Borderless Browsing right!

I just hate the fact that China banned this and that....

I really prefer to use blogspot over spacelives, we will see how long I can use this agent to free myself from borders browsing controlling.

Hurt

No one will hurt somebody forever. No one will and no one should.

But when this is actually happening, the same person hurting you again and again the same way, is probably a good time to think about yourself.

The cause maybe is you, not that somebody else.

Is easy to say forgive and forget, but when it comes to someone that has been hurting you the same way again and again, watch out the battered syndrome.

Because we all thought, we have control in a bad situation, we all thought the world is spinning around us, we all thought we can change thing to the way we want.

I can't stand the centrism,but I can't deny that is true. Because most of us forget, to get what you want, you don't get it, you don't go after it, you have to attract it.

Hurt won't go away if you continue to attract them come to you. You need to cut that line of attraction.

And again, is always easy to say.

Congratulation

Congrats to myself.

Finally, someone will hate me for the rest of their life.

Good job indeed, good job!!

A Little Piece of Land

许多人花一辈子往外飞,而幸运的我很早就有这个机会,真的很感激所有的神,虽然我从来都不曾相信过你们.

从以前计划着明天做什么,周末做什么,下周末做什么,到月底做什么,年底做什么3年后做什么.

一直到现在,10年后我要看到怎样的自己,10年内我可以做什么.

也许人真的在有长远计划之后才真正长大,才能开始对社会做出贡献.

外面的世界太大,我努力飞了那么久,自己还是那么渺小.

所以我要花3年的时间把自己捆绑在一片小小的土地,用我自己累积的小小大世界经验,小小积蓄,小小心愿,在这一片小小的土地创造出大大的价值.

期待自己另一次的蜕变,很快了!

Determination

Is hard to keep your determination. But a constant reminder of all the sadness and tears should help to keep your eyes look forward.

Don't look back, look forward.

A few big plan for the next 12 months, exciting.

My new life, shall it begin now?

If

I told myself,

if I see you today I am going to tell you I miss you.

But I didn't see you.

So I just tell that to myself.

3 times.

My secret trip

Starting tomorrow.

Now we are entering the serious flu season.

I don't like virus, but I will still have to go on with my secret trip. For secret service and a big secret mission that need to be accomplished.

The last thing on my list will be wearing a mask.

Should I?

My hair dresser

Last night I dream about my hair dresser. The only hair dresser I will use in China.

Well, I probably have less than 5 hair dressers cut my hair for my entire life. That's very few because I always have short hair so I will need a hair cut every 3 months.

I remember the first time I found this awesome hair dresser in China, I have tears in my eyes.

It is just like you finally meet your soul mate that you have been seeking for a long long time, and you will not allow anyone else to touch your hair ever.

But anyway, I saw a sign in my dream.

Is time for a new hair do!

After all

We can't be alone.

My friend in Peru volunteering told me this kid that she was taking care of call Mira. (Because the only word he can say is Mira Mira) He was locked up by his parents for 5 years so he couldn't speak. This kid is more aggressive than the rest and he even bite or hit people around him when he is in a bad mood.

5 years being locked up with no interaction with anyone. There's no need of physical torture to shape a person forever, you just need to make them really really lonely.

So if you are telling me now you are great in handling loneliness, try being lock up for 5 years. That's how you define loneliness.

You can talk again, cause there's people around you would love to listen.

Studio photo shot

Guy, I mean man, male, should never go to studio and have your posing picture taken unless under these circumstances:

1) Your wedding photo shot
2) You are on some important magazines cover (means, you are successful and famous)
3) Commercial or promotion used
4) Your graduation
5) Family photo shot
6) You are an actor or star, got no choice but is your job to have photo taken in a studio.

If is not any of the reason above, please stay away from studio photo shot. Because it will not get you anywhere but trouble. Please only take normal picture like a normal person, we don't need to know how high your self-awareness is till you need to go to the studio and take some "manly posing" pictures.

