Thursday, March 16, 2006
HongKong Trip...Ok..I got lots of blogging to do for this post...going to squeeze in 5days of posts into this one...so it's going to be quite long and eye-tiring...
Day1
11 March 2006, 7am in the morning woke up to prepare for the trip to Hongkong. That time, nothing unexpected was expected though. Not much sweaters were brought there. Then left for the airport, took dad's friend taxi and before long, we reached the airport.
I started to take pictures from then on, record everything on my handphone camera with only 30mb of space. Went into the boarding gate, waited at the lounge, and finally entered the airplane. Made 2movies while in the plane; departure and landing. It's super cool, but I'm trying to combine it together to make a major movie of how the plane takes off and lands.
Landed in Hongkong International Airport, took the train which I call it the underground version of the Singapore's skytrain. Went out to the Immigration, then to the arrival hall, met the tour guide, and took the bus to the Hotel. By the time everything was done, it was around 6plus. Went out to meet my cousin who lives in Hongkong at Jordan.
Had dinner at some chinese restaurant, after that went back to the hotel because it was almost 11plus. That was end of Day 1.
Day 2
Early in the morning, woke up just to go to shenzhen. Met my cousin at the hotel lobby. Took the taxi to the Railway station and took the train to Lo Wu which is nearest to Shenzhen. Left HK through the station and took another train to Shenzhen to meet another of my cousin, or rather step-cousin. Took their vehicle to their shop in GuangZhou. Then a few minutes later left the shop to another bigger shop which belongs to my second step-cousin. Man, the roads there are super crazy. They have traffic lights which are not working, and the vehicles turn to the other direction as and when they like. For awhile we were quite lost, but reach there just in time to be greeted by them. Hugs were exchanged amongst the seniors. Went up to the unauthorized area for the resting session. Met some new faces; cousins, nieces, nephews, aunties, grand-aunties and uncles,etc. Left the place to go to another restaurant.
There were crocs, snakes, geese, fishes, eels(duh, it's a seafood restaurant).After that went back to the place, relaxed, chat with them and made new discoveries, which i will put it in another section of this post. Had dinner there and the food is really amazing. They actually meat which is sweet. Then chatted again, played around with the cat and the dog. During night time, went to the nearest shopping centre to do some shopping. Walked under the temperature of 12 degrees celcius.Bought the DVD fearless and yet another anti-virus but this time it's norton. Had nearly wanted to buy Warcraft III but decided not to because it's a game and i knew my limits. Before long, it was time to leave, time to sleep, time to rest. Went to a hotel with MacDonald's nearby.
Watched rush hour 2 in the hotel room. With that ends day 2.
Day 3
Day 3 started off with breakfast at MacDonald's , afterwhich my cousin came and fetch all of us to a restaurant for breakfast. Didn't had much there because it was what I called dim-sum, which if I'm not wrong it's actually called dessert. I was thinking to myself,"You want me to eat chinese dessert in the morning? It's like...having ice cream for breakfast!(tradition translation...)Went back to the same shop again and really shopped thoroughly for anything to buy back to Singapore. Bought some anti-virus software, hoping that it would work. My cousin was also the boss of the shop, so he was commenting, "You want anything, just take. It's free." But, I wished I had told them that I don't really want anything from you, just give me and your family fresh air. The reason is because my step-cousins smoke. Not only that, they smoke in front of my uncle(their father, who is 70+ years old), their kids as young as 12months and worse of all, their VIPs from Singapore. I find that utterly silly and horrendously stupid because they know clearly the reason why Grandfather died was mainly because of opium smoking, YET THEY HAD TO SMOKE. Went upstairs to play some de-colourized computer made in china which runs on cartridge. They actually wanted to give us a new set of that game, which comes together with a monitor and keyboard, but sadly objection was strong so we had to play there instead which is actually good because I feel that this actually helped them to have a chance to play those games. Who knows maybe their father might be strict and disallow them to play with those cartridges that are meant for sale. Left in the afternoon to the smaller shop, and they gave two earpieces which suck totally. Shortly after that we left for the train station to go back to HK and the hotel. Back there, went to MacDonald's for dinner and went back early to sleep and prepare for the tour to Macau. Another day ends, wiht a new beginning.
Day 4
Met the tour guide at hotel lobby. Took the bus to the ferry station. The tour guide left and we took the ferry. Slept for one whole hour before arriving at Macau. Met the new tour guide there. Went to various places and a restaurant to eat for lunch. Didn't get down ever since after lunch because they went to the casino. Time flew and it was time to return back to HK. Took the ferry again and went back to HK. Left our things in the room and went downstairs for dinner. Went around the facilities of the hotel to see if there are any good restaurants for dinner. Settled down in one but was full of smokers.I couldn't take the stench, after all, I came from a place which is known for smoke-free. Bought instant noodles and discovered plenty of 7-11 shops. Went back to the hotel and started packing for the last day. This can really mark the end of my trip.
Day 5
Slept till 8.30am. Went down to the hotel's cafe for breakfast buffet. Went back up the room to get the lugguages and checked out. Left the lugguages in the hotel and went to Loy Yang gai which is Ladies' street to buy some stuff back to sinapore. Sadly, their shirts are all so thick that it wont be of good use in Singapore since it's so hot. Thus, decided not to buy anything. Went to the salon instead and had my hair highlighted in this colour.Not that obvious, but still money spent. I wished I could take off the wings of time to prevent it from flying but still it flew. It was time to head back to the hotel and wait for the bus to fetch us to the airport. Arrived at the airport, checked in, and went around to see-see, look-look. Saw a shop that sells games and toys. Gundam seed destiny models then attracted me but it was too expensive. Spent too much time on deciding and was called to leave before I could buy. My heart cracked. I said that the time spent sitting in the lounge was wasted and could have been used for shopping.What to do, it wasn't an individual trip, had to follow majority. Went in the same way we came out and took the plane back to Singapore. Cut the whole story short, I'm back and I'm here at home blogging.
i jammed! @ 3/16/2006 01:15:00 AM
