Another Night Out

Ok, My preciously friend, also my only night out mate, Shandy is going to USA in August 5th. There is not much time left in HK so we are hanging out pretty much now. Neutral thinkers said Life is full of happiness and sadness, i say this can be experienced in a day!For example:
 
August 5th: Shandy is taking off to the USA.
August 5th: My gay cousin's 19th birthday, my intuition tells me he would love the watch as present, yet, he wont hug me.
August 5th: Ole is coming back from his holiday trip.
August 5th: yoga class cancelled because i have to go to the airport.
 
Shandy and I was eating,chatting,eating and more chatting in the first hour in the restaurant. We finished a cup of coffee in another hour. It was 9pm by then, still 1 1/2 hours too early for the happy hours in the pub. So we shopped around the mall until 10:30pm and went to the pub. (the drinks are $50 each in normal hours but $35 in happy hours, as we werent in a hurry back home so there was no reason to spend $15 more in a drink!) There was not much to write about the pub except the tiny things paranoid and sensitive people like me would notice. So we 2 girls were sitting there chatting and there were 2 boys behind us. We 'overheard' the conversation accidentally by filtering the loud music in the air and focusing at their voices. Whats so funny? What they talk about is exactly the reverse of what we talk about, here is a clearer picture.
 
The 2 boys : blah..blah...blah, girls..blah..sighhhh,..silence... (drinking sound)..sex ( from a man's pointview)...girls..blah...silence.
 
Us: BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,boyfriends,(LAUGH  haha throwing heads upwards), SEX(from a girl's pointview),boyfriends,(LAUGH),gossiping people's figure(LAUGH),SEX(critisizing),Boyfriends again,(LAUGH),.. HAHA.. BLAH BLAH BLAH...
 
Last night the waiter i mentioned in the last blog was at work again. Always come around,asked if we want to move table (in the area where he served),chatting with another waiter and pointing fingers to us, unfortunately the sensitive ears werent working that time, and when we walked out the pub,
 
he goes:" oh you are so tall"
me:''nah,its the shoes"
him halfly shouting as we were almost out the door:"u would be obviously taller than me if i hold ur hands going out"
 
Im not tall man! YOU are short! There are so many diet pills,some day i will invent some Growing Tall pills for guys. Then they should shut up around girls taller than them.
 
 

A night out

My friend, Shandy is going aboard to USA so we had a grand dinner last night. We ordered a pizza,2 pastas,a salad and a huge ice cream. It didnt sound a lot of food for 4 people but all of us walked out of the restuarant with a big tummy. lol

After the dinner,Shandy and i went to the pub,the other 2 had to go home early. So 2 of us wandered on the pub street to decide which one to go in. Some of them had too many men, some music too loud, some has too less people, finally we got in one that is decorated in turkish style. Some waiters were dressed in the turkish custom, some were actually middle eastern people. We settled in a table, a waiter came by and we asked him to recommend some drinks. Shandy and I had a lot of laughs and stories, and we gossiped about some friends around us. We were laughing so loud, partly because we were a little drunk, partly because the music was loud. The waiter came to our table for a few times and tried to chat with us. I felt that his serving attitude was different to us than to other tables. I asked Shandy if she felt it, she said no since its so dark.Then we contiuned gossiping and laughing. The waiter came again to tease about my red face after our second round. then he started telling us a lot about himself. I said we would go soon after this drink finished and he went serve another table. I went to the toilet and shandy left at the table to keep the drinks. I saw him at our table chatting with Shandy agian when i came back. lol
Then Shandy went to the toilet while i waited at the table. Then this waiter asked me to give him my cellphone number, i said:' no way'. Then he said for exchange and i said no again. lol He walked a few steps away and came back and gave me a paper with his cellphone number written on. Just after that, Shandy came back from the toilet. Luckily we were still early enough to catch the subway. we will go to the pub once more before shandy leaves. Next time we will tell him when we are going again, just to give him a thrill. lol


The restaurant where we dined out at last night.


The Victoria Harbour


IFC phase 2, the tallest building in Hong Kong.


My first drink, called "bikini"


Shandy's drink

the picture corner, 3 of the pictures i like best in my flat.

