Don't starve yourself before this all-you-can-eat dinner

Doesn't everyone starve themselves before all-you-can-eats? Well, I did it again before I headed into Posh for sukiyaki in Richmond and I regretted it. From 6:30pm, a 45-minute wait turned out to be a 1.5 hour wait all because of a large birthday group that took up most of the seats in the restaurant. To make matters even worse, they decided to split the bill and lined up to separately at the front counter. There must have been nearly 30 of them. It took them forever to settle the bill and they held up the tables that people were desperately and hungrily waiting for.

Another large group was paying together but it took them almost 20 minutes to gather enough money to pay the bill. Don't they feel a bit ashamed when 15 Taiwanese (sorry no offense) are standing up and yelling at each other things like "Hey, have you paid your part yet?" or "Hey, we are still short a hundred bucks." My tall and broad-shouldered friend was about to give them a good beating and boot them out of Posh had he not been starving for not eating since 10am. I could barely stand when I had to use the toilet about 1 hour into the wait...

Stefanie is just a very simple name, but you really had to be there at the scene to appreciate the joy and delight when this name (under which the table was reserved) was called, finally. At last, we could eat.

The point of this story is, if you still haven't caught it, to not take so long when settling the bill. Seriously, 20 minutes in-and-out of the restaurant running about looking for your friends who have left the table but haven't paid the bill is just damn stupid. Not one of them could take out a credit card first. Use some common sense when you eat out next time please.

Oh and by the way, a special recognition to the waitresses at Posh for keeping the brightest smile throughout this chaos. I really admire their professionalism even with a bunch of dumbass customers they have to deal with =)

help i am lost

i am lost.

Me the geography major that hasn't even gotten lost once travelling through India is so worried about where I will end up after I grad (hopefully) before X'mas 2009.

What should I do with my major and possibly Spanish minor...go to graduate school? Which school should I go into? Apply to UBC for MA or school of community and regional planning? Or should I try to get into some research masters programme in Singapore where I'd love to go back to...? Or try to get into the masters programme for planning in HKU? Or is there some other place that I could still go to...? Someone tell me...

I could also try some crazy things like teach English as a teaching assistant in Japan or Spain or some other Spanish-speaking country...I just don't know what's good for me. Maybe I should just start work in some sector but I don't feel I have the stuff to really take on a good career. Maybe I should be a photographer...who knows if I can earn a living off of that?

Oh if someone out there is reading this please help me...(or add to the problem even more by offering more choices haha...)

Life Update Summer 2008 =)

Wow...it's been such a long time since my last post.

I think it's been about 2 months since I left that Kent Ridge campus in Singapore, the good food, the eternal weather, all the friends I met...(and all that exam stress). Returning to Hong Kong this summer feels different. It doesn't quite seem like all the previous summers that I've been back from Vancouver. I think life for me is different now. Having experienced so much, good and bad, in the past year in Singapore and during my travels. I have learned to treasure as best as I could everything that I have and will have in the future, with family and friends at the very top.

Anyway, cousin's wedding is over, mom and bro went back, leaving me behind for an intern posting which is already half complete. I feel so lucky to have a chance to work in a place related to my interest and studies. And by the way, it's my first time that I met friends that are from Hong Kong (not overseas) through this internship. I hope the friendship will last a long time with my four new Hong Kong friends and 3 other intern friends!

That was an update of my...life. Oh just to tell you, I've been sleeping so well with Hong Kong raining all the time without air con for over 2 weeks. But it's air con time now cuz even my shoulder bag says so. It's grown full of mold and smells so rotten now!