Saturday, March 27, 2004
Well, the hockey pictures are up. Actually, the soccer pictures can now be found too. Consequently, we actually made it on our biomedical engineering newsletters for both times we played. Check it out.... well, its in French though. Soccer . Hockey Looks like back to work for me. Actually next week, I will be going to the Cabane à sucre (the infamous sugar shack). I got the ticket! Hopefully, I will take some pictures and upload them, but be very patient. Photos on film takes longer than the photos by digital camera. I'm going to get me one of those digitals one day.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Lunch time blogging!!! Saturday we had a hockey tournament. (I skipped out on my french class to go to the tournament) It was floor hockey so no skating required (else I would be falling on my butt and not playing hockey). It was great! Each game was about 30 minutes and we were promised at least two games. First game: lost. Second game: won... on with the tournament!! We lasted til the last game (about 5 games) and came out third place out of a total of maybe 18 teams. For a few of us, it was the first time, so it was even cooler to have gotten all the way to thrid. We took a few pictures, which will be up soon. It started snowing after two weeks of no snow. Two whole inches.
Sunday: we couldn't move! Lets just say I left my place at 8:50 AM and came back at 8:50PM on saturday. Now I understand why we shouldn't rush old people when you see them at the metro trudging their way down the stairs. They really can't move that fast, cuz it hurts!!!! I wanted to go out and get some food, but dude, even walking was a problem, let alone mounting and descending all them stairs at the metro and elsewhere. Furthermore, it was still snowing. I didn't want to fall and say "I've fallen and I can't get up." That would have been ridiculous.
Monday: muscles still ached. I waltzed into my lab like nothing was wrong. Of course I imagined that only I was in pain, since the others from our team are all quite atheletic. I am the only blob (jabba the hutt, i like to call me) in my group. So ja, I was smiling but inside I was going "owwwww" everytime I make a step, until I found out that the others were also in pain. Then "ow" was a public thing to say.
Tuesday: much better and I split early to attend a talk at APS March meeting (after our bunny busting ceremony -- I bought a chocolate bunny for the lab), which was taking place in Montreal at the Palais des Congres. I even got a guest pass. Good thing I e-mailed a dude at the conference the week before to ask if I can attend. Else, I would have to pay registration fees. But, while I was there, I think I could have gotten off without having to visit the registration desk. no one was really checking. But the funny thing was that the registration people thought I was "the" high school student. Apparently, a high school student had e-mailed them too asking for permission to attend the poster session. I guess my e-mail didn't make as much impression on them. I was placed under the guest of "the guy in the red shirt." That's what his badge says!
I met a bunch of nice people through the speaker whom I went to see. We had more girls than guys. Imagine that! The restaurant we went to was a Thai/Vietnamese place called Le Bamboo Vert, or something. There was a graduate student there that knew the place better than me. haha, and i'm suppose to be the local in the group. But, I've always been directionally challenged. Just ask my friends. hehe. Overall, it was a fun day.
Sunday: we couldn't move! Lets just say I left my place at 8:50 AM and came back at 8:50PM on saturday. Now I understand why we shouldn't rush old people when you see them at the metro trudging their way down the stairs. They really can't move that fast, cuz it hurts!!!! I wanted to go out and get some food, but dude, even walking was a problem, let alone mounting and descending all them stairs at the metro and elsewhere. Furthermore, it was still snowing. I didn't want to fall and say "I've fallen and I can't get up." That would have been ridiculous.
Monday: muscles still ached. I waltzed into my lab like nothing was wrong. Of course I imagined that only I was in pain, since the others from our team are all quite atheletic. I am the only blob (jabba the hutt, i like to call me) in my group. So ja, I was smiling but inside I was going "owwwww" everytime I make a step, until I found out that the others were also in pain. Then "ow" was a public thing to say.
Tuesday: much better and I split early to attend a talk at APS March meeting (after our bunny busting ceremony -- I bought a chocolate bunny for the lab), which was taking place in Montreal at the Palais des Congres. I even got a guest pass. Good thing I e-mailed a dude at the conference the week before to ask if I can attend. Else, I would have to pay registration fees. But, while I was there, I think I could have gotten off without having to visit the registration desk. no one was really checking. But the funny thing was that the registration people thought I was "the" high school student. Apparently, a high school student had e-mailed them too asking for permission to attend the poster session. I guess my e-mail didn't make as much impression on them. I was placed under the guest of "the guy in the red shirt." That's what his badge says!
I met a bunch of nice people through the speaker whom I went to see. We had more girls than guys. Imagine that! The restaurant we went to was a Thai/Vietnamese place called Le Bamboo Vert, or something. There was a graduate student there that knew the place better than me. haha, and i'm suppose to be the local in the group. But, I've always been directionally challenged. Just ask my friends. hehe. Overall, it was a fun day.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Today my french teacher played a joke on two students. Man, it was funny. She had two people exit the room, telling them that we will make up a story and they have to reconstruct it by asking "yes or no" questions. Well, we didn't really make up a story in class. Instead, she told us to answer "yes" if the last letter of the question ends in a vowel, and "no" if it ends in a consonant. Well, some of you may know that French carries a lot of extra letters you don't pronounce. So when they asked questions, sometimes they got mixed answers, since some of us really don't know what the ending was. We were laughing ourselves crazy. One time when a guy asked if the story was about a guy, we said "yes," but it would have been funny if he also asked if it was about a girl, since both would end in a vowel, the story would be very strange.
I later found out that there are 6 levels of French and then 3 advance courses (or specialization courses, she called them). That would mean, I have one more course until I'm advance :-) Multilingual, here I come!
I later found out that there are 6 levels of French and then 3 advance courses (or specialization courses, she called them). That would mean, I have one more course until I'm advance :-) Multilingual, here I come!
Sunday, March 07, 2004
A while ago, I found out there was a "sugar shack" somewhere in canada. Saturday, I've discovered that there are actually quite a few of those "sugar shacks." They don't really call it the sugar shack, but that is a funny way of putting it. I think its called la cabine du sucre or something like that, which probably means sugar cabin. This is where they make their maple syrups. The school is arranging for people to go to the shack for $20, round trip plus dinner (I should get details). You can imagine the dinner would not be so great. I hope to go one of these weekends, but I wish I can find someone to go with me. Otherwise I have to go solo, but whatever, I want to go. They even have a forest and animals you can visit when its not freezing. This is suppose to be the season for shack visiting.
Monday, March 01, 2004
Arguh, its 11:50 pm, I have a 8:30am class tomorrow, and yet i am drawn by the night to stay awake. why is this period so much more attractive to stay up than the morning? perhaps just becuase its much quieter. then again, it makes no difference when you're inside. the outside stay outside and oblivious to me.
