My very first post...

My first week in Hongkong.

This is my very first time attempting to blog, and it was frustrating to say the least! I started this post 2 days back and my very lousy internet connection in the hostel room had to give me problems at the very crucial times when I was saving my post! Horrible really, haha. So here are the few pictures I could upload, which will hopefully give you an idea of what's been up :)

One of the entrances of my uni, City Uni of Hongkong. Doesn it look pretty much hospital-like in this picture? haha. It's really a city campus,where everything's connected- lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, offices, cafeteria, the bank, with a link to Festival Walk, this paragon-like shopping centre (except that it's about 5 times bigger, with an ice-skating rink in the middle of it. PS: That was where fei tin hei see (To grow with love), the tvb show with the cute plump myolie wu and andy hui , was filmed!) The place is great, with this supermarket Taste, which opens till 12midnight every single day! We get our groceries and stuff like breakfast and snacks from there almost everyday. The group of us on the first night! We looked ridiculous, carrying pillows, bolsters, blankets around the reallly crowded Mongkok! haha. It was an exhausting day. After settling into our hostel rooms, we went straight to Mongkok to get our handphone lines and get stuff we needed desperately. Just imagine, walking down crowded Orchard road on a saturday night carrying huge plastic bags and weaving through the crowd! it was an experience man. heh. Thankfully we had Billy, my room mate Amelia's friend, who's a student at City U too, to bring us around to get the cheapest deals and introduce us to good yummy food! He's such a blessing cos we wouldnt have known what to do without him. Thank God.

A very blur picture of the Student Residence I stay in. There're 9 halls altogether. All 15 storey buildings. Very condo-like! Modern and very clean, the best thing is that, it's really safe!! =) My parents are the happiest to know that my every hall has a security guard 24 hrs a day. We have to scan our student cards to get past the main door, then every visitor has to sign in at the security desk, and our room keys are computerised cards like those in hotels! How cool is that, makes me feel like i'm staying at some hotel really. Cleaners clean our toilets and common places once a week so at least our toilets are kept clean. I have a wonderful roomie Amelia, who's such a blessing to have around and we really can get along so well! Our room is really cosy, clean and homely, after putting up pictures and stuff we brought from home =) I'm settling in well!

My side of the room. Thanks to my dad who actually vacuum packed my thick comfy blanket, I sleep every night warm and cosy :) The weather is rather cold, sometimes at night when there's wind it can be about 13 deg maybe? So i'm really thankful I've got my sweaters, socks, blanket!!


The past few days have been pretty much like a holiday. The group of us went to almost every popular spot in HK- Mongkok where Ame and I shopped at Ladies Market, where we bargained like crazy with our limited cantonese haha!, Tsim Tsar Tsui where we had HUGE wantons for dinner (reallly VERY SHIOK! Thanks to Ame who brought us there..), and last sat, we all joined this City Tour, where we went w about 50 exchange students and some local Hongkongers to all the famous spots. Really felt like we were on a holiday then =) So my friends, if you're interested in coming to visit hk, i can bring you around! haha. Give me awhile more and i think i'll know where to get the best deals for shopping and eating!!

(The following pictures are really small cos I couldnt upload them in bigger sizes, i dunno how come my internet connection is so lousy!!!)



Us at the Peak on saturday! The view was fantastic and the weather was great, breezy and not too cold :) The Peak has a few shopping malls, with many cool restaurants I really am so gonna try out soon!




At dinner on the first day. In one of the many many many HK cafes in Mongkok. Great yummy food!! Our fantastic tour guide and friend Billy on the extreme left :)
At LKF :)

On Sunday, Ame and I went to this church, International Christian Assembly. Mainly expats, singaporeans, malaysians, americans, and all. I felt pretty comfortable there, cos it's alot like Covenant, except maybe with a congregation about 5 times bigger. So will be going for some homegroup soon, and hopefully we can settle down there.



So far, I've been enjoying this experience thoroughly cos it's really something new to me to be without my dearest family, relatives, boyfriend and friends around me. Thank goodness there's the internet now, with skype, webcam and all... haha. I'll be reallly homesick if not for the fact that I webcam and skype with my parents almost every night! I'm looking forward to the next few months already.


Alright, I think that's all for now. I'll post more pictures when my connection's better. Haha. It's already 4am. I actually took 3 hours to write my 1st post! Amelia stayed up till 4 too the other night to write her post, now i totally understand why. heh. I know leen, xinhe and some of you reading this think I'll stop updating after awhile cos you all know me inside out- the many lazy bones in me... but i'll try to keep this blog alive! =)


Missing you all!