Preparing for my last holiday trip in 2008, and I’m heading to Dubai tomorrow  night, a modern city being built on the desert.  Though I’m not going to saty at the luxrious Burj Al Arab Hotel,  a lunch will not be a bad idea..

Anyway more updates after that…..

Was in HK over the last week-end, since it was a very last minute standby call out to operate a flight so didn’t prearrange to meet anyone, ended up hanging around CWB alone

Spent about an hour inside the HMV and evetually bought 3 cds……..

The 1st one..The Very Best of Julie London…

an old time Vocalist /Jazz singer from the States, I remember I first listened to her singing  from my late father’s collection when I was a kid…

The 2nd one 千個太陽  (Thousand of Suns by 葉德嫻(Deanie Yip) A Canton-pop singer in the 80s

and the 3rd one Start From Here by 王若琳 Joanna Wang

A Taiwanese girl who grew up in the States….and havig her singing career back in Asia…wanna listen?

although Julie, and Joanna are more or less at the same  music category Jazz/Easy Listening/Vocalist we can hear the differences…the way the music being arranged and the way the singer delivering it…..while the production of Deanie’s is really from the 80s….

Had a great week-end break in Seoul South Korea, and yes I flew all the way from Vancouver just for a week-end, because I had only 7 days break while non of the airlines offering daily non-stop service bewteen the 2 cities and I don’t want to fly all the way to HK just to make the connection therefore I have to make some adjustments.  Alwin also managed to arrange a week-end off to join me in Seoul from Hong Kong..

To start off my week-end break I once again chose the Legendary Singapore Airlines which truely can provide an Inflight Service even other Airlines( in this case i.e. me) talk about, Sumptuous Meal, good seat(nice leg room, real lumper support), decent inflight entertainment, and most important very professional cabin crew offering very high level of service Consistently and on this trip…SQ  Girls and  Boys once again live up to what their company claim…..

Seoul….a city I have never been to even when I was living in Hong Kong …..strange…but please don’t ask me why…..anyway sinceIonly have a full 2 2/1 days there, my schedule was quite packed…….

The first day we left the hotel around 1030, had a quick light breakfast at a nearby local cafe, we headed to Gyeongbokgung a old Emperor Palace at the City centre.

Then visitng Namsan/Seoul Tower after a cable car ride

Having a very local Korean lunch at the Myung Dong area  and shoppng around

and even more shopping and street food at the Dongdaemun area till night…

The next day been to Itawon where you can find lots of westerners there because it’s near to the ex- American Military Base and  The Ambasador/Consulate area

Finally to the Lotte World a Theme Park just like a mini Disneyland with  out-door and indoor area.

the last day before heading to the airport, did the last minute shopping around Gangnam area where the hotel is loacted..and surprised to find out the there are tons of restaurnats offering worldwide cusine….and eventually spotted a car accident luckily not too serious only vehicle damages….

For me touring in Seoul just like touring to my favourite city Tokyo, a comprehensive underground/subway system you can easily explore the city without much difficulties. Food is good as long as you like chilli/spicy food and you are not a Meat lover,  since most of their food are prepared with more vegetable than meat( maybe this is one of the reasons the majority of them have a slimmer figure) and of course Shoppings…

I have also observed a couple of interesting things among  the people there. Remember  these are my observation only…..I don’t mean to say it is  either right or wrong……

They will queue/line up for bus, train…etc patiently But they will push once they move

They keep their public wash room clean and tidy But they(mostly older guys) spit everywhere on the street

The female mostly well-groomed and love wearing make-up But they speak very directly and loudly.

Once in a train the female tends to sit on one side while the guys on the opposite