After class I hurried over to the MTR station to catch a train to Tsim Sha Tsui. I forgot to bring my trusty brochure, but that didn't matter because I could see the Museum of Art soon after leaving the station. The problem? Crossing a road with no crosswalks and a dividing fence stretching into infinity.
While puzzling out a solution I stumbled into this fountain. Figuratively.It's in front of The Peninsula, a fancy hotel from what I could tell.
Then I noticed a sign saying, "To cross Salisbury Rd, use the subway."
?
So I followed the steps down and around and through a walkway and into a shopping mall and through another walkway and up the steps and back down the steps (I was still on the wrong side) and back to the shopping mall and down another walkway and up another set of steps to the front of the Museum of Art.
I spent a good amount of time in the gift shop, which I realized afterwards was silly of me, because it always has free admission. Then I saw a gallery filled with gold (jewelry, trinkets) and another filled with clay sculptures and vases. In the five minutes before closing I saw the temporary exhibit on horses (in honor of Hong Kong hosting the equestrian events during the Olympics) which contained really amazing paintings, mostly in that traditional style with the fast brushstrokes, and some sculptures.
I may have to return/set up permanent residence there. Maybe disguise myself as a statue or hide behind a scroll of calligraphy?
While walking to campus from the Siu Hong station I ran into some friends headed to see the new James Bond movie, so I turned around and joined them.
?
So I followed the steps down and around and through a walkway and into a shopping mall and through another walkway and up the steps and back down the steps (I was still on the wrong side) and back to the shopping mall and down another walkway and up another set of steps to the front of the Museum of Art.
I spent a good amount of time in the gift shop, which I realized afterwards was silly of me, because it always has free admission. Then I saw a gallery filled with gold (jewelry, trinkets) and another filled with clay sculptures and vases. In the five minutes before closing I saw the temporary exhibit on horses (in honor of Hong Kong hosting the equestrian events during the Olympics) which contained really amazing paintings, mostly in that traditional style with the fast brushstrokes, and some sculptures.
I may have to return/set up permanent residence there. Maybe disguise myself as a statue or hide behind a scroll of calligraphy?
While walking to campus from the Siu Hong station I ran into some friends headed to see the new James Bond movie, so I turned around and joined them.
Differences:
- Only cost 40HKD (for a student ticket)
- Assigned seating
- Not allowed into the theater until 10 minutes before showtime
- One preview
- No commercials
- Chinese subtitles
- Only allowed to eat food purchased at the movie theater's concession stand
- Reminders about no smoking in the theater, etc.
- Well, and all the similarities so obvious I can't think of them--we bought tickets, we sat in seats...
- Foot-binding may have resulted as a way of preventing women from running away (thereby making them more desirable, thereby making small feet a standard of beauty)
- Unless it began to prevent invading barbarians from stealing women during the Song dynasty
- My financial economics once ate nine lobsters at an all-you-can-eat buffet in Orlando
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