happy times in hk

of happier times in hk/macau!

was lucky to have plenty of free time during my trip in hong kong, and had the company of two tour guides to bring me around. i arrived on wed morning, and was just in time to catch the happening lan kwai fung at night for halloween!

lkf was packed to the brim with people everywhere dressed up in gory costumes. we went there after our meeting so we were hardly dressed up for the occasion, nonetheless we made an effort to blend in by buying little devil bands to wear! the two guys look absolutely adorable in them haha.

had pretty much nothing on on thursday so mr alan was my official tour guide for the day and brought me to explore every corner of hk! we were at nu ren jie at mongkok. we pretty much just walked around and i didnt really buy anything. weather was fantastic.

chilling out at macs. alan with his silly grin and me pretending to worrk really hard on my blackberry.

i think we were at causeway bay this time. caught a crazy movie called jin shang jiao (triangle) which i thought should be pretty alright cos gu tian le was starring in it. but it turned out to be kind of psychotic.

went on to stanley at night where we found out there was a huge huge party going on involving some taiwanese star called ah ben (who the hell is ah ben???). anyway to our disappointment, we couldnt enter even though the party looked happening, because we didnt have passes. oh well, we settled for a quiet drink at a pub overlooking the sea, and ended off the night with dessert near my hotel.

on friday, we went to macau with 2 of alan's good friends from singapore too. visited the very much talked about VENETIAN casino/hotel. it really is huge, and almost identical to the venetian i've already visited in vegas, so it did nothing much to impress me further. i heard that macau has already surpassed vegas in terms of their earnings, but honestly in terms of the clubbing scenes and performances and architecture, it's nooooowhere near vegas. unlike vegas where all the casinos are concentrated all along a single road, hence known as the strip, all the casinos in macau are scattered. it's pretty at night. it's happening during weekends, where people from all over the world flock to the city to drink and club. whereas macau is fully functional; there is, gambling is in full force manz. people really go there just to gamble.

for non-gambler like myself, it can be kind of boring. was glad that both alan and terence (alan's friend) won some money for themselves that afternoon. also all my photos from macau has him in it only cos i took photos for him on my cam and he took mine for me on his. soo mr yeung, if you're reading this... i WANT my pICs!! :p

might be making another trip to hk/shenzhen/macau again at the end of nov. company retreat, my boss says, but i'm thinking of giving it a miss..