The disappointing mountains

Blue Mountains is such a famous thing. Everyone talks about it, and it seems to be a must-go-tourist-spot, obviously for all tourists, and of course, including me.

I didn't have time for it since I came to Aussie, and we missed the chance to join the 2 days 1 night tour group with the Unimates. So we had to come out with our own plans and route.

Me, Steph and Tony went there on Saturday. Woke up damn early in the morning, got on the train around 8-ish, fell asleep in the train, and guess what, dannnngggggg, we missed the stop to get off. The next thing we knew when we woke up, was almost everyone got off the train, and there's no turning back. This is not HK, where you can just go to the opposite rail and wait for the train to get back. Here, you have to wait for some 40-50 minutes for the next train.

Haha. So we wondered around this small lil town, we have no freaking idea where we were at. Luckily, we managed to find a stop to catch a bus back to our original stop. Wasted another 2 dollars plus I guess. Haha... and definitely a lot of time.

Anyway, we made our way to the Blue Mountains. Bought tickets for the steep rail, cableway, skyway, and hop-on-and-off trolley ride. Went around the main area of the Blue Mountains (forgot what they call that...), expected to see some cool falls during the Skyway, but  what we saw was just not what we expected. It was mini, and it looked like water coming out from the shower. Anyway, then spent time on the Gordon Falls, expecting to see another grand falls (like what we saw on the advert photo), and once again, got disappointed=.= OMG, what happened? No one could explain. Anyway, we then went walking along the trails in the mountains, took some photos...and got lost not long after that. Lost as in people told us we have to walk another 4km to reach to the next stop. Panicked for awhile, but luckily, we met a really cool man with a 4WD who was so kind to bring us to a landmark with MORE PEOPLE. Saw a little bit of sunset on the other side.

And then, it was fish n chips + some other fried seafood for dinner. Train back after that. Fell asleep again. But those Cantonese and perhaps South East Asians were talking and laughing so loudly that we couldn't concentrate sleeping....

Anyway, we were so tired. But at least, now we know what Blue Mountains is like. The mountain is definitely not blue, no falls maybe only some showers, and lotsa trees all around. Nothing special aight? Haha....

Missing the gym

Happy 20th Birthday BodyStep!! =)

I attended Lesmills quarterly Ultimate Super Workshop in Sydney.

It was spectacular.

And I really enjoyed it.

It made me think of those days I used to work in FF Penang. Those days of being a full time receptionist, part time receptionist, regular stepper, and eventually a BodyStep instructor. (Well, although I am not yet fully certified=.=) I miss those days, where I spend so much time gossiping about everything (hey, that's every girls' favorite ok..), where I attend Step classes so regularly, where I worked so hard to be good in BodyStep, and made all the effort to be cleared to instruct as a BS instructor.

I would say that I did not quite get 'there' before I left FF, and the gym life in Penang. I knew that I could do better, but I just didn't have enough time. If only I were a guy, maybe I could be better (you know males are always more favored everywhere, seriously =.=). It took me a lot of effort to make the class an enjoyable one, one that people will feel so happy and satisfied after attending it. Well, or I should say I didn't really succeed in figuring out the best method. It was just so hard, to please everyone in the class.

Nevertheless, I will never forget how I love BodyStep. I still do love it, and I enjoyed doing the MasterClass with the DVD presenters in the quarterly. I wanna keep myself involved in this world of GX instructors, although I know it'll be hard to do that in Hong Kong. But teaching is just a lot of fun (though stressful at times).....maybe Brandon kinda inspired me, too. Haha.

By the way, I learned a lot from the quarterly. It has been awhile since I made myself jump up and down like that for more than 5 hours in a day. It was painful too...haha...the push ups, the load on my triceps (which are tremendously weak =[ ) I'm so goinna get so much pain after this workout. But it made me realize that, my passion for fitness is still there, and it has always been there. I enjoyed quite a lot of the master classes, love the songs for BodyAttack and BodyBalance. Well, if I had more time, and perhaps more opportunities in Hong Kong, I would go for training in BB and BodyVive.

Haha, will see how it goes then.

Well Alan, I do admire you at times. Have fun BA+BS+BJ-ing yeah~~ You are one great instructor XD, I knew it even before you started any trainings.

