I am back lah! yes! starting a new series to share my one week experience in HK. hope u guys enjoy and perhaps can let u guys know where to go when u visit HK. let's go!
[hong kong] i only visited kowloon & new territories, hk island & lantau island. population is abt 6.8 million, 95% are chinese. hk pple knows how to speak chinese, but those who can speak very good chinese are mostly from china.
[macau] made up of 3 islands-macau main island, taipa & coloane. if u took a ferry or turbojet to macau u will enter the main island. if u took a plane u will enter taipa island..where the international airport is located. i didnt visit coloane...so dunno much abt it...hehe. population of macau is abt 45,000. most of them are like hk pple, speak cantonese etc.
[hk in'tl airport @ lantau] not very grand as i thought,looked like china in'tl airport in beijing. i wondered why some pple commented that hk airport is very good or what, i dun see anything good leh...i am not bias or what. i can only say that the airport is big and the facilities there are good, got sky train to send u to gates that are very far away. it is definitely faster to pass thru' the customs in changi than hk airport.
[weather] early dec is still autumn in hk,butta the temperature started to drop day by day. at first i thought my jacket is too thick for the trip but i was wrong. haha! the temp was like 27dc on the first day and pple there already wore thick jackets. some even wore thick jackets as if they were in winter. scary ah...so hot lor..some pple gave us glances as we didnt wore jackets. haha! hk is not very humid...no clouds there, very dry. my skin cannot tahan, started to itch and etc...the winds there were chilly though. haha! macau was slightly hotter than hk, good weather! oh ya! if u got dry skin like me do bring some cream or what to make ur skin moist....this is a must!
[transport] gotta give thumbs up for the transport in hk...and the bus drivers. haha! i had took rides from buses, MTR (MRT in sg), KCR ( =train), taxi, trams, turbojet ( high class ferry..) and plane. the only vehicle that i didnt take is xiao ba ( small bus) that is more like our bus loop services. their buses got annoucement on which bustop is next and they got tv mobile. also, their train got map showing which station is next with lights to guide u and to show u which door to alight and change trains. all annoucements were in 3 lang- cantonese, mandarin and english. their kcr are very much like their mtr...dun look like a train we commonly see. haha! their bustops were diff from ours...only got a board showing which bus to queue for...dun have seats to let u sit or shelters...their mtr stations are quite old compared to ours and 90% of them are underground. their seats were made of steel, so u would easily slide off if u dun sit properly.
there are lots of buses from diff companies and their roads are very small...commonly 2 lanes only. yet, their bus drivers can drive very fast....very skillful yet dangerous. haha! i must comment that the bus drivers in lantau were the best! they can drive well and fast in mountain roads, up and down and making turns...damn swift! ichiban!
personally, sg drivers may not get used to hk roads coz there are many small roads and many junctions...damn confusing. also, their roads are very small, u need to have good skills to drive...and to siam the buses...which most of them are double-decks. the trams are like buses butta they got cable to move about. quite interesting butta the journey can be quite jerky becoz of the rails. btw, the trams are found in hk island only. transport cost there are more ex than sg, so dun complain tt sg's transport cost is ex lah....go to hk and u will know...i think other countries also like tt de..haha
cathay pacific is their national carrier. another hk airline is dragon air ( something like our silk air)
service quite ok lah, their kong jie normally will speak cantonese to u 1st...dun worry abt lang. food wise still quite ok...got branded ice creams too...haha! the entertainment service is statisfactory, much like SIA, but cannot play games..think is for biz class & above ba. no poker cards given..to my disappointment. haha! btw, i dun like their kong jie's uniform..haha! red and yellow....diaoz!
