Well I’m 26 now.
I have been for 3 days now and it has been fantastic. Saturnight after midnight, I got about 15sms, and 6 phone calls wishing me Happy Birthday. It was awesome. I was getting into bed by the time the last few sms were coming in around 3am, and every time I just kinda fell asleep, an sms woke me up… it was pretty funny… But I dind’t mind being woken up by that.
My sister called at about 2am and I got to talk to her for a good hour. I was able to talk to Jonah for a little bit and it was the cutest things I have ever heard.
Uncle!
Hi Jonah… How are you?
Fine
What’s you doing?
Watching TV… Bye!
that was it… so simple….then. Noah takes the phone.
Hey Noah whats up?
Monsters fighting… gotta go.
such a wonderful thing, the mind of a child. I love it.
In retrospect, I shouldn’t have agreed to play drums at church, but I was feeling bad cuase there are a lack of drummers, and Church is super boring when noone plays drums at church. But that was that… so I went and played and then I went back home for a quick rest… before I went out shopping for my present with Christy.
I was so surprised, Christy bought me a Gucci wallet. a wallet that I had been coveting for a while now. and now it sits in my pocket… Wow I was so happy I could not stop smiling that day and I made a point to change to the new wallet right away.
That night I had a great dinner at La Piazetta, with all my friends organized by my best friend Belinda Lloyd ( A majoy Celebrity in Hong Kong) heh heh. But everyone was there, all those close to me, Tim, Marina, belinda, Helen, Christy. The was a few absentees, most Notably, Jo-Jo (unknown), Keon (essay), Monica & Chris (baby), Sanaz (married), Zoe (prob. drunk), and Resham (crazily yelling in Hong Kong somewhere).
But still it was a perfect time. We went to for drinks in Wan Chai Mes Amis, after dinner and just hung out till the Cinderella Hour. 12midnight. Cause Bell had to work… Oh well… though it ended earlier than I imagined, It was still a perfect day.
Thank you all for everything… It made turning 26, Fantastic.
Jonathan Lee.
Man I love this programme. I really really do. Aside from getting my ass kicked by doing the News Item list project yesterday, I have been getting some of the best classess. and man, these people here are smart. I always thought for some reason that I could be on similar levels and that I would be too much smarter or dumber than anyone, but there are people that totally kick my ass.
But no worries, thney want to be real Journalists, and I want to be the Hong Kong David Letterman, so that’s what changes things. Anyway… so I am having fun. I am being challeneged, and made to think even harder.
Like my little project yesterday. Where I had to pretend I was the editor of a local paper, and draft a list of the stories that we shold either run or follow up on. And as I go through the list, people get to either agree, add, or go against your thinking. Man there are so many great ideas that go around and it is completely intense.
Not sure if you get what I am getting at, but anyway… the thing is I realised that no matter how good my ideas were, I never really considered other ideas. It was like, wow cool. That’s smart or man I’m dumb as hell… Oh well, you only can get better than yesterday
Jonathan Out!
So I joined this band, that covers old school rock. And I just gotta say. Awesome. I’ve been talking to the other two members, Liam and Tim. Both fine blokes from my Church and it is going to be hella exciting. LEd Zepplin is among some of the stuff I be playing… and I convinced them to do some Green Day too… ha ha… the world is good.
are you gonna be my girl –
i believe in a thing called love – the Darkness
you shook me all night long – AC/DC
immigrant song – Zepplin
rock and roll – “
moby dick – “
holiday – Green Day..
Nege awesome…
Jonathan Out!
I got a new phone today…
Man… Nokia 6680 sucked shit. I was really looking forward to
enjoying this phone for a long long time, but it sucked the battery
life out so quickly that I never had more thatn 45mins of talk time. I
tried every combination, including not using the Cmaera and Bluetooth,
and other things, and still was only limited to that. If I didn’t
constantly charge it in the Car, I would be out before lunch break even
kicked in.
Somehow all of their other phones in Nokia do not have this
problem. It is annoying. Sony Ericssen seems to have this
problem now too. With the K700i, and the Brand Spankin’ new
Walkman Phone, they too have Battery life problems…
But where those phones fail, the Samsuns succeeds. This Z308 is
so intelligent, and great, I am sure this is the best phone I have
owned in a while. And though it was not easy to break away from
the trusting name of Nokia, I am re-believin the concept, that Asians
just make better crap.
Jonathan Out!
So started my first real week of School. With classes starting on a Thursday, it doesn’t really count as starting school. But it is so weird. For the first time in my life I don’t think lectures are boring.
Man white guys, well, Western-educated teachers seems to be so much more with the programme than other teachers. And by that I mean they just seem to make the classess interesting. You don’t want these classes to end.