Anzac Day

It is a day ....

"Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in military operations for their countries."

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day

I woke up at like 6.30am on that day to watch the parade. So can't believe that. Cz I've never been up so early to watch even Merdeka Day Parade for over erm, 19 years? Owh maybe there was one year where I was involved in the parade myself. Haha XP

The reason I woke up so early is because it was stated in the internet that the dawn service starts at 4am, and the whole place will be crowded with people from well maybe 3.45am. And I thought if I really wana see the parade I shouldn't make my suffer by tip-toeing throughout the whole parade just because I couldn't get a good view=.=

BUT....there was barely much cars or people on the streets when I left home at 7.30am. Hmmm? I was wondering what happened. Maybe because it drizzled a little in the morning...?

Anyway, I just walked around and I found myself a good spot to watch the parade, opposite Town Hall, where I can take some good photos with good background. Owh yea, they were giving out free Australia flag too...haha.

The parade did  start on time. A lot of taxis at first (I really don't know why...) then followed by armies, bands, old people especially in the parade. It was interesting at first I would say....but since I do not know that much about it, and it was kinda repetitive, so I left before the end of the parade. I had enough pictures of it anyway....and I was really sleepy.

Well, good thing I had a no school tomorrow because of this celebration!! Yippee~~~

The Orchestra and Alice in the Wonderland

Well, not that I watched the orchestra playing Alice in the Wonderland songs...haha.
It just happened on a same day.

The grand grand opera house

I was looking forward to enjoy a nice show at the Opera House, doesn't really matter what show it is. Drama, musical etc.
And Unimates actually arranged us for this romantic afternoon event, featuring "VIVA ESPANA - Spanish flair, Spanish rhythm and the elegant passion of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez." http://www.sydneysymphony.com/seasons/2010/productions/2397-2010-Viva-Espana/details/
It was a really nice orchestra performance. And I felt so attached to music after not being in any similar performances for years. Ah....Dewan Sri Pinang, that's what I recall first when it comes to orchestra performances. And we only have to pay like RM5 or RM10 for night performances? Haha...well guess what, it was AUD30 (discounted price) for the VIVA ESPANA afternoon performance! But anyway, I really do miss music.

After that, we went to walk around The Rocks - Sydney. Well, before being any closer to this place, I seriously thought that this is a place with...erm, lotsa ROCKS. But well, it's actually a lil town, selling lotsa Australian specialities, some handmade crafts, and some nice retaurants, cafes and bars to chill. Anyway, we didn't have much time to walk around the market, which sells all those cute stuff as they end their business at 5pm SHARP. But we did manage to see some really nice necklaces (OWH, they are sooooo unique AND EXTREMELY expensive!!), had a stick of chocolate coated strawberries, tasted some sweet sweet Australian honey and had a AUD2 grilled butter corn (AUD3 off original price cause they're closing). It was cool, and we enjoyed it a lot. Planning to come back again sometime before we leave Aussie, and buy the necklace if we still have some cash left by the end of the exchange!! Haha.

Then we headed to Pancakes at the Rocks for dinner. This 24-hour restaurant was so freaking famous, and there is almost always a line of people waiting outside of its door. Luckily, we were there early and we managed to secure our seats pretty easily. The menu looked good. But that made me thought of Paddington Pancakes at Queensbay, which had a even fancier and larger variety of food choice compared to this. And so we ordered some dessert pancakes (both chocolate and butter milk pancakes) with some ice cream and fruits around. Overall, I would say it was yummy, but personally I think it's pretty overrated. Paddington could be so much better than this, and the price was much more competitive back there too. But, okay, no complains. Unless I'm willing to fly back home immediately for a pancake? Haha.

Our last stop for the day was Darling Harbour IMAX Theatre. That is the one with the largest IMAX screen in the world. So we scheduled ourselves for Alice in the Wonderland at 9.15pm. We were lucky enough to catch another cool musical fireworks display about 45minutes before the show. Don't really know what was that for, but presumably, Anzac Day which falls on the following day. And so we bought our tickets and ligned up to get into the cinema! OMG, this is the first time ever we actually have to lign up to watch a show. And we haven't got into the room until like 9.35pm? Haha. OZ experience.
The screen was good, 3D was kinda fun, Jack Sparrow was better in Pirates, and the story was predictable. Well, again, it was a nice experience.

