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First Home Cooked Meal in Hong Kong

Yesterday was still pretty bad at work. I guess when problems come out it really changes the nature of your relationship. There is a lot of non verbal feeling in the air. Phoebe likes to talk to Phyllis a lot and lucky for me Phyllis isn't taking sides. I try to cover for her when she's slacking and that has helped me a bit. I got paid and finally got it deposited into my Hangseng bank account. Only very specific machines will accept the deposit so I need to make sure I look for the right sign. The system is pretty efficient though, it confuses me why people are still going to the counter. When I signed up for the service they offered me two choices, either I pay a monthly fee and I can update a passbook and I get free usage of the tellers at the counter, or I pay nothing and have unlimited ATM access. If you pay a monthly fee, you need a min account balance, if you only have ATM access that doesn't apply. Not to put the tellers out of business, but the ATMs are just so much quicker and electronic banking is just so easy, I check my balance when I get home after shopping. Are people doing this because that's the only life they know? Even Erine and Phoebe never looked into the ATM banking and electronic banking.

I actually walked over to Forest Hill to deposit my money. My roommate's boyfriend lives near there and they had planned to meet up later. I stopped by the gym there to inquire about the rates. I noticed I've been losing a lot of weight since I came to Hong Kong. It could be because of my new diet here combined with the fact that I just don't get the weight training excercise anymore. I try to do pushups, etc in my room but it is pretty hard and boring for me to do. It is hard to replace the free weights. The sales tactics are pretty similar. When we got there we met with a "consultant" who showed us around and showed us the service. There's a lot of services bundled in including free movie rentals for members. When it came time to bargin the price, we talked and they brought in another person. They tried to sell the one day, one time deal only bit to me but luckily I had other people there who are native and have been at the gym for a while. Looking at it, it might not fit with my budget so I think I need to figure out another way to not end up like one of those skinny HK kids.

Today after work I went over to the Park'N Shop with my roommate for come grocery store action. Buying things are a little different when it comes to veggies and stuff like that. It is interesting how a lot of fruits and veggies are all wrapped up in syran wrap. Since the kitchens are so small here it seems not many people cook at home. Well not that many that I've talked to. On occasions they do, but really nothing extensive. I made a slightly spicey pasta that tasted quite good if I may say so myself! It was nice to eat my own cooking, no MSG flavouring to contend with, and I know basically what is in there. The problem is the kitchen space is hard to work with. Hopefully in the future I can continue this because it taste better, and is cheaper. Just more time involved. My roommate's boyfriend gave me a really good review on the pasta.

posted by Tempest7 @ 00:00