Aim : To finish packing my room before my birthday.

GOGOGO!!

I passed my BTT! Woohoo~ Hahahha. A lot of questions were kinda repeated from the e-trial so all was good! I finished within 5 min! :D Like wah right, hahahaha. But I was afraid that a 'FAIL' would appear on the screen once I ended the test immediately so I went to double-check my ans again and yay I PASSED! But I realised I applied for my PDL too early :/ I forgot that the PDL can only last for 6 mths and I went to apply when my first practical lesson only starts in March! OMGOMG. I'm so gundu !!!!! Now I pray that I would have enough time to obtain my license before my PDL expires, if not I gotta pay another 25 bucks! T.T

Just came back from the childcare centre and I miss the kids so much! :D Kids are rly adorable at their tender young age! Young, sweet, innocent and pure! And not forgetting their chubby cheeks and lovely smiles! :D Ahhh my heart melted when my fav boy hugged my leg and smiled before leaving!!! Like omg he's the cutest kid on Earth!!!! I will miss him dearly! I'm not allowed to post the pics I have taken but if you guys wanna see my fav boy and fav girl and of course the rest of the cutey kids haha, do ask me if we meet up! I will be glad to show you guys! :D

My parents should have given me more siblings!! Then I can play with them! :) But then again, when they grow up, it's a different thing.. They will not be as cute as last time. If only they could always stay as a 3 year old, I will be happy to take care of them! Okay, this is nonsense. I'm not gonna have another sibling, if I rly have one now thats insane! It will be almost a 20 year gap omg! I shall admire the pics I have with the kids and treasure the moments we once shared :) No more working at the childcare aww, I've got another job! :) *kaching kaching* hopefully all goes well for this new job!

HAHAHA i'm very excited now. Was talking to Trish and Chan about where to go for my birthday celebration and we brought up so many drinking places! Hahaha. Timbre, Zirca, Forbidden, DXO... okay I think that's all actually lol. I was telling them about free flow of house pour spirits at DXO on Sat and they were so thrilled! Lol! I think we are between Zirca and DXO for now and I'm fine with both. Just that I feel like gng to Timbre too! Cos Timbre is like open air, feels kinda like a peaceful place with the live band playing... Someone pls ask me out to go Timbre? :) Hahaha omg am I that despo!

Day 4!

We saw on Jetstar magazine a recommendation for breakfast at Australia Dairy Company, which is located at Jordan, near our hotel! We chanced upon the shop during one of our days in HK and decided to go have a try that very morning! It was very crowded and we had to share a table with someone else. And as usual, menu is in Chinese but at least I know what the food is now lol.

Our sumptuous breakfast!
The scramble eggs with cheese sandwich is the best! I love the toast too!
Very delicious! Must come back for more the next time I go to HK!
No wonder so many ppl patronise the shop!

After breakfast, we walked around before heading back to the hotel to prepare for check-out. We had to pay an extra 85 HKD for service charge every night! Damn, it was not mentioned in the website that there is an extra charge! I thought everything was alrdy included in the price we had originally paid. Ahhh. Should try other hotels next time. They must have thought we were nice to bully :( First, there's no king-sized bed then next it's the service charge thing sigh. But anyway, I also don't rly fancy a fixed shower hose for bathing so I don't mind trying another hotel next time. Maybe will try to go back to Eaton? Heard Mum said that Nathan also has a fixed shower hose, if not I would prefer to stay at Nathan next time haha.

We left our luggages at the hotel lobby before heading to Mongkok to look for Hang Heung Wife's Biscuits! Had to ask for directions a lot of times along the way before finding the shop finally. And in the midst of finding the shop, I bought this to try!

The cup is bigger than Chan's hand!
It was such a big cup and costs only 12 HKD. I see a lot of ppl buying drinks from the shop (Gong Cha) everywhere I go so I thought I should give it a try.
It tastes good but the expiry is within one hour so must finish quickly haha!

After buying our goodies, we went for dimsum!

