Hong Kong Day 2!

Excuse me for the long delay. I’m finally free enough to edit the pictures and update properly. Blame the onslaught of assignments and presentations last week!

Anyway, day 2 was spent mostly in Macau. Where we got lost. Like, a million times. FOL.

We started the day with dim sum! How could you go to Hong Kong and not have dim sum right?

Here’s my mom looking very happy with our menu/order/bill.

Not sure why but all the dim sum places we went to doesn’t have those carts being pushed around while the aunty yells out dim sum names. We had to choose the ones we want from the menu and then the kitchen makes it for us once we’ve confirmed our orders.

My brother. Waiting (im)patiently for our noms to arrive.

No pictures of me because no one offered to take mine. T-T And my camwhore pics are all blurry (too hungry hands shaking maybe wtf). So yeah.

Fried wan tans. Whopping HKD18. It hurts when you eat in Hong Kong. -__- But I tell you hor, the skin is so crispy! T_T And light! And I’m hungry.

(Lucky I damn smart took a picture of the receipt. Otherwise I wouldn’t even be able to remember what we had, let alone the prices of them. >.>)

Carrot cake was cheap because it was on morning promo! HKD6.80 only! And it had bits of waxed sausage inside mmmmm~ One of the best carrot cakes I’ve ever had.

The obligatory har gao. Huge ass prawns inside.

And abalone siu mai. <3 I can actually taste the abalone. T_T *bliss*

Chee cheong fan with char siu. Meh. HK’s chee cheong fans all have thick skins wtf. Feels like I’m chewing flour. I prefer our version.

Half eaten loh mai fan. T___T Sorry lah was hungry! Anyway, didn’t like their version too. I find it tasteless. >.>

Ladies and gentlemen. THIS. IS. THE. BEST.CHAR.SIU.PAU.EVAARRR! Don’t know how to explain this… but when you bite it, it gives you the “doink doink” feeling. Very Q. Damn near orgasmic okay. Haih I want to nom now.

Our bill came up to a total of HKD 164.80. You go and do the maths la. Heart pain sial.

After breakfast, we went to take a ferry ride to Macau!

If I’m not mistaken, we took the First Ferry. I forgot how much the ticket was. -_-

Finally, a picture of me! *note to self: invest in a blusher*

Mom and bro not amused at my trigger happy mode.

The rest of the ferry ride was spent dozing off and being annoyed by kids pictured in the background of the above photo. But honestly though, the ride wasn’t all that bad. When I was researching online, everyone was complaining about motion sickness on the ferry. Guess they’ve never sat one of those lao ya ferries to Pulau Tioman. *shrugs*

One hour later, we’ve arrived in Macau!

Took a bus from the ferry terminal (After searching for it for a million years)!

Took a picture of the bus stop so we would be able to find it later on (Didn’t work)!

Christmas deco was still on.

First stop:  Senado Square. Kinda like the town center I guess. I’m not too sure.

Christmas tree.

The architecture of the buildings were very stunning though.

As per normal, we had to settle some pressing matters first.

Lunch!

Everywhere we go, there were signs like these.

Pork chop bun pork chop bun and pork chop bun.

We ended up choosing this one.

They had a gigantic bun in front of their shop. Real one okay. -_-

Upstairs of the shop.

Damn wtf. You had to spend a minimum of HKD9 per person.

Menu.

We ordered polo buns, egg tart, black forest and their pork chop bun.

One with butter and one without. Both tasteless.

Egg tart wasn’t nice. All I could taste was egg. No custard. It’s like biting into an egg yolk. Yucks.

Their famous pork chop bun.

Close up. Got bones wan. Exceedingly disappointing. It was really like a piece of meat ‘kiaped’ between a bun. That’s all. And the pork chop wasn’t even nice.

We hurriedly finished everything as my brother and I are close to being suffocated by all the cigarette smoke in the restaurant. Don’t go there. -_- Pick somewhere else. Seriously. And the staff is SUPER rude.

Moving on to sightseeing!

My mom and I at some random pretty alley.

Some bishop who founded the Holy House of Mercy. It’s a museum that’s damn hard to find. The entrance is located in an alley and looks like any other random door. =.=

Inside the Holy House of Mercy. I think the entrance fee was around HKD5 only.

Don’t know what’s this. I only know the Macao word. -_-

Some skull. O.o

Forced my brother to smile instead of acting cool. Hence the forced smile. -_-

After taking a look around the place, we wanted to move on to other places. But then the overly helpful curator came over and kept asking us to take pictures at the various picturesque spots in that tiny museum.  I guess he was very bored because we were the only ones there and it was close to closing time already.

