Hong Kong & China's trip 2008

After weeks of procrastinating, here is the post on my Hong Kong & China trip 2008 finally!
20th November to 30th November 2008 happy journey :)

Departure Day
On the day of departure, ming drove us to the airport.

So many luggages...


Yong's first time taking plane..
He was so excited on the way.


Departure gate- the start of our journey =)

Waiting to board the plane..

4 hours of flight and we reached HK airport finally :)

So excited....

His 1st picture in HK

The streets in HK at night was COLD and WINDY!!!

Finally reached grandma's place and was welcomed by this cute dog..

My aunt calls her 'ball ball' because she shapes like a ball haha.

Even my mum whom dislike dogs thinks she is cute too...

Even surprisingly, the cat which has been with my grandma since my last visit 3 yrs back was still there.

Dog and cat living under the same roof...

THe active dog is actually afraid of the fierce cat. HMMMmmmmmmmmmmm

How I want to put her into my luggage n bring her home lolz.

She is a dear....

She would always climb onto my lap when I sat on the floor and lay there comfortably...

ANd she only does that to me lolz..

Mum said maybe ball ball knew I dote her a lot.. cute*

Some restaurants in HK allows u to bring dogs in.

And I brought her along to the restaurant for dinner once.

It obediently sat and waited to be fed :) So cute.

Why can't sg be more flexible to allow such 'bonding' between pet and owner.. ?

Shen Zheng and Guang Zhou- Day 2

THe next morning we took a train to Shen Zheng.

A day of eating, manicure & pedicure and shopping!

Mum and Sis in the midst of service lolz.


N who says guys do not take care of their nails huh?


Spent 3 to 4 hours mani & pedi-curing,
then went to shop before taking the evening train to Guang Zhou...
Sis and I bought a pair of boots each, happy :)
CHEAP AND SO MANY VARIETIES AVAILABLE!!!

SHOE PARADIZE.
I love boots.

It is so much comfortable than any other foot wears, really.
But sadly, singapore is not a very suitable place to wear boots HAIZ.

REached Guang Zhou on the same night and cousin fetched us to the hotel.

That night, we had dinner with Grandma and my uncle's family....

So heartwarming :)

Day 3- the day of cousin's wedding

After morning tea, 2 of my cousins n her bf accompanied us to the famous streets to shop before the wedding dinner.

Took this outside our hotel room while waiting for the rest to be ready in the morning... *yawn*


Crowded streets..
MANY MANY SHOPS as u can see...
The length of Orchard Road to Dhoby Ghaut or maybe even City Hall, flooded with shops n malls.




Sis and I were shopping, patroning almost every shoe and apparels shop, while the rest just followed.. haha.
Kinda stress to shop when the rest were not...
Well, they said it was their task lolz.

Night time at the restaurant for cousin's wedding.

All my cousins :)
1st time with all my cousins (mother's side) around.
Pathetic right, haha.

The nice scenery outside the restaurant

Day 4- Shopping
Next day went to another famous street to continue our shopping.

And we had wanton mee in the shop :)
Nice noodle.. yummy

BIG candy floss

Yong stealing a bite..


After a day of endless walking,
cousin brought us for foot massage,

CHEAP!
SG$6 for an hour, inclusive a few mins of body massage before starting...
An enjoyment :)

Even the youngest one had the luxury to soak his feet in the warm herbal water.

Nite time, we had another scrumptious dinner.
That day we ate 4 meals. How I missed it :(

With my grandma

Mum & I in the hotel

That was our last nite in Guang Zhou.
The next morning we took a ferry to Macau.


Macau- Day 5

Stayed in Venetian hotel for a night...
Another luxury :)
One of my auntie whom works there got us half price for the hotel stay,
how nice!!
And the smallest room is a suite!!
How grand!

This is the bathroom... behind that white door is the toilet...
So spacious!

The comfy beds..

The room!


The big round mirror


EXPENSIVE burger set!
This cost SG $22.
I can buy 2 sets of carl's junior meal in sg.

That is the foodcourt,
nice place, and even NICER price.

