• Hong Kong’s Escalators Series

Hong Kong is currently the country that having the most skycrapers in the world and the number of skycrapers will continue to increase due to the high demand for office and housing spaces. Not to mention, the shopping complexes and buildings floors will be double digits numbered as well.

Could it be boring to climb floor by floor each time?

What if we wanted to skip some floors given we know the shop we wanted to go?

What if the lifts are too slow or long queue to wait for?

. . . . . but maybe not if we having shortcut . . . . .

like these . . . . .

Escalators at Grand Century Place, Mongkok

How many floors it skipped?

Escalator at New Town Plaza, Shatin

next. . . . .

Langham Place, Mongkok

This was taken during Christmas ‘2008.

This as well

May 31st, 2009

• Causeway Bay > Centre Street > Iced Cafe Mocha

Remember Hong Kong’s triads hit movies series, “Young and Dangerous” starred by E-kin Cheng and Jordan Chan? Bearing the names such as Hung Hing Society and Causeway Bay (Tung Lo Wan)? Recall these names?

I believe many that watches this movies series will heard of it and here we go…

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

I’m not sure if any triad society is here, but for sure Causeway Bay is one of the major shopping attraction and tourists visit at Hong Kong

Here we move to the next place which I guess not many tourists will visit then

Centre Street, Hong Kong

According to Wikipedia,

Centre Street is the key centre point of the most active traditional market in Western District of Hong Kong Island. It runs from Connaught Road, crossing Des Voeux Road West and Queen’s Road West then climbing steeply up the hill crossing First Street, Second Street, Third Street, High Street then ends in steps to Bonham Road.

The facts are pretty true indeed. All the above mentioned roads and streets are traditional markets with speciality names such as Dried Seafood Street and Ginseng & Bird Nest Street

Finally, another drink of the day…

Pacific Coffee’s Iced Cafe Mocha

• Happy New Year 2009

First time ever in my life that I’m celebrating Christmas and New Year away from Malaysia. Perhaps it is a no big deal for many that went to study overseas . Anyway, since I’m updating this so damn LATE!!! (=_=!!) I’ll lets the photos express my feelings out

My great friends from Hong Kong, (from left)

Cissy, Kate Chu, Wing Chu & Mike Yu (sitting boy)

This shot was taken at Nathan Road which is one of the busiest road in Hong Kong. It was blocked for today

Picnic at Avenue of Stars, East Tsim Sha Tsui

Since 2:00pm++ people already started booking for great spots at Avenue of Stars to stood up their tripods for phototaking of the New Year Fireworks at Hong Kong Island. Thanks to Mike Yu’s parents who came here around 4:00pm++ to secure this place for us

*Look here*

… and soon there it goes

* ~ Happy New Year 2009 ~ *

Fireworks photos courtesy of  Mike Yu

• Hong Kong’s Tram Party!!!

Oh, please don’t bother regarding the date of posting. Actually the post before suppose to be on 29th November 2008 instead of the same date *bahhhh….. I’m just lazy ~ LOL*

My 2nd Sunday after I arrived at Hong Kong this time and I’m alone while my colleagues with their own life. Ahhh, it is cold outside and the very first winter season experience of my life. The climate is much cooler than the time I spent at Genting Highlands working part-time during secondary school’s long term break.

Finally decided to go out to Causeway Bay to walk around and shops for some sweater. Before I start get going to Causeway Bay, I went to Sai Wan where I used to stay during my previous trip to Hong Kong. Went there to buy some IDD cards *it is real cheap there and worth going ~ I saved HK$60 for HK$200 worth of Dragon’s IDD cards *. Took a set of tea time meal at Yoshinoya before I board a tram to goto Causeway Bay. Guess what …..

It happened there was a party on going on the upper deck of the tram I board. A few foreigners were having birthday celebration for one of their friend. I was offerred some cookies and beers. Cheers ~ ~ ~ sang a birthday song together with them ~ LOL

The birthday star is the one lower second from the left

Ahhh, we caught someone covering the face while taking photo just now!!!

Okayz, that’s a bad punishment.

Suppose the person beside her on the photo to be me

*smack* *smack* ~ dream on ~ >.<

• I’m off flying again…

It is like just a while ago I flew back to Malaysia from Hong Kong and now I’m off again flying to Hong Kong. Well, it was planned earlier and scheduled to be like this arrangement before I came back to Malaysia, so I’m pretty well prepared for it this time .

