San San's diary (March, 2004)
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1st March, 2004 (Mon) Sunny A brand new day – the beginning of the month, a fresh start again? So, eight months have gone since I registered for my study. I made a reflection on what I had done in February, for which I would be ashamed to claim I had done anything at all! I cleared up the notes and files on my desk, organized them well into different categories, planned ahead for this month. Hopefully I WILL have done something by the end of this month. That ‘something’ could be a piece of writing, data or articles that I finish reading.
2nd March, 2004 (Tue) Sunny I love Minna no Tabo!! I got a parcel from a best friend of mine. It was a lovely Minna no Tabo hot water bottle. I was so excited about it that I took the pictures of it together with my other Minna No Tabo. Hehe… J Good that I started concentrating on my work. And I was doing some more reading for my presentation.
3rd March, 2004 (Wed) Rainy Oh, no, why did it happen now?!! Everything went well for the day until the afternoon when my computer got disconnected at around 1:30p.m. I was wondering if it happened to all computers in our building, as that had happened before. So I didn’t pay attention to that and went to the seminar. I called one of my flatmates to check if she also had a problem getting access to the Internet but it was found that this was the problem with my computer only. So I tried to report the problem to the Ethernet Management and checked my email account. The disconnection occurred because my computer got a virus!! Oh, no… I was worried, even so after I had scanned my computer with the anti-virus software provided by the Ethernet CD. They were too outdated to remove any virus! I know I have to be responsible for the virus infection as I haven’t updated my anti-virus software for long but why did the problem happen now, when I have an important presentation to do in the coming Wednesday!!
4th March, 2004 (Thur) Sunnyspells When can I get back the connection with the Internet? After getting to know that my computer got disconnected because of its virus infection, I concentrated on my study and work. I felt good about this kind of life. That’s the kind of life that I should have. Finally I figured out the reason why my computer got a virus as said by the Ethernet Management. I shouldn’t open an attached file from an unknown source that claimed to be from Lycos, which isn’t true at all. I am worried about my computer since I got to know that my computer is suspected of having infected with a virus. I downloaded some free anti-virus programs but I can’t bring them back home as I forgot to bring a floppy disk with me while the computers at the computer centre of the university didn’t have a CD rewriter. So I asked a flatmate for help by trying to download the latest version of an anti-virus program through her computer. Then I tried to clean up my computer and remove any virus found. The whole matter really cost me the whole evening!
5th March, 2004 (Fri) Rainy The days without internet connection are not so bad! There was still no resumption of the connection to my computer. This is good, however, for my work and study as I can concentrate on them. I turned on my radio to listen to local radio programme in order to train my ears to get used to hearing English. Busy work does help distract one’s attention from food and many other things!
6th March, 2004 (Sat) Rainy I had a chat with a friend calling from HK. She talked a lot about her colleagues, subordinates and friends. It is good coz I can keep updated of what’s going on in HK. I learnt that people may have different views on the same thing because of their different culture, educational background, upbringing and etc. The fact that my friend’s friend failed to register with the authority in China for her office was reported by a former employee of hers whom she had put her trust in. My friend’s friend thought that girl had betrayed her but we didn’t agree with that; the girl may not think there has been anything wrong with her action and she thinks it may just be a way of doing business in such a Darwinism world. This reminds me of what I discussed with a staff from the Chinese community centre earlier this week. I asked her for a clear idea of what ‘fighting’ means in one of the cases described in a report. ‘Fighting’ may be interpreted differently by different people – some think find it nothing wrong while the others may find it unacceptable. Mom seemed to be enjoying her cooking classes. She said my elder brothers seem to have done nothing for her birthday. She asked me to tell them of her wish that the present for her birthday of this year would be money, as a sponsorship to her proposed trip to China in May, rather than those impractical presents as given last year!! I wanted to talk with dad more often but he had already gone to bed when I called home.
