Hamilton is such a tiny place that you can always meet someone you know when you are on the streets. I met Simon and his gal friend Catherine when I was going out a super market named K-Mart. He's from Shanghai as well, we were classmates in Planet English(my English language School), and now he's studying in a polytechnic school. We said hello to each other and all that crap, I say "all that crap" here, you know, all those conventional greetings you're supposed to make when you meet someone you know, or even you dont know. That's what we call social communication skill. I wanted to buy myself a nice plate, I'm very picky about tableware, nice ones comforts me, and spoil my appetite. You could imagine what a wonderful thing you appreciate your gorgeous plates, bowls, when you have meals. Besides, they make up my low quality meals...or even I prefer eating plates rather than those food.

I remember this guy all of a sudden, Andy, who was my classmate when I was in Planet English as well. Andy comes from Korea, typical sunshine boy, strong shape, wearing a glasses, simple and honest, but not like other phoneys. I like him very much, and he's the only person here that I feel I could say anything to him without reservations, without thinking about those word decorations to please him. I have those constantly friends in Shanghai, all five of them, but only one here. You always need one or two friends like that wherever you are, at least I do. He's the only person that I feel like to smoke, and drink beer with. Normally, I dont smoke or drink too much, but I need to express in those ways in front of my good friends, and Andy is the one. We shared everything each other, my past, his past, and he even talked to me how he made love with a kiwi gal he met in a church one day. We didn't talk too much dirty stuff actually, but we did discuss things in that way sometimes, that was practicing English langs. We both enjoy watching movies, so we often invited one to the other one's house to watch videos rent from vido shops, or playing basketball, being the volunteers in the hospital. We're not standard good boys, but neither are we completely bad boys. After we graduated from Planet English, he went back to Korea to continue his uni study. We lost contact since then, and I never meet someone like him or my other five friends after that. All those around me are phoneys. Sealing off myself again.

I didn't buy anything after all, expect a stupid ruler(don't they have any better one?), that's what I owe my flatmate, I borrowed one from him, but I broke it, just like the umbrella borrowed from my landlord, and I broke it. It seems that I should not borrow anything from anyone.