Ocean Park

Woke up early in the morning, dumped our luggage at NTT hotel near Baptist University then headed for Ocean Park. You should always go to Ocean Park in the morning as it is less crowded in the morning which you can have the luxury of visiting those popular attraction rather than queuing up long queues for it when those tour groups arrive later in the afternoon. First attraction was the Ice wonderland, where inside is an attraction of many ice sculptures. It's Freezing cold in there! -10 to -15 degrees in there, coats are provided. Even with the coats, the hands were not protected from the cold, it's so cold that having your hands exposed to the cold air is close to giving me frostbite. Can feel my hands getting numb whenever I have to take the camera out to take some pictures.

Damn Cold.


Gonna be one of the ice popsicle soon

After a freezing but fun encounter, out to take pictures with Santa Claus and his beautiful elf.

It's funny that you'll never see Santa's wife. It's always with his elf. Santa would be damn happy everyday that he got such beautiful elves working for him. Proceeded to play some of the rides in ocean park. I love taking roller coasters alot. Probably it's because of the thrill of such high velocity turns and twists that make it so exciting. However I'm afraid of those falling rides. Somehow when I'm falling, my heart seems to run up to my throat. It's a very scary feeling.

After the rides, ran to some house where mischievous elfs are trapped in it.

This got caught slacking by us


After so much fun, I'm hungry!

Finally we went to the Panda gallery where we get to see the new pandas that was a gift to Ocean Park. The new pandas were busy sleeping so, the older pandas where more of an attraction that day. Warning the picture below may not be suitable for work.


Panda porn.


After a tiring day, went back for dinner with her friends.

Bye bye see you again soon!

Lamma Island

28 Dec 07

Woke up in the morning waiting for her dad to go to work. You just can't imagine how exciting and amazing it was hiding from her father when we were living in the same house!
Anyway packed up for the afternoon to head for lamma island in HK. Before going to the ferry terminal in Central, went for lunch at Satay King in Mong Kok. It's some kind of restaurant, cheap and value for money. At first I thought they are popular for their satay as the name states. But it wasn't satay that was popular. It's well known for it's white curry rice. Never seen white curry rice before. So I ordered it.

You can choose the meat to go with the curry. Ordered the first meat in the menu. Some kind of pork. Here comes my food.

Tah dah! Delicious! The curry goes well with the hot white rice and pork. The pork is soft and tasty. The curry tasted sweet, have a slight milky taste and not very spicy at all. It resembles the japanese curry except it's white. Do try this when you are in HK. There are many chain outlets around in HK. Next is Toufu.

Nice texture, smooth inside.

Crab fried rice omelette. Reminds me of nasi pataya. Inside the rice there's bits and pieces of crab meat. I could even find small crab claws in it. The sauce is tangy and the fried rice is fragrant. I'm full after eating the white curry rice but somehow I kept putting spoonfuls of rice in my mouth.
After a full lunch, went to Central Harbor to take the ferry to Lamma Island. It's about a 1 hr ride to the island. Having a cold sea breeze while sitting on the deck, enjoyable.
Arrived at Lamma Island jetty at sun down, the view is beautiful. This place is more popular with expatriates as the place has chalets, pubs, seafood, nice and quiet environment plus there's hiking to do. Went to get our keys for our room. It's located just above a restaurant with a sea view balcony. So you could hear the sea waves and clanking of glass wines. A good place of relaxation.

There you could find many drinking pubs and also many of the shops sell wine for you to enjoy your drinking. Rented Lust/Caution 色,戒 VCD to watch in our room and bought some snacks. We were too full from the heavy lunch we had in the afternoon. Well as a movie from Lee Ang, luckily it wasn't too boring compared to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the plot was quite well depicted. The some of the sex scene was pretty real that you thought the actors were doing it for real. I do not know some sex scenes were cut in the Cat III VCD compared to the movie, the oral scene was too short. Lp was so disappointed that she wasn't able to see Tony Leung Chau Wai's Balls, she almost threw the VCD out of the window.

Dusk turn to night, looking out of the balcony viewing the serene night scene.

Stars in the night, can you identify what constellation it is?

Good Night.
Woke up to have our breakfast at the balcony. Have a hearty breakfast to prepare for a hike in the mountains of Lamma Island. Hiking the way up was kind of fun, on the way up found a small shop selling beancurd. It's popular for it's beancurd in lamma island.


