NP outing changi airport

so friday was NP outing to changi airport.

well it aint really an outing, but rather a meeting up and dinner session.

heh.this will be a kinda picture post,

so it kinda took awhile for me to load the pics.hahaha.

but anyways, its here (:

met mj while waiting for the train to changi airport at tanah merah
ascending up the long long escalator from the station to T2

we went to BK together and saw yq sitting there alr.

so i decided to go around T2 to try out the 450D, cos sy wasnt there yet.

one of those important people working in the airports.

they are those fellas who line up those trolleys neatly for everyone

they are also those who push the trolleys around the terminal,

from inside of the terminals to the entrances.

unsung heroes uh?

some indian instruments, part of the deepavali decors.

festival of lights.

infront of the starbucks at 14.08
so after reaching the further side of the terminal, i decided to go out to the entrance.
took a handful of pics but i decided not to upload here, cos they r mostly randoms.

bell-boys ah pehs at work.
naw they r chatting there.

focus on the tower,

focus on the flowers.

back to bk
another deepavali decor right infront of the bk.

tadaa!songyang was already there when i got back

he didnt change abit i guess?haha same old crescent face.

after a while cassy came and joined us.

she's now a DS geek lol.

mj told us tat he got to go off at 5pm cos he had a curfew,

so he didnt joined us for the dinner.

yq was feeling kinda unwell, hence that sleepy look.lol

hmm, so after rotting at bk for awhile and got kinda bored of tat place,
we headed over to the brand new T3 for a walk.
we planted our asses on the seats of the viewing mall.

the place is really really brightly lighted up.
every corner is so bright!

i duno man.but i still prefer T2's atmosphere than T3's.(okay ive sayed tat for a thousand times)
but!i kinda like T3 ABIT more now.
reason being, its really FUN and BIG.its got a hellot of stuff over there!
its so damn cool tat it feels like a children's playground!LOL

the SIA air stewardess entering the departure hall.

(p.s they are at the bottom right of the pic)

ah, so after sitting there chatting and playing cass's DSLite at the viewing mall,

our mouth were itching and craving for some light food.

we headed down to B2's Ya Kun

"the photographer's breakfast"
hahaha (:
ojlene came after awhile.

sry tat i told u tat we were at the departure hall while we went down to ya kun after tat,
making u go all the way back from where u came from again!
really really sorry okay ):

i bet u were very tired tat day eh?

wait.dont u tink tat he looks like an ostrich?! LOL

MJ photography club?naw.just took tat for fun.

yup, there was a change of plan.

initially we planned to have dinner at swensens.

but i duno why we decided on popeye's

anyway, i guess it was kinda worth it.

it was cheaper, and also a virgin trip for most of us including me.

there, nich and mendy joined us for dinner.

mendy came when everyone finished, but being nice people, we waited for her.

oh wait.SMONE else waited for her to come before he finish his food!tsk tsk!

the chicken, the fries, the biscuit!
the chicken is fabulous.hot n piping.taste much better than KFC.
the fries tasted like those from LJS, but still better.

the biscuit was smthing cool.
it tasted abit salty-ish.but theres this strawberry jam for u to go along with it.
it kinda taste cool with it.
but i thought the biscuit was more like a cake/bread lol.its rather soft.

oh i had the mashed potato too.but didnt take a pic of it.
the gravy on top of it was really delicious.
*drool drool* next time we should go there more often okay (:

LOL at yq and cass.they look like they r in a heated convo,
while sy is pretending to not bother abt them.LOL
duno wat they were talking abt.

hah!i took like 20+ pics cos i set the camera to the continuous shooting mode and set it to 10pics.
LOL so erm they all actually turned out like animations if u view them.
but those pics were kinda dark and i duno which one to post.
so i chose this last pic tat we took

it took us at least 15mins to get a nice group pic taken.
how sad-_- if only i have a tripod, it would be easier cos we were bending over to see the cameras, which we placed on this wall on the opposite.

