so dessert buffet was fun.. loads n loads of desserts.. both western n chinese.. lots of cakes... fruits... chocolate fountains.. cheese n crackers.. crepes.. waffles.. puddings and custards.. yum yum






wanted to take more pics. one of like every type of dessert.. but wasnt allowed to take pictures of their actual buffet.. only allowed to take pictures of my table n the food in my plate.. boo hoo.. oh well.. it was definetly fun.. and i will definetly go back next time around..

so i'm almost home.. soon.. about 4 days left.. cant wait to be home

Countdown!!!!

3 days till no more work..
4 days till the highly anticipated Dessert Buffet @ Grand Hyatt with my AW buds.. yeah.. last outing b4 i leave
5 days till Mother-Daughters Trip.. being all touristy and visiting Peak again.. Ocean Park.. the whole works
8 days till I leave HK for Home..

man i miss home.. i miss the ppl.. i miss my own room.. i miss driving.. i miss the food.. i miss the AIR!!! the clean clean air..


my trip so far has been lots of fun.. lots of hanging out with friends.. met a lot of new friends..

been good.. sad its over.. but at the same time.. i really miss home.. i miss everything..

tonite was a good day.. last day of working 9-645...then went to mong kok with becky... looked at some wallets for tim & gendi.. bought a shirt for jer.. its kinda funny looking.. got some more stuff for myself.. i still have a lot of shopping to do. clothes. bags.. SHOES especially!!! then pack pack pack.. man i hate packing.. especially when i have too much stuff and can't fit it all.. hahaha

im so excited for dessert buffet..u kno me and how i luv to eat desserts & demetres.. imagine demetres.. and all u can eat.. plus amazing view.. check it out

Grand Hyatt Tiffin Lounge

me n like 15 other ppl are going.. gonna be loads of fun.. i'm gonna take lots of pics..

anyhow.. im out.. 2 am.. just got home from friends bday party in CWBay..

so this week .. despite the horrible weather and the me still not feeling 100%.. has actually been pretty good. main thing for that is the netvigator love music concert.. it was awesome.. best concert i've seen in ages..

see link

cousin works in marketing @ netvigator.. so she got me some pretty awesome seats.. like 14th row..


there were some pretty wicked artists there.. EASON.. C.Hing... at17... Josie Ho.. Soler.. and special guest.. GEORGE LAM!!! OMG!!!!!!

i took 256MB of pics and video.. and for some really screwed up reason.. the pics all turned out really blurred except for the occasional few.. even so i'm so keeping.. and mad vids.. haha..

heres one of the pics that turned out somewhat ok



worked for a few hours today.. and then working from 9 till 430 saturday.. going to go out with g boi n friends..

sunday.. junk boat trip with the cuzs..its one of my cuz bday.. so we're celebrating her bday.. gonna be loads of fun..

so this has been the shittiest week i have had in a really long time..
i have brochial allergies and strep at the same time..

but on a brighter side..

Thursday!!! EASON concert!! wee.. Netvigator is hosting a concert for broadband users... and you have to like redeem points n stuff to get tix..but my cous works at netvigator.. so she got free tix.. and i'm going !!! man thats so great!!!

and Sept 18.. LEO KU concert.. man.. it will be awesome.. Casino Rama here i come..

so for 4 days.. i had what was basically strep throat.. except chinese doctors don't seem to kno what that is.. so it was called "upper respiratory tract infection".. and the stupid doc gave me meds that didn't seem to work too well... so i got a lil better and now its worse again.. so now i'm at home.. with brochial allergy and strep together.. man my throat and my lungs killl!!!!! it hurts even to swallow.. and i have no voice wutsover.. i've missed 3 days of work.. and i will miss 2 more.. damnit.. urgh.. i hate hong kong air.. its so nasty.. its whats making me sick.. well one of the more important factors at least...

i miss my fresh canadian air.. i miss all my trees.. :(

oh another thing.. i'm coming home soon.. well not really.. but sept 6th.. and if there is anything anybody wants .. email me... i'll have some time to do major damage in mong kok n stuff from sept 1 till sept 5.. so yeah.. mail me if u need something

so after 4 days of not being able to talk.. i'm now stuck with a throat and a lung that wont stop hurting.. i'm coughin 24/7 and my throat still hurts..
docs in hk sux ass.. they can't even give me meds that work.. darn it.. urgh

so i've been stuck in bed for the last two days with strep throat.. and the shitty part is i can't even fall asleep.. cuz it hurts so damn much.. urgh!!!

