生活在他乡

How much I hope I can by your side now

2008-08-26T06:02:00.000-07:00

Reading your e-mail is killing me,
I deeply regret for leaving you alone in the cold country we met,
leaving you alone with the greatest hardship ever.

Words by words, lines by lines,
I read it again and again.
Tears filled my eyes and I could feel the pain in my heart.
But I know you had cried thousands times more,
and endured pain and sorrow that are too overwhelming to absorb by a girl.

I hope I am by your side now.
I hope I can fly to the country now.
I hope I can meet my dear dear friend now.
I hope I can give you a big big hug and tell you everything is fine now.

I really hope....so badly...

But I could not.
I can never go there.
I cannot offer any little good help.
I am such a failure as a friend, I'm not helping at all.
I can't do anything except typing an email besides a cold laptop.

I'm praying for you my dearest friend.

原来会觉得这么舍不得的

2008-07-22T07:39:00.000-07:00

人是一种奇怪的动物，喜欢用跳动的思维让生活一下子生龙活虎充满期待，下一刻又自怨自艾非要自己更讨人厌不可。

举个例子吧。之前的自己很恶心，因为一份能够让我去德的工作面试，每天的心情像过山车一样；终于在靠一点运气到了最后一轮的面试以后，就没有以后了。又是好一阵子以后，才能毫无龃龉地为我的好朋友开心。好吧，我是烂人；嘴上不说，还是用了一点时间，不过现在即使是在心底，也雨过天晴了。

有很大的一部分是因为他们吧。说一下一些很神奇的事。

第一天到回家，书桌和椅子都装好了。

第二天回到家，水喉没有漏水了。

第三天回到家，门不再嘎嘎作响了。

然后，就发现我们是绿色家庭第一名。

再发现有厚厚的白色手巾（也曾是我的搽碗布 =x）实在很幸福；

最大的惊喜是冰箱上的留言板，旁边的小字条说：请留言

风大的晚上有一位妈妈从家乡带来的黄梨；

地板上有交错的电缆线；

桌上有来自南方大陆的蜜饯和坚果。

第一次这么感恩自己能够留在岛国，挤地铁也变得心甘情愿；工作还没有着落，但成家即立业，家是第一流的则饭碗也不会太差。

终于真正安下心来，心甘情愿地；因为感觉良好。

太好 =)

一个萝卜、一个鸡蛋还有一杯乌龙茶的故事 (modified from: "A carrot, an egg, and a cup of Oolong tea")

2007-10-04T21:04:00.000-07:00

我是一个很无聊的人

每次朋友forward励志的、温馨的好文分享给我，我不是没有开就直接删除，再不然就是读完以后就删除，现在，当我有话想说又不知道该怎么开口时，寻寻觅觅居然没有一个适当的可以用，哎。

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一个萝卜、一个鸡蛋还有一杯乌龙茶的故事

--读了这篇文章以后，你会用不同的眼界看一杯乌龙茶。

有一个年轻的女孩向她的母亲诉苦，告诉她身边为难着她的人与事。她不知道她因该怎么办，她想要放弃，困难接连不断地出现太多的执著和挣扎让她疲惫。

她的母亲把她带到厨房，把三个锅子装满水放在炉子上，很快水就烧开了。

在第一个炉子她放入了萝卜，在第二个炉子放入了鸡蛋，最后一个炉子她放入了乌龙茶叶。

不发一言地，母亲让炉子的火继续烧。

大概二十分钟以后她把炉火熄灭。她依次把萝卜、鸡蛋和乌龙茶放入三个不同的瓷碗中。

这时她转过身莱对女儿说，“告诉我你看见了什么。”

“萝卜、鸡蛋和乌龙茶，”女儿回答。

她的母亲让她走近，然后要她感觉一下萝卜的质感。她照做了，发现萝卜是软的，她的母亲接着要女儿拿起鸡蛋，打破它。拨开了蛋壳，女儿看见了里头全熟蛋。

最后，母亲要女儿和一口乌龙茶，女儿微笑着浅尝了一口香茶。

女儿接着问，“这是什么意思呢，妈妈？”

她的母亲解释说，这三个物件都面对同样的逆境：滚烫的水。但是他们有不同的反应。

坚实的萝卜在热水中变软，易碎的鸡蛋以它薄薄的外壳保护了内在的蛋液，但是在热水中蛋液变得实实在在。

而乌龙茶是最特别的。经过一番热水彻骨，它改变了水的颜色和味道。

“你又是那一种呢？”母亲问女儿。“当面对逆境，你如何回应？你希望自己是一个萝卜、一个鸡蛋，还是一杯乌龙茶？”

想一想：我呢？我是外表坚硬，但是面对困难时就变得虚弱的萝卜？

还是我会是一个境转则心转，由环境而改变的鸡蛋？是不是我有一个柔软的心，但是在困难的磨练下，我把自己变得坚强实在，即使外在的我还一如从前的柔软或脆弱？

或者，我会是一片乌龙茶叶？在经历刻苦铭心的经历中，释放自己内在的气味和芬芳，把热水变成了茶。如果我是一片乌龙茶叶，在最坏的时刻，珍惜自己也砥砺自己，把自己变成更好的人，把自己最好的一面释放出来，为自己打造一个对自己有利的环境。在最黑暗的时刻在最深远的考验中，把自己进阶到另一个更勇敢的自己？

你会选择如何面对逆境？你是一个萝卜、一个鸡蛋还是一杯乌龙茶？

真诚地祝福我的朋友，希望她能够：
在幸福的时候享受甜蜜的滋味
在考验的时候锻炼坚定的意志
在悲痛的时候保持乐天而悯人的胸怀

最快乐的人不必定拥有所有最好的一切；他们只是懂得发掘生命中最美好的一面。面向阳光，影子就会落在身后，忘记过去就会看见美好的前景。

多年前，当你初来到这个世界上的时候，你大声啼哭但是身边的人都在微笑，包括刚刚经历产痛的母亲。

那么，请把你的生命以最圆满的方式完成；当你走到最后的那一天，让你能后心安地微笑，当身边的人都在低声啜泣。

我期勉自己，在困难面前，能够是一颗鸡蛋，或者是一杯乌龙茶。。。。。

。。。。就看在减肥的我，吃了多少，有多少力气和问题打架八！！！！！！

special thanks to
1. Yvelyn, for her great sharings with Toktoktok last March;
2. Toktoktok, she is the one who told me about Yvelyn's post....and the last sentence, in super easy Chinese, is for your understanding also!!!! May you will understand it!!!! kakakaka

=)

Below is the old English version available, it's different from the Chinese one, especially the meanings of egg part, I'm not totally agree so I interpret it in my way...

http://yvelynchan.blogspot.com/2007/03/something-meaningful.html

exam, grades and self worth

2007-06-13T21:08:00.000-07:00

yixin and yt have gone on their trip..so i don expect anyone to reply this anymore..nonetheless, i still want to write..still need to write..

if anyone has jus started reading this, u can stop now..cos it's gonna be long and depressing to read. i wrote this post in the hope tt i wld and could feel better..and not to burden readers out there.

2 papers over and both uncompleted--far from nearing complete. i always ask myself how come there is this huge inertia to continue writing for 1 question when u only hv 5 min left and u haven started on the last long essay q? why is ur brain so stupid..do u think u can actually spit out sthg logical and legible in <5mins?>

got out of the exam hall..sad but cant cry..does this mean i'm stronger now? does this mean i no longer bother abt academic success as much as b4? shd i be happie tt i didnt cry? i used to tell myself in sec sch tt if u did sthg wrong for a particular pp and u cant change it anymore, quickly start working hard on the next so tt if GOD sees tt u hv learnt ur lesson, he will make things go well for you for BOTH pp..

that was in the past..it worked..it reali did..i noe it sounds stupid saying this but everytime i felt tt i didn do my best for a particular exam and immed started working hard for the next pp/if tt is the last exam, to start studying for the next sem, i will always do well for both the papers.

now..now, it doesn work anymore.does it mean i hv seen thru my prev folly even though it worked b4? aft my econ1120 pp(which i didn complete the last essay q), I told myself to work hard for acct1101 which just ended. but i did not..i dilly dallied, sleeping, eating, cooking, buying groceries..taking my own sweet time..

WHY WHY WHY..how come i lost this ability i always had to discipline myself??? the acct1101 paper is very badly done too..what's the use of being so hardworking throughout the whole sem but when it comes to the exam, ur failure to put in even tt extra effort spoils all the prev hard work u hv contributed?

i reali hope to cry..i badly need sthg to make me cry..i need to face the facts and consequences of my ill-disciplined study; i need to scare myself to reality; i need someone to hug me and tell me tt what's past is past, to reali commit to learning the lessons from this and move on..to hear me blabber and complain..then hold my hand like a good friend and study with me..

(typing the above paragraph has allowed me to cry at last..but not enuf..blame me for being emotional, tt crying is useless..but it's the start of a healing path for me)

i am asking for way too much..my 2 treasured frens who hv been wif me throughout the tough times tt i experienced in aussie are now unable to be there for me..much less anyone else.

whoever manages to read till here wld definitely be asking how come i'm so paranoid over results..i asked myself this question many times throughout my study years..

ans: it's bcos of my younger sister who's 19 this year. she's good in almost everything and can juggle work, play and leisure effectively unlike me, who even if i just concentrate on work alone, wld not be able to do as well as her. it's hard for me to accept tt i am more stupid/useless as compared to her..i noe we shdnt judge pp by their academic grades..but society judges us like that..aren't we supposed to be practical and not devise theoretical ways of judging a person's self-worth when it's not even applied in reality at all?

i must admit tt i hv a very low self esteem of myself and the only way i can feel good abt my ability is if i do well--if i see credible empirical evidence of my ability to perform. if i do well, i wont feel so lousy in front of my sister; i wont feel tt others are looking dwn on me..but it's such a tiring and painful process to stretch my abilities such tt i can match hers..when genetically/biologically/intellectually she is already more able than me.

many who read till here will definitely dismiss and say tt i am thinking too much..i do..i think alot and "torture" myself with all these..like why shd i make life difficult for myself right? but it's been so many years..yet i cant change how i judge and feel abt myself.

my JC fren once said tt i need alot of ASSURANCE--both in absolute terms and in frequency..i reali agree with what she says..maybe ..maybe someday when sum1 can gv me that (sufficient) assurance for me to see/judge myself in a different light can i reali be "liberated" from such thinking..

both papers have been badly done and i hv 1 left on the 18th june..i can see myself procrastinating and being complacent again...and again, i cant control/discipline myself..giving in=eating, sleeping, shopping...instead of studying..i forsee tt again, i deserve to be "punished" by GOD...can and will sum1 out there "save" me.."save" me when i can no longer discipline myself? can tt sum1 scold me and wake me up? make me cry until i reali feel the pain and then start studying?

i don noe..

i shd end this post alr..

congrats to those who read till here..

thank you very much, i sincerely appreciate ur time and patience :)

~shu ling

a letter to myself...

2007-06-03T19:36:00.000-07:00

dear ling,

it's the time of the year again..when you need to rush assignments and prepare for exams..why..you always wonder how come it seems you are always so "unlucky"..that you hv assignmts to rush still at this time and can't work on studying for exams instead..you take so long to write 1 essay..

formulating the essay topic, researching on the topic..picking out the relevant info, rephrasing it so you don commit plagiarism, making sure all ur writing links tgt in 1 coherent whole, checking for mistakes and grammatical errors, doing up the references, cutting words to keep within the word limit.....

it's so draining..so very draining..you are so scared of what is in store as above tt you dare not even start..dare not even make the first step to do enough research on the topic! how come? how come you are so timid? dear girl, if you cant and don even make tt step, you can nv finish ur essay and will nv be able to study for exams at all...

why, you ask urself..why is ur essay due on ur 1st day of exam?...

you are so scared of starting ur essay you keep eating, doing other stuff..dilly dallying..slping at odd hrs, slpin more than 11hrs a day when you already hv no time!! you think of food..eating..rewarding urself..shopping but not abt ur essay..WHEN WHEN ..dear ling..WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START?

you rem last sem when you had to rush socio essays nearing exam time and you had such a big dilemma abt whether to run home to do it or not..stop running away..stop thinking of food and start working..but u noe u cant..u want to study..you are scared you wont do well..you want to do well..your head is bursting because u cant discipline urself..

you keep telling urself: "ok..jus 1 more bite of cake/bread and yup, i will DEFINITELY start working ya?"...but u noe u nv..u nv did..you are so disappointed in urself cos u can no longer discipline urself..you hv lost the willpower..ur internal ability to WAKE URSELF UP!

ling, no one can help you..will writing this letter to urself wake u up? or is this another "procrastination tactic" of urs..telling urself tt after writing it.. "I WILL START WORKING ON MY ESSAY?" haiz..

you cant run away from ur fear..fear of the draining process tt is to come..no matter how weak ur willpower is..you still hv to go on..you hv to be strong..tell urself u can conquer it and work on it..it's hard to forget abt exams when u are working on ur essay..but u must..please please please..please work hard on ur essay alright?

rgds,

ill-disciplined distressed brat!

dear yixin

2007-06-02T11:39:00.000-07:00

it was a rainy morning when i was awakened by a phone call from this young sweet lady asking me to open the main door after working in the student house. and hey, how could i forget to wish her happy birthday once i saw her at the front door?! *blur me* maybe not fully awoke yet. hehe...

anyway.. it's not too late now, rite? HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY, WANG YIXIN!! we had a very short-and-simple lunch together to celebrate her birthday in the midst of exams (like i study very hard.. oh pls..!!) pork+vege+pasta lasagne, mixed fruits and vege salad, yx's home baked cake. just the five of us - yx, me, siang leng, yee hong and bell. oh btw, that's bell's home made lasagne!! it's really not bad, you know? the birthday girl praised him non-stop! :)

this birthday girl looks really good in this clothes, doesnt she? so pretty! :) that's her bday present from bell and i, and the necklace is from sl. uncle gave her a box of marzipan chocolates :)

once again, happy birthday and im sure you had lots of fun on your birthday! working and celebrating your birthday in the bar last nite was *2 thumbs up* and the lunch just now was *2 thumbs up* too! may all your dreams come true, my dear friend! i love you... xoxo

relax relax...

2007-05-28T10:13:00.000-07:00

relax relax
dont panic
the worst is to fail every subject, couldnt be worse...

food food and MORE FOOD!!!

2007-05-18T17:49:00.000-07:00

god help me...i just keep thinking of cooking..what to buy to cook..how to cook..what to cook with..what sauce to buy..planning my budget...that i cant even study..my brain keeps drifting...here are some pics...let them speak for themselves (show how crazy i am now...) i am very far behind in my readings (seriously, haven completed those tt were taught 2 weeks ago) cos everyday just keep thinking of food and cooking...haha..

baked tomato bread and wheat bran salad

creamy egg noodles

mixed vegetables in fruit juice topped with diced tomatoes and dried apricots

mock laksa

--definitely not spicy cos i don take spicy stuff..hee~

tacos and fish salad drizzled with sweet and sour tomato dressing

diced pork with mashed bread in dark lemon sauce

--i decided to use this as a spread for my bread too..delicious!

mixed veg--potato,mushrooms and cabbage soup with lemon and tomato salsa

lamb, rolled oats and pasta kebab with tofu skin

--one of the few kebabs tt i tried..hmm, at long last my love for kebabs is satisfied..can make 1 for myself in sg..kaka..

--decided to make it "international" too..tts why it has chinese, and western elements in it..the bread is a lebanese bread and i used chinese lemon sauce, dill and mustard sauce and italian chunky tomato sauce..hahah anyhow mix tgt but it tastes nice :)

the filling in my kebab

i now have 2 more veggies to add to my list of "edible veg"..

avocado and mushrooms

k k..tts all for now..

