Valentine’s Day.

It’s not that I thought today is Valentine’s Day – it was more like I was exhausted yesterday so I didn’t update about what happened.

All in all it was another low-profile Valentine’s Day for me. As far as work is concerned, the highlight was probably a nice treat by one of my colleagues, successfully set up my MacBook to the office printer, as well as seeing the atmosphere put up around campus by the students to celebrate the special day. As for me, it was just another day. Conducted my class, prepared for future classes, almost identical process as did previous days. While it is true that every lesson is a new experience because of the different responses by the students, it is becoming more routine. Perhaps that’s the sign of me really getting used to my job already.

I’ve been noticing the few old folks who are distributing flyers for certain property agencies outside the Lam Tin MTR station, and one of them left a really strong impression on me. Every time I see him distributing those flyers he’ll keep saying “有優惠，隨便揀”, meaning that there’s special offers and discounts and you can pick what you want. Perhaps it does make sense that if I’m buying a house it would be great to have offers and discounts, and I should really be able to pick the unit I want. But in Cantonese the connotation is really different. And the way he says those things make it sound as if people are buying vegetable in a market. I know this old man probably wants to earn a bit of extra pocket money by distributing these flyers, but I’m not really sure if he knows what he is distributing. Thank God it was only flyers for property agencies. Imagine he’s distributing flyers for those illegal DVD vendors (e.g. X-rated videos) – that would be hilarious.

Recently Hong Kong has been covered in some kind of excitement because of the upcoming Chief Executive election. The election was labeled a small-circle election, as only 800 people can vote for the new CE, which is contested between the incumbent (and obviously more capable and rational) Donald Tsang and the challenger Alan Leong. Donald Tsang has been highlighting the issues of economy, widening income gap, etc etc, but all Alan Leong seems to be interested is fighting for a general election for the CE. Every time he talks, he talks about the general election and nothing else. It seems to him (and his “democratic alliance” lot) that a general election for the CE is the cure for all problems in Hong Kong. It feels almost like if I am jobless, I don’t have money and have a family of 8 to support, a general election can solve the problem. To be honest, I’m sick of this guy and his lot of politicians. These people have no understanding of the situation in Hong Kong. If I have no money, would a fully elected CE solve the problem for me? If I don’t have a job, would a fully elected CE give me a job? All I can say is that I hope Donald Tsang thrash this idiot by a couple of miles to wake up their freaking stupid ideas. If I have to use 3 words to describe Alan Leong and his gang, that three words would be irrational, ignorant, and irresponsible. I just can’t see Hong Kong heading anywhere positive if this joker is elected into the post. Don’t freaking waste my time and pollute my eyes, Mr. Leong. If I label you as rubbish I’m already being very kind.

I heard that his party is putting up booths at the Lunar New Year Fairs – I’m really contemplating to go there and give him a piece of my mind.