Significant Things Which Have Happened Since My Last Post
Well, there was the match against ACS(I). Now that is an experience I shudder to recall. I got pwned, so well, no good memories there. They totally outclassed us.
There is today, where I finally moved my rear off my computer chair to go look for a job, hopefully we'll clinch it. I have no plans to waste my holidays at home. Also went to Taka to find benny and ho tat, they are deprived and desperate already, poor terrible little boys.
There is my going to a proper lan shop for the first time in months and feeling so proud of myself for owning, or at least for not being owned.
Then there is, of course, my hong kong trip. Actually this post would have been a short one, and nobody would have to complain. Too bad I'm going to include the details of my trip, if only so that next time I can read it to remind myself of the experience. It was a fun trip, I did much more than when I went 2 years ago. What amazes me is how I felt so mature 2 years ago, when I went there on my own. I realize I was only 14, but I felt so self-important and thought I was so mature. Pretty unbelievable that I was there on my own for 10 days, at 14.
Well, this time when I went to hong kong I was determined to shop. Cause I realized it was a golden opportunity unlike any I would ever have. Selfishly, I knew that my uncle would sponsor quite a bit of my shopping, which he did. Of course, he is a blessed man who blesses others, and he actually gave me 2000 hongky dollars to shop with. Cool shite. I spent quite alot of time wandering about causeway bay cause I kept getting lost. I was trying my bestest to find the bus interchange without consulting the map no matter which part of causeway bay I was at, so I spent alot of time walking around. The weather is fantastic so walking was fine, and rather enjoyable.
I bought lots of stuff at times square, cause I'm not really the flea market kind of person and I feel more at home at major shopping centres than struggling through the human tide within dark crowded alleys. I also went to factory outlets to check it out and bought some stuff there too. I also spent a considerable amount of money on food. The food there is excellent, as is the service. It seems to me that the service staff there are infinitely better than those in Singapore, as they're neither too pushy nor too indifferent. Perfect balance I think. Or maybe that's just the "Grass is greener on the other side" syndrome.
More on their food. I recalled a wanton mee shop that sold amazing noodles and dessert. So I spent one of my afternoons searching for it. In the end I drifted out of the area and ate at a little noodle shop which made veli nice soyabean. I probably can't find that shop again if I wanted to. Anyhow, some days later I managed to find the famous wanton mee shop and it was worth the search.
What is more noteworthy is that I had 2 of my most expensive meals ever, in hong kong. The first and foremost was on my second last night there, which was tuesday I think. It was in a crazily high-class restaurant which was open above a french boutique, agnès b. I probably didn't recognize three quarters of the menu. Well, all the dishes were in french, with short english descriptions. I didn't get most of the descriptions anyway. I'm a neighborhood coffeeshop kind of guy. Throw linguini, carbonara, bolognese, escargot, mousse, souffle, ratatouille, hors d'oeuvre (no idea how to spell or pronounce that) and a host of other such words at me and I'll go, huh? So yeah, I went for the one thing that looked familiar to me, lamb fillet, medium rare. I think it was 328 hongky or something? That's like 60 bucks. One bottle of vittel (high class for water I presume) is 10 bucks. Desert was 14 bucks, and my soup was also about 14 bucks. I think my meal totalled $100? Or thereabouts, it was by 500 kilometres, the most expensive meal of my life. The ambience there is totally wicked, and the service is pretty good. Almost everyone else there brought like a bouquet of flowers for their dates, never seen that before. So the whole thing was like, totally rad.
Second most expensive meal I paid myself, heheh. It's not in the league of 100 bucks, but it's still more than I ever forked out for a meal. maybe, 50 bucks or so? This meal has a story behind it. Long one. On the first day we reached hong kong, we went to eat at this Italiano place called Fat Angelo's. Best pizza I ever ate, after all that pizza hut and canadian. I totally dug the atmosphere there, and I also noticed that the waitresses there were pretty pretty. That meal was not a 100 percent happy experience, quite the contrary in fact, but I shall not elaborate. But I remembered the cool place and the pretty waitresses, and thought about going back there for dinner at least once before I left hong kong. So on the second last day, I decided, what the heck, this is my last chance to see pretty waitresses. So I walked there from causeway bay, which is hella long. If I was in the habit of uploading pictures I would upload the route I took there. Like.... 3 hours maybe? From Sogo to Times Square to Wanchai to the Hong Kong Convention Centre to the Bank of China to the Peak Tram Station to Queen's Road Central and Soho where the restaurant was. I was quite proud of myself. Along the way, I met 3 pretty cute girls and a friendly surveyor so I was happy even before stepping into the place.
