| MEMORY OF LAST WINTER |
[Jun. 7th, 2006|07:11 pm] |
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It didn’t leave me much impression how I wake up the next day.All relatives had been to work or school at the time I opened my eyes,I made a simple wash in the bathroom then went downstairs,breakfast had been prepared on the table,and Cythia was heating milk with microwave oven in the kitchen,I said morning to her and she smiled back,so the new day began,a new page of my life had been turned up.
To be honest I was a little disappointed,there was not any particular emotion perplexed me when I faced a newly fresh day,I didn’t need any comfortable words to calm myself down as I was extremely cool at that time,but the situation was not like this before,I could clearly remember that the first time I buried my pet bird in our courtyard when I was in my infancy,I cried so loudly to ask my mom to take its life back,I remember the first time I left home I always recalled the leisure times I spared with my parents every noon,and in no difference at the first time I had to say goodbye to my little girl friend as we would go to two different cities for studying,I was so upset.And this time was an exception,I showed a little apathy the second day when I said goodbye again,that I recovered so quickly surprised me,I thought maybe it was a mark of being adult,maybe it was the intrinsic nature of an grown human to leave things back after knowing that he couldn’t turn time back.I really want to turn time back,but as we all know,there is no such machine in the world.
After breakfast we set up for the most famous mercantile street in Shanghai-Nanjing Road,as there were another 7 guys who would arrive 2 days later,we didn’t planed to do much tour these days.we walked along the street and bought some hat,gloves to prevent the cold,and then ambled in the bund,got some pics,there was really nothing special,and the bund was not as beautiful and flamboyant as the image I got from some city novels.What I want to point out was the bund seemed so similar with the scene of the Victoria Habor,only there were more tall skyscrapers in the northern bank of Victoria Bay.
We derived some fun from that afternoon’s journey.Shanghai Museum is a really valuable place to visit,but I paid presque 15 Yuan more for I didn’t take my student-card…There was a little episode happened before we went to the museum,I asked one sale-gril about how to get to there,but the attitude she answered me was very annoying,then Cythia wondered why she treated me like that,I chicaned “don’t judge us by the performance of one person,one’s action couldn’t tarnish the dignity of our nation”,but in fact,I knew that partly reflect the moral level of our dear people…
The museum is made of several separate rooms which has its own motif such like pottery or minority,so many splendid art articles,ancient antiques and some old remnants were displayed behind series of windows,those culture relics intrigued Cythia’s interest,and I told her the story about XU Fu and his three thousand teenager boys and girls attendants voyaged from mainland to Japan in Qin Dynasty,and I explained to her about the conflicts between us and Japanese,the huge affliction they had made for the generation of our grandparents and the disgusting attitude of their government faced to the history full of pain and blood,as they still denied to confess the crime they have commited,we can’t forgive them,and that’s the derivation of the relationship full of pressure between China and Japan.In fact,I was glorified to introduce a foreigner the comparatively objective history I learnt. |
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| MEMORY OF LAST WINTER |
[Jun. 6th, 2006|08:12 pm] |
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It was a pretty mild day.I have got all my exams done until that morning,and Eric was with me the other half day.After lunch,we went to hung around along those familiar streets,where we have put our feet on millions of times,we stopped over by those shopping malls where we used to visit every week for food,but what frustrated me was,I would say goodbye to all of these the next day.
It came the night soon.I was packing my baggages,and light music came from my roommate's computer flowing in the air.I stopped and began to take pictures of my little room,my handmade comic models,the beautiful scene outside windows.Then I strongly realized that I should remember these well,as god knows when i would get another to come back,memory and photos were the last suvenir for this period of my life.They would help to keep the sound and pictures always being fresh when i recalled that day no matter how many years passed.
At around 10 p.m.,friends began to come to say goodbye.First it was Herbert,my teammate in the class of Developing Management Skills.Then came Kitty,that cute girl idescribed as a cat and who always asked me why.Linda came with her camera and I took my last picture in HK.That silly tall boy with long hair stood in that photo pretending to be cool.
