Friday, December 12, 2008
11:18 pm
Wahahaha im BACK from hongkong!!! Feels so nice to be back in singapore...
Hongkong was a blast...the food was great. I figured something out...go to a random place along the street and just try the food. It tastes very very good...no matter what you eat.Especially liked the porridge (or congee...watever) cause its like so smooth...not lumpy at all unlike the ones here. Okok...so on monday right...i reached hongkong (the kowloon part) at...12 i think. Checked in and slept almost instantly...plane rides are tiring. Tuesday, went to eat breakfast at a restaurant nearby. Had dim sum...with the siew mai, the har gao, the chee cheong fan, and all the stuff that comes in a circular wooden box. Then...went to walk around the area to familiarise myself abit so that i wouldnt get lost. Oh yeah...i found out one thing...if you find that you're lost in hongkong, just walk striaight. You will always eventually reach somewhere that has a form of transport for you to take back to the hotel (e.g. MTR, its called MTR...not MRT, or the buses). Went shopping for clothes that i seriously lack...my closet is highly underutilised, my parents have to add their stuff into it to make it look used. So, bought 2 shirts and a jacket from esprit...my sis bought...weird stuff, like a vest and a hat...no idea why. Yeah...so the shopping took up most of the day. Went to eat roast duck for lunch cause we just so happen to walk pass it. It goood. Had more porridge for dinner hehheh...me likes teh porridge.
Met up with oscar on wednesday cause he wanted to bring me around. Went to...causeway bay to play the arcade there haha. Its so inexpensive...he excahnged S$20 for like...countless coins... Played drummania till my arm hurt... Then, went to have lunch at a stall in an allyway. Beef brisket with noodles. Since i cant really speak fluent cantonese, oscar helped to order. Went to...err...sit on a tram. Those that go along the roads together with the cars and stuff. Reached the base of the victoria mountain after some time, then walked up to the sky tram or something to reach the top of the mountain. The skytram was like...going up at a 50 degree angle...so u can guess how the buildings actually looked like...slanted. Up on the mountain, the air felt really nice...so was the scenery. Walked around, and around, the whole time oscar kept asking me if i wanted to take a picture...saying that i was supposed to take a lot of pics cause im a tourist...blah blah. Got something for adrian there cause he asked me to get him a souvenir (i didnt forget...so dont say i did). Then after wandering aimlessly, went down again at the 50 degree angle... Went to the harbour after that cause oscar wanted to let me take a ride on the star ferry. But before that...went to this place called IFC and looked at stuff...literally stuff that i didnt really intend to get. Then bought a token for the ferry and sat it back to kowloon from hongkong island...wasnt as shaky as i thought i would be. On the other side, it so happened that the space museum had free admission on wednesday...so we went in to check it out. All about astronauts going to space, how china, the us and russia tested the rockets. They also had this chamber to let you feel how the gravity on the moon felt like. Interesting isnt it. Hmmm yes. Called my parents after that cause i was supposed to meet them for dinner. Went to zhongwan all by myself =D and found the restaurant they were in (all by myself). Had soup (which was like...mmmmm) and other stuff...mushrooms too i think.
Thursday, probably the last day i could go out and do stuff since i left the hotel at 6am this morn. Went to victoria mountain with my parents this time...i had to be the tour guide. Dad wanted to take a cab up though...so we did. Walked the mountain path for like...a few hundred metres then went back cause we felt we were lost. Used the computer at the top of the mountain...the only one with free internet access i've seen so far... Walked around, then went to causeway bay. Walked around looking for lou po beng (lau po bing) to bring home. Ate roasted goose there too. Apparently geese have a large layer of fat underneath their skin...spent more time getting it all off rather than eating it. Went back to kowloon for dinner. In hongkong, my meals are more...seperated. Or maybe just more. Usually i only have 3 meals a day...there i had 5... breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, supper. Oh well...gonna miss the food there...
brendon...