7th March, 2004 (Sun) Cloudy with some sunny spells That dream again!! I can conclude there are two dreams that I always have – ‘missing the flight for the UK’ dream and ‘got my ATM cards stolen’ dream. Last night I had the latter. I dreamt that I was giving my presentation and Alan Tam became my supervisor!! But my dream was interrupted all the time and I couldn’t finish it in the end and my supervisor said my second dissertation lacked data. At the end of the presentation, I was so frustrated with the fact that my presentation kept being interrupted all the time that I decided to leave the classroom. But then I found my purse was on a table and the two ATM cards were gone while my credit card was still there!! I recalled that I may have put my purse on a table during my presentation. So I felt worried and went to the HSBC to report my loss. A friend of mine had come to the UK and was living with me in the student hall. She went to the HSBC with me as well. I told a Chinese staff there that my cards had been stolen. But they didn’t deal with my case and they asked me to wait. I waited so long that I couldn’t help asking them when they would deal with my case. In the meantime, I had an argument with my friend as I found her very annoying. She felt very angry; she scolded me and cried a lot. Then I woke up… I have no doubt that the dream has something to do with the pressure that I’m going through when I’m preparing for my presentation with a few days left. The anxiety underlying my mind (my subconscious) was shown in my dream. It is horrible to have this dream… I went to the Town Hall as the Chinese community centre had a stall there for the International Women’s week. Basically I didn’t have much to do there; I just sat at the stall with two staff. There were not many stalls. One of the staff said the Council was too late to inform people of the event this year. There was lack of promotion and not many people came this afternoon. Occasionally some people paid to get a stone with their names on it. Other things like hand-made aprons and scarves attracted no attention. Our stall seemed to be not as attractive as the others. The stall next to ours had a sociable, talkative woman who was good at building up a relationship with anyone who just had a peek at their stall. I almost could remember every word that she said to the people when introducing their organization to them. There was a stall at which people could put on the women dresses of a community and take a picture. Next to that stall was the one at which a skilful woman used some strings, as in the old days in HK, to work on people’s face. It’s a kind of facial care.
8th March, 2004 (Mon) Cloudy Only two days to go. I listened to a conversation that I had taped before. When I heard what a friend of mine had said to me about doing my study, I felt touched. I’m glad I can meet her. I should feel lucky for having a lot of wonderful friends in my life. They are all nice to me. The more I read some literature and the more I heard my data, the more I’m eager to collect data. I’ve got some questions in my mind that are awaiting answers.
9th March, 2004 (Tue) Cloudy I’m still struggling with my preparation for the presentation. There is only one day to go but still I don’t think I have prepared it well. I’m really scared and I wish the presentation would be over soon. It’s a torture for me! I can’t do anything else. No radio, no diary, no relaxation, no email checking… only PRESENTATION!! When can I relax? I still kept having dreams…
10th March, 2004 (Wed) Rainy I have never felt so frightened. I had been nervous, worried, anxious and frightened throughout the day until I finished my presentation. I don’t think I knew what I was saying then. My mind was totally blank but a classmate of mine said I had done well and could answer the questions raised by our supervisor. But I was wondering if my understanding of some concepts was correct. Anyway, I survived.
11th March, 2004 (Thur) Cloudy I sort of felt like having a muffin and instant noodles this week. So I went to Tesco and the China Town to buy both things respectively. I bought a pot of pink hyacinth at Marks and Spencer as I had been thinking of getting a pot of plant; I like to observe the growth of a plant… Mom showed her disappointment in her phone call to me at no sign of celebration of her birthday by my elder brothers. I don’t know why they didn’t mention to her their plan of the celebration; or maybe they simply had no intention of celebrating her birthday? Maybe they want to give her a surprise? Or, they’re too busy to do anything for her birthday?
