Soo fast.. its already Friday!!! Been here for a week and is settling in rather well. Yesterday my room mate finally came!! Her name is Daisy and she is from U.K. She is very easy to talk to and a rather nice gal. However, guess the first impression I gave her was rather memorable. My clothes weren't totally dried thus I put them all over her empty bed and table.... thus the sight that greeted her was my shirts and undies.. my gosh!!! But thankfully she is cool about it, and moreover I left a note stating why my clothes are all over so she was very understanding!! Luckily, I left a note....
mmm.. a quick recap on what I did..
Wednesday:
There was a lunch reception for the exchange students hosted by the Faculty of Business. Gotten to know some students from Austria and this other guy from Netherlands. He is very tall!!! He is standing at 198cm. Think he is the tallest person around.. but I feel sorry for him at times as the first thing people do comment about him is always his height. Guess that he is sick of it.. just like how skinny people are tired of constantly being told that they are thin.
After the lunch, we headed down to Lan Kwai Fong as Rubee wants to look for her friend, Sui Bann, who works at XTC Gelato. Actually, do not know if thats how his name is spelled. He used to study in Singapore and is currently studying law at the University of Hong Kong. He allowed us taste the different gelatos! The highlight was when there was this young American girl who came to buy ice-cream with her mother and she was very adorable! The other girls are goo goo gaa gaaing over her and we even took a picture with her but cannot post it up yet as its in someone else's camera. I feel that Lan Kwai Fong is so rather nice and peaceful during the day, guess that it will be very different at nite. It is a rather nice place to do people-watching, guess I can sit there whole day and soak in the sounds and sight.
 a pict of us goofing around
As usual, more shopping!!! Cannot remember what I bought though.. except that I went to the supermart and gotten some grocery. Oh yah.. gotten a kettle as it is sooo trouble to go to the common room to get water and I can save money as I do not have to buy mineral water all the time. However, think that I may socialise less with others because of it as I no longer need to go to the common room anymore. Guess when one grows older... one gets lazier to mix around.. or is it only me???
We took the tram and its very cheap! Only Hk$2 regardless of distance and the tram stations are located in the middle of road.
My family informed me that PWC sent me an offer letter... YEAH!!!! Solved a future problem... don't have to go job-hunting! Although life as an auditor do have many negative points such as long working hours but its really a good chance to learn. Nevermind, just slog it out when I am still young. Anyway, I have a choice between assurance and tax... n my choice is audit of cos!!! Quite like audit work... n what made them think I am good at tax.. wahaha. Since I enjoyed my stint at PWC, I do look forward to working there in the future. Thursday:
Was planning to slack my afternoon away but guess that doing laundry wasn't a very easy task, especially when I am not familiar with the machines! I did not realised that the dryer will take sooo long to dry the clothes thus I did not prepare enough coins.. hence explaining my damp clothes. Couldn't leave my clothes on the clothes line for long too as I did not have any clothes pegs so was so afraid that my clothes will just fly away. If it really do fly away... guess its almost impossible to find it as my laudry room is located on the roof.. that is 18 floors high and at the fringe of the hostel... who knows where will it float to. Had a little disaster... I was taking a chance that my new towel will don't give off those little furry stuff when being washed.. n apparently it does! Now I have gotten lint on all my clothes.. arrgh... hopefully no one looks closely! Got to know another exchange student, and he is very talkative.. loan him my pail as he needs to blench his clothes because they are now all pink as he didnt realise he has a red shirt that runs.. just hope he remembers to return me my pail!
Went for Cantonese corner and enjoyed myself though I did not manage to socialise much with the other foreign students as they seem to know each other very well so hard to penetrate at times. Sheena invited a girl from her Cantonese class to join us for dinner and a trip to Tai Zi. Her name is Ziwei and is from Malaysia. She is nice but tooo quiet!!!! Oh no.. forgot to take her contact no!!! Hope to see her around. Anway Hua Liao Jie is a rather good place to shop but we went tooo late.. the shops there close rather early. Sheena and me each bought a pair of shoe. Its actually the same pair just that in different color... HK$55 only!
 It's actually a little more pinkish...
Oh yah, my room mate came!!! Sadly, I have not managed to finish "The Alchemis"t as I do not have the time to sit down to read but came across something very interesting in the book. The main character known as 'the boy' asked the alchemist why should he always follow what his heart tells him and the alchemist reply was "Because you will never be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you are thinking about life and about the world." The alchemist added "you will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow." After reading that I thought about myself and how often do I heed what my heart tells me. I totally agree with the part where one will never be able to silence our heart and use logic to make decisions. Many will think that I am a logical person who makes decisions based on my mind and not heart... well its time for me to tell u.. ITS NOT TRUE!!! I have to admit that I am very realistic but that does not mean that I do not hear the little messages and warning signs that my heart is trying to tell me because I know that those messages indicates what I hope and yearn for so if I do not pay attention to those messages and think through carefully, I will live to regret. Moreover, I totally believe in intuition, so I do follow my gut feel and its mostly right!!! Friday: Finally settled my courses, in fact I have more choices than expected so now only waiting for SMU to approve my courses... quick!!! I want to settle my final schedule! There was an welcome session for all non-local exchange students and I got to know more people. There was a girl who was at NUS for exchange last term and she is very helpful. Rather nice to talk to, so I promise to add her to my msn. I sat between a girl from Shanghai and another from UK. Both were very nice to talk to, and we agreed to have little gathering like BBQ in the future. 
From left: Janice, Amanda, me and Sophia Anyway, Sophia's bro is planning to go Singapore to work as a head chef. There is a little neighbourhood behind our school and the things there are so much cheaper. Think will just go there to get the things that we need. My cantonese sux but I was actually able to help some Mainland students with their purchase as they do not understand the shopkeeper at all.. feel soo proud of myself!!! Hopefully I can hold a proper conversation in Cantones before I leave... errr... hopefully only!!! Headed down to Shatin for dinner with Edison and Sheena. We ate at this place where the seats are actually swings! If you are wondering...Shatin is also where the Registry of Marriage of HK is located! Think after this trip, the 3 of us will be very good friends... just like jie meis! okies think if Eddy reads this, he will scream! Got a very sweet HK girl to take a picture for us. 
Soo tired... time for bed!! Still have a City Tour tomorrow! Going to Lantau Island to visit Tai O and some temples...
*yawnz* where is my room mate... she is not back yet.. hope she is fine. |
Haha..esther... Stop pampering urself too much and save up for my belated BDAY gift! Oh..ya.. remind Sheena abt my present also ok! wahaha!
Nice shoes.. and good buy!