I read somewhere that the definition of stupidity is when you keep doing something the exact same way despite that you get the same result every single time. Now the circles I'm talking about might not be the exact same way every round, but they are same enough; it is something about when you keep coming back to the exact same place and same situation all the time and you know why you got there, what is wrong and what could be done about it but still when you start your next round you don't take any advice at all, you just keep running the same endless track and wind up at the same place again not long after.
I'm doing this now; I'm right now in that low place where you don't want to be.
The one I'm doing this around does it too, around someone else.
And there are others, I think everybody does it, someone did it around me, and I would think someone does it still.
You try to pull yourself up, tell yourself it will never happen again, tell all who care that it is not like this but then it starts again, things happen and you build yourself up, or are built up by someone until you are high enough and can crash down. I don't think anyone does it on purpose, it is still very often that it is what happens.
It makes me think of the song, Buttercup by The Foundations, that we have on the Singstar party disk, the first disk I had for that game actually; the lyrics has some points.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
IMAX
My first IMAX experience! It's not that amazing actually, just a really big screen, and it was really cold in the theatre, I mean really REALLY cold. We watched Eagle Eye; it was a pretty good movie, interesting development and stuff. What was cool about the IMAX thing though, was that it was totally unplanned, there is like one single IMAX theatre in Hong Kong (and not that many outside Hong Kong, I think around a few hundred or so in the world, two in Sweden); it just happened that Ariel and I had dinner in a shopping mall called MexaBox and on the floor we had dinner there just happened to be a theatre and it just happened that Eagle Eye started showing just 15 minutes after we finished eating and that it was showing in the IMAX theatre.
Clubs in Hong Kong
After being here for a few weeks and seen much of the night life I actually had the feeling that there are no clubs here and that local people don't really go out, fortunately I was wrong though; last night I went out with an American friend that I met the first week I was here and he finally brought me to a real club, with local people. I did cost a lot though, entrance alone was 220HKD and even though I didn't really drink there I still spent 120HKD on drinks (I ordered one but for some reason got two). It did become a long night, I took a taxi back at about 4.30 or 5.00 in the morning but at least I have nothing to do today so it was pretty fine.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
what to do when not looking for jobs
Painted Skin (wa pei)
A killer that cuts the heart out of its victims is terrorinzing wang shengs territory, meanwhile his wife, pei rong, starts to suspect the new girl that wang sheng saved from bandits during one of his recent campains to be a deamon.
Not the greatest movie ever but it was quite interesting, a lot of people assume it is a scary movie but it was more like funny action, I gave it a 3 out of 5 on http://www.filmtipset.se/, after adding it there myself, that low because of the ending.
My need to see list (priority listed!!!):
A killer that cuts the heart out of its victims is terrorinzing wang shengs territory, meanwhile his wife, pei rong, starts to suspect the new girl that wang sheng saved from bandits during one of his recent campains to be a deamon.
Not the greatest movie ever but it was quite interesting, a lot of people assume it is a scary movie but it was more like funny action, I gave it a 3 out of 5 on http://www.filmtipset.se/, after adding it there myself, that low because of the ending.
My need to see list (priority listed!!!):
- Southpark S12E08 (E09 comes on Thursday)
- Heroes S03E01-04 (E05 should be available today but I can't find it so I guess I have to wait until tomorrow)
- Robot Chicken S03E14-20 (all second half of season 3 basically)
- Californication S02E01-03 (E04 on Thursday)
- Enourage S05E03-06
- Family Guy S07E01-02
- American Dad S04E01-02
Of course I only have today and tomorrow to find stuff so anything that airs after that will have to wait. Lost is also one thing that will have to wait for a while since it doesn't start again until January 2009. Apparently I missed Robot Chicken S03E14 too, the Christmas special from 2007 (S03E14) So that one comes too.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tap Mun
As usual when I have to get up early I can't sleep at night, I probably got about 3 hours of sleep but was still quite fine, since I had actually eating something which is usually the biggest problem, when I met Joyce and Kiu Kiu at Coi Hung MTR station at about 9.45am. We took a 10 minutes or so Light bus to Sai Kung where we met up with Joyce's friends and had breakfast with them (which I didn't know so I had already eaten something but not too much). After breakfast we took a real bus for about 20 minutes to where the ferry was and went on a ferry ride for another 30 minutes or so, then we finally arrived in Tap Mun.
The harbor on Tap Mun is on the east side of the island so we walked up the hills and found ourselves on the steeper west side after a rather short walk where an amazing view and strong winds met us. We played around with kites and other stuff for a while, which was a lot tougher than you might think, and after a while we had our picnic; everybody, except me, had made some stuff and brought with them, I can't even try to explain the food but it was very good.
A lot of photo shooting (neither of nor by me) later we packed up and started walking around the island, I would give it about the same size as Pottneholmen (one of the places we used to boat out to in Blekinge when I was younger) but a lot hillier. More marvelous views and photos later and a walk through something like a cemetery we got back to the harbor at about 4.30pm.
With all the travelling back, boats and waiting and a bus that I think took about an hour, it was probably around 8 when we arrived at Diamond hill MTR station so we stayed there and had dinner, very typical Chinese dinner with the spinning table and several really good dishes.
