King's Hong Kong SEP Trip

Gift Time!

2008-05-16T10:06:00.000-07:00

The biggest sourveneir. A Doraemon Tissue Cover. For Chun Mei.

Ok lah, since KF told me that this girl most likely will be his last (he told me the same thing like 8 times liao), I treat this as pre-wedding gift eh, or man yue gift in case got accident happen. lol.

Too bad only sad tissues will come out when KF go sailing again. Make use of the time now to make the tissues happy k? :p

P.S. BW say no more ARK liao ar? Become MARK liao?

"u know so many ppl ask me what i want for my pressie but i nv say, but i'm actualy telling u"
- Jaja 2008

"~_~"
- King 2008

Thanks ar...

Xinyi,
As the old chinese saying, 禮輕情意重, this small ultraman actually carry heavy weights.

For Mingli, and should be able to get 1 more, provided that I dun forget to redeem the ticket.

Zhao Zhao, cun find something more special lah, so buy you this glove, so you can make me more cookies during the next exam. : )

RAG must win k? Win le I buy doraemon toys for you.

Looks nice, so just buy and see can give who.

KF's special order.

If I kena caught at custom, you die.

Ask you buy game over from malaysia also so humji... yet you want porn mag all the way from HK...

Southern HK Island

2008-05-16T09:27:00.000-07:00

After 4 months of travelling around HK, I can say that almost every accessible area has been cover.
Looking at the map, it seems that only the southern coast of HK island would be interesting enough to hike.

So picking up my bag, here goes 15hrs of walking.

The jumbo harbour, where u take a small boat to the popular Jumbo for seafood.
Might be a good place to bring my parents to.

Yup, the ride there is part of HK famous Ocean Park.

Guess I am too old for such stuff.

Repulse Bay.

In search of the bikini haven.

with futile effort....

Where are all the HK babes~~!!!

But I like these architectures, like how they are built according the moutainous terrain. 依山而建.

Imagine staying at such a place.

A temple for the seafaring people.

And I found out why HK is named HK during this trip. Basically. Ang Moh came to the soutern part of HK island which was locally named 香港村, then Ang Moh thought the whole island called 香港, so name it 香港.

Later the area of 香港村 was renamed 香港仔, which is also called Aberdeen now.

Alot of scultures and statues.

Quite scary at night when I was about to leave the place.

觀音像.

I was getting tired, and it was getting dark.
(There was a longer story to it.)

So I saw a chair out of nowhere on some rocky coast, and I took out my potato chips and map to plan my route back.

Enjoying the scenery, I sat there for 1 hr.

The mysterious chair from nowhere.

Maybe someone jumped from this chair ~~~~

(Hey, there is something behind you.)

GZ Trip - Going Home Soon

2008-05-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

First up, the origin of this trip. While I was playing wahjong in HKU main library, waiting for the next lesson, I got struck by an sudden burst of innate calling from within. The next moment, I was packing my bagpack for the tour the next day.

So here am I, crossing the ShenZhen border for the first time alone, at about 7am.

About ShenZhen, it is rumoured as a dangerous place to HongKong-ers, with thugs and pick pockets everywhere, stabbing people to death after taking your money.

Terrified by the hearsay, I bought my Guangzhou ticket immediately after crossing the border.

Fast forward ==> Hey, I am at GZ now, in the MTR station!

The mighty MTR token~~

Who can tell me what did we used before transit link card in SG MRT?

Bo Lo Pao at RMB$0.70.

thats like SGD$0.15

GZ noodle, still not very used to it. Taste alright tho, but the store very rundown.

I went to book the hostel at 7pm and fell asleep almost immediately cos i was too shag. Then I woke up at 11pm. Then went to bar hopping at bar street.

Din knew that the hostel was actually situated just at the end of Bar Street. Lucky me. :)

So I walk down the street and see which bar was more interesting b4 I ordered a drink.

The best thing is that there is no entrance fee~~

1 of the bars.

There is about 6-8 bars down the street.

Recommended if anyone going GZ next time.

But going to bars alone is pretty boring. Chilling out with friends here would be really ejoyable.

Inside one of the bar.

Singer, average standard.

Lamborgani. (Lazy to check spelling.)

Not very nice, SG one confirm better.

And the popular dice game that I still duno how to play. The red color thingy.

My hostel, 65RMB if I remember correctly.

The amazing mini size Naruto Comic.

Imagine it.

Regret not buying more of it.

A good book to bring to toilet. :p

Back at ShenZhen, preparing to cross the border.

2 pairs of new shoes bought just beside the Bar Street, $50RMB each.

Video inside the bar.

Random Pics

2008-05-12T07:59:00.000-07:00

My favourite cap currently, 2 more new ones fighting to be 1st though.

林嘉欣 in HKU, giving some talk about acting. I suppose she was in some acting club when she was in HKU.

Finally a popular actress in HK.

The 1st celebrity was 伊子維.

Real life not as pretty, think the poster pic much prettier.

After her talk, I went to the library. There I saw a really pretty girl, the most beautiful girl I seen in HK yet.

Come to think of it, I should have took a pic with her. Meh.

April High Table Dinner.

Peter. Damn big guy.

April High Table Dinner.

The one on the left is me.

The girl beside is from korea, then the next 1 is shine, and the next Graham.

Horse Racing

2008-05-12T07:07:00.000-07:00

Finally went to the famous site for HK's favourite activity: Horse Racing.

With the same group as Lantau Island Trip.
Joel, Mok, XXX.

My only winning ticket.

I bet on 5 races, but only won 1, which was my 1st bet. However, the great odds of it and my self-control made me an overall winner for the night. : )

People mountain people sea.

The horses were too fast for my lousy camera.

Random pics grabbed from my roommate, Mok.

Drunk duck basking.

Lantau island trip, where we coincidently met (shit.. I forgot her name..she better not see this)

From what I heard, almost all roommates are not on good terms, like not talking to each other at all.

I wonder why? But me and johnny seems pretty alright leh. We help dabao meals outside, and even play dota together.

Maybe games are not anti-social activities after all. Gamer FTW.

Lantau Island - 天壇大佛

2008-05-12T06:12:00.000-07:00

After eating dim-sum at YauMaTei on a random Sunday, we set off for Lantau Island.

