hAozi @ HK ^-*

Goodbye

2007-12-26T22:55:00.000+08:00

As 2007 comes to an end, so is my trip to HK.

I've been here for more than 4 months now, and I will treasure every moment of it.

Thank you all for accompanying me through these months. and for more photos of my HK experience, go facebook. I don't have energy to load on this blog anymore.. or type any longer..

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year.

Aaron Kwok - Wei Yi Se Cai

2007-12-13T17:59:00.001+08:00

Aaron Kwok - Fall In Love

2007-12-13T17:42:00.001+08:00

LOL

Aaron Kwok 郭富城愛情 (Love) MV

2007-12-13T17:24:00.001+08:00

this one load faster. Jay's the music composerrrr!

Love 愛情 Ai Qing - 郭富城 Aaron Kwok MV (CD Volume)

2007-12-13T17:09:00.001+08:00

niceeeeeeeeeeeeee! jay chou sang this in his concert.. even nicerr! haha

A tiring week

2007-12-13T14:52:00.000+08:00

hey guys. havent been updating for awhile.. haha.. my family came over last Friday and I've been bringing them around! Sooo tiring. Went to all the touristy places like The peak, Ocean Park, Mongkok, Causeway Bay, TST, Central.. and they get bonuses like my school, my hostel and the "HDB" area next to CityUni. We went to Wong Tai Sin temple too to "QIU QIAN". I am soooo wowed by these kind of supernatural stuffs. (do u call this supernatural stuffs?)

And I had exams on Tue morning!! Wah.. went ocean park the whole day before that and was super tired when i came back. Still had to cram the whole auditing module into my little brain as it was a closed book exam. hahaa.. i went to nap and my poor roomie had such a hard time waking me up. i din even realise she switched on the lamp right on top of my head.. and i am usually a super light sleeper. heh. woke at 5 to study till 9 before gg for the exams.. i'd better not fail!

went to send them off.. byebye! and it's another 3 more weeks before i'm due home. haha.. i'll miss hk, and my friends here. it's so sad when the goodbyes here are not heyy "seeya soon!" but. hey! it's been a sem and i dun think i'll ever see you again.. glad to meet you and take care! sounds sad huh.

ohhh and I Went to JAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY CHOU's concert yesterday!! wooohoo! haha.. we bought the tix quite late so was sitting quite back. and sooo QIAO! I met candyyy my fave classmate there! she was sitting right behind me. wah.. i cant believe it.. of all the thousands of spectators she was there. ha.

the concert was good. I'm swooning over Jay's MV now. since yesterday night actually. haha imagine if it was WONG LEE HOM's concert.. wow.. i think i will buy up all his albums and posters. aha but it was Jay. and it was still amazing.

His concert lasted about.. erm. 3hours. the HK ppl refused to left after he "encored" 3 times. hahaha act one lor tsk tsk. ha.. they still stayed back and screamed and shouted for Jay for the longest time. and they really know how to sing all his songs though it was in Mandarin! amazing. haha. i cant sing canto songs.. maybe i never listen long enough.

He sang his classics like An Jing and Kai Bu liao Kou. but there were his new songs like Niu Zai hen mang, Pu Gong ying de yue ding (AHHH! my fave!!), Zui chang de dian ying, tian tian de. and so on. his every concert's different. sang Wo bu pei at the one my friend went to but not yesterday...

The best part (I feel) was when Aaron Kwok came in! haha.. Jay sang AI QING by Aaron and I think it was super nice!! haha.. then he sang "Dui Ni Ai Ai Ai Bu Ai" and did those actions tt Aaron did last time. waha. the scene where both of them danced and sang together was so... cute and loveable. aww man. Is Aaron married btw? hha.Oh and Nan Quan mama came too. they sang a lot. haha.. like 5 songs or sth.

thAnk you Cally for asking me to go watch Jay!! superbly enjoyed myself. it's only 16 days till i go back. have to cram all the things i wanna do and all into these 2 weeks. (plus another exam sianz). haha cant wait for ANDY LAUUUUUUUUUU on 28th. Yay. hope u guys are enjoying yr hols while i am slogging here. LOL. seeya!!

Funny Thai commercial A real hustler

2007-12-04T02:26:00.001+08:00

HAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAH

Funny Thai Commercial

2007-12-04T02:15:00.001+08:00

OMG. what kinda bank is that?

Another funny thai ad(cheers)

2007-12-04T02:14:00.001+08:00

DAMN KUA ZHANGGGGG

Thai Funny Ads-MeungThaiAssurance [Eng-subed]

2007-12-04T02:11:00.001+08:00

LOL

Last day of school

2007-12-01T01:07:00.000+08:00

lots of thoughts since the last post. but too lazy to post it.

American Graffiti's nice, and so's clueless. nice to watch brainless shows on Fridays

Hmm. well, at least the paddlers were doing something they felt strongly about before they met the accident (Sky reminded me of that! ha)

feeling kinda hopeless.

embrace dec, embrace the hols! (and exams)

bye

Free Climbing on hanging Rocks in Thailand (8c+)

2007-11-29T00:08:00.001+08:00

beautiful!~

Dan Osman speed climbing a cliff

2007-11-28T02:07:00.001+08:00

omg he's mad. i love legends.

Family, friends remember dead paddlers

2007-11-26T22:34:00.000+08:00

Quote of the day: Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. -Jawaharal Nehru

another weekend passed! ha.. Just helped my roomie dye her hair dark currant. Hope it turns out great! (:

was reading the newspapers and 2 articles struck me most. the first one being the sad news about those dragonboaters: "Family, friends remember dead paddlers
The five sports enthusiasts who drowned in Cambodia will be sadly missed by those close to them" - Young, fit and so full of hope for the future. BUT, sadly, struck with something most unfortunate. But i guess the worst hit will be their loved ones, missing them and crying for their deaths. They won't feel the pain that much afterall. Sighs. *mourns and pray for them for awhile*

So... wear your life jackets at all times no matter how good a swimmer you are! wear a harness and get a belayer no matter how good a climber you are (if the wall is not too short of course) just be careful of your safety. I almost shocked myself to death a few years back when I realised I wore my harness but did not doubleback it. In fact, I dont think I even put the strap into the buckle at all (yikes hope Philip never sees this). I was so lucky I managed to climb to the top and discovered that.. If I had slipped and fallen halfway, goodness, I would have broken my skull and maybe my back as well. so.. safety first!

The articles about those guys are really wow. Good looking, full of aspirations and talents.. "They say he dished out humour to those he knew, and was easy-going and chatty. He smiled easily, readily and generously, and endeared himself to many.","Mr Ang recalled how Mr Goh's infectious 'can-do' spirit was once central to lifting the spirits of the team, when members were nervous before a race.", "In August last year, the part-time model was crowned Mr World Singapore and in April, he won the Mr Physique title at the Mr World pageant in Hainan, China. Just last month, the 23-year-old came tops in the Singapore Calendar Guys competition.", "He was co-captain of NYP's dragon boat team and president of the school's Piano Ensemble."

What talents!! it's really a pity to their family and our country. oh man.. how come they just have so much goodness to write about. (I am still symphathetic! but just can't help wondering if that was me (CHOY), how would the article turn out to be.) Instead of saying how many awards I've won (which is actually none), what I've accomplished and aspires to be (Which sadly remains unknown even to myself) etc... Would it just be a 2 sentence report that says - An ordinary and unlucky girl met an accident. it saved her from the many troubles of a long search and experiencing her very uncertain and bleak future? I dont think they'll even invite anyone to give comments, oh maybe there wont be an article if it was me. ahh. WELL but anyway.. I am alive. So maybe I can do something to make my life more colourful, to enrich myself and maybe boost up that "resume" of mine a little. So people, treasure every day with your loved ones (:

hmm. yeah gotta rush this a little. as usual, i havent started on anything for tomorrow's audit lesson. the second article is something pretty close to my heart actually. the headline reads: "The day I wished I knew Malay"

Exactly. The day I wished I knew Malay was years ago, when I was working as a waitress. Apparently, the malay population(which is the majority) working at the cafe always insult us in that language. Ignorance sometimes is bliss indeed, all of us innocent JC girls just smiled and worked well with them. A peranakan girl however, understood what they were saying and shortly after she started work, quit. That was when I told myself I had to learn malay. Not for the purpose of understanding what bad things people were saying about me of course, but it made me realise how important Malay was! I want to learn I can understand and communicate with more people- fellow malays in our country, malays in Malaysia, and even Indonesians! It'll be better if I can speak a language cllose to their hearts..

After unsuccessfully getting the Malay Level 1 class for a few semesters, I managed to get it for this sem! Too bad I came for exchange, so had to give that class up. I hope I get it this time when i go back for my last semester!! I badly wanna learn that. For now.. learning canto is enough to keep me busy.~ Practise practise practise!! the next time I come back HK.. I wanna be able to communicate with them!

Hmm yeah I gotta go and do some work now I guess. It's really piling up now that it's the last week of school. everyone jiayou.. and let's all spend 5 mins (or more) to send our condolences to the ex-dragonboaters and their loved ones.. I hope they're at peace no matter where they are now. and that their family can learn to not grieve that much but be proud of their sons and what they have given them. nights.

Goong

2007-11-23T21:08:00.001+08:00

our starting video for presentation today

5 more weeks

2007-11-23T20:27:00.000+08:00

i love fridays.

yeah I really do. haha. not just because it's weekends again but mostly course I get to see my fave classmates! Candy, Carol, Nat, Kristie etc. heh. yeah.. I'll miss them much when I go back. Just one more week till the start of the holidays! (ya right, if you errm, ignore the examinations)

2 more weeks till my dear old family comes to HK to share my joys! (;

It's the last lesson for Smart English today and we gave a presentation on Korean marriages. It's so interestinG!! i've an impulse to marry immediately. haha and an impulse to start on another Korean drama, but i'm watching Harry Potter now. Ahhh anyway ... there's sth about HK students. they really leave after they're done with their stuffs! it happened for Charlotte's presentation in her astro lect, and it happened in mine! We were the last group to present and can u believe it.. ONLY TWO STUDENTS WERE LEFT!! True friends indeed man, haha so I just had to ask for their names. Coby and Heidi, thank you!!

Today's lessons was interesting. We were all supposed to interview foreigners and give a presentation on one aspect of their culture. My classmates talked about things like clubbing culture in france, backpacking around the world (and they kepy emphasizing that you only need to spend 1 day in SG ):, bullfighting in Spain and even pornography in Japan and America (well, actually all over the world)

haha.. One very honest guy in class happily admitted that he watched porn. He even contributed that Japanese porn was nicer cuz it's more realistic. HAHAH in fact, our tutor admitted that he USED to watch too. Oh. and when they talked about clubbing culture.. Carol started asking our tutor to recommend nice clubs in HK.. and he did! haha. She met him in one once. so qiao! ahhhaa anyway, glad it's over! Still have many other assignments and stuffs to prepare for..

Strategy and policy was after lunch. haha.... once I walked in, Toni started saying how long she hasnt seen me. very true.. If i missed 1 more lesson, I'll fail the whole course! I'll struggle to class next week even if I fall very very sick (CHOYYY) haa. class was quite fun. the students were just like anyhow answering all her questions (in Toni's terms giving her bullshit. I think she used this B word 10 times today). ha.. she keep emphasizing that she doesnt blame me for not knowing anything but awww.... so nice huh. she put her hands on my cheeks and squished my face, and dotted my nose ! haha. i felt like some 5 yr old kid under a nanny's care! haa.. lovable prof! never met one as crazy and friendly like her in NTU. i like her (:

can't wait to go shatin with lynn this weekend! and again with NTU girls next week... ahhh.. feeling very sleepy after dinner. time for a nap! update again and enjoy yr hols for those who ended their exams!!

Love actually.. Is all around

2007-11-22T02:44:00.000+08:00

Oh yeah. haha. and just a little update for today. KPMG called me at 10am.. well, Michelle from KPMG. Both my roomie and I were sleeping when the phone's vibration woke us up. With the sleepiest and most cracked voice I could muster, I answered the call. I never expected it to be from Singapore! haha. thought I could make the person feel guilty for waking me and hang up in less than a minute.

They're gonna conduct interviews 5th to 11th Dec! and I wont be there.. so the HR director's gonna conduct a Phone interview with me. time and date to be confirmed. goodness.. It's been some time! so jin zhang huh. I actually applied for Tax in KP.. and I don't know much about them~

Well, despite being extremely lazy to be interviewed, I have to buck up!! It's time to stop being lazy. I'm 21, and I gotta work hard to pay off my debts (quite a sum) in less than half a year. AHHHhhHHh. another step towards adulthood. To be mature, responsible, dedicated, professional, efficient and yadayadaa..

OHHH. and anyway, went for class and we watched "LOVE ACTUALLY". What a fantastic show! I will never get sick of it. It's funny no matter how many times I watch it.. ha. I actually watched it yesterday on Tudou.net and I still find it hilarious when I watched it again just now. Heartwarming, humourous and highly recommended for christmas. I watched the movie with Ricey years back. miss ya girl! cant wait to be back in Singapore in time for the New year.. till we meet again pals! all the best for your exams.... (:

Korean shows

2007-11-22T02:34:00.000+08:00

ha. i'm preparing for a presentation about Korean weddings. busy searching for videos to introduce my topic and I guess I got a little overboard. wouldnt call this a chore cuz i simply love watching them!

