'Tis Me, the Embodiment of Teenage Angst

I'm different. I have different habits, different hobbies, different interests. Unlike your average Hong Kong teenager, I don't go to karaoke bars; I don't use xanga.com as my blogging platform; I don't wear trendy clothes... I'm different.

And, somehow, I take …

It's over*

It's over*

The mocks, I mean. Preparing for the first series of major examinations in my 16 years of life is no mean feat. The results are not in yet, but I'm guessing average. I did put in a lot of hard work in some nights, but I could've started my preparation a …

origi... no more

That's right, "origino" is history. From now on, I'll go back to "Jonathan".

Underwhelmed? Don't be. Yes, I'll use my real boring name when hanging out on VIRB, but all graphics, flash animation et cetera will be branded under a new name. I was bored and I …

Uncanny

Compare:

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/

This is just a joke. Obviously.

I'm not so self-centred and arrogant to think that Hicksdesign ripped off my "design". Especially when Hicksdesign is the "creative partnership" which created the famous Firefox …

Foiled

A while ago, some of you kind people talked about sending out Christmas gifts to everyone through mail. See, this is pretty uncommon here. Not the gift part but the mail part, which probably makes sense, HK being such a tiny city. I know my parents and, as much as I …

P for Perfect

I just uploaded a few new photos... the new camera has made me a little self-obsessed!

http://virb.com/origino/photos

I've had Picasa installed on my computer for more than a year but haven't used it a lot. For those of you who don't know, Picasa is a software …

Birthday Mirth

My birthday's on 18/11, and it's going to be a rather dull one this year. Still got tons of studying to do :(

However, there is something special that I want to tell you all about! The polling day of this year's District Council Election happens to be on the 18th! …

Batman: Hong Kong

New Batman movie completes high profile shooting in Hong Kong

I'm not a Batman fan (though I've watched the last one), but when I knew that they're gonna do some filming of The Dark Knight here, deep (deep) down, I feel proud.

At first, everyone was like "Huh? …

Dear Client

Dear Client,

A few days ago, you asked me to make you a header, and simply have fun doing it. I accepted your request gladly and this is my first try:

Not too impressive, eh? I never sent it to you. This is my second attempt:

I was very pleased with …

First day of school (imaginative blog titles 101)

edit: I just typed out a pretty long paragraph. It got pretty dense and messy at the end so I decided to delete the whole thing.

The gist:

29/8: Sprained my ankle

30/8: Went to a BBQ party

31/8: Ended up with a swollen leg and a nasty cold

1/9: Revised …

Thoughts on OotP

When I first read the fifth book, I honestly didn't like it. But that was just because I was too young to get the political aspect of it and all that stuff about Harry growing up. These are the things that make the book so great and while not all of them is in the …

School stuff +Virb stuff

I got my English lit. paper back today... while the score was still low, it ain't bad when compared to the rest of the class, which was surprising. But then of course there were the ones that did abnormally well... but hey, that's their own, uh, problem :P

Looks …

I'm "back"!

Exam's finally over, phew!

...not much to talk about, except for the fact that I totally flunked English literature, as always :(

I don't get it. I studied hard (when I was not on Virb), really! And the most important thing is, I have the interest! How come I …

Oh, oh, I know! I knnow!

Have you ever walked past somebody and overheard him/her talking about stuff that you're really familiar with or crazy about? Wouldn't you have an indescribable urge to scream out everything you know about that subject?

No?

Well, I would.

When I was walking …

It's tough being Chinese (take two)

China has, what, 5000 years of history?!

We first split it into 2 parts and learn 1 part each year. Now this year, we went all the way back to the beginning and studied every single dynasty in ONE SINGLE YEAR. And the Chinese history exam today lasted for 2 …

Flunk, flunk, flunk. Sauté, sauté, sauté.

Today was the first day of my "pre-"exam. We did the first of the many, many Chinese papers and I thought I'd tell you about a fun Chinese expression:

I sautéed the test/quiz/exam = I flunked the test/quiz/exam

Simple as that! And no, I most definitely did NOT …

Don't pick your nose in public --- Google might catch ya

Go to http://maps.google.com and you'll notice a new button called "Street View". Click it and prepared to be amazed!

I'm gonna spend minutes, if not hours, playing with this awesome, awesome tool.

Now if you'd excuse me, I have some more street-viewing to do …

New pictures on Picasa Web Albums

I just re-downloaded Picasa, organized all my photos and uploaded lots of great pictures to my Picasa Web Albums. Some of them are on VIRB, but there's an album that you guys haven't seen before: Buddha. The pictures were taken by my dad and I think they're brilliant. …

Cloud: The Game

I just "finished" playing an incredible game called "Cloud". You're this guy that can fly freely in the sky, and it's your job to collect more and more clouds by placing the white clouds (which you can control) close to them. You can then draw paintings, put out fires …

Exam > VIRB (blasphemy!)

My home Internet connection is having some serious problems for unkown reasons. Virb is so slow and unstable that it's like using dial-up!

But even though the horrendous load times force me to virb less, it's actually a good thing. I'll be taking the exam next …