Disney-ween

{ October 28, 2010 @ 12:59 am } · { Holidays }

Last weekend I had 5 days off.. Yes.. I hear you saying Again? yup.. seems to have a very good life eh.. hehe.. but so far quite true! We had a new GSO on board – C and she is quite chubby and she studied at Tasmania, Australia for 7 years! She is a very fast learner and by the time I went for my short break, she is able to grasp the basic of everything.

So during my 5 days off, I went to Hong Kong again for 3days 2 nights bunking over at my friend’s place. She was a Korean who we worked together in Singapore. Before I went to Hong Kong, many people keep telling me that the apartment in Hong Kong is very small. But what I had imagine was its should be about the same size at the flat that I am having now in Macau and maybe only slightly smaller. But when I went to A apartment, where she share with another lady (land lady/subrental) The flat was really small. If compair to mine, its about the 1/3 of the size. Its really small. When I walk in is the toilet/shower on my left and right is the dining area which also join to the living area. Next to the toilet will be the kitchen.  Its just a small narrow place where there is some cupboards and small fridge. After the living area then there are 2 rooms. A’s room is slightly smaller compaired to the other room. A room rental is even more than my entire apartment rental! So can you imagine how expensive is it, staying in HK? Using the same amount, in Macau can get a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom in a very new apartment – also with much more space.

Therefore for the 2 nights I sleep on the wooden floor at the living room. Its not that bad. On the first night, we planned to join a social event organized by an inter-nation organization for expatriates who stay in Hong Kong. So thinking of just broadening our social circle we went to find out what’s all about. There are quite many people from many countries just mingling around – most people went there to get some networking with others for personal reasons and some for their company. As A explained to me, in HK, how you tell them what you are working as is very important as they will then judge you if are high position or not. eg.. If someone work in a bank as a teller but when they go to this kind of event, they will just say “Oh i am in the banking” .. see how prestigious it sounds.. but if you were to ask deeper then, you will find out what they actually do. Most people here are always working in banks. We met a lady in an investment bank (can’t remember) who came from Australia and kept on saying out tax rates in HK or Australia. Then we met another guy from Taiwan who used to work in the same bank from Australia and they started chatting bout their colleagues, So A and I left their table and found a table by ourselves. However, one auntie came and sat down coz her legs is very tired. But salute her, with her age, about 50+ and she gave us her name card (with her wedding photo). Can’t you believe it! She was working in University in US but she kept telling us she made a wrong choice of coming back to HK. She need to come to these events to network.. hmm.. Both of us kept wondering networking for… ?

After a while we find that this kind of event is not really our cup of tea. After finishing our 2 drinks we left and went to Lan Kwai Fong and ended up in this pub. We just had a glass of disgusting Lychee martini and a glass disgusting red wine and just catch up with A then then call it a night.

The next morning, we went to Disneyland. We reached there about 11am and we went to the most exciting ride (Space Mountain) Its like a roller coaster but at the end coz its all darkness and we do not actually feel the downwards feel and we just moved together with the ride, so at the end its not exciting at all. We went for other rides as well. But for us its not exciting but probably good for kids under 10 years old. We did see Alice in the wonderland, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, Goofy, Chip and Dale, Snow white, Cinderalla, Ariel, Beauty. We even manage to take photo with Chip and Dale, Minnie and Mickey Mouse! But a bit dissappointing with Disneyland. BUT, Disneyland did gave me a few souvenirs from this trip. As October is a month of Halloween, they did a couple haunted houses. So we unknowingly went into one of them. As its separated to a few groups and so happen A and I were the first ones to go in with the 2nd group. Unfortunately in my group we have some scarry cats. So I just walked infront with A clinging on me and coz I just kept walking no matter what came out from the sides or back or top or bottom, so both of us are kinda separated from the group and A kept asking me to wait for the rest. So seeing her quite frightened, I slowed down and the group caught up with us. We came to a part where there are 2 rows of statue on each side. I commented that one or 2 of this statue will definitely just come to life. One smart scarry alec suggested to run through. I mean if they want to run then go by all means but don’t pull people. To my dismay, one of them pulled me along and sure enough, I fell and it became like stampeed with 5 -6 people landed on top of me. I came out with bruises on  both elbows and knees.. and even lower abdomen. sigh.. just my luck…

That evening, even though we are quite tired, we even went to a factory outlet at the end of that line since we are already at that area. As if we were to go there from the city its very far and more expensive, so since we have bought the 1 day tourist pass, we decided to take the opportunity to go over. But there wasn’t much we wanted to buy but A just bought a shorts from Polo Ralph Lauren and I bought a casual shoes (with white sole for badminton) from Nike.That night we had a good night sleep after walking the entire day.

On my last day in HK, we went for yam cha at Causeway Bay, and then we went to ladies market. Bought a few things, DVDs for my aunts, some games and then we just went back to rest a little while I packed all my damages into my faithful Umbro bag and then we left for western dinner at a shopping center nearby her place. After dinner, I just took the MTR to the ferry terminal to catch the ferry back to Macau. It was a short trip but definitely a memorable one!

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