DAY 15

Days spent outside tend to be longer than the ones spent indoors. Or is it the opposite? Well, I guess the mood has got a lot to do with that! ;)

Today, back to TST and headed to the Science museum. Am quite late in the day, but it isn't raining as yet. Just as I am within range of the Museum, rain strikes in all its fury, but now having learnt the HK ways, I take shelter in a Mall. Its pretty nice to look around, but the tech shops are closed. :( Never mind I roam about here and there for about an hour and find an umbrella seller. Well the lady wasn't like the Umbrella Man. ;) Sorry for that, but it jus came to the mind. For the uninitiated, "The Umbrella Man" is a nice short story by Roald Dahl. Find it and read it!! :P

So I got an umbrella, went out in the rain, sloshed around a bit and reached the science museum.

My museum pass got me instant access to the Dino Exhibit and Wow!!

It was like an unbelievable experience to be seeing Dinosaur fossils in real life. I presumed they are meant to be only seen on TV. But there I was in front of live fossils and wondering how did luck bring me to this! It was seriously exhilarating. The adrenaline rush consumed all the other thoughts and reactions for a while, as I strolled the area all stunned.

After that experience, the remaining museum just looked nice. Well, it had plenty of stuff to be enjoyed practically. It wasn't worth taking pictures of those things and spoiling the feel. Went into quite a number of things but then it was enjoyable to see kids. Yeah, kids younger to me enjoying the stuff. I, for once, felt a little grownup to try some stuff, but most of the things were fun to do.

Some interesting features were an exhibit dedicated to Telecommunications and awesome practical systems to explain concepts of sampling and various other techie stuff. Well, sampling was by far the best model I have ever seen. It required one to rotate a lever and listen to the song being played. If you rotate the lever slowly you jus hear a small piece and if you rotate it very fast you'd be able to hear the full song. Sampling is reading a signal at some time. The faster you read it, the better picture of the signal you obtain. Hey, forget this. I am sorry for the crappy stuff that I got into. But the live demonstrations of basic concepts was super cool.

Sat for a live demonstration session, but it was totally in Cantonese, so didn't catch a word and the demonstrations were kinda stupid, so moved off from there and roamed about for a while in the illusions arena and freaky health zone, where you had to do funny exercises and points were given. Couldn't get to do all the exercises. But one was about how high you can reach when you jump and then how long can you balance. You have to do these to know what these are. They were real fun. Then headed out and went over across the street to the History museum, but it was already 6pm and the museum shuts down at 6:30pm, so I decided to be back to the History museum sometime later. And headed for my favourite dinner spot - Café de Coral. Had some stuff there, which I wouldn't like to describe here for the fear of getting that disgusting look on the faces of some readers. But yeah, it was good and filling. :)

And then back to the MTR station headed back to Admiralty. Yeah, I have shifted my destination of getting lost. Now, I alight at Admiralty and not at Central. And at Admiralty, I just get out of the station, land at the bus stop, sit inside a bus and get dropped straight at my apartment. :) Neat.

Soon am preparing for my next day!! Rather I am prepared just like always!! :P

Ciya after another long day at work!!