Some additional pictures I got from other cameras, which is also the last batch of pictures I am gonna post on the recent Hong Kong trip. This is meant to be just pictures and captions.

# 1 Some fruit loh in Hui Lao San (许留山), one of the largest chain dessert outlet in Hong Kong. Not sure if it was good cos I wasn't there with them.

#2 Wow, this is sooooo mango.

#3 The Peak - Waiting for the tram.

#4 The Peak - Obviously I made a better photographer than the one for the picture above. Lol

#5 The Peak - Errrrrrr, smooching? Looks like she was forced.  

#6 The Peak - Group picture

#7 Lan Kwai Fong - Heading to Lan Kwai Fong. When you see this Coach outlet, you know you're there.

#8 Lan Kwai Fong - With the girls.

#9 Lan Kwai Fong - Hoegaarden freaks? Am not.

#10 Sai Kung - Welcome to the District of Sai Kung

#11 Sai Kung - Seafood Street 

#12 Sai Kung - The peaceful jetty.

#13 Sai Kung - Waterfront seafood restaurant.

#14 Sai Kung - Aquarium outside the seafood restaurant.

#15 Sai Kung - Eww, big ugly and expensive fish.

#16 Sai Kung - You good la, the guai loh requested a picture to be taken with you. XD

#17 Sai Kung - Femo was here. Cheese.

#18 Sai Kung - No! Don't Jump!

#19 Sai Kung - Jump jump jump.

#20 Sai Kung - Lazy doggie we met. It didn't even move a single inch when the master dragged, so the master ended up carrying him/her home. You good le, so 巴闭(bah bai) ~

#21 Sai Kung - Group picture

#22 Sai Kung - Another picture at the jetty.

#23 Sai Kung - Two femos?

# 24 Temple Street - claypot rice anyone?

#25 Temple Street - Heng Kee Restaurant

#26 Tmeple Street - Yummy.

#27 Temple Street - The tasteless beer. *Lansi*

#28 Convenient shop - Ding-ing food in the OK convenient shop.

#29 Convenient shop - No joke, they taste okay one. Actually taste very good, I swear I am not lying. 

#30 MTR - Finally, femo felt tired.

#31 Central - Building in a building?

#32 Central - Nearby some park

#33 Choi Hung Station - Choi Hung means rainbow. That explains the rainbow colored tiles.

#34 Random - Don't know where.

#35 Avenue of Star - 2 idiots in action. XD

#36 Nathan Road - She was forced to pose together with the model at the shop front but she refused to get near it.

#37 Then she was forced to this. Lol

#38 Nathan Road - With the girls

#39 Ngong Ping - The kung fu lady?

#40 Char Chan Teng - I swear I slept for just 4 hours. Shacked enough?

#41 Buses in HK are mainly double decked. The narrow stairway freaked me out the first time I went up. Lol.

#42 Vitasoy - Hokkaido melon flavor. *Wow*

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I know this is way too long from my trip. In case you are wondering whether I went HK again, no I did not. Continuation from Return to Hong Kong - Part 10 The Peak.

Weeeeeeeee. It was the Snoopy's World that we went. *like small kid like that*

Duh.

For sure, it wasn't me who was keen to be there. I am not a cartoooooooon person okay.

Some friends in the group were fond of Snoopy, so we dropped by since it was free entry. lol 

It's located in Shatin, the New Town Plaza at the Shatin train station. You'll see signage directing you to the Snoopy's World inside the mall, at the podium of Level 3.

There it is, the entrance.

Joining the kids under the hot weather wasn't a brilliant idea, serious. Imagine having to scare them away (muahahahahaha) so that I could take a picture with the bus without interruption. Still, I failed.

I have to duh again, that's just so omfg not femo.

The surrounding.

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I just couldn't be bothered to look any more cheerful than this. 

Okay, I think I'll be honest. I was drinking til 7am and woke up 4 hours after, blur-ly freaking reluctantly to visit the Snoopy under the freaking hot weather.

Cartoon and femo? You must be kidding me wtf.

*speechless*

It was random for my mind to adapt to it though. I struggled to switch myself from the sinful night several hours back, to the decent family playground then.

Kids, I tell you, you better not come near me! I smell of alcohol!

Crazy. 

That's another reason I was there. Nah, for the psychiatric.

Guess who's the one fond of Snoopy?

It was just hard to chase those kids out of our picture.

Errrrr, that's not me for sure.

Well?

I pimped Snoopy's World.

Lol.

Last friday was a holiday. What did i do?

Well........

I starfish-ed again. Click here for previous starfish experience months back.

Truly speechless. 

All because of the blaaardy sickening evil pothole in Uptown. Yes, blaming it entirely. Lol.

I was wearing jeans, still I ended up like this. It was a tarred road okay.

Do I have to change my name to pokkaiqu33n instead? Duh~

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Frustration and pain aside, the same evening I was out with 2 great buddies celebrating something we are really happy for. Shall remain silent for the time being.

We had dinner in one of the tai-chao restaurant in Section 17, byo-ed a nearly full bottle of 1-litre Macallan. Wow wow wow.

I know it sounds 痹(bei)? Lol. Tell you hor it can be very da freaking nice one okay cos it's the people that matters, although it is rather 'uncle' drinking hard liquor in a tai-chao restaurant. I think we just have to admit it. Time flies like nobody's f**king business and we are no more in the youngster days.

Anyway, we had really nice good food, we chilled with slow sips of Macallan (okay, I did ask for a few rounds of bottoms-up. lol), savoured the succulent tasty pork knuckle, chatted and laughed along the way. I really had an awesome evening hanging out with them.

Thank you for the good time (also for the good food and Mac.......muahahahaha)! Faster say thank you first! Ahem~~

My travel schedule for 2010. I am pretty excited for Manado though. 

