We went to the highest point in HK island,simply known as 'The Peak". We decided to take a bus up and then the mountain train down.As usual,the hillrides on the bus was very keng.Double decker bus somemore,can see like literally 90 degrees downwards when I look out the window.
Whee...jakun photo from the 2nd deck of the bus.Still in the city.
More unbalanced buildings.Some people just don't study physics nowadays...sigh...
Mheeeeehhkkhhhh... a sheep scultupe i found in the lookout tower's toilet.Look,it has the same bimbotic smile as Sook's lion.
The funky toilet door.
The view from the top of the look out deck.Quite expensive to come up to the deck tho,should have just stayed at the bottom of the tower to look out,still can see the same scenery.
There was a wall of photos at the deck,from some photography competition.Here's one of them.
One of the most retarded ideas I've come across.A hiking festival up the highest peak in HK.
The look out deck.
One of the main attractions at the peak is Madame Tussaud's wax museum,but we didn't go,because it was quite expensive.
So we went downhill by mountain train after that.Look at that recline man...and that is an actual train stop right there.*cue Happy Tree Friends soundtrack*
At the bottom of the hill aka city area,we went to the HK park,where there was a wedding registry.No wonder there were like prolly 5 or more marry-ing couples taking pictures all over the place.And about a gazillion cars tied with ribbons and teddy bears.And also the big group of junior orchestra members.The pic at the top was taken at the park's aviary.So clean right?
The fish pond,and the gay terrapins.seme/uke/seme/uke.lol...
The pond.That building,I think it's a cafe or something.
Within the park were the HK visual arts centre ,Flagstaff House Museum of teaware,and KH Lo gallery. We again mysteriously didn't spend much time at the vis art centre,just saw one gallery,which had chinese calligraphy and paintings.It was more of experimental work and looked like what TOA would have in the design dept hallway.
The Flagstaff House teaware museum was very good.On the first floor there were some ancient teaware and some posters and a video on how tea is harvested and prepared.Quite cool,i didn't know that there were so many ways of preparing tea.The one i remember was the Tang dynasty that prepared frothy tea in salt water,and the Mongolians that put cheese in their tea.They also have free internet services there.lol.Anyways,on the 2nd floor,there was an exhibition on contemporary teaware designs.Think of visual communication sculptures made into teapots and you're nearly there.We didn't stay to see all though,eventhough i thought they were very interesting.
The KH Lo gallery as quite small and only had one gallery,featuring ancient Chinese porcelain ware and cop mohor.I couldn't really appreciate it though.
Then there's the part where I suddenly like HK a whole lot ,because they have so many little galleries and parks everywhere,and they are always free,or at least free on certain days.I suggest that DG71 goes to HK and go and geek out there at the art galleries and oogle the little boys *ahem* I mean ,men,and go shopping for sex toys *ahem* I mean unique clothes
After that,we went to the nearby HK botanical and zoological garden.They really meant the zoological part,it was practically a free zoo.
look,leopard.He got up to pose for us too!
pink flamingos bitching out at the drinking hole.
"And then,like,she was totally showing off her new pink feathers and stuff and like,what was that? i mean,like,helloo"
"Yeah,I like,so totally agree,girlfriend"
"Yeah,like,whatever..."
The orang utans being very subdued.I think they gave up after the constant emo howling from the siamang monkeys next door.Siamang monkeys are really super emo.There was a group of tourists immitating them though.They just went oOO
OOOooooOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOoooooO
OOOOO
OOooooooOOOOOoo
ooooooOO and could be heard from anywhere in the park
Back in Kowloon side,we finally went to Goods Of Desire in Harbour City shopping complex.It was divided into 2 parts,the furniture part and the clothes and etc part.The furniture part was a lot like a mini Ikea,but with more style.The staff all wore this black traditional clothing thinggy that looks like those Vietnamese women's traditional clothes.Made them look like priests somewhat but it was cool.eventually bought those black delay no more flipflops.Doubt I'll be using them tho,except to go to sandy places like Sunway Lagoon or Penang *hinthint*
In the evening we wanted to see the Christmas countdown.The problem was,we didn't know where the actual countdown and performance were,so we just walked around with the whole crowd.Most roads around Tsim Sha Tsui,where the celebration was going on,were closed,and instead there was one way traffic flow of humans,as in really one side of the street only goes one direction.Observe above picture.That's in a subway.Even the person in a wheelchair couldn't use the lift because other selfish people didn't want to use the crowded stairs and piled in first.
Crowd control police and their sexy backs...I dunno what's with the hairstyle and the hat
Oh noes...this guy is everywhere...
Anyways,in the end we decided to just watch the countdown from the tv,since we couldn't find any live performances.Most people,i suspect,were just hanging around with family/friends/bf gf and they also don't know where's the performances.Ironically the only performance we saw that night was the carolling at the church right in front of our guest house.We didn't even realise there was a church there.But in the end also we somehow missed the countdown on TV,or maybe they didn't show it.*shrug*Anyways,it was nice to experience "crowd" HK style.(you basically take any crowd and times it by 1000000678367864)
Ail be bach
