My Hong Kong Journal Day 7

[day 7] well, didnt do much today. we just went walking around nathan road. went to shang yin bookshop to see books. saw shen xue's latest book..and pf bought it! haiz..envy ah! me long time didnt buy any books le! haiz...

anyway, we checked out @ 12 pm..gotta stroll ard till 5 pm ba..for the bus to fetch us to the airport. on our way there..most of us fell asleep, dunno why so tired.

went to the cathay pacific booth, that lady said our plane got some prob and might be delayed. she asked us to volunteer to switch to United Airlines..but we dun wan. haiz..in the end we got a voucher from Cathay..but we gotta wait for 1.5 hrs more to fly back home! regret we didnt choose UA...coz the plane left @ 8.25 am and cathay's @ 8.50pm! damn sianz!

the 5 of us were seperated...mum and aunt joanna sitted @ the back..me and pf sitted @ the wings..my sis was the only one sitting by herself..a little worried for her. actually wanna changed her seat with the man beside me..but gave up the idea..that guy was a foreigner..and his pals were sitted near him..he wont want to change place de..bo bian..

wondered if that guy knew how to use the controller...kept pressing the icon which was to call for help...and that air stewardress kept coming to our seats..and she always looked at me..as if i was the one who pressed the help button! not me ah! kaoz...i think this happened for abt 5 times! i got so paiseh eh..wanna told tt guy dun anyhow press..butta gave up again. coz i think he dun really understand chinese. kaoz! the whole journey was uncomfortable. dunno why i found my seat damn crampy. it was the same plane i took to hk eh..but how come i felt so diff? haiz..

the food was rather tasty..with haagen diaz ice cream! ahah! first time eating that...wahhaha! butta taste like normal ones..not much diff...diaoz!

i was a little irritated.wanna pass a piece of ham to pf..butta it dropped. then my knife dropped and landed beside the guy..alamak! then my fork nearly dropped! kaoz...what is happening to me ah? finally..reaching sg le..think the plane started to land..my head suddenly pain ah...and the pain seems to come in 2 directions...and finally..i kenna a damn sharp pain! pf said i kenna migraine, i dunno ah...never kenna migraine b4..dunno why so unlucky de! haiz...the headache only ended when i was on my way home...haiz...

guess i wont travel on cathay pacific again for sometime...a little disappointed with them. haha!

I got a job + My Hong Kong Journal Day 5

[employed] yes! i am going to start work on monday le! working full-time..monday to sat (half day)..cant imagine what will happen on my 1st day of work. hoped that sc can get a job too, i shall wait for her call tml. Anyway, got other new pple will join me on monday lah...hehe!

[shopping] went to orchard OG to shop for some new clothes. bought 2 LEE jeans @ an offered price. Levis's jeans got offer too, butta still ex! haiz..also bought a Kappa bag..haha!

bought a non-sleeve shirt from ocean fly too..quite nice! quite satisfied with my shopping trip today...didnt spend over $100! amazing! wahaha!

passed by bee cheng hiang...bakkwa got offer...damn cheap butta only for 3 days! mum bought one packet..hehe! they changed the packaging le..the bag nicer le..got festive mood. butta dunno if they will continue to use this bag...

saw sun yan zi's autograph seesion @ heeren..sis was there queueing up with the fan club from morning till 5 pm plus. siaoz! weather was bad and tt place was small..the crowd not very big lah...butta many pple was drenched & still wanna see sun yan zi..finally she appeared lah..sang "ben". didnt wait for my sis lah..went to takashimaya to wait for her..haiz

[day 5] we took a train to sheung wan & reached the hk macau ferry pier. bought ticketes from turbojet and met tt rude old lady.diaoz! anyway, the trip to macau was abt an hr...turbojet is a 喷射船..can travel very fast. the whole journey was comfortable lah..as if we were on a plane. haha!

we hired a tour guide @ a reasonable prx..he brought us to some famous spots in macau lah. like the new guan yin statue, the tourist tower, da san ba ( the church remains..left a wall), 炮台..something like our siloso in sentosa. saw stanley ho's 4th wife de house..damn big! sceneries of zhu jiang (china)..which is just opposite of macau..another modern city..wow!

we ate portuguese egg tars and drank coffee @ margaret..very nice..butta just as the same as those in sg.

