6/25/15 - Okay Now It's June and I'm Ridiculous

Remember that time I was going to post about our Chinese New Year travels? 

Remember that time I was going to MAINTAIN this blog?

Dammit. Now it's June and too much time has passed to adequately catch up with everything I've missed out updating on so I'm just going to look forward and try to start fresh for the summer. I expect to have much more time to myself until August than I've had since April, so let's see if we can revive this thing before it flatlines all together!

Now for some life updates: I have since travelled a lot more around Asia, finished my semester in Hong Kong, officially said goodbye to all of the incredible people I've met there, travelled around Thailand for two weeks, and have moved to Long Xuyen in southern Vietnam to start my internship for the summer!
I'm working with Pacific Links Foundation who work to combat human trafficking through preventative measures (more on that later, no worries) and also provide support for trafficking survivors to ensure they can successfully move forward in their lives so that their past doesn't define them. They've taken me on for the summer to do a bunch of different tasks, but what most excites me is that I'm responsible for designing and hosting my own confidence-building, self-defence workshop for a summer camp that will host about 700 GIRLS. Woah.

This is a very brief life update for right now, so here have some photos and (very) mini stories until next time!

Today's Little Thing, Happy Thing: Staedtler pens. Those triangle-shaped ink pens that come in packs of ~16 colours or so make everything I write down beautiful. Even though I haven't been updating the blog, I have been keeping track of stuff myself in my favourite notebook and there's just nothing like the way they make everything cooler! 

After we left the chilly weather of Seoul, Nathan, Chris and I found paradise in the Philippines. Having so much extended family and old family friends there is such a blessing! We started in Anilao with one of my dad's high school best friends and his whole family, where they taught us to windsurf, took us scuba diving, and made the MOST AMAZING food. A bunch of other exchange friends ended up visiting places like Boracay in the Philippines too, but nobody got to experience just how fun it is in the Philippines like we did ;) 

Seriously, I wasn't kidding about the food! Tita Emily totally and completely spoiled us - this dinner had shrimp paella, grilled lamb and the freshest lobsters I may ever have. The boys and I had to roll ourselves up the stairs at the end of the night we were so full; even sharing one beer with Tito Pancho was almost too filling after that meal! 

(Pictured L-R: Timmy, Nathan, Chris, me!, Alej, Carl, Carolina, Angelo, Luis)
YAY FOR MANILA!!!!!! After our weekend in Anilao, my family in Manila insisted we come stay with them for a while and we'd be INSANE not to take them up on that! I've only met these cousins in person once before, but when we get together it's honestly like we've grown up side by side anyway. Basically the whole Miñana clan showed up to welcome us to Manila, and to welcome Nathan and Chris into the family! 

Sweaty, dusty, red-faced and smiling at the top of Taal Volcano, which is a Volcano with a lake inside that has a volcano inside that lake that has a lake inside that volcano that has an island in it. Confused yet? The smaller lake that you can see there in the background is literally boiling in some places because of the geothermal heat escaping from cracks in the bottom! 

(Pictured L-R: Julia, Winnie, Hinley, Chris, me!)
After returning to Hong Kong for a week of midterm papers from HELL, 9 of us re-packed our bags and headed to Taipei, Taiwan for the weekend. Casual, right? Between all the street food (decidedly overall the best of anywhere we'd been to) and the selfies we had taken, it was an awesome few days. Here's arguably my favourite photo from that trip! 

Seriously, the selfie game was STRONG. Here's us perfecting our technique in front of Taipei 101, which was so tall that on a cloudy day like that one you couldn't see anywhere near the top!
Missing from this photo: Chris (because he took it), Amy (because she's afraid of cameras or something?), and Juliana (probably updating Instagram with a beautiful photo of the Xiao Long Bao we had for lunch that day)

Back in Hong Kong for a while and goofing around at the hugely successful International Food Festival created and organized by Angela, the single most driven, ambitious, and generous girl I know. What a blast! 

Foregoing a friend-filled trip over the Easter break to hang out in the Philippines again with more family was so so so worth it. I've given up trying to figure out how exactly everyone here is all related, but that's pretty much unimportant when you're in the Philippines anyway :') Cousins, sun burn, San Miguel, and (again) entirely too much food made this my favourite Easter ever, no question. Thank you Tantuicos!!!!