There's something about korean dramas that deeply attracts me, despite the predictable plots. most of the shows are about a poor girl who's funny (and actually very pretty), falling in love with a cool, handsome and rich guy. This "perfect" man will have a pretty and capable GF, and a best pal who falls in love with the poor girl. BUt in the end.. the poor girl will end up with the rich guy.. HAPPY ENDING! yay. predictable yet engrossing.

I love happy endings.

Maybe cause I don't expect to get it in real life.

Maybe it's just cause they're so good looking.

Maybe cause it's an escape from reality.

Or Maybe......

I just have nothing better to do.

No matter what, thank you Korea. haha. for helping me pass my time with such great shows. (: and thank you candy, for being such a great project mate! cant wait to hang out with you after the exams.. bye for now!

My Girl OST: Sang-eo-reul Sa-rang-han In-eo (Female Version)

2007-11-22T02:18:00.001+08:00

Love Actually - All I want for Xmas

2007-11-22T02:00:00.001+08:00

this little girl is fantastic!

Goong MV

2007-11-22T01:55:00.001+08:00

[MV]Korean Drama ' coffee prince shop '

2007-11-22T01:51:00.001+08:00

Frustrating insomnia

2007-11-20T01:32:00.000+08:00

argh. I just cant get to sleep. how many days has it been going on?? I am so tired these days.. but I just cant sleep!! in the end after lying on the bed for 3 hours.. I just wake up and eat or sth. or maybe watch a show. so duo luo. too tired to study, go to class, do my report, prepare presentation.. too tired to watch another drama even. I just wanna sleeeepppp!! help! and somehow i cant login to my jetstar account.. do i have a flight back to sg? better call soOnnnnn!! *grouchy haozii*

忽然很想你

2007-11-18T06:23:00.001+08:00

a sec 4 fave !

王力宏 - 改变自己 Change Me MV with pinyin lyrics :]

2007-11-18T05:32:00.001+08:00

Lee Hom - Finally

2007-11-18T04:47:00.001+08:00

check out this MV!!

sleepless night - 7am

2007-11-18T04:39:00.000+08:00

oh man. I think i slept too much in the day.. Body clock now all messed up. check out the lee hom MV.. (: long but nice story! it's the same as what the guy did in the Korean drama 天国的阶梯。。only lee hom is more yandao la haha.

Btw, 陈绮贞's

让我想一想, 还是会寂寞和旅行的意义

really quite nice. can search for them when u guys are free（or get from me heh). her songs are mostly of the same style though.. well tk cr!!

Back from Mainland!

2007-11-16T20:50:00.000+08:00

Ohaiyo!! (Does that mean hello? I hope so..)

Haha.. I am back in HK! and loving it. I missed Festival walk so.. (: ahaha. I am stuck in my room with a tummyache, watching the Harry potter dvd i bought in china (original!!).

So suay, down with Gastroenthritis or sth.. (food poisoning i suspect). 上吐下泻。。Paid $150 to hear him say that it is a self-limiting sickness(meaning i will recover naturally within 7 days.....) AHHHH...! How come everytime I See the doctor they sure tell me this kinda things eh. ahhaha... waste my money. then he still gave me some lecture notes on how to deal with stress cuz he want me to get my $150 worth of money. hahaha. what a funny doc.. requested for a female doc and somehow I got him. the most giggly doc I have ever met! most giggly guy I've ever met actually.

Thanks Xu yu for accompanying me to the doc! and Yr and tianhui... (: 在外靠朋友。。说得好！！ahh well, hope I recover soon! it sucks having to rush to the toilet that often.. and I have managed to skip 2 whole weeks of lessons. yikes man. haha. ytd still chatted with roomie till 5am....

Anyway... was in Shanghai and Ningbo last week!! a 7 days trip! Flew to SHanghai with Mark last Wed, and we went separate ways. I took the Meglev to go to the hostel I booked in SH, while he waited for his dad to go places like Hangzhou and Suzhou.

Was kind of lost at People's square when I reached there. couldnt find the exit for my hostel and tried asking around. but the people there seems quite scared of me - a girl looking lost, and carrying a luggage around! there were more people trying to get me to have my fortunes read, or give them money etc... Lots of beggars in china. just lying around or pulling your sleeves.....

Hmm. anyway, after asking some strangers and calling the hostel twice, I found it!! the hostel was hidden in this alley right behind the tall and majestic Marriot Hotel... (: It was quite ok actually! very good for 200Yuan per night. we had a private room with 2 beds, our own toilet, TV, aircon (not that we needed it) and even hair dryer. I waited for Lili to arrive and we went Thai express for a meal! ha.. Shall bring u all through my 7 days journey... (:

Went to the fake market to see see. Lili bought a bag and I got myself a Paul Frank shirt. the people there very funny la.. the whole world knows everything they sell is fake, but they were still trying to sell it as original. lots of secret shelves and rooms in the shops where u have to request and get them to let u into the secret compartment to see the counterfeit bags or watches. there was this "changing room" that no one could change in, cuz it was an entrance to a room where they sold counterfeit watches. haiyo.hahha..

went People's square to walk around after that and entered Raffles City! I had this nice sandwich in Roibotea.. (they have cute swings for seats!) and we went to have some drinks by the Bund after that. 外滩三号.. Laris bar was having Martini night, one for one.. and the director was so cute! haha..he's from Switzerland and Lili got to know him the last time she came. he still remembers her!! we had mango, berry, lychee and apple martini and it tasted great..haha.. went back to the hostel and to our horrors - No hot water that night! boohoo. we both konked out anyway and bathed the next morning.. (:

Second day in Shanghai! - went to do some shopping this time. went for dim sum buffet at 徐家汇 before going to this 港汇广场 that sells all branded stuffs!! so much branded stuffs there in shanghai ah.. they must be so rich! haa.. we couldnt afford anything la and just walked around before going to Raffles city again! Lili got a haircut while I walked around.. we had Honeymoon dessert, Korean food and lots of other snacks (: ha.. Went to the Bund again this time just to view the night scenery. it was great.. beautiful... but HK's star ferry terminal or sth's view muchhhh nicer... (:

Third day! woo.! we woke up later and went to Huai Hai Middle road. all shopping too! haha lili only knows all the shopping areas.. and it was just a 15 mins walk there. passed by this park with lots of kids feeding a swan and the fishes.. cute. (: it was cold, and I had Korean food there at 大食代 (a food court, so Singapore style!) before we went H&M. I was lugging my super bulky and ma fan luggage bag.. and there were soooooo manyyyyyyyyyyy pppllllllllllll in H&M! I was soooo pleased to find the dress that didnt have my size here in HK - and half price too! cuz it's summer clothes. woohoo! I bought that before we went for a drink again and then to the train station!

quite a cool station.. we had a waiting room cuz we purchased first class tickets (soft seats) that costed 78 yuan. The 5.5hrs train ride was enough to bore us to death. upon reaching Ningbo, we were surrounded by soooo many taxi drivers or motortaxi drivers trying to get us to board their vehicles! scary. it was a real crowd... ahhhh . had nice sushi from a jap restaurant that night before i slept, and lili went to the pub to find her friends.

The next day was peaceful. we went jacuzzi-ing at Sheraton hotel (where lili works) - it costs 120yuan (and that's discounted!!) and I only spent 2 hours there! what a pity! met these 2 swedish guys that lili and jae (her nice apartment mate) got to know at some mac after clubbing or sth. we had mexican food at her friend's restaurant! the chicken burrito was quite nice and interesting.. haha.. after which erm we headed to some club where the guys ordered 24beers and a bottle of chivas for the 5 of us! wow. they sure like clubbing.. i was kinda stoning there and just drinking. cant dance at all cuz i have no dance cells in my genes. haha..

we left earlier than the guys cuz the girls had to work the morning shift the next day, and i slept in!! Lili brought me to ningbo's main city area for dinner -korean food!! and we did some grocery shopping..! the food in china is really cheap leh.. and quite nice. but there's too much spitting and scary incidents there le. ahhaa.. I slept really late that night trying to chiong her korean dvd - Prince cafe and she was out.. came back the next morning to bring me to the train station!!

Barely slept and went to take the train back to shanghai by myself. first time doing this and it wasnt that scary.. sat beside this uncle who was quite nice actually. but he changed seats afterawhile.. the train ride was soooo disturbing. there were the attendants walking by every 5 mins trying to get you to buy food, fruits or toys etc. there was this salesgirl that even woke everyone to promote a pair of socks and 2 toys.. all for 10yuan each! believe me, she did strike lots of sales. I just tried to sleep still.... ha.. after 4 hours, I was back in Shanghai!!

called Mark and made him bring me to the hotel to leave my stuffs. haha..THE SILK ROAD HOTEL at the Football stadium station. what an ULU place! but i had my own room with a King sized bed.woohoo! watched TV for awhile before we left for dinner at the place Ross recommended - 人间餐厅。。a very carefully and deliberately hidden restaurant that was quite classy. lots of ang mohs.. and reall dark place with a maze like toilet. I went to a "trick" cubicle that pasted the pic of a fake toilet bowl la. so funny. ha...

went to raffles city after that! (my third time!!) and i bought some albums. SHE and 陈绮或贞 cuz they were chinese original and really cheap. haha thats bout the only stuffs I bought there besides the dress and some groceries. nth to buy back for my friends! ohhh yeah and I had a cake at Starbucks before we walked down to the bund. hai!! Mark lost his camera! what a waste right.. we tried searching for it but we have no idea where he lost it! maybe on the cab....

went back to the hotel and i of cuz watched the tv till late. met his dad when we went back.. disturbed from his sleep and looking stern (haha!) because a kid was sick. (His dad was leading a school tour or sth..) well, I said Hi!

LAST day in shanghai! wanted to have 正宗小笼包 at 城隍庙 area but the QUEUE WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LONG. It's mad. it was a Wed and there were soooo many people milling around in the afternoon! after a longggg time of debating, we had KFC. their KFC serves a different menu from Singapore and HK, and I let a beggar child had my drink. he was openly begging and disturbing everyone in KFC!!

Took a cab and disrupted the traffic, and we went to the Pudong area! SHOPPED again. haha.. for WONG LEE HOM's cd(HE'S SO TALENTED I JUST FOUND OUT!! AHHHH!!!) cuz I wanted to spend the last 35yuan i had, and we left to take the meglev train to the airport at Longyang Rd station. GOODNESS. Our flight was cancelled! that's it! just cancelled. no notifications or anything. hahaa.. i was staring at the board and telling mark.. eerr our flight's cancelled. haha.. then mark replies "why are you so calm?" haha.. and then we went to find out what happened. apparently it was for no reason, "just a co. decision yesterday", the person said. goodness. they booked us on the next flight which was 1 hr later.. and we stoned at the airport waiting area. I was so tired so I just dozed off wherever and whenever I can, and Mark was pretending to be so studious reading a book about some wall street co. acquisition or sth.ha. he keep saying i brought my book for show! idiot!

The flight was just 1 big meal. lots of food and after everything was cleared up, here we are back in HK! yipee! the air was fresh, the toilets were clean and it felt like home to both of us! ha.a. bought krispy kreme and went to catch the airport bus back to hall! WOO. it's a long trip. haha.. and I typed so much! it's pretty much what I did for the 7 days. not toooo interesting but i really met ppl and saw things that were WOAH. beyond my usual knowledge.

just some fun facts... (not trying to be mean or what...)

- the ppl there spit everywhere!! and smoke everywhere.. boy do they let you know their presence.

- beggars are aplenty. just lying by the streets, walking around or bringing their baby around... when the police come, they do "disappear" though, just like those street peddlars

- We saw this few teenagers openly jumping over the Subway gates so they dont have to pay!

- Monmilk's yogurt is nice! and so are Oishi chips ! (they're not sold in HK!)

- The train announcement goes like this at about 6pm : 现在是繁忙时间。。请下车的人士抓紧时间下车。。and boy... it's true. the whole swarm of ppl just rush into the train carriage the min the door opened, and i almost couldnt get out of the train!ｓｏ　ｆｕｎｎｙ！抓紧时间． first time I hear this sort of announcements.

- OH.. and we met a few ppl who were trying to pull open the MRT doors although it was closed till left a little gap. they were dying to get into the train at the risk of losing their fingers! Mark was openly laughing at them.. tsk...

- hmm well, they had cute signs for everything, and questionable translations.

that's all i have to share for now! overall it was a really interesting trip and I am officially brokeee!! ): cant wait for my family to come.. share my HK joys with them. yay. anyone coming update me k! seeya around..and all the best for your exams ppl! (YOU guys end exams before mine even starts!)

Happy but fat

2007-11-05T23:26:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: Someone's boring me. I think it's me. -Dylan Thomas

heh! what a short weekend!! (: But quite eventful.

Haha.. Friday met Cally and Marina to go Nam Shan chuen for dinner. Had this crab with egg white thingy and veggies with prawn and sth. aha. and iced chocoolate! ha.. I really don't like seafood!~ But after that, we went to shop around at Taste (my fave!!) for ingredients to make dessert -- Mango dessert with sago, mango cubes and yogurt ! haha.. We totally anyhow made the thing. like cooking the sago.. it took us 2 tries. haha and the thing turned out sour! haha.. then we added condensed milk and stuffs. Hmm. By the time we were done, it was 11pm le! The bad thing was i came back and ate like i dunno, 5 pkts of noodles after that. and 50 digestive biskits or sth.. horrible night.. ):

Ahhhh Sat was just as unlucky. WAS SO COLD! Bathing in the school complex and kept thinking over that I am so glad I brought my towel! haha. BUT, guess what.... AFTER I bathed i discovered i didnt bring my towel afterall. ROAR. I wanted to yell every mean word i have ever heard but it just wasnt nice. I almost froze into an ice popsicle....

