And just like that the school term is over. Honestly, this term really flew by. I think part of that is due to me being back in Toronto by Wednesday night/Thursday morning every week, and part of it was due to my 1 week trip to Vegas. Like I said in my previous post, I'm definitely glad I got to experience 1 term of summer in school and in Waterloo, but I would not do it again.
I guess with this being the end of my 4th year in university, I've been asked on a regular basis, on what my plans are for the future. (I've also been asked alot whether I was going to be going into my last year as well). I guess right now, I am tentatively going to be going back to school on a part time basis. Going to be commuting into Waterloo Tuesday and Thursday, and will be doing 2 (or 3) courses, while working between 4-8 hours part-time at the athletics office, and probably referee a few games at night both days. So that would definitely keep me busy 2 days. I am probably going to be doing a few things with campus rec. intramurals as well in between all that.
Other than that, I'm hoping to spend Monday/Wednesday/Friday hopefully either with another part-time job, volunteering, and just basically something constructive with my life. I'm looking into possibly getting into MMA, probably starting with going to a BJJ gym and training there a few times a week. If not, just going to get a gym membership and get back into better shape as a whole. Going to look into possibly joining up with a sport team or two, and maybe get myself into a small group.
So..that pretty much wraps up my plans for September onwards until probably December, and then 2010 will bring a whole new chapter. Btw...all these plans will probably go into the drain if I manage to find a decent full time job.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
You know it's exams time when...
...I blog so often.
I was going through some of my draft blogs, and realized that I have quite a substantial amount of backlog - these are not necessarily updates or anything, just a random thought during the day and I just somehow turned into a whole essay. I doubt too many of them will ever get posted, as I simply do not have the will to finish it. On top of that, I simply lost the train of thoughts I had while writing that blurb. Furthermore, most of it probably don't make sense anyways, since I simply write them without any type of plan, just more as thoughts/ideas crosses my mind, it becomes written. Maybe one day when I got too much time on my hands I will do, but probably not.
For some actual substance, the school term is slowly wrapping up. This is the first summer term I've done in university, and I'm glad I got to experience what it is like to be in university, and in Waterloo, over the summer term. However, this is definitely not my cup of tea. I will probably expand on this thought later, but for now my stomach is calling out for food. To wrap it up, this is the last week of lectures, with 2 exams coming up next week. After that, it's officially summer time for a week or so...
I was going through some of my draft blogs, and realized that I have quite a substantial amount of backlog - these are not necessarily updates or anything, just a random thought during the day and I just somehow turned into a whole essay. I doubt too many of them will ever get posted, as I simply do not have the will to finish it. On top of that, I simply lost the train of thoughts I had while writing that blurb. Furthermore, most of it probably don't make sense anyways, since I simply write them without any type of plan, just more as thoughts/ideas crosses my mind, it becomes written. Maybe one day when I got too much time on my hands I will do, but probably not.
For some actual substance, the school term is slowly wrapping up. This is the first summer term I've done in university, and I'm glad I got to experience what it is like to be in university, and in Waterloo, over the summer term. However, this is definitely not my cup of tea. I will probably expand on this thought later, but for now my stomach is calling out for food. To wrap it up, this is the last week of lectures, with 2 exams coming up next week. After that, it's officially summer time for a week or so...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Past Few Days
Wow..what a rough few days it's been. I guess it's not really miserable/bad in that sense, but just overall how few days it's been. Most of it consists is just sports related, but also on the other hand I just felt like I had no motivation at all left in me.
I guess it starts/begins with the Blue Jays. Was at the Thursday and Saturday game, and while Thursday's was just plain old boring, Saturday was a case of a collapse in epic portions. Up 9-1 going into the seventh, the somehow managed to blow the 8 run lead and lose the game in extra innings.
Friday was just a day of nothing, where all the plans just basically fell through, and it turned into a day I spent lazy-ing around. I simply had no motivation to go and accomplish anything, and I ended up watching Scott Downs blow the game for the Blue Jays (see a pattern?)
