Sleepless Travels Reloaded

Cha pan
Originally uploaded by tr[n]ty.

For the last few days it was really warm. Temperatures were around 28°C.
I remember saying “wow, the hot days must be here to stay”.

About an hour after I said that, the clear sky became overcast, cold winds blew and a light drizzle started.

It’s now 18°C

Mosquitoes in Hong Kong seem to be especially crafty. More devilish than Malaysian, Singaporean and Australian (Australian mozzies are the easiest. They are fat and sluggish) mosquitoes, they are $%#$^#$ hard to kill. Somehow they sense you’ve spotted them and then they’ll vanish before your eyes. I’ve only intentionally killed one mozzie during the few days of hot weather. During that time, I was averaging 13 mosquito bites on my body at once, so it’s not like I lacked mozzies to kill…

Oh and I say intentionally because I spotted 2 crushed-up bloody mozzie carcasses on my bed sheet. Must have rolled over them while they were biting me in my sleep. Serves the little buggers right.

And the bites I get are small, red, hard and horibly itchy. If I have to get bitten, I prefer the lumpy type of bite. Don’t ask me why…

I heard that while the mozzie is in the process of biting you, and if you squeeze the skin around the bite, the mozzie’s tube sucky mouth thing is trapped inside your skin. And then if you squeeze harder, the mosquito will burst because of the blood rush. I would like to try it but … those sneaky HK mozzies! I never see them in the process of biting me!

ARGGGGH I’ve never had so many mozzie bites at once in my life…

All because the College is too stingy to put in fly netting.

All the mozzie bites on my face is just making my already-bad skin worse…
And by the way this is pretty much the first time I’ve had bites on my face…-cry-

At least with the cold weather those mozzies have disappeared…bah.
I’m so going to go out to buy mosquito coils now. My hall doesn’t allow the coils, so I’ll just hang it outside my window, hohoho…

And I refuse to use the air-conditioning because….I just don’t like a/c

Oh, and the photo on the right is of my new cha pan~.
It was a gift from some family friends. It’s from Xiamen (in Fujian Province). I would love to visit the place. I hear the scenary is great, the food is cheap and good, and living standards there are now one of the best in China.

As a poor student living only briefly in HK, I can’t buy furniture. But I’m getting more creative in using boxes XD. As you can see, my new laptop’s box now makes a handy stand for the chapan. My external HDD is also sitting on a used tissue paper box. Oh yeah and my desk here is pretty small compared to what I’m used to home (1 fairly decent computer table with convenient shelving, and one rather large zataku - about twice the table top area of what I have now). And now with two laptops tabletop space in HK is getting quite rare.

Oh, and speaking of stingy student standards…my filing ’system’ is such a joke. It consists of one big pile of paper. No, no, it’s actually quite organised. The papers are grouped according to subject, and then they are laid at 90° angles to each other so at least I can tell where one subject pile and the next ends…

Hopefully that pile doesn’t ever get tipped over…

And it’s a really big pile…can I bring it back to Australia? Such a waste if I throw everything away…I can tell further on down the line I’ll need to do some assignment and I’d b kicking myself for not keeping the notes…

Blah. assignments.