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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

♥ Our first overseas trip - Hong Kong !

Alright, here's the HK entry... Better blog it before i drag any longer... Lol.

So how's my HK trip.... everyone been asking me... It was fun and enjoyable ya... Thou i've been there with my gals last year.. but the trip this time seems very new and unfamilar. Cos i was being brought to many different and new places tt i've not been to during the last trip.

And this was my first trip with dear and also our anniversary trip!

All right, here goes...

Singapore -> Hong Kong

Took off on the 18th july, early in the morning at 8am. It was still dawn when i reached airport lor. Lol. Took Cathay Pacific... so the flight journey and breakfast was still alright...

* Pic taken on plane




Landed at HK in noon... Took an hour before i can get out of the airport, cos the check out was very long... Dear got out in like 5mins, cos he used his HK PR identity.

After landing at HK, dear's dad pick us up and brought us for lunchie before checking in to Metropark Hotel Kowloon. Was auto upgraded to a club room at their special metropark club floor... Very nice place, spacious, luxious and got flatscreen tv also... so cool...



I shall not go into day 1.. day 2.. kind of details... But to the more interesting categories...

Food... Sinful but yummy...

Ate alot of HK delicacies as well as other food during the trip... Thanks to dear and uncle for all the must- try recommendations.

Ate at places like HK cafes, Dim Sum restaurant, Jap restaurant, HK '大排挡’ (da pai dang), HK eatery as well as streetside stalls...

Breakfast @ some random HK cafe...
Pics below:Ggong zai mian, those bread and buns with butter, po luo bao, macaroni, ice lemon tea and ice milk tea! ♥ ♥ ♥



Bamboo Set @ Matsubishi - Jap Teppanyaki Restaurant
Pics below: Unagi, prawns (they are huge), beef rolls, salad, salmon, garlic rice,
salmon skin, veggies, miso soup, chocz cake.
Food there was really good... Enjoyed watching the cooking performance too.
Was so full after that. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥



@ HK 大排挡
Pics below: Roasted pigeon, chicken porridge, black pepper beef ribs, spicy calmari
The roasted pigeon and chicken porridge was damm good. It's their specialty there.
Seems like only the locals noe about this place. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥



Went to their HK fast food/food court (only 1 stall kind, but too many choices), Cafe de Coral,
some dessert snack cafe @ Ocean Terminal, HK cafe which sells all kind of roasted stuffs...
Pics below: Roasted goose, Big pork chop rice, HK roasted meat combi set, ice milk tea, curry fishball, '鸡蛋仔' ,orange fusion cake, lemon tart, lemon cake... ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥



That's not all tt we ate during our trip, there's still many places we went but forgot to takethe pictures.. Lol...

Missing the HK food already.

Colours By The River

Also went to one of the houses in Colours By The River. It's dear's dad's project in HK. He designed and bulit them i think. These houses are beautiful, design and all... You can see beautiful scenary from there too. Pretty!



Hong Kong Scenary

Of course another thing not to be miss are the beautiful scenary of HK ya. Went to various places and saw many pretty , sights... mostly very nice lightings... Such as The Peak, Avenue of Stars, Ocean Terminal... Good thing the weather when we were there are really good, so able to see these views clearly.



Ocean Park

Went to Ocean Park as well... But the trip is different from last time. Last year we took on all the rides ya.... but this time is juz strolling and viewing around.



The Aivary - where many different kind of birds, big and small are let loose in there. They are not afraid of human ya...



Took the cable rides as well... which is one of the transport for moving ard Ocean Park... Again the weather was very good and the view up there was beautiful. And one thing, dear have height probia. Lol. Oops.



Focus of the day was to go see my fav dolphins. Miss it last year, and i determined not to miss it again. Went to Dolphin University, and it's where these dolphins learn their tricks and stuffs. There's so many dolphins there.... and we're so near them! So fun ya. They are so happy swimming ard and when their 'teachers' came, they become more hyper. Each of them have their own pail of food with their name on it. So cute lah!. I'm impressed tt those trainers and the dolphins themselves noe who they are. Lol. Also went to the Ocean threate to watch their performance. It was great! There's live band singing, water ballet performance, seal performances and of course the dolphins show!




There's also pandas at Ocean Park! As usual, these pandas is living a good life... Nice air-con habitat, food lying everywhere... Lol. But there's only 4 big pandas there. Only 2 of them stay at the same place. That two is the most funny de lah. They keep pushing or playing with each other. The other one is the next room was sleeping, and the last one was eating non-stop. Lol. So cute!

Hong Kong Transportation



There is many different kind of transportation in HK. Managed to try most of them. But our main transport during this HK trip is dear's dad's car. Lol. But still we did took express train in the airport, cab, their public bus to the ocean park, the MTR, their ferry across the islands, their 'electric tram/bus' as well as the tram/train to the peak. Lol. Fun!




