Yes I am collecting my key from HDB later! :)
Hence not working so that's why can stay up so late to blog! :)
Monday, March 31, 2008
A brave boy
The previous entry reminded me of my ex-pro******** Bru** Tan. He just ended pro****** earlier this month.
His parents used to be gamblers and not surprisingly they ended up with alot of debts. The mother now works 2 jobs to pay off the debts and Bru** would also work during the school holidays to earn his own pocket money.
The father? He does odd-jobs, got work got money kind. He has a skill in cooking and I tried to recommend to him some job but it never materialise. I forgot the excuse that he gave. Anyway, he in my opinion is useless. He does not bring money home and he does not care for his sons.
Bru** is not only brave but he is also a sweet boy. The day he ended pro******, he told me 'any problem call me'. Most of the time, kids would say 'Can I call you again after I end pro*****?' I was very touched by his 'offer'.
I hope he would make it to the national and then international tchoukball scene.
His parents used to be gamblers and not surprisingly they ended up with alot of debts. The mother now works 2 jobs to pay off the debts and Bru** would also work during the school holidays to earn his own pocket money.
The father? He does odd-jobs, got work got money kind. He has a skill in cooking and I tried to recommend to him some job but it never materialise. I forgot the excuse that he gave. Anyway, he in my opinion is useless. He does not bring money home and he does not care for his sons.
Bru** is not only brave but he is also a sweet boy. The day he ended pro******, he told me 'any problem call me'. Most of the time, kids would say 'Can I call you again after I end pro*****?' I was very touched by his 'offer'.
I hope he would make it to the national and then international tchoukball scene.
After-thoughts
Watched an episode of 年过半百 on channel 8 earlier. It is about elderly persons whom despite having lived to over half a century old, are still earning their own keeps. The uncle they featured prompted me to pen down this entry.
Uncle is 68 years old and he works as a HDB cleaner. Although he officially starts work at 5am, he is often on his job by 330 to 4am. He lives in Hougang and wakes up at 3am everyday and he cycles to work at Seng Kang.
He prefers to start work early so that he can sweep the area outside the shops before the shops open for business. Such is his being considerate and dutiful in carrying out his duties.
However, he only sweeps the flats' corridor floor by floor after 9am. He does not want to disturb the people sleeping. He also notices that early in the morning, there will be young children sitting at their doorsteps eating their breakfast; he is afraid that the dust will get into their food when he sweeps the floor. He is mindful about households who have babies and he carries out his chores outside their houses quietly so that he does not scare the babies with loud noises. Such is beyond being considerate, meticulous and dutiful.
Most admirable is he is NOT getting any paycheck for this job. He is merely helping his wife who is the one officially employed under HDB as a cleaner. He does not want to see his wife slogging alone. 2 persons doing the job, 1 paycheck. Without any complains, carrying out his duties more than people who receive paycheck would.
Some quotes from uncle:
'You can blame fate, but you cannot blame heaven'
'Some people say my job is without prospects, but I do my job well and this is what I am good at'
'There is no job that it too low'
'If I do my job with a sob face, then I should just stay at home'
Uncle I salute you.
During the course of my work, I have come across many people from different walks of life. This includes adults who are able bodied yet not working because of their sorry/crappy reasons. I cannot bring myself to sympathise nor empathise with them. I only pity their children whom most likely would be entrenched in this cycle of poverty; and I wonder for how many generations to come.
I think those adults are really cowards living in their own tineey whineey miserable world and hoping for money to drop from the sky or people to feed them. They think downgrading their flats make them lose face and earning less than a $1000 per month is too lowly paid. So, they would rather have their electricity cut off and have their children dropped out prematurely from school. Tell them the government would feed them and their family for as long as they live in exchange for a limb and they would most probably agree. Ok maybe I exaggerated some bit. Anyway some of the excuses they have that really make me want to smack them right at their faces: eg -
1. I have a foul temper and I can only be my own boss.
2. The pay is so low I do not earn anything after minusing off the transport and meal expenses.
3. I have never worked that kind of job before.
Enough said.