I have been thinking of going, but my body inertia force was too great to pull myself to travel such great across the sea.

Anyway, Joel, Mok, and ??? (shit, I forget again..)

While on the cable car.

3 days after the cable ride, I happened to see a small article on the newspaper, saying that the the cable jammed for like 4 hrs, with ppl stucked in it, due to some technical problem.

Imagine the fun if we got the chance to experience it.

This place is a total tourist spot, lots of related merchandise and fully commercialised.

I always tot this popular site was a place of worship.

After visiting the museum, then I found out that this place was initially planned as a tourism spot, by building the biggest bronze buddha sculpture.

I forgot when, but it was built only recently.

Both Mok and the other friend brought their super pro camera, and started their shooting spree.

So I join in the fun.

Another arty shot attempt.

with my lousy 5 megapixel camera.

but good pictures are about good eye for the picture layout though, good camera only enhances it. thats what the pro says.

THE LEGENDARY 旦旦面!!

Recommended by ShaoPeng, but I never see them anywhere in HK till now!!

What SP told me was that it is noodles with peanut butter... and I was like duh... where got ppl eat noodles with peanut butter...

jit wah mee bua peanut butter~~!

But it was really quite nice, but gets 膩 very quickly.

Not sure if it was the same night, since my pictures are pretty messed up now.

Anyway, there was band performance by the Sassoon Rd halls, just like our XXX Mui Seng?? Night(I forgot my hall road name).

All I can say is... I suddenly appreciated our hall Inspire, Rocker alot more, like about ten-fold.

Souveneirs

2008-04-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, since I am coming back soon, as an act of following urban culture, I gotta buy stuff back as souveneirs. So if there is anything that interest you in HK and you want it(and cheap enough), I will try my best to look for it.

Below are those who requested. Will be updated.

Faith Liang - 1 dozen of Krispy Kreme (I'll try my best, depends on my final bagage)
Tianyu - 1 Krispy Kreme (Faith is 12 times greedier than you)
Sis Xinyi - Anything with Ultraman on it (this is really difficult, in HK, really)
JiaHui - Anything (dun blame me when i really buy Anything)
Albert Yap - 3 HK porn magazine (I managed to buy 1, 3 is too much bro, can any1 tell me if its illegal to bring porn mag back?)
Chun Mei - Magnet with World Map or Doraemon (you are so much more sophisticated than the guy on top of you)
MingLi - 1 Paddington Bear (I've got 1, trying to get more if possible)
Zhao Yuan - Anything with Doraemon or the LV Bag on her msn pic (poor weeliam..)
Junmin - Cute HK guy (choose something easier please, or do I have to sacrifice myself to at least fulfill 66.66% of your wish?)

Anyone else? or anyone that I forgot about your request? Maybe I should set a cutoff date, so I can have more $$ to buy clothes for myself : )

I personally like to buy gift, if I know the person truly appreciate the stuff. In this case, the paddington bear is the best example. Definately not the porn mag.

Happy Birthday Ma!!

2008-04-20T05:52:00.000-07:00

my mum just called me and asked me to wish her an advanced happy birthday...lol...
cos she's going japan with her friends during that period. some rich woman eh.

how i hope i can be like my parents, travelling and doing stuff they like when they are old.
like what they always say, work hard when u are young, and you can relax when you are old.
but i doubt i will be like them though.

Although I hoped that I was able to finance this entire trip myself, the most I can fork up is like 60% of it, from all the odd jobs and free lance I saved up. I can say that I am pretty spenthrift over here, even though I went to a few other neighbouring countries. But I still owe it to my parents that I am able to enjoy all these stuff.

I have friends that say majority of Singaporeans are like us, come on, you really think so? you really think that majority of 20+ are able to travel around the world like this? Its just that your social circle consist of these people. There are people out there working their shit off at our age, just so their parents can have a normal life or to let their younger siblings go to school.

When the Guangzhou sales girl asked me where I was from, and I told her I was from Singapore and studying in HKU, she was like how envious, you can see the genuine feelings in her eyes. There was no chance she or her family could provide her with such luxury. I told her, "努力工作,以後就有機會了.", come to think of it, I doubt so, but I guess it was still the right thing to say. Her children might have the chance if she did work hard. If not, it will be of a viscous cycle.

This post shouldn't be about ranting, so I am going to cover this post, but still available for me to see this it in the future.

Anyway, this post is dedicated to you, ma.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

APRIL 22th!!! My poor memory problem strikes again... I keep thinking is april 24th, i wonder whose it is now. April got too many ppl birthday liao, maybe I should download a birthday program or watever.

Joel's Bday

2008-04-20T03:25:00.000-07:00

So it was Joel's bday and we were invited to his party~!

Hysan really has the best view among the 3 halls.
They get to enjoy the entire sea view and breeze, and amazing night scenery. Whereas RC Lee only gets a cemetary and hospital.

Really like HK night.

Making our own BBQ pit.

Hey ex-Subsidizer! Thats for you.

Behold!

The birthday duck!

with a beer in hand!

Cheers!

World Rugby 7 in HK Stadium

2008-04-19T23:12:00.000-07:00

There happen to be some international level rugby competition and HKU students get to watch it for free.

I din expect such event to have so many people.
Look at the pic, people mountatin people sea.

Even the dogs are here to join in the fun.

While Q-ing up.

Participating countries.

Classmates. Nancy Candy Amber Patrick

(man.. i had to check msn cos i forgot their names.. how can i ever have better memory)

A cool couple that I chatted up with during the games.
Andy and Chris's their names. Andy's a doctor in australia, not sure about his wife. I treated them 雞仔餅and told them which places are fun to go in HK. Its always fun to chat with foreigners, especially the elder ones.

Apparently, they won some lucky draw by buying chairs, 4D3N in HK, and free tickets to the 4 days of rugby matches.

Picture of the stadium.

Taiwan Trip

2008-04-19T13:19:00.000-07:00

Ri Huang, Chang Seng, Lucas, King.

(4.40am now in my hall)

Taipei MRT token.