I wasn't kidding or even slightly exaggerating when I said Angela really is incredibly generous - one night she invited a huge bunch of friends over for the sole reason that she wanted to cook Peruvian food for us all! Naturally it was amazing, because she's Angela and everything she touches turns to gold. That's her with the funny face and flower necklace! 

Classes eventually ended, but before exams came around full-swing there was just enough time for the IASP Exchange Formal and Goodbye Party. If I do say so myself, we clean up pretty damn well the 3 of us. Winnie and I also tied for "Best Dressed" of the evening so high-fives to us! 

It takes a very specific kind of awesome to be able to purchase the most cliché Chinese shirt you could find from Mong Kok, and actually be able to successfully pull it off. Tabbe is undoubtedly that exact kind of awesome, so of course he had to be my date even though I might have pretended to hate it a little bit (but shhh, don't tell him!) The next day was his birthday too, where we properly partied hard on a #JunkBoatDrunkBoat out in one of Hong Kong Island's bays (baes?)

The next day we wasted no time and were Myanmar-bound. Here's us in the lobby of our hostel in Yangon. Unfortunately we're missing Angela (long story), but Myanmar was still 100% my favourite trip all semester. Just amazing, even if it'll always be Burma to you. 

(At the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar)
In 5 months and the thousands of pictures taken, this is probably my absolute favourite photograph. Chris is incredible at capturing candid moments and even though I can't remember what Nathan and I were cracking up about, this photo completely encapsulates our dynamic in a single shot. It encapsulates a lot of stuff really - if I were to choose a photo of me to best describe my exchange experience it would probably be this one. 

Yes, I am wearing every loud pattern I own. Yes, those are elephant pants. Yes, I am content representing Canada in this exact way. Yes, too many other tourists gave me weird-ass looks as we tried to get the shot.
If I thought Yangon was cool, Bagan was UNREAL. I'd go back in a heartbeat. 

After Myanmar we found Angela again (yay!) and also found ourselves in Angkor Wat. I think the pagodas and temples in Myanmar totally spoiled me for Cambodia, but it was still breathtaking in its own way. We were also kind of into coordinating our outfits the entire trip because we're cute. 

Eventually we made it back to Hong Kong and somehow survived Finals. Then it was time for the day I'd been dreading since January: the day Nathan and Chris had to head back to North America, while I was staying in Asia for the summer. We took this picture right before saying goodbye at HKG, right before they headed through security and I headed back to a basically empty campus. Ugh, these two. Thank GOODNESS they're Canadian and I will actually see them next year in person! 

Okay that's enough for now. Expect more photo dumps soon because this is fun, and I'll keep updating with thoughts and feels about my Vietnamese summer too!

So WHY "Little Things, Happy Things" Anyway?

“Hi I’m Ana, A-N-A Ana!”

That, according to my mom, was how at 3 years old I introduced myself to my preschool teachers for the very first time. In the 17 or so years since, parents and I will often joke about that before any First Day of mine. First Day of First Grade, First Day of School in Canada, First Day of High School, First Day of First Year University, First Day at [Insert New Job Here], and most recently, First Day of Exchange in Hong Kong. Though I no longer actually use those exact words when introducing myself to new people, I’ve come to realize that First Days have often proven easier for me than others – mostly because I’m not afraid to just pick a person and start a conversation.

I’ve always had my dad’s outgoing nature, but in all honesty it wasn’t until I started doing martial arts at around 8 years old that I found the confidence to actually do anything with it. By then I was old enough to have outgrown a young child’s careless abandon, but was still young enough that the full-blown teenage girl insecurities hadn’t yet been able to set in. Over the years my instructors, friends, family members, role models, and even students in each martial arts school I’ve been a part of have cemented in me the value of constantly challenging myself while maintaining a strong sense of self-confidence. I think that confidence first came through my physical abilities, which then spread into being able to introduce myself to adult strangers like waitresses at restaurants, or clerks behind desks. From there, I’m pretty sure it has just snowballed.  

Confidence wasn’t the only thing martial arts instilled in me. It was probably my first instructor, Mr. Williams, who first introduced to me the concept of being a “Good-Finder”. Even as a kid I understood that the term ‘good-finder’ was just another word for ‘optimist’, but I have always loved the implications behind that particular word choice. A person who doesn’t feel entitled to happiness all the time, and instead actively tries to ‘find good’ in situations is the type of person I greatly admire, and a person I really do try to be.

