Simplicity or Complexity

As you know, nowadays people have such a busy life.

Like me, as a college student, aside from academic "issues", I have to facebook, tweet, blog,line, whatsapp, skype and other things to keep in touch with people around me.


I have to say I like living in this kind of life but have a deeper thought, why not living in a simpler life?

In other words, writing letters and dairies instead of doing all those above-mentioned junks?

Hmm...on top of that, it is no doubt that today's people, particularly people representing the new generation, like listening music in any occasion.

It is not hard to enjoy music. People could simply download music online (for free); but is this how you enjoy music? 

Some people like me will choose the complex way, like attending a music concert to show their full appreciation to the singer/band, composer and other people who involved in creating music.

Isn't hard to choose whether living in a simple way or complex way?

It is simply a strange yet complex thought in my head.

P.S. I am going to ditch tomorrow night's class and attend Passion Pit's live concert. 

Discomfort

Several days ago, I took part in Hong Kong Student Association's first GIM because I really wanted to reduce stress from school (I had 5 classes to attend that day!!).

At first, I feel a bit uncomfortable frankly because I have been hanging out with people from other nationalities for several years and I do not get used to be surrounded by a group of Hongkongese people.

Perhaps that is the reason why I feel like Hong Kong is no longer my hometown, but a place that I used to love and live. 

I feel more comfortable meeting and hanging out with non-Hongkongese people. Soon or later, I met two younger-than-me girls in the meeting. They are from Malaysia and China. To my surprise, the Malaysian girl could speak Cantonese language! (Coolness) 

Since two of them and my friend are able to speak Chinese language, I took this chance to show off (well I mean practise a bit lol) my Mandarin language skills. 

I think I am not going to attend any meeting hosted by HKSA anymore because to be honest they were playing orange-banana-what-so-ever game in the first meeting, which is ridiculously uninteresting. 

(Sigh)

1st Week

The first week of school finally comes to the end. Frankly, i don’t get used to go to class on Friday because Friday is always a holiday to me; but anyway, unlike last semester, this semester all my courses are totally exam-oriented (I guess it is a good thing).

Well…the first week just swung by, I didn’t really have a chance of meeting a lot of new friends; instead, I hang out with my old buddies that I have met since last semester. Perhaps I should start to engage more in SAs’ activities and events this semester.

Hmm…well I guess that’s about it cos there is really nothing much to say about my first week of school cos all the teachers just simply gave us a syllabus-related lecture.

Oh yeah by the way, I have booked the flight ticket to go back to Hong Kong this summer. It’s time to go back home and experience some heat lol alrighty that’s about it!! Bye!!

Wedding Daze...Time Doesn't Matter, But Your Determination Does

Coming back to Buffalo from Toronto, to be honest, I have no idea what should I do these days before going back to school on the 14th. Cleaning my apartment? Buying groceries? Or Learning to cook? Ain't my cup of tea.

I rather staying in a coffee shop, enjoying my favourite chocolate chunkie cookie and mocha latte, and listening music while surfing the net or watching movie. And yeah...I want to share one movie that I have recently watched.

Well...It's an American movie called "Wedding Daze". The main characters are Anderson (Jason Biggs) and Katie (Isla Fisher). 

Well...It's basically about a guy called Anderson killed her girlfriend by proposing marriage to his girlfriend (Well...Technically he did not kill her but somehow his girlfriend died because of his sudden marriage proposal.

Later, he was having breakfast with his best mate in a restaurant. His mate advised him to look around and find another perfect somebody in order to get over Anderson's girlfriend (Well...Anderson used the word "Perfection" to describe his girlfriend...Weird to me because personally I do think the word "Perfection" does not exist in my dictionary). 

So, Anderson listened to his mate's advice and subsequently looked around the restaurant to find his "perfection". Soon or later she saw a waitress (Katie) and asked her "Will you marry me?" She said, "......." (You gotta watch the movie lol...)

Well...After watching the movie, I find out something interesting. Maybe to some people, marrying someone that you probably know that person for like couple days is bullshit (pardon my language...or I should say "Too Wild?"). I think it is true too; but...does time really matter? 

Perhaps, time doesn't matter, but your determination does. Anderson determined to propose marriage to the random waitress and subsequently he received an unexpected result. 

I am not sure I have guts to do that but I am pretty sure if I do that, then I will spend my entire marriage getting to know more about my "wife", which I think it's interesting. 

