sup sup yall.
yesterdayyy was my last day in hong kong... after some f'ing around, we left the place at 12noon and hopped on a train to china. it's only my parents & claudia & her mum here, the rest stayed in HK. we were here by 2.30 after crossing the border and whatnot, was quite interesting actually.
after getting a feed and whatnot (the food here isnt great) we checked out the local mall. fuck me dead talk about shopping heaven. it has everything that HK has for half the price, plus more. tiffany, chanel, LV, YOU NAME IT THEY HAVE IT. the shops are real small but if you want something you just gotta ask... and they bring out all these catalogues and you just choose what you want, then they get on their phones and speak crazy loud and fast, and next thing you know theres this whole box of fake shit infront of you. bargaining here is crazy. if you dont manage to get down to about half the starting price then youre being ripped off. its so freaking cheap i cannot get over it.
we shopped until 11pm last night, and by the time we realised we were hungry, all the resteraunts were closed except for one, and it was so funny because they didn't speak english, so they had to get an indian chef to come and translate for us..... what a sight!! us speaking english to an indian who is translating into chinese. LOL.
slept in the same room as claudia and her mum last night because claudia wanted me to. LOL.
today was just the same. had breakfast and then shopped until lunchtime, and then more shopping. all in one single mall. it's 5 levels but we only really stayed on the top 2. today i ordered a blazer & 2 work skirts from the tailors, gotta pick it up tomorrow. then i got some bags for the girls, and bought another tiffany necklace for myself. have decided that when i get back into sydney im gna get a real one, though. i also got x2 prescription specs for $40 each! so cheap! claudia and i also got a manicure each, and i got a pedicure... it was so weird having someone else touch my feet... eww. it was so wack, that angela johnson film clip about the nail salons is SO TRUE, when youre in the seat they try and upsell you hardout, they charged claudia $10RMB ($2AUD) just to paint her nails LOL she was spewing, cos you cant understand them so you dont know if what theyre doing is extra or not. but whatever it was a good experience.
we got home at about 10pm today, so exhausted from shopping but i could honestly spend another day here. ive heard that guangzou is even better!! definately coming here again.
tomorrow we're leaving to go to the village where my grandpa was born to visit his side of the family. meeting the chongs and tovas there.
went to check out the gym tonight, its pretty hectiiiic. the swimming pool is awesome too, made me really excited for fiji in january!!! <3 meant to be going to the gym with claudia tomorrow morning, we'll see how that goes... LOL.
over and out
xx
yesterdayyy was my last day in hong kong... after some f'ing around, we left the place at 12noon and hopped on a train to china. it's only my parents & claudia & her mum here, the rest stayed in HK. we were here by 2.30 after crossing the border and whatnot, was quite interesting actually.
after getting a feed and whatnot (the food here isnt great) we checked out the local mall. fuck me dead talk about shopping heaven. it has everything that HK has for half the price, plus more. tiffany, chanel, LV, YOU NAME IT THEY HAVE IT. the shops are real small but if you want something you just gotta ask... and they bring out all these catalogues and you just choose what you want, then they get on their phones and speak crazy loud and fast, and next thing you know theres this whole box of fake shit infront of you. bargaining here is crazy. if you dont manage to get down to about half the starting price then youre being ripped off. its so freaking cheap i cannot get over it.
we shopped until 11pm last night, and by the time we realised we were hungry, all the resteraunts were closed except for one, and it was so funny because they didn't speak english, so they had to get an indian chef to come and translate for us..... what a sight!! us speaking english to an indian who is translating into chinese. LOL.
slept in the same room as claudia and her mum last night because claudia wanted me to. LOL.
today was just the same. had breakfast and then shopped until lunchtime, and then more shopping. all in one single mall. it's 5 levels but we only really stayed on the top 2. today i ordered a blazer & 2 work skirts from the tailors, gotta pick it up tomorrow. then i got some bags for the girls, and bought another tiffany necklace for myself. have decided that when i get back into sydney im gna get a real one, though. i also got x2 prescription specs for $40 each! so cheap! claudia and i also got a manicure each, and i got a pedicure... it was so weird having someone else touch my feet... eww. it was so wack, that angela johnson film clip about the nail salons is SO TRUE, when youre in the seat they try and upsell you hardout, they charged claudia $10RMB ($2AUD) just to paint her nails LOL she was spewing, cos you cant understand them so you dont know if what theyre doing is extra or not. but whatever it was a good experience.
we got home at about 10pm today, so exhausted from shopping but i could honestly spend another day here. ive heard that guangzou is even better!! definately coming here again.
tomorrow we're leaving to go to the village where my grandpa was born to visit his side of the family. meeting the chongs and tovas there.
went to check out the gym tonight, its pretty hectiiiic. the swimming pool is awesome too, made me really excited for fiji in january!!! <3 meant to be going to the gym with claudia tomorrow morning, we'll see how that goes... LOL.
over and out
xx
