A huge photo collage of the dishes I’ve tried at Macau.

All the dishes I have tried

Please be forewarn that the next half of this post will solely be on commenting on the interior designs of the hotels. There’s nothing much to blog about except their food and impressive architecture.

Street Shopping

We weren’t exactly shopping but more of taking a leisure walk around the town area. It’s only been a year since I last went there during my “Graduation Trip” and there wasn’t much of a change except the place was noisier and definitely more crowded. The weather wasn’t helping either as temperature soars to about 32 degrees; pretty much like Singapore except it was much less humid.

Lan Kwai Fong Macau

We took a quick look at Lan Kwai Fong as well; rather new and I adore the crystal lion “guarding” the main entrance. It’s munching on cash though; those are real notes in its mouth and not newspapers if you are wondering.

Grand Libosa

Not new and it’s also not my first time here. The grand hotel lobby totally blew me away. I can’t imagine any hotels in Singapore which can rival this. It makes me wow literally when you stepped into the hotel.

There’s also this awesome tea performance by the rather good looking waiter. He even asked if I had my camera ready to shoot him! He has ego, I’m sure of it!

City of Dreams

Modern, sophisticated and it gives off the “Singapore Marina Bay Sands” vibe. However, like the Grand Libosa, it’s interior design, lightings etc were miles better.

Galaxy

Across the road from The Venetian. Personally, I feel that it’s design is more traditional as compared to the City of Dreams. I am pretty sure the theme was “Peacock”. All the lightings in this hotel are set to change colours every few seconds. One minor complaint was that the Casino was too bright for my likings.

I can’t believe it took me more than a week to get this “wordless” posts up, I’m procrastinating and I can’t help it. Life’s busy.

Check out the entire album of photos taken on my Flickr.

• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part II
• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part I
• Shopping loots from Hong Kong & Macau

My Photoshop was also collecting dust and spiders during the past half a year. I suppose this “Welcome back from the dead” layout isn’t one of my best but at least it’s something new. =p As usual, there isn’t any major changes to the overall structure of the layout. I did not carry out any cross-browser compatibility test due to the lack of time. It will be good if you can let me know if you notice any issues.

Short updates of what happened during the past 6 months:

• Permed my hair for the second time!
• Popped by Taiwan for the first time in early May
• Officially graduated from UOL Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance with Second Class (Upper) Honours
• Pampered myself with new gadgets: Canon S95 and the iPad 2
• Lots of shopping trips with mum and my lovely girls

As the saying goes, a picture speaks a 1,000 words…

1000 words of the past 6 months

I look forward to getting back to blogging soon. I hope.

• New layout: Back to Basic – Sakura
• Tadaima! I’m home!
• An extremely rough sketch of panda land

• Went Macau and China for holiday after my exams
• Done up my first resume – This took me 4 days to complete!
• Dyed my hair brown
• Job search
• Went for my first interview
• Still trying to come up with a good draft for the new layout – I’ve something in mind but that might be my “shortcut” method of changing layouts again (AKA just changing the header and background)
• Watching drama series and animé
• Started tweeting again because my Twitter account is growing cobwebs
• Renewed dayna.me
• Renewed my flickr account
• Upgraded WordPress and all the plugins – Honestly, can anyone tell me the difference? I haven’t been reading up on this new version

I’ll be actively blogging again and I shall end this post with these gorgeous sunset photos I took at Labrador Park few weeks back.

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Our hotel room at Times Square

Our rooms are on the highest floor at the 43rd level. This is our window view. Kuala Lumpur looks beautiful at night when all the lights are brightly lit.

Times Square Shopping Mall

I saw Santa at Times Square! He was giving out candies to the kids with his uhm, wife? Santa has a wife right?

Huge rotating Christmas tree at Times Square

Chewy in front of a gingerbread house

Mid Valley Mega Mall

These are some gorgeous Christmas decorations at Mid Valley. I couldn’t think of any malls in Singapore that’s comparable with this. Somehow, it reminds me of Harry Potter. The castle, the fir trees and especially the floating candles! I guess it’s a Harry Potter inspired theme?