Uncle is very much like my dad. My dad is only a year younger than uncle. Ask my dad not to work? That is more difficult than going to the moon. Just that he is taking work a little less serious now; and when he is tired he would return home to rest.
Uncle is 68 years old and he works as a HDB cleaner. Although he officially starts work at 5am, he is often on his job by 330 to 4am. He lives in Hougang and wakes up at 3am everyday and he cycles to work at Seng Kang.
He prefers to start work early so that he can sweep the area outside the shops before the shops open for business. Such is his being considerate and dutiful in carrying out his duties.
However, he only sweeps the flats' corridor floor by floor after 9am. He does not want to disturb the people sleeping. He also notices that early in the morning, there will be young children sitting at their doorsteps eating their breakfast; he is afraid that the dust will get into their food when he sweeps the floor. He is mindful about households who have babies and he carries out his chores outside their houses quietly so that he does not scare the babies with loud noises. Such is beyond being considerate, meticulous and dutiful.
Most admirable is he is NOT getting any paycheck for this job. He is merely helping his wife who is the one officially employed under HDB as a cleaner. He does not want to see his wife slogging alone. 2 persons doing the job, 1 paycheck. Without any complains, carrying out his duties more than people who receive paycheck would.
Some quotes from uncle:
'You can blame fate, but you cannot blame heaven'
'Some people say my job is without prospects, but I do my job well and this is what I am good at'
'There is no job that it too low'
'If I do my job with a sob face, then I should just stay at home'
Uncle I salute you.
During the course of my work, I have come across many people from different walks of life. This includes adults who are able bodied yet not working because of their sorry/crappy reasons. I cannot bring myself to sympathise nor empathise with them. I only pity their children whom most likely would be entrenched in this cycle of poverty; and I wonder for how many generations to come.
I think those adults are really cowards living in their own tineey whineey miserable world and hoping for money to drop from the sky or people to feed them. They think downgrading their flats make them lose face and earning less than a $1000 per month is too lowly paid. So, they would rather have their electricity cut off and have their children dropped out prematurely from school. Tell them the government would feed them and their family for as long as they live in exchange for a limb and they would most probably agree. Ok maybe I exaggerated some bit. Anyway some of the excuses they have that really make me want to smack them right at their faces: eg -
1. I have a foul temper and I can only be my own boss.
2. The pay is so low I do not earn anything after minusing off the transport and meal expenses.
3. I have never worked that kind of job before.
Enough said.
Uncle is very much like my dad. My dad is only a year younger than uncle. Ask my dad not to work? That is more difficult than going to the moon. Just that he is taking work a little less serious now; and when he is tired he would return home to rest.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Hong Kong and Macau 23/01/08 to 30/01/08 (Part 3)
Day 3 - 25/01/08: Disneyland at Sunny Bay (迪士尼·欣澳) and Tung Chung (东涌)
It was a rainy day; but we had only this day to go Disneyland because we don't want to go during the weekend.
I thought I don't need my shawl and gloves as I wore SO many layers of clothes...but I was WRONG!! It was COLD!!
Took the MTR to disneyland. The disneyland trains are special, with chrome disney characters in the cabins even the passenger handles and windows are in cuts-out of mickey and minnie's faces! Pretty!
There are 4 themes to the park - Main Street, Adventure Land, Fantasy Land and Tomorrow Land.
Of course we had to start with the Main Street.
1. Main Streeet
6 attractions in Main Street - (a) The Disneyland Story, (b) Mickey's House, (c) Animation Academy, (d) Disneyland Railway, (e) High School Musical and (f) Main Street Vehicles
(a) Story of Disney unfolds at the Disneyland Story. Also detailed how disneyland came to HK.
(b) Mickey's House - as the name suggests, it's Mickey's house lor. Everything is so cartoony. Did not go in as we had wanted to make it one of our last stops; since the main purpose was to take pictures and we didn't want to waste too much time on that first! Sigh...we didn't make it back... read on and find out why!
(c) Animation Academy - an artist teaches the right way to draw mickey and minnie mouse. Me don't have much talent in drawning so it was not interesting for me!
