Monday, April 17, 2006
I’m back to continue the second day of my trip. For those who are reading my blog, you will have to wait patiently for my update as I wanted to write as detail as possible to let you guys know that I’m enjoying every single of the trip with my friends. Hong Kong is a great place and I will come back again so please wait for me.
2 April
Eehwa, wk and I woke up early in the morning. We had decided to have a walk in King’s Park to feel the morning breeze. This was planned a day ahead as all of us do want to waste a single second in the trip. Some may wonder why we want to choose King’s Park when there are plenty of parks in Hong Kong. The reason is simple as King’s Park is the nearest to our hotel so we had decided to walk there to take a look. What I can say is there park is totally different from Singapore. The park there is very big and spacious. It is a great place for both the youngsters and the elderly. I shall not go to the extent of describing the park. It will take me a very long time just to describe the park. Anyway I really enjoy myself, climbing the slope is what I normally will not do in Singapore. i had did it in Hong Kong. I’m so proud of myself. We had exercise in the morning so I will not feel so guilty when I see food. What a lame excuse I had given to myself. Don’t laugh at me, people.
After our visit to the King’s Park, we had decided to grab a bite. Initially I told eehwa I wanted to eat dim sum so all three of us are busying hunting for any shop that sell dim sum. We walk a few streets to try our luck but luck is not on our side, we could not find any shops that sell dim sum. In the end, we gave up and entered a cafe to ease our hunger. It sells noodles, with mixtures of beef or chicken, eggs and tea. They gave us cold tea instead of hot tea but we still drank it. Thanks wk for the breakfast treat. I was shocked when I convert it to Singapore dollar; it was less than fifty dollars for the breakfast. Mind you, it was meant for three people. Can you imagine how cheap it was? After our meal, we continue to find our way back to hotel to meet up with Melvin. On the way back, I agreed we have some conflicts over the reading of map but in the end we choose to use the landmark as our indication instead of using shortest distance to get back to the hotel. Eehwa and I use landmark as indication as this is always the safest and reliable way but someone claims that using short distance is the fastest way to get back to the hotel. He even claims that we do not know how to read map, excuse me, I used to be a geography student so somehow I will know how to read a map. Don’t doubt my geography teacher. Soon we find the police station that claim in the map that it is pretty near our hotel. Ya the police station that I’m referring to is Yau Ma Tei police station. We took some photos there to prove that we went to the police station. I agreed it was quite a stupid thing to do when the local saw us but we just don’t give a damm. What a joke when we realized the police station is so near our hotel, so guys we choose the right hotel. Thanks you, the credit should goes to Joyce as I was the one telling my agency to help me find a hotel or else all of us will be staying at a budget hotel. Eehwa, I’m telling the truth so went you read this, please don’t say I’m thick skin when in fact I am.
We went back to the hotel to meet up with Melvin but we are shocked when he told us he woke up very early, think it is about 10. Melvin and wk began their shopping spree while we girls are busying dressing up. In order not to let them wait for us, we had decided to spilt into two gangs. After both of us had done, we head to Kowloon Tong (jiu long tang). I can’t believe my eyes when we reach Festive Walk. The shopping centre was high built up and if I’m not wrong it was six storeys high. Most of the stores sell branded stuff and it was impossible to get anything there. We simply can’t afford it. Anyway I bought make-ups for my sister and a jacket for myself. Both items are from Esprit. I like the jacket a lot. Love you to bits eehwa, as she is the one keep telling me to buy as I can’t make up my mind to buy or not to buy. We bought assorted cakes and even try their pineapple bun. It was great and you should try too if you are in Hong Kong. The tins are very nice but very heavy as there are only four tins in a box. I hope eehwa will not regret for buying the tins back to Singapore. We bought limited boxes as we can’t carry too many home, it is simply too heavy for both of us.
After Kowloon Tong, I told eehwa I wanted to go to snoopy place which is at Sha Tin. I had a hard time to convince eehwa that I wanted to go there. She told me it will be a waste of time to get there as we might not buy anything there as it is just a waste of money. Anyway we still went there so both of us check the map and get our way to Kowloon Tong KCR. Can you imagine both girls carrying bags of assorted cakes and squeeze our way to the train? I was so proud of us, don’t you agree with me eehwa. Finally we had reached Sha Tin, we saw snoopy place, I was so happy to see snoopy. Snoopy is a cartoon character which I like when I was very young. Till now I still like him to bits. We took lots of photos with snoopy and his gangs. Snoopy is every hard to find in Singapore so I did not regret in going there and I hope eehwa will have the same feeling as me. Here comes the most important part, we bought a stuff in Esprit. It was a bag; initially I did not like this bag so I went to look for eehwa to listen to her judgment. The first impression of the bag is that you will not like it but after looking at it several times, you will think that the design is simple and easy to match with clothes. So in the end both of us got the same bag. We were happy with all the stuffs that we had bought and make ourselves back to the hotel. It was a great day for me. Girls are girls; we are born to be shopping queens. Why do I say that, we are happily shopping till we had forgotten that we had an appointment with the guys. Sorry to Melvin and wk for making you two to wait for us. Hope you guys don’t take it to heart.
When we reached the hotel, on one was in the hotel so we went out again. This time we went to ladies night, Mongkok. They sell very cheap stuffs and this makes me not to bargain with them as I believe they need to earn a living. It was so cheap already so why do I want to reduce it even lower. Some may think that I had a foolish thinking but I kid you not, when you convert back to Singapore dollars you will laugh, it was really very cheap. We ate stall food like chili fish balls and even drank their milk tea. It was great to taste their stall food. Cheap and nice is what I can say. After that it time for us to returned back to out hotel.
At night, Melvin came over to our room to play card games. We play bluff and I can admit Melvin is great at telling lies but it was impossible to expose him. He told us some funny jokes that make me burst out laughing. I just can’t control my laughter. Finally its getting late and we end our day.
Joyce shine on ::3:40 PM::
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