I'm 1/4 way to death..

I've already done 27 of these..
101 things to do before you die

1 Write a Best-Seller
2 Swim With Shark/Whale/Dolphin... -- I wish
3 Win an Award, Trophy or Prize -- Done
4 Catch A Fish With Your Bare Hands
5 Make a Discovery
6 Throw A House Party When Your Parents Are Out
7 Be Part Of A Threesome -- hmm..
8 Realise Your Childhood Dream -- I don't recall I have one..
9 Learn That Instrument -- yeah.. I play piano and I'm learning flute but I will learn one Chinese instrument one day!
10 Leave Your Mark In Graffiti
11 Storm Chase A Tornado
12 Get A Piece of Art into a Exhibition -- Done!!
13 Meet Someone With Your Own Name -- Done! when I was in kindergarten!!
14 Ride the World's Biggest Rollercoasters -- no way!
15 Stage Dive or Crowd Surf
16 Get into the Guinness Book of World Records
17 Own a Pointless Collection -- what's the point?
18 Study the Kama Sutra and Put Theory Into Practice
19 Master Poker and Win Big in a Casino
20 Get Backstage and Get Off With a Rock God
21 Be a Human Guinea Pig
22 Go Up in a Hot Air Balloon -- probably will do that soon in Canberra
23 Get Arrested -- wtf?
24 See a Space Shuttle Launch -- Done, on TV though...
25 Capture the Moment in an Award-winning Photograph
26 Bungee Jump
27 See an Erupting Volcano
28 Sky Dive -- I really want to do this!
29 Meet Your Idol -- Done, met on street
30 Stay in the Best Suite in a Five Star Hotel -- Done
31 Experience Weightlessness -- do those in dreams count?
32 See the Aurora Borealis
33 Get to Score a Hole in One -- not interested~
34 Design Your Own Cocktail
35 Play a Part in Your Favourite TV Show -- been on TV, not my favourite show though
36 Visit Every Country -- how many are they?
37 Make Fire Without Matches -- Done, with a lighter!
38 See These Animals in the Wild -- I actually wish all the animals to be returned to the wild..
39 Go to the Dogs -- Done, if it means dogs races.
40 Get a Free Upgrade on a Plane
41 Be Friends With Your Ex -- Done, we were together for > 4 yrs, and now we've been good friends for almost another 4 yrs
42 Hit Your Targets
43 Throw a Dart into a Map and Travel to Where it Lands -- pretty interesting idea!
44 Attend a Film Premiere
45 Do a Runner From a Fancy Restaurant
46 Scuba Dive -- Done
47 Milk a Cow
48 Be Present When Your Contry Wins the World Cup -- when will China win?
49 See Both Solar and Lunar Eclipses
50 Write Your Name Over a Star on the Walk of Fame
51 Learn Another Language -- Done
52 Read the Greatest Books Ever Written -- which one is it?
53 Complete a Coast to Coast Road Trip Across America
54 Make at Least One Huge Purchase You Can't Afford -- Done, too many times..
55 Score the Winning Goal/Try/Basket
56 Gatecrash A Fancy Party
57 See the All-time Greatest Films -- Done, Dancing in the Rain. watched publicly in Melbourne, & learnt the dance, + it was raining!!
58 Live in the Place You Love -- Done, I love HK
59 Leave a Job You Hate -- Done
60 Take Part in a Police Line-up
61 Get Away with the Perfect Practical Joke or Hoax
62 Join the Mile High Club
63 Make the Front Page of a National Newspaper
64 Drive a Car at Top Speed
65 Shout 'Drinks Are on Me!' in a Pub or Bar
66 Be Part of a Flash Mob
67 Visit ... -- well.. I'd love to visit every part of China & SE Asia before I die
68 Save Someones Life
69 In Various Languages, Learn to ...
70 Invent a Word That Makes it into the Dictionary
71 Have Adventurous Sex -- nice
72 Have Enough Money to Do All the Things on This List
73 Stand on the International Date Line
74 Learn to Fly a Plane
75 Get a Tattoo and/or a Piercing -- Done
76 Invent Something -- Done, can't tell u until I get a patent though..
77 Learn Astronomy and Read the Night Sky -- Done, not expert though
78 Drink a Vintage Wine
79 Answer a Personal Ad -- Done, I made a few pen-pals when I was a kid
80 Spend Christmas on the Beach -- I'm probably doing this this Christmas!
81 Get Barred From a Pub or Bar -- Done
82 Build Your Own House
83 Skinny Dip at Midnight -- one of my dreams..
84 Sell all Your Junk on eBay and Make a Profit
85 Visit the World's Tallest Buildings -- so I have to go to Taiwan for the Taipei 101.. yeah!
86 Run a Marathon -- this will be my last thing to do on my list.. coz I will definitly die after this!
87 Conquer Your Fear -- Done, I used to fear about getting on a flight
88 Get Married Unusually -- I only wish there is somebody in the world who want to marry me..
89 Throw Away the Instant Noodles
90 Join the 16-Mile High Club -- what is the difference btw this one and no. 62?
91 Publish a Cult Website
92 Own an Original Work of Art -- Done, I consider my photos as art..
93 Complete the Monopoly Board Pub Crawl
94 Get Something Named After You
95 Get Revenge
96 Be an Extra in a Film
97 Live Out of a Van
98 Go On a Demonstration -- Done, on 1 July 2003, HK
99 Confess -- Done, not in church though
100 Reach 100 Years of Age
101 Continue Your Gene Pool -- I love kids! I wish I can do this soon.. but..no one loves me.

