hong kong

-On Hong Kong and Macau

Hong Kong is for shopping and Macau is for gambling.
I think I have better luck in shopping than in gambling.

People say casinos in Macau are very particular about fengshui.
Like how the famous Casino Lisbon is like a cage with many arrows, and the another eygptian themed casino complete with eygptian-looking securities, is like in a pyramid, i.e. tomb, all these prevents people from winning too much or win anything at all, and helps to casinos to, well remain as the BIG winner.

IMHO, I think shopping in DFS Changi Airport is a curse. And shopping in Hk is a bigger curse, esp when u have no more rooms in your luggage.
Changi Airport is a rude reminder telling me each time what I am going to miss when I am back in Yuncheng, therefore making me a little more irrational than what I already am.
I bought 2 bags at the airport in 15 minutes, adding to the other 3 bags I bought earlier during this trip back to South Asia.
I think I have enough gorgeous bags to last me …. for this year!
I prefer my bags with distinct monograms…

Macau is definitely a small place, with a population of over 400k.
Making them kinda overpopulated.
I like their unique, Portugese-influenced architecture, and their pretty-much laid-back lifestyle.

And you would have guess, I have absolutely no luck in gambling.
But its quite eye-opening for me, as it was my first time into a casino, and on gambling.
I tried my luck on the blainless Big-Small, while DP got lucky sometimes, on Blackjack.
I see people placing big bets in thousands of HKD, some might see it in form of chips, while I see them betting in forms of designer bags. My heart aches!

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-On Geography

Everyone knows that one can walk over to China (Shenzhen) from HK.
But do you know that you can also walk over to China (Zhuhai) from Macau?
If you already knww, its probably just me that I don’t.

We took a 1.5 hour boat ride to Macau from HK.
It was quite a rocky one. But I was too tired to get sick from the bumpiness.
There isn’t much time left for sleeping when there’s so much to shop and eat in HK.
Esp when we only have less than 24 hours in HK.

We returned to Mainland China, by walking through the customs from Macau.
There were a lot of people going through the customs and residents from Macau go to China with just a trolley, probably just to do their morning marketing.
And with my excessive luggage, I thought we looked like refugees.

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-On Travel Luggages

I once read from a book of the famous hotel hieress, that one should never travel light, having loads of luggages make you appear important.
You should alway pack more than you need or don’t need, filling your luggages to the brim, even though you know you are not going to need them, and will be buying loads of other new stuffs.

I think I miss out the part about having the concierge or someone to carry them for you.
Which pretty much explain why poor DP (and mayb some of the other relatives) has to carry so many bags and how I think I almost dislocate my arm from just pulling an exploding overweight suitcase, from Singapore to HK, Macau and China.

The opposite of looking important and glamorous, is a sweaty, messy refugee.

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-On returning ‘Home’

My new home, Yuncheng.

You know you live in a fairly ulu-place when it takes you almost 12 hours to return home.
No doubt there is direct flight, but being a fairly ulu-place, they don’t fly here everyday.

So when returning on July 1st, we were up very early, had some horrible meant for Chinese tourists breakfast, got ourselves sorted and headed to the customs by 8 a.m.
We walked acrossed with my heavy luggages, passing customs and checks.

Got onto a bus at Zhuhai, and took us 2.5 hours to Guangzhou airport, a 2.3 hour plane ride to Xi’an and a 3 hour ride back to Yuncheng.
It was time for dinner by the time we returned.

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-On Post-Holidays

We had many late nights during the trip. Time is spent either on shopping or pushing our luck at casinos.
The trip left many of us drained and tired.
Since Saturday, 8 hours is the average WAKING Hour for DP. And he spends most of his time drooling in his sleep.
Being equally tired and not much of a sleeper, I will be lucky if I have more than 8 hours of sleep a day.
I know I am sleeping too little for someone who have nothing to do.

After being in different countries, cities for the last few days.
Its definitely hotter in Yuncheng.
A big oven, feel suffocated as if with no ventilation.
Its really HOT!!! And I do get some sort of heat rash. Ewww!

I am back on the diet again.
Holidays and Singapore makes me hungry and indulge.
I was feeling quite complacent with the weight I lost before my China wedding, that I decided to take it easy.
And I was panicking the day, when I realised both my wedding and evening gowns were tight on my Sg wedding.
Esp living in Yuncheng, you have to be extremely careful, as there isnt much to do to work those fats.
Over here, You live to eat!
Therefore, I must be in control before I become hopelessly chubby.

We are now planning for our next holiday, next week.
Destination Sanya. Most southern tip of China and Hainan Island, Hawaii of the East.
We hope to see more places in China, before we eventually settle for work!
And I will still be offended if ppl think that its our honeymoon…

As usual, I will be posting my photo from this trip later.

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