and so, i went on a macau/zhuhai trip with yizhuang and her dad! oh wells, didnt thought mum will allow the trip! so it was a brilliant surprise when she agreed! anyway, it was a trip greatly anticipated by us cos it's just a few days after ending teaching at swiss.

will not be putting up too much pictures cos there're already in fb.
here it goes!

us, at changi airport on 2june, 8pm or so. our flight was 10pm at night for that day so you could imagine how excited we were for the whole of that day! anw, yz's real suay. her relative came knocking on her at that day of the month. lol. oh yah. i was still with my ah lian hair then! and i was so determined to do something to it in china so as to get myself off the ah lian look. heh.


okay. this was what i saw on the plane of singapore's night scene. brilliant!

after 3.5 hours of flight, we arrrived at macau international airport at around 2am in the morning. wow. what a freezing summer!? was our first thought when we stepped out of the airport. cos we were told by yz's dad that the weather over there was summer and it'll be really hot so we were told to just bring tshirts and shorts. nothing more than that. but who knows! we were greated with such cooling weather that feels just like genting/cameron highlands or even cooler than that! heh.
so we hitched a cab to our first stop, The Venetian. i can only say, wow!
never mind the insides or outside. both were as brilliant as it can be! took lots of pictures cos we were just too impressed. it felt really classy and well, made one feels so cultured. we were really happy little kids there and then cos we were there at such an earthly hour and there wasn't anyone around so we were just snapping away here and there.















okay these were taken when dawn breaks. anyway, the day lights up real early over there. i think this was around 6am only!





next stop, we went over to another casino across the street. City of Dreams. what a name! just another casino! haha. anw, this was another pathetically high class place. just like our Ion orchard. all the high-end boutiques.





anyway, did i mention that we went into all those casinos too? for tourists, 18 is the min age requirement. oh wells, can only say it's really really atas in there and its really big! with alot of tables and those jackpot machines. we didnt try our hands on gambling lah. but we scouted around for anything that we're familiar with like black jack. apparently bj aren't really a very popular game cos there was only a few tables on that. most of them are Baccarats, which we don't know how the hell it's played at all so casinos really doesn't fancy us too much. and also, the air inside was crazy! cigarette smoke everywhere...
okay, this is a snapshot of what a casino has.this are those machines which i think they are very lame.haha. just this picture only cos photography is not allowed in casino. meaning i secretly took this!


an another thing i have to say about casinos is that their toilets are ultra ultra grand! hahahaha. we really got a shock of our life when we went in! so B-E-A-U-Tiful!




okay. so at around 7am, we headed off to zhuhai. took a cab and we saw how beautiful macau is! anyway, did i mention that macau has 30 over casinos? lol! basically macau is just a land of casino. not exaggerating to say that at all! hmm well, so we went over to zhuhai by passing through the borders(just like spore and johor's causeway), and we checked into our hotel. okay. frankly speaking, i was quite taken aback when i went into the hotel cos it was seriously a lil worn out. and a greater shock awaits me when we went up to our rooms. oh well, it's quite dirty i will say, doesnt feel really comfortable, especially the toilets! yeah. but we told ourselves to make do with it cos you know, we are there to shop so the hotel room is just for sleeping. anw, we were also too tired to talk too much so we just took a nap.

okay. so next will be the highlight of the day, or should i say highlight of the trip! we started walking around and i insisted on working on my hair that very first day right away so we scouted quite a few salons until we saw one that have alot of guys working in there. we thought to ourselves that it will generally be better for guys to style/cut our hair since they will be using their perspective to design one for us. so we went in, sat down and started to check out the price and everything. and in the end, we settled for that and we are in for another round of dyeing and cutting just barely a week after we did that in spore. impulsive on our part but we already negotiated and i was quite determined to change my hair colour anyway. so we 跟他拼了!

while they were putting the dye on our hair, i suddenly popped out in english to yz that i think the guy dyeing for me looks good. and then she looked at hers and she think that her guy looks much better! so we 2 were like spamming english, talking about how good they look and how cool they are, etc etc. hahahaha. we were like so totally in love with them cos even after leaving the shop and everything, we still talked about them everyday! haha. and we even named them My Boy! hahahahahaha. we were totally crazy over them man. the salon was just a street away from our hotel so all the more it gives us reason to 'walk past' almost everyday just to see if we can see Our Boys in there! wah seh. totally siao. but it was fun! and btw, my hair was cut by the 副店张 aka 副总~~ and i totally loved my hairstyle to bits! he was so professional! hahahaha. basically the whole trip revolved around this make-up romance with our boys and fu zong.

another highlight. which i think yz described it so well, " On the last night, I saw this bunch of guys walking towards us with one or two smoking so I reflectively kept my head low (while DJJ(me!) was on a lookout for more cute guys). Who knows, when I looked up that tweeny bit, I saw their uniforms, and as I looked up further, I saw our 副总~~~(a.k.a 副店长)! HAHAHAHA got us even more hyper after that as we kept saying how fated we are and we should just marry him."
yes, that's exactly what we felt right at that moment and we literally went crazy after that!anw, this is a picture of the salon. realise that it is very dark and all cos we didnt dare take a picture of it in daylight and instead, we had to secretly snap it late at night when we walked past. hahahaha!

like what yz said, regrettably, we didnt take any pictures with our boys or fu zong. cos we reckon that it will be just too too embarrassing to go back cos those people in there could recognise us! partly because we were in there for a really long time for our hair the other time. so yeah. that's the end of our 'romance' at zhuhai.


okay. and we fall in love with this particular drink stall that sells taiwan bubbletea!

own-ed any of our bubble tea store over here in singapore totally. much cheaper and much nicer! okay lah. Koi bubble tea will probably be on par in terms of taste but not the price! and so, we promised ourselves to have it twice a day to satisfy our yearn for good bubble tea. heh. and we did! 2 cuys of ah er per day. holy mama!


