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First week in MPharm Year 2

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 by Kiyu

I’m back in track in England have settled down nicely in my new flat. I still live on campus due to some very unforeseen last minute decisions last year, but I’m not complainging — I’m still close to everything and campus life in England is a very social one. The photo above shows the dressing corner of my room. I have a wardrobe, but I’ve always been fond of clothes racks to showcase your more original/pretty pieces of clothing. I reckon anyone interested in designing would benefit from having a rack instead of a drawer or a normal wardrobe! The long white garment at the front there is actually my ball gown from last year’s pharmacy ball :) I’ve met the new pharmacy freshers and they all looked a bit scared and overwhelmed. Hah, feels like it was only a month ago that I was a fresher myself! Oh well, I already have quite a bit of work to do only 3 days into the new year, but I’m a second year student now so I guess they expect us to work for a change.

I went to London on Friday to see some friends of mine I’ve been meaning to see for a full year now but never got around to. I saw this guy in Trafalgar Square and was so intrigued by it that I asked him to hold up the signs for me so that I could snap a photo. He refused and said he would do it on one condition: if I agreed to do what the sign said. I reluctantly did my bit by letting them take photo of me holding one of their signs, and there is now a slight possibility that I will be in their music video for their debute single on 4th October. Should be exciting.


It was SocMart yesterday, which means all the societies at my university set up stalls to try to convince you to join their society. I managed to join about 6 societies – Literature, Creative Writing, Hong Kong (I’m in the committee, actually), Pharmacy, Coctail and South-East-Asian. I also signed up for Ladies Society (female equivalent to a Gentleman’s Club, you know those posh ones you sometimes see in England) and Glee society, but I’m not entirely sure how I am going to juggle all this in addition to my studies. Sportsmart commences today as well, which is when all the sports club set up stalls and I might rejoin archery this year. I’m not sure. I wish there were 48 hrs in a day.

In any case, I just realized I forgot to tell you that I am the Creative Director in Hong Kong Society this year. My job is to do all the designing bit for logo, membership cards, business cards, tshirts and hoodies, leaflets, brochures etc. Basically anything that needs designing! Am I enjoying doing something creative again? Hell yes I am!

Tags: colour, creative, cws, England, films, hksoc, Hong, Kong, Literature, litsoc, London, music, of, pharmacy, societies, society, socmart, sportsmart, UEA, UK, video, writing
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Brits are crazy, yeh?

Sunday, October 4th, 2009 by Kiyu
We’re waiting. Time is ticking, heads pop up for as far as I can see, and no-one seems bothered by the fact that you actually can’t see the end to the queue.

Brits know how to queue. And I really MEAN it. The first week there were two ridiculous queues for the Icebreaker Party and tickets for the Freshers week. RIDICULOUS I TELL YOU! The queues went for at least 300m! I repeat; 300 DAMNED METRES! And they were all neatly lined up! No chaotic mass whatsoever, no-one jumping into the queue midway, no shit whatsoever. I wish I had gotten a picture of one of the queues at least, the visual image of it would have blown your mind.

You know, I miss being rude. I miss being sarcastic, and I miss being brutally honest. Brits are so easily offended because they are all so naturally polite (I guess they would feel offended because I think they are easily offended), so I have had a hard time trying to suppress my natural instincts of being rude. I slipped up just a couple of hours ago though, for I slapped Joe’s legs to make him remove them. That was rude. He even said so (and Brits usually don’t say so aloud when they are offended). Oh well, at least I’ve got Derek to be as sarcastically rude to as much as I’d like to, he doesn’t mind. Because he is just as rude and sarcastic back.

