Ante-China Era

Hello:

Very (very) soon I'll be flying off overseas to visit my relatives for the first time in three years! Back then, I didn't even have FB. This time is different though: I'll be flying solo for the first time, which should be an interesting experience (not sure about my Dad's prep talk on 'procedure for the handling of unknown objects in personal luggage', which deals with stuff that normally Ms Kwan makes in school labs). It'll also be the first time I go in Winter (although Guangdong is relatively mild I hear), and the first time I'll visit during Chinese New Year

I'll be flying to Hong Kong on Feb 1 to meetup with relatives from Guangdong, and actually going into the mainland the next day. On the way back, I'll be taking an overnight flight due to arrive here on Feb 23, just in time for O-Week funtimes.

The only issue with China is that basically every (social) site is blocked: FB, Twitter, Blogger (I think), and apparently even things like Google Search and Gmail don't work o.O Basically, if you want to contact me you should ideally do that via Skype (which might be blocked), email or MSN: If you don't have any of those just ask on FB or something.

Also, I'll apparently be getting an iPhone 5 in HK, and it'll be white: apparently this is the 'cool' colour to own now, and in HK the price is around 100 AUD less than it costs here: the only issue is if it screws up majorly for any reason, in which case I'll probably have to get it serviced in HK...

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I found a pretty cool video allegedly about the Chinese language by a guy named Russell Peters, which I found pretty hilarious, although it's NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8hV-zjJ_4. Seems to actually know something about Chinese (or the sounds at least).

The other day an ex-Baulko uni friend linked me this:
http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/attachments/Summer-Vacation-Scholarship-Projects.pdf
It's a list of projects presumably for uni students (I'm not sure what level), and one of them is titled Research into Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles: it's pretty awesome that uni students can actually get to do work on something this interesting and relevant.

On the previous post:
For the quesiton about favourite physical feature, I should probably be less weird and say hands now that they're actually pretty ok looking and for doing stuff (besides piano), although I remember this one time when Jun decided to stare at my calves and then at George the tall's calves lol

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Not much else to say, besides that I watched Django today, and it was pretty awesome although particularly gory (that's what I get for forgetting about Tarantino's other works). Les Mis is also pretty cool, even though it's ~95% singing (which is a remarkable feat)

Finally got Office 2010 installed after a few hurdles, and it seems like we can use the license the DER gave us on multiple computers, how generous of them

I haven't started packing and I'm still feeling pretty lazy and sleeping at crazy hours (5am two days ago): even with China being 3 hours behind I'm going to have screwed up sleeping over there

If this is my last post before China, see you guys at O-week / Blog/karaoke outing (please don't make me miss this/JM's singing)

NTS: Formulate more meaningful/relevant content in 中国