on saturday i went to nus to attend darling's convo! bought for darling the convo teddy bear! i din attend the convo when i graduated from nus, so being in the ucc hall seeing how the procedure is like, and seeing the balloons falling from the ceiling, more or less 弥补了我的遗憾. hence, thank you darling for inviting me!
as per usual yy blogging style, here are the photos. hahahaha.
congrats darling! graduated with honours!
darling strangling the bear that i bought for her.
darling strangling the bear again. hahahaha.
after the convo i followed darling's family to turf city for a sumptous seafood dinner at ah yat restaurant. we went to unique seafood to choose the seafood, and then the fresh seafood is being cooked at the restaurant. and during this dinner i only got to know that darling's mum also shared the same surname as me! its not too late after 3 plus years rite? hahaha.
then today i went to SYOG in the morning for the handball meeting. after that go to bukit batok help fen and nzj with shifting of house. shifting house is really quite siong. thank goodness they dun have much things. anyway here's pictures of fen sitting at the back of the pick-up after all the shifting:
i was inside mike's car when taking the two pics. haha.
this will be my last post of the shanghai shenzhen hongkong trip!
day 2 in hongkong, we went to have dim sum for breakfast, at this restaurant recommended by huizhi. good recommendation because the food was really good! you can tell by the happy and orgasmic faces:
(look at where hw is putting his hand)
after breakfast we set off to lanma island!
as you all can see the weather is very very good, but its very very hot...
as we were walking aimlessly on the island, feeling hot and thirsty, we saw this tau huey stall and immediately sat down and ordered the tau huey. the cold sweet tau huey taste damn shiok, especially in the hot weather.
the attractions of lanma island include the wind generated power station, the beautiful scenery, and the yummy seafood.
after the seafood dinner we took the ferry back to hongkong mainland. shopped at h&m, i bought a pair of white pants, a white top and checkered metrosexual shirt. hahahaha. then i did more shopping again at mongkok which has many shops selling sports apparel. its my shopping heaven! i bought a netherlands polo tee for my dad and a pair of super AA sneakers for myself. (as if the pink nike sneakers are not AA enough hahahahaha)
it was the last night for me and hw at hongkong. fen and nzj are still staying at hongkong for two more nights. huizhi came over to the hotel to find us and we had a supper + taboo party. supper consists of mcdonald nuggets, which we ordered 36 pieces! because their sauce were super delicious! got satay sauce, got cheese sauce! why singapore dun have these sauces.
ok that's all!
hope you guys enjoyed reading my travel posts! and i enjoyed travelling with the gang! let's travel together again next time! :)
sch holiday rocks! darling go to hospital to work. hw go to camp to serve the nation. i also serve the nation by marking my students' test papers at starbucks. hahahaha. then i went home to prepare my ppt slides for tomorrow's lesson.
ok back to blogging of the trip. we left ulu pandan shenzhen and went to developed first-world hongkong! its really very different once we were in hongkong. the vibrant city. the well-dressed commuters. nobody carrying their babies to pee in the drain. no luohu village. no ah ma eating food from the rubbish bin. although still got see a few beggars here and there.
we went to check in at our hotel, which is called casa hotel. very convenient location because it is two min walk away from the mrt. BUT. the hotel room is very small. very very small. got no space to walk around the room at all. for the toilet, it is so small that the shower head is above the toilet bowl, for you to pee and shower at the same time.
after putting our luggage, the first place that we set off to is the big buddha at ngong ping! i went there before in 2008, together with leow chee leong and mak hong sen! let's do a compare and contrast!
(last time i bought starbucks. this time round i also bought starbucks. haha.)
(foggy weather this time round. but the fog gives the place a different feel.)
after big buddha we did some shopping at citygate factory outlet, which has shops for big brands like adidas, nike, timberland, espirt, whereby the stuff are sold at warehouse prices. but actually is not really that cheap. in 2008 i bought alot of stuff from there, but this time round i din get anything. hahaha.
then we had dinner at this absolutely fabulous hk cafe called satay king!
the food was super delicious! next time if i go hongkong again i will definitely go to satay king to eat! thank you fen and nzj for recommending this place!
darling received her first pay check and she treated me dinner! today's dinner was at 4 season taiwanese cuisine, located at 456 joo chiat road. we ordered lots of food!
in my opinion this is the best taiwan food i tasted so far in sg. better than xin wang. better than lailai.