This is ultimate joke LOL. We wanted pepper for our sharks fin soup which didn't come with the bowl served earlier so when the next waitress came with our carrot cake, I saw the pepper bottle on her tray so I asked for it. And you know what she did?
SHE POURED THE PEPPER ONTO THE CARROT CAKE!
We were stunned.
Then I had to explain to her again that we want the pepper bottle not pepper for our carrot cake LOLOLOLOL.
So we ended up with a peppery carrot cake to eat but luckily she didn't pour that much so can't rly taste the pepper hahahaha.
And just as I thought how weird that waitress was, I noticed that ppl DO ADD PEPPER ONTO THEIR CARROT CAKE.
This is rly weird custom.
Pepper on carrot cake?!
Hahaha.

After dimsum, we walked around and bought some more goodies from Wing Wah before gng back to the hotel to claim our luggage and make our way to the airport! We were a bit lost at first cos we couldn't find the free shuttle bus to bring us back to Kowloon where we could take the airport express again. I checked with the hotel crew and they said there is no free shuttle bus here to Kowloon, which is weird. If there is a free shuttle bus to Jordan, why is there no free shuttle bus back to Kowloon?

But anyway, we managed to find the shuttle bus bus-stop in the end (not the same place as where the bus alighted us during the first day but further ahead) and we took an airport express from Kowloon to the airport!

We were there early so we spent A LOT OF TIME at the disneyland shop in the airport. We spent hours there omg and it was only ONE SHOP. Imagine if we had gone to disneyland, we probably need the whole day to shop, can't even play! Hahaha but we won't lose out in any way cos Disneyland's rides are too kiddy. But still, I don't mind gng to Disneyland the next time I visit HK though. Can buy a lot of cute stuffs! Hahahaha.

We had dinner at the airport before gng to immigration counter. It was quite a hassle getting to our plane cos we had to take a train and then a bus before we could get onto our plane.

We did a lot of self-entertainment on the plane back like this!

Japanese got ninja warrior, we got our french fries warrior!
Muahahahahha.

We even did a video with this french fries warrior which turned out to be quite funny! Hahahaha.
The plane back home was very stuffy, think the plane turned on the warmer or sth. It was not as cold as when we were gng to HK, I took off my sweater and still feel very hot, like suffocating omg. Luckily it turned cooler later on.


Can you see some twinkling things in this picture? It's the stars in the nightsky! Doesn't look very nice taken in picture but looks beautiful if you can see it in person cos the sky is just full of these stars!

Okay that marks the end of my first getaway with friends woohoo! A wonderful and memorable experience! And as you can see, day 4 was nth much cos we were practically looking for things to do. Check out the photo album title for day 4 on facebook HAHAHAHA. We still had a lot of fun and hopefully there would be more of such trips coming up? Hehe. But that means I also need to start saving a lot and hopefully the next time Kaii can join us!

Day 3!

We went to Ocean Park! Hehe it was my first time gng and I was so excited cos there are thrilling rides to be taken!

Our tickets! So cute right! We get to keep our tickets!

The dolphins that greeted us at the entrance!

Ocean Park!

There were many attractions to be seen too! It's like a zoo cum underwater world cum theme park!

And the first animal we saw was...

PANDA!!
I didn't expect to see a real panda there! Panda so cute! And rly can eat a lot! It just keeps eating non-stop haha.


Our first ride was the carousel! Have not taken it for ages! Felt like I was reliving my childhood over again riding the carousel :D

For a trial turbo drop, we took this!

HAHAHAHA KIDDY TURBO DROP!

It was so kiddy that Chan and me couldn't take tgr cos there is only one adult seat. Lol. And Chan was so scared that she made me to take it first! I was quite scared at first but later I found it quite okay, my heart didn't feel like it was gng to drop haha so it's alright!

Haha!

We then took a train to the other side of the ocean park where all the thrilling rides were!

Started off with a mild game - flying swing!
We are flyingggg~
Such a breezer flying up there! A pity Trish didn't join us but well at least she helped us take a lot of pics!! In fact, Trish didn't take any rides with us except the carousel and the ferris wheel!

We went for pirate ship next, thinking it was peanuts just like how my mum thought so when she came here for her honeymoon haha. She went up to the highest end and regretted immediately when it started. She was screaming for the crew to stop but obviously, it didn't HAHA.

