In the past 36 hours I’ve slept for a grand total of 90 minutes. “Why?” might you ask. I’ll give a brief rundown of the past 24 hours to explain:
After a normal night of Friday night antics, I returned with the other guys to the hall around 3:30 in the morning. Now, at Tufts, most people are asleep by 3 to 4 am regardless of the circumstances. At HKU, however, we returned to a lively hall ready for a bit of CounterStrike action (a multiplayer computer game, where we’re all on our own PCs, connected over the local network). What I expected to be a few rounds of CS turned into a marathon. By the time our hall had gotten tired of playing it was 7 AM! At this point, with daylight already present, most of the hall went to sleep. However, Jesse and I decided that since it was already daybreak, we should avoid sleeping at such unusual hours and simply stay up. Joined by Pat, who had just finished a phone interview with a i-banking firm, we headed out to get some Dim-sum. It was an amazing meal, incredibly cheap, and we were completely dependent on locals to help us get food because we are utterly unable to understand the dim-sum procedure (at least at this particular place, theoretically dim-sum consists of snagging dishes off of roaming carts). We then went to a video-game arcade, where the best game was a Japanese drumming game. Anyways, I let myself sleep from 1:30 to 3, but I did not want to fall into a deep sleep. My roommate, Jacky, for example, only slept a few hours in the morning, but then slept from 5-10 PM. I cannot imagine what that would do to my sleep cycle. Oh, Hong Kong, the city that sleeps even less than NY, by a long shot.
You played CS on your dinky little IBM?
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