The beancurd is smooth and refreshing. Perks me up for the long walk ahead. As we hike up the hill, the path gets steeper and steeper. It's quite exhausting to walk up for 30 mins of steep slope carrying about 6 kg of load.

Halfway up the hill....
The path leads you to one part of the island to another part of the island but you'll have to climb through the hill in between.

Will there be cows waiting for me at the top?
Finally we reached the other side and took a ferry back to HK. Went to a food exhibition after that. Bought alot of cheap instant food. Like instant noodles and pasta. Really cheap.

Cafe Le must

27 December

26 December was boxing day, but it's a tough day for Lp as she had to mug for her HK CPA exams. Studying hard at trying to understand the stuffs she study and also fighting off the many temptations from her sisters and from me. How suffering for her.

Studying in progress.......

27 December, Friday was exam day for her, accompanied her to the school while carrying all the heavy files she has to bring for reference in the exams. The files were so big and heavy that many candidates had to bring luggages to contain those files. Sent her, then return home. After that went back to school to bring lunch to her, then walked back on my own home carrying some files back while she took the next test. Finally at finished her exams at 5 pm, went back down to fetch her again. So to celebrate her end of suffering, brought her to a french restaurant which was highly rated by the people in Hong Kong. Called to book a table for 7.30 pm. First talked to the staff in English but they can't understand much so have to need some help from Lp again to book the table.
Reached the place at Hung Hom 紅磡 Shopping Centre. You can get there by KCR. As we were there early, walked around the shopping centre, there's a Gundam exhibition and event, Gundam fans will love it. Cheap.

Almost 7.30 pm, went to the restaurant and took our seats. There's a set dinner which appetizers, soup, main course, dessert and drinks. There is no set dishes for the set dinner, you can choose any kind you like for your dinner, some dish will have to add some extra charge. I apologise for not having the chance to take a photo of the menu but the varieties are good and interesting. I may not be able to recall the exact name of the dish, so pardon me.

The ambiance of the restaurant was nice and romantic. Good for bringing your loved one for a nice night of pleasure dining. Both of us ordered different dishes so we could pleasure our taste buds.

Appetizers

Baked Escargots in Mushrooms 焗 田 螺
Lp's appetizer, it's her first time eating snails, at first she's quite disgusted at the thought of eating snails but once she tasted it, she liked it. The escargots are baked well and full of flavor, combined with the mushroom, it's really good. Lp doesn't eat mushrooms so I ate all of them. Yummy!


Scallops With Asparagus Salad
Nice flavor of scallops and asparagus. Delicious. Starts your appetite for more.


Soups

Foie Gras Chestnut Soup 鵝 肝 栗 子 蓉 湯
This is really good, taste a little like peanut dessert. But was kind of full to finish the soup after the mushrooms from lp.


Lobster Bisque
Didn't really like this, too much alcohol taste as burning brandy was added into the soup. Probably tasted better without the brandy.


Main Course

Venison Steak in Red Wine
Delicious, it's deer's meat but having cooked in medium rare condition, it's juicy and really makes you want to have another slice of meat.


Lamb Steak
Cooked medium, juicy and nice. Didn't know that there's a strong coating of wasabi/mustard on the meat. I was boosted with an overwhelming hotness that almost left me crying. Lol.

Desserts
This is what girls are waiting for the most at the end of the meal. I'm also waiting for the desserts to try how good is it. I was in for a nice surprise.

Apple Tart
I must say it's really really good. It's one of the best hot dessert I ever tasted in a restaurant. The apple tart is warm, the crust is crispy and the apple is sweet. Thumbs up!


Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake
Looks simple, but when you put this in your mouth, you can have an orgasm eating it. It is just so good. The cold chocolate mousse just melts in your mouth while you chew on the soft cake. Lp looks as if in heaven eating it. She wanted more after that. This is a must have dessert.


She didn't even bother to use the fork......


Wonderful dinner there. The bill was about HK$460+ for 2 persons which is cheap considering it's a french dinner. For the food you get it's really worth it. The service was really really good. The waitresses are friendly and ready to meet your needs. They even asked about the food is it up to our liking. Really good service.

