好无聊！下载了周杰伦最新的单曲 - 稻香。蛮好听，蛮轻快的。
Fragrant Rice - Jay Chou.
其实还不难唱。歌曲也很简单：
对这个世界如果你有太多的抱怨
跌倒了 就不敢继续往前走
为什麼 人要这麼的脆弱 堕落
请你打开电视看看
多少人为生命在努力勇敢的走下去
我们是不是该知足
珍惜一切 就算没有拥有
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随著稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑 小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧 回到最初的美好
不要这麼容易就想放弃
就像我说的追不到的梦想
换个梦不就得了
为自己的人生鲜艳上色
先把爱涂上喜欢的颜色
笑一个吧 功成名就不是目的
让自己快乐快乐这才叫做意义
童年的纸飞机 现在终於飞回我手里
所谓的那快乐 赤脚在田里追蜻蜓追到累了
偷摘水果被蜜蜂给叮到怕了
谁在偷笑呢
我靠著稻草人吹著风唱著歌睡著了
哦 哦 午后吉它在虫鸣中更清脆
哦 哦 阳光洒在路上就不怕心碎
珍惜一切 就算没有拥有
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随著稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑 小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧 回到最初的美好
还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随著稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑 小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧 回到最初的美好。
Monday, September 29, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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恩…好久没吃麦当劳了，但今天总算吃到了，多亏我朋友的打包。他的商业学的老师竟然带他们一班去Perth的麦当劳，而且还是在上课时间。课不用上了，又有东西可以吃，好好哦！不过我还是得感谢他帮我打包了回来。再怎么说，我好嫉妒喔，早知如此，我也拿商业课。不过那样也好可悲哦，为了麦当劳而学商业？有没有搞错？？
今天的prep我没有功课写，所以就在博客上写一些废话。还是无法upload图片，好烦！拍了这么多照片究竟是干嘛的？就连e-mail也无法发送图片。想寄一些照片回家都不行!!!这里的网络好差！速度和汶莱的也差不多，还有流量限度，有时还收不到讯号。靠！要不是真的有需要，我也不会去办这个网卡。真气人！学校的网络更是无药可就，简直慢到不行。真有他妈的！抱歉，我不是故意要骂粗口的，因为我实在是忍无可忍了，骂出来心情会比较好受。
这里的天气果然如我外公所说的：“不是人住的”。今天早上好冷好冷好冷！冷得刺骨！好冷！说话时嘴里还冒烟了，冒烟还算是正常现象，今天冒的烟特别多。在室内都可以冷到发抖，好恐怖！都不知道我这个热血动物能不能撑到12月。好冷！
食物方面令我好失望。这里的食物果然不和我的胃口。早上基本上每天都吃一样的食物，中餐和晚餐有时还可以接受，特别是星期五的fish and chips还蛮好吃的。星期六通常都不去食堂吃晚餐，因为可以order takeaway，比起来好吃多了。菜单还算丰富，有中国菜，印度菜和批萨。有一点我必须强调，来到欧洲千万不要吃饭，因为那会模糊你对‘米’和‘饭’的界线。有时我还分不清学校喂我的到底是米还是饭，硬邦邦的，好像只是把米烫过而已，咬得断，不过好难吞…
已经有了打算，这星期天决定不吃早餐和午餐，因为下午要去吃自助餐。为了达到“吃自助餐的最高境界”，必须是要扶着墙进去，扶着墙出来。上个星期去吃过了一次，不过吃不多，这星期一定要把上个星期的也都一起赚回来！加油！Gambatte ne！
谈及女生，我确实是没什么好写的。不瞒你说，这里的女生对我而言，论身材，论长相，论肤色，论发色，几乎都一样的。好丢人，就连到现在，我有时还分不清谁是谁呢。不过有一点我不能否认，这里的女生都很爱化妆打扮，打扮起来个个都好有形哦。我个人对外国女生没多大的兴趣。还是先把学业搞好，其他的等一会儿再做打算。
最后，别忘了祝我自己生日快乐！
今天的prep我没有功课写，所以就在博客上写一些废话。还是无法upload图片，好烦！拍了这么多照片究竟是干嘛的？就连e-mail也无法发送图片。想寄一些照片回家都不行!!!这里的网络好差！速度和汶莱的也差不多，还有流量限度，有时还收不到讯号。靠！要不是真的有需要，我也不会去办这个网卡。真气人！学校的网络更是无药可就，简直慢到不行。真有他妈的！抱歉，我不是故意要骂粗口的，因为我实在是忍无可忍了，骂出来心情会比较好受。
这里的天气果然如我外公所说的：“不是人住的”。今天早上好冷好冷好冷！冷得刺骨！好冷！说话时嘴里还冒烟了，冒烟还算是正常现象，今天冒的烟特别多。在室内都可以冷到发抖，好恐怖！都不知道我这个热血动物能不能撑到12月。好冷！
食物方面令我好失望。这里的食物果然不和我的胃口。早上基本上每天都吃一样的食物，中餐和晚餐有时还可以接受，特别是星期五的fish and chips还蛮好吃的。星期六通常都不去食堂吃晚餐，因为可以order takeaway，比起来好吃多了。菜单还算丰富，有中国菜，印度菜和批萨。有一点我必须强调，来到欧洲千万不要吃饭，因为那会模糊你对‘米’和‘饭’的界线。有时我还分不清学校喂我的到底是米还是饭，硬邦邦的，好像只是把米烫过而已，咬得断，不过好难吞…
已经有了打算，这星期天决定不吃早餐和午餐，因为下午要去吃自助餐。为了达到“吃自助餐的最高境界”，必须是要扶着墙进去，扶着墙出来。上个星期去吃过了一次，不过吃不多，这星期一定要把上个星期的也都一起赚回来！加油！Gambatte ne！
谈及女生，我确实是没什么好写的。不瞒你说，这里的女生对我而言，论身材，论长相，论肤色，论发色，几乎都一样的。好丢人，就连到现在，我有时还分不清谁是谁呢。不过有一点我不能否认，这里的女生都很爱化妆打扮，打扮起来个个都好有形哦。我个人对外国女生没多大的兴趣。还是先把学业搞好，其他的等一会儿再做打算。
最后，别忘了祝我自己生日快乐！
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Boring Sunday