12th March, 2004 (Fri) Cloudy & foggy Since my computer got disconnected, I didn’t feel like checking and sending email. Maybe I’m so used to accessing the Internet through my computer at home that I don’t enjoy spending time at computing or in the library. It’s inconvenient to go to and from Manchester Computing. On the other hand, it is good coz I have no excuse for getting lazy and I can concentrate… every coin has two sides, right? Too tired these days. Don’t feel like talking to anyone.
13th March, 2004 (Sat) Cloudy One of my flatmates would be moving out in May as she’d be going to Belgium for an internship for 6 months. What a great opportunity!! I wish I could go there too. But it would always be a dream unless my family wins a lottery and that would also be a dream too!
14th March, 2004 (Sun) Rainy and sunny I called mom and I was right that she was having her birthday celebration with my elder brothers. They invited her, dad, and grandparents to buffet dinner at Royal Garden. That reminded me of the time when I was having buffet lunch there with my former colleagues. I miss the cheesecakes!! I had a chat with each one of them (except grandparents and my sister-in-law). I also said ‘happy birthday’ to my elder brother’s girlfriend, who didn’t know her birthday was on the same day as my mom! (nor did my mom know about her birthday) Today was the open day for the UMIST Halls. At first I didn’t know about that and I was wondering why there were so many people around and some people were queuing up outside. Some people went into the flat opposite ours. Then I found some sheets of paper with words ‘UMIST Halls Open Day’ and I knew what was happening. I wondered where those people living in the flat opposite ours had gone when the visitors looked around in their flat. Maybe they all had gone out? There was talk of the recent form of Michael Owen. I haven’t watched his games for ages. By the way, I just got to know that he and his girlfriend just got engaged. Congratulations!!
15th March, 2004 (Mon) Rainy Is Spring coming? The weather has been getting warmer but it was still dull and it rained. I went to the Chinese community centre to have a meeting with some of the staff including a British guy who was working there on a placement. I was asked to take the minutes for the meeting and later when one of the staff, who was responsible for translating what we said in Cantonese into English for the British guy, had left, I was asked to be his interpreter. The staff seemed to suggest that I would be responsible for part of the presentation on the launch day of one of their projects. I don’t know if I’d do the Chinese or English part. Sounds a bit terrifying… I can’t help sending an email, which was however a complaint, to the Ethernet Management after they failed to restore the connection to my computer. A guy did immediately reconnect my computer soon after I had sent the email (but I sent two email to them already then). It’s funny that suddenly I seemed to not get used to get access to the Internet at home. And today I reflected that one of the things that I did frequently here is complaining.
16th March, 2004 (Tue) Cloudy Though I got my connection restored, I’m afraid I may have got virus phoebia as I am always worried about whether my computer has got any virus. I tried to update my anti-virus software (Norman) but I still can’t figure out how I could connect my computer to the download server of Norman. A problem occurred at midnight when the software was scanning my computer. A virus was found!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17th March, 2004 (Wed) Sunny spells Headache… I felt terrified by the virus that resided in my computer. I didn’t dare to enable the internet connection. After getting back home from the supermarket, I always feared that I may have my connection cut if they found the virus in my computer. I asked a lot of people about how to deal with the problem but no one seemed to be able to help me fix the problem. I have to say scanning my computer and dealing with the virus problem is really time-consuming. I can’t do anything today nor can I feel relieved. I spent time scanning my computer, and looking for information about how to remove the virus. I think I have gained some weight but I can’t help eating from time to time even when I’m not hungry. Our supervisor brought a large pot of sandwiches to the seminar meeting this afternoon but I didn’t take any. The hyacinth started blossoming!! It looked nice and I can smell it when entering the room after going out today. But, will it wither soon?