Fooling around in Toys R Us

Saw this toy on display, it's pretty cute!

The Garden Mall

I think this mall has a white Christmas theme. It seems to remind me of England in the 90′s and gives off a very elegant feeling. It’s simple but it does have very eye catchy decorations.

KLCC

I think I just arrived at Candy Land when I saw the Christmas decorations around me. Lots of candies, colours and the ginger breadman family.

Chewy and I in front of Candy House, notice his Threadless tee

Michelle and Te Wei

Pavilion

It was snowing when we left

Food food and more food

Before

After

I tested the video function on my Canon SX10 IS for the first time. The funny thing was that everyone thought I was taking photographs of them when I’m actually recording a video clip. I uploaded this short clip of Chewy during breakfast when he thought I was taking photos of him. It’s hilarious but cute at the same time.

On a side note, I think the videos taken with the Canon SX 10 has a pretty good quality. Perhaps I should start taking videos more often, it’s really fun! I feel that moving videos speak a lot more than still pictures.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Check out the rest of the photos from the trip in my Flickr album.

• “How do you know Christmas is coming?” meme
• Malaysia Trip, photos as promised
• Sing towards your 21st

Coast of Macau

This was just to test my camera zoom :P

The Venetian Macao

On our way to The Venetian Hotel

When I first stepped into the hotel

The lovelies in my family

This place is gorgeous!

This clock is one of it's kind

Beautiful Architecture

How can you not like this place?

Paintings on the ceilings

It's like a small European town

I'll love to sit in one of those boats

One of the boats

I really admire this guy for doing his job so well

Macau Fisherman’s Wharf

Empty place - It was raining that day

Roman lookalike building - I took a photo of this 4 years ago as well

English town at Fisherman Wharf

Beautiful but empty

I love this hallway

Shop houses

Salute!

The pretties in my family

Historical Centre of Macau – Da San Ba

It's a crowded place

Church

My sister sure has funny poses

Ruins of St. Paul's

The Sacred Ruins of St Pauls Church

Empty back alley

I think this is called the food street?

Take a look at those signboards

Night view of Da San Ba

Night scenes of Macau

Streets of Macau

The lightings of the hotels are so beautiful

The lightings changes pattern every second

My first reaction when I saw this was WOW!

Would the ones in Singapore be as beautiful?

Close up of the giant ball above - It's a hotel

• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part I
• Shopping loots from Hong Kong & Macau
• I went Macau-ing again

Sissy and I

I tweeted about my lack of sleep on the day of the trip. My flight to Hong Kong was 6.30am in the morning and I was supposed to wake up at 3am. However, I didn’t sleep the entire night at all. I’m still wide awake at 3am and switched off the alarm before it even rang. Too excited? Maybe. I haven’t been going overseas for vacations for a long time.

At the airport

Look at my panda eyes in the photos. Sigh. I didn’t bother to bring any under-eye concealer on my trip as well. I went make-up-less and wore my trusty glasses during the entire trip. I’m still not fond of wearing contacts for the entire day, plus I’m too lazy to put them on. We check-in at Changi Airport Terminal 1 at about 4am. It was pretty empty then and not much shops were open. We had breakfast at Ya Kun only because there wasn’t a lot of choices. Breakfast was okay considering my lids were threatening to close. This is a bit random but seriously I hate travelling on planes. I feel like my heart is going to jump out of me when the plane is taking off. The last time I took a plane was about 3 years back (to Macau)?

Anyway, please be forewarn that the rest of this post would be image intensive. Hope you enjoy the photographs! =D

Day 1 – Shopping at Mong Kok Streets

First photo upon arriving at Hong Kong

Nathan Hotel - Our home for the next 3 days

Plasma TV in our hotel room

Small living area in our hotel room

Sissy and I in our hotel lift lobby. My eyes are closing.

We had lunch here on the first day

Interior of Tsui Wah Restaurant

Hitting the shops right after lunch

SASA - This shop is practically everywhere

Mum and Sissy at a shop in their local shopping mall

We had Dim Sum dinner here at a tea house in Nu Ren Jie

Food food and more food!

