Mr & Mrs Chew in Hong Kong

Our holiday to Japan was lovely,.... but with the kids and the skiing and the whole extended family.... Paul and I were exhausted and needed another vacation to recover!

My old old friends from Uni were getting married to each other in Hong Kong, so we found the perfect excuse to scoot away for a quick holiday - just the 2 of us. The kids stayed at my mum's where they had perpetual play mates (their cousins). :P I missed them terribly but let's get on with the Hong Kong story...

Our Hotel:


We stayed at a really nice boutique hotel in Causeway Bay called Lanson Place Hotel. It was a tad pricier than I would have liked but I was happy with it. Our "Grand Delux" room was titchy. Made me wonder what the regular rooms would've been like! We did have a small living room and an eensy kitchenette. Anyway one of the highlights of the hotel was the DVD library! The hotel could boast a pretty extensive DVD library with many of the latest movies (e.g. Oceans 13, Fantastic Four II, Die Hard 4 etc....) Call me boring but I watched a lot of stuff. :P

Well as it is for most ppl visiting Hong Kong, there was a lot of shopping going on. But I paced myself. I allowed myself a mid-day nap almost everyday to recharge. I was not joking when I said we were exhuasted. Paul took that opportunity during my naps to work out in the gym. How bad did that make me feel right??.... Anyway I wasn't planning on buying much being the size that I am now. Paul did most of the buying. (Vainpot!)

Crappy "self-timer" pic of Paul and I at the hotel lounge.

My favourite "restuarant" in Hong Kong:

I was feeling nausea the whole time and there was only ONE PLACE that didn't make me feel ill where I could effortlessly chow down a full meal..... Pret a Manger!!!!! It was one of my favourite lunchtime haunts in uni days. The sandwiches in the HK Pret looked a little smaller than how I remembered them to be in London, but what the hell,.... with some crisps, they were freakin' awesome!!!!

We met up with my old old old dear friend Marcus C. from London school days and his fiance Anne.

They took us to eat lovely lobster noodles. For some reason I was trying to eat all the stuff I used to eat in London! For those of you who were in London, you remember the Mandarin Kitchen (Bayswater) lobster noodles. Yum! Not exactly the same as in London, but still pretty darn good!

I know this looks so cruel, lobster in bag and all,.... but it made a mean lobster noodle. :P

The Salon:

We couldn't spend ALL our time shopping and watching DVDs, so we decided to go to the salon -"HAIR". That's where I got my stupid fringe. I don't think it was the stylist's fault. This is just something I do when I am bored with my hair (i.e. bangs) and I almost always regret it. Actually it looked quite good when he first cut it where it was somewhat a heavy fringe, but later he kind of thinned it without my knowing (to my horror, but...oops,.... too late)

The picture above is not really to show you my transient haircut but rather show you my hairstylist (George). The hat and scarf and all was all FOR REAL! He was dressed like some kind of a pop star or something! .... and he was seriously dressed like this throughout the haircut. I guess it is a Hong Kong thing, but it had Paul and I in giggles the entire time..... See my grin in the picture? It's cos I knew Paul was taking a picture of George and not me...

Paul had his haircut too but sorry no picture of him cos as you can see above, I was also getting my nails done.

Here's a picture of me after my haircut..... but really the highlight of this picture is not the profile view of my hideous bangs but rather my fab Bottega Shades. Check them out!!!!

The Wedding:

Alright, let me get to the whole point of our Hong Kong trip.... Meng & Gio's wedding @ The Island Shangrila Hotel. I would say that the "format" of the wedding was pretty similar to the typical Singapore wedding except the food was much better. Also I was VERY impressed by how all the guests got photo quality pictures at the end of that evening of themselves from the wedding (taken on THAT SAME evening) Singapore needs to step up to keep competitive!

Some of my dearest friends from King's.
Nash (The Bestman), Me, Gio (Bride), Meng (Groom)

Mr & Mrs Chew