Was late to meet Lynn @ MK because of this. When I got there, it took me sooooooo long to find Fa Yuen St street market! I walked around for very long and asked a few passers-by before i finally found it! what a crazy place. SO MANY PPL Pushing and shoving. Poor lynn! she stayed there much longer than me! haha... and guess what! I had Char siew fan for dinner. ahaha.. I really miss curry puff. read in the papers before that there's old chang kee in Shanghai. must go find it le! (OH just checked the website.. don't have leh!! dao bi le??) ha.. anyway Fa yuen St's great neh. but now all selling boots, scarves and sweaters le. Nice but impractical to buy! sad zhei!

After dinner, we went to T salon recommended by a local friend to do our hair! GREAT service @ great prices! haha.. $60SGD for rebonding, treatment +wash and cut! haha.. Lynn dyed her hair purple and did red highlight + treatment. communication was .... well. time consuming but we did fine! haha..

yay. managed to walk around and go back to MK after that. Argyle centre again! everytime with lynn i spend like mad. haha.. Pretty soon it was time to get back and rest for my adventure the next day, Ktv with the NTU girls. yippeee!!

Had too much digestives to eat. Woke with a sore throat but nonetheless, set off to Neway at Mongkok! ha.. Met XU yu , tianhui and YR at the lawn and xinmin at the MTR station. 5 excited little girls. haha.. they were great company and the Klunch was super worth it!! cant wait to go again with them though i got a super sore throat and i really love listening to them sing more than singing myself. heh. got Andy Lau tickets from xinmin too! it was GreAT to see her and chat with her and shop with her. I dun think we ever talked that much in the 6 years that we have known each other.... So glad she came on exchange too. (:

Well, had to come back for SnP meeting ! gotta rush the report due this Friday! I stupidly pushed all the doors to my hall room too hard and really hurt my wrist. Couldnt play badminton with the locals and ShiQi today le.. ): couldnt find matthew to borrow the tripod. and couldnt get my voice back for a proper recorded interview assignment. couldnt manage to record my face in the video. bleah... but at least one assignment down. dont care laa!

haha. OHH and Marina and Cally baked a really greattttttttttt oreo cheesecake. Looks great and tastes fantastic! I am SoOOOOooo impressedddddddddddddd!! It's Damon's bday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! haha..

by the way guys, I'm going shanghai on thur for a week! excited to meet lili again! ha. study hard all..

Halloween's over!!

2007-11-01T13:09:00.000+08:00

Haha. Oooo.. (: It's November!! yipee! I don't know why I sooo look forward to November. Another month nearer to home? Shanghai trip? Last month of school? the number 11? haha.. Anyway, just glad . (:

Halloween's over!! Our hall even had our own Ghost houses at our ground floor (lobby) haha. Our hostel really got lobby kind eh. haha.. and when u enter u see these 3 bloody barbie dolls hanging by the glass door. eee. Hall 1 also has the ghost house I think... Cally was telling me about it.

Supposed to meet Vivienne to go Sham Shui Po today de, but she went LKF till reallllyyyyyy late ytd so she may not be able to make it afterall. It's ok, I'll still go! haha.. It's the Hss's ppl's fave place eh! ha..

IT'S SO COLD TODAY and the winds are blowing away my cupboards and beds. haha my neighbour says she could feel the cold from the gap under my door! so kua zhang but true. the curtains are blown almost to the ceiling!! Hk's fall is like this. Real cold.. then after a long period of no rain, gets warmer (: once it starts to rain again.. even the most 细 of rain.. then the cold winds starts blowing and everyone's wearing several layers. heh.

Had a mock film quiz yesterday.. for Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. anyone seen this film? It's about memory. Our tutor loves setting questions on those memory related films..!! aya and me's gonna go buy all the memory related films le. Our real test next week will be based on Momento - a film with crazy editting. Better go get the disc later.. See, my life here in HK really filled with watching shows!!

Alright, time to go tidy my room. So paiseh just now when my neighbour forgot her keys and had to enter her room through mine. Hahaha. what a messy mouse. u guys take care!! (: will update agaiN!!

Halloween bash at ocean park

2007-10-29T23:56:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: Giving up is not an option

Hey. (are my songs nice?? (:) Was deciding between doing my assignment due tomorrow or updating my blog. As you can see, I chose the latter. Just can't bring myself to do any work despite having done none these 8 weeks, and failing my very first test here!! I must be the laziest person on Earth. haha. Had a good day. Went for table tennis lesson and met my fave coach, after which I played Badminton with Shiqi and 3 other locals (:

Time to update about the Halloween Bash at Ocean Park! Went there on Saturday. Met Liz in school and we traveled to Admiralty to meet the rest of the ppl. Was mainly a NTU gathering organised by Sherry (THANK YOU) and some others joined us. I think there were also 2 other big groups of Singaporeans who went too because we met CK there.

We went together in a group of 13. Sherry, sophia, sandra, steven, yingfang, jun wen, hongsheng mark, liz, me, jason, melissa and doris. haha. The NTU ppl were so..... NTU. Especially the guys.

ok let's not talk about the people! They were all great companions (: Got to know most of them the first time! It was great speaking Singlish.. really felt homey! We took bus 629 from Admiralty and you guys should've seen the Queue!! goodness. The buses were coming continuously and there were so many many people!!

The halloween Bash starts at 530pm and people started streaming in. So did we, after meeting up with everyone. managed to visit 3 ghost houses and took 2 rides - Dragon and Raging river. The queues were so crazy. had to wait for over an hour for a 5min ride or visit. haa.. the ghosts were plentiful and they were really good! As in they never smiled. and some ghost doc even came up to me and asked if I wanted any more height. err. dots. hahahaha.. another ghost spoke to me in canto in the ghost house! Ahhaha he had a gun stuck in my back.. then I said I don't understand canto.. and he say oh ok.. "give me money or your life" in English. so cute. hahah overall I found it more funny than scary. but that was cuz Liz blocked most of the ghosts for me haha and i was tugging at Mark's shirt all the time.

It was good!! only if there were less people.. we could've got more things done!! very soon.. it was 12+am le. We caught 629 back to Admiralty and a small bus to mongkok for supper. Had 豆浆油条 and I'm positive it's the one I went to with my 7 other climber pals 3 years ago! I soooo missed them when I was in Ocean Park, can still imagine them with me taking those rides.... hao xiang nian!!

(: Home's the best but Hk's the next best place to be. Ha. No matter how jideijidei our conversations may be.. It's still great to know the locals. who said Hk ppl was 冷漠？？some are really nice!

Welll well, really hope my family can come over this Dec. and best if friends can come too (: bring me milo! yep that's all to update for now... Take care all. I know all of starting to get stressed over exams le wor so jiayou!!

Yuen Long

2007-10-27T13:21:00.000+08:00

haha hey!! Went mongkok 3 times in 4 days. heh. really have lots of things for shopping there. from the cheapest(Argyle centre) to expensive stuffs (Langham Plaza)..

Hmm I'm waiting for my laundry and it's not time for Ocean Park yet, so shall update you guys about Yuen long!

Went Yuen Long last Sunday with Yirui and Aya, my classmate cum Hall neighbour. (: she stays there, and offered to show us around! It's quite a long route from Kowloon Tong. We first had to take the MTR to Mei Fu station, and change to KCR West line (which is really very similar to NEL!). Then, we alighted at lang Ping (I think) and took a bus to Yuen Long Park! (Our 1 day pass that cost $20HKD really was made its worth)

Yuen Long park was quite nice. Lots of families playing there and fit men jogging there..There were even a few people taking their Graduation photos there. haha. We just walked around, took photos, played some stuffs that I used to play when I was in Primary school, and fed the fishes and birds. Sunday spent in a park, relaxing and fun!!

When that was done, we caught a bus again and went to the shopping area I think. Walked around the shops, you know what. Their wet market actually has air conditioning. tsktsk. HK really uses lots of air conditioning and energy.. Ya we walked walked walked till it was time for dinner! Went to a 茶餐厅 to eat 大排挡 stuffs. Their 大排挡 is equivalent to our Hawker Centre in Singapore. they sell chomp chomp kinda stuffs I think. anyway dinner was great. As usual, the set included rice, meat, soup and a drink. (:

After that, we went to but lao po bings and to a shopping mall. It's so crazy ! I had 4 Bo luo baos that day. So scared of it till now. Hha anyway we took sticker photos and played arcade. Real youngsters right. heh.. remind me of sec 2 days where we just hung out at shopping centres everyday without purpose and money.. haha.. same case that day. But their arcade really worth it leh! Bishi bashi was $1HKD per turn. thats $0.20 SGD!!! Wahh! In singapore need $1SGD lor. we played our worth!!

By then, it was late le. We took the LRT to Yuen Long KCR and began the long journey back to Kowloon tong. Their LRT station is in the middle of the road kind, and there are no gates. this means u can not pay and no one will know! based on honesty man. haha.. It was a great and fun day. Thank you Aya!!

I curled my hair - 23 Oct

2007-10-24T22:34:00.000+08:00

i think HK girls must be quite qin lao. so many of them have curly hair (some guys tooo!!) ! Damn hard to maintain leh. I just curled it yesterday and it's like almost straight today le. haha.. must bathe in the morning cuz need to wet the hair! and apply mousse! I look like a beggar with messy hair.

Anyway, been kinda busy these week. Had mid terms last Sat, and went to Mongkok on mon and tue. got tickets to shanghai now! all the things on sale now are mostly changing to winter clothings.. boots and jackets are sold everywhere!

I FAILED my quiz. so sian! Haha forgot about it and was truly surprised by my tutor in class. Just gotta workk harder for the exams I guess. had an assignment due today too.. Ooohh... I managed to get tix to Andy Lau's concert on 28th Nov! (Thanks xm!) (:(: but sitting quite far away cuz the rest are all sold out.. sad..

Funfact about cinema!

2007-10-22T22:45:00.000+08:00

Smile, and the whole world smiles with you (:

haha btw, the cinema I went to (AMC at festival walk) had the strictest security ever! Haha.. They ask you to open your bags and there's 2 security person checking them as u enter.. and inside the cinema there are about 3 ushers to show you your way. There're in there throughout the show! ha.. and the funniest thing was they actually use binoculars to spy on everyone to see if anyone was recording the show. haha. I was so amused.. Anyway.. Want to update about my Yuen Long trip yesterday and Mongkok trip today! haha but... shall save it for another day!

色戒

2007-10-20T16:13:00.000+08:00

yThought of the day: The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi

Been a little busier these week as my assignments are starting to be due and I even had a test today (On saturday!!) What a way to torture us.. and to think yesterday was a public holiday for Cheung Yeung! Haha.. Now busy filling job applications so as to meet the Oct 31 deadline for those accounting firms.. Sooo tired.!

Went to watch 色戒 on Thursday with Yirui and Xinmin. Hmm, according to mama, Singapore's very censored.. So I guess the HK version should be totally uncensored ba. Hmm. tsktsk. Er tong bu yi! Don't really know what's the conclusion for this show though.. Just that Wang li hom was shuai and Tony leung has aged. haha...

Going Yuen Long tmr... Aya is so nice! Offered to show me the not so urbanised side of HK.. Cant wait to get Lao po bings and pass them to Er yi's friend to bring back for my family.... (: Haha.. now am totally sweetened by 心花放.. But should start on my film review soon le.. BTW!! Everyone with facebook and reads this.. DO let me send u a my room invitation! I wanna decorate my own "home" in facebook ( I know this sounds silly). ok update Again!

spot charlene choi!

2007-10-17T02:04:00.000+08:00

Another normal day.

2007-10-15T21:31:00.000+08:00

Heyhey

Havent written in a week le! haha.. Been popping by to listen to my songs and I see no new messages on the tagboard. Haha.. So was lazy to update much.

It's starting to get cold. the winds are chilly.. kind of icy cold. It's the start of week 7 and it's MID TERMS time.. BOOHOO.. I really don't wish to get started but I have a paper this Sat. Think I better read my notes after this quick update..!

Did a little shopping this weekend and I saw Charlene Choi from Twins at Hollywood plaza (Diamond hill)! Super sweet looking.. and not as short as I thought. Haha it was Grandparents day and they invited her and another Male star ( I cant remember who haha) as guests. She's so pretteee now I know why so many guys like her!! The sad thing was I forgot to bring my cam!! Of all days.. Tsk tsk.

Hmm played my weekly badminton with Damon and I was so tired out! Haha totally surrendered after an hour.. didn't manage to book for next week though I woke up so early. The people here are so fast! Wake up so early to book a court that they have to pay for.

Anyway, am planning a Shanghai trip next month (: Flying there with Mark, then meet Lili and then go Ningbo before I come back to Shanghai.. Daddy mummy please strike 4D!! haha.. (; I am really looking forward to it..

As for this week. The plan is to watch Lust caution with YR and go LKF for some drinks at night with other exchange students. Sunday Aya's bringing me to Yuen Long to see the not so city-like HK... (: Yay. Wish I didn't have mid terms.

Oh and the Channel 8 Metamorphosis show rocks!! haha.. watched through mobtv (all 20 episodes in 2 days) and now starting on 早安老师！怀旧。。童年还是最棒的！每天和弟弟在组屋楼下玩的日子跑到哪去了。。？？好怀念！！

啰嗦够了。。goodbye! choy kin! haha...

Badminton! (:

2007-10-09T20:21:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: " An eagle leaps a little before it even learns how to fly."

