Around The Hong Kong In 21586 seconds

After all the recent trip to Kownloon and Tsim Tsa Tsui, I finally crossed the sea to Hong Kong Island. Here is where all the business center are located on. This is the location where you will get all those skyscrapers view from the other side of the mainland.

When you say concrete jungle, this place fits well to the definition. High rise buildings sit on top on hill and valley. Don't give them an inch. They will probably cast some structure on it.

I noticed trams are being used in UK and HK. Since Hong Kong has been ruled by the British Empire for quite a while, no doubt most of their infrastructures are influenced by them. Weird thing is you hardly see a tram involved in an accident. Can't imagine that a tram to operate at Jalan Pudu.

Ahah. This Legislative Building's statue. I walked all the places just to find this statue. Why? Well, this statue shown on some TVB series about lawyers and courts thingy.

Lippo Building is one of the nice but resemble a woman in her 50 (out of shape). I assume this Lippo have something to do with the Lippo lighter the smokers craze for. But actually, the owner is an Indonesian.

Hongkies don't drive. They rely heavily on public transport. Furthermore, their government tax the petrol on top of their petrol flotation system. Reason being their government does not recognised petrol as a basic necessity to the public. Here in Malaysia, the government subsidised yet we all "bising bising" (make noise).

On of the main attraction here is the Bauhinia Square (luckily they didn't omit the "i" at the back or else it will be " Dataran Bau Hina") and Hong Kong Convention Center located beside it. This Convention Center building was referred as a turtle in the film MY LUCKY STAR (2002), a romance story between a feng-shui master Tony Leung and luckless loser Miriam Yeung. He compares the Convention Center to a turtle, looking out across the harbor to Tsim Sha Tsui, where it wants to go and get its egg (the Omnimax dome of the Hong Kong Planetarium), and swim out to sea.

The Convention Center turtle is directly compared to the mythological "stone turtle," supposedly sighted one day by a Taoist priest roaming about the peak, who later dreamed that the turtle would reach the summit and upset the balance between heaven and earth, causing bad luck to the people of Hong Kong. Don't ask me how and why? Go ask Lilian Too!

One of the public transport that will never go bankrupt. Ferry services. Short trip across the sea. Just 2HKD per trip. Just imagine how will you answer when people ask how you come to work.

Decent paid Hongkie staff : Eh.. I have to take bus from my house to the nearest MRT station. Then cross the sea by ferry and then tram and then 5 minutes walk.

DBKL road sweeper: I drive.

Those who planned to travel to Hong Kong, one of the not to be missed show is the FOC Symphony of Light show. Here the buildings are illuminated with colourful light that dazzle with the sound of music for 20 minutes. It starts sharp at 8pm. On big occasion, they even have firework show. To me, it's basically, some security guards of each buildings switching on and off the light to test whether their light bulb is working or not.