Confessions of a Cat-holic (146)

If not for Harvard's rival, I felt that Ed could be nothing. I felt like their only purpose in life was trying to compete with Harvard. And he liked to treat me like a village woman from rural China who had no friends in real life. For this reason alone, I hated Ed from the bottom of my heart with utmost anger and despise. But I would not show it on my face, just to create that fantasy online like when I saw that perfect looking couple, Jason and Iris. Did Ed and I look like Jason and Iris to you? If so, I had succeeded in implanting an inception into your subconsciousness. For this reason alone, I could endure all sorts of anguish moments.

As soon as school started, I finally saw Jason in person, and somehow all the pieces were back together and I could see the big picture all of a sudden. Oh, that Jason I saw on Iris's xanga now went to the same school as me and he was just a year above me.

That year in 2003, when Jason was a sophomore and me a freshman, Iris had already moved on. Actually, talking of whom, I vaguely remembered her presence when I was walking up the school from Kennedy Road to its entrance during a lunch break at SPCC in my final year there. She was visiting her alma mater after studying abroad, and she was escorted by Eugene that day. Eugene told everybody that he was going after Iris at the time, not surprisingly. Edwin at the time was going out with a medical school student, Jennifer Shum, who later married Jonathan Fang's brother from the Anson Chan's family. Jonathan Fang was Ed's friend from Wah Yan, but I had no good feelings at all towards the Fang family, which produced a bunch of doctors and politicians including Nicole Fong, a student at Columbia who was a year younger.

By the time college started for me, Iris was already dating the son of Ho Hou Hua, the Chief Executive of Macau at the time. Charmaine Ho, the daughter of Ho Hou Hua and the owner and founder of MeChar, was Sharon's friend when they both went to NYU.

Jason lived in the same suite with Jeff, Bosco and Natalie on East Campus in their sophomore year. Natalie was a short haired girl also from Tafts and Bosco and Jeff both went to Wahyan with Jason from way before. They had quite a party there. Natalie asked me to make a Tiramisu cake for Jason's birthday that year. I didn't wash my hands that day, I remembered quite clearly. I didn't like how Natalie kept talking shit behind my back. She had been going around saying that I was Japanese, reaffirming all the gossips she heard from Sharon. But Sharon was the source of all misinformation about me. I never told her anything true about myself since the age of 6. Who said life in Wanchai was easy breezy?

The first week of school for my freshman year was orientation week. There was a college fair on the college walk where all the student led activities showcased their events and specialties. I saw Jason, Bosco and Jeff, all three of them at the booth for Sounds of China. I had always wanted to be a DJ since I didn't know when. I was invited to record an ad for the Hong Kong story telling competition organized by RTHK when I won a competition at the Hong Kong Boys and Girls Association in grade 3. As I said, I loved story telling, debating, talking and bullshitting a lot always. So naturally, I liked the broadcasting industry and I was pleasantly surprised that there was a student run club targeting Chinese speaking students on campus. It was linked and associated to the radio channel WKCR which was on air 24 hours in the New York City area, including the 5 boroughs.

There at the welcoming lunch for Sounds of China at Dim Sum Go Go in Chinatown, I met my later roommate for life, Kelly Wang. I was very glad to find her presence. I also found out that Ian Wen and Steven Leung from SPCC also enrolled at Sounds of China. At the time, the club which every one wanted to get in was CSC, aka the Chinese Student Club. But I had no interests. It was where all the cool kids enrolled, but I didn't think I was all that.