Becoming -

yo! i’m here! ya it’s interesting that sometimes you can reconnect with some long lost...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:32:02 +0800

yo! i’m here! ya it’s interesting that sometimes you can reconnect with some long lost friend easily but sometimes fail to. i guess thats what 緣份 mean. anyway, i guess you’re just not that close with mar# before, thats why you find it weird la. no big deal. i bumped into him at central before when i got lost for an art exhibition and turned out he was lost too, then we had a short chat and just bye after we found the place. is he still working at archi firm now?

I met with Sandy and Marcus last night. It was weird how although it is inevitable that people...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:50:00 +0800

I met with Sandy and Marcus last night. It was weird how although it is inevitable that people change over time, some become closer to you, some otherwise.

yo! so bored at work these days…..

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:47:57 +0800

yo! so bored at work these days…..

where is everyone? r

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:54:34 +0800

where is everyone?

dear jane, don’t be so angry nor frustrated. just make sure you don’t become like...

Thu, 03 May 2012 23:16:44 +0800

dear jane,

don’t be so angry nor frustrated. just make sure you don’t become like them…people like them are what’s out of your control, and what makes it so difficult to make this world a better place. but see - we can do a lot, too. we can make sure we don’t make things worse x

stumbled upon their voices again by chance. do you still rmb...

Thu, 03 May 2012 23:11:22 +0800

stumbled upon their voices again by chance. do you still rmb what you were like when you were 17? do you rmb what has happened since? sometimes I feel like I don’t, but then I have become what has happened to me already.

Teachers wannabes

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:42:37 +0800

had a lunch chat with some education final year students who are volunteers at the park yesterday. we discussed a bit on experiential language learning which was my PGDE interview question. it seems that most of the students prefer teaching with textbooks such as Longman. But i think experiential learning could be more interesting. isnt it better to learn what’s the most familiar to them such as the street name near their school or home? then extend to the community and know more about the world? I find it strange that the students dont agree teaching with storytelling but memorizing. I would say rote learning isnt bad but we can work something more to make learning more interesting, instead of just for exams.

A student shared with me her teaching practice experience. She said there was a number of hyperactive kids in the class and said嫦娥奔月as 嫦娥私奔. They were very distracting and not disciplined. So she was very angry and scolded them. I recall what my advertising friend said, he was very naughty in class and teachers dont like him but he was extremely good at Arts and Design. Then i asked this student what about creativity of those distracting boys? Then she replied with an irresponsible tone, ” it’s none of my business anyway. I am responsible for teaching them Chinese.”

when i asked what do the principals usually look for from a candidate, they said teaching experiences. then i told them i dont have a lot just some and they suggested making up something. well…well… no wonder they said teachers are good ‘water-blower’….

and some future students even want to stay and play at the park after work….they complained the park for not offering benefits but just a certificate to them. to be frank, who f*cking care about those certificates?

if i were the principal, what would i think about this conversation?

H you know what you need? An absolute break. Come home. R

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:13:28 +0800

H you know what you need? An absolute break. Come home.

My Obsession with Work

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:13:00 +0800

Hi there. Pardon my lack of posts recently but my workload has been picking up so rapidly in the last two weeks. It’s week 4 only and I need to start looking at three class projects already.

Sometimes I wonder if working 9-5 (or later) is gonna be better or worse. I am assuming that after work you don’t think about work but my student life in the last few years has been the complete opposite - I think about work every single day and even on the weekends. I was doing a problem set on a bus to San Francisco last Sunday because I was afraid I wouldn’t have enough time for work. I’m really not sure I can do this for another five years, or maybe this will stay the same with working outside of school because it’s really a problem with my mindset.

Just speaking out loud.

Dressing up

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:35:00 +0800

I had to go to a networking breakfast event this morning. Since I was representing my company, I had to dress a little more formal than usual.

I wore a dress that has sheath cut and is sleeveless. Almost covering my knees. Grey. Paired with flats.

I felt so out of place taking the train from Che Kung Temple station, switching station at Kowloon Tong, taking subway all the way to Central. The first thought that came up on my mind is “I want to move to somewhere else”. I don’t know where - just somewhere without the commuting crowd that makes me feel so out of place.

The event was at the American Club. The venue was very nice, people in there all dressed very nicely, the breakfast was fancy. The interior decor is cool, quiet, stainless. I had a rather good time, though a little detached.

Then I took the tram back to my office in Wan Chai. The bathroom without air-con in my office suddenly becomes unbearably stuffy and smelly. I had lunch with my mum at the canteen in APA - fast food suddenly seemed ridiculously unrefined.

But then I am angry at myself for thinking that way. I grew up taking public transport and eating in canteens anyway - I know everywhere in HK but Central (I just realize this morning figuring out my way to the venue). What does a fancy dress make me?

ok I’m done. Just want to think out loud.

part time narrator for a decade

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:31:13 +0800

hey you know what, i just heard from my parttime colleague that there’s another colleague here at the park who has been working as parttime narrator for a decade. he/she is a fund manager working 9-5 and thinks it’s interesting to talk to people at the park on weekend.

i got what you mean cause i have the same feeling too… don’t feel like stuck at home and...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:08:41 +0800

i got what you mean cause i have the same feeling too… don’t feel like stuck at home and wanna meet more people. my mom’s just watching tv, brother playing computer and there’s not much interaction and we dont have any new or exciting stuff coming up. shopping malls are boring, spend $ when we go out. it’s better to get a part time job.

i guess some of my colleagues knew that i wanted to start the full time job earlier. and it was quite embarrassing that a girl asked why am i so hard-working she said she felt like she hasnt done anything. maybe the truth is this job is really tiring especially when we have to talk and narrate, meet weird customers. but i think working full time is better than stuck at home. i feel like my home is in a mess with all the stuff/ rubbish around.

