shall blog about my holidays in hk.

too lazy to blog a long post so shall do a summary.

day 1- flight to hk. united airlines buhao. no personal screen. just a big screen showing movies. luckily i have my ipod touch filled with shows lol. nth much was done that day. till night. went up to the peak. nice night views of hk's skyscrapers overlooking HK island. pity couldnt take too many nice photos(my camera is ownage in day but buhao at night). then went to wax museum. posed with many wax models. photos are available on facebook

day 2- day tour of hk. didnt really do much. went for dim sum breakfast then went straight up to the peak(again). this time at half-hill. another different angle of pictures to take. discovered plenty of wifi-enabled hi-tech phone booths which gave me a source of release-fb. then was lunch followed by an open-top bus ride to the "hung hom" to take train to shenzhen. reached there during evening. realised that my hotel was a 5-star hotel which previously housed world leaders such as LKY! omg. it is also the only hotel that i stayed in that had free wifi. but too bad china banned facebook. went walking around shopping centres there. cigarette smoke was highly provocative. interesting to note that even china watch hk tvb instead of cctv. due to us lacking in trust in china security at night(it was rather dimly lit) we went back early. rather appalling to see ppl eating from dustbins, considering that this area is one of the richest regions in china as it is a special economic region. lots of swindlers around too. acc to my tour guide there are ppl around who ask for money to feed their children so as to see where u store ur money then they will come to steal it. saw lots of fail signs around too.

day 3- day tour of shenzhen. went to some random park. then was lunch of roasted pigeon.lol. guangdong ppl really have interesting food tastes. 真是名副其实的“吃在广东”. then went to "windows of the world". its some theme park with miniature landmarks of the world. apparently its because china dudes not moneh to travel hence they built one in china to allow them to see it for themselves. the kfc there was (Y) .owns the balls of singapore's kfc. ferry to macau next. visited a 6-star hotel for casino. just nice there was a mac to sit there( i couldnt enter YET) and a "Manchester United Experience" Store there. 497HK Dollar for a jersey! WTF! but to add 2 epl shoulder flashes is 140 hk dollar. each alphabet of name is 17 dollar and each number is 70 hk dollar. so if i want a rooney jersey it would cause like 896 HK dollar which is like 170 SG dollar. anyway its really hard to communicate in macau. they dont know english, i dont know portugese and their mandarin is sub-par. cantonese would work but my cantonese is CMI. can understand basic stuff but dunno how to say. lots of nice night scenery due to bright neon lights but as said camera cant do it.

day 4- went on macau day tour(again). visited ruins of st paul- the classic landmark and symbol of macau. then bought some almond biscuits. had lunch at a restaurant. to access u have to go through a casino or else take a long way. so much of coincidence that i am the only dude under 18. so i either had to risk a try or wait for the tour guide to take them thru. so decided to try. and amazingly i entered a casino LOL. china security FTW. anyway left for macau tower to snap some panoramic views. visited some "ma-ge" temple next. that was where i caught the VISA AD IN ACTION. or at least someone performing it. haha nice. video on facebook too. took ferry back to HK. after some rest, shopped at mong kok and bought lots of t-shirts. hope ya liked it. lol quite cheap. 5 for hk 100 dollars.

day 5- finally free n easy. wanted to go central to have dim sum at IFC mall. but to much horror it isnt open(ok at least we didnt know till day 6 night when i talked to luky that hkers dont eat dim sum for breakfast). due to us starving had to settle for kfc.took mtr to lantau island. then ngong ping 360 to ngong ping village. visited the buddha statue and watched some random cultural videos. took mtr back one stop for transfer to disneyland. took photos of the nice decorations and the entrance of disneyland .thats about it. quite a waste of time i thought. best stuff was the cold windy atmosphere there and the nice shot of a mountain there and the imba views from the cable car. wanted to go lamma island but had no chance as it was close to sunset at 5. went to causeway bay instead . supposed to go times square but exited after minutes. stuff probably too ex le. went back ladies market at mong kok to buy my Boston NBA tee.

day 6 - had dim sum at the restaurant near my hotel. ok but not really so imba la. proceeded to ocean park. watched some animal performances. went on some rides thats it. fun stuff but lil disappointing. besides looking at pandas, sea lions, dolphins etc, and some rides, nothing much left. and this was supposed to be miles better than disneyland =_=. shopped a little at Admiralty(no not singapore's admiralty) then took ferry back to tsim sha tsui. just in time for laser show at victoria harbour. scintillating night views that as mentioned before my camera was hardly capable of taking unless i didnt move an inch. walked a lil around nathan road. but didnt go avenue of stars. rained for the first time in a week. dashed into some nice western+ asian combo restaurant which served awesome sized and taste pork chop. sian lol. went back hotel and finally bought an hour of wifi which was spent surfing 6 days missed of fb and talking to luky on ebuddy.

day 7- damn cold today. due to heavy rain the day before. before that the whole week 17-23 degrees. today 11-12 degrees celsius. WTF. unaccustomed coldness. well haddim sum breakfast again. not bad this time. then it was going to harbour bay and mong kok AGAIN. this time went around all the streets like wat goldfish street etc. then back to hk airport. awesomeness internet access again. then flight back again. reached at 12. but had to wait 15+ mins for baggage. sometimes it isnt that good to have express Qs :) reached home first thing i saw when i turned on phone- kenneth's sms about the pd which turned out to be so cool.

yeah my short post turned out long =D. in another 2 days its new year D= which means sch reopen D=. but at least theres sjab camp to look forward to =D