集體回憶

2007-05-17T20:42:00.000-07:00

在拆與不拆閒兜兜轉轉了好一段日子，終于還是逃不了被拆的命運

曾經
絕食抗議示威

皇后碼頭一個講述香港曾經的滄海桑田的地方一個收集了香港人生活的記憶的地方
在這場存廢之爭下終將還是得成爲歷史

集體回憶在經濟發展的前提下是脆弱的渺小的
我沒有香港人的這些集體回憶但來到現場看一班年輕人不放棄的堅持露宿抗議心情還是沉重的

留下
不捨憤怒弔念

PS 到皇后碼頭做告別之訪的路途中，經過當年張囯榮跳樓自殺的酒店。。。

桂林游记

2007-05-16T18:17:00.000-07:00

人说来到香港不去一趟大陆是一种浪费，为了不浪费这天时地利的大好机会，我和两位朋友跟团参加了五天四夜桂林山水之旅。

巴士途经贺州（“酒是故乡醇”和“茶是故乡浓”的拍摄地）再到杨朔，路程中远眺了月亮山，就在吃饭的地方的正对面，所以有机会拍下照片

银子岩，让我难忘钟乳石岩洞。里面安装了大量人工彩灯，整个岩洞七彩缤纷。

其中最让人叹为观止的是“广寒深宫”--这是一处浅水滩，由于水实在太清，七彩钟乳石的倒影完整呈现，像深不见底的水下世界，又像龙王宫就在脚下。

去了尧山，桂林境内最高峰，到山峰必须乘坐无遮式缆车半天吊几十分钟，这样一来和桂林山水有更直接的接触~鞋带，绑好了。相机，挂好在手上了。手袋，握紧了。出发！！（还好这天风不大，缆车不会摇晃）

还坐了竹筏游漓江支流-遇龙河，看风景的同时也看冒牌刘三姐与船上的旅客对唱，看鸳鸯捉鱼。短短的一个小时，我真正感受到了桂林山水甲天下的名副其实。

原以为跟团旅行，都是aunty uncle,一定不习惯，但原来aunty uncle们都很可爱，而且比我们还精力充沛。原以为花不足500港币的团费的旅行团，一定不能要求吃好的住好的，但四天来住的是非常不错的酒店，吃的餐餐至少8菜1汤（像养猪），只能说：物超所值。

ps:大陆的卫生间。。。我终于亲身经历过了。。不是普通的难受arhhh...

wht a long survey!

2007-05-16T17:46:00.000-07:00

OMG, what a long survey! I wish I could pretend I didn’t see anythg as well, but yx even msn me to remind me to do this…haiz..:)
Here I go~

1) Name one person who made you smile last night
siyi and H&M

2) What were you doing at 8:00 this morning?
watching “the break up” in room

3) What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
same as #2

4) What was something that happened to you in 2006?
signed contract with MOE

5) What is the last thing you said aloud?
my laughter?? Don really remember

6) How many different things did you drink today?
plain water, chrysanthemum(w/o sugar)

7) What color is your hairbrush?
brown, my dear FL gave me as a present

8) What was the last thing you paid for?
Sunblock, cannot stand the sun anymore…miss the winter a lot

9) Where were you last night?
mongkok, with frenz

10) What color is your front door?
brown

11) Where do you keep your change?
in my changing bag

12) What is the weather like today?
hot hot hot! I don’t like summer…

13) What is the best ice cream flavor?
anythg with caramel

14) What is something you are excited about?
shopping in HK :P

15) Do you want to cut your hair?
Yes I want, probably when I back to Malaysia though

16) Are you over the age of 25?
nope

17) Do you talk a lot?
depends on my mood

18) Do you watch The O.C.?
apa tu? paiseh ah, a bit ketinggalan zaman...(<--copy and paste from yx)

19) Do you know anyone named Steven?
no

20) Do you make up your own words?
yup

21) Are you typically a jealous person?
I don’t think I am

22) Name a friend whose name starts with the letter “A”
I wish to write “Aaron Kwok”,but my ans is Alvin

23) Name a friend whose name starts with the letter “K”
Kelly

24) Who’s the 1st person on your received calls list?
my cousin

25) What did the last text message you received say?
Gambateh!

26) Do you chew on your straws?
a definite no(<--copy and paste from Yx also)

27) Do you have curly hair?
nope

28) Where is the next place you’re going?
cuhk main library, to settle my clearance procedure.. so sad tt I will leave cuhk soon

29) Who is the rudest person in your life?
nope

30) What is the last thing you ate?
武大郎包， a kind of bread with pork and 菜脯 inside

31) Is marriage in your future?
yupe.

32) What is the best movie you’ve seen in the past two weeks?
the break up

33) Is there anyone you like right now?
yupe

34) When was the last time you did the dishes?
ard 1 hour ago

35) Are you currently depressed?
a bit, when I realized that I will be leaving HK soon

36) Did you cry today?
no

37) Why did you answer and post this?
bcos yx tagged me!

38) Tag 5 people who would do this?
有缘人， haha

doing this instead of sleeping

2007-05-13T14:56:00.000-07:00

yt and yvelyn!!!! these two sisters tagged me tgt!!! i wanted to pretend i didn't see that but couldnt...i was sitting in front of yt...reading out load what i read in her blog...haiz

1) Name one person who made you smile last night
yt and somebody

2) What were you doing at 8:00 this morning?
sleeping, or dreaming

3) What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
ironing clothes on my bed...i k only do it in my bed..super limited resources

4) What was something that happened to you in 2006?
great trips with friends

5) What is the last thing you said aloud?
URGHHH.... (i was tagged)

6) How many different things did you drink today?
plain water, milk with coffee (1:1, as usual)

7) What color is your hairbrush?
brown, it could have lost in many places b4, i.e. Avignon, how fortunately it's still with me =)

8) What was the last thing you paid for?
Chocolate =)

9) Where were you last night?
cbs library, and a restaurant

10) What color is your front door?
white

11) Where do you keep your change?
20 dkk in pursue, usually on my table or in my pocket, 25 ore on the floor

12) What is the weather like today?
super nice!!!! no rain no wind

13) What is the best ice cream flavor?
used to be chocolate, now strawberry(<--affected by yt), fruit (<--affected by loes) and coffee (<--need coffee everyday)

14) What is something you are excited about?
coffee this Tues

15) Do you want to cut your hair?
nope. 250dkk or above for a neighbourhood haircut

16) Are you over the age of 25?
nope

17) Do you talk a lot?
yes, but sometimes super quiet

18) Do you watch The O.C.?
apa tu? paiseh ah, a bit ketinggalan zaman...(<--copy and paste from yt)

19) Do you know anyone named Steven?
no

20) Do you make up your own words?
yup. sometimes cant remember any now...

21) Are you typically a jealous person?
yes and no, depends on whom you're refering to

22) Name a friend whose name starts with the letter “A”
Angle Chin

23) Name a friend whose name starts with the letter “K”
Klaes

24) Who’s the 1st person on your received calls list?
same w/ 1b)

25) What did the last text message you received say?
"cbs now. whr r u" ...n my reply "sofa"...my roommie came all the way to cbs lib to pass me notes...

26) Do you chew on your straws?
a definite no(<--copy and paste from Yt also)

27) Do you have curly hair?
used to have

28) Where is the next place you’re going?
my bed definitely

29) Who is the rudest person in your life?
nope

30) What is the last thing you ate?
grapes

31) Is marriage in your future?
yupe. but no1 wants me

32) What is the best movie you’ve seen in the past two weeks?
nope

33) Is there anyone you like right now?
yupe

34) When was the last time you did the dishes?
half an hour ago? (<--copy and paste from Yt also)

35) Are you currently depressed?
not at all

36) Did you cry today?
no, if i didnt cry bcos i was too happy

37) Why did you answer and post this?
bcos yt n yvelyn tagged me!

38) Tag 5 people who would do this?
mb, kokluei, huiting, ayu, zhong yuan

1st May + Prof's open house

2007-05-10T15:36:00.000-07:00

May 1st, People were on the street, police was in front.

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I went to the park, I can't even recognise it as the park, it was like a carnival!!!
Sosososo crowded!!!! This is not the Copenhagen I know.

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There were concerts, free. And cheap beers.

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An aeroplane, I always want to take a scene of it. It's beatiful, when it leaves a long "tail" on the blue clean sky.

The view in this neighbourhood is so nice, it's SPRING!!!!

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A beautiful tree, with pink flowers. I hope I know its name.

From the pots, you can tell how much we were preparing.

The kitchen of the house.

Sorry, no food, busy talking and eating.=)

[西班牙葡萄牙+法国南部之一] 久违的阳光——蔚蓝海岸尼斯（Nice）+ 马赛（Marshille）旧港

2007-05-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

时间到！

夏天寻找沙滩的游戏开始。

要劳动就要有体力，

首当其冲的任务就是找一个够热闹的市集买粮食。

你一定看错了，上面看到的不是水果，是水果模型的糖果；

果然是夏天，市集里的花到处都是；

一走出市集就发现海边，

根本不必找；

但是它依然是美丽浪漫的海边，

高处还有仙人掌；

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为了让它显得更值得庆祝一点，

我们又去买了夏日圣品：Gelati ice-cream

再让能够上镜的人去扮阳光一下。

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沙滩只有阳光美女冰淇淋是不够的，我们要找有船的海，

于希望里我们又扬帆往下一个地方前进。

天气晴朗，我们按古老的传统：出征前要去伟大的神明祈求一下。

（雄伟的法罗宫Palais du Pharo耸立在港口的入口处，建立于拿破仑三世时代。）

我们摸索前进，经过很和谐安静的庭院；

（罗马巴洛克式的老医院，中心为教堂，

今天已成为一个多文化的中心，拥有许多博物馆。）

经过船的停车场（?!!!）

（旧港是2600年前就被希腊人发现的拉希冬小海湾，

今天这有可以停靠3500个休闲船只的停泊位。）

再往远处的小岛前进；

（伊夫岛Chateau d’If，伊夫岛是马赛最小的岛，它之所以出名，是因为国王弗兰西斯一世在1516年驾幸此地，下令在此建起堡垒。1634年成为国家监狱，曾囚禁过许多王子贵族，还有新教教徒政治犯革命家等等。人们从全世界涌来，来寻找大仲马著名的《基度山伯爵》中的人物：法利亚神甫和埃德蒙_当岱斯的足迹。）

扶梯而上过古老的石阶；

（攀登圣维克多修道院 Abbaye de Saint-Victor后的城堡，

修道院于5世纪建于马赛旧港，

14世纪在整个普罗旺斯地区开始了基督化进程。）

a 不小心回头一望，发现世界美景还在闹市之中；

（马赛城里的旧港，上方是加德圣母院大教堂Basilique Notre Dame de La Garde，

大教堂的风格是罗马－拜占庭式的，

在建筑上方有一座高达9.70米的镀金圣母像，俯瞰全城。）

忍不住就高兴得跳起来。

（美女身后为马赛旧港）

美丽的梦

2007-05-08T04:21:00.000-07:00

房间左边突然变得空荡荡。。。
室友搬走了，提醒了我一个无情的事实：一个学期的exchange终于来到了尾声。。

从摸不透校巴的路线到赶一堆的报告再到准备考来考取考不完的试
惊觉我把寒冷的冬天到花开的春天再到酷热的夏天都一一经历过了
原来时间它真的是世上最勤劳的
否则怎么可以永不停歇的走得那么快

这是一场梦，一场美丽的梦、异常美丽的梦
短短的却足够让我用一辈子的时间去怀念

不舍的情绪
在还没和香港说再见之前
酝酿

kids and development

2007-05-01T08:29:00.000-07:00

i have started working here..to my dear bao bao..you think too highly of me, i wont be able to get an internship tt easily..the work i got is nothing as high class as an internship..

i am working as an after sch child care worker near a primary school. you basically prepare afternoon tea and supervise the kids during play and coach them with any homework if they need help. There's also the washing up, cleaning the toilets and learning to handle any quarrels between kids.
i work for about 3 and a half hrs a week with a vietnamese guy who is born in aussie and studies medicine in UQ.

i love this job cos i love kids and some of them are reali lovely. they are so cute and pretty i wld definitely love to take their pics but due to the nature of the job, i am not allowed to. they call me by name and especially those kids from prep school, they can be reali sweet and it warms my heart everytime i see their smiles.

also, i have been to a development discussion on climate change and justice with an NGO--Oxfam Australia, which is linked to Oxfam international. I met some reali great people there who share the same interests as me in development issues. we bring our food there to share--potluck, and after a presentation by the speaker we have some discussion before dinner. it was great sharing my views and hearing what others have to say which reali enriched my knowledge!

i also got to noe a lovely canadian lady who shared with me a romantic love story of how she met her brisbane bf years ago during a thailand trip. they are getting married next year.

i will be attending a fairtrade seminar and discussion next fri at UQ where i will learn about fairtrade coffee, forest conservation and the fairtrade system. i'm looking forward to it but hopefully it wont come so soon cos i have an essay due then! wish me luck as i struggle with words again..

sigh....

take care to all (",)

"Good" news!!!!!

2007-04-29T04:00:00.000-07:00

What the hell is this?

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) just came out with its 2007 ‘Worldwide cost of living survey’, unfortunately, the city I am currently at, is ranked,

(click on the picture to enlarge)

mm, # 3rd.

Higher London and Tokyo...

another good news is

the diagram above has shown sth clearly,

that the Danish Krone (and Euro) has been appreating in the past 4 months!!!!!!!!!

I hope I am lucky enough to survive until mid-JUL!!!!!

food and work~

2007-04-21T03:38:00.000-07:00

on a happier note, i met up with my NTU socio frens for a lunch at a famous brisbane pancake restaurant..they are here on exchange at QUT now.

charlotte, me and annie at pancake manor

i ate the ultimate meal which had 2 cream cheese filled crepes topped with vanilla ice cream and strawberry sauce.. YUMMY!!!

mine is at the far end with the vanilla ice cream although i am sitting at the left corner..we exchanged the plates cos 2 similar dishes side by side didn look nice. the 2 similar dishes are chicken and pineapple crepes and the other one is rich hot chocolate pancake with icing, cherry and chocolate ice cream

me, annie, charlotte and zhiwei from hall 9 at eagle street pier

actually, i regret to say i am no longer as health conscious as before..yup, i do eat my hi fibre wholemeal bread, low fat milk, muesli, sushi, tuna, potatoes, tomatoes, fruits and lettuce..but my cravings always bug me when i am stressed..this means eating chips with gravy, beef pie, LOTS of ice cream, cakes, pastries, beef rolls, fast food, lasagna and lots of outside-cooked pasta...

beef lasagna slice from stones corner village where i went for my job interview

so, yixin, when u say tt i will lose weight, i doubt i can ever attain what you said at the rate i am going.. =( tts precisely why i admire ur discipline! hmm..which is what i seriously lack...oh well~

tt aside, i have learnt to eat more veggies and experimenting with more salad options.. i have learnt to eat red cabbage and carrots although they must be uncooked and eaten with fruits or other stuff tt i find "edible"..haha..this is the transition stage which may be very long but i hope to get out of it sum day with more practise? hee.. i'm happie to say tt eating capsicum has successfully "graduated" from this transition stage and i can now easily eat it alone..

lettuce with zucchini topped with peach slices and fruit and nut muesli

classic salad mix topped with orange slices and muesli

veggies are very expensive in australia and the prices rise very frequently which makes me wonder why..thought inflation's only a big prob in less developed countries such as Mexico, Argentina and Brazil..well..

also, to add to my list of pasta dishes..here comes,

BANANA AND MASHED POTATO PENNE TOPPED WITH MIXED HERBS

--i absolutely love this dish tt i cooked it twice in 2 days! haha~

my April disappearance shd warrant some explanation too i guess..

my community development subject is the course i love the most cos it's reali what i hope to do next time--to manage and facilitate development programs in third world countries and work with relevant NGOs to better the lives of local communities..

this course has a huge project worth 60% of our final grade--20% for our presentation and 40% for our written proposal. we have various development options to choose from, ranging from gender, economic, natural resource management, indigenous communities, youth and urban and rural migration. i chose the natural resource management option.

we are then given a real life situation tt requires our intervention as NGO facilitators and we have to present our thinking process which would be guiding us in the project implementation.

my partner, jacqui and i were given a case study of the central visayas region in the philippines whereby overfishing by commercial fishermen using destructive methods have led to depletion of fish stocks, of which the locals are dependent upon. the local government wants to implement a marine sanctuary to protect the area and prevent overfishing but locals feel that this would unfairly stop them from fishing totally--their livelihood, while not prohibiting illegal commercial fishermen who have the ability to evade regulations.

we are asked to devise ways of ensuring the marine sanctuary implementation is effective and addresses the interests of all the relevant stakeholders.

the whole april has been spent researching on fishery and marine management stuff..i pity my eyes and laptop for their contribution in the above major task (",)..it's reali tiring but i enjoy doing it and have learnt alot, which would definitely help me in the future =)

"march-ing" towards confidence

2007-04-21T02:59:00.000-07:00

to my 3 dear frens, i apologise for my disappearance and my inability to update our shared blog regularly. i noe you all wouldn't blame me cos you all understand me well...i still feel bad though..

march has not been an eventful month and i didn have much to share except for my feelings battling my skin rash. i feel bad about writing such pessimistic feelings on our blog and so did not update. i went to the school clinic and outside pharmacies many times to replenish my moisturisers and for retrieving both oral and topical medications. many times, i feel sad looking at my skin and comparing it with others..i think of the clothes i would like to wear but cant..i think of the restrictive clothes materials tt i am limited to and about my inability to dress up to the best i wld like to be..

i become super sensitive to stares and of people looking at my skin..i try not to touch others when i sit in the bus and in school, and in the lifts. wearing long sleeves makes it hot and hard to scratch when i need to. i grew to accept as default tt ppl would be scared of me and take it as my responsibility to explain to them about my skin but yet not requiring them to accept me after my explanation. i thought tt this is only fair..cos i cant assume ppl don judge by appearances.

such posts requires digging deep dwn into how i feel..it's hard to write and depressing to read so before writing, i always wonder if writing it down for people i treasure to see is being considerate...am i forcing and burdening others with my pessimistic thinking??? i don noe..i do wonder if i am thinking too much..tt there must definitely be someone out there laughing at me for thinking so deeply..haiz..

when sum1 accepts me and taps my shoulder telling me tt they are not afraid, i feel so relieved inside. i didn noe how much each one of us as humans need to feel accepted and i thank that special friend for making me feel treasured even when my skin looked so scary.

my arms have healed but my legs haven..at times, they do swell and look puffy. the wounds on my leg wld look scary to any normal person..i am not exagerrating. the steroid that the doctor gave me is so strong tt i can only use for 1 month, which is in 2 days time..yet the wounds show no signs of healing. this is the same as last year though so i am not too worried. even then, i still receive stares. yesterday, someone was sitting at the lobby sofa of unilodge and stared at me all the way while i walked to the counter..i stared back at her. she was looking dwnwards so i guess it has to be my leg..i have nothing to say, except tt i am thankful i didnt meet her when my skin was worse..

i have learnt to live with my rash..my whole body has it..incl my ears, neck and face though they are less red and visible..it's hard to move on..difficult to remain positive when i noe tt every time i step out of the cocoon of my room, i am being evaluated and judged by others around me. i can only hope tt the number of positive acceptances that i get is enough to sustain me when i meet with any unfriendly stares..i pray tt i can have more confidence in myself =)

Some girl's shoppings

2007-04-20T20:36:00.000-07:00

I am very stupid when comes to spending money.

