If there's a place where I can study and do my work properly, it's not the library, it's not my apartment, it's not under a tree. Despite the 3 flatscreen TVs playing chinese/korean/jap music videos around me, I seem to be able to do my homework better here in The Old Tea House, than at quiet places. Not to mention a huge tabletop fan buzzing at full speed near me. Anyways, I love this place. Not a huge 'restaurant', but their milk tea with tapioca is the BEST around. Their food isn't that great though IMO for the price, or maybe it's just me, not that I come here for the food anyway =D

This week is the start of a hectic semester. The past 3 weeks there were just homework for 3 classes of mine, and this week I have homework for that other 4th class I'm taking. Trust me, having 3 homework in Berkeley can drive you crazy, especially if all are from technical classes. 4 pieces of homework can keep you awake till 3am everyday trying to finish up the homework. Not to mention that studying is a MUST everyday, otherwise you're screwed when the class materials snowball to the next week and the next .......

Geez I wonder why I took Probability and Linear Algebra classes this semester. Frankly I'm not a Math person at all, and that makes the materials harder for me to comprehend. I'm hoping I'm not committing academic suicide. One good thing next semester is that I'll be taking only TWO classes, and next semester will be the final semester I'll be at Berkeley, unless I decide to stay for summer.

I still haven't decided what to do when I graduate. I know I won't be going to graduate school. I'll most likely find a job, and if possible I'll get a tech job in a company that'll outsource me to Malaysia. Maybe I'll just get a job in Malaysia. Yea I know living in the US is great, the American Dream, standard of living is better etc... but I love my home country. Given the chance to migrate to the US I wouldn't either. It's just the policies of the US and the politics and its self-proclaimed status as the world's peacekeepers that I don't agree with.

Oh Well....... gonna get back to my statistics homework. Hopefully I'll get it done today and I can work on my other 3 homework tomorrow... hopefully....

I need you baby........desperately..................................................... ;( really..... ;(

Anyone heard of mushroom barley soup? It's a combination of mushroom and (doh) barley in a soup mixed together with other vegetables. Well, that's what I'm having for lunch now, at the FSM cafe at the moffit library. IT sounded 'unique' so I decided to try it out and honestly, it's not that bad. barley with mushrooms. Anyone want some?

Day didn't start out as bad as yesterday. Obviously all the homework was due yesterday so after yesterday ended, the stress did too. Though it will only be a matter of time before the stress builds up again and I start going crazy. There will definitely be 3 homeworks due this coming Thursday, and most likely my other class, CS 194, will have a homework of some sort. Hopefully, it wouldn't be that bad. I guess I'll just have to start my hoemwork earlier.

So I woke up at about 9am today, despite my classes being at 1pm. Wanted to go back to sleep again but I was already too awake to go back to sleep. Why is it that when I want to sleep but I can't, and when I don't want to fall asleep sleeping just becomes so trivial (liek how I fell asleep in my previous class today for a few minutes). Ugh now I feel like sleeping......... I have fkin 1 more class to go, from 3pm to 4pm. 2.30pm right now. I hate Fridays. Usually I don't have classes on Fridays. Fridays are supposed to be a holiday, for students here at least. Most students don't have classes on Friday, or have just one class. But I have 3 classes! 3!!!!!! I'm just so lazy aren't I?

I miss my darling Julia. Woke up this morning and she was the first thing that came to mind. I haven't had any dreams in the past week or so, and it's been a long time since I've dreamt of my baby =(. Called her a while after I woke up and we talked for about 45 mins only cuz it was already late and I had to go to class. Wish we could've talked longer... though she has to wake up in 2 hours to go to Kuching for an assignment or somehting. With all the plane crashes happening in the past few months I just can't help but be worried, and to pray that God will grant her a safe journey to and back home.

The guy sitting beside me just used the most common pick up line ever. So happens a girl comes to sit at the same table as him cuz the cafe's like... packed...

him: "You look familiar....."
her: "Really?"
him: "What's your name?"
her: (I didnt hear what she said)
him: (I didnt care to hear what he said)
*The guy's handphone rings... he talks for a while, keeps talking....*

Ugh that guy's still talking on the phone. whatever. Not like there's gonna be anything interesting, or even a conversation, after he hangs up. *Never answer your phone if it rings while you're trying to pickup a girl.

Yay me I have cs 170 lecture in 20 minutes. And it looks like there are people waiting for a seat who are staring occasionaly at me cuz I've already finished my soup and I'm just sitting here using a laptop.

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Why can't they just look somewhere else, it's not like I'm going to leave soon unless they want to stand there holding their trays and wait till I'm done? Besides I'm not the only one here sitting down not eating. So many tables have people just sitting down and studying/talking. Look at THEM!

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Football (American football) tomorow. Cal's playing at Washington if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully we won't screw up like we did in our last game with Sacramento State, even though we whooped them 41-3 or something. It wasn't a spectacular game though, so damn sloppy. Hope we do better tomorow.

2:47pm. 13 more minutes till my class starts. 23 more minutes till my class really starts. Yea all classes here 'start' on time but the teaching doesn't begin until 10 minutes after, to accommodate people transitioning between classes, especially if their previous class is on the other side of campus. Good thing I'm lucky this semester and all my classes are close to each other so I don't need to travel from one end of the campus to another. It IS after all a big campus.

