May 11, 2009 Summer Vacation Day 1

Monday, got up at 7am and began preparing my luggage and all...

Was supposed to reach the airport at 930am for 1130am flight. Xiang would be going straight from workplace. His parents would be going from their home.

Aunty & Uncle arrived at 10am and we all checked in our luggage. After that she wanted to eat something but didn't want to eat too much... so we're all fed & stuffed with a lot of food having eaten big breakfast just earlier.

At 11am, we board the plane...
But as you can see we'd have to walk up there. I wonder what happen if it rains...

It was a 5 hour flight. We tried to sleep on the plane.

Purpose is to show his sharp nose that I very much like.

We landed at Macau at around 3ish where Xiang's bro ZY and his wife, MJ came and pick us up. But we still had to divide into 2 cabs, 3-3. I realised that Macau drivers drive DAMN FAST!!!!! We head to MJ's friend's place...
Nope it's not this but the apartments opposite where we'd be putting up.

At 4ish, MJ brought us to this Portugese restaurant and it was my first time having Portugese meal leh!! So cool!
Not sure what meet is this but it's good!!!




Time for some REALLY PRETTY DESSERTS!!! Here's the full view...

Let's have some close ups..




Next we'd be walking around the area, exploring while the married couple will be away to settle their wedding album stuffs.
In front of the Portugese Restaurant called Dumbo little elephant.






We walked till about sky dark and because tomorrow we're leaving for HK so we only have today to visit the Venetian (Macau famous casino hotel resort). After asking for directions, we managed to walk to the place by foot...

We head in and searched for our way in for the casino... OMFG, there were smoke EVERYWHERE!!! Smoking is ALLOWED in the casino, hotel, malls, all over the place!!!! I was damn stinky.

Xiang & I played those bo liao jackpot. I spent HKD100 (SGD20) but won nothing. He has a lot of luck, spent HKD200 (SGD40) and he won HKD750! Very impressive. We were inside the casino till about 930pm and ZY & MJ came over and took us to take pics with his DSLR.





Then we came by the famous hotel lobby! Sibei grand I tell you... I took one portrait & one landscape to let you see the diff...


We went back and took a few more sampat pic but unfortunately even DSLR also not really night-friendly la.. most of the pics turned out blur so I'll just post these la...


It has been a really long day so we left the Venetian at around 1030 and head back to MJ's friend's apartment.

Xiang actually forgotten to bring sleepwear! Alamak.. so I passed him my track pants and wear his own jacket as sleepwear. LOL! Slept at 12am.

May 12, 2009 Summer Vacation Day 2

Tuesday, got up early, prepared early and took cab over to MJ's apartment so that we can have breakfast & set off together.

Some shots while waiting for ZY & MJ...


And we head over to have a dim sum breakfast!


Dim sum is super cheap in Macau..

A wide spread like that, I think each person is not more than SGD10!

After breakfast, we took a cab down to the ferry terminal. We're going to take a 1-hour jumbo jet over to HK. While waiting to check in, the usual zi pai-ing...

Actually I quite like taking boat rides/cruises. But no such chance here. There was a coming jumbo jet ferry so I snapped a pic to show that this is the boat we boarded.

Errm.. he likes to do this pout I wonder why.

Ferry left Macau at 1130 and at 1230 we reached HK and we took the MTR to Mongkok to check into our hotel in another hour. The plan was to visit Disneyland today but half a day was already gone and I doubt we get to see anything much.

Apparently there was also some delay in the placement of the rooms and also the issue of MJ having a body temperature of 38 degrees.

Currently, the HK hospitality is taking precaution against the swine flu. Hence we were greeted with ppl wearing masks and some kinda barrier for temperature taking. There were other tourists/guests as well so everything took a pretty long time and we were all delayed and behind our schedule.

We only managed to return to our rooms at 230. After having a little nap, the plan was to visit probably 1 or 2 tourist spot then do shopping at night.

So we took the MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui to visit the Avenue of Stars to see the skyline and the Star Prints & signatures.. but aunty wasn't really interested, she just wants to shop but there were a lot of boutiques and you can't bargain at boutiques, she wanted to go to those street markets... but... sigh... That's what happen when you're travelling with elders/seniors....

To be continued....