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2010年11月05日（星期5）
My 5th day here so far... n i'm leaving next Monday.. time really flies... though i think my legs are breaking... i would still love to go hiking...
However, it's a rainy day in Kowloon... n especially foggy...
So we've decided to stay in and enjoy a day's rest in Lohas Park...
Great View... Great accomodation~~~ Superrrrb!!!!!!! Definitely tonnes n tonnes better than my previous hotel stay at Empire TST... what not value for $$$$... A home is still full of love, cleanliness & comfort!!!
Loads of thanks to Sharon & ES!!!! ;p
2009年12月14日（星期一）
More than a month since I last blogged…
Time flies… I’m back from my Macau/HK trip… am settling down into my new job… old company…
Felt like just leaving some posts since I haven’t got the mood n energy to do so for the past few months…
Getting busy now with the ROM preparations… happy n fun… though it’s very last minute, coz of the tiger year next year and we only got to know the good dates just days before we left for our holidays, I like the planning n getting busy part of it… maybe coz the day is not that far away… so it’s actually not such an ordeal like what I heard some others say… ultimately, this is about a once in a lifetime event… so hopefully I can retain good memories of it… still in the process of confirming the venue for the solemnization.
Back from our holidays, this time round I hardly have time to organize my photos, very generous of 3rd uncle to lend me his DSLR Canon EOS 40D, where I took many pictures… first time using a DSLR, of course is to capture as many shots as I can… However, skills wise… I’m way way way backward…
If I were to select a shot as a album masterpiece, I guess it would be the following shot… not that sure what the building is… but this is taken on our final day in HK, as we were leaving for the airport…
The raw photo :
After I did some editing :
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Day 12 @ HK : 2008年10月19日（日）
Barely 3 hours since I fell asleep, it’s time to wake up… had to catch our late morning flight back home...
~8AM
Us and our barangs waiting for bus to the airport…
I think even the sky was feeling sad for us that we gota leave that it rained…
Along the way…
Does it look like they are building another suspension bridge?
As our bus sped to our destination…
And we move further from our love…
After 40 minutes of ride, we arrived at the airport…
The familiar Terminal 1 of HKIA…
Where we should be boarding from… Terminal 2…
10AM
With mixed feelings…
10:50AM
Seated at the departure hall, waiting for our transfer…
Front view of a plane…
The vast HKIA…
Had always like this way of boarding a plane… Don’t know if it’s due to the influence of movies? Still recalled the first time I took Jet Star with deär to HK in 2005… It’s the same… Just that I think I had a traumatic experience on that small plane I totally blanked my mind. Not this time though…
Aiyoh, one uncle in front of me can’t take photos more discreetly? He was stopped from taking photos… as a result, I can’t take photos of the surroundings…
Nevertheless….
Flying home… Bye HK…!
Day 11 @ HK : 2008年10月18日（六）
Mongkok + Yuen Long + Sham Tseng
~11.45AM
Went to the post office to mail back our stuff to Singapore… After much consideration, decided to ship back my old clothes, since new clothes haven’t wear yet, though the older clothes are more expensive… but well… the old ones are a few years old le… besides, we’ve decided on air mail instead of surface mail, so I trust them to take good care… I don’t want to smell rotten clothes 1 mth down the road… haha
Our box, or rather MY box, added up to about 6.8kg (mostly my stuff, 90% of it?)
It’s our last full day in hk before we return home… tried to find a batt for my pedometer. Actually, there is just this shop across the street that sells! We haven’t been walking this way for a few days le… Asked the uncle, he said he has and I only got it for $5... As compared to the 6 times markup yesterday, this uncle is really honest. Really, some shops in MK are just out to “eat” pple…
~4.30PM – Langham Place
This next hour was spent in H&M where I swept 2 bags, we were not left with much money to buy stuff, which was a good thing, else I really don’t know how much more I’m going to buy…
~5+PM
Regina gave me a call..! she’s back from her holidays! We arranged to meet for dinner later, 6:30pm at Tsuen Wan, a place which couldn’t be more familiar to us, we stayed around that area last year! She said will bring us somewhere as I mentioned we wanted to try some roast goose.
