William Chong

I love these early finishes on Friday!  Got to relax and work on my assignment whilst I was in Sylvia Park.  The great thing about free wireless is that you don’t have to even been in the store to use it – Skyped with Tommy (who’s doin’ fine in Canada) whilst we were havin’ lunch in Burger Fuel.  RB seems alright too, though a touch homesick and undertexted.

Also finished one assignment – I’m onto it!  Alright, prepping for the weekend.

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Not much to say, except that I’m pretty envious of Rainbow and Tommy and all their exciting breathtaking travels.  One day I’ll have the means to do the same – I’d better try a different country to get some variety in our collective photobooks!  RB if you read this, I’d love to have a full-sized picture of the beautiful Lake Louise and the chatel you had lunch at.  Thanks for the postcard!

Oh yes, the title – I dropped Chinese 210.  I know, shock horror.  But I decided to do it within the 2-week grace period… pretty much the level of Chinese is just a bit too high for me.  110 was perfect for me – whilst I’m harrassing my Chinese dictionary full-time during Nora Yao’s classes, which was a bit disconcerting.  I may keep attending lectures though, and see what she says.  Teehee.

Two assignments to work on – aside from the food diary thing (you feel very bad writing in 150g of Rocky Road Ice cream, or 170g of Domino’s Pizza, haha) we also have a motor control lab report to type up.  Might start on that tomorrow and Friday.  These readings are actually really interesting, but there’s a lot to do.

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Got tickets to see the Macleans production.  This year it’s “Beauty and the Beast”… Disney songs are the most lyrical and well-written.  Those lyrics are very timeless, lots of people would agree with that!  Anyways, gotta sleep.  Take care!

One of my uni assignments requires a meticulous tracking of the foods I’m eating.  I even have to weigh them as much as I can.  So my lunchtime noodles had to be broken down like this:

• 250 g egg noodles
• 100 g silverbeet
• 50 g Shaved Ham
  • EN: 109 kcal
  • PRO: 160 g
  • Fat: 2 g (0.8 g sat)
  • CHO: 7 g (0.9 g sug)
  • Sodium: 1300 mg
• 2 chicken eggs
• 15 ml Kikkoman Soy Sauce

The work required kinda puts me off eating complicated foods, or foods without weight and nutritional breakdowns.  Mleh.

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As part of my Chinese revision, I break down lyrics from Chinese pop artists.  I’m on my 2nd song, but at the moment it’s very interesting how succinct and abstract these lyrics can be.  The first line of one of Jay Chow’s songs is only 15 characters, but has the following:

“As the eaves are like cliffs, and as the chimes are like the blue seas, I wait for the swallow to return.”

… how are eaves like cliffs?  How are wind chimes like blue seas?  How profound.

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 RB, Cheryl, Laurence and I bundled ourselves into town last night.  A bit of Float, and a touch of Deschler’s – I don’t get the chance to go out too often, so it was a refreshing outing.

I’ve nearly finished my 307 Lit Review – it’s not a particularly long one, so I’m leaving the rest till Monday night to complete.  My final exam timetable also came out this week: I’ve pretty much got the worst timetable ever!  The last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the last Monday of the exam period.  What a way to reduce the midyear holidays…

Anyways.  Preparations for 21st?  Haven’t done too much of it.  I’m not a particularly balloon-and-streamers sort of guy, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be an excellent night.