I'm tired.

So, so tired.

And the jam didn't help either.

I'm going to sleep now. Will update later.

Random things

For once, I now know how KL is like at 8 AM on a holiday.

It's like going through a ghost town.

You know how I was sick for a few days? Well, since I was sick, I couldn't exactly drive anywhere, so my car died.

Yeah, that car is very manja. Mengada.

So when my dad woke me up at some ungodly hour on Christmas day (fine, it was just 7.30 am), he jumpstarted the car and I had to take the car out for a drive so that the battery can keep on running. I took Anis and Zara with me and so, with us still in our shorts and T-shirts (we didn't take our baths yet, you see), we decided to see how KL was like on a holiday because we have never ventured out to see KL on a holiday before.

It was such a nice drive. We got into Bukit Bintang, went past the Pavilion, went past Berjaya Times Square and since I am so jakun (and because it was such a nice day), we went past the Pusat Kraftangan. It was damn big and I got all excited and I feel like I wanna go there and explore! A bit lame la, but yeah, I wanna go and be a tourist at the Craft Center and go "ooohhhh" and "aaaahhhh" at everything that I see. But then, I'll probably get bored of that after 1 hour.

We also went past KLCC and since Anis wanted to see the Renaissance (where her school prom is held), we went past the Renaissance, too. I was so happy because FOR ONCE, I was not cursing while driving through the city and I felt like I was looking at the city in a different light.

It was fun while it lasted. Too bad it's not like that everyday.

Oh, on Christmas night, I went to Nat's house for a Christmas dinner. Her room brought back loads of memories from when we were small because on the walls in her room were posters from like 5, 6 years back and it was fun looking at those. The food was good, too! I had like a little of everything and I loved the mashed potatoes! Just thinking about it is making me drool right now....dammit. I need to lose weight pulak tu.

Oh yeah, I can't believe Benazir Bhutto's assassination is affecting the world so badly. The stockmarket is affected, petrol prices went up, chaos in Pakistan and stuff like that. I was shocked when I saw the news on Yahoo (and after it was confirmed on CNN and BBC) and I started to think that so far in the 21st century, no politic assassination has ever affected the whole world this badly and I wonder about how one lady could have this much effect on the world. And I don't even like politics.

I'm sick :(

I think this is the 2nd time I've been sick in the recent months. I think I was sick last month.

But this is my 3rd day in bed, and it's really bad.

I started getting sick on Friday, when I slept over at my cousin's place.

It wasn't bad at the beginning, but after I vomited twice in the bathroom at my cousin's house, I knew I had to go back and take some medicine. So I don't know how, but I managed to drive back and got home safely.

The first thing I did when I got back? went straight to the toilet and threw up.

I knew then that it was bad.

I just stayed in bed the whole day on Friday. My whole body was shaking, I had a massive headache and I couldn't eat anything. I had to force myself to eat some dinner because I haven't eaten anything the whole day and I ended up throwing up at 4 in the morning.

Yesterday was better, but I still had no appetite and my stomach was hurting so badly. I got bored of staying in my room (I even finished reading Harry Potter) so I went to watch the TV for a while after the kids went to bed because I was still quarantined and couldn't be near my siblings.

Today I still don't have much of an appetite, but my stomach isn't hurting so badly anymore. I'm still quarantined, though because I still don't feel that good. Thank God for routers and wireless connections!

Blargh.

Turned out that my dad's side of the family aren't going back to Kelantan as originally thought, but instead are going to come over to my house for raya. I've been rushing around the whole day trying to buy stuff for tomorrow. And today has not been very kind to me.

- When my mum and I wanted to go buy stuff in Giant, the Pajero's remote didn't work and when we opened the door manually, the car's alarm went off. Luckily the spare remote was inside the car.

-While in Giant, I kept bumping into things with the trolley.

