Day 3: Apartment Hunt
I am not really planning to post a count of each single day here until the very end. I’m merely riding on the previous post’s Trekkie motif. Anyway,
We went out in the afternoon (apparently both me and my host are both late wakers) to check the serviced apartment I was primarily interested in, which is fortunately a few minutes’ walk from here, because when we got there we found that the last vacant room was taken yesterday! We then decided to check out flats in the district near my school’s.
Thus begins the MTR commute. I’ve always liked the MTR because it takes one anywhere in HK very quickly, conveniently, AND comfortably. And it did not let us down, taking us to our intended destination in no time. (Well, actually a little bit less than 30 minutes.) We boarded at Prince Edward and alighted at Tai Po (for a clearer picture, here is the MTR map).
Tai Po is a great place, especially the high rise apartment building right beside the station. There’s a mall downstairs full of Shops That Count (in my standards, if course), and everything around looks shiny-new. It was indeed the best location… except that the cheapest vacancies are way over my budget.
That narrowed down my location choices a little. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll find something interesting with the agents. But first order of tomorrow will be to get my HKID. And I have to wake early, argh.