We wanted to get some Hang Heung lo por beng back since we missed the last opportunity to walk around in MK to get some souvenirs back for deär’s colleagues. Very kind of Regina and her husband, Weng, to bring us to the main outlet of Hang Heung in Yuen Long, despite being a little out of way to our dinner venue… ^_^
Freshly made lo por bengs!! Wow!! Regina bought a box and offered one for us to try, it’s the first time we tasted warm n fresh ones… the taste was simply… out of the world! Usually the ones we bought from other branches are made from the main branch and delivered there. And by the time we ate were back in hometown.
~7.30PM
Waited for the bus for half an hour before it came, hopped onto it… it’s a 45min journey, abit long coz we felt hungry le! But we enjoyed the ride; it’s like taking a bus cruise in Yuen Long. We came across buildings that are old, the LRTs that are only in that area, till we saw the high-end apartments…
I got all excited when the display panel showed this!
~8.45PM
We reached our destination – Sham Tseng! Yeah! I think Zhiming would have loved to come to this place, but too bad he left earlier… arhh… aren’t you envious? ;p
This was where we ate for dinner. There’s actually a few big names here to eat roast goose, but Regina recommended this. Of course I trust her taste!
Of course our first dish was the much anticipated roast goose. The meat was actually quite fatty… Although I liked the taste, but personally felt I’d like it more if it’s less fatty… Not knowing which portion to take, I took a piece that was nearest to me and the waiter quickly told me not to choose that, he knew we were not locals and told me I had picked the bum! Eeewww!
Just the 4 of us… but look at the sumptuous spread! Altogether 5 dishes and the servings were quite big. However, we did manage to clear them… Applause!
~10PM
Finished dinner, crossed the road and towards the sea. Panoramic night view of the Tsing Ma Bridge. The residents staying in the apartments facing the bridge are so fortunate! But I heard that the apartments here are very expensive… can’t remember, but did Weng mentioned it costs like minimum hk$6mil? Woahhh… paying for the sea breeze n unobstructed view huh…
We immersed ourselves with the view and taking some good shots. But really… I think it’s time to change my camera… Wasn’t pleased with the turnouts… Seems like the night mode’s not working as well as before, and we didn’t bring our tripod along. Excuses or reasons to upgrade my camera? Hmmm… Luckily Regina’s camera took really good night view photos… Else… it’ll be very disappointing not to get some good shots.
Oh my… how many sets of 连拍 did we take? Eerr….
10:50PM
Walked back to where we came from, and had desserts at this place. It’s full-house! We had to wait outside for awhile before we got seats, luckily for not too long.
Ordered my favorite yueng zhi gam lou again… and another pastry I forgot which… I’d love to re-visit this place the next time I come to HK if time permits… like to thank Regina n husband, Weng, for their fantastic hospitality! If not for them, don’t think we’d ever come to this area. Even though we stayed so close to Sham Tseng during our trip last year that the same mini-bus travels stops at both places…
快乐的时光总是短暂的。。。Very soon, at 12.30am, we were back at Mongkok le… We took this photo as a keepsake – 最后一夜在旺角!
We can’t bear to leave… no no… not yet!! Had supper at Mac till around 1.30am… This picture was taken for ah yi… to show her I see Andy omoz every trip to hk… ;p
~4.40am
My last victory items for the day…
Day 10 @ HK : 2008年10月17日（五）
Mongkok + Tsim Sha Tsui
Early in the morning we woke up, prepared and went to meet Jean (deär’s ex-colleage) at Grand Century Place. We’re going to have dim sum! Yesss!! A place I’d always try to visit on every trip for my dim sum delights - Maxims Palace!
