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While I did briefly consider blogging when I was in Hong Kong, I eventually found that there just wasn’t enough time. Most of the days I went out shortly after getting up, and was too tired to do much after I got back home. I’ll try to roughly summarize what I’ve been doing.

	Tue Dec 16th Flying to HK	Wed Dec 17th Relaxing at home, family dinner	Thu Dec 18th Disneyland	Fri Dec 19th Seeing some Glasgow friends, shopping in Mong Kok, going to the toilet	Sat Dec 20th Playing at the beach	Sun Dec 21th Visiting relatives, pon choi family dinner
Mon Dec 22nd Karaoke, Korean BBQ	Tue Dec 23rd Met Stella and Julie, saw Twilight	Wed Dec 24th Putting together some furniture for our new house	Thu Dec 25th Met Maggie and Jonas and Ken, then went home for Christmas BBQ party	Fri Dec 26th Met some Norway family friends in Po Lam	Sat Dec 27th Ate sushi with Jimmy and Ivy, went to the Peak with them and William	Sun Dec 28th Mega Showcase convention, electronics and food! Dinner with mother’s old classmate.
Mon Dec 29th Meeting with Ivy one last time before she leaves HK	Tue Dec 30th The Peak again, this time with my family and some cousins	Wed Dec 31th Met Mandy, watched Ip Man with family and Glasgow friends, saw the countdown back home on TV	Thu Jan 1st Went to some garden and temple, ate vegetarian food, also family dinner party in the evening	Fri Jan 2nd Some shopping in Sheung Shui, also cake!	Sat Jan 3rd Shopping on Mong Kok, cake and hotpot at aunt Cheng’s home	Sun Jan 4th Church, shopping and eating in Sheung Shui
Mon Jan 5th Golden Computer Arcade, packing luggage	Tue Jan 6th IKEA, more cakes, last family dinner in Hong Kong	Wed Jan 7th Bye bye Hong Kong…

I kind of feel like I didn’t get to shop as much as I wanted to. But meeting friends and family is fun of course! And also I should bring a bigger trunk next time if I really intend to shop so much…

Oh, there are a bit more photos on Facebook: part 1, part 2, part 3

I’m finally done with the exams! I’ve been in Oslo the last two days, but me and the family is going to Hong Kong tomorrow!

I’m looking forward to eating and shopping! Actually, I believe this is almost the first time I’ll actually care about shopping, since most of the times before I didn’t really like shopping much. I was almost only interested in the eating part. And playing too, of course. But this year, I’ve actually made a small shopping list:

• Nintendo DS + games to self
• Mawaru Wario Ware to self
• Steam tray/kettle to self
• Bo bang tong/candy for Jennifer Li
• Spicy beef jerky/octopus for Anna
• Something for Wendy
• Snoopy for Jenny Lam
• Curry to self
• Waterholder for ricecooker to self
• Small gifts for cousins?
• Kirby to self!
• Anime towel for self/others?
• Anime t-shirts/clothes for self/other?
• Anime posters for self?
• Books for self? (Terry Pratchett)

According to Katherine (Stockholm), her shopping list is too long to even mention, but she has all of it in her head. Haven’t asked the others who’re going (I think it was Louise, Ricky and Kayin, and maybe Sarah…?) Anyway, I think mine is not that long, especially since all the last entries are just things I randomly added just to make the list longer. I probably won’t even buy those things, unless I find a really good deal.

Anyway, for those who didn’t get my e-mail, I’ve made a Christmas card here! Go and see! And if I get internet connection in Hong Kong, I may update this site, but probably not, so, merry Christmas to you all!

Thus, exams are upon us again. In a bit under a week I’ll be having my first exam, and roughly two weeks after that, I’ll be in Hong Kong! Hum, instead of thinking too much about what I’m going to do in Hong Kong, I guess I should maybe start reading for the exams…

Well, I have actually done a little bit today, since my group at school decided to go to school to study a bit. We solved a few Logic problems from older exams, and then played a bit Carcassonne, which we’ve been playing almost the whole semester, whenever we want a break from doing schoolwork. We even keep tab of the scores, which has been surprisingly even when totalled. After we got the first expansion I’ve been on the last place though… I guess I need to play more aggressively.

Wait, I was talking about exams right? Well, I’ll be having four exams this semester:

• Dec 6th: Natural Language Interfaces
• Dec 8th: Logic
• Dec 13th: Management of Very Large Data Volumes
• Dec 15th: Software Quality and Process Improvement

While Logic and Management of VL Date Volumes are at least somewhat oriented towards problemsolving, I’m a bit more worried about Natural Language Interfaces and SQ and PI, which is a bit more theory oriented. So, I do hope I’ll manage to concentrate on reading for those exams.

Well enough about that! So far the things I’ve been thinking about doing in Hong Kong is:

• Eating a lot
• Take pictures a lot
• Buy Nintendo DS and games!
• Buy candy (mostly for gifts to other people)

I’m sure the list will be longer, but I guess I should concentrate at least slightly on exams for now… So, I’ll just leave this post at this.