Second Day - 8th June
Gathered at Bay View Restaurant for breakfast at 8am. Had a Chinese dim sum as breakfast. That was the yummy-est dim sum I had ever tried in HK for the three days.
Later on we went on our coach to the site engineering. I was arranged to white group which is under the civil engineering part. We went to visit the site for the sewage treatment along Victoria Harbour. From there I know how the sewage was treated before they were released to the sea - chlorination and dechlorination.
While walking through the factory, we were asked to put on the safety equipments which made me very uncomfortable.
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| Group photo with civil engineering professor and the speaker |
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| Nice rainbow shown from the reflection of light |
Water are sprayed on top of the sewage to cover the smell. The smell caused by ammonia will condensed to ammonium thus the smell will gone off. Such a brilliant idea!
After lunch, we got some free time before our engineering workshop started. Thus, Ken and Cissy brought us to go around HKU campus again. We went in Stephen Hui Geological Museum and saw many collection of minerals, rocks and fossils. The natural colour of the minerals has made me impressed.
Later on they brought us to the Main Building of HKU, which has a 100 years of history. The air flow there is not as good as other campus. You can feel the old type of university when you walk around the old main building.
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| Cissy, a nice staff which accompany us to have a walk around the campus |
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| Ken, a nice and good looking guy which currently studying in faculty of Education in HKU. |
During the engineering workshop, we were asked to build a spaghetti bridge with uncooked spaghetti. We have to consider the weight of the spaghetti and the weight that the bridge can support. Those with the highest ratio of weight exerted to the weight of the bridge is the winner of this project.
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| Sample given to us. |
It is not as easy as it is to build the spaghetti bridge. The spaghetti has to be glued really parallel to each other in order to make it tough, and the glue provided is very very sticky and will stick your hand in a short period if you did not realise its existence.
At last, we have completed our spaghetti bridge. it weighed 39.1g and it can support 700g of weight, with a ratio of 17.1. *Applause!!*
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| Testing the strength of the bridge. |
Evening, we went to Tsim Sha Tsui for sight seeing and free activities. However, after watching the light symphony in TST, we detour to Mong Kok instead of staying in TST. One of the condition is we have to be back to the hostel before 12am, a nice and reasonable condition. =) The light symphony in TST was really great with the lights and sound effect. Khai Liang brought us to the most strategic place to enjoy the show. Great thanks to him. Mong Kok was really same as what I have seen in the TVB dramas, with all the neon sign along the streets. We walk along the ladies market and did some shopping there. Not really many cheap things we can get there. Its just like Malaysia's pasar malam.
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| Bruce Lee!! |
~DAY TWO ENDED~
1 comments:
Seems like this trip has brought you lots of happiness for you, though there were few uncool games or activities... Anyway, two more days trip haven't post yet, right? Give you an overall comment when you have post the whole trip schedule~ =)
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