there were 2 long bridges to travel to taipa..another island of macau. went to buy almond biscuits and other stuffs in a famous shop..haha! macau is going to be the host for 2005 asian games i think..a new olympic stadium is on the way...aunt joanna ate a famous bun @ taipa. a big chicken chop in a bun eh! haha! taste not bad ah! must try !

the tallest building in macau is the bank of china (38 storeys)..dunno why they dun wan to build higher. their housing are similar to hk lah..small. roads are more horrible than hk...many of them are made of rough stones made by the portuguese and alot of small roads only had one lane..beside were full of cars and scooters...

our final stop was SANDS casino..opened by the americans. went to take a look lah..only my sis couldnt get in..gotta wait for us downstairs. pple of 18 yrs old & above can go in lah. i think 80% of the gamblers were from china..alamak! very smoky there and i dun like it. mum said the casino was bigger than the casino in genting. got alot of jackpot machines lah, saw pple playing diff kinds of games lah. i dun like tt place lah, but it was an eye opener. hehe!

thursday thursday+ My Hong Kong Journal Day 6

[today] went for my life's first interview...haha! heng! i think i made it somehow..with sc! haha! tt company is located @ defu lah...damn ulu! haiz...quite a big electrical company ...and they speak mandarin de! bingo! i am more fluent in that lang sia...phew~ anyway, going down there tml again to hand our photos and to discuss the details again ba...hope i can confirm my place...coz got other interviewers b4 me..the boss quite friendly lah...hope that i can pass thru the interview easy breezy! anyway, relief teaching is somehow out now....coz the job is not stable and i gotta call up the schs...damn sianz...cant be waiting for their replies mah...aniwae, wish sh luck lah..hope she can get a relief teaching job..

kumon finally replied my email le...haiz...butta now i am not quite sure if i got employed by the other company. kumon's job is quite ok lah...so i am trying to get my sis that job instead..me leh? perhaps part time? dunno...seems to be too busy and tiring of having 2 jobs @ the same time ba?

went to woodlands regional lib after the interview...long time didnt go there le..borrowed two books while my mum and sis made up the rest. hehe! finally now i can start my reading again..thesedays read a number of novels..most of them are movie or drama novels lah. damn happy to read "dae jang geum"...a korean drama by lee young ae..quite boring but somehow interesting eh..saw the drama showing in a malaysian channel..tv 8! haiz...no chance to see!

[day 6] i really cant believe i am so heng to see TVB shooting drama @ jordan eh! ya...aunt joanna told us when we were having our breakfast...then we kpo and walked to see them shooting..guess who we saw? charmaine sheh(佘诗曼) and raymond lam(林峰). i think they were shooting for the drama" yummy yummy" which channel u also got co-operate.really damn heng! haha! they were sitting in a BMW..hehe! today was like a temple visit...haha! went to 2 buddhist temples & wong tai sin temple..taoist de. the first one was @ diamond hill...zi lian jing yan..a very classy temple. very zen/japanese style..very few pple there..butta very peaceful too. the buddha statues there are diff from the common ones i see in sg. well, buddhist statues dun have a fix posture or what lah..butta those in hk are abit diff from ours lah...quite unique.

then we went to the famous wong tai sin temple..got many pple there ah..again most of them were from china. i hardly been to any taoist temples lah...so this was a gd chance. the temple got many smaller temples with different gods inside...surprisingly they dun use statues de..instead they used pictures...drawings..wonder why...anyway, must made a small donation b4 entering the main temple...actually it was compulsory..got guard sitting beside the donation box..

then we travelled the kcr to shatin..went to ten thousand buddha temple...got 400+steps..along the way were two lanes full of monks statues..very special..the dou hua @ the temple taste different.i tried the cold dou hua...conclusion..hot ones are nicer! haha!

after that went to a nearby shopping centre @ shatin...there got snoopy world..it was actually more for kids lah but i still like tt place..haha!

miss out day 5 le...nvm..will blog in my next entry!

feeling like a santa claus+My Hong Kong Journal-Day 4

[today] met sherry @ hg mall. didnt expect her to buy me n pf x'mas gifts. it was a hp holder. mine was a sheep while pf's was a dog. sherry said sheep represents aries...yeah..and her bdae was 5 days b4 mine..wahah! how come she knows my bdae huh? haha! anyway, arigato ne!

