A splendid ride and also hetic ones. This week's
travel drive I am bringing you more picture story telling and also something you never seen before or either heard (consent) before. Oh yes you don't!
And so we bought a return trip from Hong Kong to Macau on Day 4 which cost me HKD$138 per pax. The passenger speed boat (快艇) is one of the major transportation on sea between Macau, Hong Kong and China after Hong Kong and China was taken back; United by China. You just have to sit firmly on the boat because you'll vomit / dizzy / sick (like my last trip from Macau 2 Hong Kong last year) whenever you're trying to walk along the pathways. And it's what we called sea-sick! Waves thumbling the boat, shaking the nerves out of you. Stepping down the boat, you feel like floating around still.
Where is my pen? You gotta fill in the visa before alighting Macau.Arriving Macau with delights, you know why? I'll tell you why later! Marking
WHY! And so, a group of mine were looking for a bus tour or somthing. It costs HKD$98 per pax for a whole day. My friend just don't agree with it because we need to leave around 3-4PM. Instead the bus tour might take up to evening around 7-8PM and so we decided to hire private cars from some private companies. Of course, there is a driver, a 'fag' driver -.-
This guy just distrubuting flyers for one-day-freedom-tour-trip. So called...
And this so called freedom-tour took us HKD$500 shared by 5. Okay we accept it since they say you can go wherever you want and whenever you'd love to leave. We came to this aunty who is the driver and the so called 'tour-guide'. She drove us along Macau and yeah mission accomplished. We're just hanging out @ Da Sam Pa (大三巴) for like 40 minutes and she start the nags.
She *
blink* on us,
"You people had exceeded the time already, I thought I said 15 minutes of -site-tour-visit, you know I have to return the company car and cannot bring you further. I will alight you are Golden Sands Casino and there is a free bus taking you to harbour (as agreed earlier). If you'd to go further, can but later you know what to do lah hor?" or in canto "你递已经超左个时间啦,吾是话佐15分钟咯吗?你知我要还个车被公司的啊! 我吾可以再车你去跟远叻,如果要的话,可以的.但你知等镇点做啦? 以加我车你到金沙去.个逗有巴士送你返码头.
HELLO? We are the one who paid the fees just now and agreed earlier, we direct you where we want to go and when we want to leave? NOT U DRIVER DECIDE WHAT TIME WE'RE LEAVING. Man that was really annoyed an unfriendly. Of course, I didn't say this to her because Macau is not our territory. We just decided to turned back to
Sands and alight us there. Before we alight, she HINT on me again,
you know what to do lah hor? In order to keep her mouth shut and stop annoying my precense feeling, I gave her HKD$20. HAHAHA! A 'nice' tip for her saliva all the way lah, don't say I am stingy of not giving a single SEN. Before I alight, she say that isn't $20 too little, you know la we driver just depend on you tourist to earn a living? And (Hehehehehe) laughed shyly on me. I just stepped down the car and leave. Who cares? But I could see her dark face when she knew I am snurbing at her with a (HEHEHEHHEE) laugh.
I understand that they earn a living from us, tourist but WHO ASK HER TREAT US SO BAD? Say those silly words???? YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO LAH HOR! Should have said we're student's NOT working people!! DAMN!
So my advice to you is, don't ever manage to hire this kind of private bitchy service whenever you're in Macau or don't even think of the BUS TOUR because they bring you to silly places
(like small shops selling this product and that product and only visiting some interesting places like the following I am going to mentioned). NOT ALL PLACES BUT SOME! So my suggestion is,
TAKE A CAB! It's almost the same price as we're hiring those private cars. Public transport can be considered on city areas. Let's continue...
Our first spot, is this weird looking structure. What is your first inpression?A duo combination of beliefs?A duo combination of design?A duo combination of sculpture?or something like this?
Mother Mary (Jesus's Mother) and Kuan Yin Niang Niang (观音娘娘)?Okay focus on the hands and clothing parts and the head bends
The architect from Portugal (a christian) designed this structure with the combination of Guan Yin and Mother Mary. The idea came to her mind when the local government decides to build an object nearby the river bank for tourism purposes. It's 80% alike Guan Ying and 20% alike Mother Mary. You can tell the difference on the hands fold to her chest, a 45 angle twist on her head + scaf, and the cloth design. Under this structure, is the exhibition centre for this structure but there is nothing much to see inside.
Let's take a closer look on the funny scaf.
Yeah, Joseph is here under the womb of Guan-yin Mary.Sonner or later, the christians and buddhism will combine for the sake of peace. LOL!yeah rite! Check out the religion of Macau here.
Inside the Macau Tower, there is this TOKYO Exhibition.I have no idea what is it for?But you see, I am in Japan and suffered -6.9 Celcius of weather.
The sculpture is too tribal and exotic.You just can't see me cuz lighting is important. kekeke!
And also, Mr Lee hungs well on the wall.
Can you imagine a child aged 7 drew and wrote this?
I was hungry and looked for Mr. Nissin for a bowl of free noodle.He offered me one =DBut his notti son, Sinnin tried to whack my arse.
Mr. Nissin would like me to forgive his son and offered me a larger cup of noodle.The ingredients are way too much for me. Weeeeeeeee....
And I still cannot figure a way into this door because you gotta crack your heads for breaking in! How you go in with the lantern still in-shape and on place? Silly. Just jump over the Japanese fence and into the bush so no one can see you.
This is the macau tower.The exhibition is just on the left building.There is a bungee jump from the top of Macau Tower which cost around HKD$200+ per jump. Wanna try it? Nah~ no time for it. Some more entrance fee the the tower is $70. The biatch gave us the ticket we also don't want cuz' you gotta pay her back laterz.
The bidge is unique. There are all together 3 bridges in Macau.
I was on the peak nearby the richest man's (CEO of Sands Casino) house in Macau. This catholic church is just nearby a few steps away.This church was deserted a long time ago and not open for public masses anymore.It''s a hestorical structure brought down by the Portugese and b4 surrending Macau to China. Ahem, Time to pray!
Mother mary with her son on roof top.
She's a beauty and my heart
Inside the church... A simple altar.
A frame indicating Passion of Christ
Musical Corner
Another corner
Top seaters
This is Macau! The golden building is the SANDS CASINO
This chinese character reminds me of 太乙真人. lolＩｔ's a place where believers gathered and praying for their gods.
This is the place! MATSU! 妈祖This god is also known as the god of sea (woman) who protects fishermen during sea. Weird god eh? Click on the following to hear Zhang Zhen Yue's - MA ZHU! LOL!
and we pay a visit to Monte Fonte! The CANON Wall!
Lighting CANON!Er... do you see a be-headed man standing at the rear?=.=""""My fren took this picture and I don't understand why his head was not shown.It's not an edit! I can show you the full picture!
The mount fortress (kuching also have wa) or officially known as Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora do Monte de Sao Paulo (Fortress of Our Lady of the Mount of St. Paul) stays firmly still on the hill top.Macau's fonte is always closer to the river bank to avoid foreign attacks during War.
This you shouldn't miss!The Ruins of St. Paul and is also was the largest catholic church in Asia during 16th Century.Ah now you only see this wall standing firm because the structure was made of wood from the behind except this wall! HAHA! it was burnt by fire during 1835 caused by a typhoon. How sad!
And everyone is keen of knowing why only left this wall behind?Can you see me? LOL!
A close look on the structure
Another angle
This is the rich people's mansion! Need to say you gotta be a millionare-billionare to live on these. Normal accomodations for macanese are just a simple terrace-house or flat.
Here is the post office of Macao
Tourism Centre
What does these 2 people symbolyze?See the lotus on the hand? And the ANG MO? A wheel circulating?it means Macanese accepting Portugese love! HAHAH!
The street of DA SAM BA
Hey an express post laju! cute eh?
Blue arrow showing "silly pig" and red onese you read!What an english sentence translated from chinese!
After the long tiring and 'annoyed' journey, we arrived Sands Casino, one of the largest casino in Asia, Macau / China before Singapore gonna copycat and build it (Marina Sands). LMAO!
You can't bring camera in. Luckily I got my O2. hehe!These are the Tiger slots! It was shot on my way up to 2nd floor.All the floors here are casino. No accomondation, no wonder it is huge!
Here is my token!I invested HKD$100 and won HKD$200. How delighted!You could say I am lucky but I hoped to win more but time is running out and everyone wanted to rush back to Hong Kong. Haizzzzzz. I could have won a dozen.Well, you could also say this is my FREE trip to MACAO for the transportation fees. =D
Then, eventually around 4-5 PM like that, we move back to Hong Kong and there goes my 1 day trip @ macau. Honestly, the only interesting place I've ever been in Macau......THE SANDS CASINO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!the rest? Nah!!!!!!!!
Till then until my next Final Hong Kong Post. Final Okay? No more Hong KONG. So sad that I gotta end this! NVM, I can do all compilation (short links) to it so you can re-call back. LOL! Laterz.