Harry Potter and the Lost Train

This is a magical place indeed.

1. Ms. Anna has a meeting the next day so we decided to take a late night train home. She checked twice on the UK National Rail website, there is a train from London Euston to Coventry is 22:50.

2. It was 22:30. We rushed our way out of International Hall and RAN to London Euston. Very quickly Ms. Anna purchased her tickets through the ticket machine. It was 22:47. I rushed to see which platform our train is on. There is no sign of any train to Coventry.

3. We probably missed the train. We approached the information counter to ask when is the next train.

4. Guy from the information counter said, "No more train. The last train was gone at nine something." "What? But the website says there is a train at eleven something!"

5. Guy from the information counter said, as a matter-of-factly, "It's wrong." "What's wrong? The website?" "Yea. It's wrong. This is England. You have to check and double check." As if anything would change if I checked it three times?

6. "Then can I get a refund? If there's no train how come the machine would sell me a ticket that's valid only for today?" "You come here tomorrow morning and get a refund at platform 10. They are closed now."

7. Truly honoured to experience this great moment. Is there anything to trust on this land? Not even the website? Had no choice but to stay overnight at our friend's place.

8. Next morning we arrived at Platform 10 for the refund. Lady, "Why didn't you come here for a refund yesterday?" "The guy upstairs said you're closed by then." "What guy?" "Information counter." "What time?" "Around 22:50, probably?" "We are not closed at that time. Why didn't you come here for a refund?" "The guy told us you were closed!" "No we cannot give you a refund for a ticket of yesterday."

Well well.

Results are out!

Well, to no one's surprise really, I gained ONE distinction in:

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

which basically tells me nothing but the fact that I will be a good number crunching monkey all my life.

Ah anyway. Passed everything. I'm happy =)

Black Swan

This movie is scary shit.

小師妹衝入我房間時，我抱著Duffy神情恍惚。

想起都毛管棟！

And yea, I streamed it online :)

Was a pretty lousy day

Wanted to wake up early so I could go to Tesco to buy a knee support for my injured knee. Ended up waking up at 11:20 but I had to take off at 12 for a game in Birmingham at 12. Just wanted to grab some cereal for breakfast but my milk went bad before the expiry date so I had to throw the lot into the bin. Had to beg my still-sleeping friend for bananas but apparently wasn't enough to support a 90-minute game without substitutes. And OH the bloody muddy pitch! It slanted so we actually had to run uphill in a football game (unheard of isn't it?!) and the pitch was so muddy it looked like farmland just harvested yesterday. Felt like running in a swamp. And I sprained both ankles in the first half so apparently there's no reason for limping but honestly I couldn't really run. Turns out my right ankle is worse than my left and my right knee is feeling worse. Now finally, I think I should stay off sports for at least a week.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Ironman

在門前，肚腩又吃了狠狠一記波餅。

教練 Pete 就不只一次說過，"Carmen is made of iron!"

撞我不散，踢我不暈，責我不死，起來，再跑。除了球證雞聲，找不到停下來的理由。

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小時候是愛哭鬼。

不記得由哪個時候開始，變了。不怕痛了。不哭了。

至少哭了都不會讓人看到。

＊

“如果你仲頂得住，go for it."

鋼鐵，可能就是這樣煉成的。

Run till my battery goes flat

So I fucked up my internship app
I'm totally unproductive
I'm staring at deadlines and not wanting to do anything
And even the microwave lasagne is lousy.

So I put on my tracksuit and run. Heronbank, Rootes, Cryfield, Heronbank, and again. And again.

And I just don't find any reason to stop.

我是牛 我是牛

Mid-Jan recap

"Where have you been? All over the world?"

Hell yea, I have! And it's not gonna stop, I guarantee you that. Next stop: in search of the Northern Lights!

"Tengo hambie! Tengo MUCHO hambie!"

No idea what happened but I feel I like can swallow one dinosaur per day.

"Why did you choose corporate finance? You know the stuff! And it's on Friday morning! Ah but you will skip anyway."
Yes. My syndicate groupmate knows me well.

"Please answer me correctly: have you done anything about POM over the holidays?" "No." "Thank you, that is the correct answer."
Now the holiday is over, full steam, guys!

"You should keep a tally of the number of times you get crunched against the number of times you crunch people."
Well sad to say, the number of times I get crunched far outnumbers crunching people. In the last game I crunched somebody else's head with my own head (so in effect I'm crunching myself at the same time) and now I'm itching to break somebody's leg in the next to get even with that tally.

"You are probably the only player I've seen get hit in the stomach EACH week."
Glad I am not pregnant. Full stop.

"But you told me you were tired? You were running like a maniac!"
Well the good thing is, I think my fitness has improved to the point where I can survive running like a maniac in a full 90 minute game free from cramps. But I don't just wanna run. I was supposed to be there to KILL!

"Whose leg did I kill? Oh it's yours! You have another leg anyway. You'll be fine."
How can I NOT love my teammates?

"點解Duffy 個size會同 Mickey一樣呢？“ ”Because it's meant to be a MARY for Mickey while he's on his voyage."
Typical impure idea proposed by my dear SI MUI.

Indeed, I became so much happier when I know you're happy.