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Canada Day! Oh and Happy HK SAR Establishment day

Was at work with the new energetic Rosalind. She's fun to have around though and has be helpful to me since her Chinese is so much better than my own. She told me that on Canada Day there's a party down in Lan Kwai Fong. I hear some time ago this is where all the foreigners and ex-pats go to hang out. I also hear the prices are jacked but since I don't drink alcohol maybe that won't be a problem. Part of my goal coming into Hong Kong is to improve my Chinese. I have made a focus to hang out with native Chinese speakers but after a month I have this small feeling growing inside of me.

I miss Canada.

Maybe because I'm extroverted, I don't have that many friends here. I should consider joining a group of some sort maybe. I have a few that I try to hang around with. Priscilla is usually busy and I should find Raymond more but he lives out in Kowloon or New Territories I'm not sure which but it is off HK island. So aside from hanging out with my boss and her boyfriend, I end up hanging around Patsy's friend Ada who lives fairly close to me. Not the same close feeling I have in Toronto, I miss you guys.

Well I thought Canada Day was the best day to go down to that area for me. I haven't even been out to Central yet so I called Ada up after work and met her at her traditional meeting place outside Sogo. I've been talking about Nachos recently and was looking for materials to make it. The typical supermarkets (Wellcome, Park'n Shop, etc) don't seem to stock plain tortilla chips. I wandered down under Sogo with Ada and we spent so long in the market. There's a lot to see and then we went to eat Shanghai food down in one of the restaurants. We were sitting around eating and her friend just got off work and came to join us. I was introduced to Gloria who apparently is her friend from primary or secondary school. Unlike the typical HKer she guessed I was Korean instead of Japanese. My Chinese must be pretty bad.

So off we headed first to chat at a Starbucks and then we hopped on a light bus and headed down to Lan Kwai Fong. Once we got out, the party was in full bloom. The streets were just packed with people of mixed nationalities. It felt a little like Ottawa on Canada Day except there were a lot more Asians this time around. The strange thing was I kept hearing people that said they were some how connected to UW. A lot of Canadian born Chinese there. We ended up going to this night club to meet up with Gloria's friends. They don't call it a club actually, club has a bad meaning here, they call it a disco. So we went to disco with her friends at this place called Edge.

The review? Sorry, Hong Kong people don't know how to party. They are so up tight in there it is worst than Canadian clubs. At least in Canada you get the majority of girls willing to loosen up and dance. Some guys get in on the action as well. Hong Kong the people are packed in there and there just doesn't seem to be a good feeling. I was scanning the room for groups or people who were livelier and had more energy but there were only a few foreigners. I tried talking to this one guy who had the cowboy Canadian hat on and it turns out he wasn't even Canadian. It was a pretty expensive night at $220 HKD to get in and $30 HKD for checking in my bag at the coat check. But I still had fun, I learned a lot from Trina, Warren and the Sarnia party kids. When it comes to clubbing and partying that is where most of my memories were at. Oh, I also ran into someone I haven't seen in ages. Tracy Tong or aka Tracy Wang. Yup, the rumors were true she dumped Kevin and married Clark. Ah, who knows why things work out this way I have my own opinions about this but Tracy is a good girl. The strange thing is, when she briefly ran into me at the club she said I haven't changed one bit. So in maybe the 9 years we haven't seen each other I went full circle back to the way I was before? Hair getting longer again and back to the t-shirts. Actually, maybe that is right.

Gloria's friends ditched early but we stayed for a while longer. I mean we paid good money for this. We went out for a late night snack afterwards and I ran into Priscilla there. Chatted with her for a bit and went back to my table and chatted to the break of dawn or nearly that. We ended up wandering around trying to find a place to take a taxi since there were lineups for taxis everywhere. Got home around 4 am. It was a fun night I think, I haven't done this in a while.

Happy Canada day, oh and whatever HK SAR establishment (return to China) day.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00