{"id":329,"date":"2009-09-02T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/?p=329"},"modified":"2009-09-02T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:00:19","slug":"school-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/2009\/09\/02\/school-start\/","title":{"rendered":"School Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 2 days, I attended a 1.5-day orientation session for postgraduates at <a title=\"CUHK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CUHK<\/a>.\u00a0 There were 2 things that crossed my mind &#8211; I felt old and I felt like I had traveled to Mainland China.\u00a0 I felt old because I think I&#8217;m one of the older ones in the group, and I felt like I was in Mainland because I heard more Mandarin than Cantonese and I saw more Simplified than Traditional Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, a question from one of the orientation speakers got stuck in my head &#8211; what do I want to get out of my short stay at the university?\u00a0 Hopefully, I&#8217;ll have that figured out before I graduate in 2 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-330 aligncenter tl-photo\" title=\"CUHK\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CUHK\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 2 days, I attended a 1.5-day orientation session for postgraduates at CUHK.\u00a0 There were 2 things that crossed my mind &#8211; I felt old and I felt like I had traveled to Mainland China.\u00a0 I felt old because I think I&#8217;m one of the older ones in the group, and I felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}