And so, we ended this super tiring day. But yeah, I did have fun as promised right? =) Cheers!

Sudden Decision. Gold Coast

We went crazy all of a sudden at one day.

Tiger Airways was doing this great sale great promotion thing. Getting you to fly across Australia. It costs as low as AUD19 one way to fly from Sydney to Gold Coast (normal price around AUD60 I guess).

So my housemate was like asking me, do you wanna go to Gold Coast for a weekend?

And I couldn't believe myself eventually agreeing to it.

And so we made our decision in only about two days. 

Skip class? (Not me though) Quizzes or assignments or essays around the corner?

Who cares. 

We came here for exchange. For the better OZ experience.

So, Gold Coast here we come.

Even if it's only the three of us.

Flying is fun. Taking 1000 photos in 4 days will be fun. Taking more jumping photos would be fun. Spending lotsa tiring yet crazy time together is fun. Especially when we only have less than 10 weeks together in this weird slow country.

Cheers Shiney and Stephy.

We'll have tonnes of fun together.

Easter Show

Backdated: 9th April 2010, Friday...

If you've seen photos from my Facebook, you would have known that it was a huge and interesting event.

Me and some exchange buddies went to the Easter Show a day after we came back from the Melbourne trip.

That was a major annual event for Sydney. And it was huge. There were so many things happening in the event. And once again I would say that I didn't have enough time to get around the shows, the exhibitions, and the fun and thrill rides. Other than that, yeah, it costs a lot too. The entrance fee itself costs AUD26 with student concession.

We spent most of our time with the farm animals. Seen sheep shearing, and milked the cows. We pat a lot of sheep, goats, cows, and even chickens in the nursery. Saw some beautiful horses too. Not to miss, the dog show, but we were there pretty late, and sadly, I missed most of my favorite animal, the dogs! We reached the showcase after the opening hours =( Other than that, we saw a grand parade, which to me was not so much of an interesting parade, it was just full of people bringing out farm animals and walking in circles. Haha. And then we missed the pig race, which was extremely exciting and interesting cause we felt the atmosphere through peeking outside the race area.

As mentioned there were some thrilling rides too. But it was way too expensive, some of the fun rides cost a minimum of 8AUD. Ya, 8AUD for like 5 minutes? Ahh...that's too much. But me and my friend tried playing at one of the game stalls, trying to win a huge huski toy!!! The HUSKI was soooo cute. But of course, guys are perhaps better in winning these games, as we saw quite a lot of guys wondering around with huge soft toys....argh~ But anyway, we got ourselves a very cute showbag, a brand which was never heard before, but it's mascot is pretty cute, as a reward.

摩天輪，那好像是回憶裏的幸福~

I had kebab as dinner. And we head to the main arena for some fun night show. There was the girl's stunt show, toyota XX stunt show, and the motorcycle stunt show. Haha, all of them were cool! And then there was this robosaurus which I was not so interested in. The night ended with the spectacular musical fireworks!!!

很燦爛的煙花~

We were extremely exhausted by the end of the day. Imagine being out and walking non-stop from 9.30am till 11pm. Not to mention my half-broken camera. 

But I'm glad that I came here. Without any doubts, it was indeed a wonderful day.

Whooosh. Half of April is gone.

Well, I'm still hanging in here. A lot of things happening and a lot of things to do lately. I wanna blog. But I just heaps (The Australian word, it means lots!) of things coming up non-stop that makes blogging something that has to be on the waiting list.

So, a quick quick quick update.

I started Easter Holidays the day after April Fool. I had one day rest on the first day of hols, and started all the fun the day after. I went to the Hoopla Festival on 3rd April, left Sydney for Melbourne on 4th April and stayed there till early Thursday morning, came back home like a deadly tired person on 8th April, went to Easter Show on 9th April, and became a good student on the last 2 days of my hols, just because I have a midterm on the day school resumes, which is 12th of April.

Why is my break sooooooo short la?

A photo I took during my Melbourne trip. I love this a lot. Randomness....haha.

