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What an interesting day!!   I had a nightmare last nite, I was chased  by some people dressed in black and I keep running for the whole night.  I don't know why I always keep dreaming something similar to that.  I remembered not a long time ago I was dreaming myself keep swimming in a standard pool which my dad keep shouting at me asking me to go faster and don't stop.  Can someone tell me why?  Maybe only Sig. Freud can help me hahah.   I am so tired for the entire day but lucky is today I just have to work for few hours coz I have my RRSP training.  It's quite interesting since I know none of it,  all I know is the money in this a/c can sheltered from taxes.  It's good to know more about it so that I can plan for myself.

Today I went golfing with Jacky and Simon.  We went to  Tsawwassen and the course is huge no power car rental and the weather is freezing cold.... I didn't play a good game but Simon did even though he only slept for few hours.  I think I  need to spend more time on driving range from now on.  Since next week I only have to work for 3 days so boring.... and now there ar no snow on the mountain it's already Dec now Cypress is not open yet!!

  I went Viva last nite.  It was fun since I haven't went to Viva for decades and don't have to work on Sunday so I can stay till its end.  This weekend I did a lot of things, I went to Bellingham with mom and Sandy's mom and it was my first time to drive to USA quite exciting.  None of us buy anything but I saw a jacket in Abercrombie I love it so much it's 99USD so expensive and the fun thing is that jacket is named Vivian Denim Jacket haha.  After Viva last nite, I still have strength to go golfing with Simon today  but I can only finished 14 holes coz too tired!  I am totally addicted by golf now so regret that I don't love this sport earlier so that I can play with my dad.

Wow Christmas is coming.  This is the first time that I don't have to study for finals.  However, I think I need to work during Christmas and most of my friends are going back to HK but  the worst thing is Bill is not coming back to Van for the Christmas!!  But I will go snowboarding every week since I bought a pass.  I am going to change my step in binding this year to a strip binding.  I have already bought the boots it's Burton's but only $88 coz it's 2nd hand but quite new.  The feeling of this boot is so good it hold my feet firmly.  But now I  need to save more money for a good binding.  I am not a good financial planner, every month I don't have much money left for savings heehee and I just paid off my student loans it's a huge amount 5 digits long.  So recently I am working on my monthly statement to make my savings plan.  But the good thing is Bill find a job in US and earns more than me!!!!  I think he will subsidize me rite Bill?? heeheee

   Me, Sandy, Kate, Amy, Amy's little sister, Elton and Eric went BBQ.  First we propose to go to a beach near UBC but then we change our mind and go to Gary Point but when we arrived there it was raining...........so we move back to Elton's house to have our BBQ.  7 people going at first but end up only left with me, Sandy, Elton and Eric.  We haven't formed circle for a long time it was fun to chat with old buddies.  Hope we can have a chance to meet after before u guys going back to HK.

    Bill had left today =..( I think I can hold my tears but Bill can't and make me cry too.... what a touching picture hahaha.  The afternoon after Bill had left, I went to my Mable's house to have a cooking gathering with Patsy, Michelle and Betty.  Each of us made a dish so totally 5 dishes plus soup.  We made too many things so we plan to pack all the remaining for Monday lunch.  I feel so lucky to have you guys as my colleagues which  add more fun to the job!!!  Next week we will start to work on floor GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!

    Time really past so fast without any notice!  Bill is going to Boston this Sat, my end of the world finally comes.  I can't imagine what my life will be without Bill.  He is like part of my life but suddenly one day he withdraw from my life just like losing my hands.  I think I will need a very long period of time to get use to this fact......  I have already planned a lot of activities to full up my time, so right after he gets on the plane I have a "cooking gathering" with my colleagues.  It will be fun to cook and enjoy the result together.  Hope the dinner will not be postponed to a late night dinner hahaha!!  

                For my job, I had already started answering phone calls.  It was quite exciting since I had to make myself sound professional but sometime the clients' name were so funny that I can't stop laughing.  These  were painful experience.  Next week, our whole training team will go on floor answering calls, no more classroom study yeah!!  Hope I won't mess it up hahaha.  

