♥First Day in Hong Kong!
After having sacrificed all the shopping craves and temptations for almost 4 months, the day to go to the shopping haven has finally arrived! Will be going to HongKong for attachment for 2.5 months, cool beans!So many things I had to leave behind; family, food, friends, boyfriend, and my close colleagues.
Weijie came over to my place late in the night, of course with the permission from both parents and with family around. Hahaha. He helped me to clear my room while I packed my luggage, and I am super grateful to you dearest! If I was the one packing my room, it would take around minimum 1 week, or even forever. But with his magic hands, he managed to help me clear up in few hours! Power man! We didn't even get a wink of sleep, because by then it was already time for me to leave for the airport. Cabbed down with the four of us; Weijie, Daddy, Auntie Waileng and myself.Changi Airport Terminal 1 at 5am sucks lo. So many cafes and food kiosks are undergoing renovations, which only leaves us the corner with killiney, jollibean and Pacific Coffee company. I had wanted to order fishball noodles from killiney, but they told us it wasn't available. Once I bought the sandwiches from Pacific Coffee Co. and sat down, they prepared the fishball noodles when ordered. What??!!! A difference of just a few minutes. The sandwiches tasted weird, and the cost was extavagant for a lousy sandwich like it. 
Daddy, Auntie Waileng, Boyfriend Chua, and Samuel seeing us off at Changi Airport.
Sharon arrived with Samuel soon after, and we went to the counter check-in. When heading for the departure hall, I cried like a cry baby on daddy's flabby breasts, but I really couldn't help it. Gave everyone a hug, and I guess this shows that I really miss them in time to come. Sharon and I checked in and got onto the plane; here we come, Hong Kong!
Hong Kong, here we come!
Having heard all the commotion about JetStar being uncomfortable and all, it had actually lowered my expectations of JetStar to a level of being.. shitty. But I kinda liked the ride there, because I thought it beats the SilkAir flight I took last year to Hong Kong. Value for money what, what more could we expect from a $250 ticket? Sharon took the window seat and I was next to her, followed by this other lady. The lady kept coughing and sniffing, which made me suspect she was having H1N1. When the plane was about to take off, she looked like she wanted to vomit, and that really scared the heck out of me; I mean like, what if her vomit lands on me? So GROSS! I decided to be Little Miss Nice, and offer her some help, by asking what she need. And then she looked like she really couldn't take it, and I started to panic. We asked around for plastic bags, and the people were really nice. They offered not only a plastic bag, they even passed us vomit bags, mint, and wet tissue paper. So I passed to the lady and she immediately vomitted. Oh man. Offered her a mint after having one myself, and I guess she felt fine after the puke. The lady was just suffering from motion sickness. 
We alighted from the plane and boarded a shuttle bus that would fetch us to the Airport Terminal. Above are the pictures we took at Ajisen!
4 hours later, we finally touched down at HongKong International Airport. We were to walk out of the plane through this stairway down, and there was a bus which came to fetch us to the airport. First thing we did, was to go to the tourism board counter to take all the pamphlets and brochures on Hong Kong. I took one each from the entire rack and people can definitely identify me as a kiasu Singaporean. Collected luggage, and decided to go get the HongKong Airport Express Train card, Octopus card for public transport, and the pre-paid card for phone calls. We met a really nice and patient staff who served us at 7 eleven when we were purchasing the pre-paid card. We happily went to look for food, and decided to lunch at Ajisen, which has an open air concept. We tugged our luggage all the way into the restaurant, happiily sat down, and happily browsed the menu for noodles. We were stumped initially, thinking why there were only desserts on the menu. We looked at our surroundings, and realised that we entered the wrong restaurant. So embarrassing! We tugged our luggage next door to Ajisen and settled down. Their service is crap. Sharon had some problems with understanding the chim cantonese, and we had just requested for a waiter to help us translate what the service provider was saying. Another waiter told him in cantonese, "Let them go and read themselves". No help was given for something not related to our order! We went back to the 7-eleven to look for the same guy to help us.
