YEAR END PARTY

We were having year end party at FC's home. It's good to have a place to chill out. We had order the food in advance so after work I went to FC's home directly.

FC and PY were sick and they didn't go to work. I arrived Ma On Shan at around 7pm then Hang picked me up and we bought some snacks and drinks at the supermarket and also bought the takeaway at pizza and a Thai restaurant.

We had also ordered some sashimi for the party!! So yummy!!! FC's also cooked the steak for us but they were too raw. So Hang had to cook again and they tasted delicious.



We chitchatted, watched TV and then waited for the counting down for new year. The TV broadcasted the countdown of IFC building. There was firework as well. I didn't have much strong feeling for the new year may be becoz I wasn't counting down in the crowds like I used to be.

Then we exchanged Christmas presents (tho it was a bit late!!), watched TV and played PSP3 until 4.30am and then we went home. I was so tired but I enjoyed it a lot!! Goodbye 2008!!

IS THAT ALL MY FAULT?

My manager admonished me 3 times today but she rarely acted like this. I think she must be stressed out recently. But I'm not happy what she said to me.

The 1st thing was that I let the other colleagues to take the free samples during office hour. I didn't let them to do this, I told them to take later but they were too excited and they didn't listen to me. So is that my fault for not being harsh to them?

The 2nd thing was that I talked too long private calls today. It wasn't too long!!! Hey today is new year eve!! Everyone is in holiday mood and what's the problem for just talking on few calls?? I didn't stop working!! She said that as a senior, I should be a good example to the others. I don't think I have ever set a bad example.

The 3rd thing really pissed me off. She admonished about my arrival time again!! I usually come to work 1-3 mins before 9am but she thinks I'm late and requested me to come to work at least 15mins before. WTF!! I'm not late at all!! What da heck is that I have be accused for being late?? I always work overtime (no paid!!) until 7 to 8pm, is that meaningless to the company? I was so angry and it upset me by being scolded at the end of the year. Darn company!!! Darn rules!!! I think they don't have anything to challange me on my working performance so they just did something nonsense to defeat me!!

BAD OMEN?!

I'm not a superstitious person but what happened on me recently really frustrated me. My necklace was broken, my new cup was broken and my favourite mobile belt was broken too. What a bad omen :( What is it going to be next? Hey it's year end already!! I want something good for year 2009!!! Give me some luck please!!

DICK + BIG DEE + TON'S HOME

Did kickboxing after work as usual but after boxing we went to ton's home for dinner. I've never been to their home & I was curious of how it was like but AC & CT warned me that it was a mess!! Men's home are supposed to be a mess, aren't they? LOL

They are living in the 5th floor and there is no lift in this building so we had to walk upstairs. Ton met us up on the ground floor, Dick and Big Dee went to supermarket to buy some food. Their flat wasn't so mess and it is big enough for them to live. There were not much furniture not even a table or a chair. We had to sit on the ground.

Big Dee cooked some food for us and he took something from the kitchen. I had no idea what they were. Fishes and soup LOL The fishes were quiet good. They put the plates on the floor and we ate with our hands. Kinda strange for me!! CT said Thai people were like that and it was normal!! It surprised me!!

They all said Big Dee could cook very well and I tasted the soup that he made, it was really quite good!! :) It was Tom Yam Kung soup but he didn't teach us how to make it!!

Dick and Big Dee taught us some Thai swearword and but they asked us not to say that coz it is rude :P Surprising Dick knows quite a lot Cantonese swearword!! It was a very funny night to learn Thai language in bad way!! :D

TWILIGHT

After watching the movie of Twilight, it interested me to read the book coz the story in the movie was too simple and I heard that the novel was more interesting then the movie so I started to read the book. There are 5 books in total!!

Luckily I found the e-book from the internet but I can't stop reading!! It's very interesting and romantic!! I almost spend my whole afternoon reading but not working :p Well who cares?! We are all still in holiday mood!!

BOXING SHOPPING DAY!

Went shopping with AC at CWB today, I wanted to buy some clothes but finally I bought 2 handbags. I think I've bought quite a lot unnecssary things recently. I don't know why, maybe becoz shopping makes me feel happy but on the other hand my credit card bills are getting more >_<



We had dinner at a Japanese restaurant and then we went to watch movie. I had no idea what was Twilight about before watching it, AC said it was very popular in States and the main actor was good looking so she wanted to watch it. I thought it was a violent or SF and I didn't expect it would be a romance!!