 Almost a month haven't updated my hp.  Many many things happened in this month: graduation, grad dinner, traveling and my two new kittens.  Since Bill is going to Boston to study soon, so I  have planned a lot of things for myself to do while he is away.  I adopted two cute kittens one is domestic short hair - black and white and the other one is tabby orange.  They had came to my house almost 3 weeks and now 2 months old!!  Hope I will have time to upload their pixs on my hp soon.  Another big thing happened in this month was I FOUND A JOB!!!  Here I need to say a huge thanks to Angela for her help.  THANKS.  So good that everything go under my plan.  I am glad that I don't have to be unemployed for a long time.  Also, I want to get this job for a long time!!!  It's my dream hahaha and finally dream comes true!

  Finally finished all the exams!!  Today I have all my marks come out and I have passed all the courses hohoho including Econ 490, I got a B unbelievable!!!  Thanks to Professor Fortin!!  This mean I can successfully graduate in this May.

    Recently, I am addicted to Chinese mahjong but I am still leaning the tricks so every time I will lose around  5 to 10 bucks (tuition fee) hahaha hope I can win next time!   

   Today I had handed in my Econ 490.  25 pages in total I can say that this is my masterpiece in my 4 years of university.  Tomorrow is the last day of school and this will be the end of my university life.  I didn't feel too excited coz I love to be a student.  Time past so fast always running without notice and no one can stop it.  So I am preparing myself to go into the second stage of my life.  I think I can get cover come it easily.

    I finally had my presentation of Econ 490 done today!!!  I spent the long weekend at home preparing the data and analyzing the results.  It was lucky that she didn't ban my models and hypothesis but still I had to recode my data again.......  The final paper is due on this Thursday so I still have to work hard on it after that I will throw all the things into garbage!!! 

Happy Birthday to Bill!!!  30 more minutes later he will turn to 22.  Hope u will like the gifts, both gifts mean a lot to me.  I want you to wear it throughout your life because time is infinite and we are too!!  Here a special thanks to Vincent and Melody thanks for spending a night teaching me to make the cake!!  

    Tonight we watched "A Beautiful Mind", this was an awesome movie, highly recommended.  This movie is about a highly eccentric mathematician, John Forbes Nash, Jr., was a pioneer in the field of game theory, which made him a star of the 'new mathematics' in the 1950s. But his quick ascent into the intellectual stratosphere drastically changed course when Nash's intuitive brilliance was undermined by schizophrenia.  After decades of hardship and with the help of his devoted wife Alicia.  He triumphed over tragedy, and received the Nobel Prize.   I thought it was amazing.....the most beautiful movie!!!  Also, since I am majoring in Economics which I have spent almost 2 years studying the Nash Equilibrium (game theory).  But I don't know there is a beautiful story hide behind this equilibrium and in the movie it mentioned that first Nash established this equilibrium is based on the "girl" theory.  If everyone goes for the blond pretty lady, only one of the guy can get the that girl.  The remaining guys will get nothing since other girls don't like to be a second choice (100, 0).  If everyone goes for the other girls and left the blond pretty lady along,  all the guys will get a girl (50,50).  This explanation is fun!!  If u know Nash equilibrium, u will know why I get so exciting.

  My brother came last week to visit us.  I haven't seen him for almost 2 years, he doesn't change too much except he gains a few pounds hahaha.  I really enjoy to be around with him just as a little girl like to play and to listen to her big brother.  Although he only stayed for a week, I really have a great time!! THANKS.  Miss you and take care of yourself. 

  Four years of studying economics, the first 2 years got nothing much to work on.  However, the workload in the last two years is unbelievable.  If you are not majoring in economics, maybe you will think it is so easy just drawing graphs and studying theories, I think so too in the first place.  But do you know there are computer lab classes in the 3rd and 4th years teaching you to use Shazam and SPSS which are the programs that have to write commands (something like computer science stuffs....) to find the regression and descriptive data.  Doing my Econ 490 research paper, I spend at least 5 hours a day staying at school doing the outputs and reading all the numbers to see if it makes sense.  However, my work got banned by my professor..........so I have to keep doing it again and again until infinity.

    Today I read an essay about relationship with a "special friend".  Well the first time I read it, it sounds reasonable to keep a friendship relation in stead of any further relation.  But the second time I read it, I think this kind of action is very selfish.  If you really love a person why not bravely go for it but have to afraid and worry  this and that.  "Special friend" is just an excuse to hide your coward and to cheat your gf/bf.  I can't really understand this kind of relationship.  Your guys should read this maybe you will have a different perspective.