My little corner, full of things bought in travelling

My badges

I was tidying my room after my dinner with my old friend. And found all these in a little plastic box.


badges


1: English speaking ambassador
2: school orchestra
3: school house badge
4: school badge
5: WWF
6: V-net voluntary worker badge
7: Red Cross 'youth power 2000' badge
8: ?
9: ?
10: Best academic progress badge

Destop

i nicked the photo from Joep. Visit this photographer on http://mudde-en-padde.blogspot.com/

Im back from hell

I had to go to the dentist after i went to the yoga class. There was one and half an hour gap between so i took the advantage to went to buy beads and those components as the 2 places are close. I have a "fetish" on the indian things, after my friend took me to eat the first traditional indian food made by local indian cooks. which was not general curry bought from supermarket and throw it to microwave kinda meal. After the magnetic meal, although still on the surface, i have been stuck to their cultures. My friend and i will stop and look around when we walk pass an indian shop. Most of the indians shops are opened by HK people here. I only saw one indian street stall off the beads street corner the other day but we didnt stop because we were in a rush. Therefore, this time i thought i would go find the shop. I followed the way in my memory but it was not there. With a disappointing feeling i went back to look for beads.
 
my mum has been hurrying me to make the earrings and braceletes as i promised to my friends. So now i have to make 3 pair of earrings and 2 bracelets but i was out of beads of different kinds. I dont like going to that "beads street", it is an industrial area with heaps of lorries, factories, building site workers and carbon dioxide in the air. Anyway, i still spent an hour there.  Then i was on the way to the dentist.
 
Im never afraid going to see any "kinds" of doctor since young, probably i have been going too many times. ( my mum used to call me "medicine bin", * trash goes to trash bin, medicine goes to medicine bin)lol I never understood why some kids would cry in the dentist clinic room before today. I went to hell and come back today! I had one big and 2 small holes to fill. I though it was as easy and fast like the normal check up! The dentist used the mini seesaw, pliers etc . i could only have a quick glance as i was lying down. Then the sound of the tools and splashing sounds of tooth fragments all came at once. The sounds vibrating to my ears as if my mouth was a building site.  :P The sore feeling from the tooth root was the most terrible. I just heard the doctor saying:' almost done, almost done...' The sore feeling was more intense as he dug deeper with the tool. my palms were sweating. I tried not to move. Now i can understand why children are so scared of going to dentists.

 

I have to arrange a party for about 20 people. We take turns to be the contact person and the organizer and this time is my turn. i have been contacting people a week ago after the trip to beijing, but i can only finally confirm the date until today which is one day before the party. So hard was it to contact up to 20 people.

I think the food would be the standard pizzas from Pizza Hut, spaghettis, cokes and spirit again. And some slight alcoholic drinks.

I said to myself i should make a earrings for the teacher who lend out her house for the party. But i havent even started makeing yet. im getting so lazy. :P

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2nd July, 2004
I woke up with sore shoulders and thighs. It was the long walk in the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace yesterday. It was rainning and thundering unusually hard in Beijing. SInce we went to the anciet emperor's places and these grounds were made of quartzite, so everywhere we walked through was slippery. My friend said we had to use extra strength to walk so our thighs were sore today. lol

i carried the sun cream all the time with me,maybe to feel secure lol but actually i dont use it again after the first apply in morning.

The tour guide took us to a tea shop, my cousin bought 200g of 2 kinds. I didnt intend to buy any because i dont usually make tea at home.But i still taunt the lady by bargaining. i wanted to see how much she could lower the price. It's fun.
she said "customers must buy 100g at least."
I said "i only want to buy 50g."
she said "the tea can last for years."
I said "HK people dont have time to make tea."
then she allowed me to buy 50g at $100.
Then i said "it should be $90, 100g is at $180 only."
she said "i will give you a handful more like this."
i said, "could u give me a handful more."
she did.
i said, "could u give one handful more for the last time, please."
and she did. So at last i bought 80g at $100. hehe

This is one of the fun things u can do in China. I would have been kicked out of the shop if i was in other countries being like this. :D

Then we was taken to the Jade shop. There were full of different tourists.The jades and stone chops are at least twice as expensive than other shops (ithink). It must be a tour-guide-comission-making-shop.ie, the tour guide will get commission from their tourists if they buy anything from these shops.So bored were we 3 of us that we went back to the couch and took a nap.