Something wrong with these English words..

Think about these English words... so interesting..

• Why is abbreviation such a long word?
• sesquipedalian means the overuse of long words!
• noses run while feet smell
• verb is actually a noun!
• Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head??
• rearrange the letters in funeral.... it becomes real fun... same thing happens to silent and listen!
• have a thought to these words: unexpected surprise, free gift, advance warning, frozen ice, empty space, end result, past experience, rough estimate, actual facts, multiple choice.... and lots more!

More can be found from Teresa Monachino's Words Fail Me, a very interesting book!!

I need a hug

I am hunger for a big hug now.. as I always do..

I'm always lack of hugs..
always..
maybe since I was born..
my mom said I always cried at night and everyone had to hold me in turns throughout whole nite..
everyone being mom, dad and my grandma.. and I think sometimes even my grandpa..

being a Chinese.. as u grow up.. u got less and less hugs.. except from your lovers.. (who not yet marry with u!!)
so.. I was always lack of hugs!!

the most satisfied time was the time I was in the hotel school.. where I got heaps of hugs from many friends everyday!!
I was so happy!!
especially I am sooo tiny compared to those giant guys.. and they always so generous in giving me hugs..

but after that time.. I'm suffered from lacking of hugs again~~

I used to forced my ex-bf to give me hugs every nite..
Actually our relationship started with a long hug - a overnite hug that made our waists sore
we used to love hugging each other.. but.. he's probably hugging her right now.

anyway...
I was looking forward to get more hugs when I return to Australia the 2nd time..
however.. things were different..

I was fine until these days..
My dreams were full of hugs with friends and guys..
and a guy I used to love very much years ago suddently came to my dreams almost every nite..
so strange!! I've not seen him for so many years~
and especially today..
I was alone at home..
woke up with dream about him and some other things..
later on tonite found out that our team didn't do so well in Markstrat..
and watched the film ..
all these things... made me cried finally..

well.. I wish somebody could give me a hug..

International friends vs HK friends

Studying at ANU is quite a different experience to studying in the hotel school in Sydney.
Here we go to classes my ourselves, after that, people just leave almost without talking to one another..
In the hotel school, we all stayed on campus, we had small classes.. everyone knows each other..
so you can make lots of friends in 2-weeks time.

I used to chat a lot with friends from all different countires..
I tried to stay away from the HK people to get away from rumors..
Talking with Western friends make me feel more comfortable although sometimes I can say exactly what I wanted to express.
I love making friends with them

Coming back again to Australia this time, I stay with my sisters instead.
In this kind of university and this kind of living environment, I only made a few real friends.. most of them are Asian..
I tend not to tell HK people all my history even my age.. becoz it will simply cause me more trouble..
It's not my perception to them.. it's the truth..

Lucky me..
Nothing bad happened till now except for a really bad 2 months relationship with a HK guy which I really regret.
And.. in my last semester here.. I did meet some friends from other nationalities.

Kate, a lovely girl from Thailand..
she's smart, cute, funny..
I can just talk to her with all funny things..
Working with her was a wonderful experience..

Benn, a huge Australia guy..
Although he always laughed at me..
he's a real good man.
He helped me alot with my exchange plan..
I can tell him everything I want and no need to worry about him telling anyone else..

I really wish I met these two lovely people the 1st day I came to ANU..
well.. I should content with what I've got at the moment... shoudn't I?

hmm.. of course..
I do have good friends in Hong Kong..
but it seems no way for me to meet good HK people here..
my friends in HK are just too good.. I always miss them..
especially my lifetime best friend Iris, and the guy who loves me the most in the world - my "big brother" Charles..
They are always in my mind.. always..

The people I met in HK and the HK people I met in Australia are so different!!
I shouldn't say all HK people studying overseas are crap.. (well..I'm one of them.. )
but as far as I experienced.. some of them just came here for "freedom"..
there's a big difference between the purposes of Western people studying overseas and HK people studying overseas..
Western people really want to experience life.. want to meet friends.. want to travel..
but HK people... they do not have any inspirations..
they don't even know what they are doing..

Am I blaming those HK people?
NO!
what makes them like this is the education system in HK..
they never teach students how to "think"..
It is the worst thing in the world..

well.. I'll talk about more about this later.