This movie is based on the popular young-adult series, the epic romance between a human and sexy vampire. It was a true romance and the dialogue was very romantic and touching. But the storyline was a bit simple and I was expecting some more action / fight scences :P I haven't read the original novels so I don't know how it follows exactly. But overall it was good and I like this movie! And I think I will get a book to read it!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This morning a thought flashed through my mind and I suddenly thought of something that happened last year before Christmas. It's not important anymore but I didn't realise it has been a year already!! Time flies!! I'm not ready for Chrismas yet seems it's coming too fast!!

Went out for shopping today coz I still haven't bought X'mas gifts (especially for myself) yet :P It was very crowded everywhere and I didn't have patience to wait and line up for getting in the shops or trying things on. I wanted to buy some T-shirts but finally I bought 2 jackets and a gift for my year end party.

Surprisingly it was kinda warm today and it feels not much like Christmas. Every year before Christmas I plan to travel to somewhere cold to have white Christmas but then finally I don't plan anything lol Oh well may be next year!! I want to have a real White Christmas!!

X'MAS EVE

So darn busy at work !! But our team had to prepare the lunch x'mas party for the whole company. We had a lot of preparation before such as planning the rundown, thinking about the games & dercorations, asking suppliers to donate us gifts, ordering the food and buying gifts. It occupied me quite a lot of time!

This year we had 50 staffs to join!! Wow I didn't even notice our company is growing up so fast! I was being the MC but I didn't have micophone, it was hard to shout out loud in front of 50 people and take the control.

We had some food and then played some games such as Bingo. I know some of them weren't so participated but it's the party that we only join once a year! We also had lucky draw, our suppliers were very generous that offering us some cash and a LV wallet. We had other gifts such as ipod shuffle 2G, portable hard disc 160G, housewares stuff... I don't know if I was lucky or not coz I got the ipod shuffle 2G. I have a iPod classic and Touch already so the shuffle is totally usless for me. So I gave it to my other colleague.

After party, we had to clean up stuff and I still got a lot of work to do!! I worked until 7.30pm :( That's crazy!! Then I went out and met up Maggie and Jacky for dinner. Maggie came back from Holland again!! We haven't seen for a long time!! It's good to see her again!!

We had Japanese food for dinner and then we went to a cafe, relax, talk and had some coffee. Lucky her to have 3 weeks vacation in Hong Kong!! How can I get a job in Europe? :D

X'MAS SNAPSHOT

Having hotpot dinner with old and current colleagues after work coz I like to have gathering on or before big festival. I haven't seen Gobby for a long time but she still looks quite the same. But it is bad to know that her company is going to close down and she has to look for another job. The financial tsunami really affects a lot of companies. Luckily my company is still working very well and our business is growing.

After dinner, me, Seki and Man were going to TST to take some X'mas pics. The rest of them didn't join us coz they were not so interested to be photo taken. And it was a bit late for them. It's fine! I still got my models :D

Kyoko was hanging around TST so she joined us for the photo shooting as well. Seki lent me his tripod coz mine is too heavy and I didn't like to carry it around. But his tripod isn't tall enough! So I didn't use it finally...




I was a bit disappointed coz the Christmas decorations and lights were not as beautiful as I expected. We only took few shots at Ocean Terminal and then walked along to New World Centre.

I wanted to go to Central and IFC but we didn't have time. What a shame!! Next year I have to be earlier!!

TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW?

Sometimes its better not to know than getting to know something you don't want to know. It's complicated,huh? But you can't control when it comes to you. Life is like that and you still have to go on.

Anyway no matter how it is, it's not important anymore. You are only an outsider. Everyone is changing eventually, you may not realize on small things but you do realize someone you care about. Or you change youself for someone but you don't even know you have changed. So that's the interrelationship?

FEW DAYS BEFORE X'MAS

I slept at 6am but I woke up at noon today coz I had to go out and do x'mas shopping. I don't like going out to shop around on Sunday especially before the big festival. I'm not ready for X'mas yet coz I feel like I still have a lot of work to do. But when I walked on the street, I could feel the x'mas atmosphere and people were so busy for shopping.

I didn't buy anything for myself but only buying something for my company for lucky draw use. I bought a nice speaker. Then I went to develop the pics and shopped around the computing centre. I wanna buy a internal hard drive coz mine doesn't work now but I think external would be easier for me. But finally didn't buy anything for myself coz it was too crowded!!