boarded the train too early..reached orchard mrt @ abt 12.30pm..sianz. lucky ch was early too...accompanied me to wait..then came gc and sc..we were betting who would be the last one to come...we were right...HM! haiz...always very late ah gal!

well, we were exchanging gifts here & there..haha! so fun sia! glad tt everybody got something to get from each other! wanna thank sc for ur x'mas cards!

py had found an admin job lah...congrats..butta ur job seems to be very demanding eh? haiz..u looked so stress sia...think u will kenna many OTs ah...poor gal. ch good ah...still can study in poly..sobbzz..sc like me ah...still floating ard....haiz...continue with our job hunt ba! hm leh? kaoz this rich gal can now concentrate on ur driving lessons lah! wish u luck in ur coming test ah! haha!

watched "national treasure" @ lido...didnt expect the cinema to be full house...siaoz...anyway, first time met pple scolding each other in cinema..all i can say was pple...pls be more reasonable, pple didnt purposely hurt ur leg or what...some more u guys are adults..dun throw ur own face...and ladies..pls sit properly...er lang tui is for men sia! haiz....anyway, didnt waste my $6.50 lah..tt show not bad lah..quite interesting...the show was tense too..shiok! nicolas cage's acting..thumbs up!

hope to see u guys soon..though it will be even harder to organise another gathering again...

[day 4] tim sum breakfast @ gold dynasty restaurant along nathan road...very tasty! haha! the har gao was so crystal clear ah! the congee was very smooth..yummy!

too mtr to lantau island. went to visit the great buddha statue & po lam monastery. from tung chung we took a bus to our destination...1 hr..the whole journey was...cool! haha! we gotta travel on mountainous roads and the driver's skill was good ah! cant describe le..haha!

the dou hua @ po lam monastery was fantastic! not too sweet yet tasty! the vegetarian restaurant was full of pple..mainly were tourists from package tours..i didnt have the chance to eat though.

200+ steps to climb @ the great buddha area...not as challenging as the great wall butta quite tiring too...i gotta stopped abit @ a time..really gotta pei fu my sis...she just climbed without stopping...damn good stamina! haha! anyway, the buddha was magnificant lah! very grand and peaceful. i must comment on the toilet @ po lam...really looked like those in china...which i saw 4 yrs back..haha! the cubicals were half covered by the doors...hard to describe lah! really no an quan gan. phew~

went back to kowloon to shop in night mkts again...pf bought a pair of earrings...i didnt buy much ba? haha...a pair of earrings for my cousin..hehe! anyway, pf looked damn hiao back in the hotel room, when she put on her necklace and earrings..haha! guys! must ask her to wear it if u r meeting her! perhaps with her new tube-skirt? haha! so lady~

aimless soul + My Hong Kong Journal-Day 3

[life now] thesedays dad kept asking my sis and i to find a job, nagging everyday...alamak. lucky, my mum is more understanding. haiz..actually i thought i had find a job..butta looks like i couldnt get the job lah...too many pple le ba? haiz. nvm, continue to search ba.

[tml] going to meet my si dang again tml @ orchard. too bad not all of them can come lah..butta i feel like i am a santa claus..coz i am giving out gifts i bought for them in hk..wahahah! anyway, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO SIEW CHEN(13/12)...sorry ah gotta wait till tml to celebrate with u! hehe~

[ayumi] yes! finally her latest album "my story" is coming out in stores soon! saw the ad on tv...got 4 diff covers eh! haha! lucky mum let me buy this time round! haha! got new album to listen le! yosh!

[x'mas cards] received a xmas card from my sec pal a few days ago...really wanna thank her for remembering me...coz to some of my pals...the cards are like an annual communication sia...butta gotta say a sorry to her ne..becoz she gotta wait for a few months to receive my cny card! haha! nvm lah, i will leave my contact no and email stuff for her this time..this is applicable to all those pals who i hardly contact...only thru cards...haiz! ya...this yr i am not sending any x'mas cards le..instead i will send CNY cards...so pple gotta wait longer hor? haha! butta i did sent e-cards to my pals thru e-mail lah...most of them are my chat pals though..haa!