- After grocery shopping, Ara wanted to go for Pizza Hut. So I took the Vitara to go meet her in KLCC. Since it was hot inside the car, I wound down my window. And then, as my luck would have it, my window won't go back up. So I couldn't go anywhere with a gaping window now could I? So I had to send the car back home. Had to use the Pajero to go and meet up with Ara because she always already waiting for me and I would feel so bad for cancelling on her.

Oh yeah, so not my day.

Oh, by the way, I have a confession to make. I really, really, really, really want to go see the Spice Girls in concert!!!!!!!!!!!

So I entered this contest by EMI Music because they're offering tickets for the show in London on January 8th.

And then today, I got an email from EMI! I was so happy!

But then I found out that I only won the consolation prize in the form of a CD. *sigh*


See my name there? I so want to win the tickets. I know winning the CD is better than nothing, but I'm sooooooooo saddddddd.

Oh, since Zaty did this, I did mine, too:

alia --

[adjective]: Pretentiously academian

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Hahaha...I'm pretentious.

PS: What the hell was Jamie-Lynn Spears thinking when she got herself pregnant? She's 16! Even Britney didn't get pregnant at 16!

Raya blues

I'm a bit bummed right now.

The reason being that everyone from BOTH my mom and dad';s side of the family would be going back to Kelantan for Raya Haji.

But my dad can't go back because he has no more leave and he's on-call. So that means my family will be the only ones left in KL while everyone else is in Kelantan. How boring.

On another note, my dad had just bought a new oven! Now I can start baking again! Yay!

Our first attempt at using the oven was quite interesting. The kids were on holidays and were bored and wanted cookies, so we decided to buy the Betty Crocker ones where you just basically add in butter and an egg and not make the cookies from scratch. Cheating, but still tasted good! Hahahaha. Maybe I'll try to make a meatloaf soon. Then can finish off all the old bread.

My mum wants me to bake a cake for raya. Seriously, as much as I would like to, I have no idea how to make a cake from scratch. And I'm too lazy to actually find recipes. But maybe I'll try to find some la. *Sigh* But I really do not know how it will turn out. Scaryyy.....

I don't want people to get stomach-aches on raya because of me. And I don't want people to eat burnt cake, either.

Oh well, I guess better go experiment now.

Alcohol, anyone?

Today I got the strangest thing in the mail.

I got a mail from Tiger FC.

Apparently I'm a member of Tiger FC now.

OK, so it might not sound so weird, but the thing is:

1. I don't drink alcohol, and everyone knows that Tiger is a brand of a beer

2. And I have absolutely no recollection of ever registering as a member for this Tiger FC thing. I mean, as much as I love football, I have never entered into any membership thing for any fanclub. Ever.

It's definitely not junk mail, because my name was written on the letter and it even came with a membership card. Checked out the card, and apparently I've been a member of Tiger FC since October. Huh. Go figure.

I'm still trying to figure out how this happened.

Oh yeah, while we're on the subject of alcohol, there's this thing I've been wondering about 7-11. It's quite obvious that they sell alcohol in 7-11. So technically Malays, as Muslims, shouldn't be working in any 7-11 since they would be selling alcohol, right?

Yet, whenever you step into a 7-11, I think almost 90% of the time the person behind the counter would be Malay.

So that's just some random musing on mundane, everyday life that I find interesting because of the irony of the situation.

Hong Kong & Shenzhen

*To everyone that has read Day 1 and Day 2 of my trip, I decided to edit this post and put Day 3, 4, and 5 together with Day 1 and 2 because it's so much more convenient for everything to be in one post, so to read about Day 3, 4 and 5, please scroll down yea. Thank you!

This is my long-overdue (fine, so it was like just a week overdue) post on my trip to Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Had a total blast there! Part 1 only, though.

Warning: This post might be a bit too long. Seriously.

Weather was not too cold, considering it was winter. Average was about 14 degrees C, so it wasn't so bad. The best way to describe Hong Kong would be how KL would feel like if it was situated in Genting. I miss the weather............it's been raining buckets ever since I came back!

