Day 42 : * falls * oh, sorry bout that sir!

Today was a good day but of course each day has its ups and downs.

I woke up around 9:30AM this morning because I knew that we made a date with Shadow and Michael at 12PM for afternoon tea. So we all get ready and head over for afternoon tea. As always, it was good. I took my camera today and so take I took some pictures today. We take the bus to Mong Kok to get my dad some glasses. So we get to Mong Kok, and as we get off the bus, I essentially take out an innocent old man because of the bus and I was so embarrassed and Ivan kept laughing so I held a grudge against him for abit. We walk around for a bit and head over to the glasses place. It only took like 20 minutes for us to get it all done. We leave the building and go downstairs and my cousin takes us to get those photo stickers with the booths and then the drawing and stuff! It was soooo cute. The place is just full of them but it just seems so inappropriate because of all the cute sexy Japanese girls haha. But we had a lot of fun taking pictures and being all crazy and junk and drawing all over them. I’ll have to upload them soon!

Next we decide to go Langham Place shopping mall and man that place is so awesome! This mall had…AT LEAST 13 floors and ah! It’s just amazing there. Look up some pictures of you’re not too busy! Haha. A lot of cool stores and just a lot of fun things to do! Mostly shop. Haha. We also sat down for drinks! I took some pictures and they’ll be up sometime soon. Afterwards I think we FINALLY came home. My dad and I went around SOGO and walked around with him and we came home afterwards with some coffee mate and got my little godsister those screen cleaners for her DS.

Got home and clicked around on the computer doing nothing and sat around some more doing nothing. At 7PM I watched my daily show and around 8PM I went out with my cousin and her boyfriend and bought me some undies! YEAH! Underwear FTW! Yeah, it took a while because some undies have free-size which means no size. My ass is too big for free-size. I ended up buying one pair and then walked around with my cousin and her boyfriend and afterwards we walked to the restaurant we were suppose to have dinner and chilled there until the rest of the family got there. My mom, uncle, aunt, grandma, dad, and brother get there and there is about 20 million other people sitting around waiting. My mom and uncle go up there and work their magic somehow and got us seats! So we have dinner, uncle leaves early, I leave early and come home to start the shower line. It was nice walking by myself at night. I get home, sweep the floor and stuff, and everyone starts to come home.

That is essentially my day and night.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 41 : Ahh! Look! A neck rest cushion for a little baby!!

So today was a decent day but it got a little bad but not overly bad.

I woke up much later this morning until … 11:30 or so. Ah, caught up with all my sleep. Then I sat down at the dining table to chill with dad and I ate this green tea bun that had a sweet red bean paste and whip cream. Gosh it was effing amazing, but awful sweet. Next I decided to shower because my head started to itch. After we all got ready, we took the cable car to the Immigration Tower for my dad to renew his ID card. We get up there and there was a butt load of people so my brother and I sat around people watching and making random comments like usual. Once dad was ready, we went off to meet up with a family friend and went for afternoon tea. Afternoon tea was really good. The dim sum, tea, and dessert was delicious. Afterwards, we walked around the area and saw a lot of old places [that are unfortunately not there anymore] like where my dad’s garage use to be, and where my brother use to play. We also went to Central Plaza and went to the sky lobby and saw most of HK and it was beautiful. 

Then we walked from there and did a little shopping. We went to this store called Designgallary and everything there was made/design by people/company of HK. We walked around in there for a while trying to pick something out. I loved the things there, it was very different but nothing screamed at me so I didn’t buy anything. We bought a little pair of baby shoes for a family friend’s baby, bought keychain for my little godsister, and Ivan got a little figure of a turtle. While there, next to those baby shoes, there was this neck rest cushion that was also giraffe print for a baby! Adorable. We then leave, walk around some more, saw some tourist sites. We went to that giant gold flower…forget what it’s called but we went there and there were people there offering to take pictures and print them off right there for you. I laughed a little and then though “if I was to come back for a job, I’ll be doing this.” And I made a joke and it is haha. 

Anyways, move our way home and my mom, dad, and I, go to the markt and got some groceries and went home. They made dinner and stuff and I showered and yeah, that’s the rest of the day.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 40 : You call THAT covering me with the umbrella?!

Today was just one fantastic day and such a fun day at that with bad parts in the beginning and end.

This morning, I woke up at 5:45AM or so having to pee and I’m all “ugh…peeee…than more sleep” and I already know I’m going to have problems going back to sleep. I’m rolling around forever and I was JUST about to fall back asleep and my mom, dad, and aunt just start mumbling and talking and I bounce right back awake. So I get up bitching saying “Hey, you guys are really loud” in the most annoying, pissed off voice and before this they were talking about sleeping habits and my aunt starts to say “See, they need pure quietness to even sleep; very picky!” She doesn’t even know! So I start bitching back what happened this morning and she just keeps going on and my dad says sorry and all and I know he means well but I was pretty pissed she would say shit like that so I say “sleep my ass, I’m wide the fuck awake now.” So when I sit down at my computer and they’re just quiet as fuck after I’m DONE bitching. Whatever. That was the bad part of my morning. We all got ready and we headed off to early tea. Early tea was good as always and I didn’t eat too much because tonight was going to be one giant feast. 

Afterwards, I came back up to the apartment with my grandma and brother to just chill quietly watching a movie and clicking around on the computer. They were out at a traveling agency getting boat tickets to go to Macau. After everyone is settled around 3:30PM, we leave for Jordan to see my dad’s side of the family. The six of us head off into the subway and head on over. Once we get there, we had no clue where we were and we start walking around and its like “Dad, do you know where we are going?” And we start to stand around and it just POURS. We only had 3 umbrellas for six people, my dad starts to shield me with the umbrella and then he decides to move to the other side of me WHICH FAILS so I end up running across the street getting soaked. While inside, no one was there yet so my mom walk around and run into one of my aunts and uncle [I realized that I say aunt and uncle all the time but I have so many, saying names don’t mean anything so…yeah lol] sitting down at a little café chatting and having a drink. Afterwards, we go back upstairs, watch them play mahjong and then my other aunt comes and she takes me out shopping. Haha. She’s pretty fun. She takes me to like these random streets to look at cheap shirts and nothing of my interest then we take a mini bus to a mall and we walk around there for a bit. Place was HUGE but really fun. We just walked around, chatted and looked at stuff. By the time we wanted to leave, it was about 6:30PM and it was pouring out so we took a taxi back to the restaurant and ALSO had to run and get soaked. Haha. It’s okay, rain here isn’t too bad, at least its warm out. We go back, more people have showed up, essentially everyone, and playing mahjong and then later dinner once EVERYONE is there.

We had like…almost 18 people so two tables. All the kids plus one of my cousin’s parents and another aunt of ours sit with us. So it was…4 of my cousins, my brother and I, and 2 more aunts. Dinner was so intense. It was essentially all fish at first. We had 8 dishes and one soup. Oh god, I wanted to DIE at like the 6th dish. It was so good. My fat cousin just kept eating and drinking and eating and drinking! My youngest aunt also ate like crazy haha. Was so awesome. They’re really fun to talk to and just all around fun! They’re great. I can’t wait to hang out with them even more. Oh, I also at one point walked downstairs in that mall area with my girl cousin Glodia, she’s so adorable. Hehe. And we chatted about random things too! I love these guys.

After coming home, there was a little bit of bitching and what not but I really want to end this blog because I’m tired as heck. So goodnight boys and girls and much love to you. 12 more days!

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 39 : These wieners need to stop singing.