Streets of Hong Kong in the evening

Look at the crowds

Another SASA, they are all over the place

Sissy and I on the streets of Hong Kong

Day 2 – Trips on the MTR to a few local malls

Western set meal for breakfast

Hong Kong MTR System

Mum and Sissy on the MTR

MTR view, on the way to Citygate Shopping Mall

Harbour view

An empty train station - This photos reminds me of Japan and I've no idea why

A very empty train as well

Sissy definitely needs to pay for the train fare

Citygate Shopping Mall - Lots of branded goods here

Huge and spacious mall - It's getting crowded in the afternoon

At the supermarket - I purposely took this beside the mirror so that I appear in the photo

Walking along the streets of Hong Kong

7 storey local shopping mall - It's similar to Bugis Village

They have a roller coaster in this mall

This is so adorable!

Beautiful wall art in the restaurant where we had lunch

Pork chop noodles - Simply oyishi!

Mum and I

Day 3

And more walking on Canton Road

Park Lane - I came here 3 years ago as well

Beautiful street of Hong Kong

Can't remember the name of this mall but it's the one near the harbour

This is a long escalator!

Dessert at Qu Lui Shan

Can we ever see such beautiful flowers on the roadside of Singapore?

I like the commercials screens on the stairs - It moves!

Adorable ice cream van, it plays music as well

I thought this looks alike to our Sir Stamford Raffles Statue in Singapore

Electronic buses together with the normal buses

Small alley in Hong Kong

One of my favourite photos - Empty streets of Hong Kong in the evening

Another one of my favourites, it's during sunset

Flower stall at the side of the road

Local wet market

Lantern stall

I think I was lucky the day I took the photo above. My mum wanted to take a photo in front of this lantern stall so we stopped there for a minute or so before moving off. Right behind me was 2 Japanese tourists taking photographs as well. After taking the photograph for my mum, I walked off and the 2 Japanese tourists stopped at the exact spot where I was standing 2 seconds ago. Guess what happened next? Someone threw an entire bucket of water (I’m assuming it’s water) down and the Japanese tourists were drench. Their camera was wet as well. I was lucky to have walk away fast enough.

We had lunch here. It was expensive but delicious though

Fried beef hor fun and ha kao

Mum and Sissy in front of H&M - Love their cosmetics section :P

That’s it for this post, more photos are up on my flickr. Part II will be on Macau and some photos of my fashion hauls.

• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part II
• Shopping loots from Hong Kong & Macau
• Malaysia Trip, photos as promised

Skincare and Haircare products

Facial Masks

Gifts for Chewy

Body soap, lip balm and massage bar from Lush

Do-It-Yourself Kits and toy figurines

Cosmetics products

Blushers from H&M, Lavshuca and The BodyShop

I'm a collector of lip glosses/sticks

Makeup brushes from Sasa and Missha and eye shadow from Lavshuca

Adorable pouches at HKD 10 each

Bracelets, earrings and key rings from Temple Street

Bracelets at HKD 15 each

Owl earrings at HKD 20

Mickey and Minnie Key rings

• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part II
• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part I
• Kuala Lumpur’s shopping haul

Nice view across the mountain

Dear and I on the first day of the trip (in the car)

Row of houses in a small town

The delicious food (this is only 5% of it)

Dear's brothers and cousin playing lego (yes, they are still kids)

The most handsome guy on earth (to me at least)

Dear and Yohan (he is 3 months old)

The devil horns were free gifts from some shop

Hommer - He's huge, cute and have sad eyes

Dear and I at breakfast

Roosters, chicks and hen at the dear's grandpa farm

Chicks House

Dear's grandpa farm house

Mouse Smooth - Isn't that a cute name?

Ancient jeep of dear's grandpa - it's very cool

Roadside view

Christmas decorations at the mall

Poor Homme, he is bored

Nice mountain view

Back alley of houses

Yohan - He doesn't want anyone disturbing him

Sunset in Singapore

• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part II
• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part I
• APB Family Day at the Zoo