I am not a man easy to feel nostalgia.But at that night,it was a little difficult to fall asleep.All the memories of HK haunted in my head,those classes,those parties,those friends who shared the same joy and sadness with me.I thought I got HK sick.Human's feeling is really elusive.
I wake up at about 10 a.m. the next day.We were all nocturnal animals in HK,fell asleep late and wake up later.I went to the banquet hall and bought a take-out food but had no aptite at all.Around the noon,Cythia got all her luggages ready and we left for Shenzhen.Eric saw us off at the subway station.No doubt he was my best friend in HK.As i am a guy always trying to keep away from the feeling of solitary,i prefer to do everything even such as watching football matches or shopping for some daily primary articles with someone else.And Eric rarely turned down my requests for going out together.Sometimes I felt we were building a relationship like symbiosis.LOL,it's just a joke.The bottom line is both of us are men,that means we could never be as interdependent as mostly girls are,and for sure neither of us want to write a real story about the break back mountain,LOL.
As the train took us further and further away from that place I have lived for 4 months.Cythia noticed that my emotion was not very high.She was excitement for she would right now begin a half-month trip in China.She understood my feeling but still mocked at me for my sensitivity.I know I am not sensitive all all but didn't hit back.Then we spent nearly 3 hours waiting in the lounge room for our plane thanks to her too much carefulness...She slept most of the time and recharged energy.But I got 1 hour playing computer and another two doing nothing as the battery was dead.What astonished me was I could meet another friend also was leaving for home waiting for her plane in another room when we went to buy baked sausages at the same time.I gave her my QQ,msn,everything possiblely to ensure she could contact with me future.We all concious knew after that separation,in recently years we would only be friends in a imaginary world although our friendship was true and seemed as so robust to be break.No one could make a promise that our friendship will not fade out,the saying Time would change everything was not just a saying.No matter how intimate friends you were today,you could probable become friends only say hi to each other when met after several years' departure. |
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| MEMORY OF LAST WINTER |
[Jun. 6th, 2006|05:30 pm] |
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Then our plane came on time.Cythia did not make much conversation with me on the way.usually she was a girl very energetic and full of chatter,but this time she was so quiet,maybe because my low mood affected her,maybe she was really too tired.Anyway the atmosphere in the carriage of a night plane was a little drowsy,and the fatigue with missing of friends prompted me to fall asleep finally.I indistinctly remembered I got a dream,but I can’t pick up even an particle of it.I hypothesesed it as a dream about my HK life,maybe it was an enlightment from the god,or maybe there was no dream at all.
I didn’t take any thick clothes to HK,as I didn’t plan to travel in such a winter.It was Sum who showed so much inspiration about Cythia’s traveling plan and persuaged me to join in.But at last Sum didn’t keep her words to go with us because of her schedule of exams,I guess the pressure from her parents also played a role in her last decision.I felt regret about her not coming,but still I should thank her for convincing me to take such a fantastic trip with Cythia,Nathalie,Allen,Lia,Tobe,Jorgen,and Glad as the end of my exchange life.It’s such a perfect way and no one could be more appropriate.
The air in Shanghai was not so cold as I proposed.And in the luggage channel I found my suitcase was broken again…Damn air transportation!My amiable aunt and uncle came to take us back to their home,they lived in a four-floor house,not a villa,but as sumptuous as a villa should be.They have a home used projector in the wall and a white board could be hiden or come out under the control of one red button,both of which allow they watch movies with the feeling that most times you only could get in a cinema,.Wooden curtains as those were used in Ming dynasty were hang over the windows,and a wooden screen with many kinds of masks of Beijing Drama hunged over stood in front of the door,before which was a scarlet manmade horse about half a merter tall,that was also believed made in a kind of scarce wood.