Derek had me join him to a HK (Hong Kong) society (UEA has got different societies and sports clubs) thing, and it was fun, if only I could understand what they were actually saying in there. Funny how I had a bunch of Chinese people accompanying me back to my flat, and before I knew it, the whole HK soc (soc = society) committee was there as well! Never seen my flat that full and noisy before! I’ve actually joined Creative Writing soc and the Archery club as well. I LOVE ARCHERY. Now I just have to make some time for it all :D

Did I tell you about the dress code I have for my pharmacy course? No? Basically, I have to dress all business smart for my dispensary classes and placements. That sucks. I have to be in dull and depressing colours. I’m going to be depressed. I have to go into the city centre tomorrow to get some clothes. Goodness knows I didn’t bring any. Actually, I don’t own any. I’ve only got colourful stuff in my wardrobe. Which means expensive laundry.

And I guess PGGANG would like to know that I’ve made a Korean friend.

Tags: archery, club, creative, HK, queue, rude, sarcastic, society, sports, UEA, writing
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Mildly say – I’m quite surprised

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by Kiyu

Woah.

I’m.. surprised. No, that’s underexaggerating it. I’m.. shocked? I don’t know.
Remember half of the Essay om kjærlighet essay that I posted two weeks ago? I was very happy with it at first, but then I started to wager. What if..?
There’s always a ‘what if’ somewhere.

School started today, and my first period was Norwegian. I knew I would get my essay back, and so I wasn’t too eager to get a look at my grade with all the depressing thoughts that had occoured to me lately. Thankfully my teacher didn’t hand them out at once, she first had a few words to say to us. She was mildly surprised and quite content that we were doing this good with this essay genre compared to the previous more normal ones. I’m not surprised, an essay is a more philosophical and reflecting text. I’d much rather write this than a boring article.
She wanted to read a few of the remarking ones that stood out, out loud for us before she handed the essays back, so we settled ourselves as comfortable as possible in our hard chairs and waited patiently for her to start.
She was silent for a bit, surely to consider how to best start it off, and then her overly dramatic voice echoed in the room.

“If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They’ll remain a part of each other’s lives no matter what.”

That’s when I started to laugh.

Both because the sudden realization dawned on me, and because her English pronouncing was.. well, not the best one I’ve heard. Certainly not from a teacher. (But her German is remarkable, though!) But I really shouldn’t have laughed though. All my classmates’ heads turned in my direction, and by the look they gave me, I realized that I had given myself away.
When my teacher had finished reading the more than two pages long essay, she paused again and the classroom went silent as if in after thought. Suddenly an applause boomed out of nowhere, and I was so taken aback that I started yelling “What the hell!” while I laughed again.
I really laugh too much, and certainly also at the most weird times. *chuckles*

She then started to talk about the traits of the essay, the techniques and style that was present in the essay to explain to us how it made the essay great. She then followed with two more essays, both of them impressive in their own way. One of them was Elisabeth’s. Why was I not surprised? I recognized it by the kåseri-ish style and the great language that is so very Elisabeth.

We both got a 6 on our essays. I was quite taken aback by mine. Very much so. BUT OH SO VERY HAPPY :D *grins* I will post the full-length, final edition of the essay later today if you wish to read it The final edition is up, you can access it through here.

I feel very very content today! I feel like I’ve succeeding in so much, because I found a way to keep myself awake in physics class aswell. I doodle! I think physics class will be very productive from now on. Reflecting over thoughts and ideas in class? Checked. Doodling in my physics book during class? Checked. No more sleeping and therefore no pooking from Snorre? Definitely checked. Still get the stuff the teacher is preaching about even though my focus is somewhere far away? Checked.
Yes, I absolutely like this! Ahh, well. I guess I’ll have to show you today’s product from physics class. Just click it, will ya?

I also found out today that Elisabeth is reading Twilight aswell. She’s going to start on New Moon, the second book now that it has arrived though. I think I will lend her my Eclipse if she wants to borrow it :3
Alice, oh Alice. I would have sworn I was your twin when you were still a human if only we weren’t born in a complete different era. Time for some fanart of my second favorite Cullen!

Listening to: Rikki – Suteki Da Ne
Reading: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Am. fantasy/romance)
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Tags: 6, alice cullen, Art, bella, cullen, cullens, eclipse, essay, essay om kjærlighet, Literature, slumber party, twilight, writing
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