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Date: 17 - 22 November 2009Flight: Jetstar (SGD550 for two)Weather: Avg 15 Degree CelsiusExchange Rate: 1SGD = 5.53HKD (Good!)

买东西-吃东西!

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It's been almost 13 years since I've last boarded a plane. That was when I was a Primary 4 student back at Jurong Primary School, taking a Singapore Airlines to Hong Kong too! Hong Kong changed a lot within these 13 years (of course!) and furthermore, they are now under ROC. Alright I shall breakdown my trip day by day. Loading of all the pictures might take sometime, be patient my friends! (:

17 November 2009, Tuesday, Day One.

Left the house at 5.00am! So early but we (my mom, dad, boyf and I) were still late as we do not have enough time to eat our breakfast!

Boyf with our luggages.

0640 to HongKong by JETSTAR.

Republic of Singapore Passports!

So excited.

First time taking Jetstar too, and it's really small. What to do, it's cheap!

Turkey Ham & Cheese Sandwich on board Jetstar. Taste weird & yucked.

Out from my window.

We reached Hong Kong International Airport at around 11.00am, supposed to be at 10.30am but there was some delay at Changi Airport runway. As Jetstar do not have a terminal at Hong Kong, so we alighted somewhere (it's really somewhere!) and took the shuttle service to their custom area. Guessed what, the weather was at a whopping 12 degree celsius!

That was really shiok!

Luggages collection time!

Random shot of HK Airport.

Seek assistance from their Customer Service at the airport and found out that A21 Citybus brings you to City, Yau Ma Tei (the area where we were staying!) at HKD33.00 and will take around 50 minutes. Airport Express brings you to City at HKD90.00, taking around 20 minutes. So that is the difference for paying more.

Just in time to hop on the bus when we reach the bustop.

Our Hotel for the five nights stay.

268 Shangi Street, Yau Ma Tei Kowloon, Hong KongClick here to visit their website.

Just renovated their rooms which made the SGD$350+ for five nights even more worthy.

Another shot of the room.Tip: Take up 2 Single Beds Room if you want to have a slightly bigger room.

Famous Hui Lau Shan Desserts opposite our Hotel. Famous for their Mango stuffs!

Headed off to Mong Kok after settling down.

Layout of shops in this shopping centre was kind of confusing though.

Took a picture with their Christmas Decorations.

Christmas Deco.

Headed off to roam some streets around Mong Kok and proceed to Tsim Sha Shui.

♥ Love this picture and the backgrounds!

By the way, everyone was all wrapped up due to the cold weather! Probably in cold weathers, the sun set faster. The sky was already dark at around 6.15pm. Grabbed a fast dinner at McDonalds as we were not very hungry after Ajisen noodles at the Airport.

Avenue of Stars which was frigging cold and windy.

Pretty worn out by that time.

It was really very very cold and windy! It's kind of freezing there. We waited for the symphony of lights which was part of Tourism Attractions BUT it was fugging disappointing!!! Wasted my time there, I should have gone for more shopping instead. Headed back to Yau Ma Tei area to have our dinner at some roadside stalls which I have forgotten to bring my camera out. Roamed around Temple Street (just beside my hotel!) for awhile before going back to rest.

18 November 2009, Wednesday, Day Two.

Woke up at 9am and started off the day with breakfast at nearby 茶餐厅!

Very retro-ed design.

Everyone ♥ Milk Tea!

Pineapple Butter Bun.

Ham & Egg Sandwich.

That was really a light breakfast as we intend to have more food along the way. Took MTR (MRT for us in SG) to Tung Chung Station. Getting on the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car & finding The Buddha at Lantau Island was our mission for Day 2.

This way to Ngong Ping 360!

Citygate Outlets.
All the different brands with many discounts (includes Burberry & Ralph Lauren too!)

Their "NEW" Crystal Cabin.

Bought the tickets for Crystal Cabin because the queues are short and never been on a glass-bottomed cabin.

See the difference.

Setting up the tripod. (:

Up we go.

Say cheese.

Ta-da!

Crystal Cabin, glass-bottomed.

Looks scary.

Yes we were "scared".

As if!

Love this picture taken with the tripod. (:

Captured a little too early.

Their famous VITA drinks.

Hello, here we come!

I'm panting yet never failed to pose! Haha.

