Work.

After having the weekend off, I was back in work today and it was quite OK, even though there are still things that I’ve not really completed – I’d get them done tomorrow.

I’ve confirmed my trip to Shanghai already, and I’ll be flying off on Friday. I haven’t exactly planned what I’m going to do there, but I know I’ll want to go Nanjing this time round. I spent one year in Shanghai in 2005, I went to Hangzhou 15 times but I’ve never been to Nanjing. I’m not going to miss Nanjing this time round. Especially now that they have that high speed rail, I think I really want to go try and see how it’s like. I may even want to stay for a night over there.

I’ll see if I can put in a day in Suzhou as well. Sometimes it’s quite amazing to think that I didn’t go to all these nearby places when I stayed in Shanghai for so long. And yup – for those who are in Shanghai and are keen for a meal or something, I’ll be there for until Tuesday.

Holidays.

Not that I’m having a holiday right now, but my mind is constantly wandering off to somewhere as if it’s already a holiday break for me.

With my speech contest now over (with the exception of the evaluation report, of course), my next project would probably need to kick off by next week, so I think it might still be OK for me to be thinking about where I want to be heading to in the next couple of weeks.

One of the destinations that I’ve more or less confirmed about going will be Taichung. I’ll be there with my sister, with the primary aim of watching the Mayday concert there. Call us crazy if you want, but I think flying over to Taiwan to watch Mayday concerts is so much easier to achieve here in Hong Kong. If I were still in Singapore I’d probably wouldn’t have bothered that much if the concerts are in Taiwan. But since Hong Kong is like an hour’s flight away from Taiwan, it would make much more logical sense to head there compared to travelling from Singapore. I’d most likely be in Taichung on 17th May and would probably return to Hong Kong on 19th.

Then the next destination that I was thinking about going is Shanghai. It would be nice to go there again, since the last time I was already 2 years ago. The people have changed, and I’m sure the place had as well, so it would be fun to go take a look. If the plan works out, I should be there this Friday until next Tuesday. It’s weird though that I haven’t even got the tickets ready when I’m talking about going there this week. Mad but true.

Then Chris was telling me yesterday evening that there’s a trip to Beijing that she might not be able to go, but was saying that it would be interesting. I won’t mind joining that one as well, depending on the cost. After all, with the Olympics due to start in a couple of months’ time, it would be interesting to see how Beijing is preparing for the occasion. I’d most likely not be able to be in Beijing in August, so if I can make it for this trip, then I’d be in Beijing from 18th to 20th April. This trip, however, is the least likely of the three. I’ll see how things turn out.

I slept quite a fair bit today, and I’m not feeling entirely sleepy now. Though I think I can still do with some concussion on my bed. It’s crazily foggy out there and I can’t see the buildings across the other side. That should mean that it’s spring!

Liberation.

The Inter-Universities Speech Contest is finally over, and I think I can quite proclaim quite happily that I’m almost liberated. All I have left with me right now is an evaluation meeting and an evaluation report. I can’t really say that the event was very well done, but I think the participants and the other stakeholders were pleased with it, so I thought that was fine. Of course there’ll always be room for improvement, but I’m sure if we are going to do it again next year I’d probably know how to deal with the whole piece of thing.

I’d be looking forward to another long break. Yeah.

Countdown.

I think I might not be able to sleep tonight even though I’m horribly tired. After all, I kinda just reached home from office. The Inter-Universities Speech Contest is going to happen tomorrow evening, and to be honest, I can’t wait for it to happen. Or perhaps more accurately, I can’t wait for it to be over. I guess it’s the kind of feeling that you want to leave the burden of your shoulders. I guess it’s only natural for me to feel this way, especially so when I have no experience in organizing these things in Hong Kong.

And really, this experience so far has made me feel that event management in Hong Kong and Singapore could actually be quite different. But I guess it’s good experience anyway.

Need to sleep – wish me luck for tomorrow’s event.

President Ma.

I know the Taiwan Presidential Elections really don’t have anything to do with me, but I watched the whole thing with great interest anyway. To be honest, sometimes I get a bit irritated with the negative campaigning done by both the KMT and the DPP. So when I saw this advertisement, it was actually quite a refreshing change:

It’s quite nice to watch something like this. Nothing negative, just something to give people some hope about the future.

Congratulations to President Ma.

Easter.

