One-Hour Blog
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
I've been giving myself an hour break everyday (to make sure I don't go crazy from cramming my brain full of research) and today I felt like finally posting up some pictures on my blog (^_^). I also got tired of the winter banner, so I changed it with some random photo - I'll prolly give this blog a proper update once my essays are done.
Not much has been going on besides working in koerner for the past week or so... I managed to finish my poli 220 essay a day early which is amazing, b/c I've never finished an essay that early before (*o*). So now I'm working on my history essay, which will be considerably longer, but the prof has been pretty thorough about how he wants it written, which is a relief. My US presidency prof replied to my proposal, and told me I'd have to narrow down my topic a lot more, even for a 12 page essay. I have a week to write that one, but I'm still having trouble coming up with a feasible thesis...
On friday was Ben's 20th birthday @ Shabuzan - it was pretty fun, and there was so much food!
( > *____*< ) We had all u can eat hot pot and korean BBQ, and it was like an endless cycle of meat and seafood... eat, order more, eat, order more, etc. for two hours. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera to the restaraunt, so no pictures of the actual food (^_^). We still had cake afterwards too:
I also had a quick dinner with Mike and Sherry on Saturday @ Japone. Hehe, I bombarded Sherry with questions about China for the entire meal... if ony she had lived through the Cultural Revolution hehehe (^_^). I haven't been to Japone in a while... I still think they have the best chicken teriyaki ever. It's a pretty small place on Oak and 65th or sth (somewhere between park and 70th), but it has nice decor and good grilled food.
I'm trying to post a few more pictures this time (although I seem to mainly be talking about food...). After all, it would be pretty lame if my blog was nothing but my complaining and venting (^w^). Here's a couple of wannabe-artsy photos I worked on in CS:
The weather really has been nice here lately... no depressing rain, just sunny, warm weather with a nice breeze. At least my walks between my dorm and koerner have been enjoyable ;)
Posted byCharles Ang at 1:48 PM 2 comments
I want another reading break (>o<)
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Of cos, I mean I want a break from reading...
This is an edited version of the post i put up a few days ago, because the previous post was... well.... incredibly boring. I'll try to make this edit a bit less dull (*o*) !
Right now, my second desk (i have two desks in my room cuz its a double room) has a stack of 25+ books for the different essays that I have coming up. I won't read all of them obviously... I just need to find a decent amount of quotes and facts to back up my theses.
The other day my history prof e-mailed me something interesting : the "UBC Library Online Term Paper Research Clinic", which I never knew existed, is now taking appointments for online help. At first I was pretty cynical... but now I'm seriously considering registering for an appointment. I went through 3 books last night that I found for my globalization essay, and I found that two of them were completely useless (they were more like economic textbooks, which I definitely don't want to read through) and the other one seems a little to anti-Western for my liking.
I have four general essay topics to work on right now:
Hist 125 : China's Cultural Revolution VS. East Bloc countries after the fall of the SU. This is actually more of a comparative essay on two books written on these subjects; the hard part will be figuring out why China held onto communism while most of the SU countries turned to democracy during the 1990s.
Poli 220 : Globalization in Third World Countries.
Bleh, this is a really broad topic... I will try to find useful case studies and focus on the 'economic' and 'cultural' side of globalizaion . I'm a bit worried about this one based on my midterm... i don't think my TA likes my style of writing, he's also really meticulous (-____-)
Poli 328 : US-Canada relations compared to US-UK relations
This will probably be the most interesting essay for me... which is good cuz its the longest at 14 pages. I will have to pull out alot of data and info to fill 14 pages... I'm thinking of going to the research consulting thing for this one.
Poli 342: This class is on the critical race theory, so I might actually write an essay about the different 'races' that north american chinese fall under nowadays. I guess this could be CBCs (like myself), Hongers, FOBS... you know, the different catgeories we seem to use nowadays to describe asian canadians and/or asian americans. This will be hard to find concrete research about... but I'll try to back it up or at least compare this form of racialization with some of the more regardable critical race theories (how they were formed, why they exist, etc.)
Midterms are so weird... i thought i would do bad on my US presidency midterm and much better on my Poli 220 midterm, but in the end it turns out i did better on my US presidency midterm. My TA was really picky about my poli 220 essay-exam.... i only had an hour but he expects me to cover all these extra aspects, and was super picky about semantics as well. I ended up with a B+, which is manageable, but i have to do much better on the following exam and the term paper.
If i want to get into Law it works like this for me:
A = acceptable
B = better do Better
C = crap i'm already screwed
D = Dead Meat
I can't believe theres only 3 weeks of school left ! that really makes me nervous about these dumb essays...
My bible study with campus crusade is growing each week, which is pretty cool, and I've come to rely on it for encouragement and a sense of calmness. Please pray for me, that I won't procrastinate, that I can find the sources I need, and that I can write in a matter best suited for each topic. Of course, I'll pray for you guys too ! Good luck with midterms and final assignments everyone: hopefully we'll end this year on a good note (^o^)
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