-day 133-

Hey everyone! :)

It's been a while since the last time I blogged.. Sorry ><
This semester I am trying to be better… In some sense.
Well, six (deadly) courses with four core courses and two common core courses..
Woah. 

I guess this semester I have gained some more lessons on essential skills in life (that I categorise as compulsory skills in our coming life)

1. Time Management
Yeah. With all the things that we have to handle…
This skill is so vital. Like, seriously.
And thanks to HKU (and this chur semester) it seems that I have picked up some basics on this!

2. Patience
It's not that I declare that I could give my right cheek when someone slaps my left cheek.
But to be honest, I could 'proudly' say that life tested me quite a few times this semester.
Well, didn't quite pass them… But I will try to do better!

3. Replying Email (of Writing in general) Professionally
Yesh. I love this.
I don't know why but I feel that I made hundreds of these stuff.
Application for this, application for that, cover letter, CVs, mailing professors…
But now I realise that this is one more lesson to be grateful of ;)

4. Knowing how (and what) to talk in interviews
Speaking from my own experience, your body language (facial expression, sitting straight up and showing some smile) together with some signs of enthusiasm is super important.
And one more stuff: make sure that you speak confidently and stay HONEST. You may 'brag' about yourself a little bit but don't make it to explicit. Keep it simple and classy ;)

5. Studying inside my room (?)
Well…
The truth that we cannot always expect to study with your friends..
Or to get any decent place to study on campus..
So yeah xD

6. Reviewing lectures
If you don't feel any difficulty or need to study more..
Than you need to move to a better university!
So starting this semester I could feel the 'hardness' already x_x

7. Eating less (?)
My 7 kilos… T_T

8. Taking decent photographs
Well, due to my next point, this has become a very crucial skill to obtain.

9. Enjoy more of my life!
YESH! I love this part the best!
So starting this semester, I decided to explore more of the foods and sceneries that Hong Kong offers!
If you want to take a peek about what I have stumbled upon around Hong Kong, you could visit my Instagram account below here:

So I guess that's all that I want to share through this post :)

Hope that you guys will have an amazing semester like mine! <3

Cheers!

~pieches

-day 131-

Hey all :)

So we had our Student Ambassadors Superpass Dinner last Friday.
And it's super fun! x)

So, what is Superpass anyways?
It's called '勁過' - ging gwo in Cantonese, literally means strength pass.
And I think it could only be found in Hong Kong, or even only in HKU! xD
It's done every time we're going to face our finals, to wish each other to super-pass the exam.
Super interesting x) At first, we get to pick a 紅包 (red envelopes or angpao lol)

So cute! That's why I picked this one :p

And here's what's inside:

What?? Coins??? (and it's only 1.3 HKD!)

I was freaking confused until one of my friends explained what it means.

個三 - go sam. It's the cantonese for that HKD 1.3; and it pretty much sounds like guo sam (過三) that means over three (YEAHHHH). And some will only get HKD 1.2… Means over two (aww….)

Super interesting, isn't it? LOL. But that's not all! xD

So, there's mainly three parts of the event:

1. Writing calligraphies - faat shu 法書 (if I'm not mistaken lol. It means your calligraphy)
So all of us were given a chance to write down calligraphies on a red paper; don't ask me how could I write xD. The phrases were:

過三爆四 - gwo sam baau sei

（pass 3 exceed 4 - refers to our GPA. And our max GPA is 4.3 anyway)

(name)勁過 - (name) ging gwo

(wishing someone to super pass the exam)

And here's mine:

I know it's barely readable LOL 

So, here comes the second part: FOOOOOOOOOOOD!

And it was 好 味 (hou mei - means delicious) x). Best part?

HAHAHAHA

Well, there's one more interesting thing about this: there's a dish that we may not eat by scooping it.

It's a cashew - mixed with pork. I forgot what and why; will tell you once I could find the meaning LOL.

Last but not least: the most essential part of the superpass:

Chopping the roasted pork!

And the porks were still like this:

Cute piggy.. Feel bad for you D:

Another belief here: we have to chop it in one try; it's like a 'clean pass' or something lol.

And I did it ;) HAHA

Super scary. Was afraid that I might not be able to chop it in one swing; or even worse: the knife might fly off my hands *hiiiy*

Some failed to do it; and ended up 'minced' the pork in their attempt to chop it. D:

This is something that you will definitely not find elsewhere~

Feeling so lucky to be able to join this :)

It was great night, Love it so much!

Thanks for reading this super long post anyways.

See you later!

So much love,

pieches~