So anyway, I’m just hanging out on a off night. last night was my Mom’s Birthday, and also Christy and I’s 19th month together, and that is like a double wow. Pretty happy that is going well. She has been great, and very receptive to the new lifestyle that I am embarking on, though it does cause for less time that we can spend together. We will have to get around this.
Christy came along for the dinner that was at the Brand Spankin’ New (Six Star Hotel) the Four Seasons Hotel in Central. Subsequently, due to construction of a facelift at the Repusle Bay apartment, my parents have rented a serviced apartment there too. And let me just say this. It is FUCKING NICE. I hate how perfect the place is. Each apartment, is fitted with, count ‘em two Plasma TVs. Living room, and Bed room. Nakamichi sound system in the bed room, and a Bose 5.1 Lifestyle Home Theater System… All I can say is damn… Their pool, Spa and gym, is fucking great too… I cannot say just how good it is, you’ll have to see for yourself… I’ll try to post some pictures one of these days.
The Double whammy of Dinner and Lunch parties took it’s tool on me, not to mention getting up for Church at 6:45am but it was still great. the Lunch and Dinner were not specially great, it was good food, at high prices, but it was the atmosphere and the company that we were enjoying. I had to give a speech at the dinner, and though I ended up saying only half of what I wrote and making up the rest, I still think I did a much better speech than I had actually written. I’m pretty proud of myself.
My class today was Advanced Writing and Reporting. And it was great. We talked about what made a good story, and it was a very interactive class. But there are two lab days on Tuesday and Wednesday that are 3 hours and 2 hours respectively… I’m going to have my days tied up.
Tuesday and Wednesday I have classes to 9:30pm… there are no Masters courses during the mornings, and that sucks… Atleast I get to sleep in…
Jonathan Out!
To clarify the last entry as it is only two words, I would like to direct your attention to the people who call themselves Hong Kong Universty staff.
So there is the thing, I will admit that a part of this is my fault too, but ultimately they could have prevented this.
So there is this class called Tools for the Modern Journalist which I am supposed to take. Now like a great and hard working studednt I set out to prepare for this and many other classes that I am to take in my year as a Master’s Student.
But as I am working and living on Campus at Lingnan at the time, I was not fully updated on things that were happening in my new school. I would get updates occasionally when I made the trek up to the school on a slight chance that I can get away from work early. So it was not easy.
Visiting the office of my department, I have to say they had not mentioned anything about the class. Apparently that it started on the 31st of August and finishes on the 5th of August. Get that, it is a five day class that goes on, and finishes before regular teaching starts.
So on one of my last days at the office, I get a call that says,
“Hello Jonathan how come you have not gone to your Tools class?”
I was like what tools class, teaching has not started yet. I’m at work right now.
“Well tomorrow is the last day for lesson. You missed the whole class. Please e-mail… and see what will happen.”
Apparently Tools for the Modern Journalist is a pre-req for the programme. Basically to get through the Masters programme I needed these five days of lessons. So well, didn’t anyone tell you. I’m like you don’t expect that people read all of the damn handbook for me. I never had a chance to go home and gather everything, and noone reminded me of this.
So ok, I understand that maybe I should have went and got all of this shit together before I went up. Maybe I should have checkrf all material before I entered the department. But still, call at the end of the session, is like pretty useless.
It is pretty as usefully as asking someone if they are ok after I shoot them in the head. Fuck man, you could have told me after the first day, and I would have taken my ass to school as fast as I could.
But no, you had to do this at the very last fucking minute so I couldn’t do anything about it, and risk maybe even losing the chacne my schooling… Well… FUCK YOU…
It was like this last time to… In my Undergrad, I tried to drop this course, and I seemed to have successfully dropped it according to my enrollment records, and my printed schedule. However, it seems that I was enrolled into it, without my knowledge. Well May rolls around and I get a call asking, howcome I have not turned in any homework, and also missed the mid-term.
I was like I didn’t sign up for this class, I dropped it. But then they were like well according to our records you are signed up and that is final. I showed them my printouts dated after theirs… but they stood firm. So I had to make up all material and test in a span of 1 week, and then take an exam and do a report the next week. Fuck may it was the most stressful time of my life. I almost failed a class I never signed up for… and it would have fucking brought my grade down cause it was a required elective… Fucker..
It also happened with a music class, but that was easy and they called on the day of the midterm, cause it was a small class, and I easily got through that.
I hope this is not a foreshadow of what is to come. I need t get my ass out and start getting my shit together… I fucking hate how my life atschool all seem to unravel at the same time when I am at Hong Kong Univeristy… Fuck this man… I am determined to get through this, even if I do not have my first choice advisor for my Thesis…
Jonathan Out!
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