HK - My Pickups

Finally had some time to type this down and use the camera. Thought I should share a few pics =D

Bought a couple The Brilliant Green albums, but couldn't find the remaining two.


Toy models and art supplies are so cheap in HK. These should last me a few years.


I knew I had to buy this shirt, when I first laid my eyes on it, I busted out laughing. This was from Freshjive@Silvercord. Came with a piece of poo as a bonus...yes its plastic.


Candy! Love the packaging on the sour skittles. Look at the mentos too, individually wrapped lol. Should have bought more though, because I'm out already!


Picked up a couple of fresh kicks...


...to add to my collection.


Insoles galore.


Can't go home without the anime stuff. All from MK and money eating toy dispensing machines.




That's all I got time for for now, more to come later.

HK - More Adventures

Ah, I've been back from my trip for almost a week now. Jet lag has been following me around but other than that, its all good. HK was awsome, and for now I declare it the greatest city in the world. Being sick the last few days in HK totally bummed me out though, I could have done a lot in that time. Anyway, here are some more stories from my two week stay.

1. Normally I'm not big fan of thrill rides and that was still the case when it was decided that we would be going to Ocean Park for a day. My cousin Amy was all pumped up and ready to attack all the trill rides at the park. Although I was a bit embarrassed that a kid 6 years younger than me wasn't scared at all, I knew that nobody could force me onto one of those things even with a gun pointed to my head. This "thrillride-phobia" started a couple years ago when my friends forced me on a ridiculous number of thrill rides in my first time at Wonderland. I remember finally refusing to go on anymore mechanical rides when they wanted me to go on the horrific looking Topgun. It wasn't because I was actually REALLY scared of the rides, screaming like mad made that go away, but I just didn't like that unpleasant feeling of my insides turning during a big drop. Anyhow, when I actually got to Ocean Park I found that the rides were NOTHING compared to those at Wonderland. I was enjoying the rollercoaster rides and actually waving my arms on some too, weeeeeeeeeee. I thought the main attraction though at Ocean Park was the artificial "Ocean" where visitors walk through a path where glass basically separates you from a sea of marine life form chilling in their artificial environment. Hopefully I'll get a few pics of that up when I get a chance.

2. Besides Mongkok, I also spent two days walking around Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) and Causeway Bay. The Pacific Mall at TST was huge compared to the one in Scarborough. One of the stores that caught my eye was Heroic Rendezvous. I liked their designs but the clothes all seemed to be for females only. The weird thing is, I saw Jay Chou wearing it when I was browsing through an asian magazine later...I guess I should have looked harder. There was also a place in TST called the Silvercord Centre where I spent a good few hours. Double Park in Silvercord and all the stores connected to it (by what seemed like holes freshly made by a wrecker) stood out to be one of the best spots I visited. There was also a neat store that featured a conveyor belt with t-shirts designed by different artists hung on it at the front window. Causeway Bay was just across the sea from TST, you can take the ferry or the MTR to get across. There was a place called Ginza Plaza that had this tiny hidden entrance, I walked past it like five times before realizing it was there. Once inside there were a maze of tiny shops but they carried a lot of good stuff so it was worth it. I also wanted to find 852 Skateshop which took me forever...it turned out to be on the second floor of a residential building. Popstar Edison Chen's store "Juice" was also on the upper floor that required me to get past a gate guarded by like three people so I could go up the stairs. As you can see, I had a real hard time getting around Causeway Bay! Finally, there was a store in Times Square which sold Mickey Mouse stuff that had the coolest looking doorway but when I tried to take a picture an employee told me I couldn't lol. Unfortunately, they also sold only girl stuff...which I found to happen a lot in HK...either that or they didn't have my size. Other than MK, TST, and Causeway Bay, I went to a whole bunch of other places but I don't even remember any names now. Although I didn't get to hit all the places I wanted to (I would probably need another two weeks to do that), I still a a great time shopping in HK. One thing I regret not doing though was buying more stuff...I realized I hardly bought anything when I unpacked my luggage!

3. We were planning to see the laser show at HK harbor one night after dinner. For some reason we ended up a this mall before going and when it was time to go, we couldn't pry my mom away from her crazy shopping habits. So some of us, including me, ditched her and hopped on a taxi. The ride was quite exciting, as we were basically plowing through a sea of pedestrians to get to our destination. The laser show itself was very cool. It consisted of the many buildings along HK harbor lighting up and shooting lasers together in sync, not something you see everyday. Afterwards we walked along the harbor enjoying the HK night scene. The temperature was perfect, there was a nice breeze, it was great.

