Experiment Day 2

I've been at school since 11:00 am and its currently 10:00pm (half an hour more to go for studying). My head hurts from studying like it was yesterday. Only difference is I've been studying for 9-10 hours (if you count all the goofing off and stuff). Pretty good pace I have going here. Only thing I'm kind of behind on the stuff on the goals I wanna accomplish this weekend to keep up with classes. I think a lack of caffeine with periodic naps is helping a bit. I think this regimine is helping me absorb more information. Maybe coffee overloads my system? Maybe I should just get more sleep. (On a side note, I did have Hot Chocolate, and chocolate contains theobromine, which sort of acts like caffeine, but not that potent and definitly not as potent as the stuff you get in tea). I got 7 hours last night and took a 15 minute nap around 4:00pm. Oh right, when I get tired from studying, my thoughts get all jumbled up kind of like this blog entry right now.

Back to studying and drilling the information into my head. This chair is starting to hurt my ass. I think I've been sitting here too long and the blood is starting to clot in the arteries and veins of my arse.

Experiment Day 1

Ok, just to let you guys know its not a complete formal experiment. Just something to change my habits. Studying has been going ok.. so yah. I'm getting lots of information in but then again I had two naps about 30 minutes long. Information staying in my head so, so far so good. The coming days will be more of a challenge as I have a midterm, a japanese essay and a japanese test the coming week. Looks like I'll be secluded in SUB for a while.

Speaking of SUB. I've been watching Hana Yori Dango, a tear jerking, emotional J-drama. Probably not the best thing to watch in a public place. I was watching the last episode just a couple minutes ago, taking my study break, when Louis, who is studying across from me just informed me that the fob chicks sitting behind me have been looking at my screen and laughing. They've probably drawn the 2 conclusions: A) that I'm an senstive/hopeless romantic who's emo. Or B) I'm a homo. I should of looked less interested in the drama when I was watching it. Fuck! Oh well, if they don't see my face it's all good?

Damn, Feel like a retard! Anyways should go catch my bus? Wait did I see Louis' sister? No I don't think so.

<3

My Study Epiphany...

I skipped my early morning coffee this morning, because I got to work late and didnt' have time to stop by the starbucks. Which means my morning was hell since I was trying not to fall asleep during work. I would pinch myself until the pain awoke me.

Anyway, I found that today from reading my pharmacology text book, that there was a study correlating heavy coffee drinkers with low grades. In otherwords, those that had minimal amounts of caffeine did better on tests than those who had a high dosage of caffeine. Then it hit me. The only thing I drank today was two bottles of Arizona Green Tea, which has a neuromodulator theophylline in it. Theophylline is nearly identical to caffeine chemically, but physiologically, it is less potent on the central nervous system. So basically, I've been having less caffeine intake than my usual dose. Additionally, today I was able to intake more information than before and seemed to be more focused on school. Does this mean that my decreased does of caffeine means I'm studying better? Is it the ginseng or the afternoon naps that facilitate my naps? (I don't think its the later, because I always take naps and they don't help but anyway...)

I've come with an experiment to test out this theory. I'm going to feed myself ginseng green tea for 2 weeks and see how my studying feels. Instead of spending $2 a pop on the arizona tea, I'm going to make my own with green tea leaves and Remember-Fx pills. I'll dissolve one Remember-FX pills into the green tea along with a suitable amount of sugar/honey. I'll drink it and continue the trend for 2 weeks. I hope I can remember to do this every night. More to come later.

Whats with the.....

...influx of students at lunch time? I got out of class at 11:50 and walked around campus for about 25 minutes despretely looking for a spot where I could sit and study. I walk from CAB to SUB then to HUB, back to Cameron Library though the business building. There was not even a single fricking vacant table. (Normally I can find a table within 2 minutes of walking into CAB -_-.)

Is it me or has there been an increase in the amount of students at lunch time every week? Have they been skipping classes for the past 3 weeks and not decided to show up until now? Are they skipping lunch classes? Where the hell are you guys coming from? GIVE ME A DAMN TABLE. I HATE YOU ALL! Sorry, I need anger management -_-.
Since classes are done for the day, I hope that my lab goes a lot smoother than my shitty ass day. Hopefully, the majority of the class won't be wanking off and causing me to get off at 5:15 again. If they do I swear somebody is gonna get beaten up and stuffed into the IR machine....

Study Break....

Haven't updated for a while and decided it would be a good time to take a short study break and write up a much needed update.

I've done a lot of physical excerises as of late, just as a way to get into shape. I think its working. I feel like I can push myself a little more than before. The only downside now is that my back is starting to hurt like a bitch everyday. In other words, I'm turning into an old man at the ripe age of 22. Shit. Everytime I get into a car and feel the bumps of the road, a nice sore pain fires up my spinal cord. Sometimes when I sit down I get a sore back and its not till I am lying down in my bed that I don't feel the pain anymore. Physical exercises will be put on hiatus until my back feels better or I manage to get my hands on some morphine and syringes.

On a lighter note, I've just got word of a new season of Hana Yori Dango coming out sometime in 2007. I look forward to seeing Inoue Mao again in a drama. I think I found my new obsession for a while.

