Byebye June and Adam

Dec 17, 2008 was the day of my BA graduation, I can't say I was very excited as I didn't really have much feelings going toward my graduation. It was a day that I will remember for the rest of my life as it was a day full of mixed emotions, I should be happy about graduating which I'm sort of am, at the same time it marks the day that I will have to say goodbye to two best friends of mine that are not chinese, so you guys are VERY SPECIAL hahaha. I told myself that day no matter what, I will be out with you two to party for the last time, last time as in where we are students and don't carry much responsibilities at the moment, as I'm sure the 3 of us will be partying together later in the future just maybe in a different location, so that night was the last time we'll all gather in Luzern and drink and party.

You two have become very important people in my life eventhough we had only met for five and a half months or so, you two are people I consider as family, as we were very close and after seeing you two since that night, it felt like it has been forever that I haven't seen you guys. I still remember the first time the 3 of us went out for dinner was the day we got a dissertation proposals back eating at a Italian restaurant where for the first time in my life I had to eat a pizza that is not sliced for me and required me to use a knife and fork. After that meal we went to Roadhouse to drink, and the rest of our party times were history~

In the morning of Dec 18th when I just got home from Opera with you two, I was thinking back all the memories we had together and it seemed like it was yesterday. In fact I was thinking damn I want more of those memories as I did start to regret not to partying with you two much more than I did. I just couldn't sleep well that night, as even now every time I think of you two I just feel like crying, yes I don't mind admitting on my blog that I cried and yes you June Kyung and Adam Alexander Chamberlain is really that special to me.

June June June, the very sweet lovely girl that is my owner and rightfully so that I'm your ONLY TEDDY BEAR~~ As I saw you cry in Opera and how when we spoke briefly when you were at the airport, I didn't bear to tell you the words that were in my heart as I didn't want to see more tears come down from your eyes. The past five and a half months you had been there for me through my ups and downs, and I don't know how to thank you more for it to be honest! Couldn't remember the exact details of how we become very good friends (sorry!!!) but as far as I remember as soon as I became your teddy bear, our friendship just blossomed. You are the first girl in my life that I don't love (romantically) that I cried for, yes I do love you (family and friendship as you are both) so don't worry...I guess that really tells me how special you really are to me and now is the only chance I have to express it to you as hopefully when you are reading this Kevin will be beside you to give you a shoulder to cry on if you have to cry. Another thing I regret now is actually not being able to go on the trips with you guys at the end of the semester, trust me I don't usually regret anything as I'm always clear on my decisions that I live my life with no regrets, our friendship is really that strong to the point where I actually regret things that the 3 of us could have done together but didn't. You are a great friend and owner of mine that most of the memories of us having fun are still strong in my heart that will stay for a long time to come. Lastly, although I know you are a very intelligent girl that will have a wonderful career where ever you may choose to be located, but you do concern me the most between Adam and you since you are going to Australia and don't know how long it will take for you to find a job, but worst comes to worst you still have Kevin hahaha...he can support you or maybe teddy can help play a part in that hahaha~ but anyhow I wish all the best to you and I will be hoping that you can get settled in Australia as soon as possible. YOU MUST STAY IN CONTACT WITH ME as I will also live up to my promise that if I'm working in Hong Kong my first vacation will be to visit you~ Take care owner, teddy will behave and hopefully one day will find his way so he can go home to his owner!

Adam Alexander Chamberlain, my good fellow intelligent best friend that is an Englishman that thinks being English is the best thing in the world hahaha. You've been a brother to me for my time here at Swiss and certainly helped made it more enjoyable for me. You the same as June that had been with me through my ups and downs and our friendship seems to grow stronger every passing day. I would really like to congratulate you once more on writing the best dissertation as that was a goal of mine, but seeing a brother win it I'm much more happier than me winning it myself, and you knew I had a good chance if I didn't spend that much time at the pool table hahaha. Knowing what you went through from the proposal to final draft no details will be included here, I'm really really proud of you and you deserve that award greatly. I just love those times that we joke around and then move our topics into serious matters and having someone being able to listen to me when I need to get stuff off my mind is so extremely important and I truly thank you for it. When were worked our butts off on the CubanCool project, although its not the best mark I ever received but its the project I enjoyed the most working in of the numerous projects I worked in. We worked really hard to execute it and it was truly a pleasure of mine to be able to work alongside you for this tough hard crazy project. At the end of the day, there isn't another member in the group that I would want to work with other than you! Marks are one thing, but we accomplished the concept and theme of our idea where everyone enjoyed themselves and that is what really should matter!!! I hope you can decide where you'll be starting your career soon as it does concern me as well, but you are smart and believe I hate to say it but yes you are and shouldn't have to worry about not being able to find a job anywhere you go, best of luck to you brother!!! YOU MUST ALSO STAY IN TOUCH WITH ME and don't forget that I'm the bestman for your wedding!!! Take care and I'll miss ya bro~

