Merry Christmas, Adorno

I love to spend more time enjoying the holiday – but the two essays have been bugging me – I hate writing and I am admittedly not a good writer… There is this sloppy-personality of mine that I have not come to terms with.  I guess most students are like that though, you write, ponder, and go back to your drafts and then you’re like – I have enough of you guys…

The good thing is, I am informally a MPhil!  That sounds really cool because I never expected myself to study more than a Bachelor since I was a kid.  Not that I don’t want to, but as I said, I am sloppy.  Hence to this date there are a few people that I have to thank, especially Dr Ng, Andrew, M and A, who gave me a lift (actually numerous lifts) when I was lost and confused.  I have to admit my superficial side – sometimes getting an extra degree doesn’t help much in terms of personal growth, but it does bring a sense of security… Though I don’t know how exactly a research degree in Wikipedia is going to help!
And my two weeks in Hong Kong had been completely bomblastic (is there such a word??).  It was really nice seeing all my mates and family, while there are weird ad hoc computer problems that happened during my stay, and unfortunately most of them were outside my range!  For example M’s ibook went through a phase of kernel panicks – from once every week to once every 2 minutes.. I tried everything I could, restarting the power management, ram and etc… Still it didn’t work – so probably there are times I just have to admit my limitations in IT :s

Also got hooked up with second life – well not that I am addicted, but it’s quite fun flying around… the learning curve was incredibly steep though; it took me a long while before I understand what’s going on there.  Meeting G from Romania here in london is nice, and she actually asked me if the avatars can take of clothes and…. of one another… Hm.. that sounds quite tricky, huh.. Potential suing and assault cases right there if these actions were possible.  /knock knock If Marshall McLuhan was still around, probably he would get quite excited about these possibilities

Hm.. I do want to blog about Hong Kong – was stroke incredibly by the familiar cultural environment and yet all the drastic recent changes, especially when I’m reading Lung Yin-Tai’s new book..  Will definitely blog more on that.

Okay okay, enough procrastination from Adorno.  Happy new year to everyone, and may your new year’s resolutions (mine seldom) come true!  xx