By 12.30pm, we had already finished eating, down to the ground floor, we saw this Halloween exhibition and took a walk inside.
~ 1.30PM - Back at the hostel
Had to buy a box from the post office to mail our things back coz we were anticipating that our luggage will definitely exceed the weight limit… so we spent the next few hours determining what we should mail back… and roughly gauge the size of the box that we need to buy. Then down to the post office to buy the box. The staff there were very helpful despite looking stern before we approached the counter.
~5 PM
We went out, towards Mongkok centre area. I thought of buying a batt for my pedometer, but had no chance to buy it over the past few days, wanted to count how many steps we actually walked each day! Passed by a small watch shop, thought they should have and went in and enquired in mandarin.
Me: Excuse me, do you have the flat battery CR2032? Man: oh yah, yes… (took out a box and found the batt).. Is this the one? Me: arhh yes, how much is it? Man: hhmm… like that arh… like that charge you 30 dollars lah… Me: huh? $30? I only need one batt leh, not all 5 of them… Man: yah lah! I’m selling you only one, you think all 5 for $30 arh? Me: oh… thank you. I don’t need it anymore (n walked out)
What’s that… this man was obviously trying to cheat me knowing I’m a tourist! A batt that cost about sgd6?! Is the batt made of pure gold? Goodness me… I knew that he wasn’t honest when he was saying “like that arh…” He’s just thinking how much he can jack up the price…
Walked out and later enquired a few other shops, but they do not carry the batt.
Just as I passed by an Optical 88, I reminded deär that he’s got a screw missing from his shades, so probably he could go in and ask them to replace one for him. While doing the replacement, I took a walk round, and then thought I should get a pair of new shades that I’ve been wanting to get for ages… Ages = years…
Didn’t want to get anything too expensive, yet I want to get a good one coz all the previous cheapos that I bought are giving me headaches, I become dizzy a few minutes after wearing those shades… Thought that Singapore will be selling those more branded shades for more than sgd100 or close to $200… n I really can’t bring myself to buy something sooo expensive… So I only browsed through the items on sale… and found one not too bad de… from Titus… tried it on… deär said not bad, later I asked the optician got any more of such price range de. He got me another one slightly more expensive, but it felt better…
Really, a better pair of shades felt good… after trying the 2 for a while, decided to get the more expensive one since deär said it looked nicer. Moreover, it was under our budget, less than sgd100 I got it for… I put it on for a while when we got outside, oh yeah!! It provided real good protection compared to my previous shades and I don’t get dizzy! But then, it’s evening already, no need for sunglasses…
~ 6:10PM – Tsim Sha Tsui
We strolled to the Knustford Terrace where we thought of having dinner, haven’t been there before and guessed it should be quite a nice place to eat. However, after reaching there 20 minutes later, we decided against it, the restaurants look expensive and after walking to the end, I have no feel for any of the restaurants. I wanted to eat something different, but I cannot pinpoint what it was… I must see it to feel it!!
~ 6:45PM
We carried on walking, till I saw this restaurant that has a poster of hairy crab @ $28 each… that’s it! I knew we had found it, so me n dear went in. Once we stepped in, we were like errr…. How come no customers inside? We were brought to a corner where we saw just another couple eating steamboat. So… in total, inclusive of us, 4 customers in total. We sat a table away from them. First time trying steamboat in HK, as we looked at their menu, we were slightly stunned… it doesn’t look that cheap wor… we spent about a good 10 minutes trying to decide on what to order, they are all ala-carte items, not like we have buffet or set kind. They tried to sell us all the expensive stuff, which we thought of all excuses to evade. Finally, we only ordered 2 hairy crabs, a plate of cheese sausage, wanton and fish roll. Soup base we chose the cheapest, yuen yeung soup base. They recommended their sweet corn juice which we ordered a jug, it’s good!