MRT train. But the most interesting thing is in fact the train driver. Before closing the doors, the driver will do alot of actions, like wuxia pian, where they use their 2 fingers and point to different directions. Damn funny. Like pewpewpew~~!!

Taipei. View from the hostel.

Bagpack travelling and staying in hostel is really way to travel man. I dun think i would ever want to stay in hotel in the future if i travel.

Taipei street near the hostel.

Taipei hawker.

saugages bigger and longer baby arm.

雞扒.

Very very big 雞扒.

Bigger than Xiu's face, and I am serious.

gu gu jiao 雞扒.

Changseng really look like wu zhong xian in this pic.

自拍.

Just bought the cap, so need to see whether nice anot.

Its really a very nice cap.

Xi Men Ding at night.

2nd day in Taiwan

2008-04-19T12:58:00.000-07:00

OK. My post got lost during a disconnection again. So I am retyping everything again in shorter version cos I am lazy.

Taipei Dawn > HK Dawn.

HK Night > Taipei Night.

Good Breakfast = Good Start.

I miss geylang.

4 of us at a yuan zu min village.

Village got lotsa ride.

We rode lotsa rides.

Most dangerous ride, but not most fun ride, cos ride before liao.

1 of village's architecture.

Lucas and Changseng tasted the fertility symbols.

I tried them.

The 2 bored girls sleeping while we wait for the bus back to taipei.

I forgot their names, but they are from HKUST, came to taipei with us.

I am really bad at names.

3rd Day in Taiwan

2008-04-18T23:46:00.000-07:00

We woke up early, dress up, and off we go to...
THE ZOO.....

On the way, we played daidee on the mrt. I think the people there must be looking weirdly at us thinking:"wtf are these ppl doing? digging nose and playing cards at the same time!?!"

OK.. I am not a zoo person, so basically, I was there just looking around and chilling out.

So these are 5 random animals that I took pictures of.

Lamas.

Monkey buttocks.

Flying turtle. or tortoise. I duno.

Snakes.

Yesterday(the day before I was writing this post, which is like 1 month later), I was so bored that I watched National Geographical Channel, and it was showing a documentary about snakes. Really interesting, should watch more of these stuff in the future. But guess I am too lazy to watch TV in SG.

After the documentary, all I can say, people living in India's farms are really suai siao, everyday got 3 ppl die becos of snake bites.

Iguana stoning. Yeah, the typical stoning mode in lectures.

After the zoo trip, we decided to try out the Mao Kong Cable. It brings us somewhere up the mountains which has nothing.

It was pretty cheap though.

While on the cable car.

A monastary up there, where I bought a pineapple tart which really sucks.

While we were up there, we saw this trail that seem to lead to somewhere, so we just started trekking. Pretty much my style of traveling, but this time with some people accompanying me.

In the end, it was really a random trail, a very very long random trail. We made it to a peak of a mountain, which was still not the end. But we were too shag out and it was getting dark, so we walked back.

That's Ri Huang, not me. Just in case any reader out there has a hobby of saving my pictures in your hard disk.

After we meet up with the girls, Girl no.2 decided to go look for 楊宗偉 in a club that he used to sang when he was still unpopular. Those who follow taiwan pop culture will know who he is. At this point, I truly understand why the guys say they are naive and sheltered.

So the guys, being very mature and interested in politics, decided to watch the 造勢晚會, cos it was the last night to pull for votes.

On our way, while we were lost, we walked to Taipei 101.

Taipei 101.

That's it. The tallest building on Earth now. I think.

After walking around in circles and eating dou jiang for 2 hours, we finally found our way there.

You know you are near when you see people mountain people sea.

This would be a pretty nice picture if I got just abit lower and better camera.

Taking pictures with random Taiwanese.

逆轉勝!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(still lose though...)

After that, we tried looking for a club or pub for like 4 hours, but to no avail. You really need a tour guide or local to bring you to those places man.

Last Day in Taiwan

2008-04-18T22:26:00.000-07:00

On our last day, we split up and went places we needed/wanted to go. As usual, the girls needed to shop, ri huang went to buy his remote control stuff, lucas and changseng went someplace secretive.

With only a few hours to walk around, I went back to Xi Men Ding.

It's really different to go to Xi Men Ding in the day and night.
The amount of people here tenfold in the day, quite the opposite of Hong Kong's Mong Kok and Causeway Bay.

Cafe with waitress cosplaying as your slave.

I only saw a comic shop up there though.

Then I went to another shopping mall just beside Taipei Train Station.

There is this big model store with human size Gundam.

I am always awe by all these models.

Big Gundam.

Exia, from Gundam 00, introduced by chwansang. The only good thing that he ever told me about.

Duno what model is this.

Final shot of all of them.

I also found a mega porn DVD store at the same mall. This is when I found out porn is legal in Taiwan. It's not those type of shady shop, but very well furnished and organized.

Too bad I cun take pictures inside. But surprisingly, there are quite a few females inside looking around.

And this marks the end of my Taiwan trip. Not spectacular, but still fun. :)

Random Photos

2008-03-15T00:52:00.000-07:00

SEPERATED TWINS!

Local music appreciation.

Different sports each week.

Badminton.

2008-03-12T08:31:00.000-07:00

This post got wiped out when I got d/c while posting it. So the du lan me is going to remember as much as possible and re-write it, too tired to think again.

The original post is about 10 times the length. I got lazy.

Floor organize fishing trip. 25 ppl turn up.

The long duno-what-it-is-call.

Our boat.

Our real boat.

haha

Lazy me sit and wait.

Hooked up 1 fish, but got away before I could get it.

One stretch of hook with no bait.
Why fish will want bite?
Many bit.
Stupid fish.
The one that I fought 2 days ago more clever.

Owner cook squid, taste alright.
Not very exciting trip, but something different.

Nite.

2008-03-12T06:16:00.000-07:00

Lots of work incoming: projects, assignments, mid-term which I forgot to go yesterday(20% ~_~).

Finally felt the pain of reality in this care-free world.

Just hope this feeling will last as long as possible, and that my poor memory will remember this moment forever.

Anyway, these set of photos were from last week.

My classmates invited me to join their squash session, so here am I.

Nancy on the left and Candy on the right, with Amber behind the camera.

