Breezy Night

Another day another midterm...can't say it's getting old when none of them passed on by without leaving a trace.

Right now in the sleepless night, I'm still preparing for another one, this one a bit different because it is Mandarin and it is technically not a midterm but more like a verbal assessment.

But from last time, I find out that you really can't take it lightly and should really study for it.

Mandarin is going to be my 4th (or 3.75th) language to myself after Thai, English,  and Spanish.

Am I getting pumped for this, you may ask???

....I'm trying to waste my study time by extending this blog as long as possibleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...enough said.

For everyone and everything that made me smile today...

This smile is meant for you.

Who's got a secret?

Woke up late yesterday and what did I see?

Two of my friends checking my cellphone and going through all the messages which I have sent and received in the past couple of weeks. They are, of course, PRIVATE, but what stopped them from doing that? Nothing.

The worst part is... a <secret>.

Typhoon Canceled

Or at least...missed Hong Kong completely and struck Taiwan instead. As you can see that Hong Kong is at the red mark on the map and the Typhoon Trajectory changed upward at the end there so all we encountered was semi strong wind and a little bit of precipitation.

Although it is such great news...one must begin to wonder, "Megi is such a tease."

Typhoon Alert

It's a bird...it's a plane...It's MEGI!!!!

The week's been going well and everyone knows what lies in wait at the end of it.

This paper was posted onto the doors of my dormitory as I was walking back to my hall after a class and now it has become official. Typhoon Megi is coming to Hong Kong.

The university also sent a notification through email to every student saying,...

"Dear colleagues and students,

As Severe Typhoon Megi is edging closer to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong
Observatory has hoisted Strong Wind Signal Number 3. At 9 a.m., the severe
typhoon was estimated to be about 470 kilometres southeast of Hong Kong
and is forecast to move north at about 8 kilometres per hour across the
northern part of the South China Sea and gradually edge closer to the
south China coast. In preparation for the severe typhoon, especially if
higher signal is hoisted at a later time, please take the following
precautions. AS THIS TYPHOON IS EXPECTED TO BE VERY SEVERE, PLEASE MAKE
EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE FOLLOWING MEASURES ARE IMPLEMENTED FULLY....."

As the wind get stronger and stronger in the past few days, it has become clear that Megi is on her way. Some people including myself, who is in the middle of midterms, are actually looking forward to her arrival :)

and some are scared of her size because she is one big lady.

But all is not down right here in Hong Kong...because even though the clouds are coming....

...The sun still rises in the east ^_^

Feeling good...

Today I found out my COMP104 score which was my first and only midterm exam so far, 

and I got 100 points :)

To tell the truth I made a couple of mistakes on the exam paper,but since I almost finished the extra question, I also got some points added to it. The maximum score is 110 and only three people got it.

Too bad I'm not one of those three, but I am feeling good right now actually and I needed this today because next week I'll be taking two midterms and will be reading all the time this weekend.

One more thing, besides all the work and all that, I am still enjoying the time of my life and yes I am feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeling goooooooooooood!!!

Que cera cera...

Hasta luego, Sitt.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The good thing about this past week was that, I got to meet a lot of new people, made lots of new friends and I got officially accepted to AIESEC.

The Bad was the nights I spent reading for my first midterm, COMP104.

And the ugly was the COMP104 midterm itself T_T
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Some photos from the ISA boat trip (A little more than a week delayed)

HKUST from the boat 

The Party boat was a little exaggerated as you can see :P

 Veronica

 The coast was clear and the sky was perfect for a boat trip

 The Indonesians hanging out on the top

 Enjoying her food...???

 Subway!!!

 Ze Birthday Boy

 A little bit of hiking :)

 Some drawing left on the beach for us to find

Finally came back to Tsim Sha Tsui through what they call "The Gateway to Hong Kong"

It was a magnificent sight indeed.

A lot of things happened this week and I would put it as one of the busiest week yet in Hong Kong. Classes are boring, no surprise there, and becoming more boring just in time for the midterm month of October. I got an email from AIESEC accepting me to their. "Cultural Project Team," which sounds really interesting and I expect it to be a lot of fun. I went to AIESEC national induction of new members at City University which is located in Kowloon Tong near a big mall called Festival Walk and there I got to meet with a lot of new people who are also joining AIESEC. I got to learn more about what I'm getting myself into and made many friends there who are from HKU and also a couple from UST. I enjoyed the experience so much but I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't on the day right after my first Mid term exam of my HK life.

On Saturday, during 13.00 - 15.00, I was sitting in a room full of people focusing on one thing and one thing only, the paper in front of them. This year COMP104 midterm is more challenging than the one last year as posted on the website and I spent all two hours of my time to slowly and carefully finish it. Yet I still feel unease after I had left the room. One of the question involved writing a C++ program that will draw a staircase according to variable n....
Sounds confusing? It gets worse.
Here's an example : If you input number 10 in the program as the value of n
n = 10
the output would look like this :

+-+
| |
| +-+
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|   +-+
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|     +-+
|       |
|       +-+
|         |
|         +-+
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|           +-+
|             |
|             +-+
|               | From your friendly neighbor
+---------------+ who wasn't bit by a spider,

 Papasmurf

Mid Term Sux

Tomorrow's my first mid-term (COMP104)
Been reading my a$$ off...still feeling shakey.
Haven't blogged about the ISA boat trip yet :((((

CHI BAI LAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!