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Mom was reluctant to eat anything during the first day in Hong Kong until bro found and happily picked up HKD 20 from a street.  You can see from the photo she was holding the money.

Mom said the food was too expensive. Poor mom.

Hmmmm…. weird, my bro kept seeing HKD on the floor? Twice in just two days!  The first time was at the Hong Kong airport but his reaction was too slow, somebody managed to pick it up first. Ha! Ha!

Familiar with these street names? We visited Hong Kong last November.

We took MTR (Mass Transit Railway) to Jordan station and asked a policeman for direction.

With natural instinct, we found our accommodation.

Later that day, we met the same friendly policeman. He smiled shyly and apologized for showing us the wrong direction.

Awesome view from our tram ride.

Travelling by tram or locally known as “Ding Ding” allowed us to view Hong Kong living culture.

What a great experience!

Photo credit: my younger brother

Policemen were stationed at various parts of Orchard Road, Singapore during Christmas Eve.

Too crowded and you could barely walked. We squeezed through the crowd and left the place as fast as we could.

I wonder if there is any extra table on the first floor of this shop. We noticed only one table and limited seats.

Poor guy on the left, insufficient space for his leg.

Check out the photo of the shop on the newspapers (hanging on the wall).

This is the photo of Casino Lisboa I took during my less than 1 day trip to Macau.  I noticed the man in the photo after the trip.

We were enjoying the landscape, the weather and the beauty of Macau not knowing a man on top of the famous Casino Lisboa.

Is he a bad guy? Is he a superhero?

Don’t know why….

Street photography is one of my favourite.

My brother was checking on his favourite shoes & I was busy shooting photos.

We arrived at the hotel in Macau at about 3pm. We had our first nice break from this nearby local coffee shop.

See the pork leg noodle?

If you have travelled to Macau then you must have visited The Ruins of St. Paul’s, one of Macau’s most famous landmarks.

Walking along the street leading to this famous landmark, people from the shops located both side of the street will offer you some free food (Almond biscuits, dried meat etc) for testing.

On transportation, you can travel around Macau for free by just hopping on and off the shuttle buses operated by all major casinos and hotels. Interesting?

Walked along some of the streets to experience their local daily life and tried out their local food is the best thing ever.

The Senado Square or Largo do Senado is one of  Macau’s famous landmarks too.

Hmmm….we should have spent more time there.

If you are a frequent flier or traveler, why not turn your smartphone into your travel assistant?  I had a chance to try out WorldMate recently and find it extremely useful.  WorldMate, the mobile travel application is huge in mobile world.  You can either download the free application or go for Gold subscription.

These are the basic features provided by WorldMate. For more features you should go for Gold:-

1. World Clocks
Select the country of your choice and view up to 5 different clocks.

2. Currency Converter
Just key in the currency and WorldMate will convert it for you.

3. World Weather
View up to 5-day weather forecasts.

4. Weathercaster
You can get the automatic weather updates read to you by selecting the city and time. Cool feature!

5. Day/Night Map
Display current day and night World map.  View the time, temperature and weather of the location you have selected.

6. Flight Alerts.
Track your flight by selecting the airline,flight number and date.  The accurancy is superb. You can even track the flight detail such as flight status, flight delayed, terminal, gate etc.

Try it and I am sure you will like it.

Do you believe this is a restaurant?  This restaurant ”Aurum” located at Cannery in Clarke Quay, Singapore.  Aurum (which is the Latin word for gold).   Au=gold. 

The outdoor dining chairs are decorated with golden wheelchairs and there are operating room equipments too. Scary? Anybody have the dining experience at Aurum?  Any comment on the food?

Managed to capture these photos at The Centrepoint fashion gala during 31st August 08 visit to Singapore. How good if I was holding SLR camera……..