hong kong day 3

good morning darling~ i still look sleepy with dreamy eyes. greeting you on sunday, 19th june. one more week from this day you will be at taiwan with your family, and it is my turn to miss you...


started the daily routine by walking to sham shui po mtr station, take mtr to prince edward station which is just one stop away, and then walk to metropark mongkok hotel to find nzj and xuehong. 


when i reach the hotel and was waiting for the lift at the lobby, and when the lift door opened, i saw nzj and xue hong in the lift. wow so fated! hahahahaha. luckily i saw them because before they left the room nzj sent me a facebook msg saying that they go and shop first. if i din see them i think i will walk around on my own already. hahahahaha.


and we went for breakfast! we chose this very traditional hk cafe with this very friendly boss who is super hospitable. but the food is quite ex, especially this stupid plate of roast pork which cost HK$88. the roast pork was disappointing, and doesnt give any justification to the high price. the skin is not crispy at all. haiz...

although the roast pork is disappointing, the rest of the dishes are good! especially the pork intestines. sedap!!! all these dishes, plus two big cups of ice milk tea, cost us 305. it is totally absurd because yesterday's satay king supper was 285! wassup man...


after breakfast we went to do some shopping. actually our breakfast is also equivalent to brunch, because we ate at 1130. hahahaha. i bought a metrosexual top, a trendy cap and a cool umbrella. xuehong and nzj din buy anything.


next we went to the hong kong heritage museum to watch the pixar exhibition! xuehong knew about this from his hk map. soooo informative~ on the map it says admission is free! but when we reach there we have to pay HK$20. so it is not that informative after all. :p

真会模仿。hahahahaha.


the heritage museum is near sha tin station. at sha tin station there is a very very big shopping mall, so if you sway sway go to the museum and discovered that it is closed (on tuesdays), you can LL walk back to sha tin station and do some shopping.


and then we went to olympian city to meet xuehong's friends for dinner at this jap restaurant which starts with the letter I and i forgot the name. :p


the food was really good! and they have sth that sg dun have. FOIE GRAS SUSHI! omg this is so sinful lah. i put the whole sushi in my mouth and the foie gras just melted on my tongue. oh my god the indulgence is so... so... sinful. :p


went back to the hotel room to read emails from my workplace and also to write some emails regarding the performance night. and i felt hungry at one plus am! so i decided to do something crazy by going out to look for supper. it is really crazy because i am alone, and my hotel is located in quite a ulu location, and i very scared i will kenna kidnapped by illegal body parts sellers or kenna hacked by the 古惑仔. but thankfully i managed to buy my supper and went back to the hotel safely. :p

different flavoured tang yuan in ginger soup. 榴莲班丝. totally dunno wat 班丝 means but it is just a layer of skin outside, and inside is cream and durian. taste really good! 


ultimate shiokness eating all these in the comfort of my hotel room. how i wish darling can eat these with me. :)

hong kong day 2

good morning darling! i miss you! the mirror looks dirty but is not dirty. the spots are water because i just brushed my teeth and washed my face. :p


oh yah i haven show you all photos of the small pathetic toilet. so i am going to show you now.

the toilet bowl is so near to the sink that i can shit and brush my teeth at the same time.

shower cubicle also quite small but at least is better than the one at casa hotel (the one that i stayed at last year with hw, nzj and xue hong). at casa hotel the shower head is above the toilet bowl. i can bathe and shit at the same time. toilets at hong kong hotels are so interesting~

 

one useful thing that army taught me is to use a particular equipment for different innovative purposes. hahahahaha.


first thing in the morning i went over to their hotel room to meet them and we are having dim sum for breakfast! last year we ate this really good dim sum at 稻香, so we are going to this restaurant again. let me show you a pic for old time's sake.

however nzj's ipad showed us a different branch so we went to that place instead of the usual place that we went last year.

the unanimous conclusion from the 3 of us is that the dim sum from this branch is definitely lower in standard compared to the one we had last year. we were a bit disappointed. so we promised ourselves to eat dim sum at the branch last year to redeem our taste buds, to 找回那个失去的味觉. si bei cheena-piang rite?


after lunch we went to IMAX theatre to watch Super 8.

my first movie watching experience in hong kong! and it is at IMAX theatre! damn cool! thank you nzj for buying the tickets online!


