Back online ... Internet has been restored!

After a brief and unexpected break from blogging due to a lack of Internet connection, I am finally back online. It turns out that, contrary to my prior expectations, the Wifi network that is supposed to be universally accessible across all university campuses across the world - eduroam - did not work for either my phone or my laptop. So I was more or less cut off from the Internet until today, when I finally and officially registered as a student of HKUST! Here is a picture of my brand new, shiny student ID card:

This is definitely the first time I've ever seen a vertical student card. Perhaps HKUST is going for the traditional vertical Chinese look, especially since the characters "科大卡" are placed at the prominent upper-right corner.

Breakfast of 煎蛋腸仔通粉 and 奶茶 (Egg and Sausage Macaroni with Milk Tea) from the LG7 Cafeteria

Lunch of 兩餸飯：蒜蓉通菜、洋蔥雞柳 and 普洱茶 (Rice with Tung Choi and Onion Chicken with Pu'erh Tea) also from the LG7 Cafeteria

Here are some of the beautiful shots I took of Clear Water Bay from my residence's common room in the morning:

 

The Lee Shau Kee Library at HKUST was also hosting an exhibition on Chinese calligraphy called "Confucian, Buddhist & Taoist Selections -- An Exhibition of The Jiazi Society of Calligraphy" when I visited. Personally, I only consider myself to be dabbler in Chinese calligraphy so I completely disliked some styles - but here are some shots of the ones I liked the best:

Clear Water Bay in the afternoon

Washing machine instructions for UG Hall II, written in colloquial Cantonese just to confound Mainland and foreign students - good thing I know how to read it!

  
And here are more morning shots of Clear Water Bay from my common room - sometimes don't the views just remind you of those 山水畫 ("Mountain and Water Paintings") of classical Chinese art?

Clear Water Bay	Actual 山水畫