Candy on the left and Nancy on the right this time round, with Amber still behind the camera.

And I found out 2 things about squash.

Firstly, you need an equally skilled player to truly enjoy the game. I never knew the rules of the game until today. And it seems to me that, you need coordination even with your opponent. Seems weird to me why you would want to help your opponent out in a game.

Maybe this is another sports for gentlemen, and I happen to be not one of them.

The second being that taking good photos during a squash game is impossible, since the spectators only get to see their the players's back.

Road to Haven

2008-03-05T07:48:00.000-08:00

This was the path that I hiked today, but it became more than just a simple hike.

It all started at this temple. While I was walking from 油塘 to 調景嶺, I saw this temple and felt a calling from it. So I went in, and this old lady told me :"Through the mountains, through the seas, each step brings you to the haven's ring."

So I thought, ok.. I don't understand you.. and I continued my way to the next MTR stop.

While walking on the Wilson Trail, which spans over a few mountains, I decided to go up 砲台山, since it was on the way.

At the beginning, I thought that this was just a normal mountain. But after following a small hidden trail, I got up to this place that used to be some cannon holder or strategic position I guess.

Thats the fun of walking around and bashing into places.

The used-to-be army hideout.

There was another road leading from this trail that lead to the other peak of this mountain, and although the scenery was not breathtaking. It just compelled me to sit at the top of the mountain and just relax. The scenery was great, but the cold wind is even more fantastic. I dun think I am able to describe them in my limited vocabulary in english. Maybe I'll write about it in chinese sometime later.

Just had to put this up ..haha

After the mountain, it was moutains of tombs in the cemetry. I tried walking over the moutain to hit the other side where the MTR was. But it was impossible, the way down the moutain was too steep and covered by dense forest. If only I had a parang with me.

This was the only spot that I could take picture due to a path on it. The rest of my bashing through the forest was so difficult that I did not even had the extra hand to pull out my camp.
This was when i thought :"Shit, this is getting similar to when I was in Brunei"

The cemetry was so big that I walked round and round and couldn't find the way to the next MTR.

This was when I took out my map and found out that the road on this cemetry is a roundabout. There is only one way in and one way out.

I guess they get alot of people lost here if they decided to even put that banner up.

I din wanted to walk back to the previous MTR, and I remembered the old lady's words "Through the mountains, through the seas, each step brings you to the haven's ring." It was a destiny, and I was the one. I'll have to find my way and reach my next destination by foot.

Then I saw this small beach. I remember studying it in Geography during Secondary.

Its a small stretch of rocks being exfoliated or whatever and became a sand filled area.

So I thought to myself, since the land route has forsaken me, I shall get to my destination through the sea route.

So I climbed my way down and followed the stream. It is like they say, always follow the stream and you will get to the sea(or civilization).

And just like before, I was busy ducking from low hanging trees and climbing over fallen logs, and had no time to take out my camera for those.

After resting for a while, I surveyed the terrain to look for possible route through the coastal area.

Ok, so I have to climb over these rocks, to get to the other side.

Rock climbing session it shall be then. I love these stuff if you din know. Either I am born with it, or being scouts in primary school made me into it.

I thought of moses, whose into rock climbing now, whose also my scout buddy during primary school. Guess we are the same kinda people, always looking for thrills in our mundane life. Hey dude, if you are reading this, been long since we met up, organize something when I'm back k?

You think about lotsa stuff when you are 4 storeys high and clinging to a piece of rock.

Oh, while I was relaxing at the beach. I saw an old man fishing. Actually, I wun call that fishing. He basically took out his fishing rod, threw the bait into the sea, and when I thought he was about to sit down and wait, he pulled back his fishing rod and a fish was at its end.

I was like *O*... ya... exactly like the face you see here...

He must be some fishing saint or whatever, but as I did not had knowledge of the language of Saints, I just smiled at him. After getting his 1st fish, he kept his rod and stuff and moved on. He was agile in climbing those rocks, so I followed his footing to get up the cliffs faster. Then he got to another spot and did his feat again... I was like orz (if you duno what orz means, it means that you are not geekish enough)

After that I went on my journey and did not see him fishing again.

This white rope helped me climbed pass one of the cliff. Without it, I would been stucked and had to take a detour.

Not sure how I got this pic, but this pic shows how high and steep(its actually vertical) the cliff was.

Imagine Cliffhanger, but not that extreme.

After climbing though a series of I-duno-what-they-call-it, I finally reached a flat ground and saw civilazation.

During my journey to the haven, I battle countless foes that weaken my body, but my soul fought on and hardened with each scar on me.

This cunning fish tried to lure me into the sea so as to eat me up. But got tricked by me instead. When it came up the shore, I threw sand onto its eyes and rolled it on the beach. It suffocated and spit out cookies and tomatoes, then died.

The tree beside it is a palm tree, scale it and you can roughly gauge how huge it was.

Another evil beings that almost took my live was these 3 frogs.

While I was resting on the cliff, 2 frogs jumped out of the sea and ambushed me. I fought hard and fought well to down these creatures. When they were about to die, they crawled towards each other and hugged till they died. I think they are gays.

The last frog attacke me after seeing his underlings failed. I picked up a light and shaft it straight into its lung, and he gas-choked to death.

A small cut by the rock that I was clinging to, 5 minutes before everything ended.

It would have been perfect and no injury record if not for this cut...meh...

My legs got burned by the tissue-eating-venom-sea of poison when I failed a double leap.

There was this piece of rock that would only surface when the swash is gone. So I had 1 second to jump on the rock and jumped again to reached the other side of the cliff.

But I failed. And for that I have to pay. With a salty wet jeans for the rest of this week.

And finally, I saw this place. It was shining in gold aura when I saw it.

And I knew at that moment, that the prophecy was true.

It was indeed a "haven".

Random Pics

2008-03-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

My Hong Kong table.

KTV sessions with SG peeps.

My soon-to-be taiwan trip buddies.

The sihoulette that I was talking about.

It looks much better at 6am.

Ok.. I conclude that all girls on earth dun like me having moustache...

Oh man.. even Hong Kong girls are asking me to shave...