Over the years, that optimism and outgoing nature have helped me come to realize that I’m not just extroverted; I’m extremely extroverted. Being around people invigorates me, and I could never tire of it. Sometimes when people ask me why I’m so outgoing I’ll respond with something along the lines of “Because I find other people so much more interesting than me!” but it’s often only half a joke. I love it when people feel comfortable sharing parts of themselves with me, even if it’s just a few minutes of their day for some small talk and to quickly catch up. If I’m cooped up and alone somewhere for too long I can actually feel my mood take a downturn my motivation levels drop. In the least creepy way possible, I really do feed off of others, especially people I don’t (yet) know very well, which is why coming on exchange has been one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself. Everything is new, and there are so many new people to interact with completely different backgrounds that I’m falling in love with it here more and more every day. I refuse to let myself forget what I now think will be unforgettable, which is why we’re here, on my blog. Since my First Day in Hong Kong, I’ve been trying to make it a point to write down and preserve memories that I can already look forward to looking back on.

But still, why “Little Things, Happy Things”? Good question, dear reader. One more story before I go. After my grandmother died when I was 6, my whole family was having a pretty rough time but I remember my Tita Trish showing me a ‘Thank You Journal’ that she had been keeping. The basic premise of it was that instead of writing down everything you had done, you instead made a list of things you were thankful for from that day. It was her way of remembering to not only stay positive during trying times, but to be aware of and grateful for anything that makes you happy, even if they’re little things. I started my own Thank You Journal then, and although I didn’t really keep it up, that mindset really stuck with me. I know that big events and super exciting things will be very hard to forget, but I tend to make it a point to also try and remember the seemingly unimportant moments that bring me joy too. Thus, Little Things, Happy Things became part of my daily mindset.

Before I came to Hong Kong, I knew I wanted to find a way to record my adventures and still be able to share them with whoever was interested. Then, before starting this blog I knew I wanted to have some recurring aspect to connect each post, and the idea of incorporating my Little Things, Happy Things instantly came to mind. So here I am, keeping track of the huge highlights of my studies, travels, and everything in between while still making it a point to be grateful for the Little Things, Happy Things that are also making my life right now awesome.  

I have a bunch of posts that would take some time to read through entirely, but here are some that I’d pick out as most noteworthy:

- I'm a Lucky Duck

- Songs Currently Applicable to My Life: A List

- Sunset Peak 

- A List of Little Things, Happy Things

Today's Little Thing, Happy Thing: Being exactly 12 hours ahead of my home timezone. I have a lot of fellow exchange students here whose family and friends back home are in a timezone that makes for weirdly timed calls home, but because Toronto is exactly 12 hours behind Hong Kong I never have to worry about potentially waking up my family or disrupting their own daily schedules. That also means that when I'm up entirely too late at night, there are always friends back at home that I can chat with if need be :) 

2/18/15 - Chinese New Year: Seoul Day 2

SEOUL DAY 2: (I realized that posting photos with captions is probably the best way to recap our days, so let's give that a try. Because what's stylistic continuity anyway?)

(And I thought the Hong Kong MTR was intricate. Shhhh, don't say anything about the TTC.)
Our first trip: Sinsol-dong to Gyeongbokgung

Gyeongbokgung palace from outside the walls. Hard to believe this is in the middle of a city.

Caught the changing of the guards, which made my inner Tour Leader squeal with excitement just a little bit!

In front of one of the gates - it hovered around 0°C the whole time, so we had to bundle up (almost as if we were home). That toque and jacket are borrowed - thanks Angela!

The view from right outside the main gates: the bustling Seoul everyone knows and loves

"Hoduguaja", or little walnut-shaped cakes made of waffle batter and filled with sweet bean paste. I've had these back home in Toronto, and apparently they're legit because these were just as good!

Found ourselves in a Starbucks to warm up and I DEFINITELY just found my new favourite hot drink:
Steamed soymilk + 1 shot of vanilla = a drink that tastes like shortbread and a very happy Ana

After the palace we decided to have a bit of a wander around the general area. Then we found this little river running right through the sidewalk!

There were even stepping stones so you could cross and stay dry :)

This pretty much sums up my constant mood for all of 2015 thus far. So happy, so lucky, and so grateful.