Okay, I'll tell you guys more in detailed. Erm, when I finish these 2 crazy weeks of exams and essays and assignments.....

Cheers!

Easter is coming.....

 

Easter is coming coming coming.....

I never thought Easter could be such a big thing, in Hong Kong as well as in Australia. We have a week long holiday in Hong Kong, and 10 days holiday including Good Friday in Australia. We call that Easter Break, or Easter Holiday.

I never really noticed what Easter is like in Hong Kong. But in Australia, there's a lot happening during Easter. First of all, there has been a lot of sales regarding Easter. All supermarkets sell a variety of chocolate, some a lot in the rabbit shape, and others in the huge egg shape. They are sooooo cute, and definitely tempting. Owh, and some sell rabbit fluffy toys as well....

Other than that, there are a lot of events happening throughout Easter. I shall update you guys when I attend those events.

The Unimates Students Association had their coffee and cakes session themed as "Pre-Easter Coffee & Cakes". It was a fun session with some cute food serving a lot of people. Too bad, I didn't have enough time to spend there making more friends as I only had my 10 minutes break of lecture for this....

Another tutor of mine gave us eggy chocolates during tutorials too. How sweet is that!!

given by my tutor ^.^

So, yeah, it seems like a huge celebration that I've never experienced before....Happy Easter everyone!!

And a lil update over here, I will be spending time at Melbourne for 4 days 4 nights this Easter! =)

The football game

We have a lot scheduled for today.

 Isn't the rabbit very cute? =)

First, a local town festival. There were a number of stalls selling and promoting stuff. There are farm animals and creatures on display too. Locals bought themselves a cup of coffee, sat back, and enjoy the music and performances from some bands.

Next, the Thai Festival. This is a bigger one, at Tumbalong Park, near Darling Harbour. Well, I think most people in the festival are Thai. Haha...there were some thai products on sale, and of course a lot of yummy Thai food. Well, yea, they look indeed very yummy, but too expensive. There were some Thai performances on stage too. As usual, people sitting on the grass, enjoying their bottle of beer or wine.

 Then, we went to meet a HK star at Paddy's Market =.= Haha, yea, you heard me correctly, HK star, Joey Yung, she's goinna have a tour in Sydney tomorrow. Well, I think if I were the star, I would be disappointed with the crowd on a Saturday afternoon, well despite the fact that this is not a Chinese country. But she looked way too thin to me. Hmm, like people who hasn't been having enough food for some time.

 Then we walked to Central station, for the highlight of our day. The football game!! Well,  this is definitely my first time watching a football game live in a stadium, and I can't believe I gave it to an Australian football game. It is the Swans (Sydney) against the Saints (Melbourne). I think it's pretty fun, it got excited at some time, and it got kinda funny when supporters of different teams sit close by to each other. Well, I said this because there was a group of people supporting the opposite team, and a lady in that group shouted like hell throughout the game. =.= Haha, and the funniest thing is that she acts as though she's the coach or something, trying to get the players do what she think it's right to do...funny funny. Overall, I think it was a good experience, although we had to sit there from around 7pm to almost 10pm. Anyway, the Swannies did not win the game, we heard that the Saints used to be a strong team, and they made it to the finals last year.

What a hot and tiring Saturday. =)

Owh, week 4 of studies is over already!!!!!

Updates in a glance

I think I HAVE grown fat~

I guess I have not been good in the past few months. It has been ages again since I updated my blog. I have promised to kinda tell stories about everything after I finish my final exams in HKUST, but it didn’t happen. And since then, I have been to Chongqing, Wuhan (just for a night), back to Hong Kong, done some winter courses, back to Malaysia, had my reunion “lunch”, boarded the cheap airflight to Changi Airport, and arrived in Brisbane for a few hours, and then Sydney Australia.

Well it has been a long long time.

(Haha, actually, I had this time because I don’t have internet access at the moment~~haha~)

This is the extremely beautiful campus of Sydney Uni

After being here for 8 days, I would say I really did not have a good start. Well firstly, coming from a HOT country, I would definitely not want to go to another place which is also HOT for the period I would be there. Yea, it has been sultry hot for the past week except for the first day I arrived where it rained cats and dogs. HOT-34 degree Celsius-sweat-sun burn….and what else. At some moments, I do feel stupid leaving Hong Kong with the weather at an average of 8-12 degree Celcius everyday? Haha.

