Sunday, September 26, 2010

Busy & Happy Birthday Week

20th Nite - Magic Club Tea Gathering. Paid HKD 15 and can enjoy learning magic tricks, watched awesome magic performance, ice breaking games and snacks party !!

21st Nite- Asian's nite at St Joseph's restaurant @ Graduate House. Invited by Lee Ling (Malaysian working in Global lounge) to gather for a dinner between Asians. Well, Malaysians made up 70% of the population or more, some from thailand, some from singapore, indonesia and myanmar. We had a western style course meal for free !! Wow


22nd Nite-Mid Autumn Festival Gathering @ St John's Bar. Another awesome gathering organised by our seniors. I really like them !! haha
Had lots of fun and ate lots of different flavour mooncake, thou v din;t play lantern, we did hav some traditional games like musical chair (LOL), HKU traditional game -first impression ...


23rd Nite- My very big day, YES !! I turned 20 officially !! Hmm.. very significant bday in my life cuz is the first time I m celebrating without my family, away from Malaysia. T.T
One big compensation is that I will be watching Jay Chou's concert tonight in Hung Hom with my floormate !! OMG.. can't imagine I will b able to share my bday nite to him...XD

Needless to say, the concert was really awesome, n the best 1 I had ever seen !!
Not forgetting my day time precious memory, Heather brought me together with her "sisters" for a trip to Noah's Ark, a newly established theme park in HK, near Tsing Ma Bridge.

Also, really felt warm receiving bday cards from family (Malaysia), from Wan Jing(UK), from Eden (US) as well as from a Canadian HKU exchange student-Rosalind. Not forgetting my only sms wish (T.T) from Cherry Jane, neglecting the cost she need to pay for oversea messaging !

24 Nite- Again, this night was nothing more special than Jay Chou last show in HK !! I had a biology lab session however till 6.30pm, I just can't make myself focus on the experiment, and kind of ruined it instead. I ended up causing more time delay =(. But, I don't care. I was too excited, can;t wait to watch Jay again !! This time, with a Malaysian HKU senior, sook voon.
Our seats were nearer to stage, but almost 90degree to stage, can hardly see Jay when he plays piano T.T
You juz can;t imagine how talented Jay is, his show was so different from last night, most importantly, tonight special guest was A-Mei !! So So So HIGH we were !! We cheered aloud for fourth encore, but it seems impossible and we left reluctantly after abt 20 mins of prolonged stay.


25th - Early morning, we were kind of being chased out by Hall as they were spraying insecticides. Thus, few of us(floormates), went Central lian xiang lou for morning tea, at 9.30am.
Well, again it was crowded. But not as nice as Sheng Heng I think. They don't have the yellowish yolk bun. I then rushed back to meet the others 100+ international students for departure to Tai Tum Tuk for BBQ. We went in 2 buses, sit with Felicia and Sharon, we chatted a lot about shopping, food... in HK. Play Dai Dee, magic, BBQ, tug-o-war, tricycle rides, glass ball chess,..... Have lots of fun again !! FOR FREE !! haha

26th Nite-After days of"HEA" (cantonese). I decided to spent my day revising. I did !! Wow .. haha
till evening, I had not taken any meals. Cindy (floormate) asked me to go for dinner together. We went down to Westwood and dine in Japanese restaurant. $140++ for 2 of us. Not as nice as Sakae, the $ not so nice too ! I miss Sakae !!

Saturday, September 18, 2010

3rd Week of School

Everything starts to settle down and I was getting busier. Hate doing CAES 1801 Essay !
Can't think of a good idea to write on.

Went to collect my HK ID, it only took me about 15 minutes for the whole process.

Had first ever CC tuto in Medical campus, which is 10 minutes bus-distance away
In a group with many pharmacy students, and I am the only non-local. Our topic was- What is Life. Well, a very difficult and debatable topic.

Enjoy playing "Leg-orgs" in our CC, but felt asleep during the first 1.5H of boring lecture.

On Friday night, Heather visited me and we chat a lot on essay and the biotech GE course, until I was called by 5th Floor guys, only then we realise it was 11.10pm !! According to the rules of Starr Hall, no visitors are allowed to stay beyond 11pm. OMG.. we rushed down and signed out. Unfortunately, my name was highlighted. I had a bad feeling. Really, I received a verbal warning for this offense 3 days later. T.T

Is kind of like my first ever warning received in my life. Unacceptable. But no choice, take it easy!! Though I put myself at a higher risk of being kick out the hall next year..... Haiz

Monday, September 13, 2010

First time self-cooking



It has been raining non-stop since friday night. I still made it to Wellcome supermarket with Rosalind to buy ingredients to cook for our dinner.