Say Hello!

Whoa!

Lunch was vegetarian at Po Lin Monastery nearby there.

Veggie Soup which doesn't taste right for me.

Weird Taste Spring Rolls.

This is much better! Mushrooms and Veggie.

Toufu and Mixed Veggie.

Don't know what is this. Some Veggie dish.

HKD60 per pax. Good to try but I won't try it again.

Cable Car by to Tung Chung Station where we loitered and shopped at Citygate.

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Posing with the cable car but not in time for mine to be taken. ):

We were well prepared to buy a lot of stuffs at Citygate but to our surprise, we bought nothing. It was either no sizes or the stuffs are really past season. Took MTR to meet up with my parents at Tseun Wan and visited our distant relatives there.

Typical corridors seen on HK drama.

Distant Relatives (two on the left side).

Dinner treat by them. There was a total of thirteen of us dining at this Restaurant at Jordon.

Looks expensive okay.

The man and the pig.

FYI: He kept turning the pig and for the few pictures that I've taken earlier were all blurred. When he realised that I was taking pictures, he stopped turning it and let me captured it. Good! I got to capture fast if not he will start turning again.

This was the pig in the previous picture.

Roasted Goose. Yumms.

Stirred Fried Abalone. Great!

Fish Fish Fish.

Veggie Veggie Veggie.

Soya Sauce Chicken.

Lotus Leaf Rice.

Watermelon. Nice!

They sent us home after that. Boyf and I decided to roam around the streets nearby before heading back to the hotel.

Yau Ma Tei Police Station nearby, so the hotel is at a safe area!

19 November 2009, Thursday, Day 3

Our hotel ain't that bad as we have this small travel agency booth at the lobby selling Ocean Park and Disney's tickets which will saves us time from all the queueings. In addition, they have a shuttle bus service that brings you from the hotel to the venue if you pay a little more.

We took up the package of HKD320 for a shuttle bus that brings you to Ocean Park right at your hotel doorstep which also includes visits to two more places as shown below.

Brings you to the HK Island, where this big JUMBO seafood restaurant is at.

If you wish to go on their "SAMPAN" ride, you will need to pay HKD50 but no one went for that so we proceed to the next destination.

Our "PCG".

VITA Tower that manufactures all the VITA drinks!

Next destination was some Gold Jewellery Making Factory which I did not take any pictures. At last we reached Ocean Park!

Welcome to Ocean Park.

They just opened for business.

Cable Car Ride up to another portion of the Ocean Park.

Looks so old, scary and flimsy.

Hot Air Balloons.

Messy Hair.

Wow. Nice Scenery.

Good to be early because there is no one.

Dolphin Mascot. They have ventilation fans inside!

Jelly fish. Ewww.

LOL.

Nice fries and drinks.

Ocean Park was like boring, will never go again till they renovate and have more thrilling rides. We left at around 3pm and headed towards THE PEAK.

Big big campbell soup along the way.

It's actually the pillar found in the MTR station.

Here we are at CENTRAL.

Wide Variety of tidbits at 7-eleven inside their MTR station. Take note, it's after you entered.

After much detours and walking, we finally reached this place.

THE PEAK TRAM.

We took the tram and went up to their sky terrace which you need to pay HKD20 more if you forgot to purchase earlier.

Bruce.

Good scenery.

Scorching sun yet cold wind.

Sun setting.

Entered the Madame Tussands Wax Museum after leaving the Sky Terrace.

Jay Chou.

Leo Ku.

Bae Yong Jun.

Looks so friendly!

Kelly Chen.

Our Minister Mentor.

Looks so strict.

Close up view of the wax face.

AstroGirl.

AstroBoy.

Johnny Depp. Me like.

James Bond.

007!

Wheet!

Michael Jackson.

TWINS.

Theresa Teng.

Anita Mui.

Jellyfish plush adopted from Ocean Park. :)

Left THE PEAK and headed towards IFC at Hong Kong Station, and looked for my favourite!

I LOVE agnès b.!

And yes we tried out their agnès b. le pain grillé! Yummy food. Expected and prepared for it to be expensive though.

Appetiser. Crabmeat stuff. suddenly forgot the name.

Chicken Salad. Yumms!

Mixed Juice. I forgot the combi!