And yup, recently I really spent my parents' money on some shits, or I just threw them into the water, and got nothing in return.

While feeling really bad with these, I want to share something I bought that brought me utility, positive unility of course. As you can tell, they are products for girls...

Haiz, and it happened to be that from the same brand, Loreal..

It's because these brand is cheap here? Absolutely not, nothing is cheap here, perhaps except the chilly wind. This brand is the relatively less expensive brand I can find here...

Post a quan2 jia1 fu2 of my stuff...

2007-04-19T04:34:00.000-07:00

HURRAY~~

幾個月的830am-630pm的星期四課終于在今天舉行閉幕儀式！！

怨了幾個月，但還是乖乖的去上了幾個月的馬拉松式的星期四課，雖然偶爾還是會偷懶skip堂，但只是偶爾
真乖，也真怪對一個exchange student來説

在中大的一個學期的課，終于來到了尾聲
沒有不舍因爲幾個月的不明不白早讓我無言：P
下個星期就是考試周的開始，雖然還有補課還有報告
縂該給自己一個小小的掌聲~~ 也算是負責任的學生：）

圖書館的最新展覽題目好像是“獨白”
用來提醒自己和在ntu準備着大考的朋友要乖乖讀書~

第一次考試逼在眉睫卻沒有準備的體驗
讓人期待又怕受傷害

勇敢的骑士 the brave cyclist

2007-04-18T13:49:00.000-07:00

勇敢的铁马战士！

What a brave cyclist!

漫长的冬季以后阳光终于有一点，

After the long winter Copenhagen is lucky enough to have some lovely sunshine,

这位很明显是穿冬装穿到要吐的美女就奋不顾身地穿上短裤有跟凉鞋踩脚车上课

this young pretty lady who, obviously, has been fed up with the thick winter clothing, put on shorts and high-heel sandals and went to school

让早上跟她一起去上课、三个小时前一起在寒风中回来的我惭愧不已

and this is a shame to me--I went to school with her in the morning, came back from school 3 hours ago,

我还是厚厚的springcoat加长牛仔裤

and I was in my thick spring coat and long jeans...

下面是现在的温度。。。

Below is the current temperature...

注意看斡，风很大，刚刚的脚车奋战大概还要再下3度。。。

p/s:when we were cycling the wind was strong, so you may want to lower the temperature 3 degree more...

一首歌给一个朋友　A song to a friend

2007-04-15T15:53:00.000-07:00

最近和一个好久不见的朋友聊天
有话想说
但是不知道怎么说
在这点上面这首歌会有帮助的
Recently I have been chatting with a long-time-not-see friend
I have sth to tell her
But I dont know how to put it
I hope this song will help
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虽然我要说的跟歌词里说的不太一样
但是我的心情与歌者一样
Although what I want to say is not literally the same as the lyrics
My feeling is the same as the singer
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你说你有在看这个部落格
我希望你会看到这篇
You told me that you read this blog
I hope you will read this post
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分手快乐 Happy Ending
梁静茹 Fish Liang《Sunrise,我喜欢》
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我无法帮你预言
委曲求全有没有用
可是我多么不舍
朋友爱的那么苦痛
爱可以不问对错
至少有喜悦感动
I can't predict for you
that if compromise helps
My heart hurts
when seeing you in the pain of love
No right or wrong in love
as long as there are joys and sorrows
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如果他总为别人撑伞
你何苦非为他等在雨中
If he is always holding an umbrella for another girl
why are you waiting for him in the rain?
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泡咖啡让你暖手
想挡挡你心口里的风
你却想上街走走
吹吹冷风会清醒的多
你说你不怕分手
只有一点遗憾难过
情人节就要来了
剩自己一个
其实爱对了人
情人节每天都过
A cup of coffee to warm your hands
to stem the wind in your heart;
But all you said is that you want to go to the street
refreshing yourself with a cold breeze
You said you're not afraid of breaking up with him
but you'll regret about it
The Valentine's coming
with yourself leaving alone.
In fact, if you've your Mr. Right,
everyday is the Valentine.
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分手快乐
祝你快乐
你可以找到更好的
不想过冬
厌倦沉重
就飞去热带的岛屿游泳
Happy ending
Wishing you a happy ending
You can find a better one.
If you wish to aviod the long winter (in your heart)
if you are tired of burdened
then come to a tropical island for a swim

分手快乐
请你快乐
挥别错的才能和对的相逢
离开旧爱
像坐慢车
看透彻了心就会是晴朗的
Happy Ending
Please be happy
Part the wrong and find the right
(it takes time to) leave the old days behind
just like the journey in an train;
see it thru' then you'll be optimistic
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没人能把谁的幸福没收
你发誓你会活的有笑容
你自信时候真的美多了
Noone can steal your happiness from you
Swear to me that you will live your life with a big happy smile
Self-considence makes you so much prettier.
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学校附近的春天

2007-04-14T14:18:00.000-07:00

复活节假期结束后的第一天中午

一踏出教室就发现教室外人行道旁的花居然在怒放！

虽然是现在看来有点（昨日）黄花的味道

但是这可是要等一个冬季才有的惊喜呢！

同一天下午，即将回到荷兰的老家的好友Loes要上街买纪念品，

途中经过一座已经看到很闷的石像，

初春的阳光下居然也漂亮得像一幅画；

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在看图的你，来哥本哈根走一圈八；可以挤我的房=)

[伦敦+意国之四] 牛津大学

2007-04-10T12:55:00.000-07:00

在英伦时难得的晴天，

阳光下我走进一座美丽的大学城。

ａ

围墙的另一边是一个怎样的地方？

是不是有学子在草地上念书，是不是有校舍洁白如从前的校裙？

蓝天尖塔给我许多的遐想。

ａ

还是很想说：今天是出游的好天气；

何况有好姐妹慷慨借相机。

ａ

小小的拱门外我是一个路过的旅人，

在这个都是哥德式尖塔的大学城里乱窜。

( Qua of All Souls College: The fellowship is one of the highest academic honours in UK, the college is one of the wealthiest colleges)

连nightmode都不会调掉的照相机白痴

也照到ASC最经典的官方照片：

再一次感叹别人家大学多么美丽。

塔的西面可以看见其他面貌的大学城，

比较平易近人

高处看闲人免进的学院，

有一点犯罪的感觉，像看偷看到别人家深宫内院的佳丽

（不必理我，脑袋烧坏了）

谜底揭晓：高塔即是University Church of St. Mary the Virgin，

一个美丽古老的不象话的大学胜地，却已经是完全的旅客景点。

对面是不对旅客开放的Radcliffe Camera（白话来说，它的名字叫做图书馆）；

可能是不开放这一点清高，

让我对她多一份敬畏——

University Church of St Mary the Virgin

令人敬畏的历史让我很想鞠一个躬

至于她的历史嘛，眼力好的可以点击上图放大；

有好奇心和求知欲但是视力正常的请上网google一下。

我在偷懒，不必怀疑。

在高塔上踩上栏杆的横条间的自拍；

唯一恰当的形容词叫做：

ａ

臃肿

ａ

拍到上面那些美丽风景的代价：

下楼时要做跳上树又不敢跳下来的猫——下这危楼时被吓到半死

没有消防车来救这只重度肥胖的猫。

ａ

爱丽丝梦游中的仙境：Christ Church

好干净的天气

好干净的牌子

Christ Church Meadow Building前的人行道不是如茵小径

但来往的游人脸上都有很悠哉闲哉的表情

右侧的草地上还有咬着三文治的人们

学院里的教堂里的唱诗班

栏杆外我很不客气地当起游客咔嚓拍下一张

古老的学院们都有的典型建筑：方庭为中心

这个就很有公园的感觉，只差一张"Pls do not walk on the grass"的警告

校园一景：

我用明信片旅行

归途

ａ

在巴士上百无聊赖的我忽然发现

不知道是不是南北大道公司受到从前英殖民的影响太深还是怎样，

怎么窗外的高速公路和每逢放假时一家人必走的8小时车程有一样的风景。

差别大概是这里沿途的树木都是一副还没有从冬天里醒过来的样子

还有此时的我身边没有人
阿

啊

[伦敦+意国之三] My HP in Oxford 《哈利波特》在牛津

2007-04-10T09:21:00.000-07:00

Strolling through the ground of Christ Church College, Oxford, this is where part of the Hogwarts school campus is.

踱步过基督教堂学院的草坪，是为霍尔格兹魔法学院的校景。

The above is the filming photo you will see in the HP movie, I can't believe these two (the one I took and the one in the movie) are so alike! Equally I can't believe that I can't recognize the ground right behind this as one of the lawns where the Quidditch matches were filmed! Stupid me!

a 上面这张也可以在HP电影里面看见，难以置信以上两张照片会这么相像！一般让我难以相信的是我居然会不认得这校舍正背后的草坪是电影中魁地奇球赛的草坪之一！

叫我笨蛋！

ａ

The beautiful Christ Church College, where (again!) many scenes from the movie were filmed. But I like this one I took more than the one from the movie...=)

又是美丽的基督教堂学院，也是电影常景。

但是我比较喜欢这张我自己拍的，多于电影里的．．．＝）

This is the one in the movie. It's more artificial to me.. ( <--very proud of the photo I took haha)

a 这是电影里的。由我来看这人工多了．．．（＜——对自己拍的东西很自豪，赫赫）
ａ

This one is really stupid, the interior of the dining hall is closed for maintanance ( while they still charged me entrance fee for this!) so the effect I got here is very poor.

a 这张真正是滥，餐厅内部因为维修工作而暂时不对外开放（与此同时他们还是要收入门票！），所以这一次拍出来的效果很不理想。
This is the photo of the Hogwarts dining hall I can find online... super unlike the one in the movie...you can tell...

这个就是上面那个维修中的东西的这面目；网上找的，看得出来一点都不像电影里的．．．

a啊ａ

ａ

This can be easily recognized. Prof. McGonagall was standing on the stair waiting for Harry Potter who was late for the welcome party. The condition of actual location is not as good as the one in the movie (below), but, I was still very very very excited about that!!!!!!!!!

这很好认。麦格教授站在这个楼梯上等待在分院仪式上姗姗来迟的哈利波特。实际场景的状况没有电影（下图）的理想，但是我还是超级兴奋的说！！！！！

ａ
To a Grawp's size HP fan as me, the famous Oxford University is far not just one of the oldest universities, that is part of my revisited HP world. You can say to be appreciated in this way is a shame to this world-class university, but to me, this is the REAL Oxford that I trully LIKE. I don't tell people how intensively I enjoyed this trip to Oxford because of the beautiful buildings, I don't try to relate every photo to names of the notable alumni, I just enjoy visiting these places so much because I like them so much, no matter how stupid the reasons behind are.

对像我这样的巨怪重量级波特迷，著名的牛津大学当然不仅仅是最古老的大学之一，她是我重游波特世界的一部分。你可以说以这种方法来欣赏她对牛津大学简直是一种耻辱，但是对我来说，这是我喜欢的、真正完整的牛津大学。我不会告诉你我多么享受这趟牛津之旅，只因为美丽的建筑物，我也不像将每一张照片都标上牛津著名校友的名字，我的旅途愉快只因为我喜欢这趟旅行，不论这背后的理由会是多么幼稚可笑。

[伦敦+意国之二] 看图说故事

2007-04-10T08:58:00.000-07:00

也是搭这家永远的平价航空到那个久仰大名的城市。

阴沉天气迎接我们，她和她所在的城市一样有名。

向旅客开放的教堂都严谨美丽，还不忘用历史和建筑师的名字背书；

我们也只是旅客，

看待她们们时总要用一种敬畏的角度。

一个正常的旅行步骤一定包括当地的名胜，

记忆力差一点的就会连带牌匾也照一个；就好像这一个：

天气好时可以照到附近的桥；

上镜的人就会上前去补照一张；

不上镜的人就会想去看自己某年某月在书里遇见的地方。

其实只是一个皇族家庭的侦探故事；

然后就加入人群，在古堡里漫游；
a

古堡里有老旧仿佛还可以驻守眺望挂号角的守护城（忽然想起郑愁予），

还有被拿着相机的旅人相竞拍照的士兵，头戴熊皮高帽。

不然就是这样。

当然有时会不小心迷路进人家的住宅区；

或者逛一下（大英）博物馆，

(广告时间：Canon照相机，捕捉生活中美好的每一刻！)

a

美术馆一般的希腊人物雕像，
a

还有像古埃及一样遥远的木乃伊（是真的厄--），都齐齐聚在一堂。a

偶尔的晚上夜游也会因为没有专业摄影用途的照相机而排不出理想的效果；

偶尔也会排得像明信片；
a

最后再不忘朝圣一样地去看歌剧，

然后很没有钱地说，

下一次来的时候我只要做一件事：每晚一场歌剧！

午夜眼睛要盖掉的时候写的，十分钟的打字已经是很要命，

等上传照片时都在上厕所开冰箱找东西吃。。。

[伦敦+意国之一]预告篇

2007-04-09T17:02:00.000-07:00

图片一：某长发美女意大利城市巡礼回来之战利品

很乱没错！！！

图片二：某二等美女初次到欧洲发现新大陆前的部分行囊

很乱没错！！！

一个房间两个乱！！！

这个市我们的作风八？

这个时候是到英伦首都和意国风物之旅结束后的第二天

睡到中午，自行车还在地铁站旁边，空空如也的冰箱还没有补货的三餐都是快速面充饥；

简单来说：

一切还在兵荒马乱之中

所以没有空update部落格

游记与组图

免费附送又称某购物狂的上镜美女和暴肥5公斤的不求上进肥妹的劲爆照片

不日将面世

敬请期待

我看见任达华~~

2007-04-07T06:58:00.000-07:00

选择今天去尖沙咀，选择这个时间去，选择用N出口，是明智的。。。。只因为这些选择让我看到了任达华和杜琪峰，还有他们拍戏的场面

围观的人不少，我当然也是一分子。我们一直被赶来赶去，因为摄影镜头不要我们这些“路人甲”。不过我打死不离开，难得在香港遇到这样的场面，还遇到那么大派的明星，当然要看个够！

重点来了，当我拿着我的相机把当时的场面录下来时，突然觉得深厚有股很强的男人的呼吸声，不管它，继续录。。然后，我瞥见身后的米色西装。。。我的天！正是任达华！他竟然叫我身后的朋友不要出声，然后偷偷在我后面偷看我拍些什么！！原来我和他就靠得那么近！超有型的他。。。（有型的男人呼吸声都特别大吗？）

不虚此行，虽然没买到想买的衣服，还是不虚此行。。：）

任达华，身边是一个每次做黑社会老大的演员，我不知道他的名字

杜琪峰大导演，前排坐着

澳门一日游

2007-03-31T18:14:00.000-07:00

冲着闻名的杏仁饼和肉干，还有那条让游客免费试吃杏仁饼到饱的大三巴街，我来到了澳门。

从尖沙嘴客运码头搭了一个小时的船，踏入澳门领土的那一刻，我和朋友都按捺不住心里头的兴奋，尤其当我想到整条街的杏仁饼在召唤我的时候。。所以第一站，当然就是。。澳门心脏地带：议事亭前地和邻近的大三巴街。

议事亭前地 整个广场的地面都由碎石铺成波浪状

看过那么多口味的肉干吗？

吃了我记不起多少个杏仁饼，直到感觉腻了，才肯停口。可是那杏仁饼的余香，仍久久不散，尤其是刚出炉的热烘烘的炭烧杏仁饼~~300块船票特地来到澳门，最大的心愿：品尝杏仁饼，已经实现：）

来到大三巴，当但少不了参观大三巴牌坊，澳门的标志之一。历经三次大火的教堂，烧剩前壁牌坊，但仍然庄严。

来到澳门，自然少不了去赌场。澳门赌场林立，我们只选了两间来参观，最新的拉斯韦加斯属下的金沙赌场和金沙建成前最有名的葡京赌场。要去赌场，根本不必担心不懂怎么去，各个赌场在码头已经开始抢生意，专车载送游客来回赌场及码头。

金沙

葡京

学了大半个学期的game theory，没有在赌场派上用场，只有看着aunty uncle看似专业的买大买小，或把钱送进老虎口，老虎再还以丁丁当当的声音，只有不断的吸二手烟，吃免费的三文治喝免费的饮料，看性感的女郎表演。

还去了渔人码头。

我来到了罗马竞技场

火山爆发？？

这个澳币港币人民币通用的行政区，就如三币通用的现象一样可爱。如果大太阳不要show它可爱的一面，肯委屈地“犹抱云层半遮面”，今天的旅程将更完美：）

丹麦中行 Danmark Nationalbanks

2007-03-17T09:57:00.001-07:00

一个由校方主办的活动。
This's an afternoon activity organized by the school.

