1st day in hongkong

departure and arrival - we left for changi airport terminal 1 in the wee hours of 1st jan 2007. arrived there at 4.30 am to board for our 6.15 am flight to hongkong. finally reached there at 10.30 am. some snapshots we took along the way...
















checking into cosmic guest house - it was the first time i ever booked a hostel for stay overseas and i was afraid that something wrong might go wrong with our booking, and baby and i will end up sleeping on the streets, hahaha... but my fears were unfounded as we found our way to the hostel and settled our luggage there before heading out to the streets to start our tour of hongkong...
















lunch... and on to ocean park aka 海洋公园 - baby was already growling with hunger so we went around looking for something to eat. we heard from the landlady that in hongkong u will not stress over finding food to eat, cos every alternate stall will be one eatery. true enough, we did not stress over finding food to eat, however we did stress over how to order our food cos apparently the level of spoken english of the hongkongers are not as good as mentioned by the tourist guides and brochures. after some effort at broken cantonese with a mixture of mandarin, we finally managed to order something, duck noodle for me and roasted goose for baby. oh by the way, do remember that in hongkong, there is no roasted chicken, we realise that after the waiter did not understand when we said wanted roasted chicken...
after lunch, we went to ocean park by alighting at the 金钟admiralty mtr station, and then taking the bus no.629 to the entrance of ocean park...
















night tour around tsim sha tsui - due to some techincal errors, videos and photos of the cable car ride from the highlands to the lowlands within ocean park itself was lost... sadz... we also took the symbolic star ferry back from central to tsim sha tsui, however, the photos for the ferry ride was also lost except one that i took of the ferry after we alighted from it. since it was our first night, and being lone strangers in this wonderful and incommunicable land (both of us are not proficient in cantonese) we decided to walk around the place nearer to our hostel in case we get lost. we manage to find our way to the avenue of stars 星光大道, and also the lighthouse of tsim sha tsui. as baby and i sat on one of the benches along the avenue of stars looking at the lights on the buildings across the straits at central, with the cool night winds blowing, we couldnt help but think it was one of the loveliest nights we ever saw in our lives... it was a sight not to be missed...
as the night progresses, our legs decided to complain and we went back to our hostel, situated on the 12th floor of maridor mansion.