Can't anyone see how charming, manly, appealing, attractive, chrismatic, desirable, irresistable, seductive and etc I look with hair on my face? Not like it would be any less without the moustache...but...sighzz...

U Hall Tour

2008-03-05T05:40:00.000-08:00

This was pretty long ago, but benny organized a hotpot(steamboat) dinner at his hall, which happens to be a castle in the past.

The lower level used to be cells and torture chamber for the prisoners.

Looks creepy in this pic huh?

Oh yar, there is these 2 stone lion or qi ling sculpture at the stairs.

There is 2 myths to it. The 1st was that whoever touches it dies. The 2nd was that whoever touches it will not be able to have children.

I wanted to take pics of it but benny said I better not, and so I listened. But when I got home , I found them inside the pictures though.

And so we went in. The first impression that came to me "Is this a museum?

There was head sculptures, paintings and well lighted corridors, as in the pictures here.

It looks like the dormitory in Harry Potter, from images of the trailer, since I dun like movies about young boys and girls flying around.

We then got to the dining hall for out hotpot

Pretty grand for a dining hall eh.

They are my carnivorous classmates from Surveying, posing with only the big basket of vegetables left after the meal.

Here's the underground level.

Imagine you are to sleep in a room alone, and had to walk this long corridor to take a piss in the middle of the night...

you get to buy coke along the way to the toilet, how cool is that.

This is their multipurpose room, and indeed it is multipurpose.

There is table-tennis....

Snooker...

Wii and PS2...

and a 40 inch? or just a big TV that I din remember the size of it.

So after the great meal, we decided to watch AV.

Yup, 5 guys watching AV.

Its not a bad movie though, pretty entertaining and educational..
No... its not about sex education, it talks about life and how we suppose to live in the modern society.
I would not have watched it if it was all about pornstars
ya... really...

Loving My Life

2008-03-02T06:08:00.000-08:00

I am like enjoying my life so much especially these past weeks, that I have to post about it to get it off me. Nothing really great happened, but everything and everyday makes me think of how great life is now.

Seeing the silhouette of the moutain and cool breeze blowing on my face, just outside my window. And I think to myself "How great life is."

Watching the cemetries getting clearer under the dawn's light. And I think to myself "How great life is."

Lying on my bed, enjoying the ceiling. And I think to myself "How great life is."

Wacthing movies and anime, with titbits by my side. "How great life is."

Taking the mini bus and anxiously waiting to say "Yao Lok, Mhh Goi"

I can not shave and no one is gonna keep nagging at me, and instead have people saying it looks good on me.

I can wear anything from my wardrobe which fits in with the fashion.

Sitting on a bench and just watching people walk by makes me feel good inside.

I can just walk along the streets now and feel happy .

Thats how great and simple life is now.

I cun really describe the feeling, and I wonder if all exchange students feel it the same way. Or is it becos I have lost all restriction, bonds and commitment of my life that I feel so free now. Its like getting a new life.

This is the first time I ever had such feeling. I know its not going to last, and maybe that's why I am already missing it now.

Land Econs Class

2008-02-21T08:37:00.000-08:00

This is our land econs tutorial class. The people are either sleeping or stoning. And I was so bored that I started rotating my yesterday's pictures and taking pictures.

Starting with the 3 girls beside me.

Amber, Candy, Nancy (L2R)

They are all from Poly, then went to HKU.

Unknown, Carol, Alice

and 不要懷疑, the one standing is the tutor, trying to talk about his ppt, while his students and posing and making noise.

Alex, Carrian, Tony (L2R)

I hope I got the names right man...

I can only figure out 1 guy here, which is benny. This friday's class outing is also organized by him.

There are still another half of the class, but they are not in this tutorial tho.

High Table Dinner 2

2008-02-21T07:26:00.000-08:00

The 2nd High Table Dinner is about the same as the 1st, just that is not that grand anymore.

So its just eat, tok cock, speech, tok cock, take photo, tok cock, byebye.

This time round there is translation provided for the speech.

But the translation...

For every sentence I hear the speaker spoke, I only heard 1 word from the translator. That's how bad it is. ~_~

There are a few good translator though, like Martin, my neighbour. But maybe that is because he is from the states.

While I was listening to the translator, I was so bored that I went to look at my pants.

This was when I made a big discovery!

My Domanji pants bought in Singapore actually has the same fabric and pattern as my shirt I bought at Kui Fong.

The poor Cloth siblings got seperated by the evil Scissors, finally got united again on me.
Happy Ending.

This is the speaker. There is another clearer picture featuring the 7th floor guys and this guy, but I haven got it yet.

Anyway, I duno his full name, but his surname is Yee. I know I seen him on some jacky chan movie, always the bad guys.

The topic was about Personal Privacy and Security. And yes, the topic revolves around edison case as a background.

I duno what he was talking about in details, but these are the keywords I heard from the translators: Public, Freedom, Curiosity, Speech, Political.

乐富 to 九龙湾

2008-02-21T05:28:00.000-08:00

Yes! Finally I bought the legendary Krispy Kreme that everyone was telling me to try. So I thought, since it was free, why not?

Indeed it was good, but still not worth HKD$12 each.

But I will go eat it again next time.

Luxury Good No. 1

Curly Choc Donut

<<< Luxury Good No. 2

Oh yar, the reason it was free is because of Faith. She said that she will treat me KK and ask me to just go buy and eat.

Thanks Faithie, I'll be sending you the bills soon.

Luxury Good No. 3

Old Style Choc Donut

After eating the donuts, I suddenly felt a touch of divinity. So I walked all my way to 黃大仙 temple which is beside 黃大仙 MTR.

Anyway, it was just an ordinary temple. But i wonder why does it have so many people there during a normal weekday.

Strolled around the temple.

The 1st half of the chun lian that I asked the shifu to wrote came true today.

<<< "平步青雲"

now just have to see how "鴻福齊天" is gonna happen on me.

HUAT AH!!

The Red Box.

I got lost somewhere near Kowloon Bay before I found this building.

Inside the Red Box is a mega shopping centre, got IKEA, SpotLight, Popular blah blah blah... all the big names all inside 1 building.

Lifesize Gundam, but no touching allowed.

