We got out of the hotel early to check out the hotel and eat outside in Ashley road for the last time. We got up earlier than usual coz our tourguide will take us early to Disneyland. We ate our free breakfast at Fairwood (Ham and Eggs with coke or coffee). It was kinda packed with people eating breakfast there so it was a nice people watching opportunity at that time. When we got back to the hotel, the concierge told us that our tourguide has just left shortly before we arrived. Oh my gosh, all our efforts to wake up early and hasten our breakfast has been nothing so dad was furious when he called our tourguide Ray. Then the concierge told us that we can either take a bus or taxi to Disneyland. Then me and dad thought about taking the MTR there since taking a bus or taxi from Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon to Disneyland in Lantau Island is expensive so we asked the concierge guy of we can take the MTR there, he said yes so we carried our bags out of Marco Polo Gateway in Canton Road to the Tsim Sha Tsui station in Nathan Road where we took a last step of our dear Tsim Sha Tsui and into one exciting subway train adventure to (as some people say) the Chinese equivalent of the happiest place on earth- Hong Kong Disneyland - awaits us as me and dad swiped our Octopus Cards on the MTR turnstiles.
This is the inside of the MTR train that will take us from Sunny Bay Station to Disneyland... It's full of Mickey Mouse's and other Disney characters' thingymagegers. -lol
When we arrived at Hong Kong Disneyland, we went straight to Hollywood Hotel via Disney shuttle to Hollywood Hotel. When we arrived at Hollywood Hotel, we noticed that our tour guide Ray and the others haven't arrived yet so we checked in for a smoking floor(as always) room to rest and then go to Disneyland to find Mickey Mouse, Frollo, Mulan and such.
After we took a rest, we got out of our hotel room and in the lobby we saw our fellow tourmates checking in the reception. Seems like the MTR is faster than the tourbus- dad thought.
When we arrived at the Disneyland park itself, it was just in time for the Disney characters' parade. I took out my phone and took a lot of pictures of funny Disney characters- like Alice(of Alice in Wonderland) throwing off a "Sig Heil" and the toy soldiers (of Toy Story) walking like crazy. After the Disney parade, me and dad ran off to the Disney train that tours around the whole Hong Kong Disneyland. After that we went off to the Main street shops to buy gifts and things for our relatives and took a picture with my fave Disney Princess Mulan, then at Tomorrow Land to eat some burgers at the Diner while i saw Buzz Lightyear running away from his crazy fans. After that me and dad went to Fantasyland where we rode the "It's a small world after all" ride, where we went around the world in just 6-10 minutes. We even got back to the Philippines for one second(i don't want to go home yet!!!)
Seeing a Bahay Kubo(a traditional Filipino house made of palm fronds and bamboo) and a mutated Tarsier hanging around a bamboo stem.
After going on that boat ride, we went off to the "Golden Mickeys" show which is one of my things to do when im in Disney since my all time fave character Quasimodo was there as well as Mulan(again). Beast's transformation was so spectacular that there are fireworks when he transformed back to a man.
After seeing Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Lilo speak in Cantonese as well as seeing a lot of characters singing the songs they're famous for, we went back to Tomorrowland where dad smoked a bit while i took a ride on the infamous rollercoaster Space Mountain. The last thing i said before the ride began was "I love you Bill Kaulitz....". Good thing no one sat beside me but there are Chinese people in the front and back of me, i have no idea if they understand me or have any idea who Bill Kaulitz was. The ride on the Space Mountain was so unforgettable that it reminds me of one part of the video of "1000 meere" (coz of the stars and such) and i cussed out in Filipino most of the time out of anxiety.
When i got out, i was amazed. Then i rode the Cinderella Carousel on Fantasyland before i went to Sleeping Beauty's castle to watch the very fantabulous Disney on the stars fireworks. Yeah, i never get to watch the Symphony of Lights back in Tsim Sha Tsui or maybe in Hong Kong Island but watching the Disney fireworks was well worth it since i plan not to go back to Hong Kong Disney the next time i go back to Hong Kong.
After the fireworks display, we went back to our hotel and then we slept in our last night in Hong Kong. As i spent my last night there, i took one last bubble bath in the bathroom and while i was soaking up in the bubbles, i told myself "I love Bill... as my crush." randomly.
