To-Do List: Extreme Version

Just because I need to.

• Finish up biochemistry option unit for Chem
• Review all of the non-human physiology units for Bio
• Start studying for History Paper 2
• Assemble and prepare notes specific to History Paper 3
• Math May 2002 papers (maybe) 
• Update English notes
• Finish memorizing Milton lines and begin memorizing Donne
• Practice with an English Paper 1 (maybe)
• Write SFU cover letter
• CAS forms

Ahhh. 

Olympic Break To-Do

Oh yes, one of my infamous to-do lists. Seeing as how I've been feeling overly lazy and being extremely forgetful lately, I really should make this:

Olympic Break To-Do List

• UBC Scholarship essay/application 
• Some other scholarship application
• History Arab-Israeli Timeline essay
• Math matrix review/November 2007 Paper 2
• English Chaucer Notes
• Chem Design Lab
• Study new bio unit
• Start studying for finals?

And of course, I'm trying to beat Zelda (LOL) and go out more at the same time. Furthermore, I'll probably end up getting up no earlier than 12pm everyday for the next 2 weeks, too. Let's see how the next few days go... 

To-Do List

Because there's just so much!

• UBC MES application
• McGill MES application
• UT Scholarship form
• Dogwood District scholarship form
• *some other scholarship* application
• History 6 Day War research
• World Lit II - reading, planning, writing

T_T Busy busy rest of break.

The "Naughty Noughties" are no more

2009... Wow, what a year. Lots of new experiences and good memories, lots of people dying, lots of new people in my life, and a good number of not-so-good times. But would I say it was an awesome, life-changing year? In some ways, yes; but the slightly scary thing is that 2010 will be even more of a revolutionary year. And, good riddance, I'm ready to embrace it with open arms.

My New Years Resolutions? I say they're pretty important, especially since it's a whole new decade and everything. Here it goes:

1. Exercise more - do I want to be a skinny-armed, fat-bodied Asian boy forever?
2. Finish my EE - that shiz just has to get off of my plate and out of my mind!
3. Stop committing that one sin - it's funny how I've tried to shake it off for so long, and yet I've never succeeded. It's popped up on so many "resolution" lists that it's practically become recurring. Why do all the worst things in life just feel so good. On the other hand, what kind of temptation can stand in the face of the Lord, anyways? Mmhmm; black sin, you're going down this year, this decade, this life.

And there we go, nice and simple. Can't be that hard, eh?

To-Do List

Even though this is so so lame, I'm going to put this here because frankly, I'm having a hard time trying to organize all my thoughts. So, here we go:

• Chem lab, due Friday (if he gives us another one next week, I will cry)
  
• Chem test, next Friday
• Biology test, tomorrow
• History Korean War timeline, Monday
  
• English "hell" essay, Monday (maybe I'll just write about IB)
  
• English IOC, December 1-onwards
• TOK Oral, December 1-onwards?
  
• TOK Essay, November 30
• EE... eventually

Maybe I should shut up and do stuff now. At least I can see everything in a list, though. 

Grad Picture Check-List

Grad-pictures are coming up! Here is my checklist:

1. Get my teeth whitened

2. Get a nice outfit

3. Lose about, say, 10lbs?

4. Make my hair nice

5. Find some good photo-taking companions :)

Summer To-Do List

Maybe I should actually blog one day.

• Atwood poems
• Blake poems
  
• Holy Sonnets
• Dante
• Milton
• Dubliners
• History IA
• EE - Research, start draft
• Study math
• Edit TOK essay
• Write beginning parts of bio lab
  
• Think about TOK oral

Hard to do when you're addicted!

Memories

I cannot say I'm pleased that this is basically my last day of freedom until school starts again. =P But since my internet is still being VERY UNKIND TO ME and not loading Desperate Housewives season 3 properly (but it's SO DELICIOUS I just wanna eat it up!), I guess I will blog… my favourite memories from Grade 11/IB Year 1/2008-2009! Okay, here I go, in no particular order:

1. IB Camping Trip – At first, I thought this would be pretty lame because I hate camping (no washrooms? Ick!) and there were only about six Grade 11s going. Nevertheless, I guess it was kind of fun to bond with other IB students over the campfire, and living in the "wild" for a day, even though we could literally see PA from where we were camping. =P
   
2. Late night stressing – Even though I think I was pretty much dying from these experiences, I think the extent to which "suffering together brings you closer together" is true really shined through all the late-night periods of stress, studying and/or finishing up some piece of homework or IA. I think I'd still prefer sleeping at 10pm instead of 2am every night for a week, but I think that these experiences have truly made me realize that I am much more of an evening/night person than a morning/afternoon one. Sure, I love waking up to a summer morning (gotta do that for the next few weeks… x_X), but there's something about the night… It's like you kind of have a bit of freedom that you get from the darkness to secretly break free of your confines and just do whatever. Although personally my "whatever" was stressing about something, IB has nevertheless shown me that nighttimes are always much more fun.
   
