Sunday, May 31, 2009
"back to the real world" ahh... after a rather tiring 3 days of bringing yasmine around, exchange is finally over for me. i didn't say goodbye to yasmine in hk, cos i knew that she'd be coming. but she was really one person whom i felt i had to bid goodbye to. we had forged a close friendship in hk, even though we're so different. in everything. hahaha. perhaps it is really time to put aside things in hk and reintegrate. church was a good start. meeting friends and seeing familiar faces helped. as emzie said, it is time to come back to the real world. perhaps nxt wk, as i plan to meet up with more ppl, things will begin to settle down, and i'd be feeling less tormented.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
yasmine's coming! i have no idea where to bring tourists. seriously. but i guess li xiang has some idea, so i'm counting on her. i am just going to be there. why am i so directionless? if only at least it's smth to do for the nxt few days. takes things off the mind. going around sightseeing in sg isn't such a bad idea.. i may even discover smth i didn't know before. haha --- as it turns out, li xiang is not free. the responsibility is now thrust upon me. ah well. i guess at times there is no running away.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
hot like ---- (insert 4-letter word of choice) argh. i honestly hope it's just a period of acclimatization.. cos i can't leave air-con places right now without breaking out into sweat. lots and lots of sweat. argh. i shall go to coffee bean to read my book tmr, as soon as i unpack (if i do unpack. argh.) there are other aspects to get used to as well. and sooner or later, preferably sooner, i'll have to do smth. but i'm a coward. argh.
Monday, May 25, 2009
back i'm finally home. as i met my parents at the airport, a sense of belonging came over me. but there was also a sense of coming back down to earth. the whirlwind exchange journey has finally ended. hk wasn't nice to me at the end, as torrential rain came down, seemingly to chase me away. but since i have been largely well-treated in the time i was there, i shall forgive it. with proper hk tradition, i ended my exchange yumcha-ing with my hk classmates :) as i attempted to spend my last hk dollars at the airport, i felt regret at not doing some things. the big pile of coins i have left over was supposed to go to some ppl, somewhere, but i've not managed to get rid of them. ah well. all i want now is some peace and quiet in my own room, after enduring 3 hrs of a torturous flight. the two ladies sitting beside me yakked non-stop for the entire 3 hrs. and i'm not using 'non-stop' metaphorically. i wonder how some ppl have so much to talk abt. no matter, cos i'm just thankful that i'm home.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
last day in hk i hate packing. but i hate leaving more. thoughts of leaving have been bugging me the past few days, even though i had exams on my mind as well. the exam was nth to blog abt. but as i thought of leaving this place, leaving this life, i wonder how difficult is it for those to leave everything behind and escape to another place. the push factor must be great, because the pain of severing a past is immense as well. as i leave this place, i know there is no chance of returning. because hk would no longer be the same. the ppl whom i got to know so well, the ppl whom i could bump into at hku, the ppl whom i meet even without arranging to meet, all of them would no longer be here. i got my wish of meeting up with my g&l grp. other wishes are less likely to come by. the weather today reflected my mood, unfortunately. as i sat on the minibus back from causeway bay, my shoes were wet, as were my eyes. fortunately it was dark. i didn't really want to get off, but things aren't always for us to decide. i pray for better weather tmr. i've done my shopping, and my luggage cannot take any more. but i want to see hk one more time, and rain dampens everything. hk, give me one last hurrah. i'll miss u.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
even my highlighter has run out of ink how timely. i guess my time here has really come to an end. time to put the checks on my to do list, though i know, at least one will remain unfulfilled. happy valley was an experience. i've never been to see horseracing b4, but now i can understand why grandpa likes it so much. the atmosphere was carnival-like. i placed a bet of hkd 30 and got back hkd 45.50. not bad! :D the donkey-like horse who didn't seem to like his jockey very much won. haha. but i don't think that it will ever be my hobby. it does border on gambling, though i do not think that every game of chance involving money is 'gambling' per se. life is about risk-taking at every turn. and there are, of course, much higher stakes in life than money. gambling connotes something more, a sort of compulsiveness, a kind of addiction. shuwen is right. i do have a foul mouth. i ought to slap myself.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
the only one left argh it's depressing. as char went to take her derivatives exam, i find myself the only one left in the library. and i probably won't see her tmr either since her last exam is in the morning. i guess it's gonna be 2 full days of mugging alone. i really feel like hecking the exams and going out to buy souvenirs right now. like now. i'll only be getting a few things for a few ppl, but i must at least know what to get. so little time left. it seems a rush. ---
i told u, no i should've just slept. what am i doing up at 3am anyway? i nv used to stay up so late in sg. i need to re-adjust when i get back. its getting really warm here. and the mozzies are out in full force. currently its mozzie 5, delai 0. but it doesn't matter. i'm going home.
