Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Nicky Kwong @ Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (from CityU) 19 August - 26 November 2010
19/8/2010
Today is the first day I come to Copenhagen. Everything is perfect. It only takes 20 minutes to take me from the airport to where I live, Islands Brygge station. Perfect metro!! And then I see my student residence, Tietgenkollegiet, it is the best student residence in town!!!!!
This is so cool!! I feel so lucky, so lucky that I can live in this student residence. You can’t deny that the modern architecture in Denmark is awesome. FYI, the construction cost of Tietgen is 1 billion HK Dollars, yes, ONE B-I-L-L-I-O-N!!
My super cozy and high tech kitchen, the lights will turn on when they sense someone comes in. And the kitchen is well equipped with everything, and in good condition J
And there are all sorts of facilities in Tietgen, Music Room, Computer Room, Gym Room, Tietgen Bar, table tennis, pool table, and many more.
There’s a little balcony in my room, feel so good to have a room with balcony. I can soak up vitamin D whenever I feel like to. From the first day I move in, I can imagine my exchange life is going to be no difference from the life in heaven.
3/10/2010
This is a normal Sunday, or you can say a no brain SundayJ. When I woke up this morning, I felt like I should go to Nyhavn, had a coffee and did something what we Hong Kong people think which is very European. So, I called a friend and then we met up in Nyhavn, found a decent café, grab a coffee, read a good book and chit chat.
Haha this was so what we used to assume, European life. Felt so Europe, and the only bad side of this thing was that it’s quite cold sitting there because it was so windy. And it was also pretty good to sit down and observe people on the street. I always believe that observation can make people wiser, just like think more can make you wise. Some people like to have a very rush itinerary when they go travel. But to me, I like to sit down for, let say a couple of hours, to observe people on the street. I found that Danish, compared with other Europeans, they are generally happier. Most of the people didn’t use any brand name products, like Gucci, LV, Burberry. Obviously not because they cannot afford these, I guess they just don’t need the luxurious things to make themselves happy. I did ask my Danish floor mates to confirm this, they said Danish generally do not buy the high class brands. They don’t think there’s a need to show off their wealth and they believe that happiness should come from relationship with friends and families or other intangible things instead of these luxury goods.
In Germany, there were more people using brand name goods. However, they didn’t look happier. They gave me an impression that they always have a lot to worry, many thoughts in their mind, maybe it’s a lot to deal with the financial crisis…
16/10/2010
Legoland Day!!! We (me + three HK students + one student from Mainland China + one from Singapore) visited Legoland. The temperature was 0-2 degree celcius and with the strong wind, it made me feel ten times colder!!! Though it was so chilling, it didn’t diminish our passion to Legoland. Legoland is a super cool place, it used millions of LEGO bricks to create this incredible world. Felt like going into a wonderland, with all the colourful bricks and laughter, it felt so great to be there.
Isn’t it gorgeous??
There were not many tourists in Legoland, I mean most of them were local families, they all speak Danish. This thing is quite interesting to me, because I always assume that theme park is a quite touristic thing, so tourists versus local should be at least half-half. The case in Legoland is totally another thing, what I had seen was that no Asian were there except the six of us and there are not many English instructions in the park for the convenience of tourists. To me, this is indeed very interesting, this theme park is so not commercial compared with the other theme parks that I have ever been to, their spirit is like “come if you feel like coming, we are not doing extra thing to impress you”. HAHA, but this is only my interpretation, not sure if this is their intended message. I like their spirit, just be the way you are and then you will attract a lot of people. This is one thing make me love Denmark and Danish so much, they just be the way they are. I like, I like it so much, and this is the spirit I have to learn.
Yes, I would like to talk about the kids here. Kids here are usually stuffed with a lot of clothes by their mom, so it makes them look like a penguin when they walk!! :D Just like a penguin, so adorable, aren’t they??
7/11/2010
It’s the last day of my Iceland Trip. Iceland is by far the most beautiful place I have ever been to, seriously. The scenes were terrific, felt like going to a paradise. And then the northern lights, way beyond awesome, I cannot find the appropriate word to describe my feeling, felt like almost cry when I saw that. One of my to-dos in the Iceland trip is to see the Northern Lights, and I got to see it on the first night.
My camera is not professional enough to capture the northern lights, this one is captured by a friend we knew during the trip. Felt so lucky that I can see this on the first night, we know that many other exchange students went to Iceland and they didn’t got to see the northern lights.
Strokkur Geysir (a spouting hot spring) This one is a good one, like standing there and looking it goes up and down. If I have plenty of time, I will grab a book and coffee, sitting there to for hours to see the water goes up and down!!! Everything in Iceland is so amazing that made me appreciate what God created for us again and again. And I am so impressed that Icelanders are still very optimistic and happy even their country goes bankrupt. I like their positive attitude towards life and it’s your attitude that determines your life, I think.
26/11/2010
Today, we have “julefrokost” in our kitchen. Julefrokost means Christmas Lunch it’s a tradition in Denmark.
This is actually a Christmas Dinner plus drinking party going on till early morning. We have a lot of traditional Danish food. Most of them are open sandwiches. They have a basket of Rugbrød (traditional Danish bread) and then you have many different ingredients, like marinated fish, shrimps, salmon, bacon, together with many different sauces that you can put whatever you like on top of the Rugbrød. And there are also some sausages and Danish meatballs. The last picture is a traditional Danish dessert. It is a cold rice pudding served with hot cherry sauce, one of the best desserts on earth.
I love the Julefrokost so much and I have so much fun in this night!!! The Danes really know how to live a good life and party!!!