Look so 'church like'

The hotel

Window sit in the room

2 loving hearts

AHH

Day 6- Back to Hong Kong
Touching up in the bathroom...
Taking my own sweet time lolz.

The hotel bath robe...

We took a cab out of the hotel to some place.
ANd we had this pork burger n noodle.. yummy.

Afternoon time, we took the express ferry back to HK!!
And that marked our last few days of holiday.

Hong Kong- Day 7

Our HK breakfast- ham n egg sandwiches
The egg yolk is dripping... onto the plate...

HK MTR

on the way to......? Make a guess..

Needs to queue for tickets...

OCEAN PARK!!!

The long escalator

Rollar Coaster behind

Underwater world

Dolphin show

Bro in law on the 'free fall'

He was somewhere up there

We took it too!!!
Don't believe?
See for urself..

WAHHHH!!

Ok, it is a scam =p

Here is where u call 'theme park'

Sis is hungry...

So am I!

Happy after eating burger..

High in mid air

That is the GIANT rollar coaster...

Sis n I sat on that monster once when we were still very young many yrs ago.
We were the dare devils then.

Asked me to sit on that again,
NO WAY!!

Burger in the shark mouth

Fruitful reward :)

Taking hot air balloon... flying off soon!!


Us on cable car...
Can u see the beautiful land?

cable car down to the lower portion of the park

Night time, we took the tram to the peak :)

HK nite scenery...
Now u need to pay a few dollars to come up here...
..... 3 yrs back when I was here with EHJ it was free...
sianz.

Did I mention that the wind was very STRONG that nite?
N I gave my jacket to cover my nephew.. BBbrrrrr..

The wind slapped strongly against me and I almost flew off... haha

It was so.... COLD YET FUN!!

Mum and I

Day 8- Lantau Island and Disneyland

Mountains everywhere

The cute couples

The real couples haha

Let's make a wish =)

What did sis wish for?

Cable car again

The beautiful land

The mickey mouse train

Inside the train..

mickey mouse handle

Even the seats r comfy

The tickets to entry


On arrival :)

Balancing well..

disney toot toot train

Long queue everywhere, even taking photos with disney characters also need to queue.
So we chose the shortest queue..

The devil wants to eat

Tea cup

Beautiful castle

Foresee ur future here

Auto car

The small little world....

The last show was the fireworks.
It started to 'snow' as everyone started to leave...
fake snow that was.

Disneyland is the children's paradise..
Not adults, not as fun as ocean park.

Day 9- Shopping at lady's street
We went shopping with cousin.
We didn't buy many clothing because everywhere were selling cold wears...
What a waste...

We had covered the sky, road and sea transport within 10 days :)

I like the cold weather there too....

Very chilling and got to wear thick clothing :)
But the down side was, there weren't many summer clothing to shop during this season.

Day 10- Home
I wasn't sad that the journey had ended.
Because I finally get to see ppl whom I had missed dearly back in singapore :)

I was disappointed at work and upset over some comments.
Shared it with a friend today during break and her words comforted me a little.
After work met up with CF after our long holiday respectively,
and felt more relieved after telling her the story.
Back to a happy gal now :)


One of them told me,
Others can comment on what u do, ignore it and it will be resolved somehow.
Maybe.



I was at Plaza Sing while waiting for ming few days back and saw some lucky dolls in a shop.
THe word lucky captured my attention.
I was thinking, 'maybe this is what I need now, luck.'
Knowing that the lucky dolls doesn't possess any supernatural powers to bring me any luck, but I still bought 1 for myself.
To encourage myself to move on n work hard, hahaa.
Crazy I know. 1st time buying DOLLS for myself.
I bought 1 for ming and 1 for CF, hoping to bring a smile to them too haha!
Must take care of it ar... =p

Watched Beast Stalker with ming few days back,
this movie was launched in HK during my stay there and I had planned to watch it once I return.
It was only rated 2 stars in yahoo movie, and ming was havign doubt to watch it.
I ignore it's rating n went ahead to watch it- I believe in my judgement that it is going to be a nice film hahaa!
Indeed it was, a catchy one! =)



After work today went to Cineleisure with Lina for movie, Cape 7.
THe review of this movie was wonderful, which I had quite high hopes on it.
But it was disappointing, which I would only rate it 2 stars or less.
Or maybe I do not know how to appreciate kinda touchy show.