3. French Congo animal thing – Maybe the only fun that you could ever have from an IB class. =P That French Congo animal skit was hilarious because of how random it was, and how it didn't really count for anything. XP
   
4. Biology photosynthesis lab – Can you say epic failure? Pretty sure this lab killed my "Manipulative skills" criteria for Biology Internal Assessment. =P Still gotta say though, I probably lost around 5lbs from literally laughing my arse off over how epic fail it was. Seriously, why do these things always happen to me? First, my lamps get turned off because the IB12s in the other class were watching a movie. Then, I put a test tube rack on the hotplate, and it MELTED, so I had to get a cake pan from the home ec room, fill it with water, and put the rack in THERE. Finally, once they had been heated enough, as I was moving the plants from the hotplate area to another counter, the TEST TUBE RACK BROKE, and sure enough, the uncovered test tubes (well, you can't block a photosynthesizing plant's oxygen supply!) COMPLETELY spilled everywhere. I probably killed a forest through cleaning that mess up. =P Sigh.
   
5. Dress designs – In history, chemistry and English, how could I have ever gotten by without my dress designs? Sure, they may not have been the best, but each one killed anywhere from 10-30 minutes. =P Admit it Gloria, I so got better at it near the end of the year! xP Too bad I didn't really pay attention to the class… but that's okay, I guess I got by well enough. =)
   
6. Whistler music trip – Fun fun fun, hanging out with friends, going out all the time, just relaxing and knowing that I didn't really have that much to do (aside from biology and FRENCH, which I brought along, of course). Too bad I was in a room with strangers that left me alone in my room for about 6 hours to huddle into one queen bed and gossip about their intergroup problems. Ah well, at least I got some quality studying done. =P Plus I didn't lose my tenor sax this year – awesome! The jazz band performance was amazing too – almost makes me wish I hadn't quit. xP But then again, I'll be happy that I won't have to get up at 6am anymore. Yay me.
   
7. Cuba - Who said this list had to be all about IB? Going to Cuba was AMAZING. I'm sure I'll blog about it one day… xP
   

And those are, in short, my seven favourite memories from this year. I'm sure I have more somewhere in my cerebrum, but you know, short term memory loss… =P Now, to continue having seizures from my internet. I HATE IT SO MUCH, ARGH. T_T

Oh dear.

Wow, these next two weeks before school's over are brutal. I just have to tell myself that all I have to do is just survive... Sigh.

Of course, my staple to-do lists have to reign once again. Here it goes again; in order of priority, as of now:

Math
Type I Portfolio - due Monday!

History
DISC Assignment - due Tuesday
Study Guide 12 Review Questions Quiz - Wednesday
Paper 3: Origins of WW2 - Thursday

Biology
Final #1 - Tuesday
Final #2 - Thursday
Final #3 (written) - Thursday, or maybe next Tuesday
Homeostasis Lab - June 16

Chemistry
Organic Chem Unit Test - June 15th

English
World Lit 1 - due June 19th

Other
Decide EE topic - before school's over
SFU Interview - Monday night
Band Concert - Tuesday night
SFU Training - night of Monday, June 15th
SFU Orientation - June 25th
N test - June 26th

*plays I Will Survive in the background while attempting to stay awake*

I'll just look towards my rewards... Sims 3... possibly my N... and SUMMER!

Then again, there's always my summer to-do list:

-History IA
-Music EE
-English readings

And then:
-History 5
-Piano
-SFU
-Physics 11 Summer School
-possibly SATs

Ironically, it's somehow so much shorter. =/ Strange, strange, strange.

Weekend To-Do List

YES, so glad French is done. :) Now, back to the normal rigors of IB. Sigh.

