this is truely a small world...
at changi airport while we were waiting for our plane...we came across none other than our rossmoyne school mate...KAVINDA! of all people eh! he had a fantastic 24 hour transit on his way to sri lanka...
anyway, we departed singapore flying jetstar...more pleasant than any of us expected, and 3.5 hours later...we were in HONG KONG!
once we got to hong kong airport, we had a free shuttle service to the hotel (cause we're staying here for two weeks) and the bus trip from the airport to the hotel was around an hour. The first thing you notice about hong kong is the population...there are a lot of poeple. There are a sea of apartment blocks here to match it as well.
so fast forward...we got to the hotel where we met ming's aunt, after putting our stuff in the rooms, which by the way is SOOO much better than robertson quay (singapore hotel) she took us out to eat. While we were in the room, the bag boy brought up our luggage, he put it in the room and just sorta stood there...only after about 30 seconds of ben and i looking at each other in confusion, we realised we had to tip him, yet we had no hong kong dollars, so we had to go to ming to get some money =P
so we went out to eat a local nearby restaurant. awesome food and pretty cheap as well, just got to get used to everything being in larger denominations, 1AUD = 6.6 HKD at the moment.
we called it a fairly early night and today we just sorta bummed around. ben and i went to the harbour while keegan and ming went to sort out mings identification card. the success of hong kong has been at the expense of the environment, the air here is not as clean and crisp as perth, and you'll see the pollution in the photos below, but it is an awesome city with an awesome night life.
after that met up back at the hotel around 5 before heading out to dinner with mings family.
only after we were on the way to the dinner did ming bother to tell us it was his grandmother's birthday, needless to say that keegan, ben and i were a bit under dressed >< july ="_="'
dinner was awesome, there was so much to eat that they took the left overs home. it was at this middle eastern place, but the majority of customers appeared to be chinese, i suppose we are in hong kong after all...
after dinner we walked back to the harbour to see the city skyline by night...BEAUTIFUL, it feels surreal to be here looking at what you see in postcards actually in person.
oh and in singapore we saw the A380 (the double decker plane =)
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