Today is an amazing day because MY DAD is now in Hong Kong! <3

Today, I woke up to pee, then rolled around forever until I got back to sleep. Afterwards, I woke up at 10 to 11AM and I got myself ready because we needed to rush out to the airport to meet up with my dad. We leave at 12PM and head to the bus stop and head to the airport. We get there not sure where we are and we just walk around and we find out way to the arrival hall. While waiting there all of the sudden we get tapped on their heads and turn around it’s Michael! He just appeared because he wanted to because he thought we’d get lost. Haha. So standing around waiting for him to go through the arrival gate. We stood around until 2:10PM or so and my dad finally arrives! And I’ll admit, I ALMOST cried when I saw him. Yes, I’m a daddy’s girl and that’s okay. So from there we chat it up obviously and we take the bus home. Once we got back to Causeway Bay, we went straight for late afternoon tea, which got all scrambled up but it was still good. 

We came back home and chilled out for a while and we needed to go out and buy groceries so my mom, dad, and I went out. It was pretty cute; my dad was all “SLOW DOWN! I can barely take everything in,” then he followed mom so closely like if he was going to get lost, and he was just being all like “Look at that! That’s still the same! What’s that place?” It was just adorable of dad. We come home, we start making dinner and dad takes a nap and dinner and showers and the typical getting ready for bed. Oh but I can’t forget this. I was watching TV and they did a Michael Jackson Tribute that FAILS. The artist they got to do it were horrible and I’m just saying to myself “These wieners need to stop singing, quit their day job, and go back to their old job” They were just HORRIBLE. They through it all together in one day essentially; just horrible.

I’m so excited my dad is here. Tomorrow we’re having dinner with my dad’s side of the family and my aunt/grandma. I’m excited. Kind of. Hope my camera performs well.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 38 : This is a full girl’s mall…so…pink!

Ah, today was a great day even though not much happened. It was great!

I woke up around 10:30AM or so and sat around on the computer chatting with some friends and didn’t get into the shower til 12PM or so. I got all ready and sitting around at 1PM, wondering what to eat. My brother says “How about sushi? I’ll go out and buy it and bring it home since you did it for me last time.” So he goes out as I walk around the house and watch TV with mom. Ivan get’s home we ate and then we sat around for a bit wondering what to do next so we decide to go out and get some groceries. We went out and we bought Coca Cola, ice tea, Yakult, that purple grape drink…forget what it’s called, and came on home. We sat around some more and I was so bored and so was Ivan. I was about to take a nap until I asked him “Hey, want to go out” Of course he says yes. Haha.

We go out as mom stays home to make something to eat for Grandma. My brother and I shop around looking at things. At SOGO, my brother bought this white sheep, and it’s super cute. Next we walk around some more looking for a gift for my 2 friends. We go to another mall behind SOGO just to shop around. Didn’t buy anything there and we were about to leave and there is this pink mall and I’m like “hmm…let’s go in!” and we do. Turns out to be a mall essentially JUST for girls. Definitely very pink, lots of lingerie, clothing, shoes, jewelry and what not. We walked around and some how made it to this store that sold random things. I bought my friends’ gift. We walked around little bit more and saw this store that sold cute underwear so I’m going to have to go back to that and get some awesome undies! Afterwards, we came home, my mom calls and my aunt brought us some drinks so my brother and I drink up our mango like drink and I play around with my camera some and click around on my computer. Afterwards, everyone starts coming home and dinner is served. That, ladies and gentlemen, was my day.

I’m very excited for tomorrow! My dad is coming to HK and my brother and I are going to pick him up at the airport. Can’t wait! During this time, my brother and I also comment on how my aunts, mom, and grandma tell each other the same story about 3-4 times.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 37 : Oh god … this place is huge …

Ah, another day filled with food and shopping.

Today, I got up way to early from a bad dream so I wrote something about it in my personal blog and then sat around until 9AM talking to some friends and I kept my computer by my side and just curled up next to it listening to music as I dozed off once more. I woke up later around 11PM to get ready to go out with Shadow, Michael, mom, and brother for lunch. We went to this restaurant called Red Ant where I got a baked penne with mushrooms and bacon in a tomato sauce. It was soo good. I’m going to try to make stuff like that when I get home. Hehe.

Afterwards, my mom went grocery shopping and went home too cook stuff and what not while Shadow, Michael, Ivan, and I went shopping. We took the subway and then got to our destination where we went to IFC. Now IFC is a big mall full of fancy stores that I shouldn’t even look at. This mall is essentially for the rich. While walking through, everyone was dressed to the nines and looking oh so fancy and business like. After walking around for awhile, we walked to H&M and man is that H&M huge! I went a little crazy. I walked around with my brother mostly and we looked at random stuff. I ended up trying on a pair of jeans and they’re really rad so I got them, brother got this nice sweater, and Shadow and Michael bought stuff too! It came to around 8 items for 175$CND or so; pretty nice if you ask me. And essentially, after H&M we took the subway home. At home, those two took a nap, brother and I clicked around on our laptops, mom made dinner for grandma to visit her later at the hospital. Later Michael leaves, mom leaves and then Ivan’s ear starts to get blocked so we ran over to Watsons to get the ear wash stuff for Ivan and then we came home while cousin ran to go buy some pants. So that’s pretty much of my eventful day, mom comes home, makes dinner, aunt comes home, we have dinner and that’s it and here I am now. Cousin left and now to finishing chillin til the rest of the night.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 36 : Western food match with a delicious Chinese style ice tea equals one delicious dinner.

Today turned out to be a semi-lazy day until I got active and went out and did some shopping business.

I got up early this morning hoping to chat to some friends but after like couple minutes, my internet fails so this was around…10PM it failed. My grandma had to go to the hospital today and live there couple days to see whats wrong with her skin. Sitting around without internet, I decided to crawl back into bed at 11AM and slept until 12:50PM and finally showered around 1PM and got ready for the day. It was around…2PM and we decided to go get some sushi. My brother and I ran out and brought it home, and after we ate, we went shopping. 

We first had to go to Watsons to get my brother some ear drops because wax in his ear was building up. How attractive right? So while standing around, I saw mouth mask for the swine flu and I was like “OH MAN! I should buy a bunch and give them away as souvenirs for my friends!” My mom laughed at me but I thought it would be a fun idea. Get a bunch of mask, write SWINEFLU ’09 on them and then my friends will forever remember the swine flu. I might do it. We’ll see. We then went to MUJI where I bought some pens and we got these strawberry filled marshmallows that are quite delicious. Afterwards my mom needed to get some pastry/bread so my brother walked around in Lane Crawford to feel the nice AC. We took most of the things home and ran off again to do more shopping. We first stopped off at TOUGH to look at bags and after I walked in, this girl followed me around the store showing me things and chatting with me which was weird…it’s like she was hitting on me or something haha. That is the way sales associates work though, they follow you around until you buy something or leave. 

Next, we were walking towards SOGO and we saw a lot of people and cameras and we were trying to figure out what was going on and it turned out that they were doing a commercial. It turned out to be a star in a Chinese drama that is playing here which is called “Sweetness in the Salt” and man did he look cool. His name is Raymond Wong if anyone cares to know. We ogled him for a long time. Haha. Next we walked around SOGO for abit where my brother bought a new messenger bag. Afterwards, we left and I think and we headed home where we chilled for abit. Mom had to visit grandma at the hospital so my brother and I chilled at home until dinner. 8PM comes and my aunt comes home and we take the HK Transway to Boston Restaurant. This is my first Western style meal in 36 days. Best part, this meal comes with a drink, I had a Chinese style ice tea. Best of both worlds like Ivan says. Afterwards we came home, everyone showered, we watched our TV shows and almost time for bed. Still a few more things to buy and I’ll be home soon my friends.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 35 : I feel that I’ve been tricked by you.

Jeez it just gets hotter and hotter as we get closer to July but that’s okay because it just means I come home soon.

