The Hong Kong Trip

HELLO EVERYONE! How's life, hmm? Bad without Salty, right? Heehee. If you didn't know, Salty just went to Hong Kong on vacation for 6 days! And of course he's gonna update it in this fantastic blog. You see, I went on this trip with my family excluding my sister and with my little cousin's family (allsnow, if you know who), which means I am the only S3X gang soloing this trip. And hence, less imbalanced stuff happens, but I'll still throw in whatever I think is worth mentioning into this update.

So, where do I start? Well there's really nothing to write about the flight from KLIA to Hong Kong, except for the god damn pretty air hostess. =) I reached Hong Kong at around 4pm, 12th of December 2009. We just went to check in at our hotel, Royal Plaza Hotel or in Cantonese 帝京酒店. We had dinner and that's it for the first day.

The second day, we went to Disneyland. Honestly, Disneyland is more suitable for kids aged 8-12 years old, or maybe suitable for ChengZhi as well. Many of the attractions just can't attract me, or my brother and cousins. Well many but one, the Space Mountain. It's a roller coaster ride where you were supposed to be travelling through space. Compared to the Flying Coaster at Genting, this Space Mountain is less thrilling, but offers greater visual experience and enjoyment. During the ride it will be dark all around you with glowing little stars to make you feel as if you were in space. And towards the end of the ride there will be something like a supernova where explosions of light occur in front of you. But actually, one of the lights is actually a CAMERA intended to take a photo of you on the coaster. For me the ride wasn't as good as the one at Genting's, but the photo they took entertained me a heck lot more than the actual ride. For some effing reason I lost the photo. Shoot. But if you ever get the chance to look at it you'll find that ONLY ME AND MY DAD OPENED OUR EYES. My brother, mum and cousins all were closing their eyes. Only me and my dad had real guts. And I had zoomed in this photo really close and saw very clearly my eyes were OPENED. So, no doubts, yeah. The rest of Disneyland is nothing much. I went on the spinning cup with my 1st cousin and brother, and spinned as hard as I could. But the spinning cup experience with ChengZhi is much better, with faster spinning speed and greater enjoyment watching ChengZhi close his eyes in fear.

On the next day, we went on a free city tour. I went on a boat ride at Aberdeen, where you can see some of the Hong Kong residents that live on boats everyday. They are called 水上人家. And I also saw one of the fishing boats hanging hundreds of salted fish to dry. q=_=p Then I went to a temple by the beach where there's this Marriage Rock. People believe by touching this rock you will be blessed in your love life and marriage. I'll get any help I can, so I touched and molested the Marriage Rock over 10 seconds. Will this help me to win her heart? Hmm?

After the tour, we took a 1 hour ferry ride to Macau, and settled down at the prestigious Venetian Hotel. After that we took a bus to the gateway to 珠海 of China. I dunno the exact English name for that place but if directly translated it's called Pearl Sea. We just went there to go to Seafood Street, or 海鲜街. In Seafood Street, there are fishmongers and hawkers selling fresh and alive seafood along the street, such as oysters, calms, fish and prawns. Then, after buying whatever seafood you want, which is still alive and moving, you get them to one of the many restaurants on the street and they will cook the seafood according to your preferences. Well, since those prawns and fishes are very fresh and alive just half an hour ago, the dishes were really good, with freshness you can rarely taste anywhere else. But too bad I don't really enjoy seafood, so it wasn't a really nice meal for me. But the others did finish a whole plate of, like, more than 20 prawns. Not the really big ones, of course.

We went to the landmark of Macau, the Ruins of St. Paul's, or in Cantonese 大三巴牌坊 on the next day. There's nothing much here, just a long walk up to the ruins of an ancient building, now only with one wall left. Along the streets herer there are shops selling famous biscuits and treats of Macau, including almond biscuits and dried meat, and the best of all the Portugese tart. These Portugese tarts are really very delicious, with very crispy crust surrounding the sweet and soft egg center. We bought LOTS of treats, and on the way back, I saw Kuen Yee. Well, actually not her, but someone that looks shockingly alike with her. I would say it's a 98% clone, with the same hairstyle, face structure and thick spectacles. I can only tell the difference from the height, and the guy beside her is not Yi Xian. And also, I don't know how to explain, but I think she is prettier but Kuen Yee is cuter. I wished I took a photo of her so I can show how close they resemble each other, but too bad I didn't.