Today is the first day I come to Copenhagen. Everything is perfect. It only takes 20 minutes to take me from the airport to where I live, Islands Brygge station. Perfect metro!! And then I see my student residence, Tietgenkollegiet, it is the best student residence in town!!!!!This is so cool!! I feel so lucky, so lucky that I can live in this student residence. You can’t deny that the modern architecture in Denmark is awesome. FYI, the construction cost of Tietgen is 1 billion HK Dollars, yes, ONE B-I-L-L-I-O-N!!
My super cozy and high tech kitchen, the lights will turn on when they sense someone comes in. And the kitchen is well equipped with everything, and in good condition JAnd there are all sorts of facilities in Tietgen, Music Room, Computer Room, Gym Room, Tietgen Bar, table tennis, pool table, and many more.
There’s a little balcony in my room, feel so good to have a room with balcony. I can soak up vitamin D whenever I feel like to. From the first day I move in, I can imagine my exchange life is going to be no difference from the life in heaven.
3/10/2010
This is a normal Sunday, or you can say a no brain SundayJ. When I woke up this morning, I felt like I should go to Nyhavn, had a coffee and did something what we Hong Kong people think which is very European. So, I called a friend and then we met up in Nyhavn, found a decent café, grab a coffee, read a good book and chit chat.Haha this was so what we used to assume, European life. Felt so Europe, and the only bad side of this thing was that it’s quite cold sitting there because it was so windy. And it was also pretty good to sit down and observe people on the street. I always believe that observation can make people wiser, just like think more can make you wise. Some people like to have a very rush itinerary when they go travel. But to me, I like to sit down for, let say a couple of hours, to observe people on the street. I found that Danish, compared with other Europeans, they are generally happier. Most of the people didn’t use any brand name products, like Gucci, LV, Burberry. Obviously not because they cannot afford these, I guess they just don’t need the luxurious things to make themselves happy. I did ask my Danish floor mates to confirm this, they said Danish generally do not buy the high class brands. They don’t think there’s a need to show off their wealth and they believe that happiness should come from relationship with friends and families or other intangible things instead of these luxury goods.
In Germany, there were more people using brand name goods. However, they didn’t look happier. They gave me an impression that they always have a lot to worry, many thoughts in their mind, maybe it’s a lot to deal with the financial crisis…
16/10/2010
Legoland Day!!! We (me + three HK students + one student from Mainland China + one from Singapore) visited Legoland. The temperature was 0-2 degree celcius and with the strong wind, it made me feel ten times colder!!! Though it was so chilling, it didn’t diminish our passion to Legoland. Legoland is a super cool place, it used millions of LEGO bricks to create this incredible world. Felt like going into a wonderland, with all the colourful bricks and laughter, it felt so great to be there.Isn’t it gorgeous??
There were not many tourists in Legoland, I mean most of them were local families, they all speak Danish. This thing is quite interesting to me, because I always assume that theme park is a quite touristic thing, so tourists versus local should be at least half-half. The case in Legoland is totally another thing, what I had seen was that no Asian were there except the six of us and there are not many English instructions in the park for the convenience of tourists. To me, this is indeed very interesting, this theme park is so not commercial compared with the other theme parks that I have ever been to, their spirit is like “come if you feel like coming, we are not doing extra thing to impress you”. HAHA, but this is only my interpretation, not sure if this is their intended message. I like their spirit, just be the way you are and then you will attract a lot of people. This is one thing make me love Denmark and Danish so much, they just be the way they are. I like, I like it so much, and this is the spirit I have to learn.
Yes, I would like to talk about the kids here. Kids here are usually stuffed with a lot of clothes by their mom, so it makes them look like a penguin when they walk!! :D Just like a penguin, so adorable, aren’t they??
7/11/2010
It’s the last day of my Iceland Trip. Iceland is by far the most beautiful place I have ever been to, seriously. The scenes were terrific, felt like going to a paradise. And then the northern lights, way beyond awesome, I cannot find the appropriate word to describe my feeling, felt like almost cry when I saw that. One of my to-dos in the Iceland trip is to see the Northern Lights, and I got to see it on the first night.My camera is not professional enough to capture the northern lights, this one is captured by a friend we knew during the trip. Felt so lucky that I can see this on the first night, we know that many other exchange students went to Iceland and they didn’t got to see the northern lights.
Strokkur Geysir (a spouting hot spring) This one is a good one, like standing there and looking it goes up and down. If I have plenty of time, I will grab a book and coffee, sitting there to for hours to see the water goes up and down!!! Everything in Iceland is so amazing that made me appreciate what God created for us again and again. And I am so impressed that Icelanders are still very optimistic and happy even their country goes bankrupt. I like their positive attitude towards life and it’s your attitude that determines your life, I think.26/11/2010
Today, we have “julefrokost” in our kitchen. Julefrokost means Christmas Lunch it’s a tradition in Denmark.
This is actually a Christmas Dinner plus drinking party going on till early morning. We have a lot of traditional Danish food. Most of them are open sandwiches. They have a basket of Rugbrød (traditional Danish bread) and then you have many different ingredients, like marinated fish, shrimps, salmon, bacon, together with many different sauces that you can put whatever you like on top of the Rugbrød. And there are also some sausages and Danish meatballs. The last picture is a traditional Danish dessert. It is a cold rice pudding served with hot cherry sauce, one of the best desserts on earth.I love the Julefrokost so much and I have so much fun in this night!!! The Danes really know how to live a good life and party!!!
Labels: 2010/2011 Semester A
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