last post in hong kong

47 days of study and tour (well, mainly tour...) has come to an end.

hee...about 14 hours later, i'll be in the comfort of my home. so looking forward to going home and seeing everyone now...

last night, peiqi asked me if i would miss this place...

hmm...a little, i guess...i'll miss cuhk as the cuhk campus is so beautiful...but i probably won't miss hong kong that much...6 weeks here and i'm already quite sick of the place...the sales people are rude, people walking on the streets seem to be blind and they don't say sorry when they bump into you (and mind you, the bumps are painful!!), the bus drivers are impatient (and i heard are operated by the underground triads), the food here is expensive and really nothing much to rave about (except for a few delicacies) etc etc...

i think the only thing i'll miss is the shopping here...fabulous shopping...and all thanks to it, i'm having a hard time lugging everything back to singapore. i can't seem to pack everything in nicely and both my bags are so heavy, i think they'll exceed the weight limit. and jetstar only gives us 20kg each!! haiz...i really hope they won't exceed the limit...even if they does, exceed by a little only hor!!

that's all...cya back in singapore!!

new hair-do!!

jo, qihui, xiaohui and i went to highlight and cut our hair at a salon in mongkok...

and this is what jo and i looked like after the highlights...
do we look pretty?

everyone said mine is the best done among the four of us and that my highlights are good but my hair is so red now!! i wanted reddish brown, not red...but the hairstylist increased the dosage of my dye and it turned out red!! not at all like the sample i saw...i hope it wears off a bit, else it's really so flashy...but the hair cut is good...i really like the style of my hair now...

and jo did this colour and cut that makes me call her lion king whenever her hair is messy =P

great experience...

exams over

finally both the TCM and environmental science exams are over...officially end of the summer school term...

happy that no more long boring lectures to sit through, no more days of agonizing over notes and more notes...

but,

unhappy because, i didn't do very well for both papers...mainly because i forgot a lot of stuff and i tend to overlook small details which i didn't think they'll test us on...so i ended up guessing for most of the questions (all mcq), which is not goood!! sianz...i hope i'll scrape through both papers with a pass...please don't let me fail any...

please...
please...
please...

some photos

well...haven't been blogging regularly lately...i have a final exam on thursday so now studying hard for it...already didn't do very well for my TCM module, don't feel like doing bad for this, especially when it's a science module...

pun choi during one of the school tours...isn't it big? we were all stunned and amazed when it came and practically everyone went 'wow'...and there are all sorts of food stuff inside... group photo with the big big bowl of pun choi...do you see how big it is?
and we went to the hang heng wife cake factory in yuen long to see the making process of the wife cakes...
had to wear masks in the factory to prevent contamination...can tell where i am? hee...and they were selling fresh wife cakes straight from the oven...haiz...can't buy then because it was still 2 weeks before my flight back home...but the hang heng wife cake is delicious!!had a farewell dinner last friday because some of the courses ended last thursday...buffet dinner at metropolis hotel...

see the guy in the middle? he's from my environmental science class...he's from USA, 31 years old and he works in antarctica!!my TCM class on a visit to a local TCM hospital...and that's my lecturer...
me at the famous tsing ma bridge...we walked a long way up to the viewing platform to see the whole view of the bridge...so amazed by the infrastructure of the bridge...do you know that it's hollow in between? there are roads underneath for cars to go in times of high winds or bad weather and the MTR runs through just underneath the bridge!! clever design...saves space and conveniently links lantau island to tsing yi...
qihui, felicia and i went for a pretty traditional dim sum breakfast at this 'liang xing lou' in central...it's really packed and we had to wait for quite some time before we found seats...hmm the food is only so-so but at least, we got a feel of the traditional yum cha instead of the restaurant form that we always go to...and i learnt a new skill of drinking tea from the uncles and aunties with whom we were sharing the table...
the golden cup at the golden bauhinia square...we walked a long way to see it...nothing fascinating though...it's just a cup that was made in memory of the return to china in 1997... alright, that's all for today...gotta get back to my notes now...

anyway, i don't have to move hall now...i went to OAL the other day and complained about it and insisted on not moving hall...i mean, there's really no difference in me moving in with someone i don't know or someone i don't know moving in with me...so, end of issue, i hope. =P

damn pissed off...

sorry for the vulgar title...

but i'm soooooooo angry with OAL today.

haven't been blogging for quite some time, because i'm busy studying for my TCM exam which happens to be tomorrow morning. but i simply have to complain...

this girl from OAL stuck this note on my door today, asking me to move to room 305 (directly above me) by tomorrow!! reason? increasing number of exchange students in CUHK and lack of hostel rooms.

wth...

first, it's super late notice...and i'm having exam tomorrow.

second, i paid for the hostel room, the least they can do is to make sure i'm secured a room until at least the end of the summer term or until 9th aug which they promised.

third, i have only like 12 more days before i leave for singapore and they expect me to pack all the mess i have now and move to another room for 10 days?

go to hell...

I AM NOT GOING TO MOVE.

i'll create havoc at OAL if it's the last thing i have to do, but I AM NOT GOING TO MOVE.

full stop.

REAL seafood dinner at sai kung!!

after being conned for a couple of times by the school, we decided to go for some REAL seafood dinner on our own...

so off we went to sai kung, where the seafood is famous and supposedly a lot of celebrities go there...we were amazed by the large numbers of seafood restaurants we saw once we got off the bus. basically, the whole street is full of seafood and people trying to jio customers to go to their restaurants...and the view there is pretty...lots of boats and ships against the backdrop of mountains and sea...there is a lot street called 海鲜街 which houses all the seafood restaurants and it stretches long and far...and finally, we decided on this restaurant which we know andy lau has went to before...and when we stepped in, we found out that many other celebrities has been there too. look at our feast!! abalone, lobster, fish, prawns, crabs etc...all fresh from the sea. and the whole feast only costs 174 HKD each (there were 7 of us)...this is what i call a real seafood dinner, not like the seafood dinners which only serve fish and prawns that the school brought us to...and we saw several big big lobsters outside the shop and we simply had to take a photo with them...haha

wwong tai sin temple and CUHK's energy saving project

the most famous temple in hong kong...wong tai sin temple...we went on the 17th of the lunar month and it was still pretty crowded. hmm...we didn't find anything extraordinary about the temple...the architecture was normal and it looks like any normal temple. i guess what's special about the temple is that many people says the deity here is very 'ling'... i drew a lot here and got an uncle to help me 'jie qian'...it was amazing, there were 2 stories full of small shops, each shop have an auntie or uncle to help you jie qian, read your palm, tell your fortune and all these stuff...it got us so confused too...

today's environmental science lesson was pretty interesting...halfway through the lesson, the lecturer took us out to lady shaw building and united college to see the solar panels and solar powered lights and hot water heaters.

this lamp is a very clever invention...it's solar powered and it lights us when there is no light shining on the solar cells at the top.

now, there's no light,
now, there is!! hahaha...and this fountain is powered by a solar panel at the back (refer to the photo below)...
and these are the hot water heaters...there are 11 sets altogether and they cost a total of 200000HKD, which i think is quite reasonable. there is little maintainence required and it does not cause any pollution...
a zoomed up photo of one of the solar powered heaters...each heater can hold up to 160L of water and the water can be heated up to 90 degrees...amazing isn't it? and the panel is so cleverly designed, with all the vacuums, metals, reflectors, angles etc...
my environmental science class...