坦白说我没有很期待这个出游，反而是当天所发生的其他事情占据我更多的注意力。
Franky speaking I was not looking forward to this outing, on that day there were much more things that direct my attention away from it.

废话不多说，看照片吧——
No nonsense, let's look at the pictures now...

明亮干净的职员餐厅

好我承认我很笨

请大家跟我这样做：

把你的上半身向你的左下方转九十度；

当当当！这是中央银行的入口大门！

是钥匙插口的形状！！！

结束后yt的晚餐：闻名遐迩的丹麦开口三文治

右边烤鱼的很好吃

我的，左边是whatever+鹅肝酱；右边是生鱼片；

教训：贪新鲜就要有足够的心理准备

惯例：大合照

嗯，基本上我是贪吃的人的本性表露无遗，不好意思——

(^\__ 这句就不翻译了——)

茶餐厅

2007-03-15T06:29:00.000-07:00

看过tvb剧集的你，是否对照片中的茶餐厅感到熟悉呢？
还记得剧中的黑社会帮派聚首的茶餐室吗？
就是它了位于庙街的美都餐室
两层楼的餐室有点老旧但这样才更像黑帮谈判之地吧心想

怀着兴奋又紧张的心情（怕有黑社会大佬在里面：P）踏入茶餐厅，发现里面水静河霏，没有满脸恶相的大佬，也没有手执棍棒的跟班，只有一桌桌美食和享用美食的顾客。

毕竟不是在拍戏，想太多，哈！

IT'S BACK...again..

2007-03-09T08:39:00.000-08:00

it's not even winter..doesnt even feel anything close to autumn...but my rashes has come back again..i'm hoping it won't spread to my legs now...started on my right arm and now my left arm is "infected" too..

i hv been here abt a mth and my god..why did this come so fast?? how many times did i actually visit the doc within this month? i remember speaking to the nurse and i asked her if she remembers me cos I remember her..she was the one tt made such a big thing of my swollen feet last year and told me tt i hv to be bedridden or i have to wear crutches to school..

i pray i don get it this time again..although i noe for sure tt it wont be diabetes and kidney failure that made me cry for 1 whole week last year, it's still not a reassuring thing to happen to anyone..

i actually tried to take pics of my skin and thought of posting up here..but i decided against it in the end..it's not polite to i guess..i don noe.. if asked to describe, to me it looks like a WHOLE SWARM OF MOSQUITOES came to bite my arms such tt it's lumpy, red, dry and painful with open wounds.. but today when i went to the pharmacy, the guy handling my purchase asked if I BURNT MYSELF....for a moment, i was shocked..reali..i didn think of tt possibility..tt my rashes could very well pass as burns..

my response: i looked at my arms and while i sighed in my heart, i smiled a resigned smile at him and explained tt i am born with hypersensitive skin and this is a condition of atopic eczema or dermatitis..

how many times in my growing up years did i question why do i hv eczema?...why??? how much money did my parents spent since i was young and attached to the national skin centre and how many creams and medicines did i consume since then? my mother once said tt our home is like a mini pharmacy..i don doubt tt..NSC dispenses medicines by boxes..6 tubes of creams in one box and another 4 in another..and they are not cheap..how many steroids have i used till my skin thinned and its colour changed? how many foods i cant eat..how many activities i cant do...how many inconveniences tt i have to live with cos of my skin condition..how many stares and comments do i get...i cant answer all the questions here..but i can answer one..

---HOW MANY MORE YEARS MUST I LIVE WITH THIS?

Answer: forever..it cant be cured..even if i conscientiously dump huge amts of moisturisers on my skin and a nverending stream of steroids or anti-histamines to stop the itch..these are only stop-gap measures..it wont change things..even when i die..my children wont be spared..it's sad tt after all that i went through, i still hv to live with the possibility tt my children wld get this and suffer the same fate as me too..

the doctor in sch told me to do this to ensure tt the moisture is locked into the skin---apply my cream then apply a thick layer of moisturiser then take the PLASTIC WRAP tt is used to wrap up food to keep in the fridge overnight and wrap around my both arms tightly, then sleep. or i could choose to use a bandage...

my initial reaction was: what's the world coming to? i reali cant blif i need to bandage my arms to sleep..but i cant do anything except listen..

maybe..maybe i shd look on the bright side..tt if it comes earlier maybe it will go away and heal earlier too..so tt it wont be like last year when i looked so ugly and sore on my 21st bdae..

this is another question tt i cant ans..till that time..i guess i shd start my bandage ritual..it's late and i still got to experiment with the plastic wrap around my arms..

宝藏

2007-03-08T21:43:00.000-08:00

我的天啊~

这里的图书馆，单是“中国文学”这一小领域的藏书量，就比南大所有中文书的藏书量多上几倍！！

一口气借了十多本书。。
当然，是为了写报告，呵呵

差一点都要忘记过新年

2007-03-06T12:37:00.000-08:00

二月的时候去了一趟爱尔兰，
五天的旅行旷了三天的课之去了首都都柏林。
This February I went to Ireland.
A trip of 5 days and class-skipping 3 days I only went to its capital, Dublin.

醉翁之意不在酒。要玩的不是风景本身。
Needless to say, what really matters isn't the places of interest.

在学期开始前的语文课认识了一班朋友，
刚开始时完全是一盘散沙：一下课即是鸟兽散；
课程结束后其中一个朋友想去都柏林，
人拉人居然也有五个女生回应，
再加上最后一刻入伙的德国男同学，
今年的新年我居然在那个对它的全部认识只有听说刚完全独立共和军刚解散的国家过了。

During the pre-sem language class I knew some friends,
at first we were only hi-bye friends: once the class dismissed everyone was gone;
when the class ended, one of the friends suggested a trip to Dublin,
after asking around there were 5 girls who were interested,
plus a last-minute Germany guy, in total we were 6.
Thus, I had my CNY at the place where all I know about it was the Irish war of independence.

因为贴的字数和浏览人数成反比，现在大家跟我一起看照片。＝）
Due to the fact that the number of words in a post is negatively related to the number of visitors, I'll then stop here and you're invited to go thru' the pics with me. =)

除夕在网咖和妈妈讲电话

还可以听见8个时差以外的鞭炮声

闻名遐迩的爱尔兰酒吧

请叫我们美女

请叫他们色胚

公园里心情很好的我，居然在唱歌

基督教大教堂（Christ Church Cathedral）

旅游手册上第一名的观光胜地，但是是一间要收入门票的教堂，

大家都很有骨气地不要进。

周末都柏林的购物街

不知道是不是在哥本哈根呆得太久，总觉得都柏林的街道很拥挤。

都柏林城堡（Dublin Castle ）

导游太太很用心地解释我们很小心地偷做王位拍照，

我知道我们很恶劣！

西郊的海岸线

某公园的全年的关园时间

朋友对我连这个都要拍很不明白

天空很蓝

低气压的某天撞进公园

发现冬季的哥本哈根里久违的好天气

我爱食物

花開的季節

2007-03-06T02:00:00.000-08:00

花開了，代表春天降臨了（是的吧！）
天氣卻轉涼了。。蕭瑟的風，在述説一個苦澀的事實：該從冬眠中醒過來，為課業忙碌了

不是來exchange的嗎？不是pass就好了嗎？何必那麽用功？你會問。

這些問題，我和這裡的幾位exchange朋友也自問了一次又一次

只是
想要説服自己不必太努力的同時，卻又埋首在成堆的期中考和報告中，苟延殘喘
然後又在苟延殘喘的同時，無奈的問着：我們不是來exchange的嗎？
自我説服成功率有待提升

是kiasu的心態也好，是履行學生的責任也罷，反正做好報告考好成績是本能的追求

突然想起
大嶼山天壇大佛的大腳

Youth collective fracas at Nørrebro!!

2007-03-01T14:23:00.000-08:00

seems like this thing is getting serious. i have heard of it few days ago, and expected it to happen, BUT i never expected it to be this serious. when i rode my bike along Nørrebrogaede to school this morning, hundreds of people were watching it. it did cross my mind, but i didnt bother much as i was rushing to school.then it was a peaceful afternoon in the student house with yixin, until we decided to head home for dinner after 7pm. not even 5 minutes of riding, we heard exploding sounds, we saw flames, we saw smoke, we saw the police cars. but we moved on. getting nearer to it, we were taken aback. it was my first time seeing this. demo! fire in the middle of the main road of Nørrebrogaede! omg! i wanted to kaypo so much, but luckily yixin was with me, otherwise i won't be here posting this entry at this time. the condition was so bad that the smoke hurt my eyes so much. it was difficult to breath too. it's all because of the tearbombs! it's no joke, man. was so suffocating that i told yixin to stop by at a nearby shop. and omg, even 7-11 was closed! we decided to continue heading home, taking another route back home and im glad we arrived safely. but things are expected to get worse. it's scary!

filling in forms...take note

2007-03-01T07:29:00.000-08:00

when asked to fill in our personal particulars on a form...

an excerpt from the phone numbers section of the form:

home: _sweet home __
office hours: _9am-5pm___
after hours: _minutes___
mobile: _yes, I am cos I'm not handicapped__

- _ -""

黄大仙祠

2007-02-24T00:35:00.000-08:00

这是香港一个最多善信的祠庙，因为据说黄大仙“有求必应”，签文尤其灵验。
每年农历新年前后，是祠庙香火最鼎盛的时候，信徒纷纷前来求问一整年的运势及酬谢神恩。

带着一颗看热闹但不失庄重的心，两手空空，没香没水果更没烧猪，来到了黄大仙庙。

一个在tvb剧集中，师奶演员的口中常提及的庙，就在眼前。

不忘带走一碗肠粉。

snowy day

2007-02-21T11:40:00.000-08:00

wooohooo..! it snowed almost the whole of today! these three pics were taken while we were waiting for the bus to go to the school. ah, what was yixin trying to do? (siang leng, do you know her?? why was she next to you? lol) oh and look... snowballs!! we had fun playing snow fight though, just before our development econs lecture :) fun, FUN!!

yup, that's how one of our lecture halls looks like. and oh, finn's our development econs lecturer. his flight was delayed, hence he was a lil' late for lecture today.

oh that's nuno and pretty margarida, our coursemates from portugal :) picture taken while waiting for prof finn!

look at how thick the snow was! this picture was captured when we were on the way home after school. it's beautiful when it snows! i love it :)

and not forgetting... siang leng and i got a pair of boots each! noone in the world would ever guess correctly how much we paid for our boots! well, it's only dkk50, which is about sgd14!! omg!!

happy cny 2007!

2007-02-21T10:44:00.000-08:00

our activities for chinese new year celebration:

1. fri (16/2/07) - dinner at sam&terri's place. it's a typical cosy jewish apartment with paintings hung on wall and candles to lit up the apartment (wow..!) we managed to get students from ntu, nus and smu together. it was a great knowing and meeting them. and the food was GOOD :) we had steamed salmon, sweet&sour pork, black pepper chicken, thai green curry chicken, xiaobaicai and laksa friend rice *droolz*

2. sat (17/2/07) - time for reunion dinner! we attended the reunion dinner organised by students from CUHK. we had all food typically found during cny celebration: chicken herbal soup, spring roll, pineapple tarts, yee sang, wanton, etc. the food was just good (the food at sam&terry's place was GOOD :P). it's great getting to know those friendly ones :)

3. sun (18/2/07) - the first day of cny! gong xi fa cai! siang leng and i visited china town. we met up with ayu, yee hong, sam and terri for a buffet lunch before heading to andersen's cemetry. i have no idea why we visited the cemetry on the FIRST day of cny. we basically broke all the rules - we visited the cemetry, trimmed our fingernails, vacuumed the floor, etc on the FIRST DAY of cny! oh my..!

oh yeah.. this is how yee hong looks like when he refuses to take photo of himself. "wanna fight?" lol.

alrite, peeps... hope you guys enjoy yourself during cny. may this new year brings you happiness, health and wealth! :)

chocolate bars 巧克力条们

2007-02-20T13:46:00.000-08:00

As usual, there're alot of chocolates on my table/in my fridge.

This is a pic of BOUNTY coconut chocolates taken/copyright reserved by my lovely roommie Yeoktho...yup I think her phototaking technique is getting better and better. =)

一如往常，我的桌子上/冰箱里有很多巧克力。

这是一张BOUNTY椰子馅的巧克力条的照片，由我可爱的室友

yeoktho 拍摄。。。我觉得她的摄影技术又进步了。=）

由白粥變鮑魚

2007-02-20T06:15:00.000-08:00

以爲新年將會是一個人孤單度過，但堂姐一家人的到來，卻讓我感受到不一樣的新年。
年初二一早，與堂姐一家人會合。原害怕會尷尬，因爲很久不見。但原來喜慶時期在他鄉遇親戚的感覺是如此的親切美好，那種孤單失落的感覺頓時消失。
吃點心時，無意閒說起南Y島，堂姐夫就爽快地說：去吧！於是，我們在那裏經歷了大家的第一次：行山。沿著山路，由南Y島的榕樹灣，爬過幾個山頭，到達另一端的索罟灣，費時一個多小時左右。

在索罟灣，本人又經歷了人生的另一個第一次：吃真鮑魚！還有幾種不知道什麽名字，但從沒吃過的海鮮。

花了將近900元，除了感激，還是深深地感激。感激的除了是讓我體會到了我之前都沒有機會吃的東西，更是因爲讓我體會到親戚閒的微妙感情。才知道一直以來指揮羡慕別人與親人閒的親密感情，自己卻從來沒有給自己給親人機會，讓彼此靠得更近。

就這樣三步一小吃，五步一糖水，十步一大餐的情況下度過了和他們在一起的兩天，新年呆在房裏吃白粥麥片的減肥計劃也宣告泡湯。

獨在異鄉為異客。幸好，有你們的陪伴，即便只有兩天，也已足夠我滿足。謝謝~

my creations

2007-02-19T22:43:00.000-08:00

after buying my hotplate, it's time i start experimenting with cooking again..hee~

luckily, no one's gonna suffer cos i am the guinea pig! =P

anyway, so far, it has been delicious...and i am enjoying the time spent cooking too =).

above: basa fillet with mashed potatoes and cherry tomato soup
guinea pig's verdict: delicious but i added too much oil so there's room for improvement.

above: pasta muesli
guinea pig's verdict: tastes ok but should cook the pasta longer and add more sauce too. overall--nutritious, low-fat and high in fibre.

next try at pasta...noting my mistakes previously and aiming to improve....hmmm~

above: pasta with tomato and romano cheese sauce
guinea pig's verdict: sauce and pasta are just right and the sauce is thick enough. however, a dash of basil or italian herb leaves would enhance the flavour of the tomatoes.

now, i am in my pasta craze...haha, actually it's cos i bought the pasta sauce so must quickly try to finish it la..but everyday just eat pasta wif tt sauce alone boring sia..so my brain starts working again...

can u guess what's inside? hee~

above: pasta bows with peach and plum puree and mashed potaotes

guinea pig's verdict: i simply love this dish!yummy! the sauce is thick and is naturally sweetened by the plum and peach while the tomato-based pasta sauce which is a little soury checks that the sweetness is not too overwhelming. this dish has no oil, only 2 grams of fat from the pasta and the fruits provide the fibre and vitamin c. the potatoes also has anti-oxidants..hmmm, i'm so happie =)

above: milky pasta with plum and peach puree
guinea pig's verdict: this one doesnt look as appetising as the former but it's more tangy cos of the hardened milk which tastes like cheese...just that this is without the fats..haha..the 1st pic looks like lontong..i don noe what i did to the cam such tt the colour in the 2nd pic looks different. anyway, i like the sauce cos the peach and orange miraculously retained their juiciness while at the same time giving the sauce a hint of sweetness..yummy!