To all my friends that I had made in IMI, I'm sorry I couldn't really dedicate an entire post to you guys, but every single one of you are like family to me and I will remember my time here in Swiss for as long as I live. Take care and best of luck to all of you!!! For those of you that are on my facebook but don't have me on MSN please add me at philiplau_7@hotmail.com so we can all stay in touch with each other.

The much anticipated BIG POST~

Well okay I lied, I dunno how much anticipated this post is, maybe most of u had forgotten about this blog already...hahaha...Anyhow let's do a little updating, if I didn't recall wrong, my last post was about sports day that we had in school. Damn that was like almost a month and a half ago, here's the results, #1 in bball which was pretty much expected, suddenly joined a soccer team that morning n god knows which place we got, I think it was 3rd or smthg, when I was playing it was quite hilarious as I only like to watch soccer and dun really know how to play it, but whenever I run into places yelling for the ball it gets the defenders to be weary of me and starts guarding me real tight...I made myself look like a real threat to them...GREAT ACTING...I get a chuckle every so often when I think about it. The most surprising and my most satisfied achievement was actually coming in 2nd place in pool, I guess those times on the table after dinner and whenever I had time to practice really paid off. My road to the finals wasn't easy, to get in the semi finals I had to beat the guy that is regarded as the best in the school, then to get in the finals I had to beat a good friend of mine that I came to Swiss with (there's a little story to this one), and lastly lost to a fellow Torontoian that I met when I got here which is also a good friend of mine. Finals was best out of 3 frames and unfortunately I lost 2 straight, I played horrible and couldn't concentrate on the game as the friggin dude was cracking jokes dancing around being a complete disturbance, but really no excuse for under-performing as he was the better player that night! Regarding the little story that I mentioned above, I dunno if its wise to go public on this one, but on my final shot of that game, I dedicated that shot to someone in the crowd, it wasn't pre-planned or anything as it was just at that moment thing and it wasn't a dedication to a random person, but don't ask who~ After that shot I was like, f**k if I didn't make that shot I would look real stupid, and adding extra pressure on yourself before u take a shot to enter the finals is not really a wise idea, but heck I made it, that fan was happy, the people watching later giving me positive comments regarding what I did told me it was all worth it and I would do it again if the opportunity presents itself. Enough sports day, lets move on more recent times.

Had a mid-semester break last week, my bro Gil came from Toronto to visit and traveled with me and other people to Italy for 6 days, and damn that place is nice! I think nice is an understatement but u get the idea as I dun want ppl think I'm exaggerating~ Places I went to, Rome, Florence, Pisa, and Venice. Why no Milan? well if we stuck that into our itinerary then the whole trip will probably be a disastrous one as it was already constant travel already. Rome is a city that I think one can easily spend 5 days there as there are museums, historic monuments, and churches that you can see. Florence didn't spend much time there other than sleeping at nite. Pisa is one hell of a town/city, laying on the grass beside The Leaning Tower of Pisa is just so relaxing that I dun think I ever felt so relaxed in my life. Pisa is also a place that u could probably spend 2 days there as there is quite a bit of shopping available there. Venice, here's the romantic side of me coming out to give a suggestion that u must and I mean must take on, I dun care if u're a guy or a girl reading this rite now, GO WITH YOUR BF/GF!!!! A very romantic place that I think literally any human being will love! Here's a tip, if u plan to go to Italy with ur bf/gf, save a little more money before u go and book a hotel room that has a balcony view...spectacular and romantic view that I really can't use words to describe...but GO WITH UR BF/GF only...DUN GO IN A GROUP...u'll thank me for the tip when u get there! Italy is also a very expensive place to go, so budget wisely! Going to Italy deepened my love for espressos, that small little coffee is just so great tasting that I crave for it quite often!!!

