It’s been almost a month since I posted on here and…well, hey, its the first post of this year! I’ve mentioned before, this blog is for me (as selfish as that sounds); its my place to gather my thoughts, my place to rant, my place to document what’s been happening as life comes and goes. I merely havent found time nor felt a need to blog so I simply havent.

The reasons for that? For one, I usually blog at school between classes on my laptop and as University students might know, December = exam/holiday month so I never really found the time to blog about stuff. Now that school’s started again, Ive finally found the time to get back to this habit of mine.

So what’s been happening in the last two months? Well, the year in review covered parts of it, but I’ll go over it nontheless.

December started with exams and with exams for the most part went by pretty decently and pretty well. The semester for the most part ended up decently as I passed all my courses and whatnot. It started snowing on the 13th and my exams ended on the 17th so the holiday mood was on. I started my holiday by grabbing lunch with a friend I hadnt seen in a few years (this friend was my archer role model back when I was the little 4x hunter with the vaulter 2000 and the dark piette set… I digress) at a mall in the next city. It was a far way to go in the snow but we didnt mind. We had Korean hot pot and just chatted about various things and afterwards just went home.

The day after that, I had my interview at church for my baptism. Everything went fine and I was set to be baptised on the 28th of December. Some time at the end of that week (I think) I met up with a bunch of maple friends. Well, it was like 2 maple friends and a bunch of their friends from maple. For the most part, none of us have met before (except for Jason, who showed up at my grad a few years ago) and after getting lost, going home, and going back, I chilled with them for around half an hour at McD’s. It turns out that three of them went to a church in Coquitlam that is the sister church of my cousin’s. I had gone to my cousin’s church camp last last summer so it turns out I had met them before… small world xD I also met Kevin (Dualwings) and Barry (Midpaced) and upon looking at my old screenshots, it turns out I remembered him (his ign, I never talked to him personally) and he was the famous, pro beta archer “FastPaced”. I found a screenshot of me standing next to him in sleepywood with his red hinkel and… yeah, the nostalgia D:

The week after, it continued to snow really hard, so hard that the baptism got canceled and so hard that I just stayed home all Christmas day and boxing day. This week, I also had some bad news. My Music History prof emailed me saying that I had used the wrong bibliography format and that I could redo my paper or otherwise get 50% on it. The next day, my laptop with my paper on it died and after some inquiry, it turned out to be the hard drive…again (yes, two hard drives in under two years, what crappy computers… Im never getting HP again). That means my paper was gone unless I could extract the data from my hard drive. I ended up doing that and finally did the paper in January and handing it in last week.

New Years Eve: For the first time ever, I went to a New Years Eve party. Yes, it took me that long but I usually spent it with parents and family and whatnot. We went out to dinner in Richmond (some hot pot place) to celebrate a friend who’s birthday was a few days before Christmas (We couldnt do anything because we were snowed in all week) and after that, we went to his house and hung out all night. We played Rock Band on his PS3 and 41 inch TV (yeah… he spent $2000 dollars that Christmas getting himself stuff, lol) and when New Years came, we gave him his cake.  We ended up sleeping at around 7 am and left the place at 3 pm the next day. I also had my first taste of alcohol that night/day. Long story short, I thought it was orange juice and they told me afterwards >_>

Some time between the New Year and the start of school, I met up with those maplers again. Becky was sick so Henry and Becky werent able to come. This time, Cindy and her friend Cindy and her bf showed up too. We were originally planning to watch a movie, then grab sushi but it ended up being just sushi. After that, we just all headed off our separate ways.

The day before school started, I met up with my high school friends. We have a mini-tradition where we meet up at the end of every semester and just hang out and catch up on how each of us are doing. We were all very busy this year so we didnt find time to meet up till the last day of the holidays. It was snowing really hard but we decided to meet up anyways. We ended up going Korean Hot Pot (yes, I went hot pot a lot over the holidays) and watched “The Day the Earth Stood Still” afterwards. It was pretty funny cause my friend goes to SFU and part of the movie was filmed there so at times, he would go “Oh hey, I remember seeing them film that!” The trouble started after the movie though. We all headed off our own ways to get home in the snow…except I couldnt get home cause there was too much snow so the busses stopped going. I ended up having to spend the night at a friend’s house and getting home at 10 am the next morning. Naturally, I skipped all my classes that day because I was lacking sleep and whatnot.

This brings us to school. For those wondering, I have seven courses, 1 tutorial and 1 discussion class this semester: Music Theory, Music History, Musicianship, Piano lessons, Concert Attendance, Medieval Literature and Philosophy 100. Im just happy I dont have math this semester cause… yeah, I didnt do so well at it last semester. For the most part, school has been going fine since Ive got my laptop back (really, school was really boring during those 2 hour breaks that I have so many of) except that today, I had a run in with a prof… can profs really tell a student not to go to their class? That’s new to me. I intend to discuss with a counselor some time or something but… yeah. Something doesnt seem right there.

Maple updates? I’ll do that next time. I will say this: I finally washed enough points into HP that I can solo bosses without dying and still have average AP in Dex/Str. As for the movie… its coming along slowly. Ive worked 19 hours on it and the intro is almost done so… look forward to that… soon! You should all take Cindy’s approach to it: I dont even expect anything from it anymore because it just keeps getting delayed.

I think Im starting to understand how nexon operates now and how they can possibly have all those delays. Either way, I hope to get that out asap and meet whatever expectations people have left for it.

This week is Super Bowl week and their Media Week has brought up an intersting idea that I quite like: Asking questions and getting answers. From now till the Super Bowl, whoever still reads here is allowed to ask ANYTHING they want and I will answer it truthfully.

Have fun with everything ,

Jackk

Ps. 21-17 Cardinals