Saturday was a long day, even though I woke up late. Dinner was at the Spaghetti House in TMTP (which on weekends gives life to the metaphor of swimming through crowds). I had angel hair with sun-dried tomatoes and mushrooms—a typical Hong Kong dish, dontcha know. About a quarter-day later, after endless “primping” (to pretty hilarious effect), the girls were ready and about ten of us hit the town, hard.
We exited Central MTR station at 0000 exactly on the 24th, and headed straight for Hardy’s. Country Roads with the full WVU complement (Garrett, Tim, Jessalyn, yours truly) was a hit. Walk the Line was so bad it cleared the place out. So it goes.
We did other stuff too. Most of it will remain lost to history, though I can plug the food at Cul de Sac (yes, in LKF off D’Aguilar St. like everything else). To cut to the end, we left Hong Kong Station on the first train, around 0600, and I turned off my mobile at 0700 when I went to bed.
About seven hours later I was back to inaction. Got laundry done and so on. That evening we went to eat at a hot pot restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui. I got to try the daypass trick (shaving HK$7 off my bill) on the West Rail, which worked smoothly enough. The hotpot dinner was endless and not half bad.
Today, after class and optical wrangling, I headed back to TST for my suit’s second fitting. The pants were perfect, and the suit about 100 lbs. too big. That will be fixed. Afterward I stumbled into the infamous Chungking Mansion where I had the worst cheapest haircut you can imagine. The clippers on the sides and back worked fine, but the top has a mighty long version of finger-length and I’m pretty sure the razor, clipper, and scissors gave me several strains of hepatitis.
But it was HK$40.
I don’t think I’ll go back.
This Thursday I might make it to Macau (though I’m jinxing myself by mentioning it, it seems). Friday evening I leave for a whirlwind tour of Manila. I should probably be doing work now.
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