Hong Kong Trip 2

We took a break from the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong and enjoyed a few days in Macao.

Macao is the mini-Las Vegas of Asia with all its casino's and apparently dodgey places... but I never got to explore that part :)  We stayed in the Venetian which is the largest hotel in Asia.  Really posh.  The hotel even has its own river - complete with Gondola and singer!

There's a lot of gambling in Macao and there'll be even more with more hotel/casinos being built.  I'm guessing in four or five years, the main Macao strip will rival Las Vegas.

Anh and I tried our luck playing "Sic Bo".  Its a really simple game to learn.  The dealer/casino/robot rolls three dice and you pretty much have to guess what comes up.  We played this the most and lost a bit of money the first night.  Thankfully my luck changed the second night so we ended up breaking even :)

But of course Anh and I cared little about gambling.

We cared more for the food!!

My Fat Burger

Our ferry food

Hmmm. New York style pizza.

This is how you do high tea!

Hong Kong Trip 1

I'm sick.  :(  But still blogging :P

It could be post holiday depression but its most likely a cold caught from our return flight from Singapore - there was a girl who was coughing and sniffing near us.  My wife has is it too, so were a pair of sick birds lolz

Its really unpleasant being sick during summer with the hot weather and having runny nose. Yuckers!

But enough of that - pictures time!

Our Hong Kong holiday started with a quick stop-over in Singapore.  We only had a few hours, but enough time to check out the new Marina Bay Sands hotel.  The hotel boasts a skypark at the top and a casino and shopping centre underneath.

I thought its quite interesting that they charge the locals S$200 to gamble but its free for tourist.  The hotel is alright, but I got a feeling they rushed the construction or they went cheapish with the materials because it just didn't have that glamorous feel about it.  Bits were falling off and the toilet I went to the flush wasn't working.

We didn't get to check out the sky park which was available only to guests staying in the hotel (or pay S$20).

After the quick stop over, we were off flying to the concrete jungle that is Hong Kong! *insert gong sound*

 Trams now accept the octopus card! Sweet.

Hong Kong is awesome for sightseeing

 Red panda

 Fat panda.

Shopping

 The winter sales meant I could actually afford stuff!

and of course, EATING!!! :P

 We love the desserts at Honeymoon Desserts.  Best place ever.  I think we visited a Honeymoon dessert outlet almost daily.

 Xialongbaos - these dumplings have surprise soup inside!!

Note - I would fly back to Hong Kong just for these baked BBQ pork buns.  They are so good!  If you don't believe me?  Google Tim Ho Wun.  These are Michelin star buns!!

Thats enough for now - more to come soon!!

New lens!

Yes!!!! 

 

I got my new 35mm F1.8 lens today!!! My first prime lens :)

 

Yeah yeah yeah!!!!

 

Harvey Norman was selling this for around A$400!!!! :S 

 

I ebayed it and got it for $240 - delivered. Hehehe, yoink! :P

 

THE huge apperture on this baby should get me some good low light shots of..

 

 

 

wait for it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wait for it.....

 

 

 

 

 

wait for it.....

 

 

 

BURGERS!!

 

 

 

Hahahaha.

 

That's right!  Burgers!!!

 

I got this lens to take photos of burgers!!  :)

 

Anh and I are planning on to go on a burger road trip so this should be able to get me some good bokkeh of burgers hahahaha.

 

We're on a mission to gallery all the burgers in Perth.  Then maybe burgers from all around the world hehehe.

 

Plus the Nikon lens It just happens to be a very good everyday lens too!.  

Its very stumpy.  Lolz.

 

Very excited about the photography possibilities.

 

Also very excited about finishing my php project..  

and finishing Uncharted 2 

and Starcraft 2 

and finishing projects around the house.. 

hahaha I've got a lot so many things on my plate, I wonder when I'll ever have time to date my wife.

 

Maybe she wants to eat burgers tonight. :)

Pizza

Nothing like a good pizza to warm up the cold winter nights!

This we made using the pizza stone my mom got with her oven.  :P  The pizza stone makes the base cook hotter giving it that crizpy stone pizza yumness.

Ahhh Pizza. Nom nom nom nom...

I Eat You

Finally back from a very yummy trip of Singapore and KL! Lots of eating and shopping 

and eating and shopping.

And eating.

And eating.

Well....  I guess you get the picture of what we mostly did in our trip  :)

Getting hungry just looking at these.