So I approached the restaurant, surreptitiously checking to see if the pretty waitress who served me on the first day was there. I couldn't see her, so I walked the entire street which was full of restaurants trying to decide if I should indeed eat there again. I decided to, ultimately, and lo and behold! The pretty waitress who served me previously was the one who brought me to a table. The even more wonderful fact is that... she wasn't the one to serve me this time but instead another waitress, even prettier and cuter. HAHAAHHA maybe I was deprived or something, but I was beside myself with delirium. Well, when one is dining alone in a pretty sophisticated restaurant one tries to act more mature than his 16 years of age. I think I pulled it off quite well. She actually gave me the wine list =D Unfortunately, I had not the finances to purchase a bottle and complete my mature act.
So I looked through the menu instead and I felt that a steak was the manliest thing to eat. So it was a something steak, medium rare, no drinks thank you. FOC came a huge plate of salad and a piece of italiano bread. I tried to eat as stylo as possible but it was hard to accomplish that with the bread crumbs falling all over the place and the veggies climbing out of the plate. I only ate about a half of each cause, well, the bread was kind of large and the amount of veggies is really mind-boggling. I'm quite surprised I have the stomach for so much greens, might have some cow/sheep genes or something. So finally the steak came, and after a few mouths of it, the pretty waitress actually came to ask me "Sir, is everything fine?" Wow. Of course I acted cool and went like, yes thank you, with a light smile. But inside? Like wah, want to just faint and die of happiness. BE STILL MY HEART. Oh yeah, and the seat I was at was quite awesome, mainly cause it had a good view of the wine bar which was also where the cashier was. Anyway I'm quite sure the place hired only good looking people cause the bartender dude was pretty good looking too.
So after my steak I had dessert. I was contemplating getting one of those after dinner drinks or cocktails or whatever but I decided against it. What if I turned red after one glass or something? Totally not cool. So I got a tiramisu instead. It was unnecessary cause I was veli full after all that bread and grass and cow, but I got it anyhow. Firstly it allowed me to further the impression that I was a rich young good-looking dude (the damn cake cost 10 sing dollars I think) and secondly it gave me and excuse to ogle the pretty waitress one more time. (Ogle sounds like a perv thing to do but whatever.) The bill totalled 22x hongky dollars which I paid and then left behind dunno how much tips. Meal cost me 250 hong kong dollars. 50 sing bucks eh, what extravagance. But if you could see the beatific smile on my face when I left, you'd know it was worth it. Oh right before I left she said, "Thank you and have a nice day." Or something to that effect cause I can't really remember properly cause of that pink haze that descended upon me at that moment.
All in all that was my best day in hong kong. Of course, I think that makes you come to the conclusion that a) my hong kong trip must have been bad if that was my best day or b) de yan is a perv and he's deprived and depraved and he ogles at girls. Oh well, pfft. You have no idea what love does to a man. HAHAH. The rest of my trip was mostly shopping and sight-seeing and one day was hiking, or rather, taking a walk among the mountains. Pretty amazing views they've got up there. Ocean park was one place visited, but not disneyland. The peak, but that trip didn't end very well, no thanks to well, something that happened. Went to my uncle's church there, richie and his fiancée sarah(gasp!), joanne who is an ex-flight attendant and annie and her parents, who I met on my last trip, joined us for lunch after church. Never met sarah, but she seems like a very nice person and I think richie is very blessed. Well, so is she, cause richie is a totally cool guy who is a mighty man of god. Apparently this is all quite rushed but they're getting married in january I think.
