Archive for August, 2006
It’s Day 1 of the Hong Kong Trip! The usual first day of every trip is always special to me, cause I will be pulling my luggage from the MRT to the airport! I missed prague trip and brisbane trip you see, in fact I’m missing my choir peeps!
You see, after typing this day 1, i find that it’s really too long so please click Read more to see about the trip and pics! =)
Early morning came some people who are late and we checked our luggage into the plane at 8.28am. Arthur Poh was rather early, as I saw him going into the staff canteen for breakfast at early 7 plus 8. I ate Burger King’s bacon set breakfast and went NTUC to buy myself sweets to survive in HK. Being a person so kiasu, I got nothing to do since I came early and thus, I went around and try to do what I can do, like weighing my luggage. And here is our lecturer, Arthur Poh!
After checking in, it’s time to go inside the departure DUTY FREE area! I thought of buying things, but…forget it, I don’t want to carry it all the way to HK and back to SG again. So shopped around when Yawen went back to her Sakae Sushi to visit her friends there.Then, Sharon wanted to eat something, so someone hor, brought us all the way to the end of the terminal to find a certain fast food. Guess what…DON’T HAVE, and we walked all the way back and had…(what did we had? some mee siam thing right).
So it’s time to get to our gate so we chionged to our gate, but seeing people still strolling around, we slowed down. And we went into the gate…
The wait was rather short and we got into the plane. I’m in the plane again!
Finally into my seat, it’s time to take videos and photos! And here we fly off, zoom, bye Singapore! Lunch was served in the plane and Cathay Pacific got nice wet tissue pack! Look, so nice right? I brought one home.
Lunch is not bad, only thing is that the rice hor…=x Anyway they got nice cutlery set too! So cute and so sad I didn’t bring one set home to keep lor.
(Paisay, it should be upper left, not right, typo, upper right is a cup, how to eat)
How can you forget about the entertainment system they got? I want taiwan variety shows~~ too bad, it’s not avaliable on this kind of short flights.
And here we are, 1400++HRS, we reached Hong Kong. Did I mention the tour guide we all liked? Yes, he’s much better than the one I’m going to mention later!
Hong Kong International Airport is filled with people, esp. Chinese from China(duh) and we took a long time to get our passport chopped with the Hong Kong Customs Authority Stamp. Went out of the customs and woo~ I smell Hong Kong air. The airport was rather BIG, really BIG.
We waited at the arrival hall for people to go in and out of toilet and we are off to the coach. See, the exterior of airport so nice! Can shoot movie!
This is the coach and somehow I think I saw it in Singapore or something? Same company of buses?
It looks ok and it’s a normal coach lor, unlike the intinery stated ‘cosy coach’. Pei! =x
Is it the wind too strong? =x why is arthur poh protecting his hair =x
So we went on sightseeing, getting on and off the bus. However, it seemed like it’s going to rain any sooner when we reached THIS location near the city.
Even the pics I took with myself in it also like going to rain like that.
Sight Seeing is fun as I get to witness the sights of Hong Kong myself. Hong Kong got nice sceneries and nice people too. So when it rained, we ran to a building for shelter. They got this 24hrs operating shop, like 7-11. They call it O.K shop, but people ignored the O and tell me, ‘Hey, K shop’ (KBox open one?)
Jennifer bought alot of stuffs and eventually, she offered us some. LOL
They also got a mobile ice cream booth. I wanted to get one but I’m not willing to spend my first sum of money in Hong Kong just for the ice cream. Ice cream come back Singapore also can eat ma, right? =x
So we left the place and went to a beach at the bottom of the Victoria Peak. The sand there is SO MUCH nicer and prettier than Singapore ECP’s one. And the beach is so BIG.
After all the sight seeing, it’s time to have something for dinner right? We were told we would be going to a restaurant to eat. Restaurant?! Woo..my expection was very very high lor.
Nice food? really ma? Zhen de ma? Fish? Chicken? And more?!
We were kind of hungry.
