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Friday, June 16, 2006

Hong Kong trip!

Today is Friday and I am back from my HK trip yesterday night. I had bought lots of things within my bugget and I never thought of buying so many stuffs there. It was unexpected. I went to many places and I am going on a free and easy tour with my parents and brother. My grandparents never go with us. The plane I took was Jetstar Asia. When the plane took off and land, my ears aren't not in pain. That makes a good start for my trip. When we reached HK, we are required to alight off the plane on the spot and the stairs were attached to the main exit of the plane. Then the bus will take us to the airport. My hotel is located in the middle of pubs and clubs at Wan Chai. When we got there, it was aready night time when those pubs are doing their businesses at the timing. I think I saw prostitutes. Well I have never seen pubs and prostitues before except in TV. I felt rather scare and people were watching soccer match at pubs at night so it was noisy. My hotel is big and quite high class. I think it is unique. My 1st day in HK was short as I reached HK at night. We took MTR which is their MRT to our hotel. They don't use Ez-link card but they use optopus card. I had a good night rest at hotel on the first night.

2nd & 3rd day: I woke up at 8.30am and we had our breakfast at a Tim Sam restaurant. It was delicious. We set off our day from there. We took MTR to Times Square and I bought eyelashes curler and pad that absorb swet of armpit. It was from Japan and my mum got something for herself there too. Then we walked around the streets and shopped. I ate their famous wanton noodles and I also bought a shoe. HK is unlike Singapore where people there can shop anywhere as there are many shopping centres everywhere. As you know Orchard Rd is the only place where there are many shopping centres. I didn't buy anything on that day. There are alot of walking going on so must have good stamina. I bought a pair of shoes. I think that it is unique and the price is reasonable. Well I think the things in HK is not cheap at all. HK$ is 5 times of SG$. On 3rd day, we ate our breakfast at hotel and we set off then. We went to take tram to the peak to take a look at the scenery which is beautiful. There is also shopping centre so we went to shop around. I bought 2 tees. The brand is Diamond Lam which is available in Singapore. It uses diamond to make into a picture. You can choose the picture that you want and they will paste it the shirt. It was unique. Mine is tweety bird and snoopy. We also took photo at a shop and they will use computer to paste our photo onto the background that we chose. We ate our lunch and took tram back. Then we took electic bus but a while later, the bus in front broke down so buses behind were all affected as they are moving on single track. We took a free ride and back to Wan Chai. We went back to hotel and rest and set off again. I bought a shirt again. We ate mango dessert and back to my hotel.
(PS: When taking MTR in the peak hours, people at the back will push people in front and I was being pushed into the MTR. They will push until there is really no place for them then they will stop so my advise is not to take MTR at peak hours.)

4th & 5th day: We went to stanley market from central in the morning. We took their bus6 and it will go up the mountain and the scenery was beautiful. Stanley market is a pretty boring place. I found nothing I like and my dad bought a tee which "yu fuo tong zai" word in on it. Then we took bus back to central and we took ferry over to watch the signify of lights. We reached there early so we went to Sogo and take a walk. I bought 3/4 pants and the brand is hello kitty. Anyway there is no design of hello kitty on it so it was fine with me. The lighting starts at 8pm and it is really beautiful. We went to ladies street after that. There was nothing much and we went back to hotel after that. On my last day, I woke up at 10am and that was late. My mum woke me up late because I was not feeling well that day. I had sore throat the day before and I ate panadol that night before I slept. Luckily, I wasn't having fever or else I may not be allowed to be back. There is also bird flu in HK I think because when I reached HK, they took body temperature for me. I am well so I still can take a walk. We packed our lagguage and checked out off the hotel. Our lagguages were left there and we claimed them when we had finished our last time of shopping. My mum bought her shoes on the last day and I can even wear her shoes too. After claiming back our lagguages, we headed to airport. We arrived early at the airport and we took a rest before we went to have our dinner. We were considered the last few to check so couldn't book a place we wanted. Window sittings had all been taken up so I was seated beside a guy. Behind me was seated a small girl with her father and brother. She was crying loudly when the plane took off. Maybe was because her ears were in pain. The lady in front of me was not considerate at all and she told the girl to shut up because she thinks that she was very annoying. Well she is just a small little girl, can't she just tolerate it. Why is she so inconsiderate? The girl's dad was trying his best to manage her. I can understand that it is not easy to manage a small child while taking a plane. I have this problem too. My ears will feel painful when the plane takes off and lands. That is what I am afraid most when taking a plane. I will usually eat lots of sweets. Well I ate about half packet of the sweets when I took the plane to HK. No pain anymore. When I am taking the plane back, my ears were in pain and sweets don't work on me anymore. My ears got better later on. When reached Singapore, we took a taxi home.

~The end of my trip~ =)

Well what I can say is I really do enjoy this trip to HK and it was not my first time going on a trip on June holidays. It was a successful trip and tour for me. I never expect to buy so many things. I had bought all the things I wanted within my bugget. HK stuffs are really not cheap so people who are going to HK, bring more cash! HK is the best place for shopping and the scenery there is beautiful too. Maybe if I have a chance to go to HK again, I have to save up my energy on walking and I would like to visit their Ocean Park too. It looks interesting to me. This time, we don't have enough time to go so we never go. For me, my stamina wasn't very good so I walked for 3 days, everyday morning till night, then I am very tired on the fourth day aready. I couldn't really walk on the fourth day as I wasn't feeling well that time aready. I begain having sore throat for not drinking enough water. I avoid drinking too much water because my mum told me that it is hard to find toilets there. This lead me to having sore throat. I am better now. Now I have to concentrate on studies again. Felt a bit sad as my trip ended so quickly. Well better get back to studies now. Maybe if I studied hard and scored well for N level, I can go for a short again. Well wish that could really happen. I should stop now as this blog is really long. Haha!