow. In all seriousness, he's way more likely to sue me for some personal injury than to apologize for running the red light and taking my car away from me. I'm not very happy about that.

Realistically: I'm really thankful that I wasn't hurt badly. I'm praying that the guy will be reasonable about the whole thing, and that he won't act like a jerk and bring this to court.
Hopefully things will work out for the best...

Yup yup... at the very least, this week has to be better than the last, right ?

Posted byCharles Ang at 9:33 PM 3 comments

So close.. yet so, so, far....
Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Huge essay on boring Edmund Burke = Complete ! ( ^O^ )
Compsci midterm that I haven't done any reading for = Tomorrow ! (> _ <)
Hours of sleep last night = 4 and a half ! ( @_@ )

Neh... its actually not that bad... i'm just so glad that stupid essay is done and over with...
I'd BETTER get a good mark on that thing, or else.... uh... i'll... get sad.....

Really really really looking forward to the weekend already..
The thursday off might be okay, but I have an assignment due on friday

School sucks, but as long as I keep my average up, I don't care (^o^) !

Posted byCharles Ang at 6:00 PM 0 comments

Just one of those weeks...
Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Bleh.... Polisci essay due in a week, and compsci assignment / midterm on the side...
I really hate writing these huge, profound essays about thinkers of the past, and having to spend countless hours looking for examples from modern times just to fulfill the secondary sources requirements.

I thought I was on track with this essay last week... but the truth is that I slacked off too much... if I don't follow my plan for the week I'm gonna be working 24/7 from Friday to Monday. It takes me forever to do this sort of thing... and I haven't really been able to focus all that well this year...

It's frustrating to think that after 3 years I still can't totally focus on my work, even for a couple of days... I keep eating up time thinking about other things. I need to mature a lot more if i'm going to keep up a decent average this year and have a shot at Law. Still, I want to find a better balance this year... first year I took school too seriously... second year, not serious enough :p.

I know most of you guys are just as busy / even more busy than me.... so pray for me and I'll pray for you (^o^) !

Posted byCharles Ang at 1:39 AM 2 comments

"Tea Girl drawing" in black and white.

Posted byCharles Ang at 9:03 PM 0 comments

(>_<) The calm before the storm
Saturday, October 30, 2004

These last couple of weeks, my mom has been telling me about this big string of sad events that has been hitting my extended family. My dad's uncle just went through a triple bypass... and when he was recovering his wife passed away... other uncles and aunts from that part of the family are going through some very serious illnesses now too...

I don't know any of them very well... so to be honest I'm more sad for my dad and my grandparents... but I dunno... i know it's part of life, yet its so confusing when all of these things happen in such a short span of time. I guess that's why faith is so important.

On a lighter note, school life is going pretty good this year; marks are decent so far, which is good. I just have to get through a big polisci essay this week ! Bleh, its really hard to get motivated about writing a ton of pages on the wonders of Edmund Burke..

Tomorrow, kids from the St Andrews community are going trick or treating in our dorm, so I'm gonna hand out candy from my room (I might even throw together a makeshift costume, which would be VERY VERY rare :p) Hehehehe, I'm gonna buy loads of candy from safeway... it's more fun to buy them than to eat them (^o^)

Posted byCharles Ang at 11:25 PM 0 comments

I actually found a use for my IKEA candles !
Friday, October 22, 2004

Power Outage on Wednesday for 4 hours (*o*) !

Ai... felt bad for all the people in my dorm who had midterms on thursdays (like the two in the front, vince and ada). It was a weird night, but in a way it was kinda fun (^_^).
Still... definitely would have sucked to have lived in the 19th century (o_O)

Posted byCharles Ang at 9:27 AM 1 comments