[day 3] jw & her sis didnt follow our trip to ocean park..so the wholeday only got 5 of us. anyway, we did travel abit to get discount tickets in hk island..then we took a taxi to ocean park...again..mountainous roads..haha! the entrance fee was quite cheap (forgot how much le..ard $30) and it covered all the stuffs in the park..cable car, aquarium and theme park rides etc.

anyway, to our disappointment, we cant travel in the cable car becoz the weather is windy & they stopped the cable car service temporary. nvm...we travelled up to the upper part of ocean park by escalator...very long and steep ones..got many of them..forgot how many le. hehe~ anyway, the place was flooded by many chinese nationals..sianz

went to visit their aquarium...quite like sentosa's underwater world lah..butta somehow abit more magnifacant than ours. haha! we met a few unfriendly china pple who snatched our place to take photos or squeeze their way in to take photos..damn rude! ladies some more...haiz!

theme park ride was a fun one..pulled pf and my mum to take the roller coaster ride with my sis and me..haha! shiok sia! quite scary lah butta i didnt scream..coz i closed my eyes! wahaha! the pirate ship was a "killer".. coz my mum and pf felt uncomfortable after the ride...so they didnt dare to take anymore rides lah...their themepark wasnt big butta quite fun lor...their biggest roller coaster was off for maintainence...sobbzz!

anyway, we stayed @ the park till 5pm like tt..then we took cable car back to the lower part of the ocean park..haha! went to see the pandas ( an an & jia jia), the dinosaurs , the butterflies and the shops b4 we left . went back to kowloon area to have dinner @ the spaghetti house. the restaurant looked posh butta the food there wasnt ex..heheh! the best dinner i ever had in hk ba? whaha! i dun think they got open branch in sg though...sobbzz!

the fun part came when we were back in our hotel room. tt day tvb showed a korean movie which the 3 of us (pf , my sis and me) named it "猛男show" or "hunk show" lah..haha! coz the actor got a few scenes showing off his muscular body.wahhaha...made us fainted sia...lolz. no lah, actually we laughed damn loud while watching the show..even my mum next door also can hear..paiseh sia...that movie is "my tutor friend" or "我的野蛮家教"..starring kim ha neul & kwon sang woo!

My Hong Kong Journal-Day 2

[day 2] went to nearby tea house for breakfast @ 7.30am..damn early! then we waited for the bus to start our city tour in hk. haiz....terrible city"too"! yeah...that tour guide pronounced that way..so bo bian lah! ( i'm not english teacher mah..haha) the previous guy who fetched us frm airport didnt say that the city tour got include breakfast...kaoz! so we were the only grp who had breakfast liao...diaoz! nvm...we walked ard the streets while the rest had their tim sum breakfast with their idoit "too" guide!

the idoit damn hao lian! kept questioning us abt sg hist and he answered his own qns b4 anyone ans, i guessed no one bothered to ans anyway! then, he also kept comparing sg & hk...the city"too" was more like an excursion where we learnt abt hk's housing problem, rich men and others lah...kaoz. yeah! i am fortunate to live in sg where my house is big! diaoz! the "too" guide was bei song coz we were not very "co-operative"...we siam the breakfast which was quite costly & we siam the lunch when the city tour ended..haha! all ex stuffs..that photographer kept wanting to snap shots so that he could sell the pics! haha! lucky we didnt join them for lunch...wahahha!

the city tour included a stop to hk jewellry...pf and my sis each bought a necklace. not very ex but also not very cheap lah. however, they were quite unique lah. actually i wanna buy the same necklace pf bought...butta only got one! haiz....pf u lucky gal! nvm lah, i dun wear necklace also..muhahaha!

finally, the horrible city "too" ended..haha! we visited the peak & repulse bay ( qian shui wan). the beach @ repulse was more like a garden than a beach..nobody there de..except tourists..haha! butta, that place were fulled of rich pple...haiz...good seaview from their homes ne!

i really couldn't recall much abt the city tour le...didnt write down much on my paper also..hehe!

we went back to kowloon area to shop the nite markets, shld be nv ren jie 女人街ba..abit mixed up with another st..花园街. yap! we began our shopping trip lah..butta the person who bought the most is MS PF lah! haha! i beg she got lots of things to tell abt her shopping experience! haha!