Wow.. Been long since I updated. Exactly a week! Not much to update cuz I've been living a pretty normal life. Miss curry puffs and Ban Mian!! haha. Was just telling YR about it at dinner.. Interesting thing about HK is they have lots of soups! Not Cream of mushroom kind, but homey carrot, potato, lotus kind of soup (:

It's so extreme. YR's so busy with school work while I'm so free. I just keep borrowing DVDs from the library (YAY they have quite a large collection!) or crunchyroll-ing~ Gotta start on some work soon cuz the mid-terms are coming up!

Had shingles last week. Think I got it just before I went to the hot springs. Was sleeping ultra little then cuz there were so many shows to watch! (Mark's right bout me being a loser man.. come hk to watch tv) haha and I barely slept 2 hours before my China trip! The doc says that Shingles are part of the chicken pox virus that attacked me years ago, and they grow along a nerve. That's why all were concentrated on the same area. Painful, blisterish, itchy and ugly. It is either caused by fatigue or stress, and since I dun think I had any stress, should be fatigue! Haunted me for a week before I finally relented and went to see a doc.. and by then it's in the final stage le(sounds like some serious illness hor) but it meant I was recovering! Paid 150HKD to get some vitamin pills so not worth it! It's unfair man.. Local students only need to pay HKD13 to see a doc. *pouts*

Weell, so I basically did nothing the past week. sleep and EAT and eat and eat. Tsk tsk. now starting to play some badminton with the SMU ppl and YR and I feel much better! Exercise and a balanced diet is really the key to feeling good! (well as for looking good.. I think i'm beyond hope) But ahhh!

Hope everyone's not too stressed out by assignments and projects now. Seems like the case with all SG friends huh.. Hang on! The hols will be here soon and u can then come visit me. heh. I am very disappointed that my exams will end on 22nd Dec. 11 days between my 2 papers! How will I spend time? tsktsk.. Hope my family comes to visit. Will be coming back just before New year I think. Cant wait to see you guys!

For now, take care... (: and add me on facebook: Neo Hao Ting Jaclyn

Hot spring

2007-10-02T01:36:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: (Overheard someone say) You take so many pictures you don't have time to truly see and enjoy!

Hmm guess I should be sleeping now. Have a class at 930am tomorrow but suddenly I don't feel that sleepy anymore. It's cold outside, really windy.. and somehow it's cold inside my heart too. Veryyy cold feeling... (: So lucky to have such a good shelter!

Now to update about my Hot spring adventure in China @ 南昆山温泉！The journey started at 5am on Sat morning. Met the rest of the girls just outside Hall 2 (my hall!) and went to catch the KCR to go to Shenzhen. haha. Everyone was so sleepy eyed, and I barely had 3 hours of sleep.

Upon crossing the customs, we assembled at this area where there were lots of other tour groups going towards different destinations. As Monday's a public holiday, there were many people seeking a short getaway to Mainland. There were 9 of us, an all girls outing! (:

Well, it started with us walking to the carpark to board the bus. HAha. our tour guide was this 19 year old boy who has a plaster on his nose cuz he woke up with a big pimple. Hahaa.. He was probably the youngest member of our whole group. hmm. Maybe 2nd youngest. He's quite a nice and patient guy actually.. Though we didn't really interact with him. For one, he speaks cantonese.

Our first stop was a Temple. It's built in this cave thing and the first thought I had when I saw it was "BOULDERING! WOOO!!" the rock walls were really good for climbing.. after the temple trip we went for this bamboo rafting thing before heading to our hotel.

OUR HOTEL WAS GREAT! International 5 star hotel.. The room's 5 star but the service is definitely 8stars! Maybe even 10! The staff were all so friendly and they take initiative. There were so many hotel employees catering to our every need.. W O W. Impressed all of us!!

After settling down in our room, we went for a little go-karting and golf session after going for dinner! It was a 10 course dinner.. 10 course for every meal we had actually. and BOY.. can we eat! ahaa.. After dinner we went for a 杂技舞蹈表演by some really young people. Was quite interesting though I would've preferred spending that time in the hot springs!!

Knew we had to 抓紧时间, so we immediately change and headed for the hot springs after we got back to the hotel. It was a short ride away from the hotel and BOY... WOW~! the locker room was soooo big and there were so many people serving us. They even had people to bring us around the hot spring... and while we were soaking ourselves in wine or milk.. or playing "I never", they just patiently waited, and served us drinks like sprite/coke/water etc.. Got to chat with this really nice girl called 婵娟 that was very impressed by all of us! She was impressed that I could speak both English and Mandarin, impressed by all the westerners, and I was impressed by the extent of her good service too. She even came by just before we left just to tell us how glad she was to meet us (: So sweet.

We really made the most of our time there. We were the last to leave the Hot springs. Paid $20 to get kissed by fishes and we made sure we got back our money's worth. Haha.. It was kind of weird at first sitting in a pool of fishes that kept "biting" us, but it was pure enjoyment after awhile. Cally and I were so ridiculous, shrieking and laughing. Heh.. We finally left after the announcement was made that the place was closing. It was close to 1am then! FINALLY the end of the day.. I watched Big FAt liar on TV (WHAT AN ADDICT!) despite being ultra tired.. Cally was already fast asleep. I didnt manage to finish the show though.. Dozed off sometime..

Woke at 7 for the BUFFET BREAKFAST! Wasnt too fantastic but it filled our tummies (: Rushed to get my THAI MASSAGE!! OOOOO!! Some of them did manicure, pedicure or chinese massage, but we were sad we didn't have enough time for another hot spring session. Had to assemble at 1045am at the hotel lobby and we were late! Felt kind of bad since we were always the latest.. Well we're a bunch of 9 girls afterall.. but still. haha.

Went to see LYCHEE TREES. haha that part was kinda Bo liao I thought. Firstly, I didnt even notice the trees. Did see this fast food chain 真功夫 that looks VERYYYY YUMMY though. fast food with rice kind!! Haha.. went to a general's house after that. By then I was so tired I didn't have much energy to walk around and explore the grounds. In the end I didnt venture too far as I didnt want us to be late again. We did dress up as 格格, 皇帝 etc for fun though and took many pictures (: FUN! haha..

That was the last leg of our journey!! Traveled back to Luo Hu to go throught the customs after that.. We all slept on the bus, with our heads nodding so badly they threatened to fall off. haha.. Managed to get back to Kowloon tong by 8 for dinner!! shoopped around with Cally at Taste (where else???) and walked back to hall.. AHHH.. Finally time for a good rest (:

MAF

2007-10-01T01:14:00.000+08:00

Just a quick entry on MAF! haha. Been too lazy to update my blog since then!

It's so crazy. MAF was OOOO. The MTR runs overnight and we caught a train back at 3+am!! Went with Yirui to get her hair dyed and highlighted at Harbour city! Her roomie's friend so she got it at a good rate (: The hairdresser was soooo nice and friendly! He even helped me curl my hair for fun!

Walked around Tsim Sha Tsui and to Victoria Park later on. That should be one of the most happening places in HK during MAF.. Lots of people around. we had desserts at 2+am and went to find KTV at 3am but we got rejected because we didn't bring our passport!! so sad. But who brings it around anyway.. so dangerous.

yeah anyway MAF was greatt!! Will update about my recent trip to the hot springs in China! If you wanna view pictures, can go loook at my photo album in Facebook (Neo Hao Ting Jaclyn OR search for haoting.neo@gmail.com).. Happy belated MAF you guys!

MAF Eve - Roomie day (:

2007-09-27T11:51:00.000+08:00

It's Monday again! The eve of Mid-Autumn. Feels like CNY eve here.. To HK locals, MAF is for 团员, and many of them go back home for reunion dinner with their family (: They even have a public holiday on Wed so that they can play crazily and stay out reallyyyyyy late on Tue!

Roomie and I wanted to find nicey lanterns .. So we went Nam Shan in the afternoon before class. Had lunch there at some nice looking 酒楼 style place (must be at least the 12th time I'm eating Charsiew fan.. I think that's gonna be my last for this few weeks at least). HK is suchhh a noisy place, u have to share seats with others cuz there's so many people, and everyone's just yelling haha. My roomie says that's normal.. She's so used to it she didnt realise until I mentioned.

We didn't manage to find what we wanted, so we went for class and agreed to meet after class to go Lok Fu! Well.. walked around for quite awhile.. Maybe we went to late and all the lanterns were snapped up. I didnt get any in the end but she got a Keroro one for her sister. (keroro's soooo popular here!!)

It was MAF eve so during the night they have this Joint-Hall MAF celebration at Multi-Function hall below. Performances, games and food. That's a summary of all that.. Didn't feel very MAF-fy without candles and lanterns ( I only saw 1 foreigner holding a lantern!). So the few of us just stood around chatting with each other.. Only went back at 12am. Supper-ed and began to chiong my assignment! Uh oh.. haha.. Looking forward to Tue!

Typhoon warning. Windy day! -23 sep

2007-09-23T23:57:00.000+08:00

OH MAN. Yesterday was soooooooo 堕落! I watched 15episodes of 溏心风暴 non-stop. But it was soooo nice.... and touching... and sad... The 2 top songs on my blog now are soundtracks of the show. I cried till my eyes were swollen until today leh. Cried for the characters in the show.. Cried for sad things in my life. cried when I thought of how i make my parents worry for me. I could hug and squish all my family and friends till their bones cracked yesterday. I'll do that when I get back.. Luv them so much! This show is about family. A rich, lovely family with an evil-stepmother wrecking chaos and causing so much trouble. (you can find it on crunchyroll (: Heart of greed)

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Super-overate for these 2 days. ): really bad.

Was supposed to go cycling today with Lindsay and some other people. Due to the Typhoon warning.. It was cancelled. It was the lowest signal, #1. It wasnt that stormy but the wind was strong. Everytime I attempted to open my window, all the magnets are blown off my board and all the papers to the ground. Tsk tsk. AND it keeps raining! will stop for awhile and then it'll rain again..

What a horrible day. Just keepepppptt eating and eating.. Helppppp.. but I'm reading A Beautiful Mind and it's a great book really. Ever since I came here, i havent bothered to study at ALL. I never touch my notes, and I always anyhow do my assignments just the night before it's due. I should learn from the other NTU girls huh. haha But my roomie keeps saying it's ok i'm an exchange studenT! hahaha so right.. but what a bad influence huh.

hehe. attempted to help cook dinner but I was just a liability. The common room's filled with people making mooncakes and dinner.. fun huh. It's Monday tmr! MAF celebration and Lynn's coming to Kowloon tong! yeah.. thinking of dyeing my hair.. I'm still the same HT in a different setting. When can i find my own answers to life..?

ICE SKATING!!

2007-09-22T12:13:00.000+08:00

hehe. This is great. Time flies here. had swimming lesson and I couldn't turn anymore. OK at least it feels weird.. so sad! haha. worst thing was the coach asked me to do some demo. hahaa.. and i just turned but couldnt swim on. Tired.

Went Kwai Fong on Thursday with Lynn to do some shopping. It's a little like Far East, kinda interesting. It's unlike Mongkok where all the shoes are situated on the same street, and the clothes all in some corner. In kwai fong, the shopping centre has Salons located next to Food stalls, which are located next to a pet shop and just by it, some shop selling clothes or sth. MongKok still's the best. ha. Got back by 11+.. and thanks Lynn for helping me get the bag! Chatted with my roomie till real late.. Thought her stuffs like "jigobei" and "siao" and "sian" and etc.. While she let me listen to canto radio shows (Well she had to translate but she says it's the funniest ever! My goal is to be able to appreciate it before i leave!!)

Ahhh Friday was exciting! (: (: Went for the English class and we did some practice on how to negotiate... (that was kinda crappy but fun!) I did this with a local guy and girl and it was soooo funny! the guy really didnt relent.. jialat if u get him as a real customer next time. Ahhhh then I had Strategy and Policy.. (Strat Mgt in Sg), and my group rocks. haha. Lucky Erik! (one of our group members), he's traveling in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand RIGHT NOW!!

Went for ice skating after class. Liz, Bee, Ronny, Jackilin and me. It was fun but tough. Didn't fall but didn't progress either. There were more than 100 people on the rink, and 90% were kids whizzing here and there. I was so scared they'll knock me off or if i fall, their skates will cut off my fingers. I just read a newspaper report on ice skating accidents and it was scarryyyyy to think of it. But it was fun! Liz was really really patient.. they all were!

We skated till 9+.. and Liz had a craving for 糖水.. Hk ppl love 糖水! Like the halls always have 糖水 gatherings, and you can find the stalls at lots of places. (: Well we met up with Jade and went to this Honeymoon dessert at Langham Plaza or Place (cant remember). It's this 12 storey shopping mall that's realllllyyyy cool and nice! I wanna go back someday! They have great (but expensive) things there. We havent finished exploring cuz it was late!! OH And the dessert was soooooo GOOD!! I had Thai Glutinous Rice with Vanilla Sauce.. Mouth-watering!

Went Ladies street after that .. I really think they are out to cheat money. hAha. Like the prices are so jacked up they're ridiculous. I still love my Arglye Centre and Mongkok shopping centre the BEST!! Yipee! Liz bought 2 pair of shoes at 140Hkd. It's ok i think.. and they look so sweet on her!

Caught the train back.. When we reached hall it was about 1+. haha.. and I watched the canto drama till 3+! Woke at 8+ today though. Met Damon for a jog around the estate (finally exploreddd a bit) Weekends rock (: Next weekend I'm going somewhere in China with some local students and a group of exchange peeps! it's their national Day on Oct 1.

Done with the reporting.. Will update again soon. Hope all of you aren't getting too stressed in Singapore. take care ahh!

