Post Easter holiday

Finally the Easter holiday of the kids is over.  I can have my quiet 'me' time again in the morning.


We had been Sabah for six days.  I thought it was just a place with beaches and resorts, but I was wrong.  It is a place with diversified landscapes and entertainments, a place which has colonial characteristic without losing its indigenous uniqueness.  The eco-tourism is well-developed there, all the natural spots opened for tourists are well preserved.


The weather was extremely hot, but we enjoyed the time there.  


We are planning to explore another continent in our next trip.  =)

A spectacular scene we can see from the balcony of our hotel room

Moon beam

I took this picture with the help from Jeff.  The moon is most beautiful during Autumn.

Returned from the Taipei trip

Haven't got strength and time to come back to this little piece of piece land - blogger in the past week.  

Me, Jeff and Lucas had been joining the company incentive tour in Taipei, and we stay behind in the city for another two days.  Both me and Lucas were having serious flu and coughing, we could still manage to have fun in the trip, even though we had totally burnt out.  (On the second day, we received wake-up call at 5:45am in the morning, that almost took our lives).

It was a totally interesting experience, especially for Lucas, after all, it was his first overseas trip, his first time to sit in an aeroplane.  People said he would have no memories of these few days ashe is too small, however, I know him well, I am sure the feelings, the excitement had already imprinted in his mind.

I had very good impression to Taiwan from this trip, people are nice and friendly, food is delicious, and you can experience both cosmopolitan and outdoor leisure life within three hours travel distance from the city centre.

Taiwanese just love reading, we can see 誠品書店 in many places, and books are much cheaper than Hong Kong.  We bought a lot of books, one is "THE COMPLETE PEANUTS: 1950 TO 1952" (the Peanuts comics), a discount offered and which is just cost NT$300.

We are planning another trip, this time we wish to bring Linus along.  We missed him terribly, next time we should let him to join us!!

My sons, I want you two to explore the world always, you know what, you two have your own national identity but you are also citizens of this global village, the more you experience others' cultures, the more open-minded you are, and the more happy you will be.

Tree inspires you!!

Do you love trees? I love them very much, I do believe they have thoughts and widsom.

This is a tree from London Hyde Park, does't it look like the one in 'Big Fish' movie?

P.S. this picture was taken by Samantha, I found it in my personal folder in the server when I tidied my messy stuff this morning...

London Day 6

The places we have been on Day 6:

British Museum
Border bookstore
Chaotic Heathrow Airport, a place with no rubbish bin, and people are pushing and yelling to each others.
A CX flight with 4 European young men laughing and yelling like kids are sitting in front of us. One of their strange habits is switching on the reading lights even they are finally willing to calm down and sleep...

After all, it is still a funny trip.

London Day 5

I want to shake the jet lag from my head in last few days, but I am still in the day dreaming mode in today afternoon.....

That explains why I still could not finish my diary of the London trip in the past 48 hours. Anyway, let try my best to do part of it now.

On the fifth day -

It is my lamest day on this England Island. We made a mistake that the park in the neighborhood is Hyde Park but actually it is Green Park. Anyway, we can reach the real Hyde Park this morning.

Elegant white geese greet us in the fresh early morning air, it is blissful to just sit along the lake side and looking at them playing and mating. Many local residents spend this fair morning to jog with their pets of babies. What a harmonic and beautiful picture. Parks in Hong Kong are nice also, but they are nothing when comparing with this backyard of Buckingham Palace.

Why I say I am so lame today, because in the next station, the National Portrait Gallery, I allow myself to fall asleep in the reading area!!! What can I blame the Gallery? They provide me such a Velvet-like soft one-seat genuine leather sofa in black colour, I do not want to move even my toes once I fall into it. I try to block people viewing me by holding a magazine in front of my face. However, thanks to my team-mate Sam, she video-recorded my sound sleep for 1 minute.

I can't believe I can do this in such a historical and sophisticated place. I guess the video is already in you tube...

Thanks Sam that she makes a wonderful plan for the remaining time of today - We go back to Covent Garden to shop for souvenir and then back to the hotel. I have a strong feeling that Park Lane Mews Hotel is my most favorite place when we arrive there at 5 something. We 'hea' in our room until 7 something and go to the Strait Restaurant again for the dinner.

