HK Shopping List and A Few Other Things

For when I go to HK, my shopping list so far includes:

• Camera - small & compact, high megapixel, video function. My brother does have a camera which I borrow on occasions to use, but it'll be nice to have one of my own.
  
• MP3 Player - (Dru has my iPod Mini at the moment) cute and small, holds a lot of songs. This item is still a +/- for me, as I'm not really sure whether I would use an MP3 player all that often. Obviously I'll have to really convince myself that I'll use it before I could convince myself to spend the money.
  
• Puzzles - I know this is weird but the last 2 times I went to HK, I came back with some really nice jigsaw puzzles which came with their own mounting frames and everything! It was cheap(ish) and these puzzles look really nice. The ones that you can buy here look dodgy, doesn't come with a frame and are expensive.
  
• Clothes
• Shoes
• Jewellery

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure when I'm over there, I'll be buying stuff left, right and centre.

Oh and the food in HK.... *yum!* Japanese food over there is brilliant (the places I've been to anyway), the food is innovative and interesting, the Maccas over there even sell iced lemon tea and fried chicken wings, KFC sell really yummy chicken rice dishes and Pizza Hut have new "toppings" on their pizzas all the time. I guess they just cater to the Asian population over there...

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On the way home today, an ambulance passed by with its sirens blaring and watching everyone in the fast lane panicking to move into the slow lane to give way to the vehicle, it reminded me of an experience I had in peak hour once.

We were on Parramatta Rd (near Burwood) going towards the city at around 8-8:15am. Normally at around that sorta time period, the road is heavy with traffic and that day was no exception. We were travelling in the fast lane when suddenly, we hears police sirens wailing on behind us, so we moved in to the middle lane to allow the police car to pass by. My friend (being a quick thinker) quickly pulled back out into the fast lane behind the police car and wah-la! we were nicely cruising along behind the police vehicle, moving quite well through traffic, instead of being stuck in a traffic jam. That was smart, wasn't it? I wouldn't have thought of it myself.

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I had a case of a cat today, which was so constipated that it actually vomits when it tries to poo. The poor little thing. At least it didn't have some other fatal disease which would kill it, I suppose. Better to be constipated than to have renal failure or something like that!

Interesting, isn't it? *hehehe*

It's difficult to think of something really interesting to talk about when you're stuck in a place all day, no access to internet, and just looking at animals all the time.

Tomorrow is my day off (I have Wednesdays rostered off), and I'm just going to go shopping with my friend. Luckily she recently started getting Wednesdays off so now I have someone to go out with!

Last Wednesday, we went out to the city and got our hair "done". I just got my hair coloured and my fringe cut, and she got her roots coloured, got a cut and a treatment as well. I spent $110 just on my colour and fringe and my friend spent $210. I promised myself I won't be getting my hair done again until I go back to HK. Last year when I went to HK, I actually paid HK$700 (which is equivalent to around AUD$120) for: colour, treatment, straighten, cut, shampoo and blow dry. Look at how much more I got for my money in HK!!!! Although I did spend like 5-6 hours at the hairdresser. The hairdresser was really cute though..... And my hair to this day is still really straight and nice, and really long now too, it's already down to my lower back. Thought about cutting it, but I always do then I regret it, so this time I'm holding off.

One day I'll cut it.... Maybe.... One day.....