So, fast-forwarded to January next year, that is the place I will be. One year is no joke.
I will miss out the social life back in Singapore; I will miss my dearest friends' convocations; I will miss out on the fabrication process of my design project with my closest university buddies; I will miss attending boring lectures with my girl clique; I will miss chatting with my train cum bus companion; I will miss the chance of going work and travel to usa with my dearest friends; I will of course miss my parents and siblings - everything they do; I will miss studying side-by-side with my sister for that year; I will miss graduating together with my brother and sister; so much more to add...
As for now, there are too many and so much on my mind and zillion things to be done.
And for that, i will leave another time.
7:46 AM
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pam!!! happie for u :) but sad that u wont be seeing me and huiying grad liao.. nevertheless, have fun ok!!
haha so this is the reason why you'll be graduating one year later! congrats, i think it's a very good opportunity!! jia you in preparing for it and take care alright!
yup thats the date i will most probably be coming back. my boss has offered numerous times for me to put up at another colleague's place or even his own. in fact, he has done a lot.
well all good things have to come to an end. the 3 extra days may not needed. even though i will like to spend more time slowly walking down the old streets of hong kong or more time to get hold of cheap clothes, i surprise myself by entertaining the thought of snuggling in my good old rugged bed with a proper mattress and cuddling my smelly old bolster. i dont mind spending the remaining holidays, eating Singaporean food - kuay chap, hei mee, hokkien mee, chicken rice, loh mee, laksa. over and over again till im dead sick of them. in fact, i dont even mind having engin canteen food.
i cant imagine my brother or friends being in Europe or the States for so long where it is hard to have chinese cuisine. even i cant wait to sink my teeth into Singapore food, whats more them!
right now, i have a zillion of thoughts zipping and jostling through my mind. and it is all about academic issues.
oya! i just checked out my new timetable for this coming sem 5. monday, tuesday, wednesday and friday, i end at 6pm! and when i have the slightest hope that i will end school earlier on thursday, i realise it's till 3pm. this is EXcluding one more module. holy cow! im going to stuck with human and vehicle traffic every day after school already. the only consulation is that lessons start later in the day.
i can see a packed timetable bull-dozing our way, ME peeps! whooo :DD
im back with more updates. it is lonely no more, cos i have Singaporean friends here till early august too! all thanks to jerk or else i wont be able to know a bunch of nus peeps. and also, i met siew kiang and jia tong here too! what a pleasant surprise (:
time is passing by at sonic speed. i have left with about 3/4 weeks before i bid farewell to this canton land. AHHHH bo xi gan liao! i have still a list of things that i have not done and i want to fulfill them before i leave.
1) ocean park! gosh, i can give up Disneyland for their exorbitant prices. but not ocean park!
2) outlying islands. lamma, cheng chaung islands. c'mon, give me some fresh air and CHUK, pls dont make me pay HK$200 for some baby food as lunch.
3) Macau! the land of gamblers. i want to see vegas look alike casinos and probably bet a few dollars there heh. well of course, not ending up with my first gambling debt.
4) Shenzhen! the land of counterfeits. i want to get some 'prada'/'LV' bags/wallets for my dearest friends in spore. many more 21st birthdays coming! if that fails, please at least indulge in some cheap (clean too, please!) massage. my old body is cracking up due to the bed and all the walking.
5) go-karting. i want to get a feel of a F1-race. but it's not cheap.
6) buffet. hongkong is a land of food paradise (minus away the salty food please). i cant wait to indulge in a good buffet with my colleague. the weight gain will probably be neutralised by any unfortunate case of ahem* the flu virus. (choy ah!)
7) wong tai sin. it's not a person's name. it's a temple with apparently accurate fortune-telling.
8) haircut. yes, how can i not get a hongkong haircut. everyone from exchange/overseas trips will most probably get a haircut in their respective country. so that they can come back to show-off their made-in-___ haircut. sadly over here, it's not cheap. the average neighbourhood price for a haircut is already more than S$14.