Chan and me were not like my mum lah, I wanted to sit higher but Chan insisted on the second lowest. And it was still quite scary despite on the second lowest row HAHA. Well, if you think it in another way, the second lowest row turn out to be the third highest row HAHAHAHA so it's still quite scary k! I lifted up one hand at the one point (the other hand holding onto Chan lol) and Chan said my butt lifted up too at that point! Haha.

And it was a very contradictory sight I see at the opposite side of the pirate ship. One woman sitting at the highest level was raising both her arms high up in the sky, enjoying the game thoroughly while another sitting at the second highest was having some sort of asthma attack throughout the ride. She seemed like gasping for breath the entire ride and I pity the man sitting behind her (her husband I assume) cos he had to keep comforting her and couldn't enjoy the ride fully lol.

Zoom in to see the expression on the lady in front of us. HAHAHAHA

Went to take The Dragon afterwards
I had to take off my spects for this ride so couldn't feel much but when it was gng up the tracks my face, being sandwiched between the protective gear (?) HAHA okay its the you know when you sit for a ride, you have to pull this safety thing down? er.. okay the main thing is my head was sandwiched between it and when it was gng up, my head kept jerking between left and right, and my ear stud kept poking me!! Omg, damn painful! But overall, the ride is not say very scary so it's okay!

We then took eagle which was a big mistake cos it made Chan and me so giddy that we thought we need to rest before taking the actual turbo drop in case we vomit halfway haha! Chan didn't want to take the ride at first, thank god I managed to persaude her! Hahaha, cos I know if I don't take it now, I don't know when is the next time I will ever enter Ocean Park lol. My parents are most likely not gng to come to Ocean Park with me and I won't want to take all the rides alone :(

TURBO DROP!!

The frightening part is the way up cos it moves up very slowly and when you think it's alrdy very high, IT IS STILL MOVING UP. And then the hanging in the air for 10 seconds, gosh. You don't know when to be prepared to plunge down and before you do anything, you are on your way down lol. The worst part is the moment you drop down, it goes up again. WAH I WAS STARTING TO MAKE VERY FUNNY SOUNDS THEN HAHAHA. That's according to Chan lol. I thought I was screaming hahaha but the ride ended quite soon so perhaps no time to actually scream yet? Lol!

Went for lunch and took the flume ride. we didn't want to get ourselves wet so we bought a poncho there and it costs us 25 HKD, which is about 5 SGD! Very expensive! But at least, it kept us dry! And the seal performance is rly nice! Must watch it when you're there! A pity we couldn't watch/ feed the dolphins cos this period is their rest time. So don't go to Ocean Park between 4th and 29th Jan yea? Cos it's winter and the dolphins must keep themselves warm and not catch a cold! (I'm guessing it's because of this that's why they are not performing)

Visited the Atoll Reef and Sea Jelly Spectacular later. Shall let the pics do the talking.

Nemo!

It's smiling at the camera!

I love all my jellyfish pics!

We took a cable car back to the entrance of the Ocean Park so that we could leave for our next destination - Victoria Harbour!

We were there early for the Symphony of Lights at 8pm so we walked along the Avenue of Stars first.

My hands fitted the handprints of this particular artiste!

The Symphony of Lights was rly pretty but standing out in the cold for 15min watching the performance is a bit unbearable because my hands were very cold after that. Think it's because the whole time I was video-recording the laser beam display that's why.

We then went back to the shop we patronised on the first day for dinner!

Sharks fin!

And then it was shopping at temple street before home sweet home!

Day 2!

Chan and Trish wanted to get some branded goods for their family so we went to the more expensive areas such as Tsim Tsa Tsui and had breakfast there. Thankfully, the breakfast was quite affordable and I like their prawn chee cheong fun!

Our porridge

Continued walking in search of branded shops and on our way to 1881 heritage, we saw the space museum and took a pic with it!

Can you spot what we are doing?

There was nth at 1881 heritage so we took some pics there and left for Causeway Bay in search of more shops.

