Welcome to HHM Land!

Greetings from hong kong! Land of good shopping!

i'm too lazy to repeat cuz i have been emailing my dad and dorea, so i'll just paste bits n pieces of my emails.

my hk number is 63014662

i haven't had dim sum yet. its quite difficult to find dim sum places. today i went to 女人街 和旺角中心。 the shopping here is quite good. i bought 2 or 3 dresses. each only about sing $12. had to stop myself from shopping too much or else i'd have no more money left.

i usually eat dinner at the canteen...its very far away. the school is on the hill and i have to climb flights of stairs to get to shuttle bus stop or get to places. i have to take a shuttle bus to canteen, n its very lousy. they dun even have my 饭菜, and if i order noodles, they give u maggi mee.

tonight the school is having welcome dinner for us, so they're bringing us to some big restaurant for dinner. should be 8 course chinese dinner.

there are actually a lot of pple from all over the world. today we had the welcoming briefing. the largest group here is singaporeans (100+ pple), then americans (80+ pple), australians, and there are pple from korea, mexico, india, madagascar, etc.

sorry for the random pieces of info, im too lazy to blog. haha

this is me just outside my hostel (its called hall here) and the view behind. school is located on a hill. quite a breathtaking view! can be seen from my fren's dorm which is across my room.

this is the funniest food review i've ever read.

Cappadocia Cafe restaurant

Good food. Bad buskers.

If you can't hold a tune, please don't ruin the night by busking.

It was a perfect night to be dining outdoors. The evening was fresh after the afternoon rains. We decided to try something different after having too many ramens in Robertson. After being seated here, we were puzzled why there were so few people enjoying the happy hour beer specials ($12 for 2 Tigers/Heineken, $20 for 2 Erdinger/Kilkenny) here.

To our disgust, we soon discovered the reason for the lack of a crowd here. These three "musicians" were doing their best to remove our appetites with their "timeless melodies". We were rudely shocked to our senses as the vocalist was clearly trained in the William Hung school of music. Even the cats were soon joining in with their pitiful pleas to stop.

We were glad that these Singapore Idol rejects went for their break just before dinner was served. Having not visited Turkey, we are not going to comment if the food here is "authentic". None of the tone-deaf Turks supporting this restaurant last night seem to mind. While my partner loved his staple chicken iskander, I was pleasantly surprised by my Izgara Kotfe, which was grilled minced beef patties in a pepper sauce served with a crisp side salad. The patties had a lovely smoked flavour which were perfect with a dollop of mashed potatoes that I had specially requested.

Unfortunately we had to quickly make our move when the trio took up positions to sing next to our table. We will return again with ear plugs to try the ice cream.