Yeah! YUM CHA TIME!!!


Enuff of shopping!!!

We decided to get up early for yum cha...so we went to Maxim's Palace, which took us bout 45 mins to find the place, we walked round and round the bldgs, juz couldn't find the place. Do we really have such bad sense of directions? Finally found it and went for dim sum. The place looks pretty famous cos when it's lunch time, there's a long queue outside. Dim sum was not bad and we paid about S$20 per pax with juz a few dishes... but tot it was worthwhile cos it has got a nice view facing the sea. Tat's y it so exp, i think.

Finish off with yum cha, we headed to central pier 6 to take a ferry ride to Mui Wo (i.e. Lantau Island). Ferry ride was good, with air-con and took bout 30-45mins to get there, smooth-sailing ride...no motion-sickness pills needed. After reaching Mui Wo, we took bus no.2 to the Giant Buddha...the ride up and down was terrible...bumpy....

We treasure the days we had before sch starts on the 3rd of sep. We are afraid got no time to travel, no time to meet, can't shop together...so we make full use of the time now to do all the things we want.

As usual, we had lunch, and I tried their milk tea for the 1st time, tastes betta than sg cos it's thick, however, tastes bitter too. Everytime, we stepped into the restaurant, the 3 of us will stare at the menu as thou we haven't seen one before. It's not tat the menu is special but we juz can't read the chinese words, so we usually ordered something we dun even noe what's like. The food here is not very exp, and usually costs bout S$6plus for a meal and it's quite a big portion!

We went to mongkok today and the stuffs are indeed cheaper here compared to tsim sha tsui and kowloon, which are the upper-class areas. And poyi told me that the 2 good shopping places in mongkok are fai yuen street and mongkok city centre. Haven't been there yet, will try to find the places nxt week.

We passed by this shop tat sells paper like decorations, quite nice and it's not cheap cos alot of time and effort is put into doing it. One can cost about S$100plus... For me, S$100 is exp cos i won't spent money on handicraft. I especially like the pinochio, which i took, cos of its long and pointed noseWhile walking, we oso saw this mahjong house, looks grand with the lighting... din noe that such places exist so openly... i supposed it's legal in hk. At times, we were so tired that we felt like catching a movie juz lazing in a cool place, and we asked the price, it was like S$13, which we tot was exp for a movie on a weekday nite. Eventually, we did not watch any show, maybe nxt time we would, if there are good shows around.

Being the 2nd day in HK, i am so excited about checking out this place... where are the good places for food, cheap bargains, nearest supermarket etc...

Sophia and me went to open a hsbc a/c in sch as we brought all the cash with us...come to think of it, it was dangerous to carry so much cash with us! After banking, i went to sop's starr hall to enjoy the seaview from her room, so much betta than mine. We had lunch at ho tim's hall and tot the food was good, but the locals felt otherwise. Lunch was a simple fare...nothing fantastic, juz 3 dishes with rice... the food is saltish.

We went touring kowloon and tsim sha tsui tat nite, walking along the streets and njoying the lights that made the city so much livelier... took alot of pics, we always had our cameras on hand and ready to take snap shots... we headed to the avunue of stars...it's like the hollywood walk of fame in LA, just that the palm prints belong to asian stars like andy lau, maggie cheung...over there, there's a show known as the Symphony of the Night, something like the laser lights show in sg. Unfortunately, we missed the show but will be back to catch it.

Walk, walk, and walk, tired from all the walking for the whole day, we decided to have some dessert at Xu Liu Shan, ate mango ice-cream with pomelo, very nice. After a short rest, we chiong again...this time at temple street, went hunting for good bargains...

Hello...Aloha...Welcome to my blog...

was lazy to set up one cos need to maintain and update but still decided to do so as i want to update everyone in sg especially my family and linus about my happenings in HK and of course i want to remember all the beautiful memories i have here...

First thing in the morning, i met sophia and sandra to check in and there we go...to HK. Arrived in HK at 1.15pm, and waited for steven who is oso a nbs student until 2 plus to take the coach to our halls. While waiting, we took plenty of pics in the airport. I was full of hopes when i was on my way to the hall, thought there would be a seaview at least. However, it wasn't as good....the hall is old, rooms stuffy, toilets especially the shower rooms are small, room views are bad...look at the pics and u'll noe wat i am toking about. However, the consolation is that, there are some cute guys living under the same roof...haha :)

After checking into the hall, Hannah (my buddy) brought me to HKU to settle the school stuffs...first, we went to 7th floor meng wah complex to confirm the registration of subjects, brief us about the add/drop and nxt to global lounge to get the registration documents. It was all in a rush cos we arrive sch late and only left with an hour to clear all the stuffs. and it was so tiring cos the school is like vertically up on top, everywhere was steps and i had to climb so many steps to get to a place, wouldn't i lose alot of calories? I hope so... thought NTU was bad... however, HKU is worse, no wonder the hongkongers are so slim...din really see a fat person walking...

School stuffs was done....Lorraine ( Sophia's buddy) brought us to a chinese fast food place for dinner, located somewhr in the western district near our sch. But we din noe how to get back, so eventually took a cab. The weather was bad...raining heavily and hot sun came nxt...

That would be all for the day...