Today started off with me, waking up just around 10:30AM with my uncle already here. We watched Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, Chinese version, and then I went off to shower. I got ready in the dining room area because my brother needed to wash his hair. After we all got ready, we went for afternoon tea. We sat down and by the time we started writing our order, it was 12PM, which means paying full price for our dishes. Haha. We washed the chopsticks, cups, and bowls and my grandma was proud. Hehe. After tea, we split up, my uncle took grandma home, aunt went to get her husband’s shirt from the seamstress, and my mom, brother, and I went off to look at hairclips for Amanda. Holy heck it was hot out. We went to a street that had little areas where they sold hairclips so we went to a bunch and ended up buying 14 pairs of hairclips for Amanda. 

After getting home, I just sat in front of the fan, so so hot. They played mahjong while I clicked around on my computer. Later I took a nap. After my nap, my mom had to take my grandma to the hospital to get her heart checked, next my aunt and uncle left, Ivan took a nap so I showered and took my precious time. They come home, they start dinner and that’s pretty much it. I’m clicking around on the computer some more and finished dinner and now just chillin til bed.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 34 : Ew…that fat guy’s shirt said Rock My World Baby…*shivers*

So today wasn’t anything super fantastic until I went on an adventure by myself today!

I woke up this morning around 11PM and my mom says “you’re up early” and I give her the “WHAT? That’s early? Really? It’s almost 11!” so I dismiss that and go shower and get ready for nothing, haha. But around 1PM or so, I started to get hungry so I volunteered to go out to buy my brother and I sushi!

I got ready and was a big girl and went off on my adventure! I walked off to the sushi place my brother and I go to all the time. So I’m walking to my destination and saw some interesting people. Got to the place, placed my order and stood around waiting. Afterwards, I walked home and got home in one piece without dying. Haha. After lunch, we sat around for abit and I took a nap at 3:10PM and got waken up at 3:50PM to go out with my mom to buy some drinks and other random little things and then off to the market, got some pastry and got some groceries for dinner. Then we just chilled at home for the rest of the night as I clicked around on the computer. I had dinner and now I need to take a quick shower or not at all. Haha. We’ll figure things out.

So random things I saw recently. The fat guy with the shirt that said Rock My World Baby and I was grossed out. Nextly, yesterday, we saw this stray dog and I came up with a sick idea. The apartment building my aunt lives at isn’t allow to own dogs so people let their dogs out at night or early in the morning. While waiting at the bus, I saw a stray dog and thought “wouldn’t it be funny if that stray dog like…raped other dogs? Haha. What would you do if you were walking along and you get caught up, turn around and see your dog getting raped! Haha” then I went on saying how funny it would be if dogs could talk and they made a cartoon about this. Would be SOO funny. Kay, I’m all done. Going to watch my shows and bed later.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 33 : This place looks a lot smaller than I remembered.

Today I went out to Tin Shui Wai with the mother, brother, aunt, and grandmother to chill with the aunt and cousin(s). 

So I woke up this morning around 4AM because I had a bad dream of my mom hating me and I woke up crying a little. It was sad! And I can’t exactly sleep on my right ear because of some unfortunate event. But I kept tossing and turning and couldn’t get to sleep until around 6AM and just kept going in and out of sleep until 10AM where my mom woke me up. I got showered and ready and didn’t have time to make it to the computer and I was rushed out of the house.

We caught the bus and took a nice long bus ride to our afternoon tea destination. Got there and we ordered some food and this restaurant had the counter where they made fresh things but you can just run up to it and get whatever you want. It’s pretty cool and very Asian…haha. Food there was pretty good! I had some stuff I haven’t had in a while so it was quite delicious. Afterwards, we walked around the mall area for a bit and I stocked up on some hairclips and bought my friend Benji a present for his 16th birthday! Ah! He’s only 16! How adorable right? Haha. Afterwards we came to this store called BSX and it sold Che Guevara cartoon clothing and he is dressed up in different things. My brother bought a shirt for his girlfriend and himself, then we got 2 phone charm straps and file folder. Pretty ballin’ stuff. While there, the Che cartoon was dressed up as superman and he had a C on his chest; my mom said "it's C-man" my brother laughed and so did I. I love her.

Anyways, after shopping, we went to the grocery store and walked around some and we ended up buying a medium-size luggage. It was a great idea but we looked crazy dragging that thing around. We also walked around another cramped mall but it was decent a lot of random things being sold. Then we shoved everything we bought into it and left for the apartment! While there they played mahjong while I watched tv, played with Bobo, and whatnot. That place is a lot smaller than I remember. But anyways, we left for dinner around 8PM, waited til 8:40PM or so, and didn’t start coming home til 9:40PM. We all got home around 10:30PM or even little later, everyone showered, and this is that. Called my daddy to wish him a Happy Father’s Day! I miss him so much. He comes to HK this Saturday!! I’m SOOO excited! This is the first time in 19 years that we as a family have been in HK so it’s something very special. I can’t wait.

Time for bed!

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 32 : Aww, she’s so cute! I want her!

So today was a great day until I felt the want/need to start punching people left and right and not being so polite…Haha.

This morning I woke up much later in the day. Around..10:15AM or so. I’m starting to sleep a lot more which can’t be good…haha. Or very good? Who knows. Anyways, finally woke up, chatted with some people online for a bit and got in the shower and got ready for the day. Today, we were going to go to Kowloon Bay to have afternoon tea with my mom’s friend’s daughter and some friends. We get there and gosh, Mable (the daughter) has the cutest little baby girl who is just about 6 months old. She was so fun and just full of joy. My mom was holding her and she kept kicking at my thigh, man that baby has some strength! Just everything about her was super cute, her little hands and feet, her sweet little smile, her eyes, her chubbiness, haha, just everything about her was adorable. I held her for a bit too! She’s so chubby! I wanted to take her because that’s not creepy. Afterwards, they left and my brother, mother and I walked around the mall for a bit. We hung out in HMV for awhile and my brother and I looked at all the “English” music and they have so much more! Like…live versions, singles, first albums, bands you can’t really find in Canada, it was badass. 

After the mall, we took the subway to another part of HK to all the different computer mall/area/district to find a hands-free headset for Amanda and took awhile. Ended up going to 3 different areas and only ended up buying plug transformers from HK to Canada. Walking through those places is so annoying! I wanted to take people out left and right and I just started to run into people if I had to or just shove my way through, I did whatever to get through the crowd. We walked around the same mall like 3 times and everytime we passed this one corner, this guy would just stare at me and I didn’t think too much of it. Haha. 3rd time around, he asked if I needed help with anything, what a nice guy. Then we gave up and took the cable car home. I’ve showered and just waiting for dinner now. Then stay up little longer; hope to talk to some friends and then off to bed once more.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 31 : I have no clue what I’m talking about, but do I need it?

A day of shopping once against for all our technology needs.

I got up this morning and chatted a bit with some friends and then headed to shower to get nice and clean. Afterwards, I just sat around and got ready slowly until we had to leave to get on the subway to meet up with Edward. We had to wait for him so I got a package of Pocky because I was just that hungry. Once Edward got there, we headed to our shopping destination where we walked up and down a street looking at cheap accessories. I got myself a filter and and some other extra little things. Oh, I got myself an external harddrive for school because I need another one; ridiculous! But it was a decent price. Haha. While walking down the street to, some guy working in a store just said Hi to me for no reason. I was creeped on. Anyways, after all our shopping needs were fulfilled, we went to Jordan for a little lunch.

This restaurant was Australian Milk Restaurant or something of the sort and even though it was super busy, the food was super good so it was worth it that they rushed us to order and leave. Haha. It came up to 234$HK, about 33$CND for 4 people, totally worth it. Then we left Edward and we came on home. While at home, I tested out the new filter and a lot of other functions on my camera. And I found some fun new things to do with my camera so that’ll all be tested out later in life. I showered, and then had dinner, now watching our shows and that is that.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 30 : Man, I like that this mall has mirrors like…everywhere.