No breakfast and lunch today. Instead we have brunch at 10.30am. Roll call at 11.00am. So for those who do not want to eat, they can actually wake up at 10.59am. It’s a boring Sunday. Much boring than the previous Sundays. We have more than 4 hours to spend in Perth (from 1-5pm). Went to a Chinese buffet restaurant, costs around 7 pounds. Quite cheap by the standards here. Most of the foods are mainly fried food and sweet stuffs, but at least there’s rice to eat… Then, went to Tesco and bought a whole lot of stuff, a trolley of foodstuffs for the 3 of us.
Great weather today. It’s one of the few days when the sun is actually shining. Temperature is slightly warmer than previous days. Unfortunately, I was too tired to play sports. So I spent the whole day staying in the room doing lazy things like lying down and listening to music. After all, it’s a Sunday…
Great weather today. It’s one of the few days when the sun is actually shining. Temperature is slightly warmer than previous days. Unfortunately, I was too tired to play sports. So I spent the whole day staying in the room doing lazy things like lying down and listening to music. After all, it’s a Sunday…
Saturday, September 20, 2008
......
I haven’t updated my blog for some time now. I’m kind of busy here. Lots of homework to take care and tests are coming up. Apart from that, there are too many activities to keep me occupied – badminton, tennis, table tennis, watching movie…
Yesterday, my housemaster brought all the L6 students in my house to play golf somewhere in Perth, a place called Noah’s Ark. It’s quite enjoyable actually. Golf is not as easy as it seems. At first glance, it may look like a man swinging a golf putt to send the small white ball flying. Ok… Swinging involves techniques, and without that, the ball will not fly, i.e. you will not hit the ball. Or the ball becomes too heavy to fly, i.e. the ball flies and land right in front of you. And out of the 40 balls I hit, I think only around 10 are perfect shots. A percentage of 25% despite having played golf once a few months back.
Tomorrow, again, I’m going to Perth. There’s an outing to Glasgow actually, but I opt not to go. It’s too tiring. I just want to stay behind in the school and do my own thing. Perth is nothing. Just go there in the afternoon for around 2 hours to shop for some snack and drinks. Better than sitting on the bus for like 1 hour to get to Glasgow.
I’m still planning of what to do for the half-term. Going down to London is a sure thing, but what the hell should I do there?? My parents are coming, right. But they are only here for 4 days, how about the remaining 6 days? OMG!!! Wish I have some things in mind. Maybe I should just go around and explore London… Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge, London Dungeon, Madam Tussuads, London Eye, Chinatown etc.
I want to go back to Asia during the X’mas holiday, maybe to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai or Brunei if possible. I miss my Asian food, rice, curry… And things there are much cheaper. Anyway, if my parents want to come to London, I will have to stay here. Aaahh… I hate the European winter. No sun and bitterly cold.
