BACK

We all have bad times.

And I’ve been challenged by another “me” in the past months.

I am back now, to a better life.

it’s a bad time

i am lost, completely.

promise is no more than a piece of garbage if you break it too much. please, don’t turn your promise into garbage.

a vicious cycle

Chronic procrastination has been brothering me for years. It’s time to change. I’ve said that thousands of times to myself, but it never works. How sad is that?

To be success, a person can walk through various ways. It seems that I’ve lost my way. I squander time and money. Life never sucks. I suck.

I failed to produce a paper, which was due five days ago. And then I forgo the exam. I gave up.

I am not happy with my life and mindset. But I don’t know what I could do to become a better person. I used to have  so many dreams, and I still do. Am I running the opposite direction of my dreams?

I am like a spider: making a heavy net around myself, in order to isolate the world and outside world. I should find something that I can work on.

We all have bad moments. People fall down, and get up. I need to move on. That’s it.

nirvana

change

I am always expecting changes and challenges, sadly though that I seldom work seriously hard for anything.

Time to change. I know. But who knows how difficult it would be.

美好

这世界有太多美好

珍惜当下，珍惜眼前人

Be prepared…ALWAYS

it’s hard to figure out what you really want.

After you solve the puzzle, go for your dream, don’t hesitate.

Always be prepared, coz you don’t know when opportunities will come.

Find what I love, and stick to it. I am just talking to myself. That’s all.

Don’t worry

My motto for the rest of the year:

Stop cursing, Don’t worry, and be Patient.

As long as I keep trying, something good is on its way.

Stay professional on social media

I went to Causeway Bay last night, assisting  my TA doing some interviews. After the interviews,  I asked him some questions regarding to the social media management of a journalist.

We are all human beings with our own friends. Some times we might just want to say “I want to have Dim Sin so freaking bad” on Facebook or Twitter. Actually one important function, or one charm of social media is that people can easily associate themselves with others who share same interests, lifestyles, tastes, or etcs. It’s so lovely that once you post the status “The hot weather is driving me crazy”, then one and another of your friends on Facebook will respond to your status, and most of the time, they will say stuffs like “yes”, “ I hate the weather too”, and blabla. For people who live in the high-pace, fast-growing society with a lot of pressures, it’s a good way to get echo and relax.

Being a journalist, however, would restrict what we could/should say on the social media. Regardless of the conflict of interest while reporting, even personal messages can lead to controversy. It’s not unheard that some reporters had lost their job purely because of their controversial or sensational tweets.

As for myself, I am still sort of in between while using social media. Sometimes I will share some breaking/hilarious/unbelievable/etcs news story I read, while sometimes I would just post what I just had for breakfast or lunch.

That’s unprofessional. I know that, and I am ready to change. Because the friends/followers/fans can be a mix of people – some are my friends, and most are people I probably gonna never meet or know, it would be pretty pointless for me to keep bothering them by posting food pictures, uh, all of them were really yummy though.

Does that mean I will become a robert or machine with no emotions and feelings?

Not necessary, neither it is possible.

A good way to solve the dilemma is to keep two separate accounts for your social networks – one with your real name and another is anonymous. Always stay professional as a reporter in public, and leave your own life your families and friends.

Have you started defriending and deleting your posts and photos on Facebook and other social networks?

Are you happy?

One of my friends just told me that she thought she won’t be happy at all in the final year, unless she could find a job.

I told her that she would only think so because she hasn’t got hired by any firms or companies yet, and once she got the offer, she would immediately notice that many other fellow students get better offers than hers, and she won’t feel happy either.

It’s hard to be a final year at the most competitive local university, where many of the students can find a good job. It’s even harder to be a final year from the mainland China at this university, a group of mysterious students who very often get the best offers.

Since the first day we became a senior in the campus, so many things have changed.

Somebody told me in my day 1 at the university that I need to learn how to stay alone, which means in a lot of time, I have to go to lectures by myself, go to the library by myself, or even eat at canteens alone. I thought it were not true, because I have so many friends, not just from mainland, but also local Hong Kong friends and etcs.

But recently, I seldom eat with my friends. Instead, I would either grab a sandwiches, or sometimes, skip meals, simply because I don’t have the time, or I am just too busy to remember that it’s time to eat. For instance, I only had a bottle of juice for lunch today. Actually I did have an hour lunch time. However, I’d rather spend the time reading SCMP and the WSJ because I know in the afternoon financial reporting lecture, the teacher would ask us what happened in the market. I was right and our lecturer was so excited about Japanese government’s intervention of yen’s currency rate, which is the first time in six years.

Am I happy? I guess so.

As a grown-up, I know how to take responsibility for myself, which basically equals to my study and career at this point. Of course family and friendship still mean a lot to me, otherwise I won’t feel lost if there were one day that I didn’t call my parents.

Happy, or happiness, one of the easiest, and one of the most difficult words in the world.

We all have different understanding of it.

From my point of view, I feel happiest whenever I am working hard, pursuing my happiness.

Work hard, and play hard.

All the efforts would ultimately be paid off.

Yes, I am happy.

I am indefatigable.

Still have to finish more than 300 pages of readings tonight.