it's officially the first day of school but i've cleared it for an extra day of hols for myself.

nothing much to update on my holiday in hongkong. not so much that it was uneventful but rather the whole entry will be so long that i myself would fall asleep reading it afterwards.

but the past two weeks have been good. great in fact. with no need for work nor study. both me and liyan agreed that it must be every girls' dream to eat sleep and shop all day. save for the worry of growing fat with all the good food. that girl was even worried she'd forget how to work after our one week of fun shopping in hk.

last day of work on easter sunday before i went on a hiatus. got mom and dad to help me send over my camp stuff and luggage over to godma's. and that settled the shipping of my clothes and all.

attended mass with fiok then headed to jec for some shopping. was looking through one of the shops for the my long sought for perfumes. but found none. was desperate for one since i've finished up my ralph lauren style for almost a month. was quite taken by the scent of escada's pacific paradise but figured that it'd be too common. decided on a new scent by love passport. had yet to hear of this brand but it was good. my kind of a fruity fragrance. the other two from love passport also looks promising. from the combination of fragrances. but i've yet to have a wiff of them.

but for now, this will be sarah's scent for a bit.

the queue at luge was never ending that we hardly had time to run to the washroom for a leak. much less our deserve 10minutes break. no surprises there. being a ph and a sunday at it.

journeyed to godma's where it's closer to tp. could hardly sleep that night. half excited for fow half persuading and dissuading shawnboo to attend fow. texted reuben at 2plus3 to borrow a red t from him. and i think it woke him from his slp. sorry!! and i've yet to return it to him.

first day was alright. started out super hyped but dwindled to about 50percent with the lack of response from the freshies. got a lashing from our fas. and then came a few of our freshies who stayed back to complete the flag. got quite a few of us watery eyed. touched. but it spurred us on to perform much much better the next day.

cheered myself hoarse the next day. and the day after next. and someone handsigned 'i adore you' to me but i can't and shan't name names here. a little bit of discretion from me. face saving perhaps. however way you look at it.

almost teared again on the last day of fow. or did i? not that it matters.

my regret last year was for not joining fo at all.
my regret for this year was for not making it to foc.
i swear i'll do the whole fo next year.

i could hardly count the times on both my hands during workshop i wanted to cancel on my trip to hk. but it was a wanted to. but i definitely could not do it. among the many reasons other than monetary costs of airfare i'd have to forego. all the what ifs. but in life there can be no what ifs. or we'd all be leading miserable lifes. so now i can only contend myself with stories from ayton gls, pictures and the ngohiong blog dunnowho created.

and i did not manage to take a shot with cheryl. this freshie whom i feel like a big sister to. hope she'll do well in design. not that any other course would be easier to complete.

back to godma's for the night. repacked my stuff into godma's much bigger luggage. which was a bad mistake. but more about that later.

got to bed around 2plus. left house a lil after 5. absentmindedly left my hp at godma's. but decided that since i couldn't use it in hk i didn't bother to go back for it.

budget air travel has always been fine with me. even with the lesser leg room coz sarah has well.. shorter legs. but sleep on that flight was almost unbearable. godnoeswhy.

i guess i shall breeze through my whole 8 days there. for memories sake.

my companion for the next 8days.

queue at immigrations was super long that aunt amelia got worried and called my dad about it. but otherwise we did manage to meet up without any other delays. headed to tsim sha tsui to meet tungling and then dropped off our luggages at aunt's office. and mind you. the luggage was not very heavy per se but it sure was super bulky.

had a can of beer for the 1st two nights there to help reduce the heatiness from camp. and get my voice back to some sort of a semblence other then the gruff tone of a guy. abstained from chilli for both days too.

visited liyan's aunts at chai wan which was like where pasir ris is to boon lay. how coincidental it must seem to have both our aunts staying at opposide ends of the country just as me in the west and liyan residing in the east.

met tungling and then headed down to wan chai and causeway bay for more shopping. and they had one of the best egg waffle thingy. and everyday liyan would bug to get at least one of it. it's like an addiction. like fries. or potato chips. the rest we tried could not match up to the one at wan chai.

walked through a market where we got fascinated by a bluegreen fish. and markets in hk were vastly different. the catches were actually still alive and not over ice. stopped to chat with this fishmonger lady who commented that the three of us looked like from japan, korea and hongkong. tungling, me and liyan respectively. that got us so amused for the rest of the day.

lunch with aunt donna and her family. at a restaurant which you could say was the highest i've ever been to. 60odd storeys. and the bill for the 7 of us came up to less than 400hkd. is that like cheap or is that cheap.

to wan chai again for some marketlike stall shopping. took the tram along to central. quaint transport it was. would have taken loadsa pictures during my trip there but i didn't want to appear touristy. shopped somewhere nearer to home at tsuen wan where we discovered the thrill of hunting for cheap tshirts.

more neighbourhood shopping the next day. found a perfume shop tended by this old uncle. and he certainly knew his perfumes well. but sadly they did not stock up on the out of production perfumes. and i wasn't certain i would be back at that area. and there goes my 3 cannotbefoundanywhere else perfumes.

dropped our purchases at home and then headed to the supposedly late night district area at lan kwai fong. met up with tungling, corrine, joyce and their friend. settled down at the hongkong brewery something for a beer and peanuts. had to ask around for directions to the bus home. and we did alot of that while we were there. had to dare each other to do that too. spotting preys to ask for directions.