"am i cuteeeeee~?"LOL

lol smhow i like this picture.although im not inside.
it kinda carrys a warm warm feeling eh?

the beheaded.

the 4A girls.

the so-called "artistic bag shot" lol

samsung omnia for sales.cheap cheap!
kinda cool effect eh?

duno what they were looking at.lol
mayb they were getting excited at their DSLites.

well, there were like alooooot of kids and babies around.
they were commenting "eek daiweng u paedophile"
cos i was going ard snapping at kids.lol

i duno, but i tink photography with children as the subjects are kindacool,
cos afterall, their expressions are true and natural.

ok, this is not being paedophile.LOL
old kid!

that wooden board thingy must have brought alot of joy to kids.
erm mayb a couple of us eh?hehe.
let kids have the chance to doodle with crayons and stuff.
quite good in helping in their creativity eh!?

its actually a simple wooden board where theres a print on it,
whereby the print is protruding out of the surface of the board.
so u just gotta put the paper over the board n start sliding the crayon across the paper!
its like how we used to put coins under a piece of paper n using pencil to go over the coin to get the flower patterns onto the paper!

oh!and the crayons are really clean!not like those stupid type of crayons we played with when we were young, which we would stink our hands with

LOL tats why!i told u it seems like a playground man!

this pic looks lovely.
mayb if i have the time, i would go photoshop it!
and then make it look like those emo-emo pics (:

one of those kids trying to sketch out a nice piece of drawing.

HAHA!LOL this one is a inside joke.
jolene!bet u will love this eh!? HAHA

haha!i had my go at it.
came out pretty okay, but i kinda spoilt the left side.LOL
tats y i took a portion of it.

my my!im totally in love with this <3!
sooooooo CUTE!!!

he was actually trying to peep over to his brother and observing how hes doing the drawing.
innocence is beauty!haha
man i want one of those cute little things!(:

ahhhh~this girl is also very cute too!LOL
she was doing the :P expression!HAHA
so natural (:

HAHA the candid shot of mendy!tsk tsk!

after staying at the children's playground area of T3 for at least an hour plus,
we decided to head back to T2 to have our deserts at swensens.
but dammit, the Q was so freaking long!

so we made do with ice cream from macs!
haha after tat, we were all tired from the whole week of sch and decided to make our way back!

haha, those tired faces.

hopefully we will meet up frequently!

schoool

yaaay!3rd day of sch.
most of the module teachers r kinda friendly and nice,
although smtimes they tend to get abit luo suo.(keep repeating)
and some have nice names!

one good example is:
this teacher who teach us intro to engineering (ITOE) and erm innovative design and enterprising in action (IDEAs)
the 1st thing tat comes out from his mouth is
"alrite good!those of u who come early sit infront.u r those who will score an A and above for my module.alrite?i will help u all to get ur A if u come early...

the rest of u who have just come, uh, those late comers sitting in the back rows, B and below!
(the whole class LOL)

uh.so if u all want to get an A, remember to come early for my lessons.rite?ok?i will also release those who come first 15mins before end of class.alrite?

those late comers will stay back for anothre 30mins!alrite!fair?

and also!remember to wear shoes for my lessons.alrite?those wearing slippers and sandals, i will minus 5marks from u!"

basically.he repeated tat paragraph at least 2times.
then the part of giving those A's for coming early at least 10times throughout the 2hours lecture and tutorial today.
POWER~!

so,
tml theres this angmoh teaching our class!
whee!we are so attracted and amused by it man LOL.
everytime we will laugh at it.wonder if hes a freak or not!LOL
oh btw hes called PETER HERMAN MOWE.
"peter" sounds like hes a geek.
"herman" sounds like hes a GERMAN
"mowe"? i tink a hawaiian or a new zealander

hahaha!anyways, theres this shop selling newspapers and magazines at the mrt station here at boon keng.
i've been buying The NewPaper(TNP) from there.
theres this guy who took over the shop when i went to sch for the 1st day of sem2.
he looks like hes abt 20+ 30 years old.
wonder why hes doing this type of job at tat age.

