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Bangkok here I come

Bangkok here I come. I will be going to Bangkok this Thursday on AirAsia and the bad news is I haven’t plan for the trip. Yo! It’s so last minute and unlikely my well-planned Hong Kong trip many months ago. Sorry that I have to skip school for this trip. I just love traveling, a lot.

It’s mainly eating out, shopping and temples. =)

photo via wikipedia.

From Penang to Ipoh’s Leo Forum

Early in the morning or what the Hokkiens say 7 early 8 early (7早8早), mom fetch me up to Sg Nibong Bus Terminal. It was far as I took us like about 20 minutes to get there. Wonder why my friend the big one or senior asked us to wait there by 7 and when we were there, he was not there.

Craps, we waited like 45 minutes there until the bus came. I even have time for toilet business before the bus started moving. After getting on the bus, we waited like another 30 minutes inside.

[Kenneth, Andy, Kel, CK, Jerry, Kenny]

Tell you what, I just couldn’t get any sleep on the bus. The bus ride was bumpy and even though I slept for like a few hours the previous night, I just can’t go asleep. Staying awake with my music playing, talking away and also taking photos of people sleeping. So sorry that I was being bad. Haha, you guys just look so (fill in the blank) when sleeping.

Maybe a little of card games can cure my boredness. A few rounds of money less Big D game were played. Luck wasn’t as I did not win any rounds. Oh my god!

Ha! I was just playing around with my friend’s sunglasses. Looks cool but it doesn’t really seems my type to wear something like this and moreover why would I need a sunglasses?

A 15 minutes toilet and whatever break at the highway rest house before continuing the journey to Ipoh. I bought just chewing gum there and went to clear my urine at the bowl. XD

Not really hungry at all at that time so I didn’t really bought anything to eat. From Penang to Ipoh is actually 2 hours, but the bus was driving slow and so it had became 3 hours.

Arrived at the Heritage Hotel at about 11am and straight away we did our registration. Getting all the freebies and we were actually in rush that time. The team building activity was suppose to be start later but then we had to get ready earlier to go to the site.

So I think it was fun? Yes it was. About 470 something people attended the Leo Forum. So what we did at the Leo Forum is coming up next and soon. Don’t go away. Yay!

Fa Yuen St, Ladies St, Tung Choi St

Fa Yuen St is next to Tung Choi St which is also known as Ladies St. It’s a place where you find all those imitation goods. Though, they don’t place it out, they catalogue for you choose from and then they’ll take the goods to you. Didn’t really buy anything there last time, there’s some nice jacket I saw but it was a little bit too thick to wear in Malaysia. You know lah, it wil never be cold here, even in the mall, the AC is not cold enough.

During the last visit to Hong Kong, I’ve plenty of times and so I’ve been to these streets for a few times but not once. It could be said that they are near to my hotel but still require a long walk. We did try to walk back, but it’s better to take the MTR from Yau Ma Tei to Mong Kok.

If you plan to buy something there, the one thing you must do is bargain and cut price! Give a low price, if he/she refuses, just walkaway. He/she will chase after you. Haha.

Travel tips: Sai Yeung Choi St, Tung Choi St (Ladies St) and Fa Yuen St are must visit places in Hong Kong.

Lan Kwai Fong

How can one not to go to Lan Kwai Fong if visiting to Hong Kong? Although I don’t drink, taking walk there was nice as you can see a lot of nicely decorated pub and open bar. We were there at around 6pm so people just started coming in. I believe it’s more crowded at night like what you see in the TV. Damn cool place, we have it too in Malaysia like Bangsar and Upper Penang Road.

Hong Kong Times Square

Jom, let’s teleport to Hong Kong again. Now, everywhere has Times Square. It was first introduced in New York City where a street with a divider (Broadway and 7th Ave) with a lot of brightly lighted advertisement at night, then Hong Kong has their own Times Square (shopping center) with big LCD screen outside their building.

Kuala Lumpur too has a Times Square which claim to have Asia largest indoor theme park, sooner my hometown will have a Penang Times Square too with apartments and shopping area.

It is so easy to go anywhere you want in Hong Kong. A MTR ride to Causeway Bay and take the Times Square exit, you will then appear right inside Times Square. I didn’t take a walk in the mall instead, I went outside where all the peoples are.

This was where me imitate one of smashpOp pose in Hong Kong, but failed to get the effect. Haha, he is so damn good in posing.

The place is like yours. You can cross the road whenever you want because it’s too narrow and usually no car would pass by the area.

The Times Square’s surroudings is a very happenings places where there’s a lot of people walking around, non-stop. Students in uniform, work people in suits and tux, locals, tourist etc etc.

Trust me, you don’t want to leave your little kid alone there. Though, I like the feeling of being at a happenings, crowded place. It’s like Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur and Orchard Rd in Singapore. Only some places here is like there, in Hong Kong, everywhere is people!

By the way, I ate curry fish balls there.

It was a tired day by then. From The Peak to Central, then to Sheung Wan then down to Causeway Bay. All by foot and train, damn tiring and later then we went back the hotel to freshen up only then we went to had supper at a coffee house near our hotel.