18th March, 2004 (Thur) Rainy with sunny spells I was still busy dealing with the virus problem. Finally my anti-virus software deleted the infected files for me. The only thing that I have to do is to back up the registry information of my computer and delete the file in the registry. But I have no CD-RW nor any floppy disks to back up the data. So I gotta buy some new CD-RWs and floppy disks but I didn’t bother to go out today. I’m still worried about the connection as I don’t know if my computer is virus-free. Finally I finished a short essay of 300 words in Chinese and sent it to Chris’ fans, who are planning to compile the essays written by his fans into a book and give it to him before his concert. I think my essay talks nonsense…
19th March, 2004 (Fri) Rainy, windy, sunny spells Claire called me today to talk about our trip to Newcastle and the accommodation for it. She, Sam and Heveen planned to stay there for three nights… but in fact I’d only like to afford two nights. I am really skint and when I look at my financial situation and the amount of pounds that I have to exchange for the next 6 months, I really can’t help sighing and getting worried… I attended a fellowship this evening. There were only two people when I arrived at the venue for the fellowship. Since they were going to have an administrative meeting this evening, there were not many people. I was introduced to everyone before the meeting began. I didn’t say much but just listened to their discussion. Maybe I am a kind of persons who don’t like to talk until I get familiar with the people? There was a praying session. We were divided into groups and each one in the group would tell the others of the problems or troubles that he/she had so that the others could pray for him/her. I felt confused after getting back home, wondering if I would become a Christian if I keep attending their meetings. I asked a friend of mine for her advice and she said I should trust my own feelings about whether to become a Christian. If I don’t feel I’m ready, I shouldn’t jump into it. I don’t know why somehow I feel resistant to becoming a Christian or going to the church. Maybe I don’t like revealing all my feelings and thoughts to the others? I find it bad to go to a fellowship just for my study, if in the end I don’t intend to become a Christian. Anyway, let’s see.
20th March, 2004 (Sat) Windy and cloudy A dinner with my supervisor… It was extremely windy today. From time to time I could hear something outside hitting the other things. The weather has been changing all the time. One minute it was raining; the next minute some sunshine came into my room; then the next minute it became cloudy again and it rained. But that didn’t deter me from going to my supervisor’s this evening. A friend sent me a Norton Anti-Virus program (Professional Edition) and I felt relieved after having it installed at my computer. I brought with me a map and had checked the bus schedule. It took me no more than 20 minutes to get to Chorlton. A guy sitting next to me on the bus found me reading the map time and again and he asked me if I knew where I wanted to go. I got off the bus and I could spot my supervisor’s house quickly. We went to a Chinese restaurant together. I asked the girls working there if they allowed me to interview them for my study and they agreed. Then we went back to my supervisor’s house to have our dinner. It was basically a nice dinner and chat. Hopefully I would have a good start to my data collection with the girls working in that Chinese restaurant.
21st March, 2004 (Sun) Cloudy and rainy After a chat with one of my classmates I wonder if I have lost passion for my study. I think I seemed to spend more time on my part-time work than on my study. Only when I was asked to give a presentation or to submit an essay, I’d start doing something for my study. I have to work because I need money; of course I still need to work even if I don’t like my work… Oh, my pink hyacinth is withering…
22nd March, 2004 (Mon) Rainy, cloudy and sunny spells Chris will be holding his concert next month and I had a glimpse of the press conference for it yesterday. He looked great. I wish I could be there… I tried making the pancakes for the first time yesterday. Obviously they were not as delicious as those made by Sam. Anyway, I gotta finish them or I just threw them away. But that would be a waste. Taiwan’s presidential election looked like a chaos to me. In fact I don’t know much about the election and I haven’t read much news about it. Every one said Chen Shui Bian hasn’t contributed much during his last four years’ reign. I think I really need to brush up my English and to have some ‘input’ to my mind coz I’ve found I forgot some vocabulary and I haven’t got much to say to my friends and family. Lin Yutang’s saying ‘a scholar who hasn’t read anything for three days feels that his talk has no flavour (becomes insipid) and his own face becomes hateful to look at (in the mirror)’ (actually he quotes it from Huang Shanku, a Sungn poet and friend of Su Tungp’o, is true! Suddenly I want to read “Tuesdays with Morrie”, recommended by a friend of mine some time ago.