and then is shopping shopping shopping! we shop until super thirsty with aching legs so we went to the supermarket to get some drinks. and i saw this:

how come hong kong has 5 different flavours of minute maid??!! why sg has only 2 different flavours??!! not fair! i am going to complain to the Minister of F&B!!!


and we end the night with fabulous supper at our favourite satay king restaurant.

i can hear moaning sounds of a woman and i feel quite disturbed. what a happening hotel.

trip to hong kong~

my flight is at 450 pm so i have to reach airport at 3. i still have to go to sch in the morning for rehearsal, and i got admin stuff to settle in sch, and i still haven pack finish! stress~


i reach sch at 8 am and wait for my fav xinyi, my two female main cast and a tall boy who is 1.85 metres tall. i enlisted the help of xinyi to help me choreograph the finale dance items for the two female main cast. she has really done a good job. i love her choreography. and the two female students love it too and enjoyed dancing her steps. thank you so much xinyi. i will try my very best to recommend ladies to go for your pelvic research thingy. hahahahaha.


basically the first finale item is a little girl having to make a choice between dance and wushu. so xinyi got two guys to play the role of "dance" and "wushu". the 1.85 m boy is the "wushu", whereas yours truly is the "dance". in the end the little girl chose "dance", which means i win! hahahahaha.


and the next finale item is the little girl having grown up, and she has already made the choice. the music that is used for this item is we're dancing from the movie centrestage. good choice xinyi! :)


btw the little girl is from sec 3. and the grown up girl is from sec 4. i noe is a bit 牵强. hahahahaha. 

can guess which one is the little girl, which one is the grown up? :p

what a coincidence that the 3 of us wore red and white. 


and so after the rehearsal and clearing up some admin work in the staffroom, i rushed home, pack my lunch on the way, quickly bathe and gobble up my lunch, and finished up my packing. i love this kind of last min adrenaline rush. hahahahaha.


ok photos at the airport and plane of my 单人旅游记:

  

  

hong kong air is really not bad! the plane is very new. there are alot of choices for movies. the air stewardesses are tall, pretty, polite and friendly. one of them is even willing to take photo with a mainland china passenger. the food on the plane is so so only, which you really cant expect much.

finally i got down the plane and went out of the departure terminal to take the mtr to my hotel. i was surprised to see mr xue hong and mr ng waiting outside. i thought they went to their hotel already! so touched that they waited for me for one hour plus! nzj even go and find my photo on facebook and put it on his ipad and flashed the photo at the departure hall, which attracted quite a few curious stares. i felt like a mini celebrity. hahahahaha.

so after meeting the both of them we went our separate ways, and i will go and meet them at their hotel for supper. i am staying at bridal teahouse hotel at sham sui po. they are staying at metropark mongkok, which is the hotel that i stayed at during my first trip to hong kong. they took the airport transfer the bus whereas i took the mtr.

upon reaching sham sui po station i went to the map to find the location of my hotel. it took me twenty min to find the hotel because i was a bit lost. hahahahahaha. the hotel is just 5 to 10 min walk from the mtr station. quickly checked in and then went up to my room! excited to see how is the room. although i noe i shouldnt expect much for a room that cost 70 sing per night. :p

it is really quite small. hahahahahahaha. the dressing table is also very small. but at least it provide the basic necessities like electric kettle, towel, soap and shampoo, two bottles of mineral water, tissue paper and toilet paper, cups, tea bags, wardrobe and a mini fridge. ok lah i am contented. hahahahaha.

ok off to supper with xue hong and nzj!

all these, with 3 bowls of rice, one ice lemon tea, one hot lemon tea that dun taste sweet (fen has to put alot of teaspoons of sugar inside), and a cup of almond milk - 278 hk dollars. 

each person pay around 15 sing dollars. ok lah it is about there if we eat all these in sg.

this is hong kong anyway. not malaysia, batam or indonesia.

thursday post

i am going for a very short getaway this weekend, friday to monday, to hong kong.


this is my first time flying on my own. i am excited! once reach hong kong i will meet xuehong and nzj for supper~


my flight is at 450 pm and their flight is at 3 pm. 


anyway today we went to fairmont singapore, because xuehong's sister came to sg for work trip cum holiday, so she is staying at this hotel.


here's the hotel room!

the bed is really damn comfy to lie on.

and the fabulous view from the hotel room:

nzj says that this is a rehearsal for our hk trip. haha.


just now i went to centrepoint to meet darling and fetch her home because i wanna spend some hours with her as we are not meeting each other during this weekend. i know she feels a bit sian because she nv go hk before and on sat and sun she dun need to work and yet cant spend time with me. darling one day i will definitely bring you to hk, but let's go to japan during dec first ok? and i promise you i will buy something nice for you at hk and a nice bday present for your mum.


i will miss you darling~

tuesday post

at darling's house, both of us are trying out the ginseng mask that i bought from korea.


it is really good and our skin feel super refreshed! we can be faceshop ambassadors already. haha.

important life lesson #6

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. 

