June 28, 2005 Archives
A beautiful day yesterday prompted me to hitch a hike on the peak tram to Victoria Peak, the highest point on Hong Kong Island, and the most postcard-able panorama of Hong Kong.
(Oops, not a representative picture of CUHK, but it's the best one showing buildings too... The campus is behind, and you need to take the shuttle, which I didn't want to do...)
CUHK has the reputation of being second behind HKU, but it's surely the top Chinese-taught school in HK. Located along the KCR track between Shatin and Lo Wu (previously discussed), it has a vast campus in the middle of the HK-ese countryside... Like a MacDonald campus versus McGill I suppose in terms of campus. Has had its share of international notoriety during the SARS crisis alongside HKU.
The KCR (Kowloon-Canton Railway) traditionally takes care of railway-based mass transit in Kowloon and the New Territories (with the lack of free space, they hardly have any prospects on HK Island). The KCR expanded a lot since the last time I came, with many lines in Shatin and the rest of the New Territories, some under-developed areas of the HK SAR, but its main line remains the line from Tsim Sha Tsui to Lo Wu, at the border with Shenzhen.
The Luohu crossing point, over on the China side. A huge plaza within Chinese proportions, and the shopping malls on each side of it. ;D
The Zhongshan suit!
Laurel Restaurant, in Luohu Commercial City. Cheap for Hong Kong shoppers with great service and well-presented food. About 100-150RMB depending of your appetite...
On all my trips to Shenzhen, I always went by the Commercial City in Luohu. Cultural shock to the Western-educated. All the hassling. So many secret passages. It's so obvious, you wonder if the hidden fakes shop do what they do for the marketing... (Always remember the shop number, no matter how hard you will try, this place rearranges at night - or rather, shops look so alike, and the lack of windows and its giant size make the task of remembering a shop topographically is an impossible one)
A curtains shop. Because it's much cheaper here...
Handbags. Colourful ones. Shenzhen is truly a shopaholic's crack. Just ask my aunt...
my little airport - 在動物園散步才是正經事
"The ok thing to do on Sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo" by "my little airport". A happy-sad song like I like them. The best thing sung in Cantonese I've heard in a long time...