Sunday, August 26, 2007

Operation Falcon

Today, I went to abandoned Kai Tak Airport. From there, we took off on a EuroCopter 120B for a 16 minute trip around HK. Sitting among the most tragic cadets. With no window spaces, stuck in the middle with no headset. Water dripping from the air-conditioning. Barely saw Tsing Ma Bridge because of the fog, couldn't see Ocean Park (-_-). Hope next time will be better.



B-KOZ of Hong Kong Aviation ClubTsing Ma Bridge (青馬大橋)

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Summer Bridging Programme

These few days, I've been going to school. I know you must be thinking, "HUH? So early?!". It's not really proper school week, It's just to help us Form 1 (Grade 7) students adapt to the school better. In addition to my normal classes from Primary 6, they've added IT (Information Technology), (Design and Technology), and Integrated Science (using the chemistry lab). Although they've added those classes, there's still a part of the schedule that sounds unreasonable. Lunch, is from 11:45 to 1:00, over 1 hour! There's nothing to do except for walking around after my 15-minute lunch.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Sanya (三亚), China

The last few days I went to Sanya in Hainan (Most southern part of China). The scenery there was great, but, like most of China, very unhygienic and dirty. The taxis and buses were very cheap (5 yuan-taxi and 1 yuan-bus). ---1 YUAN=0.13 USD---The buses were all overloaded, 20 person bus can fit 35 people, so easy to breakdown. While walking on the street, suddenly, many taxi drivers come and shout "Where are you going?!" and blocked our way. China's soda is so weird, Fanta smells like the sewage there, and Coca-Cola tastes funny. Also, it's very hard and dangerous to cross the roads, no traffic lights. Inside restaurants, everybody smokes (UGH!)-even in the airport.
TRIP (Shatin to Sanya)
Ride train to Lo Wu (Lo Hu in China)-->Ride minibus to Shenzen Airport-->Take plane to Sanya (delayed 2 hours)-->Ride van to hotel

Above: Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-800

Above: Boeing 737-800 cabin (interior)

Above: Disgusting Airline Food (rice with canned meat and squash)
Above: Our Hotel (apartment style)
Above: Sanya HNA Airport (very little people)
Above: Word ELDERLY Spelled Wrong :)