Thursday, December 2, 2010

Hong Kong Day 1 - Eat til you Explode Day.

Hong Kong Day 1.

  1. DimSum for Brunch @ Stanley Market.
  2. Hong Kong University.
  3. The Peak.
  4. 不倒翁-中日火煱料理 @ Time Square, Causeway Bay.
  5. TongPakFu-for soft-creamy-ice-dessert, Causeway Bay. (For the creamiest franchise)

First-to-do-task, to get the Octo-transport-card after searching high and low.
Kaching $150 off the pocket and off for the 30 minutes ride to the city.


Grabbed as much travel guides as possible, nothing to lose! *kiasu-ness*

Finally reached the city and had to walk from HongKong station to Central Station before boarding another train to Sheung Wan. Another 15 minutes after all the walking.

And its $100 for the Airport express.
Gosh. The first indication of the pocket detrimental effect *kaching*


Finally reached! And with Joe's friend Liz waiting. Felt really sorry for making them wait!! *_*
Without further delay, off we go to Stanley Market! The Eastal coast of HongKong with great sea view, in the Porche. The glamness.

I'm sure you are wondering where are the pix of me and Joe!
No doubt I started snapping non-stop once I met her for the sake of you guys, I've decided not to post up my horrendous-not-enough-sleep-look (as though I look good in every pictures I post right just ignore me)








*inhales the fresh chilly sea breeze deeply*

Great first welcoming stop to prepare the getaway from the hustle bustle of work.


手牵手我的朋友:)
Puteri Lilin Joe must be busy hiding from the sunlight :P




@ Murray House. Which building is from the hill, and now by the sea. How it was possible was that this building was previously located on a hill, and it was dismantled and labelled piece by piece and stored somewhere, until a few years back, it is rebuilt again, and this time by the sea. Is is cool or what!

"Among the more interesting restaurant sites on the waterfront is Murray House, a 160-year-old restored three-storey colonial building that was dismantled in 1982 from its original site in Central and then rebuilt in Stanley. It was restored in 1998 and now houses the Hong Kong Maritime Museum as well as restaurants.
Situated beside Murray House is Blake Pier at Stanley. Originally located in Central, Blake Pier was first dismantled in 1965 and later relocated to Morse Park to form the roof of the Morse Park pavilion. Now it has returned to its role as a public pier in Stanley, complementing the colonial architectural style of Murray House."


Time for Dimsum! And I think it's Shu Zhi Dim Sum?



Dim Sum for brunch! Utter yumness to fill our growling empty stomach.



XO Sauce Cheong Fun, savory instead the sweet ones we normally taste in Penang with the prawn paste. Okay I love them both :P


Fried shrimp wanton.
I miss the fresh succulent prawns T-T


After food, we went for more walking and sight-seeing.





And within 30 minutes, hello food again!



Located in a very secluded area.

Yeap still in Stanley Market.


Egg toast and YingYeong (Coffee + Tea)



With the speed of the fork you can see how excited we are to dig in despite our mouth still taste like dimsum.



After tea for tea, we hopped back into the car and with the Initial-D-Driving-Skill, we went through the steepest road in HongKong and landed safely off to the Peak *click*! Seriously, Liz's driving skill is really admirable. And I think I miss driving.. hmm..okay I take that back.


Visited HongKong University somewhere along the way.



The Peak!!! :)
And we waited til sunset.



Hopped back into the car and back to the city, for DINNER @@"






@ Timesquare HongKong at Causeway Bay.



For OTT (Over-The-Top) Steamboat at
不倒翁-中日火煱料理
Times Square, Causeway Bay, HongKong.

Forgotten which level was it in the mall.














Which costs:



Do the math.


And btw there were only 7 of us.

Hallelujah mamamia. But we definitely had a great time eating, talking, and sharing each others' culture.

Wish I could meet them again soon! :)







Off for dessert.

Gosh it never stops.