Monday, May 18, 2009
still just a visitor met up with yf and wq just now and as i thought of where to bring them to eat, i realized that i'm still pretty much unfamiliar with this place. if not for me going there 15mins earlier to recce the place, i won't even have known the right exit to go to ladies' market. and i couldn't even think of a nice place to eat. other than kennedy town and aberdeen, where else do i know that sells nice, cheap dimsum? and there is also the small matter of language. i still needed to point and gesture to order food. perhaps i really should have taken cantonese class. ah well. i probably can't proclaim that this place is my home away from home. it's been only 4 months anyway. short, yet it felt like a lifetime as well. this journey has only a week left in it. and as i become the only one left with exams, it's been really nice to hear some words of encouragement. one more time, to myself, jiayou :)
Sunday, May 17, 2009
we'll never walk alone well well l'pool didn't win the league. so what else is new? they haven't won the league ever since i started supporting them anyway. what irks me is that man utd now equals the all-time league record. BAH. this is a bad day. it started going downhill when i downloaded past yr G&L exam papers and realized that they ask qns with specific references to the hk context. and i know zilch about hk governance issues. which of cos put me right into panic mode cos now i have to be really familiar with all my distributed materials so i can answer the remaining qns which do not deal with the hk context. and it got worse when i realized that nothing was going into my head. somehow i kept thinking of home. and the ppl back home. and the things i have to do when i get back home. and the stuff i have to face up to. everything and anything but the words in front, staring at me. but thinking it through, now is not the time to panic. i have sufficient time left to prepare for the exam; the grades don't count anyway. and i can worry about home when i get home. and there is always nxt season, when we can sing with all our hearts, that we'll never walk alone.
Friday, May 15, 2009
till we meet again and so yunjie becomes the first of many friends to leave hk. as we went our separate ways at causeway bay, i could see the sadness in her eyes. it's a big world, and we'll probably never see each other again. but technology does make the world slightly smaller; i hope we do make an effort to use it. the library is getting emptier, as more ppl finish their exams. and after last nite, i know it is really going to feel empty for me. but i shall return anyway. and mousehunt will keep me going for yet another 15mins, till i finish my exams. and then, even i will have to bid goodbye, with sadness in my eyes.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
self-declared off its exam period still, but since i decided that i've still got a lot of time left to pass my exam, i traipsed down to tst for the purpose (or on the pretext?) of getting yvonne's tank top. i failed in my mission miserably. the ulterior motive of doing some shopping for myself was however fulfilled! :D i'm such a lousy brother. in any case, i have to exclaim: i love cotton-on hk! shirts going for hkd199 are reduced to hkd50 every time a new line of stocks come in. and so i was able to buy 2 shirts for less than S$20. happy. but i've spent quite a lot in hk already. went past my overall budget today and had to withdraw money from my dbs account. my hsbc account is empty! luckily i'm only going to be here for another 10 days. and while i was at tst i managed to waltz down (under lu's influence) to the charlie brown cafe. the food was mediocre, but the place was really nice. i demand a garfield cafe.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
done! all i'm left with is the exam on the 23rd! yippee! ok i may want to do some more edits and touch-ups, but it isn't really necessary. tmr i shall go to tst and try to find yvonne's tank top. and i shall fool around for a few more days b4 starting to revise for the 23rd :) thank u mousehunt for keeping me sane thus far. wahahaha
Saturday, May 09, 2009
numbers eer, competition, g&l, 3000 words each. iel, 3750. equality, 6000. total, 18750. it's been quite a month. after tonight, with luck, only g&l left :) could've been worse. iel would've been 7500 without phil. g&l could've been replaced by 10,000-word comparative law. thank God. my companion thus far, mousehunt. 1189 horn calls so far, each at 15min intervals. 1514 mice caught. time spent in sch today, 15hrs. time in the library, approximately 13hrs. time actually being productive... time left in hk, 16days. time to say goodbye.
