Back for 2 wks

So now the trip is officially over with Darren coming back to Calgary last night. It's been offically a month since it's started, 2 weeks that it's ended. I'm sort of sad.

Anyways, I've been getting some of my pals urging me to continue w/ this blog, despite my heavy work schedule. What do you guys think? Yes? No?? So-so?? Haha! =P

Aside from all of that...Darren got me a Von Dutch cap from Hong Kong....it's so cool! God, I'm such a walking advertisement....

-Karen

The many funny things I've seen

1) The fake Nike shirt which said "Just Did It"
2) The real Nike shirt which said "We love Waffles" and I really really wanted to buy it depsite it's stupendious pricing..the only thing that stopped me was that there wasn't the shirt my size.

And the most hilarious thing:

3) Lychee flavored Durex Condoms..............oh the humanity of it all!!!

I should have bought one just so I can show all my pals that there are such a thing. I couldn't take a picture of it because I was in a store that wouldn't allow it. Wonder how I can claim something like that through Canadian Customs: Lychee Condoms, $5.00. Hahahahahahaha!

So like yah..hahaha..anyways...went to Ocean Park yesterday. Got soaked and really really wet on the water slide ride. Almost threw up after the upside down roller coaster; stupid thing was that I wasn't even scared entering the ride, my body just can't handle it. And I've seen some of the biggest fishes and biggest sting rays in my life! It was such a cool experience!! I also went on a cable car wayy up on the coast of the mountain, and the mine train roller coaster was the coolest: it was bulit on the side of a mountain on a coast, so it feels like you might fall into the water when it turns and goes down..it was wicked!

I also saw my first celebrity today: Ng Cheuk Hay! English name: I don't know. He's pretty new though..in fact he's on a chapter movie that's showing in HK right now. Some cop/police one with Fiona Sit. Anyways, I couldn't ask him for an autograph cause he was acting in another chapter movie and lots of people where there...it was hard for me to take a picture! It sucked...but I could say now that I saw one!!! It was really cool!!! A chapter movie filming in the middle of downtown HK!!! Wooot!

-Karen

Back from Macau!

Woo! I'm back from Macau in one piece. It was quite the experience. And it was so cheap too!! It was like, $400HK, which is roughly...$70CAN...for a 2-way ticket on the boat ride there and back, one night of hotel, and including breakfast. What a deal! We did lots of sightseeing, and even went up the Macau SkyTower. My only regret was not doing the SkyWalk there. Albert and Darren chickened out and wouldn't do it, but his cousin's girlfriend was willing. But after we weren't allowed because it just finished raining and they were like, "ohhh it might be slippery". Pish-posh...! That's my hugest regret so far...not having that experience. But I guess it's ok... we took lotsa pictures =P

We also went to historic monuments and took in a lot of the former Portugese colony. Everything there is in either Portugese or Chinese, so I couldn't read pretty much anything. Talk about feeling like a foreigner! It just sucks that it has been raining for the past few days...I only hope that it doesn't continue raining for the rest of the time I'm here.. *crosses fingers*

Macau reminds me of an asian Brazil.....the people there are poor, but the tourist areas there are loaded. It's weird...you look at one road, and the right side might be old cement housing that's rusting...and the left is a huge casino. It's really strange. Everyone there looks like a gambler or a pickpocket. It's places like that that make me anxious.

-Karen

Oh my gooooooddddd....!

And indeed, it was a horribly rainy day. It rained like crazy, like....one of the hardest ever rainfall I've seen in my life...and yet Darren said that it is normal here in Hong Kong. This has to be insane. I ran 2 mins to the subway station with a rain jacket and umbrella.....and my pants were half soaking wet. I can't imagine how all these Hong Kong people can go out in this weather with only an umbrella....

So Darren ditched (hahaha joking..he didn't ditch...)....or went go visit family for the day, and I wasn't really up to meeting like....a good 3/4 of his extended family, so me and Albert braved the wind and rain and went out. What a mistake. We went to Wong Tai Sai Temple, and it was packed...and raining!! Amazingly..I managed to buy incense and burn it all, but I was all wet. And what made me even more mad was that after I burnt all my incense...the rain stopped. GAH! I'll go back there some other time and burn incense more properly. GRRRR....

Then we went to this Chi Lin Nunnery..which was amazing. All the statues and temples were beautiful. It was too bad we could take pictures inside (we weren't allowed), but it was an amazing sight to see. Then we went to some weird park beside it, and to a nearby mall to get some air condititioning (after the rain it was freaken like...........100% humidity I swear). But now I'm home...cause my feet and clothes were all wet...and I was in a dire need of a shower. *sigh*

However, I am proud that I figured out my own way to get home *grins*

I have to figure out a way to upload pictures on this thing...

-Karen

One thing I have learned

Is that Hong Kong people can't not stand it's own Hong Kong heat...

Interesting, isn't it?

It's still smeltering hot out here, but I'm having a heck of a time!! We've went to Sai-Kung, where all the fishes are, the Flower Street Market, the Bird Garden, the Hong Kong Light Show, all of the imaginable streets to buy clothes in, and the good old Monkey Mountain. In the next few days, we will be hitting Ocean Park, the Victoria Peak, Avenue of Stars, and the Big Buddha Hill. It's all so exciting!

Everything is still very different here..people everywhere..everything is so compacted in...and even their housing is strange. But I'm getting the hang of it, and I'm starting to like it more and more everyday. But regardless, I'm starting to miss my family back home, so leave it to me, I think I would rather live in Canada anyday. It's hectic pace of life is something that I do like, but I don't know if I want to be immersed in it 24/7.

I forgot to download pictures onto my imagestation, so I think that'll have to wait until I get home *sigh*

I've never realized how much alike fake brands are to the real thing. Those things are amazing!!! Puma shoes for $20 bucks Canadian.................why not!

Welps, I gotta go now..I just saw a lizard in the bathroom, and this I gotta take a picture of.

-Karen