(d) Disneyland Railway ride gives a tour around the entire disneyland. Can hardly miss this as it's a big train and situated right at the entrance of Main Street. We wanted to take the train but as it was at the main entrance, it was not logical for us to walk back after walking through entire Main Street. If we take the train first, we would land up in Fantasy Land without walking through the Main Street. So we decided that this shall be our last stop at night after we had toured the entire place on foot; just like to round things up as we also did not want to catch everything on the train in just a glimpse without exploring around on foot first! Sigh again as we did not make it back at night...again read on to find out why!
(e) High School Musical LIVE! This is the group's name. Dance and songs performances were put up and featuress hits from movies. Didn't come to disneyland to watch concert so didn't bother to go.
(f) Main Street Vehicles. Too lazy to walk? Then breeze down Main Street with quaint yet cool vehicles. We prefer to walk!
2. Adventure Land
There are 4 attractions - (a) Festival of the Lion King, (b) Rafts and Tarzan's Treeshouse, (c) Jungle River Cruise and (d) Liki Tikis.
(a) Did not go to the Festival of the Lion King. It is a music and dance show inspired by 'The Lion King'. I am not interested in that so decided to give it a miss.
(b) The Rafts and Tarzan's Treehouse was quite fun. I am sure it would be MORE fun minus the rain. We had to take a raft to the treehouse where the story of tarzan evolve. Wonderful view from up above the tree!
On the raft to Tarzan's treehouse!
That was not the rain; that was the waterfall :)
Views of the raft from Tarzan's treehouse
Tarzan
(c) I enjoyed the Jungle River Cruise. However the queue was quite long and we had to wait for awhile. Quite alot of surprises awaits along the river!!
Look at the silly person; the one on the left of course! On the sampan during the Jungle River Cruise. I like the cruise; quite fun and lots of surprises :P
Is this real?!
(d) There was nothing much at Liki Tikis; mainly for children. Blasts of water springs out according to rythem of drums.
3. Fantasy Land
The attractions here are situated closer to each other. 12 attractions in Fantasy Land - (a) Mickey's PhilharMagic, (b) Dumbo the Flying Elephant, (c) Cinderella Carousel, (d) Sword in the Stone, (e) Fantasy Land Train Station, (f) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, (g) Sleeping Beauty Castle, (h) Fantasyland Gardens, (i) The Golden Mickeys, (j) Snow White Grotto, (k) It's a Small World and (l) Mad Hatter Tea Cup
(a) Mickey's PhilharMagic - I luurrvveee it! I like the dazzling 3-D presentation! Cute and fun!
(b) Dumbo the Flying Elephant - for kiddos la! But we also took it!! Cool! Been so long since I took dumbo!!
(c) Cinderella Carousel!! I had wanted to ride this but the queue was sooooooooooo long! Can't remember the last time I rode on a merry-go-round! :(
(d) Sword in the Stone - it is supposed to be a magical sword. I've never heard of the story before. Since it an attraction then just take a picture lor!
(e) Fantasy Land Train Station - The train that comes from Main Street and stops at Fantasy Land.
(f) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Winnie goes in search of hunny. The queue was super long and the ride is really not worth the wait! Only looked interesting on the outside. Should have taken the carousel ride and gone to The Sleeping Beauty Castle instead! :((
(g) The Sleeping Beauty Castle - This is my BIGGEST the regret! Had no time for this after The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as we had to rush to the Fantasy Gardens to take pictures with Mickey and Minnie, to Tomorrow Land and then to watch the fireworks.
(h) Fantasy Land Gardens - where we can take pictures with the disney characters. There were Mickey and Minnie, Chips and Dale, Donald and Daisy, Winnie the Pooh. We only managed to take pictures with Mickey and Minnie as all the characters appear AND disappear at the same time! They should stagger the timings of their appearance!
(i) The Golden Mickeys is a musical extravaganza honouring disney films. Well we really have no time for this!
(j) Snow White Grotto is a wishing well; a tribute to Walt Disney Snow White. No time to make a wish!
(k) It's a Small World allows you to set sail via a boat ride to view different toys and dolls representing cultures in the world, including 38 Disney characters. It will open in Apr 08.
