Welcome back to the heat and humidity. It’s a love-hate thing, I guess.
I went out with dad to Maxis to get his mobile sorted (apparently he couldn’t send out any texts) and I had to wait for him in the car because I couldn’t get a park.

Sweat!

Well, I actually HAD a park but it was behind the building.
I was minding my own business, carrying the tray of eggs in my hand (and cans of pineapple in my bag) back to the car when I heard the sound of a motorcycle and I felt my bag hitting my ribs on the right. There was an older Chinese man standing not 3 feet from me saying, “You have to be careful, he was trying to rob you!”
That young Indian fart (he looked quite young) had the cheek to turn back and look if I fell or something. If only my reflexes kicked in earlier, I should’ve reached for one of the cans in my bag and threw it at him.

So there…my trusty bag. Torn. It was a freebie from Lancome (and it came from mom) but it served me well for YEARS!

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Last day in HK and I FINALLY got to see some blue skies. Unfortunately, it didn’t last long.

And the sun came out for a while, too!

Blue skies WERE there…but the clouds quickly covered it as I got out of bed and reached for the camera.

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After dumping all the shopping back at Poreiz’s place, I headed out again to meet HongHui and ChoiFong for dinner. HongHui had class till 5pm (wooohoo! Back to school!), so we were planning to meet at 530pm at Admiralty station. I think I was late…because he offered to meet me at Central instead and we went to TaiKoo station. I had no idea where I was going, I was just following the leader.

He said I could spot him easily because he had a backpack and (at that time I didn’t understand what he meant) a nasal inhaler (because he was unwell) – it took me a while, especially when I can’t see clearly (neither can he because he’s unwell)…and even when I THOUGHT I saw him, I had to walk (almost) right into his face before I could go, “HELLO!”

Hong said it is their favourite restaurant and the mall was ChoiFong’s favourite haunt when they were staying in the old apartment.

He was surprised there was a long queue even though we arrived earlier than normal dinner time.

Serving #150. What was our ticket? #162?

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After the long, tiring (for me) hike yesterday, Hazel gave me an option of going for the late morning service. I told her I’ll see if I could wake up in time…and thanks to my jetlag, I did! Woke up in time to attend the first service with Hazel (Paul was playing drums). We thought we were late but we were just in time. I couldn’t really walk any faster (aftermath of hike!) but had to tahan to keep up with Hazel.

Yes, I woke up to aches and pains.

Over doing the “pretending to not know her photo is being taken”.

I was perspiring in service, too.

We were reminded in the service that our PRIMARY duty before God is to LOVE Him.

“Let’s go back this way.”
Hazel had a meeting after service and Paul continued playing drums for the next service – I went exploring a little but stopped short when it started raining. I went back to Délifrance to have something to eat (I didn’t think I could last till 點心) and to have a place to kill a bit of time.

Are the buildings really high up or the clouds down low?

Watching life in HK – this was at about 1230pm but it was raining, so the sky looked gloomy.

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Hazel counted me in for this dinner before I even got to HK. I don’t usually go for steamboat/hotpot but ever since Surt introduced me to Nagomi, I guess I am okay with it now. I don’t go, “YAY! HOTPOT!” but I won’t say “YUCK!” either. It’s also possible that there is a wider variety of food to cook in the steamboat/hotpot or just plain change of taste buds.

Following the leader!
Leader say hor, in order to get the private room, our bill must be a minimum HKD3000. When I did the calculation and converted it to RM hor, I almost pengsan-ed wor.

I’ve been told not to convert prices of food.
Actually, the only sakit hati thing I have about buying/paying things in HK is the Skinfood BB cream – I paid HKD290 and it’s only RM79 in Malaysia.

Your personal straining ladle, personal and public/uncooked food chopsticks.
HK people are particular personal food hygiene. No putting chopsticks in your mouth and using the same one to pick up food that is for sharing! We are Malaysian, so bantai only lah.

I thought we were late but we were the first to arrive.

Eiz and FeR

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