Singapore.

After a week of non-update, I am bringing you this edition of my little journal from the comfort of my home in Singapore. Yes, I’ve touched down about an hour and a half ago and the first thing that greeted me was Terminal 3. The terminal was quite nice, but because this is the first time that I’ve seen it, it took some getting used to. Anyway the flight on SIA was brilliant. I’ve probably never been on a more enjoyable flight than this one, and I think I shall ditch Cathay Pacific for SIA for my future trips between Hong Kong and Singapore.

The past week has been pretty hectic for me – I had quite a lot of things to do, went to a lot of different places and also did a lot of crazy things. I headed out to Shenzhen with my sister for steamboat at Little Sheep (小肥羊) and for a very sumptuous meal, we paid only RMB 172. You probably can’t even get the soup base in Hong Kong at that price.

I spent Christmas alone though. Went out to watch Madagascar 2 at APM, and went to make a new pair of glasses after the movie. I think it was the first time in many years that I spent Christmas alone, and to be honest it was refreshing for a change.

Then Boxing Day. I was actually supposed to have gone watch Galileo: Suspect X (ガリレオ：容疑者Ｘの現身), but for one reason or another me and my sister managed to get the ticket to a wrong date. Not very good.

Saturday. I woke up early to go to Mong Kok to apply for my China Entry Permit and by the time I got there, I was number 112 in the queue. Mind you, they only started distributing the queue numbers at 8.45 in the morning and I was there at 9.25. The process was a breeze though, I was done in 25 minutes, of which 23 was spent on waiting for my number to be called. After that I bought a ticket for the 3.50pm showing of Galileo: Suspect X at Mong Kok, and then headed home to continue my sleep. Went over Dundas Street to meet my classmates for a project discussion which lasted for 4 hours, with 3 and a half spent on talking crap and another 25 minutes on the project itself. Topics ranged from graduation to trip to whether we should help matchmake some of our classmates. It was mindless, but it was fun.

On Sunday, I headed out to Jiangmen, China for my cousin’s wedding dinner. While I’ve been to many different wedding dinners in Hong Kong, this was the first time that I went for one in China. The dinner was very interesting – the dishes began to serve at 7pm and the whole dinner is done by 8.30! If I had knew that would be the case, I wouldn’t have bothered with booking a hotel room to stay overnight!

Headed back down to Hong Kong on Monday and to be honest, the 2 and a half hours bus ride form Jiangmen to Shenzhen was a torture. When would they be having railway? Anyway, after arriving in Hong Kong, I went to do some arrears before heading back into Mainland again with SQ, who’s in town in Hong Kong and I promised to bring him to Shenzhen to check out the massage parlours and the grand restaurants. I think he must have been pretty amused by how the place is like. Because I had a flight to catch, so I left Shenzhen at about 2.30, and it turned out, I wasn’t able to sleep at all even though I reached home at 4.15. I had to finish quite a bit of personal admin before I fly off, and by the time I was done with all those things, it was already 6.30. As my flight was at 10.30 and I had to be at the airport at about 8.30 and the journey from home to airport is 2 hours, I had no choice but to forego sleep.

I’ll be in Singapore until 4th Jan, so anyone who’s keen for a meal or whatever, please give me a call at my usual Singapore number!