Lil' Missy Chubbs: Back from Macau! (Part I)

I'm finally back from Macau, and boy am I happy to be home. Though it had been enjoyable the past 4 days, nothing beats home!

Anyway, I am quite amazed that we can actually spend 4 days in Macau, and that I have not stepped into even one casino. It was difficult to stick to the itinerary my aunt came up with, cause of the old and young we had with us (2 grandmas and 2 kids), nonetheless I enjoyed the sightseeing part of this holiday.

Digress abit, I'm updating my lousy iPhone 3G to iOS4, and it's taking forever to back up! Keeping my fingers crossed that by the time I'm done with this post, the backing-up will be done... I hope they are only kidding when they said that it might take hours!

We took Jetstar, and arrived in Macau at 2am... Was crazy tired by the time we reached.

My uncle's friend met us at the airport, cause my uncle was worried that the taxi drivers might not understand mandarin, and my cantonese is like crap. We took 2 cabs and headed to Hotel Royal, a 4 star hotel among residential area... (Sneaked back one of the room cardkey, cause they gave us an extra, for what I also don't know LOL)

The building looks like crap, it's the building with scaffolding

And it has crappy view...

BUT the rooms were great, cause they renovated not too long ago...And of course they took this photo of a room with a nice view...

Grace decided to take photo around our room (mostly bathroom, cause she likes the bathtub):

21st June 2010

We walked around the area, looking for a place for breakfast, walked around quite abit actually, cause for some reason, most of the shops were closed on a Monday morning. Finally found a place to eat, and when we were done, took the public bus to the customs, cause we were heading to Zhu Hai.

The only mode of public transport they have there are buses (including Bus 11-walking) and cabs.

When we were waiting for our turn at the customs, we heard this custom officer shouting at this Indian family, I couldn't quite catch his English, all I heard was "Show me the money" (Reminded me of 'Wheel of Fortune').

Walked around the humongous Immigration Underground Centre

It has 2 large levels, with alot of the shops selling all the same things, and as usual, they are all fake stuff, like fake crocs, designer bags, etc... Walking around the mall was a torture, cause it's a freaking maze, and you don't know where to start...

We took a short break from walking and went to this restaurant for lunch. They had this covered wall where they showed different spices, and I saw something that made me laugh

After like spending 5 hours walking, and not having bought much stuff, we headed to a nearby place for seafood. We were actually freaking tired, too tired to even walk to the seafood place, and we don't have any idea exactly how to get there, and we ended up heading to the first big seafood sign that we saw... Walked like a super big round only to realise, when we reached there, that there is an underground passage leading there from the mall -_-''.. We were suppose to have seafood at the local roadside stalls, but they look too damn dirty, and we too were too tired to go recce (we had been walking for like god knows how long) thus we settled for a restaurant there, which shared an entrance with a hair salon and this sleazy looking massage parlor..

The food there wasn't excellent, but not too bad either, the only thing we didn't finish was the plate of vegetable.. It was not appetizing at all because they just dumped whole stalks of vegetable into the wok and fried it and transferred them onto a plate.. And the supposedly green vegetables looked yellow *gross*. Trying to 'kiap' the veg is like 'kiap-ing' noodles, not kidding...

God damn it! I give up, the iTunes screen keeping getting on top of my firefox window, and I have canceled the update like 5 times accidentally cause the iTunes window came up just when I keyed 'Enter' -_-'''

22nd June 2010

Woke up with a very stiff calf (actually I have been waking up with stiff calf everyday that I was there, can you imagine how much walking we did?)

Our first stop was to the Flora Garden, where we took a super short cable car ride to get there.

When we got to Flora Garden, we headed straight to the Guia Fortress, where we got to see the Guia Chapel and Lighthouse. Before we got there, we walked pass this tunnel and decide to go in and check it out. They showed things that used to be in the tunnel during war time, there were statues of soldiers in there and it's kinda freaky, I didn't dare to even look at them for long, let alone take photos of them, I just rushed through the tunnel.