For the whole two hours, my fear of speaking out loud in class acted up again -.- The only thing I could do was space out and stare at the people sitting across from me. Our table was rather elongated (I had the class in Barrows) and Jennifer and I made a mistake by sitting the farthest away from the GSI -.- Instead, we were treated to scenes (across from us) like this girl smiling coyly at the guy beside her with her tube dress UNBUTTONED right down to the middle of her chest (Jennifer got me ROFLing.. she said what's there to see? Which is kind of true.. given how um.. nvm). Geez, it's already a tube (Bao(4) Lu(4) to the max)! The guy, being a typical male, was staring down at her unbuttoned tube dress. Right. So both of them were smiling at each other. Right. There was other stuff going on too, but I don't feel like describing everything here so I'd just say that in a nutshell, my History discussion is like a high school drama compressed into 2 hours.

Speaking of History 4A, I'm in a dilemma. I can't decide whether I should switch to History 14, which covers the history of Japan. The content of History 14 interests me greatly, since it's about Japan. History 4A is interesting too, given that it's about Egypt, Rome & Greece and I'm a sucker for Greek history (and its myths especially! I'm SO gonna take Classic 28 - Greek mythology next Spring!). But here comes the twist. History 14 has a history of around 70% of As whereas History 4A only has 5 - 10% of As (I highly doubt that A+ exists either)... But I'm taking History 4A because of the positive reviews of how the Professor for this class is one of the best History professors in Berkeley and also because of the fact that it is one of the prerequisites for my Legal Studies Major. How how how?

Econs 101B has been going at a pace akin to that of a snail's, which is kind of fortunate yet boring in a way. We are still learning about demand and supply and as compared to last semester's Econ 101A (which totally killed me and my confidence in math), the two classes A & B are extremely different in nature. But I'm reserving my opinions on this class because you never know when the Professor will go crazy and start introducing crazy theorems and formulas which might kill my grade.

I'm also taking UGB 102A - Financial Accounting this semester. It's definitely going at a much refreshing pace than UGB 103 in summer. While we're still at components of a Balance Sheet in my 2nd week of classes, a 2nd week in summer would have meant that I'm at Chapter 5 of the Corporate Finance text (Crazy pace!). I don't know how I can withstand 2 hours of UGB 102A discussion followed by 2 hours of History 4A discussion every Friday morning for the next few months =\ But then I realize that with the neverending readings and homework and essays due each week, the 2 hour discussion for UGB 102A is a blessing in disguise since it will probably become my naptime on Friday :)

2 days ago our entire street had a blackout. It was a thrilling night. While stuffing my mouth with hor fun and tau pok and talking to my mum at the same time (I don't know how I accomplished that haha!), the lights suddenly flickered and poof! Everything went black. Even the street lights went off. The next minute, I heard Aster scrambling to my room. Thankfully, my laptop was operating on an almost fully-charged battery and the moon that night was surprisingly bright. With a torchlight in hand, we went outside to meet up with the rest of the residents in our building. Surprisingly, our building had an emergency light in the corridor, so we weren't scurrying about in the dark. Someone apparently went out and came back into the building, and we bombarded him with questions. We could clearly see that outside there were around 8 -10 police cars, with men clad in professional black suits standing guard outside (like WHOA) as well as policemen running about with their guns out. I heard rumors like a homeless person attacked someone, or that our electricity was shut down because someone fired at the electricity wire or something to that extent. I still haven't figured out what happened that night, but because of the blackout, my plan to do an all-nighter was clearly out. So I had no choice but to have a good sleep and pon the next day classes. Hah.

Ah, enough storytelling for the night. Ciao~