My Day

I had a pretty chill day yesterday and relatively so today. Public holiday ain't so holiday-like with exams around the corner - therefore I decided that it was time to pay a visit to my chemistry tutor and seek some help. Anyway, that ended promptly and I had to go visit Escapade sports. I haven't written about my cool shoes, but many already know that I recently bought a pair of Vibrams. They are awesome five-finger toed shoes. So I had to go get an exchange for them just because they had a manufacturing defect. I was like, "omg" when I found out, but it's alright. When I arrived at the store the manager said, "just because they are so popular we don't hold any stock for black ones anymore, but we can exchange your pair for a pair of pink ones". Eww? They look like this... so ugly.

KSO - Grey / Pink

Anyway, he told me to come back at the end of May. So now I'm extremely disappointed because I was becoming one with my awesome shoes. Really other than the really random stares I get from strangers as I walk the streets of Hong Kong I love them to death.

So I went along with my day - took a bus to Hung Hom and hopped onto the KCR. Memories of the random trips to Shen Zhen flashed into my mind, however it was just a simple trip to Tai Wai to play some soccer.

Ye Olde KCR

The time spent on the KCR was brief and short, only 4 stops away I have already arrived at my destination. Being ridiculously early, I decided to look for a place to sit and enjoy some geography review. The nicest place I could find was McDonald's but I had a really strong craving for 太興's BBQ pork but I opted not just because I'd get kicked out for sitting there for an hour-ish. In midst of that I sat down in McDonalds enjoying my $5 apple pie.

nom nom nom - Apple Pie

That was that, and off to my soccer game. It seemed like everything was a-ok until we got to the field. A field of potholes and uneven grounds, a game played with a flat ball, the hot stinging humidity and a team of women who apparently at least half are professional soccer players. Well that wasn't a good outlook already - coupled with the last minutes of the game where one gets trampled and scrapped by rocks is no fun. As much as that was 'no fun' - it's my second last game and who could say no to going to a game.

On the way back home was a rather quiet one, took the olde KCR back to Hung Hom and bussed it from there. Not much interesting going on there.

The day perhaps commenced rather suddenly, woke up right at 630 and arrived at school at 7. My plan was to miss everyone so that they can freak out while I just keep my tranquility. As much as the running away you can do, I found it hard to truly seek out a place to keep myself out of sight. I found a refuge for a good 20 minutes discussing the excitement of finishing the exams with BD - hey it might be about exams, but it's not stressful.

The exam went by in a blink of an eye, where the five minutes of reading time was eaten up by the haunting prose - that had way to many characters. I settled with the poem Rising Five. I was impressed by the entire set up the fact that IBO actually seals exam papers and all that other fun stuff. Back to my poem, I commented on the most random things and just made stuff up as I went. I spent a great deal of time discussing the significance of the repetition of rising five. Where there was a particular incongruity when it was "not May, But rising June." I said something random how Nicholson does not follow the Gregorian calendar but the lunar calendar so that he can emphasize change. Don't even try to ask how I came up with that. I really don't know.

As the adrenaline subsided I felt extremely lethargic and decided to head home. While killing the environment by blasting the A/C I also shut the blinds from the blinding sunlight and dozed off for hours.