Then I found this ice skating rim on its ?? floor. After walking so long while being lost, my legs were so tired, so I decided to 坐觀眾生.

I always like to do this when I was like primary school. Observing people and thinking what they thinking, and predict what will be their reaction to what is happening to them next.

Its pretty fun after you slowly get to understand how people think.

Anyway. while sitting there for 3 hours, I saw alot of relationships within and outside the rim.

There was this small girl's parents watching her learn how to walk on ice, with a gentle smile on their face.

Then got this guy hugging his gf and they skated in this position round and round the rim.

And there was this pair of girls trying to do doubles(雙人花式溜冰?), but they keep falling down. But they still kept trying. Not sure if they made it in the end, but they will feel accomplish no matter what.

Then there was this incident that happened there. Basically, I said something which I would not have said in SG.

After the trip to kowloon bay, I went back to Yau Ma Te( which I always relate to YaMaTe) to have my dinner.

Then I decided to buy a duno-what-is-it-called, since my head was getting very cold whenever I sleep.

<<< 屯門色魔

太子站至荃灣站 Shopping Spree

2008-02-10T03:38:00.000-08:00

This is the start of my journey today.

Prince Edward station.

Decided to complete the 荃灣 line today.

This place looks just like SG.

Somewhere near 美孚.

Happen to see some fighting incident.

Seems like the police are trying to figure out who is hitting who by questioning the kids at the playground. Since I got nothing much to do, I just stood there watching policemen in action for 15mins.

Really bo liao.

So I walked all the way from 太子 to 荔景.

That's about 6 stations, 4 more stations to go.

Kwai Fong.

Finally I arrived the place that XianXian has been telling me to go. This place is really as good as she recommended, sort of like Bugis Junction, where they focus more on young adults stuff. ( I wanted to write 'teenager', but then I found out I am no more a teenager)

Bought lotsa stuff from here. Will be coming again.

Highly recommended.

葵興MTR, but I missed the sign.

Happen to walk into some residential activities on my journey to the North-West.

They are some MP coordinated activities which distributed 春聯.

They even invited some calligraphy shi fu there.

You can ask them to help you write on the 春聯.

I couldn't think of anything nice at that moment, so I just stand there and watch them write.

Its such things that make me happy, seeing how HKer lead their usual life. Rather than just 買東西, 吃東西, 買東西, 吃東西.

After I walked away, these words suddenly came to my mind. So I walked backed and ask the shifu to write for me.

Maybe we should have such event at SG too, maybe 南洋三虎 can write for everyone. 賣笑笑, I learnt calligraphy before 1 ok? (altho i sux)

As I still had a long journey ahead and I din want to crumple my 春联, I used my newly bought 风云 comic to hold it in place and tucked it on my bag.

I am sure to have good luck today man, with luck on my back, literally.

OMG! Kenning! Save her, she is stuck inside the hotel.

More Kennings!!

Hehe... The evil King... I suddenly felt Xiu spirit got into my body and I became a photo slut immediately.

I used about 5 shots to get this photo right.

Last stop for today. Finally finished the Quan Wan Line.

Next feat - 3 day Urban Hiking around Hong Kong Island

After the tiring day, these are my spoils of journey.

Finally a heater!! No more cold and sleepless nights!!

I like this shirt alot and its cloth material is real good and the cut is damn fitting.

Since I rarely get to find shirts that I like, I bought it immediately. Cost me HKD$100.

Btw, Dancing Confetti has agreed to let me be their male model if they were to import male products.

So here am I posing with my new clothes.

Looks familiar?

Visit http://dancingconfetti.livejournal.com/ today!

Hello Emily!

(edit: sorry for the typo of URL)

CNY 花市 @ Victoria Park

2008-02-10T02:25:00.000-08:00

New Year's here but the overall mood seems to be poorer than SG. Not sure why tho.

But I went to this Hua Shi at Victoria Park with my classmates.

Tons of people over there, heard its 24 hr and will stretch for 5 days during new year.

One way only to prevent human congestion.

Funny street names for sale.

Cute girls selling weird stuff.

My friend told me that most of these stores are biddes by secondary or college students. So if you kena approached by your friends, you lan lan have to buy 1.

He also say is bao tan 1(sure earn), but I wonder how can you earn much when no one is buying and the rent is like of ten thousand HKD.

May be the Chi Go Peh will come at night and buy perhaps?

Small kid promoting his stock.

Balloons flying towards me!

Hey! Thats my new year dinner! Same flavor somemore.

While we were walking around, Willey brought me to a store and told me this girl cost HKD$120,000 and there is only 2000 in the whole world.

How amazing.

I wonder if they allow product testing.

So we finally got into the restaurant for our dinner.

And to be honest, I still duno most of their name.

But since they are my classmates, I will get to know them soon enough.

1 of them actually looks like Deborah!

SG@HK Steamboat Gathering @ 銅鑼灣

2008-02-10T02:10:00.000-08:00

Just 2 pictures to commemorate my 1st gathering with some of the SG student in HK, mainly from HKU+HKUST+CUHK.

End of Post.

Hall or Floor Supper ?

2008-02-10T01:53:00.000-08:00

Not sure whether this was a Floor supper with girls tagging along, or a Hall supper with only a few floors attendance.

Anyway, a big bunch of us went to this cha cham ting for supper.

Damn squeezy.

I dun mind squeezing with cute girls tho.

But I got stuck to this bunch.

They are my floor mates :)

From what I heard, my floor seems to be the more happening as compared to other halls and floors.

They are a damn nice group of floormates. Kept trying to speak in Pu Tong Hua so that I could understand their conversation.

After the supper when we got back to the Hall. We waited for everyone to get back before we could do...

A cheer at 2 am ... so loud that I think someone would have called police in SG.

But there is no RF, no early sleeping neighbours, and only 3 blocks of hotblooded youths.

Hall should be this free man.

The Peak (International)

2008-02-10T01:24:00.000-08:00

So we went up The Peak a few weeks ago, but too bad we din manage to try the tram, cos taking a cab up is cheaper.

Maybe next time then.

The SG gang.

Jia Hao, Cherie, Mary, Grace, Johnny Mok
(L2R)

The international student lot.

XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX
XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX
X
(L2R)

Thats me.