i didnt buy much..kept looking for nice gifts for my pals..quite disappointed that the things there were not cheap lah! haiz! butta, anyway i managed to buy most of the gifts there lah...really walked until my legs got tired..haha!

took a bus to star ferry in kowloon to see the 星光大道..actually that is just a walking path beside the sea lah..the nite scenery was beautiful..can see many buildings lighted up for xmas in hk island, which is in the opposite direction of kowloon.

saw this free entrance thing to little bear musuem...so we decided to see lah...so qiao met ling lee & her pals there...kaoz..hk is not big mah! haha! butta, we didnt stop by to talk lah...a pity though.

the musuem was another disappointment...coz we only get to see the shops...the musuem still need to pay entrance fee! wat the heck! tt means last time we gotta pay to see the shops eh! haiz...wonder if the little bear musuem in korea is also the same sia?

then, i went to buy a hard rock cafe shirt...quite ex ah! i thought still the same price like the one i bought in beijing. haha! i forgot that prx can change in 2 yrs time..paiseh hor...coz actually i am the only one who wanna go hard rock lah...the rest gotta pei wo walked for so long..hah! paiseh lah!

got something happened when we were on our way to have steamboat in a restaurant. haiz..paiseh ah sometimes aunt joanna is abit blur lah...anyway, it was a challenge to walked for an hr ba? haha! nvm lah...the steamboat quite ok lah..then met aunt joanna's frens there..abit awkward lah coz we dunno them mah. hah!

finally...can go back to hotel rm to rest le..hehe! tv time...haha! not alot of tv shows lah..the china satellite tvs like showing the same drama for dunno how many episodes. butta my sis was damn happy lah..coz can see her fav idol's drama, "jiang nan jing hua meng"...haiz..me leh? didnt catch much of the new atv and tvb serials..butta nicky cheung's new drama" tian ya xia yi " is not bad..hehe~their 8 pm show is "kungfu soccer"...showing in sg now also..sucks..

atv is showing the vampire drama part 3...in sg i had seen the 1st & 2nd parts le...quite sian leh..how come can drag for so long? haha! anyway, stayed up late till 1am like tt to catch the repeat telecast of " tan pan zhuan jia"...very shiok! haha!

My Hong Kong Journal-Day 1

[day 1] reached airport @ 8am. many pple were queueing up to check in their luggages. pf was the earliest to reach, jw & her sis were a little late. i saw her parents and bro too. reached hk in'tl airport @ abt 1pm plus. we waited for quite sometime b4 the person-in-charge brought us and the rest to our respective hotels. We lived in Dorsett Garden Hotel @ jordan, nanking street. Mum & aunt joanna's room was on the same floor as mine ( with pf & sis). jw & her sis's rm was on the 10th floor. haha! damn lucky to have a bigger room coz' our rm got 3 beds..hehe! the 2-bedded rooms were damn small...especially their bathroom...horrible! anyway, got many singaporeans in the same hotel too...

went to hk island after we settled everything. we visited places like central, admiralty & causeway bay..very crowded..haha! hk island got many shopping centres, like sogo, times square & pacific etc..well, their shopping centres were quite alike lah, butta alittle diff from ours. their branded goods stores were all on the ground levels or the 1st few levels above ground. then other middle-class stores were scattered to the higher levels or basement...quite messy somehow. I am surprised not to see some brands which we commonly see in sg. for eg, ocean pacific, isetan, kinokuniya, takashimaya etc..saw popular bookshop in shatin's festival walk shopping centre though. hah!

if u like small tibits or 小吃..then u have come to the right place. got alot of shops selling all sorts of food in sticks. many of them are not available in sg yo! so must try sia!

as i said in my earlier entry that hk island got tram services. must take also!

there were many young pple there, their fashion style were quite diff from ours. alot of teens wore punk clothes..haha! oh ya! many women also wore boots...high boots..normally in white, brown & black colours. i guessed they wore it becoz of the "cold "weather ba...

if i remembered correctly, we also went to temple street 庙街 in kowloon, actually also quite near my hotel lah. got alot of tourists there and the stores sell all sorts of things. again, i wanna say that dont anyhow buy lah, must check the price all that lor. got alot of men there lah so gals be more careful! gotta squeeze urself all the way thru' the street lah..quite long..hehe! didnt buy anything there lah...their nite mkts were better than our parsa malam though.