Eason Concert !!

My first concert in HK!! YAYA !!! Eason was soooo GOOOOD !!! Despite thinking about the exam I have 2 days later, I had a fantastic time!!!

Another friend visit

Girly chats can never be too much. It does not end in simply a couple of hours. Especially when it's a close great friend that you haven't seen for what seems a very long time! MSN is just not the same. You can never fill each other in on as much detail as when you chat face to face.

One of my dear friends Jen came to Hong Kong from Sydney and yesterday I spent a day of eating and shopping with her. 10 hours of chatting, filling each other on each others lives. It seems like we have been through so much together in the last 8 years. Uni & shopping days, our graduation, families and relationships. We know each other quite well. We know when the other person is on a topic, on the verge of tears & know when to stop. We know each other so well that we know whatever we say, is the best for each other.

We didn't get to chat as much as we did yesterday when I went back to Sydney. I'm so glad that she will be here in HK for a month. Friends here are not the same as friends back in Sydney. There's just simply no comparison.

my adorable Latte

Funny enough, i realised my dog has MANY names. On his microchip, he was named Little White - for those who are chinese, please translate that to chinese. My brother named him that as he refused to call him Latte. As for my mum, i am not quite sure what she calls him. I just realised he has another name Timtim?
I've decided i'm going to call him what I wanted to call him in the beginning - Latte. I wonder if he will come to me if I call him that when I go home. The poor dog.. he must be very confused =(

Anything BUT...

Can I please please please do anything BUT study...
I am very tired....
I am very unmotivated...
very very very......

My first hairy crab meal

I've always heard about how great hairy crabs are. From my mum, my brother & friends. I've never been fortunate enough to be in Hong Kong during hairy crab season. Apparently only from October to the first 2 weeks of November when they are in season. Obviously, this year i'm here for it!!

Hairy Crabs posing for my pic!

Cooked..

And this is my crab!! Thank goodness Vicky was there to each me how to open it up and telling me what parts I can and can't eat! Suprisingly, it was not as messy as I expected. It was YUMMMMM !!!

Our set dinner table with other yummy dishes!!

My cousin Vicky who joined us =)

Thank you to Kali who organised a hairy crab eating gathering. It was so yummy and thank you for booking the clubhouse so we can all fit & all cook together.

Heartless Hong Kong people

I've thought about this for a long time and now I've decided is the time to put my feelings to words.

Seeing rude chinese people drive me insane. I whince when I think of them. I get angry and fustrated. Stepping on people without apologising. Pushing right in front of you when you are waiting for the MTR when clearly, you are standing so close to the door that unless you are "pushed" other people cannot get any closer than you. Picking their nose right in front of you and holding onto the MTR pole.

Once in a blue moon, I'll feel someone push me or step on me and say "sorry" but when I look to see who this polite person it, it's definitely no a local chinese person.

Yesterday, I was utterly surpised to see a scene that I often see on TV. Someone from their house, some high levels up poured some dirty water down the street. One poor girl was walking past, with her handbag, shopping bag, got soaked with dirty water. What kind of horrible person will do that? Can they not pour the dirty water in the toilet or down the drain? Why do they need to pour it down the street? This is totally ridiculous. Makes me wonder what goes through peoples mind when they do things like that.

Yes, I am chinese. No I am not racist, however, I'm proud NOT be a local HK'er.
Hong Kong will "never" be called my home. I will always just be a visitor, a working visitor getting mad at the heartless things that HK people do.

I am not labelling. I'm sure there are people with heart in HK and DO NOT do things like that.

Catch up session

Another friend from Sydney is here in Hong Kong for good. I've lost count now of how many friends have come by to HK. And more that is coming back. Jen will be here next week and Alice will be here sooooon too !!

I remember sitting and chatting and having similar conversations that I had today with J but with my gf's in Feb 07. He's still adapting and getting use to the HK environment. Being in HK for 2 weeks, still dividing everything by an exchange rate of 6.9 (now 7!!!), and I still do that now! Just laughing and talking about how cheap a milk tea and "afternoon tea" was and how cheap a taxi rides are and just general living in HK. We both agreed that we HAVE TO stop this "conversion thinking". We're earning honkie dollars now... no longer earning aussie dollars!

We started off shopping in Causeway Bay, cheese shopping at City Super and then heading to LKF for drinks. Having a D & M chat for 5 hours non-stop over white wine was something I haven't done in HK in a very a long time =)

LKF was packed, even when we got there at 6pm. They had a Californian Carnival. It was sooo crowded. I can imagine it just being like this on Christmas Eve or New Years Eve!!!

My lovely family ~

A very nice Aunty facebooked this pic to me just to make me really really jealous!!!



How I wish I was in that photo toooooo ~

Life Complications

As we get older, our lives seem to get more complicated. We have alot more issues to consider such as our families, friends, careers, money and relationships. Things are not as simple as they were when we were still running around in the playground and playing on the see-saw. I wish things could be written out, things could be simple.

I've learnt that there really is only so much you can consider. I've learnt that we need to live life freely and to be as happy as possible. But how can I be happy when I am thinking of you and wishing that you are by my side, watching, supporting me and correcting my decisions. Friends opinions are never ever as valuable as yours. There are so many things that you have once said to me that I realised you are right. You have always thought of the best for me and tried to guide me in the right direction. My stubborness has taken me the opposite direction.

Experiencing and seeing what I have seen in the last 4 years tells me you are right. Your feelings towards certain people, your judgements, your opinons and your reasonings. They are all right. How is wish you were here, right this minute to guide me again.