Real Time Off

What a relaxing day it was yesterday. The sun was out so I had pulled back my blinds in the living room to let in all the wonderful juice of the sun. I got up quite lazily at 11am and made 早餐 A for two, which 文生 and I happily (and peacefully) ate before he went back to his studies.

Me: 今日我為你准備嘅早餐 A...
文生: 即係午餐 A啦...
Me: 又即係常餐 A. 咁你食唔食呀?!
文生: 食.

Brunch was actually 牛油多丶 煎雙蛋丶火雞腸仔通粉 so ya, typical 茶餐廳 fare, but at home. Over a live broadcast one of my favourite RTHK radio shows 有冇攪錯. Relaxing indeed. It's not often we get to spend an actual holiday at home, not running around doing errands or shopping for groceries.

After polishing off the food, I got started on my 3.5-hour cleaning regime. With 輕談淺唱不夜天 blaring in the background, I cleaned both bathrooms, wiped down all the mirrors, scrubbed the kitchen sink, wiped down the cupboards, selectively cleaned the baseboards (yes, only selectively, LOL), vacuumed and Swiffered places where the Roomba couldn't reach, cleaned the Roomba, wiped down all the appliances, and even cleaned my spice rack! All by myself while 文生 studied. So satisfying to see a clean home! Love it!!!

With me being such a good girl, 文生 agreed to go out for an early dinner at Inatei! What a great day it was yesterday!

New Years Day = Time to Go Home :(

Feb.3 – 10:29am Toronto time (con't)
Sigh, here marks the end of another happy HK trip! Once again, I find myself missing HK already. The mini vacation was definitely relaxing as I no longer need to rush around to get things done.

I was quite winged last night from all the alcohol chopping since I didn’t really have dinner -_-“ so when we were done, I just crashed. Which was a big mistake, because I woke up with such a nasty headache this morning it wasn’t even funny.

I finished my packing and waited for Tinlop to wake up before calling Sandra to meet up and do a quick exchange of items. Well it was supposed to be quick, but wasn’t quite so. 阿叔 and 阿嬸 waited at 潮江春 in 荃灣 while Tinlop and I went all the way to 黃大仙 to get Meishan’s DVD off Sandra. Needless to say they were quite impatient since it took us an hour to get back!

Bye bye 仙杜拉, until next time!

After dimsum, we went to the airport directly and now we’re halfway home! Only one whiny kid on this flight, but whiny nonetheless. Sigh…

Having that headache still, I only ate the mashed potatoes and cucumber daikon salad but skipped the beef for lunch and slept until little missy the isle over decided to wail her little head off. Not able to sleep anymore, I decided to catch up on my blogging! (11:00am)

Why does it look so nasty? Because it tastes just as good as it looks~

(5:04pm) Wow, our ride has been pretty bumpy today! At least the kiddie didn’t cry much more afterward. That or I passed out good! All I did was sleep because I was so tired. Cracked open an eye long enough to have the cup noodle and sandwich snack and was out cold again. Keke, piggy! I just finished breakfast with congee, 3 pieces of fruit (dragonfruit, papaya, watermelon) and half a roll with jam. Only an hour left and we’re home! (5:09pm)

Canadian sunset

CNY's Eve Countdown

Feb.3 – 10:29am Toronto time
I was up around 8am as usual and started to do some packing since Tinlop wasn’t up yet. I didn’t think 梁生 would have made it up in time since he was at work until 4am the previous night, but at 9:30am he called and confirmed our breakfast date. Tinlop didn’t want to come so he left to meet up with his friend that just arrived in HK while I went to have breakfast.

Originally, we were going to go to Fairwood but since it was completely packed, we walked down the block to 椰林閣. Oh boy, the food wasn’t that great (actually it was quite crappy) but I enjoyed the company even though he looked half asleep!

After breakfast, 梁生 had to go home to rest up before his New Year’s Eve gathering at work so I left to go get more money exchanged at TST and attempted to meet up with Tinlop.

View from 阿叔's condo in 深井 in the late morning - purdy!

Little did I know that they were quite mee-moh-ing so I ended up walking up to Mongkok and did some shopping myself. Bored as hell since I was just 遊街-ing, I called up Emmi and agreed to shop with her since she was getting off early. Killing more time, I walked back down to TST after I had a stinky tofu and fried intestines before I took the MTR to CWB. Gotta love my stinky tofu! I was reluctant to try the fried intestines on the street but after seeing this dude wolf down like 5 skewers while I ordered my tofu, I decided to give it a try. OMG, it was soooo good!!!

Shopped a bit with Emmi and sat down to a 涼粉冰 before taking the MTR back to Tsuen Wan to have dinner with 阿叔、阿嬸 and Lynn. We went to a restaurant in Tuen Mun for 乳豬 but OMG they were so busy that the little sucker never made it to our table! I was so disappointed!

This baby could have been our dinner =(

阿叔 agreed to chop alcohol for our countdown at home so we left, went home, waited for Tinlop to come home and chopped alcohol until 1am. We did our countdown over 2 bottles of red wine, very nice (and expensive) chocolate, cheese and tong shui, LOL. Well, and of course, TVB.

La Maison du Chocolat Akosombo Bar 68%

They need a cheese slicer, LOL~

Pamper and Relax Day!

Feb. 2 – 2:49am (con'd)
Today was quite a relaxing day as I didn’t do much. I still got up at 8:00am but took my sweet little time to get out of the house. Tinlop and I initially left at 10:30am to check out the Garden factory store downstairs. After browsing for no more than 5 minutes, we left and went to the souped up Park n Shop (now called International) to nose around before stopping at a nearby 茶餐廳 to have breakfast. We rushed to put in our order and made it just at 10:59:30 before they switched over to the lunch menu. Saved us a few bucks there! The fare was not as good as yesterday’s in Hung Hom but the tea was nice and smooth. Luckily I finished all my food before I drank the tea because I felt a complaining stomach almost immediately after we left the restaurant.

I felt really bad about not getting dinner last night so I bought a bottle of Moet for 阿叔, grabbed a bottle of Jacob’s Creek and brought everything back upstairs before going out again. We took the shuttle bus out to Tsuen Wan and MTR to Admiralty thinking we’d go do lunch with Sandra, but by the time we got there she was already eating at CWB with her co-worker so Tinlop and I just walked over to Wan Chai to look for some MJ sets. Seeing we’d be in the area, we went for a 2 hour sauna and massage retreat at 新瀛閣 before going back to buy a couple of MJ sets.

Later, we met up with 妙珠姨 and 旭珠姨 and Sandra for Vietnamese AYCE in Tsuen Wan. Food was okay, but service was horrible. At least it was cheap and I won the bill fight :D. Since the restaurant was so close to home, Tinlop and I got home really early (before 11pm) so we had some wine, chatted and then when he went to bed, I called Meishan and complained about Maurice for an hour. The wine must have done wonders because I was less upset than when I was telling Sandra on the MTR enroute to dinner.

梁生 SMS'd me while I was talking to Meishan and asked if I wanted to do breakfast. I was quite surprised at the offer! (3:30am)