CNY alone...

2007-02-18T00:27:00.000-08:00

there is practically no sign of chinese new year in brisbane..not unless u step into chinatown...since there was no one to accompany me, i went there alone today..

this is a kungfu performance by the shaolin kungfu group in brisbane. most of them are young kids and ALL are caucasians.

the sunday markets in chinatown was more lively this time and many aussies were seen buying the red and gold pig decorations.

this is a pig-shaped pouch..its so soft and cute i even thought of buying it for myself..all of them have a small pink ribbon on the side of their right ears..i didnt buy in the end though, its 7.20sgd!

this roadside thai style chicken satay is one of the biggest and fattest ones i have seen before..highly unhealthy though...

my lunch. bought from the same stall above. its a thai/laos delicacy and its made of glutinous rice, red bean and banana. banana leaves are used to tie it up tightly and then they are steamed. the beige thing u see in the pic is the banana..taste---a little sweet and sticky..you get sick of eating it after a while though...

團年飯。。

2007-02-17T04:18:00.000-08:00

年三十晚，白粥配bovril牛肉汁，一個人的團年飯，一個人的夜晚。。
每逢佳節倍思親，隱約感受到了。。想念的不是家裏豐盛的晚餐，而是一家人一起吃飯的溫馨感覺~
這是tradeoff,要來香港，就要嘗試美和家人一起過年的滋味

不過還是謝謝新加坡的朋友們，在年三十晚的兩天前準備了豐盛的晚餐，早來的團年飯~

outing to sunnybank

2007-02-16T23:01:00.000-08:00

today,Mandy and I went to sunnybank for lunch and supposedly to buy my heater for winter and my hotplate to cook too...sunnybank is the so-called "2nd chinatown in brisbane".. we settled for shanghai food at the shanghai noodle house..below is a picture of wat I ate...hey, its so much i couldn't finish!!!

shanghai fried noodles with minced pork

anyway, it was reali delicious and judging from my strict food restrictions that it cant be too oily/salty, cant hv too much green leafy veggies and cant hv seafood..(lord noes what else in the world am i gonna eat?!)..this dish still earned my praise! haha..it was seriously not too oily and salty and with chinese tea to wash down any excess oil, i did not suffer from any "withdrawal symptoms" due to it being to salty and/or oily...

and...greedy me..i caught sight of a crepe store and it only costs 3.50aud--it's considered cheap le in aussie terms.. the menu made my mouth water..the price? it made my hand "itch"...my brain? it was in a dilemma...*0* hahaha..

anyway, the menu has items like mayonaise with pork floss crepe, banana with nutella crepe, peach yoghurt with crepe, gelato with crepe, banana custard crepe etc....i was SPOILT FOR CHOICE!...i chose the last one in the end and omg, it was super delicious!

the crepe is hot and crisp and the heat made the custard melt which meshed well with the soft bananas and left a creamy and lingering after taste..omg..its heavenly! sigh, i wanted to take a picture of it b4 eating but haha greedy me alr bit a bit off!

banana custard crepe
--you cant exactly see the filling here but well, i'm telling you its delicious and u gotta believe me ya?

on the way back to my home, i saw the most no. of police cars in my whole life..there were reali ALOT...more than 10 and their lights were on and hey, they were not empty and had real policemen in them...a whole section of the roads in the city was cordoned off too....what's happening???

on the extreme left, you see the van with the big camera on top? haha..many pple stood around to take pictures too..hee, and i thot only sgpns were kaypoh! haha..=P

haha..they were actually filming a show and all the white cars you see lining up behind one another are ALL police cars..haiz...nan de let me see a show being filmed live and why...of all places in aussie when i noe none of the stars..i don feel as much excitement...sigh..let me see one in HK or TW..hmm, or even Sg wld be more exciting compared to....

k k, to everyone out there..do have a safe and happie cny with ur frens and family =)

my room--1st and 2nd home~

2007-02-15T17:48:00.000-08:00

now comes the pictures of my room....

the first is a picture of my doorway with the kitchen and toilet on the right.

then comes my study table and the clothes hanger that i use to dry my clothes

then the view from outside my room. if you look at the beige triangular-shaped bldg in the background, tts on the other side of the brisbane river already. the white structure on its right is the south bank ferry terminal. i live on the 13th floor and it's not high enough to get a view of the river itself cos the city bldgs are tall la.. =(

(below)

(above)

this brown bldgs on the left is another apartment and it has a cheap and good chinese restaurant on the grd floor..it's owned by a HK family and every dish u order allows u to drink their daily herbal soups for free! they also sell bubble tea =)

this one is the right-side view from my room. on the left are all Queensland government offices and the right is a condo..ya la..only rich ppl can live in the city..their houses are reali nice and their gym opens late into the night..

this one is the picture hanging on the wall beside my bed..i'm not an artistic person and don reali understand what this picture is trying to portray..any one out there care to give any comments/interpretations??? i guess it must mean sthg anyway...hmmm, when i am bored, maybe i will start counting the no. of triangles in the drawing..kaka =P

last but not least comes the pic of my bed and the two big luggages beside..my room isn't big la..and no place left for my luggages so there it is lor..oh, you noe, just trying to carry the luggages to squeeze into that hole there which was JUST NICE for them is not an easy task..I ACTUALLY SCRATCHED the walls and the paint came off! hopefully whoever inspects my room when i leave doesn deduct the costs of repainting from my security bond....hmmm...

this last one is the picture of my room in sg. the bed nearest the window is mine and the one just beside it is my 2nd sister's. my youngest sis bed is to the right of hers and is not shown in the pic..haha..i took a picture of my bedroom using my hp b4 i left so tt i wont forget how my bed looks like?? hee~..BUT....i don think it will remain the same when i go back in dec..my parents definitely won't be leaving my poor bed there to rot for 10mths w/o me...wonder what they wld do wif it?...hmm..

ah..you all see a nemo fish in the bkgrd? hee..that was given to me by my dear kids world frens when we met for my farewell dinner..why nemo fish? hee..cos our group name was nemo ma..hmm..but i sure felt embarrassed carrying it back home..there was actually one instance where a toddler on a pram was holding his bear and staring up at my nemo fish..i just looked at him with a helpless blank look...hahahaa = D

first week in my 2nd home

2007-02-15T09:16:00.000-08:00

arrived and back to my familiar surroundings--unilodge brisbane..i said a big hi to the counter staff who still remembered me and breezed through the registering and checking in since the procedures were still fresh in my mind--haha, my memory is good ma...=P

the residential manager of unilodge brisbane is andy, a singaporean who speaks fluent cantonese. he smiled at me and said, "welcome back"..

my parents were so worried as to who will be helping me lug my luggage when they were not around anymore..situations that i possibly hv to lug my luggage alone:

1) taking it off the luggage belt after landing to load onto trolley
2) carrying it up the steps to go into unilodge brisbane
3) dragging 2 luggages into the lift in unilodge while scanning my card and pressing the button at the same time--possible only if i have more hands?!
4) getting them out of the lift at the same time so neither me nor the luggage is left behind to visit other levels..

but..i met reali nice ppl all the way so all of the above scenarios were easily solved and i thankfully did not suffer any back injuries..hee~

i had arranged for airport reception which is free and this aussie driver is reali nice..and STRONG too! he can actually carry 60kg all at 1 go and up the stairs through to the main door of unilodge! wow..my dad cant even do that..boy, and this aussie guy didn even pant..he was still smiling..

me? i could just manage thank yous and thank you very muchs all the way...

up the lift?the unilodge in-house repair man carried both into the lift for me and into my room too..me? i was just responsible for pressing lift buttons and unlocking the door..and this porter service has no need for tips! =)

the next few days after that was spent settling my credit transfer process..going to school and buying my groceries and sim card..

settling credit transfer is a real tedious and frustrating process..yt has a very nice lady to honour and praise..i also have one too..she is the international student admissions officer from the BEL Faculty in UQ and her name is Ms Laura Chaudhry. (BEL=Biz, Econs and Law)

Before I left UQ after my exchange, I went to see her regarding the chances of transfer..during my last sem at NTU, we converse through emails and now she is also the one handling the credit transfer for my econs subs. I have 7 subs for econs left to do b4 i grad with my BEcons and 9 left for my BArts degree.

Laura has been with me through the whole psychological, emotional and administrative processes of transferring to UQ as a whole..not just credits..She opens up and shares with me about her degree and student years in UQ and has the amazing ability to speak to your heart. I am so glad I got to know her, in fact I treat her as a friend. I remember meeting her to finalise my credit transfer on the 8th Feb. We shook hands and her first question: "How does it feel like coming back to UQ?" haha.., seems like coming "back"--"homecoming"? hmm, so this is reali my 2nd home after all?

hmm, i read all your entries and feel reali happie for you all tt your exchange life is so exciting and interesting =). it's good to hv frens with you ya? and to make new frens too..

for me, most of the things here are what i have seen b4..so the novelty is not reali there anymore..in fact, me reali kiasu la..so did alot of research b4 coming over the first time and i wasnt exactly a "new" student last time too..today when i was at the student centre in UQ, i met a sgpn girl who came up to the counter beside me and said to the lady behind the counter: "hi, i just came to brisbane and am a new student..what shd i do?" when asked for her passport, she said "oh ok (searching and searching) sorry i think i din bring..sori ah i am very blur (then laughs)". so the person asked for her driver's license or any photo id, she rummaged through her bag looking for her wallet and gave her IC in the end but her actions was so animated, it made me laugh..after a while, she said (hand in her bag) "oh, i think i found my passport already..." haha..

maybe i shd not read up too much before coming over or going to a new place at times? so i get to be blur and experience the feeling of being a "new" student who know nothing at all--who hasnt settled accomod when he/she arrives, who have no idea how to register for subs on the my SI-net account, who don't noe their way around sch, who don noe how to open a bank acct, who don noe their way ard the city...there are just so many uncertainties and don-noes for first time arrivers..

for me, my dad was the one who navigated the city streets for me and brought me ard when i first came to brisbane. even going to sch he told me where to take the ferry and how to walk from unilodge to there and so i, armed with the sch map, went on the ferry and walked ard the campus b4 orientation so i wldnt get lost. opening bank accts was also settled tgt with my parents who settled everything for me. so was accomod fees payment which my dad promptly paid..

hmm...i hope and wish..one day..i can reali be a "new" student in "new" un-navigated surroundings..i want to experience it first-hand myself..not guided..i want to make a fool and get lost and ask around and feel scared and panic..it's all part of the fun..right? when everything is all planned and secure...isn't this just like home? my second home?

leaving my first home

2007-02-15T09:14:00.000-08:00

last tuesday night, i left my first home...i thought i would cry...hmm, but i didnt. the only thing that made me cry was when i went to visit my grandma before leaving for the airport. I hope this 1 year when I am not in Singapore, nothing will happen to her. She has diarrhoea 7 times a day now and can't eat any food with too much oil after her large intestine was removed. It's odd, I don't usually go to visit her often, but here in my 2nd home, I think I will miss her the most.

checking my luggage in and no one wld believe that 3 ppl had to lift 1 luggage bag of mine! i brought 2 big luggage bags totalling 60kg! and my dad was parking his car so left all of us girls trying to lift it off the trolley..

just when we thought it was done, the lady behind the counter told us that my luggage bag has overshot the limit for an indvdl luggage. each luggage shd weigh at most 32kg and mine weighed a whopping 37kg!..so, we had to lift it back onto the trolley...haiz..just when we thought the worse was over....

so...open my luggage and throw out things into the other big luggage i got..while some are permanently thrown out..n not to be seen till i return home again in dec...among the things thrown out are: my winter clothes, my hangers, cds...

my dad will be dropping by brisbane to give me those stuff this sat when he comes dwn with his frens for golf..hmm...w/o the hangers, many of my clothes cant be hanged and this explains the mess in my wardrobe..hee~

i didn expect many ppl to send me off but wow..even my mother's brother and sister came along..

when it was time to say goodbye, i didn't cry..in fact i walked through the customs and went scouting for the free internet stations straightaway..haha!

eventually found it and was happily checking and replying emails...la di da..
15min limit up and so i logged off and just glanced at the tv screen...omg, LAST CALL liao....

i remember yt calling me on her phone when her flight was last call too..i also remember telling her tt i wouldnt be so brave to try such a thing on my own flight and...here i am..

anyway, no time to think liao, so i just ran and ran and boy, reali din realise my gate was so damn far away!

reached liao..but hey..there are still so many ppl in the boarding lounge! haiz..scare me only la..but well, it was a lesson learnt nonetheless..hee~

新年咯！行花市咯！

2007-02-15T04:02:00.000-08:00

以前看港剧，偶尔会听到花市，以为是个卖花的地方。后来知道了原来每年的农历新年前夕，男女老少都会往花市涌去，但还是以为花市就是卖花的大市场。入乡随俗，既然难得在香港度新年，当然少不了逛花市。而且还要发挥kiasu心态，要去就选最大的花市。

tt's why I found myself at victoria park, the biggest flower market @ hk.

原来花市不只有卖花~~花只占了一条街

原来可以找到很多可爱的“咚咚”。适逢今年猪年，猪仔们大行其道，走到哪里都看到他们。

原来还有表演看

当然少不了，还有吃的！应yixin和yutao的要求，故特别多拍了几张食物的照片，一解她们只有吃面包苹果的当儿对香港食物的渴求。一如以往，一口二用：口里一边说减肥，食物也一边往口里塞。图为糯米糍（有四种口味！），钵仔糕，鸡仔饼，鱼蛋。

适逢今天是情人节，档主们当然少不了情人节财新年财一起发，于是各类情人节相关商品被卖被买得不亦乐乎。真奇怪，情人节那么浪漫的日子，为什么还会有情人跑来那么拥挤的花市。。xianz..:)

祝愿我的朋友们农历新年快乐~

敏宝
一个人的新年

Small small world 小小个的世界

2007-02-11T13:16:00.000-08:00

Copenhagen H station, is a new discovery I like very much here.

我的新发现：哥本哈根主车站

A miniature of train station!!!

微型的火车站！！！

One 2kr makes a train moves for one round.

When a pass-by inserted a coin and a train moved, I was sososossoso excited!!!

When more and more trains started to move, it was so beautiful!!!

It's just...NICE...

两个丹麦克朗让一列火车转一圈。

当一个路人投入硬币启动火车时，我真的很很很兴奋！！！

然后更多的火车开始移动，真的很漂亮！！！

就是。。。很好看！！！

I'll save money, next time i will be inserting coins, I promise.

我会存钱，下次，我一定投硬币。

p/s The 1st picture is a candid shot of my cute roommate...

I don't want to say this, but...omg, isn't she lovely?