This lady helped us with the fish roll, we didn’t really know how to squeeze it out, n initially I squeezed out bit by bit. Later, she came to help me with it, which I’m so thankful. Else I got no time to eat! Whahah
Close up of our twin hot pot…
Our hairy crabs finally here!! Hottt!!!
Do not be misled by the size, it’s actually very small, to 1st timers like us, we were stunned…
However, when we ate the crabs, we were quite certain, the 蟹黄is the 精华… for someone like me who usually do not touch them, they ‘re super delicious!
When we were quite done with our food, we realized that the whole restaurant was filled up with pple, except for the table beside us. So it’s not a “black shop” after all… we were just early for our dinner…
The bill totaled up to over $300… woah… that’s not cheap huh… the hairy crab was the cheap one, but the steamboat was not, I think it should be cheaper for more pple to eat, mb that’s why majority of the tables were meant for big groups.
This was where we had our steamboat + hairy crab!
9PM – Miramar Shopping Centre
I “punished” deär by taking this photo outside the washroom coz he said he couldn’t find tissue papers earlier on at the steamboat restaurant, searched here n there n couldn’t find. So when we’re back here at the shopping centre, I wanted to go wash my hands and he found the tissue in his right jeans pocket! Because it’s covered by his pouch, he didn’t look there… duhh!!
~10:20PM
Took desserts at this place. Had my favourite 杨枝柑露！
Who knows when we’re taking the MTR from TST, there was a delay in the trains! Some technical fault… first time we came across such situations in hk… so many first times this trip. For such a fast pace country like hk, I think they really cannot afford to have such delays. We even saw a reporter and a cameraman running about trying to get news.
In the end, we decided not to wait anymore, coz we waited 10 minutes for 1 train to come and we could not get ourselves in it. No point waiting for another one since the human traffic was terrible. As it’s a fri night, we couldn’t get a taxi too. So we took a stroll down Nathan road towards Mongkok direction, we reached a bus stop and was lucky enough to hop onto 1 that brought us nearer our destination.
Reached our hostel just before midnight… We did not want to leave hk!!! We wana stay on further!!!
Spent the night arranging and packing our luggage, taking photos of our victories… deär’s victories!
My victories!
As usual, I couldn’t help, but I need to take close ups lah, individuals lah… bla bla… must 摆美美la… hhmm.. I thought I didn’t want to buy so many things this trip? Fortunately I took a photo of my skincare on 12th Oct le… else I really no need to sleep… ;p
Day 9 @ HK : 2008年10月16日（四）
Olympic + Prince Edward + Causeway Bay
Another day of waking up late, deär must be even more tired than me, having no break from work and even in hk, not enough rest, still gotta take care of me… *giggles*
Okie,… I admit I’m the lazy one… it’s just not my sleeping cycle, haven’t got it adjusted, so I’m basically an owl… who still can’t fall asleep at 3 or 4am in the morning and if wake up before noon will leave me looking like a zombie for the rest of the day… Moreover, not having enough sleep caused me to constipate… hate this part the most in tours!! So I really wonder where did all the food I eat for the past week go to?
But! I’ve got a good “feel” about exercising my bowels today… tink I had enough sleep yesterday n today… great! So while deär went downstairs to check out the surrounding stores and bought me some paus to eat, I’m keeping myself busy… we thought of going to Cheung Chau this trip, was planning to go either today or tomorrow, but after all the mozzie stings from the Shaw Production house, I’m having second thoughts… Although we bought insect repellent at Mannings, I really don’t wana go n come back with more marks… Last year to Lamma island already left me with scars on my arms and legs,… I think I shall give the hike a miss this year… though I really badly wana go hiking in this superb weather…
In the end, it was decided, both of us were really exhausted from all the walking the past week and it gave us reasonable excuse to forgo the hike… So after eating paus as an appetizer, we finally left the hostel to first the post office that I saw yesterday to check out postage rates… then makan lunch at this nearby stall that deär had seen. It served noodles.