Wedding Daze Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7mIpimegoo

Wedding Daze Full Movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBI7kEO2RGs

Among all those background music, I particularly like this song: 

Francis Macdonand - Love is Game Two Can Play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM7AsFjGE4E

P.S. I went to Toronto for couple days a last week. So maybe next time I shall write something about my travel experience in Toronto. 

From 2012 to 2013

Happy New Year! I wish everyone a great year! I cannot believe that 2012 just swung by my life and it came to the end suddenly. If I have to conclude the entire year in 2 words, I would say “BUSYNESS” and “RELAXATION”

In first half of 2012, I would say I have the BUSIEST semester that I have ever had in my college year. At that time, I realised that I did not want to stay in California anymore. I was thinking, “Considering myself as an international student in the states, if I have a chance to transfer to a university to continue my adventure, why should I stay in California?” While other students were thinking of applying Cal State (California State University) or UC (University of California), I was busy on applying universities from other states. 

During my final semester in my junior college, I still had 6 courses 18 credits (2 courses 8 credits were Honour courses). In the meanwhile, I had to keep on contacting the universities regarding to the specific requirements and documents. All in all, I had a really stressful semester and thanks God that it ended finally.

After a fun yet short summer season, my mum reached Los Angeles. I said “bye-bye” to my beloved California with no regrets and flew to New York afterwards.

In second half of 2012, i would say I have the most RELAXING semester that I have ever had in my college year. Although I had 16 credits, I could not believe that I only needed to attend 6 classes per week. But this is not the most surprising part. The most surprising part is I just needed to go to school 3 days a week! Cool huh? 

Well just because I had the most relaxing semester, it did not mean I had the funnest semester. I have to say that Buffalo, NY is a boring town actually. There is not many things to do in Buffalo. So I guess that’s why I went to school like everyday to meet people around me.

Of course, apart from school-related stuffs, I went travelling as well! Last year Christmas I travelled to New York City with a quirky girl, a k-pop fanatic and a random what-so-ever Korean guy. Even though I spent only 10 days in NYC, I had the funnest moment in NYS, like sightseeing, eating good food (as a matter of fact it is the most important part in our journey), vintage-and-indie hunting and that’s about it!

2013…Hmm I hope I could get everything done this year. About New Year’s resolution…frankly, I still do not have idea. My beloved Japanese friend told me that my New Year’s resolution is “MAKE A GF”. I have no comment about that but at the same time I wonder, “How come my Japanese friend is so cute?” (I am not talking about her appearance haha)

Enough talking my 2012 and 2013. How would you conclude your 2012? What do you expect for 2013? Again, I will continue sharing my own stuffs, being a direct person and more importantly shopping online with no cost in half year! 

I Wish...Autumn Season Could Last a Bit Longer

Hmmm it's time to conclude my first 5-month life in New York State. 

I used to feel excited that I could move to another state to continue my college life. At that time, I have lived in California for more than 2 years and I have travelled all over the state. As an international student, of course I want to study at least two states (Perhaps that is the reason why I study 2 years in community college in California and another 2 years in university in another state). After a month of consideration, I decide to choose Buffalo, New York as my next destination. 

Like a lot of New York fanatics, I'm really excited that I could transfer to another state. Although Buffalo is considered one of the most boring cities in the states (At least I believe so haha), this is not what I want to talk today. I just want to talk about my 5-month life in New York State. 

Hmm... well I enjoy quite a lot actually. Although Buffalo can't be compared with Los Angeles in terms of Asian food varieties and Asian entertainment, I still have quite a lot of fun hanging out and chilling with my mates in school and Niagara Falls most of the time. 

As for academic-related stuffs, I feel like university is much different than community college. At least I think the upper-division courses are much harder than the lower-division courses. But the fact is my courses in this semester are pretty easy (I should say). 

As for relationship-related stuffs, hahahhahaha whatever lol but of course I would be glad if someone would actually be interested in me hahahha (whatever). 
 

As a matter of fact, I don't really know why there is something unforgettable in my Fall semester, specially last year when I had 20 credits and 3 of my 6 courses were honour courses and I still had a hell of time hanging out with my friends). I think it's just a coincidence but I'm not sure about that. This semester has gone so fast and I have about 2 more semesters to go before moving to the brutal society to find a job. Yeah Buffalo is such a boring city, but I guess it is also a good place for me to concentrate on my degree programme since there is not such distractions and other stuffs. Anyway, that's all I want to say. Christmas is just right around the corner and I wish everyone a happy Christmas!!  

