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Sunday, July 27, 2008Y

Before I go to bed, shall post a pic of me and ting taken while we were at cao ge's concert. 1st time gg concert wif ting...actually serena oso la, juz tat we din get to tk pic together...hee...okie...time for bed

~ Ting n me~


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26/7/2008: The Asparus

It's our 1st time gg for body massage and scrub at the Asparus in the NTU Alumni Club. So shiok...i nv go massage b4 la. This is my 1st experience. Though i did indulge in the massage, I cant help feeling shy as well cos we din wear anything during the process lor! Ok, that's not the main thing. The point i wanna make is my skin is so smooth and clean after the scrub. Exfoliating realli help to renew my skin. kekez....i am looking forward for more~

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19/7/2008: Meet up wif Vin

It's so rare to meet up wif this guy. hahahaa.... our meet up is merely crap and i entertain him by listening to his lame jokes la...esp there's one which he mentioned tat he wan to change his sir name to jin1...damn lame....cos of "jin1 cheng2 wu3"....

Luckily the food is nice la...i luv this mud pie @ nydc...so sinful but onli such food taste nice rite??? hahhaaaaa.....

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12/7/2008:

Finally, i've done a collage of back-dated events. hahhaa...while dar is helping me with the wordings of the hong kong trip.
From left to right: 1) Dar nid to visit the dentist. So while he was in the room, I was cam-whoring to kill time. Firstly, i take a pic of my new shoes.
2) Then, myself.
3) to 8) Us @ Gary Cao Ge's concert
9) Gary Cao Ge with special guest: Zuo Wen Xuan...a sweet combination of voices

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Day 7:

It's our final day in HK, so sadz.
From left to right: 1&2) Photos of our room at the YMCA International before we checked out. Dar is wearing his new tee from Man-U...kekez...we bought it in macau.
3) Photo of a napkin at a Strawberry themed café along Dundas street after some last minute shopping in Kowloon.
4) Kekez, photo of dar while waiting for the K6 shuttle to Kowloon Station for the Airport Express ride to Chek Lap Kok airport for our trip home!
Photo-taking in hong kong stops here....it doesnt mean shopping stops when we head for home. We still shop while we were at the Hong Kong International Airport. hahahhaa....really shop till we drop!


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Day 6 Part 2:

From left tor right: 1) Ocean Park is situated along the hilly regions of the Aberdeen area. Picture of the spectacular sea view.
2) Photo of the the roller coaster Mine train which me and dar decided not to take in the end, lol, after our Water ride, in case we got motion sickness later.
3) Dar with a background view of Aberdeen.
4) Photo of the Ocean theatre where we caught a wonderful sea show by dolphins and sea lions.
5) Me and dar at the Ocean theatre.
6) Photo of the marine aquarium Atoll reef that was of a bigger version of the than our underwater world. Diaoz, Dar commented that it was his favourite place in Ocean Park not because of the exhibits, but because of the cooling air con!
7 to 9) Photos of the exhibits in the aquarium. After our trip to Ocean park, we pop by to the Internationl financial centre (IFC) mall in central for some shopping before heading to Fai Yuen Street to exchange for my clothes and of course, some more shopping!!.

~Credits given to Dar for penning the words~

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Day 6 Part 1:

From left to right: We are going to Ocean Park at Aberdeen today. Yippie!!
1) Photo of my breakfast at a cha chan ting near our hotel which consists of congee, and Zhu Chang Fen. The chang fen was rather different from our local one. Theirs are thinner and thicker and more oilier than ours. Unique in their own way...
2) Me and dar’s reflection while waiting for the train at the MTR station.
3) Photo of Ocean Park’s admission ticket while boarding the direct bus from Admiralty, Hongkong island.
4) Photo of bus 629, the bus that goes straight to Ocean Park. The journey there was quite fast, about 25minutes and it goes through a tunnel thorugh the hill along the way.
5) Photo of the main entrance of Ocean park.
6) The water ride which me and dar took. It was similar to the one at the now defunct Haw Par Villa.
7&8) Photo of me and dar while waiting for the water ride.

~Credits given to dar for penning the words~


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Day 5 Part 4:

From left to right: 1) Me and dar in the lift on our way up to the shopping section of the Venetian. The lift was super posh also ok, though can’t really tell from the pic.
2) Inside the Venetian shopping arcade. Very huge, comprises of many areas, think one can easily get lost.
3) Since the Venetian was being modelled after Venice in Italy, there is a water canal complete with Caucasians singing in Italian ferrying tourists along the waterway for a fee.
4) Me with a acrobat in long wooden legs.
5) Kekez, me camo – whoring while waiting for dar to try on clothes at the Manchester United outlet.
6) Pic of a Macdonald cartoon character that I took while I was its toilet.
7) Me and dar with his Massimo dutti polo t at the outlet’s changing room.
8) A picture of the free Venetian shuttle bus that shuttles the gamblers and tourists to its other casinos or the ferry terminals.