Lately I have been thinking a lot.
I am tired of repeating, waiting and anticipating some things.
I questioned if I am going to be happy if somethings r left unchange?
Will things ever be better?



I want more.
No, I NEED more.



Sometimes I feel like giving up to search for what I need.
I'm not sure how satisfied I will be if I chose that path.
I thought, maybe I will get more in return if I were to stay.
So I'm here.
Hoping and still beliving is the right choice.



But I don't know if there were going to be a day I am drained and decide to run away from all these,
and never return.

Dad's bday

Today is Dad's birthday,
went to Long Beach at East Coast Park for dinner.
Ming brought along a bottle of red wine to the restaurant too.
Sis n I are crab lovers- we consumed most of the chili crabs and black pepper crabs =)



Bought a new dvd player with my coupon at Giant today.
And ming fixed the played in the living room for us.
Mum started to watch the HK drama- Heart of Greed.
Bought the Hk dramas- vol 1 & 2 in HK, fair bargain ;)

The fastest way to lose weight... go to work

Today was one of the WORST morning shift, again.
I was busy with 2 patients whom I spent the whole day on.
1 whom needed urgent ICU bed, while another needed urgent S/C continuous sedation etc..
And I had yet to do the morning doctor's round changes for the other patients.
How I wished there were 2 of me.


It was already 5.30pm when I finally got to sit down to complete my 2 discharges report,
when I should be off duty at 3.15pm.
Left the ward only at 6.30pm...
And no help was offered throughout, how sad.
I am not expecting anyone to help me when they have their own responsibilities too,
but how nice would it be if someone offer to help when u r struggling to multi- task alone.
It needs not be excessive, even words of concern would have make me feel much better.


And it was not my team-mates whom noticed it.
It was the palliative doctor whom had been struggling with that patient with me for the whole afternoon noticed I was still busy around in the evening.
ANd she even apologised for stressing me n told me to take it easy.
I was comforted for a moment.
But ain't it ironical to hear that from someone whom I had worked with for only 2 days while the others had been with me for a yr?



SHAG. 2 more days to my weekends off.
I do need a good rest.

Hunger

I miss those few days in China where we ate 4 heavy meals everyday.
1st day back to work and I had to skip my lunch n dinner.
1 biscuit n milo for breakfast until night when I reached home...
MAn.... Y did I grumble about eating so much when I was in China.... *slap*

Back and going to work =(

YOZ I AM BACK!!!!
=)
Is nice to be home, sleeping on my own bed and showering in my own bathroom.
The only night I slept comfortably was the stay in Macau,
the hotel is LUXURIOUS and really WOW.
The smallest room they have is a SUITE, omg!
I can't imagine how the other rooms look like.


THe room we stayed..



the comfy big bed

THe weather in china and hk is WOW!

COLD AND WINDY!!!

I have to wear 2 long sleeve and a jacket on the outside during the last few days.

The temperature was between 12 to 18 degree celsius, SHIOK!!!

THough cold n having to wear very thick, I like such kinda weather!!!! =)

Something which I can never experience in singapore.

My cousins said it is nice to have only 1 season in singapore etc...

Ironical rite... They like our weather here while most of us prefer theirs.

THe only miserable part about their weather was during the night in HK.

I slept on the upper deck in grandma's room, which was right beside the window.

And grandma doesn't close the window at nite and when the wind blew, it was CHILLED!!!

THe blanket and long sleeve shirt I wore were of no use...

My previous trip back I mentioned about the fierce and unfriendly cat in my grandma's house.

THe cat is still there, together with a puppy! Both under one roof haha.

THe puppy is super duper cute and lovely!

ANd it likes me too :p

ALways came to me when I sat on the floor, and automatically climbed onto my lap instead the rest.

So sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.....

Alright...

Will post in details soon....

Going back to work tml.. pathetic.

Nite!

On leave~

Went to watch Saw 5 with CF, tracy n Liz few days back,
and seems like there will be Saw 6 coming.
Lesser gruesome scene in Saw 5, but nice plot it has.