so its been a long 4 days.. waking up every morning at 630am.. and then working

monday & wednesday & friday: classes at mary knoll for 4 hours... first class 19 kids, second 11, third 7, and fourth class 23 from grades 2-5.. then i have work at the learning center from 2:30 till 645.. teaching phonics to little kids age 3 to 8

tuesday & thursday: at the learning centre.. classes stark at 9.. teaching phonics for 3 hours.. lunch.. teaching writing & grammar and then more phonics till 645pm

saturday: bible class starts at 9.. then english & music for 3 hours.. then phonics, writing, grammar for another 6 hours.. ending at 645pm..

how much work is that?? tho i'm really not enjoying the incredibly longdays.. but its been fun so far.. the kids are so cute.. :P i'll post pics of them later..

surprise surprise... sindy is awake and out of the house at 7:52AM!!!!!!

she awoke at 6:30am and took a shower.. and was able to leave the house prior to 7:00am where she diligently slept on the MTR all the way from Tai Koo to Kowloon Tong.

surprised??? haha.. and i woke up by myself too!!

man i'm gonna hate saturdays!!! i gotta work on saturdays from 830AM till round 430.. the stupid thing is.. i live like an hour (at least.. depending on traffic) from work.. so i gotta wake up so early.. urgh .. totally not gonna enjoy it..

on the other hand.. tonite i get to hear the Pearl Delta Chamber Soloists in concert.. itd be a good way to end a very tiring saturday.. anyhow.. i gotta go now.. gotta take the mini green bus up to work...

later

its amazing how a short 5 days can totally change one's life....

in the 5 days.. i managed to get a total new output on my life.. what i feel about my life.. what my purpose in life is.. what i've always done wrong.. why i always felt so miserable.

i NOW KNOW what i need to do in order to make my life more meaningful..

i'll explain later.. right now i'm so dead tired from crying so much.. never in my life have i cried so much in the span of one day.. and tho i hate to admit i cry.. every tear that was shed.. was worth it.. so incredibly worth it!

man this weekend has been and will continue to be awesome!!!!

friday: happy SARS day.. not the sick SARS.. but u kno.

hong kong SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

anyhow.. so july 1st.. no one has to work or go to skewl.. so i went out to lunch with my grandmother, aunt janny, uncle philip and my cousin sky.. my other cousin ken had to go sailing..

so anyhow.. after lunch.. we hung out at my grandma's for a while and played with my other cousin hillman..

and then around 3ish.. me and sky left to go to mong kok.. i was meeting up with my ex-aunt... and we walked around new century plaza and bought some stuff.. then we went to this new shopping mall called langham place.. that place is huge.. and has some pretty good stores.. but stuff is a lil pricey.. anyhow.. so we had dinner there @ some cafe called "Suzuki Tokyo Cafe".. and basically that cafe is like a NEO-Japanese and Italian place.. its pretty good.. my cousin, me and my ex-aunt order some pasta.. man one of them was soooo good.. i kinda regret not taking my cam out that day.. it was like a wasabi sauce pasta... it kinda sounds gross.. but man it was good.. and then afterward... we took my cousin to the bus station so he could go home.. and then me and my ex aunt went out for some drinks.. gotta hang out a bit.. talk about some stuff... its so easy to talk to her. shes a social worker..

saturday: didn't do that much for the morning.. or afternoon.. woke up at like 12ish.. went to run some errands for my mom.. and then waited at home while ppl came to deliver stuff to the house... then around 10ish.. me my sister and her bf stephen went to go grab some food.. then we went to watch "war of the worlds" @ UA tai koo shing.. man .. i gotta say.. war of the worlds.. aka wotf.. scared the SHIT outta me.. its a pretty good movie.. but i dun really get the ending.. not to spoil the movie or anything.. the ending.. huh?? organisms ?? WUT?? how the hell does earth's miniscule organisms kill aliens driving robots?? wut?? anyhow.. the grossest thing about the whole movie is the sucking brain thing.. GROSS!!! then afterwards. we went down to Lan Kwai Fong for some drinks.. and so hence i'm writing this at 4AM.. haha

