Hong Kong Disneyland

On the third day, we woke up in the afternoon and headed over to the cafeteria near our hotel to have a quick breakfast before making our way to Disneyland.

Breakfast set. A lil too heavy for me as I don't have a habit to eat breakfast. And yes, this was kind of oily too thus I only took a few bites of it.

Our initial plan was to take the train to Disneyland, but we couldn't find the train station thus we decided to hop onto a cab instead.

Our tickets

A short queue, it merely took 20 minutes till our turn. I remembered previously, the queues would usually take more than hours for both rides and photo-takings. Guess its their off season now

I bought this minnie headband which costs me over $20

A short video, we actually took quite a several shots but lost them as we do not have wifi

And the long awaited fireworks:

A short part of the firework; Beauty and the Beast theme

After the fireworks, we took a train down to somewhere (haha, I forgotten) and had our dinner at DimDimSum Dim Sum Specialty Store at Jordon Road. 

Half of what we ordered. The cute piggy bun is actually Liu Sha Bao! Love the Chee Cheong Fun there, its not the normal chee cheong fun we had in local

That should be about it for our third day there. During the last day, we checked out from our hotel and headed to another cafeteria for breakfast.

The breakfast is da-bomb! Nice and cheap, this set merely cost me $6

After which, we headed over to the malls and ladies market to do some last-minute shopping. We then took a cab down to the airport cause I thought its rather troublesome to lug my luggage to take the airport express train. Price to pay, yet another 40 bucks!

Desserts at Hui Lau Shan

 

And so, that is about it for my 4D3N in Hong Kong. Just some quality and quantity time with my girl. Total damage, I rather not say. Its quite a lot! Blogging about this travelogue now makes me yearn for another vacation. I really wish to escape from this little red dot for a while. Constantly waiting is driving me insane.

Conned by a little boy

Just realised I got cheated today! By a little boy. Few days back, I was walking to the supermarket near my estate to get something. On my way there, a little boy approached me. On the first look, I thought he was asking for directions. But later, he told me he hadn't ate for days. So are his family. And when I asked how much he wants. He told me he needed $26 or $28 to buy food for his family in a while. !!! Initially, I thought he merely wanted a few dollars. But seeing how badly worn he is, plus the fact that he looks Singaporean to me. I decided to give him some money. However, when I checked my wallet, I only have $50 notes. He saw it and told me to gave him $50 and he would return me the change later. But I told him I will go to the ATM nearby to withdraw cash for him instead. He later suggested to tag along with me. I told him, there is no need to as I will have to walk back here (Reason being, I stay nearby).  But he insisted to tag along. So ya, I gave him $30 in the end.

But today, I saw him, all well-dressed with him mum and little sibling at Clementi estate. They bought groceries and other stuffs. All of them doesn't seems poor to me. And the little boy was so bubbly unlike when the first time I saw him all quiet and introvert. I felt cheated! Trust me to get con by a little boy! Agrh!

Anyway, I went to see a doctor today. Trust me to fall ill before CNY starts. Terrible feeling, I feel so weak, so tired now! :(

Thoughts

"Baby, can you hear me? 

When I'm crying out for you, I'm scared oh, so scared, 

But when you're near me, I feel like I'm standing with an army, 

Of men armed with weapons"

Hong Kong

A couple of weeks back, I headed to Hong Kong with Kai Lin. We booked the ticket rather last minute, merely 3 weeks beforehand I believe. But we got ourselves a pretty good deal online and flew by cathay pacific. This spells Splendid!

The flight was in the morning so Kai Lin and I shared a cab and headed to the airport early. Actually not really early. Pretty standard, I left my place 2 hours before the flight. And guess whats the first thing I spent on? Cosmetics! Over a hundred bucks at DFS. Awesome! Didn't check the price from the local store but they should be slightly cheaper.

Here we are on the plane

And after 3+ hours, we reaches Hong Kong!

On the cab to our hotel. The cab fare aren't really cheap. Its just like our local cab fare. Total damage to the hotel: $40! IKR!

We stayed in Kowloon, apparently its a different part of Hong Kong. They are separated in 3 parts I believe, Hong Kong, Kowloon and Macau. For example, if I would like to go to Lan Kwai Fong, I have to tell the cabbie I want to "Guo Hai", in another word, travel across the border and see if he's willing to fetch us there.

