garden party, ice cream tacos, grad (not mine), tina's bday :-)

So on may 9 Madalene and I went to this garden party thing on campus!!! Photographer sneaked a pic of us lol

Pre-garden party. I was late..... as usual.... but anyway I think Madz forgave me :-) *halo emoji*

The party itself was meh... kinda lame to be honest lol. I'm not sociable at all and it was pretty awkward and it was like just people sitting around talking to their friends. At least the outdoor space was cute though with fairy lights and balloons and stuff. But yeah. There weren't any highlights or anything interesting that particularly comes to mind.

Check out this pic of Madz and I though hahaha we were on the bus on our way there and we were like omg lets take a pic of us blissfully looking out the window!! Luv it

Then 2 days later, my summer school courses started (it feels weird typing it now because I just had my last lecture yesterday!!! it's a 6 week course which really goes to show how inactive I've been on this blog). It's math 221 which is matrix algebra/linear algebra.

The next day we had a cute lil Madajaskar reunion at Rain or Shine Ice Cream!! It was their Taco Tuesday which is an adorable ice cream taco :-)

The place itself was so cute (look at dat wallpaper and unicorn thing with an ice cream cone as the horn!!!). Fortunately when we got there, there weren't too many people and they had eventually cleared out. We sat there for a while shamelessly taking selfies with the ice cream wallpaper haha but then all of a sudden a bunch of high schoolers started coming in and we realized it was a bit past 3pm aka when kids are off school so we left.

Unfortunately about an hour after eating the ice cream I started feeling really bloated and a bit gassy and ugh :-( I don't even know if I'm lactose intolerant but sometimes dairy products like that make me get super bloated and my stomach feels weird for a day or two which is what happened this time. I'm thinking about trying some Lactaid pills or something haha. I guess the true test will be taking Lactaid pills and going back to Rain or Shine again lol

Afterwards we went to Oakridge Centre because we didn't really know what to do. We ended up going to Oak+Fort and buying matching friendship bracelets!!!

It was so perfect because they had 3 colours and we all wanted different ones! Mine is the gold one, Karman's is silver, and Madalene's is rose gold. The holy trinity!!! Also omg my hand is so dark compared to theirs. It's probably from LA though since I was out in the sun so much with my hands exposed.

Then a couple weeks later it was my sister's grad!!! She graduated from UBC with a BSc in geology.

(unfortunately my bro was busy that day!!)

The ceremony itself wasn't as boring as I thought it would be. This is because people with a major in physics were also in this ceremony and during while presenting the PhDs they would briefly summarize the graduate's research and it was really interesting hearing some of them. I think there was one guy who specialized in relativity or something and he studied space time and how black holes are like a finite tunnel into the next dimension??? That was actually really fascinating

When the saturday came, it was my friend Tina's birthday (well not quite because her actual bday was in the middle of the coming week) so we went to the Pint! I didn't get any pics that night except for selfies on her bed while waiting for her to get ready so here's one for yall :-)

On the monday 2 days later, the new Student Union Building at school opened up (finally..... after delaying its opening for like a millennium). It was actually really cool in there haha take a look

 dat yellow aesthetic staircase *_* this staircase literally went up from the ground floor up to the 4th floor?? 5th?? how many fucking floors are there idek

These pics really don't do this building justice!!! Going up to the very top and looking down was so incredible because you could see pieces of each floor and it was so tall and big and open and I swear if I had accidentally dropped my phone down the middle I probably would've killed someone. But anyway unfortunately like half of it wasn't even finished yet?? Like nothing is open and everything is still taped up and there's like temporary handrails along the stairs. As annoying as that was I can't wait to see the new SUB completely finished and fully furnished!!

That's about it for this post!! I have I think 4 more posts that I have for yall before I'm caught up. Pce :-))

LA!!!

Hello!!!! I died but I've come back to life

I have tons tons tons of upcoming posts since I haven't updated this blog in 4ever so don't mind me.

Okay so I returned from my lil trip to LA like a month and a half ago so I'm finally making a post about it!!! There's 100+ pics in this post so I'm gonna do that lil jump break thingy so it doesn't make my blog super fucked up on whatever page this post is on lol so yeah eNJOY!!!

block party :-)

So last friday it was the last day of classes and block party!!! I'm so glad I decided to go to block party this year (I couldn't go last year since it's 19+) it's such a stress reliever and you can just get drunk and forget about the fact that finals are coming up *dies a lil inside* :-)

OK I gotta say I am really feelin myself in this selfie!!!! We look so cute and we look so sober hahaha!! I wish my phone camera worked so I could take more pictures but oh well

