In Memories of….

On the 4th day of our Hong Kong trip we went to this restuarant @ Prudential Hotel for Dim Sum Breakfast (I honestly forgot the name of the restaurant but the dim sum is really good!)

My parents & I then went to Mongkok to buy the famous Wing Wah Wife Biscuits. Dad then bought another goose drumstick (his excuse: he won’t get to eat this back in Singapore). We then went to the ferry terminal to join Chae Siong and wife to take the ferry back to Macau.

I think we had too much good food in Hong Kong; we actually find food in Macau quite disappointing.

Later in the evening we went to to the casino in Venetian Macau.

We went to Ocean Park on the 3rd day of our trip. It was a wise choice as that was the only day that did not rain throughout our trip. Dad said we were really lucky.

Dad was amazed by this Asia’s longest (or is it world’s longest) escalator.

I never had the courage to take this roller coaster, not to mention no one is accompanying me to take trill rides this time round!!!

I like this picture of my dad. This is one of his best pictures taken in our trip.

Dad’s tense face when we were on the ferris wheel.

The pandas’ cave has been renovated since my last trip. There’s even a raccoon section!!!

We later went to the peak. Pardon my poor night shots as I have shaky hands.

Rinko loves his blue ball from Ikea so much that we bought 4 of the same balls for him. One of them was destroyed by Kookie so he has 3 of them left. Let’s see what trick he can play with his ball.

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On the 2nd day of our trip, we went to 大屿山 and Disneyland.

There was a little bit of fog so the Buddha background became a bit blur in mum’s picture.

We have meant to take the cable car to the Great Buddha but dad has a little phobia of heights, so we decided to take the bus up and take the cable car down later, giving him the time to mentally prepare himself. However, it started to rain very heavily so we aborted the idea and took bus 23 back to Tsing Yi Station.

For those who love shopping for good buys, please note that Citygate Shopping Centre beside Tsing Yi MTR is occupied by factory outlets of international brand names like Nike, Addidas, Club21, Levi’s, Espirit etc whose prices are 30-70% cheaper than what you find in the actual boutiques though the designs may be one season older.

When we reached Disneyland, it was still drizzling. Nevertheless, we still managed to have fun on the rides and watch the fireworks.

The day ended with my favourite dessert shop in Hong Kong, 许留山.

I went to Hong Kong & Macau with my parents, Chae Siong & wife last month. Jackie has decided not to join us at the last minute so I had to share a room with my parents. We took the plane to Macau and transferred to Hong Kong via ferry on the 1st Day. I had seasick on the one hour ferry trip. By the time we reached Prudential Hotel in Kowloon, it’s already late evening and all of us were famished.

Dinner was roasted rice near Temple Street. We had roasted goose drumsticks, roasted pigeon, roasted pork, char siew and vegetables. Look at how oily the goose drumsticks are!!!

I have been getting sick easily and quite frequently recently, with all the flu and sore throats. I think I really need to build up my body immunity system. It’s time to head for the gym. Can somebody discipline me to go to the gym at least every Saturday morning for a start? Otherwise, a daily walk with Kookie and Rinko once a week to Punggol Park will be equally beneficial to my body as well.

The weather has been unbearably hot lately: so hot that I can just sit on my chair and do nothing and let the day pass. Even my dogs can feel the heat. Rinko even starts barking by the master bedroom prompting us to switch on the aircon when bedtime comes. Nothing to them is happier than having ice cubes to bite on in this humid weather!

In this hot weather, one of my favourite drinks is the new Sunkist 100% Orange and Pink Grapefruit Juice. I’m not able to find a picture of this product on the Internet, but I’ll take a picture of it and post it up soon.

What can we do with 2 carrots & 4 eggs? Well we can bake carrot cakes!! One for my colleagues and one will be for Jackie and my neighbours.

I like baking carrot cakes because they are so expensive at cafes and the cost of making them is so so cheap… However, the process of grating the carrots does kill me. With Rinko and Kookie waiting by the kitchen counter for carrots (yes, they love raw carrots), it doesn’t help with anything either.

Next time we shall try baking other types of cakes. For those who might be interested in the recipe, you may find it here.

Posting of this part 2 shall include celebration on actual day itself.  I went to the zoo!!!

The last time I went to the zoo was 2 years ago before they renovated it into Safari theme. One reward for going to the zoo is being able to see the zoo’s latest addition,a baby pygmy hippo which was born on 4th June 2009. This little guy has not mastered the skill of trapping water yet and kept jumping up to the water surface for air while following his mother in the water.

During one of the animal shows, we also managed to see a white peacock with his feathers spread out.

A zebra crossing that looks like zebra stripes:

On a side note, Jackie made a birthday cake for him by himself as my birthday gift.

I finally managed to upload all my birthday celebration photos. I know this post is 9 days late. I somehow had issue uploading my pictures to my flickr account earlier.

The 1st birthday cake I had was on my birthday eve. A colleague of mine has her birthday one day after mine so we blew the candle together. The strawberry chocolate cake from secret recipe is sooo rich and delicious, too bad I did not manage to take a picture of the interior.

I am not posting pictures of my colleagues here to protect my company’s as well as my colleagues’ interest.