...having such a roommate cum best friend is kind of bad,

cos you'll think yourself as ugly and fat every moment she is around,

that's really depressing, haiz, Yt, you're breaking my heart... =)

我可爱的室友的未完成照，不是我要讲。。。她很讨人喜欢对不对？

有这种朋友兼室友就是有这种不好，

当她在你身边的每一分钟，你都会觉得自己又丑又肥，

实在让我伤心，喂，yt，你很伤我的心你懂吗哈？

长洲行

2007-02-10T07:38:00.000-08:00

长洲，一个从中环要搭1小时渡轮才到达的渔港，郭晋安的故乡，我来了。

这是一个水情沙幼，海鲜食肆林立的地方。不过，我们一行四个人还是决定吃点心。吃了7笼，价钱实在惊人！便宜得惊人！79元港币，每人各付20元，新币4元！我的天，怎么会有那么便宜又好吃的点心！

然后就是消耗卡路里的时候了。去了岛上可游览的两个地方：北帝庙和张保仔洞。这张保仔洞实在得好好介绍一番。洞穴据说是19世纪著名海盗张保仔的藏宝之地
。我们必须先搭一艘船去到另一个小岛，在爬一些石阶，就到了张保仔洞入口。

那是个黑暗且超狭窄的洞穴(下图所示为入口)，必须用手电筒才可以进入。这是我生平第一次进入那么狭窄黑暗的洞口，很有探险队的感觉！缓慢小心前进了一小段路，终于来到了较为宽敞的地方，相信就是海盗藏宝的地方。然后继续往前走到出口。虽然整个路程并不长，可以说很短，但是却是个非常难忘的体验。

一如往常，游览了几个地方后，又是小吃时间。怎么整条街都在卖吃的？？！！又怎么那些小吃都好像在呼唤着我们？？！！结果。。。可想而知。明天，明天我不会吃那么多的 

长洲岛一隅

这个冬末不太冷

2007-02-09T16:28:00.000-08:00

怎么和copenhagen那么大差别？香港的这个冬末，温度实在是罕有。竟然达到26度，比上两个月经常下雨时的新加坡温度还要高。

上两个星期还一直埋怨天气很冷，没想到天气那么善解人意，整个星期都很听话的给我来个20度以上。结果刚买的两件寒衣都几乎派不上用场，就算硬硬把它们穿出去见见世面，也要随时把它们脱掉，因为头上的大太阳让我觉得用他们来当挡阳伞比当御寒的衣服更实际。

开始怀念起之前的较冷温度（人总是那么矛盾，有的时候就不喜欢，没有的时候就想念），至少当时候可以因为寒冷这借口而偷懒不洗澡，现在可要每天洗啦，因为出门会流汗！：）

以为春天的气温不会太高，所以就没有从新加坡带备短袖衣。感谢新年回新的朋友愿意替我带些短袖衣回来。也感谢fl和little monk愿意替我转交我的衣物给这位朋友。

据说这个冬天的天气让人始料不及。北京现在应该是0度左右，可是今年却罕见的达到16度。看来不只yixin的温度计坏了，连世界的气候也坏了，人为的损坏。

I want to die...it's so cold!!! 要死。。。狗冷！！！

2007-02-09T13:05:00.000-08:00

I almost finished 1 package of cereal just now, with hot milk...
that cereal is 375 g...and 470kcal per 100g...

我刚刚差不多要吞下一包麦片谷粮：375克，

每100克470大卡的毒药；加热牛奶；

That is because of the temperature——

因为温度——

it's so coldddd now!!!!

I thought I've get used to it,
since I have been here for one month, but it is just ... COLD!!!!

现在很冷！！！
我以为我已经适应了，怎么说我来这里也已经一个月了，可是现在真的是很狗冷！！！

My lovely roommie yeoktho and housemate just came back,
they were complaining the freezingly cold weather outside.

我亲爱的室友玉桃和HOUSEMATE刚刚从外面回来，投诉着外面气温很冷。

I can't agree more...standing beside the opened door in short pants is killing me...

close the door plssss...

我完全同意。。。穿着短裤站在冷风吹来的门口我要死掉了。。。来来来，门关一下。。。

We were very stupid here,
keep measuring the indoor and outdoor temperature...

我们在这里做着蠢事，
一直在量室内和室外的温度。。。

...right outside our door (jump back to my bed,shouting)...
after 5 mins, it showed 4 degree, that was in the doorway...

门外的走廊（然后跳回床，尖叫）；五分钟后，它显示4度。。。

...in the room...26 degree,

this temperature reader was definitely out of order...

房间里面：26度，这个温度计坏了。。。

...right outside our small balcony (shouting and jumping back to my bed)...

After 2 mins, it showed 8 degree,
I need to throw this reader away...

我们的小阳台上（尖叫着跳回我的床）；两分钟后，它显示8度，

这个温度计可以丢掉了。。。

Check online: -3 degree,
and with windchill: -10 degree

I DON'T WANT TO GO OUT LATER!!!

上网查一下：-3度，
外面是起风时：-10 度

我等下不要出去！！！

snow!

2007-02-09T00:10:00.000-08:00

like any other mornings here, waking up, having breakfast & bath w/o lookin' through the windows. realisation struck me when siang leng told me about it! i gave her that "oh, really?" look. "look!", she said while having her finger pointing to the window in our kitchen. this is what i saw:

with my sampat (38) face, i went to the room where yixin and i stay, and this is what i captured :)

it's so beautiful, isn't it?

Some little thoughts 又是一点感想

2007-02-04T13:03:00.000-08:00

"He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome."

“正因为他所经历过的悲伤和苦恼，他现在更清楚地认识到身边的喜悦和美好——许多美丽的天鹅游向这位新朋友，亲热地喙着他的脖子表示欢迎。”

I think everyday's life is a journey to make oneself a better person than yesterday, although everyone defines what makes a good person differently. Some people choose a different destination, some choose to stop traveling...no matter what decisions they have made, they all have impact on my life and my journey, especially now, when I am so far away from my dearest family and friends.

觉得每一天的生活是一个旅程：让自己比昨日成为一个更好的人——虽然每一个人对如何成为一个更好的人都有不同的定义。有的人选定了一个不同的目的地，有的人选择停止旅行。。。不管他们做了怎样的决定，他们或多或少都影响了我的人生、我的旅程。特别是现在，当我远远地离开最亲爱的家人和朋友的时候。

Without handsome prince and pretty princess, the ugly duckling is never my favorite fairy tale. But I really hope that I'll be a swan one day, just like the duckling in the story. I hope that when I come back to my hometown a few months later, I have something new and good in myself that is ready to be shared with my family and friends.

没有英俊的王子和美丽的公主的《丑小鸭》从来不是我最爱的童话，但是我真的希望有一天，我会变成一只天鹅，一如故事里的小鸭。我希望：几个月后当我回到故乡，我有一些新的、好的东西可以和他们分享。

I really hope so.

dim sum!!

2007-02-04T02:24:00.001-08:00

我最期待的一天：吃点心的早上终于来临了！

说来惭愧。来了香港那么久，都还没有尝试过香港人的文化：饮茶吃点心。机会终于来了！
感谢朋友的local buddy-Lu,约我和朋友到上水的美心酒楼和她的家人共进早餐。小女子打从来到香港第一天就对吃点心的欲望欲罢不能，所以即使在短短的一个月内胖了两公斤（你相信吗？我都要撞墙了！香港是个陷阱，让人越踩越深无法自拔！），也奋身和我美味的点心同归于尽！

和朋友兴致勃勃，决定从宿舍走去山下的大学火车站。这是一个勇敢的决定，还好是下山，只要不断的走捷径，下楼梯，还算轻松。加上天气回暖，走起来格外精神。（其实是应为想到可以吃点心所以特别开心，呵呵）。让你们和我一起游览今早我走过的路程吧！

首先是起点--宿舍。

一路的往下走，发现中大真是个花园校园，风景很不错~

也不知下了多少级楼梯，走了多久的路，终于到了大学火车站。20分钟的火车带我们到了上水，美心酒楼。Lu的妈妈，两个姐姐，一个妹妹都在。4姐妹都是很健谈,nice的人，所以整个气氛都很轻松~看着她们四姐妹你一言我一句的调侃彼此，突然想起我的两个姐姐，还有全家人以往在家附近的点心店一起吃早点的从前。

话说美心酒楼的点心，是传统推车式的。我们吃了叉烧包，肠粉，芋角，春卷，猪大肠，还有几样我不知道叫什么（只知道很好吃就是了），当然还少不了香港招牌点心-虾饺，烧卖和凤爪。由于吃大过天，根本没心机去拍照，所以只拍了一张刚开始order时的照片，哈！(吃永远是第一)

很饱，但是超过瘾。感谢LU及他的家人：）

顺道逛了环绕上水火车站的两间shopping centre和market,不小心又花了一些钱（买菜煮呢！哈哈！当然不是我煮，我只负责洗碗），还吃了之前两次因为太饱而错过的许留山甜品-椰芒红豆小丸子。农历新年逼近,菜市场的干货区到处都在卖年货，糖果海味尤其多。还好我不用办年货！只是不知道家里的年货办得如何。。好怀念在家的新年。。

好满足的一天！虽然回到来就要面对6，7，8，9号due的4份assingment/report/presentation.可是在“pass and fail only mah”逐渐成为口头禅后，这些东西就可以先摆一边，然后考试前去大屿山天坛大佛那里摸一摸它的脚：）

the city of copenhagen

2007-02-04T01:54:00.000-08:00

ok here i am! internet connection is finally set up! i shall begin with my sour experience for the first few days here in copenhagen! being ppk-ed by the landlord who promised to pick me up at the airport upon arrival is definately one! having lost dkk7000 is another! besides these two, i'd say everything here seems to be fine. i have a lovely and kind roomie, whoelse if she's not yixin? i have another lovely housemate, siang leng, who sticks to me most of the time as we can go to school and home together. we cook together, we eat together, we shop together, we visit places together, we make friends together, we do almost everything together. because my lady yixin is a bit too busy for us. we made different friends as we attend different orientations. *lol* but it's good. i can learn to be independent without her?

here are some photos before i stop typing? enjoy!

My lucky lady

2007-02-01T08:27:00.000-08:00

This was the lady who served me at Immigration Office. She was great, although she might never know.

I had been to the office three times since I received the notification e-mail from S'pore Danish Embassy, but I was not able to collect my resident permit. And it was this super lady who rescued me from feeling unsecured...thank god, and thank... whoever she is.

I was asking her permission to take a photo of her, but she said no phototaking is allowed in the office.

So I photoshoped her. I know this is a poor one...every westerner looks the same to me...

But I can recognize her by her leave pendant necklace...

Oh pls bear with me my lucky lady: I just want to express how grateful I am. =)

又遇见雪

2007-01-28T12:31:00.000-08:00

微醉的凌晨时分，走在回家的路上，遇见落雪。

几个小时后，赶下来再来拍一张。雪花不再纷飞，但是痕迹犹在。

烟酒文化

2007-01-28T01:06:00.000-08:00

在这里我总觉得自己在同学里像个长不大的小朋友，尤其是在消遣这方面。

一下课朋友们就出去抽两口，然后才是午饭。丹麦学生会以啤酒为午餐饮料，每一次都让我抬头再确定一下现在只是中午而不是晚上（<——我的死脑筋，总觉得喝酒是天黑以后的事）。

晚上，尤其是每个星期三晚上学校的酒吧是国际学生之夜的时候，大家就会在酒吧里碰头。

啤酒香烟不断，当然谈笑声也是不断。

除了丹麦的佳酿carlsberg和tuborg的各种种类白水般的畅饮外，还有其他酒精含量较高的饮料，最受欢迎的就数fisherman。

坦白说自己在一向来都对烟酒有偏见，朋友抽根烟后我就给他香口胶，不烟不酒是未来男朋友的基本条件，但是来到这里后真的发现烟酒不是什么坏东西，只是个人的爱好而已。

特别是发现非常好人的朋友们都是烟不离手时，才偷偷地惭愧地抛开自己的成见。

点燃一根烟，一杯酒下肚，朋友们脸上的表情都松弛下来，笑容变多了话也多了；我喜欢他们在我面前喝酒和抽烟。

2007-01-27T17:11:00.000-08:00

离开了香港的繁华与忙碌，一群国际学生从中大出发，浩浩荡荡的往香港三大离岛之一的大屿山出发，感受香港的截然不同的一面。

巴士驶过了让我想起Beyond的青马大桥，再使过山岭起伏的山路，来到了大屿山。我们的第一站是大澳，一个充满水乡风情的渔村。这里的街市，就像kukup刀的一样，简陋但不失风味。当然最吸引我们的好事这里所卖的食物。于是从酒家吃完还算丰盛的午餐出来，即使已经将近十分饱，还是忍受不住诱惑，硬把街市所卖的食物一件一件往肚里塞（由于这里离中大太远，相信我们都不会重游，故更生怕错过这里的美食）。鸳鸯（芝麻糊+豆花），蜜糖豆，甜茶果，南瓜茶果，眉豆茶果，菠萝包不停的奉送进我的口，饱饱饱但还是吃吃吃。只可惜实在吃不下咖喱鱼蛋了。。

下一站，大屿山天坛大佛。远远就望见了矗立在山上的大佛。爬了200多极楼梯然是轻而易举的事），终于以最接近大佛的位置拍了些照片，也默默作了些祈求。

然后，安慰自己爬了那么所楼梯，应该是消耗了不少卡路里，所以。。继续吃！去了大佛下的宝莲禅寺的斋堂吃了些糕点。我的天，那芝麻糕也未免太好吃了吧！给几位朋友了试了，竟然没有人赞成那块像顶级芝麻糊拿到冰橱里冷冻后在切成长方形状的芝麻糕好吃。结果整块糕在我嘴里壮烈牺牲。可惜可惜，绿豆糕，芒果糯米糍有幸因为我的肚子装不下而逃过一劫。

然后参观昂坪市集。和大澳市集不同的是，这里毕竟是旅游景点，所以街道古色古香，我倒觉得不太自然。走了一会儿就乘缆车下大屿山，沿途的风景实在美，少了上云顶时的原始味道（还有模仿原始人的叫声），但是鸟瞰了整个香港国际机场。

该是回校的时候了，然而一般朋友意犹未尽,决定不跟旅游巴士回校，就又搭了快铁到葵芳shopping。说是shopping,倒不如说又是吃的时候。在香港怎么都离不开吃。再次可惜可惜，本人实在是腻了，再次错过了咖喱鱼蛋和许留山甜品。

回到宿舍洗了澡，在等待头发干的同时没事可干，室友友已经关灯大睡，只好硬着头皮坐在已经有一对洋人情侣的客厅中看书。边看书边听到旁边时而传来的亲嘴声。假装没听到的功力在发挥了几次后，终于累了。睡觉。
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城市公园

2007-01-27T14:04:00.000-08:00

这是一个有很多博物馆的城市，也是一个有很多公园的城市。

一次经过这个在市中心旁的公园时时候还早，就溜进去看了看。

比起其它的公园，这一个比不特别怎么样。但是即使是在游人很少的冬季，景致依然动人，可见政府保养公园有方；就面对着欧洲最长的购物街的这里，有他们忙里偷闲、爱亲近自然的一面。

雪

2007-01-26T16:43:00.000-08:00

终于给我盼到雪了。

很期待下雪，但是自己又怕冷。这种有点害怕又期待的想法是矛盾的，像。。。期待恋爱。

（各位有没有觉得鸡皮疙瘩？没错！这种毛发都竖立的情况我每天都有！
现在感受到我这个热带长大的在这里多冷了八？）

也不是那种一觉起来发现自己在雪的世界里的那种。天气预测每天都在看，已经知道今天可能下雪，但是早上出门前在房里慌乱着抬头一看：嘿，下雪了。

雪小小小小的，但是我还是很开心（很山岜地）去跟housemate报告。
今天是她在丹麦的最后几天。我说过自己很想看雪，她说过最好是二月再下，因为她不想冬天太冷（去年欧洲的冬季是寒冬，好多地方是零下20度）。这场雪来得正是时候。

等巴士并不冷。至少没有我以为的冷，大概是因为我又有更多脂肪御寒了八？地上没有积雪，还不是零下的温度。

到了学校，走出在地下的城市地铁（metro），马上就被摄住了。

满天白雪纷纷落下，大地都覆上了一层薄薄的白雪，忽然这忙碌的早上里我由一种很安定的感觉。
一路上的雀跃是免不了的。

一进课室，半耍赖地要老师不上课大家出去看雪。当然老师没答应。
不过还没开始上课气氛就很轻松了，大家似乎都为这场迟来的雪而开心，澳洲来的同学跟我一样兴奋。但是当然没有表现得像我一样幼稚——想提一下的是他们对我的扮可爱已经有超强的免疫力；真的是令我佩服的忍耐力，让我们大家都相处得极其愉快，尤其是后半段的课程。副作用是我变本加厉地扮可爱，汗。

