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Pirates of the Carribbean - Dead Man's Chest

I'm starting to get use to the workload again. It isn't easy but it feels like it has gotten a little easier. With kids you need to show a lot of authority initally. The problem is that I need to make sure they like me as well, which increases my marketability.

Working hard six(6) days a week going out Saturday is even more important. Sure I can just go home and relax, but I don't really want my life style to slow down. This past Saturday was my last teaching day at SME in Yau Ma Tei. I've finally finished working at that place. I'm just sick of the late pay and the run-around the accountants give you when you push them. Nearly all of the front line staff has changed. The second time I've seen this in the year (almost) that I've been working there part-time.

Clubbing has been more of a hassle recently. Tiff use to organize events to get out which was pretty good but she's been taking it easy these days (which is good of course) so I've a need to find other people to go clubbing with. Clubbing with Henry is fine, but he's a little inexperienced (ha! experienced clubber?) so the feeling is a little different. He actually called me out earlier this week to go the new club, Club No. 9, with his ex-ex-girl friend but that plan ended up falling apart. That's okay. I took Kendall and my new friend Janice out instead. Agnes and her friends were out at Club No. 9, but she left before I could make it there. We got out a bit late anyways since Kendall was out with his co-workers drinking in Causeway Bay before hand. While walking to Club No. 9 we ran into Agnes' friend Cherie. Cherie and her friends were heading over to Hei Hei so we decided to join them. Almost all the girls in the group are taller than me. My Hong Kong friends keep commenting on how all the people I know seem so tall, including the girls. It was a pretty fun night and I'm glad I went out.

Sunday my tutorial lesson was cancelled. Max's grandfather had past away. I just slept the extra hours and headed over to the gym for a little bit. I had dinner with my ex-coworker Bonnie (one of the new front line staff memembers at SME Education Centre), her friend, Hiroko, and Denise. We had dinner at a Viet restaurant near M1 Bar in TST that's not too bad. Afterwards we rushed to the UA at Mong Kok to watch Pirates of the Carribbean - Dead Man's Chest. The movie was enjoyable to watch but I hated the cliff hanger at the end. Obviously there will be a 3rd movie. I just don't want to wait to find out what happened. I finally realized why it was so difficult for my ex-gf to understand the original Pirates of the Carribbean. The Pirate speech patterns. Hiroko basically counted on the Chinese subtitles to understand the story, most of the English she couldn't understand at all. Luckily I use to sail so most of the terms and concepts were familar to me. If you enjoyed the first one then I recommend seeing this one as well. I thought the first one was a bit better only because there was some closure. Oh well, the 3rd movie will probably be out next year.

I final comment, I want to wish good luck to Irene who's openned up a little shop to test the market for China made jewelry. I have the utmost respect for what she's doing and if anyone is in Lam Tin you can find her little shop (for this week only) on the 5th floor near one of the escalators.

Edit(2006.08.21): Thanks to the anonymous poster for correcting me. So upmost isn't suppose to be a word but dictionary.com still has an entry for it. Anywho, utmost is the correct word that I meant to use. I suppose someone who majored in Math shouldn't be teaching English... I appreciate the correction. Thanks anonymous.

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