(l) Magic Hatter Tea Cup. Another childhood ride!! But no time for that! :
4. Tomorrow Land
6 attractions here - (a) Space Mountain, (b) Autopia, (c) Stitch Encounter, (d) Buzz Lightyears Astro Blasters (e) UFO Zone, (f) Orbitron
(a) I like the Space Mountain ride!! Actually we did not know what the ride was all about until the ride started! It was roller coaster in outer space! Cool! I would have rode it another time if not for time constrain!! :(
Picture taken off the TV screen where they show your picture and you can choose if you want to buy it! So ex don't want to buy!
(b) Autopia. A car ride on a fake highway! :P Quite enjoyable. Don't have to drive the car because it travels according to the track; but still must control the acceleration and turnings so that we would not bump against the tracks and car in front!
(c) Stitch Encounter - Don't like the character so gave it a miss!
(d) Buzz Lightyears Astro Blasters - Space Ranger is here to save the universe. But no time to play!
(e) UFO Zone - water adventure blasting from machines! Anyway too cold and no time to play!
(f) Orbitron - rockers and jets spinning high! A different version of the dumbo elephant?! Would have loved to play this but we had to rush to watch the highlight of the park - fireworks!!
Highlight of the park - Disney in the Stars Fireworks at Fantasy Land!! Can't get any good picture of the fireworks though :(
Was so hungry after the fire works and caught sight of the so cute mickey biscults! Of course cannot miss eating that! My only regret is not buying more to eat the next day!!
By the time we finished eating it was already nearly 8pm. No time to return to House of Mickey and take the train around the park! :(
No choice since we wanted to go to Tung Chung to shop at the factory outlets.
Ate macarroni cheese at the food court at Tung Chung. Quite yummy! Bought a CK jacket at one of the factory outlets. Very cheap and it's white - what I've wanted for some time! Saw a pair of addidas shoes that I like alot at the addidas outlet but thought I would buy it back in Singapore so that I can use the $100 subsidy from office; but can't find it in Singapore leh :(
Initially we also wanted to take the cable car to the big buddha before we head to Disneyland but decided against it as we reckoned that we should spend more time at Disneyland since we paid so much to get in!! Luckily we went to Disneyland because as it was we did not have enough time to finish exploring the whole park! Anyway we did not plan to return on another day just for the cable car and the buddha as it's quite out of the way; unless we really have no where to go; but I seriously doubt so! It's Hong Kong, where got time to purely sightsee?!
Refer to Part 2
It was a rainy day; but we had only this day to go Disneyland because we don't want to go during the weekend.
I thought I don't need my shawl and gloves as I wore SO many layers of clothes...but I was WRONG!! It was COLD!!
Took the MTR to disneyland. The disneyland trains are special, with chrome disney characters in the cabins even the passenger handles and windows are in cuts-out of mickey and minnie's faces! Pretty!
There are 4 themes to the park - Main Street, Adventure Land, Fantasy Land and Tomorrow Land.
Of course we had to start with the Main Street.
1. Main Streeet
6 attractions in Main Street - (a) The Disneyland Story, (b) Mickey's House, (c) Animation Academy, (d) Disneyland Railway, (e) High School Musical and (f) Main Street Vehicles
(a) Story of Disney unfolds at the Disneyland Story. Also detailed how disneyland came to HK.
(b) Mickey's House - as the name suggests, it's Mickey's house lor. Everything is so cartoony. Did not go in as we had wanted to make it one of our last stops; since the main purpose was to take pictures and we didn't want to waste too much time on that first! Sigh...we didn't make it back... read on and find out why!
(c) Animation Academy - an artist teaches the right way to draw mickey and minnie mouse. Me don't have much talent in drawning so it was not interesting for me!
(d) Disneyland Railway ride gives a tour around the entire disneyland. Can hardly miss this as it's a big train and situated right at the entrance of Main Street. We wanted to take the train but as it was at the main entrance, it was not logical for us to walk back after walking through entire Main Street. If we take the train first, we would land up in Fantasy Land without walking through the Main Street. So we decided that this shall be our last stop at night after we had toured the entire place on foot; just like to round things up as we also did not want to catch everything on the train in just a glimpse without exploring around on foot first! Sigh again as we did not make it back at night...again read on to find out why!