Today was pretty fun but it got very tiring after awhile.

I woke up early and sat around on my computer for awhile just clicking around until much later into the day and around 10AM or so I went to shower and got my clean on. Got ready for the day and my cousin calls to hang out with us so my mom and I got ready but my brother was being slow and we were late meeting with my cousin. 

So we go for lunch first at Jusco for sushi and man was it delicious there. I wanted to steal the cup they let us use. The food there was amazing and about 20 million times better than any sushi in London. Haha. Sorry. But anyways, we ate around…900$HK and it was completely worth it. Then we walked around in Jusco and my cousin bought some bed sheets and I got a file folder that does file-foldery-things. Next, we walked around and I saw all these stuff animals and I was so excited and there was this short fat monkey I almost got for my brother for his birthday but there is no way we’d be taking it home. It wasn’t big..just we didn’t have much room left. There were these hats, kind of like the ones in Canada you get at BackStage with the animal faces, but imagine something 20 times cuter and 20 times fluffy and soft. I wanted one but it didn’t look as good as I thought it would on my head so I skipped on that. Next, we went to !Cityplaza and this mall was pretty awesome looking. Every pillar and what not was mirrors and ah! It was just cool! And they had this awesome water fountain that made noises when the water went back and forth. Kind of like the fountain at the Detroit Airport. We had ice cream at XTC Gelato and man was it good. I had Honey and Green Tea oh boy was that honey good, really tasted like honey!!! 

Afterwards we walked around some more and just did whatever at the mall. We went into QuikSilver and we bought more stuff. I got a shirt for a friend and then we walked around some more. After enough shopping we went back to Jusco to do some grocery shopping. Shopping here isn’t bad but man is it annoying. Seems like everyone just kept getting in my way while I was pushing my cart around and I was about to start swearing and yelling at people. But we got through it and we went home. At home we did hot-pot. If you don’t know what it is, Wikipedia it, here, I’ll even give you the site [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot ] there. Haha. Then that was pretty much my night, showered, computer some more with Mike then off to bed. 

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 29 : But it’s the last one, course I’m going to hold it.

Almost forgot to type up a blog about my day. I was too busy talking to Mike. Yeah, someone cares to talk to little ol’ Allison Wong! And he LOOOOVES me. He even said so...I didn't even need to force it out of him. Tehe. So eat it.

Today I woke up with my YouTube videos uploaded so I was happy about that. Afterwards, I showered and got nice and clean and got ready. I also made another YouTube video which will be up tonight. Or so. Then afterwards we went out to tea with some random people, it’s my grandma’s brother’s daughter. So…she’s my something but I don’t know what so whatever, and her friend. Afterwards they left and my aunt took my grandma home, and my mom, bro, and I went off to go shopping at Harbour City in Kowloon I believer and the mall is just full of brandnames I’ve never even heard of so didn’t do much shopping there instead we did shopping at H&M across the street hehe. We also visited our cousin at GUCCI and she looks so different in her uniform haha.

Afterwards we came home, bought some pastry and came home and I did a quick shower and chatted with Mike for the rest of the night and dinner and more chatting with Mike and now in my bunk uploading my YouTube video while talking to Mike haha. We’d be attached at the hip if we lived near one another…but not really because we both have a life…sometimes. Haha. Kay, that’s pretty much my day. I’m happy with my purchase and I hope this video uploads.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 28 : Ah! I want it!

So today was a decent day.

This morning, I woke up at 9AM, and that was one good 12 hour sleep. Haha. Yes, 12 whole hours. So I woke up and relaxed and chatted with friends before they ran off to bed. Around 12 or so, my mom wanted to have lunch so mom, bro, and I went down to buy sushi for lunch. Came back and had lunch and it was good like always. Afterwards We sat around some more until 2PM just watching tv and me on my computer and Ivan taking a little nap.

We went out after my mom and I were done watching tv, dragging Ivan with us. We walked into a lot of random department stores in the area and it was fun. Most of the time we were walking around looking for a ring for Amanda and I ended up buying something for a friend and myself. I got myself a little octopus phone charm! It’s SOOO adorable! Later my bro and I decide to go home first and he closed the effing elevator door on me! It just ram into me and it hurt! That butt face. Anyways, came home, sat around some more, had dinner and that’s my day.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 27 : Another short day

This time, I really am going to keep it short on what I did.

Woke up at 5:50AM, went to the bathroom, stood around, couldn’t get back to sleep, MSN/Facebook/YouTube til 9AM, back to bed, woke up at 12PM, got ready, afternoon tea, shopping with mom, home and showered, MSN and watched What Happened In Vegas, sat around some more and chilled, dinner and now more MSN and Asian TV shows. 

Keeping it short because I’m really tired haha. 

Day 26 : Dog Café? What?

So today wasn’t going to be too eventful so this will be short. 

I woke up and tried to get back to sleep but my mom, aunt and grandma couldn’t keep it down and that forced me to get up. I sat down at the table and just listened to music and chatted with friends. Around 12PM or so, my mom is like “You going to go out and get something to eat?” I say “No…I’m not hungry.” And it goes on to her getting mad because I don’t want to go out and get something to eat with my brother because my brother was going to see one of my cousins and eat with him and I just wasn’t hungry so she gets mad. Next my grandma ask if she wants to eat and she’s like “I’m not hungry! I’m just worried about my kids! Stop forcing me to eat!” Ugh. She does the same to grandma and she gets mad at ME. Lame.

So I get changed because we had people coming over but my mom went out and I ask if she wants me to go and she says “You can if you want, I’m leaving now” so I’m just like “Whatever, you can go by yourself” Still giving me lip. She comes home with food for me anyways around 2ish and everyone else. Afterwards my mom and I went to meet up with my cousin and aunt with little Bobo at a Dog Café. It was super cute. There was a birthday party going on while we were there and all the dogs were adorable. There was this one dog that was the owner’s and he would sit ontop of the table next to a plate of dog cakes and not snack at them. He is told to guard the plate of cakes and if a person goes up to it to take some, he wouldn’t care, but if a person with a dog goes up to it, he starts barking! Haha.

Afterwards we come home, they play mahjong so I sit up in my bunk read and then take a nap until 6 almost where I sit around and chat with people some more. Poor Mike, he woke up at 3AM hoping I’d be on but I didn’t even think he’d be on so I didn’t go on, I know for next time now, that dingus. Chatted with him for abit and ate dinner, chatted with him some more then he leaves to enjoy the sun and I go shower and now this. So that was my day.

Thanks.

*Addition 11:56PM*

Just talked to Mike again and he is the biggest dork. Took us like 5 minutes to say goodbye because he wouldn't leave! I had to yell/swear at him for him to leave. Nonetheless I was laughing at him and smiling. As much of a dork as he is, I wouldn't want him any other way. As long as he never wears crocs. I love him.

-Allison

Day 25 : Holy heck, I’m not sweating anymore, I’m just leaking.

I was tricked today; only first part of the day though. 

So, I woke up this morning and chatted with some friends for a bit and headed to shower since last night I didn’t shower because I’m dirty…haha. No, I was just lazy and wanted to sleep. So I got up, got ready and did my hair and everything and looked great. Grandma, 2 aunts, cousin+boyfriend, brother, mother, and I went for afternoon tea. After cousin+boyfriend, brother, mother, and I split up with the other 3 and went to find one of my cousin’s friend to get a memory card. After we got the card we went to the pier to catch the Cheung Chau ferry to go to Cheung Chau. It was good at first but then it just hit me hard. While walking around, I got so hot and sweated so bad and ugh, it was just HORRIBLE. Just pouring sweat out of my body. It was bloody hot out. Before we left,Hong Kong was 33 degrees but FEELS LIKE 44 degrees with the humidity. Ugh. It’s deadly. So after walking around in this small island that has no roads and only 2-3 cars (police, ambulance, fire van) and everyone bikes, for only 30 minutes, we left. 