okay next, will be the main focus of our trip this time round. shopping! okay i can tell you, this is really the best shopping i have ever had overseas. its really really crazy man! this underground shopping mall is crazy! bloody lots of shops and its really hard to find our way around initially cos we just couldnt remember where we have went before and where we have not.

we went to this place everyday to do our shopping cos it's really huge and we can't really finish all in a day or 2. thats how exaggerating it is man. and every time we went in, we will be spending hell long time inside. hours just past by and every time we checked our watches, we will be like huh!?!? 3pm already? so fast man! then the next time we check, we will be like huh!?!?!?!?!?! 9pm already? we haven had our dinner leh! hahahahaha. it's really crazy shopping inside lah. totally owned any of our shopping malls in spore. but one thing about it is, we really need to slash prices like siao. sometimes the price tag will be like 400plus ren min bi, and we managed to slash it to as low as 80 rmb! haha. very exaggerating but as time goes by, we're like so immune to it! most of the time, im doing the slashing i would say. while yz would come into the picture to pay. haha. cos she arent really good at it lah. anw, so in total, i spent around S$500+ on shopping for the trip while yz spent ard S$700. hahaha. can't help it but feel darn impressed with ourselves for being able to shop everyday like this.


okay this was a picture of the sleezy corner below our hotel. there are like our pubs in clarke quay but of course, not as ex or as high class lah. but we found it interesting cos the ladies sit there and sort of 拉客 over for a drink etc. sleezy lah. but interesting huh.



anw. these are just some of the food we ate over there. basically the food over there are really cheap and good. especially their seafood. awesome! cheap+nice! anyhow anyhow also owned us here lah. and of course, all thanks to uncle whom recommended us all those and brought us to have such a sumptuous meal. heh. and of course, we tried those roadstalls also, equally good!


oh yah! we went for our mani/pedicure! ultra cheap over here man! i spent just S$12 for it when in fact if i were to do it in spore, it will definitely cost me 30 over bucks. heh. the above ones are mine, while the below are yz's. apparently we were really spoilt for choices cos there were a lot of such services around just below our hotel!



and yeap, we hopped onto their public bus too! fun ehh. traveling around on the country's public transport! anw, we landed ourselves in yet another shopping district but this is a lil different from the ones we have been going near our hotel cos they are all shopping malls selling more high end/ branded goods. we didn't get anything from the malls but instead we spent a hell lot at their Watson's! lol. cheaper than spore mah!




at the last night, both of us sat at somewhere near the road to have a talk. it was very windy so we thought it will be nice to just sit there and enjoy all these before we go back to the ever so hot spore.

so we chatted, and eventually concluded that we hadn't really enjoyed our 19year old life so far or i should have said we thought that it wasn't really complete cos we don't have a 轰轰烈烈的爱情. hahaha. cliche it may sound. but deep in our heart, we really felt that. i mean 19 year olds are supposed to be as happening as ever? to try all the things we have not tried in life etc etc. and isnt it nice to have someone we like around us? someone for us to miss, someone for us to lean on etc etc. and so we weren't too happy about returning to spore that night cos we realise that with teaching now ended, we have really nothing to look forward to when we go back. and while personally i aren't really looking forward to uni life...
and yes, i told her im really tired to be waiting for him to come back to me. and we concluded that 对方不懂的等待只是空等. exactly! he didn't know i still couldn't let go of him and so all this waiting are in vain indeed. regrettably, i can't disagree at all. very true isn't it?


at the last day before we headed back to spore, we went back to macau. ok the journey to cross the borders from zhuhai to macau was pathetic! cos we were carrying hell heavy luggage across on our own! (yz's dad went over to macau earlier.) we were like swearing big time over the amount of things we have bought and we were seriously quite worried that we will exceed the limit! anw, finally made our way to macau and to the Sands casino. wahhh. another crazy casino.


as instructed by yz's dad, we went to Sands to store our luggage, and regrettably, we were charged 20 rmb for storing too big a luggage! hahahaha. and apparently, the bellboy was really impressed with us for being able to bring that over the borders. heh.

afterwhich, we went walking around to snap pictures. so we went over to this fisherman's wharf just a street across Sands casino.


okay. took many pictures there, which are available on fb. and meanwhile, saw a whole lot of other casinos. land of casinos indeed!



then as recommended by yz's dad, we were supposed to go over to Wynn's casino for some performance. so we made our way there by asking people around and we finally found it! this casino is crazily highhhhhhhh-classssssssss to the max! seriously very very exaggerating! oh well, we missed the performance that yz's dad recommended but we caught another performance that was absolutely awesome!


it was a water fountain performance! took a couple of videos of it but u needa be there to really enjoy and feel it.

okay. this is yet another casino that we walked past... a couple more, i didnt post it up here. heh.


and so we went back to the Sands casino after that to meet up with yz's dad and we were once again, treated into a wonderful live band performance over there! awfully brilliant live performance man! best i have seen i guess! really really happy to end off our trip with that. i guess its quite nice to start and end off our trip at macau. macau is a place where me n yz really got an eye opener cos we can never imagine how high class a place can be. and then zhuhai is the best place for shopping! so in all, it was a great trip i would say. most relaxed/free and easy! also provided that i had yz with me for the trip! anw, initially i thought the timings for our flights were yucky! reach macau at 2am, and leave macau at 2am also. but in fact, it was a perfect timing! when the world is asleep, there's really much more to see; to feel. and we were treated to a whole lot of new experience in a city that doesnt sleep!
yes, and thats all for the trip. spent a hell long time typing it out! not for anyone to see or comment but just a memory keepsake for myself.
that's all folks. :)