2004 年 11 月 1 日 星期一 【晴】

My Day


Today is just another normal day.

But maybe it's because I got all my midterms done,
my brain is now free to think something else other than my notes.

This morning I arrived at University at about 8:10am,
waiting for my dear Fai Fai.

"You are a very easily-satisfied girl," my mom said.

Yea, and what's wrong with it?

I am already very happy just to have an egg and sausage sandwich with you.
It really doesn't matter how the sandwich tastes,
your effort and care already made me feel so warm and being loved.

You don't even have to get up so early,
coz you don't have an 8:30 class.
But you DID,
just to show me you've improved your cooking,
and would like to spend some time with me in the morning.

What else can I ask ?

After the nice 15-minute breakfast,
I got to attend the lecture on "Homosexuality Among Adolescents" for my Youth and Society class.

Well, I was "fortunate" enough to be picked as the interviewee,
to express my experience of having lesbians around.

"Hm, most of the lesbians in my school look boyish,
some of them did cut their hair too short.
Hm...and many of them came from the basketball team, i don't know why. "

"What do you feel about them?"

"(what? I have never thought of it...) Hm...I am ok with it as long as they won't bother me."

And when another guy in the class said he can't accept living with gays,
coz he's afraid that they will pick on him,
the exchange student seemed can't tolerate it anymore.

"Oh, please. Being homosexual doesn't mean he/she will bother you,
don't try to flatter yourself or something."

...I am not trying to ...
...I didn't mean that they WILL bother me...
I just thought I am not the type of girl that attracts lesbians,
(I would say it's fortunate for me)I am too boyish myself...
Hope it's not ME who really PROVOKED her.

A lesson that touched the taboo of the taboo in Chinese Society.

What's more,
I found out today that my midterm paper for Understanding Movies just screwed up.

The bearded lecturer said that we shouldn't write about movies in PAST tense.
"This is the magic of films, you know.
The things happened in the movie will forever be that moment."

UH-oh...
Too bad.

I wrote the WHOLE essay in past tense.

He said he's not going to deduct marks for grammatical mistakes,
but I guess this is more than grammatical mistakes.

It's lacking any movie sense. (I should have known this all along...)

To make it worse,
I only wrote about one film,
which he said is "a sign of laziness";
and that film, "Cinema Paradiso", is, out of my expectation, a popular choice among my classmates.

Great. Now I got all the factors to make my paper scored a D.

Luckily,
he said,
"Well, one of your classmates wrote a nice essay,
but with nothing to do with what's taught in the class,
so she scored the only D in class."

I am very very very sure that what I wrote is related to what he taught in class,
coz I even used headings like "Photography",
"Misenscene"...

Ok, not a D.

But I don't expect my paper to have a grade any higher than C.

Seems like the Scholarship is drifting away from me.

oh, whatever.

At least I learn something through this disastrous paper,
and this funny bearded lecturer, Sam Ho.


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It's a long time since I've written anything in English here.
So, just grab a chance to practise my rusting pen.

>>November 1, 2004 at 4:01:51 PM GMT+8