Dear all,
Here I am, honouring my promise to NUS - A blog about my study exchange experiences in Hong Kong.
This is The University of Hong Kong's (HKU) Main Building. Does the design of this building not remind you of some ancient building? Well, let me give you some history of HKU.
The University is founded in 1910 - the birth of Hong Kong's first tertiary institution. In December 1916, the University held its first congregation, with just 23 graduates.
It was ten years after the founding of HKU that women students were admitted for the first time. In 1937, Queen Mary Hospital opened and has served as the University's teaching hospital since that time.
Up to today, it is now Hong Kong's largest tertiary-level institution for continuing education with cumulative enrolment totalling more than one million students.
Therefore, I am pretty sure I will be able to gain some quality education over here, together with some cultural exchange and interaction with the local students. I will definitely enjoy my semester here! So dear friends, enjoy along with me! =)
Monday, December 05, 2005
5th Dec - DisneylandFinally! To Hong Kong Disneyland! Well, this is the first Disneyland I had been to, and it wasn't really fascinating. It was really small! Nevertheless, it was a fun-filled day. Oh, it was exceptionally cold today too! But it made the atmosphere even more Christmas and fantasy-like!
Even the MTR to Sunny Bay had Disneyland concept! Look at the Mickey window!
Basically, Disneyland was small, so we could have completed it within a day. However, we couldn't complete it within a day, with the huge crowd there...
Took many photos with the cute little cheeky characters! Had to queue up for them, so we missed quite alot of characters cos we did not have the time to queue up for it..
Took and visited some nice rides and attractions, and my favorites rides were the thrill ride in Space Mountain and the 3D attraction called Mickey's Philar Magic. The thrill ride was really thrilling considering it was an indoor ride, and the 3D movie was superb!! It was really interactive! For instance, during the movie, there was this Donald Duck flying in the air with Peter Pan, and we actually feel the wind blowing on us! And there's another scene of splashing water, and REAL water actually splashed on us! How interactive can it get huh?
There was this parade down U.S.A street. Quite interesting..
We actually missed quite alot of attractions because the queues were simply too long. If we want to go for this, we had to forgo that. Well, opportunity cost has to be incurred I guess.
Some other nice photos we took in Disneyland..
That's a day version and night version of Sleeping Beauty Castle. The other one was Tarzan's treehouse!Disneyland created a Christmas atmosphere, and Christmas songs were played in the whole of Disneyland. There was this huge Christmas tree in the middle of U.S.A street, and at 6pm, there was a Christmas tree lighting up ceremony! It was quite nice, with some artificial snow after the lighting up of Christmas tree. The artificial snow was a disappointment I must say. Haha..
At 8pm, there were fireworks just behind Sleeping Beauty Castle! The fireworks were superb, as they danced with the rhythms of Disney songs!
Gotten myself some nice souvenirs, and left Disneyland around 9+pm. It was freezing cold at Disneyland by that time. The first night of cold felt in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, a really fun-filled day of fantasy. =)
Really hate to get back to reality.
11:21 PM , Reminisced
