My first sunrise in HK! How interesting.... hehe ....

 

So maybe it's due to the relieve after I'm done with all my midterms or maybe it's because the stupid grades that depressed me to much, my roomate and I talked through a short and sleepless night. It's weird how we didn't stay up late to study FOR the midterms but rather chatted all the way through the night after I'm finally done with my midterm. Because I didn't get back to dorm until 2 o'clock in the morning, my poor roomate was so worried that she actually called me to ask whether I was ok!  So nice of her!...:) Love my roomate for being so caring all the time...couldn't ask for a better one.

Since both of us are unsatisied with our midterm results so far, we started to complain to each other and then without any of our realization, time quitely slipped by and by the time we knew it, it was already past 5 in the morning. As it's nearly morning already, we decided that we'd actually get up and go watch the legendary sunrise up on the 9th floor this morning -- staying up all night (or what they call "dirving the night bus") is apparently very common during exam time and so watching sunrise is popular as well.

 

Though the sunrise here is not as colorful and brilliant as that that I saw in Maine, it stil gave me some inspirations. (and so here I am writing in my space). The weather today was not very good for far-away-sighting. We could barely see out of the harbor and the sky was all gray when the sun hasn't come out yet. We were waiting quite sometimes before we actually saw the source of the brightness, despite the fact that we actually looked up the time of sunrise beforehand and the sky was already starting to light up when we went up. So we were getting wuite bored as we were waiting and enjoying the scene of looking at the parts of the school that's more of the ocean level and also the stillness of the school that's quite distinct from how we've always seen it during the daytime. Then there it was. The star of the show -- the souce of light and also hope when used figuratively. At first it was quite hard to make out the sun as it was faded behind the clouds. Then as it rose steadily, we say it, the magenta color of the perfect circle, peeking out of the cloud to show its red glow. Both of us were dazzled by the brilliance of the color shown. For a second, it felt like there's was only itself worthing the attending of everything. It felt like the sun was spreading not ony the light but also a feeling of relaxatoin.

 

We didn't wait til the run climb very high before we went down to our room again. Though it was not very long that we stood there, taking in all that the sun has to give, it's enough to drive hopelessness out of me for right now. And as despaire relinquishes, hopefuly, cheerfulness will fill me again. 

 

A new sunrise, a new day, and a whole new beginning....