10/26/2005Hong Kong- Mai dong xi, chi dong xi
I arrived back home early this morning from my Hong Kong trip.
My trip was pretty much enjoyable. It's really a good break after my exams and dump all my worries and problems behind. This is a super long entry to make up for the days i left. The weather's very pleasant, everywhere's around 25 degrees which feels like it is air-conditioned everywhere, a far cry from the fervid weather in singapore. Why why why! Why doesnt Singapore have such nice cooling weather! Why dont we have winter and we can all wear nice winter clothing! We're stucked with t-shirt and pants everyday and anything more, people will call you siao. I bought truckloads of things there and prolly helped them boost the economy abit. There's just so many things to buy and eat, not so much about sight-seeing though. I took 250 photos can you imagine! But as much as i want to put all of them here, i cannot cause i dont have the patience and time to do that. But still, it's a lot ! And let me take you tour around Xiang Gang, a place for you to mai dong xi, chi dong xi.  DAY 1 I took all modes of transport to arrive in my hotel. Fortunately my bag was only half-filled so it was easy moving around. Taking a taxi would be much more convenient but of course it would be expensive. So we bought an Octopus Card (similar to EZ link) and then took a free shuttle bus to the hotel. Save a lot of money wor! If dont save how to have money buy things right? Felt quite hungry so i went in seach for foooood. And i spotted this desert stall which sells superb mango deserts. They're famous for this mango drink which has a layer of jelly at the bottom. There's mango cubes on the top too. Shiok arh! Must try. Anyway i think there's a branch in singapore too lah, somewhere along scotts road, so not to worry yeah?  Soon, it became dark and it's time for night-market shopping. Favourite tourist spot, the ladies street and temple street.  Actually i felt that the things there are really normal. There's a lot of repetition among the stall too. It's like once every few stalls, you see the same thing yah. But it's for the experience. Walk walk walk. Dinner was super horrid. The most expensiveand yucky meal we had in our entire stay. The only meal saver was the shark's fin. I must say this is the best shark's fin i have ever eaten. Typing this makes me feel hungry...  Looks like beehoon right! Day 1 ended pretty quickly and we're all deadbeat. After the flight and all, it can get very exhausting... Day 2 - Shenzhen Fully charged and refreshed! Ready to gO!  Grabbing Orlando with me, we went to eat dim sum! How can one ever miss out dim sum in hong kong man... So here here... 12 different types of dim sum dished out!  We couldnt finish out dim sum and had to tabao. Afterwhich, we took a train to shenzhen! Shen zhen is one of the 3 major cities in China. Bustling with activities every single second. Good place to go for good imitation goods. I went there purely for the imitation and i bought 2 pairs of shoes over there for 30 dollars each only! That's very very cheap. The clothes and stuff are super cheap and you really cannot miss shen zhen out if you're looking for cheap, good, imitation goods!  I BANGED A FEMALE CYCLIST. yah, you know how cocked up the traffic is there lah. I swinged the taxi door open and i banged a cyclist down. Fortunately, she was a nice person or else i would have been given a bad lecture. Moral of story: Look out before opening your taxi door. And i realise shen zhen is quite a corrupted place. There are people soliciting fake invoices on the street for people to make fake claims and even people to help you design signature! What the.. so essentially, you have to learn how to sign your own signature from a stranger. Lunch i had peking duck and Da Zha Xie (freshwater crabs) !  Shiokalogy. By the way, da zhe xie is only available in certain seasons like NOW and the special thing about it is the eggy egg egg. It's filled with eggs inside. High in cholestrol i know, but it's only once in a blue moon i get to eat such things what. I spent a day there and we took a ferry back to hongkong. Great experience. Day 3 - Disney land! My most enjoyable day of all. It's comparatively small to Tokyo's disneyland but the atmosphere is great. Everything's nicely furnished. I took lots of photos there. Even the train to disneyland is specially designed. impressive.  The entrance is also very spectacular.   The rides are mostly slow, kiddy rides, so not much of a kick. But very cute! And you know in one of the rides i actually saw my primary school discipline mistress. Call it coincidental or what. Oh yah, i also saw mediacorp artistes xu zheng rong and xie yunyi there filming a programme. I refuse to take photos with C grade artisite though. If it's andy lau or sammi cheng i dont mind lah. The good thing about that day was that there wasnt many people so we need not queue long. You know last time i went to tokyo's, the popcorn queue itself already can reach half a km.     Aiyah, sorry lah. My spectacles keep turning black and it makes me look so act sey. I like the 3D show the best. It's so cool you know. You can really smell the cakes they show on the screen! An occassionaly there were sprinkles of water splashing on your face. After completing the rides, we went to the disney merchandise and wah, we really spend quite a lot in there. If my mum was there, she would have stopped us. I think we spent almost 500 sing dollars in disneyland itself. Shocking asians!  I almost bought the wizard hat but it costs a whooping 50 dollars so i decided to forgo it. But i bought the mickey ears though. 7pm strikes and it's time for fireworks! It was simply fantabulously spectacular! You must witness it for yourself. Beauuu-teee-foooo!  The day ended after that and it's time to leave disneyland, remove my mickey mouse ears and return back to reality. The atmosphere in disneyland really makes me feel as though i'm living in a dream sometimes. We went back to Mongkok for a shellfishy dinner. Delicious.  This time it isnt only cholestrol, it's hep B too. But who cares! I am on a holiday! Day 4- Last Day While everyone's having their Pw dry run in school, i'm touring hongkong again. Did some last minute shopping and i bought another shoe. This time it's a real shoe. No more imitation! Tired tired tired. ********* Wah, this the most tedious entry i have ever created since i started out. So may photos to resize and photoshop. I started blogging at 6 and now it's already 1230! And i havent completed my story! This is only Part I of Hong Kong-mai dong zi, chi dong xi. Watch out for part II where i will feature great buys in Hong kong. For now, ciao!
posted by BenJ at Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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- HongKong I
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- Cruise:Superstar Virgo!
- I Need More Marks, how?!
- How Hiaow Are u?
- Since i will be gone
- Where did everyone go?
- This is ridiculous!
- The Manual: How to ask for marks
- dsmkdmkfndfjkn
- Cut the Crap.
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- i am a chou ba guai
- Class outing and a birthday celebration
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4 Comments:
shenzhen is not the 3rd haha.its after beijing, shanghai, guangzhou. and that mango dessert stall is found everywhere thruout hk. super gd haha. not onli mango desserts. tat shenzhen place looks like dong men haha
nice effort :)
wah benjamin you look very gangsterish in the disneyland photos cos of your specs.
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haha. u look not only gangsterish but really trying to act cool by posing lahh!! haha. still say i buy imitations. YOU ALSO WAD. haha..
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