Yesterday, my housemaster brought all the L6 students in my house to play golf somewhere in Perth, a place called Noah’s Ark. It’s quite enjoyable actually. Golf is not as easy as it seems. At first glance, it may look like a man swinging a golf putt to send the small white ball flying. Ok… Swinging involves techniques, and without that, the ball will not fly, i.e. you will not hit the ball. Or the ball becomes too heavy to fly, i.e. the ball flies and land right in front of you. And out of the 40 balls I hit, I think only around 10 are perfect shots. A percentage of 25% despite having played golf once a few months back.
Tomorrow, again, I’m going to Perth. There’s an outing to Glasgow actually, but I opt not to go. It’s too tiring. I just want to stay behind in the school and do my own thing. Perth is nothing. Just go there in the afternoon for around 2 hours to shop for some snack and drinks. Better than sitting on the bus for like 1 hour to get to Glasgow.
I’m still planning of what to do for the half-term. Going down to London is a sure thing, but what the hell should I do there?? My parents are coming, right. But they are only here for 4 days, how about the remaining 6 days? OMG!!! Wish I have some things in mind. Maybe I should just go around and explore London… Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge, London Dungeon, Madam Tussuads, London Eye, Chinatown etc.
I want to go back to Asia during the X’mas holiday, maybe to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai or Brunei if possible. I miss my Asian food, rice, curry… And things there are much cheaper. Anyway, if my parents want to come to London, I will have to stay here. Aaahh… I hate the European winter. No sun and bitterly cold.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Strathallan...
Ok… today I picked my 6th A-Level subject, Chinese. Yay! It’s not much to study, and the teacher wants me to do both AS and A Level this year. Lesson time: 2.15 – 3.30pm every Wednesday afternoon. And that’s it. 75 minutes every week. You bet it’s going to be easy. It’s mostly translation from Chinese to English and vice versa, and a 180-words essay for AS level and 500 words factual essay for A level. This paper is designed for the locals here… so I don’t think it’s a problem for me, I hope.
Got my first test on Friday – Core Maths. It’s one of the 3 syllabuses of Maths we are studying – Core Maths, Mechanics and Statistics, and each of them is taught by a different teacher. And each of my other subjects - Chemistry, Physics and Biology has 2 teachers, each focusing on different chapters. OMG… despite having just 6 subjects, I have 12 teachers. Cool, right?
Let me share with you what I have been doing in the school for the week.
The schedule:
0720 House Roll Call
0730 Breakfast
0810 Morning Roll Call
0820 Chapel (Tue, Wed)
0820 School Assembly (Fri)
0840 – 1610 Lessons (Mon, Fri)
0840 – 1315 Lessons (Tue, Wed, Thu)
0830 – 1220 Lessons (Sat)
1220 Lunch (Sat)
1315 Lunch (Mon-Fri, Sun)
1330 Sports (Sat)
1430 Sports (Tue, Thu)
1620 Tutor period (Mon)
1800 Dinner
1930 – 2115 Prep (Mon-Fri)
1930 – 2030 Prep (Sat, Sun)
2030 – 2300 Party for 6th Form (Sat)
Prep is the time allocated for us to stay in our rooms to do our homework (even if you do not have any homework…). Normally, I wake up around 6.30am and sleep around 10.00pm, unless if I have a lot of prep.
Got my first test on Friday – Core Maths. It’s one of the 3 syllabuses of Maths we are studying – Core Maths, Mechanics and Statistics, and each of them is taught by a different teacher. And each of my other subjects - Chemistry, Physics and Biology has 2 teachers, each focusing on different chapters. OMG… despite having just 6 subjects, I have 12 teachers. Cool, right?
Let me share with you what I have been doing in the school for the week.
The schedule:
0720 House Roll Call
0730 Breakfast
0810 Morning Roll Call
0820 Chapel (Tue, Wed)
0820 School Assembly (Fri)
0840 – 1610 Lessons (Mon, Fri)
0840 – 1315 Lessons (Tue, Wed, Thu)
0830 – 1220 Lessons (Sat)
1220 Lunch (Sat)
1315 Lunch (Mon-Fri, Sun)
1330 Sports (Sat)
1430 Sports (Tue, Thu)
1620 Tutor period (Mon)
1800 Dinner
1930 – 2115 Prep (Mon-Fri)
1930 – 2030 Prep (Sat, Sun)
2030 – 2300 Party for 6th Form (Sat)
Prep is the time allocated for us to stay in our rooms to do our homework (even if you do not have any homework…). Normally, I wake up around 6.30am and sleep around 10.00pm, unless if I have a lot of prep.