Came upon this intersection and suddenly the boys' cameras came out. Chris went to photograph the architecturally cool building on the right, and Nathan beelined it to the McDonalds :P

Nathan took this awesome photo of the specialty burgers on the McDonalds menu that you can't find at home. 

On our loop back to the palace subway we passed by some prominent monuments. This is Admiral Yi Sun-Shin

Behind him, closer to the palace and the mountains sat King Sejong

There was also a small collection of ancient instruments in front of King Sejong - here's an ancient sundial!

Around then is when my camera battery died, so all the upcoming photos are either from my phone (low-quality) or are Nathan and Chris' pictures (the beautiful ones). Until Day 3! 

Today's Little Thing, Happy Thing: Having friends from around the world - especially the places we're visiting. For example this night we went to a restaurant for dinner, and ordered drinks by kind of just pointing at whatever on the menu. When they did arrive though we were super curious about what we had just gotten, so I was able to take a picture and send it to our friend Soo Mi asking what it was, and she was able to let us know before we had even opened a single bottle! 

2/17/15 - Chinese New Year: Seoul Day 1

Chinese New Year means that we get a whole week off of classes, so it's time for adventure! Nathan, Chris and I planned our CNY trip to include 4 days in Seoul, South Korea and then 4 more days in the Philippines. Every day was SUPER packed, so for every day's post I'll try to put it in point form for brevity's sake (and so that I can throw in a whole bunch of photos!)

SEOUL DAY 1:

- Arrive at Icheon, International Airport @5:30 AM, get to the 6002 bus headed to our AirBnB place in Sinsol-Dong. 

- Oops, we all fell asleep on the bus ride from the airport and missed our stop by 3! We had to run to quickly catch another bus back, thank goodness all the maps here are written in Korean AND English.

We all individually assumed that someone else would be awake to catch our stop. We were wrong. 

- Arrived at the accommodations without any other problems. Our Hosts Jo-Anna and Sanghyun were so awesome! Super helpful and really sweet - they even gave us some bottles of their home-brewed beer to enjoy (not immediately of course, as it was 8:30 AM!)

- Headed out again after a nap in search of the Studio Ghibli exhibit, got ourselves hooked up with T-Money cards (Seoul's equivalent of an Octopus card)

Studio Ghibli Exhibit

Making friends with the soot sprites in the entranceway

When you get your ticket, each person is also given a circular sticker to decorate and add to the outside wall of the exhibit. There were THOUSANDS of stickers covering two whole walls from top to bottom! 

I can't draw for my life, so this was my addition to the wall :) 

Yubaba from Spirited Away is much quieter but MUCH scarier in person. 

Everyone seems to love No-Face, but I'm not really the biggest fan.

- After Studio Ghibli we headed to the Hongik University stop in search of the "Love" (Sex) Museum. That was a HILARIOUS time with many a picture taken, but they'll DEFINITELY not be seeing the light of the internet anytime soon. If you want to see them, it'll have to be in person :P

Have some photos of what we did in the surrounding area instead :) 

Random street art - every single wall was done in a completely different style; this whole stretch was bursting with colours!

*these are not my legs, we were outside the Trick Eye Museum

Egg Buns (￦1,000-2,000/$1-2) Little did we know that this was the beginning of a whole WORLD of street food! 

My nose got a little excited for the BBQ-sauce drenched, melty-cheese topped chicken skewers (aka King Chicken Sticks - ￦3,000/$3)

Then we found whole, deep-fried squids (￦3,000/$3) which I found very boring and not intriguing at all.

The street also had a lot of shopping, which we didn't take nearly as seriously as all the food!

- As the evening set in, so did the exhaustion. Instead of pushing our luck and running the risk of sleeping through the next morning, we decided to head back to the house for dinner. Jo-Anna was awesome and helped us order in Korean Fried Chicken, which we couldn't help but pair with beer (as we have been told is the only way to get the full cultural experience), and ￦1,000/$1 Soju (from 7/11)

MMMMMMM, KOREAN FRIED CHIC- oh hey Chris. 

Today’s Little Thing, Happy Thing: Wifi “eggs”! In Korea, you can buy or rent these little portable hotspots! Just turn it on and input the wifi passcode found on top of the battery to get onto the internet. Jo-Anna and Sanghuyn had one that they lent us which was a HUGE lifesaver all week!

