Still on the Upper part of ocean park, we were really hungry at the time. Hoping to find the Mcdonalds that was on the map, it was very far away. In the end my mom and uncle derek went to buy some noodles and rice. The tourist food wasnt that great, it was really hot, and i was scared the fan might die out. My brother and i were given twenty five minutes to ride the rollercoasters. After that we went to a cafe to have a drink. When we got there, May's mom, uncle derek, donovan, melissa were already waiting and full. I ordered some drink that was a mix of orange and 7 up, then trying out my brother's red bean with ice cream drink. It was getting late and we needed to be home by 4 because of an important party that my grandma's sister is having for her birthday.
On the way down, it was decided by the adults that we use the train this time and not the gondolas. Once in the room to wait in line, there was a mass amount of people there. When a train arrived people would rush , run, and crowd around the line, even pushing others. I felt the humidity , holding the fan didnt help, so i felt the sweat drip. We were finally in near the part where you walk in one by one. My mom and brother was watching the other people there and copied them by sneaking beneath the poles. This was dangerous, but my mom said someone pushed her and said, "hey! i have kid here." Having a child is not the biggest thing in the world because my brother and i are still under 18. My mom should had said, " hey there is four kids near me."
So my mom and brother were separated from us. We met them up at the when we arrived a train later than them. The feeling i got was like we were running away from the police, so everyone was in a big RUSH.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
hong kong part 10
After changing the date for couple days, we finally got to go to Ocean Park. This place is a theme park, but only has 1 roller-coaster, mainly a zoo-like place. There are four pandas that are given by China. In the morning we got fully prepared for this trip, with mini-fans and drinks because the news said it would be super hot. We left the house, the trip there took a short while. The indicator that showed us we were near was a big balloon that was at the center of this theme park. We found parking, and auntie May went inside to claim the entrance tickets.
We were able to come for free because their family had a year season pass and since it was one of the family member's birthday, there was free passes that month. I have never been to Ocean park so I hoped we could come. Waiting for Aunt May, my mother took pictures while my brother, melissa , donovan and i looked at the map. There is a UP the mountain and LOWER mountain part to this resort. The mini-fan was quite useful in the heat. We went in and walked around until aunt may's mother came in and met us. She followed us the whole day since she had nothing else to do.
All i remember mainly is that we went to visit the pandas and off to the UPPER part. When standing there watching the panda eat bamboo, i heard all these chinamen speak mandarin," so cuteee." I didn't really agree with them because one panda didnt look exactly black and white but black and gray. On the gondola way up, the silly kid Donovan was tring to open the door so that we would fall and die. It was a hard time trying to stop him since my mom's order was, discouraging words were not to be used in front of him.
We were able to come for free because their family had a year season pass and since it was one of the family member's birthday, there was free passes that month. I have never been to Ocean park so I hoped we could come. Waiting for Aunt May, my mother took pictures while my brother, melissa , donovan and i looked at the map. There is a UP the mountain and LOWER mountain part to this resort. The mini-fan was quite useful in the heat. We went in and walked around until aunt may's mother came in and met us. She followed us the whole day since she had nothing else to do.
All i remember mainly is that we went to visit the pandas and off to the UPPER part. When standing there watching the panda eat bamboo, i heard all these chinamen speak mandarin," so cuteee." I didn't really agree with them because one panda didnt look exactly black and white but black and gray. On the gondola way up, the silly kid Donovan was tring to open the door so that we would fall and die. It was a hard time trying to stop him since my mom's order was, discouraging words were not to be used in front of him.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
hong kong part 9
Back in ifc, my family and i where all carrying our luggages along with the bedsheets. My brother had really wanted to watch the new movie GI Joe, that recently came out. So we went to the theater that was there and it was turned out to be about 80 hkd per person. After some wandering around, waiting for time to go by, we went into the theater. The seats were very comfortable, and the interesting thing was that we got to choose our seats instead of finding one. The movie was an action one with a lot of explosions. My brother and I agreed that Storm Shadow looked a lot cooler but his enemy/brother Snake eyes was a lot stronger.
