糖朝 Sweet Dynasty and more foooood

Sigh.. Here is more food (which implies more calories, grrr.) Some of the exchange students who've been to HK before brought us to this place called "Tang Chao" for good food at reasonable prices.. haha the interior looks quite posh yeah? Their signature dish is their beancurd dou hua which is served in a wooden bucket (that wooden bucket can serve ard 5 people, but we just shared anw... haha i didn't try cos i don't eat beancurd, heh.) We also tried their wanton noodles! Tastes alot better than the Singapore ones! *yum yum*

Here's the mobile post office that drops by our uni everyday to pick up letters and parcels, haha that's where i sent the letter to u guys! hahah quite a different thing from Singapore where we have post boxes everywhere, hahaha. Oh! and my school's quite near an Ikea, their swedish meatballs are so much cheaper than Singapore and they have bigger portions (i think). 10 meatballs for 19hkd! (that's about 4 bucks?) And the "panini" (a type of bread) is served at this "cafe" at my school.. Quite alot of exchange students from America and Europe are seen there trying their sandwiches, not bad but price is abit steep though! And the last pic: this egg tart factory that we chanced upon in Mongkok, which most of us think that they have better egg tarts than those highly publicised ones! ard S$0.50 for each egg tart? haha. *yum yum yum*
By jiahuan On 26 January 2008 At 12:51 PM

The Disneyland MTR & A trip to Lantau Island

Haha i didn't know that the MTR for the train that goes to Disneyland in HK is specially constructed until i really saw it. Of course i didn't spend the money to go to Disneyland la! (it costs ard S$60 just for the entrance fee btw, expensive!) So on our way to the last MTR station on Lantau Island, we got out of the train just to cross the platform to take the special Disney train and went back on our way to our destination, heh. Notice that they have Disney figurines in the train, and their handles are in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head too! haha.

And when we reached our destination (we wanted to go visit the Big Buddha on Lantau Island and shop at the factory outlets), the Tung Chung MTR station, we saw our first food republic in HK! But the food was expensive and not fantastic =( We took the cable car to the Big Buddha attraction and noticed that some pple actually hike the entire cable car distance! (i think you'd be able to zoom in and see some tiny human figures trekking on the path) See the Big Buddha statue amidst the mountains? (look like some xian1 jing4 in some immortal drama, heh) And we ate delicious durian crepe at a dessert foodstall there! (Though i think the fresh durians are definitely nicer!) Oh! There was really lots of factory outlets at that MTR station, but as a student it was of course expensive for me la! So i didn't buy anything:( But there was Esprit, Giordano, Club 21, Calvin Klein, Polo Ralph Lauren, Adidas, Timberland factory outlets etc etc...
By jiahuan On 21 January 2008 At 10:38 AM

CUHK - Shaw College gym looks like this

I realised that every college has their own gym! haha so i went jogging in the gym today cos it's super super super super cold outside (think i'm going to get another jacket le)... Notice on the left side there is an iGallop?! Think that would be my best friend for the next few months, heh. SMU gym should have iGallop too! But after seeing this gym i miss SMU gym so much :'( i want my gym tvs!!! So Weisiong to answer your question, i'm not that deprived of a gym but i still like the SMU gym much more!!!

Fattening but nice desserts from this dessert chain store called 水流山 in Hong Kong. ZQ would love the one on the left: Mango bits + mango ice cream.. Grrr but fatteningggg =( The one on the left has strawberry bits with aloe jelly!
By jiahuan On 16 January 2008 At 11:05 AM

doesn't this look like the moon with 2 suns? heh

haha guess where i took this photo?! I was on my way walking to this super ulu place with many factory outlets in the South of Hong Kong Island near some Ferrari service center thingy at around sunset time, and thought this looked nice, heh. It turned out to be a wasted trip cos the stuff were SUPER ex even though the whole building supposedly had many brands' factory outlets at reasonably cheap prices.. SIGH. but i did have my first experience taking their public buses! =)
Our attempt to visit HKU on the Hong Kong Island: We had to walk up soooo many steep slopes before reaching the uni (Notice the many many levels of slopes we had to climb, and the sea in the far centre of the pic)! And by the time we reached the uni we barely had much energy to explore around le.. :(

Hong Kong School of Motoring: To think that i actually bumped into their driving centre here on the way to find the factory outlet building! haha their L plates are really so different from ours...
By jiahuan On 13 January 2008 At 12:11 AM

Greetings from Hong Kong!

Hi all! As from statistics from previous gsr8 posts, i hardly make any cos i'm lazy to, heh. Since Jos asked me to post some pics, hmm i shall just post some pics of my room la!





My bed looks abit like hospital bed yeah? Well can't help it cos that's the bedsheets they gave us.. The room size is probably only the size of gsr8? 2 of us sharing, then we have a common toilet shared by 16 pple (8 rooms)... my study table with one of the drawers faulty (grrr.) it's first day so it still looks quite neat la huh? errrr well the state now may not be as neat...



And the last picture is for Nat! Sorry i didn't get to wear this in Singapore (no occasions ma), but since the weather's so cold here, i wore the dress u gave me! Looks nice hor! One of the exchange students from US said i looked nice in it, heh :p And as u can see, this room's alot nicer than mine right! I was in another exchange friend Robyn's room and took this picture! :)

Joanna! I will wear your dress someday and also take a picture k! heh:)

Eh posting and writing a bit ley chey leh.. so don't think i'll post that much, heh. Anyway missing everyone in Singapore badly! Hope all is doing well at work and at school:)

Love you guys!
By jiahuan On 09 January 2008 At 10:51 AM

2008



The fun of 2007 has ended as we usher in 2008.

Let us the remaining students mug hard for the last sem, and the working one work hard (to treat the struggling students =p).

Cheers,
AD

By ADrian On 07 January 2008 At 8:58 PM