I am wondering why I kept on working on history exercises and especially in topics that my colleague is more familiar, well, much more familiar with.

The good lately is that the weather cooled down enough that I don't have to turn on the A/C at night for the past two nights. During the hot and wet night, I usually turn on the A/C just before I go to sleep and if I could wake up, I would turn it off after an hour or so. I actually find A/C to be a bit too cold but if it's not cold enough then, the room wouldn't stay cool throughout the night. I don't like to turn on the A/C really because it consumes a lot of energy, it gets freaking cold and that I have to wake up in the middle of the night to turn it off. In the mean time, my body has to adjust to all this temperature changes and I just can't sleep too well when in the back of my head I am trying to remember to wake up to turn off the A/C in the middle of the night.

So a cool-down in temperature is very welcomed. I hope it last. It's probably related to the typhoon that just passed by Xiamen, which is about a 9 hours drive from Hong Kong. I had my window open with the fan circulating the air and the temperature was just right. The air wasn't damp, surprisingly dry actually. What's more, I wasn't bothered by mosquitos. I had no mosquito bites for the past two nights. I hope this is the end of hot and wet summer.

As I got to know myself better, I actually do think my mom did made some effort in getting me into things. Like when I was in Australia, my mom asked if I wanted to join a soccer club. That was probably a good suggestion that I ignored because, heck, what did I know when I was 9. Then after middle school, my mom checked into this public school for the arts and even sending me to a private school and those would probably be beneficial to me but my English teacher then suggested otherwise. I think my mom was right. Mrs. Trombotne didn't know me well enough, she categorized or in worst sense, stereotyped me. A smaller school and classes would have helped me, and the arts school probably would helped me to develop my artistic skills better .

Sometimes I wonder, who the heck wrote this stupid curriculum. The textbook is boring as hell and rather tedious and repetitive. A lot of it is not even history but more towards government, international organizations, international studies and environmental studies. The government part of the PRC is the worst. Without underlying infomation and insights, nobody can really understand how the PRC government works. It's structure on paper is only for sake of writing something on paper about it.