Fifth day- Der Letzte Tag...
When i woke up from a long slumber, i felt sad and realized that this will be the last day that im here in Hong Kong, when i ride the airplane tonight i'll leave Hong Kong for a while(more than a year later). Dad told me he wants to meet up with tita Cherry-who works in Central- and also he wants to give back "Grandpa lookalike"'s jacket that he wore on the night we went out eating with my relatives and gave Jamie a gift (HK$1000).
After we fixed ourselves, we went to the MTR station of Disneyland and there we took a very long MTR ride all the way to the end of the Tung Chung line: Hong Kong station in Central. Although it was long, i enjoyed it. I hear Bill's voice frequently on the MTR while hangin' out with those Hong Kongers *sings"Der muessen nur noch 1000 meere weit..."* and dad with the British guys who reads business newspapers(in English of course). I remember the time when the MTR stopped in the middle of the ride from Lai King to Nam Cheong. Well it was kinda sudden and pretty weird, with hearing Bill sings at the same time being stuck on a crowded train that stopped for a minute and half.
When we finally arrived in Hong Kong station, it took us more than 30 minutes to realize where tita Cherry was- in the Central station. So we walked from Hong Kong station to Central (thus deducting $3 from our Octopus cards)
When we got to meet tita Cherry, we went out to eat at the Hong Kong version of Jollibee, which is in a small alleyway on Des Voeux street. Wow, we went all the way to Hong Kong just to eat something we always eat back home in the Philippines!!! -lol
After eating breakfast, me and my dad and tita Cherry went to ride on the Island Line of the MTR to Wan Chai- where uncle David works. Tita Cherry told him to meet us on Wan Chai station so he'll receive "Grandpa Lookalike"'s jacket and our gift to Jamie. Well uncle David was kinda in a hurry coz he still got work to do so we never got to hang around much in Wan Chai so we went back to Central and did a little shopping until tita Cherry parted with us and we went on to ride in the Tung Chung line of the MTR to the end of the line- Tung Chung.
This is the inside of the MTR train that will take us from Sunny Bay Station to Disneyland... It's full of Mickey Mouse's and other Disney characters' thingymagegers. -lolWhen we arrived at Hong Kong Disneyland, we went straight to Hollywood Hotel via Disney shuttle to Hollywood Hotel. When we arrived at Hollywood Hotel, we noticed that our tour guide Ray and the others haven't arrived yet so we checked in for a smoking floor(as always) room to rest and then go to Disneyland to find Mickey Mouse, Frollo, Mulan and such.
After we took a rest, we got out of our hotel room and in the lobby we saw our fellow tourmates checking in the reception. Seems like the MTR is faster than the tourbus- dad thought.
When we arrived at the Disneyland park itself, it was just in time for the Disney characters' parade. I took out my phone and took a lot of pictures of funny Disney characters- like Alice(of Alice in Wonderland) throwing off a "Sig Heil" and the toy soldiers (of Toy Story) walking like crazy. After the Disney parade, me and dad ran off to the Disney train that tours around the whole Hong Kong Disneyland. After that we went off to the Main street shops to buy gifts and things for our relatives and took a picture with my fave Disney Princess Mulan, then at Tomorrow Land to eat some burgers at the Diner while i saw Buzz Lightyear running away from his crazy fans. After that me and dad went to Fantasyland where we rode the "It's a small world after all" ride, where we went around the world in just 6-10 minutes. We even got back to the Philippines for one second(i don't want to go home yet!!!)
Seeing a Bahay Kubo(a traditional Filipino house made of palm fronds and bamboo) and a mutated Tarsier hanging around a bamboo stem.
After going on that boat ride, we went off to the "Golden Mickeys" show which is one of my things to do when im in Disney since my all time fave character Quasimodo was there as well as Mulan(again). Beast's transformation was so spectacular that there are fireworks when he transformed back to a man.
After seeing Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Lilo speak in Cantonese as well as seeing a lot of characters singing the songs they're famous for, we went back to Tomorrowland where dad smoked a bit while i took a ride on the infamous rollercoaster Space Mountain. The last thing i said before the ride began was "I love you Bill Kaulitz....". Good thing no one sat beside me but there are Chinese people in the front and back of me, i have no idea if they understand me or have any idea who Bill Kaulitz was. The ride on the Space Mountain was so unforgettable that it reminds me of one part of the video of "1000 meere" (coz of the stars and such) and i cussed out in Filipino most of the time out of anxiety.
