Random thoughts

Thank you all for your comments! :)Im really so happy to hear from you back home! Come to Hongkong if you can, cos a few days here can be enough for the best food, best shopping and best scenery! haha.

Suddenly it's friday already, this week really flew by very quickly. So many things happen in one day here for me, it's like, i can go to class in the morning, go out in the late afternoon hanging out, shopping, eating, then dessert at night. I kinda lose track of the days. It's only been about 10 days since I came here, but feels alot longer than that. haha.

Hmm. I think my cantonese has improved since last week you know! haha. conversing with locals isn;t that easy, but i do speak canto and try to practise as often as possible. Almost everynight, ame and i will chat with our female security guard downstairs at the counter! She's a really nice lady :)

Oh, and my korean class is really fun! I'm learning how to write the language, turns out that korean is actually made up of vowels and consonents, and it's actually not that difficult! haha. and korean is rather similiar to cantonese!! heh. and the korean teacher actually teaches the class in cantonese cos i guess im the only non-hongkonger in class, but surprisingly, i can understand her very well!! Must be the 20 years of conversing with my grandmas and the hongkong tvb serials and songs! =) Ya man, leen, i cant believe i'm actually enjoying school here! a lazy cat turning over a new leaf. hahaha. but seriously, exchange has made me more independent in many ways- i'm good w walking to school alone, waking up by myself, arranging my own schedule and all... Sometimes when i'm walking down the hill to school, i just look at the mountains and the wonderful scenery of the city and i'm so happy i can be here to enjoy this. I guess one semester is just the right length of time for exchange, a good break indeed!

This weekend's gonna be another busy one, so i'll update soon ok? in the meantime, I miss you mummy daddy, and all of you! i'll be back in 4 weeks =)

i wanna speak the kimchi language:)

just a quick update...

I'm really excited!! Cos I just enrolled myself in the Basic KOREAN course =) and it starts tomorrow morning! Haha. For once, i'm excited to wake up and go to school. although this is going to be my earliest day with the 930 am class. Soon, i hope i'll be able to say more than 'kamsahamida' and 'anioniahseyo'. YAY! suddenly i'm in the mood for some Kimchi! i just bought 2 bowls of kimchi instant noodles from the supermarket. yummy. But since it's 2am, i think i better forget my hunger pangs by sleeping it off cos i really cant afford to continue eating at the rate i'm eating at the moment. ok dears, goodnight and comment ok! haha. i'm still a rookie blogger so i get very excited when i see new comments (*hint hint*) bye!

Hongkong...the land of glorious food and unbelievably wonderful shopping...i'm lovin' it!

I am so frustrated! Last night, I stayed up excitedly writing this really long post, and guess what, my clumsy fingers accidently hit some random buttons and my WHOLE post was gone :~( AHH. so here I am, so you guys better appreciate what I write ok? hee :)


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!!