Hong Kong day 3

The main reason for our trip was to celebrate the Silver Wedding Anniversary of my parents. 25 years! I am praying for 75 more years :) Anyway, for our third day in HK, we just went to Mong Kok for cheap finds. Mong Kok is the foreign counterpart of Divisoria and 168. Lots of ukays, tiangges, Nike botiques and more! Upon arriving there, I noticed this sign in one of the shops. I don’t know if it’s spelled wrongly or there’s a meaning behind it. Hmmm.

I said to myself that I should try their milk tea. I’ve been looking for it since day one but I can’t find any- only in Mong Kok I was able to find one! T’was only HK$12, quite cheaper compared to the milk teas here in the country.

How I wish Mcdonald’s here will soon offer this Chicken McGrill! Delicioso!

See! Mong Kok is really much like Divisoria! When we arrived, we thought that these booths just closed- but they are just setting up pala! Tiny drops of rain started to fall again but it did not stop us from shopping!

We went back to the hotel around 3 in the afternoon because Bryan said that we should be at the airport by 4. While waiting, I went to the Sky Garden floor of our hotel to take a picture of the swimming pool.

And guess what!! Our flight was delayed by 4 hours!!! Had we known earlier, we should have stayed longer in Mong Kok! But it was an unexpected event… so yeah. To compensate for our delayed flight, (or in Layman’s term, pampalubag-loob) weeach received HK$75 worth of food vouchers. Spent them for dinner at a Chinese(?) restaurant called Tian Xia dumplings, and used the remaining amount to buy cakes, muffins, and frappucino at Starbucks.

Ending this post with an aerial shot of Manila (I guess :p) at night.

Again, I hope I gave you atleast a taste of what’s Hong Kong like! :)

2nd day in Hong Kong! Complete set of pictures coming up in 30 mins!

Hong Kong day 1

Just when I thought my summer vacation would end up without having a real vacation comes this out-of-the-country trip! Now my vacation’s complete, lol. Our flight to HK was supposedly at 8am but ended up at 10! I hate you, PAL. Anyway, here are some of the pictures I took starting with the obligatory photos of the fluffy clouds and the vast sky.

Upon arriving at the Hotel, we did not immediately roam around the city. Instead, we rested for a while and started touring in the afternoon. We had early dinner in a Chinese restaurant where the waitresses are very careless and clumsy. And I mean VERY. As they pour the soup to the bowl, a fourth of it goes on the table. I was endlessly cursing them at back of my mind. Just kidding. They, as most of the people in HK, do not understand English. Everytime we ask them about the dish being served, we got nothing. Mr. E.Y. (which according to him means Enjoy Yourself), one of our two tourist guides, is the one who translates for us. Really such a great help.

Too hungry to check if the photos are good or not. Haha and wasn’t able to take photos of the other food!

Immediately after eating, we went straight to Victoria Peak and entered Madam Tussauds, a museum that contains wax figures of known celebrities (will make a separate post!)

My family with Mr. E.Y. :)

It was so foggy up there I wasn’t able to take sharper images with my kit lens. :( I hope these can give justice to the beauty of Victoria Peak though!

Ending this post with the pictures from our last stop, Avenue of Stars. Very scenic view from there! <3

Wish that I’ve given you a taste of Hong Kong through these pictures. More on may 2nd and 3rd day posts!

A sneak peek of my first day in Hong Kong! Can you guess where is this? :) 

The hobby

Like what I’ve said in my first post, you may expect from this blog the subject photography. Taking pictures of different scenes is actually my hobby. It started during highschool and progressed when I got my dslr as an advance Christmas present on December 18, 2010 (thanks mom and dad!) I’m getting compliments from many people saying I’m really good in taking photos. Some are even joking that the ones I post on my facebook account were from Google haha! But I know I’m way way far from being a good photographer. I only know the basics— I still have to know more not only in taking good pictures but also in post-processing them.

Anyway, here are the shots on my collection:

TABA
This is actually our dog (we named him Taba because we cant think of any lol) who suffered from a severe illness. But would you believe me if I say that he was “reborn” before he got lost? He was healed by our vet by injecting something. After a couple of months his coat grew back, making him look like a Chow but sadly he got lost one day. Maybe someone “dog-napped” him because he got so fat people wanted to eat him :( We know he didn’t die, coz if he did, we should’ve seen him around the vicinity. Poor Taba. We should’ve not let him go outside our house.

Starbucks 2011 Planner

My second planner from Starbucks. Since I got my first, I said to myself that I should have the succeeding ones even just until the end of college. Took this using a Sony digicam.

Name that flower

Do you know what it’s called? Just saw this along the garden of my aunt last Christmas.

Gumamela

Name that flower 2

I just don’t know its name. It’s a familiar one though. Like seeing familiar faces but cant recognize who they are haha

Run

Ignite the light

Hey Pussy!

Are you Antonio Banderas? lol

Sea lights by the sea shore

Though I wasn’t actually on a sea shore haha

Road to success

Vintage Wedding Car

Lakeshore

Bokeh

Sky’s the limit

UST in full green

400 years of excellence

Sa paglubog ng araw ay ang pagsikat ng Tomasino

The last 2 photos were the ones i submitted to vivasantotomas.tumblr.com and they reblogged them! (though I think they reblog all the photos submitted to them. haha)

As you notice the photos are not in HD. I just downloaded them from my facebook cuz my original copies are…….. long story. But they are still with me. And sorry for the jologs title. i just suck on giving titles.

Me and my friend were actually planning of entering a photog class last summer vacation but sadly, it didn’t push through. Hopefully next summer!

Hope you like my photos! And I’m looking forward to add more in my collection. Have a happy Sunday! Don’t forget to attend mass!