IT'S GOING TO BE A FABULOUS YEAR!

HAPPY FLYING NEW YEAR!

Oh. My goodness.
Dinner: Pizza express. Their margaritas were absolutely FABULOUS.
With: MATT! then Jeff - Matt's friend.
Place (to countdown): Lan Kwai Fong
The drinks: Coconuts (a bar)
People: too many
By the last hour of 2007 (in HK), the police did not allow anyone to move until after countdown, it was just mighty mighty mighty crowded. A few years ago, there was no patrol that people died from being crushed by the giant crowd therefore police happened every year. I think it's a good thing. I certainly don't want to die on a new years.
THAT'S why we bought a $200HK ($25US) entrance fee to this one bar/club to drink (not coconuts) AND so that we could get through to the other side or else we'd have to take this long ass detour to get to the other side, which wouldn't be fun especially while matt's friend is ranting. drunk. But I didn't pay :P
We stayed till 3am and the boys were hungry, so we mcdonald-ed it.
I only bumped into two KGVers (high school schoolmates, my school is called King George V) and that was wonderful cause I'm really not into bumping into high schoolmates. I also made a guy's night by telling him he was gorgeous but reassured him I was taken so he wouldn't freak out. I also got freaked out by another guy but thank God for Matt and Jeff. The dude backed off.

Before the craziness:
Shopping at Lady's market and Fa Yuen Street. THE place to get cheap things whether it be clothes, bags, shoes, home appliences, junk, baskets, legos, airplane or transformer like models. etc. It's just rows and rows of stands and shops right next to each other
To put it into perspective
Coloradoans: Imagine 16th street mall
Californians: Imagine some long street with malls
Australians: Imagine, I believe, King's Cross/ street?
Taiwanese: Imagine those late night food markets
UK-ans, Londoners: Imagine West End? Or better yet RiversThames

And instead of malls or food or a river, it's just stands and stands and stands of merchandise allllllllll along the way. And so you try to bargain, especially in Lady's market and you do the walk away thing and they chase after you to say in the most fabulous chinese accent 'okay! I give you for $100HK'

Bought a lot and half of it is not for me.

Anyway, photos will probably explain it better as I am a just a little hung over and it's still too early for me but we have guest over.... so I woke up, for my mother, and am helping her - while writing this.

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