hmm anyways.thats not the main point.
he says "good day" with a smile to me every morning when i pay him for my paper!
man.on the 1st day, i thought he was just feeling happy or smthing.
but for 3days hes been doing the same thing.
i was kinda suprised at tat gesture.
i mean, in singapore u dun even see people saying "good day" to you anywhere anytime!
a "good day" from him sure brightens up my day right from the start!
although it might not be much of a "good day" when i get to sch -_-

hehe.now i feel kinda paiseh whenever i buy paper there.
LOL (:

anyways...i kinda need to get:
-a backpack.
-jeans, berms, 3/4's, polo's
i need to go shopping seriously.

lack of shirts to wear.
lack of jeans to wear.
almost everyday for this sem, i need to wear long pants cos theres almost pratical lessons every day ):
sighh~
go shopping anyone?<3!lol
dun tell me u r affected by the stocks market eh! (:
i will kill u!lol

alrite tats all for now.
keep in touch!
*stretches finger out...and touch*
hehehe a little bit of lameness :D

start

2nd post of the day.
oh wait.its 13 now!which means sch is 10 hours away! whee! sucks -_-
snapped back to reality man.
thats the cruelty of life.
u study now, n u work ur ass off until u retire n wait for ur days to come and then die!

bye my darlings ): pfft pfft.

will i be able to be consistent with my work?
well, it had better be.

pathetic hols.

and so it is,
the last day of the 7weeks of hols.
looking back, i pretty much wasted those 7weeks slacking for most of the days.

the only fun things i remembered doing was:
-the trip to hongkong,
-mj openhouse.
-catching up with some close old friends
seriously i tink theres nothing much,
cos tats all i can remember.
lol how pathetic.

i didnt even went to a cinema to catch a movie.
i didnt went down to ECP to skate just becos i was being freakin lazy.
i didnt spend some time to draw and doodle with my pencils.
i didnt get a job.

i wasted 7weeks, sitting in front of this bloody screen.lol
sleeping very EARLY in the AM's and waking up rather late in the PM's
screwing up my body clock badly.

now i kinda missed all those stupid things tat i used to do every hols.
haha.like cycling around the eastern park connector,
sitting on the beach doing nothing.

ah.damit mufucker!
blame myself for all tat.
now im like a crouch potato, eat play sleep.
so anyways, sch is restarting tml,
and its gonna stretch all the way till start of december.pfftt.bitch.

alrite,
im off to listening some music for now.
hopefully i can get my ass out of bed tml for sch man!
buh-byes!

hong kong day2

rise and shine people 'cos its day2 with me in hongkong! :D
alriteee~!lets get off to a good start today!
brush up, have a good bathe and off we go.
1st thing 1st! lets have a good breakfast before heading off to our destination of the day,
lantau islands, ngong ping plateau or better known as 大屿山 (da4 yu3 shan1?) in chinese
(this hill with the giant buddha sitting on top of it)

okaay!so with insufficient sleep, i reluctantly climbed out of the bed.
(i cant fall asleep easily in a new environment)
so yea. i fell asleep kinda late (abt 2+am or smthing),
woke up a couple of times throughout the nite(3-4 times)
yea lol tats how bad it is! ):


nvm that!lets move on! :D
we went to have dim sum for our breakfast.
the dim sum restaurant was located KINDA near the hotel.
when i mean KINDA, we have to walk for up to 15-20+mins :O
okay the name of the restaurant is below.tats a tissue box btw.lol



yep! its buzzling with people of all ages, walks of life.
the dim sum restaurant have 2floors i tink and,
the pic is only abt less than 1/10 of the floor!
can u imagine how many people there is?how much dim sum are made daily?
the hongkongers really know how to enjoy their lives,
having their breakfast slowly, eating, sipping tea, reading newspapers and chatting with sm pals.