PRE-X'MAS DINNER

X'mas is coming soon!! We were having pre-x'mas dinner at Dan Ryan's. What a shame that Jeff and Kyoko couldn't join us. Jeff's sister's husband is in the hospital so he had to look after the children and Kyoko had fever... Hope them they will all get well soon!!

I was a bit late becoz of the traffic jam... hehe I wasn't the latest one tho :D We haven't met for a long time!! It was good to gather together and talk about recently life! Then we ordered some food such as pasta, steak, salad, risotto... The food was great!

And we all brought a present (budget $10, it's crazy, huh?) and exchanged to each other. I got a lavender oil hand cream! I just wanted to buy handcream!! Great for me!!



Seki and Man couldn't join the dinner too coz they had to have dinner with family. They were joining us for drink in LKF. Satoko and Kelly were supposed to join us but Satoko had to meet her bf so finally only me, Seki and Man were going for drink.

We drank until 1.30am and then I joined another group of friends to go clubbing. It wasn't as crowded as I expected in the club and it wasn't that fun. I think coz I was too tired. We danced and drank until 5.30am and then we went home. Glad that I didn't get drunk at all LOL

LEVEL 9 FINISHED!

Level 9 of French is finished!! Tho I missed some lessons in this term but I enjoyed the class!! It's very funny!! But I'm not going to promote to level 10 coz I can't catch up and I'm left behind the level. So the coming term I'm going to take the workshop and focus on speaking and grammar. It's great that Schindler, Kelly, Zoie and Bruce are not going to promote too!! We will take the workshop together :)

After class we went to Red Chimneys Restaurant to have later dinner buffet. The food was quite good and there were not many people becoz it was quite late! We took pics, video and had great fun in the restaurant!! Alexis was very funny and he kept making grimace to entertain us!! We all had great night!!

TANGO NIGHT

Tango Night again!! It may be my last lesson coz Karolina is going back to Poland on Friday and I don't think I will learn Tango alone. It's fun tho!! Some of my friends are interested so maybe I will go again if I have company!!

We leaned some new steps but they are more like advanced level. I hardly caught the steps and I couldn't dance well LOL But a good partner is very important coz if someone can't lead well, you may get confused easily! The teacher was quite scary coz she expected the students could dance well and she was quite bossy!! It's ok to learn for fun but seriously I don't like to be taught by this teacher!

JEWELLERY DESIGN WORKSHOP

Karolina is working a jewellery design workshop at C&G Department and I'm interested to know what she is doing so I joined her workshop today.

I had no idea how to make accessories but it was fun to have a try. Karolina taught us some basic skills and then we started to use the materials (semi precious stones, pearls, glass beads) to make our pieces. I first tried to make a earring (the blue one) and it was easier that I thought. The reason that I made one only coz I don't have piercing on my right ear so just try one.

Then I made a pair of red earrings and it seemed strange to make one only. Karolina said they looked good and she said it would be suitable to wear for the tango dance :D Well I'm not going to wear something that I make coz they are not good enough. It's just for fun only!!

And I made a pendant and necklace as well, it didn't spend me much time. 2 hours including learning and making my pieces!! :)

ME & HANG'S BELATED B-DAY CELEBRATION

Me and Hang's b-day is close so we celebrated our birthday together tonight. Me, AC and PY went to MK to shop around and bought a A&F jacket for Hang. We bought some A&F clothes for ourself as well!!

Then we went to Central, met Hang and FC and then we took the taxi to the Peak. FC booked the Peak Lookout and we had dinner there. The enviroment and atmosphere there was good and they placed the dishes very fast!! We had oyster, chicken ceasar salad, steak, seafood risotto, Salmon penne rigate pasta, ribs, cripse apple tarte, chocolate souffle.



And I got a Diana F+ Chromiacs Limited Edition camera!! :) Thanks Buddies!! I like this camera very much!! And I have a new toy to play around!! Yay!!

After dinner, we walked around and took some night view pics from the Peak. The sky was clear and night view was impressive!!

Then we went to LKF to have a drink. FC suggested to go to Balalaika so we went there. It's Russian bar and restaurant so I drank Vodka :D There is a ice room and they provide furs for you to wear and getting in. It was so cold inside!! But it was fun!! :D

We drank until 2am and then we left. Then we met Ruck, Fanta, Dee Dee and Christine in another bar in LKF!! What a surprise!! Christine asked me and AC to drink together so we both stayed and FC, PY and Hang left first. It was very funny to see them dance. Me and AC couldn't stop laughing!! We drank until 3.30am and then we went home.

