Nothing much here, just a simple update. Just wanna say that i've did some editting for the previous entry and made it more natural and accurate about what happened...if anyone of you even bother to read it. (i don't blame ya, it's quite long)

 

In other news, we're moving! Since I'm not leaving any more, my parents have decided that we should move. Wow-wee......you see, I hate moving. You pack, unpack, clean, organize, pick up boxes, move things around, UGH! We're not really going anywhere, we're just moving to a different apartment that's suppose to be "bigger and better". Personally I think the new place my mom picked out isn't that good and it doesn't impress me. It doesn't look a lot bigger, I don't really get that cozy homey feeling, the rent is more expensive, in other words, I don't think it's worth it. And then we're spending money on fixing this and that and preparing to move. Basically to sum it up, I think this was all a stupid idea. Meh, oh well. We'll see, we'll be moving on Sunday and right now for these few days, we've been packing and getting ready. *shrugs*

 

btw, one more thing, just wanna say that on tuesday (the 21st), me and some of my friends went to Ocean Park (amusement park in HK). Great time...probably gonna post some pics later on if I have time. Afterall, I won't be online for the next few days since we're moving and school's gonna start soon *rolls eyes again*. Joy eh? Well catch ya later then.

Hey! I figured it was time for an update. Even though I've wanted to do this earlier, I don't know what took me so long. Perhaps bad time management (I used to have excellent time managing skills; meh, i hate growing up, I feel like you lose more than you gain sometimes) or just plain procrastination. >_<  Or probably because I just didn't felt like making an entry. Seriously, my summer had been nothing much productive, I was pretty much in a mist. To be honest with you, I'm not really in the mood for blogging right now but I felt like I need to. So don't mind me if there's anything here that's gonna sound weird or doesn't make sense.

 

There's something important I needed to inform everyone. Despite all my talk about going "home", it turns out that...I'm not going back "home" any more...  Why? *sigh* Long story...(brace yourself...or skip if you want to *shrugs*) Anyways, part of this whole plan was that we asked my stepsister, Amanda, who is in Canada, to help us look for a place for me to stay when I get back (I was gonna be going back alone, so I needed to rent a place, not buy a place to live) and find our information about school and such. Well I've just found out about two weeks ago that it turns out that Amanda participated in this exchange program with the City Univerisity of Hong Kong and she would be coming over here at the end of the year for a semester and would be leaving at about April. So we've all come down to a decision, for me to stay for another 8 months for what theycall here in Hong Kong, Form 5, which would be what we would say in Canada, Grade 11. First of all, the whole thing was a screw up in the first place because we did a bad job in terms of acting towards our plans because we never really took much action to it. And now that I know that Amanda's coming over, I'll be more screwed because the moment I get back, she'll be leaving shortly and I'll be left alone with my weird grandmother while I readopt to things. Cause mind you, even though I was born a Canadian and was raised there, it's been 5 years since I've been gone and I'll need some time for me to readopt to certain changes. So basically, none of this would work out for me and I would have to stay.

And it would also mean we would have better timing because I'm only staying here for another 8 months and I would be done with school here and be leaving with Amanda when she leaves, also we'll have more time to prepare when I get back. Cause you see, Form 5 here ends at the end of March because there's this really important exam called the HKCEE (Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination...or something along the lines of that) and it takes place after Form 5, which I absolutely wouldn't take. The exam is like a life-or-death sorta thing here in HK because it's like the standard qualification for a decent job. And if I take it, then I can forget about my dreams of having high school in Canada.

 

Although it might not seem to be much that I'm just simply staying for another 8 months but for me it's a big deal and makes everything more complicated. First of all, I'm turning 17 in like a few months, so imagine me entering my junior year in high school, next year at 17, which I would be turning 18 in the middle of the year, and graduating at 19. I'l be older than everyone else by a year or two. And for those who know me, I am very self-conscious about my age (i hate growing up because i hate the way the adult world works and also because I had a bad childhood and a bad start in teenage life, never got to enjoy much of the so-called "fun and happy" years, so I hate moving on without being able to enjoy as much as I can as a youth), so when these numbers kept on repeating in my head, I was frustrated. I don't want to take Grade 12, even though I can (in fact, I'm originally suppose to go to Grade 12 this year), cause like I said, I need time to readopt for all sorts of things so if I'm gonna go to Grade 12, it's gonna be my last year of high school and by the time I adopt to high school, I would have to get ready for univerisity or college or whatever. Everything would seem like a mess, so I'll rather drop myself a grade so that I'll have my time to readopt, for high school and to collect my credits, and for preparing univerisity or college or whatever.

Another thing that I'm frustrated about is going back to my school here in HK. I don't want to go back to that crappy school. I never liked that school, I only liked the people there. But over the last semester, my time at that school was terrible and I can sense that the way things were with my friends aren't the same any more and I wish I would just leave. I'm afraid that feeling might come back again this year and that it would make me regret myself for not doing more and go "home". And it'll be pretty awkward for me to go back when I've spent lots of effort, time and money in buying things for people that I care and saying goodbye to them, only to go back there again and go through that all over again when "they graduate" in March. But I must say, before I was afraid of facing this particular person again, this person who i have given one of my farewell letters and in it, I mentioned a whole bunch of things...including me having a crush on that person for a year and a half...But I've recently spoken with that person and it turns out that the letter hasn't been read yet and that that person doesn't want to until I actually leave (though I wanted it to be read before I leave so that I'll know what that person would think or react after reading it...just to try my luck, if you know what I mean ), so I guess we're good. Heh, and before I was thinking whether it'll be better for me to leave or stay, but I see that I no longer need to decide because it seems like fate has already decided what's gonna happen to me. *sigh* oh well, I guess I'll just try to accept it as it is.

 

Moving on, today is my brother, Nathan's 9th birthday! Nothing much really happened. I made my brother a card and I gave him this Optimus Prime Transformers action figure. You have no idea how hard it was to get that toy. In fact, this isn't exactly the one I wanted to give him cause this one's smaller, more simple, cheaper and all that was left. I went to several of different toy stores and Optimus were all sold out. It was until I tried this one particular store that doesn't have much business that I managed to get this one which was more simple and the last one on the shelf. 0_0 geez, and I thought toys here are unpopular since the good ones are imported and expensive. I must admit, part of the reason why i wanted to get him that was also because I was personally interested in getting that Transformer myself. I used to have a large collection of Transformer action figures from the "Beast Wars" and "Beast Machine" series...but now they're all put inside our storage in Canada which god knows what happen to it by now. Well I guess that's all now. Like I said, I'm not really in the mood for blogging right now so I think I'm gonna go now. I guess I'll see ya later.