I see already also want to vomit blood. Wish me good luck. I am having a hard time doing up the itineraries and hotel search and BUDGETING, but kinda enjoy it also. 

Damn, the more I look at the list of places, the more I feel the urge for an (affordable) upgrade of camera. DSLR is definitely out for now since I am a soon-to-be jobless person, not forgetting those fexpensive lenses, and taking into account the "poon chun" (盘川 a.k.a travel fund) needed to tour around those destinations.

Sigh. Forget about DSLR at this point in time til I am re-employed again, which I have no freaking idea when. 

Anyway, if I insist to get something better, I am left with only choice of something between a normal compact and DSLR, and within my budget. There goes...... 

Some time ago, I always wanted a G10.

Then I thought of LX-3.

Then G11 came about.

Then S90.

And LX-4 is coming soon.

So, RM1,500-1,800 is my range.

I heard hell loadsa pros and cons for this and that. Dilemma. After much thoughts, I eliminated S90 from the list, so was G10. How now? 

I need water proof casing for the camera since I am going for some island getaways to snorkel and also planning for a scuba diving course. Both have it.

Okay, I have zero knowledge for cameras.

By size, LX-3 is so much handier compared to the bulky G11 and it looks quite cool also. Then got the Leica lense all.

Psychologically (i think), looks like G11 produces better pictures, which may or may not be true I seriously do not know. The size that matters?

And it has the flipping LCD thingy and it sorta appeal to me, though it's nothing new.

Eih, so I can camwhore again like using my ST550 (read here) right?

SHUT UP I know I am like some irritating thicked-skin vain ass out there who loves to camwhore and camwhores non-stop.

Whatever it is, what's the verdict?

Buy? Wait? Or forget about it altogether because it's a waste of money?

Sien.

I am just so damn f**king busy recently. It is so sickening that I actually fell freaking sick, first attacked by sore throat, then cough, then flu, then fever, and then diarrhea. Ooops, I shouldn't have used the word THEN. It all came together in fact.

Imagine heaty all over, headache with beating pulse, running nose, stomach ache, sneezing like an ass *air pollution*, hacking cough *noise pollution*, teary eyes, skin peeling off nose, big painful pimples around my nose *sight pollution*, aching shoulder. Oooh, soooooo damn fugly. Some more busy with work like a mad stupid bitch wtf. 

Nevermind, i know i can finish the work very soon. I feeeeeel the reachable finishing point.

Tomorrow is another public holiday *glad*. I don't have a great plan for the long weekend, but definitely am sure that I am going to watch Storm Warriors 2. Nothing much that I am fascinated over this movie, just that I got some free tickets so might as well la.

Other than that, I seriously do not know what else to do. I guess I will sleep most of the time. Oh, I know what. I am going to boil drama again, just like any other ordinary weekends. Days that I don't make a single step out of my house and I don't see sunlights, basically. Even when come to food, i get someone to tapao for me. Muahahhahaha, sound so damn freaking f**king lazy.

So I am going to finish the drama 宫心计(Beyond the Realm of Conscience). Freaking exciting but irritating drama.

So sien now, 5.30pm already. I want to leave office but don't think it will be a good move. lol.

Another healthy Sunday.

Bukit Tabur @ Taman Melawati this round.

Our trip to Bukit Tabur began with an initial plan to trek up the hill as early as 5am in the morning to catch the sunrise. Then we heard bad news on the night before - about some trekkers who got lost up there. We hesitated. Bad news came after one another when the morning was welcomed by gloom and drizzles.

Nevertheless, our enthusiaism did not subside. For safety purpose we postponed it to 9am instead.

Tabur Hill is quite different from those other treks that I have been to previously. I won't describe it as a hike neither will I call it trek nor walk and whatsoever. Let me tell you why later. lol 

We parked our cars at the foot of the hill. The trail began with the muddy stairs-look-alike path, some steps measuring up 1 to 2 feet tall unexpectedly. I swear the first 20 minutes was really daunting to me that i eventually felt a bit dizzy which i believed was due to lack of oxygen. Perhaps, my bad stamina.

The poor doggie was dragged to come with us. 

Making the first pit stop to regain our energy.

Panoramic view.

Climbing up the hill (note i used the word CLIMMMMMBB) didn't just consist of hiking up steep slopes and making big tiring steps over the "stairs".

The trail went on with increasing difficulty when we came to damn f**king a lot of rock walls covered with slippery algae, literally 90 degree vertical, that we had to climb up using our bare hands. 

The picture can't really tell what i meant.

The karst-ic hill.

Crossing the big rocks.  

The dangerous edge of the trail. Please make sure you don't get too near to it.

The hill is also called the Crystal Hill. I think it's because of the karst rocks. 

This is almost rock climbing, just that it's without a rope.

The view of city.

The view from one of the peak. Breezy and relaxing.

Then the warning sign came about.

Came to this, we were only half way through the full trail, perhaps not even half.

To cross over to another peak, the assistance of rope essential.

So dangerous.

We took half an hour rest, and went back down to the foot of the hill.

If you think going up was tedious, getting down was worse. You could crawl on the ground while moving uphill. There's no way that you would want to crawl down hill. My legs were literally shaking having to balance on the downhill steepest slope ever with hell lotta loosened stones and small rocks over the path. You really have to be extra careful here, it's either you slip and fall, or twist and cry.

Well, if you have gone up Tabur a few more rounds, it may not seem as dangerous anymore. Glad that we postponed to 9am. Don't wanna imagine going up there in the dark......

P/S : In case you are wondering whether the poodle made it up there, he almost did but the rocky part nearing the peak was too dangerous for him. So he chickened out. XD.