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve night, Lp asked me to pack 1 day of clothes. To where it's a mystery. Took a bus to Tsim Sha Tsui Harbor. I'm still wondering where is she going to bring me to kidnap. The harborfront is a beautiful sight at night. After much guessing, guess what can we do at the harbor? Going on a cruise!
Waited till about 6+ for the ferry to arrive and take us to the cruise ship. It's Lp's first time on a cruise so she thought that the cruise ship will berth at the harbor but it's too large so we have to take a ferry which will bring us to the ship. Anyway it's my first time too. Once on the ship we have to check in for our rooms. Seems there's many China mainlanders going on the ship. No one likes them for they are digusting and uncivilized. If Singapore's kiasuism is ugly, they are 100000000x worse. Jumping queues, shoving to be the first in queue, digging their noses, etc. Yucks.

Got our rooms, so went to find where our cabin was, finding our way in the ship was certainly confusing as we have to go up and down the stairs. After abit of walking we found our cabin! Put our stuffs down and headed for our Chirstmas dinner..... in the Karaoke lounge!

First soup was served, then a lobster for appetizer, then foie gras and main course was steak. Lobster was good, foie gras ok, but too bad can't eat beef so passed it to Lp where she gobbled it up eagerly. Dessert was bad, the mud pie was too sweet, only the biscuit was edible. After dinner headed back to the cabin for a rest, then headed out again to explore the ship and also the casino. Tried our luck in the casino as we have 2 free tickets for credits. So we played 大小 dice. Lost both times, first bet small, then the result wasn't small or big! Then second time bet small, and the result was big. Ok no luck. Lol. Explored the ship, damn cold outside as strong winter winds was blowing. At 11 pm there was a BBQ at the deck so had a little fun BBQ as I was still hungry from the dinner. The scene was kind of sleazy as can see men feasting on the meat while prostitutes tempting them. Some perverts even leering at other girls thinking that they are prostitutes when they are the ship's guests.

Once nothing more to explore, went back to the cabin for a rest while enjoying the rocking of the ship in the rough seas.

Merry Christmas!!

Autumn in Hong Kong

8 Nov 07
Reached HK international Airport about 8.15 pm. Waited through the customs for about 1/2 hour before going through. Hong Kong immigration is really busy. There's always long queues for waiting to go through the immigration counters. And the wait is really really long. Finally met LP again after so such a long period of time! How excited I was! Took the A21 bus to Kowloon, time to see the busy night of Hong Kong again! Stopped in Mong Kok for dinner and snacks to fill up my hungry stomach. Curry fishballs are delicious! I say it is a must try for those going to Hong Kong! It's delicious to eat spicy balls in the cold weather!
The first night was spent in LP's apartment. I had to be smuggled into the house! Cause her father haven't got to know me yet. So we sneaked in while her dad was in his room and hid in her room for the whole night. I felt I was in some spy thriller film... lol
After settling down, we went out for some desserts in Kowloon City which has lots of restaurants and dessert stalls. Went to this dessert shop which is sweet, nice and healthy! Took the name card of the shop so for those going to Hong Kong can visit this shop in Kowloon City.




9 Nov 07
Lp's graduation day at Hong Kong Baptist University. Took a few pictures with her in the school backyard. Had a morning Yum Cha in her school's Dim Sum restaurant. Really delicious dim sums there. Had har gao, siew mai, fuzu wrapped shrimps and deep fried, any many more that I can't remember.

The school is separated into 2 locations. The new building and the old building. Went to the new building to register her for her attendance. Met lots of her friends there along the way and took many pictures together.

Really lots of people there, oh did I mentioned there are many babes there? Hahaha just to wet your appetite. Girls are pretty in Hong Kong. The school is quite small compared to NTU. You definitely won't get lost in there! Dumb NTU being built so far away from home. Graduations are really boring. It's just waiting for your certificate and a handshake from the school's principal. Then after a speech, it's done! I guess the most enjoyable part is taking photos with your friends in the University and the moment of graduation before you head out to the working society.

Tons of graduates!


I've graduated!!

Did I mentioned that the most enjoyable part is taking photos? It's definitely the most tiring part too! Took lots and lots of pictures from the morning till the evening that everyone was really shagged out. After all the tiring photo taking, had dinner with LP and her friends. Thereafter, went back home for a rest and had family dinner with her mum and sis. Had a really full dinner!!! Her mum knowing that I liked seafood, she bought many prawns and fishes. The only ones eating them were her mum and I cause Lp and her younger sis doesn't really like seafood.

