January 27th, Day 11

January 27th, 9AM: So today I woke up ready to again play Starcraft with Peter. if you read my post from day 10 you will know that I was annoyed at his flaking out on me at the last minute the day before. So, after a slight miscommunication about the starting time we met online and actually played several rounds. This was a most enjoyable experience and we had several good matches. After we were done with that I got a call from Wai Zin asking me if I wanted to go downtown and see the light show. I had not seen it yet and it's supposed to be one of those things that everyone MUST see when they're in HK, so I went.

We started out walking around the city at TST (an MTR stop). I've included many pictures from this and more pictures of this will be included in later posts for days when i have no pictures. So, there were a couple of things that stand out in my mind about this. First, the city is very beautiful and well decorated as can be seen in the pictures below. Second, I was amazed at the bamboo. For those of you who do not know, I have a slight fascination with Bamboo and I keep a bamboo plant in my room (in the US) and water it daily. It was a gift from my sister and I want to start a bamboo collection next year, so it was interesting to see the practical uses of it in building construction. Third, I am completely ignorant about skin care. We were walking around and went past a Sogo (some kind of cosmetics store) that Wai Zin wanted to go in. During our walk though the store I learned all about things I had never before thought about. Namely the length of my eyelashes (why in the world would I ever think of that on my own?) and skin toner. Before that, if someone had mentioned toner to me I would have thought they were speaking of toner for a printer. So yeah, that was an experience in itself. After that we visited an H&M, which is a clothing store that I encountered during a project last spring and had to research it. I do not know if they exist in the US, but i had never been in one and it was interesting to see the differences between American department stores and ones in Asia. The H&M was much more fashionable and trendy that American department stores (at least the ones i've been in) and everything was carefully arranged and presented, not just all hung on racks for you to browse through.







The most interesting part of the evening, however, was the light show itself. It was amazing! What they do is that they installed very bright LEDs on the outside of the buildings in the harbor and synchronize all of them to music and basically put on a light show using lights and lasers. I've included two videos of the light show as well as pictures because as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.



Sadly, the site is experiencing difficulty uploading the other video file I wanted to share with you. I will try again tomorrow and I will make a note of it in a future post when I am able to successfully upload the video, because it's pretty cool.

So after the light show, which I thoroughly enjoyed, we went to try some Indian food. The Indian food was a bit too spicy for my tastes and I didn't eat much. That was pretty much my day and I figured I'd let the pictures do most of the talking instead of me.






















THE LIGHT SHOW!!!


here we are at the harbor


















This is a famous, and very expensive hotel in HK