When we left the movies, uncle Derek picked us up and brought us back to Causeway bay. Since our main goal of going to Llama Island was to eat seafood, my uncle decided that we go to SaiGon to eat, a well known place. We dropped our stuff off at the house, and was glad for the air con. On the way to SaiGon, uncle Derek's son Donavan was being a retard again. In the car he was whining that he wanted shui mai, this dimsum food, he kept whining and whining. So midway on our trip we stopped, got shui mai at the local 711 store, and continued with our journey after a long while.
After many twists and turns, passing by the actor Liza Wang's house, we arrived there. My uncle informed me that the desert store Honey Moon Desert was owned by my grandma's sister's cousin. Very distant relative but it is still interesting to know who all my rich relatives were. I forgot the name of our restaurant but i remember we went out to pick our seafood first. Just picking the seafood was 700hkd and the fee for preparing would be 70hkd per person. The price of this dinner would be 1300hkd without the drinks or little snacks. When the waiters showed us our table, the first things i noticed was the roof. The roof was so short, i believe it was a 6 feet roof because when i stand straight i would feel my head hitting it.
When we left the movies, uncle Derek picked us up and brought us back to Causeway bay. Since our main goal of going to Llama Island was to eat seafood, my uncle decided that we go to SaiGon to eat, a well known place. We dropped our stuff off at the house, and was glad for the air con. On the way to SaiGon, uncle Derek's son Donavan was being a retard again. In the car he was whining that he wanted shui mai, this dimsum food, he kept whining and whining. So midway on our trip we stopped, got shui mai at the local 711 store, and continued with our journey after a long while.
After many twists and turns, passing by the actor Liza Wang's house, we arrived there. My uncle informed me that the desert store Honey Moon Desert was owned by my grandma's sister's cousin. Very distant relative but it is still interesting to know who all my rich relatives were. I forgot the name of our restaurant but i remember we went out to pick our seafood first. Just picking the seafood was 700hkd and the fee for preparing would be 70hkd per person. The price of this dinner would be 1300hkd without the drinks or little snacks. When the waiters showed us our table, the first things i noticed was the roof. The roof was so short, i believe it was a 6 feet roof because when i stand straight i would feel my head hitting it.
Friday, November 20, 2009
hong kong part 8
Continuing my journey in Llama Island, i went back to the house, wet and full from the dinner. I showered in the bathroo, one of the places without ants, lizards, and mosquitoes. When i was done, during was nothing to do except to assemble my Keroro model. The wires in the t.v. either didn't work because they were chewed by the lizards or the plugs are broken. I felt proud after assembling the figure, but it was short time that got interrupted by my boredom again. So, i decided to go sleep early and just wake up earlier tomorrow morning. After sleeping for couple hours, i woke up sweating, the stupid fan was not going toward me enough! I didn't pull any of my blanket off, for the fear of more mosquito bites, and eventually fell back asleep.
The next day i woke up early, while my brother and mother was not awake yet. I went to downstairs got a juice-box and went to another bedroom to listen to the main radio station is Hong Kong, RTHK. I thought that the radio station there was a lot more interesting than the ones here for Chinese, but less options. My mom woke up and got a call from Uncle Derek that our grandma's sister wanted us to bring the used bed sheets back to Causeway Bay. We immediately thought," how can we do that, we had trouble with our own stuff, but we still need bring it." We left the house and tried to make everything back to how it was.
We stopped at a local stall that sold tofu for about 7 hkd. The one i got had some ginger sauce and i thought it was pretty smooth and delicious. Back at the ferry for lunch, we arrived at the restaurant called Man Fung. It was recommended by the restaurant we ate at the night before, and there was even pictures of Jet Li and Linda Chung eating there. They weren't open yet when we got there but still welcomed us with peanuts. We ate there and left, my mom feeling ripped off that we had to pay for the complimentary peanuts. The ferry brought us back to Central, ifc.
The next day i woke up early, while my brother and mother was not awake yet. I went to downstairs got a juice-box and went to another bedroom to listen to the main radio station is Hong Kong, RTHK. I thought that the radio station there was a lot more interesting than the ones here for Chinese, but less options. My mom woke up and got a call from Uncle Derek that our grandma's sister wanted us to bring the used bed sheets back to Causeway Bay. We immediately thought," how can we do that, we had trouble with our own stuff, but we still need bring it." We left the house and tried to make everything back to how it was.
