Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Hong Kong 2007 has come to an end…
I would have said that this has been a very memorable trip for me…
It is the first time I am going somewhere so far without my parents and I am going with my friends…. I am low in budget, not familiar with the place and in a far away land full of strange new things for me….above all the unknown and anxiety it was excitement… it was freedom, enjoyment and company….

my mum sending me off at the airport.....
Our day one of the trip passed very quickly….
We arrive at Changi airport at 11am all ready to set off but who knows surprises awaited us ahead… firstly wenz lost her wallet but thank God the wallet was found back at the burger king where we ate… than our flight was delayed due to the delayed in the arrival of our flight from Hong Kong…. It caught us by surprise and there we had another problem… we were told to check in to our guest house by 7 but we will only arrive at hk airport around 7… still it was full of surprises but no danger what we said as “you jin wu xian” we arrive safely at the hotel at around 9 plus and we went out to check out the place… it was super cold and we were not prepared for the cold weather at all… all we had was shorts and short sleeves shirt…. Everyone on the streets are like in winter wear… I simply don’t know what to say to my friends because I told them it should be air conditional temperature and told them there is no need to be prepared for cold…. Hehe…. So pai sai….. but we are still the typical Singaporean… we love cold weather and we seriously heck care and went to eat xu liu shan… shop abit and realise we needed to do a lot of walking in hk… and it marks the end of our 1st day when we went back to rest….

ready to board the plane after a long 2 hrs wait due to flight delay but our spirit were not dampen...

inflight entertainment.....

first meal in hongkong....
Rise and shine at 7am the next morning and made our way to ocean park at about 8am…. It was another day where we met with a lot of unplanned stuff… we went to the KCR station and they said they never sell the tickets on peak days… than we thought we could just go and take the free shutter bus to ocean park from hong hum and release must buy package than can take the shutter bus… so our ticket doesn’t entitle us to the free shutter bus…. So we went to the bus stop and take a bus to somewhere near ocean park and walk to ocean park…. It was super crowded at Ocean Park and we were so disgusted by the people…. Especially some china nationalities people… I am not apologetic to say there… they don’t queue and worst cut queue and pushes people… and the worst of all is the spit on the floor and the blow their nose using their hands and wipe it on the railing, wall and even their pants…. They make the place super dirty and they simply like to cut queue and squeeze with people… Singaporean are being famous for kiasu but compare to them we are really nothing…. Totally insignificant…. Perhaps because there was a lot of people in ocean park everything in the park seems to have had been sped up but still the waiting time was long…. The cable car seems to have sped up 2 times… I remember the last time round I was at ocean park the cable car was going quite slowly but now the speed was scary… perhaps the technology has improved and now the cable can be operated at a higher speed yet still assuring the safety of passengers…
Due to the crowd we ran out of Ocean Park at about 4 plus… than we went to ladies market and Temple Street for out shopping spree… it was just a normal shopping spree and I realise that I had nothing to buy there because I felt that the things were not that nice and they are not that cheap as well…. Another chain of incident happen after that and it was a really long day for us… we needed sleeping only at 5 am….

there is too much pictures le... cant put up everything....
Due to the late night sleep we could not wake up… only terence manage to wake up and he had his early morning walk himself to explore the place…. We set out at about 11 plus to Stanley market… it was like a roller coaster ride as we ride on the mini bus 40 to Stanley plaza…. Though the speed of the bus was indicated to us but we felt it was fake… it indicates 60km/hr when we feel that it was going at minimum 120km/hr….
Nothing much at Stanley market… except that we can see that the place has been used as scene for some tv filming…
Terence is excited because his long awaited Ayumi concert is going to take place soon…
Than we went to star avenue to take pictures and see see… and we spotted a shop whereby we brought some sweets and snacks for people….
Than off terence went to meet wth his Ayumi…. Wenz and me when to shop….
I am so proud of the 2 of us… we walk across 4 MTR station… from tsim sha shu to mong kok… and we were not lost at all… wenz brought a lot of things… and I am still like empty handed except the snacks that terence brought….
We went to causewaybay di dai to shop and I brought a dress and a t-shirt…. The dress was super cheap….

Sunday was another busy day… we slept late again… than we went to sha tin to see snoopy… than super throw face… we went to take a snoopy river ride… which was suppose to be free with terms and condition applied… we din read… just went to queue and ride than we realise we dun have the receipt to have the free ride but the lady was kind enough to just let us ride and not chase us out of the boat… after that we got no face to continue to stay there le we quickly move off to shop… we went apeliu street and the chang sa wan fashion street which turns out to be auntie fashion street lah…. Disappointment… but we went to the peak later on… thumbs up… the peak is so nice… everything was so nice except that it was super cold... but guess what… we ate haagen dazs there in the freezing peak… … we even recorded a documentary there… super funny…. Than we went lan kue fang to see see… eye opening….

Monday was best… we woke up early for Disney land….
Terence was like finally you 2 girls are able to wake up… he dun have to knock at our room door and wait and wait and still receive no respond from us…. We headed straight to Disney land… it was so cool…. Let the pictures speaks… we were having fun the whole day but the striking incident for Disney land was terence trying to be Cinderella’s prince and making wenz and me the evil step sister… the other was Donald and Daisy….
Donald saw our shopping bags and he was like wow… than he ask daisy to see also… than Daisy got angry with Donald because Donald never buy anything for her… than Donald trying to comfort Daisy by telling her he got no money and will give her all that he has… than the whole comedy was stopped by the staff in Disney when they ask Donald to stop wasting time and take picture quickly as the queue is getting longer….
the place was really beautiful… once you step on the journey to Disney you will simply forget your age and become a small kid….
Right after Disney was shopping spree for me… was left with like 1500hkd after spending a lot at Disney land which is still a lot because I never spend much the past few days…. I begin on the mission to finish all my money within that night… and I did it… simply went to Adidas and brought a t-shirt and a jacket plus another t-shirt from their local brand “cross” and my favourite scallop titbits….
I am still very proud of myself to be able to squeeze all my stuff into my luggage and not use extra luggage….

Finally tueday came… we are going back to Singapore… we are all quite broke already… terence treat us to delifrance for breakfast… than I treat them to xu liu shan for mango desert… than we went airport and ate Popeye for lunch… paid by terence and wenz…. And phew we went on the plane back to Singapore….

shall post up the rest of the pics another day....

Faith
6:32 pm

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