Hong Kong Day 1 Part 2

Ok! I'm back to continue my unfinished task. Mm.. where was I? Oh.. so after about 1 hour or so, can't remember how long lar, we reached Metropark Hotel, Mongkok. It looked pretty ok, nothing fancy but not too seedy either.

Anyway, i was very surprised to see my HK friend, Chun Him waiting for me at the lobby! I didn't expect him to be there coz i only vaguely told him i'll reach HK about 9 pm, and he's been waiting for me there since that time~ So nice of him. Luckily he brought a friend to talk to him la.. if im not mistaken that time already 11pm. After we've thrown our luggage in the room, we followed him to the MRT station to get our most useful companion during the HK trip - the Octopus card. This card can be used everywhere, even in 7-11!

After getting that, he brought us to eat supper near his house in Sha Tin. We were really fortunate to have him as our temporary guide, because, if not, we would not be able to board the famous double decker and also minibus en route to his house! The minibus is quite canggih one, got a speedometer displayed on top for all the passengers to see how fast the bus is going. Very gooddd. The public transportation system in HK is really very advanced and convenient.

Guess what we ate for supper? Went to a nondescript tong sui shop and of all things, THEY ordered a durian sai mai lou or something like that!!! I forgot what's it called .. of course i didn't touch it. I hate durians. The other stuff was pretty ok lar.. nothing special.

we had our supper here

nice tong sui! i believe the durian one is not shown here

smile! :)

After that we adjourned to the 7-Eleven next door to buy some breakfast, and also the ever-famous Vitamilk! Got a lot of flavours one wor.. even got red bean flavour.. which is A-meng's favourite. Too bad i forgot to take a picture of that...

It's time to bid goodbye to my Chun Him's friend, whose name i can't recall, as he got to work tomorrow so he ciao home first. My poor HK friend had to accompany us back to our hotel before going back home himself. And that marks the end of Day 1! Haha. 4 more days to go!

Hong Kong Day 1 (sometime in May 2007)

Ok! I've had a somewhat bad day at work (yesterday), dealing with people (not from my office) that nearly made me lose my temper, and professionalisme. Luckily i didn't (i think). Who cares.

Anyway, to make myself happier, i've decided to write down my Hong Kong trip last year because it was just so "memorable".. hahaha. Just thinking about it is making me laugh already. I want to jot this down so that i can always come back here to read about it whenever i need to be happy again.. yeay!

The three of us, A-meng, Grace and myself met up at KLIA before boarding a Cathay Pacific flight to Chek Lap Kok Kei Cheong hehe (Chek Lap Kok Airport). We took a late flight and reached HK around 9pm++ i think. We were very excited on the plane, being on a vacation with friends to go so far for the first time, eating plane food for the first time that we can't stop talking and taking pictures. I vaguely remembered the seats were not THAT comfortable; marginally better than AirAsia lar.. at least it's reclinable :)

Excited looks hehe

Mm.. what else.. oo.. i also remembered being engrossed in a movie about a controlling mother and her three daughters.. Mandy Moore is one of the daughters.. there were 2 guys vying for her.. as usual.. bla bla.. that's all i can remember about the movie. The entire trip took about 2 hours.. after we landed, there were some tour guide waiting for us and guiding us to the bus that will take us to our hotel!

Jeng jeng jeng.. After a short while.. we boarded the bus and were finally on our way to Mongkok, where our hotel is located. From the airport, the first sight that got us excited was... the HK red cabbie! Haha.. it looked exactly like how we always see in the HK movies.. HK is indeed a very strange place. It is so distant, yet so familiar at the same time. We've heard of Central, Mongkok, HK Island, Sha Tin, Kowloon and etc even though we've never set foot here before this trip. Thanks to all the TVB dramas that were fed to us throughout our growing years.

Ok, i will stop here because i'm getting tired. Blogging is actually quite tiring. Don't worry Shin Yin, i will make sure to blog about the WHOLE trip .. no matter how long it takes. Hehe.. baibai.

Heart of Greed

I've not been updating as frequently as i should due to few reasons. Mainly coz i'm lazy and got nothing interesting to write about. Haha. Oh well. Anyway, i'm sure ppl who got astro at home must've heard about the hoo-ha that is the TVB new series, Heart of Greed 2(HoG2), which is only available on Astro On Demand. I think my uncle has it but i seldom watch tv at home (which is my uncle's house at the moment).

There is something very strange with me. I dunno y i always watch outdated movies/series. i.e after everyone else has watched it. I have a Lee Hom's concert dvd that has been sitting on my bookshelf for .. 2 years! And i still haven't watch it! Original summore leh. And Lost Season 1.. House Season 1.. something tells me i'll never start on those series. Anyway, that explains y now only im watching the Heart of Greed 1(HoG1) series which was really big last year, while everyone else already watching the sequel la! Duh. Anyway, you ppl who read my blog, especially Shin Yin who always complain that she's bored should watch this series! It's pretty entertaining. This coming from someone who doesn't really like to watch TVB series (coz i can always predict how the story will end after watching the first episode. Really one).