Monday, September 8, 2008
08/09/2008
Ahhh… the first Monday I spent in school. Lessons start 8.40 am and ends 4.10 pm, with a half-an-hour break and 1-hour lunch break in between. Then straight afterwards, we had a house meeting at 4.20 pm, which lasted to around 5pm. Have been here for a few days now, but I just have this weird feeling of speaking more Chinese than English most of the time, since most of my friends are Chinese and I might be useful as a “professional” translator. I have never expected this… Anyway, it’s good too. Now I can speak mandarin slang.
My further maths class is very distinctive in the sense that 8 of the 10 students who take further maths are Chinese (including me…). Haha… there’s another Scottish and a German. I have heard that another German is joining our class. He is complaining that the normal maths class is child’s work. Well… I kind of agree. They haven’t even started on logarithm, differentiation, integration… WTH! Now, I am back to Form 2 (Primary 6 for the Chinese…) and studying indices. This sounds stupid, but they really have no clue when I asked them about logarithm. OMG…
Apart from overseas students from China, Hong Kong and Brunei, I met one from Africa today in my Biology class, from Tanzania, to be precise. Wow… Anyway, biology is always boring. I thought it might change but well, it seems to me that it’s not the teachers that bore me, but the subject as a whole is boring. Just study for the sake of studying…
Most of the Chinese are from Guangdong province, such as the cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan. There is one from Jiangxi and another one from Beijing as well.
My boarding house, Ruthven, is not bad. We have a good housemaster, Mr. Andrew Watt. He is very friendly. I like the fact that things are really organized in the house. Every day we have a schedule of everything that’s going on right in front of the main door. At least this keeps me informed. We also have a ping pong table in the common room and a wide screen TV. The sofas are very comfy, really really soft and makes me don’t feel like standing up after sitting on it. There are lots of toilet, you don’t have to worry of having to queue for a toilet seat. However, the showers are damn hot. I mean, the water is damn hot. Very very hot. Shower for 10 minutes continuously and you’re cooked. That’s why I normally take quick shower.
Ohhh… I really want to upload my pictures. What’s wrong with my broadband???
My further maths class is very distinctive in the sense that 8 of the 10 students who take further maths are Chinese (including me…). Haha… there’s another Scottish and a German. I have heard that another German is joining our class. He is complaining that the normal maths class is child’s work. Well… I kind of agree. They haven’t even started on logarithm, differentiation, integration… WTH! Now, I am back to Form 2 (Primary 6 for the Chinese…) and studying indices. This sounds stupid, but they really have no clue when I asked them about logarithm. OMG…
Apart from overseas students from China, Hong Kong and Brunei, I met one from Africa today in my Biology class, from Tanzania, to be precise. Wow… Anyway, biology is always boring. I thought it might change but well, it seems to me that it’s not the teachers that bore me, but the subject as a whole is boring. Just study for the sake of studying…
Most of the Chinese are from Guangdong province, such as the cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan. There is one from Jiangxi and another one from Beijing as well.
My boarding house, Ruthven, is not bad. We have a good housemaster, Mr. Andrew Watt. He is very friendly. I like the fact that things are really organized in the house. Every day we have a schedule of everything that’s going on right in front of the main door. At least this keeps me informed. We also have a ping pong table in the common room and a wide screen TV. The sofas are very comfy, really really soft and makes me don’t feel like standing up after sitting on it. There are lots of toilet, you don’t have to worry of having to queue for a toilet seat. However, the showers are damn hot. I mean, the water is damn hot. Very very hot. Shower for 10 minutes continuously and you’re cooked. That’s why I normally take quick shower.
Ohhh… I really want to upload my pictures. What’s wrong with my broadband???
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Strathallan...
Haven’t blogged for a long time. The school Internet blocks blogger and MSN, but facebook is still available. So now, haha… I am using my own USB modem. Nice! No more censoring… I can do whatever I want, but I have to go to one particular corner of my house to secure stable connection. In my room, the connection went off and on. So annoying!!! That’s one of the problems of having a school in such a remote area.
My school is fine, kind of awesome I think. It’s really huge. A golf course, rugby field, gymnasium, swimming pool and each department has their own teaching blocks. Just hope it doesn’t rain during lesson time. Sports are compulsory to all students on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons, starting 2.30pm. Choices are badminton, swimming, basketball, fencing, rugby, curling… The people here have an uncanny affinity towards rugby. They love it! I would never play that, no way, unless I want to break a bone or break another of my teeth. I play badminton, although I prefer swimming, but the pool isn’t ready yet. So yea, guess I would just continue with badminton since I don’t really want to swim when the temperature drops to 0 deg Celsius.
