Macau-ShenZhen with pics

HoLiDay...

Home sweet home…back in KL already… it was a nice experience this trip, we experienced all of the public transport there & went to two different countries only in 5days- Macau, shenZhen People's Republic of China. The currency used in Macau-MOP & China- RMB but we basically used HKD which was almost the same HKD2.3 = RM1. First mode of transportation by airplane to first destination Macau, arrived hired a driver from MetroPark Hotel concierge for HKD200/hr took him for 3hrs,(visited Fire Lotus, Kun Iam Statue, St Paul ruins, mount Fortress, A-ma Temple) After that he dropped us at the hotel & we walked around our hotel area for hrs (pretty good exercise, hope I lost weight) visited several casino hotel & went in to the Grand Lisboa to watch people gamble (finally after 30mins of observing papa & me learnt how to play Baccarat)…At night tried to get a taxi, but the guys didn't understand English & where Fisherman Wharf was, so again we decided to be adventurous & walk, it was pretty long & we kinda got a little lost, until we decided to skip it & head back to the hotel, next day take the free shuttle service from hotel to Macau Ferry Terminal which is walking distance to Fisherman Wharf.

We went to Macau Ferry Terminal to buy our TurboJet cruise boat ticket to go across ShenZhen, to meet several business people. Then, instead of going to fisherman Wharf, we decided to try taking the bus to Senado Square, as me & mom wanted to do a lil shopping. It cost us only MOP2.50/person to any of the stop along that whole route of tourist attraction but per entry. Very nice place, since Macau was influenced by Portuguese, most of the signboards were written in Chinese & Portugal (if you close the Chinese words, you can feel like you're in Portugal with lots of Chinese tourist-ok maybe not) On the way back was funny, as we thought we could take the same number bus,but we were not on the opposite side of the road, so we ended up in Zhunghai border & had to hop off there, & take another bus in front of us, since the bus driver we were on was on break…so another long ride back again to hotel. Later in the evening only we took the free shuttle to Fishermans Wharf & regretted not going earlier, as it was a pretty big place inside. There were like almost 18 different theme/ countries type of building & attraction. They even had an amusement park inside one of the themes… It was like going around the world in this one very nice place…

The ride to ShenZhen was nice & smooth on the TurboJet for an hour, just found out they also had a heliexpress would have been nice to try, but it cost HKD1100 (can save & go shopping haha) arrived there, mom was stopped buy customs as her bag she carried had the rejected goods that we wanted to return to our supplier, & the product though made in China didn't have the stamp "made in china" they stopped her. So spent awhile sorting that out, than had to wait almost another hour for the regional sales manager of our supplier Merry to pick us up form the Terminal, only to find out she was lost & went to the wrong terminal. She is so cute & clueless (she is a year younger than me, & hasn't been out much except to Canton for the trade fair, her office, her apt & her hometown, not even Macau) ShangHai hotel was very nice & I liked the interior design for the rooms. But it basically is China, so it was pretty dirty like Shang Hai & extremely busy & crowded & worse when we were there it was the weekend so yea expect everyone in KL, Selangor & few other cities to be gathered at one time that's how it felt like…Went to her office by cab, taxi were sorta pricey, starting price is around RMB12.50. Had a bit of discussion with the Sales Manager who doesn't speak English, so Merry was our translator & their software engineer who lived in Malaysia before (he could speak a bit of Malay), from there went to another company to find out bout similar products. All the chaos gave my poor tummy culture shock & it made my cramps worse. Then decided to walk back since we were already in town & our hotel was just 5/10min walkin… We stayed near the electronic mall, & things were ok considerable price, but because it was made in china was too skeptical to purchase in case if we get cheated. It was really amazing to see the goods that people were selling by the roadside to make extra income & the irony is there were ppl buying (LCD screen, inkjet cartridge, IBM LAPTOP that was the shocking item haha for RMB3000 only = USD500)

Sunday, Merry came over to our hotel to take us shopping. Dad bought 3pairs of shoe!! I only bought 2pairs & mom was the main person that was supposed to buy sneakers didn't buy & ended with only 1pair of pretty beaded shoes… Took the Subway Metro to experience China transport & it was not bad, just like our PUTRA LRT it cost RMB2/person for a journey with 4stops.

China compared to Macau guess due to the population fact has extremely bad traffic. We were supposed to visit the factory where they produce the good we import before our Ferry, but we couldn't make it in time due to the massive traffic, so we ended up straight to the terminal, as merry had to buy her ticket to Macau to clear the 34 pcs of rejected items that were held in customs & mail it from Macau. Yea, gave her a chance to visit Macau for a brief moment J There was no custom check going out of ShenZhen & when we arrived Macau, the customs ppl didn't scan our bags or even check, so if u wanna smuggle goods in its possible, not that I wanna risk it & do it, but if I ever do get desperate & wanna trade goods I know where to go hahaha… so merry finally settled her dilemma of getting the rejected goods in china. We had lunch at the nice Indian restaurant in Macau before taking our flight back… Therefore, we were at 3countries in a day- ShenZhen in morning, Macau in the afternoon & Malaysia at night…

NOWWW… back at work as didn't go to work yesterday as was busy on ice, so today since I received my salary for the month of April, considering I didn't go to office a lot, decided to be a little responsible & fulfill my duty J haha by coming to office AT LEAST & writing my blog, though I don't have net as the wireless is down & home the modem is out, so I write in my WORD Doc & then later when I have access I just click publish & ta-da it appears here :D on my blog site