We stopped at a local stall that sold tofu for about 7 hkd. The one i got had some ginger sauce and i thought it was pretty smooth and delicious. Back at the ferry for lunch, we arrived at the restaurant called Man Fung. It was recommended by the restaurant we ate at the night before, and there was even pictures of Jet Li and Linda Chung eating there. They weren't open yet when we got there but still welcomed us with peanuts. We ate there and left, my mom feeling ripped off that we had to pay for the complimentary peanuts. The ferry brought us back to Central, ifc.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Hong Kong part 7
It took a lot asking from my mom until my grandma's sister gave us the key to Llama Island's house. Llama Island is a place where they sometimes make movies, and a lot of Caucasians live there. We took the ferry again like the time we went to Cheung Chow, but it took about an hour. When we got there, we ate lunch at a random place, with noodles. I liked the lemon tea there but the food was not so good. After the food, it started pouring rain. My mom, brother and I decided to walk in the rain with our luggage and food. With one umbrella in one hand and bag in front of me, we went through the tropical forest to reach our destination. My aunt told us that the house was near the police station and on top of a restaurant called Han Lok.
The weather was really hot and humid, so i sweated while the mosquitoes bit me. I got a total of 15 bites during that trip and some of them were pretty deadly with a bubble. Love informed us that the door might be a bit hard to open. Sadly, we did have trouble with it and Love didnt tell us how to open the door. We were frustrated from the door, drenched in sweat. Click! My mother found a way to open it through some tricky maneuver. The open was opened and a smell of rustiness or mold was all around. When exploring i found a juice box upstairs filled with ants, probably Melissa or Donovan. We threw it away because they might think it was us.
The ground was cracked with a little orange on it. Flying around were the mosquitoes, the salamanders on the slimy wall, and the mass ants all around. I didn't really want to sleep over that night but my brother just wanted to get away from our cousins. My brother and i changed and went to the nearby beach without thinking too much about later. The beach was bright and sunny, not much people. The sandy floor of the water was rough until you went 10 feet away from the beach. We were bored so we went pretty far, about 6 of those red balls that stood for how far you went. Wet, we went to Han Lok for dinner. There was air con that made our wetness feel chilly along with the buzzing mosquitoes. The lemon fried chicken , beef, and E-noodles were beast!
The weather was really hot and humid, so i sweated while the mosquitoes bit me. I got a total of 15 bites during that trip and some of them were pretty deadly with a bubble. Love informed us that the door might be a bit hard to open. Sadly, we did have trouble with it and Love didnt tell us how to open the door. We were frustrated from the door, drenched in sweat. Click! My mother found a way to open it through some tricky maneuver. The open was opened and a smell of rustiness or mold was all around. When exploring i found a juice box upstairs filled with ants, probably Melissa or Donovan. We threw it away because they might think it was us.
The ground was cracked with a little orange on it. Flying around were the mosquitoes, the salamanders on the slimy wall, and the mass ants all around. I didn't really want to sleep over that night but my brother just wanted to get away from our cousins. My brother and i changed and went to the nearby beach without thinking too much about later. The beach was bright and sunny, not much people. The sandy floor of the water was rough until you went 10 feet away from the beach. We were bored so we went pretty far, about 6 of those red balls that stood for how far you went. Wet, we went to Han Lok for dinner. There was air con that made our wetness feel chilly along with the buzzing mosquitoes. The lemon fried chicken , beef, and E-noodles were beast!
Friday, November 6, 2009
New Statement of Purpose
In the blog post that i already did, they were about mostly my trip to Hong Kong, school assignments and this one tennis incident. In my first statement of purpose i said that i would write about goals, sports , hobbies, vacations, and much more. I have mainly focused on the most recent vacation and none of the other things that i wanted to write about. On my upcoming posts i want to finish my last ideas that i remember about Hong Kong and start some about my goals. I could talk about the many unrealistic dreams that i have about lamborghinis and winning the lotto.
In my previous statement of purpose i wanted to fix my way of writing with grammar / same tense. I have not achieved this goal because i do not usually have the time to look over my blogs couple of times and make sure that i have correct grammar. Usually i just type down whatever that comes to my mind but an hour after i post it, i realize that i could have added so much more detail. One thing that i have been to lazy to do during my newer blog post are to capitalize my i's. This is because the Google Docs and the blogger document do not capitalize them for me, unlike Word. The uncapitalized i's are pretty cool because the i's dont looks so important.