TANGO

Karolina is interested in Tango and she wanted to find someone to go with her. So we both had our 1st Tango lesson tonight!! I had no idea what Tango is and I didn't know how to dance at all!! The Tango that we learned was Argentine Tango.

"Argentine Tango is danced in an embrace that can vary from very open, in which leader and follower connect at arms length, to very closed, in which the connection is chest-to-chest, or anywhere in between. Tango is essentially walking with a partner and the music."



It was quite hard in the begining coz I tried to focus on the steps and forgot about the eye contacts. And I often stepped on my partner's feet :P But it was very interesting and it was more fun than I expected!! I like the Tango music too!! I didn't dance much but it was still great to see how people dance!! Very enjoyable!! Would love to go there again!!

BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA

Didn't get much sleep last night so I was a bit late to do kickboxing. Just wanna sweat and do some exercises but it tired me up coz I didn't have much energy.

After boxing, we went to Wanchai to have Thai food coz CT strongly recommended it. The food was cheap and quite good. DD and Christine also joined us for the dinner.

Then we went to watch a movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua", AC has a Chihuahua and she suggested to watch this movie. I'm not a big fan of Chihuahua but it was interesting to watch it. The story was simple, predictable and funny. The dogs were cute too!! Quite entertaining!

AC and me sensed something and we discovered a secret tonight. We were a bit surprised but no need to be so serious, right? Just for fun!!

5A GATHERING AT FAT ANGELO

5A Gathering again!! We planned to have BBQ gathering a month ago but finally we changed to dinner gathering coz most of the people are not so interested in BBQ. Why not? Autumn is good for BBQ!! I chose Fat Angelo coz it's a good place for gathering!!

I booked the table at 8.30pm and most of them arrived on time! Except someone!! We couldn't believe how she would be late for 1hour 45mins!! When she arrived we have almost finished all the dishes!! Incredible!!

But anyway it was fun to gather again and we had new member tho he wasn't in our class back to Form 5. After dinner we had a drink and until midnight. We are planning to go to Zanthia's home during CNY!! Zanthia better prepare for the Red Pocket money for us!! :D

MY KOREAN COLLEAGUES

3 of my Korean colleagues are coming to Hong Kong for meetings. Actually I have no idea why they come here. It's not necessary to fly to Hong Kong for a day meeting. Kinda wasting of the flight tickets and time!! And the thing is why dragged me in? I hate the bullshit meetings!!

We dicussed something we had discussed on msn before and we still couldn't find a good way to solve the problems. It wasted my time!! I got a lot of things to do already!!

After work, me and the PM had to took these 3 Korean to have dinner. They insisted to have western cuisine. Darn!! It's like they are coming for travelling!! I wanted to book Outback Steak House but it was fully booked so I booked Dan Ryan instead.

They rushed us to finish the job before 6.15pm so they could have dinner at 7pm. I don't like to be rushed!! And I missed my kickboxing class becoz of them!!

We ordered salad, pasta, risotto, steak and dessert. I liked the risotto and pasta and they were very tasty. Luckily we didn't talk much about work and we just talked about family, hobbies and things about Korea and Hong Kong.

We finished the dinner at around 8.30pm and then I went to SwishClub to meet AC and CT. I've booked the body massage so I had to wait for them finishing the class. My back and my neck are stiff and stressed so I really need to be massaged. The Thai massagist was quite good but I had back pain after being massaged. I think becoz I'm too tired!!

MY BIRTHDAY DINNER AT CASA FINA

Doing kickboxing in the afternoon and had foot reflexology afterward. I don't like to do boxing during weekends but since I've joined the unlimited plan, I have to do as much as I can!!

After foot reflexology, we went to shop around and then I bought some make up stuff. Actually I got a lot stuff at home already but still would like to buy and try new things!! That's girl!! :D

Dinner at Casa Fina, it is the another new restaurant of Casa group. I've tried Mi Casa, Su Casa and this time Casa Fina!! I like the food a lot and it is always enjoyable to have dinner there!! Casa Fina is a bit different with other Casa restaurants, it's rather high-class and they provide different dishes.