Yesterday evening I wrote my astronomy final. I'm so mad because it was completely on the post-midterm material so it wasn't even cumulative, but I swear my prof didn't say that so I studied like everything!!!! Unless he mentioned it during the second last class..... where my friend and I left early..... anyway I'm very sad about the fact that this course is now over bc I probably won't see my lecture crush ever again and like you know when you actually want to go to class because you get to be in the presence of your lecture crush???? *sigh*

Anyway my math final is on thursday and my physics final is on the monday after that and I'm so nervous about those two exams :-( On a brighter note, 1 week and 5 days until I'm off to LA!!!! I'm so excited. My friend and I have planned out more than half our trip now (day-to-day stuff, we're planning on hitting up different areas of LA each day). I think out of all the places we plan on visiting, I'm most excited to go to Santa Monica :-) Anyway, until then, I gotta study my ass off

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Tomorrow is the last day of classes!!! And it's also Block Party!!!! I wish I could just skip my classes but unfortunately I have a quiz for physics and for astronomy we have a bunch of Clicker questions worth marks that will act as a practice for the final since my prof is pulling these questions out of past exams. Like way to make us come to class on the last day.

I'm so stressed because my astronomy final is coming up in exactly one week and I don't know anything!!! I mean the material itself isn't very difficult at all but there is just so much to memorize and I don't have time for this!!! I remember for the astronomy course I took in the previous term I barely studied for the midterm and final because I found everything in the lecture to be so fascinating and interesting that I'd take it all in and then go home and tell my sister about what I learned though I don't think she really cared. But anyway!!! This course however is a bit dry in my opinion despite having a much more interesting course name (last term was intro the solar system, this term I'm taking intro to stars and galaxies). But I guess I'll just have to read and memorize stuff and hope for the best.

I'm super concerned about calculus and physics however. I mean my math is coming up in exactly 2 weeks but I really have to do well on the final because I need a good mark on the course. I mean both my midterms I was well above class average but the class averages were incredibly low it's not exactly something to be proud of. The thing about this course is that I'm always more confident about my knowledge of the material than I should be. For both of the midterms I walked out of them feeling good and upon receiving them after marking I was pretty disappointed. Needless to say I just need to do TONS of practice problems and past exams and hopefully my final will go well. For physics I am so so sooooo behind it's like actually embarrassing. My final is all the way on the 27th though so I have 2 and a half weeks but with math and astronomy to study for as well, it's not very much time. There is just so much reading involved in this course which I detest but I'm gonna have to just do it. On the plus side we get to bring cheat sheets into the exam. They haven't yet specified how many we get to bring but last year for phys 101 we got to bring in 12 papers and we could double-side each one!!! However I don't think they will allow that many this time haha.

ALSO LA IS LESS THAN 3 WEEKS AWAY!!!!! My friend and I haven't even planned out much of our trip yet (mostly my fault because I barely have any free time nowadays) and I haven't even thought of what clothes I'm going to be bringing etc!!! I'm so excited to just finish my exams and then go to LA though ahhhh!!

I don't really have much else to say!! I should be doing my mastering physics assignment right now but I'm taking a break........ as usual. Okay bye (I'll leave yall with a song)

a lame update abt my life

Wow I haven't posted in forever!!!! (I feel like I start most of my posts off with something like this) but honestly nothing much has happened between when I last posted and now so it's alright.

My nike af1s that I ordered from Foot Locker finally came in in the beginning of march and yay!!! Luckily it was pretty sunny around that time so I got to wear them out a lot :-) I'm trying super hard to keep them as white as possible. Lately vancouver's just been so rainy and gross so I haven't been wearing them but honestly even when it's sunny I gotta try so hard to keep em clean because there's so much damn construction at ubc right now (it's ridiculous!!!) and all the construction trucks and stuff get mud everywhere.......

Also in the beginning of march my phone camera stopped working :-( so I haven't taken pictures like at all (except for a week ago when my friend let me use her samsung to take selfies tHANK THE LORD but samsung cameras are so weird>??? idk they just dont take pictures the same as iphones..... but i had to do what I had to do). Like I'm pretty sure the physical camera is ok but my phone is just messed because the camera doesnt work on any apps and it's just a black screen and I cant switch to front camera or take pics or anything *sigh*!!!!

