Some dialogue between a man and a woman.

w: How are you now? Teacher, right?
i: Where did you get that news from?
w: Haha ‘cause I am smart to guess?
i: Can’t say it's not. So you in your final year?
w: I wish. Not yet. Junior year.
i: You have a lifetime to work, why hurry.
w: ‘Cause I am getting sick of school. Don’t know why.
I used to love school a lot, but gradually after my sophomore year and last summer, I just wanna graduate and work asap.
i: I think I understand. I planned to do postgraduate but when it came to my last semester I was just sick of studying any longer.
w: I don’t know, after my experience with HSBC last summer, I realized I am really getting sick of school.
It's like I suddenly lose the interest in acquiring more knowledge.
i: Yea too much knowledge, somehow.
w: Ya but with that sort of mentality, my academic results get affected as well. Like last quarter I just "duc guo cher guo" for my classes and spent most of the time doing intern applications.
i: As long as you think it's worthwhile.
w: Don’t know. And u know, I always miss Hong Kong, so it makes more sense for me to get out of school asap.
i: I thought your nostalgia would be declining.
w: Well it WAS. But it got stronger after last summer.
i: Something happened?
w: What do you mean?
i: It's like last summer is THE cutting line.
w: Hmmmm. Ya kind of.
i: Yea, so?
w: Haha but it's over.
i: Exactly why it's on the table.
w: Hmmm.............
i: Alright I'm just asking.
w: Sorry. Haven't been sleeping for the whole day.
i: Been applying for intern again?
w: Yes. And also I just got back to the States from my Christmas break.
i: You come back every summer and Christmas?
w: Pretty much. But didn't come back last Christmas.
i: So, have things around/about you changed a lot or no?
w: Hmmmm, where should I start from?
i: The easiest one to tell.
w: Well the easiest one to tell is to say nothing happened, isn't it? Haha.
i: Ok, then I bet it ends our conversation.
w: Okok, not like that...
i: So? Story?
w: Thinking. Hmmm, You want story about my academic life, or relationship or what?
i: The more interesting one.
w: That will depends on what you think is more interesting.
i: The latter one apparently.
w: I knew it.
w: Well it's kind of sad, though I dun mind sharing. See how I can start. So I guess you know I dated a girl during summer, but then we broke up after I got back to the states for around 1.5 months.
i: I know nothing about that.
w: Now you know.
i: Yup.
w: Ya. So hmmm, the girl I knew her since I was 7 or 10 I forgot.
i: Wow.
w: But didn't really talk to her much when I was kid and eventually lost contact until she found me on facebook like 2008 fall. So ya we started when I got back to HK for summer but broke up once like 4 weeks be4 I was about to leave Hong Kong, then got back together and broke up again after around 1.5 months I was back to the States.
i: I see.
w: So ya.
i: So you're lovesick, not homesick.
w: ..............Well I didn't even see her during Christmas.
i: So you're not the one who initiated the breakup.
w: I was. For both the first and second time.
i: Why?
w: ‘Cause I thought she was not putting much effort or not really care about me and being cool and so on. You know those kind of stuff. But now when I look back, I don’t know.
i: What about you? You expected a fling or you serious?
w: I was damn serious. Tooo serious in fact. If I was not being serious, I will never long-distance with her.
i: It can be another way round...
w: The another way round? Like she treated me as a fling? I highly doubt about that.
i: No, I mean some people do enjoy having more casual relationships when they come back home during holidays. Easy to begin, and easy to put an end to.
w: Er....mine was tough to end although I was the one who initiated the breakup.
i: Sorry to hear.
w: It's ok. I've been through it I guess.
i: You regret?
w: Well what should I say. I think I made the right decision to break up at that moment if I am being rational. But ya sometimes I still think of her. And like before Christmas I actually thought of getting her back, but I think it's not very likely to work out given that I only have 3 weeks in Hong Kong, plus I am quite sure that we will break up again once I leave Hong Kong after Christmas. So I decided better not to meet her.
