June 22

Hello! All is well today because I'm back online with daily blogging (I hope).
This morning, I went to bed at 2 after finishing with some Facebook (although Wikki can contest to the fact that I started getting loopy with my posting). Anyways, this made me borderline-drunkard today. I was so ADD.
At 9:15, I woke to rather uncomfortable weather. I ate breakfast of siu mai and cheung fun, which was pretty nice. (Although the noodle didn't have enough sauce. And I'm not very used to eating this kind of food for breakfast. That's okay, I guess. I was happy, regardless of my preferences/customs.)
Anyways, Mom brought LilBro to the hospital for a check-up (after swine-flu discharge, they ask you to return in order to see how you're doing). So I walked to the Tik Dah doctor by myself, which was fine.
Funny (not as in "humorous") excerpt: I was dressed and ready, etc. Then I turned off the fan and went to put on my shoes. But as soon as I began putting my first foot into the shoe, I started to get a little sweaty at the top of my forehead -- it was THAT humid. So I was like, "Nuh-uh. No way." So I turned the fan back on and put my shoes on. And then I left.
Anyways, I left the apartment and got to the elevator. I opened the door (it's a manual elevator here) but then stopped because I had forgotten my umbrella. I was like, "Hm... It wasn't raining when I put my shoes on... But it is humid as if it wants to rain, and there are rain forecasts..." So I stopped being lazy and let the elevator go. And I opened the gate. Then I opened the door. I grabbed my umbrella, and I then left (after locking up the door... and then the gate).
When I got out of the apartment complex, I was very glad that I brought te umbrella. Because within the less-than-a-minute it took for me to get from my apartment to the lobby, it had started to rain. Heavily. Thank goodness for not being lazy!
Anyways, I found my way to the Tik Dah place. An since it was raining, there weren't many people. I was so lucky because this meant that I only had to wait an hour today! :)
Anyways, it's become a ritual. A dunk in the hot medicine. (Did I mention that there's steam that floats out from the pot? It's kind of like when you cook pasta. You turn the heat off and open the cover. After the lid's off, there's no more boiling water. But the liquid is still REALLY hot. Yeah.. Try putting your hand in that, and you'll know how much it hurts.) And then the hot-bean rub/massage, which I only today realized that I had forgotten to mention numerous times before. (Each time after the soak, the doctor takes a towel that's wrapped like a sack. In it are what feel like small beans or uncooked rice -- smooth and hard, but neither painful nor loud like rocks together. But he takes the loose sack of... whatever it is and rubs my hand with it. It's really hot. But after the dunk, my hand's usually a bit numb. So it's not as painful as it would be otherwise.) Then the hand massage. Then the herbal bandage.
He told me to come back tomorrow, and I went off on my way. I went to the Circle K (think Seven Eleven) next door and ordered a kind of quick-food meal set. It included fish ball/siu mai + "Cod Tofu"/Shanghai wontons + a hot drink. (You pick either the fish ball or siu mai, and you choose between the tofu and wontons.) So you get these three things for $14 (HKD). Which translates to about $1.75 American dollars. :)
Regular Hong Kong food is cheap but delicious. (Did I tell you? There's a noodle restaurant that I've mentioned a few times. I've eaten there three times because it's yummy and well-priced. You get a bowl of noodles and one side-choice for $15, and two side-choices with noodles is just $20. As the conversion rate is roughly $7.8 (HKD) for every American dollar, you spend either less than $2 or less than $3 (depending on your order) for each bowl of noodles. And the bowl is large -- not at all like normal dinner bowls. So it's a really good deal.)
In any case, I ordered the tofu and fish balls. And for the drink, I had Horlick's. :) It was a good little meal -- I always like the fish balls because they're soaked in a slightly spicy sauce, which I love. But the Horlicks was mediocre at best. I didn't mind that it scalded my tongue when I was just testing the temperature, but it wasn't mixed well. I finished it as I was walking back to the apartment. And I looked into the cup (through the hole in the lid), and there was the lumpy stuff at the bottom! Kinda like when you make hot cocoa, and packets of powder float around because the inside is still dry while the outside is wet (and this outside layer forms a shell around the dry powder, making it hard to dissolve it all properly). I was sad. But I got home and (after taking my shoes off and turning on the air conditioning, which was definitely a necessity -- I deliberately walked in the rain a little bit to cool off, but I was still hot) poured some Vitasoy (維他奶) into the cup. And then all was good.
But I stayed at home all afternoon, replying to Facebook and writing stuff. And Mom and LilBro finally got back at about 4, at which time I passed out from exhaustion. My mom also did this because a little while after I finally woke up, she took a nap of her own. And she snored, haha.
But we had dinner at 7:40. And I was very grumpy because I don't really like eating late. >:(
Oh well. And then it was off to Facebook again. (And you know what's sad? I'm not even done replying after a combined six hours. Am I really that slow?)
Anyways, I'll see you all later. :)
(And I might not be able to post tomorrow because I might be sleeping over at Aunt Kuen's. But we'll see, 'kay?)
LOVE, moi.

11:00 PM
June 22