anyways,
u will be able to see them in a post one day.
hehehe!

alrite then, off we go!whee.
and yes, we r going to the mtr at mongkok station LOL

haha sm random woman using her hp.


on the train.


hm the journey was kinda long,
(click on the map if you want to understand wat the heck im talking about.
from mongkok, we travelled to lai king station.(red/tsuen wan line)
then changed to the yellow/tung chung line towards the tung chung station
and yea, the lantau islands/ngong ping plateau/大屿山 is very near the airport.
anyways, i got bored on the loooongggg train ride so decided to take random pics.lol


my shoes! :D



the camera.
okay.we reached tung chung.
got off the train and we walked abit,
and we were at the escalator tat would bring us over to the ngong ping 360 cable car station.

then...


my father saw this "falungongisgood" banner LOL


acting STUPID on the escalator.



we bought the 2way tickets
thats the pricing of the tickets.
take the price and divide it by about 5.4-ish.
tats how much it cost in sing dollars.haha


tadaa the ticket.



Q-ing up and waiting for our turn.


LENG-zai!LOL
(leng zai means handsome)
the views from inside the cable car.




they have a camera at the stations tat will take pics for u.
lol the pics are expensive.no doubt.


the cable car just left the station.




over the water.




ascending up.



this is the vitasoy a twist of "mai ya" or malt taste.


quiksilver.



i look so gloomy.lol
tats the giant buddha in the background.



tadaa!reached the 大屿山.
tat place looks very nice,
with ancient chinese buildings tat are actually shops.


woa but the sunlight there was very bright.
cant really open my eyes when taking pics.
so tats y some/most pics u will see us frowning.lol.im serious!



my father focusing and getting ready to take the pic above.


outside the cable car station which we arrived at.
the traditional chinese red lanterns.(dun tink dirty!)
and the buddha in the background


took a family pic


the stone railing by the side.
with the lotus flower pattern
again the buddha is in the background.

lol some funny board we saw infront of the shops.

saying "live abundant life everyday"

so we started walking towards the buddha statue...

the station was on the left side of the statue.

and so, we started our journey to the giant buddha statue

to ENLIGHTENMENT!

among the bushes!

and so,

slowly step by step, we reached the foot of the hill,

we started climbing the long stairs towards the buddha statue.

tat was about 1/4 of the stairs.

keep going (:

stopped abit and take some pics and rest.

we look so bitter.lol(there!i cant even barely open my eyes)

then again, step by step we made our way to the top of the hill.

closer and closer to the buddha statue.

it wasnt easy to climb all the way up there i tell you.

the sun was strong and the weather was very hot and we were sweating non-stop.

man.i definitely love this pic.

the sunlight in the background, shining down on the statue.

it just looks good to me (:

oh and this (:

this is cool haha.its a joss stick im im not wrong.

cai yuan guang jin in chinese.

idk how to explain in english.

its smthing like to wish for prosperse (for those who have businesses)

under a shade.

haha actually tat isnt a shade.

tat was some shrine where i shot the joss stick(above)

finally, we've reached the top of the hill.

random shots.

lol love the effects of this pic.

another sweet one (:

taken on the left side of the buddha.

haha.so after resting, enjoying some cool air and seeing the view from the top,

we decided to head back down to the foot of the hill to fill our stomaches.

we reached the foot of the hill and decided to go n take a look at some temple.

the joss sticks burning infront of the temple

the golden-body buddhas.

plates of fruits and electric lamps on the altars.

the dragon pillars outisde the temple.

this was the one on top.

and,

this was the one below.

theres the chinese stone lion statue,

with the buddhist flag.

so, we finally reached a vegetarian restaurant to have our rather late lunch

(was ard3+pm)

something i found on our table.

lol how true?

but the english is abit weird though haha.

lol look at the servings man...