23rd March, 2004 (Tue) Sunny A busy day!! My first-time data collection! What a busy day! In the morning I acted as an interpreter for a Chinese woman and she invited me to lunch at a Chinese restaurant. The food was not tasty (esp. the rice vermicelli) and after lunch, she and I went to a Chinese bakery as she wanted to buy some bread and cakes. Again, she bought me two 'Pineapple bread' even though I said to her thousands of times that I didn't eat the Chinese bread... I still haven't booked the accommodation for our trip to Newcastle and I tried to make a phone call to the YMCA but they said they were fully booked. Then I made another phone call to another hotel and it was fully booked too. It is not surprising as I guess lots of people are going to the conference and also the schools will have started their holiday then. But when I made a phone call to another hotel, the staff said it had a four-room accommodation available from the 31st of March and it cost around 25 pounds. I didn’t book it and had to ask my classmates about that first. I had difficulty understanding what the reception of one of the hotels said. When she asked me how many 'nights' we wanted to stay - she pronounced 'night' as 'late'!! In fact I'm not in the mood of travelling and last time after my trip to London, I had to take a rest (haha, an excuse for being lazy!) for a few days and so, now I better think about whether to spend time travelling around in Newcastle, though it's a good opportunity because thousands of things are coming up! On the 13th of April I need to attend the launch day for a parenting project of the Chinese community centre and before that I need to prepare a power point for them. Another problems is, I haven't spent time on my study since my presentation (for almost two weeks) as I've been busy with my work and the report for that Chinese women society. I need to set the priorities and make a plan. I'm thinking of going to the conference for one day only so that I can have more time to work on my study and my U work, plus the report for that Chinese community centre. I attended a departmental seminar by Peter Ladefoged. I am not a specialist in phonetics but I didn’t find much difficulty understand his talk. Quite a number of students and lecturers attended the seminar. I found one of our lecturers fall asleep in the seminar. Perhaps he has been so busy with his work that he hasn’t got enough sleep but he still had to attend the seminar as an obligation? I paid a visit to that Chinese restaurant again. I initially planned to stay there for around an hour and had an interview with the girls working there but in the end I stayed there for almost five hours, from 5:45 p.m. till almost 10:45p.m. I almost missed the final bus! When I was waiting for the bus, a no.86 bus arrived but the driver said he needed to take a short break and have some food first. So I waited but found another no.86 drove past quickly. I was thinking if I had missed the bus and felt a bit worried. Fortunately then that no.86 bus driver drove the bus a bit forward and I got onto it and got back home at around 11:15p.m. While I was waiting for the bus, a black guy gave me a 'dayrider' as he said he didn't need it any more. So I could save 1.5 pounds for a single ticket. Hehe… I felt like talking with people after getting back home. My adrenaline was still running and I happened to meet a flatmate in the kitchen when she was ironing her clothes. I talked with her for a while and then got back to my room to eat those two 'pineapple' bread!! I found a problem with my MP3 player. I can’t believe it’d have a problem after it had been purchased less than a year ago. I got the VCDs sent by a friend today. Oh, I can’t wait to see them, though I know I have lots of things to finish urgently…
