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Freddy Doesn't Know Chinese

I got a please call this morning from Ma Shi Te. He called to complain why I spoke to his new girl friend (I swear I didn't know) in Japanese. I know he had met some Japanese girls in Toronto and I didn't know he had started to date a new girl recently. Just my luck, she actually studied Japanese before so when she responded in Japanese I thought she was one of the Japanese girls. Anyways he covered it up pretty well and we got a good laugh.

I went to meet up with Raymond, he was teaching an English class and thought it would be good to bring in a native speaker. In order to force them to speak to me in English he told them that I did not understand Chinese at all. Oh sometimes it was hard to keep my expression straight. Their mission was to ask me several questions to get to know me. I could hear them making comments about what to ask and how to ask me. As soon as I started answering they started talking about my accent as well. How do you keep a straight face when you hear them wanting to ask me if I had a girl friend? That was pretty hard, actually they asked me how many girl friends did I have which is a very strange question. The class was a success, I made it fun and interesting and forced them to use English at the same time.

Raymond had to take off but showed me where the Mong Kok computer centre was. I wandered inside looking at prices for an external USB 2.0 harddrive and after taking notes I phoned up Ceci to ask her for her opinion. Since Sham Shui Po was only about 2 stops away I decided to go there to take a look. There really are too many computer stores I had some what of a headache afterwards and actually got sick of looking at computer equipment. In the end I just decided on a "Hi-Speed" external USB 2.0 case ($210 HKD) and a Seagate IDE 200 Gig 8Mb Cache harddrive ($728 HKD). This was within my budget so I was fine with it. I really need the space on my notebook and this would give me a relatively safe place to back up my photos. In 2 months I had collected nearly 5 gigs of pictures.

I stopped off at TST so that I could take the Star Ferry back. I was going to Causeway Bay to meet up with Gloria for dinner but ended up taking the wrong ferry to Central. The view was really nice though, there's still so much of Hong Kong I haven't seen. The boat ride is fairly quick as well and of course it is cheap.

Gloria choose an interesting place to eat. The food was decent and the interesting thing about it is the live singers. There's a pair of Thai girls and a guy who sing live songs (Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Thai) while you sit and eat. They did okay, though some times I couldn't understand the English they were singing. I had a few pictures and songs to share with Gloria and we stayed up until about 5 am chatting away. This should improve my Cantonese.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00