Thursday, December 18, 2008

Hong Kong & Macau 2008 Day 9

Time to go back home, and I was increasingly filled with dread. I have grown to love Hong Kong - its nature trails, milk tarts, tabloids, honey watercress drink, and its occasional social eccentricities. And speaking of nature trails, what I have explored is only the tip of the iceberg. I envision the day where I will be able to trek the whole of Hong Kong (without Slug's whining).

I hate the casinos in Macau. To look at it from another angle, we were just persevering to win our money back. However, instead of being a virtue here, perseverance was just making a mockery out of us, because in the end, we lost quite a handsome sum, nearly as much as the previous visit. I just hate ourselves for being so delusional, but we deserved it.

After packing and a nice long relaxing bath (probably won't have something like that for a long time), we lazed around in the room watching cable TV before checking out at noon.

Snacking on Calbee crisps unavailable back home

Having our welcome (or rather, farewell) drinks at the hotel bar

Last lunch at our regular eatery

Two glum and destitute souls with a few dollars left for lunch

Even this seemed expensive to us

One last trip to Rio, whereby we decided to play at the Sic Bo table (first time ever since we arrived two days ago). We managed to win a HKD100 but that was little comfort compared to what we had lost. Nevertheless, every cloud has a silver lining!

At 5+pm, we left Rio moaning in exasperation, " 我们被老虎咬了 (Jackpot machine is 老虎机 in Chinese)!" We got to the airport at about 7pm, and we were really turned off by the yakking aunties in the queue lugging bags of local pastries. Super noisy. We could not stand the hunger anymore and bought some tasty calamari and egg tarts for a whopping SGD10. I really would stave off airport food except that this time I needed to reserve some energy to carry my luggage and rush to be the first in the check-in queue.

Although the aerial view of Singapore's night scenery from the plane was stunning, I did not feel at the least willing to go home.

Till the next trip again.

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