haalloooo reading week!

Yay! Reading wk is finally here!! I was so desperate to go back to TO for awhile, I kept looking up flight prices, but of course, I couldn't afford em. Instead, I got my tix to San Fran. Woot!! So my Dec sched is already set out and I'm uber excited. I shall be back in town on the 9th then jetting to SF from the 11th til 15th morning (yeppers, flying the red eye back - I shall celebrate the first 6 hrs of my bday with the biatchy flight attendants of AC, hehe). Actually, I think my dec will be quite action packed seeing how all my siblings and cousins will be back together not to mention most of us friends will be in town as well. It should be quite phun. Can't wait to see u all! I can't believe I've been away from TO for a yr. Poo.
Anyhoos, it's back to the books for me. Tas for now.

happie tofurkey day!!

To everyone in TO happie turkey/tofurkey day (whichever suits your taste)!! Lucky you guys get a long wkd! I miss mrs lai's turkey and stuffin'. Poooo. Miss patti send some over! Hehe.
Anyhoos, just thought I'd make a short post saying 'u guys all suck cuz u guys get a long wkd'. hehe. Back to my books I go!

wednesday..

So it's midwk now and yes, it's raining. Poo. Oh wells, at least I don't have any lectures or seminars to go today. Woot! My schedule this semester is pretty good, I basically have the bulk of my lectures on mondays and seminars on every other friday. So it's a nice spread out schedule.
Hmm, so since I'm procrastinating I figure I'd give a lil update. My new room is exactly the same as my old one - except flipped over (i.e. bathroom on the left instead of right) and my room is at the end of the hall which provides for a quieter atmosphere. I have 3 flatmates and they all previously lived in the same complex. One of my flatmates does photography so we had a 'foto session' last nite. It was quite phunnie as 2 of us were in our jammies and the other 2 were in their normal day-to-day wear cuz they were taking fotos for a project. My blogger has been acting up so I'm not sure if I'll be able to post up a foto, hopefully I'll be able to.
What else now...I can't seem to be able to get into the grind of things, I think I'll need to stick up some 'motivational' slogans on my pinboard to get myself to focus. For example, 'Get back to work fatty and stop day dreamin'!' hehe.
I miss TO soooo much. I was chatting with my dad last night and he hinted that he wished we were all back in TO. He was saying how we should take a look at TO again to see if we'd want to return to work there. In all honesty, if I could, I would. But there are no guarantees for a good job in TO for me. If I did find one, I'd definately go back home. I'm still figuring out what I want as my future career and where I'd settle down. I've been looking into writing the NY Bar and am curious about ibanking. Hopefully some company presentations that I will attend will help me find my path. I don't know why, but I'm jones-ing to go to cali. Maybe cuz my sis is there and I miss her sooo much.
Just the other day, I was looking through some old photos from my working days in HK and I was like 'wow' I had a lot of phun. As stressful as work was, my sis made a big difference in my life. If I could go back to those days, I would. We had a nice balance of work and play. In all the pics I could see that sparkle of 'I'm living life!' in our eyes. Sigh. Now we are half a world apart. Bah! Hopefully I can make a trip down to SF in Dec. If ticket prices aren't too bad, it would be quite phun.
Anyhoos, I should get crackin' with my seminar work. Blog again laters!

From L-R: Naima, Deepa, Stephanie, Viv

rainy manchester...

Hey peeps! Sorry I went awol on you guys, but the past few weeks have been a blur. I'm now back in manchester and settled in my new place. My new roomies are really nice and sweet so I've been lucky so far. Had my first lectures and things seem to be lookin' good. I think my last year will be interesting and hopefully I can kick ass in my courses this yr. So far I've been quite cheery (honestly, manchester can really get to ya, so I'm surprised I'm not yet depressed, hehe), let's just hope this feeling holds up. Anyhoos, I haven't got much to babble about, will update more when I have more interesting things to say.

baby girl...

I just had a kid! HA! Got your attention. Just joking. There is a new addition to our family, a beautiful baby girl!! My aunt had her a few days before I came back to HK and she is just precious. I've been given the duty of 'bo mo' Haha. So ~5hr sleep in BJ turned into ~3hr sleep in HK. I get the lovely duty of night shift. hahah. 1AM feeding and 5AM feeding. Though that doesn't sound too bad, try doing it when she decides to stay awake after feeding!!! Gah!! Last nite she decided to not sleep until 4! Boy was I tired. Anyhoos, enjoy the pics. She's such a cutie pie.

last nite out...

As mentioned before, I did end up coming out of my turtle shell to have a phun night out with my classmates. It was good phun. I hafta say I do luv the korean food with soju. Much more phun than just drinking at a club. Mmm...spicey leen go. Hehe.
The night started out at the beer garden with some beers, then we headed off to a korean restaurant for soju and nibbles and to end the night, some dancing. Since it was my first time with soju, I held back a lil, but still managed to down a good 10 shots within, I duno ~30 mins. Why I had said that soju was evil is that it tastes like water and I didn't feel anything til the 5th shot. It kinda hit me and I was like oh, okay, so this is alcohol. Hahahaha.
Anyhoos, had loads of phun and I was originally suppose to head home but got dragged to the club with the girls. We danced off the soju and had more to drink at the bar, well at least Taewon and I did. Lemme tell ya, telling a tipsy guy we should leave is haaaaaaaaaard. I think the abundance of shots, etc we had at the bar screwed me over cuz I know for sure 2 were tequila of some sort. I was tipsy but okis. Managed to get home, climb 5 flights of stairs, shower, hang my clothes AND put a garbage can beside my bed before passing out. Haha. Being tipsy and getting all that done before sleeping, boy was I proud of myself. Haha. I had hoped the alcohol would help me sleep better since ppl in BJ have no concept of 'rest time'. They tend to start drilling and doing construction from 5AM onwards til 12 midnight, but I ended up waking up once I heard the drilling. Bah. Felt like crap the next day, but no puking. Glad I didn't push my limit to see how much I could drink before I got drunk. Hehe.
But all in all, had lots of phun with my classmates, but am still glad to be home.
I have more pics but too lazy to post em up. Maybe next time when I'm bored I'll post more pics of BJ.

Group pic of half of the table sober

The girls sober

Cheers!

Let the drinking games begin!

Whoa...a lil too much soju?

semi-recovered...

Okay, due to popular demand, I shall post up some pics from BJ. I'm still not recovered as I have been living on 3 hr sleep at night. Shall explain more later. But this post is basically for pics. Enjoy! Pls notice how much weight I've gained, hehe. Tubbie Viv is da bestest! Mwahaha!
I'll start off with some pics with ppl I met in my first 4 wks, then new ppl from the last 4 wks.
Hmm. Seems like blogger is acting up on me and I can't really format properly or post up more pics so I'll split pics up on separate blogs.

The girls at the Temple of Heaven

Enjoying 5RMB noodles at the 3RMB Dumpling Place

The big ass C class 'graduation' luncheon

Dining at 'yi shin' to send off Christina

Hanging out with the boys in Ho Hai