Tell us something about you that most people don't know about.
Ans: I am not a rock.
What was the hardest thing that you ever had to go through?
Ans: The hardest thing that I have ever gone through is the loss of a loved one. When I was young and still living in Hong Kong, my birth place, I was getting ready to go for my very first day of school. I was really nervous and anxious at first when i first arrived in school and couldn't wait to gather my things and go home. I was sitting alone at the play area assembling puzzles and enjoying myself , until another girl that was the same age as me with short black hair and the prettiest bluish green eyes i have ever seen, she was a mix of German and Cantonese, came over and sat by me and started playing with the building blocks that were lying right next to my puzzle pieces. She saw that I was having trouble looking for one of my puzzle pieces and offered to help, and that was the time i made my very first friend in school! We were together all through kindergarten until the end of my first year at primary school, but then at the beginning of second grade, I had to move to Shanghai due to my father's work. So, I said my good byes to my very first friend thinking that this wasn't going to be the last time I'll see her, there are plenty of opportunities to meet in the future, but when she heard of the news she ran off and I didn't see her after that until the day that the family and I were ready to go to the airport for Shanghai. My mother received a phone call from her mother, my mom passed the phone to me saying that she had something important to tell me. I took the phone in my hand and I heard her mom choking back on her tears, my friend was gone... She was caught in a car accident and wasn't able to make it. She thought that I should know since I was her friend and knew her the longest... I didn't know what to reply, I was young and had no idea what I was suppose to do, she eventually hung up and I passed the phone back to my mom and asked what it was about, and I didn't reply. I didn't cry, and I didn't tell anybody about that phone call until only recently, 16 years later. I regret that the last moment with her happened the way it did and even now, sometimes I look to the sky and wonder what she might be doing...
What's the worst advice you've ever taken?
Ans: I don’t really know if this counts but when I first transferred to shanghai, a friend of my mother's gave me a couple of pin-pointers to make my life in Shanghai ‘easier’. Now when I think about it, I’m certain she was teasing. She told me when I’m crossing the street in shanghai, when you finally find the right timing to cross the street even if it isn’t a green light, keep walking, don’t even look if there is a car coming towards you because once the driver sees that you have acknowledged his existence, he will take that as an okay to keep going at his current speed without slowing down. So she told me to keep walking, don’t even look at the cars rocketing towards me as I’m crossing the street….. I was 5 years old, what do I know. Well now that I’ve grown up, I understand that there is a certain level of truth in these words but kids who are reading this... Trust me…. It is NOT a good idea, although it does work some times, Shanghai is just too unpredictable.
Share a quote with us that you believe in/shares your ideologies of life.
Ans: Live in the moment, live in the present, don't pass on any chances because some things are once in a life time.
*Jasmine was originally a layout editor of the surFace team, as prior to the blog we intended to do a paper magazine. After switching to a web version, Jasmine was no longer a member of the team, but still contributed by coming up with the name of the project and other aspects.
Ans: I am not a rock.
What was the hardest thing that you ever had to go through?
Ans: The hardest thing that I have ever gone through is the loss of a loved one. When I was young and still living in Hong Kong, my birth place, I was getting ready to go for my very first day of school. I was really nervous and anxious at first when i first arrived in school and couldn't wait to gather my things and go home. I was sitting alone at the play area assembling puzzles and enjoying myself , until another girl that was the same age as me with short black hair and the prettiest bluish green eyes i have ever seen, she was a mix of German and Cantonese, came over and sat by me and started playing with the building blocks that were lying right next to my puzzle pieces. She saw that I was having trouble looking for one of my puzzle pieces and offered to help, and that was the time i made my very first friend in school! We were together all through kindergarten until the end of my first year at primary school, but then at the beginning of second grade, I had to move to Shanghai due to my father's work. So, I said my good byes to my very first friend thinking that this wasn't going to be the last time I'll see her, there are plenty of opportunities to meet in the future, but when she heard of the news she ran off and I didn't see her after that until the day that the family and I were ready to go to the airport for Shanghai. My mother received a phone call from her mother, my mom passed the phone to me saying that she had something important to tell me. I took the phone in my hand and I heard her mom choking back on her tears, my friend was gone... She was caught in a car accident and wasn't able to make it. She thought that I should know since I was her friend and knew her the longest... I didn't know what to reply, I was young and had no idea what I was suppose to do, she eventually hung up and I passed the phone back to my mom and asked what it was about, and I didn't reply. I didn't cry, and I didn't tell anybody about that phone call until only recently, 16 years later. I regret that the last moment with her happened the way it did and even now, sometimes I look to the sky and wonder what she might be doing...
What's the worst advice you've ever taken?
Ans: I don’t really know if this counts but when I first transferred to shanghai, a friend of my mother's gave me a couple of pin-pointers to make my life in Shanghai ‘easier’. Now when I think about it, I’m certain she was teasing. She told me when I’m crossing the street in shanghai, when you finally find the right timing to cross the street even if it isn’t a green light, keep walking, don’t even look if there is a car coming towards you because once the driver sees that you have acknowledged his existence, he will take that as an okay to keep going at his current speed without slowing down. So she told me to keep walking, don’t even look at the cars rocketing towards me as I’m crossing the street….. I was 5 years old, what do I know. Well now that I’ve grown up, I understand that there is a certain level of truth in these words but kids who are reading this... Trust me…. It is NOT a good idea, although it does work some times, Shanghai is just too unpredictable.
Share a quote with us that you believe in/shares your ideologies of life.
Ans: Live in the moment, live in the present, don't pass on any chances because some things are once in a life time.
*Jasmine was originally a layout editor of the surFace team, as prior to the blog we intended to do a paper magazine. After switching to a web version, Jasmine was no longer a member of the team, but still contributed by coming up with the name of the project and other aspects.