My Reaction to Perception-ed Teenage Romance.

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To be honest, The Fault In Our Stars was categorized as shallow and teenagery romance in my mind. (look at all the attention it's getting on tumblr) I happened to pick it up after Jack Howard's tweet about the movie "lacking something". I wanted to check out the movie (and see if I can find the missing thing) however landing with the book (pdf to be exact) instead. Despite all the negative perception I had on the book, I can't help crying my eyes out nearing the end of the book. And it's saying something cause it has been 2 years since I have literally cried.

The story line isn't much different from the normal love story you'd pick up from the shelves. John Green cleverly mixed in all the tragic stories from the century (Cancer, Anne Frank...) so that at any one point it may touch the heart of some unwary reader. Also his use of smart language and welly phrased phrases give the book a twist towards a seemingly deeper content and more sophistication. And I would like to conclude that it is the seemingly philosophical phrases which grasped so many teen readers' hearts. Don't get me wrong, I do like his style of writing, it's just the plot that I have higher expectations in.

To me, the point where it got in phase with my experiences is where [Spoiler alert] Gus told Hazel he was ill. [/Spoiler alert] I still remembered the time at the Peak where he sat me down, held my hands, knelt before me and told me that he has to go abroad.
I remembered very well about all the surprises that he gave me, the times where we tried to make everything better that nothing could be any worse.
The tears brought back the memory of the tears that I had shed because of him, the hot salty tears making tracks on my face and then running through them in warm pulses.
And after everything ended, that hug which just lasted a few seconds too long.

I don't like reading romantic novels because I don't like to feel sad for characters and scenes that are not real. But I guess it is just a way for us to feel our own tragedies again, to reawaken the memory that was left there to be forgotten.

I'd say, after all this book did what it was here for, to give me a heartbreak, a bit of leisure reading and understanding of the current teenage world.

Go heal your souls: Tuesdays with Morrie.

In which we chased after the 1600 paper mache.

I had a meet-up with some friends today and we did a tram tour.

It wasn't just an ordinary tram tour though, cause we were on the tram for a reason - to track the paper mache pandas.

The 1600 paper mache pandas made by french artist Paulo Grangeon to bring awareness to the now endangered species (being only 1600 left in the wild) is on the trams today and my friends and I have decided to hunt for them today. We started in Admiralty tram station and boarded a tram going to Happy Valley. There wasn't much luck for us all the way but while we are heading back towards Kennedy Town I caught a glimpse of black and white and viola! There they are!

 

It was really a bizarre while everybody scampered for their camera and a second later everything passed.

I was lucky to get a pretty good shot ^^

The pandas will station at PMQ in central at the end of the week to wrap up their days in Hong Kong. Not interested to mingle in the crowd that will definitely turn up there. Lucky to have an encounter with these guys today crossing trams!

Appreciate the Beauty in things

I was looking at the candle burning in my room when it occurred to me:

Fire is a very beautiful thing.

I am not going to launch into some deep talk about how it can be useful when controlled and disastrous when out of hand. Instead, look at the flames. Appreciate its beauty, the colour from blue to orange and brightest at the top. It is neither fluid nor solid, it floats and is so dedicate yet it is so powerful and consist of so much energy. It moves, it changes shape, it speaks and beckons to you like the song of mermaids. 

8 May Exam Favs

五月，又係考試季節。講到exam當然唔少得嘢食，打發時間（同溫少少書）：

Food Favs 

1.Black coffee

苦，就是考試。

2. Spicy Food

枯燥乏味的考試季節當然需要一啲辣味刺激味蕾。你今日辣左未？

3. Greek Yogurt

口感好，酸微微。

Procrastination Favs

3. cmd.fm

呢個係一個音樂分享網站，沒有廣告，沒有流行曲，沒有介面。以genre簡單分類用command操控。講完。

4. Jack Howard

英國Youtuber 一名。唔係潮片唔分享每月最愛，唔玩無意義遊戲。真正幽默有深度的短片創作人。真心欣賞。

5. Grey Nailpolish

灰灰地帶點書生味。

Study Favs

6. Campus Notebook

紙質夠滑，就算溫到頹到唔會寫到攰。

7. uni Laknock 0.5 ballpen

黑色原子筆，無得解。

8. PolyU Z core campus

風涼水冷。雖然遠啲但無可否認個景係靚啲靜啲新啲舒服啲 :)

今次已經係我最後一次考試，就咁樣我嘅讀書生涯終於完結了。沒有什麼感覺，好像輕輕的我走了就如我輕輕的來。

各位考試中的朋友共勉之。

Work Wisdom

There some things that I've learn from my internship last year:

1. The attitude of a person could be the change they wanted
At my last day on the job, I was next to Polly and her positive attitude sparked off my realization that no matter how little your job may seem to be (eg. just a daily facebook post) you can still put in the best effort and produce the best result that you could possibly can.

2. KPIs acts as a big motivation
She said that we should aim high and get more likes from subscribers, which is exactly the KPI for the facebook post. If I were to work with this KPI for all of my posts imagine the differences it would make.

3. Every internship is a learning experience, no matter what discipline, what you're doing (even if it's an expectation mismatch)
I was suppose to be having an environmental engineering internship to fulfill my WIE requirements, god knows that today I would be using this experience to relate to the Ogilvy internship that i'm going for?

偽文青拍照分享文化

是的，我希望自己是一個藝文青。 


一般的偽文青 － 到一個gallery或者exhibition在IG，fb都會check-in, upload相。
我不想順應潮流。
我不想成為偽文青。
但我都想記錄自己去過的地方...是要屈服嗎？ 


是的，我希望自己是一個藝文青，可惜偏偏只停留在于偽文青的層次。

其實分分鐘只停留在港女的位置

其實偽文青與自得其樂只是一線之差

She brings out the BEST in me.

I am in Youth Summit, and the people I am working with are less enduring than I felt that they should. AIESECers brand themselves as the people who work hard, play hard and never sleeps. If this is the case, why is my partner constantly telling me that he's not functioning cause he's too sleepy? Where is the unlimited capacity?

I am very grateful for my friend whom have motivated me to take on a positive attitude no matter what challenges I am faced with. Being an Learning & Development Coordinator in the Summit means meetings and refining session outlines (ie. no sleep) My take? Summon up all my energy and complete my tasks before collapsing in bed. It's no use complaining and dragging time being non-productive isn't it?