~Credits given to Dar for penning the words~

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Day 5 Part3:

From left to right: 1) After visiting the Senado Square, dar and me decided to visit the newest and biggest casino in Macau, the Venetian as dar wanted to go see. Pics of the casinos along the way
2) Picture of the ‘older’ Sands Casino whose owner is coincidentally that of the Venetian and our very own Marina Bay IR.
3) Me in front of a golden sculpture at the main entrance of the Venetian. Inside, everything was so grand and beautiful. Marble tiles, renaissance sculptures, golden taps and so on.
4) The opulent roof along the main alley.
5 & 6) Me dar with the casino as background. Note that moments after this pic was taken, we told by the security personnel that no photos were allowed! Kekez, luckily we managed to take the photos.
7) to 9) Kekez, I just resist camo – whoring again. This time it was
in the Venetian’s toilet. It was so posh, golden taps, long alleys (in the toilet ok!).

~Credits given to dar for penning the words~



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Day 5 Part2:


From left to right: 1) to 4) Different views of Macau....the streets of macau are not as packed as hong kong. And u can feel the portuguese atmosphere as u walked along the streets lined up wif the short and stylish designed shophouses.
5) Famous food in Macau: Zhu1 pa2 bao1 aka macau pork chop sandwich. Actually, many shops sell this and each claims to be authentic. We, as innocent consumers, dunno which is the real one. So dar decided to try this. It doesnt taste too bad...
6) & 7) Dar and Me at the famous highlight in macau: Ruins of St. Paul's
8) This is the shop where we bought alot of local snacks. Food, food and more food...
9) Portugese egg tart....hahaaa....we admit we are gluttons.
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Day 5 Part1:


From left to right: 1) Our agenda for the day is to go to Macau. THe night before, we realised tat there's a bus near our hotel to get to the ferry terminal. So here, we are in the bus...
2) On the ferry lo...
3) & 4) Scenaries outside the ferry
5) This was the only pic that we took on the ferry while on the way to Macau. Cos me got ferry-sick...hahhaa..pple got plane-sick but me ferry sick. As per historical records, dar has track record of ferry sick...and i am perfectly fine. BUT this time round, I got it while he's safe and sound. hahhaaa....so no pics in the ferry till we reach macau.
6) On the bus in Macau
7) & 8) Casinos in macau that we saw as we were on the bus
9) We've reached the place we were looking for...

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Day 4 Part3:



From left to right: 1) & 2) We were walking along the streets...and spotted police. SO this person got so CURIOUS...went to ask the police wat's happening...there's a strike gg on. So happening rite?? BUT dun feel safe...faster ciao!
3) SOGO...hahhaa...I can still recall there used to be one in tampines but now the building dun exist anymore lo~ Notice there's not many pics taken...COS too busy see see look look...hahhaa....no time to tk pics :P
4) Tired after all the walking...time for dinner. Here's a bowl of wanton mee...dun look appeitising...BUT it taste fabulous! IT's quite famous de wor :)
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Day 4 Part3:

From left to right: 1) See the long flight of stairs??? We have, must and nid to climb this flight of stairs before we can reach the Buddha.
2) Climbing-in progress...hahaaa...stop a while to tk a pic
3) Dar was sweating hard...hahhaa..jia you jia you....we are a step nearer to the buddha le!
4) See....he's taking a rest...
5) One pic before we tk the cable car back to the land
6) There's only us in the cable car as there's not many pple in the queue...no nid to share...hahhaa..so cam whoring again~
7) Blue sky, white clouds, gd shot!
8) Hazy sky...
9) Reaching the land soon...one more shot before we alight.

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Day 4 Part 1:



From left to right: 1) On our way to Ngong Ping, we saw this count-down board. And dar happened to wear an olympic tee...hahaa...so comical~
2) Waiting to board the cable car...
3) Us in the cable car :)
4) There were 4 other tourists in the same capsule as us. It's so friendly of them to ask us to join them in the pic. Nice peepz from Russia..coool
5) to 8) Amazing scenaries from the cable car....breathe-taking man! It took us 1/2 an hr before we reach Ngong Ping...
9) Finally caught sight of the Tian Tan Buddha Statue. We are reaching!

