HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JING FENG!

I owe hell lots of ppl their bday presents. haiz. sometime i ought to get my lazy bum out there and start shopping for bday presents again.

anyways, hong kong was FUN! it was the 1st time i unleashed the "auntie" in me and started shopping. i guess I bought the most stuff in my clique, but most of them were for others. my kor alone got 3 presents lo. luckily he liked them else he'll get it frm me. heh.

got to noe more abt the hongkies lifestyle thru out my 5 days there. As wat i've seen on the news, hk ppl seriously walked at a fast pace, and tt includes their elderly. tis implies tt the walking speed i've in singapore (which I found fast) was actually equivalent to wat the elderly walks in hk. pooh.

They actually have different colours for taxis and police cars gg to different parts of hk. try tt in s'pore and I'll be confused before long. they oso hav lotsa underground tunnels and bridges to collect toll fees frm. and singaporeans are actually complaining of ERP being too expensive. try seeing how much charges they collect. Their bridges are nice though. too bad i forgot their names. =(

furthermore, shld any singaporean complain that their cars are too expensive to keep or their hses are too cramped, tink hk. their hses are the kind tt wld be under renovation by s'pore standards, and most ppl in hk tak public transport coz of the high costs in owning a car. I feel so lucky tt at least dad can own a car and we can hav a decent looking hse, even if its nt the best.

we oso saw the sampan ppl (ppl whom lived on the seas) its considered quite lucky coz they were the last of ther batch and I heard that the hk govt's gonna chase them to the shores to reclaim the sea or sth. the view frm the sea's damn nice too. which brings me to repulse bay. the view there's breathtaking, and they actually constructed hses by the bay. tt's equivalent to those hses u see at east coast. but i wld die to jus live by repulse bay coz their hses are damn nice and repulse bay's so much better and cleaner looking than east coast.

however, as the guide mentioned, ppl who can live on victoria peak and the mountains are MILLIONAIRES. so i can stop dreaming. btw, we saw jackie chan's and some TVB boss's hse on victoria peak. jackie chan's hse looks exactly lk the president's office- which u can only see the gate but nt the hse. the TVB boss's hse looks small and old but to our surprise, we knew that there's a tennis court, swimming pool, etc inside which we can't see frm our bus window of coz.

I dun rlly hate the food in hk jus tt it seemed a bit salty at times. the worst thing is tt they allow ppl to SMOKE in the teahse. which i totally hated. much of the time eating was spent on covering my nose frm the smoke instead. haiz. 1 nice thing to note is tt, their macs are better than ours in s'pore! their uniform looks nicer, and their food is cheaper! and they hav a greater variety of food too! this includes their milkshake (vanilla, choc and strawberry somemore), and their pineapple sundae which are absent in s'pore. their shake shake fries oso has more flavours than singapore's (garlic mayo and kimchi) and the fries paper bag has jolin tsai's face infront. try comparing tt to the ninja cartoons in s'pore.

hk at 10sth at nite looks as bustling as s'pore's orchard road in the evening. talk abt happening. u can see hk students wif uniforms similar to jap students walking on the streets even at late nite. hk ppl seemed to like to shop alot, and hav their dinners late. we can still see ppl eating at 10sth which is kinda hard to see in s'pore, unless u visit the kopitiams. the stuff hk has greater variety and is definitely better than s'pore? (in my opinion) too bad the price's nt cheap.

hk disneyland was nt bad too. played more rides. too bad waiting time for the pooh ride took us nearly an hr but the effects were much worth it. the workers there were real friendly and polite and the place wasn't as disoderly or horrendous as the newspaper had mentioned ba. jus dun rlly like lotsa chinese ard the place and some rlly cut the queue. some even stretched their hands out to grab the "cakes" in the theatre when they were infact jus 3D images. i jus found it damn amusing when u see ppl grabbing their hands at nth in the air. the fireworks were of coz wonderful, and i regretted nt chopping a gd position to tak pictures. however, it was a long walk to disneyland and I was alr tired b4 i reached the main gate. lousy me.

and did i mention their mtr? its roughly similar to s'pore's, jus tt they use cantonese, eng and mandarin for the announcements. the gd thing abt hongkies here is tt everyone jus automatically shifts to the right aft getting on the escalator, which is rarely a sight in s'pore.

lastly, I guess I was kinda traumatized by the cantonese they spoke there. even aft 5 days there, I could still barely speak a word of cantonese. and bargaining is hard without cantonese. their service standards wasn't as excellent as ppl hav told me ba, unless u include the shopping centres. their airport's very big (as big as kowloon) and modern, but it doesn't giv me a cosy feeling. yup. i still love changi airport!