Alrighty - super lengthy day by day blog coming up. Read only when you are bored and have too much time on your hands.
ThursdayLeft office at 1.30 to go to the airport to meet G. The plane touched down at 2.45pm but G got checked at customs and came out an hour later! Haha! Had to unpack and endure questions from the customs officer 'Are you from Thailand?' (He was wearing a Coke T shirt in Thai) We walked around Times Square and had dinner and also did some grocery shopping as he was all prepared to whip up a sumptuous dinner for me the next day. Prior to that, just after leaving the apartment, G and I walked past Optical 88 and I've been needing new spectacles (my current one is scratched and one of the bling on the frames fell off!). G was looking at a couple of designs so we settled inside the store and was served by this roly-poly optometrist named Jimmy! I bought two pairs; a purple Gucci one with bling on the sides, and a reddish Burberrys one. G also had his eyes checked and he has 20/20 vision. Lucky bastard! Jimmy was tad disappointed as he couldn't earn G's money! G and I then spent the rest of the evening at home watching telly, and he also marinated the pork for tomorrow's dinner.
FridayOn a quest to find himself some T shirts, we went to Tsim Sha Tsui to shop around. He acquired 2 polo shirts, and 2 v cool T shirts with funky motifs (*gasp* G's almost hip now- he will hopefully lose the ah-peh ness in him v soon heh thanks to yours truly) We then went home so we could prepare dinner! The pork was well marinated and when cooked with red & yellow bell peppers, was delish! G was overzealous when trying to do the gravy- I had to step in to 'rescue' it! Haha! But a valiant attempt nonetheless. He also cooked a huge pot of soup and we fried veggies with enoki mushrooms! It was a big dinner for two (pics coming soon) but it was very enjoyable coz I guess when you have someone to dine with, it is always more fun. We then popped in ANCHORMAN to watch (we've been talking about watching it together for almost a year now!) but it wasn't as good as we thought and we ended up watching Scary Movie 3! Haha! A nice quiet Friday night on the couch watching DVDs - it was bliss!
SaturdayHaving had an early, restful Friday night, we woke up bright & early on Saturday and went for yum cha. Damn that day was cold! It was 17 degrees which is abnormal for April in HK! Catching a bus to South Horizons, how can a trip to HK be complete without visiting the Prada warehouse? Heck, we reached even before the store opened at noon! But nothing good to buy there unfortunately though he did fancy a pair of Church's shoes but no size. A red sling bag caught my fancy but it was a wee bit flimsy for its price so we left there with wallets intact. We took a bus to Central where we then took a ferry to TST, and then taking the train to Mong Kok to Fa Yuen Street which has tons of sneaker stores. The Pumas he fancied were unfortunately women's sneakers (white with gold details and I didn't like them enough to acquire them either!) We then had to go home to get ready for our 'date' to swanky Isola. Dressing up to go out was fun! Having called and making reservations was a good move - though it wasn't crowded, we got a nice corner table by the window overlooking Kowloon. The food was excellent too though for its price, it bloody well be! He had lamb and I had cod and we shared an appetizer of fried calamari and washed everything down with sparking water. Dinner came with a bread basket and *gasp* caviar. Man, overrated can. I ended up dousing my bread sticks with good ole olive oil & balsamic vinegar. G ordered a tiramisu (which we shared), and he washed it down with a shot of espresso. After dinner, we strolled in the cold to Lan Kwai Fong to FINDS - the drinking hole which I brought him to before and we loved. Had a drink each, then went home. The day's cold weather seemed to have gotten to him - he was almost recovered yesterday! When we got home, he was sniffling (and cranky again!). I asked 'are you ok?' to which he barked 'no, i'm not ok!', (tamade) so I tucked him into bed while I finished watching FATAL ATTRACTION on TV.