So lately I've been staying at school so late and studying all the time bc it's honestly time for me to get my shit together!!! I had a math midterm just like last week on mar 18 and I'm so sad because I did a lot worse on it than I was expected :-( Honestly I started studying so late for it however my friend and I studied so hard during the days prior to it which I'm so proud of but I know that had we started studying earlier, we probably would've gotten a lot better. I mean like compared to the class avg my mark was a lot higher (class avg was 52% and my mark was 65%) but regardless.....I can't say that I'm proud of my C+ u_u anyway time to work my ass off for finals and pray to the basedgod that I WILL ACE DAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

OK AND FINALLY I SAVED THE BEST NEWS FOR LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER MY LAST FINAL (well not literally right after..... more like a day after) I'M GOING TO LA WITH A FRIEND FOR 6 DAYS!!!! I'm so freaking excited yall dont even know!!!! Cali is one of those places that I love love love and dream about and im so excited to visit!!! I've been there once when I was like 10?? 11??? but that was nothing. Also this will be my first time travelling independently (like w/o my family) and I'm just so so os sososoooooo ooooo happy and excited and aahhhHHH!!! I've booked my flights and place to stay and everything already :-)) I'm gonna cry this is so exciting!! BUT I need to fix my phone camera asap so I can take a billion pics and flood everyone's ig feeds w my LA pix and geotag the shit out of them!!!!

BUT FIRST I must study for my exams and stuff but I'm so excited!!!! (how many times have I said that im excited??? lol)

OK THAT IS ALL!!! back to doing math now pce!!!

P.S. ive been listening to old mgmt and empire of the sun songs from 5 yrs ago and it's making me so emotional!!!! can't stop listening to "we are the people" I cant believe I forgot this song existed

Also the sound of 'riptide' by vance joy makes me think about being young n stuff and travelling and going on adventures idk why!!! (although its probably totally unrelated 2 that)

first love never die

How did I only just recently hear this song even though it came out in 2011??? I've been listening to this a lot lately and it's just so beautiful :-)

reading break: cafes, art gallery, etc

Haven't made a post in ages!!! It's currently reading break (well the end of reading break sadly). February has passed by so quickly so far. I'm going to try to start from where I left off in my last post or w/e

So I wrote my math midterm and I didn't do as well as I had hoped. I mean I was still above class average but my mark is so terrible..... I should have caught up on math this reading break but I totally didn't and I have another midterm coming up in the beginning of march. I'm super stressed about that because I really have to do well on it or else I will have to rely on my final and I feel like for math, the final is always so much harder :-( I also wrote my physics midterm before reading break and I think that went alright. I haven't gotten my mark for it yet so we'll see!

So on tuesday I went to a cafe with madalene and then we went to the art gallery. We went to a cute lil place called Soirette (it's in the coal harbour area). I didn't take a pic of the interior but it was a pretty small place (it only had 4 small tables) but luckily there were very few people so we got a seat.

I got the vanilla cream latte which was really yummy and my friend got hot chocolate. We also got 6 macarons (I got lavender, caffe mocha, and passionfruit and my friend got lavender, mint chocolate and black tea lemon). I think my favourite was the lavender and I was kinda sad because there weren't that many to choose from when we were ordering but after purchasing our macarons and sitting down, they restocked and had a lot more flavours!!! They also put out a rose flavour one that looked so cute *sigh*

We went to Michaels the craft store to look around and I took a couple pics

Oohh we went to foot locker afterwards and I FINALLY got the nike air force 1s!!! I got the low ones in white and I'm so excited. Well, I had to order them because they didnt have the white ones in my size but I've been wanting these forever now!!! Better late than never right?? I feel like I'm super late on the trend or something haha but oh well....... maybe I should hop onto the adidas superstar trend next.

Afterwards we went to the vancouver art gallery since on tuesdays the admission is by donation. I don't think I'd gone to the art gallery since elementary school! This place is a lot bigger than I remembered it to be haha. Anyway here r some pics!!!

"I got a blank space bbyyy and I'll write ur name"

I took these with the sheer purpose of quoting blank space by taylor swift

On wednesday madalene and I went to the oak + fort warehouse sale. It was located in such a weird location - in some sketchy little building in the middle of a long road full of autobody shops and such. I didn't find too many things that I really liked. I ended up getting a super light (almost white) denim jacket for $40 (originally $128!!!). There was a black coat that I wanted but it was $120 (orig $248) but since I got to the nikes the day before I didn't want to spend too much. I haven't taken a pic of my jacket yet but maybe I'll do that another day.

I realized soon after that the location of the warehouse sale on the block next to a sign I wanted to take a pic of (at the catriona jeffries gallery) that reads "stay away from lonely places"

After that we went to gastown and we went to a coffee shop called Revolver. I got a macchiato and madalene got a hot chocolate. It's a really nice independent coffee shop that does things traditionally.

And also look at this black building in gastown haha, I love it

That's about it!!! Now I must study and catch up on all the stuff I should have caught up on throughout this reading break u_u bye!!!