So anyways, here's what happened in Hong Kong and Shenzhen:

Day 1

Our flight that day was at 7.50 in the morning, so we had to wake up by 4 and be ready be 5 so that we could be at the airport by 6.

Didn't quite work out that way.

I was the only one that actually woke up at 4. Had to go and woke everyone else up after that. Had to even wake my parents up. Twice.

Instead of 5 o'clock, we went out of the house at 5.45 and got to the airport at 6.30.

So I was a bit annoyed because I WAS READY BY 4.15 and had almost nothing to do except do some last-minute checking on the suitcases.

Luckily our tour leader checked us in already for the flight before we got there because there were 20 people in our tour group, or else I seriously do not know what would have happened.

We got on the plane about 7.45 and took off at around 8.10 am. The four-hour flight was smooth, with almost no turbulence, which is good. Or maybe it felt that way because I fell asleep halfway through the flight.


On the airplane....


At the airport...


While waiting for the bus to come to take us to the hotel....

And when we got to Hong Kong, I started to realise just how much I hate standing in line at the immigration counter. There were just so many people waiting in line. And the Hong Kong immigration officers are very thorough when it comes to checking everyone's passports.

By the time we actually got past immigration it was already like 1 something. We found our tour guide and when we were on the bus, heading towards our hotel, one of the first things that I realised about Hong Kong is that most of their buildings, be it apartments or office blocks, are so thin and tall. It's like, if buildings are human, most of Malaysian buildings are fat and short (excluding KLCC, of course) while most of the Hong Kong buildings are tall, stick-thin models. It kinda freaked me out.


One of our first views of Hong Kong!

Our tour guide also said that 95% of Hong Kong residence live in apartments so there were apartment buildings everywhere you look. Very daunting.

Hong Kong is so congested and cramped that our bus driver couldn't drop us off right in front of the hotel, called the Metro Park Hotel. Come to think about it, once we step out of the hotel, it's already the main road, so technically, the bus couldn't stop there without blocking other people's way.


The hotel from the outside....


Inside the hotel lobby....

Let me tell you, the hotel rooms are super small. There is barely enough room for people to move around in. And my family are not the skinniest people around.

Our first day in Hong Kong was a free day, and since the tour guide said something about a sort of "shopping haven" called the Ladies Market, we decided to check the place out after resting for a bit. While my younger siblings and my mom were resting, Anis, my dad and I went to the nearest 7-11, which is just across the road from our hotel to buy some mineral water or some drinks for everyone.

We got the shock of our life when we went into the 7-11. A small mineral water bottle, which costs like RM1 here, cost HK$ 5, which is roughly RM 2.50. And a small packet of bread, which literally had 8 slices of bread in the packet, was HK$ 6! No wonder they say the living cost in Hong Kong is high.

So anyways, after getting over the shock, we walked to the Ladies Market from our hotel. It was like a 10 minute walk and it was so fun to be able to walk and not feel sticky or sweaty like when you walk in KL. Apparently, people in Hong Kong walk everywhere because cars are really expensive in Hong Kong.

Ladies Market turned out to be Hong Kong's Petaling Street. Seriously. Much haggling needs to be done in order to get a cheap price for the stuff and there were bags, shoes and clothes everywhere! No wonder it's called the Ladies Market. Of course there were still stuff for guys la, but it was mostly a woman affair.

We didn't hang out there long because my younger siblings were getting tired, especially Zara, so after surveying the place and buying some stuff, we went to McDonald's and since the meat were non-Halal, all of us ended up eating Fillet-o-fish burgers for dinner. What's interesting about the McDonald's in Hong Kong is that inside, the restaurant is divided into two parts. One part is the normal McDonald's restaurant, while the other part is the McCafe. The McCafe is basically McDonald's answer to Starbucks, I guess, because the drinks that the McCafe offer are similar to those in the coffee shops. Even the decor for the McCafe counter is similar to those of the coffee shops everywhere. It was very, very interesting of McDonald's to do that.


In McDonald's...in the background behind me is the McCafe....the decor's different than the McDonald's we were in....by the way, please don't look at the 2 scary faces...