2/14/15 - A List of Little Things, Happy Things

It's been a while since my last post, but there will definitely be some good'uns on their way! In the meantime I've been keeping track of some Little Things, Happy Things from my days around campus and the city. In no particular order, and with no specific dates attached to all of these, here we go!

- The girls in my suite. Of the 11 women that live in my apartment-style dorm, I am one of only 3 international students. All the girls that I live with are super sweet and so easy to hang out with, but are also super independent and have great stories to tell. On January 20, we went to a Japanese buffet with some of my fellow exchange friends. Between our group of 11 or 12 total (not all the girls could make dinner, but there are more plans in the works), we had so much food and such a great time - I am so grateful for these ladies!

- Good fight scenes in movies. I watched Watchmen for my Movies Class for the first time and damn, the choreography of the fight scenes in this film are spectacular!

- Easy one-on-one conversations that run super late into the night. There’s no other way like it to get to know someone, and feeling comfortable enough with anyone to talk about lots of stuff and nothing at all is a great experience.
                                                                  OR
- Being told that you’re easy to talk to. For someone like me, it’s easy to talk TO other people about stuff, but this year I really want to focus on being a good listener and someone that people feel comfortable confiding in. It’s a really reassuring feeling to be told that YOU’RE just as easy to talk to as you are to talk with, you know? I don’t know if that makes sense.

- People who are happy to share their language. Recently I've been able to chat with friends that speak Dutch, Mandarin, and Korean, and all of them were happy to teach me basic phrases and correct my pronunciation or tone. They were so patient and excited to share their language that it made ME super excited to learn even a little bit of it. So far I've only tried out the important phrases, like rude words, "What time is it?", or “Pass me a beer.”

- The Learning Gardens. Open 24/7 all semester long, the Learning Gardens in the basement of the Central Campus Library is a beautiful workspace that’s pretty conducive to productivity. There are tables at different heights so you can work at whatever table/chair setup you’re most comfortable with, or can take a nap down here between classes on any of the BILLION cushions they’ve got scattered around.

Learning Gardens selfie, because why not? 

- Laksa. I’ve really been loving the soup that’s available here at the campus canteens, especially the Laksa. It’s a Chinese/Singaporean/Malaysian curry soup that’s made with coconut milk and chilli, and can be made to varying levels of spiciness. Luckily for a spice-wimp like me the ones on campus aren’t properly spicy, but they’re still SUPER yummy, and I think I might have found the best one on campus at Wu Yee Sun college. Then again, there are 33 canteens across CUHK and I haven’t tried them all yet so I’ll need to continue furthering my research...

(Not my photo, or the exact Laksa I had, but pretty darn close. You get the idea.)

- Messaging friends from back at home. Sometimes there are friends that you’d see almost every day and so end up taking for granted, but suddenly when you’re not part of each other’s daily lives catching up is hilarious, scandalous, and just an overall feel-good time!

- Catching a handsome stranger’s eye on the MTR. He was Chilean. I haven't seen him since, and don't expect to. It was a nice little ego boost, though :D

- Having exchange friends on Snapchat and being able to see their stories and share their adventures! Just tonight I’ve seen stories featuring fire breathers, Viet Kong tunnels, Toilet Restaurants, Singapore Slings being had IN Singapore, and some DELICIOUS looking food! I don't leave for another few days, so seeing them run around Asia is getting me SO PSYCHED for more adventures of my own!

That's 10 for now :) More posts are on the horizon - it's been an intense week and I'm feeling the inspiration to get it all down in words before I forget it all, especially before the week I've got lined up soon!

1/26-28/15 - A Taste of Chinese Martial Arts

I've been doing martial arts for more than half my life, but in the last year or so  I haven't really been able to train as much as I'd like to. This isn't necessarily a HUGE problem as I've got other things going for me, but every now and then when I watch an action movie with cool fight scenes or something, I do get itching to get back in a uniform and on the mats.

The international student office here offered a three-night set of "Introduction to Chinese Martial Arts" classes, so of course I immediately signed up. We'd be learning Tai Chi, Kung Fu, and basic acupressure and breathing techniques, none of which I'd tried before and so was totally looking forward to. 

Our instructor for all three nights was a man named William. HE IS THE CUTEST MAN EVER. He had to be 80 years old at the youngest, and I'm almost positive that he stood no taller than 5 feet maximum. William had the coolest accent and sweetest voice, and it was instantly clear that he'd been instructing for a very very long time.

