Day 5 – 29th December 2009

The following days at HK Disneyland was straight forward enough. Since this was our second visit, we decided to give priority to only go for our favourite shows:

1. The Golden Mickey 2. PhillarMagic 3. The Festival of the Lion King Show

Despite being the smallest of all the Disneylands, I’d pick HK’s themepark over Tokyo’s anytime. Maybe if I learned Japanese, I would’ve enjoyed the one in Tokyo better but then the musical shows in HK (Tokyo had none) were so good! Must definitely make a trip to the one at Anaheim. :p Confirm will die happy after that.

Mainstreet was still empty because we were one of the first visitors that morning. It was packed as hell after lunch. -_-

The Winter Wonderland Parade. :)

Sleeping Beauty’s very small castle.

In conjunction with celebrating Christmas, the management of Disneyland had the castle turned from this..

..to this!

Quite magical to me lor. :D

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Day 3 – 27th December 2009

The third day in HK was practically the worst for me. I didn’t sleep too well the night before because of abdominal pains, which kinda left me zombie-like for the rest of the morning. -_- Just before we left the hotel, Drew thought it’d be best if I popped in one more medication pill. Thank goodness the pain subsided for a couple of hours afterwards – long enough for me to actually have the mood for breakfast. :)

We searched the whole of City Hall to find Maxim’s Palace, where it is dubbed “the best dim sum experience in HK”. The decor of the place was almost an eye sore because it was SO yellow (as seen in the picture above)! The dim sum was delicious though – one of the best I’ve ever tasted but too bad my stomach wasn’t at its best shape, so I wasn’t much of a glutton that morning.

After breakfast, we took the tram to the Wan Chai.

Aside from the Star Ferry, the tram rides were very enjoyable as well. It was also relatively cheaper to travel this way since every ride cost HK$2 regardless of the distance travelled (unlike the MTR).

And omg how I love lovee the designs of the trams. :p

We were also able to witness the city in a different perspective as we always sat at the higher bunk of the tram. :)

Unfortunately, as I mentioned before.. I experienced the worst of my food poisoning that day. So instead of gallavanting around happily, I was mostly in a fetal position crying out in pain. T_T By 3pm, I was back at the hotel again for a nap.

It’s depressing how I always find myself sick when I’m on trips. Last year in Japan, my sinus problem was in full bloom because I was somewhat allergic to the room I was in. Then while I was in Brisbane the year before that, I was down with a fever because of its crazy weather. I can’t remember what happened in Austria, but Drew is pretty sure I was digging into his medication bag then too wtf. -_- Super fail or not, you tell me? T_T

Thankfully I was better by dinner time and we were off to The Landmark for some serious shopping aka miracle cure hahah. :D

The thing I realized when I was in HK was that everywhere I went (read: EVERYWHERE), there were about 3-4 international designer boutiques in one place. I swear while I was Mong Kok alone, albeit the hundreds of shops they have there.. I saw about 10 (maybe 15) Gucci/Prada/Louis Vuitton/Balenciaga/Dior/you get my point lah. o_O

So naturally, I was attracted to ‘em like how an insect is attracted to street lights. And for the first time, I made Drew line up outside the boutique with me eheh. :p I used to make fun of ppl who did so and said they had too much free time wtf I’m such a hypocrite lah T_T but what joy when I found out that the Gucci bag my mum and I were eyeing on back home was a few hundred bucks cheaper in HK! Sigh, so worth it to be called a hypocrite wtf.

Called Mum and we agreed to purchase the Sukey tote in white. To be honest, I was actually in for the D Gold instead.. but since Mum was the one paying, oh well the Sukey will do too. :)

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Day 1 – December 25th 2009

We arrived at Nikko Hotel (located at Tsim Sha Tsui) at approximately 3.30pm feeling already quite beaten up because our flight was at 9.30am, thus forcing us to be at the KLIA airport by 6.30am wtf. But, it was Hong Kong! And it was winter, so daylight was precious (it gets dark at about 5pm)! I quickly freshened up and since we were starving, we opted for the first restaurant we saw.

Yummy yummy Peking duck! Btw, food is fucking expensive in HK. T_T Everytime the bill came, I swear I felt like barfing everything out and ask for a refund instead wtf. But of course, the meals were absolutely delicious nonetheless.

After having our tummies filled, it was off to our first stop – Mong Kok. The weather was relatively hot on our first day in HK that even a leather jacket seemed a little thick for my liking. But after a while, as we walked..the wind chill was brr and I wished I brought my scarf out too instead. -_-

See, told you it turned dark damn fast.

Half an hour after we left the hotel, the whole of Mong Kok was lited up with all its shops’ neon lights. I personally loved walking around Mong Kok because its so lively during the day and night with so many little shops everywhere!

I bought my 100ml DKNY Fresh Blossom at SASA for RM220 (after conversion) when back in Msia, it was selling for RM290! Damn happy~ :)

Drew and I were lunging around three cameras with us. -_- As if two DSLRs weren’t enough, I had to bring my Lomo Fisheye too. But some of the pictures turned out to be so pretty, so no regrets lah. :)

Lining up for smelly taufu!

But here’s what happened after I consumed my first authentic chow tau fu: I had freaking DIARRHEA the next day WTF I swear I wanted to jump into the South China Sea to DIEEE! T___T

Contrary to that, I somehow doubt it was the smelly taufu because Drew ate it too and he was walking around just fine without having to go off to the loo every half an hour to lau sai. T_T Instead, I think it was the cup noodle I had later on that night for supper but Drew (and my parents) say that its quite impossible to get food poisoning from it. =\ But whatever lah, the whole point is that my butt hole was fucking sore for the next two days and I had to come back to the hotel to nap for an hour each day because of the very painful tummy cramps fml.

The only silver lining to this tragic tragedy is that I ate very minimally throughout the trip and lost some weight.

YES lah! (y)

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Hong Kong 2009

You know, I’ve been looking forward to this trip since months ago and seeing that this is my second visit to HK, I was still very psyched for it. Of course lah, my hands were also itching for the crazy shopping experience as well. /cough :p Still, OMG one week just zoomed pass just.like.that! T_T

Then I’m not sure why lah, but everytime I go on a holiday..confirm a boo-boo will happen to me. Damn sial, right? -_- This time, it caused a somewhat major malfunction to my health for a couple of days, consequently decreasing my optimum level of ability to shop wtf. T_T But thanks to my ultimate will power (chewah) to get better asap, some serious shopping damage still managed to be carried out at the end of the week. :D

But, more on that next time when I get my hands on the rest of the pictures from Drew. The picture above was taken at the Avenue of Stars with just my iPhone. :) Not too shabby, eyh? Aside from putting in the watermark and frame, there hasn’t been any other editing to it. /proud

So yes, will blog soon! :) Now, for some shut eye.

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