The trance of man become more and more feminine is getting serious.

Somebody gotta do something about it.

Because ...

MAN COME TO THIS WORLD TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING GREATER THAN TAKING A FANCY PHOTO.

Now you hear me.

Another story about what I like to deny

I know PMS exist.

But, the existence of PMS depends on the happiness level in your life.

If there's absolutely nothing to pick on regarding your life, your relationship, your job, the people around you. There's no way PMS can survive.

People get frustrated about something, people have so much hate...jealousy, greed, prejudice...

Your happiness is caused by someone sadness, your sadness is to protect someone else happiness.

This is never a fair world and never will be.

Even though I still believe, a story about the earth creation. When earth was a new born planet long long time ago, everything is fair, and there's no PMS. And there's no god because we don't need one.

Because we don't need excuses when everything is fair.

When you wish me fine

That's the greatest gift of all time.

But please don't regret, because I will be fine.

And you will be fine too.

Many years ago, we were still a piece of white paper.

LOVE

The first true love for me, is the moment I am touched by the white snow.

Is magical. I have finally fall in love with something that is not human.

While seeking love within the human circle can be so defeated and uninteresting, I have been trying really hard to seek outside the human race.

Not pet, I will die when they die.

Not plant, they will die when I die.

Not books, when I don't give them attention, they start collecting dust.

But snow, if I die, they will keep falling from the sky.

If I can't give them attention, they will still keep falling from the sky, when the season comes.

Then I realize, LOVE should be something that will keep on moving regardless. Nothing can change it, nothing can make it stop, just like snow.

"It's always snowing somewhere".

For men

Talk to me when you start growing wrinkles around your eyes.

You might not see enough but at least you start looking.

Lies

05. LIES

http://www.thesixtyone.com/trifonic/songs/popular/1/#/trifonic/song/Lies/27338/

Written and programmed by Trifonic / Lyrics by Laurence Trifon
Mixed by Trifonic and John Rodd
Vocals - Amelia June
Guitars - Brian Trifon

Lyrics:
When you walked away it was the
Saddest day the world has known
Shattered my heart and left me in
Pieces of a broken home
Now you say you need me
Standing at the door
Asking if you can come in
And I can’t say no, I can’t say no

You and I just can’t say goodbye
Every time we do, well
It’s just another lie
I know you’re no good for me, but
Every time I’m with you there’s
Nowhere I’d rather be

We’ve been to hell, been burnt by the
Flames of a pain so deep that
Even the strongest god in the heavens would
Kneel and weep
But here I lie
Pressed against your skin
Right where I want to be
You’re the sweetest sin

Enlightenment

I went to one of the most famous sightseeing spot in WuXi (无锡), Buddha of Lin Shan Mountain. (灵山大佛)

I don't have a religion myself, and I never thought of having one, but I am constantly seeking for a peace of mind without the religion help.

Being there, I didn't do any worship activity, I just simply make myself fully engaged with the natural environment on the mountain.

The atmosphere there is great, just like the name of it- Lin Shan (Mountain of Spirit). The whole mountain is covered by spring fresh green tea (碧螺春） and blossom flowers. The big Buddha standing in the middle, facing the famous Tai Hu (second largest lake in China).

There's not a lot of people, not many cars, not many noise. I am covered by the fresh mountain air with the bliss of spring.

I found a peace of mind, right there, at that moment.

I am not sure if this will be called as "enlightenment", it is just a state that my mind is blank.

My mind is blank, I am not thinking about anything but I am alive.

Then slowly, I have this vision, is a great plain field surrounded by mountain, the opening is to the sky and the ocean, is bright and warm.

Suddenly I accepted the fundamental true of life: when there's nobody there for you, nature will take care of you. Loneliness is just a state to achieve something more, you will reach a stage that normal people won't, if you never experience the ultimate loneliness.

I really don't need anybody right now. I am just glad that I am standing here and breathing, what more do I want?