D-day

2007-09-19T00:13:00.000+08:00

thought of the day: Don't leave your work till the last minute. Bad things surely happen.

hai. What a disappointing day.. ):

I woke up at 7+am today! Earliest ever.. to get my audit assignment printed. Was so glad my alarm didn't spoil. But guess what. Sighs, went down with the whole stack of papers and realised that the printer was down! OF ALL TIMES, it's out of black ink cartridge today! The security guard told me I could use Hall 1's printer and so I did. Theirs was too full of ink. the whole assignment was BLACK. haha. ironic. I did manage to get my assignment printed out in the end and borrowed iron to iron my clothes..

Went to class and it was.. boring. It's like internship all over again! I could hardly keep my eyes open. Tried pinching and slapping myself so many times I must have looked totally ridiculous. and I still sat right infront of the tutor.. She was staringgg at me. Thank god she ended class early. went to print my notes in school and after feeding it 50 pieces of paper, all the pages turned out half printed cuz the printer was out of ink as weelll.. I gave up and decided to go "home" (din have tt much paper with me too. In cityU they dun charge you for printinG! you just gotta bring yr own paper..)

Came back to hall and I FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR. Landed on the ground just as my roomie walked in.. What a joke!! The best part of today must be my 1 hour swimming lesson. It's just a day full of disappointments over and over again.. Went to draw money for the KTV outing tonight and the Mainland trip next next weekend.

Guess what. KTV was cancelled.. ahHH ok.. Was still so excitedly checking out the websites and maps ytd! Thought at least can look forward to the china trip but Yr aint going cuz she just doesnt have a good feeling about it.. and I thought at least I'll have my roomie for company! BUT... My roomie just told me she can't go cuz she has a rehearsal on 30th Sep.. She's new to CityU choir and they're going Korea for something so she can't miss the rehearsals. When I heard it the disappointing feeling really hit me BAD.. I can't smile now. ):

Wish I had my dearrrr friends over here with me in hk..! But.. hai. Well, nvm I shall still go.

Hahahaha ok la it's not thatttt bad.. still gg to meet my hallmate and new friends for the movie class tmr.. Meeting Lynn to go shop at Kwaifong on Thur and maybE liz and jo for ice-skating on fri! Hope they won't cancel the outing.. i dun wanna study! haa ok the prob's with me..

Amidst all these disappointments I'm so glad I had a sunshine ray - My swimming class! I can do forward rolls and tumble turn in the pool now! Yipee! Practised by myself after class and got the hang of it (:(:(: Even made a Shanghai friend who came to chat with me. AHHHH and we both happily observed this hunk that swam sooooo beautifully in the fast lane. He could swim ANY stroke real swiftly and he never ever got tired! Too bad I din wear my specs. Didn't catch how he looks like!

just borrowed a dvd from the library.. Awakenings. A GREAT SHOW! but of cuz nothing will be perfect on D-day. Of COURSE the dvd's spoilt and it couldn't play after awhile. and of cuz there must be mosquitoes that bit me well over 20times to end my day. well well, that's all for this entry. no photos. yeah. Night.

Lantau island

2007-09-17T11:11:00.000+08:00

Jo san! (canto for good morning) Woke up to the bright sunlight, a baddd sore-throat and my roomie sorting out her laundry. hAha. Could the water in the pantry be the cause of my sore-throat?? it was really... unclear when I tried to fill it just now. Hmm. I wonder.

Anyway, went to Lantau island yesterday!! 大屿山。HK's really hilly I think, plenty of reallll slopey roads and trails among this bustling city. In Lantau island, the roads are really winding and steep. The weather's really bad in HK too, visibility's really low! The skies are so hazy you can't see all the large towers from afar..

Met Mark, Jason and YR in the morning, and we traveled to Central to catch a ferry to Lantau. Lucky us!! We caught the 12pm ferry... just in the nick of time (: The ferry ride to Lantau was about 30minutes (32HKD), and we still had to catch Bus number 2 (HKD25) to 昂平village before we could see the giant buddha. It's quite a long bus ride... around 30minutes I think. Infront of us sat this super cuteeeee "ang-moh" baby with his parents and sibling. Wah. REALLY cutee..

Oh ya. Back to the Giant Buddha. When we reached our destination, we could see this long flight of steps. On top of it all was the Buddha statue. It's huge, buddha in a sitting position.. ( I recall seeing a giant buddha in a lying position in Thailand ) Yep. To climb up the stairs, we had to pay another 23HKD each but that's inclusive of quite a decent vegetarian meal (Tau Hway, 2 snacks, and a plate of fried noodles)

The Buddha was BIG. and there's a temple that's at the foot of the stairs, where people were offering incense, and you could hear monks chanting prayers. But up on the hill, there was only the Buddha and a small exhibition hall, ohh.. and 6 smaller statues. It's been truly tansformed into a tourist attraction because right by the Buddha, you can see so many people. Groups of people on tours, Philippinos playing music on their HP loudly, and Chinese men smoking.. Ahhh well.

Anyway that was pretty much all for our trip. To glance at the Giant Buddha and take some pictures of the scenery and us with the Buddha statue in the background. After eating our vegetarian meal, we rushed and LUCKILY again, caught the bus going to Tung Chung! Running out of money on my Octopus card and short of coins, I was trying to figure out what to do at the front of the bus. A nice local old man solved my problems by exchanging money with me. The bus had already started its journey, and I plopped myself down next to the old man.

We chatted a little. ahha. there were signs there saying "Beware of crossing cows", and... WE did witness a cow crossing the road! There were many cows just walking along the road as well. The old man said that many years back Lantau island used to have a farming community which reared and bred these cows.. However, they stopped ( I don't know why.. Maybe urbanisation?), and these cows were free to roam the island. Cute scnene.

It was another 40 mins or so to Tung Chung. That's where many Factory outlets are, for shops like Adidas, Nike, IT outlet, Giordano, Espirit etc.. But it was quite disappointing. I didn't spend much there. Eating dinner was the worst part. We went to the food court "Food Republic", and there was so many people waiting for seats! I've never tried waiting so long for a seat before.. it was a big food court, but the locals were so good at chopping seats that after half an hour, we gave up!

Went Spaghetti House for dinner in the end.. It's a restaurant, and we didn't have to wait. The food turned out to be much nicer than I expected due to my previous experience. haha. Ordering too much last time sort of killed the tastiness of the meal. That's about all for the trip.. Went Taste in Festival Walk for awhile and then we came back to Hall. By then, it was 9+pm already.. HA. watched "Heart of Greed" on crunchyroll till 3 am again! trying my best to learn Canto but it's tough man... Just gotta keep on trying!

That's all I have for my updates ...... FOR NOW. Heh heh. Take care all. (:

modeelling!

2007-09-15T12:50:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: When life gives lemons, make lemonade (:

Heh heh (: It's saturday again! Another week just SHOOMED past me again! Friday's lessons are the most fun! Long day but it was great (: Did role playing in the English course I am taking, and Candy made Carol and Me laugh till we almost broke our backs. haha. Kawaii! Went for my first Strategic Management lesson and my groupmates are nice! A mixture of students from ACC (me), finance, HRM and Biz. 5 of us (1 from Holland, 1 HK, 2 locals and a mainlander) working on how to maximise profits for a manufacturing company.. We're using some computer simulation thing. Interesting! But it has a 242 pg manual and haiyo. I'm still on Chap 2.

Met YR, lee sang and Jason for dinner later on! Ate at Festival Walk and I ate .. guess what mum and dad, Char siew rice again. HAHAH. Mark and YR was like.. huh.. AGAIN.. But hey! I havent tried the char siew there! I think HK char siew's FAT contents are much higher than SG's. I had a trouble chewing those fatty fats.

We walked around after that. Only visited 3 stores.. Ubi Qlo (love this store!!), HK records and of course, TASTE. Haha. I'm a member now! Accumulating points in progress (and giving out supplementary cards muaha) .. Yeah. By the time we finished walking around I felt so tired. Havent been sleeping before 3am since I got here. Ytd night was the worst, Slept at almost 5am! Helped did some "modeling" for a floormate who caught me in the common room. HAha. My roomie and her posed for some of her photos and luckily the focus was the lighting and not us. Heh. We explored the function rooms downstairs and it's really cosyyyY!! and well-stocked.. from fridges, sofas, tv, microwave, soft toys, dvds, books, computers, dvd players.. ETC! NTU halls should be like this!!

Ahhh well, it's a great Beginning to my Sat. Great food, peaceful environment, reading straits times and writing my diary.. Best way to spend a Sat! going jordan later.. Heh.. have a good weekend to all!

2007-09-13T21:00:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lipman

It's Thur night and I'm sooooooooooo bored in hall. Supposed to do some readings for my lesson tmr but I'm... a little reluctant.

My day was ok I guess. free day butI had swimming lesson (best part!!)! I can't kick.. my legs doesnt go above the water surface. must do sth about that! Well... Yesterday was kind of boring too. Had lessons till 9+ and some of the exchange students went clubbing at Wan Chai! (heard from TY there were about.. 30 of them!) Happening right. but being the boring me i didnt join them la. And was so bored in hall. now too! AHHH. i should just try doing everything.. Sports, ice skating, drinking (a little) and blah... can't wait for the weekend, so i can explore Lan tau, jordan and don't know where else.

wanted to just move around and go computer room to just print something! and .. the printer's spoilt! aiyo really not my day. Simply too bored to carry on typing. haha maybe i should go and read the newspapers. have a good friday!

Shop, Swim & Eat

2007-09-12T12:30:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: Three rules of work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein

Second jar of Nutella in a week, this is getting addictive. I gotta stop!!

Anyway, I'm kinda free now (guess I made a wise decision to drop basic cantonese), and had just enjoyed a most filling lunch as well as printed my Strategy and Policy notes. Still feel a bit silly to skip lesson last Friday (It was only my first week!), and there seems to be so many readings. My group leader from that class just sent me an attached file which consists of 242pages of words. Hai.

(: Can't wait to watch catch me If you can tonight.. (I'm taking English and the World in Film here), and Happy Birthday to Jason from NUS.

Met Lynn from NUS (Now HKU) yesterday. Thank you Yanping for introducing me to her. I've found a long lost friend..! Quite a few common interests like Mr Spongebob, Bo luo bao, Vietnam.. and similar taste in clothees! We'll be meeting again next week for another shopping venture. Woo!

You know the feeling where you're surrounded by lots of people but still feel alone. It's a feeling that comes to me sometimes. I had a little experience of that yesterday. Lynn was enquiring about the removal of her hair extensions and told me to go walk around myself. After several rounds of insistence from both of us, I did leave and went to look around in Argyle centre. All of a sudden, I felt the feeling sinking into me. In a foreign land, it's good to have a little company. I loved to do things by myself back home. Going shopping at Supermarkets, swimming, reading.. It's part of some nice peaceful time where I wont be trying so hard to find things to say. I find it interesting to hear what others have to say.. their life and stories. Find myself too talkative sometimes.

Hope everyone's doing great back at home. I'm doing fine. There's a great bunch of ppl here in HK, and I had my first swimming PE lesson ytd. Was short but still fun! met locals and exchange students. (There was this guy named Pan! and a girl named Bobo. They really have creative names down here) My roomie's taking with me and she's fun to be around. Speaking of fUn... Waiting for Mark to confirm with me reg. taiwannnnn still. better go ask him again.

Yeah this is just a silly entry that doesn't make much sense.. just have some time so thought i'll do a little update. take care all. add me on facebook (a lil pathetic with only 10 friends who added me) come hk to visit!

City Tour!!

2007-09-09T22:15:00.000+08:00

Life is about the dreams we live for, the people we meet, and the moments we cherish along the way. -Adele Basheer

Hey! The thought of the day comes from my diary cover, and it's so true. This entry will be mostly talking about the City Tour organised by the City Uni Buddies. It took the whole of Saturday and was an awesome experience (: (:

Morning started with me reading a little of my Harry Potter book while having breakfast (Deathly hallows sold at only S$33! It's true!). Strolled down the hillside trail with Yirui awhile later, and met the rest of the participants outside the Sports Complex. There were about 56 of us, both foreigners and locals (our leaders!)

Our itinerary goes like this :

1) Stanley Market and Beach
2) Lunch at Causeway Bay
3) Victoria Peak
4) Central (Mid-levels escalator, Lan Kwai Fong...)
5) Ferry from Central to Tsim Sha Tsui
6) Clock Tower (To see symphony of lights)
7) Star Avenue
8) ladies market (optional)

All these power packed into 1 full day! It was great as we got to talk to the locals and other exchange students. Our team "The Backseat girls" even won prizes (2 packets of Potato Chips) for the treasure hunt we played on the bus. As we played the game... The reckless driver drove our coach nearer towards Stanley.. Passed several beaches eg Repulse Bay while on our way there.. Was a long windy path but we managed to arrive in 1 piece! tje driver must have been driving at 100km/hr or sth!

We went to the Tin Hau Temple first 天后庙 and some of the "ang mohs" actually got divination lots.Was interesting to help them 解签（don't know whether my qian is correct) and later on move on to look at the beach. There was this man training his dog! It was so smart, and will swim out into the sea to get the tennis ball! Walked around Stanley Market (They were obviously jacking up prices for tourists!) and saw the store selling those heating/cooling pads that some of us bought when we went there a few years back (Do you guys remember??). Stanley Beach was okay. Really tiny. just a little piece of sandy land.. but there were many people surfing there. Just took some photos and left for our next destination... LUNCH!!

