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Saturday, March 02, 2024
NUS Geography Challenge 2024
The team attained one gold, one silver and one bronze.
Results
https://nusgeographychallenge.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/individual-component-gc-2024-announcement-of-results.pdf
The team's entry for the creative component.
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Sunday, December 10, 2023
HK Kowloon Shangri-la Dec 2023
Hong Kong Day 1
Arrived at Hong Kong at 7am, ending our 12N cruise onboard Celebrity Solstice.
Took a taxi from the cruise terminal to our hotel, Kowloon Shangri-la,but it was too early to check-in so we left the luggage with the hotel. The hotel is just next to the entrance of both the East Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui train station. Very convenient to access both the red and yellow lines. The hotel is excellent in location, room and service rendered. Highly recommended.
Walked to Haiphong avenue as there is a well known food centre there. The concierge was so good as to gave us direction and even gave us a map and also the hotel name card in case we want to take a taxi.
Tried the famous pork chop noodle and bun. It's next to the wet market at Haiphong Street Temporary Food centre.
The Avenue of Comics Stars at Kowloon park.
One of the stops was to Yau Mai Tei police station often featured in TVB drama series. We even met a friendly group of police who took a wefie with us.
Our next stop was Yau Mai Tei fruit wholesale market featured in a TVB drama show. Bought the strawberry which looks very big but not as sweet as they advertised.
Took a break from the walking at a restaurant in Mongkok 四宝. The dessert osmanthus wine milk pudding is so good. Hubby have their peanut butter honey toast. Their ice ovaltine and ice lemon drinks are good too.
Finally gotten a bag from Ladies market.
There is a flower crab, some baby abalone, scallops, clams, prawns, bowls of beef, lamb and pork. The soup base is honey dew with chicken feet. We also ordered egg white fried rice. The peach drink is visually and tastefully awesome.
Gotten a taxi back to the hotel. As we had already registered, we just had to collect our room card. The other line for checking-in was so long.
What an awesome room with harbour view. They even gotten a bottle of white wine and chocolates for our anniversary celebration. Fruits and traditional tea were also given. Thankful and gratitude to the hotel.
There is a kettle and coffee machine in the room. The fridge is just below it and it is big. There are two big bottles of water complimentary and replenished daily. So are the coffee capsules and tea bags.
A nice luxury to have the view of the harbour and boats from the comfort of the room. There are so many buses parked along the roads with hundreds of tourists.
Spectacular light and sound show at the harbour taken from our room. They actually have a app which you can download to synchronise the music with the light show.
The location of the hotel is good. Other than the MRT station, there is Wellcome, a convenient store, across the street at Moody road after you cross the bus interchange. Next to the MRT station is a plaza with many eateries and shops.
Hong Kong Day 2
The hotel foyer is so grand.
Took the ferry to cross over to Hong Kong island from Tsim Tsa Tsui. It cost just HK5 per person. I had to buy the tokens from the machine. The ferry ride took just 5 mins.
A former prison and court at Tai Kwun. The prison cell is so small.
What a small world. A former colleague, Guanghan Wang, was also in HK and sent me this picture. Was pretty lost as the Google map is confusing as some of the shops were on the slopes next to the escalator like Bake house. Hubby was getting a bit impatient with me as I made him took a few wrong turns. 😬
Paid a hefty price of HK2000 for the 10 digital photos taken at the Victoria peak sky terrace. Was totally shocked. Almost doubled what I paid for the 100 plus photo taken on Celebrity Solstice.
Hong Kong/Macau Day 3
On our way to Cotai Macau.
Took a cab to Long Wah tea house next to the Red market. A bit disappointed with the food quality though service and ambience is still as good. The beef hor fun is average. The tea is very good.
Massage in four countries for this trip. Most comfortable here as acupressure is used. On level 3
of the Sofitel hotel in Macau. There is bath facilities and a toilet in the body massage room . They prepared a change of clothings for us to have our foot massage in another room.
Hubby waited 10 years to be back in Macau just for this!
Awaiting departure from Macau Taipa ferry terminal.
On the ferry back to Hong Kong
The hotel is so nice to provide another fruit platter complimentary. Another bookmark is left the bed again.
Day 4 Hong Kong
It looked very cloudy today.
Took our lunch at Good view restaurant in Tai-O.
Hubby love the vegetable stir fried with beef. The beef is so smooth and tender. We both love the grouper fish. So fresh and the meat is so soft! Didnt quite like the shark fin soup as it's too oilyLast night in this beautiful city.
Not going to post any photos for dinner on our last night at the hotel's cafe Kool. We were tired from the excursion to Tai O and asked hubby whether we should eat at the buffet or Shang Palace in the hotel. We decided on buffet so that we can just try a little of each type of the food. So very disappointed. Still having a headache now. It was so NOISY, worse than the coffeeshop. Can't believe this is is 5 star hotel, I never face anything like this before in Hong Kong nor anywhere else.
I took the lobster and was shocked it stinks! Could not eat that and spoilt my appetite. The crab leg is salty and not fresh too. Luckily there was wrapped roasted duck. Took some salmon sashimi which is average. The prawns tempura was bad but brinjal tempura was ok. Dessert a failure. Hubby just took some Malay and Indian rice.
My experience with the hotel was so awesome as you can see from posts. Can't believe this should spoil my last night here. The juice are not even fresh juice but sweetened drinks. Thank God they could give us hot chocolate.
Unbelievable. Spoilt my holiday. Must apologise to hubby for paying so much for a buffet that is worse than a coffeeshop meal.
Day 5
Last look out of the window from the hotel room in the early morning.
I like the airport's toilet amenities a lot. Each sink will have soap dispenser (right) water dispenser (middle) and dryer (left). And it is very clean.
Our plane has arrived.
- Priority embarkation and disembarkation
- The very wide leg space
- Comfortable chair which recline a lot and foot rest up.
- The auto dimmed window.
However, the complimentary 30MB WiFi is bad as you can only see Facebook posts (without comments and pictures) and WhatsApp. The eight treasure rice is not nice too though the biscuits are ok.
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