At first, I thought the school is only for rich Scottish people, considering its relative unknown to the outside world and its expensive school fee. True enough, people who study here are rich, except the few of us who are here on a scholarship. But the Scots aren’t completely dominant. There are, unexpectedly, many people from Hong Kong and China. Some have already been here for 2-3 years. At least with such Asian presence I don’t feel like a complete stranger.
On every alternate Saturday nights, the school will organize a party in the form of disco for the 6th form students. What a surprise! They even serve beer. That’s right, BEER in school. People there, especially the girls, are crazy about partying. The speaker is lousy, and when the sound comes out in full blast, it feels as if my head is about to explode. Oh yes! Welcome to the western world. By the way, I didn’t drink that night. Just feel that it’s not the right thing to do… Yea, keep it up, myself… You’ve done the right thing.
We are given a chance to go to Perth every Sunday afternoon, which is about 10 minutes drive away. A small town it is. We are given 2 hours to roam around. I bought my modem there just now, and some goodies… haha… cookies, juices and some soft drinks for me to munch during prep time. Prep time is the only time in school, except during lessons, that I have lost my freedom. It’s like spending 2 hours every night in the room to study, or sleep, or do whatever you want, but NEVER leave the room.
Food in the school is not bad. But one thing for sure, there’s no Asian food. And the rice they cook sucks. It’s hard and they actually cook it with cheese and tomato. Can you actually eat something like that?? Well, not for me, not for an Asian. Breakfast is at 7.30am, lunch 1.15pm and dinner 6pm. No supper, unfortunately.
As for girls, there are a lot of pretty Scots girls in the school, but to me, they all look, one way or another, alike. I think the Chinese girls are far more interesting than they are. Who says I am going to have an angmo girlfriend???
PS: I tried to upload pictures of myself, but unfortunately the Internet doesn't want to co-operate. Guess I will have to make do with it, for now...
My school is fine, kind of awesome I think. It’s really huge. A golf course, rugby field, gymnasium, swimming pool and each department has their own teaching blocks. Just hope it doesn’t rain during lesson time. Sports are compulsory to all students on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons, starting 2.30pm. Choices are badminton, swimming, basketball, fencing, rugby, curling… The people here have an uncanny affinity towards rugby. They love it! I would never play that, no way, unless I want to break a bone or break another of my teeth. I play badminton, although I prefer swimming, but the pool isn’t ready yet. So yea, guess I would just continue with badminton since I don’t really want to swim when the temperature drops to 0 deg Celsius.
At first, I thought the school is only for rich Scottish people, considering its relative unknown to the outside world and its expensive school fee. True enough, people who study here are rich, except the few of us who are here on a scholarship. But the Scots aren’t completely dominant. There are, unexpectedly, many people from Hong Kong and China. Some have already been here for 2-3 years. At least with such Asian presence I don’t feel like a complete stranger.
On every alternate Saturday nights, the school will organize a party in the form of disco for the 6th form students. What a surprise! They even serve beer. That’s right, BEER in school. People there, especially the girls, are crazy about partying. The speaker is lousy, and when the sound comes out in full blast, it feels as if my head is about to explode. Oh yes! Welcome to the western world. By the way, I didn’t drink that night. Just feel that it’s not the right thing to do… Yea, keep it up, myself… You’ve done the right thing.
We are given a chance to go to Perth every Sunday afternoon, which is about 10 minutes drive away. A small town it is. We are given 2 hours to roam around. I bought my modem there just now, and some goodies… haha… cookies, juices and some soft drinks for me to munch during prep time. Prep time is the only time in school, except during lessons, that I have lost my freedom. It’s like spending 2 hours every night in the room to study, or sleep, or do whatever you want, but NEVER leave the room.
Food in the school is not bad. But one thing for sure, there’s no Asian food. And the rice they cook sucks. It’s hard and they actually cook it with cheese and tomato. Can you actually eat something like that?? Well, not for me, not for an Asian. Breakfast is at 7.30am, lunch 1.15pm and dinner 6pm. No supper, unfortunately.
As for girls, there are a lot of pretty Scots girls in the school, but to me, they all look, one way or another, alike. I think the Chinese girls are far more interesting than they are. Who says I am going to have an angmo girlfriend???
PS: I tried to upload pictures of myself, but unfortunately the Internet doesn't want to co-operate. Guess I will have to make do with it, for now...
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