 |
| Today Home Biography HTML5 |
 |
| Congratulations! You've discovered K&C codename buddy's Easter Egg. | [Daily] |
March 26, 2026 Popularity index: 151765 K&C codename buddy |
|
Tuesdays November 30, 2010 Since the beginning of year 4, I've always hated Tuesdays. Full-day clinic means to test our patience to patients and tutors. The thing is, I'm seldom annoyed by DSAs. I'm more frequently annoyed by tutors though, because I expect more from them. And when I'm not backed up by my tutors, I'm upset. The problem is, this occurs very often in year 4. My feeling was so bad today that I decided against going right back to hall after school (which I promised myself last night). Instead, I walked by myself purposelessly. I ended up going to the Central Piers, got a cup of Starbucks, got on the ferry and went to TST, where, again, I walked by myself purposelessly. At the end I went back to Central. Sadly, since I took the MTR on the way back, I was no way near to IFC and I could not get shanghai takeaway from Jade… I had KFC, which sucked and upset me again. Well, I know I shouldn't feel so upset. But I am. Novembers November 27, 2010 Ok, I'm a lazy guy. Not only am I not reading anything, I don't blog either. The thing is, I'm in one of my emotional troughs again. And after long long school day every day, I really don't know how I should begin reading. And I'm not sure how to overcome my bad mood either, and this has led it persisted for over two weeks. I know things will eventually turn out ok, as it always has, but perhaps it's going to take a long time this time, coz I don't see any hope. Speaking of hopelessness, November has always been a hopeless month as I review the past Novembers' entries. For example, Nov 7 2009: I have become emotionally less stable these days… I've suffered a lot these days, and if I have to go through something even worse, I'm not sure if I have the strength to deal with that." Nov 27 2008: Life is full of things unexpected. Sometimes, when you have plans, just one thing could fuck the whole thing up. Yes, I have plans now. But because of time, it just can't happen. It's a terribly wrong timing, I'd say. What should I do then? Maybe wait, or just let it go. Who knows what could happen in a few months? I need change. Unfortunately, no, I can't. See? I've told you. November has never been happy. And my emotional quotient is once again put to the test, the toughest test ever. Btw, as I tutored math today, I encountered another common language mistake (on math): many students say "angles sum of triangle". However, this statement should really be "angle sum of triangle", coz "angle sum" is a compound noun.. And one more thing. When I'm ultimately bored and lonely, I don't go out. I just sit at hall and do nothing. I normally go out to cheer myself up only when my mood isn't so bad. What happened a few days ago was an exception.. Well, after having floor dinner, I decided to walk around. And eventually I walked from Sai Wan to Sheung Wan, to Central. My mood didn't improve a lot afterwards, but I did discover a nice place - Sun Yat Sen Park. 
 
Fluoride key skill, more November 22, 2010 AM was good today, while PM sucked. Well, I got a new patient, this time a girl. And I completed and passed the fluoride key skill today, which made by morning fruitful. However, life wasn't as good in the afternoon. Long story short, I need to devote extra time on my RPD course. Well, perhaps I'm damned for all RPD courses. But compared to what I suffered last year, this setback is minimal. Let's just hope that I won't have to take the RPD remedial course.. And then I've found one way to make my life more meaningful - pointing out common errors in use of english made by HK students. Well, my English is not perfect, but as an English tutor, I've somehow developed a hatred of stupid language mistakes. And I spot them easily.. So from now on, whenever I see one mistake, I'm going to rectify that on twitter. Why on twitter only? Well, as some of you may know, I dislike the random culture on facebook - people always just drop by and judge. Twitter is relatively safe. Anyway, by doing this, I run my own risk - according to Murphry's law, "if one writes anything criticizing editing or proof-reading, there will be a fault of some kind in what he/she has written." What the hell. Here're two examples: a common language problem in hk, irrespective of the individual's English level: "time crash" should actually be "time clash" another error: use of apostrophes. i mentioned one of them at AGM: it should be '12 rather than 12'. another: it's cont'/cont'd, not con'tanother error: use of apostrophes. i mentioned one of them at AGM: it should be '12 rather than 12'. another: it's cont'/cont'd, not con't Good writings November 21, 2010 I'm not in the right mood to blog these days, but still, when I feel like blogging, I blog. And, as an English tutor, I always love to share well-written articles. One category of writing has a higher chance of being well-written - condolence letters. Here's one I got from portal email:
