Much ironic to the name of my quarantine hotel, I could barely see the harbor view. The concrete jungle of the high rise buildings blocking the sight of scenic natural landscapes Hong Kong boasts about. And the wall of the hotel separating me from my supposed fast-paced life.
For those slow days with an untimely 4 hour break between classes, or for those days where maybe you just need some time off and don’t feel like doing that assignment due in two days, drag some friends along to one of these game arcades and cash in for a bout of good old fashioned trash talk and crushing your friends’ sense of self.
Lots of students claim that Chi Wah is their spiritual home. And on this glorious day, I decided to make it my home too. But this time, it was not merely going to be a spiritual home, but a physical home too. Yes, I spent a night in Chi Wah.
Apps you shouldn’t have but have crept their way onto your phone.
From scheduling to tutorial sign-ups, or maybe that HKU subtle dating page that we all have so accessible to us just at our fingertips.
I am not going to treat you like a tourist. I am not going to be recommending tourism board photos. And I am certainly not going to be showing you those same generic photos of IFC, Victoria Harbour, or Temple Street – you know, the ones that have that very instagrammable red/blue orange/teal contrast.
Instead, I will be presenting you Hong Kong’s more unconventional photography, works that capture the city as it is, and not as it’s marketed.
Being the oldest university in Hong Kong, buildings at
HKU are not only historical, it might also be the origin
of spine-chilling urban legends...
Come along and explore the darker side of HKU with
these urban legends passed on by generations and generations of HKU students...
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