(e) High School Musical LIVE! This is the group's name. Dance and songs performances were put up and featuress hits from movies. Didn't come to disneyland to watch concert so didn't bother to go.
(f) Main Street Vehicles. Too lazy to walk? Then breeze down Main Street with quaint yet cool vehicles. We prefer to walk!
2. Adventure Land
There are 4 attractions - (a) Festival of the Lion King, (b) Rafts and Tarzan's Treeshouse, (c) Jungle River Cruise and (d) Liki Tikis.
(a) Did not go to the Festival of the Lion King. It is a music and dance show inspired by 'The Lion King'. I am not interested in that so decided to give it a miss.
(b) The Rafts and Tarzan's Treehouse was quite fun. I am sure it would be MORE fun minus the rain. We had to take a raft to the treehouse where the story of tarzan evolve. Wonderful view from up above the tree!
On the raft to Tarzan's treehouse!
That was not the rain; that was the waterfall :)
Views of the raft from Tarzan's treehouse
Tarzan
(c) I enjoyed the Jungle River Cruise. However the queue was quite long and we had to wait for awhile. Quite alot of surprises awaits along the river!!
Look at the silly person; the one on the left of course! On the sampan during the Jungle River Cruise. I like the cruise; quite fun and lots of surprises :P
Is this real?!
(d) There was nothing much at Liki Tikis; mainly for children. Blasts of water springs out according to rythem of drums.
3. Fantasy Land
The attractions here are situated closer to each other. 12 attractions in Fantasy Land - (a) Mickey's PhilharMagic, (b) Dumbo the Flying Elephant, (c) Cinderella Carousel, (d) Sword in the Stone, (e) Fantasy Land Train Station, (f) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, (g) Sleeping Beauty Castle, (h) Fantasyland Gardens, (i) The Golden Mickeys, (j) Snow White Grotto, (k) It's a Small World and (l) Mad Hatter Tea Cup
(a) Mickey's PhilharMagic - I luurrvveee it! I like the dazzling 3-D presentation! Cute and fun!
(b) Dumbo the Flying Elephant - for kiddos la! But we also took it!! Cool! Been so long since I took dumbo!!
(c) Cinderella Carousel!! I had wanted to ride this but the queue was sooooooooooo long! Can't remember the last time I rode on a merry-go-round! :(
(d) Sword in the Stone - it is supposed to be a magical sword. I've never heard of the story before. Since it an attraction then just take a picture lor!
(e) Fantasy Land Train Station - The train that comes from Main Street and stops at Fantasy Land.
(f) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Winnie goes in search of hunny. The queue was super long and the ride is really not worth the wait! Only looked interesting on the outside. Should have taken the carousel ride and gone to The Sleeping Beauty Castle instead! :((
(g) The Sleeping Beauty Castle - This is my BIGGEST the regret! Had no time for this after The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as we had to rush to the Fantasy Gardens to take pictures with Mickey and Minnie, to Tomorrow Land and then to watch the fireworks.
(h) Fantasy Land Gardens - where we can take pictures with the disney characters. There were Mickey and Minnie, Chips and Dale, Donald and Daisy, Winnie the Pooh. We only managed to take pictures with Mickey and Minnie as all the characters appear AND disappear at the same time! They should stagger the timings of their appearance!
(i) The Golden Mickeys is a musical extravaganza honouring disney films. Well we really have no time for this!
(j) Snow White Grotto is a wishing well; a tribute to Walt Disney Snow White. No time to make a wish!
(k) It's a Small World allows you to set sail via a boat ride to view different toys and dolls representing cultures in the world, including 38 Disney characters. It will open in Apr 08.
(l) Magic Hatter Tea Cup. Another childhood ride!! But no time for that! :
4. Tomorrow Land
6 attractions here - (a) Space Mountain, (b) Autopia, (c) Stitch Encounter, (d) Buzz Lightyears Astro Blasters (e) UFO Zone, (f) Orbitron
(a) I like the Space Mountain ride!! Actually we did not know what the ride was all about until the ride started! It was roller coaster in outer space! Cool! I would have rode it another time if not for time constrain!! :(
Picture taken off the TV screen where they show your picture and you can choose if you want to buy it! So ex don't want to buy!