Airport Express Train, nice and comfy!
Took the express train and the seats sure looked posh and felt comfortable! We inter-changed at HongKong station, to go to Causeway Bay. Their MTR station is very similar to our MRT, but the only difference is between the handles and seats. We alighted at Causeway Bay station, and it is definitely complicating for first-timers like us! We lugged our luggage out of the train, and looked for the exit where we were going to meet this guy called Billy, who was gonna bring us to our new home! Yayyyy :)
Billy brought us to a very ulu place just a street away from the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong's "Orchard Road". We arrived at this alley with laundry shops and automobile repair shops. In between, there were metal gates with numeric code passes for security reasons. We had a hard time dragging our luggage up the stairs to the lift. And I tell you, the lift is ancient! The door, the grilles, the light bulbs, and the buttons. Cool beans! And then we entered our room, and tah-dah, double cool beans! An apartment that is half the size of my own room in Singapore! The flat so small, how fat girl stay there, no space to sit! The toilet was the best, the showerhead was just above the toilet bowl, that's how small the place is! I actually did big business in the toilet bowl, because I just had the feel. I went ahead to push the flush button, holy shit, no water came out, and my shit was still floating around. I tried all means and ways to wash the shit down, but none of it work. I closed the lid, thank god that Billy came back, and he helped us solved the problem by just opening the cover and pushing the internal button.
Welcome to our HUMBLE HOME!
A 5-step staircase to an ancient lift, that uses a swing door and a sliding door grille as a partition. The lift has no ventilation fan, and it uses 2 incandescent bulbs without any casing as lights.
Our "studio room" is one of the rooms behind the gate, and has really narrow corridor that cannot even fit half of me besides myself on the isle.
The entrance is so narrow that we had to go in and come out one at a time.
The washroom is amazing! You can either shower above the toilet bowl or in front of the sink
The room is "GIGANTIC"! The picture is taken just a metre away from the door entrance.
We were really unhappy with all the arrangements, as there were neither any washing machine, nor were there any kitchen facility.
So we talked to the big boss Bosco, and he was willing to rent another place to us, but at a higher cost. We were still in consideration of looking at the flats that Auntie Jing had searched for us, so we decided to put it on hold. We would be viewing all the different flats the next day.
CAUSEWAY BAY HONGKONG, our neighbourhood!
After settling down, we decided to walk around Causeway Bay. It is hugeeee man. We had a really hard time finding our way back home. Many times we lost our way around, and kept walking around. We saw aunties and uncles queuing up outside of SOGO, and realised that there was a brand apparel bazaar going on in SOGO's ballroom, so Sharon and I went be part of this queue. We walked out of the bazaar with a Ralph Lauren top each, and a Ben Sherman T-shirt for Chua Weijie.
Two most popular snack stalls among teenagers! Ireland Potato's Cheesy Fries with Minced Meat, and Pearl Milk Tea from One More Cup.
Billy looked us up for Dinner, and we headed down to Prince Edward Station for some delicious Double-boiled milk! It is like beancurd, but tastes like sweet milk. Oh, and Sharon can't differentiate between a cow and a goat! We had some smelly tofu, which stunk bad on the street, but it tastes good in the mouth! It didn't taste like cheese, like what other people say, it's just smelly nice!
Something that Singapore does NOT have, Double Boiled Milk! It like beancurd, but maybe better! Hou Hou Sek ah!
Fermented Tofu! It STINKS, but the shiok-ness come from the smelliness somehow. Heehee. Smell Tofu one of my Favourites.
We walked over to Mongkok from Prince Edward street, and there we were at H&M! The store that both of us had been waiting to enter! Billy left for home, while we spent our time there looking around, hoping to find really good deal. What a tiring day, it was time to go back home! We had to walk the same route from the MTR station that Billy guided us for the first time. Fortunately, we didn't get lost again, and alas HOME SWEET HOME!!!
I'm
talking champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