Chou Kawaii!

Anyways, back to pits of textbook hell.

Edit: I think when I study chemistry my english goes to shit. I've had to re-edit this post about 5 times for it to look coherent -_->

My Exciting Story for the Week

I came to school early today, for an early morning work out. After finishing my workout and getting changed, I headed to booster juice for a quick refreshment and hopefully something that will keep my awake for my 3 hours of class. I made my order and was waiting, when Jason Smith (Yes , the Oilers captain) showed up and ordered a "Very Berry".

It took me a couple glances for me to recognize him. Well, it was more like disbelief and reaffirmation glances. I was going to talk to him, but he sorta looked intimidating. The best way to describe it was a guy who woke up really early in the morning and hadn't had his morning coffee yet. Scary!

Maybe I'll see if he goes again next week. Hahhah I'll bring a pen and his hockey card and ask for an autograph. Or atleast say something like, "Thanks for the great playoffs, Mr. Smith"

Soccer in the Rain is not like Singing in the Rain

Studying late night at the SUB I receive a call from Chungers about House night. Unfortunately I couldn't make it because of intramurals. I was even more sorry to hear that I couldn't play the 24 board game Chungs had rented from Movie Studio. Great! I just dissed my two favorite T.V. heroes in one night. Not to mention the attrocious rain that was mentioned by Chungs, but I never realized how bad it was until I went outside. Boy did it feel like University kicked me in the nuts because no matter how bad it was raining, Intramural soccer was played rain or shine. Even if chicken little was running around "screaming the sky is falling" and the sky was actually falling, we'd still have to play.

So after an hour of freezing to death in wet clothes, and being soaked to the bone, the final results were in. We lost. But I didn't care, we have lots to improve on first. But hypothermia prevention comes first.

When I got home I took a warm shower and dressed myself up in my winter coat and blogging. It's down and real warm. I just wanna sweat a little before I sleep. My leg has been cramping up since driving Jeremy home at 11:00pm, Shizzle. I hate you sometimes rain, but it was fun! Anyway, here are some more pictures from Vancouver.

He likes chicken, he likes liver, Meow mix Meow mix please deliver!

Can you point out the one that stands out from the rest?

More Vancouver Pictures

4 Days into school, I think I've studied a total of 24 hours. Well ok, that's sorta pushing it, but I have been studying quite a bit. It's sick, but I need to keep up this pace and stay on top of things.

Seeing as school is boring (except for my LABMP course, the text books is disgusting, by the way, because it has actual pictures of human pathologies), I've decided to post up my more interesting pictures from the Vancouver roadtrip. I mean why not? Everybody wants to see us four being idiots for their amusement right? HELL YA!

As an aside, the pictures are taking so MF'ing long to share over MSN sharing folders. Its ridiculous. Mike started sending me pictures about 3 hours ago, and I have 12 pictures. (Two of which are Leslie sleeping, wierd...and scary.) I won't post all of the pictures but I'll post of the interesting ones. That is if blogger doesn't start being a bitch about a ton of pictures. Well I hope not....I <3> you too Blogger.

Insert favorite "I'll kill you" Yakuza Phrase here (Something Like shinitainokai kora!)

The punching bag was asking for it, it was dressing sexy!

After note: Blogger is being a bitch about the pictures. I'll find another way.

My Vancouver Monoblog

School has started again (ugh..) and I'll probably be busy nerding it out in the next couple of weeks, so I figure the second day of school (today) will be the best day for writing about my roadtrip to Vancouver with friends, Mike, Perry and Les.

Wussup guys?

Calgary and Shisha (sp)
On the first day we drove down to Calgary. There we met up with some Wushu friends, had sushi, which was quite good. They had 2 different types of Tobiko (shrimp eggs, I believe): red and green. It was very unique to what we have in Edmonton. Highly recommended, if only I can remember the name of the restaurant. It'll come to me.

Shisha was the plan later that night. An we stopped by this Shisha bar around 11:30 after watching the Calgary Ji Hong Wushu demonstration rehersal. Shisha (, which I'm probably not even spelling right,) is basically inhaling pure nicotine and none of the crap you'd get with cigarettes (cyanide, formaldehyde, and other carcinogens). Usually one Shisha is good enough for 2 people, so with four of us, we ordered two (Mike didn't do shisha, it was our other friend that was doing it). Unfortuantly I made the mistake of confusing the shisha menu with a drink menu and ordered another shisha. Then our friend left so we were stuck with 3 shishas between 3 people. Boy, did I feel pretty sick when I got back to Wilson's house. Almost puked. Never again will I pick up a Shisha menu, ever... Well the Shishas in Calgary are closing down because of the bylaw which prohibts smoking inside. Damn bylaws....

Mike's incessant snoring and sleeping
One of the things I discovered while on the roadtrip is that Mike snores quite loudly. Unfortunately they aren't at a regular pace either, so its hard to get adjusted to it. Some are loud and some are barely audible. I don't think irregular snoring is a good thing. Perry said something about really loud snoring be a potential life threatener, so Mike should probably get that checked out.