After we came home, we caught a bus home and I did a quick rinse and change of clothing because I probably stank hard. Did all that, and my Aunt comes over and left some stuff for us and we headed out and got on the cable car and headed for dinner, meeting up with my other aunt and uncles and cousins. The restaurant we went to wasn’t bad. I sat between my mom and bro, 5 young kids on one side of the round table, and the other 5 on the other side. I felt so out of place because no one really talked to me because I’m shy, but they are a very loving bunch and I can’t wait to get to have dinner with them again. It’s my father’s side of the family, My dad’s older brother and older sister and their significant other, older brother’s son, and older sister’s son and daughter. They are super fantastic. The oldest boy cousin, he gets hand sweat like crazy; he walks around with a small hand towel (or two) in his bag just to wipe his hand and if he leaves them long enough, they will sweat. My girl cousin is super adorable and super nice and such a cool little lady haha. My other boy cousin is round and big and just pretty awesome! His hair is all gelled up and he was wearing a blinging cross around his neck haha. He is one pimping Asian. He was wearing purple shorts, which makes him more ballin’. 

Came home and shower and that was my day.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 24 : Ah! He’s so fat and cute!

Today turned out to be more eventful and went faster than I thought.

So this morning I woke up and sat around and chatted with some friends and then after all my friends went to bed I sat around watching tv with my mom. Afterwards around 12ish, my brother and I went out and got sushi for lunch. Afterwards we sat around some more looking at one another and I asked if he wanted to go out with mom and go get us some drinks in the house. So we did.

The three amigos headed off to Wellcome [Yes, two L’s] but while walking I was all “HEY! Let’s go to SOGO!” So we spotted my brother who is so much farther ahead of us and dragged him back to SOGO. We walked around and headed down each level and First we got to this little area and got two Mickey Mouse shirts for my little godsister. Then we got to the brandname clothing section and we shopped around and we came to QuikSilver and my brother and I combined got 3 shirts. It came to around 600$HK or so but they were having a promotion deal and they take off 300$HK. My brother told me each shirt came up to around 15$CDN so it’s a badass deal. Afterwards we walked away from that and headed home. We dropped off all our stuff and headed out once more. We went to Japan Center [Yes, it’s called that] and we looked for full bedding and such. We searched for awhile through the cutesy Disney bedding and I ended up picking a Baby Winnie the Pooh bedding and it’s absolutely adorable. On the duvet cover, there is a giant Winnie and he’s so fat and so cute! I had to get it. Then we came home and sat around some more until dinner time with the 3 sister who are family friends of ours. So in that time I manicured myself. Haha.

So we went off to wait at Time Square for the 3 sisters, one showed and we headed to the restaurant and waited for the other two. After they got there, I was little confused on who was who until the end of the night. Dinner was decent, went from waiting around at 6:45PM at Time Square to getting home at 10:30PM or so. Good day, got to bed around 12:30AM or so.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 23 : Nothing to do.

It is Thursday, June 11th, and I have nothing to do what so ever. 

I woke up this morning nice and early to chat with Mike and we talked about random stuff like always as I sat around and did nothing what so ever. Haha. We chatted and chatted some more until I told him to go to bed. Afterwards I just sat around some more and watched tv with mom. Later I went out and got lunch with my brother, came home and ate and then sat around some more watching tv with mom. Lastly I took a shower and I’m sitting around some more. Oh, on the plus side, my aunt is finally home from the hospital. She’s doing better but scratching a lot still. Other than that, nothing special. Will have dinner tonight and then maybe make a video even though it won’t get up until much later…even late as until I get home which is lame. Maybe I’ll get my brother’s help. Kay I’m done for now.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 22 : This place is amazing, I want to stay here forever.

So today was a decent day.

I got up early this morning around 8:30AM or so because I told Mike I’d be on to talk to his face haha. So I did, we chatted for awhile until he had to go to sleep. Afterwards I started to get ready because we were going to go for lunch and then pick up glasses. After getting ready, we left for the subway and we got on, and got off, transferred, and got off again and walked around trying to find my uncle haha. We find him and we head for lunch. I had to clue where we were going for lunch but my uncle’s wife said that we were going to be eating poo and drinking pee so I got a little worried. Haha.

We arrived at MODERN TOILET; My new favourite restaurant of all time indeed. This restaurant is completely toilet themed. So far, this is the happiest moment of my HK trip. In the restaurant, you sit on toilet seats, and at tables, underneath is a sink or a bathtub, walls there are shower necessities, it was just adorable. If you have me on Facebook, I tagged myself in a picture under my brother’s photo album so you can lurk pictures there. The place is just awesome! Food comes in toilets, bathtubs, squatters, sinks, and urinals. Haha. Just FANTASTIC. We took lots of pictures and I was smiling the whole time and laughing at silly things.

After lunch, we walked around some more and we went and got our glasses and I look pretty ballin haha. I’ll get pictures on Facebook soon. But that’s pretty much it. Came home, showered, dinner, and been chilling since so I’m going to bed now.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 21 : Holy heck do I ever need to pee.

It’s been 3 weeks! Only 4 more weeks to go! And then party hardy haha.

So today was a decent day. I woke up and got online to chat with my friends because I love them and miss them dearly. Facebooked for a while and then finally got ready and we went out for afternoon tea with my mom, bro, grandma, Shadow, and Michael. Man this place was like super fancy for just afternoon tea. It wasn’t very traditional but it was decent. I always find it little weird though that we go to places so fancy for tea. Like even the tea cup had a handle! Haha. So while having tea, my mom got the number of the owner who is a friend of my mom’s and he arrived and we sat around and chatted til like 2:15 and I just kept drinking tea, cup after cup, did I ever have to pee. Finally came home andI went and took a nap and then woke up, sat around some, showered, dinner and sat around some more.

I really didn’t do much at all today and it’s been an alright day. Tomorrow I get my glasses so I’m excited for that! No YouTube video or something but it probably won’t upload so you won’t see it ever. Lame. 

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 20 : Well that's total bullshit.

Today I was awake once again at 7:30AM or so because my aunt had to go to emergency and get checked out from her giant swollen lip/face. I crawled back into bed until 10:30AM or so when my mom comes home with breakfast. After breakfast we sat around some more until we took the bus to a place to get another travel place thinger to get another card to go into China but since we don’t have HK Passport, we couldn’t get it. 

We later went shopping at Time Square and bought some random things and then we went and got lunch, I got myself new hairclip, came home hate, and we took a nap. Haha. Afer napping around 5PM my mom and I went to the market with my mom. While walking along, and the little eaves things that hang over each market area and the water decided to spill on ME. Dammit. 

Anyways, came home, showered, dinner, and been sitting around since. I getting fatter by the minute. I need to lose some weight and just sweat it all off or something. I’m done for the day now really. I wish YouTube

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 19 : What's "setting off an airplane?"

I had a pretty simple day today. I’ve done like nothing at all.

This morning, I woke up, got ready and we went out for afternoon tea. Afterwards we came home and played with the dog (My uncle, aunt, and cousin came in]. We hung out and I was ripping out interfacing like fabric out from a shirt because of the stitching that was on it. Afterwards I took a nap, got up and showered, had dinner and now this.

