Ghar, I have 3 hours to finish a paper I haven’t even started yet lol. And I still have some readings to do… I’m getting lazy, and that’s not good…

I cut back hours with TEC, and I just found out that I’m doing the tutoring thing I do on Monday nights for less weeks than I was expecting… which is good. Honestly, right now I actually don’t care much about what Im earning, I just want to be able to sleep :S. Or maybe it’s also because in 2 pay cheques (1 month), I’m gonna be completely debt free… horay! Well debt free except for the laptop with my parents… but yah, we’ll get to that eventually…

Ok well… not gonna waste time ranting. On to my paper…

I mentioned already that it doesn’t really feel like my birthday, despite all of the greetings – and even a long distance phone call from my ate in the Philippines – today. That’s cause today was just a normal Thursday – I had to work this morning (in fact I worked for 4.5 hours today) and the paper I had to finish, and the class I had to attend (though I did get to skip 2 classes, but that was because I had to work on the paper).

That and I already had my birthday party, and got all gifts and stuff, so yah. It feels like my birthday passed already.

But anyway, yah, I’m 21 years old. Wow. Can’t believe it. I’ve already been looking at Masters Degrees, amazing… I’d like to do it at University of the Philippines… yah I’m thinking about it already, even though I’m still 2 years away. I actually had a really arrogant thought when I was reading through the programs… cause I even went so far to figure out which University in the Philippines is considered the best – there were 3 of them in the Asian top 100 list, La Salle, UP and Ateneo… And UP was the highest ranked out of the three at 57. So yeah, I was thinking, man I can get in there so easilly… what with a degree from UofT and all… But not just that, a big consideration that I need to make is if I ever decide to get a Ph.D. If I do, for sure I’ll do it at UofT… cause it’s such a great research University, end one of the best in the world for the field I want to do it in (international studies/relations/politics… you get it). So what I need is a Masters Degree that they would accept (of course I could do my masters at UofT, which they actually have a specialized program called MAIR). But they encourage doing Masters at another university, if I want to do Ph.D there…

So yeah, I’d like go to Europe but that’s rediculously expensive… US is even more expensive. And the only place I’d really consider in Canada is BC. And, well as much as I’d like to go back there, I’d rather go somewhere I haven’t been to before… Ok well, so I lived in the Philippines before we moved here to Canada, but I haven’t been back for a significant amount of time, plus it would be really cheap, and I can even kinda use it as a base to travel other places in Asia.

Yah, btu again it’s still 2 years away, we’ll see how it goes first…

Horay I’m 21…

Well, barely 4 hours after I was offered it, I accepted that position to be Check-In supervisor at my work… hehe. Let’s see how the next few weeks go. Depending on how much they pay, I’ll probably quit working at the UofT Telefund, which actually would not be the worse thing in the world… LOL. Except I did get to know a few people there, and it would suck to leave just like that (then again, it would suck to leave any job you’ve gotten used to… I hated working at Old Navy, but it was still sad leaving) but it would be nice to stop that… Fundraising over the telephone isn’t the funnest thing in the world. Plus it clears up some of my evenings, which is really what I’d prefer.

I just kindof remembered that Thursday is my birthday. But it doesn’t seem like it to me now.. It seems like it passed already, cause I already had my party. But yah, all Thursday is to me now is the day I have to hand in my POL208 assignment, which by the way I still haven’t started. Entering some scary times here… specially if I accept this promotion.

Oh yeah and I got Band of Brothers yesterday with the birthday money I collected, so yah. Thjis birthday turned out to be pretty amazing on the gift side – Prison Break and Band of Brothers! WHAT!!!

I just got offered a promotion at work (TEC), but it means waking up early *every* morning. Ugh. Maybe I’ll quit Telefund instead of dropping hours from TEC… hmph…

I have the feeling this post will signal my transformation into this morning guru person thing… But yeah, even if the pay is less than Telefund, which I’m pretty sure it is, it’s still a really attractive position because… well yah, it’s working at home, and the work is basically taking in phone calls… (or in the case of one of my supervisors, MSN messages… which is what I’ll plan to do).

Ghar if I only had the discipline… or whatever.. I dunno if you can call that a discipline… to fall asleep at night exactly when I want to. So that I can get the entire amount of sleep that I need (I didn’t fall asleep until midnight last night, despite having been in bed since 11PM)

Argh, I knew I shouldn’t have had that second cup of (extra large) coffee while I was studying… but hey, I was at Tim Hortons, how could I not have coffee? LOL. This is gonna hurt tommorow, but I’m gonna make sure I don’t sleep in till noon. I gots too much studying to do. Anyway here’s a really funny cartoon (not the funniest, but funny)…

LOL. It’s funny cause it’s true… hehe.