And I start thinking about the reason that my boss strongly discourage me to visit Tibet, because I might really end up staying there and never come back.

Because, without my notice, I have grown up from those hurts and pains, I have absorb the ugliest side of the world and dissolved them.

Special day

Is special, but there's no picture allowed to be taken.

There are good memories and bad memories, and if I am able to snap a shot of those good one, it will be very nice. If I am able to snap a shot of those bad one, it will be very nice too.

We all want to remember, the good times and the bad times, good times for the fun of it, bad times for us to remember how good it is at the present.

But we can't snap a shot, because it is not allowed.

No matter how special the day is, we can only use our eyes as the camera lens, our brain as the SD memory card.

Sometimes, even looking at this very special day is a luxury wish that cannot be achieved. When you try to be close in a space full of distance, very long distance, there's no way to snap a shot, through a camera or eye.

There's only imagination can be used to determine, if this special day can be a good memory or a bad memory.

Still today

Today is a long day.

I feel like I already lost it.

There' s nothing left besides emptiness.

I think I am right, when you are too afraid of losing something, you always end up hurting it.

And if you let it comes and goes, it stays with you as long as you let it comes and goes.

Our hands are not mean to hold on to something, our heart is not for bonding a soul.

I don't know what's wrong for being desperate, I don't know what's wrong for overly concern about something.

I guess you just can't do a good job when stress is high.

And is still today, I am looking excuses for my mistake and I am pretending that is OK to be blue.

Maybe, is OK to lost it all. So I can either start all over again or do something greater than this.

Is not because of PMS

Today I feel like I am losing one of the most important person in my life.

And I refuse to blame that on PMS.

I really think PMS doesn't exist, but my belief has not been very consistent.

I rather believe that I am just born to be very mean, and the words I will chose to use are the hurting kind.

I enjoy doing it, I enjoy being a mean person.

Is not because of PMS.

(I am still denying.)

My life must be really boring..

My friend said I wrote a lot these days.

He said there are so many dying blogs, dead blog, or blog for sale out there but I have been writing for so many years.

Then he said, "Your life must be really boring..

or, you just don't have anyone to sleep with at home."

WTF.

I don't need anything to make me stop writing. Some people start writing for a reason, that's why, when the reason is not the reason for keeping it up anymore, they stop.

For instance, if my life must be really boring so I write, the one day, if my life is not boring anymore, I will join the blog for sale group.

Just admit it, people are too selfish to start something spontaneously or without a purpose, you do this for a purpose, you hate that for a purpose. Its just depends whether you are smart enough to know the real intention of your action.

Too bad, dumb people are everywhere, so they prefer assuming.

Over the phone

"Do you think I make your life better or worse?"

"Of course better , and how can you think of otherwise?"

That can be a good reason to stay positive for another day.

We all want to make good impact in others life, and we need to know we are making good impact in others life.

Then we can keep doing it.

In this case is simple, I just have to keep being myself and do not think otherwise.

Marriage

I have this idea long ago, our current marriage system that apply in most society, is bullshit.

Once again, I prove that my point is correct and when I disbelieve in this system, I am actually going to live happily ever after.

Love is really the easiest part to be achieved in a marriage, the meaning of love is so vague and there's no rule in love, is like a piece of paper, you can draw anything on it to define love.

Marriage is a system, it has rules and it needs a lot of work, and I believe this system is created for political reason. And this system only apply to old generation when there's no so much freedom and room for people to discover other aspect in life. The political picture changes everyday, every era, why have not marriage system change? Because of religion? Because of culture? I don't understand.

As we all know, now you don't need to get married to have baby and no one will look at you like a freak. You don't need to be with opposite sex to find your happily ever after ending. You can be a single and happy forever. You can fly, you can see the world, you have your PSP, Ipod, internet, cellphone to keep you busy all the time. We have so much to do now, we need to work, we need to rest, we need entertainment, we need to travel, we need to catch up with the world and etc...But why we choose to compromise to another person and just stuck at one place forever? Why there's even this "rule" of couple should sleep on the same bed?

