Wed 17/1/07- My first day of School
No pictures from today yet, cos my whole time was spent in school since 9am. Pretty interesting stuff happened today though. The 6 of us happily went for our first Basic Cantonese lesson we enrolled for, only to find that that course was catered specially for non-mandarin speaking students, and so we were kinda over-qualified!! Haha. I was honestly quite bored in class, although it was really amusing listening to each other and the others from Canada, Spain pronouncing some really weird canto words. Hmmm. So i'm actually considering switching to Basic Japanese, cos i guess i'll be more interested, and afterall i just need to Pass! haha. Then, I went for my first finance class, pretty much like back in NTU. I'll be off for dinner later with Amelia and the guys, meeting up with the other Singaporeans who're in HK Baptist Uni.
I realised that I didn't manage to upload lots of pictures from last week in my first post... so here's some more of the really nice ones I picked out :)
From Saturday, when we went on the City Tour...
Group of NTU students + one from Uni. of Tasmania... Look at the number of guys and girls! Honestly, last week, it was testosterone overload for me and ame. haha. Seriously. just check out the dynamics of the group...
Ame and I at the Peak. Beautiful viewing gallery they have there :)
It was a beautiful day!
This one's taken at Stanley Market, along the coastline, with really pretty scenery. The weather was great on saturday, sun, breeze and clear skies! Just fantastic!
Ame and I along the holland-V lookalike streets at the Stanley Market. We're dressed Hongkie-style already yeah? Haha. Got boots last week during out first shopping trip. They were about Sing$22 i think, quite worth it huh! Everyone wears boots here cos the weather's quite cold and the girls here just love dressing up!
The tour brought us to the Avenue of the Stars, which is along the river between Kowloon Island and Hongkong Island. The night view of Hongkong island was really beautiful, the lights and the breeze. The laser display show was fantastic, laser beams shooting out from different buildings to the music... Really romantic! haha. A must-go for all coming to Hongkong!
Now, why I say Hongkong is the land of glorious food...
Traditional Hongkong dessert at a local dessert shop. They have little cafes like that all over Mongkok, Causeway Bay... Really affordable desserts and they're mostly open till midnight or so! Haha,. No wonder some hongkongers say singapore doesnt have a night life. When we went for dessert around 11pm, it was still bustling with people!
Extremely HUGE wantons we had for dinner on our first night:) YUMMY ok. All thanks to Ame who has been to hk 5 times and her great recommendation!
Girls Night Out 16/1/07
Ok, as I was saying, we were kinda suffering from boy-overload last week (no offence anyone, haha!), so a great break came yesterday!! We went out with 4 other girls we met at exchange talks... It was a wonderful, fun, girl-bonding time just walking along the shops at Tsim Tsar Tsui, eating yummy food and SHOPPING like crazy!! haha. I'm one happy girl. Hongkong has FANTASTIC shopping i tell you! Prices are reasonable, and there's just so much variety- from jackets, coats, sweaters, pants, dresses, shoes, bags etc... You can get just about anything here! I bought a really cute dress, black pants(for like S$15!!) and a top, and some oriental gifts for a total of about s$120! Not bad huh. haha. As Ame puts it, "we contributed so much to the HK economy last night!!" hee. it's really true. and to think we still have 5 months to go! So if you're thinking of visiting, no prob! better save up now for some really good shopping ok!!
It was so much fun getting to know the other girls and learning about the different countries. Example, Nichole, my friend from Canada hasn;t heard of Horlicks before, and when she ordered it over dinner to try and be adventurous, she didnt like it! haha. so i took it in the end. Tha canadians have never heard of Coffee Bean or Ribena as well!! Interesting right?
Us at Hui Lao Shan, this famous dessert shop selling all sorts of Mango desserts! YUMMY! haha. We eat dessert at like 11pm when we do go out, so all of us are planning to join the gym membership in school and working out together! hee. hope our plans become reality! But the food here is SO GOOD!
From left: me, Emma from Australia, Ame, Yingying and Nichole from Canada, and Lian from SMU =) Girl Power!! HAHA.
Hee. Here's a picture to end this post. See, I bought this street sign as a souvenir and I put it up on my wall =) I'm actually pointing to the sign and the real Ladies Market (the pic above me). Hahaha. I'm loving Hongkong!!
Seriously, besides the shopping, eating, I'm very thankful to have met great girl friends these few days, and i really am hoping we'll grow closer in time to come. Exchange is really a good time to meet new people and really something different from staying in singapore all the time! I'm very glad I chose to come here.
Alright, will blog again soon yeah. Oh, i changed the comments format already so now all of you can leave comments =) hee, dern ah, you better leave more ok!!
3 comments:
yeah!!! im the first person to leave u a comment.. wat a gd fren I am right!! glad to see you having fun and socializing with ppl haha. Lucky you having fun in HK while I suffer in s'pore:(
anyway keep up the good job in blogging yar. I can see the tremendous effort that you put in:)
hey dear.. i am so happy u are enjoyin there. i wan to go too. making me so envious. life weird without u with us.. take care girl..
hey qi!!
woahh.. nice photos! glad to know you're having so much fun!! take care ya. the desserts look SO good by the way!!
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