Gah, I’m so sick of this stupid Canadian History assignment. I finished it on Friday, but I haven’t stopped looking at it – making changes over and over again. I’m just gonna print it and, like every assignment I’ve ever done, just hope for the best. At least I’m pretty sure that there aren’t any spelling and grammar errors… After close to 50 times reading through it, I will applaud my TA if she finds any.

Then there’s the test that I have to prep for. Although I really am not that worried about that. But I’m still studdying like mad. Over 80 in both assignments (secretly, I think I can get a 90 in the American Politics test) but we’ll see… Then I have to prepare my readings for POL208. And hopefully, by Wednesday night, I can even move on to some of the catch up reading that I have to do (catch up, but recommended reading, so they’re not urgent). Basically, I’m gonna have a long day of hitting the books tommorow.

FUN! Honestly, if I didn’t like my classes so much I don’t know what I would do (actually I still really hate Canadian History, but in that case, my determination to get 3.5 session GPA is what’s keeping me going). So. No TV tommorow, even though I got PRISON BREAK SEASON 1 on DVD for my birthday (HORAY FOR YULA! You’re my favourite person right now). In fact I don’t see how I can committ any time to watching the DVDs until after Dec. 18 – which I just found out is when my American History Mid-Term is. *sigh*

Well I’m doing something now that I haven’t done in a long time (this’ll make my friend, Ted Bieber happy): watching TV. Actually, more specifically, watching the big tv in our living room. Of course I’ve watched TV recently… who can avoid it? I pass by at least 2 on my way out the door… But yeah, in general, it’s mostly just catching up with the news (though I do that mostly through reading the newspaper online) and finding out what the weather will be like.

I just don’t have the time yah know? Study, study, study is pretty much all I do. Add to that the fact that right now House and Prison Break – the only two shows I would bend over backwards trying to catch, are on some sort of hiatus.

So yeah I haven’t really watched TV in a while… hehe, even now I’m writing instead of watching (I caught the end of Fun with Dick and Jane). I’m considering watching a movie on TMN On Demand, but I don’t really feel like it…

I’ll probably end up going to bed after I finish this post…

Anyway, I finished my first Assignment in my second year at University… It’s my Canadian History assignment where I had to gather evidence for a topic, from an article written by another historian on a completely different topic (well not completely different, but yeah, they don’t deal with the same thesis question). It was a little tough, and frankly I’m not that confident I’ll get a really good grade. Ghar, I hate this class so much. But yeah, what amazes me though is that I found the motivation to complete it 4 days early (it’s not due until Tuesday). Maybe it’s me over reacting to the amount of assignments I have due in a row (3 – Tuesday, Thursday, then next Monday), in addition to my first exam of the year (American Politics – this Monday). Cause when I started reading the background readings for the next assignment due (International Relations due on Thursday), I actually found it really easy. So I think I’ll be done that pretty easilly.

So yeah, it’s all turning out pretty good right now, especially since tommorow is my birthday party – I doubt I’ll have enough time to be able to do much studying. Then Sundays are Sundays for me… So that really only leaves Monday for me to study for my exam/start on this next paper.

Phew.. Ok, I actually do just want to go to bed… Maybe tommorow I can get some quality tube time…

I love International Relations so much! 4 weeks ago I would have glanced over this quote, but now I look at it with much interest…

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“We would do a lot better by our soldiers in the field and on the front lines by gauging this situation with realism, not wishful thinking,” he [Peter McKay - Minister of Foreign Affairs] said.
Calling for peace talks with the Taliban — a suggestion made by NDP Leader Jack Layton — only makes insurgents bolder.
- Toronto Star

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LOL, realism and liberalism (the wishful thinking part)… just what I was saying I was studying 2 posts ago. Maybe I’ll do a little bit of my own analysis of this whole thing… after the papers I actually have to do for school.

But yeah, this is yet another reminder to me of how inadequate Jack Layon really is… Although I’ve been saying that over and over. He’s not fit to lead a national party… Even the Liberal Party is careful about what it says regarding foreign affairs matter… Actually I shouldn’t say “even” of course they would be careful what they say about foreign affairs, they have the experience. They know what they’re doing – that even in opposition to policies by the Conservative government, they can’t just all out say things like “peace talks with the Taliban”.

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In his speech, MacKay accused New Democrats, who are opposed to the war, of frustrating and demoralizing Canadian troops in Afghanistan with talk of withdrawing them from combat.
- Toronto Star

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Oh man, what a scary world it will be if Jack Layton would ever become Prime Minsiter – or even Leader of the Official Opposition.

I take it all back, during the elections, my ideal situation was a Conservative Minority with the NDP as the balance of power. But it is becoming clearer and clearer to me that the NDP will remain narrow and short sighted and unfit for government.