Now random things today. While walking home from afternoon tea, my brother noticed even more people looking at me. I just laughed it off because its true and it happens often. I don’t mind, I’m different and it’s normal for them to look at me funny. It might also be the tiny shorts and the facial piercings. Oh, and can’t forget the constant yelling of English words and sounds haha. 

Creepy things we were talking about during afternoon tea. The phrase “setting off an airplane” is masturbation. I didn’t know that. Haha. While sitting there we noticed two white guys sitting in the corner and my brother and I kept talking about what kind of pretty one of them was. He was the “I have a wife, kids, golden retriever dog, a good job and a nice house” pretty. Haha. We also noticed how creepy our aunt is. The one we live with and the one that lives with my grandma. Since she’s not married and living with her mom still, she creeps on my little cousin and bothers a lot. Just an observation.

Got a phone call today and the lady on the phone was rude. I say hello, she says hello, I say hello again, then she goes to ask who I am. What the fuck? None of your business haha. She should of just asked for who ever she was looking for. Jeez.

Observation over the past 19 days is that my aunt is more paranoid than my mom. Always asking questions and telling us things that don’t matter and then asking more questions about the exact same thing. I don’t know. There is a lot of things she does that just yell “I’M PARANOID ABOUT EVERYTHING AH!”

That’s pretty much it today. I managed to change my profile picture on Facebook this morning and I did some more reading on my camera and still little confused about some functions. I’ll figure them all out soon.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 18 : Oh god, I need a towel or something.

Today was a somewhat event-full day and I’m tired as heck.

Woke up around 8:30AM or so and started to get ready to go out. After getting ready and ready to leave I’m standing there thinking, “What shoes do I want to wear? We’re going to do a lot of walking…should I take out my running shoes? Well I’m not going to wear my black ones since they have no sole, might as well wear the flipflops.” So I got out my new K-Swiss, they’re read and pretty sweet and my purple zebra shirt with jean shorts. It kind of matched but not really. Haha. So from there we walked to our bus stop and waited around and in the window of this store was like...Asian viagara and the pictures on those boxes are so inappropriate! Haha. I’ll have to get a picture up.

We got on the bus and it was an hour bus ride just to get into the area my uncle lived where we had early tea with them. Holy heck it was SOO hot out! I was like… sweating hardcore and getting so hot so fast. It just hit me so hard and I just died inside. While sitting there for early tea, I went through maybe a few kleenxes and was fanning myself off. It was just so hot. From there we went off to another bus stop to get the bus to go to the Tian Tan Buddha. 

It was a long bus ride there and it was really hot once again. We took a gondola lift up and took the bus down. The gondola lift up was nice and nice and breezy. I wanted the Crystal lift but 2/7 of us were afraid of heights and the cost was 3 times more so we took a standard lift. When we took the lift, had to walk maybe…10-15 minutes to get to the stairs. The stairs…oh boy; 268 steps. With the heat and stuff, it wasn’t any easier. We only spent 15 minutes up there or so and I was sweating buckets full. While walking down, my legs were shaky. Haha. Shows how much I exercise right? Caught the bus and the bus ride down was SO bumpy. Holy heck, almost got sick.

From there, we caught the subway and came home. After coming home, it was about 6:30PM and we sat around some more until 7:15PM and we went out for all you can eat sushi. Then came home, showered, and now typing this and ready for bed haha.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 17 : I don’t trust this bag…can I just hold it in my arms?

Another day, another dollar. Haha, just kidding, its only ten cents actually. ANYWAYS, today was a good day.

This morning I woke up for 9AM and got ready and left the house with my mom around 10AM-ish to go to the immigration tower to pick up my Smart ID card. It looks pretty ballin’ hahaha. Nonetheless, I know have it and that’s that. While walking there I saw several hobos and I feel so bad for them; should I? Hmm.

After we got back into our area, we went to the cake place and got more little cakes and then went home. My mom, bro, grandma and I each at a piece and just chilled out until my cousin was ready to go to GUCCI. Grandma stayed home and the three of us ran off to GUCCI. Man, that store is fancy but the stuff there isn’t super fantastic. After awhile, my mom chose a purse and my brother chose a wallet. Would have been around 4000$HK but with my cousin’s 50% employees discount, came to around 2000$HK

Afterwards we came home and just sat around until 2PM until my mom, Shadow, Michael, and I went out for Vietnamese restaurant. It was good, and afterwards we went and got some food ingredients and then we went off to Time Square and went to a store and I got a new toy…hehe. A very expensive toy indeed; it will be featured in my next YouTube video if I can even get the Korea ones uploaded dammit. If not, photos sometime soon.

So afterwards we came home and then everyone settle and after awhile we went out to mannings and got random stuff came home and chilled and played with my new toy and now its dinner time. After dinner, I’ll probably chill out some more and then shower and then bed. Sooo….that’s it!

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 16 : I don't know what I want!

Ah, it’s cold right now but by the time I go out again I’m going to be sweating like crazy.

So today I woke up for early tea and my mom, grandma, uncle and I went out for early tea and it was good like always. We got some food for my bro and while we were walking home, we decided to take a different root and my mom taught me how to get home and I walked by myself! Hehe. I’m a big girl now haha. We got home and we were waiting around and my mom convinced my brother to come out with us and he did but was not happy because he wanted to talk to Amanda. But he came out.

We left my grandma home and my mom, bro, and I went to the bus stop to catch the bus with my uncle. While on the bus, my bro and I chatted about things and then we got off the bus and I realized the place we were going to is somewhere I’ve been already; it was when we went with Edward to look at cameras. Anyways, first thing we did was go to the glasses place and we looked around for glasses for like…30-40 minutes trying to decide what the three, brother, uncle, and I, wanted. I tried on maybe over 20 pairs of glasses and after I picked a pair and they were about to write the bill, I decided to change my mind one last time. Haha. Took forever and I wanted to get a bigger pair, they were so cute, but my brother said no but my mom thought it was cute. I went with the smaller pair and you’ll get to see it soon. 

Afterwards we walked around the market, which is fake things all around and you can talk prices with everyone. It wasn’t too fantastic so I’m not going to talk about it too much. We walked into a department store and it wasn’t good and then we got on the bus and came home. My mom and I went to get some pastry, came home and they’ve been playing mahjong and I took a nap at one point and typing this to you before I forget.

YouTube/Internet has been failing hardcore so it’s almost impossible to upload my videos to YouTube. I’m trying my hardest! They’ll be up soon … I hope. We’re going out for dinner later, home, shower, and then bed.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 15 : Heck it's humid/hot out today.

Ah, last night was a good sleep only because there was a pillow for me to hold and drool on, but since my blanket is like a towel-material [Asians would know what kind of blanket I’m talking about] so everytime I turned or tried to take the pillow with me to turn, my blanket would go with it. So I got up and got online to click around on the internet, tried uploading YouTube videos again and then did my OSAP stuff.

Afterwards, my grandma and mom got home and I ate and then showered. I got ready for the day. Before my uncle arrived, my mom and I ran out to look at glasses. I’m still unsure what colour I want and what style I want now but it’ll likely be a plastic frame. But I still got plenty of time to look so I’ll get on top of that. Oh, another piece of fun news, I might be getting my Nikon D300 this weekend so I’m excited for that. So while looking at things, we came to this little food shopping area and got these little tart-cakes with a red bean, custard, and sweet potato inside and it was damn good.

After we got home, we ate a little, and after that my aunt came over with lunch so we ate. Later, my mom and I went out again to look at more glasses. Oh right, at this time I just tried on whatever and also in mind was looking for a gift for my friend Blair; he wants a wallet and of my choosing as long it has atleast 5 card holders and can hold builds. We looked at some glasses and then went to SOGO and looked at more stuff. We bought my grandma a thinger for her sugar, salt, and flour thing because hers is old and gets cockroaches in them and that’s sick. So after being at home, my mom and I sat around for couple minutes and ran off to get some cute pastries! We brought them home and bought a piggy and bunny pudding with a small piece of cake and some fruit inside, also bought couple more things but I don’t remember other than the mango, my green tea read bean, and my tiramisu. I’m going to have those for dessert.

