Due to the restructuring of UBC Blog Squad, I will no longer be posting here. I hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse of my life.  I find Blog Squad to be best enjoyed on an aggregate level.  You can take a look at what the 1st years are up to on https://blogs.ubc.ca/blogsquad/

A new blog project I am starting up can be found at http://doodlebooktravels.wordpress.com

It is a blog about travelling.  Perhaps other things as well.

By the way, if you are curious about that summer to-do list of mine, it went pretty well.

1. Dyed my hair something out of the ordinary.  Pink.  An item off the bucket list!
2. Master parallel parking: I have my N but I still can’t really do this  I didn’t end up driving much.
3. Drove on the highway. I ended up going to Surrey.  It wasn’t planned but I randomly found out about an aurora borealis so I went on a midnight picnic.  Lying in a parking lot in sleeping bags with my friends waiting for the lights was an unforgettable adventure.
4. Wrote an instrumental track. You can check it out here.
5. Went on a short distance trip to Seattle
6. Watched a band play live, maybe an indie show would be cool
7. Watched the new Batman movie.  We tried to marathon it. What a day that was.
8. Watched the new Spiderman movie. For the first time in my life I went to the theaters alone and it was surprisingly enjoyable!
9. Watched two movies on my IMDB watchlist: The Help and The Artist.  I recommend both!
10. Travel to Japan!  It happened after all! See my new blog to see what’s up.
11. Went hiking.  I actually did this twice.  Once on the Grouse Grind (my first time ever) and then in Lynn Canyon.  Both commutable locations.  If you are deciding between the two, I’d say go big, go for the Grouse Grind! Here’s some pictures of what you’d be missing at Lynn Canyon:

    

12. Play basketball Never happened =(
13. Made a creative contribution at work! I got to design a new menu!
14. Read a book.  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.  It wasn’t a life changing book for me personally but it was not bad.  A short read about a girl in her undergrad.  I would tell you more but I’ll let you have the option of jumping into an abyss.
15. Then read another book
16. Learn to read and write 100 Chinese characters Unfortunately, my Chinese studying stopped at about 50.
17. Lose 5 pounds, or alternative: get fit I’ve lost some weight in Japan from all the walking/sightseeing but probably not 5 pounds worth. I should find an IKEA and weight myself there.

So good luck with whatever it is you’re doing.  Chances are, you are a UBC student, so I guess I’ll just say “see you around.”