5 November, 2011 at 11.08 am
 Kim’s comments are standard Anne’s comments are italicised
Well after Anne strongly hinted, I thought I’d write about our weekend in Edinburgh. Though I technically think Anne should be writing this entry since I, you know, live in Edinburgh? Nothing we did was new to me.
OH WELL.
Hi.
Friday 28th October
After spending the entire day helping out at an East Asian art conference, I emerged from the Student Union, blinking at the glaring light of day, to pick up Anne from a Costas near the Edinburgh train station. (I think that was quite a poetic sentence)
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23 October, 2011 at 10.47 am
 Those of you who know me, and I’m going to assume it’s all of those reading this blog, will know that Bon Iver is my favourite band. Perhaps the only band I can say that I honestly love whenever people ask me about my taste in music.
I discovered Bon Iver in the Hong Kong HMV in Causeway Bay shortly after For Emma, Forever Ago was released in 2008. I was walking around and saw a band I was familiar with in one of the CD players. For the life of me I can’t remember what band it was, [...]
16 May, 2011 at 5.27 am
Last night we watched L’Illusionniste, an animated drama directed by Sylvain Chomet and based on a script written by mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1958. The story revolves around a magician who meets a girl in rural Scotland who believes that he is a real magician, and how they impact on each others lives. What makes L’Illusionniste so beautiful is that it’s a very sad film. Apparently Tati wrote the script as an open letter to his estranged daughter and the film reflects an exhaustive and complicated father-daughter relationship.
taking a stroll down Princes Street
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9 December, 2009 at 2.57 pm
But I felt compelled to post something, and all I’ve got is what I wrote for my spoken test. Haha. Cheap.
我在一个非常热闹的城市生长。香港的面积不大，可是人很多，人口有7百万人左右。所以，走在路上，象人们特别多。车也很多，马路都常常非常忙。香港也有特别多不同的公共运输，比如上学的时候，我每天坐渡船，公共汽车和电车，一共用一个多小时。 要选大学的时候，我决定要去一个城市上大学。因为我在一个十分热闹的城市长大，我觉得如果我去一个比较安静的地方，我会太想家。那么，因为伦敦是英国最大的城市，特别热闹的，我先想去伦敦大学念仪式。可是，住在伦敦非常贵，所以我决定去爱丁堡上大学。 爱丁堡是英国的第二最大的城市，所以我以为一定会象伦敦和香港一样热闹。人们也都跟我说爱丁堡是很大，也很美丽，我一定不会觉得安静。 我新的朋友也都从比较小的城镇来得，所以他们都觉得爱丁堡很热闹。可是，虽然爱丁堡面积很大，人口很小，大概只有一百万人。走在路上的时候，人很少，车也很少。上课的时候，我只要走路，一共只会用十五分钟左右。 但是，虽然我觉得爱丁堡很安静，我非常喜欢在这儿住。商店多，也能参观很多不同的名胜古迹，博物馆，等等。爱丁堡也有很多公园，春天时是特别美丽的。
15 November, 2009 at 12.00 pm
Is it just me or does Edinburgh seem to be getting better gigs this year? Or at least, is Edinburgh getting more gigs that I want to see? Or maybe I’m just more active in finding out about who’s coming to Edinburgh? I don’t know!
Anyways, still the biggest disappointment of my life time is missing Bon Iver playing at the Queen’s Hall during Fresher’s Week last year because I was too scared to ask anyone to go with me.
THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE: my awkwardness and shyness. It renders me practically useless at times.
The worse thing [...]
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