Friday, December 09, 2011

Days 5 & 6 in HK

Last night, the internet access in hotel was down and thus I was unable to update my blog. The discussions ended slightly after 6pm. Weather became colder and it was quite windy. I wanted to look for a cheap food stall to have my dinner but I was unable to find one on my way to Aveune of Stars. I reached there before 7pm and waited in cold and hunger till 8pm to watch 15min of Symphony of Light.
The tall buildings in HK island around Victoria Harbour has plenty of neon lights on their walls.

During the performance, some buildings have laser beams at their top.

The performance was average.

By the time I reached the start of Nathan Road, it was about 8.30pm. I rushed to the noodle stall which I have had my dinner on Day 1. This time, I knew what to order and had a good dinner.

I even have time to buy wife's biscuits at Wind Wah Bakery before this shop closes for the day.

Today was the last official day in this working trip. Participants were busy taking photos and saving each other's files for future reference. I requested to interview an officer who rushed from Airport to Office after his work to meet me. I have no choice since I needed his advice urgently.

After our discussion, I treated him a simple late lunch.

I bidded farewell to Sandy before I walked back to my hotel.

I felt totally drained though I did not do anything physically demanding at all.

I decided to try the famous claypot rice which was just a couple of streets from the hotel. I went to Ladies Market to see if I could buy any cheap t-shirts. One of the stalls sold 4 for HKD 100. I walked further and found 5 for HKD 100. I was unsure if I could bargain. In the end, with my broken cantonese, I managed to get 5 for HKD 90.

I was hungry and walked to join the long queue at "4 seasons" 煲仔饭. The queue was unreasonably long and the price of 煲仔饭 was HKD 22. If you think the long queue is due to the cheap price, then you are wrong as just next to this stall, there is a stall which sells 煲仔饭 at HKD 18 but its queue is short!

Can you imagine that I stood for 1.5hr in the cold and windy weather conditions just to eat this 煲仔饭? I must be nuts! Even some of the locals childed the people in the queue and that includes me!

When I returned to my room in the hotel to try the newly bought t-shirts, I realised that L size was too big! OMG, what should I do and the time was close to 11pm. I rushed to Ladies Street again. Luckily that stall was still open though some had already started keeping their goods. The salesgirl allowed me to change to M size. I chose a S size for the Angry Birds t-shirt and hope that Isa would like it.

The bus will leave the hotel at 12.25pm. What should I do after my breakfast?

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