Friday, 5 September 2008

COMPUTER!!!!!! You are here!!

I am blogging off my old, gigantic laptop. I am back in love.

Bought Struck and White's Elements of Style yesterday at the HKU bookshop. For like, 80 HKD. So, it is my hope that this investment will pay off and I will become more understandable. The books here are so cheap. But not to the folks back home in the mainland. Now, things there are really cheap. I miss it.

Am so exhausted at the moment. The only thing that is keeping me going is the bit of "midnight snack" that I ate at around 10. It is 12.01am now.

OK, it is not 1:26am. I am still here. Am still surviving on those biscuits and that bun. My room is such a mess, and I need to awaken at 7:30 tomorrow (6 hours later). For I made a really dumb mistake. And it's nice to wake at 7:30 on a Saturday morning anyway.

Apart from the adjustment issues, this place has been great! All I really need now is a camera, and I can go out and explore for real! Hopefully Sunday. Actually, definately Sunday either way.

The classes here are interesting. The locals don't really.....listen. They mostly chatter throughout the class. The mainlanders do though. Really throughly. I probably should make friends with some of them. Get their notes? As opposed to leaning forward and copying them when I have missed something important. But that strategy was very efficient too. Next time, when I go to class, I need to be sure that I sit behind some very young looking girls with notebooks. Pass class...no problem.

Living by myself (well, relatively) has been interesting experience. I really need to get my life in order, but an far too lazy to! Actually, I feel that I need my laptop to get my life in order. So that I can plan my days in advance on my computer, and then upload them onto my cellphone....that's me folks. How will I possibly survive in the wild? Now I understand those guys in the computer centres that smell like they haven't washed in two weeks. Luckily, my roommate is super-neat, so she keeps me in check by setting a great example and disparaging looks at my heap.

I now realise, that my handwriting looks a lot like my room. Messy. Should I just accept that as a part of my personality? It was pre-destined I suppose, and anyway, it doesn't get messier. Just stays this messy.

A complaint that I have heard a lot is that the local students don't really interact much with us. But in actual halls and if you can speak Cantonese, it is apparently a real bonus.

I have sadly, been asleep in a lot of classes lately. Actually, I fall asleep in all my classes, even the ones where I really like the lecturer. And the two hour sessions here are seriously tough. Especially if they don't give you a break. I'm dead at one hour mark on the dot. Like clockwork. I need to tune out for five minutes and go off into the land of the sleepy person. Maybe it's because I haven't had coffee these past few days due to laziness. Don't worry, now onwards, it will be different. I have my computer now. Now, I just need to figure out a good printing method. I think I will use the "secret" computer lab next to my lecturers' offices in the KKL building level 7. It is near impossible to get an elevator up and down there, but it's well worth it. I mean, I could always walk the 7 floors. It would be good exercise.

I'm so terrible. I have joined NO clubs. Well, back at Auckland, I joined heaps of clubs. And never went. I think this will be pretty much the same thing here. For some reason. And I haven't checked out the gym facilities yet. I have heard that we need to get a special training session before we can get in, but can't seem to find any information. I should ask about that.

Right now, the most important thing for me is probably to sleep. See y'all later on today!

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