Friday, May 08, 2009
exams make me frown this made me smile: "life is like an STD, you get it by having sex and it invariably ends up with someone dying" -jh and there were unjustified pangs of jealousy as well
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
没有如果 - 梁静茹 有人说 世界上最遥远的距离不是生与死 而是我就站在你面前 你却不知道我爱你 我常说 如果人类连爱一个人都被自己绑住 那世界末日已来到 不需要等到地球毁灭掉的那天 如果我说 爱我没有如果 错过就过 你是不是会难过 若如果拿来当借口 那是不是有一点弱 如果我说 爱我没有如果 真的爱我 就放手一搏 还想什么 还怕什么 快牵起我的手
Sunday, May 03, 2009
rant entry can't seem to focus on doing my iel take-home exam. whereas eer and competition law take-homes were completed on schedule, i'm seriously behind for iel. continue like this and i'll have no time to do g&l, and study for my exam. the 'just pass can already' tune keeps repeating in my head, which probably explains the lack of motivation. the confusing subject matter (completely my own fault since i slept through/missed most of the classes) is not helping. nor are my other countless myriad thoughts and distractions. i actually went to watch wolverine yesterday. got back to hall, eeked out abt 400 words of rubbish, then went for service at the vine. today, basketball in the morning, yum cha, and now i'm wasting even more time by blogging on how i wasted my time. hahahah. but i'll get through this. and it'll serve as a reminder to study hard, regularly, again nxt semester.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
swine flu hits hk i hope mum/dad wouldn't be too worried. they do tend to overreact, but i'll stay safe. and it's not like hk is mexico. it has been through sars; it is well prepared. in the meantime i reserve the right to stare at anyone who cough/sneezes without closing their mouths. or at least attempting to. wahaha
Friday, May 01, 2009
五月，夏 ocean park, check. one of three places left on my list of to-go-to places for hk, including cheung chau, tai-o. yvonne would have loved the place i think. but all i could get her was a souvenir. i'll leave cheung chau and tai-o for some other time, or nxt time. i think i'd like to come back. everyone tells me ocean park is better than disneyland. but other than the fact that both are amusement parks, there is no basis of comparison. ocean park is abt the rides. and cute pandas, seals. disneyland is abt, well, disney. a reliving of childhood memories. i enjoyed myself at both places, equally. i like theme parks. and if not said in jest, i think i'd like to go to escape too. been going to theme parks overseas, but not in my own country. we do take things for granted sometimes. in the meantime, back to work. a boost was sent today when we received news that we got an A for g&l presentation. we didn't let the team down! michelle, we rock! :) i'll really, really, miss u.
About Me
wants:
olympus fe-4000
(no more new gadgets for the moment!)
wolf hall, by hilary mantel
what the dog saw, by malcolm gladwell
my laptop fan to be quiet
to go cycling
europe tour
holidays with family
to be a lawyer
to enjoy my final yr more
others to be happy
to be a better person
...i'm all about wants! haha!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
"back to the real world" ahh... after a rather tiring 3 days of bringing yasmine around, exchange is finally over for me. i didn't say goodbye to yasmine in hk, cos i knew that she'd be coming. but she was really one person whom i felt i had to bid goodbye to. we had forged a close friendship in hk, even though we're so different. in everything. hahaha. perhaps it is really time to put aside things in hk and reintegrate. church was a good start. meeting friends and seeing familiar faces helped. as emzie said, it is time to come back to the real world. perhaps nxt wk, as i plan to meet up with more ppl, things will begin to settle down, and i'd be feeling less tormented.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
yasmine's coming! i have no idea where to bring tourists. seriously. but i guess li xiang has some idea, so i'm counting on her. i am just going to be there. why am i so directionless? if only at least it's smth to do for the nxt few days. takes things off the mind. going around sightseeing in sg isn't such a bad idea.. i may even discover smth i didn't know before. haha --- as it turns out, li xiang is not free. the responsibility is now thrust upon me. ah well. i guess at times there is no running away.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
hot like ---- (insert 4-letter word of choice) argh. i honestly hope it's just a period of acclimatization.. cos i can't leave air-con places right now without breaking out into sweat. lots and lots of sweat. argh. i shall go to coffee bean to read my book tmr, as soon as i unpack (if i do unpack. argh.) there are other aspects to get used to as well. and sooner or later, preferably sooner, i'll have to do smth. but i'm a coward. argh.
