| Start: | Nov 29, '07 |
| End: | Dec 4, '07 |
| Location: | Hong Kong |
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Snowies in HK
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Finally, snowybeagle and snowylady can resume their travels which had been put on hold since snowylass was born. And the little girl is old enough to perceive something's up despite us not telling her anything, and could tell from signs like making a passport and Grandma's inadvertent slip-of-tongue that she's going to do something most of her friends in childcare already did.
Have a good and safe trip. =)
ReplyDeleteSnowy and all zee snowies... have a wonderful time in Hong Kong... remember to go to Disneyland... and if you have the time go over to Cheung Chau... it is also a lovely place...
ReplyDeleteOh yes, my little nephew is still quite willing to stick with my mum if his parents go travelling, whereas my nieces will want to tag along anywhere and everywhere their parents go.. Well if eldest sis is travelling, younger sis must go too. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, have lots and lots of fun.. =)
Have a good and fun trip ...
ReplyDeleteHer first trip overseas! Must be very exciting for her!
ReplyDeleteWell, found a few minutes to check the internet now ...
ReplyDeleteAs expected, Kowloon/HK was a great letdown for Snowylass ... after 2 nights stay at Disneyland ... poor girl. We'd have planned otherwise, but the special offer closed end Nov and we couldn't leave any earlier due to work commitment.
But at least, on this trip, she learns that what to expect for overseas holidays with dad and mum ... lots and lots of walking!
Disneyland taught her the need to queue, and queue, and queue, if nothing else.
But she got to see her Disney stars ... though none of the Disney Princess up close (well, 1 if we consider Mulan who was recently added as a "Disney Princess").
The Park is small, so the 2 days was sufficient though we didn't catch every show.
Visited the Peak today, lots more walking for her since we took the MTR. She's napping it off now (her lucky younger brother got to be carried during his 2 naps outside).
WE MISS YOU!!!!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear all is well and all had fun. Don't envy you the burden, Snowylad is one heavy infant! The milk he drinks is too rich I say...
It's a peak season now so naturally Disneyland is very crowded...
ReplyDeleteOkay, just jotting down a few thoughts from my trip.
ReplyDelete1. Internet Check-In : The last time I travelled, it was before Snowylass was born and it was more of an option really. Not anymore - for those who are travelling in a group and want to be seated together. And we found that out at the airport on the day itself.
The best the check-in guy could do was to seat us close together - me behind Snowylady, and Snowylass across the aisle from me. Snowylad, being < 2 years old, didn't get his own seat.
To her credit, Snowylass took it all in stride. First time on a plane, she took to SIA's VOD system well, but took a little longer to control herself from blurting out loud her comments when watching the shows.
No Sesame Street for Snowylad unfortunately, the thing that held his interest the longest was the video game of popping balloons held by Winnie the Pooh & his friends.
The bassinet was really too short for him, but served well enough for his nap. He was woken early by another baby crying in the next bassinet.
The kids managed to survive the changes in pressure without too much fuss.
2. Check Auto-Roaming before leaving Singapore : I forgot I cancelled my autoroaming VAS a few years back. Though it was free, it was only for 2 years and SingTel make no guarantee it'd continue to be free. Rather than having to remember to check before the 2 years period, I had it cancelled. Hence, I went to HK with a phone that can only call emergency numbers and take pictures/video. Counts for something, I guess.
3. Kids should be brought into the holiday planning instead of having it sprung as a surprise. Snowylass wasn't prepared for the amount of walking she had to do, and she didn't always understand what we the adults were doing.
4. My brother helpfully lent me his stroller ... which I forgot to bring during our rush out to go down and board our taxi. Personally, I still can't decide whether it was a blessing or a bane that we didn't have it. Would have made things easier sometimes, but would certainly also have slowed us down a lot. HK is still not totally wheelchair/stroller friendly.
5. This is the first time Snowylady and I have been to HK that we didn't get to sleep well, eat well nor shop well.
6. Many changes around Tsim Sha Tsui area. Gone were entire blocks of older buildings and in their place, constructions and more constructions, forcing long detours for what were simple crossings. Also gone were many nearby eateries, I was counting on late night desserts from 杏花楼 which was near where we were staying, but the entire block was gone too.
Most incomprehensible was when I asked the reception staff at Salisbury YMCA where I could get 叉燒包 and 油炸鬼 and was shown a location on a map halfway to Mongkok!
I actually had to ran around a few blocks from the hostel to find a 茶餐廳 still open after midnight. The frontdesk staff was no help at all, the guy could only direct me to a 24-hr MacDonald's after midnight!
At least they could direct me to a Wellcome supermarket at Hankow Road when I needed one.
The scale of urban renewal was frightening - it's almost like HK is doing what took Singapore 10 years or so.
The first thing I noticed during the taxi ride from Disney Resort in Lantau to our hostel in Tsim Sha Tsui was the large number of skyscraping apartment blocks. Makes the so-called tallest condo/apartment blocks like Queens or to-be-completed Duxton in Singapore look like dwarfs, and the HK's blocks are more plentiful with more mushrooming all the time.
From what I could observe, though it is has 56% more land than Singapore (and more 47% more populous), HK squeezes its population to a much smaller urban space than Singapore.
What is more interesting is their new tower blocks got a lot more character than Singapore's. One Peking Road is an example, with
The sentiments are the same... seriously the place is a lot more happening than in Singapore...:-)
ReplyDeleteYeah, a colleague of mine is hoping his wife (a native HKer) lands a job back home.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind joining him if I get an offer too. Hee!
Ah well, that's how it is with young children. Sooner than you think, however, it'd be trips as usual when they grow up.
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