Monthly Archives: October 2012

Dinners for Kinners!

Posted on October 20, 2012 | 1 comment

Here in UBC KIN, we’re like a ginormous extended family!  It’s one of the perks of being a small school within the university.  Everyone’s pretty friendly, and it’s easy to get close with each other because we pretty much all go to the same classes at the same times.

Anyways, the Kinesiology Undergraduate Society (KUS) thrives on the enthusiasm of KIN students and puts on a lot of different social events throughout the year. Regrettably, a couple of them (such as the annual Halloween Boat Cruise) require you to be 19+ in order to go. Dinners for Kinners, however, is all ages! D4K is (in the words of the coordinators) “one of the marquee traditions for UBC kinesiology students“.  Everyone in the faculty is invited to go out to eat at a restaurant together, and have a good time! Can any other faculty boast that amount of inclusion?

This past Thursday was Round 1 of D4K! We went out to The Eatery, which is a Japanese food restaurant with some really funky sushi combos. I had a Green Hornet Roll (yep, like the superhero) and ohmygod it was delicious!  Definitely one of best sushi rolls I’ve ever had.

Huffah, my table group! They are cool people.

Even better than the food, though, was that I got to hang out with new friends—without the pressure of exams hanging over us.  The overall mood was great, despite the drizzly weather!  About 80-ish people went, and we took up practically the whole restaurant. There were a couple of games played, and prizes given out.  The combination of post-exam relief, sanctuary from bad weather, and great noshes made for some good times!  🙂

It was a great way to end what was a horrible week for me. I can’t wait for the next one!

PS. Anyone have any suggestions on where we could go? 🙂

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Bieksa’s Buddies vs. UBC T-Birds

Posted on October 19, 2012 | 1 comment

I’M BACK.  I’ve never been so glad to see the weekend in my life.  This week was awful, from an academic point of view.

On Wednesday night, I took a long (and not quite deserved) break from Hell Week and went to a charity game organized by Kevin Bieksa of the Vancouver Canucks. They played against UBC’s own Thunderbird hockey team at the Thunderbird arena.

I sat up in the nosebleed seats, but it wasn’t too bad because the arena is relatively small so I wasn’t actually too far away.  And in the break between the second and third period I went down to beside the ice and took close-up pictures of the Canucks players!

Yay! One of my best pictures of the night.  Both Kevin Bieksa and his brother, Marty Bieksa, were there! 

The event was pretty good!  I’d never been to a hockey game before, so it was actually sort of weird to watch without commentary. I do know that it was a clean game (because it was for charity!), and in some ways that made it a little boring to watch, especially in the beginning when there were no goals.  Later on, though, they picked up the pace and the final score was 8-7 for Bieksa.  Obviously, Bieksa’s Buddies were going easy on the T-Birds, but it was still great hockey!

I was especially happy to see Michael Buble there, even if he backed out of playing on Bieksa’s team (jersey number? 88). Buble also matched all the donation contributions to a generous 6 figure sum!  The donations went to The Canucks Autism Network, Canucks Family Education Centre and Canuck Place hospice.

Upsetting, though, were  the scalpers outside the area looking to sell tickets at steep, Canuck-level prices.  The tickets were cheap—I paid $25—so that UBC students could enjoy the game whilst contributing to charity.  Making a profit on those tickets was very, very wrong.

But anyways, guess who I was cheering for?

If you guessed the T-Birds, you would be correct! Sunshine and rainbows for you 🙂  I have a tendency to root for the underdogs, especially when they’re the home team.  Of course, this doesn’t apply in regular NHL games (always for the Canucks!), but because of the dratted lockout…

So even though I stayed up waaaaaaay past my bedtime on Wednesday night (or should I say Thursday morning?), I’m glad I went.  I had a good time, gave to charity, and checked “watch a hockey game live” off my bucket list!

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Ways to procrastinate: Impromptu dance party!

Posted on October 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

I mean what’s the point of music if you can’t dance or sing to it?

Line dancing is cool, yo.

And coming up…

Bieksa’s Buddies: The pseudo Canucks vs. UBC game!

Dinners for Kinners: Faculty love.

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A Magikarp in anatomy?!

Posted on October 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

Okay. I really should not be blogging because I have two tests tomorrow but this just cannot wait.  It’s that awesome.

A paper creature. This picture was taken on my crappy phone.

Who brought it in, I don’t know.  I’m pretty positive it’s a magikarp, because what else would it be?

I do know, however, that it very slightly made my day and made me smile 🙂 and I sure need to smile during Hell Week (as I have dubbed it).  Keep bringing on the surprises!

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It’s been a long (but not long) weekend

Posted on October 14, 2012 | 1 comment

Things I have to do for the upcoming week:

  1. Write a sport sociology (KIN 161) midterm exam on Tuesday morning.  Even though I get a double-sided “cheat sheet”, it will not be pretty.  I should have listened when they (every other blogger) told me to pre-read.
  2. Attend an anatomy (KIN 190) bell-ringer on Tuesday afternoon.  The bell-ringer is basically a test where each student goes around to stations and answer  questions on anatomy—in this case, specifically the skull, vertebral column, chest, and shoulders. SO. MUCH. MEMORIZATION.
  3. Write a gymnastics (KIN 115) midterm on Wednesday afternoon.  I’m not sure if I mentioned it before, but I’m taking a gymnastics/dance class this term.  And yes, my midterm is a written one.  It shouldn’t be too hard, but I still have to remember all the fundamentals I’ve learned  in the past month.
  4. Present a sports sociology (KIN 161) debate on Thursday morning.  My group’s topic: “Be it resolved that sport is good for children”.
  5. Complete a chemistry (CHEM 121)  lab on Thursday afternoon.  Remember my last chemistry lab fiasco? I’m determined not to let it happen again.  But there’s just so much work I have to do beforehand…

I just want to curl up in my warm cozy bed and sleep forever! The rain is making me feel lethargic and lazy. I really, really don’t want to do my readings right now, even though I really, really should.

Here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to work really hard for an hour, and then listen to this song and watch this cute video and feel better.  And then I’m going to repeat again, and again.  Tally-ho!

Edit: Oh, for pineapple’s sake! I forgot about my in-class English essay tomorrow. 🙁

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