Monday, May 25, 2009
back i'm finally home. as i met my parents at the airport, a sense of belonging came over me. but there was also a sense of coming back down to earth. the whirlwind exchange journey has finally ended. hk wasn't nice to me at the end, as torrential rain came down, seemingly to chase me away. but since i have been largely well-treated in the time i was there, i shall forgive it. with proper hk tradition, i ended my exchange yumcha-ing with my hk classmates :) as i attempted to spend my last hk dollars at the airport, i felt regret at not doing some things. the big pile of coins i have left over was supposed to go to some ppl, somewhere, but i've not managed to get rid of them. ah well. all i want now is some peace and quiet in my own room, after enduring 3 hrs of a torturous flight. the two ladies sitting beside me yakked non-stop for the entire 3 hrs. and i'm not using 'non-stop' metaphorically. i wonder how some ppl have so much to talk abt. no matter, cos i'm just thankful that i'm home.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
last day in hk i hate packing. but i hate leaving more. thoughts of leaving have been bugging me the past few days, even though i had exams on my mind as well. the exam was nth to blog abt. but as i thought of leaving this place, leaving this life, i wonder how difficult is it for those to leave everything behind and escape to another place. the push factor must be great, because the pain of severing a past is immense as well. as i leave this place, i know there is no chance of returning. because hk would no longer be the same. the ppl whom i got to know so well, the ppl whom i could bump into at hku, the ppl whom i meet even without arranging to meet, all of them would no longer be here. i got my wish of meeting up with my g&l grp. other wishes are less likely to come by. the weather today reflected my mood, unfortunately. as i sat on the minibus back from causeway bay, my shoes were wet, as were my eyes. fortunately it was dark. i didn't really want to get off, but things aren't always for us to decide. i pray for better weather tmr. i've done my shopping, and my luggage cannot take any more. but i want to see hk one more time, and rain dampens everything. hk, give me one last hurrah. i'll miss u.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
even my highlighter has run out of ink how timely. i guess my time here has really come to an end. time to put the checks on my to do list, though i know, at least one will remain unfulfilled. happy valley was an experience. i've never been to see horseracing b4, but now i can understand why grandpa likes it so much. the atmosphere was carnival-like. i placed a bet of hkd 30 and got back hkd 45.50. not bad! :D the donkey-like horse who didn't seem to like his jockey very much won. haha. but i don't think that it will ever be my hobby. it does border on gambling, though i do not think that every game of chance involving money is 'gambling' per se. life is about risk-taking at every turn. and there are, of course, much higher stakes in life than money. gambling connotes something more, a sort of compulsiveness, a kind of addiction. shuwen is right. i do have a foul mouth. i ought to slap myself.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
the only one left argh it's depressing. as char went to take her derivatives exam, i find myself the only one left in the library. and i probably won't see her tmr either since her last exam is in the morning. i guess it's gonna be 2 full days of mugging alone. i really feel like hecking the exams and going out to buy souvenirs right now. like now. i'll only be getting a few things for a few ppl, but i must at least know what to get. so little time left. it seems a rush. ---
i told u, no i should've just slept. what am i doing up at 3am anyway? i nv used to stay up so late in sg. i need to re-adjust when i get back. its getting really warm here. and the mozzies are out in full force. currently its mozzie 5, delai 0. but it doesn't matter. i'm going home.
Monday, May 18, 2009
still just a visitor met up with yf and wq just now and as i thought of where to bring them to eat, i realized that i'm still pretty much unfamiliar with this place. if not for me going there 15mins earlier to recce the place, i won't even have known the right exit to go to ladies' market. and i couldn't even think of a nice place to eat. other than kennedy town and aberdeen, where else do i know that sells nice, cheap dimsum? and there is also the small matter of language. i still needed to point and gesture to order food. perhaps i really should have taken cantonese class. ah well. i probably can't proclaim that this place is my home away from home. it's been only 4 months anyway. short, yet it felt like a lifetime as well. this journey has only a week left in it. and as i become the only one left with exams, it's been really nice to hear some words of encouragement. one more time, to myself, jiayou :)
Sunday, May 17, 2009
we'll never walk alone well well l'pool didn't win the league. so what else is new? they haven't won the league ever since i started supporting them anyway. what irks me is that man utd now equals the all-time league record. BAH. this is a bad day. it started going downhill when i downloaded past yr G&L exam papers and realized that they ask qns with specific references to the hk context. and i know zilch about hk governance issues. which of cos put me right into panic mode cos now i have to be really familiar with all my distributed materials so i can answer the remaining qns which do not deal with the hk context. and it got worse when i realized that nothing was going into my head. somehow i kept thinking of home. and the ppl back home. and the things i have to do when i get back home. and the stuff i have to face up to. everything and anything but the words in front, staring at me. but thinking it through, now is not the time to panic. i have sufficient time left to prepare for the exam; the grades don't count anyway. and i can worry about home when i get home. and there is always nxt season, when we can sing with all our hearts, that we'll never walk alone.