Hong Kong.

Amazing Urban Scenery.

Truly Lousy Camera.

1st High Table Dinner

2008-01-26T10:29:00.000-08:00

This would be a pretty boring entry as the event itself.

Here are some photos of the High Table Dinner that I attended last week.

Just like formal dinner but with suits and dress.

Just some information, these formal dinners are compulsory. There is 5 each sem, and if you dun attend more than 3 of them, you are out of the hall.

The blue qi pao girls.

And did I tell you, I found out that there are no fat girls in Hong Kong.

Amazing.

Namecards will be given and have to be returned personally.

Reason?

To take your attendance. ~_~

Should have mosiac the room no., now i will have hong kong girls budging into my room.

My dear room mate, Johnny Mok.

He's from SG too, lucky to have a fellow country mate to slp with eh?

Anyway, he's from SMU and is single and available. (I think)

Interested girls please leave a comment, I will let him know.

The guy who has been visiting Jeraine's room when she was in Hong Kong.

He's a national youth volleyball team player and stays 2 rooms besides mine.

Hey Jeraine! Say hi to Peter!

That's all folks.

Macau + Zhu Hai Trip

2008-01-26T08:42:00.000-08:00

So we decided to go Macua this weekend. There were 5 of us. In the picture, we have JiaHao, King and Lucas. And behind the camera, we have Cherie and Ri Huang.

Boat.

Casino.

More casinos.

Then we entered the Grand Lisboa. Ri Huang said that it was the most popular casino.

No pictures allowed inside.

I din knew Macau had many historical sites till i got there. So we went to a few famous tourist points.

This is the St. Paul blah blah blah church, with only its front door remaining. The rest of the building was burnt down by a big fire.

From the picture, you can see how famous it is. I wonder whats the reason though.

Maybe if I burn down someone's house and left its door intact, it might get popular too?

Sidetrack abit. Anyway, I went to Rome last Sunday. Was in a hurry and din manage to get many pictures, happened to dig this 1 out.

Another flower given by China government. Who knows what it holds within for this one.

Thou shall never shave my head.

Never.

We went to some musuem during the Macau trip too.

Can't blame myself for being to sophisticated huh?

Musuem.

Musuems.

And more musuems.

The 3 of us decided to go Zhu Hai, which was north of Macau on the same piece of land. It was impromtu and therefore we had to ditch Cherie and Ri Huang.

My first encounter in Zhu Hai was a lady running around begging for money with a baby in her arms.

We felt unsafe to let people take a picture of us, so we had to take turns.

After talking with the locals, we found out that Zhu Hai is just a small place, which consist of about 8 streets of commercial area. Out of 8, 3 of them are filled with prostitutes.

RED LIGHT DISTRICT!!!

WE'VE STRIKE GOLD, BROTHERSS!!!

<<>

No they are not what you think they are.

(I guess...)

There is like 2 rows of such street bars and each bar was tended by 3-4 girls.

While we waling, we felt abit thirsty, so we stopped by for a drink.

We were thirsty.

OK... they are not fabulous.. I know.

Anyway, I chat up with this California guy drinking by himself. (I am good at picking up guys yo!)

And we took a pic inside the bar.

After the drink, we had to do what we had to do.

Hey, we are guys, and we are in RLD!!

We finally found a hotel and it was way above our expectation.

$60 for the room. $20 each.

Thats the 3 of us and Zhi Ling helping us take the photo.

What happens next shall be kept secret.

Thats a delicious street snack. The best I ate over there. Forgot what its call.

Nevermind... just appreciate the face will do.

Cya!

Day 4! Out of Hong Kong Island!

2008-01-10T08:03:00.000-08:00

Finally left Hong Kong Island for the 1st time!!
Anyway, this is just a prove that I went to Admiralty before, since there is no street post like the 1 below(Wang Jiao).

If you still din know, I am trying to take pictures of the streey post of every MTR stop. I have already covered half of HK island by foot. Still got Kowloon, so long way to go though.

This is Wang Jiao. Alot of good stuff here. Got pirated games(but no PC ..sian), got porn, got gambling, alot of snack shops and etc

Anyway, the main event today is this place.

THE ELEMENTS!!!

THE ELEMENTS is a residential estate specially designed to trap visitors who unknowingly steps into it. I think it got its name from 五行八卦陣, even though its chinese name is 圆坊.

More about this amazing maze.

This place has 2 layer of traps: upper and lower level.

The upper level comprises of alot of flats surounding a round garden.

All sides are guarded by commando police or being barricaded either by fence or sea.

So there is no way to get out of the place from the ground level.

I tried going to different corners to get out, but never succeeded. Only residents with pass could get out.

It was a prison.

<< One of the building surrounding the maze.

And for the part 2 of the 五行八卦陣, which is situated underground. This is the map that I stole from the information counter while 黄容 was toking to 郭靖.

As you can see, the main aim of the lower level maze is to trap you with never ending circles of shops. They even has 5 distinct district: 金,木,水,火,土. I not toking cock. Its real. Click on the pic to see the words.

Lucky for me that I was a guy, I was able to see through the ruse. If it was xiu or faith, they would have been stuck here for eternity.

This are the commandoes police guarding the maze to prevent people from running out.

The logo, as you can see, are many circles that makes you dizzy and hungry. It is also part of the maze mechanism.

This couple in the picture has given up after trying very hard to get out. The guy could have gotten out, but he told me that he wanted to accompany his wife if she is to stay here forever.

This photo is to display their undying love for each other.

Due to the energy wasted while trying to get out, I bought a sushi @ HK$15. Not bad, quite cheap and since it was my favourite Inari sushi.

And I finally got out of THE ELEMENTS.

Seriously, I like the whole design concept. It was nicely plot out and has a creative architectural design.

Hope SG can have something like this too.

Anyway, this is Jordan. Not much there. Other than the shop which is closing down and has 90% disount on everything. But nothing i need.

This picture is just for me to record down the numbers, since I din have a pen when I saw them.

You Ma Di. Some good food.

The porn street. HK$10 for 3 magazines or comics.

