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So it's a Friday Night and I want to go out. Where to? I decide on Lan Kwai Fong, a super busy place in Hong Kong (the island, not the city). I need to take a bus, the ferry and walk a short distance to get there.
So here we go.

I need to take the No. 7 bus to the Star Ferry.

Look! The bus is here!

Ok. So here's the Ferry. Where do I go?

To Central of course!

The pretty lights in Hong Kong. I'm on the ferry of course, hence the wobbling and fuzzy picture.

Hey! It's not fuzzy. I.M. Pei's famous building in Hong Kong.

A small glimpse of the ferry. It also says Hong Kong - Asia's World City.

Who is that guy? Johns Hopkins? Tourist. Must be a tourist. Look at all those tourists behind that JHU dude.

Which way to Lan Kwai Fong? That way!

Another sign. Thata way!

It's been a long time since I last updated…heh, so much for that 50 posts in a row thing. But anyway, so many things have happened in the past few weeks, and I need to get my head straightened out and get myself back to my normal routine. I know I goofed an easy part on the Physics exam, and I'm hoping I'll do fine on Tuesday's DiffEq exam, Wednesday's Portfolio and IFP final, and Friday's Orgo Lab exam.
The past week I've been sick, and the week before that, I was stressing over a variety of things, like Justin's passing, and Jessica's sickness/disease/whatever she had. These are the times when I wish I wasn't here in Baltimore by myself; instead, I wish I could be at home with my parents.

Right now, I'm at work, finally after calling in sick for two days, and I'm finally getting back to normal. However, I'm really behind on my work, and I really need to start studying for my exams as well as finishing all my work that needs to be done for next week. Good thing is that next week is the last full week of school and there's only 1 day of exams for me, and I get to go home. At last.

Today I need to chill.

Yesterday was the worst looking morning I've had in a while. But then, since I didn't get up til 11.30, that wasn't really a morning, not to mention I didn't get out of bed till probably 1ish. So that pretty much means that I've stayed in bed for 15.5 hours consecutively, minus maybe a two minute bathroom break. Heh, talk about hibernation.

Well the rain finally stopped around 5 or 6 o'clock and I realized that I had to go work my Stressbusters event at Relay for Life. It was my first event, and it's probably been a good six months since my training. Technically, I was supposed to be there for another event first semester, but that event got cancelled. Good thing, all night I had to give only two massages, and one was to my friend, Matt, and the other was to some girl, but that massage lasted only 2 minutes 'cause she was too ticklish. Relay for Life was awesome, but it would have been way better if it was on a warmer day.

Today it's Sunday, and I have work to do. -_- I have to finish Diff Eq homework and write a four part poem for Ryan. The good news is that I'm doing well this semester. =) The bad news is that I haven't figured out what to do for next semester yet. So far I've put myself down for taking these courses:

bme 580.221 molecules and cells (4)
bme 580.211 bme design team (3)
cheme 540.202 process analysis (4)
bio 020.305 biochemistry (4)
bio 020.315 biochem lab (2)

I don't know if that's going to work, because I'll end up taking classes that I won't need for my major, ChemBE or BME. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm going to go and see what I really want to do. If you guys have any suggestions, feel free to comment and let me know. I'm lost.

So I have to clarify something in the last post. The kind of forcing I mentioned required attendance taking, something no one does beyond high school. That is not someone's own personal obligation, but it is rather more of a requirement that dims the meaning of church to me. I'm thinking about another long post, so just beware. Till then, sayonara.

2.1 billion people claim to be Christians on the face of this world. That's 33% of the world's population. But I question how many of those “Christians” are really Christians. I am writing this article to provoke criticism and feedback, and I am not going to back down from what I say.

I couldn't help but overhear what went on the other day, when I heard two fellow Christians converse, with one telling the other that she had to go to church. Had to go? Ladies and gentlemen, that makes this church a forced act. Can you really claim to be Christian because you are forced to go to church? Now don't get me wrong, but this is how I interpret church and religion: You are first introduced to the religion via church. You develop interest in the religion itself, not the fellow members of the church, not the social aspect of church, blah blah, just interest in the religion itself. And that is why you return to church. You are not forced to return.

