Books on Virtues

I accidentally found these stash of children's books on virtues - honesty, love, friendship, hope, courage, and respect. Reminds me of my childhood. 

A Blind Date with...

Chinese books! It's been a while since I last read Chinese books. Am thrilled to read them again, especially in traditional form. 

A blind date with a book

Children's Books

I found these books in the counselling room when i was waiting for my next counsellee to arrive. I am pretty amazed that they are still around since 1976. Someone must have been pretty sentimental and taken good care of these books instead of throwing them away.

More Colouring Books

Good things must share. Since I am doing the colouring book, I also bought colouring books for my girls. Haha. :D Hopefully colouring will give them peace and make them more patient.

Boxing Day "Spring" Cleaning

Once the cleaning bug bits you, you can't stop cleaning lol. It's Boxing Day (not that I have much to do anyway) and I continued with my "spring" cleaning. Today's target is my book cupboard. I started in the late morning and didn't finish until 9:30pm! You would think that one cupboard is easy peasy. Oh I was so wrong. I am either a hoarder or I am just sentimental. I kept lots of things in that cupboard from my SCGS-NJC student days until my MOE HQ working days (spanning from 1984 to 2003). All totally forgotten until today! 

I was in ELDDS in NJC lol

Assignments and course notes from UQ and NIE

My beloved Battlestar Galactica books and comics!! KEEPING! :)

I realised today that I have lots of memories hidden away in the cupboard from my SCGS-NJC days, my UQ days, my NIE PGDE days, my NIE MA(Applied Psy) days, my teaching days, my MOE HQ days - lecture notes, assignments, photos, meeting notes, etc. Amidst the taking out of books, files, notes, etc, the cleaning and the re-organising (including deciding what to throw and what to keep), I was also reminiscing and sharing my fond memories on Facebook haha.  
In the end, I had to harden my heart and threw out all my lecture notes (if I haven't look at them in the last 10-15 years, I probably won't look at them in the near future). Now my cupboard looks a little better, not so crammed. :)

Hong Kong Trip 2015 Day 5 Part 1 The University of Hong Kong

Today Juliane and I went to a place which is not on the usual tourist route. At 9:30am, we set off for The University of Hong Kong (HKU)! :) I am going to HKU to pick up a few books from a professor as well as to visit some of the heritage buildings in HKU.
We arrived at HKU station at 10:15am but I exited from the wrong exit and ended up lost (yes, again). We were walking up and down and lucky for us, a lady brought us to Runme Shaw Building. We managed to make it on time to see Professor Mark Bray. He is such a friendly and humble professor. Although Juliane is only a child, he included her in our conversation. For that, I am really grateful to Prof Bray for making Juliane feel she can contribute to the conversation. We left Prof Bray around 11am after he brought us to collect the books I was supposed to pick up.  

HKU Station

HKU Faculty of Education at Runme Shaw Building

We browsed around HKU and took photos around the campus. :) We located the Visitor Centre and spent a significant amount of time buying souvenirs haha. :P The Visitor Centre used to be the Worksmen's Quarters of the former Elliot Pumping Station and Filters site of the Water Supplies Department. It is a nice red brick house built in 1918-1919 and is classified as a Grade III historic building.

Defend Academic Freedom!

HKU Visitor Centre at the Centennial Campus

The different HKU stamps which you could collect

After the Visitor Centre, we stopped by the University Bookstore which is nearby for a quick browse. There was a display table on all books related to Star Wars! The Force is strong in HKU. :)

All books related to Star Wars. The Force is Strong in HKU :P

The Run Run Shaw Heritage House which housed the HKU Press

Leaving HKU

The murals at HKU Station

Bye bye, HKU. Who knows, Juliane may end up studying there? :P

We left HKU and headed back to Central. We walked from Central Station to Central Pier and we were just in time to catch the 2:15pm Star Ferry Harbour Tour. :) We had a quick lunch of sandwiches while waiting for the Star Ferry to arrive. Once we boarded the Star Ferry, it started to drizzle. My luck with th weather is just not very good. :( I wore my poncho and continued to take photos of the harbour while Juliane sat at the sheltered area watching her Korean drama! (She discovered there was free Wifi on board the ferry, sigh)

Star Ferry "Shining Star"

Victoria Harbour, HK financial centre and Chinese junk

Someone so engrossed in her Korean drama

The habour tour took an hour and we were back at Central Pier at 3:15pm. We both enjoyed the harbour tour for very different reasons lol. There was time for a trip to the Peak since we were only was meeting my cousin Rita for dinner at 7pm. :)