Subjects: General

Manga-obsession

Latest update about myself:
I have become so manga-scanlation obsessed that I’m nearly losing sleep over it. My exams are round the corner yet I’m like half the time on IRC downloading stuff. This is horrible. This has got to stop. It first started off with Hikaru no Go and now it’s spread to every thing, from Kenshin scans to Tenshi Kinryouku translations (I already own the Chinese copies), to everything that I think sounds interesting. Arrgh. I’m not even done with one series but I just keep downloading and downloading and burning to CD. Just can’t wait for the exams to be over so that I actually have time to sit down and read the scans…>_< I think I really NEED HELP!!!!

Subjects: General

Tags: IRC, manga, scanlation

Sleeping on one side and double-vision

The experience one gets from sleeping on one side of the face the whole night is a disconcerting albeit temporary case of double-vision when one wakes up. This is attributed to the slight misalignment of the eye. However, the body usually recognises this problem and restores balance in a blink of an eye, literally - I apologise for the pun. A similar but worse situation is when that double vision occurs not from two eyes out-of-sync but in one eye alone, no thanks to the slight swelling of eye tissue, being a result of Grave’s Disease. Sadly to say, this condition isn’t as temporary as the first case mentioned and I can attest to this from personal experience. You know the line from the Book of Corinthians that says that as we grow up we see through a glass darkly? Well I see now not just darkly (at least that’s what I think) but doubly too (ouch that was so not funny). Thankfully, only one eye is afflicted so with both eyes I can still read and see things almost the way they should be seen.

Subjects: General, Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: Corinthians, eye, Grave's Disease, Hong Kong, hyperthyroid, vision, Wong Kar Wai

Missing Hong Kong

Damnit, it’s late and I’m tired. Tried to sleep but somehow that didn’t work. So I go online. This is going to sound retarded but I just wanna say (and I really mean it): I miss Hong Kong!!! waahhhhhhhhhhhh…….

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Hong Kong

On turning 21

I’m finally 21! as of October 31st 2002 that is. In my country, that number marks the beginning of ‘adulthood’. I think that’s so weird, ‘cause I really don’t feel like I’ve grown up at all: I still behave *ahem* childishly, or rather childlike-ly 50% of the time. Still, being 21 is a nice feeling. I feel a lot better being 21 than 20, a neither teen nor adult age.

The second thing I want to mention is that I’m done with my projects for this semester, what’s left are the 2 exam papers. It has been a total nightmare, this entire semester, as you can probably already tell from my previous retarded posts (not to say that this post isn’t as retarded). I’ve had barely any time at all to update my websites, no time to read, so my command of English has obviously undergone a degenerative process. I’m getting fat cos I haven’t been exercising with my tightly booked schedules, my thyroid condition doesn’t help either. Life’s been depressing. But NOW I’ve actually time to recenter my my perceptions. As such, my resolutions are to get healthier, exercise, lose some unnecessary weight, recover from my thyroid, do some more reading, re-pursue the hobbies I cast aside because of school.

Subjects: General

Tags: birthday, examination, hyperthyroid, Squaresoft, website

Feeling alive

This is just a short post to say that I’m alive now. I’ve survived the 3 week long torment of sleep deprivation and constant programming. Right now I’m back in the computer lab again after a weekend long break following the submission of my web portal project. This time, I’m starting on my final project of the semester, this film media project. It will be due on October 30th, just before my 21st birthday which really is a good thing, the former I mean.

Anyway, just a declaration of my latest two obsessions. Collecting Hong Kong (or generally Chinese) art house DVDs (think Wong Kar Wai, Stanley Kwan & Chen Kaige) and purchasing Zara clothing.

Subjects: General

Tags: birthday, Chen Kaige, Hong Kong, programming, project, Stanley Kwan, website, Wong Kar Wai, Zara