Soaking up the Sun

Had a fail breakfast date with the Filipinos this morning

Fail - as predicted

But fun :)

Looks like we are not morning people (as if we didn't know).

We discovered that we are amuse by strange things

Such as writing on tissue and incest

We have a different sense of humor than normal people

And...we don't do well with planning things.

Then we had an adventurous day.

With the sun out like this,

I've come to see the side of Hong Kong that is breathtaking.

I used to think

As disgusting as the air is in Hong Kong

As crowded as the MTR is in Admiralty

As smelly as the people are in Mong Kok

I will miss every bits of its disgusting-ness.

But now that I have 40 days left before leaving,

I see that there are so many thumbs-ups about this city

That I will greatly miss.

Lying on Jane's lap, staring out at the harbor

I thought to myself - what a wonderful world.

Well, what a wonderful city.

This is my home. The good and the bad.

The smog, the nice view.

This place is my roots

My friends - nutrients and perhaps...fertilizer.

Thoughts rushed to my head as I laid there

Knowing the seconds are ticking by

Time passing by.

Sometimes I wish nothing would change,

But then again - absence is what makes the heart grow fonder.

I've learned that one cannot have too many friends

Because friendship takes a lot to build

True friendships that is...

I'm glad that with graduating

I can finally tell and decide for myself

With another layer of assurance

Who my friends are

And what kind of a friend I want to be.

It was exactly a summer ago that I created my blogspot.

This summer, I created tumblr.

http://michiiee.tumblr.com/

But o faithful blogspot, you shall forever be my first and only.

There are a lot of choices we have to make in life.

In school, we decide our friends

We decide what subjects we want to take

We decide how well we do in school

After high school, we decide on what college we want to attend

We decide where to put our bed in the dorm

What time to sleep

We decide again our friends

We decide the kind of life we want to lead

The path we want to take.

But there is one thing we don't choose in life,

Our family.

As I was walking home with my parents tonight,

I realized that's one thing that doesn't change.

Sure, people change.

But who they are to me will never change

No one can take that away from me.

People come and go

People live and die.

But they will always, always be my family.

Some things never change.

Thank you God, for memories.

Because in my memory,

You'll always be young and beautiful

Strong and healthy

In my memory, you are immortal.

In fact, in my memory

Many, many things live on forever.

Looking through the pictures again

It seems like a lifetime ago that we graduated

That I was part of school...

And it's only been a week.

Wow.

But June 19, 2010 lives in my memory

Each and everyone of your smiles,

The touch of inspiration you gave to my life

How can words ever describe

how much I will miss all of this?

How much I will miss all of you

The idea of belonging is so beautiful

So heartwarming.

The mundane schedule of high school seems all of the sudden -

Exciting.

Waiting in anticipation for lunch time

Rushing out of school

Ordering "chow ding"

Rushing back to watch the guys ball

All the familiar scenes and familiar faces

I don't want any of it to vanish.

Does keeping in touch really exist?

I'm afraid to know.

This is yet, another pensive post.

O dream maker, you heart breaker

It's been a long while since I've last blogged.

One difference stands between my last update and this:

I've graduated.

No doubt we all had the time of our life

But no one ever told me how bittersweet this is

Walking past school again

I had this sinking feeling knowing I'm not part of it anymore

Leaving is not the scariest part

Changing is.

We are afraid of changes in life

Afraid that when we come back,

all the world has moved on

and we are stuck at the moment we left.

And perhaps the scariest part of it all

is changes in relationships.

We all want to be irreplaceable

We all like to think friends today are friends forever

But that's not always the case.

Distance and time...something I learned in Physics 20

They stand in our way.

I have 48 days till I leave.

“You never really leave a place or person you love, part of them you take with you, leaving a part of yourself behind.”