The revisit to Ocean Park after 8 years invokes a series of nostalgic feelings which is beyond the description of words. We had dim sum on the morning of 31st Aug and headed to Ocean Park straight after that. I bought a student year long ticket as I will most likely be visiting it again for the next 4 months - love to watch the dolphins, sea seals, sea lions dearly etc. We had our fair share of trills (mine train nad similar entertainment), nature (birds viewing, sea side scenaries), animals (dolphins, seals and sea lions, sharks, jelly fishes etc) and the hit of the period - some Hawaiian performances. We had a really fun day; the only bad thing is that we are all so tired that we have to "drag" ourselves back to hostel after that.
Following that, I got to know a Chemistry guy call Frankie. He's a local and is currently in year III now. I knew him through a 深圳 friend name 书成 whom I gotta know in the orientation. He's really friendly and warm and I'm glad to know him. We chatted till 2 am that night :p

School began yesterday. I had 4 classes - Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry, Introduction to Material Science & Selection, Structural Elucidation in Organic Chemistry and Advanced Inorganic Chemistry in the chronological order. Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry was pretty fun as the lecturer can teach well. I enjoyed the lecture and I guess it'll be pretty "hardcore" since he'll be covering quite a bit of stuff. Yeah, this is what I'm looking for. The Material Science module was super boring; the lecturer can't teach well and I was alseep half the time. Hmm but I'll take it nevertheless since it'll my dream to take a Material Science based module. Structural Elucidation is gonna be pretty "hardcore" as well since he'll be covering quite a bit of stuff, although I know the bulk of the stuff already. Nonetheless, I learnt something new today - about how I can decipher the MS peaks of compounds in a more professional manner. Through Frankie, I gotta know this gal call Alice who is really passionate about organic chemistry. She has just returned from a year long exchange from the University of Waterloo and she has taken courses like "Advanced Organometallics" and "Total Synthesis" over there. Hmm think she'll be a worthy oponent :p

The day ends with the lecture on "Advanced Inorgnaic Chemistry". This is the most "hardcore" of all since he'll be teaching stuff like MO Theory, Group Theory etc. I'm really interested in such stuff as to dwell more deeply into organic, I've to know more about in these fundamental concepts. However sad to say, there is a very high chance that the module will be cancelled because of poor enrolment rate!!!!!! There are only 3 students registered for this course! 2 graduate students and me. Another undergraduate named Gary who is one of the top students over there wanna take the course but he gotta wait for some approval. Worse still, one of the graduate student wanna drop the course (think he finds it too "hardcore"). So even if Gary comes in, there'll only be 3 of us (the minimum enrolmentis 5). Alice expresses interest in auditing the course nad hopefull there'll be another graduate student who will take this module. If not, my trip to HK will be wasted! Anyway, the course on "Advanced Organic Chemistry" will be on, so it's not so bad after all.

I'll be having "Biochemistry of Diseases" later and that's it for the day! Anyway I'll be going down Kowloon to collect my sunglasses and then walk around a little. I think Frankie will be coming along with me. :)