We ordered house white wine and oysters as starter, we had Irish Gigas, Scottish Rock and Fine de Special. French oyster is always my favourite!! Fine de Special tasted very good and fresh. The others were very good too!!



Then we had sea urchin cucumber and caviar salad, they were perfect match!! Very delicious!! The sea urchin was very sweet!!

I like the Prawn linguinie too!! The cream sauce tasted so good and you would definately want to finish it all!!

Final we tried the lamp chops, actually I don't really like eating lamb coz I think lamb chop has strong taste that I don't really like. But I heard that Casa Fina cooked lamb very well so I'd like to have a try. It tastes quiet good but I still prefer eating steak :P

I wanted to have a piece of cake but I was too full and I had to rush to meet other friend so I didn't eat any dessert. I don't really need a cake for birthday, I enjoyed this dinner a lot and that's enough!!

Then meeting Karolina at Central and we to went to Peel Fresco Music lounge to listen the live jazz music. But we were late and it was full so we went to LKF to have some drinks instead. I knew there would be a great Jazz band show but what a shame we missed it!!

MY BIRTHDAY

Time flies! It's my birthday again!! I wasn't looking forward to my birthday at all. The more I've grown up, the more I prefer a quiet birthday. Just don't wanna remind myself how old I am. I wanna stay young!!

I've been thinking to buy something for myself but I haven't had time to shop around. And I don't really have any special birthday wishes. I have a lot of wishes normally :D Well just hope that I can do what I want and get I want to get. At least no need to worry about anything and no more hestitation!!

SASHIMI + HOTPOT + SHANGHAI CRAB + PY'S BELATED B-DAY PARTY

Season for eating Shanghai Crab again!! I'd like to eat Shanghai Crab so I suggested to have party at FC's home. Since she is living alone now and we haven't been to her new flat yet so it would be great to have a fun party at her home. We have planned this for a long time and I have been looking forward to this day.

Thank you very much for FC!! She ordered the most expensive crabs and she billed her company!! :D We ordered some food in advance and the shop delivered to FC home's directly.

We ate the cold food first. The Hokkaido Scallops were very big and fresh!! I can't remember how many I ate!! And the salmon sashimi was delicous too!!



Then we ate the crabs!! FC is recovering from the surgery so she couldn't eat crab. What a shame!! It was very delicious!! We assumed each person eating 2 crabs but we ate one finally coz we were nearly half full after eating the sashimi and crabs.

The coming was hotpot. We had a lot of meat, dumpling and meat balls. Someone said she could eat 1lbs of beef by herself but of course finally she couldn't!! We left quite a lot of food!!

Finally we had dessert as well!! We bought a cake and a gift for PY! It was a surprised belated birthday party for her. She was a bit surprised!! It was crazy that we ate that much!! We ate from 7pm to 12am!! :P

PY got us some souvenirs from Okinawa. Bottles with sand and seashell. What make it special? Becoz the shape of the sand from Okinawa is star shape!! So amazing!!

HIGHSCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR

After long day hiking yesterday, I feel like my legs are not mine today!! Serious muscles aching!! Ouch!! I knew that!! So I booked the foot reflexology already!! I didn't enough at all coz it was very painful when the massagist massaged my lower legs.

Then we watched High School Musical 3: Senior Year. I'm not high school girl anymore so I think it was a cute family movie. The musical and the plot were ok. This movie isn't too bad but not very good. Not as good as I expected but worth to watch on DVDs.


After movie we shopped around and I didn't expect to buy anything. But then I just saw a watch that I like and it was on sale!! I considered for a while and then I decided to buy it. Though I have few watches already, it is my birthday soon! It's not too bad to buy something for myself, right?

We then had dinner at The Mon. I have been thinking to try this restaurant but I didn't get chance. It is usually full. My Japanese colleague recommended it too so I guessed it wouldn't too bad.

We ordered some sushi, stone pot rice, skewers and cold noodles, they were so delicious!! No wonder why my Japanese colleague likes this restaurant. The food was really good!! We enjoyed a lot!! :)

HIKING AT HIGH JUNK PEAK

Hiking at High Junk Peak today!! Its height is 344m and it is the 2nd high peak in Hong Kong!! I didn't know the route before hiking and I thought it wasn't a difficult route but unexpectedly it was as rough as the Sharp Peak!



We scaled the heights and we shared the food there!! It was very windy and we had to protect our stuff just in case the wind would blow them away!!