after dinner we went to marina barrage. our first time there! interesting place. must go there again during daytime.
and then we went to temasek club to watch argentina vs germany. germany thrash argentina 4 - 0 but i only watch until 3 - 0 because it was raining and the projector was down. quite an exciting match, and i hoped that argentina will win, but in the end germany was the better team.
brazil and argentina are already out. netherlands will meet uruguay in the semi final. germany will most likely meet spain in the other semi final. i predict a netherlands vs germany final! wat do you all think?
woo hoo! the 中国民俗文化村 is one of the most important reasons why we want to go shenzhen. (going to 罗湖村 and looking for mistresses are definitely NOT the most important reasons)
anyway the cultural village has 9 tribes, and each of the tribe will showcase their own tribal performance. besides the tribal performances, there are also major performances which are really worth watching.
so these are some of the tribes that we visited:
fen said that the dark-skinned lady look like the nuscd jiawen. hahahahaha.
(i got called on stage to perform. i had performed in mauritius, turkey and shenzhen! i am an overseas performing artiste!)
we also watched this fantastic horseriding performance in front of a castle. the riders will perform crazy stunts on the horses and even fight with each other which you can only see them on television dramas like 三国演义. its amazing to see these stunts LIVE with my own eyes.
another cool performance that we watched is called 东方霓裳, which is inside an air conditioned theatre. the dancers were fabulous. the costumes were beautfiul. but most importantly, the stage effects are exaggerating to the max. they got conveyor belts. they got rotatory stages. they got water sprinkles. they got amazing props which even sg indoor stadium also wun have. the ticket cost around seven sing dollars. really worth the money.
the finale performance for the night is called 龙凤舞中华. only fen and nzj watched that. hw and i went back to our hotel to watch world cup. when fen and nzj came back to the hotel, they told us their seats were very good, and the whole performance was fantastic, and even better than the 东方霓裳! omg! i was already so wowed by 东方霓裳, and the night performance is even more fantastic?! nvm fen bought the dvd for that performance so i can borrow from him to watch. haha.
ok here are some of the many other photos that we took:
yup that's about it! later i am going to temasek club to watch argentina vs germany with darling and my jc friends!
ok let's carry on with the trip updates.
huizhi joined us for the whole day because it was a public holiday for hong kong. we went to shenzhen's 东门步行街. to them it is their orchard road. but to me it is just a bigger pasar malam at bedok interchange.
inside their mrt. 东门 station is just a few stops away from 罗湖 station.
so we shopped and shopped and shopped, until around five pm. huizhi left us because she has to go to hong kong airport to pick her parents. and we were quite hungry so we went for dinner at this place:
this place sells very delicious and very cheap italian food. got this restaurant at sg too, but nzj said that it sux. haha.
the delicious food that we ordered:
starting from the top left hand corner, in clockwise direction:
seafood risotto, sausages with potato wedges, minced garlic chicken chop, baked cheese scallops, escargot and pizza!
the happy eaters:
the whole meal cost us around 32 sing. 8 sing per pax! very worth it rite? :)
before we go back to our hotel, we went to the supermarket to stock up some groceries.
fen always go for the potato chips.
i always go for the cup noodles.
to end this post, i present to you my shopping achievements!
not alot of things lah. hahaha.
and the best buy:
first, i received an email from my sci hod, saying that i have to set the final year paper for sec 3 combined chem.
second, my DM came up to me and say,"welcome into the discipline comm."
third, i was juggling a soccer ball at the indoor sports hall, i kicked the ball high up and it got stuck in the ceiling. and the ball was newly bought by my colleague one hour ago, which cost 39 dollars.
4th, there was a soccer match against the teachers from anderson sec. i played badly, got offside as many times as filipo inzaghi (an italian soccer player famous for getting offsides), i received a yellow card, and i had cramps all over my legs which i had to skip dance practise.
HAIZ!!!
fen must be very happy because he have so many friends celebrating with him, got 3 ladies dancing for him, and got so many presents.
the dancing was entertaining. got the sleazy one, followed by the 狂野 one, and lastly the animal one. hahahahahaha.
oh we also got a special guest "crashing" into the party:
presenting to you, huizhi from hongkong! the wonders of today's technology. haha.
and lastly, the group pics:
if u have realised, the theme of the party is: GLITTERY AND FEATHERY
