Tuesday, December 20, 2005
ah ha! im back! with perfect ten crooning "thank God its Christmas" now. YES, thank God its Christmas soon! my favourite festive day! yesssssss!
had a nasty flu not long after i was in hk. am a sunshine kid, cant stand the harsh winter cold. ugh. and the polluted air made it hard to breathe. first day was good. spent 4 hours at esprit and spent a grand total of 800 spore dollars. first day eh. (honestly i had a fright when i saw the sum at the cashier)
and then it got colder n colder, even with the heater in the house. brrrr. there was more (but calmer n more controlled) shopping. disneyland was alright only, since only the first phase is open till two years later, so the rides were really tailored for kids. think rotating tea cups n wooden horses and a hardly exciting rollercoaster. oh wells. grabbed a couple of mickeyish stuff over there. like the ear mufflers and the BBBBBEEEEEGGGGGG mickey hands i always wanted to get. hurhur. and we were trying to play scissors paper stone with it, attracting much unwanted attention. winks. the fake snow at disneyland was FOAM. ugh, as compared to the manmade real (oxymoronic i know) snow in ocean park. waited one good hour for the fireworks which were.... alright. think i wont step back into disneyland till its fully opened. checked out the disneyland hotels though, after a super long walk. it was... well, mickeyish.
ate a good lot of good food. was never hungry for the whole trip. and we sadistic twits ate ice cream on purpose in the cold. i love yam ice cream. it can be my staple food. ok plus the fishballs and shiu mai (not the kind in spore). got a little scared of yumcha-ing after the fourth day though. and the cold made me miss home singapore. i officially announced that i would rather die of a heatstroke than in the harsh cold (a decision which got overruled this morning during bball ihg training in the sun)
the fashion really rocks over there. and i dont even know why there are so many goodlooking guys. its like, i walk on the streets, every few minutes i see a cute or cool guy. on the train, on the buses, vans. well, everywhere. maybe its the fashion, even average looking guys or girls dress well generally. their fashion is elaborate such that, either you're damn stylish or you really suck shit. and most of them (at least the young people) are stylish. or maybe its winter, where you have more clothes on you. but still, more clothes but they're still NICE clothes. speaking of winter, there was such a wide range of boots, which will never see the light of day in singapore. so (as i said, i shopped more calmly after the esprit hoo-ha), no boots for us.
another thing i noticed, as opposed to the closing trend of pacific coffee joints over here (think citilink), there are sooo many of them in hk. and they're all nice. just that, i dont like coffee. haha. wells, bbq on the second last night was waaaaaaaay... windy. hahah the food was good, so was the atmosphere with everyone around you all bbqing. groups and groups of people by the sea (thats why it was blardy windy). one of the pits became my fireplace to warm our hands. hurhur.
well, that's about it isnt it, shop eat sneeze shop eat sneeze in hk. photos when i feel like it. ta!
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
ah ha! im back! with perfect ten crooning "thank God its Christmas" now. YES, thank God its Christmas soon! my favourite festive day! yesssssss!
had a nasty flu not long after i was in hk. am a sunshine kid, cant stand the harsh winter cold. ugh. and the polluted air made it hard to breathe. first day was good. spent 4 hours at esprit and spent a grand total of 800 spore dollars. first day eh. (honestly i had a fright when i saw the sum at the cashier)
and then it got colder n colder, even with the heater in the house. brrrr. there was more (but calmer n more controlled) shopping. disneyland was alright only, since only the first phase is open till two years later, so the rides were really tailored for kids. think rotating tea cups n wooden horses and a hardly exciting rollercoaster. oh wells. grabbed a couple of mickeyish stuff over there. like the ear mufflers and the BBBBBEEEEEGGGGGG mickey hands i always wanted to get. hurhur. and we were trying to play scissors paper stone with it, attracting much unwanted attention. winks. the fake snow at disneyland was FOAM. ugh, as compared to the manmade real (oxymoronic i know) snow in ocean park. waited one good hour for the fireworks which were.... alright. think i wont step back into disneyland till its fully opened. checked out the disneyland hotels though, after a super long walk. it was... well, mickeyish.
ate a good lot of good food. was never hungry for the whole trip. and we sadistic twits ate ice cream on purpose in the cold. i love yam ice cream. it can be my staple food. ok plus the fishballs and shiu mai (not the kind in spore). got a little scared of yumcha-ing after the fourth day though. and the cold made me miss home singapore. i officially announced that i would rather die of a heatstroke than in the harsh cold (a decision which got overruled this morning during bball ihg training in the sun)
the fashion really rocks over there. and i dont even know why there are so many goodlooking guys. its like, i walk on the streets, every few minutes i see a cute or cool guy. on the train, on the buses, vans. well, everywhere. maybe its the fashion, even average looking guys or girls dress well generally. their fashion is elaborate such that, either you're damn stylish or you really suck shit. and most of them (at least the young people) are stylish. or maybe its winter, where you have more clothes on you. but still, more clothes but they're still NICE clothes. speaking of winter, there was such a wide range of boots, which will never see the light of day in singapore. so (as i said, i shopped more calmly after the esprit hoo-ha), no boots for us.
another thing i noticed, as opposed to the closing trend of pacific coffee joints over here (think citilink), there are sooo many of them in hk. and they're all nice. just that, i dont like coffee. haha. wells, bbq on the second last night was waaaaaaaay... windy. hahah the food was good, so was the atmosphere with everyone around you all bbqing. groups and groups of people by the sea (thats why it was blardy windy). one of the pits became my fireplace to warm our hands. hurhur.
well, that's about it isnt it, shop eat sneeze shop eat sneeze in hk. photos when i feel like it. ta!
