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Tag: hongkong

  • 无聊的比萨

    无聊的比萨

    无聊的我 今天去香港散散心，逛街，吃比胜客比萨了。今天也是我一个朋友过生日，过来香港给她买生日礼物了。

  • Upgrade To Business Class

    Waiting For My Flight UA895 After Upgrade To Business Class

    Got myself a United Airlines ticket to get me back home. I went to the counter and was told that my flight was overbooked and I was offered compensation if I gave up my seats and wait for the next one.

    While I was asking about the compensation details, another staff came over and told me there was no more seat left and transferred my ticket to the Cathay Pacific Airline. I was escorted to the counter at the other end of the building and was told no seat was available too.

    I was hungry and tried after four hours of travelling to the airport. I was told no seat and was being pushed around. Finally I got a seat with Cathay Pacific but it was too late. My patient ran out and I decided to lodge a complaint and went furiously to the United counter and looked for the manager.

    I contented with him about the lousy service rendered to me. I told him if I were to fly Cathay Pacific, I would bought the ticket myself and not by transferring. I also wanted to complain the staff that changed my seat to Cathay Pacific flight without my acknowledgement, giving the excuse of no seat left. The manager was decisive and immediately gave me a business class seat on my original flight.

    Upgrading my seat to business class sound like a good offer but it was not. With all the hassle and rushing to be on time for the flight on a hungry stomach, it was a bad event I did not want to experience.

  • Crossing Shenzhen Bay

    Shenzhen Bay Border Crossing Station

    Went to Hong Kong through Shenzhen Bay, the new border crossing station. The place was spacious but emptied. May be because the place was newly opened and not many had travelled through here yet.

    Traffic was congested in the evening but it was a smooth ride for me, surrounded by beautiful twilight scenery, to Hong Kong International Airport.

    I guess I would be using this Shenzhen Bay often soon.

  • Smelling Good

    Smelling Good With The Body Shop Stuffs

    When I was in Hongkong, I could not resist and went into The Body Shop and bought my favourite The Body Shop stuffs.

    The Africa SPA Salt Scrub was my favourite of all. After using it, my body felt relax, smooth and smelled good. I also like to use the Blackcurrant Reviving Mask. This mask rejuvenated my facial skin and gave me a refreshing look.

    I also bought a mango flavoured handwash to entertain my guests. So when they came over for a meal, they would enjoy washing hands before dining with me.

    I love to be smelling good!

  • 买东西 吃东西

    Hong Kong Tourism Eating and Shopping

    买东西，吃东西，买东西，吃东西… that what I did today. I left for Hongkong in the morning and do my shopping. It was tiring but fun.

    Before I headed back to cross the border, I went to Pizza Hut and had my meal. I ordered a personal pan pizza, Caesar salad, chicken drumlets, Minestrone soup with puffy pastry, garlic bread and my iced lemon tea.

    I had a great shopping and ended with a great meal.

    I bought a lot of The Body Shop stuffs and the SonyEricsson bluetooth headset.

  • Rush Hour Shopping

    What To Do In Hong Kong - Rush Hour Shopping
    What to do in Hong Kong? Went to Hong Kong for a rush hour shopping. It was a rushing fun, shopping for my AppleTV and accessories. Streets after streets, shops after shops, I came across a demo set Sony Photo Printer selling cheap, I bought it.

    Read my AppleTV review.

  • 香港始终有你

    Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

    今天是香港回归十周年，也是我退伍十年了，也是我开始踏进这个现实的社会。

    十年前的我还以为中国回收香港是件坏事，没想到香港回归中国给香港带来了更美好的将来。我也看到了一国两制的存在。 现在的香港居民不象以前回归的时候，不知道自己的民族身份。中央政府对香港的付出，耐心和不辞辛劳的精神，已经赢到香港居民的心。现在的香港居民已经接受了中国是祖国。

    在这十年里，香港居民已经接受了一国两制。在新的环境之下，香港居民也开始改便了生活，开始溶合中华民族的精神。现在的新香港在这个世界舞台已经开始找到了自己新的生存方式和新的角色。

    我在这十年里又有什么收货？我觉得我和香港一样，花了十年的时间来了解在这社会上的人生生活的哲学.

    现在的我找到了新的自己，找到了我在世界舞台的新生存方式和新的角色。

  • Shopping in Hong Kong

    Dozing On The Train

    I was bored and met up with Alvin and we went shopping in Hong Kong. Alvin got an Apple Macbook. It was his first Mac. After shopping, we spent our night exploring the Mac and updating and installing software at my place.

    Well, for me, I got myself the new model Apple Airport Extreme that support the 802.11N. This hardware was cool and I liked it. Check out my review here.

  • My New MacBook Pro

    This Is My New MacBook Pro

    Finally, I got myself a MacBook Pro after five months without any computer.

    I went to Hong Kong and purchased because it was cheaper than in Singapore. I got it SGD$600 cheaper off the retail shelf.

    My new MacBook Pro was similar to my previous MacBook but with more powerful processing power, high definition screen, illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor, etc. I could go on and on with all these cool features but you could read them on the Apple website.

    The coolest thing to do on my mac was to run Microsoft Windows through Parallel in coherence mode. So what was this? I was to run Windows application without the Windows Desktop. It gave you the feeling of running Windows application in the OS X.

    What I did not like was the 15” screen that was too big for me. It made the unit form factor too big for me to carry around. The power adapter was slightly bigger than my previous PowerBook.

    For now, I was happy with this machine and hoped it would be a good companion and as faithful as my PowerBook. Loving my new MacBookPro.