But really glad to get to taste the best ever creamy-soft-ice at Tong Pak Fu Dessert Restaurant, CausewayBay,

They have a few franchises in HongKong but according to the awesome locals, this particular outlet has the most CREAMY ice.


They are just so creamy, softy, and icy it melts your heart. *slaps*



Restaurant: Tong Pak Fu
Cuisine: Chinese/Taiwanese/Desserts
Last visited: April 13, 2010
Location: Multiple locations in Hong Kong
Address: Metro: Causeway Bay – Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
銅鑼灣渣甸街38號地下
Price Range: $10 or less



Look at the layers!




Just look at the LAYERS OMG!!!





The most creamy soft ice ever tasted. *melts*


All in one day.
We should give ourselves a round of applause.

Day 2 coming up,
And TGIF tomorrow so soon!

Zoukout next Saturday starring Tiesto and David Guetta what more can I ask for?!
Gosh how long haven't I partied moreover with Hayden Loo and Nelly Pot excitedness!!!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Flower Frenzy!

And now it's flower frenzy again instead of hats frenzy.



And how much I miss my dear Joe already. 4 of us will go there again okay? Just a short 4 day trip is good enough!! * 4 hearts*




My dear Joe and I.

Before that, am busy browsing through HK pix and let me present to you a few highlights of Hong Kong City, the awesome signage along the streets and people trotting with their heels. Reminds me of Japan actually.
I wanna go Japan again! :D




 Sasa everywhere! is the brand from Hongkong?









Love the street directional signs, informative and cute!



Me and dear Joe! Miss you long long T o T


Back to the main title of this post, let me present to you FLOWER FRENZY!!!



They are all so pretty can't help it but to grab them all back!!! :)

Okay very random post, will post up more with a proper day to day guide for a 4 day trip in HongKong.
And I've got a sudden pop up idea of continue developing my one and only FashionTECTURE *click*. I believe one day it will be big, so big you will have to take deep breaths to be prepared and you will be proud you are my friend and supporters of FashionTECTURE hallelujah mamamia me make you guys proud long time big big!! *slaps*
 

Alrights, dare to dream. Vision. Focus. Action. :)
 
 
From "The Answers" (again):

"The capacity to imagine is perhaps our most powerful conscious gift. In the context of business, this is the faculty that people typically call cision. Creativity, vision, imagination... Tehy're all shades of the same colour, and it is right at the top end of the spectrum of human consciousness. Imagination means that we are able to create pictures in our minds out of images drawn from the quantum field of all possiblities, and make those pictures as vivid as if they were physically happening. And this has some very powerful implications. Imagination is where every single successful business is born.
 
The glory of our conscious mind is that using the power of will and imagination, we can pluck an idea out of the quantum sea of possiblities. We can choose what we think. 
 
However, our mistake is assuming that because we have that idea, we will act on it; we believe that because we think it, we will do it. But the odds are, we won't - not unless we take those conscious thoughts, buff them to impeccable clarity, and deliver them to our nonconscious faculties.
 
This is what makes the difference between setting goals and achieving goals. Setting goals is a conscious exercise; achieving goals is a spiritual and nonconscious exercise. To achieve our goals, to actually create and build our dream business, we need to become expert at using both parts of our brain. That is what most of us have never been taught to do. 
 
We'll start by using your conscious faculties - yout imagination, intuition, reasoning, and the rest - to craft a crystal clear picture of your dream business: the perfect seed. Then, using a broad repertoire of simple imprinting techniques that mimic the way you first learned the beliefs you presently hold, you're going to learn how to plant that seed in the fertile soil of your nonconscious brain.
 
'You can't always get what you want,' sang the Rolling Stones, and they were absolutely right, because what you want has very little to do with what you end up getting. Simply having the desure to achieve something does absolutely no good, in and of itself. You can want all you want, and nothing happens. But impress that desire onto the power center of your brain as a new set of instructions, and you can transform that desire into a habit of thought - a bilief. And once you do that, no force in the world can stop it from happening."