Juz some random shots i took randomly. Lol. There's my lions surrounding the new sheepie bought in HK, a ice-skate area right in the middle of a shopping center, some luggage shots, a desert stall that's kind of similar to my name, LOL. Also saw a taiwanese boyband, bang bang tang or lollipop while having dim sum lunch with dear's relatives. By request of my sis, took some pics and videos of them, while enduring the screaming power of HK gals.



Some shots of me!



And shots of dear!



And of course shots of us!

So that's about all of the HK trip. Had fun thou tiring. Enjoyed ourselves to all the food (esp) in HK, beautiful scenary, sight-seeing to many places, shopping, taking all sorts of public transports, day of fun in Ocean park, and spending time together during this trip.

Also i become even more tanned as well. Shucks.

Alright, so this marks the end of the trip and also my hols. Already started cs3214 workshop ytd. Today also got lessons all the way till sat. But i overslept, so din go. Whahaha. Alr demoralised from the 39 pages of lab ytd. Which is supposed to be only for Day 1, which i haven finish. And 44 pages for Day 2. Wth. And all those mini project and oral presentation... I think i should really skip it. Sianzz...

Anyway, started the biddings this week le. Alr got my 3 modules in Round 1A for 1pt each. Yea. But now left with PC1322, which is a very hot module. And the average bidding pt for this mod is at least 400 and more. Siao. So will see how it goes... The battle begins next Mon in Round 2A, if kanna outbid, den i need think of backup liao. *Cross fingers*

Alright, tt's all for now. Gonna go backup some of my laptop stuffs... Gonna reformat and reinstall all the programs before i start my CS3214 proper.

School starting soon le ya.. All the best to all. Jia you to all those working too ya.
Take care!

-XiangNing-
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Monday, July 28, 2008

♥ Happy Anniversary! ♥

Happy Anniversary to me and dear!

Yepp... that's the day before i flew off to HK... Celebrated our anni...
Here's a brief post on that special day...

Dear asked me wat i wanted, i say surprises... But days before the anni day, I've alr guess most of the surprises, Lol... Opps, sorry dear...

Anyway, thanks for planning ya...
Anyway, dear came over in the morning, and i was still half asleep... Lol...
Dear craving for Long John Sliver for lunch at first... but i surprised him with Long XiangNing's Kitchen instead. Lol... Yepp, cooked lunch for him... as he keep saying i've not cooked anything proper for him... (I've made chocz and cookies for him before lor)

So, locked dear outside the kitchen for an hour, while i get busy with the cooking. Lunch menu of the day was Omelette fried rice, grill wings in char siew sauce and teriyaki salmon. Lol.
Also plan to prepare waffles ice-cream but i was too full liao...

Anyway, dear ate up everything.. So i'm assuming it's good lah. Lol. At least din waste my effort of gg supermarket to get the stuffs, prepare the food and all those cooking and washing up. Dun wanna do it again unless got time.... too much prepration, work and time liao. Lol.

Also after lunch, i took a shower and get ready before we headed out. Went to Sentosa to see my favorite dolphins, underwater world... Lol... frequent Sentosa recently ya... Till evening, we headed to town to have dinner @ Augus Steak House.

Of course, dinner was so much better than lunch...Haha... The course got so many dishes, was already full after the soup... forgot to take pic of the salad also... and can't resist the steak... Lol... Was very bloated after dinner... Start of the sinfulness which was continued by the HK trip...



After dinner, we walk ard abit to help in the digestion.. before heading back home... Cos need to get up really early the next time for our trip...

Had a fun day with dear, and really enjoyed every moment. Thanks dear.

Happy Anniversary. ♥


So up next will be the HK trip entry. Dun miss it! Lol.

- XiangNing -

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

♥ I iz back...

Yozz pple, i iz back from my Hong Kong Trip...
Had fun and really enjoyed myself except for few moments... Haha...
Anyway, will update about the trip soon ya...

Right now, juz came back from school (doing float) and not really feeling kind of well...
Dunno what wrong with me... Been having bad headache for the past 2 days... had gastric pain till i want to cry... vomited out my dinner juz now also.... almost ended up in NUH... (dear insisted but i dun want go).

But now back at home, feeling much better le... Juz tired and weak... Maybe too tired or wat bah...

So gonna go turn in soon... Got a mass outing bbq tml also... I want to go. :(
Hope i'm fine and well after a good nitez sleep den... (",)

Nitez Nitez

-XiangNing-
Monday, July 14, 2008

♥ New blogskin...

Hiya, how's this new look??
Was bored & so decided to give my dear blog a change of clothes...
Came across many blogskins, but still like this simple but nice layout and design.
Wanted it to be more centralise, but need to edit the background and i'm lazy at this moment to do so... (",)

Anyway, when giving my blog a change, realised that this blog of mine is almost 4 years old...
Wow, didn't noe i already blog for so long le... So have u realised u also have been reading this blog for few years le??

Randomly click into my archives entries to read... Really interesting ya. Being able to experience again my emotions and feelings at that particular time when i wrote those entries. Missing all these past moments and memories too.

