the link is going to disappear

If you care to read, the blog entries about the UK trip is now finalized. I thought I would add a lot more, but things seem not very interesting by now, so this is only a slight update.

And, for those who insist to go through my CS homepage to here (yes I know someone is wasting an extra click every day): you better bookmark this page now, as the link on CS homepage to here would gradually fade out and eventually completely disappear. It is a randomized link with a certain probability of appearing, and this probability will be decreasing...

越黎越渣

A professor and his three students A, B, C (in descending order of age) are having lunch to be paid by B, supposingly to "celebrate" B finding a job. Somehow the conversation includes something like:

C: 我比B 教過的
B: 我都比A 教過的
Prof: 而家D 學生越黎越渣
A,B,C: ...

where am I going?

So... what do all these mean? Will I be teaching in a second Iraq?

no title

So, it's done. After a week's struggle - you probably don't understand. A move for someone who never left HK any longer than 2 weeks. A decision that certainly affects my career, possibly whether I can chase girls, and perhaps where I will live in the rest of my life. I don't know why I do it, I don't know whether it is good to do it. But anyway, it's done. The first one to leave HK for permanent academic jobs while remaining single in the theory group, as far as I know. An embarassing dishonour.

You know what this story tells you, right?

成功乞食

恭喜霍會長成功乞得唔之咩項目主辨權... 真係令我無面見人...

King's Cross St. Pancras

Exactly one month ago, at the same morning rush hour, I was in this station on my way to Leicester... and it is the location having the largest number of people killed in this attack. (Is that a warning that I should not go? ...)

Last year I was in Paris and two months after I left, the roof of a terminal of Charles de Gaulle airport collapsed... For people's lives, perhaps I should not go to anywhere else...

芝加哥之死

吳漢魂，中國人，卅二歲，文學博士，一九六零年六月一日芝加哥大學畢業──

白先勇，《芝加哥之死》

點算？

點解？點解？你叫我而家點算？我唔想走呀！我真係唔想走......！夠了，唔好恭喜我......
:(
有冇人可以俾的鼓勵我唔走嘅意見/理由...唔該...

新的特首

So we finally have our 新的特首. And could all those people on TV stop keep on saying the word 的 when talking about this 新的特首 ? Yeah I know they interpret the law again to say this is a 新的特首 , not 新任特首 ... but can't you just skip the 的 ? Isn't 新特首 fine? Or 新嘅特首 is also fine, right?