HK Expedition

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

In less than an hours time, I'll be landing in Changi International Airport, back to the place where I departed 4.5 months ago. Today is a day full of nostalgia and sadness; waves of emotions were exchanged and it marked the final day of my exchange in HK. It began with Yuan-Ting and I, with the help of Tommy, checked in our luggages at the Airport Express Station at Central. Tommy accompanied Yuan-Ting for some last minute shopping while I went back to UST to collect my remaining hand carried luggages and also bid farewell to some of the staffs whom I have troubled for the past few months. Before that, while on my way back to UST, I did a short detour to a cafe in North Point and took some shots of that cafe before settling down for a quick breakfast there. The name of the cafe is "麗星餐廳", the cafe that I first asked Emily dear out for dinner. I am glad that I managed to find time to spent my last moment in HK there to recollect some memories.

I managed to find Ms Elaine, who is the staff at the Science Dean office whom I corresponded to ever since April 2005. Chatted with her for a while, took 2 photos and bidded farewell reluctantly, all in less than 20mins. Following that, I went to the computer barn to use up Emily and my remaining print credits by printing some Chemistry review articles.

I rushed back to Hall to keep my laptop and complete my remaining errands. I called those close HK friends of mine who were not meeting me for lunch today and bidded farewell to them. It's really great to have them around and I thanked them all for their hospitality. I met Alice and Kelvin outside library. Kelvin was not going to have lunch with me but he just wanna bid farewell to me personally; how sweet! I took some shots of the library before I leave and went to Mong Kok with Alice to meet Charlie, Frankie and Tommy for lunch. It was a great lunch and finally in my last day in HK, I managed to have a taste of "golden friend rice", a superb dish that I tasted when I was in HK 8 years ago.

Following lunch, we went around Mong Kok area to search for a CD for Zhijie (smsed me the title a couple of days back) but to no avail. 5pm is getting closer and we decided to halt our search; I bidded farewell to Charlie and Frankie and took the MTR to Central with Alice and Tommy. We reached Central and found Yuan-Ting at about 5.15pm; Yuan-Ting and I said goodbye to Tommy and Alice before taking the Airport Express to the airport. They are really nice people and I will remember them for life.

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