shopped at mongkok and ladies street on monday. tried hunting for the manga collectibles shop tungling mentioned only to reach the shopping arcade and find that the shop is no longer there. left home with two bags. came home with three.

and did i mention that my contact lenses officially tore on the 2nd day i was there. thus sarah was blind as a bat. almost. and liyan kindly became my eyes for the rest of the trip.

arranged for more tseun wan and mongkok shopping the next day with tungling. and that silly girl overslept.

decided to tour more at tsim sha tsui before having dinner with liyan's family on wednesday night. and dinner only started at 9pm. at the other side of hongkong. you'd probably can guess what time we got home. shopped abit at the shopping centre near her aunt's place. where i was mistaken for a jap. met up with liyan's family there. the whole 10 of us dined at a restaurant nearby. and liyan felt a mild tinge of incest. coz she thought her cousin was cute. couldn't have blame her tho coz i thought so too myself.

more tsuen wan and mongkok shopping. it's as though we could never have enough of these shopping areas. parted with tungling who went to take the junk. and me and liyan continued our last minute shopping and laopobing buying. met aunt amelia for dinner at some japanese restaurant at tsuen wan. my attempts to pay for dinner were futile.

that night we sat at home packing our onethousandandone purchases. and that's why we realised that although my luggage could put two million things but it'd be too heavy to handle. but we did manage somehow. with loads of help from aunt amelia no less. our baggages exceed the maximum but we didn't have to pay for excess baggage. lucky us. and to think i was still fretting on how to solve the problem.

and there you have it. my long grandmother story of my trip to hk. and mind you i have yet to add in all the food we've eaten. there were mixed comments on whether i've grown fatter or not. mom and shawnboo said i looked like i lost weight. but someone else in ayton said i grew fatter. can't remember who tho.. not that i care much aniways.

and for those who expected souvenirs. im sorry to say sarah doesn't buy souvenirs. bookmarks and keychains are just silly. and surely we already have one too many.

and meet our room for the last 8 days.
no doubt small but just enough.
cluttered dressing table dominated by my stuff.
our walking space in the room.
and then there's our cupboard fill with our purchases.

our poor attempts at capturing the clouds.
but don't they look oh so delectable.

and then i tried discreetly to capture the cramp aircraft.
it happened that we were on flight with the same crew.

back in singapore, met the one immigration officer i was familiar with and stopped by for quick his and byes. liyan was fretting about her coolness factor diminishing when she found out that her whole family had come to pick her up. she was afraid they'd all start waving to her when we were at the baggage claim. like when her sister got back from oz i think. got picked up by godma soon after. unloaded my stuff. new clothes promptly dumped into one of the cupboards to be settled only when i start school.

got home only to find that fiona was staying at sarah's for the night. so much for me bringing back stuff i bought for her on top of all the food stuff i had to bring back.

back to tp the next day to help out for the filming. though i didn't feel very useful. save for dumping prickly heat powder on alex and jaisee. both of whom are convinced that i enjoy the task immensely. and threatened to repay me back in my own coin sometime soon. left around 4plus for sentosa with shawn.

stopped by at luge to let the supervisors know of my new schedule. heard from kit that rab and ysabel had gotten together in the two weeks of my absense. couldn't say i was surprise. coz i figured it was a sooner or later kinda thing. new faces at ticketing too. loads to adjust and more people to befriend i fear.

and did i mention my timetable's like superb. but that's only because i don't have a cds yet. still considering if i should take a 4th. or am i even allowed to. and which to take. since i've already taken french, psycho and jap. nothing else seems to appeal to me. and there's my airport duty which i've yet to slot in.

and so i have a four day school week.
hurrays for hedgeouthreers.
our knack for knowing how to rearrange our schedules since yr1.

and after working out, i could have a 6day work week at luge if i'd wanted to. well, at least before projects set in. not that i'm really gonna do a 6day at luge.

dinnered at vivo. was suppose to have takeaways and dine at the open area of vivo with everyone else. but the few of us scampered off to the kopitiam at basement for our comfortable dinner with tables and chairs. headed back to find everyone in a phototaking cum cheering frenzy.

the chaogeng gang who dinnered away.

aytons.

this girl still treats me like a little gurl.

emo-ed abit intitally to company reuben. but then my runnynose sneezing cum coughs started to come back and i wasn't really in any mood to talk. i swear i'll never touch powder again. not even if i were paid a million bucks. ok maybe i would. that would suffice another trip to hongkong and anywhere else. but u get my drift. no more powders for me.

lazed at home that sunday. visited the library. and then another day of lazing on monday when people like shawnboo's in school. hehs. sorry! couldn't help it.

ok. hopefully i've covered everything i need. what little photos i have of hk will be up when i get to godma's house again. liyan.. be patient ok. not like it's alot anyways. =P

and to my nygurls. let me know when u guys wanna meet up. i don't think u'd be done with exams yet this weekend right. but anyhows, i'm already booked for dinner on the 29th and 30th. but do let me know earlier ok? see you guys soon. loves.

and lora. im sorry i couldn't meet up with you over the weekend. after your papers aight?

ok. that's about it. im glad this exhausting entry is finally done.

phew.