There's this girl in it, Linda Chung, whom i think looks really sweet and pretty, which is kinda refreshing. I'd would put up her picture here but a bit mah fan lar have to search for it and upload and bla bla. Anyway, i'm already bertungkus-lumus trying to finish the HoG1 so that i can start on HoG2.. if only i know where to download it online.. -_-

Are We Really Lucky?

I am dealing with a Chinese (as in China punya Chinese) contractor in this particular project I'm involved in. Today, while making small talk, the most amusing statement came out from his mouth,

"Malaysians are really a lucky lot."

Lucky?? I'm guessing 9 out of 10 people on the street would disagree and find that statement offensive, even.

He elaborated that a car and a house costs much more in Beijing than in KL. And the price of petrol is relatively cheaper. AND. he said, nobody under the age of 28 would be able to buy a house in Beiing. Apparently anybody who owns a house in Beijing is a millionaire.

Well, I don't know what to make of that actually. I mean, of what he said. I guess I was quite taken aback by this observation of a foreigner, an outsider, that we are lucky. Are we really lucky after all? Have we gotten so accustomed to complaining about the bad government, bad economy, the traffic jams, the dirty politics, bla bla this and that, that it takes a foreigner to tell us to count our blessings? Perhaps, the grass is just greener on the other side, after all.

Perfect

I've searched blogskins.com thoroughly for a blogskin that would be just right for me. I found quite a few that were to my liking, BUT. To my despair.. i just cant get the perfect one. The one i managed to install successfully didn't have a feature that i wanted. Others have the right colours, but the fonts are too small. Too ugly. Whatever. YA ya i know all these can be edited with html, but i'm too lazy ok. Plus im not familiar with html at all actually. Haha. Ok, then.. there are others that i think are just perfect.. not too bright, not too gloomy, just right.. but.. the descriptions are always, always very emo one. Haih. I guess i've given up on looking for the perfect blogskin.

Nothing's perfect in this world, eh?

My Lucky Zone

I went to Midvalley for dinner just now. I just need to get this off my chest : MIDVALLEY'S PARKING SUCKS ! i duno why, it's like damn hard to find parking and then all the routes are not smooth flowing like that, came to a dead end a few times. Anyway, i almost always try to park at the Centre Court, out of habit i guess. But the last time i was there i miraculously got a parking at the North Court after merely waiting for 2 minutes! Right in front of the entrance summore~ So. After circling and hovering around the Centre Court for almost half an hour today without much luck, i decided to head over to the North Court though i wasn't really sure where was it lar. I just pusing pusing then eh, reach North Court. So i waited.. at the entrance. For 1 minute or less. AND I GOT A PARKING THAT'S RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE AGAIN! hahahahahah.

With that, i would like to conclude that North Court is my lucky zone. Hehehe.

The end.

Introduction and Stolen Tyres

I've always loved to read and write. Since i was small, i loved to read all sorts of things, from Nancy Drew to Enid Blyton to Tiga Sekawan ( or is it Empat? Can't remember..) to funny horror malay novels which always involve a jin.. I believed i've even read the entire R.L Stine's Fear Street series! Seriously. I guess this post serves as a sort of introductory thing to ease you all into the 'Story of My Life'. Ha - ha. I know it sounds kinda lame but i really can't think of anything cute or catchy to put lar.


Anyway, my love for reading gradually spark an interest in writing as well. I don't mean writing factual reports and boring stuff like that, but stories. Fantasies. Though, i must admit nothing i write would measure up to Wu Shin Yin's 'The Rain' story. Hahahahaa.. It would be very nice of her to post it up in her blog for other people to appreciate lor. Anyway, I've kinda derailed from what i wanted to write actually. Ok, for someone who loved to write, blogging would be a natural progression rite? I did start a blog in 2003 but it only survived 3 1-sentence-posts before it died a slow death from the i-forgot-the-login-password syndrome. On and off, i have the urge to write, especially when i feel strongly about certain issues or certain people, but the urge just never seem to be strong enough.


Yesterday i finally set up a NEW account in blogspot because the urge is finally strong enough. And the reason why i've set up this blog is to tell the whole world that my 2 brand new front tyres were stolen near the house im staying in on Saturday!!! And it was not exactly parked in some dark alleys or something, but near houses and shops too. According to rumours gathered by my uncle, there were some eyewitnesses who saw 3 middle-aged Chinese men (whom i've cursed to hell) lurking around my car around 11 something on Saturday. I only realised this on Sunday night because i only passed by my car at that time. And i find it strange to see a concrete brick under my car near the driver's seat. I didn't thought much of it at first, but my instinct made me check on the car again and only at that i realised that my 2 front tyres were gone. Together with the rims!! And.. RM500.00 flew away just like that.. can i be anymore broke? Man.


What is so poignant about this incident is.. this is my first bad encounter with this city that i've called home for the past 1 year. It kinda shakes my confidence a little on whether this is the place i want to call home for the rest of my life.. especially after hearing robbery stories from my close friends. Or maybe it's just not the year for Rats lar. Hahaha.. Anyway, i'm lazy liao. Hopefully i will keep this up and not let it die off from the same 'disease' of my first one.