The view from High Junk Peak was good!! I think it would be better if it was sunny day!! I didn't bring my DSLR camera coz the weather forecast said it would be rain! Thanks god it was only cloudy!!

A very deep slope that we had to climb up and down! A bit scary but it was fun!! We hiked for nearly 8 hours!!

I was exhausted and I got aching muscles after hiking!! We then went to Kowloon City to enjoy cheap Thai food. Quite delicious!! Maybe becoz we were so hungry and the food was even better!! :D

K's DIPLOMA AWARD CEREMONY

It was K's Diploma Award Ceremony of ABRSM. I'm so proud of my sister that she can achieve it. She is so enthusiastic about the music and I'm sure she will have good achievement in music.

Mom said I could do that but I knew I could never have time to practise music. I tried it last year and I started to play piano again but I only had little time and I couldn't do everything I want. Hopefully one day I can start playing music again.

Today I was being K's photographer and I realised I should get a better zoom lens!! Just like when K was at the stage, I couldn't zoom closer!! A 18-200mm would be perfect for me!! Time to save money again!!

We were extremely hungry so after the ceremony, we had a nice dinner. We went to Sushi Toku. I heard that it was quite a high standard suishi restaurant and it would be worth to try. It was expensive tho the sushi was fresh and very delicious.

The sea eel Tanpura was very delicious!! Not many Japanese restaurants have this dishes but they made it very well!! The sea eel was very cripsy outside but soft inside!! Yummy!!

FOOT REFLEXOLOGY + MOVIE + SIU HIN & IRIS'S WEDDING

AC recommended me a Thai leg massage place so I went there to have foot reflexology. AC supposed to go there with me and she helped me to book a Thai lady massagist but we both were late so finally I went there alone. She was still on the bus while I was being massaged.

But they arranged me a Hong Kong male massagist becoz of my lateness. It's kinda strange to be massaged by a man but I got no choice. It hurted me when he was squeezing and pushing parts of the feet. My legs muscles are quite tight becoz of doing kickboxing much. I think I better to have foot reflexology more in order to inprove my general health.

After massage, I met AC at the JP cinema and then we watched "Tropic Thunder". I like Ben Stiller a lot!! He is one of my favourite comedian! The opening scene was fabulous and I laughed through out this movie!! The plot was somewhat weak at times but overall, a great movie!

After movie we rushed to attend Siu Hin & Iris's Wedding. It was bit late when we arrived there. Siu Hin and Sai Yan rushed us to go to the stage to take pics when they saw us. I met some old TI friends from the basketball team. I recognised their faces but I couldn't remember their name :P

Sai Yan was the M.C. and also groomsman as well but he kept coming to our table to eat when we all drank a toast to the bride and groom. It was funny that Siu Hin and groomsman didn't want to drink at all!! They wanted to eat first!! The kept putting the food into the mouth whenever they passed through our table!! Obviously there were hungry!! :D


Siu Hin and the groomsman challenged us on drinking and we opened many bottle of red wine and drink them at once!! I can't remember how many I drank :P It was a very funny wedding banquet and it was good to see old friends and have fun!! :) Congrats Siu Hin & Iris!!

HALLOWEEN@LKF

Halloween Night!! For sure we were going to hang around and have fun!! We met at TST and then took the ferry to Central. We didn't dress up and make up but Man drew a spider on my hand :D It didn't look scary tho but it was fun!!


On the way to LKF, we saw a lot of people with costume and scary make up. Very interesting!! It was the first time for Kyoko to be in Hong Kong on the Halloween, she was very excited coz people don't celebrate in Japan. She wanted to dress up but it was too late!! So next year we are going to dress up!! :D

Central was full of people!! It was very crowded!! We took nearly 1 and half hour to walk from the pier to LKF!! So crazy!! You couldn't even walk back!! We just followed the crowd to walk. We bought some beer from the convenient store, drank, took pics and had fun in the crowd.

Then we went into Insomnia to have some drinks and enjoy the live band music. It was more crowded than usual!! Kyoto had to work on the next day so we didn't stay till too late. We left at around 2am and we all had fun!!

PEKING DUCK DINNER

I'm supposed to have French lesson on Thur but I skipped my lesson tonight coz I was going to have Peking Duck dinner! Christophe and Charly are going to leave soon so it might be the last time for me to see them before they leave. Eléna is going back to France too!! Seems everyone is leaving Hong Kong!!

