I'm tired of trying hard in school and not getting any recognition... papers get thrown back to me with a B, which is not even high enough for graduate school here.
I've been quite succesful working past 20 months, so I think I've had it with school... grades are irrelevant. Oh yeah, my profile at work is up... check it out.
Anyways, been really busy... next week is insane: starting volunteer work with refugees; writing research proposals and attending Asia-Pacific Summit listening to Ambassadors (really excited) for work; and working on research papers and presentations with 6 weeks remaining in the semester.
Someone get me to China!!! I'll convince those communists to agree to enforceable UN sanctions... or even invade North Korea alongside S. Korean and American soldiers and make it a nuclear free state.
Until that happens, I guess I'll just have to settle with Mongolia. I'm proposing a consulting project in that country tomorrow at work.
Once again got distracted... back to my paper on China's environmental policies and implementation paper due tomorrow.
Just want to quickly wish Happy Mid-Autumn Festival today for my Chinese friends and Happy Thanksgiving for Monday to Canadian mates.
I even bought moon cakes... I'm slowly learning, would of forgotten if it wasn't for my Chinese clients at work.
Yesterday at work I was talking to Craig and Alex at work about my friend Karin's backpacking trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in 2 weeks. Karin and I been talking whether it is safe to travel in Thailand after the coup, I said yes and stressed I wanted her to get a picture of tanks in Bangkok... They think I am obsessed with tanks and military in general. I said I wanted to add tank pictures to my collection of rebel soldiers in Burma.
On the way home getting off the seabus, I saw Chinese naval servicemen all dressed in black with China flag on the shoulder. The Canadian Navy was docked right beside the seabus...
Again today on my way home from work, instead of the Chinese... it was the South Koreans. The Korean warship was docked beside the Canadian frigate... proudly hanging South Korean flags.
I'm not obsessed... these things come to me. I know what the South Koreans want... they want consultants on how to overthrow Kim Jong Il. I'd happily do it for free...
As for those Chinese... in Vancouver can't stop hearing about China's rise to be the next superpower within our lifetime. If not in school... it is on TV, or on city streets. Tons of writers, academics and conferences talking about Asia & China. I even got my copy of China Inc. signed by Ted Fishman last month at his talk. This world needs a new superpower, tired of Bush and his rant on his vision of the world. But the Chinese are worse...
Only in school fulltime till April 2007... and then got my own plans for China... followed by India, Japan, Korea, Thailand and etc. The countdown is on folks...
This upcoming week is going to be busy. 3 papers are due tomorrow on Monday, 11 pages total. Another small one due Tuesday and a 5 pager due Friday... got to get started on that one sometime on Monday or Tuesday.
So that's the course load for this week. As for my history class, I am going to drop that. Not learning anything and also don't want it to jeopardize my GPA. Instead I will take either Resource Planning or Theories and Practices of Development in place of that next year.
About 200 Karens from refugee camps in Thailand are due to arrive in Vancouver this week and I hope to volunteer to help them get settled in. The Karens are the same people I worked with last year and have also visited the same camp they're from. So that should be interesting...
Then on Saturday I'm turning 24. Yeeeaaaahhh.... NOT. Friday night going out to Handi, Indian restaurant, for some fine dining with friends. Still can't believe Joey and mom will be in Whistler for church event... they're staying at a 5 star hotel and not bringing me on my birthday.
And lastly the following Monday is Thanksgiving. Will be doing homework as usual since papers are due the day after.