A Day at the Beach!

Halfway through a night out last night with Amy & Kitty, while drinking my Mojito I suggested a picnic on the beach today. It was a great success, managing to get started by 1pm (aiming for 12:30) we stocked up on picnic food and headed to Repulse Bay. I had never been to Repulse before, but was very close to it on the junk last week, and Stanley (where I went with Caity) is really close. We ended up spending all day at the beach (I was mostly under a tree and covered in sunscreen), eating and swimming and Jeff joined us as well. A perfect day, and on the way back we ended up stopping for gourmet burgers and touring Great (The expensive yuppy supermarket). Jeff is a mega foodie and hadn't been to Great before so we had a great time touring around. I purchased chocolate syrup (for ice cream), frozen raspberries, and some mature chedder (for brekkie tomorrow). So yeh I had some vague plans to meet for drinks tonight but it was after 8 by the time I got home, (and boy was a shower great after the day at the beach) so instead I have been washing towels and watching the Apprentice. It's actually a pretty amusing show. I also saw ads for Malcolm in the Middle, Prison Break and House so there will be some decent TV on. Chances are it wont be on when I want to watch;)

Tomorrow i have the gas man coming to fix the water heater. Im hoping he speaks english. Then I'm off to meet Hayley and maybe some others for some drinks, should be good. Oh and I need to go to the markets and get some fruit and veg. Amy and Kitty taught me some cantonese phrases last night, so maybe I'll try them out.

I had more to say, but can't remember what. Oh yeh. I'm thinking of cutting my hair. I always wear it up here cause its too bloody hot, and my hair is so foul all the time. It's all thin and stringy at the moment, with a decent cut it could improve a little. I'm thinking maybe a messy cut for just above shoulder length. What do people think? Should I risk getting it cut here, or wait another month or so, until London. Thoughts/advice ppl???

Feelings for Ebby....

Miss Books on Bronte complained that my blog was to event driven and not enough about how im feeling. So this post is focused on feelings, and dedicated to Ebby.

I am feeling:

* THANKFUL; that there is an australian style bbq chicken place in the next street.
* CONFUSED; that the bbq chicken place doesn't sell hot chips with their chickens!
* LAZY; I should be doing chores instead I am on the net and watching tv
* UNHEALTHY; (is that a feeling?) Apart from being bigger than everyone, I am developing some scary addictions.
* SLOTHLIKE; vegging on my new couch, eating chips and starbux lamingtons - mmmmm
* UNLOVED; I think my birthday's going to be tough. I miss my friends (and I guess my family too ;) and I could do with some hot boy declaring his undying affection for me.
* BORED; with work and with my week. I do nothing after work, and walking home is pleasant, but I need some playmates.
* AMUSED; with HK life, television and ads - I just watched one about illegal downloading of music - did you know it was illegal?
* BEMUSED; with ryanair costing me 50 pnds for 3 flights in Europe, and Eurostar costing 150 pnds for 1 train ride!
* APPREHENSIVE; that no one will turn up to Hayley and my party - or that 3 people will turn up and we'll owe a furtune to the bar!!
* EXCITED; that Im having a birthday dinner, and a birthday party, and a birthday wk, and Jen has sent me a package!
* HAPPY; that no matter where in the world I still have the best friends, even if sometimes I am too damn far from them....
* TIRED; bed time ;)

The problem with Asian Chicks

Yay! I had a yummy dinner with Ms Pau-Ling from work (and many drinks - including 1 either bought by the barman or forgotton by the barman) and then I booked a pub for my birthday party. Me and my new aussie friend Hayley are having a joint birthday party on Saturday 19th Aug, at 8pm. Anyone who discovers this blog is invited (did u guys notice some random discovered and commented on my blog - how cool is that!!) Its a place called "Joyce aint here", which is run by a canadian couple (well she's kinda a hong kong chick, he's a canook) and its down the road from my house, and its the place I meant the junk teachers (Caity - remember). So that's where my birthday party is- adn they're even supplying a birthday cake!! Yay!

And then for my actual birthday (the 15th of Aug people) I'm going to organise a dinner out with a few friends (I only have a few!) . Going to a local pizza joint that always smells yummm...

Work is samo, have my review tomorrow, should be either uneventful or negative, im hoping for uneventful...Oh Will too drunk to book eurostar tonight, will do it tomorrow - sorry ;)

Oh hang on I'm changing the Blog title - it was "I'm having a party!!"

So Pau-Ling is as Aussie as you can get (commonly known as ABC or a banana - Australian born chinese). Ie shes looks asian, but acts and is Aussie. For all purposes she is aussie. Except for the conversation about size. I was talking about ppl here and saying that size 14 size is big but not fat, and she was saying well 10-12 is large so 14 is fat. Uuumm I'm 10 -12 (on a good day) as are most ppl in any normal country , and just b/c this country is warped there is no reason to believe that size 14 is fat! This is the problem with being in a country with tiny women! Stupid skinny women! How did I ever manage to be friends with Jen? Maybe as she grew up in the US she was used to fat ppl and kept her skinny thoughts to herself? Or maybe I never asked her what size she considered fat?? ahhh jen??!>>!

The downside of walking home....

My bloody soup leaked in my backpack!! Not fair!! it was going to be my dinner - well it will still be my dinner, just a smaller one - with a salad I guess.
Other than that, I've finished my online training for 2 wks (thankfully!) and booked lovely cheap ryanair flights to Glasgow & Dublin in September. Now all thats left is to book Eurostar to Paris. Yay!!

Oh and a birthday party - or dinner or something...

Not feeling very verbose this evening - I'm sure there's plenty to say - but instead I have to go wash my backpack ;) and I might as well wash my tablecloth too!

Sunday night again...

Planning an early night to make up for my late night last night and terribly early wake this morning (for no reason). Thankfully the HK broadcasting powers are helping by not supplying anything to watch on tv anyway. I had a reasonably active weekend, Saturday Aleen (the only other person at work who I like - apart from PL) came over and I made yummy pasta and salad and we watched Pirates of the Carribean. We then went to the movies and watched the sequel. All good. Then I went on a pub crawl with scottish Mandy, which was great fun, but unfortunately I piked early (3am).

Woke up today, feeling OK but not great - bloody absinth. I then met a friend for a long brunch at a new cafe - good coffee, average food. I then wandered and did some chores and decided I would make Lamb Tagine for dinner - which involved visiting the wet markets & 3 supermarkets to get the ingredients. Now you should know that I could have got everything from the super expensive yuppy supermarket, but instead I visited a variety of outlets to get the best deal.

Oh and I wander down to the wet markets most weeks to the same street, and pass the same stores. Today I was looking closer at one of the stores i always pass, and it has the bbq'ed chickens and ducks hanging in the windows - as most do. Looking a little closer I noticed a big stack of cages in the back with hundreds of chickens stuffed in each cage. Very disturbing - easy to see how avian flu spread. And people, that is why I only buy my meat from supermarkets, that has been born in NOT China.

Work tomorrow, not so excited. I am doing online training again - the one I do every 2 wks. So boring.

Oh and another note, I've decided I have to get healthier. So eat better, more exercise etc. Given my birthday is coming up, I figure I will begin this after my birthday until I go to london. I'll let you know how I go.