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lala @ Sunday, December 18, 2005

ookies! im back fr hk alr! it was a fun-ny and exciting trip! too bad for those who didn join us! haha, especially referring to ppl like feng quan and ah hock! dun worry fq, we didn forget ur bday pressie, happie belated bdae to yoo!
hk is reallie all abt shopping and eating.. we spent abt 3 days or so, shopping ard miao jie (temple street), nu ren jie (lady's street?), hua yuan jie (garden street), and sogo at causeway bay. alot of places to shop, but i didn buy alot of things. still had abt 200 hk dollars left in e end.
we tried diff kinds of hk food, like yumcha in e morning at restaurants, their typical 'hawker food' along e streets, and famous dishes in cha can ting.. we even had brazilian buffet! haha. eat until my stomach's bloated alr! =)
we also tried diff types of transport, such as e normal double deck bus (like e ones in sg), e xiao ba (mini bus dat yoo alwaes see in hk drama serials), e taxi, e most commonly used MRT rides, e railway train to shen zhen, e ferry to ocean park, and even e tram up to e peak! ooh la la! ivy saed we've tried upon all kinds of transport le in jus 5 days! haha. well of cos taking these rides cost alot of money la! everyone of us spent abt 150-200 hk dollars jus by taking buses and mrt and blah blah.. sorrie, its MTR not MRT. hk's transport sys is so cool. it works by e octopus card, smth like our ez-link card. but it functions so much more than our ez-link. u use it for all kinds of transport sys, like railway trains, MTR, buses, even buying stuff at 7 eleven and whereva.. soo convenient. sg is jus copy-catting them. haha.
we didn had to rush these 5 days, except when were shopping... haha. e activities planned and places we went fitted jus perfectly. all thanks to our wonderful tour guide-- ivy!!! haha.
1st day we went shopping at nu ren jie and hua yuan jie, cos we spent some time checking into e hotel.. at night we went to see lightings at e xing guang da dao (star avenue, i think), and took quite alot of pics there.
2nd day we planned to go ocean park, but jinhan fell sick so we postponed e ocean park trip to e next day. oh! guess why he fell sick? cos he drank tap water! haha. tsktsk. so instead of gg ocean park, we went shen zhen. hais. it was a bit of a disappointment cos we thought there were alot of things to shop for, but e way e salesppl 'pushed' us to buy their products totally turned us off.. and e clothes there were for winter, rol had quite high expectations for e stuff at shen zhen, so in e end he onli bought a pair of jeans. ahha. things were better for me. i got a pair of shoes and some cross stitch stuff. some of them like via, ron, jinhan, wx and lita went to have spa.. they saed it was vv good and cheap. haha. should go try e next time, if i ever go shen zhen again.. most probably not la. aha.
3rd day we proceeded to ocean park as planned. e rides are much more fun than e ones in escape. haha. vv thrilling, esp mine train! haha. i didn have e guts to try e vertical drop and roller coaster though. ahah lousy me. rol won for me a crab soft toy which i like alot.. thanks dear. haha.
4th day we travelled up to e peak. it was a vv tiring experience, cos while were walking along some trail, some idiot decided to change course to walk up a dubious flight of stairs, leading to we-dunno-where.. dat was where e torture began. haha. for me and sylvia la. e rest happily climbed up e stairs all e way, leaving me and via trailing behind. rol helped me carry my bag and waited for us cos he saw how exhausted we were. ahah. but i told him to go on first. which he reallie did! no one came for us aft they reached e peak. we onli heard ivy calling for us and coming down to fetch us. stupid rol and ron! haha. tiring but fun la! aft e peak adventure, we carried on wif our shopping spree to all e jies again. ahha. havent shopped finish ma. guys found quite some stuff at miao jie, clothes esp, like quiksilver and billabong shirts. den we gave ivy a treat (e brazilian buffet) to thank her for being such a wonderful guide. as for e last day, we slept until vv late la. checked out at 10am den left for causeway bay. rol had wanted to go see some protesters against e WTO talks, but didn manage to see. we onli saw alot of riot police gearing up for possible violence. sogo situated in causebay bay and near wan chai i think, was vv well guarded. news over e past few days were all on e WTO talks and e progress of violence. rol was so interested! haha.
we parted wif ivy at sogo then, cos shes having dinner wif her family at hk island, where sogo is located at. makes no sense for her to travel back to kowloon wif us and to hk island again. i was so upset, i nearly cried. all 5 daes together came to an end jus lydat. we took a pic outside e MTR station, den she left. vv soon, we flew back to sg le.
e trip wouldn have been so successful and smooth if ivy weren ard.. she helped us get our octopus cards ready, brought us ard to sightsee, told us wad buses to take, helped us haggle and even ordered our food! like our maid lydat. ahha. no offence! =)
thanks so much sister! im vv sure all e rest felt e same way too! see ya in sg soon!

heres some pics i took in hk:

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