SundayTamade - I also caught the chills from the day before. I woke up sniffling and it must have been quite a sight - both of us sniffling away as we took an easy day just shopping around Causeway Bay. Started out our day with a nice brunch at GOD cafe - a sorta 'posh' furniture store with a cafe. G had an English breakfast with the works - sausages, bacon (the bacon was yum!) scrambled eggs, hash browns and baked beans. I had the laksa which was pretty good too. G and I then shared a chocolate truffle cake which was all part of the set. Thereafter, we went shopping inside GOD and he bought a T shirt from there - they have a series of T shirts called "DELAY NO MORE" and we've always been very taken by that! Just think of that line in Hokkien - it's hysterical! 'Mai tu liao!' Haha! I had to do some household shopping - went to Ikea to get new shower curtains (my old ones were so grubby!), and I bought a pair of plastic shoe trees and a new rug for the floor outside the bathroom. We also had to find some weird stockings that his mom entrusted him to buy - man was that a tough mission! But we finally managed to get them at Sogo of all places haha!
Us being sick must have made us a bit soft in the head and not thinking straight coz we walked into Agnes B and saw a bag each which we liked. And of coz being sickly, and probably a lot less rational than we normally would have been, we ended up buying a bag each. Ah well what the heck, it made us feel a lot better! Also went to Camper and bought the shoes that I saw the day before and been thinking about the whole night and day! It costs.... a lot and I never imagined I would fork out that kinda money for a pair of shoes but I did. Like I said - I WAS SICK AND NOT THINKING STRAIGHT! And having G in tow didn't help. When you're shopping with someone who wears a $6000 watch, you should know what you're getting yourself into! :P
MondayWe woke up a wee bit too late - we were due to head off to Macau! We should have bought the ferry tickets the day before. We were there at about 10.45 and though ferries leave for Macau almost every 15 min, the next available ferry was at 12pm. We had lunch at Yoshinoya while we waited. The journey merely took an hour and after checking in, we went off to explore Macau. Went to the Grand Prix museum (I was bored he was not) and then to the wine museum (a bit wtf actually). I was cranky! I was cranky and hungry! And G couldn't take a hint! Actually, I think he knew but he act blur. We then had lunch and went to soak in other sights i.e. do touristy stuff haha! We really wanted to try some Portugese food and in one of the food guides we picked up, it recommended this restaurant but when we got there, the place was empty! Well my policy when overseas, is 'When in doubt, follow the crowd' so in this case we weren't gonna risk eating there! So we cabbed to this other 'famous' restaurant right at the 'end' of Macau called Fernando's as recommended by my trusty Lonely Planet book and it was awesome! The cabbie even knew we wanted to go there! G mentioned the name of the island the restaurant was on, and the cabbie went 'Fernando?'. G and I were stunned! We had clams, fried fish and roasted suckling pig. YUM! We then went to one of the biggest casinos SANDS just to explore possibly gambling but the stakes were all fairly high and I am not big on gambling so after a while we went back to the hotel and watched soccer on cable TV!
TuesdayIt would have made more sense to wake up earlier considering we had to catch the 1pm ferry back to HK. Left the hotel a bit later than anticipated and went to the Macau museum. After that, we had noodles at this nice little cafe. And then we hauled ass out to the main road to catch a cab, rushed upstairs to get our stuff, rushed back down, checked out, got into a cab, checked in to customs, and got on the ferry back. Back in the apartment, G packed his stuff, and we decided to head out cos the weather was nice and we had a couple of hours to spare. We had noodles and G helped me with a bag of rice and toilet paper from the supermarket. We got back to the apartment, hopped into a cab to get G checked in at the in-town check-in counter, only to find out his flight was delayed by 45 minutes! Yay! We spent that time roaming around IFC, then made our way to the airport where we had mango dessert at xu liu shan. That has to be the least crowded xu liu shan in HK! We then went to buy lao po ping for G's folks, and soon after, we bade goodbye and he went in to catch his flight back to Singapore.
I will be uploading the pics soon.....I think my internet connection at home is super slow and I cannot upload from there. I will transfer the pics to this comp and attempt to do them from office tomorrow.
G pretending to be a mainlander tourist! Check out the tour guide with the pink flag! We were so tickled coz that reminded us of Yiling who had referred to herself as the Holland Village tour guide with a pink flag! Haha!
I was cranky coz I was hungry but G was taking his own sweet time at the Grand Prix Museum lor. You can TELL I'm cranky.
The wine museum had mannequins with various farming outfits. What people wear when they farm grapes I reckon. It was a bit WTF but they gave us a free glass of wine each haha! And the token touristy shot in front of the museum for Mr Gan.