A strategic marketing game - Markstrat

One of the assessments of my Strategic Marketing course this semester was a marketing simulation game.
The whole class were divided into 17 groups of 6, completing in 3 different industries.
This is a common assessment for marketing subjects all over the world and I'm not going to talk about the details.
What I want to say is about my team~

I know nobody at the begining of the semester except a Chinese student who did a same course with me last semester.
So when the lecturer asked us to team up, the two of us started looking for other people in the lecture room.

It was an important task to do because you gonna choose someone who will be working with you in the coming 7 weeks!
I was trying to look for Asian people at that time because I recognised some of them and I recalled that they are pretty smart.
But my Chinese friend insisted on finding "Western" students because he thought they are smarter than us. (When I heard this.. I was like.. What the.....>.<)

Honestly, I had very bad experience working with Western students in the past semesters, especially the one that I worked with in summer school. She turned up for class every 3 classes..never turned up when we scheduled a meeting (only 2 of us!) and finally dropped the course without saying anything to me. I had to work on my own at last~~

However, I still don't mind working with Western students because sometimes working with Easterns (especially Hong Kong & Chinese) also has a lot of problems..

So.. finally we've got 2 Australians, 1 Thai, 1 Chinese + 2 Hong Kong (including me).

one thing I noticed when we first formed the group and had to choose one of us to become the CEO of the team was that,
someone (I couldn't remember who) pointed to the 2 Aussies and asked, "which one of you want to be the CEO?"

anyone see any problems here?
At that time, no one seems to have problem with that..
It seems so natural that it MUST be either one of them to be the CEO, no one bother asking one of the Asians.

The thing that makes me worried was not the fact that Asian do not have chances to become leader in the group,
It was the fact that "everything seems so natural" that makes me sooooo worried!!
Why the hell that everyone (Western & Asian) was so comfortable about this??
Have we already became subconcious about this?

I don't mean that Westerners should not be the leaders..
and the fact is, even if someone asked the Asians (including me) if they want to become the CEO or not,
I swear that there will be no one in my group would have said "yes" to that..
but.. why didn't someone ask??

I don't see this as a problem of my group.
I think this is a general problem here.
and I have no problems with my team mates.

Actually, the overall process of the game was a fun to me.
The only thing we need to do was to have meeting each week for 7 weeks,
to make decisions for the upcoming period according to what happened in the previous period.
We had 2-hour meeting every week on Thursday afternoon,
quite different to what I observed from other groups,
our group members get alone with each other very well,
I had great fun every meeting..
actually we almost got complaint from others every time because we were too noisy~~

Indeed, I love my group members~
We worked together so well,
we didn't need long boring meetings to get things done..
I really enjoyed the efficiency~
And the best thing is..
most of the time our CEO drove us back home after the meetings!!
really good employee benefit!!

I always look forward for the group meeting each week,
it seems like a kind of gathering to me rather than an assignment..
The game is over now, I'm already missing the meeting time..
Don't know if we still have a chance to meet together and have real fun (rather than making decisions for the game)..

Anyway..
just want to say..
I love u all guys (Benn, Kate, Rochelle, Thatcher & Xin) ~

I am a lazy perfectionist

Who am I?
I am a perfectionist.
If you ask me to fold a paper into half, I will fold it exactly to half of the original size.
If you ask me to draw a square, I will use a ruler to measure the length of each side to make a perfect square.

I try everything to make myself perfect.
I walk perfectly,
I talk perfectly,
I eat perfectly,
I interact with people perfectly.
Although my outlook is not perfect, I try every best to make other thinks that I'm perfect.

Once I was studying in Sydney,
people were from all over the world, without knowing anyone.
At that time, I thought: I've to make myself the top of the class to be perfect to them.
A main reason behind was.. I was not good at anything else.

So, I aimed at High Distinction for every single assessment, every single subject.
Of course, I couldn't get HD for all of them, but at least my results were quite good.

There's nothing wrong with perfectionists in my opinion, as least they always push themselves for the best.
However, I'm not only a perfectionist, I'm also a lazy gal.

To become a perfect perfectionist requires lots of hard work, which made me feel like shit.
At the end of the day, people expect even more when you reached a certain level.
Even if I got all HD, they will expect me to do something more.
I couldn't cope with all pressures from myself and others anymore.

So, when I started my studies at ANU, I never expect anything from myself except a pass.
I became a totally lazy gal..
The fact is, without those unnecessary pressure, I still did quite well at school.
Of course there were not as much as HDs as before, but I'm still satisfied.

But, am I too lazy now?
This semester, I almost never start writing my assignment until the day before the due date.
Fortunately I still managed to get them done on time, but the quality must be lowered.
From what I got back till now, the results are not as good as before.

But the thing is, I don't regret that.
At least I enjoyed this kind of relaxed study environment.
Although I got some Chinese students who critized me when I didn't finish my assignment the day before due date....
well.. what I think is.. as long as the researches were done, the actual writing usually only requires a few hours..
plus.. it's my own assignment, what's the point of "being critized" by someone else who has nothing to do with me about the progress?
All I want to say to those who critized me is "None of your business!" (well, I really wish I had gus to say this to those people)

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