in Shenzhen

Having got used to the rapid pace in Hong Kong, it's a little bit uncomfortable to be somewhere not that fast-moving. The thing that I hate most in SZ is the traffic lights. It takes like 3 minutes to turn from red to green, and once caught by red light, it'll be "RED" all the way down. That's many 3 minutes wasted in waiting! If you're so lucky to be taking a cab and caught by a red light, congratulations, your heart might beat faster watching these little red numbers on the meter "move" every few intervals whilst waiting the traffic light. So my advice is taking metro!

dejavu

I had a dejavu today in Investment Analysis course, something I dreamt about several months ago happened in real time.

Painted Skin

just watched the movie Painted Skin, it's awesome! The actors and actresses, they're just so terrific! and the theme song is so so so beautiful.

mid-term exams

it's been tough these two weeks. Feel so relieved now it's done!
The Answer Book is pretty professional. Actually, it's not only an answer book, it's as well a scratch book, only your answer is recorded on the left page, and scratches on the right.

the end of the world

free stuff is not always good

Got two bottles of body lotion from Johnson & Johnson's recruitment talk, thinking, "wow, this is generous, giving out stuff that probably worth some dozen dollars". For all these years, I've kept this good habit as to check the manufacture date before purchasing any good, food or non-food. Guess what, the body lotion happens to be manufactured in the last month of 2005, and is coming to expiry this december. It's like dumping garbage while the receivers feel like having taken big advantages over this, well, not for too long, because sooner or later, we'll find out it's obsolete, we're totally fooled. Nothing good could come out from this strategy.

so dead

midterm killed me!

Lan Kwai Fong

Lan Kwai Fong(蘭桂坊) is like the Hub of PUBs in Hong Kong. You'll never be yourself once in there! Sorry for the blurry images, but I did that on purpose, just to showcase the pictures of my mind.

gOS

i find myself enslaved by google!

missing golden week

-Prof. Facchini, "so see you all tomorrow"
-class, "tomorrow is public holiday, no classes"
-Prof. Facchini, "holiday? what holiday is it?"
-class, "it's National Day!"
-Prof. Facchini, "......you really do have many holidays!"

Yeah, in Hong Kong, both traditional Chinese holidays and western festivals are public holidays. No work on public holidays!

Christmas day, holiday!
Chung Yeung Festival, holiday!
Easter day, holiday!
the birthday of Buddha, also holiday!

The local people even do "treat or tricks" on Halloween, which is approaching. So excited about the things here!

free stuff

the good thing about recruitment talks here is you always get free stuff!
free pen,
free notepad,
free bags,
free toys,
free key chains,
free brochures,
sometimes even free food(UBS offered a mini but nice buffet today!)

some participants have made it very clear,
"I'm here just for the free stuff, the talks, I don't care!"

How to get to HKIA fast and cheap

HKIA (Hong Kong International Airport) locates on the reclamated island of Chek Lap Kok(赤鱲角). Not so far, but if you don't make the right decision, it'll cost you so much to get there! Having been there twice just within this month, here's my advice: DON'T take the Airport Express. I have my point:

1. it's expensive. No student discount for Airport Express, it costs HKD60 even if you get on the express from the station nearest(Tsing Yi station) to the airport back and forth. Usually, somewhat 100 dollars is expected to cover the AE fare.

2. Not so "express". Wait another 10-20 minutes for the next express if you missed the last one! And to change from MTR to Airport Express costs just as much time as it takes to wait for an avalaible express, that adds up to around 30 minutes waiting time!

Here's what you should do to save money and time to get to the airport:

Get on MTR, go all the way to Tung Chung station. You may have to change lines for two or three times, but they're instant-interchangeable, which means change lines on the same platform. With student discount, no more than 10 dollars would be charged for the ride. Cheap enough, huh! When you get off at Tung Chung station, you'll find many airport shuttles in the bus hub just at the B or C exit! Shuttles to the airport always start with an "S" in the shuttle number. So get on S64 or S63(something like that) and you're just about 10-20 minutes away from the airport, and the best thing here, it costs only 3.5 dollars!

The first time I got to the airport to see some friend off, I spent more than 100 dollars on Airport Express alone. When I got there, my friend has already boarded!

Yesterday, the same airport, another friend, just 27 dollars back and forth, and I got there two hours before my friend boarded!

Now you have the picture!

HK int'l airport

yeah, it's INTERNATIONAL

typhoon's coming

A signal number 8 typhoon is no kidding!
it's already roaring like crazy outside.
it's like the end of the world has fallen upon us!
RUN! everybody, RUN for your life!

some laughter in class

"Any questions?", Prof. Facchini asked.
"Yes, why does the point not shift along the RS curve, but shifts to RS一丿儿", answered one student.

there was a sudden burst of laughter in the classroom, lasted like one or two minutes. It's so funny when he said it, I almost jumped from the chair! But you could see clearly the stunned expression on the faces of foreign students and Hong Kong students. They starred at each other, totally had no idea what happened.

Well, here's the funny point. When he said RS一丿儿, he actually meant RS' (which is pronounced RS prime in English). But he didn't know how to express the superscript, instinctively used the Chinese version "一丿儿".
so basically: ' = 一丿儿