Hongkong
Maricar loves Hongkong. She wants to live there. HK doesn’t really excite me that much, dunno what to do except to shop and eat. But a rmb600 roundtrip airfare promo is hard to resist. Boy did I shop and eat! On my first day, I blew my budget for the week. (Hey, Zara, Morgan, and the rest of the shops were on sale!) On my second day I was using credit card and rmb. Yikes!
I ate lots and lots and lots. Greek, Italian, Portugese, Chinese, NY, vietnamese food… yum! I so love to eat. I think it’s impossible to stay angry with good food. I remember an ex who confessed to me a break up-worthy confession, but treated me to really good food that I was pissed and happy at the same time. “HOW CAN YOU DO THAT??! btw this chicken is really good… AND WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS JUST NOW… ONE YEAR LATER??! please pass the rice…”
I also met people I’ve met at Tim and Lara’s wedding, plus a few of Matt’s friends. We ate at Red Pepper which was supposed to be a famous local place but that night it seemed full of gweilos.
That Friday Matt treated me to Macau which is just a one hour boat ride from HK. On the boat TV was a really weird and funny Japanese game show called Kasohi Taishow. People were dressed like things such as a giant washing machine and giant clothes and they reinact what happens inside the tub. Or they dress as a giant lint remover and some dress up as lint and they roll back and forth.
Bugger my camera went dead when sightseeing. We saw some nice old architecture but they won’t let us in coz they’re all private property. Didn’t see the famous touristy places too because we didn’t do our research. But it’s okay, we went there on a whim and had fun. So I just took a pix of the pier wallpaper with all the famous places, haha.
Played for the first time in a casino too! But just did slot machine and roulette. Basically because those were all I can understand and all I can afforD. I was quite bored with that, I’m really not a gambler. I enjoyed watching the Filipino dancers onstage more. What I liked most was walking in the huge park and eating at Fernando’s. yum, Yum, YUM!
Then we had dinner at Aqua, one of HK’s posh restos which overlooks the HK island. It is so sosy you need reservations days in advance, and first thing Matt did was to make a walrus face, haha! 
From up there I can see the brightly lit carnival rides at the fair across the water. (Ferris Wheel!!!!) I love ferris wheels. Everytime I think of it I remember an old Close Up ad starring Tonton Guttierez and Dawn Zulueta (before they were famous). When the ride ended they were being escorted out then Tonton pulled out from his pocket a looong line of ferris wheel tickets! I was a little girl then but for some reason I found that romantic. Or maybe because I just like the ride and imagine myself with all that stubs riding the wheel nonstop.
On my stopover to HK this CNY I am going to ride that ferris wheel and no one’s gonna stop me.
