Saturday, September 23, 2006
well well. i've been told to pen more thoughts here. it's not that i don't want to, just that it's a little difficult to construct strings of consciousness.. which then precisely wouldn't be what i hold them out to be.we've been musing about growing up and thinking further, but who knows? / here goes / trusting desire, starting to learn / walkin' through fire without a burn
(haha. that's for you, teddy! was typing, "growing up and thinking further, but-" and about to continue with something like ".. in spite of all this thinking we try to do we must concede most of the decision is out of our hands." when that duet from RENT came on. RENT!!! (of all things.))
drives me to the conclusion (and halfway up the wall) that my iTunes is more poetic than i am.
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ey missy. people say this a lot around here, missy missy.
for all these "around here" and the unsaid "back home" comparisons, living in hk obviously isn't all that different. notice how i don't even bother specifying the activity (studying, or not)? being here is far from unpleasant though, right here where the pace of life is raffles-place-underpass-at-8.55am EVERYWHERE, i'm all peaced out. it's the sneaky reassurance that grades don't count.. which makes me the happiest camper. please don't be offended, i hope that didn't come out like an exchange brag and this doesn't sound like an overcompensatory disclaimer.
but it's cool, not like i expected to be culturally shocked and readjusted hur. not really slacking off either, the subject material can be quite interesting, although i wonder why i came here expecting to be wowed by the teaching.
nono, i don't mean WOW i'm coming to hku and the profs are great!, but more, WOW now i'm on exchange my perspectives are about to be flipped over no matter which prof, even if he is crap woahhhhh academic-excitement here i comeeeeeee.
there are good schooldays and lousy ones, but it's far easier to keep positive when stressfree. thanks for reading, this is the point i've helped you miss:
that working hard is okay, working stressed is not.
i think i may have precipitated a quarterlife crisis.. ha ha. teds this is all your fault, thinking is such a curse.
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lift-rush loci. no matter what kind of a hair-flying hurry you are in, it's just not cool to make everyone else already impatient to be lifted elsewhere wait.
oops now i sound petty! well. it's not a pet peeve or anything, more a reminder to hairfly-hurrying-in-hongkong self.
evelyn at 7:01 PM