Category: City University of Hong Kong (CityU)

December 10, 2015 Almost a month ago I went to Tai O with the CLASS (College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences) Buddies. They’re a group of local students in CLASS who reach out and do activities with exchange and international students. I found out about this Tai O trip at orientation in August, and ...

December 6, 2015 I’ve never been much of a holidays person. I didn’t really care for ugly Christmas sweaters or eggnog by the fireplace or gift exchanges, and I never understood why people were so excited for the holidays. For some reason, I’ve never had the chance to really watch those popular Christmas movies, either. ...

December 3, 2015 No, I didn’t go back to Philly. Only 4 days after I got back from Singapore, I went off to Shanghai! I don’t actually have family in Shanghai, nor did I live there for several years, but the city feels like home to me. It was during this visit when I realized ...

November 27, 2015 One thing I mentioned in my last blog post is that I loved Singapore because it was a modern city yet also very proud and protective of nature. I mean, there are more than just a few trees and planted flowers and bushes around. Singapore is actually a little bit less than ...

November 26, 2015 The semester is winding down to an end, and everyone knows what that means — finals. I’ve been proudly saying to my friends that around the first week of November I was 10 weeks behind my study schedule (it was week 10 at that time). It’s a huge problem that none of ...

November 20, 2015   One thing that I will miss so so so much at Drexel is the liveliness of the school life. When I still lived on campus, there were events every now and then, but they didn’t seem that interesting, or were the events often. Things are simply more lively here, more close-knit, ...

November 19, 2015   Food post again. A big thing that I’ve heard that I HAD to experience in Hong Kong was the cha chaan teng. Cha chaan teng literally translates to “tea restaurant,” and it usually serves your regular Hong Kong food for a moderate price. People are not expected to receive 5-star service ...

November 13, 2015 Something that I’m looking forward to in 2016 is the opening of a cat cafe in Philadelphia (if you’re interested, look up Kawaii Kitty Cafe). I feel like cat cafes were first made popular in Japan, which is where things cool and weird and unique come from. (In addition to cat cafes, ...

November 12, 2015 Last part of my Korea adventure. We woke up really early on November 1st and were on the subway by 7:15. We were up so early because we had signed up to go on a tour of the DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone. The DMZ is a strip of land that runs between ...

November 7, 2015 Continuing my Korea adventure. We set out relatively late the next day; we slept in since we were so tired. The three of us went to a galbi restaurant, another type of Korean BBQ, but more focused on beef instead of pork. It was amazing, of course, but the most notable thing ...