Somewhere on the streets of Hong Kong....notice there are loads of people walking in the background

We got back to the hotel about 9 o'clock. Anis wanted to go back to the Ladies Market, since it closes at midnight, so my dad, Anis and I went back to the Ladies Market, where I bought a bag and my dad bought this safari vest thingy.

So that was Day 1.

Day 2

Day 2 is interesting because we went for a tour around Hong Kong and then boarded a train to Shenzhen, China.

Apparently, it's quite normal for hotel guests to leave some of their luggages behind We met up with our tour guide at 7.45. Since we were going to Shenzhen straight after our Hong Kong tour, we had to leave some of the suitcases behind because we were going to board a train. Apparently it's quite normal for guests to leave their luggages behind because there was this one corner of the lobby that was specifically reserved for storing guests' luggages.


Zara's standing in front of the luggage storage area

So our tour started when we went for breakfast at this Islamic Center. After that we headed to Repulse Bay, which is a nice place, even though I almost laughed when I heard the name of the place because it sounded almost repulsive to me. Hehehehehe.


The Islamic Center


Waiting for breakfast...the 2 other people beside me are a couple from our tour group


Outside the Islamic Center

It was quite cold when we got to the beach, and when Iskandar and Anis went to touch the water, they said that the water was ice cold. Strangely, there were some people who were actually swimming in the freezing water! Crazy people.


Buildings....and buildings.....and even more buildings.....


At Repulse Bay


Zara got scared of the statues behind us....


Didn't I tell you the buildings look very thin?


Another photo by the beach...

And then we went around on a tour around Hong Kong by visiting a jewellery shop, a ginseng shop and we went to one of the highest points in Hong Kong and we also got to go on a sampan ride. I loved the sampan ride! So much fun. Oh yeah, the tour of the Hong Kong city definitely made me realise that I will never live there because I will be so claustrophobic living in the city where there are buildings everywhere and only the very privileged get to live in houses. It definitely made me appreciate KL more.




Outside the sampan place


On the sampan!


The view from one of the highest peaks in Hong Kong

So after lunch at the same Islamic Centre, we went to pray at the Kowloon Mosque and then boarded the train to Shenzhen. It was almost three o'clock when we boarded the train. The train to Shenzhen, called the MTR, was basically like the LRT, only slightly bigger and it's full of people lugging suitcases, like us. It took us 45 minutes to get to Shenzhen on the train.


In the MTR...I know I looked tired...I actually slept in the train!

When we got to the Shenzhen Railway Station, we had to go past TWO different immigrations! One is the Hong Kong one, since we're going out from Hong Kong, and the other is the Chinese one, since we were obviously entering China. I dunno why, but when I went up to the Hong Kong counter, they actually took my passpaort and the official said "Sorry miss, we have to check your record" like I was some kind of criminal or something. AND.IT.ONLY.HAPPENED.TO.ME. No one else got stuck like that from our tour group so I had to wait at the immigration counter while my family were giving me the questioning look and everyone had to wait for me. About 15 minutes later, the officer just came back and said "Miss, you can go now".

HE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO EXPLAIN WHY MY BLOODY PASSPORT GOT CHECKED.

IF THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY PASSPORT, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW, DAMMIT.

Oh yeah, I was pissed. Come to think of it, I'm still pissed.

Fortunately, getting through the Chinese Immigration was a breeze compared to the
stupid Hong Kong one.

By the time we got to the hotel, it was already 5 o'clock. Since our hotel doesn't serve halal food, we went for dinner at this Muslim Hotel. And to get from our hotel to the Muslim Hotel, I got the scare of my life. I seriously thought that people driving in KL were reckless, but apparently it's worse in Shenzhen. People drive like mad and while motorcycles are banned on the road, bicycles are not, so there were loads of bicycles on the roads that couldn't care less if a bus is coming straight in their direction. I was gripping my seat practically the whole way.


