cheap food, cheap booze and kway twee wee

PULUT HITAM (dunno if i spelt tt right), but here its called 黑糯米 black glutinous rice... It came complete with the coconut milk dirzzled ontop, which I promptly stirred in, only remembering to take a picture after having my first mouth full..

Anyway, it costs 3.5RMB here... (which is like 70c sing...) yea.. one of the many stuff I'll miss from this place which I wun get in sing (cheap food, cheap booze and kway twee wee)
Beer is like 3RMB a bottle (Tsing Tao), 9 or 8RMB (about triple the price) if you buy it in a restaurant. Johnnies is 200RMB (75cl bottle), 220+ from Duty Free for 1L bottle... and food.. I need not mention, but ofcourse the sucky thing is that they do not have proper fish and chips/ western food, which is perhaps the only down side about this place (not china, Huizhou).

Is wearing a trench at 11degrees cels exaggerating exaggerating ?

Ok, so its like less than a week before I return home, and I am in a dilemma now. I've got a flight booked at 11.05am on Friday, and so I need a place to stay in either HK or SZ (and like in SZ, a decent hotel costs 800bux, in Hong Kong its like 2.5K ...) so yea, its pretty obvious that if I were to open a hotel room it will be in SZ. Ofcourse, my budget was 100 and below, which isn't really much of a budget at all, so I was walking around the dodgy end of SZ, close to the railway station, over shadowed by 香格理拉.... my mind kept telling me "open in 香格理拉 啦", but my wallet told me "open 香格理拉 LAN". My wallet ofcourse, holds precidence over my body and sadly - my soul.

Anyway, I found one that was like 68RMB, but the toilet was a common toilet and it was pretty ulu too. And to top it up, there were M'sans all over the place, offering me their wears for the night etc. (one even offered me 60bux [肥太婆一个?]). That doesn't really concern me though, infact I wouldn't mind checking it out but not using, just for kicks, like see what's it like, market rates etc. What's concerning, was the security, I sure wouldn't want to get raped or robbed in my sleep.

Therefore, current plan is ->

Frend's frend may possibly let me stay over
OR
just R.O.C on one chair in HK airport.

Let's see what happens eh :)

And basket, to top that off, someone vomitted on my coat over the weekend... forcing me to wear my trenchcoat today (which I think may be abit 夸张.. ) But well, that's life I guess...zzzz

And so as my R.O.D (not ORD) date draws closer, it only means that my dateline to pass up the final report which is like freaking going to be anohter 7+ pages long.... is coming.

Anyway, I have pledged myself not to spend much of this months allowance, and to save it up for my DSLR (WHICH like i totally hope to get b4 I walk into the gates of hell) ... this is my last which (apparently the one to go US failed AGAIN), so I'm hoping my this wish doesn't.

My dinner last night was great though, I eat claypot brinjal/eggplant. One of the dishes I've grown to like in this place. Anyways, soon I'll be back home and happy, but until then, I guess I will just enjoy what more I have left in this place :)

1st February 2.40pm and I'll be home. As that day draws closer, my heart beats faster. My countdown has begin and it will not stop.

The next 2 weeks, needless to say will be the most busiest of times, as I rush to finish my stuff and leave this place on a good note. This coming week, work hard, then weekend Sat and Sun its off to HKong. Then its Thursday back to HK again before I fly on Friday!

Scenes from my new favourite show Lost In Beijing 苹果. Should I have been in BJ for OIAP instead of the 3months OITP, I could have filmed my own similar version :D lol...

Some background - This show was shown UNCUT at the Berlin Film Festivals. Its banned in China (conveniently the same place where I got the DVD)... cause of the many good scenes (illustrated below) in the movie.

The director 李玉 has been banned from making films in the mainland for 2 years cause of his UNCENCORED creativity and superb filmatography, but well that's life...

Anyway, its NOT a pron film... its a story about the consequences of sex in modern day beijing bla bla bla. I liked the story plot too. About the bugger (the guy whose back faces us in the first picture) who had so much money, but married a wife who couldn't bear him children.

For those of you wondering, the lady in the first pic (who btw seems to be ENJOYING her extra-marital activities with "impotent wife guy") is called 苹果 I guess the movie was rightfully named after her the protagonist. Lost In Beijing is a nice EL title I guess, cause it shows part of Beijing's colourful manly industry.

The weekend was spent in - HONG - KONGGGGG!!!!

Yea。。。 and I ate like Siew Lup Char Siew 3 times in 2 days...

Anyway, we (me and dad) visited this place called Lantau Island, famous for the worlds largest outdoor SITTING buddha.

There are 2 ways there, take the cable car or climb (but climbing is unfulfilling, tiring and cheap right??) so we opted for the nice view and comfortable ride from the cable cars.





We passed by Hong Kong airport on the way up. I had to max my camera's zoom (and cause its not a NIKON DSLR ..tsk..tsk, the image is blurred :P)

When we FINALLY reached, I was greeted by the greatest of great (dun get me wrong, I meant Starbucks as greatest.)

Yea... one of the many bullshit falun dafucks.... mofo's called my personal office phone to advertise to me .... like freaking twice liao... all these ppl should kena 枪毙！buggers dare to compare their suffering to the great Auschwitz in Europe by saying "Auschwitz in China".

Creme Brule ? Looked like it, but its not. Taro milk with sago (and obviously loads of cream) . We also tried Banana Pancakes! Though it was not as good (but freaking 20HKD on that tourist trap... for each desert was a rip.. once in a long/lifetime kinda food I guess)

Each step SHE took, she knelt and prayed.....
From the top of the budha, looking down!

And FINALLY, we were home... hotel view was fantastic (but the damn lounge was shit... did not have anycrap to eat or drink there, comparing to the Xiamen)

Random picture on the MTR. What can I say? I guess I have fallen deeply in love. I have really fallen in love with Hong Kong and all its pleasures (including its people). 1 month in Chuizhou, then suddenly I go to Hong Kong, where I see the standards which are infinately better, in terms of dressing, looks, lifestlye etc. Its really blows people's brains out ! But the cost of living ...gg... therefore, while I'm not earning big bux or being paid HK standard salary, I will continue to live in CZ.

As for work.. It's only getting busier, but hey, I've got 15 days and 2 weekends left in this cestpool, so who's to complain.. On the downside, it means anohter treacherous round of review and company grading as well as another LONGass report to right...

And than theres the small jobs and favors here and there "hey, ken ken, do this for me, translate that for us" ...zzz

I know I'm like haven't posted a thing for about a week now? Just not in the mood to do any postings...

Work getting busier and busier, got deadlines to meet and got deadlines which I have had to push back (not what I really like to do)...

I just can't wait to get out of here and back home, but then again, will home ever be the same to me? Will I actually prefer this place to home?

Today's cant food was real fucked up... nothing sucks worse then having your last glimpse of hope for the day (which is break time/ lunch) shattered by shitty pig's swill... They served us 2 vege's and a meat dish, but they had to fucking make the meat dish some internal organ... I think I heard my colleague say it was cow's tongue... even she did not wanna eat that shit...

Like WTF lar... why don'ts they want to fucking improve the canteen food once and for all... I know its free for me, but the other colleagues actually pay for it... I've actually eaten Millitary MRE's before, and I think that they taste god damn better then the crut served here... Well, time will tell...

I just keep walking forward with Johnnie and looking for the day where I get to see home, smell my bed sheets and play with Mamemo again.