Dreams, worries November 20, 2010 It's season for taking grad photos again. It's still a long way before I graduate, but seeing others' grad photos, I begin to wonder what it's like when I graduate. Even worse, I start to wonder how much I'll have accomplished before I graduate. You see, although my graduation is not imminent, there's only roughly a year and a half till I graduate. But many of my dreams about university life (made long before I entered university, or shortly after) have not been fulfilled. True, I've done the five must-do things, but those are not everything. I've dreamt even more. But so far, none of those things is accomplished, and it seems I'm getting further and further from those goals. I see no hope that my dreams will come true before I graduate. No, those things are not essential. But I'll really hate myself if my five years in university are all wasted, without ever accomplishing any of the things that I consider should make my university life meaningful. I really don't want to wake up one day, when I'm in my forties, only to find that my days at dental school were devoted only to dentistry but nothing else. Even if I don't take those ideal events into account, life is still boring. And it gets increasingly boring. Every weekday night I go to bed before 2:30, lest that I sleep late next morning. This is sad. I mean.. I've always been used to sleep whenever I'd like (even if that means I can only sleep for 2-3 hours), but now, that starts to cause trouble because I can no longer wake up on time if I sleep for less than 5 hours. Well, luckily, I still have the freedom for not-sleeping on weekends - that's why it's 4 am and I'm blogging. Bravo! Finding something to do November 17, 2010 When one is feeling that life is dull, boring and even hopeless, he should really find new meaning of life. But this is too ideal. We may adopt a compromised approach - to try to fill up every gap of free time. Well, I've decided a new year resolution for myself, one that I'd adopt early, starting today - I've decided to improve my Chinese handwriting.. The thing is, I've really forgotten how to write Chinese characters properly. I recently found that my handwriting is getting worse. Even when I'm writing just a few characters, those words are barely recognizable. In view of this, from today onwards, I'll copy a short Chinese passage. Hopefully if I do this day by day, my handwriting will be improved.. Just like how I built up my writing skills when I started blogging. So, this is my work today. The above is what I'm written slowly, and a short paragraph took me 10 minutes to write.. And the lower part is, of course, written in my normal speed, and it sucks. 
Another week November 12, 2010 Another week has passed, without major unfortunate events. This is a good thing, compared with the week before. OK, in other words, life is dull this week, very dull. How dull exactly? The most exciting thing would be that my paedo patient cried for the first time. I could finally see how uncooperative a kid can get, and to what extent I need to exert control over a kid. Haha, and I finally got a glimpse of how Cynthia can lose patience. OK, enough of crap. As I've said, when life's dull, I can hardly write anything meaningful. Life is complicated enough for you guys, so I guess it's not a good idea that I I complain again and again. I'll just learn to keep feelings of sadness and miseries to myself. And I'll stop here. Both life and Anzyme today are so boring that they make me sick. Even worse, christmas is coming. Yes, I opened a "Let It Snow" album at facebook, but what does it have to do with me? Annual Dinner, more November 6, 2010 Well, I attended the annual dinner yesterday. Since none of the OCs should read this blog, I guess I can safely say the truth here. As a matter of fact, I'd think the annual dinner was successful, in terms of the decoration and the programme. Everything was smooth. The problem lies only in the food. I know they got a limited budget, but can't cheap food be better cooked? I guess if the food was better, I'd still think the money was well spent despite that I didn't get an iPad, nor anything else. Sigh.. I didn't even get Parknshop $100 coupon! Damn. (To give you a sense of the prizes' attractiveness, let me give you some examples of the big prizes: iPad, iPod Touches, some $1000 cash prizes, more a few hundred-buck cash prizes, cahs coupons, …)  And life continues to suck today. I don't want to go into the details.. It's just that job satisfaction from tutoring has hit another lowest point. I don't really mind though, because poor job satisfaction is not amongst the primary reasons that my life sucks these days. 
HB T, MC, more November 3, 2010 Haha, I'm the first in the world to say Merry Christmas to everyone again. By coincidence, when I first said so last year, it was also on Nov 3! OK, perhaps Nov 3 is really an important day that I should remember. Btw, HB Thomas (whose bday was on 30/10). What did we do then? Well, a bday is not bday without hot pot. 
 PS There were (65422-64301) 1121 visits in October, or 36.2 visits per day. Thanks. |