Our hotel in Shenzhen, The Green Tree Inn


The Muslim Hotel


Somehow, the food looks much yummier in the pictures

After the dinner, our Shenzhen tour guide (a different person from the Hong Kong tour guide) took us to this shopping area. The place is quite the freaky because the sellers are very persistent, that they will actually chase after you to ask you to buy their stuff. But there's this shop called the 2 Yuan shop that sells everything for 2 Yuan, which is just RM1! My sisters went gaga because there were accessories like rings, keychains and even eyeliner that cost only RM1 each!

And shopping for clothes wasn't that much fun there because most of the clothes that they sell are winter clothing, which obviously, is very much unsuitable for our Malaysian weather.

Okay, I need to go to sleep now. I'll continue Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 later.

Day 3

We ended up eating at the Muslim Hotel again for breakfast. After that we went to the Silk Factory, where we saw how silk is made and where we bought some blouses. We also went to the jewelery shop, where they specialised in jades. I bought some bracelets there. At the jewelery shop, they served us lychee tea and we ended up buying some of the tea. Hahahahaha.


These are silkworm cocoons....seriously! They actually have dead worms inside! The lady there actually opened one and showed us the worm! Disturbinggggg.

After lunch at a halal restaurant (of course), we had some free time, so the tour guide, Richard, had some options on where we could go. He said we could go to this place called Windows of the World, where they built all these mini version of the attractions all around the world like the Eiffel Tower, Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon or he said we could go to this shopping mall called Lo Huo Shopping Mall (or something like that) where we can find some cheap fake stuff.

Since all of us in the tour group came for the purpose of shopping, I don't think it came as much as a surprise that we all decided to head to the mall instead of the Windows of the World place. Hehehehe.

But then, we didn't have much time to actually shop because by the time we got there, we were only given 2 hours to shop. My dad bought all of the daughters, except for Zara, the Victoria Beckham jeans that Anis has fallen madly in love with ever since she saw our cousin wearing it. It was supposed to be about 250 yuan (RM 125) each, but my dad manage to bargain down the price to 100 yuan (RM 50) each, so that was fun! My mom bought Anis this (fake) Juicy Couture bag for 100 yuan, too as her birthday present.

After the somewhat short shopping trip (everyone complained that we should have had more time to shop!), we headed towards Splendid China and Folk Cultural Village. Splendid China is basically a park where they recreate a mini-China. They recreated a mini Forbidden City, Great Wall of China and some interesting places in China that I can't remember, unfortunately. I absolutely adore the place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Outside Splendid China

The first thing we did when we got there was to see this horse-riding show where they apparently recreate a battle scene between the Mongolian and Chinese army. Problem is, since the narration was in Chinese, I couldn't understand a thing. But the show was great nonetheless.


The venue of the show




Some pictures from the performance. These people look so good riding on the horses! Loved the show!

After the show, we had the choice of walking around the park or touring the park on a train. Since we had done a lot of walking, we all decided to opt for the train ride. Yes, we are lazy bums.


The train....cute right?


In the train!





Some of the "mini" attractions....they actually built a mini Great Wall of China that was OVER 2 KM LONG! Amazing right? Oh, and the igloo thing that we were standing in front of is a replica of Lama temple. When we found out it was a temple, we went like "Heh?"

So after the train ride, we were given 1 and a half hours of free time before we had to go watch a performance, or night show, as our tour guide calls it. Since we had the free time, Anis, Dina, my dad and I decided to go check out the place by foot before the show starts while the others stayed with my mom and our tour leader (whom Zara and Wani were getting attached to). Since it got dark by 6, the place looked quite different than when we got on board of the train. It was fun, though!





Going around the Folk Cultural Village


One of my most favourite pictures of the trip! Love the tree!

The night show was nice! There were some wicked special effects that my dad said "was even better than the Moulin Rouge's special effects". Why he was watching a Moulin Rouge show in the first place is beyond me.

After that, we had our dinner and went back to the hotel and packed up our stuff because the next day we were headed to Disneyland!