I shared my cousin’s room on the 2nd floor,and Cythia settled in the neighbour room which she would share with Nathalie after she arrived.After we settle all things down it was around 11 p.m.,for us a really early time then.But my cousin have been in deep asleep and my aunt and uncle also went upstairs to sleep,although sleep is the last thing I would like to do at that time,I didn’t know what I could do.The pleasure of going back to homeland(with a Canadian girl) and saying goodbye to so many friends in a day and the excitement with a little thread mood of the unknown or in another word unplanned well trip blended together to make me feel weird…at that very time I feel like I just been pushed to do those things what some unnamed power beyond my control asked me to do and I cannot grasp my steps as well as I thought I could do before,I had no idea about how to begin the next day,and I was so reluctant to leave those days which I confined as the most happy days in my life after me,I was confused.I wondered what was Cythia doing then,I guess she was just in a sweety sleep,she would go back to HK after this trip,she would continue the same life and enjoy the same joy,although her friends like me and the others who went back home after that semester would be absence for her last half year,the essential part of that joy-the school life,hall life,shopping life-was still there. |
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[Jan. 11th, 2006|04:46 pm] |
My laptop still doesn't work,only because something wrong i don't know in the connection.Honestly,it's not so bad before,just i wanted to repair it but made it worse.
I watched my own DV films and compared it with my friends' pics,then i found i make a horrible mistake,i should spent much more time to film people but not sceneries.The only advantage of my damn vapid films is they can't remind me much about the past time to make me sad when i watched them.
Have you even wanted to turn the clock back?Although i knew this kind of time travel doesn't exist,i always review my past life and try to figure out where and how i could improve it.In the last year,i found that i made so many mistakes,and there's no way to correct them,the only thing i could do is try not to make the same mistake in the future.But it's so erratic about the future,i need to prepare the entrance examination to a master degree,and my families always want to convince me to go to Beijing.After that,if i could past the exam,i need to do all my best to make me a chance to go abroad.And after that,i need to think about applying for a job,the salary,the future,the location,all of these need to be considered.It seems everything has been settled,but seeing that none of my friends is the god who could bless me,it's a difficult long way to go.
Pray for myself,everything would be ok. |
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| golden sentence about love |
[Jan. 10th, 2006|01:41 pm] |
1) I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2) No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry.
3) The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them.
4) Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
5) To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
6) Don‘t waste your time on a woman who isn‘t willing to waste her time on you.
7) Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have.
8) Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
9) Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10) Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11)Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it"s the only way to live life completely.
12)Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.
13)Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
14)Sound love is not soon forgotten.
15)Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
16)The family you came from isn"t as important as the family your are going to have. |
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| You've got mail |
[Jan. 9th, 2006|03:44 pm] |
I remember that several years ago i never watched love movies,i think they are unpractical and meaningless,but now,i am totally changed.Maybe it's because i am tired of the days alone,i want to have a gril friend,but i realized that i need to learn some skills to pursue a girl,so i decided to get inspiration from movies...actually i am a nice guy,please don't be bewildered by my words.I think the reason i feel alone is because the policy of limitation of population,my father has three brothers,my mother has a brother and a sister,but i have none.I am 20,i grew up lonely.Because nobody has been my faithful companion for a long time,i don't know how to love,what's worse,i don't know how to fall in love with a girl,and every time i would fall in love with a girl with the least chance.
ok,back to my topic==yesterday i watched "You've got mail",a nice movie.I found that Meg Ryan has an angel's face.You can't refuse that face,it's too kind.And if she said some mean words to you with that face,it's really hurt.Tom Hanks was hurt by her,he is a cute man,and a man with super skills to seize a girl's heart.He is my idol. |
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| Perhaps Love |
[Jan. 7th, 2006|11:24 pm] |
I fonly I could meet someone no need to wait for a long time,i hope to meet a girl who could response to my love,but i guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished,seeing that i am not a special boy,i don't have a handsome face or a strong body,although i could draw some pictures and write some love poems,i am not brave enough to make my eyes contact with a girl i don't know.(actully i am not sad,if u read this u could take these words as a joke although it's not funny-_-||)
That magic paper told me that don't spend much time to look for a girl friend,coz my fate has been arranged,someday i would meet her and we will fall in love and getmarried at my age of 26-30,i don't know weather it's true or not,but really i want to know,why do i fall in love with every beautiful girl i see,even though she shows me the least bit of attention....