又扯远了。
上课时自己很不专心，一直在看窗外的雪。
一休息就跑去外边的走廊。
课室外有一段走廊的两旁都是透明的落地窗，我站在那里，真正觉得：天地都安静；
很从容、很安稳的感觉很好。

这是很少人经过的走廊上我遇见了Mariah，一个初认识就让我一见如故的意大利美女。
她也是赏雪来的，我们的默契一百分。
当然不忘抓紧机会留影啦，美女带着相机。

终于要回课室了，我超速地在换sim card发短讯分享喜悦。
然后硬硬要换过去已经很挤的面对着落地窗的座位，结果是被热心的德国男同学全程指导丹麦会话；暗爽：早就应该换过去的。

可惜的是下午雪就停了，只剩路旁的一些积雪，还有小童手上的冰球。

期待下一场雪。

我修的课

2007-01-25T18:37:00.000-08:00

上了三个礼拜的课，也是时候介绍这学期选修的七门课了~

Financial economics
Lec1教的是present value,在ntu学过，加上又是一些公式性的简单计算，心中正暗自高兴，不难嘛！怎知道lec2就马上露出这门课的真面目：econometric based!!我的天啊，在火星上听着地球人讲火星语，除了发白日梦还真不知道应该做什么。当然是由头不明到尾咯~值得一提的是，此course有个投资游戏，学生分组针对香港股票进行投资（用的当然是假价码），到学期结束结算那一组净赚最多。我和一个nus朋友跟4个男生同组。哇，我真不得不佩服香港人的赚钱头脑，听他们口没横飞讨论恒生指数，***股票（原谅我对香港股市的认识就只停留在“恒生指数”四字，所以给不到任何上市公司例子），起起落落开市闭市，我和朋友完全像是透明的（也还好被视为透明，不然问起我们的意见还更糟）。看来这次free rider是做定了。(编按：香港（男）人似乎都在买股票赚钱，走在大学内时而可以通道他们在讨论股市，看来香港人想尽办法赚钱这话也不无道理)

IT & Economy
据一个香港人说，这门课的教授是经济系出名的killer,很严。刚开始有点害怕这位装扮像男人的女教授，但几堂课下来，问了她些问题，发现她其实很nice~来到中大的第一份assignment就出自她。Internet service provider(ISP) and it’s market structure.什么是ISP?不懂。电脑白痴这个称号我是却之不恭。

Trade & Investment among Chinese economies
教授实在是个很可爱的老人家（头发都白了，所以我assume他是老人家，敬称老者，当然也不排除经济学家由于想太多而头发快白），时常自己讲自己笑。三个星期以来教的课都在ntu的international trade中教过，所以还好，反正一向来都是明点不明点混过去的。

Game Theory
重复讲了很多次的nash equilibrium.这当然是此课的基本概念。原本应该一堂课就把概念讲清，但教授最后决定让学生打下扎实的基础，所以宁可花很多时间在基本概念的认识和运用上。多希望这个基本概念就这样讲到mid term,哈哈~

中国哲学史2
全以粤语作为教学媒介语。教授讲话超快不是问题的重点，此课的难明白程度才是关键。哲学就是哲学，讲了一大堆绕来绕去最后还是不知道结论是什么。不过上他的课也是一种享受，教授（长发但没披肩，留胡须但不猥亵-哲学如果也是艺术的一派，那么他的长相确实象艺术家）实在太幽默了。沉闷的哲学能够给他讲到那么有趣，不得不佩服。只是每次上这门课都有些吃力。也难怪，孔子老子庄子都还“傻傻分不清楚”，就已经要学才性玄理名教，真是学到“满脸泥土”，只希望不要沦落到“失败的被俘虏”。

语法探索-粤语
教授是粤语研究界中的佼佼者之一（听说），不过没什么架子，反而使大好人一个，长相和蔼，人也一样可亲。知道我不懂粤拼，粤语也不完全和香港人的认知一样，就叫我到他的办公室,介绍了好几本书给我。讲义的例子全都用以粤语为基础的书面语，感觉很新鲜有趣~虽然，他讲课我也一样听不懂，大概没什么语言学基础。

中国古典小说（短篇）
教授讲得一口标准的普通话，曾在新加坡教书多年。记得第一次找他和他说明自己想修他的课时，他知道我是新加坡学生，就开始担心我的中文程度，因为他的课的资料都是古文（同时香港的中文系程度比新高,虽然大部分学生还是prefer用粤语上课）。然后他开始问起我的学历。当他知道我是马来西亚独中生后，马上就把那份担心放下了，觉得我的程度应该不会有问题。大马独中生们，我们的中文程度即使去到海外也是被承认的~~感谢董总，感谢母校。

PS: 我已经习惯了香港人的步伐，甚至比他们走（跑）得还快，哈哈！原因无他，因为很不幸运的我的课都派到密密麻麻，全部连在一起，而上课地点又相距很远，所以通常都得赶校巴。而转堂校巴每个小时就只有那么一趟，miss了就铁定迟到（虽然有时候就算上得了校巴，还是会迟到，因为路途遥远）。本人的一大优点就是不爱迟到或缺堂。3.15pm落堂，就得赶上3.18pm开走的转堂校巴，依此类推，所以时常都是用跑的~

附加

2007-01-24T01:29:00.000-08:00

基于一些技术上的问题，在较早前post了两篇文章后，就没法再post.如今重游故地，虽然还不熟悉用法，但往后的心情随写会post在这里，如无意外的话.

若有兴趣看我之前的随写及一些香港的照片，欢迎光临我的msn space。
http://wholemealbread.spaces.live.com/blog/?_c02_owner=1

MP

我也来了

2007-01-23T23:50:00.000-08:00

约了朋友在新亚书院食堂吃午餐。见时间还早，想说到新亚书院的图书馆坐坐打发时间。越坐就越觉得这间图书馆虽然只算中大一间小型图书馆，但是里面却很漂亮。（中大共有5间图书馆，其中4间各位于4所书院中，main library则在大学本部）。恰巧刚换用了我那台具照相功能的手机，就拍了好些照片让有缘者看看。中大图书馆好在够大，环境够舒适，藏书量也很丰富，尤其是中文书籍。（最近本人就迷上了阿加沙。克莉丝蒂的侦探小说，图书馆就有很多本！）比较麻烦的地方就是每次进入图书馆都要先插学生卡，使用电脑设备也要插学生卡。万一学生卡不见了，可不是“la2手不成世”。

除了室内阅读室，还有室外阅读室，在这里可以边喝饮料边阅读。但是在那么寒冷的冬天，谁会为了享受饮料而忍受寒风？

适逢次图书馆正响应着“同感童感”中大校园展，本人有幸亲眼目睹了台湾当代艺术展览中选区出来的作品，包括大型毛毛兔，还有18只天马行空的蘑菇雕塑/彩绘。

观光完毕，上个洗手间。这里的洗手间普遍上都可以称为应有尽有。我说的是清洁卫生方面。厕板/门柄消毒液，双手消毒液基本上都会供应，应该是要预防禽流感及任何传染病吧！

悠悠闲闲的消费了好些时间，总算是吃午餐的时候了。从图书馆走到食堂的路上，继续发现新亚书院环境的优美。还不小心看到了新亚的出名“景点”-孔子像。还真的有旅客拍照呢！

第一次用blogger post照片，真是一塌糊涂。这么一篇小小的文字加图片，竟花了我近两个小时的时间，什么心情都没有了。

天凉好冷风

2007-01-20T16:30:00.000-08:00

刚刚有很悠闲地上网、念丹麦语课本，还有，吃零食。

然后就很不小心地在一个晚上吞下两条火星巧克力条、苹果两粒，还有Lagsana和yoghurt。

在放了（****味道的）衣服在暗暗的洗衣机房后，就上街走走消耗一下卡路里。
街角的电子温度计闪着7度的字眼，还是不错的天气。

刚刚才转过这个好心情，
马上刮起一阵大风，然后满天细雨纷纷落下。

再接再厉的是不停的冷风，
我东歪西倒地走在街上，用力地向前进的结果大概会加倍地消耗脂肪吧？
我的阿Q指数常常是很高的，如果有必要的话。

转过一个街角，前面是通往市中心的大街，这条会经过H.C.Anderson和Søren Kierkegaard的陵墓的路长长直直的要走一小时，是我每天上课的必经之地。
一转入大街，迎面而来的冷风把我的听耳机的耳塞吹落，
松开抓住连帽大衣的手，才把耳塞塞回帽子被又吹落了；抓着头帽又是耳塞被吹落。

算了，我手忙脚乱地折回头。
这样下去我一定会暴肥，
什么叫做没有丑女人只有懒女人这句话我每天都在印证。
就好像****都没有化妆，我的厚脸皮功力每天都在更上一层楼。

一边走回apartment，一边开始期待。
气象预测说几天内将雨停气温跌，

然后下雪。

开始期待了，神经病的我：每天冷到不行还会希望气温再降。

家乡的水患

2007-01-19T11:37:00.000-08:00

常常觉得自己的人生很糜烂，尤其是在看到身边的人的不幸的时候。

在家里倒数飞机场的时候，一向对天灾免疫的家乡发生了水灾。
当时的我，和妈妈妹妹被困在车龙中，到爸爸那一边的路忽然变得好漫长，
用了近六个小时才把平日30分钟的路走完。

我们在半梦半醒中聊天，心里有牵挂，但是在走到尽头不见车祸时就安心了。

然后早上起来，一夜间柔佛水灾上了全国头条，亲友们的问候电话不断，这些省略不说。

一次在rescue center的时候，从前的小学礼堂满地都是草席，近千位友族同胞们老老少少挤在小小的礼堂里，脸上是满满茫然和无奈。
看着在一旁嬉戏的孩童，心痛的感觉是，我不知道怎么说，
无以复增。

当我在花费几十千在自己身上，到一个繁华的都市去享受人生时，
我的故里，有这么多里我这么近的人在受苦，
而这些钱不知道可以帮助他们之中多少的人。

但是自私的我什么也没做，我没有为此而取消行程把钱省下来给他们，
我还是为了自己到了那个梦想的城市。

在一周以后，安顿下来以后，我又听到了家乡水患的消息。
上网看看，果然，还比上次更严重。

也许只是自己home sick的表现八？
眼泪终于不受控制地流下来。

电脑银幕变得模糊；
躲进小小的浴室，发现懦弱是藏不住的:
原来即使是捂着脸，眼泪可以从指缝间不断流出来的。

王毅芯呵，你何德何能，
你耗的是谁的福分让你可以这样挥霍？

什么叫朱门酒肉臭，
是谁誓誓旦旦地说过自己念的东西可以帮穷人过好日子？
你现在在做什么？
计划欧洲旅行还是酒吧泡男生？
你会内疚吗？
你知道自己很残忍吗?

我在做什么，
到底在做什么？

但是我很糟糕，我只是在哭，
还只是会在厕所马桶上哭。
真的是烂人。

不知道能够做什么，
只能够每天为他们祈祷，
希望水患早退，
妈妈说过集合人群的力量祈祷是由其力量的，

我也只能选择相信。

甜甜的丹麦

2007-01-18T11:02:00.000-08:00

很可惜，跟恋爱无关。

跟食物倒是大大的有关。

我好吃甜食。小时候梦想嫁给买冰淇淋的小贩，大一点的时候逛bakery是休闲嗜好，再来是像吸毒一样犯上巧克力的瘾。
最要命的是这个很昂贵的城市有很多甜面包和巧克力，然后我又是在冬季。

1。糖果屋

好吧，最新的致命伤是我住的郊区里一家邻里糖果屋。各式各样的硬糖和软糖，咖啡巧克力（不知道为什么这种口味的特别多）白巧克力和黑巧克力一一放在透明箱子里，每一次走过就忍不住多张望几眼，终于在前天下午毅然走进去犯罪：买巧克力是也！

100g是6.99DKK（3.36DKK换1新币），即使是对穷学生如我也不算很昂贵的消费。
很明显消费群并不是我这个年龄层的。包装纸十分小朋友的可爱，或者已经到幼稚设计的程度。但是，我喜欢。

我很不亦乐乎地在挑巧克力。每一种都拿一个，看得顺眼的那两个，不是很喜欢硬糖和软糖（幸好!），即使这样也买了200g多一点。
一路幸福洋溢地回到小小的两房式公寓。好赖试一个：瓦很好吃，这个更可爱，再试这一块。。。

让我去死吧，就这样200克近4000大卡的晚餐就这样解决掉了。

一点关于丹麦语的感想

2007-01-18T10:24:00.000-08:00

Hej alle
Her kommer en liste med e-mailadresser og telefonnumre. Jeg kopierer den i morgen, så I også har en papir-version.

Vi ses i morgen.

Bedste hilsener
Esben

这个是丹麦语老师给我们的电邮。

翻译如下:

Hei all,
Here come the list of e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. I will copy these tomorrow, so I also have a paper version.
(We) see you tomorrow.

Best wishes,
Esben.

即使是为了方便我们，（还有鼓励我们学丹麦语？）老师用的都是很接近英文的简单语句，也不难发现其实丹麦语并没有和英语有很大的差别。当然，如果你翻开报纸看看就知道老师不知道花了多少时间在挑出相近的词语让我们看明白这封邮件。
最难的部分是发音和语法。后者上和许多日耳曼语系一样，词性都有两种语法性：中性和通性；所幸现代丹麦语已经改变，不再像德语一样有三种语法性，否则我一定会像不规律动词一样不定性发疯。
最让我受不了的是发音，简直是无迹可循的发音。一个很长很长的词居然可以只有两三个音，其余的都被隐去了，丹麦人真正是浪费字母的天才，搞不好第一代密码是由他们发明的。
听过一个意大利朋友用不屑的口气说，这哪里是语言，这种只能算是声音而已。
坦白说我能够理解，特别是当自己拥有一种让世人都觉得是好听的语言时，对这种“像布谷鸟的发音”就特别缺少包容性。

我自己并不认为这门语文课程符合外国学生的要求：一般上来说，丹麦人的英文会话能力后很不错，日常沟通不是问题。就我自己来说，最大的问题是看不懂指示牌和超市里的商品商标说明。
如果要我有学习的动力，那么请把教科书里的“我的名字是”、“我从哪里来”之类八百种外语都用同样内容的教材统统扔掉，大家一起走上街才是正道。

好像很愤世嫉俗的样子，没有啦，我只是在语文课里太受挫要找管道平衡一下。

独在异乡为异客

2007-01-18T10:01:00.000-08:00

看标题就知道会是什么情感。

我想我之前实在是太幸福了。朋友很多，知己虽然不能总在身边，但也不少。
友伴们互助玩乐的时光中我没有遇过什么问题，何况家人就在不远，每天回家省亲都不是问题。

相较之下在这里我是用加倍的速度在长大。

地图每天放在书包里是一定的。迷路的乐趣更是每天都有。
语言不通的时候总是能够找到有耐心的人，
虽然跟洋同学们很有代沟，
但是随着自己越来越敢秀破烂英文，
还有欧洲朋友们熟络之后还算热情的性格，
我的生活每天有在改善中，
连语文老师也适应我这个超有挑战性的学生了。

（回头看一下，这么我的想法会这么积极呢？
不禁小小/偷偷得意一下；赫赫）

就像姐妹说的：

双子座的人什么都厉害一点点，不过最厉害的就是，任何环境都有很强的适应力。在未知的地方，不要觉得寂寞啊，那是一种难得的解放感，说着不通的语言，拥有允许说错的特权，又有友善的housemate。不快乐地在那里过就太奢侈了。

还真是一语惊醒梦中人

好的，我一定会加油，在这里好好玩的！

最好给我付送一个男朋友。。。好吧，不一定要丹麦人。。。

丹麦语太难了。

这个倒数不一样

2007-01-06T11:23:00.000-08:00

第一次在国外过新年，还是在一个西方国家。

本不带任何能够庆祝的希望，只想一个人去看看房东介绍的码头的烟花。毕竟才在这里一天，不可能有熟人的派对是我赶得上的。所以昨天下午在饭桌旁Ewa说邀请我一起去她和朋友的派对时，我绝对是受宠若惊的。

她说：“I'm not trying to be polite only.”