After having a simple lunch, I’m energetic enough to pose for a photo… decided that I should capture my new outfit… Except for my boots and internal, all exterior are bought during this trip… From the adidas tank top, to the belt n the HKJC bag n my watch… All are newly bought…Even the leggings… had washed n dried them yesterday so that I can wear it today!
On the way to the Olympic MTR, we saw G2000 having a sale, but duhh… I’m not interested in office wear… so deär took a quick look and from there came a series of fitting… Though he tried on a couple of shirts and pants, in the end only decided to buy a pink shirt that costs about sgd16? We were like… what?!! So there wasn’t any need to ponder for very long and that’s a cart item. We walked around the Olympian City to check out the neibouring buildings and had some light snacks at one of the shops.
Then we went to Mongkok, walked to Prince Edward, I wanted to buy new boots! This old one I bought last year Jan was falling apart I could feel, once I wore in sgp during a heavy rain day in the hope I wouldn’t get my feet wet, water actually seeped in from the soles! Moreover, I felt like getting flatter ones, wearing heels really tire me out. Is it just that I’m not used to heels or what… how could I have hiked in that pair of boots last Oct at Lamma island?
For me, I’m not a directional person, especially every street in Mongkok looks the same to me… however, deär is a walking street directory… so with him around, he can navigate for me… (hmmm… but I found I could direct myself pretty well yesterday alone… could it be that I’m just too reliant on him when he’s around?) He took some time trying to find the place coz we don’t often come to this area, except when I wana buy boots… for me, I just follow… So when we chanced upon the police station, I thought I must cover our tracks…
Finally found the shop!! Was surprised that the sellers recognize us and that we’re from Singapore! My goodness, it was one year since we last met… they still remember? Don’t know was it a lucky guess on their part? But we haven’t even spoken yet leh…
Chop chop bought a pair of boots and lady boss gave me a discount, but of cos it’s not as cheap as when buying during spring time when summer is coming. Nevertheless, it’s a good sgd20-30 cheaper than if I were to buy in Singapore I guess…
~7:30PM
Over to Causeway Bay again! Deär wana buy a luggage and we saw one suitable one at Satchi… Took some time re-deciding on the luggage and checking out other offers. Deär also bought 2 belts, for his dad n brother and a coin pouch for his mum… We chose and paid for the items, told the retail we’ll be coming back to pick it up after we go for dinner nearby.
After the jap food we had that day, we thought that maybe we can try the Ajisen in hk… see the difference there n here… n oh my, they have far more variety of food than we have here. I felt like ordering so many of them, but we only have limited time, about 40 minutes and we have to go back n collect the luggage. Besides, only 2 of us, how much can we eat… So we only ordered 2 side dishes (baked fungus and hotplate beancurd) with a plate of eel fried rice.
Before going back, I saw Skinfood! I saw this black sesame hot masque and the nail polish on the magazine yesterday and wanted to buy back n try. I like to shop in hk because they always give freebies… like I bought 2 nail polish and the gal said she’;; give me free nail stickers… hehe… I was still thinking hehe… it’s something that Singapore don’t have… But gosh, I was at BJ last week and there I saw Skinfood! Duhh… but this only goes to show how long I haven’t been contributing to my homeland’s economy…
It’s quite ley chey to walk around with the luggage, so we went back after I bought my skincare. At the MTR, took a photo of me again with my new boots and deär’s luggage. Had changed into it the moment I found a washroom at Causeway Bay when we reached, was it at SOGO? Hhmm… come to think of it, we did shop in SOGO, but… was it today? Memory’s really failing me…
~11:30PM A night we were back at Mongkok early… so we bought Hui Lau Shan desserts again, this time round… takeaway… with the XO carrot cake that we loved! Back at the hostel, it’s not an early rest for us… we gota rack our brains on what to mail back… we were quite confident that we’re going to exceed our limit, and since JetStar limits 20kg… it’s not that difficult to overshoot huh… tink tink….
