Dec13/08 - 2:28am (at home)
What a warm and long but productive day today! We got up at 6:45am (yes, that means I had 2 hours of sleep) and left home at 7:50am. We originally planned to leave at 7:30am but took a little longer trying to get my dried tangled hair combed out. Funny enough, we managed to get to the immigration tower just 2 minutes after 9:00am! I admit, we were a bit rushed to get there but I must say we did good time! Too bad the whole ride (light rail --> west rail --> mtr --> mtr hk) costs so much =(. The whole SmartID replacement appointment went quite smoothly and afterwards, we met up with Peggy (who was on the 4th floor of the same building picking up her SAR passport). By 10:30am-ish, we were already at Wing Lung getting some HKD.
We wanted to grab lunch at 翠華 so we asked an arbitrary uniformed 食環處 person on the street to see if he knew. He gave us directions and we proceeded toward the destination. Just when we were "almost there", the same guy ran up to us (must have been at least 3 blocks away by then) to apologize for giving us wrong info. LOL! How nice of him to run after us! We were hungry so we skipped looking for 翠華 and had 華康餐廳 near 灣仔街市. During our brunch, we noticed 袁彩雲 sitting 2 tables away! She looks better on TV LOL! We each had a 早餐"A" which had 鮑魚火腿通粉, toast, sunny side up x2. Of course being me, I ordered a 凍檸茶 to go with my meal.
After brunch we took the 叮叮 to 北角 in attempts to get 文生's 回鄉證. So much for that idea because he needed a SAR passport. Oh well, next time.
We made plans to meet with Sandra at Pacific Place so on our way back to Admiralty, we sidetracked for some 芒椰奶龜苓爽. At that point, 文生 recognized his old hood for kindergarten (go figure) so we went on a quest to find his old school. We didn't want to trek uphill (really steep hill) so we took a taxi. We thought all was well until 文生 found out that we went to a high school with the same name instead of the kindergarten. -_-"" Oh well x2.
We left North Point toward Admiralty via 叮叮 again but just before our stop, there was an accident blocking the tracks so we got a free ride up to that point and took the mtr for one station. I made arrangements for Tinlop and his aunt to join Sandra and us for dimsum so I can treat but Sandra beat me to it!! POOPIE! Now I need to find a chance to take Tinlop's aunt out again.
After dimsum, Sandra went back to work and we walked around Pacific Place briefly. OMG, their washrooms are soooo purdy! The stalls are huge and the decor is so impressive. To bad I wasn't able to take pics!
We then went to Central (via 叮叮 again) to take pics and 文生 spotted 李嘉誠! Wow! He was surrounded by two obnoxious-looking bodyguards when he waited to get picked up by his BMW.
文生 had to go to Mong Kok to meet two friends at 7:00pm so Peggy, 文生 and I took the ferry back to TST while Tinlop left to go dinner with his parents. Peggy left to go home after we crossed the harbour. We had 潮州 food with 文生's friends at a street side vendor. Four of us shared oyster congee, fried oyster with egg (that was good), eel with broccoli, 滷水鵝, cuttlefish and sausage platter. After dinner we went for 涼茶, stinky tofu and 文生's friends left when we decided to do some shopping. We were pretty tired at that point since it was after 10:00pm already so we just quickly picked up a couple pairs of pants and a shirt for 文生.
We took the 38X bus all the way home and an hour later, after passing out on the bus, we got home (it was 12:30am already). Now I'm beat! Alarm goes off at 7:45am tomorrow...(3:12am)
What a warm and long but productive day today! We got up at 6:45am (yes, that means I had 2 hours of sleep) and left home at 7:50am. We originally planned to leave at 7:30am but took a little longer trying to get my dried tangled hair combed out. Funny enough, we managed to get to the immigration tower just 2 minutes after 9:00am! I admit, we were a bit rushed to get there but I must say we did good time! Too bad the whole ride (light rail --> west rail --> mtr --> mtr hk) costs so much =(. The whole SmartID replacement appointment went quite smoothly and afterwards, we met up with Peggy (who was on the 4th floor of the same building picking up her SAR passport). By 10:30am-ish, we were already at Wing Lung getting some HKD.
We wanted to grab lunch at 翠華 so we asked an arbitrary uniformed 食環處 person on the street to see if he knew. He gave us directions and we proceeded toward the destination. Just when we were "almost there", the same guy ran up to us (must have been at least 3 blocks away by then) to apologize for giving us wrong info. LOL! How nice of him to run after us! We were hungry so we skipped looking for 翠華 and had 華康餐廳 near 灣仔街市. During our brunch, we noticed 袁彩雲 sitting 2 tables away! She looks better on TV LOL! We each had a 早餐"A" which had 鮑魚火腿通粉, toast, sunny side up x2. Of course being me, I ordered a 凍檸茶 to go with my meal.
After brunch we took the 叮叮 to 北角 in attempts to get 文生's 回鄉證. So much for that idea because he needed a SAR passport. Oh well, next time.
We made plans to meet with Sandra at Pacific Place so on our way back to Admiralty, we sidetracked for some 芒椰奶龜苓爽. At that point, 文生 recognized his old hood for kindergarten (go figure) so we went on a quest to find his old school. We didn't want to trek uphill (really steep hill) so we took a taxi. We thought all was well until 文生 found out that we went to a high school with the same name instead of the kindergarten. -_-"" Oh well x2.
We left North Point toward Admiralty via 叮叮 again but just before our stop, there was an accident blocking the tracks so we got a free ride up to that point and took the mtr for one station. I made arrangements for Tinlop and his aunt to join Sandra and us for dimsum so I can treat but Sandra beat me to it!! POOPIE! Now I need to find a chance to take Tinlop's aunt out again.
After dimsum, Sandra went back to work and we walked around Pacific Place briefly. OMG, their washrooms are soooo purdy! The stalls are huge and the decor is so impressive. To bad I wasn't able to take pics!
We then went to Central (via 叮叮 again) to take pics and 文生 spotted 李嘉誠! Wow! He was surrounded by two obnoxious-looking bodyguards when he waited to get picked up by his BMW.
文生 had to go to Mong Kok to meet two friends at 7:00pm so Peggy, 文生 and I took the ferry back to TST while Tinlop left to go dinner with his parents. Peggy left to go home after we crossed the harbour. We had 潮州 food with 文生's friends at a street side vendor. Four of us shared oyster congee, fried oyster with egg (that was good), eel with broccoli, 滷水鵝, cuttlefish and sausage platter. After dinner we went for 涼茶, stinky tofu and 文生's friends left when we decided to do some shopping. We were pretty tired at that point since it was after 10:00pm already so we just quickly picked up a couple pairs of pants and a shirt for 文生.
We took the 38X bus all the way home and an hour later, after passing out on the bus, we got home (it was 12:30am already). Now I'm beat! Alarm goes off at 7:45am tomorrow...(3:12am)
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