Aye ~ got to thanks my buddies (Dee & Koe) for sending me to the airport. Really sorry for the delay and thanks for rushing along with me . How the hell I could mistaken and keep thought that I’m an hour earlier than the time on the clock = =!!! *swtz*..

Yeah, we managed to reach the airport half an hour before my flight (in which I suppose to be there an hour earlier instead of just half). Dee’s driving skill was awesome!!! Checked in my luggage and I’m all ready to board the plane. Oh ~ this time I managed to grab myself a seat right next to the window .

Here we go ~ this photo taken soon after the plane took off.

Right above the clouds ~~~

Oh, here we see some lands again .

Noticed the changes with the shape of the clouds?

Soon we are entering dark…

The shape of the clouds changed again.

Sunset…

OK, I flight with our very own No Frills Flight Airline, Air Asia!!!

P/S: The above thermos mug not for free, I paid RM20 for it…

• HKCCF 2008 ~ the Babes

These few days almost totally worn me out and left me with only bits of energy enough to get home and clean up before putting myself up on the bed. Lotsa workload, tiring days. Well, it is common as we’re at end of the month.

Two previous posts were all about Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008. It doesn’t go anywhere for this post as well but probably the most interesting one. Lets peep a view at some HKCCF Babes

Alrights, here come the Epson contenders. Somehow they gave me a feel almost like our Malaysia PC Fair Samsungs’s

The Toshiba’s Japanese-styled were on a small stage with lots of lanterns as decoration. It was really pretty pack as it was nearby the entrance where I need to “drill” a path through the crowd before I could be able to snap them.

Okayz, here is the sad part. I was sweep away by the “crowd wave” and I have no idea where these PCCW babes were heading

Hmmm… the next from E-Zone. Honestly I have no idea with such posing for such event. “Hey, this is ain’t car showgals wannabe”

Another one.

Lets move on next and this is someone cute

Closer shot.

There were a few more babes around but I couldn’t get to reach there as I’m driven by the flow of the “crowd wave”. I stepped out of the hall and this is one pretty smile. “Personally I admired it”

Her partner and both of them from Transcend.

With this I’m finally wrap up my whole coverage for Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008. Next I’ll try to put on some of my snaps from 10th Ani-Com Games Hong Kong 2008

• Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008

Alright, here is the update from the previous entry

As mentioned, it took us about an hour to get from the middle of the queue till the ticket booths and into the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008, or HKCCF 2008 itself.

Once we were done with the ticketing, we went to the upper floor which was the exhibition hall and here it was how the crowd like for that day.

Just before the main entrance, there were several counters where you can get yourself one copy of this which is the official booklet or rather say directory and advertisements.

Fine, I hardly understand what it was since it was all in Chinese ~ LoL! I gave up and just move into the hall after several flips with it. Immediately into the hall, it didn’t gave me any unique feeling since it was just like rather somehow Hall 1, 2, 3  ~ 5 of our local Malaysia Pikom PC Fair.

It was just almost that identical, isn’t?

On second thought, except for this which the showgirls were treated like celebrities for the event. We do have photographers in the event snapping show babes, but it isn’t till the level like this for Hongkies’. Interesting?

Wandering around in the hall and being sandwiched or stucked with the human traffic, I didn’t see many stuff that could attracts me. I saw this newly launched Acer Predator in several latest Hong Kong’s computer and IT magazines, this is how it looked like in life.

Ahhh… I’m stucked, any alternative route?

I’m not sure if this is a tradition or what, somehow I went to two major exhibitions in Hong Kong which were this HKCCF 2008 and 10th Ani-Com Games Hong Kong 2008. During both events, there was a competition on going. For this time HKCCF 2008, The 5th Hong Kong I.T. Image Girl Competition.

Okayz, nuff said… screeeeeeens ~ LoL

This was one of the very well decorated and lighted booth

Last but not least a show for overclocking with LN2 (liquid nitrogen).

That’s all for a summarized coverage of HKCCF 2008. Basically the hall is just about 1.5x size of our Malaysia Pikom PC Fair’s one hall. With the additional of the booths outside the hall, I guess the whole festival will fit in two halls of our Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, definitely I guess we’ll lose on the number of visitors as compared with Hong Kong. It is just some sort of queue which I never experienced before in my life ~ haha.

Asked if I would come again? I will say, why not? Least for the babes

I’ll cover that in my next update, stay tune ~

• HKCCF 2008 Preview

It was the day after Typhoon Nuri landed at Hong Kong that my colleagues and I planned to visit Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2008 or shortly known as HKCCF 2008. We only work half-day on Saturday and so we had our lunch after office hours before taking a cab to Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre which located at Wan Chai district.