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Day 3 Part2:

From left to right: 1) After dumping our things in the hotel, we are now @ Central...heading to Lan Kwee Fang...yooo hooo...
2) At the Mid-level escalator along Sheung Wan....as u walk along the link, you will be able to see the modern buildings blending in with some of the old and run-down shop houses.
3) The view as we walk along the longest link..
4) &5) The day when we went lan kwoi fong..there happened to be some event for the canadians. So you can see there are many Canada flags hanging along the buzzy neon streets of lan kwoi fong.
6) The link was super long and so we decided to give up....n we saw Krispy Creme!!!! wahahhaa..it's food again. Have tried tat before and so....here are our doughnuts :)
7) Nice advert of Krispy Creme
8) & 9) Streets of lan kwoi fong

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Day 3 (Part1):


From left to right: 1) & 2) Early in the morning, we were on our way to Wong Tai Sin temple to pray. Hee...And in the morning, not many pple were on the MTR..as u can see, the carriage is so spacious~hahaa
3) See...we've reached Wong Tai Sin stop! Din realli tk nice pics at the temple cos it was raining heavily then.
4) After praying, we headed to Fa Yuen Street and Xi1 Yang2 Cai4 Street for our shopping sprees. heee....happie!
5) Dar shopped till tired while i was still energetic...can still walk down more streets~wahahha...but decided to let him tk a rest so we took a bite @ one of the nearby cha can ting. Here's the egg tart and po1 luo2 bao1 for our tea break. kekez...
6) Along the streets, we can find these finger food...smell nice and look yummy! BUT i dun realli dare to eat..lol
7) And walk a few streets down, I spotted Xu3 Liu2 Shan1!!! Have been looking for it for sooooooo long and i've finally found it. SO wif our bulging stomachs, we went ahead to order a dessert for each of us. Yummy mango-li-cious desserts....so mango-ly superb!
8) As the hotel was nearby, we agreed to stroll back to put down our shopping loot before heading to Lan Kwee Fang. Along the way, we saw banners that remind us of our homely Singapore. 1stly: Ba Kwa
9) And next, DBS bank...

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008Y

I wanna ignore the piling emails/spammed mails/junks. Can I?

I wanna escape and run away from everything. Can I?

I juz wan a simple and peaceful life. Can I?

Can I? Can I? Can I?

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Monday, July 21, 2008Y

I dunno if it suits me....i hope someone can juz tell me so.

Tired.

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Saturday, July 19, 2008Y


I'll be back with more pics....ciao!

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Have given my blog a new look for a change. Hope this brings me loads of good luck as well..chase the bad luck away and welcome lucky and happy things for me!

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Friday, July 18, 2008Y

Day 2:


From Left to Right: (1) Our hotel is located @ Yau Ma Tei so taking the MTR from there.
(2) Arrived @ the Maxim Restaurant for its yummy dim sum. It's quite well-known. Dar found it in the Hong Kong Tour Book and so we decided to be ah-siah for a while. kekez...
(3) After the heavy breakfast @ Maxim Restaurant, boarded the bus to go Stanley market. Their buses operate juz like ours...we got Ezlink card while they have Octopus card. We got tv-mobile on our buses...they have it too!
(4) Dar @ Stanley Market
(5) Was heading to the Peak and I notice this street "Battery Path". hee...so interesting
(6) Bought the tickets to Madame Tussandos (the wax musuem) located at the Peak. We nid to tk a tram to reach there.
(7) While on the tram to the Peak, I took a pic of the high rise flats there.
(8) & (9) Me and dar @ the foggy, hazy, cloudy Peak. hehehe..
Here we are wif all the stars in the wax museum:


(1) Dar trying to battle wif Bruce Lee
(2) Me trying to kiss Jay Zhou
(3) oops...picasa cut Aaron's head. hahhaaa...
(4) Dar wif Cecilia Cheung
(5) Posing wif Ayumu Hamasaki
(6) Andy Lau and me
(7) Can U spot me in the pic?
(8) Waving us
(9) hahhaa...I luv d wig...so comical
(10) Me and dar gg into the Scream House...smth like ghost house
(11) Dar wif Tiger Woods
(12) Fatty dar
(13) Fatty gal gal
(14) Me trying to wrestle wif tat tall muscular guy
(15) Yo..it's me with twins!


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YOOOOOOOO....everyone! I din migrate tol HK. hahaa...juz tat i am too lazy to post pics la. Nid time and effort to do collage etc.

Let me try and recall my itinery in hk:

Day 1:



From Left to Right: (1) We reached Changi Airport @ ard 4am to check in..hahaa...super early!
(2) And before we noe it, we've arrived @ Hong Kong International Airport. Took the pic while waiting for the airport express train.
(3) On the airport express train to kowloon.
(4) The free shuttle bus K6 to our hotel- YMCA International House
(5) 1st stop from Kowloon Station is our hotel lo!
(6) This pebble look-alike thingy is known as "ji1 dan4 zai3". It tastes like love letter but it's chewy and crispy...luv the texture! Happened to see pple queuing up for this while we were heading to Sam's tailor to make dar's shirts, so decided to try it.
(7) Me @ the grand posh Louis Vuitton boutique. Inside the boutique, it's like a museum lor...it's realli an eye opening experience to visit it. All the various series of LV bags make my eyes open so big. hahhaa....and I almost wanted to get another one. BUT my dear bf say not worth it...kekez
(8) Headed to the Avenue of stars. It was a foggy night cos it has been raining the entire day.
(9) A tourist at avenue of stars asked us to help him take a pic. So we oso asked d person to take for us lor...cos we have been "Zi4 pai1". U guys will see it in other pics.

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