是時候要總結一下在紐約生活了五個月的日子。 

曾幾何時我真的很期待可以去另一個州繼續我的學校生活。當時在加州生活了兩年多了，我幾乎去了加州任何角落。作為美國的其中一位國際學生，我當然想在有限的時光可以在最少在兩個州讀書啦（這亦是我頭兩年在社區學院讀書，然後在四年大學完成我的學位）。報了10多所大學，我決定選擇了紐約州水牛城作為為我的下一站。 

跟很多紐約愛好者一樣，我都很興奮可以前往下一個州繼續我的旅程。但我知道很多人都知buffalo是一個超悶的地方耶。不過這不是我想講的重點。今天我只是想講在紐約生活了五個月的日子。 

嗯。。。其實這五個月我蠻開心呀哈哈。雖然buffalo不像我之前住在LA一樣有超多亞洲菜為主的餐廳和有超多好玩的地方，但是就是因為這樣，我大部分時間都是在學校跟朋友吃飯聯誼。今個學期我認識不太多朋友，只是數位來自台灣大陸新加坡越南緬甸的朋友。雖然我沒有太多朋友，有時候我會跟朋友遊商場遊尼加拉瓜瀑布等等呢哈哈。 

至於讀書方面，哈哈無疑大學的讀書壓力會比社區學院多得多。不過可能我今個semester的schedule比較輕鬆，還有的時我並沒有遇到什麼大難題（其實我覺得整個sem我好像都沒有用功讀書哈哈）。 

至於愛情方面，哈哈有人喜歡我的話我就超開心啦哈哈（所以不用多講）。。。 

其實不知何解每年的秋季總是過得特別開心，不過anyway，現在我的很想快一些在buffalo完成我的學位後去美國大城市工作，因為buffalo這一類型的城市真的不太適合我。不過，也許buffalo是一個可以讓我集中讀書的地方吧。。。好吧，今天我講夠了，聖誕節快樂啦各位。。。

Why Not Using Mobile Phones To Record Everything In Your Life不如大家嘗試利用電話來記錄生活中的每一個點滴

July 4th

Movie Trailer:
誰かが私にキスをした(Japanese)
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (English)
誰偷走了我的吻(Hong Kong Chinese)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_g0YseGHYU


昨夜我看了一部日本電影令我動起腦袋寫一篇有關於攝影的＂不專業＂文章。

其實，我是一個甚為喜歡攝影的人。雖然自己並不是一個用專業相機＂扮專業地＂拍攝眼裡所看見的東西的人，但是，我絕大部分的時間都會用我部電話snapshot，然後當然upload到facebook期待朋友和其他人的like與comment。

或許，使用電話影相＂俾人＂感覺上好＂唔pro＂（不專業），但是並不代表使用電話的攝影人士對攝影沒有多大的興趣。

去年生日的時候我一位女性朋友送給我一本攝影集。內裡介紹一些攝影技巧和著名攝影師的作品。當時我感到很奇怪為什麼她怎會知道我喜歡攝影，她跟我說從你facebook album中的相片就知道我是一位＂攝影之人＂。她亦很欣賞我一些電話作品。說起來，她真的超厲害！竟然來以從我Facebook album中得知我的興趣！

雖然現在已經有很多年輕人會用專業相機來拍攝，但我仍然會使用電話作為主導拍攝工具，不過我亦會盡快買一部專業相機留待旅行時使用。

完。

Yesterday Night I watched a Japanese movie, which inspired me to write an "unprofessional" article about photography in my world.

As a matter of fact, I am really fond of photo-shooting. Although I don't use a professional camera professionally photo-taking, I use my mobile phone to take some snapshots most of the time, and then upload to Facebook to share with others and wait for their likes and comments.

Perhaps, people may think that using mobile phones to take photos is unprofessional, it doesn't mean that people who use their mobiles to take photos do not have any enthusiasm on photography.

Last year's birthday, one of my female friends gave me a book showing you some photo-shooting skills and photos shot by professional photographers. At that moment, I was wondering how she knows I am a photo-shooting fanatic. My friend said that "I can tell you must be a photoman from your Facebook album." She also appreciated the photos that I took.

Although a lot of young people use professional camera, I still insist of using my mobile phones as a major tool of photo-taking; but I will buy a professional camera for travelling.

End.