I have yet to find anything that I would say is CHEAP here.

$$$EXPENSIVE$$$

This is so much like a No-Money-Don’t-Come-Continent. It’s not that I have not been here (Aus) before….but, you will just feel that our currency is so much undervalued after seeing the price of EVERYTHING over here. And yea, it definitely feels even worse when you know you’re goinna stay here for a semester. All meals on average AU$7-10 and bottled drinks (500ml) are at AU$2, well you should know that I am most sensitive about the prices of FOOD. Haha. Other than that, transportation cost kills you. To travel for like a less than 1km ride, it costs AU$1.60 by bus. For trains, most return day journey tickets cost about AU$4 for a 30 minutes ride. For raw food and fruits? Definitely expensive. AU$1.60 (I’m not sure whether it’s even 300gms) for a few pieces of vege, AU$4.50 for a kilo of red apples? Owh ya, the definitely not to be missed ONE…TELEPHONE COSTS!-it will cost you AU$0.20 per minute, but there is this CONNECTION FEE (they call it flagfall) of AU$0.25 once the line is connected. So imagine this, even if it goes to voice mail for 1 sec, you’ll still have to pay $0.45 for it!!!

It got so much harder for me to settle down here as compared to Hong Kong. Although there are probably the same amount of Asians and non-Asian students here, but I felt like I was the minority, and things are seriously out of my comfortable zone. You can definitely see a lot of stores operated by Chinese and there’s even a Chinatown near where I stay, but the atmosphere is definitely different.  Even a stick of HK curry fish balls costs you AU$3!! (That is HKD21—in Hong Kong, it’s around HKD per stick!) – whoops, I am back to “FOOD” again.

Well, overall, I don’t feel that I am settled down yet after so many days. It’s not that Aussies are not accommodating, but it’s the style people do things here and in Hong Kong is so different. I guess efficiency explains it all.

Am I experiencing a culture shock? Maybe. Haha….but I will definitely take this as a good experience of getting to know how can people actually survive in “such” a place….hmm.

More updates coming up.

Campus Development Kickoff

17th November 2009.

One day to remember, for our university.

This is to kickoff the construction and development of our campus towards year 2020.

[Sounds like the Malaysian vision 2020 =.=]

Anyway, it's a super grand day. A lot of VIPs were invited, and even the first President of HKUST, Prof Chia-Wei Woo attended the event.

I guess there's no other similar events where all these important people (Presidents, VPs, Deans...) come together on stage at the same time.

So what has this thing gotta do with me?

Yaya, representing Malaysia, I am escotting one of the VIPs, sadly, he's one person that I do not know and I have 0 info about him, the Dean of School of Engineering. =.=

Anyway, about 2 months ago, when I agreed to help out in this thing, I didn't know that it's THAT huge.

Until about one week before the event, when tonnes of event information were sent to me, and emails from the Office of University Development and Public Affairs were received by the university community.

I wore the baju kebaya (hmm, first time in my life perhaps?=.= and I can't believe this first time happened in HK) lended from the Malaysia Tourism Board. Only one layer of silk, and nothing else. And it was around 10 degree celcius outside. Probably the coolest week ever in a November of HK.

Me looking stupid on stage~~

The stage used for the graduation was also used for this event. Decorations on the stage and surrounding atrium was pretty cool. Great audio and visual system were setup. And there are around 20 other international students doing the same thing as me, representing different countries, and they are sooooooooo beautiful. (and their costumes are so much nicer than mine =.=)

Wohoo....the beautiful costumes, and ladies~

Africa!!

I really liked their costume!!

