back to blog another day

so i'm back! finally! after 7 classes, revising a business plan (two complete rewrites and still at least one more to go) and presentation slides and presentations. spending my spring break in freaking pittsburgh to prepare for competitions. the last couple days, nights, early mornings were spent practicing, revising, practicing again and revising.

drama. i was pissed. past tense because i know why they did it. our team was bumped from this week's competition in favor of another team. only one biotech cmu team is allowed. this was strategic so since the other team had a higher probablility of winning a ticket to the moot competition (superbowl of these competitions) and then the profs could give us the free ticket they hold in their hands. the other team is way more prepared than we are. but that's because it's a team that has worked on the plan since last year. we (the MBA's on my team) just got our hands into ours for 1 month. we've made a lot of progress in such a short time. a lot of long hours and little sleep. still needs work, but i'm proud of our accomplishments. so i was mad we were bumped. after all our long hard hours during finals week to do something that wasn't even graded, just to make a fake deadline our advisors made for us. i think they didn't think we could pull it off. but we did. and it was a nice HAH! suckers, we did it! the whole situation could have been handled by the professors better. but i don't care. we are going to win a competition even if it kills me. our first one is next week. wish us luck!

i'm trying not to take too many classes next mini. somehow i still ended up with 7. don't worry, one is just me TA'ing a class. so i just have to show up and grade a few papers at the end of the year. i'll be nice on your grade if you buy me ice cream! haha...kidding. steak maybe. hahaha....

i really need to take less classes, but at least my tepper classes are totally fun. advanced negotiations and business acting. but i might trade business acting for star performers. or i might just sit in on star performers. akkk....i need to take less classes. must....resist!

other than that my spring break was spent on working out, cooking and watching movies. i watched In Her Shoes. cameron diaz sometimes looks like a man. it's the high cheekbones and almost chiseled face. i still admire her muscle tone though. even for someone so skinny she must have had to diet a lot to lose so much body fat that you can see all the ripples. also, i don't remember her boobs being so big. plastic surgery? overall i loved the story. of course i'm a sap. but cmon! she overcomes her dyslexia and reads a poem at her sisters wedding! how can you not tear up at that??!!

i also watched 2046. a wong kar wai film. very true to his style, it's all about lighting, music, period style, and unspoken tension. zhang ziyi was gorgeous of course. Takuya Kimura from long vacation was also in it! what a cutie. i'd been looking forward to watching that movie ever since i read about it on montauk's blog. if i could describe the movie in one word - passionate. the actors, the mood, the colors, the actions...all passionate. but chungking express is still my all time fav wong kar wai film. of course it helps that takeshi kaneshiro was in it. hehe....