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Monday, January 29, 2007

Take a deep breathe!!!!!! Ahh.... Hong Kong air is so............. *cough*....... er a bit polluted.

hahahah today is the second last day of my trip! Sad..... T-T

Anyway today is going to be an exciting day!!! Cos today is our super duper ultra exciting trip to MACAU!!!!! WO WO WOOOOOOOOO!!!! ahahhaah Give me a 3 in 1 wa... WA WA WAAAAAAAA!!!

Woke up early in the morning to take a ferry over to Macau! After lots and lots of delay... finally decided to take a ferry to Macau at 11.30 am. The ferry is super deluxe! its like the business class of the aeroplane. Hahahah.. Almost instantly we fell asleep once we sit down.

Business Class on the ferry

After a long long long sleep we finally reached Macau. The custom took a very long time haih.... due to the shortage of $$$$ we decided to take bus no. 11 (which is our legs) throughout the whole tour of macau.

Ambassador of Macau!

First, we walked half an hour to a Guan Yin Temple. This Guan Yin Temple is really very classic. It has the features of a very olden chinese temple.

Guan Yin Temple

After that, we proceed over to a hilltop where there are cannons placed there think its so war site. Sounds like Fort canning right? ahhaah but the view there is magnificent, can even see the race course where they race dogs. The view is simply breathtaking. However the walk up the hill is really ... er .... taking away my breath!

The breathtaking view and the "breathtaking" walk

Wa.... the 2 hour of walk is really taking my life le... so we decided to go and get some local delicacies to eat and also walk towards our last destination of the day St Paul's Church.

Along the way we ate some pork chop bun, portugese egg tarts, etc etc! hahaahahha so filling! We also bought some local delicacies. Delicious!

Then we reached St Paul's church. Its really pretty nice, just like what we saw in the Hongkong series and movies... hahaha i feel like Brad Pitt all of a sudden! Ok i shall post some photos to let you see. Got Brad Pitt inside leh!!!

Like i promised Brad Pitt at St Paul's Church

ahhaah After all these tiring walks, we are leaving macau this fantastic island.

Casino at Macau

This is the end of our day!!!

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3:20 PM

A brand new day!!!!! Today is our rest day!!! We will just stay around in kowloon and hong kong island to do all the shoppings!!!

Woke up really late today.... then decided to go to the nearby Ladies Street to take a look .... Although we have been here for several days and the Ladies street is just nearby, we we nv really went to shop there.

This street although is called Ladies Street, don't be mistaken, it does not only sells ladies wears and accessories. Basically it sells everything from kids wear to old ah ma's clothing... hahah... To our surprise, the things here in ladies street is really cheap. Even cheaper than that at the Temple Street.... Feel so cheated... So we decide to use a very brilliant way to reduce our loss... that is by buying more things here to balance out the loss!!! hahahahah Brilliant right? Then here goes!!! Shopaholics!!!!

Basically we spent the whole day shopping.... then had dinner then went to Temple street to shop again..... And its on this fateful day that i spent almost 3/4 of my HKD... T-T

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2:28 AM

Hello long time no post i am terribly sorry for that because i am quite busy these days.

ok continuing the long long story....

Oh on the 26th of Dec, our plan for today is to go to ShenZhen.

So we took a MTR which links between ShenZhen and HongKong. Upon arriving at the Luo Hu statuion, we had our documentation and everything done then proceed on to Shen Zhen. Shen Zhen was not like what i imagined. Basically to say simply, its quite dusty and er.... look somehow complicated.... We saw a shopping center just beside the station and so we went in to take a look. There are really a lot of "pirated" items sold over here in ShenZhen... Some of them the quality looks really real while some are really lousy, one look and you know its pirated.

Grab every chanance to Zzzzz... Z monster really strong

A look of Shen Zhen city..

Anyway poor Edwin kenna cheated by some salesperson in one of the stores and spent HK$300 to buy a pair of sports shoes.... Poor thing! Then we decided that we shall go to a Shangri-La hotel nearby to take a break and use the toilet before deciding on where to proceed next. Hahahah Shangri-La is really high class no matter where they are located. Everything look so posh! so we can't help ourselves but started horsing around. Acting as the roles inside "Gong" and took some photos... hahah

Hahahah now give you a chance to see prince charming!!! Take a look!!! Got charge one ar $5 per look!

Look like the cover of "Gong" right??

