ianchu's Xanga

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:46 GMT

find out that it is more interesting to go bars with someone you dont know, or at least you just know in this trip

last night, felt dizzy after having 7 or 8 shots, went to a disco, a man came to me and offer me a cigarette, then another woman come to help me light it.

feel so evil with your head exploding with the music and your throat suffocated with the cigarette. being asked where am i from again, haha, without second thought, i replied, philipines, haha

receive the course information of fine arts from portal, so many courses want to study, such as art of India, Japan, Southeastern asia, Baroque, impression... will it be crazy to take 4 in one semester? later sin suen la

as for my feeling of europe, i dun like it very much as most of the hk ppl do, i prefer asian thing. if given one more chance, i will not learn spanish, but korean instead haha. coz there are many korean students here and they are very nice.

kind of sick of the conjugated thing, it is crazy to make the verb to have that many tenses and conjugated form. for only one single verb, it change according to I, you, he, they, you plural, we... and also it changes according to the time, the tone, the level you believe it is true or not. therefore a verb can have 60 forms, while thai or chinese just have one only.

after coming here, i just feel hong kong is really international. with english everywhere, translation for everything, people speak english, good and clear transportation, international food of a high standard everywhere, no serious racial discrimination, modern infrastructure. hong kong is in many ways better than other cities actually

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:12:50 GMT

things here are so crazy

university of salamanca is really a good choice for international students

it is the oldest university in spain, it is a small town with tranquility and full of elderly and children

no modern commercial buildings scattering everywhere

but it is the "old" that attracts the "young", every year, no , every month it admitts thousands of international students from all over the world to come for the language courses, the whole town is suddently supported by a stream of youth. because of that, a lots of discos and bars are built to cater them.

thats why here salamanca, you can see international students going all over the tiny town, everyone is thinking of going for night life at night. in the big plaza mayor, many people giving out free or discount coupons. we just take them and go for free drinks or 3 euros for 5 drinks. so fun to go 6 or 7 discos or bars a night.

it is so funny to see classmates dressing properly and being a good students during daytime, but seeing the same person dancing or drinking at night. they usually feel so tired and sleepy during the first hour of the day.

so much fun, the spanish night life. different from hong kong, here, even children will go until midnight, no drugs, no intentions, just a normal social life. planning to go everynights before coming back to hong kong.

being an asian here is special, many people will come and ask you where you are from. usually i will say "philipines" or "thailand"

taken many pictures, here some "can out of street"

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:08:07 GMT

last nite watched interhall drama from my portable hard disk in the street, sitting for a drink

so good to hear cantonese, it is so loud that the Spaniards stared at us, just like we stared at those filipinos

watched kung fu panda finally.... spanish version without subtitle.... kind of understand little bit

watched spanish local film, so boring that i left after 10 mins, somehow those from hollywood is really good, suddenly realize

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:18:03 GMT

my SD card doesnt respond..... gosh... so afraid losing the photos

upload my photo from other camera, just so few

in the photo, it is called churro con chocolate, the famous spanish stuff

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:52:07 GMT

正﹗終於打到中文啦，好感動…

上translation堂個陣，先生問到每一隻動物叫聲係點寫，spanish 係點點點，英文係點點點，問到雞既中文叫聲時，我同先生講，係香港係︰DIU﹗先生好疑惑問︰DIU？之後我好認真咁點頭，再補充一句︰sometimes it is DIU NEI

有個肥仔好ODD，印度黎的，今日出黎寫字，我同兩個黑妹偷影佢，我己經係無校flash架啦，但係前面個兩個就校左，搞到先生話我…同埋個怪肥仔笑騎騎咁望過黎…哈哈，算啦，summer course

其實黎到真係無乜mood想上堂…d tense 算幾好，有用，但係聽唔明，D communication堂好無聊…唉

開心既係週六日可以四處咁周圍去，去左馬德里同埋南部睇阿爾布罕宮，遲d會去portugal，仲會去埋羅卡角，即歐洲大陸既最西端，個度係︰陸地之終，海洋之始

琴日去左shopping mall，zara 本身係西班牙牌子己經平，加上七八月既瘋狂大減價，搞到d 衫超平，買左成8 件野都係800 蚊，好抵呀

好掛念香港，好想番黎呀

Monday, July 14, 2008

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:09:57 GMT

the second most useful language in spain is arabic

coz spain has come under arabic influence for 700 years

with arabic, you will be welcomed with great smiles and discount

just found out the boss of the cyber cafe is arab, he doesnt charge me for using internet, once, haha

Monday, July 07, 2008

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:12:43 GMT

shit, cannot upload the photos

well, here school life is boring, what in our mind is the trip

it is so good to plan the trip after school at the train station with a cup of chocolate and churro

we will be going to sevilla and granada to see the muslim architectures

also , i will be going to portugal lisboa, and and also the westest point of europe with a certificate issued

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:20 GMT

we were just like filipinos and indonesians in central, sticking together, talking in strange cantonese, about the family of our own, how harsh or how good they are, and finding which telephone for international call the cheapest, sitting on the ground of the square to chat

everyday, from my host family to the university take us 1 hour, yesterday i have done it for 4 times, that are 4 hours walking, pretty tired

still havent got the luggage from the airport, shit, understand the mainland nonlocal in the hall, without many things needed

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:02:27 GMT

Hola...

finally arrived at Salamanca, the Spanish version of Oxford University

the host family... the house much much better than i think, very beautiful with gold everywhere

Spanish dinner with USA ´housemate´

Going out during night is awesome, cool night, the whole small town surrounded by cathedrals

the plaza mayor even 1200 still full of ppl, like the philipines in central during weekends

the campus, shit! so beautiful, with lots and lots of antique building with lights on it, so suitable for studying arts subject. people around just sit and chat on the grass, there were even tour during 1200!!

well, HKU.... with the main building.... well, here, every where can take picture as credit card design

final word, just few asian here, always being stared... just like those indians and pakistans in HK...

the whole small town is just so tranquil...

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:31:32 GMT

Year 2007 - 2008 (BA)

Sem.	Course	Course Description	Sub-Class	Credit/Unit	Grade
F	LANG2011	Spanish II	B	12	A-
F	LANG2022	Thai II	A	12	A
F	LANG2052	Arabic II	A	12	F
1	FINE1008	Introduction to Asian art history	A	6	C+
1	LANG2057	Spanish language and culture I	A	3	A
1	LANG2059	Spanish phonetics I	A	3	B
1	PHIL1006	Elementary logic	A	3	F
1	SOWK0092	Adventure-based counselling: theory and practice	A	6	B+
2	CHIN1205	Chinese history: a general survey	A	3	C
2	ECEN2202	Professional English for Arts students (English)	K	3	C+
2	FINE2013	Northern Renaissance art	A	6	B
2	LANG2055	Spanish for business I	A	3	A-
2	LANG2058	Spanish language and culture II	A	3	B+
2	YITC1002	Information technology proficiency test (IT)	B	0	P
			Total :	75
		Semester 1 GPA :		2.60
		Cumulative GPA :		2.48
		Semester 2 GPA :		2.67
		Cumulative GPA :		2.84

一目了然~
fine arts 真係好開心，不枉我每堂tutorial prep一疊notes 入去，堂堂番足同埋錄埋音
spanish都好終於上郅個A level 了，感動中，不枉努力工夫…
ARABIC ~_~ 算吧啦
雖然未過到三，但CGPA總算由2.0變2.4變2.8 呢個方向大步前進~