As usual, I must make some kind of a to-do list:

• Saturday: piano, EXERCISE, do CAS forms, plan bio lab, plan EE, study math, study bio, [maybe] look at English quotes
• Sunday: driving, metro/DT library/Phosphy [might not happen anymore! T_T], study math/bio

Sigh. At least there's only 3 weeks left until SUMMER. :D

World of IA

So after my French exam, I basically have a stack of IAs to finish before the summer. I guess it's out of the frying pan, into the fire, eh? At least I won't have to constantly worry about French... Haha. I need to keep track of what's happening, so:

• Biology Homeostasis Lab: "Homeostatic mechanisms greater in males or females?" Due 2nd week of June (shall we say... the 12th is my ideal due date?) Can't forget the biology final either - SIGH.
  
• History IA: To what extent was the Cuban Revolution supported by ordinary Cubans? (due September now - but maybe I'll try to finish by the END of the school year). Plus a History paper 3 essay in a couple of weeks..
  
• English World Lit 1: economy and value in "Metamorphosis" and "Ivan." Due sometime during the beginning of exam week... gotta get a head start on this!
  
• TOK Essay: #1; edit, revise, hand in!
  
• Math Portfolio Type 1: Get it tomorrow, due on the 8th. Eek!
  
• EE: Pick topic in MUSIC - get at least the research outline and topic thing done before school ends.
  
• CAS : Get Outreach/C-Club forms done - Yay, I got something done y'all!
  

Fun, fun, fun!

Now we all know what two letters "Fun" begin with...

Easter

So that's basically what I'll be doing all Easter weekend. Let's see, shall we?

I must:

• Math portfolio on log laws
• Plan my TOK essay, and then actually write it
• Learn this next Bio unit
• Fill out CAS forms
  
• Study French
• Plan my EE research topic and outline

I have:

• Friday: piano festival at night, do MATH PORTFOLIO
  
• Saturday: Team Cuba hangout from mid-afternoon on
• Sunday: Metrotown, afternoon
• Monday: TOK ESSAY DAY

All the other stuff, I'll have to cram in there somewhere... It kinda sucks when your homework is more of an ongoing thing...

Top 4 Places of Greater Vancouver!

Through watching the snowfall, doing French and thinking about the summer... I have compiled a list of my top 5 places in Greater Vancouver! Woohoo!

4. Metrotown (Burnaby) - Alright, so going there excessively gets overly redundant. I mean, if you really don't feel like shopping, watching a movie, arcading, or partaking in the sparse amounts of quality food services in the area, what else is there really to do? Nevertheless, it's always fun to roam around the crowded hallways and take a couple of dips into some stores that make you drool (*cough* Underground *cough*), but unfortunately there isn't much else to do here. I suppose this makes it on my list because it's an apt reminder of my childhood. To this day, I can still remember driving for a long time to a big mall, looking at the flashy signs that promoted Toys R' Us and Zellers and wondering, "What is this big, lit-up place?"

3. No. 3 Road (Richmond) - Going to Richmond? This is the place to be. The food, the bubble tea places, Richmond centre, Yaohan centre, random banks, and large furniture stores, all located on one convenient street! Unfortunately, it's kind of dirty, polluted, disheveled by the Canada Line construction and somewhat frightening to walk on... but other than that, nobody can resist the cooking dim sum (especially the baozi!) enough to drop by this road!

2. Stanley Park (Vancouver) - I'd have to say that this comes in rather closely with my number one favourite destination in Greater Vancouver. Stanley Park is just such a beautiful place, with all the trees and... more trees... and I suppose that's all I can really say about its beauty. Walking down the seawalk, avoiding all the rollerskaters, children and bikers, certainly is an awesome thing to do during the summer. However, biking or jogging down it (something that I have yet to really partake in that much (but that's going to change soon!)) is an even grander experience, and that places Stanley Park at a very close position to first on this Top 5 list.

1. English Bay (Vancouver) - Yes! Yes! Yes! What could possibly be better than the beach? Of course, you better hope for near-perfect weather before going there, since a rainy beach is both disgusting and depressing. However, around the summer, simply lying down on the sand and soaking up the sun OR a stroll with friends down the walk is pretty much overly awesome. Perhaps I'm just a little biased, but I really love the beach... haha. Plus, it's got a view of the coolest penthouse ever: the one with a tree! *squee*

And this just makes me want summer even more. Just 160 days left... I can make it... ><