Hong Kong - Day 4 (02/07/12)

Why is there no day 3 I hear you say? Well, it's not every day that I get the luxury of having time and internet coincide in order to be able to write a blog entry you know! Infact I'm writing this from the future... It is now day 6 in HK...

I spent my afternoon playing badminton! I was warned by my parents about how I should not proceed to go and play with these people I have met online incase I was the next victim of a scam which involved playing badminton, because you know how bad these HK people are... Well, turns out they're not as bad as my parents had speculated them to be. There were 7 people including myself, the group consisted of one young guy (me), one mid-age woman (the organiser) and five older dudes (one of which is the woman's husband). They consisted of varying levels but none were so bad that were unplayable, so I guess it wasn't so bad as I had anticipated some low level players... I was relieved. All of them spoke English, which is very interesting as I had not thought that they would be English speakers, but the one thing which surprised me most is that none of them were youngsters! Why would no young people join their crew I wonder? Or is it simply a matter of not being able to find this group or vice versa? Who knows? Anyway, I am happy I did attend the badminton session as they were decent people with some level of skill, I will be playing them more over my stay here in HK so I will see how it goes...

After badminton I thought I would go round to Sai Wan to go to my aunt's to pick up some stuff and get ready to go for dinner with some family in Sheung Wan, but as my girl was in Causeway Bay, I went round to go meet up with her instead. We walked around a bit and had a bit of food as well (I hadn't had lunch yet) and then walked over to Wan Chai. Now, the reason why I said Wan Chai was because I had to snoop around and look for what I had came to HK for in the first place... PSVITA! Now I couldn't miss this chance, so I went to 188 Orient to have a look around for prices and eventually found a decent store so I bought it... Eventually!

There isn't much to say about dinner really...

I went back to MK and then I took the mini bus again back to SK thinking I shall get the taxi over to home from the harbour... But with it being a public holiday, turns out lots and lots of people had went on mini cruises out to sea that day, so a lot of people were waiting for the taxi at the harbour... There were lots of people waiting for the bus as well, forcing me to take a more traditional way of traversing these dangerous roads... Walking. I said I had the worst trip on foot this holiday the other day, but I think this one was probably worse... By a mile. I would never do that again!

Hong Kong - Day 2

Typhoon 8 only lasted 4 hours in the end, I could've waited but I guess that would've been ridiculous. I ended up waking at around 3pm and not surprisingly half my day had gone by already... Why do I feel that this isn't new to me, wasting time?

But hold on, what time am I wasting? I'm not even busy, I got nothing to do, I'm on holiday! Everyday is a day to relax! But why do I feel that my time here in HK not as relaxing as I thought it would be? It's hard enough dealing with my results hand out... I don't think I can handle much outside this spectrum... Emotion wise I think a little less pressure would be good...

Anyway, despite the late start I got back to SK and got changed. I decided to walk back to the SK city centre from my place and it was hot. Goddam hot! Took me 20minutes in total and it wasn't easy... I think it must have been my worse trip so far this holiday!

I took the mini bus back to MK and then met up with my girl again. We were planning to have dinner back at hers around 8pm, so we decided to take a walk around MK for a bit before going back. In MK I went to go and have a look at the badminton rackets on offer as I needed a replacement for my broken Z Slash... I went back to the one I bought my previous Z Slash from to see if I could get one there... Turns out they don't stock JP versions of the racket and they were out of SP ones for now, I was about to leave when suddenly... Somebody says my name, and who is it? It's none other than my bro, Kit! He and Mandy were having a day trip in HK and coincidentally
was looking at rackets too, quite the coincidence indeed! We then took the streets again and then called up an old friend... Fung!

We agreed to have dinner together at Tsim Sha Tsui at a Japanese restaurant. It was a good catch up with Fung, but unfortunately the food served was a bit under average... But anyway, overall the day was quite well passed and quite hea... Nice...