(b) Autopia. A car ride on a fake highway! :P Quite enjoyable. Don't have to drive the car because it travels according to the track; but still must control the acceleration and turnings so that we would not bump against the tracks and car in front!
(c) Stitch Encounter - Don't like the character so gave it a miss!
(d) Buzz Lightyears Astro Blasters - Space Ranger is here to save the universe. But no time to play!
(e) UFO Zone - water adventure blasting from machines! Anyway too cold and no time to play!
(f) Orbitron - rockers and jets spinning high! A different version of the dumbo elephant?! Would have loved to play this but we had to rush to watch the highlight of the park - fireworks!!
Highlight of the park - Disney in the Stars Fireworks at Fantasy Land!! Can't get any good picture of the fireworks though :(
Was so hungry after the fire works and caught sight of the so cute mickey biscults! Of course cannot miss eating that! My only regret is not buying more to eat the next day!!
By the time we finished eating it was already nearly 8pm. No time to return to House of Mickey and take the train around the park! :(
No choice since we wanted to go to Tung Chung to shop at the factory outlets.
Ate macarroni cheese at the food court at Tung Chung. Quite yummy! Bought a CK jacket at one of the factory outlets. Very cheap and it's white - what I've wanted for some time! Saw a pair of addidas shoes that I like alot at the addidas outlet but thought I would buy it back in Singapore so that I can use the $100 subsidy from office; but can't find it in Singapore leh :(
Initially we also wanted to take the cable car to the big buddha before we head to Disneyland but decided against it as we reckoned that we should spend more time at Disneyland since we paid so much to get in!! Luckily we went to Disneyland because as it was we did not have enough time to finish exploring the whole park! Anyway we did not plan to return on another day just for the cable car and the buddha as it's quite out of the way; unless we really have no where to go; but I seriously doubt so! It's Hong Kong, where got time to purely sightsee?!
Refer to Part 2
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Hong Kong and Macau 23/01/08 to 30/01/08 (Part 2)
Day 2 - 24/01/08: Sham Shui Po (深水步) and Apuliu Street (鸭寮街) and Cheung Sha Wan Fashion Street (长沙湾时装街), Kowloon Tong Festival Walk (又一城商场@九龙塘), Allied Plaza at Prince Edward (联合广场@太子), Tung Choi Street aka Women's Street and Fa Yuen Street at Mongkok (通菜街/女人街/花园街@太子/旺角), Temple Street at Yau Ma Tei (庙街@油麻地) and Tshim Sha Tsui (尖沙咀)
Woke up around 9am. Cousin's part-time maid came in for the day and she taught us what bus/train to take so that we can save on transport. Well, my cousin's place is at some high class but ULU area so taking cabs would cost a bomb! Rather spend the money on shopping lor.
It was quite cold. Had to wear my gloves once I reached the apartment lobby to wait for the apartment feeder bus that would take us to Sheung Wan Station (上环).
Decided to give chance first and allow hubby to go get his stuff at Sham Shui Po. Haha..no la..actually we should go there first because it's the furthest up the MTR line. Hence go there already we can travel down. Apuliu Street is just next to Sham Shui Po and the 2 areas are famous for stuff such as batteries, touch lights and other electronics stuff. Around the corner is Cheung Sha Wan Fashion Street. It is a wholesale centre; the clothes there were not to my liking; mainly auntie-like stuff and even if I found something I like, it is unlikely that the owner would sell 1 piece.
I was VERY hungry once we reached Sham Shui Po so I want to EAT first. We ate at some coffeeshop and I ordered Wan Tan Mee. Hmm...it may look plain but it's actually quite yummy.
Abit boring for me there, so I 'self-take' lor..
Next station was Festival Walk at Kowloon Tong. It's a new shopping centre. The boutiques there are quite affordable; not those up-market until absurd kind. I bought my OZOC jacket there. I luurrrvveee the jacket! So ka-wa-ee!! *I hope to get a similiar jacket here in Yellow!!*
My hubby's turn to get bored while I shopped :) so he took those shots.
