travel fatigue has made me reluctant to go to any more theme parks
But Isaac was really insistent

But then this morning, he was still in deep slumber at like 10 and usually we wake up at 8 for theme parks so I'd resolved we weren't going

Ended up going
Had to change MTR like three times to get to the station
Arrived around noon

Highlights
Ten inversion roller coaster
Motorcycle roller coaster that we thought was just fat so we got mum to go on it and then loooooooool
Watched lumberjack show....loooool westerner actors who were really half ass aside from one dude that look like one of my lab volunteers
Went on the giant frisbee - which was awesome
Watched a really really good stunt show (westerners again); was better than the movie world one
Went on some kiddie rides with mum - crazy bus (which moved at a glacial speed) and a baby pirate boat
Convinced mum to go in giant frisbee, she almost died lol and this other dude who was scared was like lol if you're going the. I can go too!
Then it was poncho time - 8rmb for poncho and shoe ponchos! The ponchos had elastics at the arms and drawstring at the head - ultra protection
First went on standard raft, then went on a mega slope; then there was a glass pane where you could stand behind after wards, major lols when we stood right outside (purposely) with our ponchos as still got fully wet!
Then we went on this kiddie ride where you shoot water AR your enemies by turning a wheel and passerbys on the street can also spray water but they just need to press a button
Needless to say, the passerbys won
Mum went again by herself and me and Isaac got her good
Then it was time or the big poo - longest vertical drop on a roller coaster- still really fun. Ended up going again.

Ha a lot of fun.
Super tired.
Sad we missed out on the giant skateboard and 4D happy feet.

Then we MTRed all the way back to gong yuan qian - where Beijing road is and ate dinner at this really hectic fast food chinese chain where they had handmade noodles that we watched them make
After that, had dessert nearby - mango sago and double akin milk which ws okay but not as good as papaya hasma which they didn't have :(((((
Now on bus home but don't know if we're going in the right direction...




  



  










donna.
29th January
Woke up early
Hot springs tour
Super didn't want to go
Bussed for 1.5 hours to JuLong (Dragon Bay)
Lunch - not that good - had frog?
Then checked into hotel room and found out that the shower was on top of the toilet
Then mum, Aunty and porpor went springs while Isaac and I napped and I watched the new HZGG
Then got woken up for dinner
Was looking forward to lapmei fan (chinese sausage with rice) cos that can't go wrong right? but it was super oily and just -.-
Went to hot springs after dinner, went to the 38degrees and then the 42degrees before lying in this huge piece of granite that was warm
Showered etc etc and then went back to hotel to sleep where we realized the toilet was leaking
They sent someone up but try said they would come bak later...which they never did

  

lol at grandma photobombing

 
Woke up
Brekkie at the hotel - eh...Isaac was smart not to go
Then went to check out their flower garden and maybe cos it was winter it was like mostly dry grass...the windmills were cool though!

Then after that I returned to the hotel room while mum and them souvenir shopped and found the door wide open
Mystery never solved cos nothing was stolen...

Then after a quick nap it was off to lunch again...
Cos tha lapmei faan from the night before was so soso, mum decided I ask them to make it our way
So just to chuck the Chinese sausage in and stuff but it was still only soso
Sadface

Then while we were at lunch, Aunty got call from guide asking where we were
Lol
We had thought the departure time was 2:45 but it was actually 1:45
So the tour bus had to drive past the restaurant on its way out of the resort and pick us up

Got home
Ate dinner at home
Watched a bit of tv then some family time

Mahjong Highlights
  • Yum gong to the end
  • Telling Isaac not to eat when everyone was gong
  • Grandmas heckling
  • Isaac lost big time
Then we called maccas to deliver
Lol at cousin having to use his sucky mando to order - Shi or c? (Unit 4 or c)
Taro pies, big Mac meal, nuggets turned into spicy wings
And then at the very end, got asked in canto whether he wanted the order repeated looooooooool

Good times
Also, got to sleep on the couch
 




donna.
27th cherry went to Shen Zhen so we had to fend for ourselves
Woke up
yum cha with cmum and cdad and cporpor in whampoa
Then went back to house
After toilet, Isaac had already fallen asleep on mattress
Original idea was for me to meet Wynnie first and Isaac to come out later
Met Wynnie at langham place and walked around a little bit
Walked 王中 (mongkok centre) a bit but didn't buy anything
Then met Valerie on corner of 女人街 (ladies market) and 山東街
then went to 家樂方 (gala place) where I bought my heels and the other two worked on wifi and drank blue monkeys (which are smoothies and not a type of cocktail)
Then we walked around the mk area a bit, stopped at the photo supplies store where I wasnt allowed to buy anything etc etc
Then Val had to leave us


