All the last minute work for the past 3 days is killing me. Well, that's the price to pay for having fun during the weekend. Which means working my ass off on monday to finish an essay as well as to study for mid-term. Throw in another 2 assignments to rush through on tuesday night. Well, now i am only left with another mid-term and then I can go back to enjoying myself till the last week of nov or the beginning of december, where all the deadlines are.
It's gonna be a crazy exam schedule this time round. We have only 3 days of study break!!!!
8th dec - GRM3310 paper due
9th dec - Cantonese oral exam (give a speech)
10th dec - GRM3305 paper due
11th dec - UGC296U and GRM3310 Exam (Back to back!!!)
14th dec - UGC219E Exam
15th dec - GRM3305 Exam
18th dec - GRM2324 Exam
Looking at such a crazy schedule makes me hate december. But well, after the 18th, i am free to go travelling! Planning Xiamen, Beijing, Tianjin and Guilin in december. Tentatively, flying back to SG on 8th jan and sch starts on 11th! It's gonna be tiring.
First, it was Ocean Park on Friday (23/10). 6 of us went in the day, taking almost every possible ride. The last time i went to Ocean Park, it was raining cats and dogs and most of the rides were closed. This time round, it was sunny and we are able to scream our hearts out on the roller coster and the Abyss Drop. The Abyss Drop is the one that makes my heart skip a beat and it is really committing suicide. It is not called 跳楼机 for no reason.
all happy before all the games!
View from the cable car.
The plunge that got us wet.
This turn spins us round and round... looks innocent but it's not.
Roller Coster with a view!
The other roller coster. with overturns you 3 times!
The abyss drop. From top to bottom in less than 1 sec!
another turn round and round game.
Flying swing.. reminds me of genting....
Ocean Park Aquarium. Underwaterworld is better.
one of the halloween decorations!
The animal show! What a great backdrop!
All the CUHK peeps with 辫子姑娘，the single braid lady poster.... It's a CU ghost story and I have to walk past it to the canteen everyday..
Panda! They are my next favourite animal! So cute!
The most exciting part of Ocean Park is at night. When night falls, Halloween Bash starts and the whole theme park is turned into a giant haunted house. With lots of 'ghosts' wandering around the park and up to 8 haunted house to visit, it was definitely not for those with a weak heart. It is like Fright Night on a scale of the whole campus.
The haunted houses had themes such as a school, a hospital, police station and there were 'ghosts' inside to scare you. They will be hiding behind doors, under tables, lying down on the bed and they will jump up to scare you when you walk pass them. I do realise something, the more afraid you are of them, the more they like to disturb you. I did get a shock a few times, especially when i am leading a line of girls behind my back, clinging onto my bag. One of the haunted house even had each of us stand alone in an individual booth, while they show you some scary clips and a random ghost will pop his head into the booth. It's kind of funny seeing girls, and even some guys, who were so afraid that they kept the head down throughout the whole journey in the haunted house. And it's fun to hear them scream!!
The shock and scaring does not end once you step out of the haunted house. There were roaming 'ghosts' who will occasionally creep up to you on the streets, scaring the wits out of you. We were able to take pictures with some of the friendly ghosts though. I can see that a lot of effort was put into this halloween theme, with decorations and the ghosts' makeup. I even lay inside a coffin! It feels good to be dead. After all night of getting scared and screaming, I was wondering, is Halloween about scaring others? Well, whatever, at least all of us had lots of fun! The only downside, we had to queue for at least 1/2 hr at each haunted house just to get scared for 5 minutes.
Kudos to the ghosts! I think they did a great job and it was really tiring i think. To scare people for 5 hours straight? I wanna go be a ghost next yr!
This is referring to my school... yup. CUHK has lots of ghost stories.
The queue we had to endure through before getting scared.
Another haunted house site.
The police staiton. With lots of vampires inside...
Occult Lab. The place where you have to go solo!
Sleeping in a coffin! It's kind of comfortable. One should try sleeping in one cause when you really do sleep in it, you will not know how it feels like!
The Forbidden Mall. Another haunted house.
Taking picture with one of the friendly ghosts!
Another Friendly ghost!A whole 14 hours spent at ocean park. amazing.......
After a day of recuperation, it's time to head out again. This time, to Lantau. One would not have been to Hong Kong if he or she have not gone to the Big Buddha. When I first touched down in HK, the Ngong Ping Cable Car was under maintainence till end of september and we were like, oh well, we can always visit it later on. (coincidentally, when i came to HK in 2007, the cable car had an accident and it was shut down till further notice) This time round, I finally got to sit on the cable car.
View from the cable car is great. You can see the whole of Tung Chung, the whole Hong Kong Airport Island and lots of mountains in Lantau. It really makes you wonder how the cable car system is built. After the ride, it was to the Big Buddha where you squeeze yourself in between all the tourists for a picture with the Buddha.
View just after leaving Tung Chung!
Hong Kong International Airport! Looks like i am on a plane!
Big Buddha statue in the distance!
upclose to buddha!
Group photo!
a really good vegetarian meal! I have not had so much vegetables placed in front of me for quite some time.After Ngong Ping, we headed off to the other side of Lantau, to Tai O Fishing Village. What once used to be a quiet fishing village with a rather large salt industry has now became a tourist site filled with people on a weekend. I can see that there are still a lot of residents there and many of them are actually locals who visit their parents who stayed there. In a way, I guess the residents have gotten used to the large crowds on weekends. It means more money for those doing a business. We did manage to walk till Shek Tsai Po, a relatively quieter area, where we are able to sit down and enjoy the view.
Tai O packed with tourists!
Kind of like the peaceful surrounding and the 'old school' feel. Different from the Hong Kong we see.
Sunset!
What a weekend! Where to go next?
