Dear Kenneth,

Presume lately you have been extremely busy for the start of Legco as well as starting to get a bit tangled up with teaching, hope things are well for you. Although we have agreed to meet up when I have finished the reading to make the conversation focused, perhaps sometimes later would be better. 

Though for that you might not be able to reply due to your urgency in other businesses, I would still like to take some time to tell you some progress of my honours project, as you may be my second reader, if you are willing to, and some other matters.

Have already roughly finished most of the readings required, I am now regretting have chosen the topic of tactical voting. The empirical evidence is weak, as shown in the occasional paper being done. However, perhaps the paper is not reflecting an adequate understanding of tactical voting, due to the largely rational-voted based theory when looking onto the matter. 

That for example we won't be able to identify some DAB and FTU voters because they are doing tactical voting from the viewpoint of results, however the highly rational-choice based theory does not seem to be applying to them. They don't seem to be particularly highly-educated, more election concerned than the others, well-informed of the situation than others.

That being said, which means we might have to divide vote allocation into parties - voters perspectives separately, still it is difficult because the proof we are trying to construct is not solely voter-based, but to join the dots between electoral results together with interviews from Councillors and piecemeal journals from newspapers. It does not seem too optimistic that the results can be convincing for the fragments it would contain.

In addition I tried to look at some ways to explain it in electoral/party law (Remembered on class you mentioned the importance of studying the constitution, for example, in EU, but due to lack of understanding in it and well as resources our department has yet to include a course in this area), things in here don't seem to be progressing and I am trying to give up that thought. Moments I spent in front of the computer and my mind was completely blank.

The other thing that concerned me was that I made an improper joke to a law professor, that when talking about exam he said all the questions will only be from materials distributed, I said "Is that contractible?" 

I don't know why, but I always feel an urge to exhibit myself, and then at some moments after feeling a bit depressed. That thought persisted when I was in primary school (Guess it's to do with the bullying I got there), WYK, and even now in HKBU. That I think shall have something to do with not at peace with myself, perhaps pressure and failure brought by public exams, inability to trust, looking at myself too lowly that I have to inflate myself a bit more highly. 

Noticed that it would interfere with my life and studies, these three years here I have consistently combated it. Some success was achieved, but it's still not a habit of mine, and therefore when not conscious, sometimes it still happens, I would make borderline statements or actions. It's like, madness, but then if I am really jerky, why would I feel depressed after behaving like that? 

Don't really believe that we can know god, what he says, what he's like, what does he want us to do, because of men's limits, but then I do believe that the whole Universe has a creator, and I have always secretly hoped that he'd help me with that. May the force be with you too. 

Your student