Day 8 @ HK : 2008年10月15日（三）
Olympic + Causeway Bay + Wan Chai
It’s the day that Zhiming was going back to Singapore… After not having enough sleep for many days, I decided that I had to sleep in… else, I would juz bloat n bloat… Deär accompanied Zhiming to TST andJordan area, if I didn’t remember wrongly, for some last minute shopping since he’s taking the night flight. As for me, I got to laze around as if I’m staying in hk for good…
~2PM
After a long relaxed bath, cooked myself the remaining 2 packs of Muji noodles that we bought a few days ago… thought the packs were small it can’t satisfy my hunger, who know eating 2 packs were actually very filling! Opened up the windows for better ventilation, didn’t think of it past few days coz it’s so hectic… Got some fresh air, though air in hk is not exactly clean, but at least I found it better than cooping ourselves in the air-con room with stale air. After that made myself at home by watching some tv programmes, packed our room so that it looked less messy. Fiddled here n there, lazing around, finally I went out at 4pm, decided I should go take a walk myself. First time!! Deär is always around with me all our trips, so I never got to walk around myself. Took a half an hour walk around the area, not much to see coz it’s the neibourhood area. Walked past a park n decided to see where it leads to. Didn’t finish the whole route coz the direction was not where I wana head for. Anyway, saw this building in construction, wondering if is it going to be a hotel or shopping centre?
Reached the Olympian City 2, went in to take a look, saw Dicky Cheung at Olympian City 1 on Saturday, so thought maybe I could check out the other building.
However, not much enticing for me as I’m not very enthu about shopping in a shopping centre this trip. *cut cost* I was fascinated by the toilet flush though, like this idea of the automatic flush.
I must say I really enjoy my toilet breaks in hk’s shopping centres. Our homeland’s shopping centre loos are in no way comparable to those loos in the shopping centres of hk. I don’t understand, why can hk keep their loos so clean and litter free. If I were to give hk 90 marks for their standard, I’d think ours deserve at most only 60 marks. And it’s only at selected time – that is after the cleaner has cleaned up the toilet when no one is around. I like their automatic taps, so convenient and sensitive. Ours are either still using the old fashion taps whereby the water flows super long time or super short; super big or super small flow; else using those auto taps which can never sense when our hands are placed underneath. I thought conserving water has been the talk of world recently, but why is the building management not doing anything to improve the conditions? Besides the building mgmt, I guess another factor is the users… I’ve seen countless times pple wasting water in public toilets… For example a tap that runs for quite a long period of time (I’ve come across such taps in commercial buildings), the user (I’ve seen such user!) will wash her hands, touch her hair here n there, press the tap to wet hands, then while the water is still running, touch her face or adjust her clothes… as if waiting for the water to finish flowing and then finally one last time, press the tap again wash her hands and then leave the toilet. If you see the tap runs long, you can just depress it slightly if you need some water to wet your hands right? Come on lah, you think you don’t have to pay for water usage? If everyone is going to use water like you do, then obviously the cost of running the building will increase, and who will bear it eventually? When landlords find their profits lowering, they’re gonna increase tenants’ rents and when that happens, you think the shops are going to absorb for u? Sgpreans or those foreigners staying here really need some education on toilet hygiene and conservation of water… Not saying I’m doing a terrific job, but I’m doing my least bit for mother earth…
Goodness, I’m side-tracking… back to the Olympian City 2, I was walking quite aimlessly, browsing the shops… Until I found myself hungry again, had to find something to eat. Hhmm.. it’s only 4.30pm, 2.5 hrs since I last ate… Saw a few cafes and restaurants, but finally chose Uncle Russ Coffee! Reason being I wana try leading a tai tai life in hk since I can never accomplish that in sgp! Ordered this set meal, mocca coffee + angel’s hair pasta… sat n sip my drink slowly, eat leisurely n read magazines, while waiting for deär to come find me after he sent Zhiming off at the Olympian MTR. Deär came around 5.30pm and ordered a cup of Cappuccino. I have no idea why my stomach is like a bottomless pit, I ordered a cheese cake to eat again! (recently I was watching some tvb drama and I realize the actor went into this exact Uncle Russ to buy coffee! I could recognize it instantly when I saw the counter, credits at the end of the show proved me right! So I was at a 片场 again… wahha!)