Another week has gone and like I predicted, I didn’t put any update about my busy and tiring life up here in my little journal. Well, I guess you can about guess where I was the whole week. It was just a lot of work, though I was quite glad that I get to go home pretty early for most of the days, and didn’t really have to sleep at 3 in the morning and wake up at 7. I mean, I still woke up at 7, but I got to sleep earlier.

The 4-day Easter holidays have come and gone, and I’ll be back in office tomorrow. That said, this whole period of the holidays certainly didn’t feel like one because for 2 of the 4 days I was back in office doing work. Looking on hindsight, I was glad that I didn’t book the tickets to go Shanghai during these holidays because I’d realised that I simply wouldn’t have the time to go there because of all the work!

I think I’m about done with what I need to do today in office, so maybe I’d pack my stuffs and go home. I think I need some more sleep. One thing I realised though, for the past couple of days in which I had an eye mask on while I sleep, I definitely slept better and woke up later – I didn’t have the sunlight waking me up at 8 in the morning, which was great. Haha.

Work.

To compensate for not updating for the past week, I think I shall do it more often over the weekends to make sure that my loyal readers won’t forget me – or perhaps I won’t have time to do it in the next couple of days anyway.

Work will be starting again tomorrow, and to be honest, while I don’t mind doing all these stuffs that I’m doing now, sometimes it does get a bit tiring and the thought of giving up would flash across every once in a while. But then again, these are the things that I would be able to proudly put inside my CV, so I think I should bite my teeth and perservere on. After all, all these sufferings would end in about 12 days’ time, so I guess all should be fine.

Anyway the Easter holidays are coming, so I guess for a couple of days I can forget about work and really try to have a good break. The keyword here is try, because I won’t know how much of a break that I’ll really be having. But whatever it is, I think I am in serious need of a massage though. Haha.

One week.

Without realising, I’ve deserted my journal for a week already. Sorry if you have been checking regularly for updates, but I really didn’t have any time to update this thing.

Basically this whole week can be summarized using one word – “busy”. If I have to use 2 words to describe the week, then it will be “busy” and “tiring”. With less than 2 weeks to go to the Inter-Universities Speech Contest, you can only imagine how much there is to do. Guests, audience, publicity, promotions, logistics, etc etc – the list is endless! Thank God I have some great colleagues who could help me along, otherwise I think I’m so going to explode.

Then of course it’s schoolwork – a couple of project reports were due and it was just a lot of mad rush at the last minute to get them written out. With all these different things going on, this whole week has been a total havoc for me, and for 4 days out of 5, I reached home after midnight, and the latest I went to sleep was 3 in the morning. Considering that I go to work at 7-something, it certainly wasn’t a very healthy lifestyle that I’m leading.

About 12 more days to go for the speech contest, in which 4 would be the Easter holidays – I can only hope for things to turn up well!

Tears.

I went for a karaoke session with my bunch of colleagues and I think it must have been my most enjoyable karaoke session I’ve had for a long long time. There was just a lot of fun, lots of laughter, lots of silly antics – I didn’t realise how crazy my colleagues can be when we are playing! I laughed so much that my eyes were wet – damn, I didn’t know silly laughters can generate tears as well!

Some things happened at CityU and I wasn’t very pleased about it, but I think I’ll get over it. Basically it’s just some stupid people screwing things up, and I’m the most direct victim. There’s no understanding some people, but I don’t foresee myself being involved again.

I’m actually sitting in office now, doing some outstanding work on the Inter-Universities Speech Contest that will be held on 27th March. There’s still lots of work to be done, and I hope I’ll be able to get through all right. Even though the work is tough, I think I’m learning quite a lot from it. And I think at least for now, I’m BU through and through. Who gives a hoot about CityU?

March.

Time flies and we’re in March! I thought I’d slip an entry in during these couple of minutes when I seemed to have completed whatever that’s on my hands. I’m going to have a pretty long evening later with some additional work, but all in all I’m enjoying myself so that’s what matters most.

I was in Shenzhen on Saturday (again) and basically I was there with a couple of other friends, getting myself another very good meal and a pretty good massage. The massage parlour we went was about the same class as the one I went the last time (about 3 weeks ago), but what I enjoyed about this one was that the masseur seemed to be more interesting than the other one. The one and a half hours of massage time seemed to have flown past so quickly because she kinda chatted to me non-stop, which was good anyway as I won’t fall asleep while she’s massaging me. The place seemed quite clean and decent (unless there are other things going on that I can’t see, of course!) and I think I won’t mind going in again… say in 2 weeks’ time?! Hahaha…

Looking forward to a very busy couple of weeks ahead, and I hope I can get through alright!