7 October 2011
The long awaited trip… after years of ‘planning’, is finally becoming true! :D
My stuff for the 4 days trip
The moment we get to know about Leo Ku’s concert in Hong Kong, my friends (Soo Mei, Angie, Wai Yee, Pooi Fun, Joey and Hui San) and I quickly made a quick decision to purchase the concert tickets, air tickets and started to source for accommodation. There’re some other members who’ll be there as well but we will only meet during the concert.
It’ll be quite a budget trip, so we’ve decided to make booking at Yesinn.
Our flight will be at 7.10am by Airasia. We left home at 4am and reached LCCT at about 5am. Good thing Nel has offered to send me and 2 other friends to airport :) while the other group of 4 will depart from Seri Kembangan.
Since we have already web check-in, we went to the counter to drop our luggage. It was quite a long queue there. Once done, we went to Oldtown for our breakfast. Nel accompanied me for a while before he left.
We took off at 7.10am as scheduled. Most of us were so sleepy since we have to get up early. I could only sleep for about an hour shortly after take off. But once I got up, I couldn’t get back to sleep. Was chit chatting with Joey instead and we shared a Pak Naseer nasi lemak :)
Hello Hong Kong!
We arrived 25 minutes ahead of schedule. Just when I thought the queues at the immigration counter are bad at LCCT, the queues at HK airport is even worse! It was quite a long wait. We then claimed our luggage.
We went to get our octopus card as well (similar to our Touch N’ Go). Paid HKD150 for it (HKD50 being deposit – refundable).
As per information provided by Yesinn, we can reach there by MTR, taxi or bus but as per recommendation, we took the bus.
1 bus just left when we reached the bus stop, so we waited for about 20 minutes for the next bus.
The real 'Bus No 11'... :p
The whole journey took us about an hour to reach Yesinn. We just need to cross the road and walked a bit to reach Yesinn.
Studying the map... konon...
Wifi in the bus... yay!
We reached Yesinn at about 2pm (just nice as check-in time is 2pm) and once we’re at the reception, I showed my reservation confirmation to the girl at the counter. One look at my booking and she remembered me, as I just spoke to her few days ago to reconfirm the booking.
3 of us will be in 1 room while the other 4 will be in a different room, located at a different floor. I’ll be sharing with Wai Yee and Pooi Fun and the room is just near to the lobby.
As expected, the room is small but it’s clean and neatly decorated. It has 1 single bed and a double-decker, a small flat screen TV mounted on the wall, a basin near to the door, a pot for boiling water, wooden flooring and mostly white furniture/beddings.
The bathroom is just good enough for you to stand there, with the basin in front, toilet seat at the side and the shower head/water heater on top. There’s also a towel rack above the toilet seat.
Toiletries and towels are not provided, so we have to bring our own. I even brought along my hair dryer ;)
We are to meet up at about 3pm to go for our lunch. I took the opportunity to freshen up a bit as I was feeling so warm. It could be quite a challenge for someone big like me to use such a small bathroom :p
I even have a runny nose which got me worried a bit. But I was OK after a while. I guess it’s just a minor sinus.
As planned, we met up with the rest at 3pm to hunt for our lunch. We were pretty clueless with that area but as we walked, we just went in to a random shop, to eat anything cuz’ we were starving! Some of us had rice with steamed chicken / pork, and we shared some cheong fun, steamed lo bak gou, fried noodles, tau fu far and soy bean milk for each of us.
After lunch, we walked to the nearest MTR station (Fortress Hill) and went to Mongkok.
We walked around a bit before heading to Hung Hom direct for the concert.
It was only about 6.30pm but Angie will need to collect our concert tickets from Leona and also to distribute tickets to other people who had ordered the tickets through Angie.
It was so nice to meet up with everybody there :) Bumped into Wuss from Toronto and also met with Jiun from London, Rina from Indonesia, Elaine from Singapore, and a few others from KL as well. This is probably the biggest reunion thus far!
Finally... dream come true....
We went into the concert venue at about 8pm. Leo Ku - Amazing World concert started at about 8.45pm.
The concert ended at 11.15pm. The group of us gathered for our ‘supper’ (actually.. it’s our very late dinner). As MTR stop operation at 12am, we went to the station and took a bus to Mongkok again. Again, we were clueless on what to eat. After so much of walking, we went to yet another random shop :p
We don’t care if the food is nice but we were starving! It was passed midnight and our last meal was at 3pm! We had some fried noodles, vege, lou sui ngor and fried lala.
It was pretty late when we’re done with our ‘supper’. We took a mini bus back to Yesinn.
After cleaning up, I guess it was about 4am when we finally went to sleep after a quite long chit chat :p (girls… heheh).
We are to meet up with the rest at 10am later, and continue with our exploration.
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