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Fortune Telling Street

Well even though Alvin stopped working at Readership he managed to stop by today to visit his kids. When the kids ask where "Mr. Alvin" is I end up drawing a goofy picture on the board to represent him. It was fairly busy towards the end of class, we had a few surprise teachers come in from South Africa and New Zealand who were interviewing with Pheobe. One of them lost their portfolio and we spent a fair amount of time after work searching Readership for it. They were apparently teaching in China and happen to come to Hong Kong for a quick vacation. The guy managed to find it downstairs in the art store right beside our building.

After work I went out to meet up with Carman and her friends. She happens to be in Hong Kong as well, infact she came to Hong Kong the same time that I did. I met up with her at Jordan MTR station and then me her friends. They have a tendency to wander off and do their own thing. We headed down to Ya Ma Tei to shop and over to Temple Street. They hung around long enough for me to buy 4 t-shirts, one of them a cool pixel art SD street fighter t-shirt. I'm sure my brother will love it, I've been on the look out for t-shirts to get him since he stole all my old t-shirts Kel bought for me in HK. Of interesting note, one of Carman's friends pointed us in the direction of this street where they were selling many sex related toys. They put up a cardboard square infront of their face to shield customers or to sheild their identiy from potential customers. It was pretty strange to see, and I don't know how safe that stuff is.

Temple street was interesting. A street filled with these Palmstry stands and fortune telling stalls. We spent a fair amount of time just wandering around looking and listening in. I don't know what kind of people really believe this stuff here. I guess people like to go for fun. Carman and her friends were set on finding a place to try so they went around and we looked at each "portfolio" of pictures. They post pictures on the side with them up in the temples with other monks or them with some famous actors. There were a couple of cute girls in the area though so I wasn't totally bored. They finally settled on possibly the oldest guy there and he read nearly the same fortune to them as he read to some other girls before us. It was an interesting experience and still a productive night since I managed to get a few t-shirts.

Oh, and my dinner that night was at the 7 Eleven. This was the first time I bought something from the store to "ding" in the microwave there. It wasn't good.

posted by Tempest7 @ 01:00