On top of it all, its been a couple of days where it seems like a couple of nerves were touched between a couple of friends, and looks like there will be some patching up that needs to be done.
I think it's just time to bury my head behind my textbooks for the next 10 days or so and just focus on finishing this term off strong (not like that's going to happen..the burying my head part), but knowing me, that ain't going to happen.
I guess it starts/begins with the Blue Jays. Was at the Thursday and Saturday game, and while Thursday's was just plain old boring, Saturday was a case of a collapse in epic portions. Up 9-1 going into the seventh, the somehow managed to blow the 8 run lead and lose the game in extra innings.
Friday was just a day of nothing, where all the plans just basically fell through, and it turned into a day I spent lazy-ing around. I simply had no motivation to go and accomplish anything, and I ended up watching Scott Downs blow the game for the Blue Jays (see a pattern?)
On top of it all, its been a couple of days where it seems like a couple of nerves were touched between a couple of friends, and looks like there will be some patching up that needs to be done.
I think it's just time to bury my head behind my textbooks for the next 10 days or so and just focus on finishing this term off strong (not like that's going to happen..the burying my head part), but knowing me, that ain't going to happen.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Emo-ness on Twitter
Just had a chat with a friend last night, and wow, my eyes were opened. I guess it all started when she mentioned she noticed various tweets on my Twitter once in awhile, and was in a way worried that I've "turned" emo and was shutting off myself from the world and only communicating my feelings via the means of Twitter*
*Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. (taken from wikipedia.org)
In any case, the chat made me realize that 140 characters is simply not enough to thorough communicate my "true" feelings at any point, and that some of it might do more harm than good as it is quite misleading. For example - just yesterday I made a tweet along the lines of "Sometimes I should considering driving with my radio off". In short, I really felt the time I was able to spend with God, talking to Him and just spending the time with Him was valuable. However, she mentioned that she misinterpreted as something more serious. Another one involved went along the lines of "I really need to get my head screwed back on the right way". It was just an innocent tweet that I posted as I made the same mistake towards a problem that I have already made several times - yet it was again misinterpreted.
In any case, thank you again (you know who you are) for that little chat, and also I guess as a reminder/wake-up call on how I have been expressing myself and the needs to be more careful. Time to official wipe that "emo" tag off myself again...jeez, emo is like one of the last words I would associate myself with..blah!
*Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. (taken from wikipedia.org)
In any case, the chat made me realize that 140 characters is simply not enough to thorough communicate my "true" feelings at any point, and that some of it might do more harm than good as it is quite misleading. For example - just yesterday I made a tweet along the lines of "Sometimes I should considering driving with my radio off". In short, I really felt the time I was able to spend with God, talking to Him and just spending the time with Him was valuable. However, she mentioned that she misinterpreted as something more serious. Another one involved went along the lines of "I really need to get my head screwed back on the right way". It was just an innocent tweet that I posted as I made the same mistake towards a problem that I have already made several times - yet it was again misinterpreted.
In any case, thank you again (you know who you are) for that little chat, and also I guess as a reminder/wake-up call on how I have been expressing myself and the needs to be more careful. Time to official wipe that "emo" tag off myself again...jeez, emo is like one of the last words I would associate myself with..blah!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Some Updates
Long time no blog - nothing really new recently. My weeks since May has been pretty routine. It typically involved being in Waterloo from Sunday afternoon/evening to Thursday morning, and in Toronto from Thursday afternoon until Sunday afternoon.
Monday would be school from 10-1130, work from 1230-430, back to school from 7-10p. Tuesdays would be class 1-4, 7-10, and Wednesday a repeat of Monday without the 7-10p.
Thursdays would start whenever I decide to wake up, go back to TO, and softball. And both Saturday/Sunday would involved church/softball in some way, shape or form.