Why there's no flexibility under this system?

I believe you fall in love for no reason but you married for a reason. Whatever reason that is, it should be something that you believe in, not what the society ask you to do. You create your own rule, and is ok whatever rule you want to implement in your own "wedding system", as long as you don't kill and don't use any violent.

But right now, there's nothing much we can do to change the whole social system, but remember there's only 2 rules in marriage is fixed and must be followed. First you need to legally register, and second you need to legally divorce. All these are paperworks with the government. GOVERNMENT! So marriage is politic, it affects your tax pay and your vote during election.

You can't have the same definition for love and marriage, marriage is a system, is not about you and me, he and she, is about 2 families make contact and connection. Is about surviving on the earth by forming your own group, is about responsibility, is about getting stronger, is about complete your duty as a human being: to get laid without worrying getting STD or AIDS and to produce your next generation.

Of course, you can make this process whole lot of fun, that's depends on how you want to do it, how you want to make your new rules for it, no one is going to tell you what to do and what to expect. No couples in this world will have the exact same marriage, same issues or same consequences.

Marriage can't bond a person, it certainly can't bond a soul. When it has to come to an end, remember, the most important thing is to keep yourself survive, because you can always enter the system again and do it differently.

Weekend

Weekend means,

My phone get to rest, no phone calls no text messages.

My email get to rest, no new email, no spams.

My facebook account get to rest, no new comments, no updates.

Is just me with me cross stitching.

Is there anything left for me?

There's this piece of land that you need to find the other half in order to survive.

When there's no one there is available for me, or even a good companion in seeking, is there anything left for me? Does it mean anything if I go back?

Or I just don't belong from the beginning.

Cross Stitching

I said I want to plan it well for this year, a hectic start lead to an unimaginable consequence that prevent me to go anywhere at this moment.

Good, so I switch to cross stitching.

To do this, you need to be tremendously focus, because first of all, you don't want to get hurt by the needle, second, you don't want to make any mistake because is hard to reverse the mistake.

Anything with needle and thread is a challenge for me because I have never been good at it. I got the lowest grade in my highschool sewing class, and is just too hard to make me sit still; even though my mom is so good, she made all my PJ last time when I was a kid, she even make some of the most incredible dress for me.

But surprisingly, the cross stitching thingy is going very well, is not addictive, but is fun. Is almost like meditating, and I think I get more from it then just trying to complete my 2 little cut sheeps. I get a peace of mind, I get rest, I get time for my eyes to stay away from any screen, I get to listen more around me, I get to sit still for a long time and don't feel depress about it.

I used to think, if one day I can sit still for a long time and do stitching, then I am qualified to be someone wife.

That actually make sense, because being someone else wife is a serious business, just like stitching. You can't make mistake because your responsible is not just you anymore, is the whole family. And is a tough job, is a job that need a lot of focus, is a job that need a determination of staying away from all the temptation.

And I never knew it make sense until I start stitching my 2 little sheeps.

So I guess I am ready to be someone wife whenever there's a good chance come by.

Maybe my friend is right, my bioclock is ticking, and is time for me to do settle down somewhere. Because I need to understand, settling down is helping me to go further and to achieve more in life.

I never know, so many events in life just happen natuarally.

Afterall, I don't have to plan my life well like I said at the beginning of the year, I just have to follow what life is giving me. I was too judgamental, I was too forceful, I was too anxious to create something or to change something or to make something happen in my way.

Because, I use to think if I want something happen, it will happen. I still believe in that, but I guess, I just don't believe this will work with people anymore. If this make sense, you get what you want, says, I want 1 million, I am sure I will get 1 million. But when it comes to people, they might want different thing, says, I want you to come here, but she want to go there. If the theory of you get what you want make sense, I should get her to comeh ere, and she should get me to go there. It doesn't work that way.