[houses/buildings] hk is very mountainous, many high-rise buildings are built on top of the mountains or on the slopes. i wonder how they come down eh...their schs are also commonly found on top of hills...lucky i dun study there, or else everyday gotta walk those steep roads. btw, many of the buildings there dun have lifts...must pei fu their stamina to climb the stairs. i wonder if their schs got lifts coz their schs are small yet very tall...at least got 6/7 storeys high. i think we all know hk houses are damn small and crampy, their hotels too..haha! space is so precious there although hk is much larger than sg. see their roads are small too...many of shops are located above ground floor...also, their shopping centres are quite strange. they are not like ours, used numbers to locate which storey etc. they use LG (lower ground for basement or underground levels), G ( ground floor..normally we say 1st floor or level 1), UG ( upper ground for higher storeys)..then the higher it gets it will be UG1, UG 2 etc...their cinemas are normally located at ground floor ba..not like ours at the highest level of the shopping centres.
[people] sadly to say i dun like hk pple tt much, they do not really have manners lah. u wont be able to hear a "sorry" or "excuse me" much there. they use words like" um goi" instead of "excuse me" when u r blocking their way. some dun even say a thing. in the food courts also like tt. for eg, got 1 person sitting on the table, then got some more seats empty. hk pple will just sit there and start to eat, without asking the person if the seats are occupied or what. we even met some horrible pple. we were queueing up to buy tics for the ferry trip to macau, then got an old lady there behind us. as we left the counter she said in cantonese that we didnt buy tics and blocking her way...WAT THE HECK?! their old pple are not very nice ah so dun offend them..hahah! also, many pple smoked here and there, very easy kenna 2nd hand smoke...be careful. they can smoke in air-con places like those small tea house or restaurants...so gotta tahan lah. many ladies there also smoked, students smoked with their uniforms....ugly scene. ( sg also have lah...butta wif uniforms...havent seen one) normally, they wont straight away recognise sgporeans coz we looked like them. but once u started to speak singlish they will know u r sgporeans. haha! normally they will try to speak mandarin to u or english. if u know cantonese, the better lor...or ya, even u speak cantonese they will most likely know u r a foreigner coz the way we speak is diff from theirs. hehe!
[lifestyle] macau is more slow-moving comapred to hk. hk life is hectic. pple walked damn fast on the streets and they are impatient pple, so dun block their way on the streets. didnt stay long enough to comment on their lifestyle butta it was quite clear that they dun like to stay in their homes coz houses are too small. so their streets are filled with pple in the nite. damn crampy. it is not like sg where perhaps city area is crampy or got more pple. hk ah is nearly all the streets....full of pple...alamak! the cost of living in hk is higher than sg...butta their food is quite ok lah...not very ex. some are even cheaper than ours...shall discuss in my next entry. shopping is not as cheap as we thought. u must meet the discount season or else dun try to shop in shopping centres. nite mkts are not as cheap as we thought too..bargain skills must be good. looked ard 1st b4 buying as many stalls sell the same thing with diff prices.
[food] there are lots of variety...depends on what u eat. they got food courts tt specialise in congee and others offer many set lunches and dinners, breakfast too. if u cant eat alot then gotta consider carefully ba coz those sets are quite large for a person...sure can full ur stomach. haha! they even got steamboat meals tt cost only abt 9+ per person! they eat beef alot and their chicken rice dun looked good to me...meat quite hard. haha! curry fishballs are famous there but their fishballs are harder than ours, very diff. if u do not take spicy stuffs..gd for u coz hk pple dun take chili de...so hard to find chili ah! the max they got chili oil lor....or else nothing at all...ketchup only or soy sauce. u may find their food plain lah...but u will get use to it fast de.
[communication] they got cable service. TVB & ATV are the hk tv stations, like our mediacorp. what i see in hotel basically got satellite tv from china and mtv indonesia...quite boring. if u like hk dramas then gotta wait till night time ba...really sianz lah! they got 11 tele-companies. if u got auto-roam they u will notice their service provider keeps changing. their hp packages are quite ex too, like ours but u can find brands that are not found in sg. many pple there used sony ericsson ( ann's hp model and ml's) and flip phones. also, they like to hang their hp on their necks....even if their hp are big..diaoz!
next entry will be brieftly abt what i experienced in hk for the past 1 week.
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