last day in hongkong

packing up and final tours of kowloon area - the fact that today is the last day of our stay in hongkong finally kicked in this morning as baby and i packed our stuff back into our luggage. the trip has been enjoyable so far and we weren't prepared to go back singapore so early. damn... we should have extended 2 more days when we booked our tickets. we took a farewell shot with the landlady and left the luggage at the storeroom for collection later in the afternoon, and set foot for our final tours around kowloon. anna and yingchao gave us a pair of tickets for the hongkong science museum 'mission earthlings' exhibition before we left hongkong, so we decided to go for it since its already the last day.
plan was to go hongkong science museum in the morning, then noon shopping at mongkok, then buy the famous 恒香biscuits at the mongkok outlet before heading back to the hostel for luggage collection and then to the airport for night flight back to singapore. however, when we reached the science museum, we were dismayed to find that it'll only be open from 1 pm in the afternoon, affecting our plan. determined not to miss the exhibit, slight adjustments were made to the schedule, and we proceeded with the shopping @ mongkok.
however, when we reached mongkok argyle centre, we were given another jolt again... none of the shops were opened at the late morning hours of 11 am... we realised later that most of the shops operated late from afternoon onwards... so we went to the biscuit shop to get the biscuits for our relatives, before returning to the shopping centre for baby's final hongkong shopping in this trip, and then on to hongkong science museum.
















bye bye hongkong - after the science museum trip, we had a sushi tea-break at a sushimasa outlet. another i-don't-know-what-u-r-saying episode ensued before we managed to order our selection of sushi using the finger-pointing-at-the-menu technique. baby was pissed that a japanese sushi outlet in hongkong had only english names for its dishes and no japanese names at all. apparently, the chawanmushi over here is known only as egg custard or something like that, and the waiters here have no idea what a chawanmushi is. after our tea-break, we went back to collect our luggage. the landlady advised us a cheaper route back to the airport instead of taking the A21 airport bus, or the more expensive airport express -- take mtr to 东涌, then take the s1 bus, and we can still shop at the tung chung plaza before leaving hongkong.