Thursday, July 31, 2008

Hong Kong day 2 - 2nd July

The start of our exciting half day tour. The tour guide was already waiting for us at the lobby. Board the bus, pick up a few more people and tat's the start of the tour. Only 8 people for the whole tour. Manage to hit the bare minimum for them to give us a complementary half day tour.
The weather was nice....and we headed down to our first stop which is the golden bauhinia square.


Pixies a little blur cos of "someones" thumbprint!
From the other side of the sea...this is at causeway bay.
After a nice dim sum breakfast...which also happens to be our one and only dim sum meal there we proceed to mid victoria peak. The view is damn gorgeous and fantastic. My tour guide keep saying:" you all are so lucky. Seldom you can see the view so clearly, cos usually there's a lot of fog due to pollution." Guess i have the typhoon which brought rain to clear the fog to thank for that. Bidding farewell to the peak...we drove down hill to repulse bay...passing by jackie chan's house and a few rich people's housing..The beach is super nice...but beware, there are sharks roaming around!!Cross the long life bridge...walk more times, live longer. Hehe...a pity we don't have the energy to walk 99 times..lol 〈福禄寿〉希望能够添福又添寿..hehe
Some silly pose...hehe...that's wat holidays are about!摸摸姻缘石。。。但求好姻缘。 虽然不是单身一族,但是也希望现在的感情能够顺顺利利。 Too bad, no pearls in my mouth...lolAs you can see...the sun is real HOT!The very tall guanyin statue. A very funny pose of donut..lol...a different side of James.And we gotta leave the beach already... Next up is Aberdeen fishing village. The 避风塘in hongkong...this is extra $50hkd tips for the boat driver. Me and james and another girl from qingdao board the boat...and to our surprise, the tour guide and the other 5 people didn't do so. The tour guide was at the harbour waving to us, as the boat drive away! Only one expression on our face - shocked O_O"no matter what, i think it's quite worth it la...Wanted to eat at the jumbo seafood restaurant, but decided not to as it's too inaccessible after finding out from the tour guide. Donut's yacht ?! only in my dreams


After that, we went to a jewellery factory and a medicine factory. Had lunch at a very good restaurant in a hotel. And that marks the end of our half day tour. We were the last two to leave the restaurant. The tour guide was so good, that he stayed and wait for us and brought us to grandville road, where he recommends that we can get good quality clothes at good price there. The quality are better than ladies street ones. And yup, we got ourselves some nice clothes there...all thanks to the very nice tour guide. He could jolly well just leave us there to find our way back, but he brought us all the way to the street. And thanks to that tour, i learn more about hong kong's culture and places that i have visited.
Finally we met up with ting and lix...and we had our dinner at macy. It was not bad..i like the soup.
ting's dinner...looks yummy rite??The LADIES on the street...preparing to go to ladies street.And we had a long nice shop... lesson learnt about ladies street:" the aunties are damn fierce, you have to sha jia cos they will chop you to death if you don't. Can't get the price you want? walk away, cos 10 shops down the road they are selling the same things. Wait till one is willing to give up (easiest when they are about to close). But my gains from there in this whole trip, 1 bracelet and 4 miss sixty jeans shorts.

On our way back, we lost our way...oops...hong kong's streets too many corners liao...luckily we still found our way back. Our legs are aching like hell...but luckily our hotel is not that far away. And so that's the end of our day 2! Half of my holiday gone like this...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Hong Kong day 1 ~ 1st of July

Alright, finally it's time to blog about my hong kong trip. For once, i get to fly again, after so long, since my last flight which was almost 3/ 4 yrs ago!!Get as far away from singapore as i could. YEAH!!Thanks to Jame's company driver, we reached airport very early, and it didn't cost us a bomb. Very grateful for that. So with so much time left, after checking in our luggage, we get to tour around changi airport, right early in the morning. Our tixs away from singapore, all the worries and trouble!!hehe...





Smile...because we are going up up and away.CX710 is the flight...
Window seats...hehe...my favourite!After four hours of ride...we reached HONG KONG! this is hong kong international airport. The whole airport is build on reclaim land. Amazing...and when the airplane lands, it is flying so low above the sea...Us in the mtr within the airport..
I gotta say, our free and easy package was well worth. The coordinator is very friendly, and they manage to identify us, while we were looking for the gathering point. Guess wat, we were the first two that came out somemore. After waiting for all to arrive, did a small shopping at the disney shop at the airport in order to get some change to make phone calls to ting and lix! Finally i got through their phone..but they are in zhu hai. didn't make it back to meet me on the first day..sobs..luckily donut came along. If not i'll be left wandering hong kong alone which is one word - scary!on the bus to our hotels...as u can see...clear blue sky = to really sunny day!Finally arriving at our hotels after a few hotels stop over. It's really super duperly small! But i'm so surprise, given such a small room, they could actually squeeze a bathtub in!!
Our first hong kong meal. Curry pork chop rice...literally in words and in form. The curry is like japanese curry...taste was normal.Then it was mtr to Tsim sha tsui to explore around the area... a really old car!!the two explorer...finding routes on their own...and they made it to AVENUE OF STARS! hehe..
Nice scenery isn't it...Just realise james is standing so straight in this pic..haha..Jet li leaving his handprint...lol

AcTion!The 金马奖statue...

The clock tower, which used to be part of a train station. Now this is what's left as a memorial..Took the star ferry across to the central area where all the cbd buildings are..As u can see...it's already evening time! And here we are...today is actually hongkong's national day!On our way crossing the long bridge to the International Finance centre, which has a big shopping mall within it!

Watched the symphony of light from the other end...wrong decision...But it's alright...there'll always be a next time.Back at the avenue of stars...as u can see- a lot of people go there to pat tor...We bought bento from a big supermarket in ifc back to the hotel to eat...cosy dinner..hehe...The bento's quite good oh! A tiring day cos from place to place is quite a walk, but i'm super happy! Especially i got 2 mango tops from ifc..hehe...like it when donut is willing to shop with me and help me choose nice clothes. Tat's all for the first day in hong kong... had quite an early night, cos tml's the half day tour! mood~ excited.