Day 4

We checked out of the hotel at around 8.45 and after breakfast and all that, we got to the railway station at almost 10 o'clock. By the time we got past the two immigration counters (I didn't get stopped again, Thank God!) and arrived back in Hong Kong, it was already 11.30. Before we got to Disneyland, we had to store our luggages at our hotel and it was then that we found out that we were staying at the YMCA Hotel, and not at Metro Park anymore.

Of course the irony is not lost to us la. We're in a Muslim tour group, yet we are staying at a Christian Association Hotel. Funny how these things work.

So after dropping off our stuff at the YMCA hotel, we got to Disneyland around 1 PM. We were all obviously very excited to actually be in Disneyland! I was like, "Oooohhhhh!!!!!! How fun!" and started feeling all giddy!




Welcome to Disneyland....

When we first entered, we were in Main Street, USA. This part of the park was designed to look like an old western town and it is so cute (and quaint, too!)




A look around Main Street, USA

About 15 minutes after we got there, I saw Mickey and Minnie! Apparently the Disney characters like Minnie, Mickey, Goofy and Donald will come out at certain times to take pictures with people who come to Disneyland. The queue to take pictures with Mickey and Minnie was super-long, so the kids stood in line to take pictures with Goofy. I didn't want to be in the picture, but somehow I got roped into joining the group picture.


Mickey and Minnie!


I think the picture speaks for itself...

So while we were there, we went around the whole of Disneyland in this train and we got to see all four parts of the Disneyland. After that, our tour leader, Kak Aisyah, recommended that the older ones go on the Space Mountain ride, since she has been to Disneyland with her other tour groups and knew the place better than us.

So anyways, we went on the Space Mountain and it was a really nice ride! The ride is the most "adult-ish" ride in the whole of Disneyland because almost all of the rides are catered to be child-friendly (I mean, it is Disneyland, after all). The Space Mountain ride is like a roller-coaster ride, but it was pitch-black in there so that you don't know whether you're going to turn left or right. It was nice, but for people who have been on roller-coasters, the Space Mountain is a pretty tame ride, cause it has none of the loops or scary drops that normal roller-coasters have.

When we had our adrenaline fix, we went back to my parents and found out that there was going to be a parade in 15 minutes time. We wanted to get "front-row seats" so we all scrambled onto the pavement before other people came. Strange thing is, the ones doing the running were all the ones that were supposed to be "matured". Hehe.


Our "front-row seats" on the pavement....I'm the one in the sunnies


The start of the parade....one of the dancers actually came up to us and started dancing in front of Anis and I....


This is definitely my favourite! They are sooooooooooooo adorable! I mean, they're dancing gingerbreadmen gingerbread-couple! Maybe I should bite into them! Hihihihi!


Anis and I thought that these dancers looked a bit too slutty for the parade...


Anis and I squealed when we saw the 7 dwarves...of yeah, we squealed. Like little girls.

Some other interesting pictures from the parade...too lazy to write out a description of each...so mouse-over the pictures to see the descriptions...






So after the parade, we went for lunch at this restaurant because we were quite the hungry people....lunch costed HK$ 200. Oh yeah, it was expensive. What did we have? 4 Fish burger sets (that came with fries) and four extra fries. One extra fries cost HK$15 each. That's RM 7.50 for a packet of fries. Annoying, right? Stupid law of inelastic demand.

So after our late lunch, we went on the Space Mountain again! Hahahaha. Memang tak tau malu. But it was so fun!

After the Space Mountain ride, we watched these three people, who are supposedly the "janitors" on their break, make music using things like dustbins, dustpans and pails. It was damn interesting because they sounded so good making music from these items. I like it when they use the pails!




My cousin, Izuan, has a drum set in his room, and so after the show, my dad said to Anis and I, "Instead of buying the drum set, he should've used all these things! Cheaper what?"