Friday, May 15, 2009
till we meet again and so yunjie becomes the first of many friends to leave hk. as we went our separate ways at causeway bay, i could see the sadness in her eyes. it's a big world, and we'll probably never see each other again. but technology does make the world slightly smaller; i hope we do make an effort to use it. the library is getting emptier, as more ppl finish their exams. and after last nite, i know it is really going to feel empty for me. but i shall return anyway. and mousehunt will keep me going for yet another 15mins, till i finish my exams. and then, even i will have to bid goodbye, with sadness in my eyes.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
self-declared off its exam period still, but since i decided that i've still got a lot of time left to pass my exam, i traipsed down to tst for the purpose (or on the pretext?) of getting yvonne's tank top. i failed in my mission miserably. the ulterior motive of doing some shopping for myself was however fulfilled! :D i'm such a lousy brother. in any case, i have to exclaim: i love cotton-on hk! shirts going for hkd199 are reduced to hkd50 every time a new line of stocks come in. and so i was able to buy 2 shirts for less than S$20. happy. but i've spent quite a lot in hk already. went past my overall budget today and had to withdraw money from my dbs account. my hsbc account is empty! luckily i'm only going to be here for another 10 days. and while i was at tst i managed to waltz down (under lu's influence) to the charlie brown cafe. the food was mediocre, but the place was really nice. i demand a garfield cafe.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
done! all i'm left with is the exam on the 23rd! yippee! ok i may want to do some more edits and touch-ups, but it isn't really necessary. tmr i shall go to tst and try to find yvonne's tank top. and i shall fool around for a few more days b4 starting to revise for the 23rd :) thank u mousehunt for keeping me sane thus far. wahahaha
Saturday, May 09, 2009
numbers eer, competition, g&l, 3000 words each. iel, 3750. equality, 6000. total, 18750. it's been quite a month. after tonight, with luck, only g&l left :) could've been worse. iel would've been 7500 without phil. g&l could've been replaced by 10,000-word comparative law. thank God. my companion thus far, mousehunt. 1189 horn calls so far, each at 15min intervals. 1514 mice caught. time spent in sch today, 15hrs. time in the library, approximately 13hrs. time actually being productive... time left in hk, 16days. time to say goodbye.
Friday, May 08, 2009
exams make me frown this made me smile: "life is like an STD, you get it by having sex and it invariably ends up with someone dying" -jh and there were unjustified pangs of jealousy as well
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
没有如果 - 梁静茹 有人说 世界上最遥远的距离不是生与死 而是我就站在你面前 你却不知道我爱你 我常说 如果人类连爱一个人都被自己绑住 那世界末日已来到 不需要等到地球毁灭掉的那天 如果我说 爱我没有如果 错过就过 你是不是会难过 若如果拿来当借口 那是不是有一点弱 如果我说 爱我没有如果 真的爱我 就放手一搏 还想什么 还怕什么 快牵起我的手
Sunday, May 03, 2009
rant entry can't seem to focus on doing my iel take-home exam. whereas eer and competition law take-homes were completed on schedule, i'm seriously behind for iel. continue like this and i'll have no time to do g&l, and study for my exam. the 'just pass can already' tune keeps repeating in my head, which probably explains the lack of motivation. the confusing subject matter (completely my own fault since i slept through/missed most of the classes) is not helping. nor are my other countless myriad thoughts and distractions. i actually went to watch wolverine yesterday. got back to hall, eeked out abt 400 words of rubbish, then went for service at the vine. today, basketball in the morning, yum cha, and now i'm wasting even more time by blogging on how i wasted my time. hahahah. but i'll get through this. and it'll serve as a reminder to study hard, regularly, again nxt semester.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
swine flu hits hk i hope mum/dad wouldn't be too worried. they do tend to overreact, but i'll stay safe. and it's not like hk is mexico. it has been through sars; it is well prepared. in the meantime i reserve the right to stare at anyone who cough/sneezes without closing their mouths. or at least attempting to. wahaha
Friday, May 01, 2009
五月，夏 ocean park, check. one of three places left on my list of to-go-to places for hk, including cheung chau, tai-o. yvonne would have loved the place i think. but all i could get her was a souvenir. i'll leave cheung chau and tai-o for some other time, or nxt time. i think i'd like to come back. everyone tells me ocean park is better than disneyland. but other than the fact that both are amusement parks, there is no basis of comparison. ocean park is abt the rides. and cute pandas, seals. disneyland is abt, well, disney. a reliving of childhood memories. i enjoyed myself at both places, equally. i like theme parks. and if not said in jest, i think i'd like to go to escape too. been going to theme parks overseas, but not in my own country. we do take things for granted sometimes. in the meantime, back to work. a boost was sent today when we received news that we got an A for g&l presentation. we didn't let the team down! michelle, we rock! :) i'll really, really, miss u.
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