One Night in Beijing

21 June 2006

Thinking of suitable titles for blog posts are a real chore. Naming them after dates that you write them is not very representative of the things you write.

Had been really busy these days. After work, we cook and wash up, and then it's back to essay writing. And then I have the World Cup matches to watch. I have been facing inspiration shortage (again); all my creative (and copying) juices have been diverted to complete the 6 one-thousand-and-five-hundred-word essays. I have finally finished them!!! Now I've got the final IA report to gaodim, then I can relax and enjoy liaoz. Owing to the fact that I seldom write about difficulties and unhappy things, a lot of people think that I am enjoying life here. I work hard and I play hard, although not as crazily as the others.

The short time that I've been here in Beijing, thrown out of comfort zone, away from home, helped me to learn more about myself. And sometimes, I see myself more and more like the person I did not wish to be, and lesser the man I had wanted to be.

-I cannot stand loneliness.
-I cannot be unoccupied.
-If I were to be disabled, please God, take only my voice.
-I don't like cold wars, but I can fight pretty well.
-I'm stubborn and possess a violent streak.
-I am not so sure if I am as adventurous as I wished.
-Uncertainty do excite me, but I am scared most of the time.
-I don't know if I am a private person, or am I fond of hosting friends.
-I can't be sure if I can survive as well as I am now in Beijing, as in other parts of China.
-I am more and more like my parents

Here are also some of my observations of people, very subjective and very unfair but I so so so don't care;

-连体婴都是自私的；谁离开了谁，两个都会死。离开之前，只要有彼此，就算全世界毁灭了也不关他们的事。去自生自灭吧。无事不登三宝殿 。。。不要每次需要帮忙的时候才来找别人。
-Some people's idea of a tour, is about shopping.
-Some people's idea of a getaway, is yet another city.
-Some people live for the moment, some live for the future.
-Some people claim to be saving money and reject your suggestions, and then splurge a much larger amount that was saved on something else.

posted by taxi taker @ 9:49 PM