i: But if you're still not sure if she's serious or not then how do you possibly conclude your decision was right.
w: My decision was right. ‘Cause with the relationship continues it will only hinder our normal life I guess. PLUS ya back in those days I was always complaining to her that she is not putting enough effort to maintain the relationship and I saw not much improvement, so I decided to end it.
i: I see.
w: But I dun think I can blame everything on her. She thinks there's a huge gap between us, and the gap is only getting wider.
i: Gap of physical distance?
w: Not just that, but like our social background, education and mentality as well. Oh forgot to mention that she was younger than I am. She is now a freshman at uni.
i: Well, it has to happen.
w: Anyways it's over now I guess. Haha although recently she wrote something on her xanga and I am confused.
i: Like?
w: Ai let me show you. (blahblahblah)
i: ...
w: I guess I should just stop reading her stuff which I did so before. I am just bored suddenly.
i: Why would she suddenly bring this up in her xanga?
w: She was writing her end of year review shit.
i: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
w: .......What’s so funny?
i: It’s hilarious.
w: Why?
i: Nothing, just kind of... comic.
w: ...Okay.
i: The humorous side of your sad story.
w: What? Where's the humorous side?
i: Well at least she summed it up positively.
w: Fine.
i: I'm not sure if you prefer not being mentioned at all in her end of year review shit. Then you'd still be cursing her
w: No I won’t.
i: Haha.
w: I never curse her. It's just I don’t know.
i: Yes you just curse her review crap.
w: Er... I didn't man.
i: Obviously you're still not over while you think you are.
w: I know.
i: Speechless.
w: My relationships are always short. Longest was the previous one.
i: So you had many relationships.
w: .....
i: Haha.
w: Honestly, I want a stable one man. I am sick of flings.
i: Then honestly you have to be here to be stable.
w: ........
i: Or have something stable over there.
w: Well my dearest you know what, even if I graduate and come back to Hong Kong to work, I doubt if I am gonna have a stable one. ‘Cause if I become an i-banker or working in the finance industry I dun think I have the time to date a girl seriously.
i: Well I guess it's too generalized.
w: What?
i: Friends of mine working in these fields can date normally.
w: I-banking is hard to say. No time to date.
i: Well, bread and love, pick one.
w: No bread no love though. You need $$$ to hit on a girl by the end of the day.
i: Yes, you need $ to put ads on newspapers to ask for a date by the end of the day.
w: Wtf.
i: =P
w: HAHAHAHA.
i: I mean it.
w: ........
i: I did read it. "Rich man, single, back from the States, want a stable marriage."
w: HAHAHA. Hey u interested in that?
i: I am not interested, but it's interesting to read!
w: Come on, I dun think I have to do that. Dai lo, even if I dun hit on gals, there will be girls hitting on me I am sure.
i: Alright then stick to your i-banking-breadwinning-girl-hitting-on-you future, girl magnet!
w: ................. Don’t say that. In fact I am worried that I won’t be able to find a job. It’s really competitive.
i: Things will get better in 2010.
w: I hope so. My 2009 was kinda screw. It was not during summer. I had a great time during summer but bad luck come up after that.
i: When will you be graduating?
w: 2011. A big sigh.
i: Don’t sigh, you got a lifetime to work like a cow.
w: Haha you should know that I am always working like a cow.
i: I am going for a shower.
w: We should catch up more next time. Miss talking to some intellectual people like you.
i: Well you have plenty of intellectuals around.
w: Oh true, but none of my friends do literature.
i: So talking to people who do literature about your love life is something different?
w: .........OK you are inching me. Fine.
i: No no no I haven’t. I am always agreeable.
w: O really? I bet now you must be always inching people around. Is that how you teach your students?
i: Yes that's how I teach my students because they just love me inching them.
w: Oh really. You know I am taking a class that requires me to study Chinese literature in English. Wut jor gay.
i: Why the hell are you taking this class then… Hey I have to shower!
w: Hahaha okok I will let you shower.