tofu

"""我一向都討厭簡體字.....

就算依度有得take mandarin我都唔take
因為我驚睇完o的簡體字會搞到我將o的字混淆哂"""

you can just take 繁體字 mandarin class ar, the one that hold by taiwanese teacher

tofu

depends on your schools, i don't know ubc la.
but if you want to learn mandarin, you don't have to learn it from ubc ar,
college, school board or private, lots of choices ar.

tofu

"""Didn't simplification start before communist party gained power?"""

yes, but official character simplifications was introuduced after prc was formed.  and people are forced to use it in around 80s.

tofu

"""why you think the pronunciation of "麵" is "面" is making sense but not "麥" instead"""

because 麥 is 部首.  there is a formula to pronoun chinese character.  of course there are exceptions, but exception is exception

tofu

yes, learning one more subject is a benefit/credit.  but if you don't have time to learn them all, what would your preference to learn first.

so you believe simplified chinese has no exception at all.  if someone knows nothing about a language, don't you think s/he can guess about that language.   we are talking about a person who has a basic knowledge of a language then s/he can guess a word that s/he doesn't know.  
no matter language, math or...., everything has exception, under exceptional case, we need to remember it.  in a regular day, we are talking about normal situation, reasonable person &...