yey!

 that was the first time that i went out of the country i felt excited! as in super!

i took a week long vacation from work — sooo nice
and had an extra day off because of the holiday [june9th] lucky! ahehe…

our journey begins….

may31 6:30am ninoy international airport

our flight to hongkong CX904 on board cathay pacific. waahh… so sleepy.

         from left: inay, cheng, ann

ann and ton

from left: ton, cheng and ann

hongkong experience day 1
may31 8:30am hongkong international airport

the flight was super fast! ahehe. the minute i stepped out of the plane, i was like, “wow….“. the airport was huge! ahehe. it was nothing compared from the one we departed [no offense]

welcome to hongkong!

itenerary:
day1: meet tatay at the airport. anything goes.
day2: city tour and ocean park at noon.
day3: disneyland
day4: welcome back to the Philippines!

sometimes i think our company go way overboard when it comes to advertising

first meal in HK: Japanese Noodles

excited? hell yeah!

just waiting… ahaha!

we waited for tatay’s [dad] arrival. i think he arrived 1:30pm.

i missed him dearly. it was 2years since we last saw him. he’s working abroad, saudi, and in his contract, he can go home every 2 years and have a 2 month vacation. he’s been doing this for almost 15 years now.

view from the hotel window

immediately after his arrival, we went to our hotel - wing sing hotel. it was not a fancy hotel and well at least there’s a place that we can stay it’s located midtown hongkong. when we’ve checked in, we had a quick rest, ate dinner and went to mongkong [ladies' market]; by the way, our hotel is corner temple street [night market]. it was an 8minute walk from our hotel to mongkong. alot of stores and alot of people. it was like divisoria [actually i haven't been in divi but i think the set-up of the stores are the same -- in my imagination ahehe].

**nathan road pics

i smile whenever i hear someone speaking tagalog - ahehe, andami palang Filipino dun. ahaha! immitation bags, shoes and watches are the main goods that they are selling. my sister, cheng, and i were looking at some souvenier items when the sales lady approached us, we were about to leave but then she kept lowering the price and insisting us to buy. she even handed a calculator and asked us to type the amount that we want for the product. ahehe. carzy huh? aside from the divi-like stores, there are also signatures stores along nathan road.

hongkong experience day 2

tony, our guide and inay’s [mother] contact, met us at our hotel for the city tour. we stroll around hongkong. we went from nathan road, to the harbor, to downtown hongkong, cameron road, to the old hongkong airport and to jc jewelry. they say that the jewelry in jc’s are much cheaper than the ones you buy at other stores because they produce it [plus they offer lifetime warranty] you can see there workshop from there. i’m not a jewelry kind of gal but still i enjoyed the pieces i even saw a picture of former president ramos in the store they say that hongkong’s main products are opticals and jewelry. tony even said that we came at the right time because come july, when the goodies in HK are on sale, we won’t be able to book for a hotel.

after the “field” trip, we went to ocean park! yey! pandas, sea lions, dolphins, jellyfish, sharks, different kinds of fish, name it, you’ll see here although the park is under renovation, i think they’ll be putting up quite a number of attractions, we had great fun exploring the whole place i will never forget my first cable car ride… i don’t know if i fear heights but riding the car makes my hands super sweaty as in flood. ahaha! but the view compensated there was this show, dolphins and seal show, and that the front act was a band. they played “anak” by fredie aguilar and alot of audience just gone “wooohooo” and making all these noises and clapping. that made me realize, Filipinos are all around HK, ahehe! nice

hongkong experience day 3

disneyland! yey! i just wished i was a child again — about 7-10 years old but then you don’t need to be a kid to enjoy the carousel ride at DISNEYLAND! it was like a dream come true. wahaha! i was excited to see PIGLET! but then i only saw pooh and eeyore well, it was fine… at least i saw the disney princesses - aurora, belle, cinderella [back only] and my fave [next to ariel] snow white they’re soooo pretty and cute they’re like animation brought to life had an exciting jungle river cruise and visited tarzan’s tree house. i enjoyed talking to crush [the turtle dude in finding nemo], watching the festival of the lion king and the 3d adventure in mickey’s philharmagic i also enjoyed buzz lightyear astro blaster where we got to blast zurg and his evil minions and the dizzy mad hatter tea cups ride. i had in “it’s a small world” and got soaked during mickey’s waterworld parade! ahaha!

sleeping beauty castle

mickey’s waterworld parade

disneyland hotel

but then it actually rained during the parade so you couldn’t tell if you got wet from the rain or from the parade but the rain did not stop us from having fun at the park it was great that the rain stopped in time with the highschool musical live performance! we also visited the disneyland hotel and before the park closes, watched the fireworks display. the fireworks display is awesome! i want to go back again!

at tomorrowland

ooohhh piglet!

with prince caspian

hongkong experience day 4

went to downtown and done more shopping.

10:30pm CX905 our flight back to Manila. we thought it’ll be delayed because the weather was not good but then we’re here! ahehe. it sucks that Duty Free was closed when we came back, i have no chocolates for my friends, housemates and officemates — super sorry, not my fault, ahehe

the trip was tiring, yet super fun! i think it also bonded our whole family — yes whole! finally after 2 years. the only diffulty that i think we had during the trip, aside from the over crowded streets was language barrier. and by the way, i forgot to mention, the traffiic in HK is way way great than here ahehe

waahhh! can’t believe that my vacation is over… don’t want to work yet… huhuhuhu….

i got Fahrenheit’s CD!!!! waaahhh! i’m so loving chun :-* and aaron too :-* XOXO

heard wu chun will be visiting the Philippines in July! lucky are the chun fans

Fahrenheit: from left: aaron, jiro, chun and calvin

got new friends — pandee and piglet

**more pics in my multiply site