And we waited for…not very long, the rice is on the table already. (How did they do that? So fast?) Where’s the other stuffs? You only serve rice?
The other stuffs are here and we looked at the food with the ‘WTF is this’ look. My big big fish became this tuna. My chicken became home-cooked chicken. And the rest are veggie! We pay $900 to eat this kind? =x So…we ate and however, much leftovers. and of course, we were suspecting the rice, but aiya just eat la.
After dinner, it’s time to sight see again! The coach brought us to the half of Victoria Peak. The view there is simply WOW! Amazing, Beautiful, and other phrases you can use to describe. There are also some photographers trying to earn money lor, take pics for people than like $6, no thanks, we got better cameras. DSLR ones. lol.
After wowing at the half of victoria peak, the coach sent us to our hotel, eh not hotel, is hostel. =x Ok got difference la, Hostel dun have room service. And WE WENT OUT AGAIN AT NIGHT!
There is this super big shopping centre near our hostel and they got this…
Yes, and others took picture with it also. There is a escalator of 5 floors! from 8th to 12th. Crazy, if topple how? =x I caught a glimpse of the directory and saw Toa Payoh Chicken Rice.. LOL
So we went to try the dessert. the dessert boss is so nice, knowing we are from Singapore, SHE GAVE US FREE DESSERT on top of our paid ones! We love her man, esp. Arthur. He flirted with her! =x Ok la, then we shopped Women’s Street, quite a big and good place to bargain, but I don’t know much Canto, I can only use mandrian to talk to them.
Before going back, I tried this curry fishballs and it was damm nice! Shiok!
And this is end of day 1, and here is my room…
Ah! YES, it’s freedom since I came out of the exam room. No more exams, nothing else!
And it’s KBOX time with the pples! Went Marina to eat.
Then we went kbox! (Pics will be up at the gallery soon) We very high lor. And I bet it’s the most fun session ever. And I bet we were the loudest among all the people who were singing at other rooms.
KBOX ended at 10pm. And they decided to club. So we decided at m.o.s. I’m not a really sports person as you can see, yet I danced from 1130pm to 0430am. Woo, 5 hours. Siao but quite fun la. But I won’t club so usually, like duh, you will go crazy. It’s only for events or people’s birthday then I will go to wherever they are going.
Came out and the six of us chatted at Mcdonalds’ and parted at 6 plus.
And here comes the pain. I came back home at 7 and I slept till 5pm. Cool right, 10 hours leh. But when I woke up my whole body was aching and I can’t move my legs much. I think I’ll have to rest more then =P No pics for now but will be uploaded to Gallery soon.
I was bored in the morning before starting mugging for DEUI and IWED so I went friendster and clicked ‘Who Viewed Me’ and surf through their profiles.
On first thoughts, I thought they only got some photos, but WOW, 50 overs. And most of them are neoprints you see. Personally I feel that neoprint machines takes HIGH resolution pics and print for you low resolution small sized ones at $8 to $10 for you. So why take neoprints? it’s a waste of money lor Yes. I meant it and let me calculate for you.
Let’s say you are taking alone..
One neoprint = $10
30 neoprints = $300
What can $300 buy? A good 5 Mega pixel camera!
So you get what I mean?
And somehow I think Friendster is starting to reveal your personal stuffs. WDH, they started this module telling you who your friends added recently. Wa lao, I add friends also need to announce to the whole world? And I’m pretty scared they soon reveal ‘Who Your Friends has Viewed?’ That will be the time I’m closing my account.
But funny is that our prime minister of Singapore didn’t mention Friendster though, he mentioned MySpace. Ha many people has been discussing what he said. But I’m not gonna publish my views, later kena lawyer’s letter then I know.
Anyway I’m glad that Ber likes the tunes of the song I composed for her. But I got a new song for her next month lor. I’m not stressing her though =p But I really hope she can finish learning soon so I can book the recording studio, or else later must wait until next year.
And 2 more days to freedom + 6 more days to Hong Kong. =D