Hong Kong Trip (Day 2)

We had a city tour on our 2nd day as part of the Free & Easy package. We started the day at 7am with a good breakfast at a Dim Sum restaurant. The food was fantastic but the portion was a bit small.

Our 1st stop was at Repulse Bay, a beach situated in a rich man's land. The top 10 richest Hong kong people live in some of the houses behind us. Jackie Chan lives in one of those too. The property prices here are as crazy as Singapore's car prices. There's also a famous temple beside the beach.
Everyone was queuing up to touch the God of Wealth so we took our S$50 to rub some wealth into our pockets too. We wanted to use the HK$ at 1st but realised that having a windfall in HK$ isn't quite as useful as in S$. Hopefully, the God of Wealth recognise our currency. LOL!






Our next stop was Aberdeen. We took a ride around the harbour on fisherman's boat and tour the harbour for 25 mins. It was starting to drizzle a bit and our tour guide informed us of an approaching typhoon now blowing in the Philippines. Hong Kong is a typhoon prone region. As a result, Aberdeen Harbour was set as a designated cover for the 7000 odd fishing community that lived on the seas in the event of a typhoon.The Famous Jumbo seafood restaurant is also anchored here. Some of the rich's private boats are also anchored and maintained here. Apparently, the rich's life creates so much interest here that they are mentioned so very often on our tour.

This type of free tour of course comes at the expense of many side shopping trips to jewellery and herbs shop. If not, where do they earn the commission? We had lunch at some restaurant near a shopping district. Due to the bad weather, we were informed that the cable car at Ngong Ping halted operation and the fire service was there to free someone stuck on the ride. Lucky the cable car was in business by 3pm when we reached. The fog though was quite a spoiler though.

It would have been a beautiful sight if it was a clear day. We saw the Hong Kong airport from the cable car before entering into the fog. Maybe it was just the wrong season to visit. Ended the tour on Lantau island and shop at the Citygate Outlets. Dear got a few bargains for office wear at Esprit Outlets. Dear and I parted with Marcus and Sarah as they continued their spending spree. LOL! Would had stay longer but need to meet Dong on Hong Kong Island and we were running late.

Met Dong at Central MTR and he bought to his place for a look. Took the World's longest Escalator. Pretty cool! It's downward moving in the morning and upward moving for the rest of the day. Saves a lot of climbing. It also by passes a lot of the "happening" areas which Dong was living at. Pretty much like Clarke Quay with lots of pubs. We saw his apartment and it was hardly bigger than my bedroom.

Dong brought us to a roadside stall to try the authentic way of eating Wanton mee. We also order some black sesame dessert and another dessert which we couldn't pronounce. Dong tried his cantonese on the stall lady and he was pretty good. Was able to converse with the lady other than the part where we couldn't understand the lady asking if we want oyster sauce. After that, we meet with Dong's other group of friends who were there to visit as well. Surprisingly, someone in the group knows dear and i know another guy formerly from my secondary school as well. Talk about small world... We took a tram (Yes! authentic shanghai style, pictures in the next post) to Causeway Bay where Dong said it's where the Hong Kong youths hang out. Aijia spotted the legendary mango dessert and it was damn good! We thanked Dong for the meals and had to leave early because we need to catch the public transport back to the hotel which took us a freaking 1 hour. More to follow...

Hong Kong Trip Day 1

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Hong Kong Trip (Day 1)

Went for a 4D3N Hong Kong holiday for my graduation trip last week with Dear, Marcus and Sarah. Took some time to process the photos and now I'm ready to blog about it. Our United Airlines flight was 6.40am on the Tuesday morning, so we were at terminal 3 in the wee hours to check in. Marcus and Sarah booked the tour earlier and was flying by the cheaper Jetstar instead. We paid 40plus bucks more but got meals on board so overall it's worth the money. Plus we didn't have to take a shuttle bus to the meeting point at Hong Kong Airport. =)

We arrive in Hong Kong at 10.30 am after a 3+ hr flight. Aijia did the staring girl look on me on the minibus which brought us to our hotel from Hong Kong Airport. Our hotel was somewhere in New Territories, both 40mins away from the airport and the Tsim Sha Tsui downtown. So we spend quite a bit of time travelling between places. Other than the location, the hotel is very good in terms of facilities and highly recommended.

After a short rest, we had a KFC lunch (!!! why KFC?!? cause we in a bit of a rush and couldn't find a better alternative) at a shopping centre nearby. Caught the hotel shuttle service downtown and our 1st stop was to be Mong Kok for some shopping. The transportation system in Hong Kong is very efficient and finding our own way around is pretty simple.

Saw some minibuses (a distinctive form of transport in Hong Kong) lining up to pick up passengers. Apparently, there are 2 kinds of minibuses, one type with red rooftop and another in green rooftop. If I recalled correctly from Dong (He's in Hong Kong for an internship, more on him in a later post), the green rooftops stop at designated bus stops while the red ones allow passenger to get off anywhere they want along the minibus route. We covered a lot of shopping places like Temple Street and I got a pair of Adidas soccer boots for HK$319. My tummy was feeling too well and we went back early to catch the 10pm hotel shuttle. This marks the end of 1st day. More to follow....

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HSBC TreeTop Walk

It's a long time since my last post. Here are some photos from last Saturday. Dear and I finally went to the HSBC Treetop walk at Macritchie Reservoir. Haven't been walking for so long since I came back from Beijing. To get to the TreeTop Walk, Dear and I had to cover 11+km but it was fun and we took some great pictures. Here are some of the highlights:

I like the pictures of the animals best but they not very cooperative most of the time. Quite a lot of wildlife to be found at the park and a great place to jog.

See the Slidehow below!

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What to write for a first post?

After a long deliberation, I finally decided on creating my own photoblog. I must admit I'm a lazy guy and the thought of the intensive work to come up with a good design really put me off. Now that i have some time, I decided once and for all to come up with a good one.

A major encouragement to set this up is definitely came from my dear. She been there for me and was my motivation to keep shooting better. Love you, dear!

This is for you!

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