Between people, there's only negociation, agreement, and solution. You won't get what you want because the other person might want a different thing. You want to be with him, but he doesn't want to be with you, so tell me, how can these 2 persons happy and get what they really want at the end?

That's why cross stitching is good, because its pull you away from debating something like this, you just stitch and you create a new color, a new line and a new form. Is about creation, is about making things from scartch.

So I learn, creating is more meaningful than debating, debating is only for entertaining but creating is something that can sustain for a long time.

Dream

Like a dream, just one click, you wake up and is gone.

Nothing matter to you

Today I dreamed about saying that again.

Nothing matter to you.

And I realize, everything I do, I need to know it matters.

It matters to the person, to the earth, to myself.

But a lot of times, I do things that don't matter.

Don't matter to anyone or anything. I just do it.

Guess what? I didn't know they don't matter until I did it.

Now I know, forever and ever, they don't matter and they won't matter to anyone and anything.

Leave the darkside for the night

Daylight mean to be brighten up everything on earth. Including your mood and emotion. You have approximately 12 hrs of daylight to be really happy.

That's why we sleep at night because that mean for us to bury our sorrow and not think about it. We sleep through a day and another, subconscious will help you deal with the problem you have and this is how brilliant our brain is.

I have learned to put a truly smiley face every morning, I do it so much it wasn't fake anymore, and this is actually work! You need to visualize thing, you need to just do what you think is right, is cool, is necessary. I want to be happy waking up everyday and that's what I am working on, no matter how sad I am, I want to be able to smile to the first person I see. On the progress of working on it, it becomes part of you.

My experience in Los Angeles, all those difficult moments, some fade away and some continue doing impact to my life today, I gotta learn to leave them for the night, nature will take care of it, the color of darkness will take care of it, most importantly, when I go to sleep, my dream will take care of it.

I realize my strenght of living through and not giving up can be tremendous, so now, I gotta learn how to use them correctly in other aspect of my life. I have learned that there's no forever good time in life and there's no forever bad time. And when good time comes, it can be bad, when bad time comes, it can be good.

How can life be absolute when it is not calculated in math?

And how come only until today I finally realize this is true and I can never get an absolute answer in life?

Yes, we are living in a gray area and life is just different from what I used to think anymore.

My hectic start for 2009

The conclusion of my hectic trip schedule:

I am just glad that so many people love me and so many people let me love them with open arms.

Is fun again to celebrate CNY back home because of all these new born babies. Babies bring joy to all of us and there's non-stop laugher at every corner in my house. Everyone is so busy checking out the babies with smiles and a warm heart. It is a long lost feeling about being home again, is wonderful.

Meet up with good old friends also have a brand new meaning, is not just about catching up anymore, is more about sharing each other's life and succeed in every aspect in life. We all grown up, and we are at a very different stage in life now, but we still have each other, that's just amazing to have so much support in moving on to the next stage of life.

Snow is still good and addictive, but the question is, if I can be a better person for the snow and slope in near future? Is my first passion in sport, and it light up my life like nothing else. Everytime I close my eyes, I see the white out and the blue sky.

Now I am back to my normal routine, and trying to keep all the good memories in head and turn to the next chapter, is 2009 after all, a brand new year that will come only once in my life time.

I better plan it well.

These days

I learned,

It is really not so bad to be not special, not unique, not genius.

It is so damn freaking hard to stop worrying about the future.

Religion is not part of the life to many, but it is what lead a life to many.

It is hard to resign from job.

It is not so bad when you are not alone when you are suppose to.

I can possibly live like that for a long time.

Riding motorbike is closer to nature.

My ultimate worried is something that I always thought it is the last thing I will worry on my list.

Change.

Facebook

Facebook is a great tool for connecting people. Right now the application on it really helps me kill my time at work and improve my geographic knowledge. I specially impressed by the tagging photo function so you don't need to send invitation to your friends via your photo album link anymore. Also, you don't have to worry about forgetting your camera for an important event, as long as someone has a camera and has a facebook account, you will sure be TAGGED.