Wat's going on inside Sir PL's mind? well I downloaded 側田 new CD and one of the songs is amazing that I can keep on repeating and repeating.

是太想念您 超過了預期
張開手保護您 遊歷世界
讓您驚喜
由這一分鐘 我一生 就只有您
明日縱使不堪 阻不到我用心愛您
讓我終於都明瞭 明白您比生死重要
連話語 也沒法盛載得起
I’ll spend my life here beside you in every way
For I have nothing left to be here on this Earth today
讓我終於不動搖 這改變因您
如若您欠信我的力氣

我唱這首歌為您

我都想有個人比我唱比佢聽。。。佢係邊個? 唔知呀!!!
首歌叫三十日﹐ 側田新碟!


I've been going through quite a depressed week, I felt that I haven't really been all that happy since I got here in Swiss. Yeah sure the scenery and all that stuff is great, and living alone is something I'm really enjoying, but there's something missing in my life. That missing something is something that I dunno if it will come or not and to be honest I dun wanna think about it. I always knew my priorities and I dun think there will be anything that is going to change it cuz that's just the way I am. I have my short term and long term plans, close friends know it, I honestly think the plan is quite concrete and a good path to follow. Reason I'm talking about this stuff is what makes an original plan change? Referring back to the lyrics above, what if you feel that there is somebody that is valuable enough for u to change ur plans to match it with what they hope for? Giving urself completely and being devoted to that person is love? I'm not saying I'm in a relationship or I have that special someone, but wat if u met one that u feel u can voluntarily change ur plans for, do u keep fighting for that someone even if they're unavailable? Celine Dion's old old song "That's the way it is" has a few lines in there that is really encouraging,

When you want it the most there's no easy way out
When you're ready to go and your heart's left in doubt
Don't give up on your faith
Love comes to those who believe it
And that's the way it is

Alrighty, enough with the love stuff....but its just something to think about if u're bored and got nothing else to do. I've said it time and time again, I dun want this blog to be just an update of my life as a matter of fact I dun want it to be an update of my life, I want it to be deep thoughts and something that people can think about after they read it.


Here's a pic of me in the Colosseum


Sir PL checks out~
PEACE~

BUSY BUSY BUSY

For the next coming couple weeks, I’ll be busy as hell, so I don’t think I’ll be able to make another blog entry for a while. The truth the matter is, this school has weird scheduling issue, and you can be really free for a bit and then out of the blue extremely busy. The reason I making a post entry now although I’m quite busy at the moment is I miss you all in Toronto. I mean to my IMI buddies reading this blog, don’t be mistaken, I’ve made good friends here and all but there’s just something missing or something. Well let me get back on topic, I’m busy because I have many projects that are due in the next couple of weeks and a competition proposal due on Monday Aug. 11, 2008. If our group wins the competition we might be able to get a free trip all paid for by the school to Scotland. We’re talking about a free trip here, so it is a must win situation for my group and myself. If you enter a competition just for the fun of it, that’s practice! You compete to win, and that is the spirit that I believe in terms of competition. I’ve learned quite a lot about taking care of myself since I arrived here in Swiss, I don’t take naps as much as I used to anymore, and better yet I certainly believe I’m not as lazy anymore as I would periodically clean up my room.

Let’s see what has been going on lately??? The biggest objective that I had set out before I came was to lose weight, and from what I can see and from how my pants are getting loose, I think I’m doing a fine job. Some more workouts and maybe a month later I think I’m in shape to start posting pictures of me~ hahaha. I’ve also picked up some of my old snooker skills back by practicing quite a lot lately but too bad I have to utilize the skills on a pool table. The purpose is that there is a Sports Day event in school on the 23^rd of this month where I’ll participate in basketball and pool. I want to win the pool competition, even though there are some people in the school that are really good especially the defending champion, but who knows maybe with a little bit of luck and me being in my top form I might pull something crazy and win it. Basketball I’m not too concerned about winning the competition as we did assemble what we call the “IMI DREAM TEAM” (name is temporary) where we have a true center, a true power forward, a guy capable of playing both a 2 or a 3 but I prefer he plays the 2, and lastly a guy that can shoot! My job is POINT GUARD~ hahahaha, I’m the 3^rd tallest on the team but my position is the point guard, well I’m only there for defence anyways where I will try to smother the opposition’s point guard. Believe it or not, my tough defence is still there and I didn’t lose a step. Here and there I’ll be tossing up alley-oops and try to get a little fancy just to wow the people watching from the side. I don’t know how to put the description of the team in words but if you’ve seen us play you’ll understand why I’m not concerned and anything other than 1^st place for us is a failure. You guys all know that Philip Lau doesn’t fail~

