Saturday, February 23, 2008
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Okay, so this blog has been neglected for quite some time - a while before I even left for Hong Kong.
Before HK, met up with the group for Australia Day outing, which was gay for me, because momma laid a curfew on me for the first time in like, three years, and I had to get home at like 10. I somehow bulcrapped my way, with the lame year10 excuses of no trains etc etc, and got home at 12? Oh I can't even remember. That was the last time I saw the happytreeAsians as a whole before I left for fobland, and I love them all to bits. :)
HK in a nutshell:
- COLD (8-10 degrees on average for the whole three weeks, until the last two days when it went up to 15-18 degrees)
- 70% off signs on the front of every store
- Trains (both underground and overground) are packed 24/7
- Ate probably three - four extremely full meals every day
- 7 pairs of shoes for $400HKD, which is like, $50 something AUD. Total bargain baby
- Lots of haggling everywhere, including the hairdressers when I straightened my hair
- Got jipped twice - once in a taxi, and once in an electronics store where the dude charged me $100HKD for a freebie. Yes, I define stupid there.
- Lots of Gucci and LV bags on the streets
- Lots of smokers
- Lots of old grandmas homeless on the street
- Red pockets fly around the streets on CNY
- Even randoms I never knew existed gave me two, because I just happened to be at a family friend's house, and they rocked up at the same time
- CNY songs pumping in every shopping centre
- Used on average, 3 packets of tissues every day (toilets and restaurants don't supply tissues)
- Never knew I would get sick of Asians, but after two weeks, I was craving to see some fat-potbellied-transits or any Aussie really. Sydney <3>
Mainland China in a nutshell:
- AN OLD MAN COUGHED IN MY HAIR ON THE TRAIN
- Everyone gets this layer of grey on their teeth when they reach the age of 30 over there.
- The water's probably just dirty.
- Police spit in the shrubs
- A mum held her baby while it peed in the middle of a shopping centre while apologising to the cleaner who was standing there waiting for the baby to finish its business. Only in China.
- Food was probably as cheap as it is in Vietnam.
- Plenty more smokers
- Noise pollution is tenfold the amount in HK
- Went back to great grandma's village, and after an hour of asking everyone in the village, finally found our two ancient houses, that are still intact after 80 years.
- Probably ate more than I had ever eaten before.
- Lots of fake D&G
Some photos from Macau:


And that was my trip. Got back on Thursday morning, and had a good bowl of Pho in Bankstown before heading back home for a good nap. Been jetlagged ever since.
Last night was Paul's 18th at Rhodes. Was supposed to start at 4:30, but I think the partay started at close to 8:30. Lol, true Fort st style. Had a sausage sizzle, and then we all chipped in for pizza. I was a good girl, and only drank a few :) No stupidity for me. The toilets were closed, and unlike true hobo park-parties, I did not pee in a tree. Jess and I chose to be classy and trekked our asses to Rhodes shopping centre to pee in a decent hole. :) Waited until like, TWELVE until Emily the ugly whore showed her ass up. Lol, by then, it was actually Paul's bday, and lots of hugs and screaming. Took some photos, mostly of the four or five drunks that climbed onto the top of the roof. All photos would be up on my
facebook. :)
Myer is not keeping me anymore. :( sad sad. It sucks how I was there for like, 2 months, and managed to make a mighty amount of friends, and now that my contract's over, I'm probably never going to see them again, or have that much fun at work again, not with this much people anyway. I love Ladies Shoes. I love how we're all girls, and can just talk about anything, and even the old ladies are so young at heart. I love them all. Should check if I'm rostered at all for this last week of my contract, and if I am, gotsta take plenty of photos.
And I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the way I am, and how easily I give in, and then realise that I shouldn't have done half the things I did. I'm sorry that I don't think ahead of the moment, and throw you up and down. I've dug myself, and you, into a huge black hole, and I just hope it's not too late to pull ourselves out, and manage to be okay.
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