Meanwhile on the bus, got to know and talked to girls from everywhere! The 2 nice leaders from GuangZhou - Skyla and Lindsay who invited us for BBQ and cycling 2 weeks later. Joscelin and Peonie - our group leader both going overseas next semester for exchange. They're all really nice to talk to and had many things to tell us about HK. Met other exchange students too of course.. Liz from Canada, Jade from USA (and my halL!), Magda from Poland, Eun Young from Korea and Renee and Lucy from Mainland China. (The 2 Mainlanders could speak English reallllllyyyy well!) We took turns sitting next to each other and I kept asking them about their countries, schools and everything about them. (: Really interesting..

Okay back to LUNCH! we went to this really impressive restaurants for dim sum lunch, and we tried things like (in order of my favourites) - Carrot cake, Char Siew Bao, Fried Rice and Noodles, Egg Yolk Bao, Har Gow, Siew Mai, 桂花糕 etc. Food was ok.. Not especially yummy but the place was super posh., so overall GOOD! Thumbs up!

After filling our tummies, set on our journey again! Our coach drove us up Victoria Peak and we were so close to scraping off all the paint of another coach. Ha.. It was really windy up there and the view was nice. Too bad the sky was super hazy or I might have spotted City Uni from top of the peak! Had to pay 20HKD to go up to the Sky Terrace for the view and it was just implemented on the day we went!! If we went 1 day earlier we could have seen that for free. Oh weellll, I did get a little cute cardboard binoculars for that. Took pictures and later assembled again to go to Central~!

Central's where a lot of expatriats stay at. There's the Mid Levels Escalator that goes up a long wayyyyy and it takes about 20 minutes to finish taking the ride. there are stops along the way in case you're wondering. We saw the SOHO dining area where there were many cafes and stuffs (even Subway!) selling organic food, coffee etc. Walked past the former Victoria Prison Compound and towards Lan kwai Fong. We didn't drink there actually, just glanced at the board saying Lan Kwai Fong and was on our way to catch the ferry to Tsim Sha Tsui to be in time for the Symphony of Lights!

Symphony of Lights was cool. It's this performance by several buildings by the Victoria Harbour. We stood at the clock tower and were amazed by a 15 minute performance by.. the buildings. yeah it's true. They had dancing lights and laser beaming out along with the music. No fireworks or stuff, but it was impressive. (VIDEO BELOW)

After it was all over, we ambled to Star Avenue 星光大道 to watch some performances by street actors and also the handprints on the floor. Haha people were like trying to match their hands with celebrities' like Andy Lau, Jet Li etc, but there were some of actors/actresses I never heard of. Their handprints were kind of ignored by the crowds. There were a lot of people there..! Bustling and jolly street I must say.

After walking through the whole street, we boarded the bus and everyone was so exhausted. Those "high" girls who so wanted to go Ladies street didn't raise their hands when the leaders asked who wanted to go there. It was already 9+pm by then and all of us were tired and hungry (Luckily I stopped by 7-11 to grab some ovaltine and Kit kat just now!)

By the time the coach drove us back to the Student Residence, it was almost 10pm. (our school is surprisingly near tsim Sha tsui, a 5min ride away!) We bade our farewells and YR and I walked to Festival Walk for KFC! Haha. We even did grocery shopping at Taste till almost midnight before we went back to hostel.

It was a great day, and I want to thank INSO and all the Student leaders for organising this FUN trip and took care of us! To all the Backseat girls I enjoyed your company! (: (: (: Hope we have a chance to meet up again.. May be going Lantau Island with Young next Sunday! Yay.. Cheers to HK (:

Taiwannnn??

2007-09-07T13:35:00.000+08:00

Hey all. TGIF!!

School has been fine. It's only the first week so mostly the tutors only talk about the curriculum and stuff..I have 1 more class later on and it'll be the WEEKEND again! Yay! Can't wait to go for the City Tour tomorrow and maybe the beach on Sunday!

Went for this class "Smart English for Young Professionals" just now. It's like a slacker version of 214.. and the tutor asked me 5 times whether I wanna drop it. (Too many people enrolled!) A bit paiseh to be so thick-skinned and stay on right. but I need to clear modules and my classmates seem nice! There was this girl who even invited me to go to the beach with her friends this Sunday! friendly. She says she goes to Singapore every month.. and that she can't believe I'm singaporean because I don't have the Singapore accent. haha. So I asked her what's the accent about.. and she says when Singaporeans speak English they still sound like they're speaking Mandarin. Another classmate chipped in and asked me where are the "Las and Lors". haha. Interesting.

This class seems really fun. we'll have to role play telephone conversations, and interview foreigners about their local culture, tape them, and give a presentation by the end of the semester. (yucks) But it's not those FOrmallll type so I'm fine with that!

Anyways, I just found out a few things yesterday! HK has a formal public holiday for the Mid autumn festival and that's on 26th Sep. Their national Day is on 1st Oct. Am thinking of going Taiwan during this period, but been calling the agencies and most spots are full! I so do wanna travel out! Just realised that City Uni does not have a term break. It's 13 straight weeks of school *sighs*

There's a Welcoming Reception for Exchange students held at one of the theatres later on at 3pm. I'm so sleepy after lunch it's so tempting to just skip everything. Heh. But I musn't! New Efficient HT!! Shall go take a nap now.. Update again tonight! Sorry no photos because I'm lazy. sEEYaa!!

Jia gan tang?

2007-09-05T00:54:00.000+08:00

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann von Goethe

heH.. I'm sitting in the dark listening to the music in my blog. Tried to listen to the canto recordings for class tmr and I well.. after a lot of Ahh Ahhh Ahhh, Ga gaa gaaa.. I decided to just go for the lesson tomorrow. Just remembered something that I wanted to blog down!!

I had auditing today, and I spoke a few sentences in class. So after class, this really cute girl came to me to ask me whether I'm from Singapore! Wow, seems like my English is sooo SG! she says there's no mistake about it! She's right though.

Turned out that she just came back from a semester of exchange at SMU. Well, no offence, but she was VERY SHOCKED that I could speak Chinese! So she asked me whether I could write chinese and I said "yeah". Her eyes went wide like saucers. Haha. SMU people!!! What impression did you guys give her? She thought Singaporeans all can speak a LITTLLEEE bit of chinese and can't write at all!

It's quite.. Hmm. disheartening? Because I think she got the wrong idea! We didn't forget our roots! At least not all.. I have many friends who can speak chinese pretty well! Guess the culture's different from NTU huh.

Just an entry to put down this little fact. we all gotta buck up, I know my chinese (they call it mandarin and putonghua here) ain't too good but I can speak that better than English I think. Yay let's all jiayou! We're Chinese afterall (: alright.. Nightyyy!

First week of school!

2007-09-04T15:12:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: " Nothing changes until you change."

YoOO!!

Another weekend gone and it's the start of school!! Was kind of looking forward to it so I'll get to know more people. Indeed, I've made a few friends! (BUT really FEW la. haha. the 3 guys in the picture below!)Monday started with a .. bang? I woke up with a stomach ache, only to find my internet connection down, my student ID not yet activated, my hostel phone spoilt, and my throat hurting like crazy (too many peanuts. tsk) Oh.. The BANG part was me getting sandwiched between the lift doors! I don't think they have sensors, so it painfully hit me when I went down to borrow an iron from the security guard. Thank goodness the day ended welll (:

Anyway, my FIRST LESSON in City Uni started on Monday! The module on Monday's "Basic Cantonese". Met up with Yirui, Xuyu and Mark from NTU to go for the class. It's a really international class with foreign students from Singapore, China, USA etc. We got to know these 2 other guys from SMU and another ABC sitting beside me from America. The lesson was really basic, teaching us how to say our names and good morning to each other. Luv the teacher! She's so dramatic, and even performed a Taiji kick in class. Humourous and fun lesson. Can't wait for the language lab tmr, when she'll teach us how to AHHHH ORHHHH ERRR in Canto. (Funfact: Chinese Pinyin has 4 tones right, canto has 9!!) Tough language alright.

After the lesson, we had this mini Singapore gathering. We went for lunch with Gary and Douglas from SMU, and later to Causeway Bay to just walk around. (Really only walked around.. haha.) The SMU people really are impressive. They each have done several internships, and both are doing part time internship in HK. WOW right. I'm impressed by their motivation and etc., but I don't think I can spare time for part time work here. I don't know where to get these "lobangs" too, but if there's a chance for employment upon graduation, I'll wanna grab it!

Anyway, here's a couple of pictures we took last night. After dinner, the 2 guys went back to hostel but YR, Mark and Me went to take a long route back "home". Mark's a "staying in hall = imprisonment kind of guy" (no offence!!), and he was nice enough to bring us to explore the different routes back to hall. We went to take the tram from Causeway bay to Central, before walking past the IFC to take a ferry to Tsim Sha Tsui. It didn't feel like term time at all! After the short ferry ride to TST, we went to take a bus to Mongkok!
All these are pictures of our long route from Cau seway bay to mongkok

Window shopped quite a bit until 11.30pm before we got really tired and decided to head back. Guess what, at 11pm, shops were still open, and there are still many people outside walking around. I'm not kidding about the "MANY" part. It's crazy! I was like 'wow, wow, wow! don't they need to work tomorrow?"
On the bus. They have signs to show where the bus is now at de wor!

Managed to get back to hall at 11.59 before the Hall gate closes and we have to use our residence pass to enter. Chatted with my super nice, helpful and friendly roomie Konnie till about 3+ before we got to bed. I had a really hard time waking up for my 9.30am lesson today.

AHH.... Auditing. 3 hours from morning till noon. Really.. hmm. Ok I shall not give my opinions but just talk a little about the way their lessons are conducted. The people here dress really nicely, you don't see people wearing Hall Tshirts or shorts here. As my roomie says: "It's fashion show again tomorrow". Some girls are dressed particularly fashionably with scarves, vests, tight red pants etc. The number of people wearing dresses are like 50 times the number in NTU, and they usually wear covered shoes. Also, the people here are all quite slim de leh. Despite all the YUMMY FOOD!! I haven't seen a fat person yet.. How do they do that!?

Anyway, back to auditing class. My tutor's a nice lady, who speaks nice slowww english during class and actually explains the course quite well. Only thing different between school in NTU over here is hmm. Firstly, class participation. I'm not really a very participative person usually but over here, they're generally more quiet. IMost of the time I can hear the fan whirring in the Overhead Projector so you can imagine. The second difference is that though the class is English based, the teacher usually switches to explain all the concepts in Canto. She's saying the heading in English and all of a sudden she's saying loads of stuffs in cantonese. That kept me more awake actually, listening really intently and trying to guess what she's saying. I think my class's not that bad, about 70% of English so I wasn't that lost. Other than that, it's quite similar to school back home.Went for lunch and some grocery shopping at Taste (AGAINnnnnn..) and I'm back in hall! Internet connection is back up after I went to enquire about it at the Computing Services Centre and registered again online. I think CSC employed all the "leng zais", so far that's where I met 2 (Nice and helpful!)

Ahhh well, time to end the entry and go for a nap. I'm reallyyyy sleepy. Till I write again take care peepss!!

SHOPPING

2007-09-01T00:23:00.000+08:00

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. -Anthony Burgess

You know how you always tell yourself you must save money? But then when you are faced with lots of great things that are selling really cheap somehow you just can't stop yourself? I had such an attack today. SCARY. I'm glad I am safely in my hall now. Haha.

View from hostel @ 6am

The aircon stopped halfway yesterday (no more value) and I woke up to bathe at 4.30am. I was sweating like mad (they don't have fans) and so I didn't manage to sleep till 7+am in the morning. Went to find the admin people regarding my subject again (which STILL hasnt been added) and went to Sham Sui Po with Yirui and her 2 friends, Tian Hui and Xuyu. Did you guys watch the show 鸭寮街的金蛋？I saw the sign and got so excitied!! Apliu steet! Ou yang zheng hua! heh. They have many many shops there and we had the 车仔面 that I always hear about when watching HK serials. Basically it's just noodles + 3 ingredients of your choice. heh. BIGGGG portion i tell you.

After walking around Sham Sui Po.. YR and I went to MongKok. WOW. That is THE place to go! We walked till we really got lost and never did we walk the same street twice!! There were so many people and shops. Even at 3pm in the afternoon. There was 女人街，通菜街，西洋菜街 etc. etc. Cute names right! Last day of summer sale here and everywhere's bustling with people!! I had many chances to speak the only canto I know:

1) Peng d la~! (cheaper!!)

2) bat sat mun ($80 and every single amount necessary to cut down the price!)

3) Hmm goi (thank you, excuse me)

didn't try the trick of calling them leng loy (beautiful lady) or leng zai (handsome man) cause we mostly met aunties and uncles. that wouldn't be sincere.

Krispy kreme!!

Somehow.. We walked and walked and walked and came to this building. i saw youngsters sauntering up the escalators and just went up to see for FUN. WOW. What a place. They were selling everything fashionable and for youngsters.. and at affordable prices!! serious. Everything was less than S$20 when converted back. I am shocked by myself. But the people there were really nice. Even strangers. Sigh. Wouldn't that be good if all the Singaporean salespeople were that friendly and nice too. Most could guess we're Singaporeans, and were surprised when I flashed the HK ATM card. Oh.. I went to ask them whether they accept NETS. So silly of me! They call it EPS over here.

Oh man. The street scenes here are really.. Fantastic. Bustling city with huge signboards. People standing around eating those octopus sticks.. Pao pao cha selling at 5HKD. Smelly Tofu. street stalls. Tons and tons of people and cafes. Really. I'm at a lost of words. Though I prefer nature and peaceful scenes, this city thing is likeable too.

