Ocean Park!

Hong Kong has a theme park which is a lot like Gardaland; Gavin and I went there about two weeks ago:

They have a fair number of rides as well as a panda exhibit and an aquarium:

Their fountain

 

Lots of fish! (Aquarium)

More Aquarium (Yes, it actually was that colour. Deal with it!)

Crazy man feeding sharks...

Panda!

Gavin looking over the bay

Me on the way down.

Gavin on the way down.

The amusement park seen from the lift.

Jie-Jie displaying herself...

Kam Shan Country Park: Monkeys everywhere!

Yesterday we (Adam, Gavin, me) went hiking in Kam Shan Country Park. Monkeys everywhere!

They have a no-feeding rule; partly because it stops the monkeys from getting too agressive... One man found out that out the hard way!

Trip to Macau! :D

Hong Kong is only about an hour away from the former Portuguese colony of Macau, so I went there for the weekend with my roommates.

 You can see how excited they both are to be going! (That's Gavin on the left and Adam on the right)

Macau has become something of a gambling hub with plenty of casinos (and then some). We went to one of the biggest ones first, the Grand Lisboa, which you can see in the background here, with Gavin in the front

This was where we learnt what to do if you have lots of gold leaf left over and nothing to use it for.

Or an elephant tusk

Or two

Or even a 200-carat diamond...

Opposite the Grand Lisboa, there's a much smaller casino where we went next. You can just about see Adam and Gavin at the far right of the picture.

Macau also has some areas where the Portuguese colonial buildings still stand; here we are walking down the main square next to the cathedral (which was nothing special).

We also managed to find a small Buddhist temple. It was being renovated, so there were tools and building materials everywhere on the outside. The inside looked nice though.

Finally, we were just about ready to go home. Here we are in a park next to the sea which happens to overlook the ferry terminal.

Student Society is SRS BSNS!

I just saw these posted all over the university campus. Apparently somebody managed to piss everybody off:

First Post! (And pics of the university buildings)

I might have made the mistake of promising, at some stage, to take pictures of my my trip to Hong Kong and actually publishing them for people to see. And it is true that I have a brand new camera to take the pictures with, so I suppose there's nothing else to do. I've also been told (more or less politely) that there are people back home who actually want to know what I'm doing and how it's going, so I might as well do that here :-). So without further ado, here are a couple of pictures of the university and where I'm staying. The campus is incredibly compact (Most of it is just one giant building!), mainly because everything is built on a steep hill.