Next stop was a church. Forgot what church already. =_= There was a sermon going on when we went in though.

The architecture of the church was beautiful. But I only took a few hurried shots because I didn’t wanna disturb anyone. -.-

Super crowded streets.

Oh yes, new boots for HKD80 because I couldn’t take the stupid Nike shoes torture anymore. Boots’ a few sizes too big but beggars can’t be choosers. The others costs a bomb.

Street signs in three languages. Most of the time, they only have it in Chinese and Portuguese. Which is why we kept getting lost. T_______T

I had one! Was nicer that the earlier one.

I can see the ruins!

Some statue.

Taking a breather before climbing up. -.-

My bro and I.

Mom at the slope after we chickened out on the stairs.

Closer one

Me! This pose is damn tiring okay. My entire body weight is on my arm. =.=

One more.

We went to this place. Some fort. I forgot what. Spot my mom and bro!

Abrupt end because my camera died right after this picture was taken. Went back to Hong Kong via ferry again after this stop. The journey to the ferry terminal was another drama one because we were walking all over the place and we still couldn’t find any buses that lead to the terminal. HAIH. Back-breaking journey.

We ended our day at the Modern Toilet restaurant back in Hong Kong! And that’s because we couldn’t find anything to eat in Macau as we kept getting lost. The modern toilet was cute! We sat on toilet bowls and ate out of bathtubs and sinks.

Conclusion: Macau wasn’t very fun. Mainly because we were lost almost all the time. And we didn’t even make it into any casinos. T_______T

Oh well, stay tuned for day three!

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Woke up with one of the worst feelings ever. I think my dreams are trying to tell me something. Should I take heed?

Sometimes…

Sometimes, I really wished I had picked KDU over UTAR when I was given a choice back then.

1. No more, I haven’t done CNY shopping yet. Have to wait till I’m back to KL then only start doing so.

2. No more, I can’t cut and dye my hair yet. Have to wait till I’m back to KL then only start doing so.

3. No more walking to every-fucking-where I wanna go. Have to wait till I’m back to KL then only have cars driving me around.

4. No more sweating like hell despite being butt naked in room. Have to wait till I’m back to KL to enjoy the wonders of air-conditioning.

I could go on. But I have to get back to doing my proposal. This is one thing that cannot wait till I’m back to KL to do so. Whee?

Hong Kong Day 1!

After procrastinating for about a million years, I finally got round to blogging about my HK trip at the beginning of the month!

Woke up at 3 something on 8th January and reached the LCCT at 4 plus. The amount of people there made it looked like we were there at midday or something though. It was literally people mountain people sea. No need sleep wan these people, so much money to travel. -_-

Lack of sleep coupled with a splitting headache and a swollen ankle is the perfect start to a perfect vacation!

We departed from the LCCT at 6 something in the morning FML and landed in Hong Kong at 10 something. Thank goodness there’s no time difference between Malaysia and Hong Kong. The HK Airport is very different from Malaysia’s. It’s strange reading Chinese characters everywhere lol.

Whee! HK!

Not our plane wtf.

Originally, the plan was to have some agent from Hong Kong pick us up from the airport and get us to the hotel as we booked a 3 days tour with Asia Travel Mart. But the stupid bitch didn’t show up! The three of us was super kesian lugging our humongous luggage and searching the airport up and down for the agent. Somemore it’s our first time there and the airport is blardy huge. We waited for more than an hour and the bitch was still a no-show! Best part is, we don’t have the number of the agent in Hong Kong and it’s fucken expensive to call back to Malaysia (no credit FML).

Lesson of the day: Don’t travel with Asia Travel Mart.

So okay lor, no choice. We bought tickets for the airport express which costs HKD300 per person. Not too bad a deal seeing that we get a return trip on the airport express and also unlimited rides on the MTR for three days. Oh ya, the airport express card also has the exact same functions as the Octopus card, which is HK’s version of the Touch N Go except that Octopus card is a million times more useful and convenient.

Airport express card.

Back. If I’m not mistaken, you can even customise the Octopus card to your own liking. Damn cool right. *jakun*

View from the airport express train.

Built-in speaker and volume control for each seat.

Technology Malaysia could only wish to have because vandalism would ensure that the buttons will all be missing the very next day.

Shows you exactly how much further your destination is.

Once we’ve reached our station, another drama ensued. -_- Despite the gigantic map, we couldn’t find where our hotel was at. Asked some random person on the street and he said it was just a couple of blocks away. So us being us, decided to walk all the way there since it’s a much cheaper option that taking a cab. And by god! It was fucking far! I reckon we spent more than half a hour walking there. FOL. F my swollen ankle too.

