Japan!

I’m sitting at the departure gate at the Hong Kong airport right now and I’ll be boarding the flight heading to Tokyo in about 10 minutes’ time! I’ll be spending 5 days in Japan and since this is my first ever trip to Japan, you can imagine my excitement! I almost couldn’t sleep last night, and hopefully the trip would be smooth so that I can last until the end of the day!

I’ve brought along my notebook with me, and apparently there is quite a lot of wi-fi spots in Tokyo (which include my hotel room), I hope to be able to keep updating on this trip!

Anyway I’ve heard the boarding call, so I’m off! See you guys again when I touch down in Japan!

Paralympics.

I was at the Shatin Equestrian Venue to watch the Equestrian Events of the 2008 Paralympic Games on Monday. I must say that it was truly an unique experience to be able to watch the games live in person – to say I was excited and delighted would be an utter understatement.

Initially I was actually slightly worried that I might feel bored watching the events because for the Paralympic Games Equestrian Events, dressage is the only discipline and according to newspaper reports previously, some people have complained that it was difficult to understand and it becomes boring watching the horses doing similar things again and again. However, when I was watching the games, I thought it was actually very interesting. Of course I was tuning in to the live commentary which definitely helped, but I still feel that the excitement of being able to watch the games up close overcame (by a large margin) by the apparently modularity and singuility of the competition. The live commentary allowed me to really understand how the dressage is really like, and now I know how to tell a good performance by a bad one. And to be honest, it really looks great when a rider and his/her horse managed to do a great routine – it’s really pleasing on the eye.

Furthermore, the paralympic athletes, who are disabled in one way or another, were really people that I have to take my hats off to. Despite their disabilities, they managed to pull off routines just like the normal healthy athletes. Just this fact alone commands much respect.

New Semester.

I’m now in the second year of my Master of Science in Electronic Commerce course at City University (call me senior!) and because of a few transferred credits, I have been having a relatively easy time with my courses. For this semester I’m doing just one module in addition to beginning my year-long project. The module I’m doing is called E-Commerce Law, and I don’t think I would enjoy it – all the ordinances are making me mad, and I’m talking about just one lecture.

I’m also embarking on my year-long project with 3 other long-time comrades (actually not that long-time, we started grouping together for projects only since last semester but we’ve been on 2 project groups already). Not too sure on what to expect, but we hope that we could have a good time together.

Was supposed to have been taking another course on Supply Chain Management, but after hearing the huge amount of workload which include a real-time simulator that requires almost 24/7 attention, I decided that I’m too busy for that and dropped it together with all my other coursemates. The scene of all 10 of us walking out of that classroom during the break of the lecture was actually quite amazing. Not too sure if the lecturer appreciated that though. Haha.