Oh well, don't worry about not understanding it yet, neither do I. I'm still halfway through the book. The library was already closed for me to renew just now have to pay another day fine T-T Oh well, considering how many books we've already borrowed, paying the fine wouldn't pinch that much. Alrights, I'm in the thirst of knowledge! And hands are itchy. Will post up my visions soon in FashionTECTURE page, do stay tuned! xoxo

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

FashionTECTURE in HongKong!

is back in action!

I came to realize after working for 7 months, how the hectic life has brought me to an enlightenment when how human can be so engrossed in earning for a living while forgetting what priorities they had in life. It may be exhilirating whenever it comes to the end of the month and finally the kaching* is added into the bank account, and here comes another new month and more working and working before waiting for the next paycheck at the end of the month. Hmmmm the vicious cycle (we may say?). Taking a day off after a awesome fruitful trip to the island quite similar to Singapore, with Macau as Marina Bay Sands Singapore, and Hong Kong Disneyland as Universal Studios Singapore, just Singapore with the smaller scale because Singapore starts with an 'S'. So where was I? Hmmm.. Oh yea, the quiet afternoon and browsing through 10 GB photos taken, HongKong I must say, is a really really extremely busy city! Just when you think Singapore is, wait til you see Hong Kong. And walking through the central street during lunch break yesterday really was an eye opener. Now I really believe it when they say Hong Kong is the most stressful city in the world. (beats Japan). And the first day with Joe's friend picking us up with her 4WD Porsche, what more can I say.

Oh and who says HongKong is cheap!? A standard bowl of mee costs approxiamtely HKD 30, which is RM15? And A cup of bubble tea around HKD 28, which is RM14? Hello who says HongKong is cheap again??? After 4 days, I think I know, HKD 30 for example is like RM3 to them, no wonder their starting pay is around HKD 20000, which is around RM2000. After doing the math, it means that HKD cost of living is 5 X higher than Malaysia. Crazy shitz. Lucky thing I'm earning SGD, MYR can only eat grass. However besides food, shopping over there is super awesome, imagine me saying that, meaning Hongkies has great spending power, and no I'm not a shopaholic :P

Alright, imma start sorting out the photos and imma blog by day. Travelogue mood is on! ;)

Have a great week ahead everyone! xoxo



Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Taio Cruz- Break Your Heart (Acoustic Version)


Thank you for all the likes and comments







Will be off for a day company trip at Pulau Ubin.

Not sure what to expect except for a buffet (seafood hopefully :D ) lunch tomorrow. And then off to Hong Kong to meet my dear Joe! It's just a weekend trip and if it's awesome, definitely I will visit the island again ;)

Before I go, let me share with you one of the many inspiring paragraph from the book that I'm reading currently, "The Answers". Yeap it sounds very similar to "The Secret" coz it's by John Assaraf (who was also one of the speakers of "The Secret") and Murray Smith.

Shifting the Gears In Your Brain:

Working harder is not the answer. Nothing in nature "works hard", yet everything in nature works. "Consider the lilies of the field," says the famous biblical passage, "how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Soloman in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Lilies don't stress over how they're going to grow, nor does anything in nature. Why not? Because they don't need to "work hard". They just live their natural life and fulfill the blueprint around which their physical self is wrapped. The lilies of the field are guided by the clarity of vision tucked within the energetic "idea" of the lily that lies at the heart of the plant.

Our lives are no different.

Our non conscious brain has access to all knowledge. No matter what the problem, challenge, or need, it knows where to find the answers. What it doesn't know is which answers you want. It has to be told. We have unlimited access to a 5 star kitchen that can prepare any meal under the sun, but someone has to place the order. That is the purpose of our conscious mind.

Thomas Edison would purposely put himself into a light sleep in order to solve intractable problems with whatever invention he was working on at the time. And it isn't only famous inventors and scientists who can do this. The quantum soup of infinite possibility is available to EVERYONE.


Have a great day ahead everyone. xoxo