July 10th

Things are starting to pick up now that my little break is over. For lunch, we had "ho fun" rice noodles with wontons. Yumyumyum.
And then, I finished Amadeus with my mom! I very much enjoyed it. I felt that it was a very entertaining.
And the afternoon went on with some chilling with my brother. I had two ice-cream pops because (a) we have some, (b) they're tasty, and (c) it's HOT.

Later in the day, we had afternoon tea when my dad left work. We met him at a little restaurant near his company's place. I ordered thick vermicelli with pickles & thin pork strips, egg, and shiitake mushrooms (you got three things with your noodles!) and a Horlicks (this was a set plan -- three sides in noodles with a drink). My dad the same kind of vermicelli, but he picked the pickles & pork (like me), luncheon meat, and mushrooms (I think this is it, but I'm not sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hericium_erinaceus) with milk tea-coffee. My mom ordered Viatnamese fried rice with an almond drink. My brother had dry-fried wide "ho fun" noodles with beef and ordered some milk-tea with it.
Altogether, I felt that the food was merely okay. My meal was nothing special in my opinion, and I felt that my mom's (after trying a bit) was very plain -- just fried rice with a bit of curry sauce (so she should have just ordered curry fried rice instead). Oh well.

After the meal, we went to a bone-setter's for my dad and me. My back started hurting because I lean over way too much at the computer. And then I was feeling my back to see where it hurt when I felt that one of my spinal cord discs was protruding a bit(!!!). And it kinda hurt when I started to massage it. So I was like, "Bad. Never again will I lean over like I used to."
So I told my parents, and we agreed that I have to see the bone-setter (this kind uses massaging and forced restoration) like I did in December. I know that this bone-setting works because he loosened up my ligaments and pushed some of my bones back into the proper place -- namely my neck and shoulders. And now, I can stand and sit straight without getting tired in five minutes. (Legit!)
So I went today, and he inspected my back. He said that there was nothing wrong except that I had a weak neck and shoulder area (probably because of my bad neck, which I only fixed half a year ago). And so he helped me loosen up my muscles and joints, which was good.
Unfortunately, he didn't have enough time to get to my dad, so he told us to come again. So I'll be seeing him on Wednesday with my dad for his make-up appointment (I'm tagging along to learn some good stretches and exercises to help muscles, which should effectively lessen my back pain).
This wasn't quite what I needed (because my back still hurts). See, one of the discs in my backbone hurts -- not the back muscles... So I intend to tell my parents that I don't think that he did quite what I needed. I'll see if I can go to the one I saw in December -- it hurt to have my ligaments and bones forced back into place, but I know it helped.

Anyways! After that, we went looking to some shops nearby because Aunt K commissioned us (because we love close to a Fila merchandise store) to help her buy a bag she wanted. So we went to the store. Lo and behold, they were playing The Fame, Lady Gaga's CD. I was so excited that I started singing the songs (this also happened in Tai Wo Hau when I went to the shopping plaza with Aunt K after lunch with Ada. At a hair salon, I heard her CD playing on the speakers, so I pretended to browse at a nearby shop). It was very exciting for me because I love her.

And after the purchases, we came home. And mom and I did some jogging. (We've been doing this nightly, and it's weird because we normally don't watch TV. But ever since we started jogging in-place at home, we've started watching. Haha -- weird that exercise would help our bonding with the television screen.)

And now here I am. I still have to shower, though. And I'm tired. So I'll see you tomorrow.
Ciao.

P.S. My cousin (Fong) who lives in Macau has decided to visit Hong Kong for a few days before going to college in Mainland China. He arrived today. :) I'm going to see if I can hang with him a bit while he's here.
P.P.S There's a level-1 typhoon warning. Just sayin'.

July 10, 2009
11:27 PM