**XioNg™: December 2008

On the 26th of October 2008, my parents, uncle and I went for a vacation for 5 days 4 nights in Hong Kong and Shen Zhen. We reached Singapore's Checkpoint around 0246 hours and reached approximately 10-15 minutes after declaring our things. These are the details:-

Airlines: United Airlines
Flight: UA 896
Terminal: B5 Terminal 3
Boarding Time: 0620 hours
Destination: Hong Kong Airport
Miles: 1593
Temperature: 80 Fahrenheit
Tailwind: 5km/h
Headwind: 1mph
Pilot: Captain John
Time of Arrival: 3 hours 17 minutes

DAY 1: After reaching Hong Kong airport, we were sent to the Royal Park which is located in Sha Tin. We checked in at 12.51p.m. After that, My family and I went to a huge shopping complex nearby to find Hong Kong most famous "Roasted Goose". We had our lunch in a restaurant... Hundred over bucks for that splendid lunch!! It's ok... Worth trying.. =) The tour guide gave all of use few hours time to rest because we're going to sit the Peak Tram after dinner. Dinner was damn delicious... We all had our dinner in one of a high class restaurant... The food was so damn delicious!!! Done having dinner... Now what?? We headed to the Peak Tram station and get ourselves a ticket from the tour guide... We don't have to pay for the ticket as it's already included in our package... We reached the Peak Tower about fifteen minutes later... The view was so beautiful... We can see Hong Kong clearly from the peak!! Oh ya... The Wax Museum also located at the Peak... Entrance tickets also included!!! ^^ After visiting the Wax Museum and those shops in the Pea Tower, we headed for "Loi Yan Gai" which means female street... It's just a name of the street... Of course not only for females... =.= We kept on eating until we almost couldn't walk... There are too many delicious snacks there... Time's up... We've to go back to our hotel... Bought few bottles of vodka to be drunk in the hotel because vodka sold in the hotel is so damn expensive...

DAY 2:We were supposed to go to Shen Zhen in the afternoon... Morning call at 0700 hours. Hong Kong famous "Dim Sum" for breakfast... Headed to the Hong Kong convention centre after breakfast... Went to "Jumbo" and sat sampan... The place was filled with millionaire's boats and ships... Woah!! The sampan ride was quite nice actually... Then, went to the Repulse Bay, a temple located quite near the Repulse Bay, jewellery factory and famous Jade market... Lunch time!! 1400 hours... Had splendid Chinese cuisine in a famous restaurant... God damn it... I saw so many abalones but I've got NO CHANCE to try them... Sobx... Time flies.. 1516 hours, all of us reached the Hung Hom train station... We're going to Shen Zhen... On the way to Shen Zhen(last station), we passed through many stations... We passed Mong Kok East station, Kowloon Tong station, Tai Wan station, Sha Tin station, Fo Tan station, University station, Tai Po Market station, Tai Wo station, Fan Ling station and lastly Sheung Shai... Reached China Immigration at 1712 hours.... Hotel checked in at 1730 hours... Dinner was at 1800 hours... We all were required to gather at the hotel lobby at 1740 hours. After dinner, my family and I shop for hours at few famous streets nearby... Damn tired... Back to hotel around 2300 hours... Finished bathing, uncle and I went for a Chinese traditional massage... Damn relaxing...

DAY 3:0630 hours, there comes the morning call... uncle and I couldn't get up... We were late for breakfast!!! Whole tour group waited for us to finish our breakfast... Lol... Visited Shen Zhen Museum(28 years of history). Lunch time!! Shen Zhen's food sucks compared to Hong Kong... Well... What to do?? Still have to eat... Carried on our journey... Window of The World(whole world's famous towers, landscapes and buildings was built in smaller scale here), China Folk Town, and Culture Village where we watched 3 entertaining and multi award winning international standard shows!! I have to admit that the 3 shows was the best show I've ever watched in my life!!! Don't believe?? Witness it yourself!!

DAY 4:Back in Hong Kong... Spent whole day in Disneyland... It's buildings, landscapes and other facilities are so beautiful!! Played almost everything there... What really keeps my adrenalin flowing was the indoor roller coasted... It was so dark until you can't see anything!! I was almost caught up with a heart attack in that damn Haunted Jungle and Ghost Hotel!!! God damn it... So damn real ghost... At once I was going to cry... Those idiots have no life scaring people... Sigh... Ghost hotel was even scarier... The wooden floor will shake as if they are going to break... Oh my god... I won't want to enter that two damn place ANYMORE!!! Anyway, I've enjoyed myself in Disneyland... The 4D was superb and the boating adventure too was fun and interesting... Besides, they have Halloween party at the Disneyland main entrance followed by 15 minutes tremendous world class fireworks display... Too bad I've only managed to record 7 minutes of it as my mobile phone ran out of battery so does my uncle's camera... Zzz...

DAY 5: In a blink of an eye, it's already the 5th day of our stay... All of us planned to go to the famous Hong Kong theme park, Ocean Park. Maintenance job was in progress... We went all the way to Ocean Park and yet we did not manage to land out asses on their Space Shot.... That time it was closed... What an unlucky day... Nothing much to play that day... Our flight back to Singapore Changi Airport was scheduled on 1915 hours, flight UA 895. That's the end of our vacation... So damn fast... Hope that we'll enjoy ourselves better in our next destination... Taiwan, here we come!!! I've uploaded quite a few of pictures... Have a nice day....

Before Departure: Changi Airport, Singapore