Hong Kong Madame Tussauds Wax Musuem

Oww, this is like ages ago. No, it’s 10 weeks ago of me in Hong Kong. Yeah, finally I got a little spare time to look up in my photo album and upload the photos that I’ve taken in the Wax Musuem at The Peak Galleria, Hong Kong.

If it was not my brother, I would know that there’s such places in Hong Kong. This was my first time going into the Madame Tussauds wax museum. Museum is always boring but not the wax, because you can a lot of photos with “celebrities” in there. Do what you like because there’s just no one bother about you.

Ha! It’s not cheap. HK$140 per person, and me, mom and dad is a total of HK$420 (RM172). That’s a lot, but I really wanted to go in to take a look, since we got plenty of time in Hong Kong, seriously.

When going in, there’s there wax statue of Jackie Chan, though it is not allow of public photo, if you want to take photo with Jackie Chan, you have to use their camera and buy their prints. Boo! I rather go in and use my camera. Just forget about Jackie Chan.

There’s plenty for you to take photo with. Some looks exactly like the real one, some doesn’t, like Jay Chou.

Haha. If you try to look into the pants, you’ll see no dick. It’s pretty quiet on that day, maybe it’s a working day or people don’t want to spend to visit it. You can just like run around as you like. So we spent like 1 and a half hour inside taking photos. Of course I took a lot, but also filter a lot not nice one, and just share something good. =)

Lastly, I manage to dig Andy Lau’s nos.

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Macau Fisherman’s Wharf

It’s just a little sight seeing at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf. I did not went into any of the theme park there as it’s also closed at night. Though, dad and mom wouldn’t want to go with me if it’s open. Nevermind, I’ll go to Macau again in the future.

At first, I thought this Fisherman’s Wharf was just something like Gurney Drive, for you walk along the pathway at seaside, but it’s not. It’s actually a theme park with a few little casinos. It’s pretty cool, they got a Tang Dynasty Fotress, a fake volcano, Aladdin’s Fort, downsized Colosseum. I didn’t go chance to know about it until I came back home and do some surfing about it on the Internet.

We just did little bit of walk around at the area. It’s pretty quiet there at night and it’s very beautiful and clean!

It’s right opposite the famous Sands casino, just walk across the road and you get the free shuttle bus back to Venetian Macau at Sands.

This place is one of the attraction in Macau, if you found yourself bored with casino, take a walk at here. I think it’s fun.

Running around in Venetian Macau

The Venetian Macau is big, huge! According to Wikipedia, it’s the 2nd largest all in building in the world. It’s also twice the size of The Venetian at Las Vegas. Wow, that’s cool. It just lack of theme park and cinema. There have a mini golf course, swimming pool, shoppings, many restaurant and casino.

Though shopping there is a bit expensive because there have a lot of branded and designer’s brand shop. Only some lower price one like Nike, Giordano, Espirit, Bossini etc etc. Mom and dad were tired and so I walked around myself at the shopping floor at 3rd floor alone at night.

I wanted to take the Gondola Rides at first in the man-made river. From what I know is the person who is rolling the gondola is a real Italian, speaks and sing Italian. Though, it’s expensive, around RM50 per person. Mom asked me to ride alone, but then I prefer a whole family. Well, since everyone don’t want to, I just watched them pass by. They were friendly enough to sing and pose for me.

Nevermind, I’ll take the real gondola ride at Venice in the future.

After a day of work, they sing and walk back home. So fun seeing them singing. The job might be boring, standing there, rowing the boat, singing and chat with the gondola rider.

Some main attraction at the Venetian is some street performer inside. I missed the street opera which happened in the afternoon.

Somewhere somewhere in the Venetian, you will see white people standing still, sometimes move a while like a robot. You might be shocked when they moved, because some people think that they are still statue and will not move. They are good. You will also notice there’s a man in suit monitoring the white people, I think it’s to prevent passers-by to disturb them.

Cool or not?

Another nice place is the food court. There’s so many food to choose from western to eastern to local food. Price is around 30-60MOB. Still acceptable, they accept HKD too, but remember to ask for HKD change if you are going back to Hong Kong.

The whole shopping area and food court is on the third floor. 2 man-made river and many corner. You might get lost on this floor, turn here and turn there.

This is the real hotel lobby. You need to take a long walk to here, passing corridor and stairs if you can’t go through the casino.

Went outside to take some cool breeze and take some shots.

I can’t take the photo of the whole building as I need to walk across a big road to a roundabout then from there only can take the photo. Since it’s at night, I do not dare to walk alone. Hehe, it’s so quiet there, everyone went indoor.

Then, I took a long walk back to the shopping area.

Then I found this, The Manchester United Experience. A shop selling all MU stuff, MU fan sure will like this. Didn’t bother go into to take a look because football is not my type.

This attracts me more. 43k per phone. Vertu phones, by Nokia. It’s like Toyota’s Lexus. There’s diamond on it. OMG. Do you dare to take this phone on a walk in the street of Malaysia? But I think you will be safe because people here got no idea what is Vertu. Haha.

Do you have a feeling of being in Europe?

One thing, I recommend you to go there in few years later when the Cotai Strip is ready. Cotai Strip is the area where the Venetian is and it’s still in developing. In the future, this area will be something that looks like Las Vegas, a road full of hotels and casinos. At this momemt, there’s only The Venetian Macau at Cotai Strip.