My Hong Kong Trip Day 4 & 5

Day 4 / 7 June 2008 / Saturday

This is the day where you all had your expedition. And I was enjoying myself, so I'm feeling a bit guilty. Hehe. Nevertheless, I got miss you guys lah. =P

I woke up at about 8.30am and it was still raining. It had not stopped since yesterday, and most shops were closed. School lessons were suspended and many did not have to report for work. So it's like an unexpected holiday. By the way, the school holidays in Hong Kong is different from Singapore. I think they just started their holidays, when you guys have enjoyed half of it. We didn't had much plan on what to do today, so we woke up later than usual.

After preparing ourselves, we went to the hotel lounge at the 19th floor for breakfast. They serve breakfast, lunch and tea break. The lounge isn't that big, and it was quite full when we arrived there, so we had to share table with another person. Looking outside, the weather hasn't improved at all. The breakfast was like american style - eggs, ham, sausage, rice, cornflakes, oatmeal and fruits.

View from the lounge

Breakfast~

It was around 9.45am when we finished our breakfast, and we wanted to travel around the MTR stations, so we first went to the shopping centre in Mong Kok station. Almost all the shops were closed, and no people were there. We stopped by a supermarket and took our time to walk around. Then, we decided to buy a 1-day travel ticket with unlimited travel for just HK$50 each. We proceed on to Lai Chi Kok, and visited the shopping centre located directly above the MTR. The cellings are quite low; and the shops are small too. We looked around and my mum bought a few clothings. We even chatted with one of the shopkeepers and we stayed there till 11.30am.

After which, we didn't know where to go, and my mum prompted me to go a certain place which I mentioned as I looked at the MTR stations. Guess what is the place? It's Disneyland! Yay. Hence, we took train to Disneyland station.

Lai Chi Kok shopping centre - notice the low cellings.

MTR to Disneyland station - Special train

Hong Kong Disneyland~

Each entrance ticket costs HK$350 each for peak days, $290 for non-peak days. Since today is a weekend, its considered a peak day. Well, after we got our ticket, we went in and walked around the houses, which are shops selling souviners and stuff. We looked around and bought shirts, gifts, slippers and stuff. We could only enter the "Cinderella Castle" at 2pm, where there will be rides, games and visual entertainment.

As 2pm approached, we proceed into the castle. We took a boat ride, where fake elephants spray water, sounds of barbarian can be heard and smoke coming out from nowhere. In addition, the boat ride guide did actions to make the situation looked real. We also went to see the 3D Mickey show, where we wore the special glasses to see the 3D effect. There were occasional sprinkles of water to make the entire scene more realistic. We also walked around Tarzen's "house", where we see different parts of Tarzen's story. I then took a roller coaster ride, which my parents didn't want to participate. Finally, we queued up for a car ride. It was about 4pm when we finished the car ride, and my parents wanted to leave already, as they arranged to meet with our grandma & gang to buy "Wife's biscuit". We completely forgot that we didn't have lunch; we had too much fun to even feel that we were hungry.

As we travelled back, we decided to meet with my cousin instead, as my uncles had already bought their "Wife's biscuit". So we met up with her, and had dinner at a restaurant at Tsim Sha Tsui. It was still drizzling when we arrived. Tsim Sha Shui, being a popular area, was filled with people. We went 2 restaurants; we got rejected by one restaurant as they were having a wedding and the whole restaurant was booked. Next, we went to Hard Rock Cafe to buy some T-shirts. We actually wanted to find the "Wife's Biscuit" shop, but we had trouble finding it, but only to realize that it had moved to somewhere else after asking some workers nearby. We postponed our search to tomorrow, as we went back to our hotel and watch The Chornicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in Cantonese.'

My cough came back as usual. It got so bad that I woke up every hour.

Day 5 / 8 June 2008 / Sunday

We woke up early to eat breakfast in the hotel lounge. We went there early as my parents wanted to "be the early bird that gets the worm". The weather was fine today. After breakfast, we went back to our hotel room and rest for a while. At 10.30am, we set off to meet our cousin once again, along with her husband, who will bring us to buy "Wife's biscuit".

But first, she bought us to have.. breakfast again at Wong Tai Sin. I didn't eat much since I was quite full from the breakfast earlier. Then, my cousin & mum went to the temple nearby, while my cousin's husband went home first. I walked around the shopping centre. Afterwards, we went shopping at Lok Fu, next to Wong Tai Sin. We bought orange buns(new release) and strawberries. Then we went to look for our "Wife's biscuit". We went to Mong Kok, and after some searching, we finally found the shop. We bought the entire tray of Wife's biscuits and gave one box to my cousin.

We went back to the hotel, and it was around 3pm. Our bus would arrive at 5pm, but my father wanted to play safe. Played too safe, perhaps. Anyway, we went to the lounge and had sandwhiches, tea and coffee. We waited around 4.45pm, before we headed down to wait. At the airport, we checked in our stuff, and hanged around the airport until 7pm, before we proceed to the gate. We boarded the plane at 8.15pm, and arrived back to Singapore at 11.45pm. The luggage carrier was slightly delayed, and when we got our luggages, it was 12.15am. Well, finally home sweet home.

Some things I've noticed : There are MANY 7-11 stores around. I can find two 7-11 stalls in a MTR station! Wow. And they have shops along the exit, which is very convinient for people to stop by and grab some food or a drink before going off. Their "blinking" maps inside the train are also very useful in guiding tourists. However, a lot of buildings are erroded by the acid rain, but I've seen news that the government is doing something about it. Hong Kong is quite similar to Singapore in terms of buildings and convinence, but the cultures and living styles are very different. If you have the chance, go explore Hong Kong. It's a good experience. =D