Sunday: gotta go have weekly yum cha with my aunts and uncle and grandparents @ Polytech .. then not much for the rest of the afternoon.. but man the nite is gonna be good.. my cousin's bf.. for some reason has some tix for some charity concert thats going on in wan chai tommorow nite.. well actually tonite.. and the commitee for it managed to snag some pretty good singers..
andy hui.. edmund leung.. so wing hong.. and some china singers.. dun really kno them that well tho.. anyho.. i'm just going for edmund leung.. he's a pretty good singer.. like one of those who can actually sing .. and also writes a lot of his own music.. yeah yeah.. so anyhow.. he(cuz's bf) managed to get 7 tix altogether.. so i'm going with my friend Gordon and 5 of his friends.. yeah how sad is that?? i have no friends..

and then Monday: i officially start work @ my jobs..
i'm working at mary knoll fathers catholic elementary skewl.. something along those lines.. in kownloon tong...my lil cousin goes to skewl there.. my parents, aunts, uncle use to go there.. and my uncle (cousin's father) is on the PTA or something.. so i managed to get a job there teaching their 2wk english playgroup. and my friend felicity from windsor is gonna be teaching there with me too...

i'm also working at some centre in kowloon tong.. when i'm not working at maryknolls i'm working there.. which is like basically Mon, Wed, Fri from 1 til 645 and tues, thurs, sat from 9-645... its gonna be some really longs days!!!!

gonna be some completely tired.. but definetly gonna be worth it.. im so NOT gonna be broke afterwards.. haha

4am.. gotta wake up tommorow at like 11.. need sleep..

sindy out

Time bought - June 29, 2005 5: 47pm
Place of purchase - Page ONE inside Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Time of official start - June 29, 2005 5: 53pm
Time of official end - June 30, 2005 6:37pm
Place where last page was read - inside KCR train #18 en route to Hung Hom... somewhere b/w Kowloon Tong and Mong Kok

BEST 24 HRS EVER SPENT ON A BOOK!!!!!! BEST $76 HK EVER SPENT!!!!

i'm officially done!! yeah... i've never been so completely interested in a book ever!!!!!

rite after i finished it.. i went to commercial press @ new town plaza in sha tin.. and anxiously looked around for "breaking the da vinci code"...they were all out.. NO!!
so i rushed to Page ONE again.. hoping to get perhaps find it there... page ONe is bigger and wut not.. and i'm so disappointed.. they didn't have it either.... apparently.. that book is completely sold out in hong kong.. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

now i have to order it off the internet.. boo urns...

so many many questions left unanswered. this book definetly makes u wonder.. question a lot of things that i've learn to accept.. certain ideas.. certain theories.. i never questioned it really b4..

i mean.. the book is still fiction.. but fiction.. based on truth and evidence. makes u really wonder what u can believe nowadays...

sindy out

*eagerly and anxiously awaiting the arrival of "breaking the da vinci code"

next(current conquest) - Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons".... its supposedly pretty good too.. i'm enjoying the whole cryptography thing.. hmmm..

no working television.. lack of friends.. no $$.. no where to go
and where does that bring you??
for me..

i ended up reading..
YES .. u read rite!!! READING!!! for those who know me.. i am definetly not ur reading type.. i use to be.. but i gave it up .. and ive picked it up once again.. and i most definetly picked the rite book for it...

DA VINCI CODE!!!!!! simply amazing.. tho there are a lot of things i dun quite understand.. but its so intriguing..

last nite i found myself still reading into chapter 40 at 3AM!!!! me being awake so early in the morning for a book.. hasn't happened in a LONG LONG time..


i cant wait to finish it..

on the same topic... some of the issues it brings up in the book.. makes me really wonder about the whole christianity thing.. according to the book.. in simpler words.. a lot of the things that christianity believes in and traditions that it follows.. are questionable.. lets say.. i dunno if the things said in the book are true or wut not.. but

definetly intriguing
i will have more to say once i've finished reading it.. and bought and read "breaking the Da Vinci Code"



sindy out

as of the moment... new fav summer movie ever..

Mr. & Mrs. Smith


"you still alive baby"

for those who havent seen it.. its definetly worth ur 12 bucks

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anybody want to buy me this??? i want it so badly.. and NOT just cuz its JAY Chou Endorsed.. i need to a mp3 player to!!!!

