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Published: December 13th 2007
My first destination was Hong Kong. I didn't do much for the first day. I just roamed around the Kowloon Island. Before I left, Monique told me I had to try this dessert place called Healthy Desserts. All their desserts are made of fresh fruit and fruit juice. Well, it was not hard to find this dessert place. It was on every corner of the city like Starbucks back at home. The place was very good and tasty =)
My Dad and I decided to join a tour to visit Hong Kong's touristic sites. One of the famous sites is the Po Lin Monastery. You know how everyone wants to be the biggest or largest of something? Well, the Po Lin Monastery is the largest SITTING Buddha statue in the world. The Buddha is sitting on the monastery. Inside the monastery is a Monk relic. The Monk relic is suppose to a piece of a burnt charred monk that was devoted to Buddhism.
Out of all the times I've been Hong Kong, I didn't realize I haven't really been in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is actually divided into two island, Hong Kong(mainland) and Kowloon. I've always been on the
Kowloon island which is right next to Hong Kong. Kowloon is considered the ghettos of Hong Kong. I think it's far from it... I called my friend in Hong Kong and he asked me where I was staying. I replied, "Kowloon." He kept asking me why I was staying in Kowloon side. I didn't understand why he kept asking me this until now.
The exciting part of my Hong Kong trip was my meeting with my friend. He took me to a sky bar on one of the high towers and dinner at a fancy sushi restaurant. He asked me if I wanted to go see a concert. Of course, I said yes. He wanted to go see a Jay Chou concert. Jay Chou is one of the most famous pop stars in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The concert was actually sold out and we were thinking about just showing up at the stadium and buying scalper tickets. Well, when we arrived, NO ONE was selling their tickets. My friend decided to call his friends to see what he can do. Within 20 mins, we had some girl bring us two tickets to the concert. I was really
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Here you go Monique!surprised. So we walked in, I was leading trying to find the seats. I walked upstairs and didn't have any luck finding our seats until I asked one of the workers. They informed me that our seats are actually downstairs in the floor seating area. Our seats were amazing! I felt unworthy of the seats because I wasn't a crazy fan and I'm sure there people were standing outside that
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Jill
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I miss you!!
Yeah for the travel blog! You know how much I love reading these. I am still laughing about the R. Kelly comment in the last one. Safe travels and keep writing!