Hong Kong Day 2

We took the MTR to Admiralty station in Hong Kong island, then took a bus up to The Peak instead of taking the tram. Oh by the way, it is very advisable to get the Octopus Card. It is like our Touch 'n' Go card. Save the trouble of having to get exact change everytime you take the bus or to purchase train tickets. One more thing, the locals there walk REALLY fast! It's as if they are always in a rush. Even the escalators at the MTR stations are faster than usual!

At the peak, nothing much actually. Oh you can purchase Disneyland entrance tickets here too. We then headed to Causeway Bay and had lunch at Bistro Delifrance@Times Square. As usual, there were shops everywhere!!

@Times Square
Toy Story!! My favourite cartoon ever! Now I know how a toy would feel, tiny :)
It was in conjunction with the Toy Story 3 premier. You'd be surprised, most of the ppl who lined up to have their photos taken with the cartoon characters were adults.

"Hui Lau Shan"
I hope I got the words right. LOL
It is a pricey but yummy desert shop which is famous for its mango desert. I'm not a mango fan since young but I really liked it. The one on the left is the mango desert while the one on the right is carrot cake in XO.

After spending some time shopping, we went to Ladies Street in Mong Kok. If you are wondering how did we managed to find our way around so many places, I'm telling you, it is very easy. Not kidding. Ok so about Ladies Market, it is basically like Petaling Street. Lots of imitations and bargainings to do. I personally don't like it very much.

Top: Curry fishball
Bottom: Dinner at a restaurant near our hotel. Guess what I found in my soup? A chicken feet.
With its humongous silver-ish toenail still intact! WTH
I lost my appetite after that.
It was that gross ok.

Hong Kong Day 3

Off to Macau we go!!

The China ferry terminal is relatively near by vechicle from our hotel but me being so "adventurous" wanted to walk there instead. But halfway there we decided to take the bus and luckily we did because it would have taken us some time to reach there. The ferry we took coincidently is owned by Chow Tai Fook. Him again. Can't seem to run away from that person.

The journey was about an hour and a half. Tip: Never sit on the upper deck especially if you are seasick.

First thing to do when you reached is to grab a map of Macau. There's a free shuttle bus service from the ferry terminal to the Venetian. It is not in Macau itself but in Taipa. Averagely every 1 min you would see at least 10 Venetian shuttle buses on the roads. The reason why you won't feel that you are in China is because there are casinos and portugese words everywhere!

Lunch@Venetian

Basically, they designed the entire place like Venice. The photo above is taken at the foodcourt. The sky's fake by the way. There are plenty of food choice, ranging from Portugese to Japanese to Vietnamese! I had Western :) Delicious!!


Looks like the one in Genting Highlands eh? Just on a larger scale. More shops, prettier and a bit fake. After lunch we left the Venetian and took the bus to Largo Do Senado to experience some Portugese architecture.

More shops again! This is where you could get the Portugese egg tarts, barbeque meat and biscuits. You could try all you like, they are more than happy if you did :)

It was VERY hot. Needed to have my ice cream to battle the unbearable heat.

*Ruins of Sao Paul*

Fortaleza Do Monte & Museu de Macau

Here's the thing, the signboard said turn left to museum and turn right to fortress. We thought we saw an escalator up to the fortress but couldn't find it so we climbed up instead. The museum on the other hand is located next to the fortress, which could be accessed using an escalator! So the escalator do exist! At least we found out about that later on and need not walk all the way down.
Nothing much at the fortress, just some canons. Similar to the one in Malacca. Well, both were conquered by Portugese right? LOL We didn't enter the museum, just took some pics that's all.

After that, we left the square and went for dinner at a restaurant called A Lorcha which is located right next to A-Ma Temple. There's a bus that stops right in front of that restaurant, just so happen that the bus stop is there, not because there's a shuttle bus. LOL It wasn't open for business yet when we got there so we made reservations and chilled out at the park right outside the temple. It is advisable to make reservations as it is a very popular authentic Portugese restaurant. Very pricey but an eye-opener to real Portugese food.