Life is full of setbacks! No matter how competent you are, you’re bound to hit a low somewhere. I think I just hit that low point, but to be honest, its a little depressing, but not to the point of where its making me very sad. I do think about it from time to time, but I think I’m also doing a good job controlling it. What’s wrong with me lately you may ask? Nothing really in particular as I still believe my pair of hands can allow me to achieve what I want, just a matter of how hard I’m willing to try. Some people may disagree with my antics and thinking, but I just want to do what I feel like. In the end, if I choose to step onto a rocky path then so be it. I know you guys all care about me and wish nothing but the best for me and I appreciate it, I’m just going to continue doing things that I feel is right and what I should do. Thanks to all that had talks with me this past week when I needed it. Don’t worry about me as there’s a saying “Every road leads to Rome”, just a matter of if the road I’m taking might be longer and not as smooth, but I’m sure it will lead me to Rome one day. I’ll leave u guys something to think about and please comment or say something in the chillspot regarding your answer, is there really something that is unreachable if you have a strong will to achieve it?

Unexpected...

Hey y'all, I know I haven't been blogging much lately and I apologize for it. School is really starting to roll where I'm sensing I'll be busy soon...I do have new plans on my mind now, its been a little altered from what I was planning before I got here. I'm seriously considering the fact that I will not do my in-training/internship/co-op whatever u choose to call it in Switzerland. Once I get my CV (Curriculum Vitae) in place which is what they call resume here in Europe, I will start sending it to hotels in England and probably Scotland. Reason for this is quite simple, I don't want to get jipped by the school and make less money during the training period where I can make more finding a job on my own. Take Switzerland for example, if the school finds me a job I get paid about $2000 CHF, almost one to one Canadian, however, if I found one here on my own I will get paid $3000 - $4000 CHF, for u smart ones reading this u do the math. What if I don't get a job u may ask? well then I'll just fly my ass back to Toronto! So please do pray that I'll find a job! There's nothing wrong with Switzerland, just needing to learn French or German in 6 months that I will be able to communicate effectively seems a little hard~

Came across a friend's MSN Statement or comment or however u call it, it says 'what am I doing here in Swiss?' Funny that I actually answered my friend's question but it also got me thinking. Now, I'm thinking to myself the same question cuz I do feel kinda bummed out for the past few days over smthg. I'm not home sick, and I honestly don't think it will affect me....give it another couple weeks and we'll talk about this topic again. My reason for coming was very simple, get my degree and hopefully some experience and then start my career. As much as that will always been on my mind and I'm focused about it, something unexpected came up. Something that I totally unexpected happened. I can't really share with all u guys here on the internet since I like keeping my own little privacy, but yeah some of u guys may know wat it is already, if u dun pop me a MSN msg and we'll talk. Its god damn difficult trying to type this without leaking anything out to the public~ haha. Don't worry for the ones that care about me, skool n career is still my #1 focus and that will not change, but that thing that is f-ing with my mind is really f-ing with my mind that I get a feeling of failure. I always tell myself stealing Michael Jordan's quote is 'I don't think about failure, if I do that means I'm prepared to fail.' I'm a true believer of that, but with the way its f-ing up my mind I can't help but to think that I might actually not achieve something I set out to. I got high goals high ambitions, and I believe if there's a will there will be a way, but someone please show me the way! Nothing academic related so no worries people! I guess I should just leave it at that and not go on.

由於我知道最小有一個讀者會睇我個Blog以又比較喜歡睇中文。。。以下尼一段特登寫比你。。。可能會有錯字﹐不過一個去左加拿大十九年既人寫到中文算係"甘"上下架啦。愈認識你耐﹐我發現左其實你唔笨。。。 你欠缺些小自信﹐可能因為語言問題啦﹐不過我知你一定可以成功! 堅強D話比自己聽你係可以做得到架!!! 個過程會係辛苦D﹐不過我一定會盡我所能去幫你! 我最小最小都一定會幫你進步英文﹐你可能識得我日子短﹐不過我講過既好小我會做唔到!!! 我唔係係又幫唔係又幫個種人﹐ 但係我決定幫你既就點都會撐到底。 無論如可點都好﹐阿Lip係會支持你﹐鼓勵你!!! 繼續撈力!!!

