seibu
back from hong kong!
it had been such a long time since i woke up early at 6am. but i had a plane to catch! and so i was back on the train at early 6am, watching people around me sleep. it was a beautiful morning.
yes, on the plane to hong kong weiyang and i were behaving like white trash. then he was asking the flight attendant for wine, kid's toys and cards (of which he received none). it was very cloudy in the sky, and flying through the clouds was cute. like bouncing on them.
the flight was so short =( i was hoping for some night flight so that i could see stars. oh i had the window seat, so i got to see all the hong kong mountains when we were about to land. and i did see a big buddha statue from far away on top of a mountain! the hong kong airport looked quite dull =( and the water was freezing.
yay hong kong was cold like finland, but the air was bad =( smokers everywhere grr. in some ways, hong kong looked like singapore, especially the high-rise buildings. but the way the buildings were arranged just made them so hong kong. groups of buildings just cluster on the side of the hills, and looking so out of place when compared to one another. it was as though the developers couldn't agree on a single building design.
the hotel was at prince edward, and it was not bad for a three-star! the area bustles with many people at night, and everyone's walking pace is so fast and unforgiving. once in a while we walked past the smelly beancurd stalls, but i didn't try them haha.
女人街 was where i bought some cheapo bag for S$20. the shopkeeper was nice, but others were scary. some can start grabbing your hand to make you stay, while others can start scolding you for trying too hard to bargain.
you wouldn't believe that weiyang chose one bed over another in the hotel room because the first one had a mirror in front of it, and he refused to sleep with the television switched off. but i still turned it off after he fell asleep.
there was a 'jimmy cake shop' near the hotel, and it had really cheap egg tarts. like six tarts for S$2! imagine paying 80 cents for one in singapore =( and, the service was nice too. we went to siuchu's house on the second day. her mum made lots of dim sum for us, and there was salmon chee cheong fun! siuchu's 龟龟 was so big, and it was fun to watch it eat bananas haha. it simply refused to move any part of its body except its head when it eats! and it tried to attack beejuan with pee!
the cloud cover in hong kong is weird. on the first day there were a lot, but subsequently we kept getting clear blue skies. we went to a fishing village and it was so stinky =( oh i saw squids with glowing bellies! and we were walking on a beach strewn with broken glass. so scary!
sometimes, when you walk in a big city full of people, you just want to hold someone's hand. oh we went to 许留山 under weiyang's recommendation for mango pudding. hmm i think it was very nice, but not so fantastic that i would want to have it everyday haha. we went shopping at bank centre mall at mongkok. and i bought a pair of cute converse shoes for myself =)
day three was at central. now it really looked like hong kong. prince edward had quite a few old buildings, but central really looked urban, and like the way hong kong is portrayed on television. we were at some garden, and we walked through the aviary (without jia en) and we saw big white pelicans! there was a shop named 'seibu', and it sounded so dumb that weiyang used it to call siuchu.
we also visited repulse bay and stanley bay. the sand on repluse bay was so much more finer than at fort siloso beach haha. we walked around the stanley area and it looked quite like a european town. and, there was a stupid/crazy boy who kept plucking leaves from a shrub to throw at us when we walked past him. *slap* we saw many wedding couples on the third day. when weiyang saw a bride and commented that she was pretty, the bridegroom smiled at him. oh i dreamt that weiyang died, and he became two pieces of paper that i brought to a 7-eleven store to revive.
we went to lantau island on day four! oh the cable car ride was so fun and cold! we were travelling so high above the ground, and below us there were quite a few people climbing the mountain! haha we waved at some of them from the cable car, and they waved back!
and yiyan arrived on day four! we were all at times square, but everything there was too expensive for shopping. i bought a very exquisite little prince snow globe! and a brooch for mummy. oh we had cantonese roast for dinner! the suckling pig was excellent! dumbdumb weiyang didn't like it, and kept giving it to me =) i went to bc mall again in the night and bought perfumes.
on day five we had a lot to eat for brunch, because seibu ordered too much dim sum. but it was quite nice. and it was really cheap; each person paid like S$5 only. we visited the hong kong heritage, history, science and art museums. omg we saw mr chia at the art museum! there was that hair exhibition, like the one at esplanade's concourse when it first opened. day five was wednesday, so every museum we went to had free admission haha. the 'energy-saving machine' in the science museum was quite cool!
we took the tram to the peak, and it was curious how the buildings all fit nicely onto the steep slopes. they all seemed precariously perched on the hills. oh the tram ride was really cool. it was so steep that my ear kept blocking up because of the rapid pressure change.