After a nice dinner, we were about to leave home when her dad just came back! I had to run back to hide in a cupboard in case her dad came into her room! Finally he left after a while and we were able to leave. Crazy experience!
We can't stay for another night in her home cause her sister is back from China, so had to check into some hostel outside. Stayed in some backpacker accomodation called USA Hostel. It is located in Mirador Mansion 美丽都大厦 in Tsim Sha Tsui. Mirador Mansion is a place where there are many backpacker hostel located. It is quite shady there, but not as complicated as the infamous Chungking Mansion 重慶大廈. But still it is pretty creepy over there. Lp was quite scared walking in there. Well it's my first time trying out in a budget hostel, so it's quite and experience. There's a lot of foreigners staying in the hostels. However we didn't get the room which I booked. I wanted a double bed, but they gave us a twin bed instead. My girlfriend wasn't too happy about it. She wanted to see the double bed room which was even suckier than the twin room. So we took the twin room. The room is quite clean for a budget hostel although there are some things missing from what it was advertised. At least the air conditioning and heater was working. Budget hostel is probably affordable for backpackers in a group who needed a clean bed to sleep in. Those who are couples or girls, a decent hotel is better for safety reasons and a peace of mind though it's more expensive.

The mess of clothes

10 Nov 07
Went to Macdonalds for breakfast in Central while Lp went for her lessons there. Stayed in Macdonalds for the whole afternoon studying Biomolecules while waiting for her. Hong Kong newspapers are pretty much interesting read. There are a few different types of newpapers but the most popular was probably the Apple Daily which costs HK$6. Most of the news revolves around Hong Kong, little much news on the world. It has lots of lots of stock market and property analysis, I guess about 5-10 pages of it. This shows that stock playing is a very much big part of culture for Hong Kong residents. Well there's another very interesting read is there's a sex section where columnists will write about their sex experience with the various prostitutes in some XXX nightclub or bars. Many pictures of sexy prostitutes and recommendations on which girl gives the best service. Quite an exciting read for guys. But the writing was just too exaggerated that it gives you a good laugh! One sentence which the columnist wrote about having sex with big tits: "Banging her till it felt like flying into the sky and heavens" LOL. Funny!

After her lessons, we had sushi lunch at a good Japanese restaurant in Causeway Bay. Took the electric tram to SOGO. Really a cheap way of transport! HK$2 for the trip only! Met some french tourists in the tram asking for directions to Causeway Bay. HK is quite a complicated place to look for direction cause the whole town looks all the same! After a delicious lunch, we went to the ferry terminal to go to an island called Cheung Chau 長洲. It's a popular place for a beach resort and seafood. Took a fast craft there which was about 1/2 hour. The sun was setting when we reached there and the place was quiet and different from the fast paced of Hong Kong. Everyone walked at a leisurely pace while enjoying the fishing village scenery. The cold winds near the beach was blowing while we searched for our holiday resort... brrrrrrr. Finally checked into the room and we got a nice view of the sea!

Settled down for the nice and we went exploring the island. The night life there was great! You can see people having their seafood dinner at various seafood restaurants by the seaside, old people sitting at the benches gossiping, couples sharing ice cream bought from the convenience store. Kind of got used to the chattering of cantonese after a few days in Hong Kong. Feeling peckish, we had some cheap seafood dinner by the seaside. Really really cheap! Had 3 dishes of seafood, had scallops, deep fried 九肚鱼, and fried 濑尿虾. My first time trying such seafood which I had no idea what creatures are they. I have never seen them being sold in Singapore seafood restaurants.

Fried 濑尿虾: HK$28


Deep fried 九肚鱼: HK$28


Scallops!!: HK$28


Having a great night: Priceless

The Deep fried 九肚鱼 is best eaten hot where it's still crispy and it taste well dipped with soya sauce. Fried 濑尿虾 is kind of like crayfish, but I really don't know what it is in english. Why is it called 尿虾, I guess because of the shell has a slight salty taste. But it taste really good. There is a kind of culture in Hong Kong where they gave you a pot of hot tea and a big bowl. The tea is to actually wash and sterilise your utensils, it can be used for drinking also. After rinsing your chopsticks, spoons, glasses and bowls, dump the tea into the bowl.
After a delicious dinner, we took a nice night walk around the village. You can see people barbecuing around their houses. Time seems to pass by slower in Cheung Chau. Saw some kids playing bubbles in front of their houses. The scene of bubbles flying around looked so pretty!



Rested for the night there watching some tv

11 Nov 07
Woke up at dawn to watch the sunrise. But it was too foggy to see the sun rising. Then went back to sleep till the sun shines. Left the island about 9.30 am in the morning having "you tiao chee chung fun" Nice.

Bye bye!