Anyway,i have many female friends,i am still young==i have a lot of chance to cheat some girl to marry me,and i know i am the sea,i am waiting for my own fish,first she should be used to the salty water... |
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[Oct. 22nd, 2005|03:26 am] |
It's 3 a.m. again……
I made my presentation this afternoon,unfortunately,the bad lether-shoe hurt my feet... |
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[Sep. 19th, 2005|06:10 pm] |
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Yesterday was a really long day for Cynthia,Sum and me.We have the same host family Helen in HK,yesterday Helen took us to join in her friend's birthday party as well as celebrating the Mid-Autumn Day.The party was held in the beach of Deep Water Bay,I flet a little disappointment because the beach here isn't as beautiful as I thought before,the water was polluted and the sand is a little uncomfortable for walking.We tried to climb the hills but we couldn't find the way to go up==There's no footpath in HK,so when we walked along the side of the roads on the hill,we experienced what was dangerous...The party was a little boring for us,so we left together for the other party in 6:30.Then we had supper in a little eatery,Cynthia couldn't understand what's in the menu,so we tried to translate for her,really not easy but funny.After supper we met Eric and Lance outside the banquet hall and got going to the legendary destination,why is it legendary,because none of us knew how to get there,Cynthia wanted to know details,I told her don't worry,just following others is ok,she said it was a weird day==It was a long way to get to SHEUNG WO HANG village,we suspected if we were still in HK on the way...What's fortunate was we saw the round moon finally.After arriving,we were superised to see such different seeings from the city,it's a old village and looks a little mystery.An old school was reserved for many many years,I don't know its age,but I guess at least 100.When I told Cynthia it was a cultural relic now,Sum couldn't understand what I said-_-||What's the highlight yesterday night was to see that lantern ceremony.When the Kongming Lantern flied into sky,everyone there were excite,I couldn't find any word to describe that scene,just amazing,fantastic,very special,I will never forget it.By the way,I was fet up with English yesterday,at last I nerely couldn't say any word becuase of tiredness...I swear I havn't speak so much Enlish in the past 19 years,oh dear,I hope one day you can speak Madanrin fluently |
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[Sep. 18th, 2005|01:05 am] |
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I nearly was driven to be mad today.To my predicted,I woke up late again.My new day began from my lunch...Then I went to the library,I always say library is the best place in PolyU,everything is free there,everytime I worried about to catch a cold when reading there.But today is a very special day,that means I would have some special experience there.At about 2 p.m.,the sky was whole covered by black clouds,then coming a heavy rain,so big raindrop and so fast diving speed made me exiting==Then suddenly,my mobilephone vibrated,that's a weird number I havn't seen before,and never forgot I was in library,so I ignored it and continue my reading,but 3 minutes later the same number dialed me again,I couldn't be regardless of it now,so I ran out of the reading room,but that weird man hung up the phone before I could receive it.So kind as me,I called it back,but no one pick it up,I tried again and failed another time...Then I received a short message,I couldn't understand what he said at all,faint.I ignored it again and went to the ground floor,there's no phone signal underground,but I still received another short message about 1 hour later,I felt embarrassed becoz I still can't understand this message totally.靠~后面不想写了……At last I know who called me and she remembered the wrong number and all of that are none bussiness of me,that's OK,but,please never mix up numbers again,please-_-|| |
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| My personal journal for MM312== |
[Sep. 5th, 2005|10:30 pm] |
Date : 2005/9/5
I registered a new subject named Developing Management Skills this term.It’s such a strange course for me as I am an student in Mechanical Engineering and I havn’t learned such subjects before.But I have my own reason to choose this subject,as every student knows,the society isn’t as simple as the campus was,if we master skills for management in the campus,we will be in a superior state than other competitors when we begin to work.
