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A New Suit

I didn't get much sleep last night, just out of habit I woke up just before 11 am. I ended up getting on my computer copying files over to my new 200 Gig drive. It feels nice to have space again and the notebook doesn't seem slow anymore.

I met up with Gloria over at Tai Koo Shing. We went to eat at the Macau style restaurant there. There was some sort of meat inside our dish and I stopped one of the waitresses to ask what it was. She couldn't answer, surprisingly the next person she stopped couldn't answer either. The manager ended up coming out to tell us. I didn't really intend for it to be a big deal. Just for the record it was Polish sausage.

We walked over to Cityplaza so that I can look at more suits. We hit up Rudolph first where Bernard picked up his suit. The suits that were left really didn't fit me. There's so many little details to look at I've learned. I went to Playlord thinking they would have some decent suits but it turns out that their material is really cheap. I felt it looked cheaper than G2000. We headed over to Gay Giano and met up with Gloria's sister. They were so nice spending a couple of hours literally watching me try on suits and shirts. The cuts were really nice the price was right pretty much the same price as G2000 but the material was 100% wool. I ended up looking for a dark gray pinstripe suit. The hard part comes with picking the size. A 46 fits me well but it is tight. A 48, their next biggest size, fits me loose and doesn't have the same feeling as the 46 according to my panel of fashion specialists. Of course since this is the end of summer sale this was the last jacket so I don't have much of a choice. I'm a little afraid of the fact that I seem to have lost a lot of weight coming to Hong Kong. I ended up with an interesting dress shirt as well and we picked out a nice tie to go with the whole suit. Over all the price for a suit, a nice dress shirt, and a tie came out to $2073 HKD. This is well within my budget for a suit so I am happy.

So much time had passed picking out the suit that I totally forgot about a previous engagement with another friend. I felt bad that I had to postpone but I thought I owed Gloria a meal for spending so many hours helping me out. I couldn't decide on where to go and actually I've been sick of all the MSG in Hong Kong recently. I decided to cook something simple for her since she has never had a guy cook for her before. Linquine, Shrimp, Brocolli, Tomatoe sauce. She has apparently cooked noodles in the past for her ex-bfs and they never turned out well, so I let her watch and taught her the basics about cooking noodles al dente!

I thought my bad luck was turning but it paid me another quick visit. I ended up losing my reciept for the new suit some how between the time we bought the suit and by the time we got back to my place. Good Grief.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00