June 23

Hi! I'm at Aunt Kuen's right now. :) Ilove this place so much because I basically grew up here, in terms of my Hong Kong childhood. As I explained, I would crash here every time I visited HK. (Even though we often stayed for more than a month, my aunt was and still is very accomodating.)
Anyways, today was disgusting. Omigoodness. I was sweating so much because it was so humid. My shirt kept sticking to me (ew... nasty) throughout the day, and I was not very pleased. And you know what's funny? HK people are generally a bit vain, so I saw people wearing long sleeves and tight jeans (and leather boots, and leather pants, and tights, etc.). It made me feel uncomfortable to just look at them. -_-

I went to the Tik Dah doctor again today. But we were packing in the morning because we had planned on staying at Aunt K's.
(My dad's in Xian right now, so Mom, LilBro, and I are here. This is because we love Aunt Kuen. And also so that I can get to Mei Foo easily tomorrow -- so that Sara can take me to Tsim Sha Tsui (尖沙咀) to get a haircut and to dye my hair. I've been waiting for four years, so I'm pretty excited!)
So we were packing, and that took us a while. So we left at about 11:25 because of some indecision on my mom's part. Frownieface because this meant that by the time we got to the Tik Dah's, there were no more chips left... And so (since we would only be able to make an afternoon appointment) we just said that we'd come back next week (because we were going to Aunt K's for the afternoon).
"Why next week?" you ask. Well, this is because my mom just wanted to do a trial run of the Tik Dah. She says that she now wants me to take a short break from Tik Dah and do both Chiense herbal medicine (the consumed kind this time) and acupuncture (which I've done before in the States. It helped) in order to help blood circulation, which might then aid in the Tik Dah medicine. Not complicated, but it's hard to explain over cyberspace. :(

Anyways, we left and took the MTR to Kwai Fong (葵芳) to see if the Chinese herbalist was there. He wasn't. So I seized this opportunity and went to the shopping plaza right next to the MTR station. Imagine four floors of open-air street vending stalls... except they've all been placed in a building. Omigh, it is heaven. So I went and looked around for some stuff. I managed to locate some things I found appropriate for some friends, so I got them. But I won't spoil any surprises. :)
And no trip to this plaza is complete without ube ice cream from Yummy Mummu (wtg is up with that name?) from the fourth floor. Omigh, when you eat that ice cream... Most delicious thing that has entered my mouth; best thing that will ever enter my mouth.
Ube is also known as purple yam and 香芋 (Cec?). It is delicious as a confection or dessert item. Omigh, YUM.
Anyways. Afterwards, I wandered around a bit and was very pleased with my adventuring. But Mom and LilBro were tired, so we had to leave. We took the Public Light Bus, which is nicknamed "green van" (麵_)(Cec, help? This comp. doesn't have the application that I use to verify the Chinese. So I'm not sure how to write the second word. And everyone's asleep, so I can't ask them).

And the bus stopped at my aunt's apartment complex. And all was happy. We were waiting for my aunt to get back from dim sum at Maritime Square, though. So I bought a Pretz: Corn. And I love Pretz, let me tellya. But this one? EW. Like, EWtotheutmostextreme. Corn Pretz is listed under my "Eat only if you have nothing better to do" category. (On the bright side, it's not under "Eat only after consuming every available resource, including your limbs", which is my last-resort category.)
Anyways. We spent the afternoon at Aunt K's, and all was happy. YAY!
Then dinner came. We had steamed egg with dried shellfish-thing (it's the part that connects the shellfish to the covering. Like, the weird butt-stem. I don't know its English name); steamed Chiense cabbage with vermicelli, dried shrimp, and ground meat; soup ingredients (tomatoes, potatoes, pork still on the bone); and steamed crab. It was very yummy. Perhaps a bit plain, but still yummy. It's all food that I like -- simple but delicious, traditional but special.

Then we went and walked to Maritime Square in order to not be fatties. But it was drizzling, so we didn't walk by the harbor (we went by the road this time because it has a shelter-thing made of opaque glass so that you can avoid both rain and intense sun as you walk to/from Maritime Square). And we went in. And I headed for CD Warehouse. And I spent a LONG time in there. They have an excellent amount of movies and CD's (Hong-Kong-ese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Western). And I mean EXCELLENT amount. You might expect it to be filled with Chinese DVDs and CD's, but it was def. not; there was a HUGE variety in Western selection as well.
The breakup was like:
50% Chinese
45% Western
10% Japanese
10% Korean
5% Other
Okay, so that's 120% totally. But it's okay because it was THAT varied in choice.

Anyways, Mom and LilBro eventually ditched because they were tired. So I was looking by myself, and Aunt Kuen moved next door to Marks & Spencer. But then LilBro was like, "Mom and I are tired. Hurry up." So I made my purchases shortly after, and we left Maritime Square. I got three DVD's for $55 (HKD). That translates to about seven American dollars. :D
Going home, the four of us (Aunt K's husband, Uncle Kau, decided to stay home) took the harbor-route. It was nice and breezy. And then we split up. There's a plaza behind Aunt K's apartment, and Aunt K and I did some grocery shopping. (Mom and LilBro went back to Aunt K's.)
At the grocery market, I was very excited to see Calbee's Grill-a-Corn at $5.9 for the 80-gram bag and HAD to buy some. (WTG? This is the best deal I've ever seen in all of my years in seeing them on the shelves. OMIGH, EXCELLENCE.) And then there were ice-cream mochi packs on sale -- two packs for $9.2! So I bought two packs of the ube kind (each pack has two mochi). And I also bought gum (two bags for $14). What a bargaining night!
(Remember that this is all in HKD. So divide by 8 to calculate the roughly equivalent cost in American dollars!)

Anyways, my aunt and I came back afterwards. And we just sat around, melting from the humidity. Thankfully, we turned the AC on.

And it's now 12:10 AM, and I'm tired. I need energy so that I can play with Sara's children tomorrow (before I get my haircut), so I must sleep now. (And shower, brush teeth, etc. first!)
Ciao, lovebabies.

12:11 AM
June 24

WTG!?!
FAIL

I absolutely forgot to mention that June 22nd is MCHammah's birthday. Omigh, I'm such a fail of a friend.
Sorry! You know how much I love you, right?
So my late shout-out:

June 22nd is one of my biffles' birthday. Represent, homeslice.
12:23