In the future i would like to be able to keep writing down my ideas that i think are interesting. By writing them down, i can look over my blog one day in the distant future and remember how i thought, lived and my past. I am afraid that i will forget the precious memories because i have a somewhat selective memory. I might want to also start a story. That story can have the randomest of ideas but will seem perfect to me.
In my previous statement of purpose i wanted to fix my way of writing with grammar / same tense. I have not achieved this goal because i do not usually have the time to look over my blogs couple of times and make sure that i have correct grammar. Usually i just type down whatever that comes to my mind but an hour after i post it, i realize that i could have added so much more detail. One thing that i have been to lazy to do during my newer blog post are to capitalize my i's. This is because the Google Docs and the blogger document do not capitalize them for me, unlike Word. The uncapitalized i's are pretty cool because the i's dont looks so important.
In the future i would like to be able to keep writing down my ideas that i think are interesting. By writing them down, i can look over my blog one day in the distant future and remember how i thought, lived and my past. I am afraid that i will forget the precious memories because i have a somewhat selective memory. I might want to also start a story. That story can have the randomest of ideas but will seem perfect to me.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
hong kong part 6
Even though the title of this post is hk part 6, it is about the time I went to Macau. My mom had planned to go to Macau, a gambling place like Las Vegas, even before we got to Hong Kong. So one day my uncle brought us to get tickets to get there, a ferry ticked and hotel room. When we waited, my brother and i had to wait in the car with Donovan, Melissa, and aunt May. It took my mom and uncle a long time, so we waited and waited and I took a picture of Donovan when he fell asleep. Eventually i went out to go to Okashi Land to buy candy/snacks. My aunt told us why there was so much Philippians across the street in Causeway Bay, it was because they were maids that were on a day off. They came back, we went back home, and ate the delicious banana chocolate candy.
We left for Macau the following day. We left early in the morning, earlier than normal, for the Sheung Wan station for the ferry. The red big ferry boat rocked left and right and that instantly gave me a headache. I tried reading the Old Master Q I bought at the newstand but I failed because of the dizziness. I quit and went to sleep for the hour ride that it takes. Outside the terminal, all i saw outside was all the buses that brought you to the hotel for free. We rode the Rio Bus to our hotel and found out that it was quite fancy. My mom's plan for Macau was that we kept riding these free buses and visit the hotels.
I thought that this place was no way similar to Las Vegas. Macau was a lot stricter on the 18 and younger limit in casinos. I was not even allowed to go in, while in Las Vegas we can go through in order to find parent or go to hotel room. Macau was a lot less lively than Las Vegas, and no arcades for kids. We visited some of the hotels that looked liked for rich people, but some of them I couldn't go in because the front entrance was the hotel. I had bought some almond cookies for my friends as souvenirs. We visited the Macau Fisherman's wharf and a tourist site called Tai Sam Ba. At Tai Sam Ba there was Giordano and Bossini, and my brother bought Gundams at a local store. The day after we arrived at Macau, we had left and was left disappointed.
We left for Macau the following day. We left early in the morning, earlier than normal, for the Sheung Wan station for the ferry. The red big ferry boat rocked left and right and that instantly gave me a headache. I tried reading the Old Master Q I bought at the newstand but I failed because of the dizziness. I quit and went to sleep for the hour ride that it takes. Outside the terminal, all i saw outside was all the buses that brought you to the hotel for free. We rode the Rio Bus to our hotel and found out that it was quite fancy. My mom's plan for Macau was that we kept riding these free buses and visit the hotels.
I thought that this place was no way similar to Las Vegas. Macau was a lot stricter on the 18 and younger limit in casinos. I was not even allowed to go in, while in Las Vegas we can go through in order to find parent or go to hotel room. Macau was a lot less lively than Las Vegas, and no arcades for kids. We visited some of the hotels that looked liked for rich people, but some of them I couldn't go in because the front entrance was the hotel. I had bought some almond cookies for my friends as souvenirs. We visited the Macau Fisherman's wharf and a tourist site called Tai Sam Ba. At Tai Sam Ba there was Giordano and Bossini, and my brother bought Gundams at a local store. The day after we arrived at Macau, we had left and was left disappointed.
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