  Snowing in March!!!  So today Me and Mimi go to Cypress.  It is fun for me although she is a beginner, it's good to see her making improvements in every ride.  Hope we can play together next time!  This season I went a lot of snowboarding: Cypress, Whistler and Big White.  So bad that this year I don't have time to visit Mt.Baker.  I love it a lot.  It is a very big mountain with wide and long trails with powder snow and there is a discount on weekdays but it is in US.  It take about 2 hours to get there closer than Whistler!!  Go and check it out if you are a snowboarder, you will love it.  

  Tonight I had hot pot with Mimi (my HK high school best friend).  She let me know what a good friend is.  We seldom have time to meet each other I think 2 times a year but we talk on icq.  Tonight before I met her, I kind of worry that we would have died air.  But we turn out just like nine years ago, talking cheerfully and sharing our feelings.  I find out that we have the same perspective of what a good friend is!  I think I have to start by our personality, we are kind of have the same.  We talk without go through the brain which always make people angry lol, same favorites ( except she likes Twins I don't....) and same point of view.  We won't expect each other to do anything or blame each other.  Being friend of her, I feel very comfort and lucky.  She won't blame me because of not doing this and that.  I am glad to have u as my friend!  Once your are my best friend, you are always my best friend no matter what happened.  Well the last sentence is for all of my best friends.

  I treasured  everything that I have now family, friends, time and all the happiness cos I know they will leave me alone one day.  But I will stay strong and face the future by myself.  I am the only one who can give myself a sense of fortune.

Happy Birthday to Siu Lung!!! All the best wishes for u!!  All of us went to Aberdeen center to celebrate his 22nd birthday.  I bought him a Tiramisu hope u will like it!!  My mouth is getting better now, at least I can start to chew solid food.  This week I lost almost 10lbs, extracting 4 wisdom teeth is the best way to lose fat.  Next week I will start working on my Econ 490 data, really have to get this done or I can't graduate in this April.    

  Pain.........pain........pain.......I want to cut my mouth.  Almost a week of surgery, still haven't recovered yet but getting worse and worse.  I get tired easily but still have to go to school everyday and study for midterm.  By the way I am planning to put a message board in my homepage so remember to come back and check it out later.

  Thanks God!  I am still alive.  Two years ago I saw a woman in the hospital, she had to stay there for her whole life after extract only ONE wisdom tooth.  Isn't it scary?  I felt nothing during the surgery because the doctor gave me a general anesthetic.  After the injection, I can felt something rushed from my hand to my brain then felt asleep.  After an hour, a nurse woke me up, everything had done also they had cleaned up the place but I am still very sleepy.  Now everything is fine, just a little of pain.  I ate 2 bowls of congee, a bowl of soup and a scoop of ice-cream.  Hope it will recover soon.

  2 hours later, I will be going to extract 4 of my wisdom teeth.....I can't imagine what it will be like.  I think I will faint in the middle of the surgery.  So scary may God Bless Me.....

  Today I went to Blackcomb with Bill, Carol, Danny and his friends.  It was so fun we spent most of the time in the terrain park.  Although we felt a lot but still we were having fun of jumping bumps.  Also the snow condition is very good, it keep snowing all day long that's why I am so brave the try the bumps because the snow is so thick.  Hopefully we can go to Mt. Baker in this week.

  This note is dedicated to Bill.  Thanks for your presents, I appreciate it so much not because of the value but the meaning of the presents.  Hope you will like the present I gave you.  

  Chinese New Year, my birthday and Valentine's Day will all happen in one week.  Tomorrow is my birthday but I have 3 midterms in the coming week, so I have all my celebrations a day before my birthday.  Afternoon, I went to drink Chinese tea with Eric, Kate, Gabbie, Jacky, Patrick and Melody.  It was so fun to have celebration in the afternoon especially to eat birthday cake in during Chinese tea.  After  lunch, we went to take photo cards, kate remember to take pix with my TY next time!!! hahaha  At night, I had hot pot with Bill, Jess, Andrew and Jacky.  After that we went to the Chinese New Year Market which I met a lot of friends there.  Here I want to say thanks to everybody giving me a wonderful birthday and thanks for the presents.