24th March, 2004 (Wed) Rainy and Sunny I went to the city centre to see if I could find any CR-RW and floppy disks. But they're so expensive!! Around 10 pounds for 5 CD-RW, i.e. almost double the same price as in HK and the floppy disks are also expensive - 10 floppy cost around 5 pounds!! Again, it doubled the price as in HK. I didn’t buy anything in the end. I still don't know why the 3 Sony CD-RWs that I have at home can't be used. I think not just CD-RWs and floppy disks, many things are much more expensive than in HK (not to mention comparing with those in China!). My classmates invited me to an Indian dinner after the seminar. I remember the last time I had an Indian dinner in Rusholme was when I dined out with two of my HK friends. At that time, people usually tried to lure customers by offering them a deal. It was the same last night. We were told to pay 6 pounds per head only and could have everything. Of course after we had sat down in the restaurant, it was another story - only a papadum, a starter and a main course was included for everyone; there was no drink (only water), no dessert and we had to pay more than 6 pounds if we ordered something else, such as papadum. A waiter, who said we could have the offer (6 pounds/head), didn't have a good attitude towards us and one of my classmates almost had an argument with him. She told him she was worried about the quality of the naan and the waiter said she was insulting them when she said that. The food was okay but if I could choose, I'd still prefer Chinese food, though now I don't think the quality of Chinese restaurants is high either. I got an opportunity to earn a little money. The Chinese community centre asked me if I would be interested in translating a document for the city council and if I liked to do a one-day paid job for an event held in the centre this Sunday. So my schedule will be getting tighter but I'm glad I can earn some extra money. Hehe… A friend talked about her unwillingness to join the activities organized by her colleagues. Sometimes I also wonder if I've got a problem when I don't feel like joining some activities with the others. Perhaps that's because we don't like hanging out with the people who invited us?. I do ask myself if I should still say 'yes' when I don't want to accept people's invitation to an activity. Maybe that's the rule of the games in the society - we need to keep a good relationship with others by trying to attend their activities from time to time?
25th March, 2004 (Thur) Sunny Although I know my schedule is very tight, I still haven't started my work yet and instead took a nap! :P But I really gotta start my work from this evening but it turned out that I went to bed at 10p.m. later!! I went to the Chinese community centre in the morning and I was shown the document that I was asked to translate. Actually it is an agreement that the City Council wants a Chinese elderly to sign. That elderly can't read English and so the City Council has to make sure that that Chinese elderly understands the agreement before signing the contract. So a translation into Chinese from English is needed. I was asked if I would be confident to do the translation and how much I'd like to be paid. I don’t know if I can do it, to be honest, but because I need money, I accepted the task. I watched part of David Tao's concert VCD. I think he's really a great singer and there's no difference between listening to his CD and watching his concert as he kept a high standard of singing songs in the concert. Yesterday when I was using a school computer, there was a notice that it was not safe to input any details of things like bank account or credit card because some remote control may have been in use (probably because of virus?). Oh, it seems it's now not safe to use Internet for any transaction? I always heard a friend saying she would go to watch this film and that film in HK. I miss the days when I watched films with her. I have no idea of how I can spend my Easter Holiday. I didn't feel excited when we finished our seminar meeting yesterday as I don't feel like I will have holiday at all! It doesn't make any difference to me; it's just that I don't need to attend a seminar on Wednesdays for a month and I don't need to see my supervisor at least for a month. Maybe because I have got so many things to do (besides my study), I don't think I can be relaxed! Ha, it's the first time that I really don't find any difference in having holiday and I can feel that holiday doesn't make any difference to me as a student!
