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Published: December 29th 2006
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But since I do; What a beautiful place to spend Christmas!!! Here goes the top....ooo lets say 50 (in no particular order): 1.Our place of residence. Chungking Mansions or lack there of a Mansion
2."ooooo ahhhh"
3.Hong Kong Hot Pot
4.Couples
5.Christmas=more like New Years to the Hong Kongins
6.The Australian boys--wowzaaaassss
7."What does it take to kiss the beautiful lips"
8.Doner Kabobs
9.Hong Kong Party Street
10.Madness in McD's at any time of the day/night
11.Handy Pizza
12.BK mad dash
13.Baby escelator rides--the purpose of them still baffels me
14.Hong Kong Harbor light show
15.The Pashmina Fashion Show
16.Rachel and I's photo shoot in the...elevator?!? (still can't recall that moment)
17."Sista, Lady..tailor suit, fake watch?"
18.The "not so important" big screen in the street
19.The 12 Days of Christmas....all weekend long!!!
20.Dancing with men who might be old enough to have been my Grandpa
21.The glow ball spinner circle thing
22.The Santa Claus on the corner of Party Street
23."You have boyfriend?" "No" " I have many boys. I give you. You have Hong Kong boyfriend."
24.Rachel's fake watches obsession
25.Rachel's Aussie/English obsessed bf of the evening
26.TOBY
27."Im bi... no I like girls....no I'm gay.... I'm confused."
28.$7 american beers
29.The Phillipeno maid women having a dance party of their own on a Sunday afternoon in every place imaginable
30.Long Escelator rides
31."Gatorade and vodka...Gets the alcohol right in the blood stream"
32."Diesel"
33.The old lady at the Lady's Market harrassing Rachel about wanting to buy her purse that she bought from there four months ago.
34.My "emergency"
35.The 15 yr old in the airport on the way home
36."This sucks" in Rachels reference to street crossing on Chirstmas/New Years eve
37.Our random video recordings
38.Big exotic fish in small bags
39.Santa's Town
40. Goldfish/Pet market
41.Export shops
42.Honey pear tea
43.Picture with Santa
44.The Africans with no purpose
45.Coconut milk-screw hammered and straw struck and a little sick
46.The man with a "friend" at the SPaghetti Rest.
47.The "Science Museum"-hello where is all the interactive shiznit
48."NO bathroom in McDonald's?!" "Are you serious" "What's the deal. they go in the street here or what?"
49.Shaddy shaddy people and streets
50.My new best friends...AKA Hong Kong Police Officers on Party Street
There might be a little WHAT here and there but I will just let you have your own imagination-haha. but Rach and I did
enjoy our few occasional drinks but we also had a great time sightseeing and shopping! We found awesome sample stores that are kept with clothing that never got exporated out, so they sell it for a rediculously cheap amoutn of money...example. A GAP sweater, last years holiday season....for $3 american dollars...usually like $20 american on sale if you get lucky-so that was sweet. We def. needed some sweaters since the Taiwan cold is a little shocker to us. We experienced the 'hong kong hot pot" which totally sucked, ntohing like my taiwan hot pot, and they so rip you off as they bring you nuts and tea, which you think are complementary which we later learned they arent...not nice ot take advantage of ladies!!! we also tried some coconut juice...i dontknow it was fresh outta the coconut. not exactly tasty. but we did enjoy the loveliness of mcd's flurrys and honey pear tea!!! Rach and I also found some amazing sketches and paintings at one of the Night Markets, they are beautiful. Someone who has enough patience to sit there and create is woth my money. ha. plus the colors match my room, I couldn't resist. Along with Rachels obsesseion
with Fake Watches, we went crazy on Pashminas....even humoring ourselves with our own fashion show one evening. YES I KNOW-WE ARE COOL! We went to a museum as well, somehting to do on Christmas, very excited at first since we figured it would have a lot of interactive things like the science museums at home...well IT DIDNT. and we later figured we were at the Space Museum. there is no Science. once again WE ARE COOL! We took a ride in SoHo on the escalators-it was really really pretty! and then walked along Hollywood street. had to get some images fro the 'rentals since they had a few funeral home shops and artifacts haha. Hong Kong Peak was beautiful as well as the Harbor....Uptop you could see a view of the whole city and Kowloon. it was breathtaking. And the harbor was beautiful at night as well as in the day, with the view of the city buildings and water in the bakcground. The Harbor also has the 'Walk of Stars" exactly like in Hollywood, so I took a pic of Jackie Chan's hands haaa and posed with a few director statues. The madness in HOng Kong was a little
crazy, with people in every direction and point, the MRT system was OC at night on Christmas Eve with police officers and ropes, as were the streets. On Christmas day we also enjoyed a ride in the Ferry across Kowloon to Hong Kong City. I will also add that Hong Kong was awesome in the sense that everyhting was Westernised. So easy to get around and communicate with people, though we had to watch out for the sketchy men, but other than that curisin the MRT, and the Trolley system was alwasy fun. Speaking of the trolley's, we took an enjoyable ride uptop of the trolley and viewed the city...we also decided that it is amazing how they can build/use bamboo to hold/support a building...it works and its so neat how they get it to do so...I also had my experience of driving on the wrong side of the road, as well as the driver on the right hand side instead of left was interesting, I was baffeled at this for awhile. I was also so confused as to which direction to look when crossing the street. ha. The only killer part about Hong Kong is that its a money
sucker. VERY EXPENSIVE. but if you have the right person with you, Rachel who really should bewcome a travel guide, you can find the right shops 😊 As we were heading out on Tuesday the bus took us by the Hong Kong Port where we saw were all of the clothes and such are exported. It would be cool to be a pirate and steal one of those ships..you know how many items are in just one of those?!?! ONCE AGAIN--I AM COOL! But the most important event of all that I enjoyed was Santas Village. Like a little kid in a candy store. We made our own wishes and hung the on the wish tree, sat on santas lap, took our picture with the giant Xmas tree, and though a little sad, didnt get to kiss that sexy man under the missle toe, but we survived😉
As I returned from an awesome vacation....I was in a state of total shock and paranoia two nights ago, as most of you heard, the Earthquakes hit Taiwan. Since the Dirty is in the Southern tip....I got the shock the most, since it was off the coast mainly in the Ocean....a few of my friends felt it up along the coast up north but not at the rate we did. I was freaking...a 7.0 on the scale, first time experienceing and earthquake, something I didnt want to do on my own. Frankly I thought it was a bomb at first going off, later to realize by my friend Paul that infact it was an earthquake. good thing i had him and muoy to keep me calm and tell me what to do, cuz i HAD NO CLUE! The second one we got, or i should say aftershock was worse than the first, literally i was under my doorframe watching my tv go across my room and my neighboors glass in their apt falling onto the floor. I stayed at my friend Jodi's that night, and we did get another small aftershock as well as the next morning, but I was at school and they were not that bad. thank god my building is still standing. as those in the hunchu island are less fortunate
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