But, it is also very difficult to get rid of someone from Facebook, if you tried to get rid of someone. You can't just delete him/her because if the person you want to get rid of know one of your friend in your Facebook, chances are he/she will be tagged someday on a picture and you will see them right in front of your screen. Or the "wall" function, you will see the conversation between the person with your friend. The worst thing about this "wall" function is you will not see the whole conversation, so your mind will start guessing and automatically fill in the blank about the missing part.

In other words, you might not see what you want and what you like one Facebook because of this impressive tagging function on FB.

And the hardest part is giving up this great tool of connecting with all your friends so that you can make sure your day goes well without some shitty person show up on your monitor. The easy to use and always up to date information from your friends all around the globe has proved to be very useful. Like now I know exactly when someone get married because there will be a "status update", "event invitation" plus the pictures.

You can also see where you friends travel and what they eat, that definitely help you plan better for your trip and know who exactly to get advice about a specific destination. We also save a lot of cellphone minutes by dropping short messeages to each other, make it easier to invite someone for a special occasion, chances to impress the person you secretly like has increased, build fun and stronger relationship with your family members and so on....

In conclusion, FB is a fantastic tool and it has more pros than cons. So I guess the only way for you to get rid of someone from FB is to get rid of them from your head. Is a long process to forget someone, it might take your entire life to do so, you can't forget by clicking the "delete" buttons.

Is in your head, the zombie is in your head, you just gotta deal with it.

Chances

It took me a long way to stop giving people second chance; it took me an even longer way to try giving people second chance.

When you have too much going on in your life, you almost want to be certain one shot is enough for a person, we don't have time to waste for a second shot. And with so many people on earth, why is it so hard to make the one shot right? It shouldn't be.

That's how I use to think, so I stop giving people second chance because is waste of my time.

Then now I learned, you can at least give a person 3 chances to make the same mistake in order to judge someone whether they are idiots or not.

So 3 is the number, and I apply this method in everything in order to make myself not so judgmental and make people think I am a "nicer" person. In order words, "less jerk".

But still, 3 chances are not enough, I have canceled so many people from my list and found no different of giving them 3 chances or 1 chance.

I realize I have less friends but more activity partners now than before, I type more and talk less, I am more judgmental than ever.

I start questioning myself if is giving human beings as many chances as possible until they show you their best is really truth? Will someone really show you their best if you being as generous as possible even though the person has no "best" to show?

I have seen too many people, different culture different race, different countries and different sex, I realize some people just have nothing to show to me at all no matter how hard I tried to hold on to them, how hard I tried to tell them what I want, and how generous I am to spend my time waiting for something happen.

Something usually happen but is always expected, they just don't change, and they walk away from my life voluntarily or involuntarily.

Just how much chances we should spare for someone? I am a robotic rational being trying to have a real heart like everybody else, but I still find it better to keep a heart of steel and be as cold as I can.

Hong Kong

I have been to Hongkong for about 20 times.

This is the first time I went there for travel. A 3 days trip is just nice for this little city. Due to the expensive cost of hotel there, me and my friend decided to join a cheap tour that included so much and charge so little. We will know the reason why the trip can be so cheap later on.

1/1/2009 I decided to start my new year by travelling, good start. But I didn't expect so many people had the same thought like me. Travelling with mainland China people is not my first time, seeing them travel is not my first time too, but each time I was amazed by just how many people in this land, 1.3 billion people, this land hold 1.3 billion people and all you have to do is having 1% of them spend 100 dollar at your shop and you don't have anything to worry for 10 generation.

Each day, China tourists bring millions of cash to Hong Kong, and is good to see some improvement about how they carried themselve ourside of mainland China. They are not just gaining respect by spending a lot of money there, but also people pick up slowly and adapt slowly to a different world.

The reason I join this trip is first, cheap, second they have a whole day free activities we can just do whatever we want to do, third, they got us hotel room at high peak season! I always know you don't expect good food by joining tour, but I didn't expect it can be so bad.

