Sunday, February 7, 2010

The Land Down Under

Hello people,

Left home sweet home, Malaysia, on a Friday night after a quick supper with the parents at Old Town. Five hours later I'm here in Perth yet again.

Was kinda depressing to be back in Perth at first. Everything remains unchanged and mundane to me. Also doesn't help that I miss everyone especially that special someone so dearly.

Summer now and I don't know if I sould love or loath the heat.

Get to play with Monkey and Mousey again! Still adjusting to them therefore I'm sneezing a lot with them around.

Short update before I hit the city for some window shopping with the sister. Resolution for the year: Be healthy!

toodles,
Andrea C


Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Listen to Your Momma

Today, my momma said to me:

"You've put on weight also."

I agree.

All I need was to hear her say it. Time to put my new years resolution into action after pigging you for chinese new years

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Hong Kong

Am currently blogging from my old desktop now after not touching it for so long since my Lenovo is currently under service! Everything is so big and bright compared to the laptop! It's also painstakingly slow and laggy. Oh and did I mention that my fan won't turn on so I'm starting to sweat like crazy now. fml.

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Lets talk about HONG KONG now! Such a wonderful city to visit. It's very fast phased. People talk fast, walk fast, eat fast and travel fast.

The family took the 6am Air Asia flight to Hong Kong and arrived around 10. Took a coach bus from the airport to Nikko Hotel, located along Mody Road. I would highly recommend anyone to stay in this area because of its convenience. The East Tsim Sha Shui station and Hong Hum Station is located a 5 minutes walk away. Another few minutes walk via the underground travelator will lead you from Tsim Sha Shui East to Tsim Sha Shui where the rail to popular shopping area, Mong Kok is. Otherwise take it the other direction, switch lines and you can take it to Hong Kong itself and Causeway Bay. Travelling via MTR or by foot is the best way to go IMO. There's numerous exists/entries to each station, the rail map is very easy to figure out, the train comes every 3-5 minutes and it travels very fast and smooth. Oh, and everyone is very organized and civilized which makes things so much better. :)



The room in Nikko Hotel wasn't as spacious as I would have expected a 4 star hotel to be but oh well, gotta remember that its Hong Kong-space constrained.

We decided to have lunch opposite the hotel where there are a few shops located. This shop caught our fancy.

Beef noodles soup

Dry noodles with Char Siew and beef.

& & a plate of roasted chicken and roasted goose.

nom nom nom

How can you not have Lai Cha while in HK?
Apparently its coffee, tea and milk. Yum. :)

We walked out gastromonically satisfied. :))

Me looking a little jet lagged and unglam.


Oh, and I must tell you about this little furry friend!

Ain't he a cutie!
It's very soft and fluffy.... (L)
A litle kitty cat that just sat around at a newstand located in the corner.
Saw it on the first day we were there and I kept checking the newstand everyday we pass by hoping I'd get to see the kitty again but I didn't get to.


At night, we took a taxi from the hotel to "Ladies Street" which is actually located along Tung Choi Street. We were still noob so we took the taxi instead of the MTR.

It's called Ladies Street for a reason! Every shop filled with things that just makes you wanna go "Oooo and Arrrr"


I didn't buy anything tho. O:)


Continued walking around the busy busy streets on a Friday night.

Busy Busy HK!

As we were walking around, something caught my attention!
0.0

hehehehe.
I just quickly browed through their 2 floors cause I don't want to add anything on to my already overloaded make up collection or to keep my parents waiting outside.

Oh, and for any SASA fans out there. OMG wei, there's an outlet everywhere you turn!

With my papa and mama.
People still cant make up their mind if I look like my mum or dad.

Being food crazy Malaysian, mum n I couldnt resist buying some fried goodies to munch on.

Squid tentacles.
Crunchy but a tad too salty.

Chou Tau Foo.
It tasted good, much better than the one the sell in Taman Connaught night market.
Took a few bites then gave the rest to my mum. hehe.

While on the topic of food, I must talk about dessert!

On the first night, after some simple dim sum, we headed to a dessert stall. Right decision.