~7:30PM
Reached Causeway Bay, walked around Times Square for awhile. Our aim was to get to the Happy Valley Racecourse to buy stuff from the gift shop. We missed it at Shatin and it’d closed. So since we had the night free, we planned to buy it at Happy Valley, everything seemed to fit, coz H.V. holds night races on Wednesdays…
Along the way to the racecourse, took photos along the way. Saw this golden dragon that we saw last year when we were on the bus, I still caught a shot of the rear view of the dragon as the bus was going that way… so it’s here, we didn’t know where we were last year…
~8:30PM - Happy Valley Racecourse
Just so happening! With so many ang mors there celebrating the Oktober Fest, it’s a different feeling we got compared to the Shatin racecourse. Fortunately we came here to get our stuff, coz we purchase admission tickets of hk$10, being tourists we received a coupon to get discounts off gift shop items! Had we bought it at Shatin, we wouldn’t get any discounts coz we did not have to purchase admission tickets… whew! *save money*
20 minutes later, we finished our shopping and wanted to look for something to eat… Nothing much to eat except MacDonald’s. Check out the auspicious names given to the meals.
Arrrhh… this is a “retro” straw dispenser arh, I think we used this in Sgp many years ago, and the paper bags… we use plastic ones now..
Deär and I got ourselves fish fillets, 1 meal n 1 ala carte to save $$... oh my gosh… I don’t know if was it because we were hungry or the burgers were just so tasty! It brought both of us back to our childhood, where our homeland still served up to standard fish fillet burgers with overflowing tartar sauce…
We didn’t stay too long to watch the matches as we’ve seen it… so only watch 1 race and we left…
On our way out, this police van stopped right in front of me... oh my!! With lightning speed, I asked deär to pose… and after that my turn… all the policemen who alighted turned to look at us… was silently hoping they won’t stop us from taking pictures…
Walked to dunno where and we had MacDonald’s again to fill our stomachs… What we can’t find here…
~11PM
Boarded a tram to get us back to the MTR, but we had to pass by the racecourse, like back-trekking… and we met with this traffic jam coz everyone was coming out from the racecourse… So I took the time to take some close-ups of the tram as there were only the 2 of us and a few others on it… I think it must have been my lucky day, coz along the road outside the racecourse, the driver opened the door to allow some passengers to alight, he had to open it with the main control, I supposed that’s becoz he’s not at a tram stop.. the controls were just some buttons that looked pretty simple to me… I was imagining how complicated the control could be…
We alighted somewhere and for a moment lost ourselves, however, we continued walking and soon found ourselves at another “self appointed 景点”.
We have always wanted to take photos with the police constables, but never had the guts to approach them… coz think they’d reject us becoz they’re on duty… of course, I think they wouldn’t mind if they are off duty… but where got so heng for us to chance upon… n we won’t know when they are off duty oso… So we had the police van… n the police bikes tonight!
Saw this 燉奶 shop along the street and remembered Ling mentioned she had it in hk b4… so we went it to try. I don’t particularly like it coz I thought that’s on the sweet side… came back then asked Ling, she had it at some Australian dairy shop…
~12:30AM
Back at Mongkok, deär tried to go n exchange a vcd as he realized it’s a duplicate… managed to find something he can exchange to… I tried asking the shop if they sell Red Cliff posters as I see it outside… but they don’t… so… I could only take a photo with it…