So half an hour or so went by and we went out again, my mom, brother, and I went to SOGO and we got some shoes! Both got a pair of K-Swiss and all 3 of us got socks. Haha. Then we came home and my mom needed to go for groceries so I went with her to the market and it’s very hot/humid out and I’m covered in sweat so I’m going to go shower and end it here and post this now before I forget haha. So tonight will just be shower, and then dinner, some dessert, chill out, watch tv with mom, and then off to bed and maybe little MSN and trying to upload my YouTube videos for god sakes lol. KAY OFF TO SHOWER.

Oh, P.S. While walking home from buying shoes, I saw Cloud…yes, Final Fantasy Cloud. Lol. Only it was a girl with just awesome blonde hair.

Thanks

-Allison

Day 14 : Jeez, I need to get back into the groove.

After the trip to Korea, I’ve been getting behind on making YouTube videos and typing up blogs. Yeah, it’s only the 2nd day back but still! I’m writing this at 1:40PM so bare with me on the little detail I got for you right now.

Today started off at waking up a 3AM with a very itchy roof of a mouth and a very stuffy nose. So I climbed out of my bunk to get my toothbrush to scratch the roof of my mouth and blow my nose about 20 times and taking 4 kleenx to bed which were used within the first 2 minutes of actually being in bed. I went back to sleep and I got up at 9AM to sit around for a long time and got my shower on around 10ish because I didn’t get my shower on last night hehe SHHH. Anyways, I got my shower and my mom and I decided to do a hydrating mask and it wasn’t the greatest mask but it did it’s business. After that, I finish getting ready for the day so my brother and I could go out to get lunch. My uncle arrives and the 3 of us head out. We went to get sushi, then I had to wait around for it as my uncle and brother went to get other take out. We got our meal and went home. We ate lunch and now my brother and I are on our laptops and my aunt, who came in little after we started lunch, uncle, grandma, and mom are playing mahjong. 

I’m going to stop typing for now and make SURE this goes on tonight and ontime. Haha.

Next Day: Allison fails at remembering to finish typing blogs because nothing fun happens in life; this proves the title.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 13 : Ah, home sweet Hong Kong.

Ah, finally! It’s nice to be home in HK from Korea. I was getting tired of the same meals everyday haha. And it was super nice to be able to sleep in until 9AM even though I went to bed at 1-2AM last night…lol. I woke up and helped my mom go through all our luggage and clear some stuff out of the way and into our luggage or the other extra luggage. After awhile, it was 2PM, time really flies, and we went out for afternoon tea. Afternoon tea was good because well…I haven’t had it in 5 days and the restaurant we went to does a decent job of it compared to London (To be honest, I think a lot of restaurants here will do better than the one in London).

After are afternoon lunch, my mom, uncle, grandma, and I went to pick up grandma’s herb tea and we walked around the market for a bit waiting for her. Then we came home, cousin was already here ready to pick up her stuff. Shadow, Michael (Shadow’s boyfriend) and my aunt left and went home. At this time I turn on the computer about to upload some of my Korea blogs and I lost my USB junkdrive. I’m freaking out searching everywhere for it and couldn’t find it. So after a long time, I gave up, got my brother’s junkdrive, uploaded my blogs and did all that other fun stuff; check my Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, you know, the good. 

Later my brother invites me out to go and buy Amanda another stuff animal (The count right now is 4). So we head off and Ivan walks like he’s in a rush; kind of like me at school trying to get to class. We go to pick up the stuff animal but they didn’t have change so we left there and went and did some shopping so we would have a smaller bill. We ended up in Muji again and we got a total of 4 pens and I got myself a new pencil case. We left, got the stuff animal, and went to another place to get my mom her 3 inch mattress. We got that came home and we sat around some more til dinner.

Around 7-8PM, we went for dinner and it was not great what so ever so I’m not even going to go into detail with this meal. It ended up being around 600 something dollars, that is about 80-100 dollars my brother says and I go to say “I wouldn’t pay 40 dollars for this meal.” It really wasn’t good. We came home and we all got ready for bed and that was my night!

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 12 : Korea is over!

Ah, finally. Last day in Korea and then back to HK. Sooner or later it’ll be “Last day in Hong Kong and then back to Canada” lol.

So today, I woke up like usual and got ready to leave our hotel. We all got ready and we headed downstairs to hand in our keys and pack the bus. We were waiting around to leave and Bean comes in and he was dressed ever so nicely! Black pants, white button up, skinny black tie, he looked good haha. We took the bus for breakfast and then we did a tiny bit of shopping at a store that sold some crazy medicine and then later we took the bus to a store that sold amethyst and amethyst accessories…and jewelry haha. So I got some “stuff” lol. Afterwards we went to another area to do even MORE shopping. Jeez was I tired after awhile. We walked around and the boys left for the Internet Café and we went to walk around some more and bought even more clothes. We later went off to dinner and it was ever so delicious! Gosh was I full. We had to leave early for the plane so we had dinner early. We had to sit around waiting to leave and since there was only two bathrooms [one being boy, one being girl] I ended up using the guy’s bathroom lol; I had to go THAT bad. Next we jumped on the bus again and went to our two last destinations of a beauty store and then a random supply store. 

Finally we headed to the airport, repacked some stuff we bought. The airport there was like an effing mall! Huge and full of random stores! And then we got on our plane, we got a hot white chick to move so we could all sit together, ate the plane food, slept, arrived and headed out, got on the bus, came home, showered and then headed to bed. It was a long day and I’m glad to be back in HK and can’t wait to get back to Canada.

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 11 : Enough shopping!?

Phew, luckily we didn’t have to get ready and out the door by 8:30AM. We are staying at the same hotel tonight which is decent but I have to sleep on the floor tonight. BOO! Lol. 

So this morning, we left the hotel at 8:30AM and we headed to breakfast. It was okay I guess, the soy bean drink wasn’t very beany. But other than that, food was decent. Afterwards we went to this place to see some buildings of some minister…lol. I know it in Cantonese but not English. Lawls cakes. It’s weird because there, the “real” security ladies, you’re not allow to take pictures of them, but the bicyclist and roller skater police you can and we did! After, I think we went and did a little bit of shopping, and then we went for more lunch, then more shopping, and then dinner. 

Shopping wise, we started off at Evisu and some beauty product store and we spent about 40 minutes there, then everyone ran out of there to go to a sock store and bought socks…haha. Yeah, I know. So from there we went for lunch which was a traditional Korean style BBQ which was quite delicious! THEN from there we went shopping again at this giant area where you have to walk on streets, between buildings and all that fu stuff to do shopping. A lot of little store and stores I’ve never even heard of. It’s weird because here, a form of advertising and to get your attention is to clap….VERY LOUDLY. Lol. And to stand at the door, yelling stuff at people and waving around free samples. It was cute and very different. Oh, at one point, my brother pointed out an American Apparel and I darted in there. Things were more expensive so no spending there haha. We walked around some more and my cousin and her friend probably ran into every store that sold beauty supplies and other cosmetic items. We also went into this department area where others waited in line to get into Gucci. After the boys and girls split up, we shopped some more and I bought couple shirts for myself! They’re very “local” lol. They’re big and very not “in” in Canada haha, but that’s okay? I’ll just stand out more!

Tonight I my last night in Korea, I should be back in HK by 10:30PM ish and yeah, that’ll be that. I’m gonna go lay on the floor now and get some rest. =]

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 10 : Holy heck, can we go yet?

