Hong Kong

If you’ve been wondering where i disappeared to this entire week, now you know.  I was away in Hong Kong with Fadhil and Konrad.  It was quite fun albeit the few annoyances.  Fad and Kon had a mini cold war for one night because Kon couldn’t stand how Fad likes to walk in a zig-zag manner.  I quarrelled with Fad on the day we were leaving Hong Kong because he misplaced his Octopus card.  The weather was cool like perpetual air-conditioning and their public transport is so much better than ours.  It’s a really vibrant city, but there are downsides too.  Their residential buildings look dilapidated and crammed and the air is polluted. However, they also have extremely wealthy people living around The Peak and Repulse Bay area who drive luxurious cars.  I think almost the whole of Singapore went to HK for holiday this year because everywhere we went, we encountered Singaporeans.  As you might know, Fadhil is muslim and Hong Kong has hardly any halal food, so he ended up bringing loads of cup noodles, instant campbell soup, nutella and other edibles. Poor soul.  The first day we went around the Kowloon area and shopped.  I spent about S$1000 my whole time in HK (excludes hotel and air tickets).  I don’t have any photos of the first day’s shopping excursion, but I have a huge collection of other photos.

Poor guy eating the fried rice his mum cooked for him.

On the second day, we decided to travel by train down to Tung Chung to visit the giant Buddha and to shop at the factory outlets. 

We took the cable car and I attempted to pole dance.

As you can see, we were a little whacko.  Haha.  Look at the television screen and you’ll see Korean words. That crazy Fad was watching KBSWorld everynight in the hotel room.

We played Uno too.

On the third day, we went to Disneyland!!!  The rides were rather childish though and the park was rather small.  Nevertheless, we enjoyed ourselves.

Kon’s taking charge of the wheel.

We posed with Buzz Lightyear!

This sleeping beauty castle was really short and miniature.

 This was my favourite attraction.  It is a 3D show which lets you have a wonderful experience using your five senses.  You can smell the apple pie and feel the water.  It was cool.  The other nice ride was the Space Mountain which I don’t have a picture of.

Check out our cool shades.

Winnie The Pooh

The lamest ride was It’s A Small World After All.  There were lots of dolls in costumes singing the song.  It is the epitome of boredom.

I took a picture with Mickey!  I think the person wearing Mickey’s costume is a girl.

Adventureland was the lousiest part of HK Disneyland.

Can you believe that this is an attraction by itself?

Oh look!  It’s Tarzan and Jane.

Mad Hatter Tea Cups made me really dizzy.

The horrible thing about visiting Disneyland that day was that they were preparing for Christmas, so there was no parade and a stupid structure was blocking our view of the fireworks above the sleeping beauty castle.

Disneyland looks really beautiful at night.

The train station.

We had goose for lunch on the fourth day.  Yummy!  I love geese.

While Kon and I had our tantalising goose drumsticks, somebody was having a tuna sandwich.  Haha.

After that, we went to Tsim Tsha Tsui to visit the Avenue of Stars, the space museum, art museum and to shop.

Bruce Lee

The Avenue of Stars

We were lucky that it was free admission to the museums that day.  The space museum was old and boring.

The art museum had some intriguing pieces of work.

I went to relive my experience of performing at the HKCC with VS choir 3 years ago.

The beautiful skyline in the day.

The shopping centres are all ready for Christmas.

We love the multi-coloured Samsung building.

This was the first time I saw a real Chinese junk.

The 8pm laser show at the Avenue of Stars.

A couple of lazy pigs.

We went to Hong Kong island the next day.  We took the mid-level escalator up to the halfway point of The Peak.

I can’t remember which idiot suggested that we walk up the peak instead of taking a cab or the tram.  There were so many steep slopes that were super exhausting to ascend.

We found a butterfly and two bugs mating on the way up.

It was cold on the peak.

The view from the top.

Bruce Lee at Madame Tussauds.

I met Sijie and Sihan at the peak.  There were EA games to play for free.  We spent about an hour playing Spore.

Some Christmas decorations at IFC mall.

We took a bus that winds around the hills of Hong Kong island to Stanley.  The market was a disappointment because there was hardly anything to buy.

The magnificent Bank of China tower and some other building.

The HSBC building.

On our last day, we went to Festival Walk (a shopping centre) at Kowloon Tong.

That’s all I’m willing to upload.  Now I’m back in Singapore and I’m dreading the humid weather.  I hope all you JC guys enjoy yourselves before you end up in that shithole! 

Recrudescence of Me

Hi darlings, I’m back!  Haha.  That sounds rather gross.  I’m back from my blogging hiatus due to the horrid A levels.  I refuse to predict my grades because I don’t wanna jinx them.  However, I’m worried about my chem result as it might tarnish my A level cert.  I know I still have that bio mcq paper left, but I’m gonna relax.  I’ll probably study for it the day before.  

I was so relieved after today’s paper because it marks the end of this tiresome journey.  Thus, I decided to pangseh my classmates (sorry) and go out with Terence since he asked first.  We had brunch at Siglap’s Macs and took a bus to Orchard.  It started raining along the way and we had to wait for the rain to subside at the bus stop.  I persuaded Terence to watch James Bond Quantum of Solace with me.  It was a typical Bond film so full of action that I forgot the plot.  I still think that Daniel Craig doesn’t fit the image of James Bond.  He’s too old and not charming enough.  I think Tom Hanks is even more unsuitable as the lead guy in Dan Brown’s books.  Angels and Demons is his best book (in my opinion) and I hope the silverscreen version will give it full credit.  The Da Vinci Code movie was kinda disappointing.

We had high tea at Royal Copenhagen.  There were 2 scones (with whipped cream, butter and blackcurrant jam of course), 2 slices of cake (lemon cheesecake and apple cake), 2 sandwiches (smoked salmon and shrimp with caviar) and coffee for me and tea for Terence.  Their strawberry water tasted good too.  :)

After chatting for about two hours, we did some windowshopping at Paragon.  We saw this really fugly looking barbie doll which happened to be the latest doll for the festive season at Toys R Us.  It looks like a drag queen barbie.  See for yourself.  Kids are gonna get creeped out by it.