The local food wasn't fantastic either, is just like one of those HongKong cafe that I rarely go in Los Angeles. That's why HK people are all skinny I guess, too much walking and too little good food.

I went to the famous Ocean Park, I knew this place since I started watching HK drama and finally I am here to experience it myself. The place is pretty old already, but there's still some good part of it you don't want to miss. The pandas and the gondola ride. Is always good to see panda and Ocean Park has 4 very active pandas, they don't just sit there and eat all the time, they actually walk around and entertain people.

The gondola is tiny and has a nice view of South China Sea, nice breeze and fresh air on the mountain, I like the fact that you can actually open the windows so you can get a better view, don't have to see it through the window. Then I lined up for roller coaster, try to pretend I don't have a phobia about it. Surprisingly, I really don't have a phobia about it, maybe it was just a small ride with 2 turns of 360 degree spin, or maybe skiing has train me to enjoy speed more.

We stopped by some spots along the trip, the beach, where I found my favorite Cheetos Puff at the 7-11 there. The Hong Kong Beverly Hills, where inspire me not to be a rich in HK because you won't have big house eventhough you are Jacky Chan. The night view from the highest mountain in HK island, which remind me of how much better the night view in Chicago compare to this. The cruise ride along Victoria Bay, which make me think of the Xmas light at Union Square in San Francisco.



The hotel is tiny, but bigger than the one that I lived last time I stayed in HK. One jump from the door you will reach the bed, but it was clean and comfy and I got the bay view from my room, what more do you expect? A cheap hotel in HongKong cost you abot HKD500, I will spend 2 nights at this hotel, and my whole trip including 5 meals, cruise ride ticket and Ocean Park admission only cost me HKD 900.

The next day I went to the famous Wong Dai Xin temple and got out with ashes everywhere on me. I am not fancy about temple usually and the architecture of it is not interesting at all, so I spent sometimes reading stuff about those anti-communism group outside the temple. These Fat Lun Gong people camp at every spot that the China tourists visit. I don't have any comment about it but I guess eventually they will become one of the must see in HK.

Then that's the part that why my trip is so cheap, 5 hrs of shopping at these jewelry and watch stores, then the DFS. Our tourguide and driver will get commision for every bucks you spent at these palces. Every single person in my bus bought something, except me and my friend. There's really nothing to buy except branded stuff like Rolex, Omega, LV, Gucci... is year end sales and I must say, the tax free in HK really make a different for these expensive brand pricing, try go there at the end of the year or at the end of the summer, you might find some really good deal like a medium size Gucci purse only HKD3000, a big Tod's bag only HKD 6000 plus, Bally last season purse HKD4000 plus, but avoid US brands, they still cheaper in US.

Finaly come to my night life experience in HK, which is also a disappointment. First of all, the subway stop running at 12am and they don't have any 24hrs transportation besides taxi. Taxi is not cheap, but you don't have other choices. Bars close at 1am some later at Lam Kwai Fong, Karaoke close at 5:30am. Subway will run again at 6am. A pro will be the freedom of drinking on the street.



To sum it up, there's nothing to shop besides branded stuff, but if you never shop in China before, HK can be a shopping paradise, is relatively cheaper compare to Malaysia and has a lot of independet fashion stores. But those fashion accessories or clothes are all come from Guangdong China. A sweater cost about RMB30 bucks will be sold in HK for 100 or more. Try to rent an apartment in HK for your staying if possible, to live in a tiny place might be quite an experience. Check out night view of the city along the bay, can skip the mountain view and cruise. Join a tour eventhough their food sucks, but it save you a lot of money at hotels and transportation, but make sure your tour allow you to go back on your own and have days for free activities so it will be more flexible.

For couples out there, I didn't find HK romantic, because this place is too small for too many people and tourist.

So far HK is ok for me, but I guess I will just go there for business trip like I always do again.