I Miss ...
I've kinda lost count, but I think I am somewhere around the mid point of this exchange experience. So being here for almost two months, I've grown to miss alot of things back at home.
Of course, my gf and family tops the list, that goes without saying. And second to them would definitely be my friends, especially the arts club peeps who keep me going in school. But apart from the people, there are just so many other things which I so dearly miss, and its only upon this time of absence from home that I've come to realise how much I miss these ...
Food is up there on the list, as I just cannot explain how much I miss local hawker food. No doubt it's quite a food paradise here in HK too, but hawker food like char kuay teow, chicken rice, bak kut teh, carrot cake and hokkien mee is just uniquely Singapore.
My house, my room, my cable tv and my bathroom. All these with the luxury of privacy! Lying on the sofa watching soccer, surfing the net and listening to music in my room, singing in the bathroom without the slightest worry of awkwardness.
The malls and streets of Singapore. Yes no doubt I used to complain how small Singapore was, and how I was practically walking the same places again and again, but I'm so used to that lifestyle so much so that I'm missing it now.
Believe it or not, NUS. It's only after coming here that I come to realise how much I miss NUS, especially the CNM department. I miss the modules that made so much more sense to me, I miss the lecturers who are in my opinion much better. And yes as ironic as it may sound, I miss the NUS 'system'. For those who frequent my blog, you should know what I mean by NUS 'system'. I guess it's one of those hard to explain love hate relationships. I hated it when things went wrong, when there was a lack of transparency, and when things didn't make sense. But now here at CUHK, it's an all different system in all, and I don't really know (plus don't exactly really care about) what it is. Back in NUS eventhough I wasn't exactly always a fan of the system, but at least I could take time and effort to understand it. Now here, it's just so foreign, and sometimes it just gives me a rather 'lost' feeling.
With all these said, having missed so much back home of course doesn't at all mean that I'm getting tired of HK. I'm still having a time of my life here, and there's still so much I want to see and do. Plans have been temporarily put on hold for these past two weeks (mid terms), but I'm sure they'll gradually resume. Still eyeing Ocean Park, and probably a trip to somewhere nearby.
As for now, back to Marx and Weber and their sociology readings which I have done for almost 5 days, but still get nothing, and presentation is tomorrow! Another reason why I miss my department so much!
Of course, my gf and family tops the list, that goes without saying. And second to them would definitely be my friends, especially the arts club peeps who keep me going in school. But apart from the people, there are just so many other things which I so dearly miss, and its only upon this time of absence from home that I've come to realise how much I miss these ...
Food is up there on the list, as I just cannot explain how much I miss local hawker food. No doubt it's quite a food paradise here in HK too, but hawker food like char kuay teow, chicken rice, bak kut teh, carrot cake and hokkien mee is just uniquely Singapore.
My house, my room, my cable tv and my bathroom. All these with the luxury of privacy! Lying on the sofa watching soccer, surfing the net and listening to music in my room, singing in the bathroom without the slightest worry of awkwardness.
The malls and streets of Singapore. Yes no doubt I used to complain how small Singapore was, and how I was practically walking the same places again and again, but I'm so used to that lifestyle so much so that I'm missing it now.
Believe it or not, NUS. It's only after coming here that I come to realise how much I miss NUS, especially the CNM department. I miss the modules that made so much more sense to me, I miss the lecturers who are in my opinion much better. And yes as ironic as it may sound, I miss the NUS 'system'. For those who frequent my blog, you should know what I mean by NUS 'system'. I guess it's one of those hard to explain love hate relationships. I hated it when things went wrong, when there was a lack of transparency, and when things didn't make sense. But now here at CUHK, it's an all different system in all, and I don't really know (plus don't exactly really care about) what it is. Back in NUS eventhough I wasn't exactly always a fan of the system, but at least I could take time and effort to understand it. Now here, it's just so foreign, and sometimes it just gives me a rather 'lost' feeling.
With all these said, having missed so much back home of course doesn't at all mean that I'm getting tired of HK. I'm still having a time of my life here, and there's still so much I want to see and do. Plans have been temporarily put on hold for these past two weeks (mid terms), but I'm sure they'll gradually resume. Still eyeing Ocean Park, and probably a trip to somewhere nearby.
As for now, back to Marx and Weber and their sociology readings which I have done for almost 5 days, but still get nothing, and presentation is tomorrow! Another reason why I miss my department so much!
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