Without me knowing (Ok I was wearing a watch..), it was time to go back "home!". We took the MTR.. (Only 3 stops away from school!) to be continued..

FUNFACTS about their MTR!! (THEY as in HK)

1) They have lots of MTR shops selling everything you can think of. Electronics, food, fashion accessories, 7-11, banks, travel agencies.. it's like Citylink at every station.
2) They have electronic signboards that even reports the weather for the next day!!

3) They have blinking lights at each station to show you where you are heading

4) They have 2 to 3 stops of interchange towards the same line

continued.... and back to Kowloon Tung! Somehow we always get lost at the stairs and escalators. Walked back through festival walk and my student ID card still cannot work at the Hostel door.

Just bathed, and am trying not to think about my expenses for the day. I'm broke. but no regrets about todayy!!! Yay.. another happy ending for the day and here comes the weekend. I welcome it with open arms! School will start soon and hope everything will be just fine.. Wish me luck guys!

Live it, love it!

2007-08-30T12:12:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

HEH.

It's Thursday.. Been here for 6 days and am still excited by every little thing i seee! (: HK rocks!! (for now at least) Might experience a little culture shock or homesickness later on but I'm still at the peak of the "U" or "W" curve.

Let me share with you guys some facts about HK now.. (:

Weather: The weather's quite good here. Similar to Singapore. Been raining on some days but in the noon it's really hot.

Shopping: Sales are on! Summer sale ends this week on 31st August and everything's really nice. Their fashion is influenced by Japan I realised and they have really nice and high class boutiques right here at Festival Walk! Festival Walk's really cool!

Festival Walk: Connected to my school City Uni, Festival walk is just a little tunnel away and ha lots of eateries. Wide variety. They have boutique type stores for every branded thing you can think of. Shiseido, Chanel, Dior, DKNY, CK blahh... It's really fantastic. They have an ice skating rink! and even a supermarket that closes at 12am daily too! Now they're having some I.T festival where many tents are set up for people to play free games to get coupons for prize redemption. SO FUN!

Food: The food here.. bagus!! haha. It's really yummy but the portions are way too big. No wonder my friend sometimes save half her lunch for dinner!! The fruits are slightly more expensive, titbits and snacks slightly cheaper.. and the main courses are almost the same price as in Singapore (if you don't compare to kopitiams and school canteens). Their fast food like KFC and Mac is cheaper!! McChicken is like 8HKD=S$1.60, Milkshake 5HKD=S$1.. WOW right..!!
Sports: I think there are many sports activities available here. Haven't had the chance to use them yet but the sports complex is located right next to the academic building!! They even have PE lessons here..!

People: can't say much for this yet. So far the interactions I had with the locals are either asking for directions or help. Too bad I don't know Cantonese.. But there are a lot of Mainlanders here who speaks Mandarin (through observation). Can't really distinguish singaporeans from locals here because we look pretty much similar to each other. Only way is by eavesdropping on conversations ba. Haha.

School: The school admin's really efficient and helpfuL!!! Maybe NTU staff can come here for an exchange too? =X They're all nice and don't act like I owe 5 month's school fees or anything.. (I'm not saying all Singaporeans la. Ha.)

Hmm... Watching "我的野蛮奶奶" now on my laptop. I can't mobtv here now.. Sadly.
Later still got some orientation activities like Police talk on safety and Cantonese Corner. The day will end late again! Been going out early and coming home late..

HK. Live it, Love it!!

Haozi in hall!!

2007-08-29T12:07:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. -William Feather

Hello hello hello!! I'm so happy now!! Just bought my lan cable from the canteen (Homey Kitchen) and I'm connected to the internet! Don't need to go to the freezing Computer room downstairs le (:

Yay! I'm in hall! Let me update on the past few days. Sunday was spent touring around Jordan near my hotel.. ate Vietnamese Cuisine (: Love their fish sauce.) and went to the Temple Street to walk around. Then went back to rest for Monday! The big day to move into Hall!

Morning started with a unbelievably "nothing much to eat" buffet breakfast at the hotel. Well I shouldn't complain because I actually booked the hotel without breakfast! HAhAHa. Since they gave me the voucher than I "tan4 dio4 liao4!". Heh heh. Filled our tummies with energy to move the MANY luggages I brought. Took a cab down to city Uni and I got a place in Prosperity Hall! YR's staying in the Humanity Hall. May money fall into my hands here. Haha..

It was exciting to go to school and see all the people running around! We collected our welcome folders and left to go Admiralty to look for my aunt. Well, I had blurly taken everything except my SPECS! of all things to forget. Went to Causeway Bay after that and BOY.... Shopping Heaven! Almost every shop had the words "SALE", "50% Storewide", "Final Call" or something like that. The things sold are really much cheaper than in Singapore but too bad we're students on budget. I did buy a nice purple adidas jacket and a Red billabong bag that shedded its dye all over my white shirt that I wore yesterday though, at a real steal (:

OH.. and Guess what? I ATE KRISPY KREME donuts!!!! They're as good as my marketing textbook claims!! I really felt like I was eating white fluffy clouds! A little on the sweet side though.. They tasted better when I put them in between 2 slices of bread! They're quite ex. Almost 2bucks for 1.

Yupp.. Day 1 ended and we didnt manage to get pillows and blankets. Luckily I brought bedsheets and made do. Tuesday awoke and it's a brand new day!! Went to enrol ourselves and got our student ID. They took our photos and issued our cards in ... 3 MINUTES! Super efficient. Language is a barrier but hey I'll learn!! Learning little by little by bugging YR. Heh.

OOOOOOO.. My roomie just walked in!! My first time meeting her! Wow. Nice lady who speaks English!! Haha.. Sweet.. (: Hall's a little different. Laundry room's on the roof, must pay for washing! (HKD5 for 1 wash, and more for drying!) The rooms are like Hall 3. They have the "closed door" thing. Hall's very high. I live on the 11th storey, and they have lifts for every door. You tap before coming in, and there's a security guard scrutinizing everyone. Haha. cool right. Max security. But can't move in that freely I guess, and no where to go jogging and stuffs! I'm slowly exploring the compounds...

Ok continue typing.. Hmm Language is a barrier! Most people speak canto here in City Uni. My roomie just told me City Uni's more a 2nd class Uni in HK.. Ooo. Interesting. Well, as long as I learn (: Heh.

Went Lok Fu estate yesterday to get our pillows and stuffs yesterday. BIG place that we haven't finished exploring! Heh. YR and me had KFC and played Arcade! 返老还童!! Ok.. We're not THAT old but it was FUN! Their KFC's very different from Singapore. They serve chicken BUT MUCH MORE than That! Quite yummy actually. They have rice and no fries, iced milk tea and not milo, and they serve drinks in Glasses! woo.

Today's a new day! Wednesday. Going to sch in awhile to appeal for my add/drop and listen to some talks.. Chatbox meee! Seeyaaa..

Sunday In HK (:

2007-08-26T15:50:00.001+08:00

Thought of the day: "Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." Chinese Proverb

OH MAN! Conrad hotel rocks leh. I'm now in this teeny weeny hotel called Evergreen (they bluffed about being 4 stars haha), situated in Jordan. The room's small. The TV only has 4 channels, and the toilet has a heavy urine smell. Luckily I was smart enough to request a non-smoking room at low floor when I made the booking online. This hotel only has a lift up to the 3rd storey, it has absolutely no facilities, and the people are less than friendly. The only good thing is this internet access. I connected to some internet hotspot and they have free connection for tertiary students! Yay!

I carried 5 huge bags + a laptop bag when I reached, and had to lug them up this impractical silly huge step before I could get into the hotel. Everyone was just staring from the lobby and no one came up to help! not even the bellboy who looked bored and had nothing to do. Hahha. He's SO XIAN SHI LOR. I had to bring everything to the lobby and he only came to help me with my bags AFTER he confirmed that i had gotten my key to the room. 1 key for a double room. weird. haha.

WELL.. Good thing about this place is it's in Jordan!! busy busy street just opposite the Temple Street(庙街) and I havent had a chance to explore yet. Waiting for Yirui to come and we'll probably walk around this place (:

Anyway this morning was great!! Woke up to breakfast of Apple yogurt and Muffin etc, then went to Causeway Bay with my aunt and her colleagues. They shopped but I only spent money on the necessary stuffs like Sim card and water and Food!! Oh boy can they shop!! Haha. Touristy. I noticed that more hK people can speak chinese and english now. compared to the last time i came. that's good!! my taxi driver and me had a great chinese conversation just now.. it took me HKD 100bucks from Admiralty to here.

The food's great here!! had this Char Siew Rice that was fantastic (HKD28), some weird popiahs without vege inside de, and the famous 许留山芒果雪冰（HKD28) for dessert. Wish I had taken photos BUT I forgot!! The delicious food just yelled at me to eat them up!! (OK.. I was a lil shy to look THAT touristy too. haha) There are so many people out there on the streets today! Glad I'm here in this cosy (small=cosy?) room enjoying the peace and quiet (:

Shall end my entry here! haha. Everyone take care.. Till I write again.. (:

I'm in HKKKK!!

2007-08-26T00:42:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro

HEY!! I'm in HONG KONG!!!!!!!!!!! I'm really excited now.. Typing away in this empty hotel room. It's super ex 40HKD for an hour so I must make full use of the time! (: I'm bunking in at my aunt's room in Conrad (It's in admiralty! remind you of singapore?) heh. Her company has their D&D here lor. SO rich right!!

Anyway.. Here's what happened todayy! My family sent me to the hotel and while we were having lunch at Popeyes, my fantastic ladies and a handsome hunk turned up to send me off! Aww.. So nice! (: Met Tanny at the airport and she was sending her friend off to HK too! Too bad he's taking Cathay.. ( I took Jetstar!) Yep.. The luggage limit was 20 KG and mine was 28Kg!! goodness!! then I started taking stuffs out and making my family drink all the water I brought.. Managed to slim down to 23.6kg when I checked in! (: Walked into the departure hall and saw a sweet scene of beautiful girls sticking to the glass and waving to me.. (aww why didn't I take a photo of that!!) Then I walked the lonely path down to C15..

The PLANE RIDE WAS BORING. Really really boring. I finished reading almost every article in Weekend Today and I still had soooo much time to spare. Not many Singaporeans on the flight I noticed. Quite a number of Malaysians and people holding blue passports.. and I chatted with a lady from China. I was SOOOOO Bored and in the end rewatched all the videos in my comp! Cher burnt me a VCD of Boulderactive with the Promise of KH's performance.. (YAY!) But I couldnt find Khairul Hafiz in it... ): BUT it had cher's climbs so it was great entertainment!!

Upon touching down. We had to walk down a flight of stairs and board a shuttle bus to bring us to the airport! The bus ride took 10 mins and there were really many many aeroplanes there. What a lot of money located in the same place. haha. I was so stunned when I reached the arrival hall. The customs queue was SOOOOOOOOOOOO Long! my plane touched down at 7.50 and I was still queueing at 8.30pm. Wasn't sure whether Zk was coming as I didnt manage to contact him before I reached.. 人生地不熟!! Was supposed to reach at 7.25 but by the time I claimed the baggage.. It was almost 9pm le!! Walked out and was sooooo glad to see ZK!! I think he must have been so bored just standing there.

Had dinner with him at Spaghetti house. Oh man.. All the people speak canto. SIghs. haha. SO chim! I couldnt undertand the whole conversation between him and everyone!! At 10pm.. We embarked on the journey to find conrad! heh. We took the airport express train to Hong Kong station, then took a shuttle bus to the hotel. (that costs HKD 100 per person!! so ex. But 2 for 160 ..)

Ahhhh. Finallllyyyyy reached the hotel at 11.45pm! There was a LOT of Singaporeans here..! Allen and Gledhill had their D&D here and I think they had hundreds of their employees here. My aunt's hotel room's on the 56th floor and it's comfortable! a bit on the small side.. But Zk said it's bigger than his house!! Goodness. can't imagine the size of the hostel! oh well at least Less place to cleann.

Hmm. Just some photos to show you guys the hotel! Time's almost up le and I should retire for the night le I guess!! (: Everyone take care!!

One's a reflection and the other's the original. Can you tell the difference? The Tv's huge and spot the 2 rubber duckies at the bathtub!

One more day

2007-08-24T22:40:00.000+08:00

No thought of the day today. I feel too horrible to think.

OMG. My last day in Singapore and I spent it so miserably. Instead of 2 breads for breakfast, I ate 7 slices. Instead of a meal for lunch, I ate that plus apple, pear and lots of cookies. At 4, met my Sec school pals and instead of just drinking water to digest all that food, I stuffed myself with all those desserts and didn't stop even though I was so full. By dinner time, I was so full I could burst but I ate 1 whole hearty meal and 300g of peanuts that Yvonne gave me. I tell you. That's a lot of peanuts. It's been hours and I still can't digest my food. I feel so full I'm on the verge of tears the whole night. I've applied all the possible oils on my tummy and yet I still feel as horrible. I havent finished packing yet I cant move at all. I feel so sick. Sigh. What kind of stupid life is this. Bye friends. Enjoy yourselves in singapore.

Leaving on a jetplane

2007-08-21T23:39:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." ~ Winnie the Pooh

Leaving on: 25th August 2007, Saturday
Time to fly: 3.45pm
My wings: 3K695
Soaring from: Changi Airport Terminal 1
will reach HK: 7.25pm

Then I'll get my octopus card and new HK sim card! Update you guys on my contact details again.(:

不能说的秘密 Day!

2007-08-20T23:30:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: Eat to live, NOT live to eat.