It is an individual's choice as to what religion he or she chooses to believe in. It is not by force. And those that are forced to return, does that really make you “converted?” I have to admit, I myself cannot consider myself any member of any religion now, though I do question and learn more and more about each everyday. I remembered I never liked church, because it was methodical and tedious, it was more of a chore than a conscious decision I made. I believed that if you were truly a Christian, you would want to study on your own, and you would come to your own terms with the religion and not be forced into it. But that's not the case. People take attendance. People care about their social status. They are forced into going to church. Those people are phonys.

If you were so devout a Christian as you think you are, then why don't you lay off other people's cases and not force them to go to church. And instead, preach and share your beliefs and what made you interested in the religion. Recruit. And let them make their own choice.

to be continued.

I am home. Tired day at Orgo Lab. Actually tired day overall. Finished packing at 4am. Overslept til 10, ran to NEB to turn in my BME app and then ran back showered and ran to physics. Lunch then Orgo Lab. I messed up with my aspirin and wound up with so little product. But nonetheless, I got some product. But had time to spare…and got to the airport on time. Yay. I'm exhausted. That was 10 hours traveling. Sheesh.

Syracuse lost. Wow.
George Mason tomorrow!

I hate playing computers with Zerg. I'm so greedy and maybe they all rush me because of that. It always ends up being like a 5 on 1 against me and none of them rush my teammates. If lurkers can fend off the first rush, then lurkers can't fight off stupid tanks outside my base. There's like twenty of them!!! I hate comptuers. People are easier to play with.

IFP was cancelled today. Yay!

I also went to the gym and lifted for half hour. That was good. I'm going tomorrow morning. So I'm going to wake up around 10? Ok. Bedtime.

No more Starcraft tomorrow.

So I've studied for the exam, it's tomorrow morning at 8. Then I have some random homework due, like diffeq and physics to finish up and then break!!! No exams after this for a while, I guess if you count the Orgo Lab exam I have the friday after break. But thats two weeks away and I have time. Since I have to go to sleep, this post will be short.

Go George Mason on friday when you kick some Michigan State butt.

I need to stop playing Starcraft. I need to go to the gym more. I'm writing now at 4.25am, when I should have been sleeping. I should have been sleeping since 12. I should have not played Starcraft at 2.00-3.30. I wasted one and a half hour of reading and sleep which could have been spent at the gym working out. I feel bad.

I will go work out Tuesday after the Physics exam. I must. I must!!!

I can't let this gym cycle slip after three days.
Here it is by the way…
Gym: Monday morning, Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday mornings.

So yea. I have to sleep and study for Physics exam tuesday, or 28 hours from now. grarrg.

I've decided to make a formal blog and try to blog consecutively for 50 days. If I do not do so you guys can yell at me and well, I don't know what happens.

Our lacrosse team isn't as good as I expected. Last years Div 1 national champions…this year, they're a mediocre 2-2. The games aren't as crazy as I expected either, cause its too cold out on Homewood Field to watch hopkins suck it up. But the weather is warming up, so it'll actually be better come time for the duke vs hopkins game and the unc vs hopkins game. And hopefully we wont suck it up anymore and whoop their butts.

I'm tired. I did nothing but go to the gym, eat, study and play starcraft today. You have no idea how tiring it is trying to read physics and really study the material. It's brutal. I'm exhausted. Speaking of work, no work after thursday, and home on thursday. I'm excited. Southern California!!! (i'm not supposed to do this in my fiction and poetry class, because that is gramaticaly incorrect. writing seminar people are so strict on grammar..)

Last night, a bunch of the guys from my hall try to tape our suite door shut so we couldn't open it from the outside, but then they used (stretchy) electrical tape to do it, so all we had to do was open the door and slice the tape off. It was quite amusing..at their inability to lock us in. OH crap. I have to read Washington Square for monday, and I have physics to study for. Time to go to sleep and wake up and hardcore study tomorrow.

I will post tomorrow. This is post 1 of 50.
(my roommate is grinding his teeth as he's sleeping right now)