From Hong Kong To Final Year.

=> so to continue my Hong Kong experience 09, I’ll just start off by saying oh em gee it was way too hot and humid. Melted pretty much every single day and as if that wasn’t bad enough, there were 2 typhoons at level 8 and one at level 9. At least I had fun on the day the level 9 hit. While everyone was leaving Ocean Park once it started pouring, me plus family went upwards to the top of the mountains where all the aquariums were. As for HK being shopping lala land? Ptsh yea right, everything there was pretty much the same as here when they’re on sale. Well like yea there are a number of things there that are fairly cheap ie wholesale, knock-offs via bargaining.

Mid-way through the trip, we went to Thailand with 2 of my cousins. Simply put, it made me miss Hong Kong. Honestly like no offence to Thais but Thailand was fairly nauseating…call me a spoiled Canadian. See now I would totally exploit all their tourism scams on here but a) I don’t want to get hunted down b) it’s too nauseating to write about.
After 5 days of “omg can’t wait to get back to HK and actually not feel like throwing up every 2 seconds,” we were finally back to HK. But before that, we had to get onto the plane. FYI when in the Thai airport, go through customs at the last 10 mins before boarding or else like me, you’ll end up stuck on a bridge like thing with nothing to do; no washrooms, eatery, chairs, nothing. On the plane though was the most adorable little girl sitting behind us. I chatted a bit with her dad and found out that they were with the Hong Tai tours and even he thought that our tour was ridiculous in comparison to theirs. We were with Kwan Geen (or something translated like that) btw. Well lesson learnt, never go on a tour with them again; ‘kwan geen kwan sum lai’ is their motto which translates to Kwan Geen cares for you, ptsh well I think their motto should be ‘kwan geen kwan sum cheen’ which translates to Kwan Geen cares about money.

Once back in HK it was the same old same old, too hot and humid. Although I’m so thankful (hallelujah) that where I was staying (one of my uncle’s) had a piano so I was able to cram/practice for my exam set for Aug. 22.

At last, home sweet home. But just as quickly, I was sitting on the piano bench for hours cramming to pick back up my 2 studies, list D piece, and all my technique. So after two weeks, the moment of truth, the exam. I did relatively well, I knew I wasn’t going to pass with flying colours but I was pretty confident that I at least marginally passed. Low and behold, results came in around two weeks later and I passed with a 67 =)

=> that’s pretty much my whole summer. Two months summed up into 5 paragraphs.
The most productive though I have to admit was probably this weekend. On Friday I went with my sister, Leon and Lexx to Ikea to pick up some cabinets and so I spent the weekend finally at last putting my room together. It’s still not fully done yet, but getting there, just missing the final touches.
The most unexpected of my summer was becoming (co)-chair of my fellowship. It was weird because I went into the meeting thinking to drop my position as secretary, not be part of the servant team anymore but still attend the meetings. Iunno it seems like God totally handed me this position on a golden platter cause being chair will no doubt help me in the future and even for universities which at the moment I need all the help I can get. It’s true though I still really care about my kiddies in my fellowship especially after talking to each and every one of them every week via weekly email updates. Meanwhile my parents are just worried I won’t be able to juggle it with school and piano, iunno we’ll see but I do believe that I’m in this position for a reason and my Heavenly Daddy knows that I can do it.

=> and now it’s almost time to bid farewell to UHS. 10 more months before I no longer am a high school student (unless I stay another year). Way back when we were just entering high school you hear about how high school’s the best 4 years of your life (or on the contrary the worst 4 years), but honestly not much really happened. I have no clue what’ll happen this year but the last 3 can be summed up quite easily.
Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold (via Girl Guides).
Rekindle an broken friendship, break a new friendship.
Get played by one, you play another, be the other woman to the third.
Life lessons learnt to determine your future.
I just realised, these four lines actually each represent one year, well generally anyways. Anywho, it’ll be the beginning of the new school year tomorrow. New niners, new seniors, new circle of life. With this I bid thee a belated one year celebration of i0lwf.

if0nly Life Was Fantasy.,
- Mag.