"What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:46:31 +0800

“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know…I felt that by walking away I was abandoning them, that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.”

- Peter Cameron

(via kari-shma)

hello all. i’m back. i took an event technician part-time job this weekend..everyone asked me...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:46:36 +0800

hello all. i’m back.

i took an event technician part-time job this weekend..everyone asked me if i needed money and why i’d want to work on weekends. I just thought it’s so much nicer than hanging out with people that I would be obliged to hang out with if i was free and if they asked me to go out with them. the impression I got from a lot of people I hung out with recently is that, they are all so jaded by work that they don’t want to be thinking actively when they’re not at work; but i feel super insecure when im not thinking/conscious. then i become too serious for fun. then i become too boring to socialize.

im so glad to have friends like you guys though.

you know what, my ex-colleague could not get the fun part of working near Star Street at Wan Chai...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:57:40 +0800

you know what, my ex-colleague could not get the fun part of working near Star Street at Wan Chai either. When I went out for lunch with him and past by those stylish stops around the place, he just said “oh they are too expensive” and said “you are so high class”. come on, we just have 1 hour of lunch before we got stuck with the computer/ boring stuff again, why cant we look at something more interesting? whatever, probably accounting/ law ppl like him are too boring and they are just interested in figures/ stock market only.

So things are getting back on track again, I’ll focus on Education these days and have a warm up job to prepare me for teaching in future. Figured out that I need to know something about dyslexia or learning difficulties to help the kids.

Back AGAIN

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:28:29 +0800

I just had a quick consultation this morning with a director at the career center and she gave me some really helpful advice on how to deal with my situation.

I have asked to reply later this week about my summer internship with the air group, but it’s very likely I am gonna accept it. Which means I will be spending this summer in San Francisco!! Do you have friends in SF that I can hang out with??

J: Thanks for asking around - the types of work my major encompass are really broad and I think I won’t really know what I want/like until I get some hands on experience.

I think I went to various places in Tin Hau with UYL people on several occasions. When was this?

R: I agree with you about Canto pop being an integral part of who we are. I think I can give up everything in Hong Kong (yes, even the food) but the music I grew up with.

Wouldn’t it be great if that’s our life? Some people...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:47:54 +0800

Wouldn’t it be great if that’s our life? Some people work their a** off all their lives for a moment like that, without realizing it’s actually just off the block from the back of their offices.

Was speaking to my colleague about how her friend from France was sent to set up new operations somewhere in Africa, and how that poor lady had to deal with workers who left their roles as soon as they got paid for the first time, since “they would not want to work anymore when they perceived that they had enough. When they ran out of money, they would come back to ask for work, but off they went again after they got paid”. People like those natives are free. That’s freedom.

rubyvivace:

The dream life.

I sang k with another friend of mine whom I met last summer on Saturday. I used to sing with the...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:38:55 +0800

I sang k with another friend of mine whom I met last summer on Saturday.

I used to sing with the so-called confidence before but after not singing for 2 years, I realized the passion is fading away….I was very proud of singing in the choir for almost a decade. But it seems like my voice is getting worse and a bit strange.

Pop songs are our collective memory but singing with different people is just different. Oh do you guys remember the cafe near Tin Hau which we went after a UYL event at QC? That was the place where we first met and did some fun! still remember that????

I’m going to sing K tomorrow. It’s strange how I turn from loving to organize a massive...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:17:05 +0800

I’m going to sing K tomorrow.

It’s strange how I turn from loving to organize a massive group karaoke event (you should remember those days…I can’t even imagine myself being that me anymore), to finding karaoke pointless and silly and expensive, to now, when it’s become an emotional outlet. I almost prepared (ok, I did) for it - I have been working hard to pick up some recent pop songs these past couple days, getting myself into a mood in which I am very easily affected by cheesy, repetitive Canton pop music. It feels like I need this.

It’s crazy how things you grow up with - things that you thought would remain a part of your past and just stay right there forever - actually becomes part of what you are and what you will be, because it has made you what you are from what you were, and somehow it keeps doing so.

Hey Hywel, I think most importantly is not to compare yourself with others. Destiny brings people to...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:35:07 +0800

Hey Hywel, I think most importantly is not to compare yourself with others. Destiny brings people to different path/ challenges, just believe in yourself. I think the situation of last year’s graduates won’t affect you much since different people are looking for different things/ jobs.

I’ve had some trainings at the marine theme park these days for my part-time job and met a few graduates studying ecology/environmental-related subjects. They said consulting firms working on Environmental Impact Assessments are looking for new blood. How about this path? Do you need to study Environmental Law at university? How about Juris Doctor?

I have a friend who is graduated from UST environmental engineering, I can help you 8 ha. He is actually working on noise pollution those kind of things and his classmate is working for a coal mining company if I remember correctly.