After watching the performance, we went to watch this 3-D show called Mickey's PhilharMagic. Before going for the show, we have to wear these 3-D glasses, or "Opera Glasses" as they call it. The 3-D show is one of the best I've ever seen because it definitely felt real. In fact, at one point during the show, they actually sprayed us with water. Not much la, but you can definitely feel la the mist.


Wearing our pretty little "Opera Glasses". Nice picture, no? ;-)

After the PhilharMagic show, Anis, Is and I went to Adventureland while the others stayed in Fantasyland. So we went around exploring the places and went on some other rides. It was then that we realised that the Disneyland is quite small, just slightly bigger than the Genting Theme Park. But, apparently, they haven't fully finish building Disneyland yet, and it will only be completed in 2012. So longgggggggggg......maybe I should come back then! =D

Around 6.45, we went to join our dad and the kids because they were sitting in front of the Cinderella's Castle (which was near where we watched the parade in the afternoon) because there was going to be a firework show at 8 o'clock and we wanted to get the best view possible of the fireworks (and because we're too lazy to go anywhere else already). So while we were waiting for the fireworks to start, my dad took a bunch of pictures of the castles, the surroundings and of us:







Here are some of the pictures from the firework show, which was basically the finale at Disneyland...:







The pictures really didn't do the show justice. The show was so much better than what the pictures show.

So after the fireworks, we had to head towards the bus stop because we promised our tour guide that we would meet him at 8.30 and the fireworks show finished at 8.15. But then, my dad remembered that he had to buy some souvenirs for his friend and we ended up getting late to the bus because EVERYONE was buying souvenirs and there were some miscommunication on where we were supposed to meet up which resulted in some of us being late.

Oh, and by the way, after the fireworks, THERE WAS SNOW!

Artificial snow, of course.

Made out of foam. *sigh*

What a way to put down a kid.

So after stopping at Metro Park Hotel to pick up our luggage that we left before we went to Shenzhen, we got to the YMCA Hotel about 10 o'clock. Our dinner consisted of Maggi Mee and Brahim's. But it was still yummy!

Anis still had some energy left after the Disneyland trip, so around 11 o'clock, Anis, my dad and yours truly went to the Ladies Market to see if we can get any more bargains. The best thing is, the YMCA Hotel is much nearer to the Ladies Market than the Metro Park Hotel was, so it only took us like 5 minutes to get there. We ended up doing some shopping that night, too.

Day 5

I woke up really late on the last day. I think I woke up around 9.30 AM. Check-out time was at 12.30 PM, so we spent the whole morning trying to figure out which bags should go where because 3 of our suitcases were broken into in KLIA the day we flew to Hong Kong. Luckily nothing got stolen. So basically, the 3 suitcases had to be brought in as hand luggages because the bags couldn't be locked anymore.

After checking out, we had like 3 hours before we had to head towards the airport because our flight was at 6 PM. Obviously, with 3 hours to spare, we headed down to our now infamous Ladies Market (hehehehe). I can't even remember what we bought that last day. I don't think I bought anything for myself.

We got back to the hotel around 3 PM, and then after stuffing all the luggages into the coach (there were barely enough room in it since everyone from the tour group bought loads of stuff), we were on our way to the airport. We got to the airport around 4.15 and we were on board by 5.40.

There were some turbulences during the flight. Minor ones, but a bit scary la because it was dark outside. We also watched Nicole Kidman's movie called The Invasion because it was the in-flight movie. Almost everyone were watching the movie with their jaws hanging because the movie was very intriguing.

When we touched down in KLIA, my first thought was, "Damn, I'm already missing Hong Kong".

My second thought was, "KL panas nak mampus".

My dad left our Estima at the airport, because it would be a bit inconvenient if we were to find two taxis to take us back home. And it's also cheaper to drive than to take the KLIA taxis. Because of that, we didn't have to waste time looking for taxis. We got home around 1 AM, and everyone was so tired and so the next day we didn't do much and just lazed around the house.

OK, I think I've written enough about my trip to Hong Kong & Shenzhen. It's not like anyone's going to read the whole thing anyways.