Reflector

I went carolling at Mount Elizabeth Hospital today. We all wore red, borrowed krys’s red vest again. We met at orchard mrt and went to daryl’s house to practice. Rushed down to Mount E after that in cabs.

Sarah was our conductor haha. She’s quite good, really funny. The way she asks us to smile will really bring a smile to my face We were introduced by the organisers as the chc choir Hahaha. First we sang in the cafeteria, then in 2 wards and then in the corridor of the children’s ward. In the cafeteria, a few people came up to her to tell her how good we were. Cool. Then in the first ward, we sang to basically 2 patients and staff and some family members. 1 patient from that ward requested us to be there. It was really fulfilling. When we were done, he thanked us and there were tears in his eyes. He was really happy that we were there to brighten up his day. It was quite touching.

 Ya and at the children’s ward, there was a caucasian woman carrying a baby. She watched us sing and I heard from others that there were tears in her eyes too. Ya… first time carolling, not including the one at the children’s party.

Carolling is fun And yep I want to do it next year again!

Yep I’m in Hong Kong now. Left the country right after my last paper ended. The exams were ok…what can I say? I felt rather unprepared for almost every paper, so I just went in and did what I could, and hope for the best. I don’t know how I’m going to do. Oh well. Yay I’m in hong kong! This is the first time I’m in hong kong, not counting the time I was here while I was still in my mother’s stomach. Shopping! Food! Yay!

This is the first time I’m travelling overseas without my family on a holiday. Flew here with peijing, having yee ching and her sister as tour guides. Got to know both peijing and yee ching from pharmacy. Right after our exams ended, my mum came to fetch peijing and I to the airport. Flew here by Jetstar Asia. The seats were in rows of 3s, one row on the left and another on the right. I sat next to the window and peijing sat next to a friendly guy from china. She talked while I tried to understand. Couldn’t chip in haha. It was a bit cramped, not much room to move. Yee ching and her sis met us at the airport and took us back to her uncle’s vacant house.

The houses in hong kong are very small. There’s not much room inside to put furniture and to move around. But the flats are very very tall. Almost every building can be compared to a skyscraper. Hong kong has a space constraint Other than that, and the air quality, everything else about hong kong is just simply great! Yee ching brought us shopping on Tues. Bought 3 tops, 1 pair of boots, 3 rings, 3 belts, 1 necklace, 1 pair of jeans and 2 leg warmers for my cousin. I think that’s about it. Bought a gundam model set today! It’s a 1/100 model, and it only costs S$11 when the normal price back in singapore would be over $50.

And man, the food is so cheap lah. We ate at restaurants and what would normally cost a bomb in singapore was just about S$10 per person. And the food tastes nicer. I ate wanton noodles last night for supper, even though I ate it like an hour after I bought it, it still tasted warm and great. Didn’t get to try goose noodles but yee ching says they don’t normally sell goose noodles and wanton noodles everywhere like they did in the past. Man I’m going to miss hong kong food. I think I gained weight already. Haha.

The sights and the sounds are really quite interesting. There’s just so many people around in the streets. And the air quality is not very good. There’s like a constant haze. But the temperature is not bad, 19-22 degrees celsius, sometimes warmer.

Went to Ocean park yesterday. It was rather enjoyable. I sat on 2 rides, a swing thing which goes round and round in the air and something called the raging river which had a drop and a wet splash at the end. Thoroughly refused to take anything else. I don’t like roller coasters and anything thrilling  Haha oh we went to see jelly fish! They were so pretty! Different sorts of jelly fish. And we also went to see an aquariam-like fish exhibit thingy. Saw many many different kinds of fish, really really huge ones, sea horses, weird creatures etc. There was even this flashlight fish which could blink light in the dark. We also went to see the dolphin, sea lion show. Haha Ocean Park was fun. 

Yesterday at night, yee ching brought us to see the Hong kong lights. Ah it was just fantastic. We were beside some body of water and we could see all the skyscrapers at the other side all lighted up with many different multi-coloured lights and in many different designs. Some even had christmas decorations on their facade. I can’t describe the view. It was simply breath-taking. By then, my camera had no more battery, so I think I’ll get the pics from yee ching. We were also in time for the laser light show! It was so so good. The Hong Kong tourism board deserves a round of applause! They synchronised the lights on the buildings and laser light from the top of about 5 buildings with vibrant music! It lasted about 15 minutes altogether. It was simply spectacular! So nice

I think I’ve taken about 3 modes of transport here. The buses, the LTR and the MTR. Very clean and efficient. No wonder someone wrote into the straitstimes forum not too long ago, comparing singapore’s transport system with hong kong’s. And complained about ours haha. The main language used here is cantonese. I can’t even speak chinese properly, I understand my own dialect, teochew, but I can’t speak it. So yee ching was our translator for the whole trip.

Well, it’s been a relaxing week for me. I haven’t enjoyed myself like this in such a long time. Tried not to think about the things in singapore and everything else which I normally worry and think about. Which is good. And it feels great not to think about those things. It feels great to be able to stone and let my mind not think about anything at all. Yep Hong kong is a really great place for a holiday =D