An update, finally!
I've been quite busy. Workload's pretty heavy. I've been having midterms for the past 2 weeks (one eachweek), and 2 coming up next week -Physics and Math. It seems impossible to catch up with studies - like what my senior said. You study for this subject this week's midterm and then another subject for next week's midterm, then you fall behind on the previous subject. It sucks but perhaps this is what they call "Engineering". Sometimes studying is very frustrating, e.g. in Physics 170, you take about 15 minutes to build up all the equations then solve them to find out that you are mistaken, take another 15 minutes to recheck everything to find that you missed out a negative sign, and stuff like that. While I was studying for the Physics 170 midterm, I was so pissed off because I keep doing exactly ONE mistake which screws up the whole question like chain explosions. Much to relief, I did pretty decently in the midterm. Weekend was extremely welcome but I still have a Philosophy quiz tomorrow so I'm studying again tonight.
Studying has occupied most of my time, maybe about 70% at least. It's extremely boring, and I don't have time for pretty much everything else, like exercising and shopping and hanging around. Ah, I wonder when will this agony end. Ironically when I have some free time, I play Titan Quest. It's depressing but Titan Quest is so addictive. I guess it's my social impotence (imPo...oweee!) that made me like video games so much, damn.
By the way, I was lucky that Chinese New Year coincided with my one-week spring break. Well I couldn't get back to Malaysia but still I managed to celebrate it with my family. He's quite a distant relative of mine, my mom's cousin. I had really good food there, and good wine (I don't know how to taste wine, but they said it's good; but alcohol = good anyways). His wife is a really good cook and she tried to prepare everything by herself. That night we ate 鱼生, 海南鸡饭, fish curry, sambal prawns, and other Malaysian/Singaporean food. And they taste better than the restaurant. Ah, nothing beats home-cooked food. Then I follow his wife and her friends to a New Year parade in Chinatown. There were all kinds of people wearing all kinds of costumes (or no costume >>> lousy) marching through the street, waving, dancing, and performing other sorts of things. Too bad they didn't have a stage or something so the lion/dragon dances were pretty lame - what can they show off when there are no poles (What the heck, no poles = lame dragon/lion). But they did have a 采生(is this the word - my Chinese is getting rusty due to disuse) session after the parade. And there were people giving ang pows (son of a bard, there were only chocolates with a wrapper that looked like a dollar in those pows!). And that pretty much sums up the parade.
Preparing for 捞鱼生 
The excellent food and uncle's two sons (大煞风景, no la just kidding); see the wine?
The dessert. The ice cream is durian-flavoured. 赞！赞！赞！
财神！Did I mention that there's a 鬼佬财神？不伦不类
Kung fu performance. Pretty unpowderful and unimpressive, to tell the truth
The woman in red was extremely excited during the course of parade, even little girls couldn't match her excitement. I suspect she was on serious crack, but she was REALLY fun.
one of the best 舞狮 in the parade, too bad there weren't poles
Two hideous monsters
Found this when we are loitering in Chinatown... Yum yum!
A few day afterwards, I went to Vancouver Island with a Malaysian friend. We explored a bit the city of Victoria, capital of British Columbia (Vancouver's not the capital!). They have amazing architectures there - some of the highlights are the Parliament building, a hotel, and some other old buildings. I don't know the name of the building style but they look good. However, we couldn't go whale watching because it's not the season. We also went to a castle built by a coal magnate years ago. We also visited a very nice bookstore. And then that bugger of a friend insisted on going to a far away place which involved 30 minutes of bus trip and 40 god damn minutes of walking! Damnit stupid idiot! After we reached that cursed place, we only spent like 5 minutes there because we couldn't afford to go back to Vancouver too late (because there won't be bus to go back to UBC). A damn 20 minutes walk again. And about 5-6 hours trip back to UBC, with a deep seated grudge against that freaking idiot. But besides of his criticising my photographing skills 25/7 and that retarded decision to go to that Ford Hill Rock (the crazy useless walk), he's a pretty nice guy - and he's Malaysian.
Night view of the Parliament building
The day-view of the Parliament building
Craigdarroch Castle, built by someone who's too rich 
The 5-star Munro's Books
The Parliament debate chamber
The magnificent Empress Hotel
Is that all I've done in this month? Pretty much, yes. I'm bored, but I have to study. To make things worse, I've got addicted to Youtube. I've been watching TheHill88 and boh3m3's videos lately. TheHill88 is an oh-my-god-she's-so-hot-and-mouthwateringly-cute-and-perky girl. She mainly does weird videos of herself doing/saying weird things, dancing, and she's got that cute Australian accent. See it for yourself . Boh3m3 looks like a guy from my church, and he's hilarious. He mainly does videos that criticizes or in a more mild term, commenting on EVERYTHING and some miscellaneous stuff. And.... back to work!
p/s: The retardedness of Blogger's photo uploading is unparalleled.
p/s2: I spent 1 hr and 15 minutes uploading the pictures, and 6 hours checking for cool words on Dictionary.com to use so that people will say," Ow, wow! Your English is so good that I can't understand the words"
Signing off~