The Blog of Total Randomness: 4D3N of impulse Shopping!!

During my 3 days off starting from Monday till Wednesday (9-11 June) me, my mom, and my sisters had the chance to go to Hongkong.

It was arrays of panic phone calls to the tour agents, panic decisions making on where to go and how much to spend. The plan almost went down the drain when everything seemed to be so hard. No air tickets, no hotels, and limited processing time for the tour agents to actually booked us for something. Initially we were trying to go to Macau, but since all the doors to Macau were blocked, we tried to open the window, and true enough, The Breeze of Hongkong blew in and up we go!

We settled everything quiet fast, bought the tickets, went to Orchard to buy some necesities, changed some HK dollars, packed and little did we know its departure time!!. We departed on Sunday, 8th June on a-11 AM- flight to Hongkong, CX 714 and arrived in Hongkong at about 2.30 PM.

First Stop: Times Square, Causeway Bay. We went to eat some noodles at one restaurant that "traditionally" has always be patronaged by my family :). The noodles were not bad, and the small restaurant really gave out the "HongKong Cha Chan Teng" feels. Except, the number of Indonesian maids roaming around the area flashed us the feeling of Lucky Plaza on Sunday afternoon.

(pic: a slice of Causeway Bay on Sunday afternoon)

(The View of Times Square from Times Square's lift)

Second day: MONDAY, 9th JUNE due to the fully booked condition of the city-tour part, we opted for the tour to be on Tuesday instead. Because of this, today is FAMILY DAY!!! therefore, my aunts and cousin (thank you very very much for letting us dragged you along the never-ending-test-and-trial shoppings and walkings and accompanying us) decided to bring us for a morning Yum Cha at Times Square, and proceeded to bring us to shop at a wholesalers in one of the buildings (as you know it by now, I am very bad with names and directions).

(The Peak Tram)

After resting over a cup of self-made capuccino in the Hotel, we went to Victoria Peak (or The Peak) <太平山頂>. To reach the Peak we have to take the Peak Tram that has been in operations since 1888 and serving only high-class Europeans and government officials living at the area (before that the residents had to be carried on a sedan chair by uniformed carriers. Overlooking Hongkong, The Peak shows tourist the beauty of Hongkong Island's view as well as the Kowloon area. As the sky got darker, the view got even nicer, with lights brighting up the buildings and the harbour. The mist added some mystic beauty to the ever-famous prestigious area. I wonder, if the view was this nice during a misty day, how beautiful will it be during a clear sky?

(The view from The Peak at about 5.30 PM)

(The view from The Peak at about 7.15 PM)

When we came down, we decided to have dinner together at The Spaghetti House in The Excelsior Hotel. The food was nice, the ambience was good and the company was great. After dinner, my sisters and my cousin (thank you very much for being so sweet by accompanying us) decided to hit the stores for one more time and only decided to go back to the hotel when the time starts to hit about 11.30 PM

Third day: The City Tour by Peter Law (Mr. tour guide).

We woke up half dead at about 7.00 AM. Got ready at 7.30AM and was at the Lobby waiting for the bus to come at 7.45 AM. First Stop was the Victoria Peak (again, but this time with bus and not to high, only the middle part of the Peak for photo-taking. After that, we went to the Repulse Bay, then to the Fishing Village, and the last stop was the Flower of Hongkong before we was sent off to Ocean Park for the remaining of the day. The thing that I was very very excited about going to Ocean Park was PANDA!!!

Now presenting: Ying-Ying and Jia-Jia

(Repulse Bay)

(The fishing village)

(The Ever famous Jumbo Restaurant)

(The Flower of Hongkong)

(The view from Ocean Park's cable car)

(The sun is setting when we were about to leave Ocean Park)

After coming back to the hotel, my aunts decided to bring us for a dinner and the best part was, the dessert time!!. We managed to eat this wonderful, super-duper delicious fresh milk pudding at Yee Shun Milk Company. I had the warm fresh milk pudding with ginger. You got to try it to believe how wonderful it was!!! If you don't really fancy fresh milk taste, they have it available in chocolate flavor :) How cool is that?