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Chinese Lessons in Causeway Bay

My roommate has had a nasty case of red eye for a couple of days now. I went with her to see the doctor today. The examination was interesting, I was surprised to see the old fashion flashlight but I suppose it is functional. It doesn't look good for my roommate, there's some sort of scaring tissue or cloudiness building underneath her eye. Another interesting thing about the system is the lack of phramacies. You pick up your medicine right at the doctor and most of the time he's handing out antibiotics like they're going bad and he needs to reduce inventory. My father mentioned it is a viscious cycle in Hong Kong, people just want the best and they're willing to pay money for it. They don't bother educating themselves and they want the quick fix solution so if the doctor does the proper thing and withholds antibiotics until it has really be determined that it is nesscary to use it then the patient will feel as if they aren't getting the best treatment, they'll take their business else where.

I went out on my own afterwards and walked from North Point to Causeway Bay. In Causeway Bay I got ahold of my new HK tour guide Ada and made arrangements to met up in a little bit. I found this place call Franc Franc which sells some really nice household items and furniture. a really nice magazine rack came to about $680 HKD. I went to Ikea again afterwards to look for more things for my room. Met up with Ada and we went out to eat in the area, afterwards we headed over the Time Square. Time Square was getting crowded. Apparently there was some sort of promotion going on for the new Initial D movie. I suppose some of the stars were coming out and people were lined up all over the place. It was even raining slightly. A picked up another set of Adidas wrist bands, this time black and was in search for a particular style of polo shirt. We ended the evening meeting up with Kobe and finding a dessert restaurant to talk about the different lifestyles. I'm slowly filling up my little learning journal. I learned a couple of silly Cantonese idioms today I just can't type them out yet.

posted by Tempest7 @ 14:00