26th March, 2004 (Fri) Rainy and cold I got the results of my application for university accommodation. I couldn’t stay in my room for the next academic year. Actually it was not surprising coz it has been said that few people could stay in our current accommodation for more than one year. But I was disappointed that a letter from the department didn’t help my application. What can I say? But I was so busy these days that I didn’t have much time to feel grieved about that. I had a meeting with the people of the Chinese community centre about what we would do in a forum this Sunday. I would be an interpreter for one of the workshops. After the meeting I was asked to station at a stall for the Chinese community centre at the New Century House close to the Victoria Station. I did nothing but sat and chat with another girl to kill the time while people were listening to a talk and attending some workshops. We agreed to exchange the CDs of TVB dramas with each other. A busy weekend is coming…
27th March, 2004 (Sat) Cloudy I watched a musical about Christianity this evening. I was hesitating about whether to go but in the end I decided to go as the venue was close to my accommodation and I thought it would only take me 1.5 hours. There were not many people. I saw some familiar faces. The musical was great, considering the performers were amateurs. After that, there was a prayer and the host asked those who weren’t a Christian but wanted to become one to stand up. I didn’t stand up coz I didn’t think I was ready. I couldn’t wait to leave and go back home immediately. A Christian that I met there asked me some good questions: what do I want? Do I need a religion to support me? I think the first one was a good question coz I hesitated and had to think for a while before giving him an answer. I knew that I forgot to ask myself this question when I was busy. What do I want? Maybe after all I want happiness and now I’m trying to enjoy my life by doing what I want to do – to experience life, to see and meet more people. Do I need a religion to support me? Maybe I’m lucky. I’ve got my family and some good friends to support me. I don’t think I’m ready to become a Christian. But I found that, although I always say to people that there’s no point worrying, I myself do feel worried from time to time. But I tell myself that no matter what happens, I can still survive and I still need to get on with my life. I like three Chinese words (平常心) - . I also agree with a view that if we have a simple mind and lead a simple life, it’s easy to be happy and satisfied.
28th March, 2004 (Sun) Sunny spells I almost forgot the fact that the British Summertime began today. I remembered it some time ago but I wasn’t aware of it, esp. when I was so busy these days. I woke up and looked at the computer, hey, the clock had been put 1 hour forward! That means I have one hour less to sleep or do other things. I went to the Chinese community centre early in the morning to get prepared for the forum. In fact I didn’t know what the exact nature of my job was. I was first responsible for the reception desk. I don’t think I was of great help to the workshop coz in the workshop it was one of the staff from the Chinese community centre who did most of the interpretation as she understood the elderly very well, who were the participants in our workshop. Anyway, I gained something from the forum. I got to know that a lot of local Chinese had encountered some racist crimes but there was nothing they could do about them and the police was described as having racial discrimination and a contrasting response of theirs to the cases relevant to the British and to the Chinese respectively was a good proof of that.
29th March, 2004 (Mon) Sunny spells and warm The appreciation dinner organized by the Chinese community centre was held at ‘Sun Po City’. There were around 60 people, including the staff and the volunteers. It was a dinner for volunteers and each volunteer was given a prize as a reward for their help to the centre. I got a handmade scarf and so now I’ve got five scarves at home! There was a Chinese quiz and I felt how ignorant I was, which was shown in my giving wrong answers; fortunately we didn’t get the lowest marks among other groups! J The parcel sent by a friend arrived. It included a lovely cross stitch key ring made by my friend herself with my English name on it. I love it and have used it with my keys. There were also some beautiful postcards that were my friend’s collection. She’s soooooooooo nice to me and I don’t know how to thank her. A friend asked me to proofread the article she wrote to Chris. It was about being ‘lucky’. I think it is well written and meaningful. Compared with her article, mine is terrible and rubbish! I really need to brush up my written Chinese. I think I’m also lucky to have so many people to support me.
30th March, 2004 (Tue) Sunny Christian friend asked me if there was anything with which no one could help me and any case where I had to face alone, after I had told her of my answers to the questions raised by a Christian last Saturday. To be honest, I felt sort of resistant when hearing this question. ButI know my friend won’t force me to become a Christian. I’d rather become a Christian at my will.
31st March, 2004 (Wed) Sunny I went to the supermarket early in the morning. I bought a lot of foodstuff coz I was planning not to do any food shopping until after the launch day of the parenting project. So the bags were quite heavy and I was too tired to do anything else. Then I helped a Chinese woman by being her interpreter in our meeting with an immigration advisor. I was wondering if it would be easy or difficult for me to get a visa. The woman invited me to a lunch with her but I turned her invitation down. I really had to go home to finish my work. Of course going home early doesn’t necessarily mean I can make best use of my time as I still spent some time surfing the net and checking email and messages. |
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