I bought spare ribs (in a packet of 7), with Lee Kum Kee sauce, as well as indomie and other frozen food. Kay came to visit me as well as Heather. They tried on my food and said it was nice ... Though it will taste better if not so hangus.. But I really enjoy eating.. I miss the taste and I like pork ribs !

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Sold my jay chou ticket and met with new friend

Only woke up at 12pm. After skyping and fb, is already time for me to go Central to meet with a girl named Vivi. She was helping her friend to buy Jay Chou ticket from me ( a $280 ticket which I have extra). At first we like wanna leave just after we exchanged our ticket and $, but eventually we started up chatting and it last for half an hour.

We are die hard fans of Jay. She was nice and recommended me to visit a forum in fm 903 whereby there were a group of them "wolf" chatting about jay or any issues around Jay daily, in a post of more than 3000 pages.

Since I was in Central, I decided to have my dinner there as well. My mum thought that today is my Lunar birthday, but actually it is tomorrow, 12/9. But I am treating myself a so called birthday dinner which is quite luxury to me, a lamb shoulder + spaghetti set.( $ 84) So full, I can only finished half the spaghetti and soup, and 2.5 of 3 of the lamb shoulder. What a waste, if in Malaysia, I am sure I will be sharing it.

My HK friend who are suppose to watch concert with me on 23, 24 can;t turn up as her mum enter wad. So sad and feel sorry for her. But I am in troubles, I need to find people to take over her tickets immediately, not much time left to 16/9!!
Luckily, a malaysian senior will be watching with me on 24th, but I still have problem on 23rd show. I really wanna watch on that day, as it is my birthday ! And I feel like upgrading my 480 to 880 tickets too, but I m certain that I do not want to watch alone on that day. Please, some one watch with me !!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Thai Horror Movie

Today suppose to have ghost stories campus tour at night for unit O, but due to rain, the event changed to Movie watching in Sum's room. There were about 20 + of us, all squeezed inside a single room, some sit on the beds, some on the matress on the floor, some even on table !

It was my first time watching horror movie, and luckily with so many people. At least when I screamed, I will not be alone and can hold on each other arm when feeling scared. It was about 5 different stories, I enjoy watching all of them especially the last one. Scary at some scenes, shocking at some scenes, sad at some scenes, funny ast some scenes.....

Luckily I can still sleep well at night...

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Have Fun in Unit cooking

All freshman of 4, 5th Floor need to cook specified dishes. There are 3 groups, I am with Isabella and Nathan. Our topics are Tomato,Tofu and 鱔 (Something like eel??) After our classes at 4.30pm, we went down to Shek Tong Zui market. Their pasar is so well organised and big, with 3 floors, it has escalators !! Unlike pasar in Malaysia, pasar pagi closes completely around 11pm and pasar malam only starts about 5pm. Here, you can basically buy food at the most convenient time afternoon after work or school.

Very soon, we gathered all required ingredients for HKD 133 and went back cooking. I stuffed the tofu with fish paste while Isabella was doing on the 鱔. At last, Nathan cooked the fried tomato egg but he partly failed because he did not even add salt to it...

Other group are cooking pork, chicken feet soup, some vege and 田雞,celery and Yong Tou Fu.
Surprisingly all our dishes were very very delicious, especially those by Emily's group. I like the pork meat very much ! Is my first time eating 鱔, and I found it quite nice also.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Aftershock movie + Japanese Dinner

After school, I took bus-MTR to Po Lum, Tseung Kwan O, purposely to watch a movie called Aftershock 唐山大地震. A very sad touching movie recommended by my whole family in Malaysia, they asked me to watch it no matter how. I cried even watching the trailer. Only 8 of us in the cinema, maybe because this movie were shown for quite some time in HK, thats why it is so hard for me to find a cinema that is still showing this.

I really recommend this to everyone, just watch it, you will be touched by the story and perhaps we can learn better how to appreciate what we have with us now. And also, to feel more sympathy to those quake victims and devote our time and money in helping them.

