Monday, May 24, 2010

I regret nothing!

Posted by 雯雯 at 4:14 PM 0 comments
... though there are many things I would do differently if faced with this sort of experience again. Instead of beating myself up for the past, however, I'll just drop out some photos. I know my blog is painfully lacking them. Notice how my hair grows!

This one is from one of my first days in Hong Kong, together with my first friend to the right of me, Tracy Vegetable to the far left and my host sister.


Come, come, enjoy a meal at Fatburger! I haven't actually eaten here before, but I think the name is awesome, so I'll pop the picture in here.


This was taken at Disneyland. Notice how my eldest host sister to the left of me is wearing a hat (because she thought her hair was ugly :<)
Do I hear a shadow clone jutsu? (Actually though, this is just the name of the restaurant, no ninja here. Also, this picture is from Macau!)

My host family and I in Macau, waiting to get on the ferry. They ARE pretty awesome..

I took a lot of pictures while in Japan, but this is the only one I'm posting here.


The mandatory picture of me in my school uniform. This is Zoe, btw!

This is what it looks like during lunch.

This is what it looks like during... well I don't know

Monday, May 17, 2010

Huzzah Norway!

Posted by 雯雯 at 1:52 PM 1 comments
Today is the Norwegian National Day! This means that all the Norwegians will be walking along the street (or they'll be standing along it watching the people walking) while eating hot dogs and/or ice cream. Yay Norway!

I, on the other hand, am still in Hong Kong, alive and kicking. I also wasted a perfectly fine holiday (kind of). You see, I got up today at 6.45, prepared for school. I arrive at school, but gosh, there's no one there! I ask the nice teacher who helps me from time to time, and I discover that I have no school until the 24th. Oh joy. Which means that I just wasted three hours of my morning. Not that it matters though, as I wouldn't have gotten up before 9 if left to myself anyway.
If anything, I DID get to line up with the Form 6 classes. I also met two of my classmates, CK and Delphina, on the way back to the MTR, and we had a nice talk while throngs of people passed by. I was the only blonde girl there in a school uniform, so I apparently attracted some stares, whereby I demonstrated to CK and Delphina how people usually react if I stare back. (That is, they look down. I wonder if Chinese people are allergic to eye contact?)

Onwards, I passed the nice day by watching movies and series, playing videogames and piano and eating. Probably what I'll end up doing when summer vacation actually starts >_<

~HMM

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Fifteen odd facts about Hong Kong

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:00 PM 1 comments
Warning, generalized opinions are abundant in this post, some facts may be truer than others :>

Hong Kong....
... where pictures of either beautiful, white-skinned, skimpishly clad women or men with white teeth in sharp suits crossing their hands in front of their chest on busses will make your product more desirable
... where umbrellas are put to good use, no matter whether or not it's sunny or rainy
... where giving your child dubious pill supplements will turn him/her into a genius, allowing him/her to ace all subjects in the future without any sort of effort, thereby giving you and your (beautiful) family a happy life
... where hikes are walking on paved roads in the mountains (don't forget
... where all music is either sappy love songs in either Cantonese, Chinese, or in some cases Korean or Japanese, or popular Western music
... where there is, in existence, two drama series per woman, man and child, with the same basic plot of either period drama (the emperor and all his concubines) or a modern one (she loves him, but she's poor, he loves her too, but he's actually banging her evil twin sister, but then someone gets cancer)
... where public toilets use you!
... where you, no matter how skilled or adept you become, will ALWAYS be worth less than your elders
... where failing an exam is sufficient reason to commit suicide
... where Norway is famous for salmon
... where people wear face masks with a slight fever, but where they eat food from the same plate. true story
... where they eat pig intestines, cow stomachs, pig blood, chicken feet, octopus tentacles and "stinky tofu" (tofu that STINKS (Angel: "It's soooooo stinky, but that's why it's also soooooo tasty!"))
... where the biggest part of cardboard recycling is done by old people trying to make some extra bucks for food
... where flower bouquets are extra expressive if they're bigger than the person receiving them (requiring the poor delivery guys to push them around on a trolley-thing)
... where "fall on the floor" is a bad word

- HMM
 

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