This is William. Come ON, look how adorable he is. 

Each day we learned a new pattern, which was challenging to pick up but mostly because the choreography was set up differently from that of Taekwondo (it's not a symmetrical pattern like the ones I'm used to learning). Forms and patterns however are my favourite part of martial arts - to me it's like learning a super cool dance that also totally kicks ass. 

Taekwondo's aesthetics emphasize fluid movements accentuated by a sharp snapping of your technique as you execute it, so it's smooth but precise. Kung Fu had some different stances that you wouldn't see in Taekwondo, but also has a similar aesthetic basis. Tai Chi though, is SUPER different! It's still fluid, but moves aren't punctuated with sharpness and so each technique melds into the other and turns the whole pattern into one constant, flowing movement. This was a lot harder for me to pick up than expected, but I could feel it getting easier to do as the class progressed. Improvement is improvement, right? 

More than anything, the best part of these classes was the way it reminded me of just how much I really do love martial arts (apparently of any kind!). It's a workout unlike any other, and strikes this unique balance between beauty and ferocity that I haven't been able to find in any other physical activity. There's something so reassuring about knowing that you can make your body do beautiful, powerful things that demand strength and flexibility, but also a certain sense of focus and discipline that's hard to impart in other ways. I definitely think that everybody should try out martial arts even if for a little bit, because it really is unlike anything else. 

Today's Little Thing, Happy Thing: Is literally a little, happy thing. William Ng has completely made my week and sent me home every night with a huge dumb smile on my face as I wave my arms around loosely practicing the patterns I'd have just learned. 

I'm all gross and sweaty, but LOOK AT HIS SMILE :D

1/24/15 - Monkeys, Monkeys, Everywhere!

If semi-weekly hikes are going to become a thing while I'm here on exchange, you won't be hearing any complaints from me! This week, one of the local girls in my suite offered to take us on a hike to go see some monkeys, so we set out Saturday morning. A small group of us took the MTR to Tsuen Wan to meet up with Eugenia, and all together we hopped on a bus toward the park! Here are some of my favourite pictures from the day:

Heads up: There are a LOT of pictures in this post, prepare to scroll! 

You could see monkeys as soon as you got off the bus - this one was sitting on the handrail of the entrance stairs!  

Overseeing the visitors entering their neighbourhood

On the trail around the Kowloon Reservoir we found a cool little cove-thing that just had to be explored.

Inside the cove. Although it was kind of cloudy today, the skies and horizons were still stunning.

Naturally I found rocks by the water's edge and had to climb all over them like a 7 year-old. In some ways I really haven't changed at all, I just have a camera now.

What's the fastest way to get Ana to explore a desolate trench? 

Turns out the trenches were a set of tunnels and bunkers that were constructed to protect important trade routes from northern attacks. Now that the threat of attack is gone, the tunnels have been abandoned. The top of these doorways were no more than 3.5 feet off the ground so you really had to crouch to get in. 

You could see a lot of these kinds of posters plastered into the walls of some of the bunkers. We clearly weren't the first ones here.

The monkeys were really comfortable having people around, but if you got too close and didn't have food they'd start to get nervous. If you got close and DID have food around, the good luck to you because they'd be all over you... but not in a cute cuddly way.

If you thought I wasn't going to take a selfie with a monkey then you are poorly poorly mistaken. 

I'm so in love with the hillside textures here, and they definitely aren't hard to come by.

Probably my favourite shot of the day. His little one was so comfortable doing his own thing and he actually let me get pretty close. 

As it turns out, Saturday afternoons are a great time to relax for all of the animal kingdom.

Today's Little Thing, Happy Thing: The Chinese-Russian guy named Ivan who owned the bar we went to on Saturday night. When you're a new customer he'll take you and your friends into his freezer to pick out whatever bottle of vodka you'd like. Turns out his freezer is covered with a mural and he knows just how to play with perspective in such a little space. When we told him that we're from Canada he took our picture and excitedly told us that "It's like [we're] back home!"

I'd have added more cool perspective photos with Nathan too, but somebody (Chris) accidentally deleted them off their phone before backing it up... oops.

If you're in Hong Kong and you'd like to check out the park, click here for more info on how to get there!