It’s been a pretty eventful couple of weeks for me. Among the highlights: midterms over, summerfest fun, co-op for next term is decided and more technical speaking.
Midterms were over last Friday. It was a totally hectic time for me. I think it went pretty well though. On Thursday the 13th (right in the middle of midterms), I emerged victorious at the faculty level Sandford Fleming technical speaking competition. It was quite fun actually and I got to meet some interesting people. They took us to the University Club afterwards and the steak there was excellent (beats the hell out of the frozen foods and sandwiches that I’m used to!).
I was just totally exhausted after my last midterm on Saturday at the absolutely obscenely early time of 8:30. I rested for a bit and then it was time for fun, fun, fun! Summerfest fun began at 9, but first, we finally gave the people what they wanted and had a little pre-summerfest party at our place. It was a damn good time. I was pretty surprised that we were able to fit so many people into our house. Thanks to all the people who came and fulfilled my secret ulterior motive of getting lots of free food and alcohol. :)
Summerfest itself was just as good and we had fun into the wee hours of the night. The next day I was pretty tired, but my sister (who was at summerfest too) and I went back to Toronto since it was father’s day and all. Surprisingly when I got back, I was completely relaxed and well rested. I actually thought, “cool…. exhaustion + fun, fun, fun != dead tired”. I need to do less programming.





Check out some more pictures. Courtesy of Kevin, Freddie and Sheldon.
In other news, it’s been confirmed that next term, I will be plying my trade in the beautiful and obscenely cold city of Ottawa. I’m going to go to OTI, the creators of my favorite Java IDE, VisualAge. The funny thing is, I have absolutely no idea what I’ll be doing there. I’m not too worried though, I’ve heard good things about them.
You know, going to school in the summer isn’t that bad. I kind of like it, but it still doesn’t compare to not going to school in the summer. My sister is going to sunny California this week to go to my cousin Kenneth’s wedding. It’s a shame I won’t be able to go too, but congratulations Kenneth! I’m sure he’s going to be so happy.

Congratulations to my godbrother Mike Chien for getting into the very competitive Queen's Biomedical Computing Program.
In other news, midterms all next week. Damn studying. Co-op is kicking my butt. Soccer is awesome (goooooooooaaaaalllll!!).
need more sleep...
Mozilla 1.0 + Optimoz = fast, fast browsing.
Back to studying...
Regards.

The family came over to Waterloo to visit me this Saturday. It was really nice of them. I hadn't seem them in a while and I didn't really feel like I had time to go down to Toronto because of the impending doom of midterms. They also decided to bring the dog and the cat! :)
We went for a walk around the Waterloo campus and decided to feed the geese and ducks. Most of them had just had babies so they were really cute.
Now this would be the perfect time to insert a picture of little ducks, the family, or maybe my dog and cat causing havoc, but I gots nothing. I’ve barely taken any pictures this term because I left my digital camera at home the last time I went back. My sister brought it back for me this weekend, but I couldn’t get it to work until after they left. Doh.
On the bright side, I finally got an interview (you may have noticed the thumbs up on my co-op counter to the left). It’s going to be for OTI, a company that I’ve admired for a while. It’s also totally sweet that they say “feel free to dress comfortably and casually for interviews”, since wearing a suit in 20 degree weather is a real drag.