PHY midterm - well, i studied enough that i was familiar with all the questions (they were all stuff out of homework and problem sets). but i didn't study enough to know how to do them. i'm expecting another almost-pass-but-not-quite.
german "big test" - that was SO easy! i'm glad i didn't study.
ALG final - still to come, on tuesday. need 70%.... need 70%.... must lock self in room, must eat, breathe and live algebra.

after the PHY midterm last night, i had my very first Jones Soda! jeff bought it for me before the test, and afterwards we went to his rez to celebrate the end of the PHY term! i've been waiting four years to try this stuff, and the jones was as wonderful as i imagined.... ::: love ::::

oh sweet jesus! people, you have GOT to look at this! i had to work so hard not to burst out laughing in the library when i found this.
the above link is from a forensic art site, which has some rather cool stuff to play around with. but also some scary stuff. beware.

ice cream at demetres tonight with rek. ^_^

today's daily hindu wisdom:

You're like milk
in water: I cannot tell
what comes before,
what after,
which is the master,
which is the slave;
what's big,
what's small.

O lord white as jasmine
if an ant should love you
and praise you,
will he not grow
to demon powers?

-Mahadeviyakka

before we get ahead of ourselves, some links:
graffiti archeology shows some graffiti in san francisco over time, how it changes and gets painted over. it's rather neat.
another neat thing is today's front pages which shows the front pages of newspapers from around the world.

the one thing i really felt the need to blog about was my german class today. it started out normal, taking up homework and such... but then... we had a christmas party. it was STRANGE! i didn't know such things happen in university...
we listened to german christmas songs, ate sweets, asked about german traditions...
the best part was this one german treat that professor koch brought it... they were little tiny potatoes, only sweet. i don't know what they were... but i must find them again! they had the skin of a potato, the inside of love, and were the size or large marbles. oh baby...

hey there, bloggers and bloggettes!

i just wanted to add some old news: two saturdays ago, vit and i went to our favorite serbian restaurant, the crown. it's a really nice place, so typically serbian. they've got a new chef, and the gibanica (cheese pie) was really really good. it was one of those evenings when vit and i were getting along and having a rather nice time, too. there was even live music!

this weekend was really nice. i really loved kundun. i'm sure mandy and sean (who were sitting on either side of me) noticed my occasional gasps and girrs. this whole issure of what the cinese are doing to the people of tibet really upsets me. the tibetans never harmed anyone, and the cinese just up and invaded and tried to act like liberators.
"you cannot liberate me, general. only wisdom can liberate me."

also, the tiramisu at brownstone's on yonge street, is fantabulous.

i spent saturday with rek. we saw once upon a time in mexico but before that we had an argument/debate about politics. while we may disagree on a few issues, i think my problem was that i was unable to explain very clearly what my opinions were, which lead him to thinking i had been corrupted by the evil U of T communists.
we were talking about economics and human rights. i sort of came off as wanting to take away the money from the rich people in the world, and give it to the poor. this, of course, is not what i want. to take people's money is robbery. what, however, i was thinking, was what would happen if everyone in the world were paid fairly for their work. i sort of concluded that no one would be able to afford anything. of course, it later occurred to me that if no one can afford to buy anything, then there's no reason to make products, so almost everyone would be out of a job.
we could, of course, take it to the next step and say if everyone is unemployed, then prices would have to go down again... but we could go around forever like that.

my main issue is that i can't stand the thought of people all over the world being tortured, abused, deprived by their governments, and suffering in general. but frankly, i can't think of how to stop it either.

anyway, that brings us to sunday (study day) and today (freaking out because i have a midterm on thursday day).

as a last note, i've found one thing incorrect about kundun. the dalai lama is the incarnation of "Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion" not the buddha of compassion. if you know anything about buddhism, you'll know the difference.