While I was looking for PC games, the porn vcd guy keep pulling me to his porn VCD shop. I must have a deprived face eh.

you all need anything tell me k? Altho I dun need, I dun mind buying for you guys or gals(male porn avail too). :p

Sorry Lester, no hentai here, HKer dun watch anime I think.

Hong Kong Mahjong Club. Went in to take a look, but din play. Scared they think I am 賭神. they play HK$50/100 inside, which means SG$10/20...

If I play and someone 十三么, I think I no need go back SG liao...

Went into an arcade center, same as SG, but their game more based on coutry-wide connected games. Like this horse gambling game, can rear your own horse and go race.

I think SG also got, but not as hot as in HK.

This is another game which I think is quite fun and I think SG should import in too.

Its like those shooting games, just that you throw the balls at the screen. I tried once myself, quite fun. Play with frens more fun i think.

Even tuition teachers can become pop stars.

This poster is twice the size of SG's HMV TV if you cun gauge its size.

Women street.

I went in though.

Hungry and ate 6 octopus ball.

Japan food today huh?

Typical gun shops that can be seen almost any country other than SG.

Toys though. But wargames is pretty popular with the students.

Tomorrow shld be a relax day. Just need to go immigration center to get my visa. Then I will need to get kick out of HK and get back again to validate the visa. Macau shall be my hiding place then.

HUAT AH!!!

Day 2 or 3... Forget liao...

2008-01-09T07:22:00.000-08:00

FD taking a pic as a record before moving out.

This was actually yesterday's pic. I holland at 上環 and took a long escalator which brought me to 半山. It is something like our Bukit Timah Estate, where rich people like Sis, Jaja and Xianxian live in.

Anyway, I bashed through the whole hill to get back to HKU, without a map.

My intuition navigation skill is zai.

Went to Wan Chai to do my Visa application, and I have to come back here again on this friday.. sian..

HK famous convention exhibition hall.

Another view.

A big flower given by China to congratulate Hong Kong on being duno what. Wonder if inside got bomb anot.

Wan Chai Night Scene.

This stupid shop tricked me 2 times!!

I keep thinking it was a MTR station and was looking for its entrance.

I have been to Tong Luo Wan.

The soccer court that 陳浩南 1st meet his 大哥 in　古惑仔 1.

Under renovation now.

Toys and Games Fair at Convention Hall.

Need pass to see most stuff.. so I only managed to see those open to public.

Ci BOYS~~~!!

SG also have.

Duno what is this call... but looks nice.

Whole set of it.

This is call 滾球. I spent 1/2 hour watching them play this sport. Abit like Bowling, but on grass patch. The bowl is not round i think and will curl 1 when moving.

Best food eaten today!!!

It is just meat ball with curry sauce and another sauce.

This is my 2nd stick. It suppose to have 4 balls, but I ate 1 before I could grab my camera to take a photo of it.

It is that delicious.

Poor man no $$.. so have to eat bread lor...

車仔面．As recommended by ShaoPeng. Not as nice as he describe. he even said that there is supposed to be peanut-butter-covered noodles?

But the 1 I ate was normal noodles... lousy noodles to be exact.

pretty cheap tho.

Taste not bad. Big portion too.

It is call 干炒宝猪公仔面．

thats all for today. My room mate finally moved in. Not alone anymore. Might be going for Orientation tomorrow.

SIAO ON AHH!!! I SAY U SAY !!! O O O O!!

Day 1 in Hong Kong

2008-01-09T06:42:00.000-08:00

University of Hong Kong... Here I come!

But this is actually the 1st picture that I took in Hong Kong. My hostel room faces the cemetry directly, with Queen Mary hospital as an added bonus.

If anything were to happen to me, I guess it will be settled efficiently.

R.C. Lee hall is 1 of the 3 halls, well known for its eerie atmosphere and past.

So I went shopping for my pillow, which I never found at the end of the day

This is 中環. My 1st shopping stop.

Duno what is this building called, but it has neon light all over it, which pew pew pew throughout the night.

Typical HK night scene. Just thought that this picture quite nice.

The well-known 蘭桂坊, which comprises of just 2 streets of bars and night clubs. Dissapointed and disillusioned by Hong Kong media.

My dinner. I think it is call 蜜汁波羅豬肉飯.

I risked my life to take this picture and hurried off.

The 1st 古惑仔 I meet in HK.

Blocking the whole road with just himself. ZAI!

Finally saw my college, too bad no one was inside.

Not much today, only did some admin work which made me walk around buildings upslope and downslope. My thighs are getting fitter by the day, if I continue to walk 10km everyday.

Prequel: Airport

2008-01-08T12:38:00.000-08:00

1st Floor Buddies and Cleaner

4th Floor Darlings

5th Floor Brothers

6th Floor Honeys

Even though I knew that you guys just happened to pop by while waiting for a Popeye breakfast, I still want to thank you guys for sending me off.

(I wonder who was the one who took all the blur photo... Upcoming photos should be of much higher quality)

Spoils of the day:

Photobook & Photo Frame by Sis

Sim card by XianXian

Letter by Chwan Sang

Letter by Faith

Waste Paper by Shao Peng

T-Shirt by Zhao Yuan, Johnny, Kelvin, Wee Liam, Kuan Thye, and Unknowns

Cya in 6 months time.

King's Hong Kong SEP Trip

Gift Time!

Southern HK Island

GZ Trip - Going Home Soon

Random Pics

Horse Racing

Lantau Island - 天壇大佛

Souveneirs

Happy Birthday Ma!!

Joel's Bday

World Rugby 7 in HK Stadium

Taiwan Trip

2nd day in Taiwan

3rd Day in Taiwan

Last Day in Taiwan

Random Photos

Road to Haven

Random Pics

U Hall Tour

Loving My Life

Land Econs Class

High Table Dinner 2

乐富 to 九龙湾

太子站 至 荃灣站 Shopping Spree

CNY 花市 @ Victoria Park

SG@HK Steamboat Gathering @ 銅鑼灣

Hall or Floor Supper ?

The Peak (International)

1st High Table Dinner

Macau + Zhu Hai Trip

Day 4! Out of Hong Kong Island!

Day 2 or 3... Forget liao...

Day 1 in Hong Kong

Prequel: Airport

太子站至荃灣站 Shopping Spree