On the way back, I got down the train and take a look of the Tseung Kwan O MTR station, hoping that I would find traces of TVB City, but I can't obviously =(

Just after I reached hall, I followed my unit to Central for japanese dinner buffet, 180 per person. Lot of variety, you just can't finish all of them and utilises all that you had paid, but it's ok for me, as long as I have eaten what I want to and food that worth HKD 180 to me. I like to salmon sashimi especially, so freshy.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Unit dinner again + Room visit

At night, our unit again went out for unit dinner, this time nearby Shek Tong Zui market. Is something like 大排檔. The food were so delicious, I wish I could have eat again.

Back to hall, many freshman were planning to start their room visit of 100 Hours with the 5th Floor man first. Though I did not pass the O camp and not required to do room visit, but I just tried up with Alyssa and Rosalind. We visited Sum's and Zoda room, while simultaneously chat with B.D. also. Nathan and B.D. were initially playing soccer games with the big TV they took from the pantry. We start chatting about Sum's love history, about Shang Hai, Malaysia.... a little bit gam gai at first, but after that is better. As Zoda wanted to prepare for his job interview tomorrow, we left earlier after an hour.

Half day ?!

I only woke up at 2.30pm, when I received a call. Went to the library to do some reading. along with my laptop. Before I back to my hall, went to PHD to buy pizza and take away, only that we get 50% off. I had a mini pizza with soup for HKD 25. Cheap !

Ate it in pantry to enjoy the aircond and watch Princess Is Coming from TVB.

So short a day, just because of the morning tea we went last mid-night till 4am.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Hiking to The Peak

4.30pm, a group of Malaysians and some Indonesians gathered at Haking Wong podium of HKU, preparing for hiking. I didn't know that the trail actually begins in our campus. All the way up the steep slope, we finally reached the starting point of the actual trail from Long Hu Shan (Dragon Tiger Mountain) to THE PEAK. For the first hour, I really felt like I am gonna die soon, I can hardly breath and my sweat wet my whole shirt. I feel like fainting. Thus, I took a rest whenever I see a bench. After the first hour hike, we finally reached the flatter trail and is kind of walking downwards, so is not that demanding anymore. Furthermore, we start getting very nice scenary of the Hong Kong island as well as across Kowloon.
Me and 3 Indonesians

At around 6.15pm, we reached The Peak, and took a group photo !

Then, we proceed to have our reward for the hardwork-Yoghurt icecream in the peak plaza. Our dinner was at Central, Wellington Street. We ordered mostly wantan mee, amazingly there were very spicy chilis which is quite rare in HK and the wantans were so nice and big !

Saturday, September 4, 2010

3rd Day

Only had 2 classes today at the same venue, but I misslooked and went to the wrong place. Still wondering why I am the only one until the very last minute?? XD

When I was collecting my student registration card, I met with Heather from Malaysia and had a nice long chat. We had lunch together, signed up for Union Choir which need us to attend "試音" at 3.40pm. It would means that I can't leave school yet although my classes ended at 11.30am. We went to the computer centre to spend our time.

I would said signing up for the Choir was the most shameful thing I have done in HKU. I have zero knowledge on music notes and choir singing. I don't think they will contact me for further confirmation of membership at all.

After we collected our union diary, Heather reminded me about today's course selection workshop at 5pm. Again, I have to stay.

Beatrix and Alex were again there, but another senior from FOS -Hamsa from Pakistan was the one in-charge of giving advice on our course selection. He majoring in biotech while minor in chemistry, kind of opposite to mind.

Keeps raining keeps raining for the whole day ! really hate it.. so leceh

At night, we had fruit session with unit-mates at 10.30pm. Isa.bella and I helped to cut those fruits, we had watermelon, apples, oranges, grapes and bananas. Then, I planned to sleep a short while before we go for morning tea at 2.30am. Yet, I couldn;t sleep. After some long time of cracking my head to think about what topic to write about for my english essay, I finally found a bbetter topic and decided to switch from bullet train development in HK to inductive charging. I just accidentally read an article about it, hopefully it really helps. Thus, I spent 2H + to prepare my essay outline, trying to make it as complete as it could. The number of words even approached the maximum words allowed-1000. I was so satisfied !

Very fast, was 2.30am. My roomate did not follow as she was sick and need to go back home the nnext day morning. Only about half of unitmates turned up. We took taxis to the restaurant, very crowded with other hallmates of different units. Luckily, our floor reps went early to reserve place for us. We ate a lot of dim sum, especially Sally ! haha
The dim sum were very nice !!! So yummy that I really wish I could eat much much more.