I don't think I have much more to add other than the trivialities of my shopping. Except that my cousin is really cute and speaks quite amazing english, but she's also pretty spoilt, I think. My attempts to discipline her were rebuffed and criticized by liyan. No surprise there. Takes one spoilt kid to defend another. I'm trying my best not to make personal attacks, but I shall fire some salvos cause I just can't stand it. How does someone who has managed to master the art of being late and making people wait get so incredibly pissed off at having to wait for like, 10 minutes? That totally tickled me, I was not so much angry as amused at her childish reaction. Can you imagine? Huff and puff and throw a tantrum and go back home on her own. At least when I'm pissed I'm reasonably reasonable. (I think.) And who, after someone is obviously pissed off, decides to regale him with her stories of her adventures in macau and the beautiful F1 cars and the architecture there? When he's not interested in the slightest? Oh well, at least if you proclaim to be a fan of F1 and racing, try to pronounce grand prix properly cause it gets really embarassing. Friendly advice. On the subject of english, you CANNOT say: "Oh, ya, pacific is really conducive!" HUH? Or "Ya, I think this atmosphere is very conducive." Because there's a very big hole after the word conducive. You HAVE to say conducive for something e.g. conducive for studying or conducive for productivity or something. It's a MUST. DO NOT embarass yourself further by throwing in words you think are cool and impressive, but make no grammatical or linguistic sense at all. I shall limit myself to that and refrain from making even worse comments. I don't really care if she reads this or not cause I have almost come to the conclusion that our friendship isn't really worth anything anyway. Neither of us would care much, me least of all. Insensitivity is something that is intolerable to me and I cannot abide by it. Also, if many people have pointed out your flaws or you know it yourself, please do something about it, don't put it down to oh that's just how I am.
Enough. Stop. I'm getting carried away again. Blast my indisciplined fingers. Be Still My Fingers! So right, there's training tmr, couldn't go the monday one cause my mom was worried about my infection. I forgot, in hong kong I was plagued by an infection of what I think was a pimple on my arm, near my elbow. It's eerily similar to what edmund, and I heard, woon shin and lucas suffered. No idea how I got it in hong kong. Maybe it took a while to manifest, cause I suspect it's from the field. It hurt like holy crap until it got burst when I tackled one of the ACS ruggers. I thought it freaking exploded cause it hurt even worse than any time before. But after that it slowly got better although it's still leaking pus even now. Anyway what a mofo, spending half your time on holiday in pain. Shouldn't sleep too late today anyways.
Before I forget, Elbow owns, the Beatles own, U2 owns, Muse owns. Current Most Owning Songs are: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Across The Universe by The Beatles, New Year's Day and City Of Blinding Lights and The Sweetest Thing by U2, Drops Of Jupiter by Train, Zephyr Song and Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and all of Elbow's songs are still owning.
Shit I also almost forgot I watched Gangs Of New York and The Virgin Suicides while in hong kong. Both are films that I wanted to watch but never got around to. Gangs is good, shows leonardo in a much more masculine role than I think, any he's ever been in. I hate titanic anyway. But Daniel Day-Lewis is truly awesome. I understand why he's considered one of the best actors, cause he is. An erratic character, but he pulled it off with panache and mojo. I so have to watch There Will Be Blood which features him. And The Virgin Suicides is good too. The story is told in quite a weird style, but pretty nicely done. Kirsten Dunst, I think, is quite amazing in that movie. I never liked her cause I don't like Tobey McGuire and by association Spiderman and her, but the movie managed to change my opinion. She is excellent as the popular Lux Lisbon. Josh Hartnett is good too, as are the parents of the sisters. Good film, but I can't really pin-point what makes me think so. I am halfway through Apocalypse Now but I didn't realize it's a 3 hour film, and I was falling asleep at about halfway. So I'll have to find some time to finish it. And Season 2 of my Criminal Minds, only one episode left.
And shit also, it's 1 o clock. Gotta go bathe. Gotta go sleep. I'll leave with 2 lines of lyrics from Elbow, Switching Off.
I choose my final scene today Switching off with you.I'm sure I will. Goodnight.