Wonder how long and far I'll be holding on to this blog of mine.... recording many more of my future memories... Will i still be writing on this blog when I graduate, start my career, get married, surrounded with kids and get old ??

Lol... Alright, I'm still young, i know.

But still, glad to have this blog for me to vent my stress, anger, frustration, share my happy times and most imptly update my loved ones about myself, since I can't meet up frequently with them...

Maybe my children will want to read this blog too. Lol.

I juz love this blog of mine.

-XiangNing-
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

♥ Updates...

Missing me already? Aside from the hijacked post, i've not blog so far for almost a month le ya... Was busy and tired out previously from the events i think i've mentioned in my last post. Anyway, most of the events are over liao.... but more things are coming up next...

Alright, the 4 days 3 nights of Camp XCalibur is over le. It was a fun, tiring, enjoyable camp. Getting to noe the freshies and new pple... It seems so fast ya... Juz a year ago, i'm the one joining the camp as freshie, and now i have my own freshies! Whahaha. (",)

Alright, back to this camp. My freshies or rather my cubs/lions are a really a bunch of hyperactive pple... (My group was Simba the Lions, lol... my fav lions again ya) We had fun getting to noe each other and interacting with everyone ya... Starting from all the mass chats even before the camp, to the neverending outings and dinners, Simbas have been meeting up both online and outside for dunno how many times liao... And it's only less than 2 weeks after the camp. Lol. And juz like ytd, we met up for movie and dinner again. So it's like we have alr have 4 outings in a week...Lol.

But anyway, not all outings are purely the Simbas, often we are joined by many seniors too... Btw, we have put up Simbas on facebook too... So discussions on outings and photos are put up there... Maybe it is quite ridiculous to meet up every 2 or 3 days, but to think about it. This is the last month of hols liao, very soon semester gonna start, and i'm quite sure when school starts i dun have time for outings or dinner liao...

Yepp, got to start prepare myself for the my 3rd semester. Already decided to take cs3214, a 8 MCs project module. Been dreading to take it, but seems it is now only available in semester 1, if i dun take it now, i'll have to wait till next year, along with my other 4000 levels modules.

So went to read up the module details last night. Sianz, I'm supposed to start my practicals next week for like 3 weeks, den there's workshops everyday on week 0, where everyone is having fun with orientation, and den the very week 1 everything starts. I've seen ppl gg thru this, stress, tireness, frustration is all ard them. And i'm gonna be juz like one of them, or even worse...

Already download the practs materials, will go start on them soon. And I've still have not plan my modules for the coming semester aside from cs3214. Got to go take note of the modules stuffs... and gonna start the bidding, balloting stuffs once again.

So could not really acc my group and other new freshies for the Computing Orientation Week as gl, but would still try to drop by as and when i'm free.

Sorry ya, sch haven even starts, and i'm alr complaning. Lol. So you can expect more to come along from my week -3 to week 13 ya.

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Still feeling tired... slept so much liao... Lol, i admit i iz piggy. Woke up today with abit of sore eyes... Muz be the crying last night. Lol. Nothing to worry, juz got very pissed off by dear ytd. Anyway, we talked it out, so guess everything settled le. Maybe it's me tt dun understand his worries and stuffs, maybe it's me tt make him insecure. Anyway i do noe, not saying anything doesn't mean i dun understand. Whatever it is, we been quarrelling over the same thing, and he always pick the wrong timing and place to start it. But anyway, hope tt 's the end of it.

Maybe it's not a bad thing to have a quarrel at this time... Juz a week before our anniversary. Lol. At least we cleared things up. So I'm still looking forward to our celebrations next week. Part 1 on the actual day, part 2 continues with our HK trip. Yepp, my trip to HK with dear have been finalised. Will be gg from the 18th july to 22nd july. This time no need worry about programs and stuffs, communication or directions. Dear can handle it all. I laugh at him if we get lost there lor. (",)

Alright, tt's all for now.... Update u all again soon... Maybe about our HK trip in HK, since dear bringing his lappy along. Gonna start my luggage packing, module planning, java reading and etc etc etc.


Take care everyone.
Miss ya.


-XiangNing-
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

♥ Pong Hijacked Ning's Blog :P

dunno hw it start and dunno y either, but yes I hijacked my dear's blog wahahhahahahah

anyway for once i sounds noob compare to my dear in IT-related stuff when i ask her "hw to log into ur blog?" *dashing for cover to hide in shame*

ok ok enough of crap....i shall get back to the main purpose as to y i hijacked my dear's blog..

Since i've been a bad bf who have been busy working and neglecting my dearest ning during this hols, i shall openly and publicly say sry to my dear.

Ning, I'm really sorry:( I promise you I will work less and pei u more till the end of this hols k...muackz...and yes....i noe...a big big question mark is still there abt our plan to go hk for hols...
*kneeing down with ning's fav lions begging ning to forgive him*

and yes i promise that I die die will take leave on our anni k? even if my sup is gonna die at work if im not ard