What a weekend !!

Last week started off really boring as I was just writing an essay that was due in today - somehow I managed to not get it finished in time for going away so after getting back last night about 1am I stayed up until half 6 writing, then slept for 3 hrs and finished it off promptly at midday when my class was starting Alh I got it done - I don't know how good or bad it is, I was in the lib making some changes and then some dude switched off my computer so I lost all the changes I had been making in the morning so it wasn't a completely ok'd version going in. Not. Amused.

But this weekend was SO worth it so I don't mind so long as I pass it i'm ok with that!

On Thursday I flew to Macau in the morning, met Daniel there who I'd never met before so we did the get to know chatting thang until the flight which I just slept through entirely - cause guess what I was up late working on that damned essay on the wednesday night as well!! Landed in Macau and met Ceri, Zak and Smail who had been travelling for a week before us and seemed to have had a lot of fun - I cant wait to see their pictures and videos from it! Macau is just basically full of casinos and european style buildings so we decided not to stay there for the night and just toured it. Went up the viewing tower and WOW the casinos were huge and many in number - they were really spectacular by night - this is bigger than LA in terms of revenue so you can imagine the insanity of it. Ceri did the world's biggest bungee jump which I would never in a million years do - I was happy to just watch but she seemed to really enjoy it! Taxi drivers are nutters over there and we had quite a few mishaps which ended in Mcdonalds and meeting each other at the ferry terminal cause we were all separated but such a laugh. I hate to say it but we kind of lived off mcdonalds (filet of fish as well - there is no halal KFC, BK, McDs, etc, etc like Singapore for alot of the holiday!!!

Got to Hong Kong about 10pm and set off to find our hostel which look uuuuuuuugly and scary and oh so ghetto from the outside but was really clean inside and the ladies who worked there were so sweet! Cosmic Guest House people - if you ever go to Hong Kong. Was in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong, which is very very close to Hong Kong island and also to the Mong Kok which had first class shopping, had a lovely promenade and easy to get to both disney land hong kong (which we totally did) and the airport!

So we eventually caught yet another McD’s before going to bed. Ceri and I didn’t sleep for ages cause our bathroom with 3 random slippers rather than 2 or 4 was very amusing given the fact the entire thing was a shower and we couldn’t really work out how to keep our clothes and towel dry whilst in there…its probably really simple but we were both so incredibly tired!

It sounds awful that we had so much fast food but a lot of Hong Kong food is pork based and there is very very few halal joints there so I felt sorry for Fadil who lives there permanently! I did manage to find a list of some of them and we checked it out – resulting in some wicked biryani and kebabs so I’m not complaining. Though the area with the most Muslim eating places was the strip club area!!! But still – good food man, good food!

On the Friday we did a lot of wandering around a sightseeing – Bank of China Tower was specatular, and just in the insanity of all sky scrapers – absolutely breath taking! Hong Kong rocked! And there were random wee parks everywhere which we took a wander around and later met up with Ceri’s friend from Hong Kong who works there in the IFC I think. Then we met up with Fadil and friends to go to this kebab place. It was good to see him, bit strange seeing him outside of Edinburgh but class as always an met some of his friends so I know they are cool and will take care of him!! After that we went up a cable car and saw out over Hong Kong late at night which was truly truly incredible. If ever in Hong Kong take a trip to Peak Tower most definitely! So that was yet another late night!!

On Saturday we took a trip to Disneyland Hong Kong – which although way smaller than Paris and definitely Orlando, we made our own fun and hung around there until late in the evening learning the lingo and having a riot J Awww I love Disney, reminded me of all my favourite movies and childhood. My first crush was blatently Aladdin…I can’t tell you how much fun we had there cause we are a random bunch of people who just like to do crazy things. I worked out that I had only known Zak and Ceri for less than a month – since Ramadhan starts, and Daniel for only a few days ( I knew smaily from classes) but its really great to have them as friends Alh :)

That night we sat on the promenade at Kowloon and looked over at Hong Kong island for hours just sitting and chatting until it started rainining! We’d missed a typhoon in Hong Kong only the day before thank God because that would have been awful!

Then on Sunday we toured and shopped Mong Kok to death – good fun, we split cause me and ceri didn’t like shopping as much as the guys (I know!) and after 2 hrs we were bored and started just having a wee walk around eventually ending up at the promenade and seeing that by day! Everything is just so kitsch and Japanese ( know!) its amusing to see…

So we were late for our flight, a mammoth gallop through the airport and found out that it was delayed so felt gutted that we’d run on full stomachs! And when I got back last night we ate together and went our ways to write essays and revise for mid terms the following day! Really fantastic weekend!

Tomorrow is the last day of Ramadhan. Its weird out here there is no build up or excitement at when is Ramadhan?? There is a public holiday on Wednesday, its settled that this is the designated day – its so Singaporean, if it was to be like anything else it would throw the spanner in the works and Singapore would be in crisis!! Despite it not being a family day over here I’ve had plenty of invites round to local people’s houses and the Pakistanis are having a BBQ at PGP where we stay and then there is apparently Bollywood movieness going on – but I’ll need to check it out after visiting all my invitations! Alhamdulillah people have been so kind over here!

Anyhoo now I shall sleep early tonight and get some work done tomorrow, maybe make one last trip to the bazaar if Ceri doesn’t find elastic tonight for our shalwar kameez for weds :) I want to go and get my hair cut tomorrow as well iA

Sooooo let me know how being back at uni is!

Salaams, and love to all my peeps reading my blog (that’s right, I’m so G)