WTFUDGE!!!!

I was running today after I saw a bus that looked like mine from afar. I ran as fast as I could and actually caught up to the bus but it seems that it was parking in a different spot today. It was probably the other one I guess so I stopped running just in time before I almost fell down on my face with the slippery floor at the bus stop. I held my balance...in the funniest way possible and felt stupid seeing all the normal people around me. The bus left and I looked again at the signs at the bus stop...they changed position. I remembered then that today was "Information day" at HKUST and so many people came to visit the campus so that the bus stops were swapped around to increase efficiency. The bus that I just ran to catch, almost falling down in the process but at least managing to catch up to it and let it go away...was actually the bus I was supposed to be on.


..after a few seconds of feeling extremely stupid, I decided to walk back all those way I ran through to go to the toilet inside campus again. I met with some of my friends walking down to 7/11 there so I just joined them, had two bottles of chocolate milk and now I'm back writing this blog peacefully. Guess it wasn't that bad after all.

A little bit less civilized...

Well, it's been almost two weeks since I came back to Hong Kong and though life has been busy, I always find time to do useless things along the way as well. 

I decided that nightlife in Hong Kong is something worth a try and have been finding interesting friends that way. I'm not just talking about clubbing here since just a few days ago, I was walking around Kwun Tong station at around Midnight looking for a Hotpot restaurant called HiPot to join my friends for "DINNER"

It was a lot of fun and the food was delicious. As a non-meat-eater like me, Hotpot might not have been the best decision but it's the Good company that makes just about anything Great.

 Mid-Autumn Festival Carnival at Victoria Park, Causeway Bay was also a nice experience too. Even though all plans there were made failed epicly and we ended up having someone vomit in the toilet after doing sheesha... I liked the light shows and we went downtown to LKF afterwards. It was not crowded at all that night, and the MTR was open all night because of the festival, we took it back to UST and I waited until morning there for the first bus to take me back to my hall.

 
So what is up with all the charades? Nothing really, since I am just trying to do things a little bit differently. All I think really matters is remembering who you actually are and don't ever lose that. And since I'm a nice guy, awesome in fact, I think I'll be just fine.

My Favorite Tree at HKUST in the morning

Sitting on the MTR going back to Hang Hau station before I walked back from there to HKAC which took 45 minutes...uphill. Holy shit, that was a long night.

First Week Back

I came back to Hong Kong for the third time on August 31st. It's been a week since my second year at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology started and life has been great.

There's this little bit of fooling around....heterosexually

and also a lot of settling in and going to classes. After my first few days of going to classes, I slowly realizing how summer break is over, but I am not sad one bit about that since I know I had a great one and now I finally get to come back and see all my friends at this crazy place we call XiangGang Keju Daxue.

I also run into people all the time now, both old and new and it has been interesting. I ran into a girl today whom I used to spend so much time emoing about and I met a guy today who talked to me on Facebook about coming to do masters at UST. I got to catch up a little bit with her and I got to know that guy better in person. He later recommended me to go watch a movie called, "Delhi Belly." It was so random, but I guess a part of me reminds him of that movie. What can I say? My belly is one of a kind.



What I like a lot about university life, especially the one I have here in Hong Kong is that I get to meet a lot of people. And the more people I meet, the more I get to write about them on this blog, like this guy from Thailand who everyone seems to say looks like me named Arthit.

...I don't see any resemblance at all.

What else is going on? I'm trying to help the new kids coming into UST to feel more comfortable with the place and all, but just like me from last year, they don't need much of a help since this place is awesome. I signed up for Peer Mentorship Program and now have 3 mentees under my care. They are enjoying the life here and starting to find their own places in this uni so I don't worry about them one bit. Except my Malaysian mentee whom I haven't actually met yet though.

 Ain't that sexy?

A snapshot of a sign I liked in Central Area of Hong Kong after coming back from touring around new students.

So it is true

We are back. As hard as it is to believe for many of us, we are back already. Right now, sitting next to my new laptop, I'm in Hong Kong after being back in Bangkok for the past 3 months.

The new semester has begun and the new students have arrived. It is funny seeing how excited they can be and at the same time, how not so excited my friends are now. Is it that we have lost that opportunity to be excited just because we have been here for one year already? the hell with that! I'm only a freshmen now technically and I plan to be damn excited about it.

UST is not going to be easy this time over,...not that it has ever been anyways. But right now, I'm just glad to be back. Staying off-campus this time makes it just a tad harder as well, but one gotta manage himself somehow.