Today, by chatting more with the seniors, I hope that our friendship can be enhance. Took pictures with Sally, Cindy and all others as well in group photo. They also asked me a lot on Malaysia's dim sum, and make joke out of the "Malay Kuih" we ate. I prefer the "Fried Milk" and Chun Guen. We ate food of HKD 600++ at last.

When we planned to walk back hall, Sum found a vacant minibus and decided to rent that bus which costs us about HKD 80. Better than taking many taxis. And it was so cool !!

Today's bad wheather caused floor reps to cancel saturday beach trip and change to sing K. Yet, many can't make it and tomorrow will be free day ~

Friday, September 3, 2010

2nd Day

Attended 2 chemistry classes today, found that it is tougher than biology and really needs to pay attention to the lecturers. Unlike in biology class, I felt sleepy !

Then I also attended an English Courses, our professor Patrick Desloge gave us a diagostic test in our first lesson ! According to him, we all failed the test as we do not know how to acknowledge the sources well yet. At the end of the class, he gave us homework which is to prepare our essay outline and email to him before next week. He used iPhone 4 to take every picture of our faces before we left.

My last lesson was Cantonese for Foreign Learner II. Yes, I have basically no problem with speaking Cantonese, but one of the reason I drop the class is because I don't know Yutping粵拼.
It is something like hanyupinyin that helps us to pronounce mandarin word. But somehow I enjoy the class and acted like I do not speak cantonese. LOL

At night, our unit O was having 1st floor meeting. About rules, reminders and taking up posts by freshmen. Me and Isabel.la chose to be Pantry Manager, which will be incharge of replenishing new common stuffs-shopping time !

Then we had mass cleaning of pantry.. really MASS !! It took 20+ of us to clean it for 2 hours !!
Our reward was-watermelon ! LOL

Thursday, September 2, 2010

1st September- 1st Day of Uni Life Officially

Had class from 9.30 to about 5pm. Attended Uni maths A class at very beginning of the day. It was still very fundamental concepts being taught on set notation. I went to look for Dr. Chan for approval of course, and he said it might be too easy for CAL student like me and adviced me to take Linear Algebra instead. However, the Dr Lau who is teaching that course said differently, this course is for maths major student, very demanding. Since I am taking it just to make up my graduation requirements, I can choose the simple one. Sweat...

Then attended Bio class, Common Core class on Origin and Evolution of Life. What is LIFE? hehe
interesting, but demanding though. Prof Pointing is the lecturer.

At night, we had Unit Orientation, which include all floormates from 4th and 5th Floor of Starr Hall. We had dinner together in a restaurant opposite Westwood. It was Chew Chou cuisine, very tasty !! We "round table" and introduce ourselves to each other.

Back then, we had ice-breaking games, on Big TV, Pak 7, Beng Bang Wah, Guess Odd, First Impression... Untill about 12am, only we get to sleep. So tired.
Having class at 9.30am again tomorrow.

zzzzz

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Merdeka Gathering in HK

Another busy day, I took bus to Wan Chai for my HK Identity Card appointment. The whole process took less than an hour. My thumbprint was again, hard to recognise by the computer scan...haiz... The picture I had taken there was so ugly... And I have to bear with it as long as I am in HK and need ID card. Then, I went to Asian House nearby to collect my Jay Chou ticket, the staffs were nice.

I ate Mc Donald's burger which only cost me about $ 6 + $ 7 of Float. When I was about to take a bus home, Wan Jing called me surprisingly. She was in Lantau Island. But I din't know she had been to Wan Chai this morning itself!

I tried to meet her up at the MTR station -Mei Foo. We chatted for about half an hour and left.
I took MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui for Merdeka Gathering, organised by HKU Malaysian seniors.

There were quite a number of us and we had an personal area for our semi-buffet. The food was nice but a bit too little, yet it cost me the most among all the dinner I had in HK, $ 120 !!
We had "speed date", Big TV games,...etc. The seniors also taught us about some local slang of Cantonese like "Cher", "Sor"=Sorry,...

Then, we went back by taking ferry. So we walked together to the Ferry Pier, passed by the beautiful starwalk along Victoria Harbour. Nice chatting with another 2 new Msian freshman, both in medicine. Charlene and Tze Hui.

I took green minibus for the first time, very scary the way the driver drove. And you must shout at the driver if you want to stop at any station. No fix route for it.