After Kowloon Tong, our next destination was the night markets at Prince Edward and Mongkok. It started to rain when we reached Prince Edward so we went to Allied Plaza to shop. This place is like our Far East Plaza; full of small boutiques selling unique and ka-wa-ee type of clothes. I bought a skirt-like top there. They sell alot of boots too!
Rain stopped and we went out to the night markets - Fa Yuen Street and Tung Choi Street aka Women's Street. The streets are like our local pasar malam, except that they sell alot more things. Some of the clothes and shoes there are quite nice. However, I am not into them. Somehow when I shopped at pasar malam I felt that I already have the stuff they are selling there! I think subconsciously I'd rather spend my money on something more unique like those locally designed and other ka-wa-ee cl
othes!
Passed by playground at Portland Street (波兰街); one of the red-light districts. Hmm..wonder why red-light district will have playground leh?!
Walked downwards to Yau Ma Tei. Temple Street was boring. Nothing much when we went there, maybe the shops were not opened because it was drizzling. Did not remember it being so boring the last time I went HK few years back.
Further down Yau Ma Tei is Tshim Sha Tsui. One of my favourite shopping place at HK! However by the time we got there, it was late and my feet was darn tired la! Could walk no more! So we just anyhow walk walk then went home!
Refer to Part 1
Woke up around 9am. Cousin's part-time maid came in for the day and she taught us what bus/train to take so that we can save on transport. Well, my cousin's place is at some high class but ULU area so taking cabs would cost a bomb! Rather spend the money on shopping lor.
It was quite cold. Had to wear my gloves once I reached the apartment lobby to wait for the apartment feeder bus that would take us to Sheung Wan Station (上环).
Decided to give chance first and allow hubby to go get his stuff at Sham Shui Po. Haha..no la..actually we should go there first because it's the furthest up the MTR line. Hence go there already we can travel down. Apuliu Street is just next to Sham Shui Po and the 2 areas are famous for stuff such as batteries, touch lights and other electronics stuff. Around the corner is Cheung Sha Wan Fashion Street. It is a wholesale centre; the clothes there were not to my liking; mainly auntie-like stuff and even if I found something I like, it is unlikely that the owner would sell 1 piece.
I was VERY hungry once we reached Sham Shui Po so I want to EAT first. We ate at some coffeeshop and I ordered Wan Tan Mee. Hmm...it may look plain but it's actually quite yummy.
Abit boring for me there, so I 'self-take' lor..
Next station was Festival Walk at Kowloon Tong. It's a new shopping centre. The boutiques there are quite affordable; not those up-market until absurd kind. I bought my OZOC jacket there. I luurrrvveee the jacket! So ka-wa-ee!! *I hope to get a similiar jacket here in Yellow!!*
My hubby's turn to get bored while I shopped :) so he took those shots.
After Kowloon Tong, our next destination was the night markets at Prince Edward and Mongkok. It started to rain when we reached Prince Edward so we went to Allied Plaza to shop. This place is like our Far East Plaza; full of small boutiques selling unique and ka-wa-ee type of clothes. I bought a skirt-like top there. They sell alot of boots too!
Rain stopped and we went out to the night markets - Fa Yuen Street and Tung Choi Street aka Women's Street. The streets are like our local pasar malam, except that they sell alot more things. Some of the clothes and shoes there are quite nice. However, I am not into them. Somehow when I shopped at pasar malam I felt that I already have the stuff they are selling there! I think subconsciously I'd rather spend my money on something more unique like those locally designed and other ka-wa-ee cl
othes!
Passed by playground at Portland Street (波兰街); one of the red-light districts. Hmm..wonder why red-light district will have playground leh?!
Walked downwards to Yau Ma Tei. Temple Street was boring. Nothing much when we went there, maybe the shops were not opened because it was drizzling. Did not remember it being so boring the last time I went HK few years back.
Further down Yau Ma Tei is Tshim Sha Tsui. One of my favourite shopping place at HK! However by the time we got there, it was late and my feet was darn tired la! Could walk no more! So we just anyhow walk walk then went home!
Refer to Part 1
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