Cow-loon. Moo~

Before coming to hongkong, I saw online that there's a Hello Kitty Cafe at Causeway Bay so I thought I could use the opportunity to look for it too. I forgot to take down the address though, only rmb parts of it, because I thought I could ask around for directions. To my dismay, the MTR staff I asked at Causeway Bay MTR had no idea of where Hello Kitty Cafe was! Tried to ask at a customer svc counter at Sogo later on, only to find out that it has closed! And closed for a few years alrdy OMG.

AHHHH internet cheat me can! I saw reviews about the cafe but no one mentioned that the cafe has since closed! I was so upset upon hearing that! Thought I need not wait till I go to Taiwan next time before I can see it :( Anyway, we walked around see see look look before taking the 'ding ding' to Central!

The 'ding ding' runs in the middle of the road and has cables connected to the bus above it. When we checked the bus directory, we saw that we could only take a few buses to get us to Central but we realised nobody was waiting for any bus at the bus-stop except for us. Everyone seemed to hop onto any bus that came. We got curious so we asked a stranger and he said we could take any bus to get to Central. We did as he said and guess what, we were lost!

Hahaha we ended up at Tai Shue Wan (the home place of one of the acid attack suspects!) and we didn't know what to do! It seemed like an interchange along the side of the road since there were many 'ding ding' buses there. We checked the bus directory again and realised the place we were at was very far from Central! And there doesn't seem to be a MTR in sight so we took another 'ding ding' back and with the help of another stranger, we took the 'ding ding' back to Wan Chai and then took an MTR to Central haha.

The stranger recognised that we were Singaporeans! So easily identifiable huh. And Trish thought it was very fun to get lost haha. Hmm, an experience I think. How often do you get lost right? Lol.

The inside of 'ding ding'

It costs only 2 HKD no matter which bus-stop you alight from!

We then walked to all the branded shops like Gucci, Miu Miu, Coach etc etc...... without buying anything HAHA! Cos it was either more ex or there was no stock of what Chan's sis wanted. I hardly walked to all these branded shops cos for now, I'm still not keen in spending hundreds or even thousands for a bag/pouch. It just doesn't seem very worth it for me now. Maybe next time when I start working and earning $$, I may pamper myself once in a while? Haha. I like Miu Miu's colours for their bags/pouches though. Think their shades of pink and gray are rly very pretty!

And I must say, the promoters there are very polite! They will always greet you and even if you leave the shop without buying anything, they won't blackface you and some of them even thought we were koreans! One even said 'Anyo Haseyo' to us! HAHAHAHA.

We went to H&M too!
The clothes were a little bit ex so I got 1 top only. They sell a lot of hello kitty products too like shower gel and pouches haha.

We then had a very delicious roast duck noodles for lunch at Stanley Rd before continuing our route to go to The Peak.

Yum!

Some street market along Stanley

The Peak tram

We took a combo package for The Peak and Madame Tussauds so it was a bit cheaper and the wind was so chilly up there! I wore like only 1 layer of stockings? Chan had 2 and Trish had 3! It was rly quite cold up there. My hands were icy cold when I used the camera for too long. The scenery was not too bad, just that it was a bit cloudy like the last time when I went so couldn't see that far ahead. Nevertheless, it was still nice being up there seeing all the landscape :)

It was supposed to be a freezing look but Chan looks frustrated lol.

2nd attempt - more successful than the previous one haha.

Sunset

We went into Madame Tussauds after that and it was photo spamming lol. There were some new figures there like Obama and Brangelina. I just retook with everyone haha cos I also don't rly know where were my previous photos at Madame Tussauds too. So here comes the picture overload!


Nice one! LOL.

I'm the king! Hahahaha.

Chan seems to blend in with the rest la! Haha!

I look like I got no legs here! Hahahaha.


Put in collages faster haha.

After Madame Tussauds, we went for hotpot and it was good! Except that the oil keeps splattering on my hand when we do our teppan lol.

They still use those olden days glass bottles for coke!

Okay day 2 is a very long post. I will leave day 3 to another day. Having flu and cough now, need ample rest. Will blog again perhaps tmr? :)