Half and Half

Time: 9:50am
Mood: Happy (I went shopping yesterday!)
Song of the moment: Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To

It's almost been a week since I've landed in the motherland (haha) and finally the weather has been co-operating with me. The first half of the week has been rainy, the second half, rather sunny and damn humid. I'm still getting used to the humidity although my skin is loving it here (it's so smooth!! yea!). I've spent the past few days mainly with my mom. On Wednesday I went up to the Yuen Long (the New Territories) to visit my grandpa's younger brother (suk gung) and his family. I found out very quickly he's very knowlegable in ancient Chinese history because when he found out I was going to China, he gave me a brief history lesson. I must say it was quite interesting (I was surprised I understood 70% of what he was saying! haha).

Thursday I headed out w/ my mom to see her old violin teacher and his family. They're still pretty good friends after all these years.. in fact he even came to visit us with his family in Toronto many years ago. I re-met some of his kids.. his son Henry works at Disneyland and he told me he could get me into Disneyland for free! Hooray! haha! His sister Helen is an airplane stewardess for Cathay Pacific, and told me she would take me to one of her yoga classes! haha! :D! That evening I met up with Frankie and Bernard for dinner. I hadn't seen Frankie in a while, so we caught up on each other's lives :D ah it's so fun meeting friends in another setting :D

Yesterday was my major shopping day! My mom first took me to see her cousin and an old highschool friend she hadn't seen since HS graduation. It was fun listening to them ramble on about the old days. Made me wonder if I'm gonna end up doing that too in my later years. I probably will! haha! We headed to "Women's Street" after lunch to do some shopping and boy did I shop! I managed to buy 3 handbags (1 is for a friend), 4 messenger bags (2 for my sister), and... I don't remember what else I bought, but yeah.. I think I spent a total of 250HKD! not bad not bad! Still got the bargaining skillz! so much better than in Seoul.. because when you walk away, these Chinese vendors actually try to get u to come back by lowering the price! Excellent! haha!

Oooh gotta run! gotta meet my uncle.. he's takin me camera shopping (finally! hooray!)





Me waiting to get on to the MTR. It's my "I hate crowds" look. Thanx Freddy for the pic! hehe :D