For those that don't have facebook but want to see the city center/downtown that is close to where I live, please follow the link below!

http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm44/phil126/Luzern%20City/

Take care y'all
Sir Philip Lau being kinda stressed n shit to think about is signing out!
Next update hopefully will be in a few days!
Peace~

SPL

Sorry for a short post~

Sorry guys, this is not one of those in-depth posts I'm going to make here. Its 12:40am my time and I have an 8:00am class meaning I get up at around 6:45am so I don't have much time to post anything good here and don't ask me why I'm not asleep yet as I dunno! Anyhow, I went out to the town center during the weekend both day and night (hehehehe!) and I took a load of pics, however due to my farewell party pics I couldn't really put another slideshow in (cuz its time consuming) so forgive me as I only posted in on my facebook. Those that don't have facebook but want to see the pics msg me and I'll figure out a way for u to look at those magnificent pics.

I do apologize for the temporary inconvenience but I will try to get a slideshow up or something of that nature~

I have a feeling its going to get busy soon, well busy as in lots of ways busy not just education wise, "if ya noe me well enuff, u should noe wat I mean!" A simple "good luck" posted on the chill spot will be very much appreciated.

Sorry for lack of pics...
Love you all~
Sir Philip Lau (ah lip) signs off~

First Post in Swiss

Finally taken the time to write a post, should have done it last night, but I was just chilling around so left it for today and post. I'm quite sure not very many people have actually seen me have tears in my eyes, but I must confess and I'm extremely honest right now I cried at the airport cuz I miss mom. Forget the crying issue now, on that damn 8 hour direct flight of mine, the plane couldn't show any movie at all, their system was messed for the entire flight. You all should know better, I wouldn't be dumb enough and just sit on the plane for 8 hours doing nothing, I took out my laptop and started watching first The Forbidden Kingdom and then some old TVB Drama, so I was very well covered in terms of entertainment wise. Back to the more exciting stuff, Switzerland is a very very nice place that's the very first comment getting off the plane. That nice feeling changed rather quickly when I got to the school and where I live for the next 6 months. Yeah its nice but its not so nice when you have to stay in a hot place that is very humid with no air conditioning, and then flies trying make me their meal...ARGH~ I counted when I woke up this morning 4 mosquito bites, 4 friggin bites, as much as I don't want to swear on a blog post, oh F**K, the next 6 months, I don't wanna think about it~ I should be organizing my room, but I'm kinda lazy to do so...but above are pictures of my nice room that I quite like to be honest~


ONE MORE THING: CAN SOMEONE PLEASE START WRITING SOMETHING ON THE CHILL SPOT (A BOX FOR YOU TO INSTANTLY ADD COMMENTS) CUZ ITS REALLY GETTING TO THE POINT THAT I'M TALKING TO MYSELF...

Last Weekend in TO (For a Year)

I wanna thank all those that showed up on Friday night as well as those that had called me or messaged me. I also have to apologize to the people that I didn't get to see before I leave really I tried my best to find you all but these last few days had been quite busy for me, but dun worry you'll see me in August of 09 I think? To be honest, I feel lucky, grateful, proud, and extremely happy that I have a great bunch of friends here in Toronto. Trust me to those of you reading this post right now, you guys really made it difficult to leave, I know I'll be back, but damn not being able to chill with all of you for one year is going to be tough. I'm quite happy to leave Toronto because its such a boring place, but the people here that I know are just simply amazing and irreplaceable. I'm figuring out how to put a slideshow on my blog so that every picture I took on Friday night will be shown, I don't want to just pick out a few and post it as I feel its not fair to leave some people out. Damn all of you are amazing friends and I'll miss you guys! Stay cool and keep having fun for a year, when I come back we'll party again! A new idea just popped up from my head, how about I book a room at Focus for sometime in July or August so we can party again as my "Welcome Back Party"? lol...


Seriously, I miss all of you, and this post is getting really similar to the one below...hahaha!!!