a pot of rice, large bowl of soup, a dish of celery and duno wat, fried popiah, a bowl of spicy tofu,

a plate of mushrooms dried beancurd and fa-cai and lastly the large plate of xiao bai cai with mushrooms on top.

lol.we couldnt finish the food la duh.

anyways, the food was pretty delicious.i especially love the xiao bai cai

(lol its JUICY and SWEET!not like those bitter ones u see in singapore)

so we took the MTR from the tung chung station all the way to Central station.

the journey was about 30mins long and

we were all feeling very tired from the trip to the lantau islands.

prolly becos of the strong sunlight bah.

erm yea, im acting silly yet again -_-

Coach.
the attractive neon lights sure made it look more exquisite.

after walking for abt a brief 5minutes,

we appeared to be standing in front of the place tat we are gonna have dinner at!

this will also be one of the highlights of day2.

*drumrolls*

here we are, at one of the most famous chinese restaurant in hongkong and china,

winning many many awards.

yung kee restaurant, 香港鏞記酒家 or 鏞記 in short.

it sure looks classy with those bright spotlights and the golden-coloured tiles.

my brother had to make a reservation by phone before the trip to book a table.

although so, we still have to wait for a couple of minutes(prolly ard 15) for them to get us a seat.

we were attended to by a supervisor.

hes very friendly and nice.

after chatting with him, he told us tat he actually worked there for 30+ years.

mind you, hes about 50+ of age.

damn tats like dedicating his whole life for the restaurant man!

man he sure have one of TK's values! LOYALTY!LOL

when we praised him of his loyalty to the restaurant,

he actually bowed to us, as a gesture in return of the praise.

tats wat i call good service.

hes very sincere in his words and made us felt really good.

haha.we really enjoyed the little conversation we had with him.

oh by the way, i tink hes name is Peter Tze.

typically, u can find alot of such friendly and warm people from the service industry in hongkong.

and i guess, tats wat singaporeans should start to learn.

putting down those pride, and start to give our best to customers.

their famous starter.

century eggs with pickled ginger.

the century eggs were very tasty.

its doesnt taste much like those u have inside ur porridge.

its rather soft on the outside and on the inside too.

the yolk was still kinda semi-watery.

their famous roasted goose.

lol i know, its very oily.

but gd food are always unhealthy yea (:

haha the oil on the plate didnt stop me from tasting it.

the skin was roasted till it was crispy.

the meat was very nice too!

the supervisor showed us the fish before he handed it over to the kitchen to cook it.

there, the fresh steamed fish in soy sauce.

u could taste the sweetness and freshness of it.

yum.

getting drunk on XO chinese tea.heh.

LO and BEHOLD!

this desert was the highlight.

the supervisor then asked us whether we were interested in some desert,

we were like "sure!?why not man" haha.

lol we thought he would get sm mango pudding or black sesame paste for us.

but he returned with this and we were kinda suprise.

cos, it wasnt on the menu list.

it was smthing tat the nice supervisor got for us.

mayb it was sm desert for VIP's or the workers there.

oh and he said it was on his treat O.O

how nice and sweet of him eh (:

its really really tasty.i swear!

theres red beans, dried longans, lotus buds, orange skins and duno wat else.

lol cant recall now, but it was a hell-of a mix! (:

and so we bid goodbye to mr tze and left the restaurant.

honestly speaking, tat was one of the most wonderful moments we had in hongkong.

lol wat a cool-ass license plate eh!?

the buzzling streets around the hotel area.

kinda fun to squeeze around in the nite markets.

haha, get to have an experience of their lifestyle yea (:

the streets closed down from evening until abt 1-2am in the midnight i tink.

this is one of those streets near our hotel.

we come here almost every night before going back to our hotels.

over here, the shuttle buses are Q-ing up for duno wat.

theres kinda about 20buses there.

hmm.so tats the end of the day for us,

as we head back to the hotel and get sm rest for day3.

do stay tune for day3 of hongkong with me!whee~ (: