Back to reality

24/09
It's been a hard days for last few days.... not having too much sleep for few days coz I wanted to finished the photos things and trying to finish the blog… and also have to start doing the proper portfolio….
I slept at 5:00 (the earliest for last few days indeed) and woke up at 10:00 ^_^ Luckily I’d slept very well coz it was a hard day! It start with moving stuff with Charlie. He really has so many things!!!! It’s like 10 times of mine now :D wah wah wah …. I was quite tired after moving… but it was just a start…. I then went to Chan Jai’s place to get the computer. It was a nightmare!!! You know, the traffic in London on Sunday… -_- All the engineers must be super busy these week! Nearly all of the tube and trains are affected (or maybe just those I wanted to take T_T)… I supposed to take the train in King Cross Temslink directly to St Albans which would take me like 40 mins. But then I walked from the King Cross Temslink to St. Pancres, and found that the train are stopped at Kentish Town. And the Northern Line was suspended from Camden, I had to take the bus to Kentish Town T_T… I have spent 2 hours to get there eventually~ In additional to my 30Kg stuff on hand.. I was totally dead when I arrived and its not the end of the story… coz I still need to get back to Putney… well…another one and half hour journey… T__T …..
Luckily, Stephane had already prepared the dinner when I got back home haha.. so happy :D:D and we had a nice dessert before sleep :P I was being active tim :D:D he was so so happy lerh…. !!!

25/9
It’s the first day Stef need to work. I woke up at 8 and walked Stef to station ^_^ and then went to the library :D it was so nice… free internet and borrow some books + CDs…. Such a long time haven’t been in Library!! Yea….maybe go to work on my stuff tomorrow… I can be so concentrated there… :D . Also I’ve discovered a bit the area afterwards… I thought I was a bit lost in the way home, but suddenly fount that I was already in the road where I should go….:D haha… stupid me… I should have trusted myself on my sense of direction. It’s a nice day..~ hope that I will have time to swim tomorrow :D

Post-summer holiday - Day 11&12

day 11 - Amsterdam

I really can’t understand why their glass windows can be so big like this…!!! Just amazing!!! Wooo….. the third day was soooooooo nice and full of surprising. I went to the Van Gogh Museum by myself. Of cause his works are always my love but I was so impressed by some amazing artworks from other Japanese artist!!! Those painting and printing on china are just amazing!!! And they are so much in front of our “latest” design!!! What a pity, I should have bought the book but no money … T____T

I met Euniz afterwards and handed to the NewMetropolis Museum. We tried to pick up a bit Dutch haha… and found that they always try to make the words as long as thy can…. Always get ripe of the space betweens English names and form new words haha…. Dutch is quite similar to England indeed… just a lot of “k” sounds which is like the sounds people made to clean their throe… Back to the NewMetropolis, it was exactly the same (even smaller) than the Science Museum in HK… but it cost ?11.5!!!! while the one in HK only HK$15… and the one in London is free -_- Anyway we didn’t get in, the architecture was just fantastic! The shape, the colour and the whole environment just work perfectly together!
We walk into the SMCS (Stedelijk Museum Central Station) by accident. I didn’t want to go in coz it was such an ugly building… but Euniz suddenly pointed the shop there. And we got into there finally… It was a very nice venue but it was almost closing. So we didn’t get into the exhibition and decided to visit again the next day… Instead we went to their coffee shop on the top floor and found that they would have an talk about one of the exhibition – “Design and Architecture for Air Travel” woo…. Suddenly had a nice lecture ^_^ so unexpected! Since they speak Dutch for the introduction, we kinda got the idea of how Dutch sounds like… the funny sounds are happened so often in normal conversation! Haha…~~
We then got into an very expensive pancake shop… coz they are closing quite soon and all the staff were so in good mood hhaa…
And then it was the Coffee shop time~~ lalala. We made the “MayLand” day introduction video.

day 12 - Amsterdam

The last day was the exhibition day + further deepest visit day… haha… we to the bigbig supermarket finally and bought some delicious raw beef slices!!!! It was so nice!!! And we bought more for dinner on flight as well ^__^….The last thing happened on us in Amsterdam was so fucking bad… and that’s the only bad things happened in the whole trip… We hadn’t got any changes and tried to get the ticket from the counter… and then we found that it’s ?1 more expensive than from the machine. I asked the staff why was it more expensive, and he was fucking rude saying it’s because he is the human and not a machine -__-….. such a bad guy…. It’s so unfair…. They didn’t tell use before that… um…Well… besides that… Amsterdam is a amazing city… ^_^ love it!

Inspiration
Toilet roll stealer (and the whole series of stealer products)~~~ haha hope that I can finish my whole proposal very soon :D:D
MayLand day~~ it will be invented in one of the Saturday in May next year.
To open a postcard shop + postcard design company with good quality could work in HK!!! :D:D

Dutch
Roken is dodelijk = Smoking is killingMiffy = NijntjeToilet = ToiletinHeren = MenWooo…. Should be some more, but I forgot all the rest lo….~~

Post-summer holiday - Day 9&10

day 9 - Amsterdam

From day 9 of my post-summer holiday, I went back to the Western Europe. Holland, I did expect very much from here... and she just hasn't disappointed me!!! It was so much enjoyable, and inspirit! Although we haven’t planned for anything (only booked flight ticket and hotel and nothing else), it was a fucking great trip! I was super tired when we were arriving Amsterdam. I was in a half awake condition. On the way to the hotel, we had some super nice Haring (Holland trademarked)!!! ^_^ yeah~~ Hang out with Euniz is always a good thing…. At least it would be someone to speak non-sense with me… and I don’t need to worry even I have said something super moliu… haha…. The 2nd hand shops there are so up to standard, almost the same as London!!!! People there are so artistic! All the house and shops we could see there are some artworks placed. Drawings, installation just all around the city…. Bernard should definitely go there to earn for life haha….

We then went to the most important attraction in Holland – the Coffee Shop~~~ haha bought some weed and took one instantly… hahaha yeah~~

At night, we went to a recommended caf? to have the cheese fondue!!! It was the best I have ever had (I actually only had once in Switzerland and it was totally a wine fondue >.<) haha nice nice! The taxi in Amsterdam is fucking expensive!!! Damn!!! Must be more expensive than in London!!! It was ?12 for the distance like 20 mins walk >_<

And we walk home for more weed :D:D get some sleep and prepared for our next day unplanned travel. Haha….~~~

day 10 - Volendam
Before going to Volendam, we passed through one of the exhibition hall which is so interesting. Didn’t get into the show coz it was ?8 entrance fee.

We then went to Volendam for the cheese and clogs factory. But again, once we saw the Haring, we just can’t ourselves… hehe… Me and Euniz definitely can’t live together… otherwise both of use must become diabetes! The factory was not actually in Volendam but at the edge of the area or even a bit outside. We’ve spent quite a while to find it out..…. It’s uch a fusion idea!!! Mixing cheese with clogs… haha… we also found a lot of funny fusion ideas in Amsterdam!! Like the hairdressing with fashion, home decoration with caf? and of cause weed in coffee shop~~~
We went to a nice restaurant for dinner ^_^ I had a Thai chicken soup… so delicious :D

Post-summer holiday - Day 8

Crete

The Cruse we had taken from Athens to Cr?te is just so nice… it seems that our god is taking good care to us after that evil Athens day. Incredibly, there was someone lead us from the check-in counter to the room!!! We were just paying for the cheapest room indeed but the service was so good! And also the hot shower was just so powerful!!!! The foods and souvenirs are even cheaper than on land! See the sign there!! They even have a swimming pool!!! (although it wasn’t open :P)

The last day in Cr?te is so boring -_- coz Ryan doesn’t want to go “too” far from the airport thinking we shouldn’t do too much in the last day in case we can’t get on the flight -_-…. We then went to the most famous attraction point in the island (according to Lonely Planet). Well, famous attraction point just not my thing as usual… We actually went there but didn’t get into. It was all about the archaeological stuff and the entrance free is ?6! We should have gone to the other town in Cr?te! Anyway… we got back to town, and spent our 8 hours something there, just ridiculous… um…. Nothing really happened but just eating and eating and eating with my mere ?15 for the last day T_T.

Post-summer holiday - Day 7

Athens

Athens is like a combination of Macau and Taiwan... plus more dust and pollution.. Honestly, it's somewhere can be finish within half day.. 1 day is a bit more than enough unless you are an archaeologist. I've been caught when I put my cat cat on a sulpture's head and took a photo:P (I know I've been naughty) um... and they fouce me to delet the picture T__T

I don't hate Athens as a tourist thought... I took nice picture there I think :D:D haha

Post-summer holiday - day 5-6

Mykonos

Arrived Myknos at around 3pm. The hotel owner was sooo nice to pick us up from the port. To be honest, it is almost impossible to find there without his driving. The beach was just 5 mins walk from the hotel... According to the owner, it is a main beach in Mykonos but actually it is quite disappointing. Very small, and short, and super crowed. I was expecting a 10 times bigger beach....

:P We then went for a proper greek dinner, and it was quite nice!!! And it's the first time I have had rabbit meat... it taste like chicken to me but a bit rough. um.... it's a bit not fair :P but how great it would be if i was having the dinner with Stef :D:D

Afterwards we went to a piano bar... The waiter was so cute, haha. And that's a great atmostphere!!! I really wanted to stay until later... but Ryan just asked to go -_-.... hate it... um..... 'omon I paid that EU$20 for our drink, wasn't only for the drink... but the whole thing -_-.... anyway, it was a nice one :D

Ryan was so bad for the whole day coz he had drunk a bit wine in the morning and also he was annoyed by the time of the ferry... -_- I really don't understand that... and that almost fuck up the whole first day in Mykonos.... um... luckily I was in a good mood and so many nice things happened... I just enjoyed myself :P hahaha.....
The next day, we went to the beach called Super Paradise... um... is not fantastic, but still better than the paradise... Maybe because of the weather, it was much less people. It's a gay-friendly NAKED BEACH haha..... wooo..... nothing much to see though haha.... it was a good day.... relax the whole morning... and then went to the city to walk around... honestly we shouldn't have gone so early... it was so boring... just taking photos and taking photos for few hours... and you know no money... really not much we can do... Remember, it is an extremely expensive island... T_T....

We had to take the overnight ferry to go to Athens at 9:30pm... It was the start of the nightmare! We went to the wrong port at the beginning... and we had spare a lot of time to go to the port beforehand. And we decided to walk from the old port to the new port T_T.... Imagine you walk on the Tuen Moon highway, with a typhoon no.8 NW wind, and of cause with our luagages (I was actaully walking in a 60 degree forward to against the wind!!!). The whole journey was almost half an hour. Something I do need to mention about the port in Greece.... don't imagine you would have a proper port for passengers. People have to get on the ferry at the same place as the car... Maybe because that was the end of the weekend, and so many people has to go back to Athens. Where the people waited for the ferry was like a "lan man ying". And when the ferry arrived. People crowd on the ferry like hell.. -_- We found that Greek never queue... And when we got on the ferry, it was even worse... people were all lying on the ground even the space between two seats, where your legs supposed to place when you sit down. T__T we shouldn't save that money... we should but the one with bed in a room (maybe because people brought the "No Seat" ticket which they should stay outside) And the people sat on our seat was braming someone sat on his. Well it doesn't mean they could sit on mine.... luckily, people are reasonable.. and finally we had the seat... The screen were showing "Peal Harbour" haha... what an ironic scene... haha

Finally arrived on Athens without any sleep... lalalla.... it's such an important experience in order to under stand more about Greece, I thought :D... haha I am such a positive thinker :D

Post-summer holiday - Day 2-5

Santorini

go travel with tyan is just so good.... :D Anything I just wanna ask people he would have already asked.. life is getting easier...~~ Arrived at Santorini, we missed the bus to central coz of taking photos for too long :P and we didn't know the bus only run when the ships arrive.... and the one after was like 4 hours later... haha so we waited in the port for very long and had taken so many photos there haha....

We were staying in Santorini, the famous "little white house" island, for 4 days 3 night. I was thinking it might be too long but actually I kinda think we should stay here for ever :P.. Their government even pay them money to repaint their white house!!! They just work perfectly with some of their blue tops and the amazingly blue sky. The main town (actually really small, like the size of cheung chou town in HK... ) in Santorini called FIRA.. it is very nice, but the one I love the most is in the west side of the island called OIA... Everything on the Island are quite cheap... and the hotel we were staying was super nice and cheap! And it has a kitchen for us to make cheap cheap dinner as well!!! Another funny thing is, it seems that all the dogs there are sleeping on the floor all the time!

Well... nothing too much to say... see the photos... and you will tell yourself,'I have to go there, I have to go there!' My only comment ovet there is, in every single second, what sqeezed into my eyes was the best picture I wanna take.... the only thing I wanna complain is... does it need to be perfect like this??!! everywhere... and thats a bit too much... in a good way :P

btw, I think they have one of the best sunset in the world

I think I was taking too much photos here :P um.... it's like 1/20 of all... :D

I was super lucky in Fira!!! I changed the money in a local exchange shop coz their rate is much better than when i saw that in airport (airport-1:1.39, l.shop-1:1.45). The thing is, the guy have miscalculated the money to me. And the final rate, is £180 to EU$284.2!!!!!!! hahahhaha Santonrini is just my place!!!!

Post-summer holiday - Day 1

We didn't know we need to collect the ticket from the agency counter (I thought it's the e-ticket I used to buy) to board the flight unitl we went to the check-in counter :p I didn't even check the mail they sent us either :o... but luckily we had no problem on it :D:D. (12:40 flight, exp. arriving at 18:40)





Finally we landed on Heraklion airport after the 4 hrs flight ^_^ People started smoking once they step on the land (inside the airport)!!! I was just wondering if that illegal and I found that the staffs were smoking inside their counter!!! People are so relax and it makes the lauggage collection proecess really SLOW....~ When we left the airport, it was already 20:30..






We spent a bit time to find the hotel... it's located in an inner street :D The staff there was super nice, already we were only paying EU$20 ^_^ We then when out and try to find something to eat... surprisingly all shops were still open!!!! so happy... They also sell very nice assessories there... but I just had no money to buy them T_T....






The first thing I tried in Greece was the milk!!! and the taste was a bit different form england... less sweet but richer.... The greek salad there are obviously very nice... the feta cheese is quite different in texture... much much smoother and less goat tastes.... very nice!! love it!!!

Post-summer 06 - Greece Photo Preview

Sep 22, 2006 - 136 Photos

Post-summer Trip 2006

Maybe because I was not going with Stef.... I didn't really expect the trip that much :P But it's just full of surprise when I arrived.... ^_^.... except the people are not that helpful.... everythings are super great in general.... hahaha.... and also finished the fantastic Amsterdam trip~~ just love it....!!!! I think I will have to write down here bits by bits... otherwise I will spend a whole day to finish it :P.... For the photos, I have taken most of them from Santorini and not much in Amsterdam... Amsterdam is such a nice place to go. Everywhere is so relax but actually not much I am interested to shoot. Or maybe because I was just too relax~~~ haha.... anyway... it was an incredible post-summer holiday!!!! :D I love it...

My new hair cut....

I have changed the flight ticket, delay it for a month to 28th Oct. Suddenly I so much feel that I need you to be around... espeically when I was making the decision on the date... talk more next time about this... so sleepy today ~___~

I I have got my hair cut today ^_______^ haha.... it is really quite short~~~ haha I love it... my hair is really soft now :D:D Wanted to take some pic for Stef... but after not sleeping regularly for almost a week, my skin is in a super bad condition :p.... so... let see me in real when I come back from holiday ^______^.... hope that you still recognise me hahha~~~ I gonna be very tan and totally different hair cut... haha...

I will be back from Greece in 12 sep at around 2130... probably arrive home at 2300... and I will go to Amsterdam at Wed 13 Sep 10:20 haha... hope that I will see you between that time.... um.... haha.... I can't wait until 16th.... really....