[Out & About #9] Exams, Food, and Shopping!

3/4 WOOT WOOT!!!

After an insomniatic Friday night, I finally wrote my enviro exam on Saturday morning. Fingers crossed that I'll pass since failing the final is equivalent to failing the course, regardless of what your previous marks were. And because failing also means that come next year, I'll have to spend ANOTHER GLORIOUS YEAR with that disorganized blob of a prof that is incapable of explaining concepts without dragging it out, belatedly posts everything on the course website, and fails to provide solutions to our practice exam..

YUP. Besides mechanics (which I actually do find to be an important course - it's just that physics was never my strong suit =P), this is the course that I enjoyed the most this year. I mean, WHAT IS THERE NOT TO ENJOY??? I was so thrilled at the idea of trekking across campus every time that I just decided to skip a full month of this class. (Sense my sarcasm yet?)

But anyways, my last exam isn't until next Friday so I decided to take a little break yesterday.

Oh! Side note: Before talking about yesterday, I want to reveal my cell phone charm of the month: Santeddy! ^ ^ /

Isn't he just so adorable?! As I've been changing up my charm every month since the day I got my first phone (Gr. 7; ~6.5 years ago) without ever using the same charm twice and haven't been replenishing my stock, I was at a quite a loss to find an appropriately festive character for this month. Luckily, I re-discovered this little guy hiding in the corner of the "charm drawer". (No joke. I actually have a drawer just dedicated to the storage of these little figures :x)


So alright moving on~

After my exam, we went to try out Paramount Fine Foods; it opened recently near our house and since there was nothing left in our fridge besides 3-day-old honey mustard chicken, we agreed that never-before-tried Middle Eastern/Lebanese cuisine would be a satisfactory lunchtime resolve.

I guess one thing I forgot to mention was that it officially started snowing yesterday.
Like, officially. Not just a sheer layer of frost or anything, but actually layers and layers of the fluffy white stuff known as snow.

And here's the proof:

So maybe you can't see it. But the amount of snow piled up from just a couple hours was enough to cover over half of our lower leg extremity.

We were actually hit with an enormous snowstorm; there was even a huge collision involving 50 (!!!!), yes FIFTY, vehicles on the highway. One of the drivers was interviewed on CP24 and she talked about how one car hit her, causing her to spin perpendicularly onto the highway, where she was then hit once in the front and once in the back. O _ o  GEEZ, talk about scary. Luckily none of the drivers were badly injured.

On a more positive not, I met up with one of my close friends from high school for a quick shopping trip shortly after lunch.

As neither of us had been in a mall since exams had started, we were delighted to discover that Square One had been thoroughly decked out in festive holiday decorations, including a huge Christmas on the upper level, where photos  with Santa were being taken, and one made completely out of lights was placed in the middle of the lower level.

Numerous retail stores were holding crazy sales, profiting from the procrastination of last-minute Christmas gift shoppers.

When we walked by the GUESS store, the two rhinestone-studded-t-shirt-sporting girls in Santa hats informed us of their 2-day 45% off sale limited to this weekend only. I came across a rather fabulous dress - part velvet, part sequins, and complete with a classic yet still modern sheer panel - in addition to an equally stunning multi-purpose cross-body.

Both were at extremely reasonable prices. However, being the frugal and impatient being that I am, I walked out of the store upon spotting the two lines of 20+ people (per line!) lined up at the cashier and after being notified that the last bag of that size happened to be the one on display.

Looking back, it was quite a shame since even my mom approved of the dress after having seen the photos I took. And unfortunately, the colourful pyramid studded bag happened to be sold out online as well.

I also spotted some things from Zara, but decided to abide by my frugal uni student ways by allowing my wallet to remain untouched within my black backpack. Perhaps I'll try to hunt them down while on vacation instead =]

Before finishing up for the day, we stopped by the newly-renovated yogen fruz. My friend grabbed a Panda Milk Tea (they have black and white tapioca!) while I stood beside her in line snapping away at the holiday-themed sprinkles and bubble tea powders/machinery.

We also made an attempt to vlog throughout the trip, though weren't exactly fruitful.