Thursday, May 7, 2009

Letter 17 - Un Año

Dear Friends and Family,

Been busy lately thus the lack of updates. Right after the last post, there were pre-finals events and then final examinations. And so right after i finished my exam, I came back to the hostel to find almost everyone asleep including my roommate. That was because almost everyone is done with finals and some people have a few papers left. I ended up doing lots of cleaning and packing. My room is now spanking clean and I really felt the need for that as I started to neglect my weekly cleanings in favour of studying (and the other occasional in betweens). Packed all my winter clothings as it has started to get warm. Right now I am able to sweat just walking outside, something that didn't happen for a while. I am trying to get myself to face the horror of sweating all the time when I am back home in Malaysia.

And so, my last paper ended just 3 hours ago and it hasn't really hit me yet that one year is over. I have been in Hong Kong for a year already(9 months exactly, but one yearly term). What have I achieved? How have i changed? Have I matured? Has my University education changed the way I think? Has being in Hong Kong made me a different person than i previously was? These and many more questions now lie in my thoughts but I know that they will not be answered so soon. These are questions that you usually answer "on the hind sight".

I will be taking a language, Spanish for my summer course. I only get half a week of break because summer session starts mid next week. Ouch! I will be looking to have more fun and doing more exploring during summer too because summer course is less time intensive. And then its back to home!

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Me being photographer for Arief, an indonesian final year student friend of mine. Here is a shot of Arief, May, Irene and me.

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Having dinner with all the Engineering Guys from MHT. (and one from social sciences)

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Went for a japanese buffet with people from Ming Hua Tang. I still think that buffets arent good. They usually get away with borderline if not disappointing food (and usually not fresh). And to get your money's worth, you stuff yourself.

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Graduation night at MHT. I didn't take many pictures but here is one where they were playing a game.

Link to a video of my Hostel Committee President and his infamous shower issues.(from the grad night year 1 videos)

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1 HKD per chicken. Went there one day with the guys from "3 East" (3rd floor east wing). Thats like Rm0.50 for a chicken. Crazy.

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A new campaign at MHT. It roughly translate to "No lovey-dovey actions permitted in hostel". We just went crazy one night amidst studying and this was the product.

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My room door.

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3rd floor pantry.

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Announcement Board.

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PS2 and TV.

Btw, I(or we) aren't particularly against couples or anything, it was just fun to do something like this. You only get to live through university and do these kinda things once.

Ah. One thing that is worrying me is my excessive palm sweating. It is getting really bad, sometimes sweat can drop from my palm. And a lot of my exam papers got partially wet (and crumpled) because of it. Ouch.

Here I come Summer!

From,
Ivan Kow from the Justice League

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