Next day meet Ming to town and had Pasta at a newly opened shop at Wheelock.
Chose the corner sit with a 'call bell' as our view was hidden by it's structure- n the bell is for our convenience to seek the waitresses attention..
I have to answer call bells at work, and now is time for others to answer my bell :p
Fair-ness.




And it rained heavily yesterday.
We were drenched while walking back to far east car park.
He looked tired when he drove back, and the question popped into my mind.
I asked him would it be nice if I do have a driving license too,
so that I can share his burden at times?
At least when he is tired n sleepy after duty, I could take over his driver's seat while he rest his eyes...
SOunds pretty nice too =)



But with so much things coming next yr, getting a license is the last priority in the list.
- Planning to go Taiwan or Australia (newly added by CF) in May
- Degree application in July
My top priority! =)


Told ming I intended to study degree next yr, and he said I have his full support :)
But it might interefere our plan to go Thai in Dec next yr then :(
I am not keen to spoil any oversea plan with my loved ones.
ANy way to have both??



Today attended Min's ROM in a temple- our 1st time witnessing buddhism wedding custom.
The couple had to walk down the aisle- smiliar to church solenmisation,
and a buddhist lama presides over the wedding.
WEnt to Party world after the ceremony with Cf, Liz, Tracy n Cindy..
Jay Chou rocks the whole room down haha!





More snapshots when I return next week =)



I finally packed and stuffed my clothing and necessities into the luggage tonight.
It is going to be a rush trip as we r going to several places within 10 days... SHIOK!
ANd I am already missing someone.
If only ming could come... =(

Changed

I guess I am difficult to get along with as I grow older.
Now, socialising is a chore to me.

Studying

While looking through the websites for information on nursing degree, I realised I am not keen to study yet.
I just want to have more time n fun after work to spend with boyfriend and friends,
than using my only free time to stress myself in books n exams.

But after some serious thinking, I convinced myself that I do NEED at least a degree to survive in this pathetic country which judges our worth with the certificate we hold.

The last long break I could remember was last yr when I went to Thailand.
And finally, I am having 2 weeks leave after a long wait,
I deserve it =)



After work today went to golden mile with ming and bought coaches ticket to Malacca =)
And the hotel reservation we made online is also confirmed, double joy.
Now I just have to hope n plead my ward sister will grant my requested off days in December...



Impromptu travel plans seem to work better all the time.
N I seem more eager to go M'sia with ming than HK without ming.
Haha. If only I could have both.



Was telling my colleague to keep me update when I'm away....
Hardworking employee I am ya :p

I love to work!

I am looking forward to work these few days because of 1 person.
My colleague said I am crazy.
I think I am. haha.
*Infatuation*

Ward Dinner

Apart from receiving $200 choice voucher, we had buffet dinner at Rivervale Hotel tonight as part of our post JCI appreciation.
Because it was non-halal dinner, mostly were the chinese that came.
However the muslims make-up dinner would be at Grand Hyatt next week, even nicer =p

A station gals

Many came..

n more...

'Tag u in facebook', we said.

No need for bluetooth if u own a facebook now -_-''''''

Car Accident

Lucky or unlucky?
My 1st time involved in a car accident in the middle of CTE :(



It was supposed to be a nice morning with ming coming over to my place after his overnight duty to have breakfast together.
And he was sending me to work when the mishap happened.
Not much of physical damage but according to ming, it might be costly despite the small dent of the other party's car. SAD.
But very lucky the car was moving at a slow rate as we were caught in a jam, thus no one was injured.



Hope the outcome would not be that severe.... *pray hard for him*

Ministry of Sound's gone

MOS is closed!!
I seemed to be late in updates...
Only to realise today when sis mentioned of going to St James next month,
and I asked 'y not MOS?', she said it was closed.
I said incredulously 'nah.. impossible... everyone goes there now'.
But it is true when I went online to find out more!
MOS has shut down!



I'm sad =(
I don't like zouk,
I don't like st james.
I only like going to MOS.
Looks like Zouk is going to be full house every Wednesday n weekends with 1 club down.
SAD!! =(

I can't wait for the next roaster to come =)