Thur (17.04.08), woke up @ 5.45am, left hse @ 6.20am, reach budget terminal @ abt 7am and meet Flora & her hubby for b/f..

B/F was lousy but enough to fill my stomach. We check in at the airport at abt 7.30am and flew off ard 9.25am and reach Macau 1pm.

Story starts................

Below is e pic of my cracked luggage.. Brand new, I really wonder how they can crack that area where e handle actually rest on it, e pics are a little blur but if u look clearly, is not only there.. 1 of my colic also had his luggage crack into pieces.. we went into the counter & fill up e form, etc to claim for ins.. That took us abt 45min.. and we are rushing to Zhuhai customs, the staffs there are not very friendly..There are people who are worst where their lock/wheels are missing, luggages are open up... faints.. -.-"

We had to rush 3 customs before reaching Zhuhai and the worst thing was, there are indian colics with us and we had clear the customs, we can't see them.. They were MISSING.. we waited almost an hour before we knew that they are being kept because they did not bring enough US$ or RMB together with their VISA.. In order for them to get out, they need RMB 20.000.. so what we do was we gather all e pool of RMB20K to the custom and finally they are out.. and the time was already 4+pm.. By e time we reach hotel, we are nearly flat.. The hotel we stayed in was 2000 Years Hotel.. Exterior looks ok, Interior also ok but has got a mouldy smell.. TV are white elephant, no programmes at all.. we head straight to restaurant for our dinner.. The dinner was lousy, oily & bland.. ANyhow, it was a failure..

After dinner, we share cab down to Gongbei (near custom), that is the largest shopping mall in Zhuhai, there were really many things & immitations.. Shopping was fun, a taxi fare down from restaurant to Gongbei and back to our hotel cost only RMB41 which is only abt S$8 for to & fro trip.. CHEAP! 3pax sharing only abt RMB14 whereas, the tour guide suggest we take his coach which a person is RMB30 and not open for negotiation, therefore we gave up.

At Macau, Sat morning 5am, I start to have diarrohea/nausea, I woke Flora up to pass me "stop diarrohea" medicine. Yes, it stopped, but my gastric/nausea was serious, I was thinking I might not be able to join e tour but after a bath, it was slightly ok, but it recurr again.. I did not take any photos, i just seat on e bus while the rest went down. When we reach Ah Ma temple, there was a pharmacy there, I quickly rush down to buy nausea medicine and tat cost me HK$38 which is abt S$7.50.. faint.. Thereafter we went for lunch. I was unable to eat at all, so I look at them and we sort of finish at about 12.45pm when we heard the news that there would be Typhoon 8 at 1.30pm.. OMG.. It was already Typhoon5 when we were at temple and I wasn't aware which i thought it was just raining heavily..

True enough, Typhoon 8 came, but we still rushing down to factory outlet and walked quite a distance.. Those with umbrella/ponchos are wet, there is no diff at all, the wind/rain is so heavy.. "Cross" tape are stick outside the window of the shops, they are closed. I see people rush to the coming bus towards them so that they can get home in time..

Finally, our coach is here after a long walk from the factory outlet, we went back to the Hotel and had to stay in till the typhoon is over. Some of our colics who did not join the Day tour went HK and were stuck at the Ferry Terminal .. At HK, it was Typhoon 3..

In the Hotel, I start to feel hungry and ordered a room service.. Ham/Cheese sandwich.. Mmmm... taste so good.. but after that, stomach cramp again, the nausea feeling is back again..

At almost 8pm, Flora & I went downstair hoping to get some dinner, but it was just too expensive, so we decided to walk out but heard that the typhoon will be No. 9 or 10, we hesitate a while but in e end, we still walk to SANDS Casino "Food Court" to have our dinner.. Not too bad, I ate the Wontan Soup, didn't know it doesn't come wif noodles.. cost HK$26 which is abt S$5.. reasonable..

After dinner, we went to walk around and played 3 rounds of jackpot, I lose.. so I stopped, thereafter went back to hotel, bathe and sleep..

Sunday (20.04.08) wake up early morning, had our tiny b/f at the hotel, and continue to walk down to SANDS to have a shuttle bus to VENETIAN but we were too early as the bus starts from 10am while it was almost 9am when we reach. Therefore, we share a cab down and we were fascinated by the exterior of the casino, Interiors were even "woW".. we had our little tea break dim sum at the Imperial Restaurant.. The food was good, we ordered 1 chrysanthemum tea with 4 items cost HKD114.. Quite reasonable as the portion was big and we were not that hungry after our b/f in hotel.. We took a cab back at about 12.30pm, had my last bath there and check out the hotel at 1.30pm.. The coach came only abt 2pm and we head straight to Macau Airport to check in.. Our flight was 3.50pm and we reach Spore 7.25pm..

Overall, this trip was below average..waiting/typhoon/diarrohea.. OMG.. =.="

See below for VENETIAN/Dimsum and my "trophies".. hee..

see that crack?

2 Nike/Addidas Tshirt & Bermudas

1 baby girl Tshirt for Cheryl, 1 LeSport pouch, 1 big handbag & 1 sunglass

pirated DVDs.. hee.. 3 movies/2 latest HK dramas

5 wrist pouch/4 kipling coin pouch/7 almond cookies..

This is Gongbei custom/Shopping Mall

This is the sea goddess of Zhuhai (I did not take much photos of Zhuhai, just 3 only)





Casa Real Hotel, this is our hotel rms in Macau





The most famous/newest casino hotel, VENETIAN

This is the ceiling in Venetian, is so...... beautiful!!!

The sculpture at the entrance

& e walkway to the.... CASINO........... ^^

Guess what, this is 1 of my winning tix, I've won a HK$560+HK$125..

After the winning, my colic & I went to have a little dim sum, carrot cake with XO sauce

"Chee cheong fun with char siew", e taste is so fantastics

These foods are e best of what we have eaten over the last 3 days despite its small portions.


Chicken feet... Flora's favourite dish.. ALL BY HERSELF...


Siew Mai, the fillings with prawns/scallops.. woW.. YumMy!!!

Bootie thought hard on 1:52 PM.