While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. 

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. 

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Moral of the story:

1. Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy

2. Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend

3. And when you’re in deep shit, it’s best to keep your mouth shut!

saturday post

i had 冷落 (take note that it is 冷落 hor, not 冷藏) darling alot this three weeks, because of going overseas, remedial sessions and rehearsals in sch, dance practises at nus, blah blah blah. so today must really accompany her to make up for all the lost time. :p


i wanted to bring her to "Hatched" for lunch, but then it was raining heavily and the location of "Hatched" was quite inaccessible, so i told her to go eat at any of the restaurants at orchard. and then she tell me to meet her at braddell because her dad wants to bring me to go eat nice western food. hahaha so off i went to meet her and her parents! i love random and impromptu arrangements like this. :p


after that we went to orchard road for shopping because it is the great singapore sale! but we din buy anything. hahahahaha. darling said she is very tired and want to find a place to sit down to rest her legs, because she was up since 6 am in the morning. so i decided to bring her to kenko wellness spa for a nice massage session!


we took the romantic couple spa package. the package consists of back scrub, body mask, body massage and fragrance flower bath. all these take 2 hours 30 min. the fragrance flower bath is inside a huge bath tub, and at the side of the bath tub got a pot of rosemary tea and a plate of fruits. 

wahhhh imagine soaking ourselves in the bath tub, drinking tea and eating fruits. this is life man!!! the massage was also really good. both of us felt really rejuvenated after the spa session. :)


by the time we finished our spa session is already 630 pm. we are both hungry and we must eat dinner before we watch cirque eloize at marina bay sands grand theatre. 

while walking to marina bay sands from esplanade we were very lucky to see the red lions in the sky. they are rehearsing for ndp. cool! :)

 
we decided to go to the food court at marina bay sands but omg it was a HUGEEEEEEEEEEE mistake. there were tonnes of pple there. finding a table there is like getting nzj to tell a lie. and we were totally unfamiliar with marina bay sands. we dunno where were the other restaurants. so after asking one of the staff, we proceeded to this pastry shop called SweetSpot to buy some bread to ease our hunger first because it is getting late.


ok let's talk about the performance. first of all, the theatre is amazing!

so beautiful~ oh yah i saw my kevii wushu senior yiehui at the theatre! wat a coincidence. :p


pictures of the performance, taken from this person's facebook page:

about cirque eloize (taken from superadrianme.com):

Sixteen world class stage performers from a combination of ten circus disciplines have hit the stage at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre for a limited season from 1^st till 26^th June 2011. Described as the “West Side Story gone hip-hop circus”, Cirque Éloize iD transports you into the vibrant streets at the heart of a big city. You feel the energy from the acrobats, break dancers, contortionists and a fearless stunt biker with video projections drawn from science-fiction films, comic books and graffiti. iD explores the themes of iDentity, indiviDuality and autonomy.

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we were super hungry after the performance because we only ate 3 pieces of pastry. so we took a cab to 888 to eat bbq stingray and lala for our supper! super satisfying!


and that sums up our saturday date. :)

publicity for my workplace 25th anniversary performance night

this post was actually meant to be published earlier, but because i was away from sg for nearly two weeks, hence i can only publish this now.


anyway this year is my workplace 25th anniversary. and we are having a performance night at singapore conference hall. 


on the 20th may i sent out an email to everyone in sch, informing them about the details of the performance night, and i also attach a publicity photo to get the form teachers to show this photo during class bonding period to push for ticket sales. to be honest the ticket sales so far is quite demoralising. :(


anyway here is the photo, which is ermmmm... done by me. hahahahaha.

can recognise me?! hahaha. and some of you may find some costumes familiar. :p


and then 3 days later, when i visited the workplace website, i got quite a shock.

they actually use the photo as a publicity tool? on the official website? i am proud, honoured, and touched...


this gives me the additional motivation, and also a higher amount of stress, to make this performance night a success.


pls let me tide through this...