Oh crap, just remembered I gotta go get a 20 foot or longer ethernet cable to connect my laptop to the router back at home. Yea there's wireless but the wireless has some problems (ie it keeps disconnecting etc). And I have to go withdraw money again. Looks like my daily spending's going up to about 15 bucks instead of about 10 bucks. Lunch usually's about 5 or 6 bucks, dinner's usually about 8-10 if I order a drink and about 5-7 bucks if I don't. But then again restaurants usually make their food 'saltier' or add more MSG so you WILL have to buy a drink, and that's where most restaurants make money - in the drinks and not the food.

Class' starting soon and I'd better get going.

It's COOOOOLLLDDD outside today.

Once again, I hate the weather.

Miss ya too baby..... :P Muacks :*

Fricken library was closed........

Well it is Labor Day, a public holiday, but then again the library's sometimes open during public holidays. grr.... brought my books and my stuff downhill to the library, and ended up walking uphill back. stupid. Gotta remind myself to look at the library schedules online first next time before planning to go to the library.

So yea, it's a Monday, but a public holiday, and I'm stuck at home with loads of homework to do. Probably finish my statistics hw today, then work on my cs 170 hw tomorow or something. Good thing it's a Tueday tomorow cuz I hardly have any classes on Tuesday, unlike MWF where I have 3 classes.

Should I take up Italian Cooking? Always wanted to learn about italian cooking. It's a 2 unit class on Wednesdays. If I take it I will have 17 total units, which is quite a lot and actually more than needed. Hmmmmm.

This diet mountain dew is quite addictive. In fact mountain dew is addictive. Well it does have the most amount of caffeine compared to Coke and other soft drinks. Great for keeping me awake :P

Well nothing else I wanna say except I HATE THE WEATHER. stupid weather's sooo damn hot in the day and extreeeemely cold at night. Ughh......

Work Work.....

Well looks like I havent posted for a long time.... doh

Anyway, I got my lappy on Friday. Had to go get it the hard way though because the stupid UPS truck came when I was in class, so no one was in the apartment to receive the delivery. After my classes I came back home soooo damn excited, thinking that the UPS truck hadn't arrived yet and when I saw that UPS InfoNotice sticker on the door I was like @#$@$@#%#%!#$!@#!@. Potong stim. So I called them up and found that the next delivery wouldbe Tuesday, since Monday is Labor Day Holiday. No classses!!!! No delivery too =\. Since Tuesday I had classes during their delivery time I thought might as well go to their UPS facility, which happens to be in RICHMOND!!!!!!!!!@#@#@!#!@ (that's about half n hour drive away, and I don't drive). And they said I could only pick up the package from 8.30pm to 9pm. WTF? Ended up leaving house at 7.30, took the BART to richmond, then had to take a bus to the UPS facility, for a total of 1.5 hours. Went there and there was a huge lineeeeee... Lucky me >.< When I got home it was like 11pm. So scary carrying a package in downtown waiting for a bus that late at night. 1.3k$ worth of stuff and if I got mugged, GG.

Considering my life at Berkeley, that was the event of the weekend. Dammit 1st week of the semester and I have tons of homework due on Thursday. I'm taking 4 classes this semester for a total of 15 units - Math 110(Linear Algebra), Stat 134 (probabilities), CS 194 (Experimental class for Security, CS 170 (CS Theory). 4 classes!!!!! I took 3 classes last semester only and I almost lost my sanity. Hopefully this semester wont be that bad. So far it seems manageable. Math 110 and cs 170 would be the hardest classes amongst the 4 if you ask me. I'm just not a math person and those 2 classes deaals with a lot of proofing and abstract stuff. Ugh. The security class I;m taking is an experimental class and there's like 4 professors co-teaching that class. Each lecture session has a different professor. Kinda cool in a way, but then it's an experimental class, so it'll probably be harder and then from this 'experiment' the administrators will make any necessary changes to the difficulty/syllabus of the class based on the feedback that we have to give them at the end of the semester.

Did I mention this laptop was big, and heavier than I imagined?

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Anyway, looks like I will be able to graduate at the end of next semester. I might decide to stay and take up a summer internship instead of graduating so soon. Or I might just graduate and goodbye books. Haven't really decided yet. Haven't really thought much about it. Oh wellz...

Sigh, I miss my darling so much. LDR sucks to be honest. Then again not everything that you want's easy to get or doesn't suck. Bah. If only we could be implanted with a chip that contains all the information we want, like we can go to a departmental store and buy a chip containing linear algebra and we could just learn linear algebra instantly by implanting it in our selves. Please don't say 'that takes away the fun of learning'........


Well, I think I better get back to doing my homework. The atmosphere in the library cafe (not as in cybercafe but like in starbucks) is actually quite condusive and relaxing. I'll probably be around here more often in the future, since Starbucks' like a mile away and getting back home from Starbucks' uphill.

Wonder if I should get another glass of coffee.... my brain cells won't be happy though....

Oh and xiaoxue.blogspot.com is an interesting read, if anyone's bored.