Hong Kong 2011
One of the perks of my job is overseas training/competition trips with the students! Last last december Wuhan, Hong Kong this time!
The experience this time was different though! Most of the trip felt like a holiday rather than a work trip, but two days we had to work were pretty stressful!
Here's velda and the hong kong airport! Some of the students' families took the same flight as us. I thought it'd be nice if all the students took the same flight but that's pretty impossibe with a huge contingent of almost a hundred.
The first day was try outs at the 'gym'! Although I knew hong kong side had fewer facilities, even I was pretty surprised by what they had! But think it was a good experience for our girls. 
Anw, this is our hotel room! According to youzi and chu lao shi, it's considered pretty spacious! When the extra bed came, they put it at the foot of the existing beds which was pretty weird and it took up the whole leftover space. So we did a bit of shifting around ourselves! Chu lao shi joked that we finally put our mats shifting skills into good use. :P This was Shamrock hotel by the way, the location's pretty good, nearish to mongkok and the hotel's not too shabby (:
I didn't take many pictures this trip, I was either too busy taking care of the kids, shopping, or had no one to camwhore with.
This is almost all of the kids!
Sorry I'm kinda biased, you can probably tell this girl's one of my darlings. If you're interested, you can visit her blog (mum's) at babyvel.blogspot.com hehee.
These were taken during my favourite lunch throughout the trip! Super spicy, ma la stuff!
伤心酸辣粉 was super nice! The noodles were super Q, and i loved the taste and spice.
This is shredded potato! Super nice too!! Loved it.
The name of the shop's quioute funny. 'Cause when you eat their food you'll tear/cry as if you're damn sad.
We visited the times square on one of the days, nothing much. All the high end stuff.
Christmas decor at the world trade centre near causeway bay.
Competition day! Some of the mummies did really elaborate hair and make up for the girls!
Morning session warm up.
Prize giving in the afternoon that took 3 hours and was killing everybody. Lots of drama and problems came up during the prize giving, the most stressful time of the whole trip. Glad it was more or less settled though. All my students won something, I was very happy :D:D
Here's velda finally getting what she deserves! First on bars! She would have won at the BazGym Invitational if she didn't forget to do something! She tends to perform below standard during competitions so i was quite worried! But she did me proud :)
Two other darlings Gabby and Raeanne! Gabby got the most prizes from this competition and i was very proud of her too 'cause she came for extra trainings without complaining and trained hard!
We arrived 1.5 days before the competition, and i spent most of the shopping with youzi! Glad I had her for the first few days!
Only during this trip did i realise Hong Kong's really great for shopping! Favourite places were the malls at Argyle street and Kwai Chung Plaza at Kwai Fong(Xian's recommendation, thanks!!). Most of the shops sold winter clothing though, I think the shopping would be doubly good during summer!
After youzi came back to Singapore early, and Chu lao shi ditched me to visit her friends and shenzhen, I was left with two male colleagues! :/ One was kinda lazy and preferred to stay back in the hotel room, but the other was slightly more adventurous! Lucky I had him to eat dimsum breakfast with!
On one of the days we decided to visit Stanley! We decided to go there 'cause the Stanley market was supposedly famous. The journey there turned out to be too long to be worth it! We had to take train, then a 45 minute bus ride!
Apparently Stanley is a very expensive residential area by the sea! All the people staying there are very rich, and we saw quite a few ang moh kids and their filipino maids around.
The Stanley Market was.. not worth going. Just a very small market with nothing special.
Stanley Plaza, a pretty new spot there.
We took a 小巴back at night! It was a nice experience 'cause I've seen and heard about such buses in which the passengers had to shout out where they wanted to alight! But if i didn't remember wrongly all that the passengers on our bus said was mm goi (thankyou or something), and the bus driver would know where to stop. We didn't shout anything though, just followed other people down.
At night we had a seafood dinner near ladies market, or temple . One of those.
Beer, yummy seafood and lemon tea. Not bad haha.
Lan Kwai Fong is like a must go in Hong Kong. Although I didn't exactly have suitable travel companions, I still went! With my 50 year old colleague haha.
We didn't club of course, just found the quietest pub and sat down to chat. About work. Hurhur. And I had juice haha.
Breakfast at one of the more modern cha chan tings -
Street near where we stayed.
Happened to meet gabby, gena and daddy on the last day on my way to Mongkok!
The older one's an angel, younger one's a devil. 
Velda and her new bunny that she unselfishly lent me for a while on our flight back :)
More random photos from my phone!
Before I flew off! Thanks ming and mama for sending me off :D
Some of the outfits I had on in hong kong!
Navigated quite a long! Youzi and I walked from Mong Kong to ladies street to temple street back to bowring street where our hotel was and almost died. But it was fun!
On the last day I shopped at ladies street and argyle street alone! It was quite exciting 'cause I think it's the first time I'm alone overseas for quite a long while!
Velda again! (I'm not biased, just happened to meet her more 'cause we took the same flights! But ya la, she's one of my favourites :))
YAY. Finally updated this space. Xinyi, no more boring book review! haha