After finally checking in at almost 2pm, we have to deal with even more pressing matters which is to fill our empty stomachs. I forgot what restaurant it was that we chose but apparently they’re famous for their beef noodles. As is another thousand other char chan tengs in HK.

Deep fried fish skin was nothing to shout about.

Mom and bro had the same thing. Beef mihun I think?

Mine was beef with wantan noodles.

And I made the mistake of my life by adding less than half a teaspoon of the chilli oil provided. Just one bite and tears were streaming down my face. It was so effing spicy that my lips and tongue was swollen. T-T Had to rinse it with clear soup to lessen the spiciness. Though I must admit, their noodles are actually quite good. The wantans are huge compared to the pathetic excuse of a wantan served in Malaysia.

After our noms, we decided to go up to Victoria’s Peak! And while we were on our way there, we saw a protest going on. O.o It’s really as though I’m watching those TVB dramas. There were police all over but the whole thing was relatively peaceful. No tear gas or lugging people into jails or whatsoever shit like that.

This is the park opposite the building where the people are protesting. Sorry no idea what park is that. -.-

Skyscrapers nearby.

Protest! If my dad was there he’d probably stay till everyone was gone. -___-

See see, police.

Scolding the government officers I think.

It was something job related if my memory serves me correctly.

And then we lost interest so we went and took touristy pictures at the park.

Bro and I.

And we’re off to the peak!

Went to buy tickets for the tram and also Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.

Entrance of the tram.

No idea who he is. But since he’s smack right at the entrance then must be some pretty important big shot I guess.

Some history of the tram.

You can hike up to the peak but I’m not an idiot so I’m taking the tram.

Camwhore while waiting for the tram to arrive. Don’t ask me, I also don’t know why my face so big. T-T

Tram is here!

Inside the tram. The track is super steep.

View from the tram on the way up.

Once we reached the peak, we headed to the wax museum first.

And hello! to the husband-stealer and cheating bastard!

Pity, cause I really liked him when he was still loyal and cute.

Mom and Nicole Kidman. I didn’t take one. If my mom looks this short beside her, I’m not gonna risk it.

Albert, on the other hand, is much more height-friendly.

No idea wtf Astro boy is doing there while they don’t even have Doraemon! D:

The three of us with Beckham.

Mom with Teresa Teng.

Mom with Beatles.

And that concludes our visit to the wax museum perfectly HAHAHAHA.

But honestly though, the museum was amazing…ly tiny. And the wax figures aren’t even that realistic to begin with. Definitely not worth the ticket price.

After the wax museum, we went up to the Sky Terrace to freeze our asses off!

Misty foggy view from the Sky Terrace.

It was cold.

Very cold.

Self-timer is good.

We loitered around the place for a while more and decided to get down from the peak because there wasn’t much to do up there.

Took one of those double decker bus that had an open air top!

Very very very blur picture of us on the bus. Taken with my mom’s camcorder.

Must try it if you’re going to HK. We don’t have anything like that back here. I can imagine people would just constantly chuck rubbish out while they’re on the bus. -.-

Fucking monstrous LV store. It’s like a mall. -_-

While we went to take the MTR to Harbour Front, we saw this. o.o

Damn cute! They were dancing and singing in the MTR station!

Actually went to Harbour Front to see the Avenue of Stars and the Symphony of Lights.

Avenue of Stars is the Hong Kong version of the Hollywood walk of fame while the Symphony of Lights is a light show.

Bruce Lee statue. Blardy hard to to snap a picture of him okay! All the China people hogging the statue like got gold liddat wtf.

Celeb hand prints! See if you know any one of them!

Mom’s favourite singer in the whole world.

Ferry.

And at 8pm, the Symphony of Lights started. It was pretty amazing but since all the pictures I took look like crap, I’m not gonna post them up.

I forgot what we had for dinner but we ended day 1 with Hui Lau Shan’s mango desserts.

Clockwise from top: Some tong yuen thing, sorbet thing and lo mai chi thing.

Paiseh la my memory is very the hopeless.

This is the basic one with sago.

From what I heard, Hui Lau Shan’s mango desserts are supposed to be fucking orgasmic but I didn’t think so. It was pretty good, but not mind blowing. Oh well, to each his own I guess.