When i got out, i was amazed. Then i rode the Cinderella Carousel on Fantasyland before i went to Sleeping Beauty's castle to watch the very fantabulous Disney on the stars fireworks. Yeah, i never get to watch the Symphony of Lights back in Tsim Sha Tsui or maybe in Hong Kong Island but watching the Disney fireworks was well worth it since i plan not to go back to Hong Kong Disney the next time i go back to Hong Kong.
After the fireworks display, we went back to our hotel and then we slept in our last night in Hong Kong. As i spent my last night there, i took one last bubble bath in the bathroom and while i was soaking up in the bubbles, i told myself "I love Bill... as my crush." randomly.
Fifth day- Der Letzte Tag...
When i woke up from a long slumber, i felt sad and realized that this will be the last day that im here in Hong Kong, when i ride the airplane tonight i'll leave Hong Kong for a while(more than a year later). Dad told me he wants to meet up with tita Cherry-who works in Central- and also he wants to give back "Grandpa lookalike"'s jacket that he wore on the night we went out eating with my relatives and gave Jamie a gift (HK$1000).
After we fixed ourselves, we went to the MTR station of Disneyland and there we took a very long MTR ride all the way to the end of the Tung Chung line: Hong Kong station in Central. Although it was long, i enjoyed it. I hear Bill's voice frequently on the MTR while hangin' out with those Hong Kongers *sings"Der muessen nur noch 1000 meere weit..."* and dad with the British guys who reads business newspapers(in English of course). I remember the time when the MTR stopped in the middle of the ride from Lai King to Nam Cheong. Well it was kinda sudden and pretty weird, with hearing Bill sings at the same time being stuck on a crowded train that stopped for a minute and half.
When we finally arrived in Hong Kong station, it took us more than 30 minutes to realize where tita Cherry was- in the Central station. So we walked from Hong Kong station to Central (thus deducting $3 from our Octopus cards)
When we got to meet tita Cherry, we went out to eat at the Hong Kong version of Jollibee, which is in a small alleyway on Des Voeux street. Wow, we went all the way to Hong Kong just to eat something we always eat back home in the Philippines!!! -lol
After eating breakfast, me and my dad and tita Cherry went to ride on the Island Line of the MTR to Wan Chai- where uncle David works. Tita Cherry told him to meet us on Wan Chai station so he'll receive "Grandpa Lookalike"'s jacket and our gift to Jamie. Well uncle David was kinda in a hurry coz he still got work to do so we never got to hang around much in Wan Chai so we went back to Central and did a little shopping until tita Cherry parted with us and we went on to ride in the Tung Chung line of the MTR to the end of the line- Tung Chung.
Then we ate lunch (backgammon ham and cheese sandwich with coke) in Delifrance in the mall near Ngong Ping 360-the place we're heading after lunch.- After lunch we went off to Tung Chung and was shocked at the sudden price hike of the 2-way journey of the cable car ride there. The last time i went there, a 2 way ride was for HK$ 88. Now it went up to the super insane price of HK$158!!! Imagine that, it was almost a year's difference(the last time i went there in Tung Chung was may 21,2008 and it was april 8,2009 when i came back)...
so me and dad thought of going back to our hotel to take a rest before we go to the airport and say bye-bye to Hong Kong.
When i rode the MTR to Sunnybay, i took a moment of reflecting all about what happened during the whole trip- all the good things i brought, all the fun shenanigans i did, all the bad things that happened and most of all, all of the people i met there particularly my Chinese relatives whom i really wanted to meet ever since i was a kid. And i never expected that my relatives would be so impressed with me knowing my way around in Hong Kong. What they didn't know was that it was all because of the last time i went there that they didn't know. I enjoyed my last trip a little but not so much and i was full of regret of all what happened. Well for starters i was so depressed back then and i don't know much about Hong Kong. I wasn't aware of all the fun things to do there and the interesting stuffs to see. After i got over my depression months later back in the Philippines, i read my sister's Hong Kong book and was amazed at all the sights and things to see and do there- most are things i never got to do or see. So i felt guilty and regretted my depression but how can i get over about it just for one minute? How would you feel if people you love and have lots of faith on betrayed you? and you found out that the reason you never got to go to places like Hong Kong was because of those so called "loving relatives" who gives you false security and companionship all for money?? and what's worse they claim they love mom very much but when she was younger and poor back then they treat her very badly and like a worthless scum worth beating up most of the time. But she still loves them though. and then when she got rich, they leech her off all the time and they poison out our minds so we never get to go out and indulge because of them who can't indulge because they're poor. those "relatives" i refer to was my mom's mom, brothers, sisters and other maternal relatives. They're not worth my love anyway so i would rather lose them than keep them because they would just ruin my life and make it more miserable like what they did to mom when she was still alive.