the view from the peak was stunning! and it was really freezing haha. we exchanged our christmas presents, and then i got a big bear from siuchu. and we did alfresco dining for dinner at the peak. omg it was like how cold! oh we got lucky when we reached the bottom of the peak. haha we caught an open-top bus, and so it was my first time travelling open-air on a bus! went to bank centre mall again, but the shoe shop didn't have the size i wanted for a shoe =(
i watched a french film in the hotel, and then i dreamt that mummy became quite old with white hair =(
ocean park on day six. omg we spent like the whole day there. the first ride that seibu took us to take was the wet one grr. my jeans got like super wet =( then we went to the washing machine ride that never got me dry. and then we queued for the smaller roller coaster ride. omg it was so scary i decided not to take the big one. weiyang too! haha then we took the viking ship and jiayun kept screaming haha. finally we went to take the family-friendly ferris wheel yay.
the food there smelled so good i just had to buy it. omg fried chicken! we watched the dolphin and seal show! ahh the dolphins were so nice. i want to be a dolphin next time! and we went to see the jellyfish exhibition. so cool! i rushed back to the hotel to rebond my hair and it was cheap, like S$60 only! yes, i think the rebond was my best buy. then i went to bank centre mall (again) and bought another pair of shoes.
weiyang's friend yuk lun came to bring us round on day seven. we walked down fa yuen street which was lined with many shoe shops. i bought a pair of le coq sportif for my sister. then we took note of some potential buys, and then went to meet the rest. then we went to ap liu street, which had lots of electronics stuff. there were so many handphone shops, but none of them sold handphone pouches =(
seibu brought us to a mall that was so packed with people i never got past the first floor. but i got six dvds there for about S$48 only! and then she brought us to another mall to look at her cousin, who looked a lot like chenkai.
we went back to mongkok to buy shoes at fa yuen street. i bought a pair of acupuncture shoes! ahh they were so expensive but so nice! i went to bank centre mall yet again to try to get the pair of shoes for which the shopkeeper never had the size i wanted. i was running in the cold without a jacket and in sandals! but i watched as the shopkeeper closed the store =(
the last day was for miscellaneous shopping. haha shopping for those people i never could find anything for. and yes i finally found a watch for daddy. and i bought many hokkaido chocolates to bring back to singapore! the bus that was supposed to fetch us to the airport came so late that when we checked in there were no more window seats =(
ok, so hong kong was fun. and smoky. and there were christmas carols everywhere. if you can translate 'strawberry' from english to cantonese, then you shouldn't have problems translating 'spaghetti' and 'starbucks' too! on the plane back, beejuan and weiyang were behaving like white trash. i watched the devil wears prada on beejuan's ipod yay.
why is there always a sad feeling after coming back from a trip? even the sky is crying. does a windbreaker break wind?
it had been such a long time since i woke up early at 6am. but i had a plane to catch! and so i was back on the train at early 6am, watching people around me sleep. it was a beautiful morning.
yes, on the plane to hong kong weiyang and i were behaving like white trash. then he was asking the flight attendant for wine, kid's toys and cards (of which he received none). it was very cloudy in the sky, and flying through the clouds was cute. like bouncing on them.
the flight was so short =( i was hoping for some night flight so that i could see stars. oh i had the window seat, so i got to see all the hong kong mountains when we were about to land. and i did see a big buddha statue from far away on top of a mountain! the hong kong airport looked quite dull =( and the water was freezing.
yay hong kong was cold like finland, but the air was bad =( smokers everywhere grr. in some ways, hong kong looked like singapore, especially the high-rise buildings. but the way the buildings were arranged just made them so hong kong. groups of buildings just cluster on the side of the hills, and looking so out of place when compared to one another. it was as though the developers couldn't agree on a single building design.
the hotel was at prince edward, and it was not bad for a three-star! the area bustles with many people at night, and everyone's walking pace is so fast and unforgiving. once in a while we walked past the smelly beancurd stalls, but i didn't try them haha.
女人街 was where i bought some cheapo bag for S$20. the shopkeeper was nice, but others were scary. some can start grabbing your hand to make you stay, while others can start scolding you for trying too hard to bargain.
you wouldn't believe that weiyang chose one bed over another in the hotel room because the first one had a mirror in front of it, and he refused to sleep with the television switched off. but i still turned it off after he fell asleep.
there was a 'jimmy cake shop' near the hotel, and it had really cheap egg tarts. like six tarts for S$2! imagine paying 80 cents for one in singapore =( and, the service was nice too. we went to siuchu's house on the second day. her mum made lots of dim sum for us, and there was salmon chee cheong fun! siuchu's 龟龟 was so big, and it was fun to watch it eat bananas haha. it simply refused to move any part of its body except its head when it eats! and it tried to attack beejuan with pee!
the cloud cover in hong kong is weird. on the first day there were a lot, but subsequently we kept getting clear blue skies. we went to a fishing village and it was so stinky =( oh i saw squids with glowing bellies! and we were walking on a beach strewn with broken glass. so scary!
