My light fever has pretty much subsided, but my throat is still so sore that I couldn’t take in solid food.
Haven’t stepped out of my apartment for 3 days, must be a record. It’s not just because of sickness that I stayed home, the sudden cold weather is discouraging me to even open the window. I’ve spent much of my time under the warm comfort of my blanket reading and learning about some metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and natural materials that are used in architecture.
My sickness continued. It’s very minor, just prolonged. Felt weak and vulnerable, an unexpectedly good feeling.
I am reminded of one time when I got seriously sick when I was living by myself in Toronto. Death didn’t feel too far from me then, I was half-conscious and struggled immensely in my mind saying to myself “I can’t die yet”, and all I could do was pray.
Woke up this morning with a minor headache and sore throat. Nothing serious, just a minor fever.
I’m actually thankful, for this is the first time I got sick since returning to HK, not a simple feat considering my previous sickness-prone annual visits.
Recently, I started noticing the vivid pink and purple colors dotted all over the streets of HK. It’s the blooming season for the city’s floral emblem.
I remember stumbling upon a small park which had tens of Bauhinia trees planted, so I made an effort to visit it again expecting to see something like the famous sakura scenes of Japan. It was a total disappointment, the trees didn’t look too healthy and there were only small amounts of flowers that blossomed. Worst of all, I had tens of mosquito bites on my arms, they really had a feast of me! I wonder if this is one of the reasons why parks are so under-utilized in HK…
The Bauhinia trees near my place actually looked much prettier!
Finally submitted my assignment last night, I’ve spent much of my time this week working on it. Relief! I chose one of the buildings for the upcoming Shanghai World Expo 2010 as the case study, so the end of the assignment is actually a new beginning for my research of the much anticipated Expo.
While my Canadian friends are getting all excited with the Winter Olympics (Go Canada Go!), HK people caught a bit of a fever over the local marathon race today. I thought about joining the 10k run, but chickened out when I knew the race begins at some crazy early hour. Completing a marathon race is one of those crazy things I wish to achieve before I die, but I can’t quite put my mind into it. Would it be too old to start training at the age of 30? With my current shape, I doubt that I can even complete a 5k run!
For the meantime, I’ll be content with shooting some hoops…
The Chinese New Year has quickly come and gone. Today is just a few days short of my half-anniversary of returning to HK, nothing much had been accomplished or changed, I’m still my old unmotivated self with lots of bad habits intact. Subconsciously, I was hoping the change in environment would help me start life anew, but I had spent much of the time reminiscing my life in Canada. I felt like sleep-walking most of the time, drifting through life without a soul…
I desperately want to change. I hope to mark this day (20100222) and say farewell to the short CNY vacation as well as my life-long detour of a purposeful life. I pray that God would cleanse me and use me, and help me to lead a meaningful life that’s worthy of His praise.
It must have been more than 10 years since I last spent CNY in HK. The atmosphere is definitely more festive and vibrant compared to Toronto.
I haven’t seen the restaurants this quiet, my home phone this busy, and my family this happy since returning to HK.
Kung Hey Fat Choi!!
p.s. Happy Valentine’s Day.
My almost 5 yr-old nephew is one of those kids everyone adores. I’m not sure when and how I started to have these informally scheduled play sessions with him on weekday mornings from 11-12am, but I enjoy them as much as he does. It’s quite interesting to see how kids learn and think.
I don’t quite remember what I was like when I was 5 years old, it seemed so distant…
Must be the damp, misty and Spring-like weather today, I felt like daydreaming all day.
The sound of light rain falling on trees and window, the sound of water rushing through a stream, and the occasional chirping of birds are all that I can hear while I compose this entry in my studio on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Solitude.
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