Alright, this is some sort of amazing queue that I ever experienced in my life. The cab dropped us at the main entrance of the centre but then we need to walk all the way to the end of the queue which I likely to called it as the entrance of the maze. Somehow we managed to slip in at the middle of the queue (shhh!!! ). Here it is like which at the middle of the queue.

Next we move zig-zag inside the centre.

At the end of the zig-zag, we reached at an escalator to go down and we felt weird about it as the entrance was on upper floor.

Our next reaction were… HAARRRRR??? A longer zig-zag at the car park???

We go up on the escalator again which we came down by the next escalator just now.

Guess what? More zig-zag… ZZZzzzzz

Finally… we reached at the ticket counter. Phews ~ it was about an hour of queue maze travelling…

Gotcha! HK$20 for entrance to HKCCF 2008 after the “dragon queue”. Lets head in to the real picture

…will be continue

• Hong Kong’s Typhoon Signal No.9

It was told by the weather forecast a day before that a Typhoon Nuri is coming straight to Hong Kong and preparing the people that Typhoon Signal No.8 will be hoisted. For anyone that doesn’t know, when Typhoon Signal No.8 and above hoisted (No.10 is the highest which is a disaster), all offices, shops and schools will be closed. Public transportation such as buses and trains will be at reduced service and frequency. It will be very unlucky for those who are coming or leaving Hong Kong by air planes, boats and ferries as the services will be halted due to the typhoon.

The weather seems to be very hot and calm at night. My colleagues and I thought tomorrow we will be seeing each other again in the office. It is not until 8.00am that they hoisted the Typhoon Signal no.8 which indicate most probably another lazy day off. I can felt the strong wind even inside the apartment which later the day at 3.00pm, they raised it to Typhoon Signal No.9 which has not been raised since 5 years ago. My colleague and I decided to go down to get some food. As most of the shops closed, we left choices of McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut only.

Lets have a look on the condition of the typhoon at Hong Kong

Could you notice the banners and umbrellas are flying? *Try notice the old lady on the right trying to hold her umbrella walking against the wind*

Another poor old lady which dragged a few feets behind trying to hold on her umbrella.

Usually during these typhoon, the public rubbish bin will always be filled with “failed” umbrellas. *Can notice the purple one lying on the street on the upper right? The previous old lady decided to give up *

Now this is something special and truly remarkable. My colleague trying to walk backwards using his back against the wind to protect our McDonalds than flying away

This is something which we would not experience in Malaysia.

• Day 20082008, My Hong Kong’s Workstation

Today is 20th of August year 2008 which is 20-08-2008 or simply 20.08.2008; 20082008. Honestly, I didn’t even realize the date till someone greet me “Happy 20082008″ in MSN. LoL ~

Since I’m busy with my work and spending only limited time on designing my blog and customizing it. I simply take a photo of my current workstation in my apartment at Hong Kong which I do all my work on it. Here it is the place where my first layout and the design of this site were born. Special thanks to Daniel Chew whom helped me out with the theme and layout.

Hong Kong is a small country with a huge number of population. The lands are very expensive and people having high living standard. The apartment which I’m living in now considered one of very good average home for the Hongkies, despite being small and need to fit in one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom with toilet and two rooms. I’m now in the smaller room which the windows facing outside which has pretty good scenery.

Alright, here is my workstation at Hong Kong.

Yeah, you can absolutely see me on the reflect of the windows while I’m taking this shot. Nothing much on this workstation actually. From left to right you’ll see a container which I dump small and tiny pieces inside as not to mess up the place. Then we’ll see watch, camera pouch, wallet, pack of Watson tissue, small notebook, a pen, keys, QP pendant, pendrive and handphone. Usually these are all my carryings while I’m out of the apartment. Upper part obviously you can see a pink water tumbler (I have no choice as this is the only colour left) and a glass of milk which I usually take before going to sleep.

Next, the big player is on the middle which is a Lenovo IBM ThinkPad R61i which belongs to my company. Thanks to my boss in Hong Kong for his permission to let me use the laptop at home. Definitely not forget to thanks to the anonymous who “lend” me their wireless Internet connection. On top of the laptop is Audio Technica ATH-FC700 headphone. The Bronze Matte console on the right after the mouse is my PSP which come in handy when I feel like going for two or three rounds of Burnout Dominator to ease my mind. Wondering what the pieces of paper doing there? One for my “mousepad” and another one for short notes. This is where I started all for this site.