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2nd Night in Hong Kong in Some Girl's Living Room

Hong Kong really is such a busy place. I haven't had any chance to really rest. I met Alvin at work and he gave me a bit of orientation. I started to shadow his work for the day and he was nice enough to invite me along at night to hang out with his friends who were visiting as was as introducing me to a hookup for a cell phone. This is the first time I have been in the reverse, usually we add a UWO friend into our Waterloo group. One of his friends was also named Freddy making him the 2nd Asian Freddy that I have met. The interesting thing was that out of the 4 of us I was the shortest. I think we were getting quite the attention that night, Alvin and another of his friends I would think girls would find attractive, the other one was the tallest out of us, and I kind gave people a baseline to look at the rest I suppose. After a conversation I had at my last lunch meeting with Gene, Wendy, and Ji Na I decided to try a slide phone. I ended up picking up a Samsung SGH-630C since it was a slightly older model and I could get a good price for it. Nick, the guy who hooked me up out in Mong Kok, managed to get me the phone for $1750 HKD (about $300 CAD). It was pretty tempting to get the Motorola Razor but at close to $4000 HKD it really wouldn't be a smart decision for someone who just got into the country and doesn't even have a place to live. I got to see a little bit of night life in Hong Kong. We went out to eat first at Time Square. There is a nice Japanese restaurant above. I was so surprise to see such a long line up for the elevator. Good thing Alvin can turn on the charm, we got some good smile filled service from the girls working in the restaurant and the food was pretty good. Not a bad start in Hong Kong. After we met up with three other friends of Alvin. I would find out later that two of them worked at readership as well, one of them I actually met before when I was out eating with Erine and Phoebe. We met up with Tina and Jason plus another of Tina's roommates and headed to this Lounge called "Shelter". The waitress (Joyce I think she said her name was) really lit up when she saw Alvin. I met another friend there, a guy named Carlos who was travelling around China. It turns out that Carlos works over at ATI and knows Aaron (my old Waterloo roommate). It really is a small world isn't it? Carlos is a looker as well, we really stood out that night. Anyways, they partied really late and I was stuck with the MTR closed. I still did not know Hong Kong enough to get back to Tin Shui Wai from the island and I was told the Taxi would cost me an arm and a leg because I need to cross over. Not only that I couldn't explain my location in Chinese. So Tina offered to let me stay in her living room. Since Tina was out with her roommate that night it seemed like it would be okay. I met the third roommate the next morning. Actually it was kind of funny, she had wandered out to clean up and use the washroom. I swear she looked right at me but kept walking and I heard her run the water to wash her face. On her way back to her room, she noticed me again, but this time she really noticed me. I didn't explain my situation well which probably didn't help, I started of stammering about how I just arrived in HK less than a week, etc, etc. It all worked out in the end when I said I was Alvin's friend. That was certainly a memorable way to start my stay in Hong Kong.

posted by Tempest7 @ 13:00