Me and Wynnie walked around in search for dinner
I wanted ramen so we walked around and around
Finally found a legit looking place near ladies markets called 火山石
had really good prime beef with egg udon in homemade pork soup




Walked around a bit more then eventually said goodbye to Wynnie at the MTR

Then walke around for a little bit
Mostly dropped mannings and watsons and sasa
Then swaggered home via the 30x before doing some intense candy shopping at park n shop 百
Then went home and watched tv with Aunty

Before sleep, watched this Japanese film on cdad and cmums bed and it was sooooo lolsy
Japanese doesn't really translate well to canto and then it was like so many ransoms popping up
Then one of the characters was like, do you know who he is? And we were doing our own voiceovera, being like I dont know
Then that was really the dialogue!

Packed up and went to sleep

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Morning came and slept in until like 11:30
Then went down to 豬扒豬扒 (porkchop porkchop) for last brekkie
Ordered a 豬扒包 (porkchop bun) and 腿蛋包 (ham and egg bun) and 凍奶茶 (iced milk tea). So gooooood!







  
 
Then had to rush to the park and shop bakery for on-the-road food
Cutting it close cos bus was at 1:40 and we were supposed to leave before 1 but it was already 1
In the end, juuuuust missed the bus
As in it left as cherry was buying the tickets for it
But no fear, cos we had already guessed it woul happen so we had chosen the second last bus
Bought tickets for the 2:40 an had Isaac mind the luggage while we went on search for toilet and 珍珠奶茶 (pearl milk tea)




Got back with a little time to spare
Said goodbye to cherry and now on the bus to Shen Zhen
There is a lot of traffic.
I fear for my liver.




donna.
Woke up early - at 8:45
Brekkie was bun on the run

Ferry to north point
Bus to ocean park



Aquarium - lots of Asians, large one was he tic, ESP the big stingray
Panda one sucked but panda two was awesome
Fugly goldfish
Whiskers and Friends Turned out to be kids show




Cable car over the hill
Lined up for the flash
Lots of pushing in; two Chinese men took up seats 2 and 4- so dumb



Rapids got wet
Tried for the ocean theatre a couple of times and failed
Rouind and round mine train pretty fun
Sea jelly
Hair raiser was pretty fun
Christmas lights



Home
Got lied to by bus driver that 3 left but no and everyone pushed in front
Ming kok
Are wonton noodle soup random side street
Electronics with Isaac
Home on a bus
Dessert and soooooo good





Came home
Cmum and cdad returned shortly after
Asked Isaac how it was and be was Hao Lai (so tired in mando) looooooooooool

Now sleep cos super tired and its past 12:30




donna.
Woke up

Bye to Isaac
(who stayed at home all day)

Supposed to eat udon but it didn't open until 12
Ate car noodles instead
Bad coffee

Bye to cherry
Caught bus to tsim tsa tsui and found pickle
Shop shop shop at harbor city plaza

Shop shop shop
Supposed to meet cho family at kowloon tong for Thai

Almost half hour late cos of the long lines
Christmas display

Caught last bus before roads got blocked with pickle
Ate Thai food
Tranny

Home time
Watched the holiday


 



donna.
Woke up

CHo family went church service
Met pickle at langham place - ate at Caffe Superiore
Really mediocre food for the price
Sad face

Shopped at Langham Place
Met Johnson and Cherry and then Jenny
Ate best polo bun
Intense shuffling
Squished in a box that was supposed to fit 4 people but we had like...6 and rushed to leave but so so worth it

Went to computer city
Sooooooooo many people
Sooooooooooooo many Asians, more than I've ever seen

Then went to some arcade and we all shopped
Met Nick
Isaac stayed at Starbucks with one drink, which was apparently pretty good then we all went to Kowloon Tong for Japanese buffet
Small place, 150HKD per person
Soooooooo good, the sashimi
Lols when cdad told Isaac that the pork cutlet was not that good, but he still ordered and then...

Sent everyone on their way and returned to home

 








donna.
These iphone entries were typed on the 24th of December, 2011 3:19am, so excuse the typos...
italics are my new notes :)

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Yesterday, we walked 19,328 steps.
(But let's talk about the day before yesterday first...)