I think I like tatami’s but at the same time I don’t because sleeping on the floor is tiring! And everything starts to ache after awhile too. So I got up at 6 this morning, our shower area is BS because its just an open area with a small pane of glass and it was pretty much useless it seems, most of the bathroom got wet in the end. So I got up and got ready and man is it chilly at that hotel/cabin. I regret dressing so warmly. You’ll find out why. We had our simple breakfast, then headed off into the distance. First thing we did I believe is that we went and picked strawberries in this semi inside and this plastic dome. You were only allow to pick 5 and they weren’t that amazing either and you aren’t allow to sneak a couple into your mouth lol. They make you pay but no one was watching us so we could of easily done that but we didn’t. It was getting so hot out at this point too so I was dying inside my BLACK SKINNY JEANS…dammit. 

Next, we went to a Kimchi plant where we made our own! And then we got to wear Korean wear but I decided not too….but it was fun watching Sing and David get all dressed up like complete idiots. Haha. We had to hang out for awhile and the heat just got worst as we stood around. This was only 12 something at this time. I was dying. Took some pictures and what not. After this, we went off to Everland! Yes, it’s called Everland. It’s very Disney land/world or themepark feel to it but it was decent. I didn’t do any rides… I didn’t even buy souvenirs… I took a heck of a lot of pictures. Saw so many funny things and took so many pictures. I’m going to have to get all the pictures I took off my cousin because for the past bit, I’ve been using her Canon 450D. Anyways! We were there for like…couple hours and now looking at myself in the mirror with Ivan’s laptop I realized I’m burnt. Fuck. Now I know why people use umbrellas. ANYWAYS. We went off around in Everland and a lot of silly things but I didn’t buy anything. After couple hours we got back on the bus and went to shopping mall/center and I followed my cousin and Gloria around and I almost died inside. A lot of things went through my mind so I’ll type that over on my personal blog.

After the mall, we went for dinner, it was delicious. Then we went to this mountain and it was really cool! Lots of pictures from there. We saw like..a time capsule and the Korean Tower thing and this light man that hung off like fish wire. The bathrooms there were so nice! But man, that hike up that hill was intense! I had to catch my breath at the top. Haha. Then we got to our hotel and we are here! WOOT! That’s pretty much it. I get to sleep on a bed tonight which is nice and yeah. I’m done for now. I need to do some serious shopping? Haha. 

Thanks.

-Allison 

Day 9 : I'm definitely on a boat.

So last night for dinner, we ate a lot of fresh fish and a lot of random things. We had to take off our shoes at the door then sit down at this tiny table on this little butt matt and eat. There was so much food! It just kept coming and coming! We were all going “Is this it?” Jeez, seemed like it went on forever! He had bottles of coke too! They were tall and much more slender compared to the ones we have in Canada. After dinner, we went back to our hotel where the guys ran off to play pool and the girls came to our room to play cards. After everything was together again, we had our two huge crabs. Mmm, it was sooo good. After while, everyone left and we all went to bed but my brother got up around 4ish and went over to my cousins room to watch soccer with Sing. I was sleeping on the floor on a tatami and my brother didn’t get back to the room until 4:30AM and morning call was at 6:30AM so we had to rush him up. We had breakfast at the hotel and things weren’t that great but the jam was pretty cool. It had two separate compartments and you squeeze them together and jam squirts out in the middle! It beats the butter hands down. 

Next we took the bus to the train station were we took that to a beautiful beach. Oh, of course, while going, we got stuck in a tunnel in compete darkness, that was kind of cool. Haha. We got to the beach, walked to this giant sand clock thinger….you know, those things that time stuff… haha. ANYWAYS! This one is in this giant thing and the sand gets to one end to the other in exactly one year. It’s pretty cool so I took many pictures of it. While chillin there, there was this GIANT boat that sat on top of a mountain and it turns out to be a hotel! I took pictures. Many pictures. Next we walked back to our bus and on our way, we saw these boys who were dressed in camouflage uniform and David grabs the last one walking in the group and we took pictures of him! Haha. It was SOO funny. We walked to a small little store where there were a lot of dried foods so we got some, then got back onto the bus and headed off. 

We went to this little restaurant which wasn’t really amazing what so ever but it was food none the less. From there we went off to this sheep farm. Once we got off the bus at the farm, there was this HUGE dog! He was like a wolf! He was so beautiful and so friendly. We walked over to where the sheeps were and we got to feed them through a little bucket because they were effing crazy! And we fed them grass too! Next we witness the shaving of a sheep haha. Afterwards we went to a beef store to get beef for the BBQ tonight [which is done and over with], then another FamilyMart to get some little snacks and what not. We get to our hotel and its like a cabin lodge kind of feel too it. Its beautiful here. 

Its almost time for me to go. 8:30PM we’re going to look at stars and once I get back I’m headed to bed so this is for now!

Thanks.

-Allison

Day 8 : Korean invasion!

There wasn’t much going on the 7th and I typed up a blog, I did indeed but then I forgot to post it. It wasn’t anything super exciting so no worries. Like usual, go out for lunch, go shop, pack for Korea, fly out at 12:30 or so, and get to Korea and we had time to wak around so we did. We came to a Dunkin’ Donuts and one of my cousins friend’s, Sing, was asked to order the item in English and since his English isn’t good, it was very jerk like of the person to ask him to say the name and he couldn’t just point. Also traveling with us is a couple, Gloria and David. From there we started traveling to our destination. We met our tour guides and such, one is Grant, he is the one that came with us from HK. Then there is Daiman [I’m guessing on spelling], he is the local tour guide. Then there is Bean [Yes, his real name], he is a local that what my brother and I call our “Man Servant”. We have this huge bus for 18+ people and we have 40 some eats so we can essentially each have our own two seats which is nice haha. It was a long bus ride to get to our destination. We made one bus stop, then we got to our road side lunch place which was delicious, and then another stop before our first true stop, a Park.

I forget what the park name is right now but I’m sure there are pictures of it and I’ll get you the name of it later. Anyways, this park was beautiful and very authentic haha. I took a lot of pictures on my cousin’s camera so you’ll have to wait for those to come up somehow and sometime soon. We were walking through the park and there were so many Koreans and a lot of school kids. THEY ALL HAD THE SAME HAIR CUT! It was pretty funny I’ll admit haha but it’s in so its okay! There were little shops in different places and you could buy little souvenirs and drinks and food even! This place was breath taking, words really can’t describe how beautiful it was; mountains, rocks, water, old buildings, 

Next we went to this market right near the water and every store sold sea food and dried sea food. I saw some things I’ve never seen before in my life and things I didn’t think I really want to see. Lots of picture were taken and what not. We were going to buy fruit so the man got up from his seat from his nap, realized we didn’t want anything and he sat back down. Lawl. We ended up getting some steam crab for later, and we even got some drinks just for then. We had this “ice tea” but it was really peach tea. It was good none the less. The air there was amazing, being next to the water, nice and breezy on a hot sunny day.

Next we came back to our hotel and we came to our rooms, and rooms here are AMAZING. Like a small apartment! 1 bedroom with a double bed, living room, dining area, kitchen, bathroom, and another room for floor beds. I made a short video of it so you can see it later. Oh, we also have a balcony with a view. We went downstairs to the basement to spa kind of like a hot spring, different pool area you can sit in with different kind of water and gets, hot and cold, and sauna, and out door pool area with hot water. Saw a lot of naked women. Oh, after the locker area, there was an area like a powder room with blow dries, moose and everything! It was pretty awesome.

Now we are just chillin in the hotel rooms until 7 tonight where we go out for dinner. I’m going to leave it here and I’ll type up what happens tonight, in tomorrow’s blog.

Thanks

-Allison