sometimes, when you walk in a big city full of people, you just want to hold someone's hand. oh we went to 许留山 under weiyang's recommendation for mango pudding. hmm i think it was very nice, but not so fantastic that i would want to have it everyday haha. we went shopping at bank centre mall at mongkok. and i bought a pair of cute converse shoes for myself =)
day three was at central. now it really looked like hong kong. prince edward had quite a few old buildings, but central really looked urban, and like the way hong kong is portrayed on television. we were at some garden, and we walked through the aviary (without jia en) and we saw big white pelicans! there was a shop named 'seibu', and it sounded so dumb that weiyang used it to call siuchu.
we also visited repulse bay and stanley bay. the sand on repluse bay was so much more finer than at fort siloso beach haha. we walked around the stanley area and it looked quite like a european town. and, there was a stupid/crazy boy who kept plucking leaves from a shrub to throw at us when we walked past him. *slap* we saw many wedding couples on the third day. when weiyang saw a bride and commented that she was pretty, the bridegroom smiled at him. oh i dreamt that weiyang died, and he became two pieces of paper that i brought to a 7-eleven store to revive.
we went to lantau island on day four! oh the cable car ride was so fun and cold! we were travelling so high above the ground, and below us there were quite a few people climbing the mountain! haha we waved at some of them from the cable car, and they waved back!
and yiyan arrived on day four! we were all at times square, but everything there was too expensive for shopping. i bought a very exquisite little prince snow globe! and a brooch for mummy. oh we had cantonese roast for dinner! the suckling pig was excellent! dumbdumb weiyang didn't like it, and kept giving it to me =) i went to bc mall again in the night and bought perfumes.
on day five we had a lot to eat for brunch, because seibu ordered too much dim sum. but it was quite nice. and it was really cheap; each person paid like S$5 only. we visited the hong kong heritage, history, science and art museums. omg we saw mr chia at the art museum! there was that hair exhibition, like the one at esplanade's concourse when it first opened. day five was wednesday, so every museum we went to had free admission haha. the 'energy-saving machine' in the science museum was quite cool!
we took the tram to the peak, and it was curious how the buildings all fit nicely onto the steep slopes. they all seemed precariously perched on the hills. oh the tram ride was really cool. it was so steep that my ear kept blocking up because of the rapid pressure change.
the view from the peak was stunning! and it was really freezing haha. we exchanged our christmas presents, and then i got a big bear from siuchu. and we did alfresco dining for dinner at the peak. omg it was like how cold! oh we got lucky when we reached the bottom of the peak. haha we caught an open-top bus, and so it was my first time travelling open-air on a bus! went to bank centre mall again, but the shoe shop didn't have the size i wanted for a shoe =(
i watched a french film in the hotel, and then i dreamt that mummy became quite old with white hair =(
ocean park on day six. omg we spent like the whole day there. the first ride that seibu took us to take was the wet one grr. my jeans got like super wet =( then we went to the washing machine ride that never got me dry. and then we queued for the smaller roller coaster ride. omg it was so scary i decided not to take the big one. weiyang too! haha then we took the viking ship and jiayun kept screaming haha. finally we went to take the family-friendly ferris wheel yay.
the food there smelled so good i just had to buy it. omg fried chicken! we watched the dolphin and seal show! ahh the dolphins were so nice. i want to be a dolphin next time! and we went to see the jellyfish exhibition. so cool! i rushed back to the hotel to rebond my hair and it was cheap, like S$60 only! yes, i think the rebond was my best buy. then i went to bank centre mall (again) and bought another pair of shoes.
weiyang's friend yuk lun came to bring us round on day seven. we walked down fa yuen street which was lined with many shoe shops. i bought a pair of le coq sportif for my sister. then we took note of some potential buys, and then went to meet the rest. then we went to ap liu street, which had lots of electronics stuff. there were so many handphone shops, but none of them sold handphone pouches =(
seibu brought us to a mall that was so packed with people i never got past the first floor. but i got six dvds there for about S$48 only! and then she brought us to another mall to look at her cousin, who looked a lot like chenkai.
we went back to mongkok to buy shoes at fa yuen street. i bought a pair of acupuncture shoes! ahh they were so expensive but so nice! i went to bank centre mall yet again to try to get the pair of shoes for which the shopkeeper never had the size i wanted. i was running in the cold without a jacket and in sandals! but i watched as the shopkeeper closed the store =(
the last day was for miscellaneous shopping. haha shopping for those people i never could find anything for. and yes i finally found a watch for daddy. and i bought many hokkaido chocolates to bring back to singapore! the bus that was supposed to fetch us to the airport came so late that when we checked in there were no more window seats =(
ok, so hong kong was fun. and smoky. and there were christmas carols everywhere. if you can translate 'strawberry' from english to cantonese, then you shouldn't have problems translating 'spaghetti' and 'starbucks' too! on the plane back, beejuan and weiyang were behaving like white trash. i watched the devil wears prada on beejuan's ipod yay.
why is there always a sad feeling after coming back from a trip? even the sky is crying. does a windbreaker break wind?
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