What a lovely day. I just realize that I am so obsessed in sleeping.

London Day 4

Right, I have already finished my amazing London trip. Poor that our IP had been blocked (maybe) in Park Lane Mews and I could not connect to internet in the last few days during the travel...

Anyway, it gave me more time to sleep, and it is not too late to do the record now.

On the fourth day in London, I wake up early as usual. The weather is extremely lovely, the only unlucky thing is our camera is out of power, anyway, the phone camera is also a good and handy substitute.

The first place we go is the National Gallery. This is the third time I had been there but every visit will still bring you various surprise and impression.

The next stations are Soho, China Town and Leicester Square. All these famous places are just within the walkable distance.

In the evening, we went to The History Musuem in South Kensington. It is not a very popular tourist spot but our aim is to meet my friend Paula. She is working there. The building looks so historical and lovely. If you have seen the movie 'Night at the Musuem', you will be amused by the British humour there... The subway connects between the tube and this musuem is covered with numbers of posters of 'Night at the Musuem'. You could not help but laugh aloud when you see that dinosaur's skeleton model in the middle of the hall.

With Paula's recommendation, we go to Sangria, a Spanish Restaurant in Angel, that is the most decent dinner we had in these 5 1/2 days. We enjoy fine food and and also having girl talks through the night. It is around 9 something when we go back to Green Park. We guess that will be a football match on TV, all puds are getting crowded and we can see many werid yet typical football manic people with unusual hairstyle and make-up all over the tube and the street, not to mention bunches of drunken messy guys fooling around. I think this is the most interesting and exciting thing I see in London. It is really a flip from the morning to the night.

A good news that I have uploaded all London Trip photos, please feel free to visit the link below:
http://picasaweb.google.com.hk/chiyuen/LondonTrip

ENJOY!!

London Day 3

Yesterday night the network was down. My eye lids also could not keep opening at 10:30pm, then I crawled onto the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

I become a morning bird these few days, I wake up at 5:59 am this morning. Thanks god that I can connect the network again and it gives me a chance to make this entry. Okay, to report what we had done on Day 3:

London Zoo

This is the first time I visited London Zoo, we were very lucky that yesterday was the first open day of Gorilla Kingdom. Three giant monkeys looked quite perplexing in there cozy glass cage, maybe they were missing their natural habitat.

Chicago
We came back to Covent Garden at 0430 pm for the musicals 'Chicago'. We could not get discount tickets but the show is still worth for value. The performance is awesome and I love the story so much. I will buy its soundtrack when I come back home.

Straits Restaurant
We had a relatively decent dinner at the Straits Restaurant. It is an Asian cuisine restaurant near our hotel. We can tell the staffs are Malaysians because they have the temperament of our boss and colleague of our counterpart. The girl there is pretty funny, but I can tell from the short conversation with her that London is quite a tough place for her. It is good to have a short trip here but will be another story if you settle down in a foreign place.

London Day 2

Thanks god our boss Tin Tin performed unquestionably great in the presentation. The clients are strongly impressed. This left us a worry-free holiday in the coming days.

In the afternoon, we walked from the place we stay - Park Lane Mews to Buckingham Palace, then the Westminster Abbey, The Big Ben, and then the London Eye. Finally I had a great chance to sit in the London Eye Capsule and enjoyed the stunning view along the two side of River Thames.

The weather is chilly, and even had some light shower in the afternoon, but when we got into the London Eye, the sun came out from the thick cloud, which gave the final touch up of the whole scene.

The next spot of visit is Harrods. We tasted the 'famous' Gelato there. Maybe we had too high expectation, it is a bit disappointing, the dessert is not as wonderful as we expect, instead, it is too sweet to us.

During night, we bought Dinner from M&S.

I want to write more, but I really cannot control my eyes, the eye-lids are so heavy.

London Day 1

I cannot describe how exhausted I am right now.

This morning we arrived London at 5:50am local time, then we got a taxi to Park Lane Mews Hotel. No room was available and we left the hotel at around 8 am to explore the nearby areas. We got the room at 2pm, finally.

The place we had been today: Hyde Park, Oxford Street, Covent Garden.

Am really cannot open my eyes, talk to you tomorrow.