No photos taken of the park but this is the Maritime Museum which is at the park. That's A-Ma Temple on the bottom left picture. By the way, A-Ma Temple is the last bus stop before the bus terminal.

The restaurant is at the corner end of the shophouse. We ordered just a seafood soup and seafood rice as Mummy had no appetite that day so we couldn't order more. They are also famous for their African chicken and clams in olive oil. Overall Macau was fun! Less cars and feels more peaceful compared to HK.

Hong Kong Day 4

Disneyland

Okay so this is my 3rd trip to Disneyland. First in Los Angeles, then Tokyo and now Hong Kong! I personally prefer the other 2 compared to this one as the park is really really small. Not joking. Oh and also the staffs there are NOT friendly at all. Ain't Disneyland supposed to be a joyful place? Hmmm what's missing from this theme park is the ToonTown, Critter Country, New Orleans Square and Frontierland. See how many lands they are missing?



We took the MTR to Disneyland. The Disney train was decorated entirely with Disney stuffs. I felt like a small kid once again and forgotten about reality just for that day. The funny thing was, when we were in Tokyo, it was so cold that we took every chance we had to stay in a warm place, but in Hong Kong, it was so so hot that we took every opportunity to stay in a air-conditioned place! LOL

There was a parade going on just as we reached there. It was summer time so they had some sort of summer parade. Although I look smiley and happy but in actual fact my skin was burning! Still had to smile for the camera! Heeee

While waiting for the Buzzlightyear ride.

It's a small world!
Somehow I love everything about this ride. Including the air-con ;)

So pretty eh?

Found a shady spot to finish up my ice-cream.
Oh and about their souveniers, I prefer the ones during Winter, nothing special during Summer.

River Cruise and Tarzan's treehouse

Top left: There were 3 guys working on the sand sculpture. Should be done by now I guess.
Middle left: Me in a teacup
Bottom left: Some car ride thingy
Right: Sleeping beauty castle. All the while I thought it was Cinderella's castle.

The fireworks@8pm
Don't miss it!

Day 5 was shopping day till our flight at night. I guess that's all about my trip! =) Almost a week had gone by since I came back from HK. Scary how time flies eh?

One of the many reasons that made my day

Deary forced me to pose with the stone balls which he described as a state of art. The last time when we went to Midvalley, we saw a group of 4 sitting on each of the stone balls chitchatting and having a great time. Hence, Deary was so impressed with this idea of placing a few non chair-looking balls in the middle of the fountain area for ppl to hang out and chitchat. We actually debated on the purpose of those stone balls and I still insist that it is merely for decoration purposes. It was just a coincidence that those ppl sat on the stone balls just because they didn't have any place to sit for free without having to spend money on a cup of coffee at Starbucks just to sit outdoors and chitchat LOL

This is what happens when you go out with a future architect.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into someone else is the greatest accomplishment"

You are my co-pilot

The first thing deary asked me was "What is this movie about??, I've never heard of it before and the poster tells me that it's gonna be a boring movie". Well, this movie won the Acedemy Award for Best Screenplay! Seriously I personally thought George Clooney deserved to win the Best Actor award. It takes a lot to portray Ryan Bingham; the main character of the movie, especially for what deary calls "a talking movie" i.e. a movie without much special effects and lots of talking done in the movie. Alice in Wonderland was almost sold out by the time we reached Midvalley. It's actually suicidal to watch a movie on a Friday night at Midvalley as the queue at the ticket counter is predictably long. We couldn't catch the 7pm show as we were late! So we got the 9.30pm show and oh boy was I so afraid that I would fall asleep watching movie at that time as I am very prone to falling asleep while watching late night movies. So, after the gruesome queue, we went to fill our hungry stomachs with.....


POPEYES!! Everyone who ate this said that it is much better than KFC which I agree too. But nobody told me that the mash potato,chicken and biscuit was so salty! No wonder the Westerners are so prone to obesity and hypertension. They eat so much salt!!! By the way, I forgot to mention that the movie is worth watching!! Sometimes it's not all about the visual effects and all. It's about the message behind it.

That's me with my co-pilot :)

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