HK Trip Part I

Back from my HK trip, tink i'm really getting old liao.

I'm still recovering from the intensive walking during the trip(from 9am in morning till midnite) and not enough sleep even after 1 week lol.

Was very tiring but it was fun and bought quite abit of stuff.

HK Trip 17-20 Aug 2010


At Changi Aiport, our flight CX 714 from SIN-HK




airline food was not very good at all on Cathay Pacific, quite disappointing..last time i rem they used to give ice cream as dessert now only got choc. I think my fav airline is still Thai Airways.

When we touched down at HK airport, we were expecting to see someone holding up our names as we had arranged airport transfer through the Langham hotel. However after we got our luggage and arrived at the arrival gate, we didnt see anyone.

After walking around for about 15 mins trying to see if anyone was holding up our names, we decided to ask a counter nearby where was the langham airport transfer counter.

It was then we realized the counter was at the other end of the airport.






Our baggages were tagged and we were told to wait at a waiting area for someone to direct us to the bus which was coming in 5 mins. but after 15 mins, still nobody approached us so we asked one of the staff there. We were quite irritated when they told us that we had missed our bus and had to wait for the next bus which would come in 30 mins!

Finally after waiting awhile, we got on the bus and headed for the hotel. Took some snapshots on the bus journey.




the HK apartments are really tiny and cramped, i think i'll be quite depressed if i were staying in those tiny apartments..

Langham Place Hotel




We stayed at Essential Place, the standard basic room. The hotel room is considered pretty spacious since hotel rooms in HK are notorious for being tiny due to limited space


i like the glass wall between the toilet and the room, it makes the room feel bigger. Of course when we first saw it we were like, wah there better be a curtain or screen if not we will see each other when using the toilet!! lol


err fyi i accidentally broke one of the glasses at the wash basin, luckily they didnt charge us extra for the replacement lol.


this pic is like those professional photos taken by the hotel rite? heh


toiletries set - shower cap with rubber band, two sets of toothbrush/toothpaste, shaving set nicely packaged.


we koped a few of these mini shower wash/conditioner/shampoo bottles to bring back of course


iPhone dock - you can put your iPhone there to charge and play your music tracks. quite cool


stationary set




hotel room interior




view of langham mall from our room

After settling down and putting down our stuff, we went to grab a meal and Eunice brought us to a "food court" style place nearby to eat.






roasted duck rice with milk tea








Famous dessert store in HK, they have lots of mango desserts

Also tried the bubble milk tea there, koi cafe is still better ;p

we did abit of shopping after that went back to the hotel room. Cindy and I went up to Eunice's room to check out her room which was the Vital Place on a higher floor. It looks pretty much the same except its on a higher floor and has a pillow menu selection to choose from.

The view from the room is nicer too haha.

HK night skyline

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Higher night parking charge to solve residents parking woes?

Higher night parking charge to solve residents parking woes?

Seriously, is the only solution to any problem the govt can think of is to increase prices?

higher maid levies to "solve" the issue of too many maids, higher foreign worker levies to tackle the problem of overcrowding of foreigners, higher ERP charges and building more ERP gantries to help ease the road congestion problem etc. i can think of plenty more examples which singapore govt did. And now, they want to implement higher night parking charges on the pretext of solving the parking woes of the residents in hdb carparks.

Pls lah, if you want to increase prices to earn more $, just do it. dont give some lousy excuse and say that u are doing it to solve the problem. like anybody is going to believe you. Judging from the responses from the public, one can see how popular this idea is.

Uproar over parking charges

IMO, they are running our country like a profit organization with the main aim to maximize profits, they dont even care what happens to the local pple. this is what happens when they become complacent and think that they are doing such a great job running the country. crap!

random

Been kinda busy so didnt have time to update my blog..

anyway last last weekend went shopping with Eunice and Cindy on Sat while Kelvin and Wenbin were having their exams at starhub centre hah.

Bought some accessories from Forever21 at Somerset313 and mostly window shopped lol. Went to Ion Orchard after that and went to Prada, Miu Miu and LV stores to check out their bags and wallet but we din see anything nice..

after that we were tired so decided to sit down at the steps outside Ion where we heard some music..there was quite a few pple sitting there... Turned out there was some buskers playing some entertaining music. the woman who had a pretty good voice and the songs were quite catchy.

We were so amused when suddenly a few couples got up to the front and started dancing to the music. So uncommon in SG! lol..there were a couple that looked pretty young too, think they are not singaporeans, cuz singaporeans would be too paiseh do this kind of thing..


check out the lao peh peh grooving with the ladies

Started camwhoring cuz got nothing to do lol..









K Suites @ Ilumar



Last Friday, met up with the group for hanzhong's bday at K Suites at Ilumar. It's a new ktv and apparently the rooms are quite much nicer compared to the standard fare from kbox or partyworld kv. Some of the rooms even have day beds where u can lie down and sing if u want to haha..

BUT , its pretty expensive i heard the hourly rates are like $22 per hour per pax or something..luckily kelvin's friend knew someone and managed to waive off the room charges, so we just had to pay for drinks ;p


Food menu


huge ipad lookalike menu to choose the songs from


There's an internet corner inside the room where u can surf net! the guys spent practically the whole nite taking turns to use it..


there's even bedroom slippers and blankets if u're feeling cold ..


drinks for the nite






this pic is funny, wenbin said we look like those pple caught in those raids lol.


service was pretty good, they brought in the bday cake and even helped us to cut it and served on individual plates for us


kelvin's friend said that kelvin look like he want to beat up somebody. LOL

oh yes, we spotted Qi Yuwu at K Suites that nite with some friends too haha.