After a very long day I was totally exhausted when I arrived at the hostel at around 10pm, but having to check my email about the interview that I thought I had the day after I met some friends in the hostel common areas. Realizing that I didn't have any interview I had a few beers and suddenly it was 4am and I had had a few beers more so I basically went up to my room and passed out from exhaustion.
The harbor on Tap Mun is on the east side of the island so we walked up the hills and found ourselves on the steeper west side after a rather short walk where an amazing view and strong winds met us. We played around with kites and other stuff for a while, which was a lot tougher than you might think, and after a while we had our picnic; everybody, except me, had made some stuff and brought with them, I can't even try to explain the food but it was very good.
A lot of photo shooting (neither of nor by me) later we packed up and started walking around the island, I would give it about the same size as Pottneholmen (one of the places we used to boat out to in Blekinge when I was younger) but a lot hillier. More marvelous views and photos later and a walk through something like a cemetery we got back to the harbor at about 4.30pm.
With all the travelling back, boats and waiting and a bus that I think took about an hour, it was probably around 8 when we arrived at Diamond hill MTR station so we stayed there and had dinner, very typical Chinese dinner with the spinning table and several really good dishes.
After a very long day I was totally exhausted when I arrived at the hostel at around 10pm, but having to check my email about the interview that I thought I had the day after I met some friends in the hostel common areas. Realizing that I didn't have any interview I had a few beers and suddenly it was 4am and I had had a few beers more so I basically went up to my room and passed out from exhaustion.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Om hästar kunde flyga...
Så skulle dom troligen inte kallas hästar längre, eller?
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Vad vill du ha till middag ikväll?
Det va ett tag sen vi hade hästvinge!
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Gott och nyttigt, väldigt mört ljust kött som bäst servers till ris eller potatis, passar mycket bra till vita viner och smaksätts gärna med basilika eller rosmarin.
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Vad vill du ha till middag ikväll?
Det va ett tag sen vi hade hästvinge!
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Gott och nyttigt, väldigt mört ljust kött som bäst servers till ris eller potatis, passar mycket bra till vita viner och smaksätts gärna med basilika eller rosmarin.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Leisure
I have been jumping around a little when it comes to accommodation actually; the first 5 nights I saved a lot of money staying in a 4-beds dorm and only paying 70HKD per night, this really sucked though and I made a friend in a travelling Dutchman who also wanted something more private, so we got for his two last night a 2-beds room which cost us 175HKD each and gave us a king-size bed each and private shower and toilet.
After he left I spent one night in Tin Shui Wai, in Joyce's home, and left the majority of my luggage with my Canadian brother (he has kind of adopted me) who has a private room in the hostel, when I came back the morning after though there wasn't any other room free, not even a dorm bed actually, so I started looking around in the building, where there are about 20 other hostels, and found a private room for 250HKD, in which I'm still staying, have 8 days in total and might extend until I leave for China. I still hang out a lot in the old hostel since they have some nice common areas (remove nice it’s just a comparison and there because it's the only place that has any common areas at all) and I made some friends there.
The first few days when the weather was better I went to a public leisure pool in Kowloon park a few times, since I didn't have much else to do I tried to spend as much time there as possible but it got pretty boring after 1-2 hours. I have been trying to meet up with friends for lunches and dinners but most of the time no one is available, I did (fail to) surprise Joyce (Man had already told her I was coming) and we had Thai food and watched a movie, Connected which is a Hong Kong remake of the Hollywood movie Cellular. No point in counting all my lunches and dinners and movies now but I have tried quite a lot of different food and met almost everybody I know here I think.
I also spent two days in Tin Shui Wai, at Joyce's cousin Kiu kiu's request I had to come back and play with him, a lot of scrabble and other word games, he is a very curious little 6 year old now and I have had good times there.
After he left I spent one night in Tin Shui Wai, in Joyce's home, and left the majority of my luggage with my Canadian brother (he has kind of adopted me) who has a private room in the hostel, when I came back the morning after though there wasn't any other room free, not even a dorm bed actually, so I started looking around in the building, where there are about 20 other hostels, and found a private room for 250HKD, in which I'm still staying, have 8 days in total and might extend until I leave for China. I still hang out a lot in the old hostel since they have some nice common areas (remove nice it’s just a comparison and there because it's the only place that has any common areas at all) and I made some friends there.
The first few days when the weather was better I went to a public leisure pool in Kowloon park a few times, since I didn't have much else to do I tried to spend as much time there as possible but it got pretty boring after 1-2 hours. I have been trying to meet up with friends for lunches and dinners but most of the time no one is available, I did (fail to) surprise Joyce (Man had already told her I was coming) and we had Thai food and watched a movie, Connected which is a Hong Kong remake of the Hollywood movie Cellular. No point in counting all my lunches and dinners and movies now but I have tried quite a lot of different food and met almost everybody I know here I think.
I also spent two days in Tin Shui Wai, at Joyce's cousin Kiu kiu's request I had to come back and play with him, a lot of scrabble and other word games, he is a very curious little 6 year old now and I have had good times there.
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