I don't usually eat Peking Duck coz it's kinda like tourist stuff but I like peking duck a lot!! I quite like this Spring Deer Restaurant!! Their food was really good!! Pekingese food is rather greasy with strong taste, so I usually don't eat much. But we ordered a lot of food!! We were so full and I'm glad that we all enjoyed it!!

ANA SUSHI

Dinner gathering with old friends, we had postponed this dinner few times and finally we managed to come out. It's really not easy to gather together since we all are quite busy.

We had no idea what to eat so Helen suggested this Japanese restaurant. PY and Kevin had to work overtime so we ordered the food first coz we were very hungry.

Sze suggested to go travelling together and she wanted to go somewhere with sun and beach. We all were very surprised coz Sze can't swim and she doesn't like the sun!! What made she wanna have a sun + beach vacation? She said she just wanted to try to relax at the beach and read the books there LOL OMG!! It's hard to imagine!!

I'd like to travel with them but I have some plans for myself so I'm not sure if I'm available. I really wish I could have more holidays and money!!

1DAY MACAU TRIP

Just wanna relax and get away of Hong Kong, we went for Macau for a day trip. It's my 3rd time to go to Macau. This time we mainly hunted for food but not sightseeing!

We planned to take the 10am boat to Macau but someone was late so we had to wait for 1 hour to take the 11am ferry. When we arrived Macau, it was nearly 12pm, then we took the map from the tourist infomation centre and then started to plan for our day.

We were so hungry so we took the shuttle bus to Hotel Lisboa and then walked to Rua do Campo. There is a local small restaurant which is famous for eating crab congee and shrimp dumpling. We tried these 2 famous dishes, they were quite good but not that impressive.

Then we walked to Ruins of St. Paul's, on they way we saw that many people were buying pepper pie at a little shop so just bought one to have a try. It was quite good with strong pepper taste.

We didn't walk up to Ruins of St. Paul's, just took few pics there. Since Ruins of St. Paul's is listed as one of the World Heritage, many tourists go sightseeing there. Macau is not just a small city now, their government did a lot of things to develop this city as a tourist attraction.

Then it was nearly afternoon tea time, we went for one famous shark fins soup restaurant and tried their soup. Many people were lining up there so we took away and enjoyed it at the park. The soup was delicious!! No wonder there were so many people!

We then took the taxi to Taipa and went to Tai Lei Cafe to try the Pork Chop bun. Once again we had to line up and wait!!

It was my first time to try this pork chop bun, many people told me that it was very delicious and it was a Must-Eat-Food!! Finally I could try it!! It was better that I expected!! Very delicious!! I liked it a lot!! The pork chop and the bun were perfect match!! :D

We were so full after eating so many things so we had a walk at Taipai and then bought some souvenirs at Rua do Cunha. I bought some nougats and a bottle of Portuguese porto wine. I quite like the Porto wine but I hardly find in Hong Kong. AC and PY kept calling me tippler coz they think I usually drink!! It's just a bottle of wine!! Of course I'm not tippler!!

After buying the souvenirs, we saw a nice cafe shop and the cakes looked delicious. We were so full but we really wanted to have a try. So we just got in and ordered the cheese cake and Serradura. The Cheese cake didn't look like cheese cake but it was very delicious!! The serradura was very soft and creamy!! I liked them both!!!

We stayed in the cafe for an hour and more, chitchatted and relaxed there. We were very tired so it was better just relaxing there than walking around. Then it was nearly dinner time and we went to a Portuguese Restaurant to have our dinner.

The restaurant was quite full so we had to wait for around 45mins. We just took pics and hung around to kill the time. I've been this restaurant 2 years ago, it was quite good so this time I wanted to come again.

But this time it was very disappointing becoz of their bad service and the bad quality of food. We ordered some few Portuguese dishes but they were only ok. What upset us was the service, their attitude was bad and they just wanted their customers to finish the meal fast so they could do more business!!

We weren't happy with the meal so after dinner, we had Durian ice-cream to cheer us up :P Someone says eating dessert make you feel happier, I guess so!! The Durian ice-cream was very good!! We 3 people shared one only coz we were extremely full after having so many food in a day!!

Then we took the bus back to Macau, walked around and did our final souvenir shopping.

We took the ferry at 11pm and we were so exhausted. What a crazy eating day trip!! It was very rush but quite enjoyable!! :D