When we first entered the room. First reaction: Pretty small as compared to the previous hotel I stayed a year back. But that's okay. Dorsett MongKok has all the amenities we needed. Except for wifi within the rooms! You gotta pay if you would like to have wifi and they are pretty pricy. However, there's wifi in the lobby. So, it wasn't that inconvenient afterall!

Our bed

Our hotel provides shuttle bus to a few of the areas and we dropped ourselves off at the Ladies Market as our first stop

Tried the first local streetfood: Curry fishball. Rather spicy but there's a kick when one pop in one fishball after another

 I know the way I slinged my bag is awful, but better to be safe than sorry abroad right?

At Victoria Harbour 

Notice the different in lightings?

Yea, we were there to catch the 15 minutes show of symphony of light, which was rather demoralizing. Not sure is it because of the haze or what? I hardly notice any big difference! Just some beams of lights and music, that are all!

Spotted the ice cream van when we left the area. How could I miss it right? Despite the cold weather.

I'm having a goldfish memory, I couldn't remember what we did after that and what dinner we had. My memory is super bad these days. Not like it was very good before. So thats my Day 1 in Hong Kong.

For Day 2, we asked the hotel receptionist whats the best place she would recommend for Dim Sum and she replied Tim Ho Wan. I was like Okay, Maybe the Tim Ho Wan in Hong Kong are different from Singapore? Afterall, thats the origin. We walked to Olympian City from our hotel. A quick 20 minutes walk. 

Here I am all wrapped like a dumpling, but shortly unzipped my leather jacket and removed my scarf after which as I felt suffocated!

No queue here, so yay!

4/5 of what we ordered. Was super full after our brunch! But strangely, it does taste better in HK! Not sure if its because of the environment or what? Haha

After which, we headed over to Argyle Centre for some retail therapy. And gawd! The layout of this shopping mall is confusing. Not a good place to bring your guy over to shop I would say. If you think Platinum mall is perplex, Argyle is worst! You have to keep going about in circles! And I felt giddy halfway through! It was that bad! Maybe I wasn't feeling that good in the first place (will explain that later). Didn't got myself alot of stuffs in the shopping mall as it was Winter in Hong Kong! So one would see lots of knits, long sleeves, boots etc. After we completed this mall, we just loitered around within the areas till we are all tired/hungry. 

 Here what we have for dinner! I wasn't feeling that good and was craving for something soup thus we settled at a cafe near our hotel and had these breakfasty dinner

We headed back to our hotel after which, rest, slack, used the net and we were all ready to party the night out! Haha, exaggerating. But Hong Kong nightlife starts pretty late. We left our hotel at around 1+am and took a cab down to guo hai to Lan Kwai Fong.

Pretty bustling and yea, those people are walking on a road (there's still cars travelling thro and fro, but they don't seems to care that much)

Us! 

We spent most our time at Magnum club. It was ladies night that night so free entry for us! The club was actually pretty small, something like Mink, but smaller. Dress code, the club is pretty strict about it so they would restrict anyone if they think that you are not properly dressed. Thus its not of any surprised that most of the guys dressed better as what I saw in Singapore club. No photo taken as I believe what I would capture would just be beams of lights. And the smart me, I deposited all my belongings with the club and merely brought my phone with no cash! Haha, smart right? What am I gonna drink when I get hot and sweaty after dancing? But luckily, we made friend with a Japanese Singaporean, who offered to buy us drinks. And the both of us still couldn't get his name even though he repeated it like twice. Haha. Party till 4am and we headed back to the hotel to use wifi afterwhich. Haha, we were still quite awake then!

See! We looked awake right?

For day 3, I would update that on another day as it consists lots of pictures captured in Disneyland. For my stay in Hong Kong, I wasn't feeling well as my period chose to arrive the moment I touched down at HK airport. That accurate! During my first three stays, I literally finished 1 box of extra strong pandaol! That was how bad I felt! And this in turn disrupt my mood. Owed Kai Lin an apology for that. During times I looked cross, felt tried, was in pain, loss of appetite. I think if anyone would to piss me off when I am having period, I would explode! Like seriously!