Well, I had a quick task, escot the VIP up on stage, put on the Malaysian flag on to the sphere thing, shout out "Great Vision for New Era", leave the stage, and I'm almost done. There were then speeches, opening ceremony, the 75 meters long dragon dance (led by out President), and some performances by the socities. And it's FOOOOOOD time. Four booths were setup, namely Asia, America, Europe, Africa. There were some great snacks served, super long queue too~~ I was also responsible for giving out candies to the people, candies from all around the world.....and it's kinda fun seeing people enjoying these free stuff. Owh ya, while I gave out some candies, one of the random came to take a photo with me....*wink*

The 75-meter long thingy~

So the day and all the fun ended around 6.30pm. And I guess I got sick because of this, as I "ate too much cold wind"~~ =.=
Haha, they should compensate me for this!!!!
Anyway, enjoy the photos~~
(There are more....but I'm just too lazy to upload everything...hehe)

Me with the basket of candies~

Greenday@UST

While I was sick, a lot of events were actually happening around me...

One of it is the Greenday@UST, an event organized by me and my fellow Green Ambassadors~

It was a fun day actually. But too bad, I was not feeling well, during preparation and the day.

Nevertheless, I am glad that I did not skip the event which was held last Saturday, at least I took a lot of photos of our activities and the hyper active kids.

Their puzzled looks while watching some video clips about carbon footprint

Well, it's always fun being primary school students. They raise up their hands to answer questions to get prizes, they shout out their opinion, they do whatever they like, and they just enjoy themselves, with no worries.

A mini game that we arranged - Pick up the right bins!

The reusable bag drawing session~ 

And they enjoyed it a lot!! =)

 

And the big group photo!~

This kinda reminds me of how my primary school life was. Of course, chances to get out of school for such fun activities are minimal, and perhaps, come to think of it, there was none. No youtube at that time, and Microsoft Office was just gradually building their recognition and gaining popularity in the public.

But still, we had fun. And I think I enjoyed most being a primary school kid. Haha, and I really missed Chen Lao Shi, for who I am today is pretty much influenced by her during the 6 years of schooling life in Hun Bin.

Congregration Week

It was the annual congregation of HKUST last week.

Because of this huge event.......

1) We can't access to the escalators from Atrium to LG1 Canteen for a month

2) We had to go all around the stairs and lifts of UST to discover the right path to reach Academic Concourse, Sundial and Canteens for 3 afternoons

3) There are never enough ladies toilets for use around Atrium

4) People with graduation robes are all around campus taking photos with friends and their family members, even inside the library and in front of Professor's room~~

5) Flowers and graduation bears are all around...the bears are sooooo cute!!

There should be more......hmm.

6) I had free mini dinner for 2 (supposed to be 3) days sponsored by the uni to all guests and graduates (ya, I actually do not fall into these 2 categories....hehe)

Our atrium, full of graduates

Entrance, photo taking everywhere before the ceremony

Well, it made me think what will it be when I graduate two years from now.

Will I be able to even attend graduation? My parents will definitely be here, how about her? Will I have Xiaoqin or any other friends here too? How many bouquet of flowers will I receive? And which bear bear will I get?

Okay, thinking too much......

What class will I be in? Where will I be working by then?
Owh....still thinking.

 Me and CK with Ghee Leng, why is CK smiling while sleeping ahh~

Mathematicians~ Aun and Kae 

I managed to take some photos with a few Malaysian seniors. All the smart people. One even got his name carved (or whatever you call it)  on a "yeng" board in the Academic Councourse in front of LTA stated "President's Cup" winner of 2009.

Took some photos with my fencing seniors too.

My sheung sheung jong Benny! 

It is a week with full of happiness and enjoyment. Reunion with some of your long-time-no-see friends, being in a graduation robe for the first time ever, receiving your first ever undergraduate degree after all the at least 3 years stress and tension life, thanking the professors you like for the fun lectures and knowledge taught, finally get to leave the life of stress and tension but perhaps starting another life of boredom?

Haha....okay, again, thinking too much.

Well, congratulations to the graduates of The 17th Congregation of HKUST!!

Nick's Miracle

He is a miracle.

I first saw his video on Youtube around a year ago. It was so inspiring.

And today, I saw him, live in Hong Kong.

Even more fascinating.

He placed a lot of motivating thoughts and stories together, and made everything sounded so real and so possible.

Touched, I would say.

And what's even better is, I got this HKD150 worth event ticket for free!

