Sunday, January 25, 2009 4:38 PM
But not for long.
I'm currently back in Singapore to celebrate CNY with family and friends. Really really happy to be back. Walking the lanes of Tampines central and everywhere, it feels as if nothing's changed. The crowd, the bus routes, the mad rush in town and my own place. It feels good, coz it feels like home.
Although I'll be returning in another 6 days' time, I already don't feel like going back.
I'm really not made for the world, just home.
Guess I'm easily satisfied being the frog in the well. At least I'll be happy in my well hur.
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Monday, January 19, 2009 11:07 PM
So much for the technology age, when technology fails time and time again when put to the test.
I felt so helpless when skype fails, when web cameras fail, when connection lags and when my message could not get across the world wide web.
I felt so helpless when I could not contact my loved ones.
I felt so helpless knowing that my mum is sick but yet am unable to do anything at all.
I felt so helpless when everything gets distorted on the web and my intended meaning is destroyed.
I felt so helpless not being there.
Add in frustration and you just get buried in a heap of helplessness.
They tell you internet makes the world smaller. Don't believe them entirely, because there's always a price to pay.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:44 PM
I am so sorry! Couldn't live up to my promise of blogging regularly. There is a reason for this drought. Classes have officially started on Monday and I was busy attending classes and begging professors to let me into their modules. YES, despite the fact that I'm on an extended holiday by coming on exchange, it actually means clearing credits and putting in some effort to earn them. By God's grace, managed to get 2 upper-level PR/advertising modules which hopefully equates to a better life, though I seriously doubt so cause I still have modules to clear for my minor. Why the begging? Because it's either the class is not open to international students or the class is full. Thank God they're nice enough to open extra vacancies for us.
Weather is turning better. It even reach 25 degrees this afternoon! But all's temporary. HK will be experiencing another winter monsoon from Thursday onwards. The catch? I'll be home in sunny Singapore. Yay! Or maybe I feel better cause I have just bought this super thick comforter quilt that is like made from goose feather or something. Last night was the first time in 2 weeks that I slept through the night.
Happiness is knowing I'm coming home in 4 days' time!
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:26 AM
Or the lack of heat.
It's like the feeling of how you loses control of your fingers, your feet gets numb and even your legs are cold even though you're wearing a pair of jeans that seem ultra thick in Singapore. And the cycle goes on and you keep asking people like how cold it actually is to check your level of endurance. Well, it was 9 degrees this morning. And when the wind blew at us at Victoria Peak, my face almost froze.
And the worst thing? It's not the coldest yet. It will be coldest only during mid-February. This is too unlike Singapore. I need some getting used to. Maybe it's just me. I'm not exactly a fan of cold winters, since I grew up in sunny Singapore. People have been telling me that it isn't that cold before I came but now I'm freezing in my own room.
Oh well, there's 2 more weeks till I'm going home for CNY, and close to 2 more months till winter is over. Hang in there!
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 9:49 PM
It was first day of orientation. What a day of information overload! And I have bad news for myself. The PE core I need is full class! Now all I can do is to activate plan B. Take another public relations and advertising module and take asian cinema in place of western cinema. Okay, I know this sound foreign. It just means things can't go my way. Got to start praying harder 4 days before add/drop starts.
It was mainly talks today but it's quite a good price to pay for free breakfast and lunch! HAHA this is what happens when you're a poor foreign student who has to do serious accounting everyday.
Tomorrow is going to be another day of talks. Oh well, since I have nothing to do, I might as well keep my time filled with activities, rather than go shopping and spend money.
We wanted to go explore Festival Walk, one of the biggest shopping mall in Hong Kong. BUT it apparently is atas to the max, like only branded boutiques there. Ate dinner there where Sara-Jean found her level 2 milk tea (where level 10 is the ultimate milk tea)
It's getting colder at night. The locals are telling us that it will be coldest during CNY period all the way till mid February. Like hur.
And and one PRC guy complimented me on my spoken Cantonese and Mandarin. Like were they ever good in the first place!? I can understand if someone says my spoken Mandarin is slightly above average BUT my pathetic Cantonese? Even the locals find it good enough that I can converse with them. Oh well, let me take this 5 months to brush it up so my mum will stop laughing at me. Oh and the PRC guy said I was pretty. That made my day, though he said it after sun has set. HAHA!
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:25 AM
I actually counted. And if my math did not fail me, I have
144 days left till May 28 which marks my permanent return.
You know the thing about living overseas with no family and friends around you, is that you start thinking funny. You start questioning why you chose to come instead of sparing yourself and your loved ones the agony of seeing you leave. You think about the money you could save for your parents. You start to ask why the heck you wanted to see the world when home was what matters most.
And you wonder why the heck people switches on air con back home when it makes them freeze up.
Yup enough ranting, for all you who wants to send me letters who make me miss home, here's my address
Joycelyn Yeo
Room 210R, South Tower
Student Residence Halls
Hong Kong Baptist University
5 Baptist University Road
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Oh ya, Sheryl and Sarah-Jean are out to look for the ultimate milk tea here in HK, something that is level 10 up from what we can find in Singapore.
As of now, thank you those who came.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009 4:14 PM
I never knew it would hurt this much.
Leaving on a jet plane soon. Goodbye people.
Same side of the moon - Corrinne May
I'm looking out the window
Where we sat to watch the stars
There's a chill within the air
It makes my heart long for your touch
You may be miles away
But as I kneel to pray
I see the same side of the moon
That we'll be looking on when the world turns blue
And know that time and space can't come between me and you
We share the same side of the moon
And though you'll never see all the tears shine through
I know I can't be that far from you
If we're both looking on the same side of the moon
I picture you across the ocean
In your corner of the world
I pray the wind will blow my voice
And gently whisper in your ear
Your night may be my day
And though the seasons change
It's still the same side of the moon
That we'll be looking on when the world turns blue
And know that time and space can't come between me and you
We share the same side of the moon
And though you'll never see all the tears shine through
I know I can't be that far from you
If we're both looking on the same side of the moon
I know I can't be that far from you
If we're both looking on the same side of the moon
And I can hear my parents sing this to me in the silent support they have shown me. Thank you Pa and Ma.
"You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be praying every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you, too much to make you stay
Baby, fly away"
- Corrinne May "Fly Away"
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