After the lunch, we were finally taken to the great wall!It took one and half an hour drive to get there. we got in through the newest re-contructed gateway.Althought its said to be the newest, the stairs were rugged.One step is about one cereal box high.The steps near 2 sides of the walls were curved down, can imagine how many people have walked on. It was harder than we expected before coz the steps were higher and stepper, the roads are more slippery and the sun was brighter than we sawthe shoes by hands. Some carrying their babies in posters.Some tourists was walking on bare feet, holding . Some holding umbrellas...etc. the tour guide didnt arrange enough time for us to walk,we went up for an hour and went down. If i went to beijing again some day, i would walk the great wall for at least 3 hours. The views was so beautiful up on the mountains: fresh air, blue sky,360degree green mountains,the great wall, the anciet archtecture and the feeling. People who have learned about history must have a thrilling feeling. Thousands of wars happened on this piece of land since 1000 years ago, lots of gores, dead bodies and changing of kings happned.It was a forbbided land for normal people but now we were walking on this piece of complicated land.

Another tourist said hello to me.its such a warm feeling.We were both foreigners on this land.

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1st July, 2004.
I am at the desk in the hotel now. My roomate is already alseep.I could hear the sound of the paper and pen's friction.

We got up at 6:30am, i was woken up by the packing noise from my roomate. After 30 minutes, i went downstairs and had the buffet breakfast. i feel that the variety of food is so little for a 5-star hotel. The colour of my tea was still grey after the 3rd time i had asked them to make another again. So i surrended to coffee.

We then went to the Forbidden City. there are heaps of houses that look alike: high red walls, yellow roof, blue painting decoration and dragon scuplture on stairs...etc. we went through the main houses from the main gate to the last gate.Everywhere was crowded with tourists, hawkers selling postcards and,perhaps thieves as well. the ground of the forbidden city was made by grey stone bricks. The roads in the middle which were walked by the kings are doomed and made in quarzite. beautiful but slippery.

there were 2 incidents that happaned during the time we were in the forbidden city have i never experienced before. Not happened on me but i was the witness.
I can surely say that all the corners were crowded with people like a sea of heads. But there was one little passage horizontally in front of one main house so crowded at that moment we were walking through. people were pushing, try to get close to take pics of the dragon chair (seated by the anciet kings). I was in the fringe of the crowd. Then i saw a cellphone dropped on the floor. I didnt pay much attention because it's not odd dropping things in a crowd. But then a local mainlander man pushed on me so hard and i fell on another tourist beside me. Both of us felt strange. Suddenly another man appeared hitting the man and the man ran off quickly and disappeared in somewhere else. then i heard the man who hit the ran-off man shouted to his mates:'he stole my phone...i caught him red handed...' and i was like wow!

i was pushed further out of the crowd so i decided to wait my cousin and her friend outside the crowd. Suddenly, i saw 3 big,strong and fat mainlander women shouting, my cousin's friend crying, a couple in our package tour shouting and yelling back, one mainlander women hit the wife and the wife hit back on her shoulder, then their daughters pulled the mum away... a lot of people were looking at us. The 3 bitches were still yelling so loud. Then our tour guide came, the 3 bitches yelled that my cousin's friend pinched her waist!The wife shouted that they chased and pinched my friend so she stood out for her...There were clear red marks on both of their arms. But the 3 bitches did not show any evidence. More people of us were yelling back to the 3 bitches. And one of the bitches said: FORGET IT! FORGET IT!LETS GO!But We wouldnt FORGET IT. I was the first one suggest to call the police and other people agreed. The tour guide and another old lady didnt want to because they said it would take time.However, the tour guide saw so many people put their foot down she could not object.Since the forbidden city was so huge that the longer we didnt take action, the higher chance we could not find the bitches again. So the HK guider and me followed the bitches and sneak some pics of them in case they disappeared so the police could arrest them in the exit. It was quite exciting! hehe, we disguised that the HK guider taking of me but actually sneaking pics of them...

One police came after 15 minutes and requested both of the parties to explain. He asked the bitch if she had hit 2 of them, she said :"definitely NO!!, Im 60 years old, how will i have energy to pinch them!!!"people in our party:" HOw come a little girl would pinch ur wrist."
"you bitch bully little girl"
"60 year old bitch wouldnt pinch people, u crazy?"
"i would pinch you to death" she repeated this sentence many times in front of the police many times...
finally, the Hk guider,the wife,the crying girl and the bitches were brought away by the police.

And we continued our tour.
They joined us again on lunch. She told us that one of the bitch cried and apologized after a few hours in the police station. But then went to another policeman and said:"THIS IS NOT FAIR<" They overheard and yelled again.