Heroes

There are some benefits to working at Fairchild. 

For example, I get 15% off at St. Germaine Bakery (30% for mooncakes). If I don't fancy a St. Germaine mooncake, because you know, life (and mid-autumn festival) is too short to eat stunted traditional mooncakes and non-inspiring icey mooncakes, I also get 30% off for De Fresh mooncakes and Pine House mooncakes.

I also get 20% off (30% if I play my cards right) at Chic Label - my new favourite boutique. 

I work next to a food court that serves 雞蛋仔

Anyways, you get the idea.

I was going to say, that one of my favourite benefits of working at Fairchild is that I get to do the Arts and Culture Segment. Occasionally I get horrific stories that my boss makes me cover (honestly, does anyone care that the 東莞同鄉會 is staging a talent show to showcase its children's choir, painted on rosy cheeks and all?), it's usually stuff that I love and am interested in seeing. Last month, I got to visit the UBC Anthropology museum and spent 2 hours looking at Buddhist art. And if I really like the stuff, I actually get to ask for free tickets.

So tonight's one of those nights where 鄭少 and I took advantage of this benefit and saw Heroes, an engaging play for "three older gents" (as they call themselves). More than a century's worth of acting expertise congregating on a stage, held together by an engaging and hilarious story is a great way of spending the evening. And although the story was about three WWI veterans in the 1950s stuck in a soldier's home, I can't help but resonate with some of the things that they were saying and identify with the feeling of being stuck.

No one likes to be stuck. But if Henri could, in the end, see the poplar trees, I'm sure I could some day too.

Now listening: Porcelain - at17 (Yes, my music selection is the same after all these years). 

It's been a while

Hello Blogger,

It's been a well since we've connected. How are you? 

The last time we spoke, I was 21 going onto 22. Now I'm 23, almost 24. 

The last time we spoke, I finished my 4 years of post-secondary education, wrote my LSAT, was hoping to get into law school, thought Fairchild would be a 3-months thing and knew I was going to China soon. Now I am thinking of writing yet another LSAT after a 2 year hiatus, think maybe not all is lost with law school just yet, am still at Fairchild (making the same wage I might add) and hoping I can go to China again soon.

The last time we spoke, I am pretty sure I weighed under 130lb. Now I'm pretty sure I'm over.

The last time we spoke, I didn't have a lot of confidence in myself or in the people around me. Now I have even less confidence in myself, in some people that I used to have a world of confidence in, but more confidence in the people that I used to have less confidence in.

How have you been? I missed you.