It's been a pretty fast 2 months (May and June), with the 2 months literally feeling like it flew by. Grinded out a bit playing online poker in June, and managed to luck my way into winning 2 World Series of Poker Main Event seats, and flew down to Vegas to play in that. Trip itself was pretty much similar to my trip last July, with the only exception being that I actually played in the Main Event. The tournament itself went about as bad as it could without anything major. It was a slow and painful grind til I busted out. I ended up being away for a week, and now back in school to grind out the rest of this semester.
As for what's happening after this term, I think I can seriously say I'm lost and confused with "life" for the first time in my 22 years on earth. It felt like a good plan initially about either doing more school from Sept - Dec to complete my CHRP designation, take a couple of trips in early parts of 2010, and settle down and look for a full time gig in April/May of 2010. Having sat down and talked with my parents, I'm not sure how well that plan will fly. Furthermore, I'm not sure whether to go pursue the additional courses through UW, or other institutions closer to home. Part of me wants to remain in UW, as the Athletics Department has been able to (and will be able to continue to) allow me to be employed on a part-time basis while being in school, something I probably will not be able to continue should I go elsewhere. In addition, UW has been my home for 4 years, I'm not sure if I want to simply pick up my bags and go to another school "closer to home".
Another side of me is realizing how much money it's really costing to live away from home, as well as the other benefits of living at home. While I wish I can say I found a spiritual home in Waterloo, I cannot say that being completely honest with myself. While the CCF has been consistently providing me with spiritual support, it has never truly felt like home. I guess the saying of you get what you put into something definitely rings true to my involvement with the UWCCF throughout my 4 years here. Lastly, having finally looked at the course schedule for Fall 2009, the classes offered and their schedule will create a less-than-ideal schedule for me.
Time to really start praying about this...at least it was good to get one thing off my chest.
Monday would be school from 10-1130, work from 1230-430, back to school from 7-10p. Tuesdays would be class 1-4, 7-10, and Wednesday a repeat of Monday without the 7-10p.
Thursdays would start whenever I decide to wake up, go back to TO, and softball. And both Saturday/Sunday would involved church/softball in some way, shape or form.
It's been a pretty fast 2 months (May and June), with the 2 months literally feeling like it flew by. Grinded out a bit playing online poker in June, and managed to luck my way into winning 2 World Series of Poker Main Event seats, and flew down to Vegas to play in that. Trip itself was pretty much similar to my trip last July, with the only exception being that I actually played in the Main Event. The tournament itself went about as bad as it could without anything major. It was a slow and painful grind til I busted out. I ended up being away for a week, and now back in school to grind out the rest of this semester.
As for what's happening after this term, I think I can seriously say I'm lost and confused with "life" for the first time in my 22 years on earth. It felt like a good plan initially about either doing more school from Sept - Dec to complete my CHRP designation, take a couple of trips in early parts of 2010, and settle down and look for a full time gig in April/May of 2010. Having sat down and talked with my parents, I'm not sure how well that plan will fly. Furthermore, I'm not sure whether to go pursue the additional courses through UW, or other institutions closer to home. Part of me wants to remain in UW, as the Athletics Department has been able to (and will be able to continue to) allow me to be employed on a part-time basis while being in school, something I probably will not be able to continue should I go elsewhere. In addition, UW has been my home for 4 years, I'm not sure if I want to simply pick up my bags and go to another school "closer to home".
Another side of me is realizing how much money it's really costing to live away from home, as well as the other benefits of living at home. While I wish I can say I found a spiritual home in Waterloo, I cannot say that being completely honest with myself. While the CCF has been consistently providing me with spiritual support, it has never truly felt like home. I guess the saying of you get what you put into something definitely rings true to my involvement with the UWCCF throughout my 4 years here. Lastly, having finally looked at the course schedule for Fall 2009, the classes offered and their schedule will create a less-than-ideal schedule for me.
Time to really start praying about this...at least it was good to get one thing off my chest.
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