Day 2 - Mon 13 July

Our day started pretty early when we were in Hong Kong as we have to be in the Hong Kong office; located at Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay, between 8.30-9am.

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So could you imagine, for me, I'd have to be up by 6am, wash up, makeup, curl up and dress up by 7.30 and rush for our good breakfast at 7.45am so that we could get a cab and be on the way by 8.15am!

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The cab ride took us between 15 to 25mins depending on traffic AND we were not late, not even for once! *proud*

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We were given an office tour and YES I was so impressed at how nice their view was from every angle and every part of the office.. here's the view from the room we used for the 4-day conference.

In office, other than meeting, presentation, discussion and lots of interaction, we'd get unlimited and free flow of coffee, tea, water, fruits and cookies throughout! Occasionally, we'd get renowned local snacks too. They were very thoughtful and hospitable. *thank you*

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Only on this first day of the conference, our Hong Kong colleagues brought us out for extremely sinful lunch at the building next to ours - MEGABOX.

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It was a very interesting mall that housed more restaurants and eating places. I also noticed that in Hong Kong, they have lines and ushers who maintained orderly crowd at all lift lobbies in major buildings and departmental stores! Very interesting. Just like how we'd queue in banks in Singapore.

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Here's the nice restaurant and lunch spread. We went to Level 17, Paramount Banquet Hall. It was a really luxurious set-up; chandelier, lavish wall paper and the expensive smell of a Chinese restaurant!

They booked 2 tables and endless flow of dim sum spread! I could only say... the amount ordered for us were simply horrifying! And I also noticed they ate very little! Or was it because I ate too much? *giggles*

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After lunch, some of us went up to Starbucks to grab coffee and headed on back to continue the conference.

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We 'knocked off' at 5-ish and headed back to hotel to freshen up! So tiring that we decided to spend the evening nearby our hotel and have an early night.

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My 2 colleagues + Malaysian colleague, E went out together. He also happened to be the only male throughout this conference and he kept all really well-entertained. We decided to just eat at any place that had a queue = good food! We found one just 2 blocks away from our hotel.

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This was like a roadside 'Dai Pai Tung' except that it was indoor and air-conditioned. Mui Kee.

This place seemed pretty famous with plenty of newspaper and magazine publications. It was founded by a young lady when she was 23 or 26 a few years ago! The food was good and was cheap! 4 of us ordered so much and only cost us about SGD 40+.

We had a soup... nice and refreshing taste. Their famous wok-fried chicken, fried you-tiao with stuffing, stuffed pumpkin! It was a good meal.

you'd really not noticed this eating place, it was tucked in the basement of a building you'd wouldn't stop to look.. thank goodness, we followed the crowd in. GOOD ONE!

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After dinner, I wanted desserts! Our friend recommended us this place...

Mine was the mango taster platter.. with mangoes in sago, mango slices with mango mochi, mango slices with mango ice cream!!!!!

this was MINE! All mine!

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We spend about SGD 20-ish here. There were plenty of branches in Tsim Tsha Tsui! look around and you will see them!

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We walked around abit and headed back to the hotel right after.. I was flat out tired.

Day 1 - Sun 12 July

Our flight to HK on the Airbus 380 was scheduled to take off at 9:45am. J and I decided to have nice breakfast together before I depart and lucky me, my father-in-law drove us to the airport.

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It was also my first time departing from Terminal 3. I didn't like the terminal; huge, empty and cold. Guess I am still the 'small and cozy' person. Here's my man and our breakfast at Coffee Bean.

My favourite Brek-O-Day with coffee and his usual Egg Sandwich with Tea.

Shortly after our breakfast, I went into the departure lounge. It was a long walk to our gate. I have already mentioned the plane and flight at the Airbus 380 experience so shall not elaborate on it here.

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We touched down pretty late. We were supposed to arrive in HK at 1.30pm. However, it was 2.15pm when I checked my watch upon touched down. After clearance from customs and waiting for our luggage, it was a little passed 3pm when we got into a taxi to town. The cabfare was HKD 260. Gosh, that was expensive. The weather was hot and sunny and we were all sleepy. I had waken at 6am in the morning.

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We checked in shortly passed 3.45pm, freshened up and we had to EAT! Walked into a CHA CAN TENG a block beside our hotel and waited for my Malaysian colleague to arrive.

I ordered Roast Goose Noodles. The skin of the roast was nice and nothing else. They also didn't have chopped green chili or red chili.. Very sad.

This Cha Can Teng 'Yuen Kee' is everywhere in Kowloon! Every corner I turned, there was one.

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My Malaysian colleague, E, arrived shortly after. We went walking, YES, on foot around and about Tsim Tsha Tsui; Peking Street, Nathan Street, Harborcity, Mirama Shopping Centre, Ocean Towel etc.

E and I parted with my Singapore colleagues and went on to meet an old friend of ours.

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It was a good catch up session. We went to a nice restaurant which J and I had gone to previously as well. If I translate the name of the restaurant as it is, it would mean SWEET DYNASTY in mandarin. How appropriate, they served so many types of yummy Hong Kong desserts.

We ate alot! *blush* We had dim sum, noodles, porridge and desserts! Other than the food, we had a great time catching up.

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We were there for about 2 hours before leaving for Harborcity. We all left for our hotels about 10pm. We were all staying really close by.

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Tomorrow will be a very very long day!

Our Daily Bread

Here are the pictures of where we feed ourselves every morning!
The beautiful cafe on the 2nd floor of the hotel. I wonder if it was because we dine very early morning which explained why there weren't much guests or the hotel was not crowded! :)

The spread, to me, was fantastic! Wholemeal and white bread, eggs, hash browns, sausages, croissants, muffins, salad, cheese, fruits, juices, cereals, all types of jams, coffee and tea!

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My colleagues found it boring and lack variety.. I did not agree. *lol* I was happy with it!

Well, at the very least, there were eggs, bread, coffee and tea?!

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Here are what I had every morning... my very own satisfying combo.

Nice nice Hotel!

The company booked for us.. Luxe Manor Hotel that sits within the buzzling Tsim Tsha Tsui - on Kimberly Street! It looked really tiny when I was standing across the street peering. BUT, I fell in love with it the moment I stepped foot in!

The couch you see below.... well-upholstered on a classic arm chair with elaborate wood carving details.. with LAO FU ZI fabric?!!! *lol* The vibrant reddish and gold color that were so rich and opulence coupled with the classy tinge of Victorian elaborated details!

Lotsa lush drapes, red, black and gold! LOVE IT!

Here is our room! gotta love it ya?

My room mate complained the room was tiny. I didn't think so, there were 2 single beds, a comfy chair at one corner, a nice writing table, a TV wall, a wardrobe... a washroom.. so, why would it be considered small????? The furniture are slightly on the bulk side as they were curvy and Victorian... I found the room size pretty cozy in fact. If you are planning to go to Hong Kong, try this hotel. (directly across Kimberly Hotel).
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Our Bathroom!

Another great service they provided was the nice housekeeping people leaves pretty pastries in our room everyday after they tidied it; bite sized brownies, cookies, muffins, shortcakes etc...

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As you could also see, the room was not a bright room but a perfect comfortably-litted one!