真开心，原来我不是很讨人厌。

傍晚，带了一份日本巧克力，多加一件白色毛衣和手提袋就出门了。Ewa也很自在的打扮，亮片牛仔长裤和黑色毛衣，还有，淡妆。
小小的派对在她的朋友的家举行，房东是一个泰国移民，很健谈开朗，热情地和Ewa拥抱，一点也看不出是三十岁的离婚男子。当然也是派对的人物之一。
客厅里有两个波兰女生，个子比我要高、要丰满一些，Argneushgna比较安静，Bettie是大笑姑婆型的爽朗；后来联决而来的是一对情侣，完全郎才女貌：话不多的女孩子个子娇小、高鼻大眼，一股聪敏的气息不外露；男孩子是至少180的衣架子，一不算话多，但是每一出口大家总捧腹大笑。两人的英文都不太流利，席间经常用波兰语说话，初时让我觉得不易亲近。

然后就是：东西很好吃！除了一开始的一瓶加了蛋黄酿制的酒完全不合我意，接下来的伏特酒加果汁我都有喝一点：每一小杯是30ml的伏特酒（前两瓶是35%，后两瓶是40%），我在掺橙汁时觉得还蛮烈的，后来在换柠檬汁就觉得很好喝；告诉他们时大伙都笑成一团，原来那杯是纯柠檬汁。。。。。。汗，为了避免糟蹋好东西兼配合我的小孩子胃口，我的甜食都是双份，伏特酒和果汁只有一杯。
还是要说：东西很好吃！一道是有蜜糖有坚果的甜食，还有第二道我完全不懂事什么，深巧克力色又像饼又像蛋糕的甜食里有raisin和。应该是rasberry。。。就是很好吃。。。还有下午才烤好的饼干，有的有巧克力浆，有的有糖浆，各个形状的都有，有点类似在超市买得到的圆铁盒下午茶饼干。当然，还有纯黑巧克力和我的日本巧克力。

接着是重头戏：倒数。
窗外漫天烟花，一如以往的几天（根据他们的说法），烟花声不断。终于我们也走上街头加入人群：一群人步行到邻近的大桥去看烟火，当然，每人手上都有一只至少1升的啤酒或伏特酒，除了我以外。这其实是很不正确的，要是有人醉了要打架，独我没有家伙，不是手无缚鸡之力而是临阵找不到枪；哎现在想起来还真是危险。
（不是危言耸听噢，丹麦法律规定酒吧里桌上不能有空瓶子，以免作为打架时的武器；谁说以限制工具和不是控制犯罪是新加坡政府的做法？在社会次序良好的北欧国家也是如出一撤。）

目的地是Copenhagen lakes，即Søerne，上中间的那座桥，湖自有它几百年的和某位享乐帝王有关的历史不说，现在倒是一个周末跑步的好去处：处处风景天鹅成群。到了今晚，封锁了的桥上都是拎着啤酒的不归人，偶有奇装异服者娱人娱己地与人合照。我是不懂享乐的亚洲书呆子，虽然没有很疯癫本领，但也没有冷眼旁观的定力：不完全是同僚怂恿的情况下也分享了很多啤酒和伏特加，还有香烟（居然没有呛到），雪茄就不行了，老是吸不倒的样子，可能是那个路人的雪茄质地不好。（！）

午夜时分，欢呼声和烟花的巅峰自然不少，周围的情侣都在接吻。
我没有呆得很晚，Ewa很醉，不久就由其中一个男同伴搀扶着回去，我和那位绅士的女朋友在后面用很破烂的英文聊天。这位念电脑的女孩子很可爱，亦很坦率，问及她是否觉得哥本哈根贵她很直接地说不会，因为她在做工嘛。蛮喜欢她的，因为她说我不肥不要辛苦减肥。。。哎哟，这可能是我后来每天晚餐都有巧克力的原因之一。汗

Ewa太醉了，我又不认得回去的路，只好在Argneushgna的家过夜，待Ewa醒了再回家。波兰人好客的心态再次发作，大家一致决定我睡客厅很舒服的皮沙发他们睡地上，还换了背心热裤才睡。。。看得我目瞪口呆。

睡到清晨六点，开门的杂声把我吵醒，杯盘狼藉的客厅里其他人正在酣睡，门外却有人影。
起来刚好看见Surat带着一个洋女孩闪身进入房间。。。然后我就没办法睡了。。。不知道是不是我还没有克服时差的问题还是他们的那一张床就在沙发这堵墙的另一边还是怎样，嗯，我还真是被吵到没法睡。。。只好起身做贤妻良母：在黑暗中收拾残局。然后把Surat书房里关于经济的书拿来翻翻，翻到经济词典是实在受不了了，好，可以睡了。。。然后又给我睡到中午12点，在和大家一起起身。

差别在：Ewa回家后靴子也顾不上脱去就回房补眠；我正好去超市逛逛，好好把比较不贵（注意：不是便宜，是比较不贵）的东西挑出来补货。

结语也是：新年快乐，虽然在窗边看早晨的欧洲郊区时心里有一点一样的感觉。

2007-01-04T00:19:00.000-08:00

迟钝是我一向的作风，但是看到mb已经有两篇稿交货了（！），我就好快快补上来啦~~

这里现在是早上9：12分。

12月30日

初到贵地，请多指教。

从15个钟头的飞机旅程中走出来，我是很庆幸的。现在我完全理解经济舱综合症并不是有钱坐长途飞机的人无病呻吟的东西：坐在四个位子中中间的位子，两旁的大叔（没错，是大叔，虽然是很友善的大叔——因为是对听说点点阴沉的英国绅士，我的标准已经放得很低了）有一直在睡，让我膀胱满满不能上厕所。。。。。。汗，最后只好跳过人家的大腿。。。。。。对严重缺乏运动量的我，这是高难度动作。。。。。。还要尽量当作看不见对面老太太诧异的眼光。。。。。。
然后就是很狭小的位子。比24位的长途巴士小好多，前座的搭客的行李让我不能伸直脚，旁边的大叔个子也不小，两手一放我就只好缩进自己的窝。所幸右手边的位子是空的，用餐时泰迪熊就坐在右边的桌子上看着我。只是可惜了一个位子，该带个人来坐坐的。
然后就是飞机餐。飞机餐不好吃是一回事。只是殷勤的空航人员拼命问大家要不要这个那个，反正都是免费的，大家吃了12点（新加坡时间）吃了夜宵三点（英国时间）吃早餐，中间有一个点心包包，包装橙汁苹果汁全程供应，还有香蕉。大家吃饱就睡，然后再被叫醒吃下一顿。。。。。。我的天，看着身形比我大的旅客们这么吃吃喝喝，我觉得反胃：老大你以为这样很健康吗？你知道这不断的果汁卡路里有多少吗？加上几乎不能活动，我只觉得他们在喂猪。我就是其中一只。

英国时间早上6：45分在London Heath机场换机。然后上一家看起来像廉价航空的空巴。
坦白说我比较喜欢这一趟旅程，虽然空服人员的平均年龄比较高，也没有帅哥美女，但是他们极其友善；食物也比较差（今天有两顿早餐），但是他们会问你是不是素食者。我坐在靠窗的位子，旁边是一对全程十指紧扣的小情侣，让我觉得。。。。。。没有感觉！坐看云起时很漂亮！哼~

到了哥本哈根机场，等了很久后终于在这个听说行李遗失率高的机场领回自己红色的大包包，很感恩地接受机场敲诈式的低兑换率后，就走出了arrival hall。
先打电话给房东Mr Josef，到了是应该通知一下的。幸好我这么做了：他说他刚好要出去，可以来接我。谢谢~~
然后打给妈妈，它居然不接受马来西亚的国际码？再联接到跟电话讲话的帮助功能：全部丹麦语。没法了，只好挂掉。这样就不见了3新币。
要促进消费和国民所得也不必这样不择手段八？

等下，为什么我好像很哀怨这样拼命埋怨？其实没有拉，我的心情还是很愉快的，虽然会紧张。来拍一张机场的照片，很光亮有很漂亮的机场。

在巴士站等MrJ的时候发现：咦，我吐气时有白烟欧！再吐吐看，还真的有！自拍一张臃肿的吐气照：我的天，还不是普通的丑！是摄影技术的问题。。。。。。在拍一下。。。。。。比比！空旷的巴士站车笛只有一个目标。MrJ来了。
MrJ很友善健谈，说得一口很流利的英语。远远比他写得好一百倍。不是Danes，看来是移民。

一路风景太殊胜，我是目不暇给，因为没有照片，这个暂不谈。

我的apartment在四楼，没有楼梯。MrJ搬我的行李搬得气喘吁吁，真是抱歉。
马上重点人物要登场了。Elva，我的屋友。一个波兰来的数学系女孩，26岁，但是样子比实际年龄轻好多。握手的时候，我没有什么特别的感觉，但是是一直到后来，我才知道这个女孩是这么的友好和乐于助人，特别在我初来的时候。她绝对是一级贵人。

后来，在房间收拾的时候，Elva问我要不要吃和她一起吃晚餐，飞机餐太不消化了，我于是说谢谢。但是后来又忍不住想知道她吃什么就跑进厨房三八，不小心淘到一餐：很很很好吃的馅饼和茶。馅饼是她妈妈做的，里面是香菇和包菜；深绿色的茶是咸的。我都很喜欢，比飞机餐好一百倍。

12月31日

到丹麦的第二天。

即使是刚刚醒来的时候，都还有很不真实的感觉。就是那种：现在。在这个。异乡的国度。的感觉，然后还要深深吸一口气。

我不会说这是什么感觉，就像走着走着居然掉进爱丽丝梦游仙境里的洞里，然后就是一个很童话、很不一样的世界——一半是心理作用，一半是外在因素：一向就有外国月亮比较圆的我第一次来得这么远，自然又美化现实的想法；后者是因为这里是安徒生的故乡，哥本哈根市政府有意地营造一个童话路线的旅游胜地，例如街上每一列房子都像是不同年代建成的，有的很历史了，有些又白得很清新，这是不断修复的结果。所以走在街上总会看到建筑工程，好似一个不断建筑的城市。

扯远了。
一早起来，面包苹果是早餐。我还没适应这里的高物价，但是感谢上帝（入乡随俗，这里的上帝应该比较近），还有一些东西是比较不贵的（还是在新加坡的太贵了？）。现在的我已经很阿Q了，把东西都换成新币，决不换马币，否则我会饿死，或者，瘦死。
面包是德国黑麦面包，以前在JUSCO买过，很硬的面包虽然不是我这杯茶，但是看在它用了很多的麦很健康的样子，附送一点点的啤酒所以有一种独特的香气，我也就免为其难地吃一点。。。不夸张，mb你这个死硬派支持者也会受不了！看过HarryPotter里Hagrid的岩石蛋糕吗？我想两者相距不远！

在看书的时候，Elva跑过来说自己要去散步，我当然跟屁过去。

后来才发现这哪里是散步，哪有这么巧把哥本哈根最有名的景点：小美人鱼像（Den Lille Havfrue）、杰芬喷泉（Gefion Fountain）、市政府厅广场（Rådhuspladsen）、新码头（Nyhavn）、阿玛琳堡（Amalienborg）连带我需要去报到的哥本哈根大学国际学生admission office都这么刚好地全部经过？摆到明是在带我这个新人认路。。。但是迟钝如我，一直到若干天后自己绕来绕去发现自己总迷路时才发现她的一番美意。

走得太快，双脚都消化不来，跟没有拍照。

晚上是重点，容后再续。

2007-01-03T06:52:00.000-08:00

一早起来就看见眼前窗外那片蒙蒙的雾景，美好的早晨，不太冷，不象昨晚的我，穿了棉衣加寒衣再寒衣，还盖两张棉被，都还冷。一日之计在于早餐。吃了两片昨天在学校超市买的全麦面包，够力硬！方块面包竟然有法是面包的硬度，实在是。。。合我意！再喝了一包脱脂牛奶。香港不少脱脂牛奶，不象新加坡，只有一公升的包装才附有脱脂牛奶.

早餐完了就是午餐，今天聪明了，不再叫什么腿蛋面餐蛋面之类的，而改吃猪扒意粉。不错，两片大大且不肥的猪扒很好吃。
（不要以为我只会吃，在两餐之间我爬了很多山路，在校内开了银行户口啦！却说开银行户口，让我见证了香港人的高效率。一刻不停手，顾客过了一个，柜台服务员一秒也不浪费的马上举起手，示意另一名顾客前来。只是那拒收的动作真。。可爱。开户口的时候，不管写字或输入资料，都快如____,<填充>，香港那么进步不是没有理由的。）

终于走出校门，前往离大学站只有两个站的沙田站旁的新城市广场啦！买了张八达通卡，和ez-link卡相同功用，非常方便。逛了新城市广场和邻近的好运中心，中央广场的ikea，买了日常用品和电话储值卡，就花了大半天的时间。看到三三两两的人带口罩，以为sars恐慌不灭，后来才知道原来这里的人只要换了感冒都会自发带口罩。六点钟，天色就暗了，冬天的晚上特别早天黑。

回到宿舍，一开门，即看见了睡着了的新室友，一个德国人，不过在美国念大学。一个还不知道是否友善的roommate，因为还没有机会交谈很多，她醒了又睡了！我的宿舍是apartment式的，每层楼分A B座，每一层的每一座有好几间房。就现有的认识，我隔壁住着一个美国人，在隔壁有一个韩国人，这两个人都说得一口比我还标准的普通话！我今天能够上网，还要多些韩国人拔刀相助。

下次该尽量避免晚上洗澡，超冷。最好就是不必每天洗澡，哈哈！洗完了澡的我，坐在电脑前写着文章。Roommate还在睡！坐了十多个小时飞机，该累了。我也有点累了，晚安。

PS:我昨天在灾德士上的时候好像在青马大桥上经过了！

MP 030107

2007-01-03T03:14:00.000-08:00

三个多小时的飞机，终于来到了这个传说中很现代很繁忙很五光十色的大都市—香港。遇到了朋友的朋友，很漂亮的一位香港女生，友善直率，好人一个。乘坐德士从香港国际机场一路驶至中文大学，沿路看到很多和新加坡不同风格的高楼，港剧中的画面和风景变成了历历在目的景色，有种既真实又虚幻的感觉。德士司机也是好人一个，看到我们三个从ntu来的交换生那么多的行李，竟然面不改色，一口答应载我们，替我们搬行李（车后厢盖不上了！）还告诉我们3T和六合彩的差别（果然是香港人），最重要还是给我们打七折！虽然打了后好需要245港币。

进入中大，天啊，真的在山上（快铁站只到达山下，需要搭学校小巴才能到达学校），还好气温并没和山下相差太远。地阿！这大学也未免太大了吧！横跨了整座山。结果是，走在学校的街道上，只能用爬爬爬，喘喘喘来形容。我以为ntu斜坡已经够多够难走，没想到中大竟然比上很足，比下无穷余！更劲爆的是，我的宿舍在偏远的高处，校巴没有驶入，需要走一段路去等校巴。

10点多早晨的飞机餐吃进肚，一直等到傍晚6点多才有机会吃晚餐兼喝水。看着餐牌，实在想念ntu的食堂，便宜又和胃口。火腿煎鸡蛋面，原来就是快熟面，还是超咸的。（不过我已经查问，可以换米粉的，下次吃米粉）。看到有“滚水”机器，老实不客气地装了一大杯喝，后来才发现原来那些滚水，别人是用来就餐前烫餐具用的，哈！

然后搭校内小巴去校内超市购买一些用品。。结果要什么没什么，架上的东西和新加坡的很不一样，而且不便宜（即使打折了还是贵）,我们三个人不敢多花（很多东西因此只看不能买），就草草买了一些吃的，决定明天向外闯，去离学校几个火车站的沙田新城市广场lap 货）

然后，我们，迷路了（不惊奇，校远太大啦！）。这时候，再次发觉懂广东话的好处。问了几个人，最后问到今天的第n个好心人，在等丈夫载他，叫我们也一起等，他可以载我们回去。发现香港其实很多善良的人，至少今天遇到的都不少。不像传说中的高傲。

安全回到，可是上不到网。突然很想念ntu那些amcisa电脑高手们，如果他们在，应该可以搞定。也很不知所措，想联络的人联络不上,也没有电话卡。与远在另一国度的人隔绝的不安这一次并没有随科技的进步而消减。一个人在房间内，roommate未报到，这时候孤单才实实在在涌上。很想念我的ntu roommate..
（编按：后来不带希望的尝试，竟然发现新加坡sim card可在香港使用！！hurray,还有video call!突然很感谢发明3G的大兄）

来到香港第一天，最大的感觉是。。。会讲广东话，真好！

2006-12-04T22:41:00.000-08:00

testing 321

test run

2006-12-04T05:17:00.001-08:00

testing, my testing 12, my testing 1234...你有没有在转啊？