But anyways the solution to this problem was to, a) sleep before mike sleeps or b) drink a hell lot of alcohol and pass out in the midst of the snoring. Seeing as the early days of the road trip involved no booze, solution a was the only valid option. The thing is, Mike falls asleep instantly at times, making it impossible to fall asleep before the guy. So, the first few days of the trip we had to kick him to wake him up and prey that we fell asleep before he started snoring again. This cycle was repeated until we could fall asleep. Although sometimes we'd wake up to it again. In that case we would just repeat. Poor Mike...

The night before we were suppose to head to Vancouver from Calgary (with a stop at a capsite near Kamloops), Les gave me a set of earplugs, which i kept through the entire trip. Being the only driver, it was important to get a good night's rest before driving 10 or so hours. I wish I kept those earplugs the entire trip, but I lost them the day after. Stupid me.

When camping, Perry had to sleep with Mike in his tent. You can imagine what happened, there were other noises too, but we'll leave it at that. I was to pair up with Les in my tent, but the fracking cars kept driving by keeping me awake, so I changed my sleeping place to my car. I asked Les if he had a good night sleep on my Air matress. The damn thing took me an hour to inflate I swear, but if not for Mike's ingenious idea to use my hair dryer all would have been lost. Apparently I under inflated the Air matress so it was unbalanced and Les had rolled towards the door and off the Air matress. Never will I use a Air matress again.

I also found out that I toss and turn quite a bit when I sleep. When Perry and I had to share a bed, apparently I turned so that i was face to face with him, with only inches between us. That was probably pretty awkward. I remember waking up and thinking, "Whoa! This is too close" and turning back the other way. Never again will I share a double bed with another, as I slept on the floor for the rest of the trip. (Well except for the last night when I took the bed to prepare for the drive back).

Vancouver Food
Damn is Vancouver sushi ever good. Its fresh and soft *drool, slurp up drool*. Anyway, two days of the 6 days we stayed in Vancouver, we stuffed ourselves full of all you can eat sushi. The first of the two was at a place called SuiShaYa (literally Water Car Store). Its probably equivalent to the Mikado in Edmonton, but All-you-can-eat for $24.95 makes it much cheaper. We stuffed ourselves pretty full that night, to the point of me getting blurred vision. Never had that before. What made it worse was the seafood in mayonaise and cheese sauce stuffed in an oyster shell. That shit was sickingly good but made you full like a mofo.

The second place we ate All-you-can-eat Sushi was at Shabusen. It also included All-you-can-eat Korean BBQ. We pigged out there and barely managed to eat everything we ordered there, as well. It left us with a full feeling, that was not a great as at Suishaya, but that was probably because we were used to stuffing ourselves at this point.

Another place I liked to eat at was Honalulu Cafe. It was cheap and fast, sorta equivalent to our Sam Wok here, except with better dishes and cleaner environment. All I ordered there was instant noodles with fried pork cutlet, luncheon meat in Tonkotsu soup base. Instant noodles never tasted so good, I swear.

Vancouver Night Life
After enjoying the night life in Vancouver, I find Edmonton even more boring than before. Well atleast my friends are here.

We went to a few clubs in the downtown area. Stone Temple, the first club we went to, was pretty hurting. Maybe because we got there at 1:00 am. But even so, the next club we went to right after Stone Temple, was The Cellar. It was pretty packed in there and they didn't play your typical club music. It was rock music. They had a house band which played stuff like the White Stripes and Foo Fighters Covers. It was awesome, apparently O'Byerns on Whyte Ave is like that too, so I'll have to check that out later.

The last club we went to was on the last day of our trip (a seperate day from the first two). It was called the Tokyo Lounge and it was packed with Asian people, mostly of Japanese and Korean decent. The dance floor was packed with crazy good dancers, making getting onto the dance floor even more intimidating that it already is. Everybody was popping and hip-hop dancing on the dance floor. I'm glad I didn't even try to dance. Mike and Les tried, only to have people clear out around them, creating what I like to call "The Void". Well props to them for trying, I didn't even stand up except to go to the washroom. There were a few girls there that sorta caught my eye, but I ended up leaving early to get some sleep for the long drive back, which I navigated by myself. Usually I'm pretty bad with directions and need people to direct me throught the streets of Vancouver. But I suppose after driving there for a week, you can get a pretty good feel of where you are going. The rest of the boys stayed behind to watch the hip-hop dance performance, which apparently only lasted 5 minutes.

Conclusion
Probably the most fun I've had the entire summer was in this one week road trip. Vancouver is so much cooler, and the fact that it has Daiso, which I spent $50 at, makes it so much cooler. I'd love to live in Vancouver, but not even the lottery will win me that dream -_-'.

My Big Accomplishment Of The Day

I went bowling, got a strike, with my left hand while talking on the phone with Louis Lai. That was awesome, and as such, will never happen to me ever again. Dammit!

I haven't blogged for a while because of my road trip, but I'll hopefully be updating this blog with an entry about the road trip. It was great fun and nice to chill with some of the guys for a week in a different city.

Anyways, bed time. I need to fix my schedule.