18 -24 Sept - Shopping + Bad week

Beginning of the week was quite okay. Went to downtown and hillside shopping mall to go to Claire. They had a great sale on earrings and I did a great deal of shopping for accessories. A pair of earrings was going for $1. I am going to give most of the girls earrings as gifts. But I am in a dilemma as the earrings are all so nice that I want to keep them for myself.

20 Sept, Wednesday

We had lamb chops for dinner. Sponsored by our landlord.. He is really nice to us.. And it was really good!! Already seasoned and we just need to toast it into the oven. Yummy!!!

Man.. Nothing good in the later part of this week. I had the horrible entrepreneur project due on 25 sept. It was a project which we had to really do a small business with $5 capital. I hate to do projects when I have no interest in it. I would prefer to sell food as it is something I really like. But the school didn't allow, need to get license or find some food contractor to allow us to sell food. Blah blah blah.. So no choice, had to do some calendar coupon advertising. Had to find advertisers. I was really stressed over that, but I decided to heck it during the weekend. I spent like the whole week in school. Every break was devoted to meeting. On friday, we went down to Shelbourne to knock on doors to ask for advertisers. But people wasn't that interested. To cut a long story short, the project basically was sucky. If I was allowed to sell food, then I will definitely make it earn money. Everyone needs to eat and the cost is low. Not like advertising, need to spend few hundreds dollars to print the damn stuff and distribute to people. Anyway, my group member dropped out, and after the presentation, the tutor also said we can all stop the innovation project.

23 Sept, Saturday
Hmm.. Supposed to call advertisers from home, but I heck it... My poor group member went downtown to source for advertisers. Shiho (from yokohama) is really a nice girl. I felt bad that I wasn't doing my part.

In the evening, we did grocery shopping. Oh! We are saving a huge deal doing groceries shopping. There is a coupon which states like spend $25 and above and get $10 off. Hehe.. So we are splurging good stuff like getting, beef, salmon to eat. It is really cheap as if we are saving so much... But our coupons are quite limited as the coupon booklets were all taken away by students. The coupon booklets were meant for Uvic students. Greedy me and becky took a total of 10 books. So this mean we can save $100 if we spent $250. We are really spending a lot on groceries. Apparently, it is cheaper to stay off-campus and pay for food. Good for those who know how to cook.. I think I am paying around $400 on rent and below $150 on groceries per month. But I need money to do shopping! Sigh.. The things here are nice but expensive..

Anyway, we bought a boston cream donut from Tim Houton to share on the walk back to our house. Sinful indulgence... It was super creamy and sweet but it was really delicious. We felt guilty for pigging out so we decided to go for a jog around the neighbourhood. It felt good to jog. You won't sweat so much or you take a long time before you sweat. It was a good experience, with the wind blowing in your face and it wasn't that cold afterall!

24 Sept, Sunday
Man.. Shouldn't have make myself so stressed up. Killed so many of my braincells. Spent my whole sunday in school! I wanted to go learn salsa. It was the last free lesson. So I couldn't go and if I want to learn, I must pay $40. Sigh.. Guess life's like that. When you are down, you are down! When you are up, you will go down.. HAha.. I shall remain optimistic.. After this stupid project, I learn to relax and just do whatever I am given. Life's short, so just enjoy and relax...


Had a marvellous dinner. Watercress soup sponsored by our landlady! I feel so lucky staying here.. Yummy soup! Yah.. Mayo.. My favourite. Now you know why I am growing fatter.. Got so many seasoning. And coffee! Need this to tide me for the weekend..