Day before,
Brekkie at pork chop pork chop with cmum and cdad
(cmum and cdad = cherry's mum and cherry's dad)
then got a hk sim card and exchanged my gangster money at HSBC where they had good coffee according to cdad
Then we (cherry, isaac and i) ran away to meet pickle at tsim sha tsui
Shopped around for a little bit - pickle got face painted by shisheido person when she asked about powder
(what happened was we went to lane crawford which is a huge hk department store and we went to the shisheido counter cos pickle was interested in some loose powder. but when we got there, the girl at the counter was all like oh no no no! your eyeliner is waaay above your eyeline. i need to fix it. and so she spent a good 10 minutes and 5 products fixing pickle's fierce eyeliner to extra fierce eyeliner)
Bought some stuff from Bobbi brown
(by some stuff, i mean i bought one gel eyeliner - YES!)

Then we rushed off to meet Valerie at Admiralty; while Isaac ran off with his friend
(isaac literally just went, bye! *runs off* to meet nick)
Ended up on some rooftop bar with awesome view
(wasn't really a bar, so much as a really high class brassiere type thing, called cafe grey)
Started off with cocktails but the berry tartlet we ordered a la carte was so good we ended up ordering high tea which was consequently not as good
(i got a nice cocktail, pickle ordered a lychee, valerie ordered some hokkaido one and it was weirdas. then with high tea, it was weird because they had the savouries at the top and the desserts at the bottom - so nice sandwiches at the top and then scones and then a whole heap of fruit cake/spongecake/whatevercake. we also ordered some pretty nice tea that i can no longer remember - ginger?) 

Picked Isaac back up after leaving Valerie to her family dinner
Convinced pickle to eat at cherrys place
Watched tvb together lol
(looooooooool which pretty much just consisted of us three girls complaining a lot about the poor standard of tvb productions)
Then sent pickle and Isaac off on their respective adventures
(pretty much: drinking)
did exercises before sleeping

Yesterday
brekkie was buns
Met Isaac at Admiralty
(yes, this kid didn't come home! and when we met him he was full alcohol bloated. SMH.)
Met Jo Cheung and Eric at Admiralty
Went to The Peak via tram
(the peak is supposedly top dog tourist attraction, which i've never had the chance to visit and seeing as i was keen to play tourist on this trip to hk they all humoured me by going. the cable car/tram up to the peak was the steepest tram ever. i swear if the back door was open, people would have flown down the mountainside titanic style)
Took photos and ate food
Then bussed back down to Central
Walked around
(and around...and around...)
Finally found the chocolate sculptures at random high class hotel
(that eric had heard about. they were really intricate and cool. can't believe they were made out of chocolate!)
Watched ballet performances by cute little kids
Said bye to Eric
Walked around a lot
Small stores f.i.l too good
(there were a lot of small expensive boutiques around the back streets and one of them, named F.I.L was just tooooooooooo good. the SAs didn't bother with us at. all. and that was just as well, seeing as a checkered shirt was eggin' $6k)
walked walked walked

Tried to find toilet
Awkward elevator
Instructions given by building manager
(so the story here is the four of us - joe, isaac, cherry and me - all needed to go to the loo. so we walked a bit until we came to this elevator in the middle of nowhere and one of us outloud was like, i wonder if we go down this lift, if there will be a toilet. then suddenly, appears this guy who is like, follow me, i will show you the toilet. so we follow him down the elevator...all of us completely silent...and then he walks us through the doors and points us directly to the entrance to the toilets. when we come out, he's taken of his coat and we realise he's actually the building manager of the place. lol.)

Ate at causeway bay - pretty good sushi
The waiter was super attentive to Jo (apparently, because he's handsome)
Isaac and his egg sushi (eating at classy joint, but isaac demands egg sushi over the more expensive sashimi nigiri)
Ordered more food cos got lied to (they had this special, that on the menu looked really impressive, so we only ordered a few more things. turned out to be really small, so we had to order a whole heap more)

Then walked walked walked
Caught electric tram
And walked walked walked

Tried to find this new and popular dessert place but long line when we got there
Said bye to Jo
Caught random bus back to hung hom and walked home in the cold
Then i was super demanding and wanted asian dessert so we went to sesame green bean and i ate a taro and coconut milk sago that was really really good.

Isaac supposed to shower but he fell asleep lol




















donna.