And then there's Bill Kaulitz... whom i heard from a certain "tokiohotelmistress" some days before i embarked for Hong Kong that Bill isn't like who he was when he's on stage, got a lot of personal problems, hates his fans, is with an ugly looking bitch(THmistress)-Bill, you're so tasteless...never mind- and many more depressing stuffs that made me cry most of the time. I was so upset and angry at him and Tom(for hooking up with her in the first place) that i never got to enjoy my first trip abroad much. But when things got clear and Audrie saved me from hell, i finally forgave them coz if Audrie never told me the truth, i would never forgive Tokio Hotel for all the things they made me done for them that i thought would let me know that there are people too who understands what i feel about my current life- like instead of listening to the current hits here in the Philippines, i listen to German songs, and singing in German, etc...- but instead not only i get nothing for being their fan, i was being deceived into thinking Bill understands and had been through what i've felt but what's worse was that secretly i was stabbed in the back by humiliating me and all their faithful fans by laughing at all our "naiveness" about them.
So i was miserable on my first trip there. But exactly a month later, Bill talked to a certain Hong Konger who tipped off his cousin about THmistress and her lies. He thanked the Hong Kongian for telling that to his cousin. Then a month afterwards, ate Gie walked out and left us for good. I still love her for being a sister but it was she who pressurize and make things heavy for the family. After that, i begin to hear some bad news about my maternal cousins, titos, titas and lola Minday. All made me quite happy and light, but how would i make up for the spoiled Hong Kong trip? It could have been a trip of a lifetime and i don't know if i can make up for it so i feel so bad. But when ate Gie left us, she left me not only the responsibilities that i now manage and liable of but also the benefits she could have got when she was still staying with us. A month after we went to Hong Kong, dad told ate Gie to go to Hong Kong next year with kuya Rex and Robbie. But she left last july and then her supposed Hong Kong trip was to become mine. Time to redeem myself... i thought, but how?
I just thought, if im so familiarized about Hong Kong, then i would have still enjoyed myself there even if im heartbroken. So i read a lot, studied and asked. in the process, got hooked with that modern and wonderful city that i got so excited when im about to come back there. Even though Bill never broke my heart after that, it was all fun and well worth the troubles i've been since not only i was so happy being there but also i made a good and lasting impression with my Chinese relatives.
It was all well.
So i was miserable on my first trip there. But exactly a month later, Bill talked to a certain Hong Konger who tipped off his cousin about THmistress and her lies. He thanked the Hong Kongian for telling that to his cousin. Then a month afterwards, ate Gie walked out and left us for good. I still love her for being a sister but it was she who pressurize and make things heavy for the family. After that, i begin to hear some bad news about my maternal cousins, titos, titas and lola Minday. All made me quite happy and light, but how would i make up for the spoiled Hong Kong trip? It could have been a trip of a lifetime and i don't know if i can make up for it so i feel so bad. But when ate Gie left us, she left me not only the responsibilities that i now manage and liable of but also the benefits she could have got when she was still staying with us. A month after we went to Hong Kong, dad told ate Gie to go to Hong Kong next year with kuya Rex and Robbie. But she left last july and then her supposed Hong Kong trip was to become mine. Time to redeem myself... i thought, but how?
I just thought, if im so familiarized about Hong Kong, then i would have still enjoyed myself there even if im heartbroken. So i read a lot, studied and asked. in the process, got hooked with that modern and wonderful city that i got so excited when im about to come back there. Even though Bill never broke my heart after that, it was all fun and well worth the troubles i've been since not only i was so happy being there but also i made a good and lasting impression with my Chinese relatives.
It was all well.
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