4. The view of HK in the air is breathtaking. I was lucky the weather was good when my return flight took off, because it must have been at least five minutes that I was able to look down at the highly developed city. All I saw was an endless mass of building, most I'm assuming are for residential purposes. I couldn't take my eyes off the window until HK disappeared under me once we were high into the clouds. I miss it already.

HK Day 3,4,5

I've been shopping for the last few days, mainly in Mongkok. Surprisingly, I went home with very little stuff! There are just too many shops at Mongkok! I spent an entire day shopping on ONE street which consisted only of sneaker shops! I was completely overwhelmed by the amount of shops and the incredible amount of people shopping all on one street! I think I should just buy whatever I want in the first shop I enter instead of going deal hunting lol. I found that I spent a lot on food since it is actually pretty cheap here. $6CAD got me a huge pork chop dinner with soup and dessert, not bad considering I was completely stuffed three quarters of the way though.

HK is CLEAN. I noticed it when I was making a trip on the Westrail (subway). At first I thought it was a little weird that there was no garbage on the ground, then I tried really hard to look for some litter but there wasn't even a scrap of paper! Apparently, there is a law against eating on the transit system and littering in public can result in a fine. Take note Toronto...although no eating on the bus/train might be going a bit too far.

BTW, the weather here is great. It has been around 20 degrees celcius and quite humid for the last few days. I'm guessing the weather in Toronto is probably...cold. Glad I'm here.

HK Day 2

Ahahah I now have access to all the asian junk food I love without having to pay the rediculous prices that are set in Canada. It is so convientent having a supermarket right under my apartment, all the food I want is 2 minutes away. My diet so far (besides the Xmas dinner) has been chips, "Selfheal Fruit-Spike Drink", ice cream dumplings, and many more unhealthy goodness.

Today was more of a siteseeing day since my mom was flanked by jet lag and wasn't taking it too well. With her at home my cousins and I went to play some snooker at the club, golf at the driving range, and hit the beach for an evening walk.

Dinner was with the family again. I realized that I was already getting sick of chinese food. There are too much vegetables and seafood...which I don't normally eat at home (although veggies I am forced to eat haha).

Cosmic bowling was next on the agenda. It was also very convinent becuase it was in the apartment facilities! I haven't bowled for so long I came out with sore fingers on both my hands.

Tomorrow will be the start of my shopping spree!

HK Day 1

Check it out, a blog update finally lol. Anyways, this entry is being typed in Hong Kong at the moment because that's where I am right now! This blogger site is actually in chinese and I'm having trouble figuring out what the buttons are...I already deleted this post twice clicking the wrong button.

The flight was long, I had a lot of trouble staying in my seat for 14 hours. I would have slept but I couldn't for some reason. By the time I reached HK, I had one hour of sleep. Add that to the time difference and what you get is servere jet lag. I'm adapting quite well actually thanks to this trip being right after my exam period where I've already been in "jet lag" mode for two weeks.

I met with my relatives after getting off the flight. It was nice meeting them again after so many years. It was also a bonus my uncle speaks good english, if it wasn't for him my life would be really difficult. At that point I was so tired that I could barely keep my eyelids open but I had a Christmas dinner to attend, so once again I turned to my friend Coffee for help.

The HK transit system is amazing, and I've only been here for one day. I swear, they have everything worked out. It runs beautifully, its like magic. TTC cannot even be compared to this.

I dropped in bed like a rock when dinner was over. After nine hours of sleep, I was (temporary) recharged. Day two here I come!

SamBakZa

I found two flash movies the other day. It's about a cat and a bunny. I love it. Check it out:
Ddautta
Cakedance

derek deletes his life away

The lack of sleep last week must have done a number on me. I was formatting the computer a few days ago because I got some stupid virus. This is the result of my laziness. I'm just always asking for trouble. Everytime I reinstall windows I never set up the anti virus program. Even if I do, I never let it scan my hard drive or update the virus definitions. Anyways, I chose a partition to format and went through all the monkey business. Fast forward to 2 hours later. I wanted to open up a word file so I went to my d drive to look for it. I immediately noticed two things that was horribly wrong. First, I had 50 gigs of free space. Second, there was nothing on my d drive. To sum things up, I had screwed myself by selecting the wrong partition to format. All my mp3s , high school assignments (I was proud of them), videos, and ridiculous things I have downloaded over the past few years were all gone! omfg. The worst thing is, I could do nothing about it! Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of my shocked face to show to the world (the "world" is in fact the 4 people that actually know about this blog lol). Anyways, burn everything you download. Don't be like derek.

helloz iam dereek and i wantz anotha studii breakkk.