busyThings I've learned in HK:
-I have the body of a 40 year old
-I have more relatives than I thought
-Chinese people are loud, very loud
-The street markets are fun
-Old people are very cute
-Things aren't that cheap anymore
Things I've learned in BJ:
-Beijing is super nice!
-They have 15+ subway lines, but sometimes you have to walk really far to transfer lines
-I identify with the foreigners more than the Chinese people
-Chinese history is fascinating! I should listen to my dad's stories more
-China 120 was no help at all. I didn't even have a chance to say "Wo yao kafei". But my listening skills are not bad!
I'm a foreigner everywhere! I feel like I'm so Canadian now... all my relatives assume I don't speak Chinese anymore :( Dude, I'm considered good among my CBC friends! Sigh. But I do find myself at a loss of words when I want to communicate sometimes. I'm like.. neither fob or foreign. Identity crisis... :'(
- 48 hrs
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__amy_sa- May 11th, 1:37
bouncy
Has it really only been 48 hours? Perhaps I've never done anything for 48 hours...
But yay, I've been in HK for 2 whole days now! (As of 1:30pm here). Hmm. I haven't done anything yet. Spent $0 so far, but that's only cause I've been treated meals and such, but I mean I haven't bought anything yet.
I spent the first 2 days barely outside my home. It's just been too hot and humid... But it's been an enjoyable stay thus far. I came knowing that I didn't wanna be like a tourist and go to all those famous places, mainly because I went to all of them 2 years ago. So I've been just sitting at home, reading the newspaper, watching tv, coming online...Also reading Hunger Games. (Is it just me or it's written really weridly? Or maybe I just haven't read leisure books in a while...)
So that's me in HK so far. Not much to update you on. I took my grandma and my great aunt (i'm just gonna call her that... cause i have no idea what the proper title is.. ) to eat pizza and ribs for lunch yesterday. LOL. I don't think they're allowed to eat that... but they say "don't tell anyone and we'll be fine". Haha. okay! :P
And the reason why my gma is so OG? She has spiderman PJs. Whaddup!?
- T-12
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- __amy_sa
- May 7th, 21:17
chipper
12 hours until I depart for the Motherland!
I had a good time last week in Waterloo, so here's my shoutout to my UW friends. Yeeee, you know who you are! I'm gonna miss Waterloo for the people, not for the place. Have a fantastic spring term, my beautiful friends. Enjoy it, study hard, keep fellowshippin' it up!
9 weeks ahead! I shall be fun fun fun! And yes, I will take your advice to "breathe less"/ "breathe only if you have to" and "don't sneeze" because the air quality is terrible there. Sadly that is not something I can control, hahaha.
I just checked the weather in HK. Thunderstorm all day errday for the next 14 consecutive days. YAY, I LOVE RAIN! (I'm prepping myself to enjoy every day). It will also feel like 40 degrees. WHAT THE HECK. It's only May! :'( And hey, the heat will burn off some fat, right?! RIGHT?! Please do.
- pack, unpack, pack
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- __amy_sa
- May 1st, 1:35
- grateful
I've been back home for a week, and I'll be leaving for my motherland in a week.
It all seems a little too fast for me. I've been going out almost every single day and I just feel that I have so much to do. But I don't... Going to the mall seemed so pointless these past few weeks after I booked my ticket to HK. I know I'll be shopping there, so there really isn't a point in shopping here. But that's not the problem. My problem is that I live in abundance.
It took me 3hrs to load the van after my parents arrived to pick me up. I just had so much stuff, I didn't know how to start. I had all these little things that don't really belong anywhere and I ended up just stuffing it into purses, and stuffing those into totes, and then stuffing those into even bigger bags. What is wrong with me?!
I come home and I can't bother to unload the car because I first need to clear out my room so that I can bring in the stuff. (Yes, I'm calling it stuff because most of it is, sadly, useless.) In my defense, my mother took over my double closet and filled it with her stuff, and my sister has her collection of junk in a corner. But still, I have a lot of stuff. I haven't seen my floor in a week. It's finally clearing up a little and yay, I felt a little sense of accomplishment after I filled a couple of bags of clothes to donate. I also realized that I have been growing since highschool! (Not only width-wise, but also length wise!) Yay, who would've thought?! I'm also slowly clearing out my collection of stuffed animals...which is the hardest part. I know they're things that I won't miss when they're gone, but it's the letting go that I can't deal with. But I know they will go to better homes, since I don't play with them anymore. (Time for a Toystory 1/2/3 marathon......)
Now I'm thinking of what I'm gonna be doing in HK for 9 weeks. Everyone asks me that question. To be honest, I just wanna relax. I don't even wanna shop that much since a) I have no money, b) I only get one luggage with AC, and c) I feel bad for having so much stuff. Comment below to inspire me to do something worthwhile in HK!
I hope you'll miss me when I'm gone. Also, please pray for me! I don't know what's gonna happen, but I'll be seeing a lot of my relatives who are non-Christians, so... here's my chance! And also for me to be disciplined and not be carried away by the craziness that HK can bring. Send me emails, skype me, post comments below, nag me to update my blog....etc.
Happy May 1st, errbody. (Can you believe it's May already!?!?!?)
- toronto
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- __amy_sa
- April 30th, 23:22
- bouncy
Here are some things that I missed about being home:
-doing laundry
-watching tv with Dad
-chatting with my mom (eg: Today my mom asked "What if you never fell off the bunk bed when you were younger? You could've been a genius!" That's something we'd never know...)
-driving around doing whatever I want
-cleaning out my closet and finding my secret stash of red pocket money from years ago (It's like getting free money!)
-running down the street with crazy Teddy
-fellowshippin' with the gang
-bumping into some old friends/acquaintances (eg: A couple of days ago I dreamed that I was with my highschool friends, and we bumped into my UW friends... and it was just a crazy mashup of friends! YA! :D This is also a sign of "good friend deficiency" this past week)
Notice that I haven't mentioned my sister? Ya, I haven't done anything with her yet T.T I've been back the whole week!
- glee
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- __amy_sa
- April 25th, 17:21
lethargic
I realized i've been posting a lot of videos here, but I guess that's what I do when I have nothing to study. Haha.
This week's glee episode was pretty interesting. For some odd reason I made me a little emotional. I duno, what do you think?
If you have 42 minutes, go ahead and watch: http://www.putlocker.com/file/7F3DC6F2AF534C08#
If not, it's not big deal. I don't even know why I liked it.
Gotta do some soul searching.
(I don't know if the embedded code works... it seems to be doing something funky.)
- how deep is your love
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- __amy_sa
- April 23rd, 22:14
- bouncy
Have I never told you that I love this song?
(and LOL, this is HD?!)
- room cleaning 1
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- __amy_sa
- April 23rd, 14:21
pensive
So I'm attempting to clean my room. And if you've seen my room before, it's full of JUNK. Like, legit junk...
I'm tearing off the posters and pokemone drawings off my wall. LOL, these people don't even look like that anymore. it's been on my wall for 10+ years. WOWs.
It seems like i'm growing up so fast and I have to dump a whole chunk of my childhood away.
Hmm..
- my constant
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- __amy_sa
- April 22nd, 9:31
- cheerful
There's so much truth and comfort in this:
Jesus Christ in the same yesterday and today and forever.
Heb 13:8
Thank you, Jesus <3
