Wednesday, November 5, 2008
As we reached back the Hotel quite late, we slept quite late too. Cuz had to bath and unpack etc. Slept around 3am. Wanted to go Ocean Park and then to The Peak on the 2nd day. But dear thought we might tired ourselves cuz we only left with like 4 hours of sleep. Thus, we decided to switch our Day 3 itinerary to Day 2; i.e to visit SGI HK and then ladies market shop!
Had breakfast at a coffeeshop. Had bread, ham, egg, lemon tea, coffee, macaroni which tasted quite nice.
After that, we headed off to take the MTR to Soka Gakkia International, Hong Kong! (SGI HK) In Singapore, it is called SSA - Singapore Soka Association under SGI.
First time taking the MTR. The MTR is smaller than our MRT. Quite a crowd. The journey from one station to another is relatively shorter than ours. I like their MTR map system. They do not have operator to say out the name of the station when it is reaching. Instead, they have a map with LED lights on once they reached a station.
The SGI HK is located at Boundary Street, nearest MTR station is Prince Edward station. We thought we were confident to reach there with Dear's GPS. However, the GPS lost its way i guess. The map kept on turning around when we walked. Slowly, the GPS began to regain 'conscious' and finally lead us to our destination after an hour! Hahaha. SGI HK is quite far from the station. It is not quite within walking distance. Was relief at last!
Showed the MD (a Man from Men Division) the SSA letter. He led us inside the Kaikan (Soka Centre) for a WD (a woman from Women Division) to bring us around the kaikan. We then went inside the sales office. Wanted to get souvenirs for my members and believers from SGI HK but was quite dissappointed that they don't sell much souvenirs. Only managed to get SGI HK postcards. Bought a gongyo book for Christine. After that, we went to the garden. They have trees planted by each division; MD, WD, YWD, YMD, FD, SD etc. I felt that was nice. We joined the members for evening gongyo at 2pm as they also have a room for chanting like in our TBSC. We spent about 1 hour there, taking photos, exploring the kaikan. Didn't went up level 2 as we do not have much time left for us to shop. ^^
We took a bus to Mongkok MTR station to ladies market shopping!! I was actually quite excited to go ladies market; heard they sell alot of things and available for bargaining. Their ladies market is like our Chinatown. Don't understand why it is called Ladies Market as i did not buy a single thing for myself over there! Dear bought alot of tshirts!! Not much things for me to shop. However, we really look like we shopped til we dropped cuz our feets were in pain as we walked for the whole day that day.
When we was about to drop, we went back to our hotel, put our barangs, rest for awhile and then went for our dinner at a Japanese restaurant nearby the Hotel.
We made a mistake by eating there. The food there wasn't nice. We ordered salmon with rice and soup but the auntie there kept on recommending us those expensive kind of food when we weren't interested. This made me thought that she was desperate to earn money from us... The starters came. Chinese tea and tomato with something else which we didn't order. At first, we didn't care about the tomato cuz we thought that it was just a starter, a simple looking tomato. The auntie, after watching us staring around the restaurant waiting for our main dish for quite awhile, came to us and encouraged us to eat the tomato. At that moment, i thought she was being nice. Never did we realised that we had been sort of cheated by them. The receipt showed that they charged us for that miserable piece of tomato each and chinese tea for quite an amount! The auntie wasn't that nice after all. She was just luring us to eat so we need to pay for it! That is the disadvantage of being a tourist. Easily cheated! lolx
After our dinner, we went shopping at Canton street with much hope for buying things for myself while our feet were still in pain. :X It drizzled and then stopped for thrice. I didn't manage to buy anything as the shops were closed~~ =<
HK - 买东西，吃东西， 买东西， 吃东西 isn't real. :P Sadded, dear brought me to eat dessert which we passed by when we were returning to the Hotel.
Honey dew sago and tang yuan, my fav!
After that, we walked back to our Hotel. As usual, we got lost. Spent a few minutes of walking around before we get back to the Hotel. haha.
Had breakfast at a coffeeshop. Had bread, ham, egg, lemon tea, coffee, macaroni which tasted quite nice.
After that, we headed off to take the MTR to Soka Gakkia International, Hong Kong! (SGI HK) In Singapore, it is called SSA - Singapore Soka Association under SGI.
First time taking the MTR. The MTR is smaller than our MRT. Quite a crowd. The journey from one station to another is relatively shorter than ours. I like their MTR map system. They do not have operator to say out the name of the station when it is reaching. Instead, they have a map with LED lights on once they reached a station.
The SGI HK is located at Boundary Street, nearest MTR station is Prince Edward station. We thought we were confident to reach there with Dear's GPS. However, the GPS lost its way i guess. The map kept on turning around when we walked. Slowly, the GPS began to regain 'conscious' and finally lead us to our destination after an hour! Hahaha. SGI HK is quite far from the station. It is not quite within walking distance. Was relief at last!
Showed the MD (a Man from Men Division) the SSA letter. He led us inside the Kaikan (Soka Centre) for a WD (a woman from Women Division) to bring us around the kaikan. We then went inside the sales office. Wanted to get souvenirs for my members and believers from SGI HK but was quite dissappointed that they don't sell much souvenirs. Only managed to get SGI HK postcards. Bought a gongyo book for Christine. After that, we went to the garden. They have trees planted by each division; MD, WD, YWD, YMD, FD, SD etc. I felt that was nice. We joined the members for evening gongyo at 2pm as they also have a room for chanting like in our TBSC. We spent about 1 hour there, taking photos, exploring the kaikan. Didn't went up level 2 as we do not have much time left for us to shop. ^^
We took a bus to Mongkok MTR station to ladies market shopping!! I was actually quite excited to go ladies market; heard they sell alot of things and available for bargaining. Their ladies market is like our Chinatown. Don't understand why it is called Ladies Market as i did not buy a single thing for myself over there! Dear bought alot of tshirts!! Not much things for me to shop. However, we really look like we shopped til we dropped cuz our feets were in pain as we walked for the whole day that day.
When we was about to drop, we went back to our hotel, put our barangs, rest for awhile and then went for our dinner at a Japanese restaurant nearby the Hotel.
We made a mistake by eating there. The food there wasn't nice. We ordered salmon with rice and soup but the auntie there kept on recommending us those expensive kind of food when we weren't interested. This made me thought that she was desperate to earn money from us... The starters came. Chinese tea and tomato with something else which we didn't order. At first, we didn't care about the tomato cuz we thought that it was just a starter, a simple looking tomato. The auntie, after watching us staring around the restaurant waiting for our main dish for quite awhile, came to us and encouraged us to eat the tomato. At that moment, i thought she was being nice. Never did we realised that we had been sort of cheated by them. The receipt showed that they charged us for that miserable piece of tomato each and chinese tea for quite an amount! The auntie wasn't that nice after all. She was just luring us to eat so we need to pay for it! That is the disadvantage of being a tourist. Easily cheated! lolx
After our dinner, we went shopping at Canton street with much hope for buying things for myself while our feet were still in pain. :X It drizzled and then stopped for thrice. I didn't manage to buy anything as the shops were closed~~ =<
HK - 买东西，吃东西， 买东西， 吃东西 isn't real. :P Sadded, dear brought me to eat dessert which we passed by when we were returning to the Hotel.
Honey dew sago and tang yuan, my fav!
After that, we walked back to our Hotel. As usual, we got lost. Spent a few minutes of walking around before we get back to the Hotel. haha.
;DANCEDwiththeSTARS* @
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