After so playing around, we decided to proceed towards the "nearby" pasar malam in Shenzhen. Actually its not really near, we took about 45 mins of walk to reach that place. On the way we went to play Gachapon and i got myself a really cute and nice Chopper keychain! So Happy!!! hahah things over in China is really cheap! like the Mac it only cost about SGD$3 plus.

So cultured!!!!

Pottery and Music!!!

Finally we made it to our destination. The things sold here are really cheap and we are so happy! Shopping again!!! YEAH!!! I bought myself a really nice pair of "Adidas" sneaker which cost only abt SGD$18. hahaha Sgt Tan they all also bought some bags, jeans and shirts respectively. However someone spoilt our mood while we were happily shopping. There was this weird lady who started to follow us around while we were shopping in a shopping complex. No matter where we went she jus kept following us. Initially, we thought that she was a pickpocket, eyeing on our wallet. On enquiring with one of the shopkeeper, she told us that lady was a loony, she will follow any stranger that enters the shopping complex and once we step out she will not follow anymore.

Partly is out of fear that the mad lady might do something unpredicted and partly is that its getting dark, so we decided to leave for Hongkong. Due to the sky darkening very fast during winter, we hurried our way back to the train station. At the train station we saw a money changer that offer a very good rate of 1 RMB to HKD$1, we changed all of our rmb to HK$. ahhah little did we know that actually there was actually a charge not stated. Those who exchanged a little amt of money still ok. Ok la Andy was the biggest "Kai Zi" hahaha he was charged a service charge of HKD 35 haahhaah.... When he realised that, he started cursing from China to HongKong! hahahaha

That concludes our trip for today!

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12:39 AM

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Merry Christmas!!!!! Christmas day!!!!! Present day!!!! hahahaha

Today's plan is to go to Lantau Island, where Disney land is situated but we are not going to Disneyland!!! hahahha

After all the usual stuff, we set of to Lantau island. Initially we plan to take a cable car but due to the scary amount of pple taking the cable car, we decide to give it a miss, so we bought a limitless bus ticket and took a bus there!

Playing with the camera on the bus ride

Too tired le~~ Zzz monster attacks!!!

After 1 hour of long and bumpy ride we finally reached our first destination, Tai-O. This place is basically just a fishing village, famous for its prawn sauce. Its made famous by a HongKong serial which was shot here. If i remember correctly, that serial is acted by Chen Song Ling.

However its still very pretty and sell lots of stuff like seafood and souvenirs made from seashells. Definitely, we bought some famous prawn sauce back home. Actually, personally i like this place because this place is very tranquil and nice unlike the busty and crowded city area. Its good to come to this place once in a while to take a walk and calm your nerves...

We Love Tai-O!!!!!

After walking around in Tai-O, we took a bus to ngyong ping. This is where the Giant Buddha is situated.

Another bumpy ride!!! ahahah

This place is really magnificent!!! The air, the temperature, the atmosphere evrything is so nice here! Feel so comfortable here!! We took a walk around, had a vegetarian dinner at the temple nearby before going up the 200 over steps to reach the giant buddha. Took lots of photos!

<--- Praying ernestly :P

I look so kind, nice and innocent just like the giant buddha right?? hahaha ----->

The beautiful scene at the top of the Nyong Ping!

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4:40 PM

Monday, January 1, 2007

Woke up at 8am when we slept at 2am last night... (P.S. OPC complain like mad la!) hahahaahhaha

After all the dily dailying, we left the hostel to search for a nice place to have breakfast. (Wow all the food regardless of whether if it is restaurant or kopitiam, is all expensive). Initially our plan is to go to ocean park, but due to the expensive admission tickets and everything, we decided to abort the plan and proceed to Hong Kong main island to do more shopping! hahah

On the bridge on main Hong Kong island!

At Times Square!

After a whole day long of shopping, evening, we went to the Times Square. This building is of 15 storeys high and we got cheated to go all the way up thinking there is a food court. However, there is only a bazaar. hahahah we shopped until 10pm then go over to Lan Kwai Fong for countdown.

Tell you ar!!! wow there is so much so much so much so much people there!!!! Its like there is 10000 people over there lor!!! (a bit exaggerated!) haahah. We just hang around there for about 1 hour talking cock and playing around. (P.S. Andy made me commited a lot of sin lor!! not me!!!) Wow until christmas the atmosphere is fantastic plus the cold weather, its almost like the dreamlike christmas, except for the snow! everyone is screaming and sshouting celebrating christmas! so fun!!!

At Lan Kwai Fong

Merry Christmas!!!!!! Yeah!!!! Christmas at oversea is really fantastic!!!!

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4:10 PM