Oh yes, at the end of the day, both my ankles were swollen because of my stupid Nike shoes. T-T

And that concludes the end of day 1! Wah I didn’t have such a long ass post in such a looooooong time. This took me more than 2 hours to complete. -_-

Lazy

Okay okay, I know I’m supposed to be updating about my trip. But I’m sooooooo lazy even though there’s nothing to do here!

Haih. Alright alright, I go start edit piccies nao ok?

Dearest pig!

To: Baby Dear Pig

So sorry I couldn’t be with you on your 21st birthday this year baby dear pig. No worries, I will look for a naish naish prezzie for you in HK!

Just wanna let you know that I’m missing you lots everyday! Sms is crazy expensive so I can’t sms you often either. Sob.

Have a very very nice birthday okay? I love you! Wait till I’m back then I’ll make it up to you. We’ll celebrate together-gether. Muax muax! Dai gor zai lor! Have to guai guai don’t so noti okay? *hugs*

Lots of Ruff,
Baby Darling Dearest <3

Lei hou!

I’m blogging live from my hotel room in Hong Kong!

It’s now day four. Blardy hell it rained today and I nearly got drenched zzz. Winter in hk is bearable. No snow.

My skin is so dry it’s been peeling nonstop. T.T

You know what? Blogging with a phone is damn hard so imma keep it short and sweet this time. Will update when possible! I’m hungry. Whee gonna noms soon!

21

There isn’t a proper new year entry this year. For some reason, the beginning of a year always feels very hectic to me. Perhaps, it’s the Christmas that left too soon. Perhaps, it’s the feeling that a whole year is suddenly left behind. Perhaps, it’s all those things I never got done being brought forward to the next year or plain forgotten. Perhaps, I’m getting too old, too soon.

I remember wishing that 2009 would be a better year. I’m still not sure if it really was.

This year would signify the beginning of my last year in university, the familiarity that has been with me for these past few years. Whenever I think of the day I’ll finally leave, I’m overwhelmed by the mixture of feelings that came with it.

2010. Another decade.

I will cherish it. And I will look forward to what life has to offer me.

Twenty-one. It’s hard to believe I’ve come this far.

Happy birthday to me.

Happy New Year!

Yeah, genetic title.

I spent my last day of 2009 ushering in the new year under showers of fireworks. How did you spend yours?

I love fireworks! <3

Uploading videos and pics soon! Right now I’m too pooped to do so. First meal of the year! Spicy chicken mcdeluxe. Diet major fail haih.

Turning 21 soooooooooooooon. Sigh. Why must I age?

Whee!

Very lazy to update blog. Thought of slacking for another day, but then… somehow I still decided to blog in the end. Guess what though? I can’t find my camera cable. Shit. -_- Me thinks me might have left it back in Kampar. Shall search more thoroughly later on. Thank goodness for card readers.

Anywayyyyy, one of the reasons I felt super lazy to update was (other than me being in KL and the distractions of fast internet speed and shopping mall) because I was busy fondling my new phone. So far, I’ve managed to go on facebook and twitter and even read my emails on it. Not very user-friendly though. Or maybe it’s just cause I’m used to SE’s interface, but I find the things very cluttered. One other gripe is that the battery drains super fast. I have to charge it everyday. T.T Is it supposed to be draining that fast? I only use it to sms and maybe leech a little wifi here and there for a tiny little while.

Oh, and today it almost gave me a heart attack when it hang gei all of a sudden and then turned off by itself! Wtf noooooo… I’ve only had it for a mere three days! (And the first ever message I sent out was a blank one wtf damn malu)

Hohohoho.

My new baby!

Comes with the normal cables and stuff. Plus a plectrum. The thingy that looks a bit like a guitar pick.

Charger and headphone.

Wait, I just realised I have no full body pic of my phone. I go take nao.

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And yeah, that’s the original plastic screen cover that came with the phone, have to wait till this weekend to go and buy a proper one from pasar malam. Other places selling double the price for the same shit wtf. So till then, I’ll have partially obstructed screen. Yay for my eyes! Not.

New pouch to go with the new phone! Must protect it kao kao. -_-

Oh yes, did I mention it comes with a secondary camera in front? Which means easier camwhoring. xD Pics quality not as good compared to the main camera though. Actually, main camera’s pic quality also not very nice only. -___- I still think SE’s phone camera is clearer even if they both have the same amount of megapixels. Ah well, I have Caramel to do the picture taking anyway.

Two more days to Christmas!! Christmas shopping ain’t done yet. Great.

Oh yes, phone? Not user-friendly. I think I might have mentioned it.

Another item crossed off the wish list!!! Nao who wants to get me a Mac for Christmas? xD