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It's my first trip away without any adults. And it is pretty special because I went with Nat and Adeline. To a land which I honestly love. Too many reasons why I like Hong Kong. (:
We took a budget airline, which Adeline ended up understanding why it's budget.
Being too tall for her own good, she barely had 2 cm of leg space between her knees and the chair in front. Yes. She tried reclining her seat. Which moved a whooping 5-10 degrees, making absolutely no significant difference.
Nope, you get absolutely nothing for free. Not even a drop of water.
She tried asking for immigration card into Hong Kong, I think for 5-6 times, where her request was conveniently forgotten or ignored. heh.
But being a budget traveller, she admits she will still take the budget airlines.

Everyday started with shopping, and continued with shopping and ended with shopping. The only thing that interjected it, was eating. So... the advertisement which says mai dong xi, chi dong xi, ran hou mai dong xi, chi dong xi. Is pretty much accurate. It was a true test of self control. Like restraining myself from buying the TV serials. They were SO absolutely tempting.

Oh. We did ONE. Yup. Just ONE more thing besides shopping and eating. We visited the Wishing tree. It's like one of Hong Kong's most famous backdrop in shows. Something like that. And we (I have to add only Adeline and myself wanted to see that tree), were disappointed. The tree is resting. Yup. You read it right. The wishing tree was in a period of rehabilitation. Kinda means that people can't make wishes. Or rather, had to make wishes in alternative methods. And it means making wishes, with no relation to the tree. It was made near the tree though. Ha.And the amazing thing is, people still made wishes. In the alternative method. I wonder if anyone actually thinks about how effective or what really makes the wishes come true. If the wishing tree is no longer a wishing tree, is it still a wishing tree? This is confusing.


The amount of stuff we bought is truly amazing. Our luggaes (Adeline and myself only), were pretty much FULL. Nat wins the record of buying stuff and making them weightless. Her luggage at the end of the trip was only 6.4kg. Adeline's 19.2kg. Mine. hehe. 21.6kg. (this does not include hand luggage). And we lugged all our stuff and took the MTR back to the airport. It's a pretty long journey if you don't know. And the luggages were anything but light. I must stress that we were BUDGET travellers. Oh. But we did survive.

God was really good to us throughout the trip. We didn't get lost. We got great food at cheap prices. We got great stuff at cheap prices. And most of all we had wonderful weather. In a period where it's supposed to rain a lot, we had 4 days of sunshine. No rain whatsoever. God is good. The rain only came when we were about to leave. Had the honour of experiencing a black storm. Hong Kong codes their storms by colour. And black is the worst. It actually means that a typhoon might be coming. Being sua-koos from Singapore and only experienced thunderstorms, we braved the black storm with light-weighted umbrellas to eat dim sum that morning. The strong winds turned our umbrella upside down and Nat had to respond by SCREAMING. It's just to announce to everyone else that we weren't locals and we have NEVER been in a storm like that. The storm didn't prove to be that funny anymore when it continued till the time we had to leave for Singapore. The storm delayed our flight for 3 hours. While I was happily absorbed in one of the Hong Kong Entertainment magazines with Adeline, Nat was staring blankly into space. We were glad that we managed to take off. Having only HK$4 left in my pocket between the 3 of us, if we had to stay over night at the airport, we would be worse than budget travellers. We did be POOR travellers. You can't do anything with HK$4. It's less than S$1.

We did touch down safely Saturday morning. Thank God.
It was a great and memorable trip.
I did enough shopping to last me another 2 years.
Now my friends, you would understand why I don't shop here. (: