Hongkong Weekend fun 2012

        Yipee! I'm just so happy to get a free 3 roundtrip ticket to Hongkong via Cathay Pacific and Dragon Air. This is my second trip to Hong Kong since 2003. I got it from HSBC promotion for HSBC credit card that I applied for just a month before the promo ends. It was like an amazing race for me just to do all the requirements for the charge slips. Followed by a long crazy line inside the Cathay Pacific office in LKG towers and it is somehow worth it.

       Almost all the people in line are maybe around 85-90% Chinese who owns big companies and businesses in the metropolis are dying to get a free ticket. Some got tickets to Paris, France, South Africa, and any destination of your choice in accordance to your qualified credit card charge slips for free . Some even got a 15 round trip ticket to Europe. Imagine that.

       As for me, I can only afford the Hongkong ticket as of now and I am so happy about it. We stayed in BP international hotel and had a great time roaming around Hong Kong.

View from our window in the hotel

                                                  

      Bp International hotel has a great location if you want to be in the Tsim Tsa Tsui area where the train station is nearby and where you can easily go to their Temple street night market just around the block and Mongkok by train. Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park is far though.

Temple Street night market

Mongkok

                                                                    

       We met someone by the train station and brought us at this market.

       I just love Hong Kong street food. That bread above is so yummy too. Taste like pancake. Maybe it's pancake.

       You can join by having 5 pcs. of 10,000 pesos spent using your HSBC credit card for Hong Kong. Other destinations in Asia needs 10 pcs. of 10,000 pesos charge slips. and for 15 pcs. of 10,000 pesos for long haul. Isn't that tempting.

        I want to share with you how I got the tickets without spending on things I don't really need and still be practical about it and feel happy without putting my self on danger of debt. Instead of shopping everything and anything under the sun, I tried to think of a way of how to buy things that are daily basic needs. You know like gas, groceries, and medicines. I had an idea to just purchase gift certificates such as Rustan's supermarket where in you can use it to shop also in their department stores, I so love Shopwise in the Philippines and they are under Rustan's. I purchased gift certificates from Mercury drugstores, sudexo gift certificates for petron gas for my car which later on I found out I can use it for restaurants such as Pancake house, Steakhouse and Teriyaki boy, and Puregold gift certificates. These are the gift certificates that I purchased to have a free trip to Hong Kong and then later on use it for my everyday needs.

       Enjoy your life while you are still young but also be cautious on what you can afford. There are so many great things in life and things that I learned as time passess by, and maybe most of you learned and knows it too. I just wanted to share them anyway as we go on.

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