Hot Cashew Nut soup-thingo

Mixed Fruits

Mango Sago


Nick told me about this awesome desser place in Causeway Bay that his sisters went to last time so I just wanted to try it as well. It's located opposite Sogo but I still walked around high and low looking for it. Not hard to spot. Right opposite Sogo, has a red sigh board with chinese charactes on it with lots of people.


Wasn't great. Mango was sour.

After travelling all the way to Causeway Bay from Kowloon, later that night the parents took me to a place they discovered which is where the hotels free shuttle bus stops just a few minutes away and there the same mango dessert store is! Zzzz. Oh well, at least I've seen Causeway Bay.

Pork Burger!
Not that nice. Just two pork fillets and buns. Kena kon. :(


Very cute looking Egg Waffles!
Chocolate flavoured.

As for Dim Sum, my cousin took us to a very nice place to have lunch. Metropol. I forgot the buildings name but its located right outside one of the exits of the Admiralty stop which is next to a bus station. It's one of the few dim sum places that still serves dim sum on a push trolley and with an open space kitchen where you can make special orders and watch it get cooked.


ROAR!

Isn't it cute and awesome that they still use bamboo in construction!
I most certainly was amused!


Char Siew and Roasted Pork Skin rice.
Nom nom nom. It was very yummy!

Oh, and vege in HK is yummy! So big, so juicy, so soft... I can't believe i just described greens that way!


A night shot overlooking HK.


So we wanted to go up to The Peak to get a scenic view of HK.
Take the tram!

To get to the tram station though, we had to walk through HK Park.
Again, when in HK, just walk! Get yourself those free maps at the airport or just follow the sign boards. They wont lead you to Holland like the KL one's does.

In HK Park.



There's a marriage registry near by so there were a a few people taking their wedding photos on that day. Also, very amusing signs around:


'Restart' LOL.


After the very steep and fun tram ride, we were up at the peak freezing!

Weather wasn't kind as it was very foggy thus you can't see HK at all. MISTY.


Someone left them tied up to a lamp post.
Poor fluffy doggies.
People kept stopping by to pat them and to take pictures with them.


SO CUTE.

At the end of our HK stay, we took the train from Hong Hum station to Lo Wu which then leads us to the Shenzhen border! Costs HKD33 for adults and takes about 40 minutes.


Daddy in the train with his luggage.

Random photos:




HK Starbucks


Pretty flowers in the hotel



A squished bird. hehe.

The HK post is probably going to be the longest post since I took lots of pictures and all...




Attack of the Green Booger Monster

Hello my lovelies,
How was your week? Mine was great until I came down with a sore throat while in Macau (I blame the second hand smoke in the casinos) and that quickly gave me a cough and flu. Suffering from a blocked nose and runny nose, cough, a slightly sore throat and sore body. Not symptoms of H1N1 right? Bad joke, bad joke! *touch wood*

The internet is PMS-ing like a bitch today and I'm gonna call it a night soon.
So patience while waiting for updates on the holiday trip in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau!
If all goes well, expect a Hong Kong post tomorrow.

Also;

*pat pat*
Sorry to my blog for not touching you for a week. Hong Kong was too busy, couldn't access Blogger via the hotel's free internet in Shenzhen and had no internet and no time in Macau.




One more week in KL before flying back to Perth. Sigh. :((


Thursday, January 21, 2010

Toodles



Just when I'm getting my blogging mojo back!


Off on a vacation for a week!

Will give you a short update is situation permits. xoxo


Grandma Stories

Here's something that I've been meaning to talk about for awhile now.

Sometimes, don't you just feel OLD already?
I know I'm only 18 now. holy cow, I'll be turning 19 this year
Most of my friends will be turning two-zero. Shit, don't mean to point it out but you'll no longer be a teenager!
Imma have a mental breakdown when I turn 30

Don't you just miss the days of being 16?
Kicking back in high school feeling like you're the coolest person in the world.
Feeling like the sky's the limit.
Okay fine, now that I'm older I find high school kids and that attitude annoying la.
Just go to school, read the text book and just hang out with your friends.
You're only main concern was sitting for SPM.
And the best part is, you're just so anxious to get out of high school, the rules to follow, the uniforms, etc.



5E3 class of 2007


In the end, we just have to realize that life moves on.
All good things must come to an end for better things to come along.
2 more years of university till I graduate with a degree.