This morning I had my first class.Our teacher is Dr MAK Wai-ming,I got the information that he is a very experienced teacher in teaching this subject,and those three toys which he took into the class in order to help him explaining some concepts won applause for him and gave us deep impression.
The purpose of his first class is to make us pay attention to the importance of management skills.At first,he gave us a concept to explain what is management.The concept has transferred from GTDTOP to GTDWOP,it means in modern society no one can finish any work without other’s help and association,so the interpersonal and social skills became an very impotant ability for persons to live and achive their most value.Especially for us who want to be a manager or someone participating to the management of a company,this ability is special important.So we should have the right attitude to the management skills and this subject,we should know that the management skills can be taught,but should be taught with our positive collaboration,we should use our ears to hear,use our eyes to see,and what’s the most important is to do,and the skills can be mastered in the only way learning by doing.
My appreciate most is that part of this class,Dr Mac told us three different concept about doing things:
Doing the Things Right is Efficient.
Doing the Right Things is Effective.
Doing the Right Things Right is Fit.
Then I would like to set an example to express my own understanding about the importance of management skills.I think that management skills is essential skills about communication and domination.The Italian premier Berlusconi,who is also the pre-manager of AC Milan Club(one of the most famous football clubs in the world),is such a person who has the ability of management skills.During his prefecture,he once bought a new player from another club,but that player were injured before he went to the ground to play for the club,but Berlusconi still paid for him and rejected his application for ceasing to pay his wage because he couldn’t work for the club.This example showed his lofty skills to capture players’ hearts,in another word we can call it loyalty.The result of his using of management skills is now AC Milan has formed a club’s culture—Loyalty,that helps this team to win one champion after another.Just beacause Berlusconi makes player feel warm and a feeling like home in such a utilitarian society,but we know, Berlusconi’s identity is a businessman,he just made use of the skills he had to make the most profit.Regardless of his purpose of using these skills,we can feel the effect of using these skills and know the importance of these skills. |
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[Sep. 2nd, 2005|05:17 pm] |
I finished my first class Basic of Electricity and Electrics this afternoon,the teacher is a foreigner,having pure English pronunciation,it's very enjoying to listen to his class.The only problem is there are too many glossories I have to remember during the class time,but I think I can deal with it.
My timetable showed that I have another class Developing Management Skills between 4:30-6:25 this afternoon,but I couldn't see anybody when I got to the classroom,I think maybe it was called off today,so I can arrive in the Welcome Party on time tonight.I invited my neighbor who share the same toilet with me to come with me to know more friends,because there are about more than 200 exchange students from all over the world and their local buddies and the host families here will attend the party,unfortunately,he has his own plan tonight,he has to go to an orientation.I am looking forward to the party,because I am very hungry now,lol. |
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[Sep. 1st, 2005|12:28 am] |
Wonderful night^^
The only thing unfortunately is our summer vacation is over:( |
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[Sep. 1st, 2005|12:04 am] |
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The pic of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University(taken by satellite):
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[Aug. 31st, 2005|04:34 pm] |
There's some difference in pronunciation of English words between we and the local residents.When my buddy told me I can print things on the top floor the Building M,I can't understand her because she said "print" like "prin",although [t] is a sonant,we chinese are used to pronounce it a little clearly,but hong kong persons will eat all sonants in a word.Another example is when I went to ask my general office questions,she said "group" like "goop",I didn't understand her until I saw that word on a paper.
