the jellyfish is back! This post is about the 1st 2 days of the HK trip which i went around 7 weeks ago? ^^

Departure Date and time: 29th July, 0640 hours

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Day 1

- Plane flight to HK
- Hotel Stay
- Women's street visit


Slept at 8pm on previous night, after making, i mean watching 'Love' on TV. Woke up at 2.30am the next day.

Rode father's car to airport, nothing interesting there. =D

0430 hours - Reached the beautiful T3 Changi Airport. I tink long time never go airport already, therefore see already like very amazed. =P

0500 hours - Checked in the babbage and everything, then walked around T3, until about 6+. T3 got a random OSIM massage chair, and random posters for colouring. Cute sia!

0640 hours - Departure from SG!

Plane Info: Boeing 747 plane
Flight no? : UA896 (United Airlines)
Class: Economy

A guy was trying to be funny, losing his black bag on the plane, even before it took off. The plane was quite crammed, and sadly my seat was nt the window seat. =(

Fortunately the seat was quite near the 'TV' screen, so it was rather not bad, since the view of the screen is clear.

The plane then took off. The speed is damn fast, but for obvious reasons. The temperature of the plane has a strong negative correlation with the altitude of the plane, cos it got very cold up in the sky, but was hot when on land. O_O

Watched random feature films and National Geographic channels, some were interesting, espacially the urban part of the tallest city (is it 300 storeys?). Geog lessons while in the plane, fantastic and excellent. Got another one is about people slimming down, and for some strange reasons needed mice, turkeys to do experiments. Got one more is about agriculture, but i fell asleep halfway while watching that...

When i woke up, I saw the screen saying that the temperature is -53 degree Celsius, while the flying speed is 888km/h. A bit scary ya? =D

Breakfast was light, consisting of a peach cheese bread, a chocolate muffin, and cup fruits, with cups of orange juice, wahaha. ^^ The food was quite nice, espacially the peach chesse bread. The adults didnt really like it though.

A pity I didn't take any pictures from the sky, but all I can see was clouds, and more clouds. Smooth flight, and thats about all for the morning flight!

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1030 hours - Hong Kong!

Reached this beautiful place, the weather is the same as SG for now, summer, or perhaps a bit hotter than SG.

We took a sky train (1 station only) to the arrival hall and then took all the babbages at a beautiful conveyer belt? ^^ After that took a bus for approx 30 mins to Royal Park Hotel. Saw HK's ports and beautiful mountains along the way. ^^

1230 hours - Reached the hotel, put down the things on the floor and went to the shopping malls to walk for a while and have lunch.

Ironically, the 1st meal isn't any special HK food, but tako instead. -.- For 32HK dollars, is not bad. (4 octopus balls, 1 jap pancake, and noodles)

Oh btw 1SGD = 5.3 to 5.6HKD. For convenience, Let 1SGD = 5HKD (c.c)

Cantonese is seriously important if you want to survive in HK. There were seriously minimal people who speak Chinese, and for English, don't think about it unless you are in the Airport. So for the shopping experience on the 1st day, i just remained silent, nod head, smile.

Halfway, went to a Coffee shop, which is a restaurant, to have some desserts / coffee. The coffee cup looks super small, although the adults said that the coffee is great. I tried the plain waffles, also look very small... The taste was ok, like nt much greatness, compared to outside. The price difference was significant though.

1430 hours - Room 709

Got the hotel key! The hotel room is quite spacious, 2 beds, TV, cabinet, fridge, and a toilet with a bathtub!!! ^^

Of course, being a super mountain tortoise, I went to use the bathtub. Stayed in the bathtub for 10 to 15 minutes, and since it was very boring while in the bathtub, so hmm...

Watched Tom and Jerry Cartoons in the afternoon... Thinking back, childhood memories are great!

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Approx 1800 hours - Women's street at night!

Women's street: A night market shopping experience, espacially for women.


This is a place where you must go if you want to shop for cheap clothing / cheap but nice food. ^^ Went with 2 of my father colleagues and parents, namely T and K for convenience. So just walked around, with all the clothing, shoes, luggages, souvenir, etc. My mother loved the place, for obvious reasons. ^^

Dinner eat a proper dinner, so ate some street snacks, which contained quite an amount of meat? Siew Mai, chicken mid-joint-wing and beef.

5 Mushroom and pork Siew Mai for 8HKD. So bought 2 sticks of these for 16HKD. ^^ (Estimated 32 cents per siew mai) The taste is ok, since nt many roadside siew mai in SG have mushrooms in it. The chicken and the beef are the recommended ones, since their flavouring and taste are both awesome!!! The beef was a bit spicy though, but most should love it. ^^

Also tried the 'Dan zai', which is actually just toasted egg crisps, the taste quite zai, just like the streets. (It works both ways)

My father was finding some sport shoes since it was rumoured that it is relatively cheaper compared to SG. Lost our way there, so wasted about 30+ minutes just trying to find the street with the shoes, and of course we found the street at the end. Seriously, the street is really filled with shops selling shoes. By turning 360 degrees, you can see more than 15 shoe shops...

Bought quite a few pairs in the end. One pair is 228HKD approx. (thats SGD45.60) It should be cheaper rite? =D After buying shoes, saw an ice-cream truck, so just bought a soft vanilla ice-cream and indulge. ^^

After the long walk in the streets, we went to mac to have desserts (the nearest place we found and rest). The mac things are seriously cheaper compared to SG.

One extra-value meal: Around 4.80SGD (Not MacValue lunch time btw)
6-pc Nuggets meal offer: Around 3.50SGD (wth!)

The Mac in HK sells sausage Mcmuffin with egg in the night, so i ate that for a snack. After resting, we bought some roasted chicken and goose to go back to the hotel and enjoy.

A tiring day, but hey at least is a shopping experience! I tried the chicken, it was nice! Didn't try the goose though. Watched Tom and Jerry at night again lol.

2330 hours - Sleep! And this ends Day 1 of the trip! ^^

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Day 2 post: Just below
Day 3 post: Not done!
Day 4 post: Not done!

11:49 PM