Heh. Another weekend over. my last weekend in Singapore for 2007. Met some odin pals on Sat and we watched the fireworks at Marina Bay for NDP closing! oh BOY.. Marina Square's so big. I went to the toilet and got lost trying to find my way back to Han's.. Here's some nice photos I took on that day.

Singapore's a great place to be. It really is. Rich enough to have fireworks weekly during this period and feed its people. We forget how lucky we are sometimes. Complaining about our schools when some people have to trek thousands of miles just to get to some shelter to learn to read and write. Complaining about the price of cars when people scrimp and save to get a bicycle. We're not wrong I guess, we're just brought up living this life. We won't know unless we really see and experience that kind of life. Though sometimes I feel really poor and broke but somehow I believe there are opportunities I can grab.. If I'm willing to work hard we can get by here in Singapore. But that's relative I guess. I could be happy being a farmer (: Some people here work like oxes and horses.

Just some thoughts because I'm watching "The Pianist" right now. It's about war in Germany during the late 1930s to 1945. It's sad to see how they treated the jews. How cruel mankind can be. Exterminating their fellow brothers like rats. Discrimination against races. How alike we all are, yet so different. In the show, you see people getting shot just because the soldiers thought it fun. You see people dying of hunger, men snatching food from old women, eating from the ground. Tsk tsk. I I pray for peace with the world, and within ourselves.

Life's not fair. There are people starving out there, yet just as many (or maybe more) are suffering from illnesses because they eat too much. Digestive problems, obesity. high blood pressure.. They must not have existed many many years ago when people ate what they could find and led simple yet happy lives. ): I'm guilty of overeating. I do it so often my heart beats weird these days and I often fall sick because of overload of cookies and cakes. I'm going to try living a healthier life in HK. Because we're all so lucky, we should make use of that to eat healthy, exercise, and live life to the fullest because we don't have to worry too much about basic survival!

Anyway.. watched "The secret" by Jay chou today with Cuii!!(Another pianist show. OH MAN! Pianists!! 帅呆了！) don't know how others feel about the show but I seldom watch movies and so my standards may not be too high. I found it quite nice. We were guessing throughout the show what the girl (Rain) actually was. A ghost? Someone dying of illness? Time travel? I love the happy ending! 有情人忠诚眷属（不清楚） (Though I have no idea what will happen to Jay Chou's "dad" in the show.) You know the hundreds of people missing every year? They could well be involved in something like that leh. Time traveling and meeting lovers. Maybe that's why they can be missing for years and never be found. Not too bad if they're happy!

Walked around Vivocity. This is my 2nd time there this week le! took some photos of Sentosa from Vivo cuz it's so near. The new sky train's really very convenient leh! $3 for a trip to and fro and you get to keep the "Ezlink". I love Singapore! ha..

Heh ok I know this is a verrryyyyy boring entry. Regarding my preparation for HK.. Well. Packing's still in progress!! More or less got everything I think I need le. My CityU buddy got in touch with me le! Someone named Major (interesting name hor) from China. I'm now waiting for add/drop to start this Wednesday. FOUR more days to go! Meanwhile all of you have a great week ahead! Will miss you allll...

Preparation - Guidebook!

2007-08-17T10:59:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. -Charles Bruxton

Heh. Yay. I have a super detailed HK guidebook now all thanks to Yanping! Met up with Shuanghui, Franchie Babe and YP yesterday (Finally got to eat at Miss Clarity Cafe!) and Yanping shared with me her HK experience! Wow. I am really looking forward to flying. Talked to Jingli for awhile and he sounded really enthusiastic about his HK experience too!

Below are the should visits they recommended. I might as well document it down so I won't lose it.

1) Take a boat ride to Macau (Check out the Bakwas! My fave!)

2) Take a train ride to Beijing

3) Visit Guilin at GuangXi

4) ShenZhen may be a lil dangerous

5) Taiwan!!

6) Nature Trails in HK

7) Festival Walk (In JL's opinion one of the best mall in HK. WOO! and it's connected to CityU :)

Oh.. is 1 sem enough to visit all the sights and sounds that I so want to see? ha. But it'll be Ex to travel too much any way. My accomodation's confirmed le and I even have a CityU buddy! As things fall into place.. I better start packing all my stuffs too. EIGHT more days to go... Now everyday just outings with all my dearest friends. Will miss you all when I'm there (:

Heh that's me with climber pals in HK in 2004! just a flashback! (:

Preparation for exchange - Med checkup day~

2007-08-16T00:15:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: The more you say, the less people remember. -François Fénelon

Note: Today's entry will be kinda lame and boring, just an update on my activities. But i think the quote's so true. I must stop talking so much and listen more to people.. Not only to what they are saying but also to their heart. (:

Game of the day: Spot Norman in the picture below!!

Heyhey..

Started the day by sending bro to hospital. Ok nothing too serious, just that he sprained his ankle while on a walk out with me and he's a person who utilises NS benefits well!

Was a happy girl in NTU from 9am till 9pm (not to STUDY!). (: First was the medical checkup. I woke up Van at 9.30am to leave my stuff in his room, then walked the familiar path from Hall 13 to South spine. (Nice route!) The checkup was exactly the same as the one 2 years back, except there was an extra injection :(flu vaccine). Had to go JP for Xray, and i met YL so we chatted and somehow (nice Girl! she offered!) I got onto her BF's (nice bf!) car with her and hitched a ride out (: Went for a haircut at JP and the stylist spent 1 hour telling me how monstrous my hair was (so he can convince me to do a $200++ rebonding treatment), but I perservered and walked out with my curly hair intact and spent 1/10 of that. Phew!

Walked around this Outer Space mall(well it's at boon lay afterall) and

went back to find Shaun sleeping. Haha. Poor roomies, badly disturbed by me today. (Heyyy funfact! Ivan is super neat now and they both have cutteee laundry baskets.. fish belongs to van. They're walking the Ke ai lu xian now!)

Did some room visiting at Hall 13 (oh i will miss this hall) and went to the Boulder wall at SRC! WOw. the attendance was overwhelmingly good. A mini TJ gathering + UMC gathering + zeRO etc made my staying back worth it! Yanpeng and Sze gay very oberservantly noticed the 8.9kg I've gained in a year (YES! It's true! the NTU weighing scales don't lie!) and they couldnt stop "suaning" shilin and mee..

Oh well, who cares. Happy phototaking session and catching up session with shilin and fenru etc. Thank you Fenru for sending me back! Met so many "gui4 ren2" today. Though I really never make any attempt to climb up the wall, I still miss the good old climbing days. People go try this sport if u haven't before. you will experience something new (:

Shilin and me Haozi & Zero NTU boulder wall @ SRC Ex-UMC pple

Heh. My arm's aching cuz of the injection. It's kind of late and my new pet's calling me. (haha. my cousin bought me a Tamagotchi.. Good companion for HK!) I know it may seems childish but.. I'm not what I look like. Gotta go play with it le (no name yet), take care people!

Listen - Beyonce

2007-08-14T09:22:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day:
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Got to hear this song when I watched Dreamgirls. their vocals are fantastic! Can't stop listening to it, esp during my fave times of the day (early morning and late night :).

Listen,
To the song here in my heart
A melody I've start
But can't complete
Listen, to the sound from deep within
It's only beginning
To find release
Oh,the time has come for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own all cause you won't Listen....

[Chorus]
Listen,I am alone at the crossroads
I'm not at home, in my own home
And I tried and tried To say whats on my mind
You should have known
Oh,Now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what, you made of me
I followed the voice you gave to me
But now I gotta find, my own..
You should have listened
There is someone here inside
Someone I'd thought had died
So long ago
Oh I'm screaming out, for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside or worse
Into your own
All cause you won't Listen...

[Chorus]
I don't know where I belong
But I'll be moving on
If you don't....If you won't....LISTEN!!!...
To the song here in my heart
A melody I've start
But I will complete
Oh,Now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what, you made of me
I followed the voice, you think you gave to me
But now I gotta find, my own..my ownn..

Monday blues?

2007-08-13T12:58:00.000+08:00

Thought of the day: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mohatma Gandhi"

Hey all. It's officially Tue now but it just feels like late Monday, so shall stick to this title. Just watched the results show for campus superstar (yes I am a TV addict! but I just love their singing and they're cutee!), and was kind of surprised that Hui Xian and Marcus didn't make it to the finals! I think all of them are great singers, and I applaud them for having the courage to stand infront of sooooo many people to perform. I really admire these people who go after their dreams, be it performing in public or doing jobs that others may look down on. As long as you like it and are happy doing it.. (: (and it's not harming anyone!)

This reminds me of my first time presenting to a large group of people. I should be in Primary 4 or something. We were all tasked to give a 3 min speech to our class and I chose to talk about dolphins (just gotten a brand new set of encyclopedia and wanted to make the most of it! we didn't have internet then..). I don't think I said much. I said the first sentence, then started to giggle cuz I was really nervous, then squatted down and giggled the 3 minutes away. I still have stagefright now btw. Not as bad as in Primary school, but I'll do anything to escape from speaking in front of a crowd (why did i choose accountancy??? Sigh.)

Well well, that was just a flash of my past. Today is the start of school for NUS! Zt just told me he has a project due Thur. Architecture is so...... scary. I'm sooooo glad I'm going for exchange and get to slack around some more. The only bad thing is I just stay home and eat all day and can only fit into FBT shorts ): Been doing nothing much, except trying to read all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books to find inspiration in life! There are many brave souls out there..

Days just pass like that. Time and tide really waits for no one. Everyday I think about life, the past, present and future. Searching for inspiration and something to guide the path I'm walking on. I'm 21 now, an adult in the eyes of law, and yet I feel so lost. Are there many people out there who feels the way I do? I've given up on believing in dreams, even though I know that sometimes they come true. Growing up does that to you sometimes I guess. I used to think that life was really beautiful and full of colours, but I found out the ugly truth in Sec school.

Come to think of it, I've changed a lot. Not for the better though. But the songs I used to love listening to hasn't. The list just grows longer and I'm so glad I can share some of them with all of you (through blogmusik.net) ! The songs are playing now even as you are reading this post, and I hope they accompany you just as they have always accompanied me (: Enough said for the day.. Time to go share my thoughts with my real diary. Till I write again.. Take care!

Family Guy - How old is Meg?

2007-08-12T23:02:00.001+08:00

My bro introduced this to me. The series is rather crude. but still.. this episode's kinda funny actuallY.. Haha just wanna share with you guys.. Enjoy!

OH By the way, it's NOT something I usually watch. Ha.

13 More daysssssss....!

2007-08-12T21:53:00.000+08:00

heyYY! Blogging is so time consuming! I spent the past 2 hours searching for a nice template and still none's up to my expectations :S I shall stick to this classic normal one for now! This is my second entry and guys, THIRTEEN more days till I'm gone!

Nothing much to update. Still preparing for my trip and my room's in a mess! I set out on 3 missions today:

Mission 1: Take silly neoprints (that's what they were called in my times)

Mission 2: Buy a camera (so my family will still have one to use when I go Hk)

Mission 3: Get a decent bag. (Either the nice black Nike one for school or a HUGE HUGE one that I can dump everything in and get my aunt to help me transport to HK)

WELL, I accomplished the top 2 missions!! so broke! haha. Cher and I really have little experience so we randomly picked a machine and randomly took some silly photos! Shili say must add some pics to my blog to illustrate my entries so there you are.. a blurrrr photo of our pictures! We super overloaded them with cute designs found in the machine..

Mission #2! Walked around the whole of TM and Century Square to search for THE camera. and... I found it!! (Ivan no more condemning my camera!!) Was walking around in Best Denki when something caught my eye.

SALE. Panasonic Lumix $349 - Free battery, 2 GB SD Card. Best Denki only!

WOW. THERE. After some HARD and LONG thinking.. I enquired about it! It was the last one and it was PINK! Oh well, would have preferred black or Purple (LOL) but pink's nice. and to me it was a good deal! So I paid for it and got to fill up 7 lucky draw forms! (: (Can I win sth this time???)

Yupp, that's about all I did today. (Plus watch Tv)

Some random funfacts for all of you all there:

1) Cherlyn has really short fringe
2) A1 Crispy puffs sells DURIAN puffs. As in Curry puff like durian puffs. Yum!
3) I found someone's water bottle in my bag!! Weird right. Ngee Ann Poly blah..
4) 81 stops at Tampines interchange not Pasir Ris!
5) Instead of saying "thank you, please come again", the shopkeeper that sold me earrings told me 祝你好运!

Hmm. Haha. Guess it's really random. Just like the typing feeling. heh. ok everyone take care.. till i write again! (:

My first blog entry (:

2007-08-10T11:58:00.000+08:00

Hey guys.

Wow, I'm not really one to blog. I have my own secret diaries stashed under beds and crammed into drawers throughout my years.. But as I'm going to HK, I decided to set up one to share my HK experience with anyone interested (:

This is just a pre-HK entry. Thanks to some help from Summer, I got this blog started. I love her msn nick! the part with "Boys are stupid, throw stones at them" (no offence guys, just find it kawaiiiii)

yep, to share my current experience now. I have 15 more days to go (my fave number!), and I'm not the least prepared for my trip. I have this really tiny luggage bag and a lazy body. However, I've made down the list of things that I should prepare.. and cooL. I get to have a supplementary credit card! Yay! The benefits of leaving home for a few months.. To search for inspiration..

Well, just a big HELLO! and typing to see how this post will look like. SO.. Shall say goodbye for now! Feel free to post comments pals. sEEyaaa..

Happy belated birthday Singapore, there's no place I'd rather be but home. and HK for now.. (: