AsianAvenue

I found the old layout codes in my external and fixed all the links and put it on my website.
I bet some of you will remember this:

http://www.lynnchien.com/AA

Define: Home

In January, I moved downtown. I found a beautiful unit in the condos 5 minute walk from my work, across from the distillery. The place is beautifully furnished, I have the master bedroom with an ensuite bathroom, the apartment has an ensuite washer and dryer, and the rent is $850 all inclusive (internet and cable). I can't tell you how much i love the place...but now I'm moving again.

With my part-time schedule and me being at waterloo everyday, there's really no reason for me to spend $850/month; I'm only there about one or two days a week, a wknd at most. I recently signed a lease in Waterloo, at the Westcourt Estates. It's an unfurnished townhouse and I'll be sharing the place with a 2-3 other people I know, depending on the term.

It's a bit scary to know that i'll be spending the next 12 months in this dumpy town that i've always hated. In the past, the most i've ever spent in Waterloo was 8 months consecutively, most of the time it was 4 months due to coop, but I'd be back in Toronto every weekend and it never feels like Waterloo was "my home". home was in Toronto, with the fam. But when I moved out in January, home for me was my apartment downtown and now Waterloo will be my "home", at least for the next year. I'll be back in Toronto at least once a week to be in the office, and i'll probably stay in the GTA with my family on most wknds if school work permits, but the feeling is still the same. As much as I hate the thought, home will be Waterloo because it will be my own place with all my clothes and whatnot there.

No, I probably won't relocate to Waterloo permanently after I graduate, but where will i be? I have no idea. That's probably the even scarier thought.

Did anyone actually need to see this?

Really, does anyone need to see anything i've posted lately?!

The dumb thing in this case is the fact that I wore these very pretty boots and walked myself from my apartment all the way to the toronto reference libaray (think distillery to yorkville)...and then back. By the time we were on church and front, we hailed a taxi.
result: 4 blisters on the left, disgustingly big blister and a little one on the right

GGMG

Patience is a virtue

Adam and I had this conversation a few weeks ago about whether patience is something that can be built or if it's something you need to be born with; if you are impatient about something, but you are suppressing your impatience, would that be called patience? It shouldn't be right? So then if you can never get rid of impatience, but you've worked really hard at suppressing your impatience, then do you become patient? Or maybe you can't ever be patient unless you are born patient?

To me, efficiency is way more important than detail; it's my strength but also my tragic flaw. I have always been docked on stupid little mistakes since I was young. I may write a math test that would have gotten 100% but because i accidentally added 2+3 instead of multiply, i'll get 98%. I almost never get 100% on anything. Even with checking for grammar errors on my papers, i just dont have the patience for it. Double-checking my work has always been my downfall. Even now at work, I am always getting flak for my grammatical errors on my technical writing work. It's pretty bad.

So my resolution is working on my patience. I really need to just slow down and breathe and be more careful with anything and everything. Unfortunately, that's really the only thing I can think of to build my patience. I even googled "building patience" and i just got a bunch of blog sites that tells you about the need to build patience. But I know that even if it is impossible to build patience, I should still learn to suppress my impatience.

Wish me luck.