Oct 17.
Boston.
I have been meaning to write this post but i have always been too sleepy after i come back to my room after dinner. Still a bit jetlagged, but thats okay. I have been here for almost a week and i just wanted to write about some of the first impressions i got of beijing.
1. they do not like to have air conditioning, i was sweating up a storm leaving the airport, later i found out that it was new or something, i forgot the reasoning.
2. Going to customs was a lot easier than i had imagined.
3. people drive pretty nice cars around here. i think i saw a women driving a porsche or ferrari on the highway.
4.drivers drive in the breakdown lane, oh lets not talk about how people drive here, its not even a straight line and half the time people dont signal.
5.some parts of beijing is not what i had expected, i expected more developement, some places looked really old and abandonded.
6. consider yourself as an accomplished person if you crossed the streets without being hit by a driver, i am so scared to cross the streets sometimes because bicycles, motorcycles, buses, and cars share the same road and bicycles and mortorcycle drivers feel that they dont need to obey the signals so they will continue dricving straight or turn when it is red.
7. things here are pretty cheap compared to boston. some examples are yesterday i got greentea and jasmine tea ice cream cone and they only cost 6yuan each which is less than 1 usd! a icecream float from mickey d’s cost 5yuan for a cup and less than 1usd. another classic example we ordered four plates of food for four people was only 78 yuan, which is less than 20usd. amazing right.
8. BEDS HERE ARE F-KING HARD!
9. well the supermarket i go to charges me money if i wanted to have a plastic bag to carry my stuff, not expensive but still this does not happen in the us.
10. there is an initial fee for everything so annoying, like a dinning card you have to pay to get a dinning card then you charge it with moeny. the same goes for somethingg that is similiar to boston’s charlie card. there are other things but i do not remember on the top of my head.
11. they do not play here, so serious to a point where i dont like it. i think i have to attend more hours of class than i do when i am doiong a summer semester at nu.
12.the t system is pretty easy to understand but there are just way too many people, one would need to push others into the train inorder to get in the train, no common courtesy of letting others off, people will push you out of the way even before the train gets to the station. it takes a while to transfer to another train.
i think that is all i remember, i will try to post more up, just hoping i will not fall asleep, i think i will knock out soon right after i finish this.
i don’t actually care how annoyed people are with me about posting kollab stuff. but i feel sometimes we have to overdo it. but that is what i signed up for so I can’t really complain. sorry for the spam guys. 15 more days till the show. which means CRUNCH time. I’m will be so worn out since finals are around the same time. next saturday i am stretching myself to the max. this is the only time where i wish i had a transporter, or at least a machine that will let me be at two places at once! haha
To be honest i wasn’t expecting so much from this, this has to be one of the most touching series i have watched for a while! I WOULD RECOMMEND EVERYONE TO WATCH THIS AND I AM SERIOUS!
Yat Hong’s death reminded me of one thing. Not everyone who steps out of their house in the morning is certain that they would safely arrive back home at night. Did you know that those who never come back home carrying a lot of regret with them when they leave this world? You have four limbs, you are healthy and you have the freedom to choose whatever you want to do. These conditions can make a person envious for a lifetime. (-Ben)
We all fear being a burden to our loved ones should illness strike us. We all fear how sad and broken they will be when we die. However, what Dr Qian says here is so true. If we fall ill, and just leave or die without ever telling our loved ones, the pain and regret they are going to feel will be immeasurable because they never have the chance to be mentally prepared, and they never have the chance to take care of us, and to be there for us when we need them the most. (Dr.Qian)
I, Cheung Yat Kin, is willing to take you, Fan Chi Yu, to be my lawfully wedded wife.
For richer, for poorer
For better, for worse
In sickness, in health
I am willing to love you, to protect you for the rest of my life.
What are you still worried about?
Worry I’ll regret it?
Worry this is just a spur of the moment?
Worry that I’ll have to take care of you for the rest of my life?
Marriage vows…
If it’s just read aloud, then there’s no meaning to it; it has to be put into action.
When we’re young, we’re beautiful and healthy—of course we love.
But as we age, we grow old and wrinkly
As our health starts to fail and become burdened with more and more sickness,
And even as we watch the other person die of old age,
Do we not love?
Since we’re not gonna abandon each other because of those reasons in the future,
Then it should be the same right now.
If we stop loving because the other person has a sickness,
Then it is not love.
No one will know how long our lives are
Even as doctors, we can’t guarantee a long life and live up to a hundred.
That’s why our marriage vows does not guarantee we’ll have a long life together
But it does guarantee whether in sickness, in health that we stay together.
Do you understand?
Fan Chi Yu, I’ll ask you one more time.
In sickness, in health
Are you willing to stay with my for the rest of my life? (-YATKIN)