J III Mp3 Player

looking at everybodys blogs.. i've missed out on so much since coming back to hk..
softball games.. rugby games.. ppl getting married.. ppl hooking up.. breaking up..
i'm so totally clueless now...

thats one of the things i hate about being away during the summers..

but on the other hand.. i luv being away for the summers as well.. somestime its just nice to get away from everything..

its nice coming back to see ppl i dunt normally get to see. like my cousins.. and its nice just getting to hang out with them.. which i've done a lot since coming back..

gone skating with them.. gone to Jungle Gym USA.. went out to lunch and stuff with them.. had a lil jam session with ginnie & erik.. haha.. that was mad fun..

and i cant wait till sunday...

combine my two most favourite things and u get this sunday

1) kids
2) food

haha.. this sunday is fathers day and so its a big family gathering thing.. and so.. all of my "ng" uncles and aunts are going over to my grandfathers.. and we're having a big feast.. haha.. and me n my 2 lil cousins are gonna bake a cake.. haha.. can't wait to see the mess that they end up with.. so gonna be a kodak moment..

and then dinner.. all the "leung" uncles and aunts.. are going over to my grandma's ... and we're gonna have another big feast.. haha.. my family is HUGE on eating.. haha.. i'm in charge of making desserts and i can't wait.. since my other lil cousin is gonna help me.. and thats gonna be interesting...haha

hmm.. coconut pudding.. chocolate cake.. mango pudding.. hmmm.. MOCHI!!!! yum yum


anyhow..

i miss all u ppl back in to .. i miss being a part of all the commotion... :(
hope ur all having fun in to.. and being safe...

don't do anything stupid ppl!

i swear.. moving and renovating is such a pain in the ass.. unbelievably annoying....

especially in hk.. man.. i use to think that the ppl in canada were slow and careless... apparently not...

so the rents bought a new apt in hk for my sis and my granny and when the rest of my family goes back to visit n stuff.. so we had to renovate the whole appt.. new furniture and new walls, doors, kitchen, all that stuf..

1) we ordered new beds, and desks and cabinets.. made to order.. n wut not... they deliver it finally.. after being like 10 days late.. and then we checked the goods rite.. and 2 of the desks are so scratched and screwed up beyond belief.. so we have to send them back. and the ppl are like.. u gotta pay extra for us to ship the goods back to china and then back to hk again.. and we're like WTH? its their fault to begin with.. and now we hafta wait like another 10 days till we can get the desks.. and aside from the two desks.. one of the closets doors had a big crak in the wood so they had to take tat back as well.. but then the stupid ppl killed the side of the wall when they were assembling it.. now one of the rooms has 3 huge like 6 inch scratches in the new paint.. urhg!!!

2) who the hell delivers an appliance and says oh yeah.. if u want the manual.. ull have to contact our headquarters n ask for one. wth? its suppose to come with a damn manual to begin with!!!

3) our sofa company is screwed up.. they were suppose to deliver it today!!! so i sat in the house by myself with no AC in scorching 32+ degrees waiting for it.. and they never came.. and so i called them.. and they're like.. uh.. we dun deliver on saturdays.. FRIG!!!!!!

so 3 weeks in hong kong.. and surprisingly enough.. i haven't spent that much $$$$

reason 1) i dun have that money on me to begin with
reason 2) spent almost every day either furniture/appliance shopping wiht my mom for new house.. or over at my uncles playing with my cousins
reason 3) its not quite sale season in hk yet.. i'm attempting to save up and not spend till later on in summer so i can get more for less..

as of rite now.. 2 jobs.. but they both don't start till later in july.. so i'm bored now.. if anybody needs anything .. holla i have all the time in the world to go buy stuff..

on the other hand i feel like i'm missing uot so much on all the stuff that is going on in T.O ... ppl's weddings, softball. hangng out with friends... etc...

if anybody is ever bored and wants to fill me in.. by all means... lastly


Get better Tim!!!

saw ur arm on ur blog.. write... sindy hopes u feel better on it ok??

hk... geez its hot here... its been less than 2 days and my god.. i've sweated like a pig numerous times.. aaah!!! but so far.. hk has been not bad.. haven't done an shopping or anything yet.. still dealing with jet lag.. dunt start work till later .. like in june.. so more days of boring nothing to do days...... so yeah.. if bored.. feel free to dro me a line

out