I need more time to adjust the climate,the food,the huge difference in temperature between outdoor and indoor,also with the difference in pronunciation... |
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[Aug. 31st, 2005|12:39 am] |
日常生活方面，有非常大的difference，不过一下子想不起来太多。
首先最大的问题是语言不通，就像到了国外，完全听不懂路人说话……然后最令人抓狂的事是英语交流都会有障碍==因为发音上面有区别，经常就会互相听不懂对方在讲什么，比如print我们互相要讲很多便才能懂，还有play station如果她不告诉我她在讲的是游戏机的话我本不知道她在讲那个词……这里的人发音都会把浊音吃掉，然后单词只读一半==
吃饭上的花费是最大的，在学校里吃饭是最便宜的，每餐20块。还有件令我耿耿于怀的事情是我买了一条1米长的网线居然花掉HK $30。这里的火车很奇怪，介于地铁和火车之间的一种交通工具，每站收费大概4块钱，进出站需要刷卡，叫做octopus。交通真的很方便。PolyU是在九龙，港大和科技都在HongKong Island，然后还有New Territory，听说中环有地方可以人民币兑换港币1:1，不知道真假。维多利亚港从窗户看出去就是，所以在17层有非常好的sightseeing。地图上有标示SK two的专卖店，我肯定不会去……现在对钱的概念麻木了，买张成绩单要50块还会觉得好便宜== |
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[Aug. 31st, 2005|12:26 am] |
宿舍里面的网络电话超级方便，包括市话都免费，我通常不喜欢打电话聊天，这两天也聊了几个小时了，晕S
整个校园里面都有wireless lan，而且不需要security，方便方便。
晚上打电话给buddy想要问她哪里可以买到游泳眼镜，结果电话上中文和英文她都不懂……最后发短信才明白了，她说明天带一个给我。真的非常感谢Laura，在我来这里最初的日子里给我这么多帮助。 |
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[Aug. 31st, 2005|12:22 am] |
作息规律完全改变……HK真是一个奇怪的地方==
好处是如果去美国的可以不用倒时差……
明天上午还有跑三个地方把需要办的事情办妥，下午可以休息，去游泳啊，幸福^^ |
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[Aug. 30th, 2005|02:29 pm] |
昨天晚上去旺角，果然是超级超级繁荣，然后又不一样的感觉。街上人很多很挤，各种招牌的店铺林立，意外地见到了中国联通……最大的收获是见到了传说中的赛马会，可以赌球赌马六合彩，绝对合法，英文名字叫做The HongKong Jocky Club，PolyU有家体育馆是赛马会赞助的，所以也叫做赛马会体育馆。回宿舍后又去了游泳池游泳，游泳池超级爽，而且全部免费。宿舍里的电话打内线和市话都不要钱，也是爽。
今天上午Orentation，结束以后中午跟Helen和Cynthia吃午饭，她们俩个狂讲英文，只能懂seventy percent，必须要尽快improve my English speaking and listening。 |
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| the second day |
[Aug. 29th, 2005|05:18 pm] |
I nearly didn't sleep last night.It was 1:15 a.m. after I had a bath,then i went to the bed,but it was too hot in the little room for me to fall asleep,what's more,many people made a big noise in the corridor which intensify my pain...
I got up at 8:20 this morning,my buddy,that kind girl Laura took me and my roommate to AECO,the buildings in PolyU are so interesting,they all have letters as their names,but I can't find any clue why that building use that letter.The library is very amazing,it's different from any library i have saw in the inbound places,I felt all establishments here are more normative than our schools in the mainland.
Jia La's buddy invited us to have lunch together,fee for eating here is so high,about four times than it is in mainland.I saw a very special sightseeing this noon,it was very sunshine outside but the rain was also heavy==
The air conditionner fee is so expensive that we have to open and shut it frequently.We want to try the swimming pool this night.We have an orientation tommorrow morning and I have an appointment with Helen during the noon,a welcome party will be held on Sep 2th.
I have to register two more subjects before our new term begins. |
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