I am actually surprised with the crowd attending this event. A few thousands of people in the auditorium I guess. And he had a translator for him. There's no doubt that the translator is really enthusiastic, but the funny part was, a lot of stuff was wrongly translated. =.=

Nick's parents nearly gave him up when he was born without limbs. And he nearly gave himself up at the age of 10. Love was what made him stay, and love will keep him strong in facing future live challenges.

"Love, unconditional love can heal a broken heart. Love goes on a long way...." Nick Vujicic.
"The greatest way to heal your heart is to be an instrument to heal other people's heart"

He told us about how he started school, entered university and graduated with a double degree in Accounting and Financial Planning, and how he started his journey on becoming a speaker. It was simply, amazing.

"If you can't see hope, it doesn't mean hope is not there..." Nick Vujicic. 

The whole auditorium paid full attention to every single word he says. And we were lucky to have the opportunity to listen to him playing the electronic drumset instrument. He was soooooo cool. Too bad we were not allowed to take any photos or videos.

"I will never be you, and you will never be me; that's the most beautiful thing about life." Nick Vujicic. 

We always claim "I give up!" whenever we meet with obstacles, or failures. We just easily, give up.

I have shouted that I wanna give up this and that for XX times last month. I remembered how I always wanted to avoid the problems, from just giving up........

"Keep trying. You do not fail until you give up..." Nick Vujicic.

I'm glad that I made my way to listen to his talk, of course, at the same time I would like to thank Dragon Foundation for the free ticket. It was definitely a memorable experience.

For all of you who would like to know more about Nick, just google his full name or search for his videos in Youtube. You will definitely be touched with what you see. Also, do visit the foundation found by him @ http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/

Halloween@HK

Halloween is never a big thing in Malaysia.

But, in Hong Kong, it's the total opposite.

I guess in other western countries too~~

More than a month ago, Halloween decorations and related events could be found at some big merchant stores and franchises around Hong Kong.

And the two most famous theme parks in Hong Kong, i.e. Ocean Park and Disneyland actually make huge profit out of the celebration of Halloween.

Ocean Park has its tailor made and exclusive Halloween attractions, about 8 scary rides and ghost houses to visit, and of course more scary "stuff" wondering around the park. The tickets just for the Halloween attractions (entrance after 5.30pm) will cost you as high as HKD495!! Their website for Halloween is cool though http://www.halloweenbash.com.hk/en/ ...haha, and they made several crazy advertisement videos which can be viewed through youtube.
As for Disneyland, they do have some decorations and a few ghost rides, but they are not exclusive though. Which means buying the normal park ticket will also entitle you to the Halloween attractions at night. And Disneyland has much lesser scary stuff, well I guess it's because afterall, Mickey and Donald can't be really scary no matter how awful they are dressed up It's still a magical land. Even Jack Skellington looks kinda cute to me, haha.
http://park.hongkongdisneyland.com/hkdl/html/Halloween/en_US/


I wanted to visit the Ocean Park one this year. But too bad, midterms are all around during this Halloween season. =( Sob, so I guess I'll try again next year?

--Ghost Mansion@HKUST--

Nevertheless, I still do get "some" Halloween feel within campus. Students are pretty crazy about the Halloween celebration. Different societies organize different events, where most of them created their very own Halloween attraction. There were quite a lot of decorations at student halls, and there is a HKUST Ghost Mansion at one of our common rooms.

Well, just to get a taste of the quality of the Ghost Mansion, I gave it a try last night. It costs me HKD10. Well I guess it's pretty worthwhile paying the price. They did put in a lot of effort and I think it was quite fun =) I did "bullied" some of the ghosts though...haha. They even gave out some sponsored colored drinks after that. And I guess I'll be more scared and it'll be even crazier if more people came along in a gang~ Haha....Great job, Drama Society~~

A comparison of the leaflet of Halloween@Ocean Park and Halloween@HKUST...hehe~

So, Happy Halloween Everyone!!

Big Wall Poster.大字報。

This is a place for the students to voice out their opinion. About whatever (well I guess mostly complaints). Complaints about major selection, about a particular tutor, about a department etc.

Some hot hot news lately.

無聊in some other sense.

Have a look.

It's some complain about the insufficient place for local students in our student halls.

It ended up becoming a written forum. People drawing arrows and commenting on different points.

Haha.民主。