Day one in HongKong

Day one

It was drizzling and foggy… so much that we cannot see DisneyLand (under construction) from the HsingMa Bridge… there are so many tall buildings and signs… made me dizzy… :s after crossing all the windy roads, we finally arrived at shamrock hotel… *hurray* at the reception, milk spotted a cute guy… hahaha in fact, the guys in shamrock are quite cute… ^^ we went up to our rooms after settling the check-in… remembering the genting trip… me n fish shared one room while milk n panda (tts yingjing’s new nick) shared the other room… alamak, my room is quite smoky ler… despite that it is the non-smoking level… we quickly got out of hotel after dumping the luggages in our rooms… now its time for action… FREE n EASY (i doubt so) in Hongkong… =)

First, we stopped in front of the control office at Jordan MTR… deciding whether to get the octopus tix… must calculate to see if its worthwhile to get the tix… after deciding, we tried to tell the officer wat we wan… haha luckily he could still understand us, so we got our octopus tix and took MTR to Hongkong Island… day one is supposedly planned by me to tour around the central and western district… heehee~ found some information on the internet n four brave girls are going to walk around… at first we are confused cuz there are so many trams stops… where to take the tram to western market? As we walked, we saw the big big LV poster which Brenda wans panda to take a pic of… *great* panda took a snap and we moved on… finally spotted a tram moving… wondering if we shld get on it... I dun wanna end up at Kennedy town which is super far from our destination… :s after being directed by a kind lady, we successfully board the correct tram to western market… but there is not much to see actually… quite different from wat I tot… there is an interesting shop selling bus models… and milk bought a doraemon bus model… after western market, we walked down to the shops as directed on the map… actually I wanted to see the Snake King shop which make snake soup wan… unfortunately many shops are closed on Sunday… managed to walk till Central-Midland Escalator though… Had wanton noodles there…. *special & nice* instead of minced meat, the wantons are huge and filled with prawns…. (this is probably why milk fell sick in the later days) =p and tried the beancurd which is very very SMOOTH n DELICIOUS… follow up, we saw a bookstore and went to explore… but nothing much lar… haha since we got plenty of time, we took a bus 6x to go Stanley Market… wah, it went uphill and circling the hill… *damn scary* K the buildings are super tall lor… cant imagine such tall buildings on hilly area? *bus sick le* :s but thanks to the winding and never ending bus ride, we got the chance to see repulse bay and the sea from the hill? The scenery was very nice… when we reached Stanley Market, we did quick shopping cuz the market is closing soon… after that, clever us took the express bus back… the express bus goes by tunnels so its faster and less windy… (and of cuz more ex?) after getting back to the harbour, we took Star Ferry back to Kowloon… slow and nice… we only took it once… then… watch the SyMpHoNy of LiGhT!!! Its very spectacular because there is fireworks… =) very beautiful… but its kinda hazy and I dunno how to take pic wan… so end up the pics not tat nice… after that, we walked the Xing Guang Da Dao which is really nothing much… den walked from there all the way till temple street… did a bit of shopping here and there… Along the way, we tried Cross-Bridge Noodles… its quite delicious! =p shopping is very tiring… *finally* we reached our hotel and had a good night rest…