At night of the same day, I managed to get Internet connection for my room back at Venetian Hotel, and used my dad's laptop to go online. Before this I used his laptop to play Spider Solitaire... q=.=p And when I signed in to Messenger, disappointingly only ChengZhi is online. Daena's at India, Ching Yeap's walking to Malacca and Wei Wen isn't online. But this doesn't stop me from entertaining myself by talking to ChengZhi. He was telling me how great the game Dragon Age is, and I was less interested, so I just opened our blog and showed the picture of him munching his sandwich to all my cousins and family. And of course, they had a VERY VERY good laugh. We then had a small chat with XueYing <3. When I was handing the laptop to my brother, ChengZhi suddenly fluctuated, scolding my cousin through MSN for laughing at him and warning them to be careful. Chill lah ChengZhi, you are just doing a good deed give us some entertainment. =)

The next day, the second last day of my trip, was nothing much. We took the ferry back to Hong Kong, went around shopping and returned to Royal Plaza Hotel to relax.

On 17th of December, Thursday, we went to Hong Kong airport and took the 3.20pm flight back to Malaysia. Today was really an unlucky day, and it all started from the flight. I don't know how but a seat three rows behind me was screwed up, and the captain said all seats on this flight is full so the broken seat must be repaired. And therefore ALL passengers of the flight suffered an hour delay, all thanks to one stupid broken seat. And I actually saw EMPTY SEATS at the left of me. We took off at 4.20pm, and reached KLIA at 8pm, 1 hour later than scheduled. And then, when requesting for taxi service, we lined up really long, and everyone is exhausted. And it wasn't actually a taxi, instead a very old and worn up van, with crappy air-conditioners and even more crappy speed. We went to my cousins' place at Bukit Jalil first, and then my uncle fetched my family back to my house at Mines Resort City. It was past 10pm when I finally reached home, and the worst thing happened. When my uncle was driving out from my house in reverse gear, he didn't noticed the gigantic waste container opposite my house, and BANG! The rear of his Mercedes crashed into the container. His left rear light was screwed. But all of us were too tired to make a fuss and he just drove his car back. And this marks the end of my Hong Kong trip.

I must say, Hong Kong really offers a lot of delicacies and great food. They have the best roasted goose (烧鹅）you can find, as well as very good DimSums (点心) and steamboats. Too bad no peanut butter sauce served at steamboat restaurants. =P But you think I'll grow fat from all the eating? You are wrong. You see, Hong Kong is a country where people live a very fast-paced life, and their daily cost is high. So, what's the best transportation method that saves your money? Your own feet, that is. And that was what I used for most of my trip. I believe I covered more than 50km of road distance on feet this trip. I believe that's quite high energy expenditure. qO.Op

Besides that, there's one thing I really must mention here. There are A GOT DAMN LOT OF PRETTY GIRLS AT HONG KONG!! I'm not joking. There's really a lot of them. Every street you walk you'll find dozens of pretty girls and ladies, and this had really made my trip better. The best example is when you're taking the train, a major transportation of Hong Kong residents. If you are lucky, you'll have a lenglui in the same carriage as yours, your trip will be much much better. At least when you are squeezing in with all the other passengers, you have something beautiful in your range of sight to admire on. But of course, you must fight the sad feeling of being able to see but not being able to reach and hold. Heehee. I was somehow lucky too, because in the two flights of this trip, the air hostesses were very beautiful, especially the one serving on the flight to Hong Kong, a really mesmerizing lady. But of course, none can surpass her beauty. Heehee.

I think that covers all of this trip. School's reopening, can't wait to see those faces I'm missing so much! <3

Oh, thanks to Xue Ying and ChengZhi for the carriage thing. You both RoxXx.


Salty