9) watersports. argh, sai kung (not sai kang!) is really beautiful. i bet the view from the watersports centre is even better. but it's 70 minutes walk from the town centre, unless we charter a bus.
10) pubs with live music. i just love listening to musicians crooning and strumming their guitars. or singers who can rock the stage and bring the house down.
right now, im busy sewing a keychain for mrs cheng. i paid >S$20 for it and the instructions are in japanese. how nice right! luckily i have my nice colleagues to ask for their advice haha. engineers at work.
Tee-Trish is getting into shape too. Hopefully we can start the ball rolling by the end of this week.
*taken at lau fau shan in early june by my colleague. opposite bank is shenzhen. this is one of the places where fishermen collect oysters. they brought me around to explore the vicinty during our lunch break. (an extra long one haha) we were originally in the area for one of the worksite visits. those who were with me have such fatherly figures. they keep asking me to take photos and were so willing to tell me more about hong kong and the area we were in.
heaps and heaps of empty oyster shells. this is just one of them. what a feast!
there are a lot of experiences to share and thoughts to express. but i will leave them to another time.
8:08 PM
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waaa so many oysters!! haha enjoy the rest of your trip =D
yes, as some of you will know. im officially homesick and im going to announce it out LOUD. im not going to stop denying it. cos the more i deny it, the more awful i feel. well, i have been anticipating such strong emotions before i left spore. being alone in a somewhere new is indeed not easy. it's totally different from exchange , NOC or summer programmes, where at least you have SOME school mates with you, or the fact that you WILL soon make new friends.
toby joked before that why not i just stand on the streets and start making friends with strangers. well i figure a more appropiate place would actually be a clubbing hole, isnt it?
yes i dont like what im going through now. at least im bravely admitting that.
but im not regretting anything. i feel i have grown up a little more, laying a significant milestone in my twenty-first year. i have some pointers in my mind that i will want to achieve at the end of this internship.
im not very sure if i have attained all of it yet. but if all other fails, one thing for sure is that i want to prove to my parents that i've grown to a better person, stronger in character.
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas
Let it go
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don't you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in
Let your clarity define you
In the end
You will only just remember how it feels
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists and turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours
These small hours
Still remain
i always count my blessings to have really great friends and family. in times when i feel totally lousy, i will somehow receive little simple acts that will simply make my day. like the postcard and letter, emails and smses. i really really appreciate all these small acts.
lately, i surprised myself by how independent i have learnt to be. for example, i went out alone last sunday to have lunch and did some shopping. initially, i was rather uncomfortable with the weird stares i occassionally noticed when i entered to a restaurant to pamper myself. that was when i felt so lonesome and craved for some company.
yet surprisingly, i have grown used to such solace. reading a good book, sipping on cool iced drink, people-watching from a cosy corner... it's been quite a while since i feel liberated by the constant control of time and people. i guess this is what i really needed away from singapore. living in your own world, things can become less complicated and it can get therapeutic in many ways. im learning to push away the boundaries of fear to become more independent and i must say, im loving the process of it.
the fact that i have quite substantial amount of free time on my hands, i've been doing some thinking; soul-searching you may call it. as a result (i guess there was a link), i made a few pretty extraordinary dreams, some are really good (i wish i knew the ending to it) and some i prayed i wouldnt dream of them again. i read from somewhere before that dreams can actually an illustration of your most inner thoughts, fears and joy.
one particular dream really set me thinking. it felt so real. i wished it was real. no kidding, i think i was smiling in my dream. it was just too perfect.
3 more days and i will be here for a month. it's unbelievable. at this moment in time, i wish that time will crawl; let this summer holidays last longer; i dont wish to return to a sweltering singapore; i dont wish to start a 6 mods semester.
past few days, i've been indulging in good food, fresh oysters crabs red wine sashimi to name a few. and all thanks to mr cheng's family that i have such fantastic meals (:
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17 October, 2009 05:03
yea, Beijing, here i come! :D