Wow. Boyf's medium rare steak.

My medium rare salmon. really yumms!

Here comes the bill. Shhh shan't disclose the total price.

agnès b. ♥

agnès b. ♥That's about it. And we went back the hotel after that.

20 November 2009, Friday, Day 4

The long awaited day of this whole trip is on Day 4 as we visited Hong Kong Disneyland by transferring to Disneyland MTR cabin at Sunny Bay Station.

The ~~Disneyland~~ Mickey decorated MTR arrived.

Here's the window.

And the handles for holding. Everything is Mickey shaped.

Disneyland Resort Station looks so pretty!

Welcome to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort! ♥

Here's our entrance tickets and the Hologram Viewer which view all lights as heart shape!

Boyf and Mickey Face.

Mickey is made up of flowers and grass!

♥

Main Street USA dustbin!

Queueing up to take picture with Idol!

The queue is very long!

Here are our idols.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse!

Queued for almost half an hour. :)

Took their to Fantasyland.

Where Winnie The Pooh ♥ lives!

Fantasyland Bins.

We din managed to catch this. Tsk.

The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh.

I love here the most!

Muacks!

Looking for Hunny. Cute!

Punch the Tigger that bully my ♥!

Me in a pot of Hunny ride.

Take pictures with your favourite cartoon characters here!

This is my ♥! Look I brought Mini-Winnie there too. =/

Awww. so cute!

Pluto. Alright the queue was short that's why I took with him.

Same of Goofy.

Headed to It's a Small World. Love the song!

A boat ride to the small world land.

They are really small!

Toilet!

Ate popcorns for dinner as we have not enough time!

Dustbin at Tomorrow Land.

Love this "Indoor Roller Coaster" ride.We quickly head back to the Main Street USA to catch the snowing.

The beautiful castle.

Many people. with the complimentary light sticks. I got it too! :)

It's snowing! ♥

Awesome.

Fantasstic!

Headed to the Adventureland where Tarzan lives.

Adventureland themed Dustbin.

Checking out Tarzan's room at the tree top.

Wow handsome luh!

I'm so hungry. Got a mini pizza from this Bakery.It's almost 8.30pm where Fireworks will be held at the Main Street USA. Many people gathered there and enjoyed this moment. Love the Fireworks.

A bit ugly though.

I din bring my tripod out la. ):More shoppings at the Souvenir stores and I regretted not buying more Disneyland souvenirs la!

Winnie The Pooh Biscuits.

So cute!

We left the place relunctantly. Probably only me. =/

We will definitely come back again!

Took the train back.

Dinner or Supper was at our Hotel's nearby Porridge Stall. It was definitely yummy but I forgot to bring my camera out. Too bad!

21 November 2009, Saturday, Day Five

Breakfast at nearby MIDO Cafe again.

Char Siew Noodle.

Hotel's nearest MTR station.

Got off at Tsim Sha Tsui and walked towards Star Ferry.

2nd Hand Branded at MILAN Station.

Mister very very soft softee!

Taking a ferry to Central.

Central Pier.

We walked around Central shopping centres before boarding this Tram.

Heading towards Causeway Bay.

Our friendly bank in SG.

My Love again!

Just along their streets of Fashion Walk.

Whow. so many people la.

Actually we shopped at some places which i forgot and did not jot down the building name. Headed to Lan Kwai Fong at night. That place is small and boring la.

Found a pub with live band and settled down for some drinks...

and food!

Headed home and went to sleep as it was a long day of walk.

22 November 2009, Sunday, Day Six

Packed our luggage and check out at 9.00am. Left our luggage at the lobby and headed towards Tsuen Wan for more shopping and cheap stuffs.

Following to that, I did not take much pictures which explains less photos for the last day!

Bought some last minute goodies here. Not very nice leh.

Their considered nicest Bubble Tea stall.

Only HKD10.00 for 1 Large Cup. loves.

Went back to Mong Kok to get some stuffs before heading back to hotel to collect our luggages.

Just four only.

Goodbye.

Headed to the airport by Airport Express at Kwoloon station.
Each pax 70HKD, 20minutes ride.

Comfortable seats.

Airport Terminal 2.

Queuing up to check in our luggages.

Queueing up for the shuttle service that brings us to the plane.

Goodbye Hong Kong.