Is there an app for breathing?
Is there an app for closing your fingers in order to grab something with your hand?
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“You don’t need an app for that!” – by James Mok, 14th Oct, 2010
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Yesterday evening we tried to go to the Elements Mall. The parkade was full and there was no provision for a line up. They basically blocked the entrance entirely and didn’t allow any car in despite having cars leaving. It was around 6pm. So we when for dinner else where and headed back at at around 7:15pm but to no avail.
This morning, we headed there again. We were able to get in. It was around 11am, hardly anyone there. The restaurant we wanted to go was not opened until noon, so we shopped around a bit while waiting for it to open. Shops were empty and nothing worth buying except for a couple of magazines and a novel to kill some time. At 12am we went in.
Inaniwa Udon
asimasen~!
Just like all other Japanese restaurants here in HK, except for the boss of ippei-an of course, none of them could pronounce いらっしゃいませ – irasshaimase properly. It’s like Stephen Chow’s “ehehehah~笨!” Absolutely no courtesy. Utterly destroy the meaning of the word. Might as well shut the F up is my impression always.
We had ordered 2 appetizers and 3 main courses. All came quickly except for my mushroom udon. Well, it doesn’t matter how good the food is, and it was alright, having one main course so late that everything else was done with is simply unacceptable.
When we were ready to leave, it took over 30 min just to get the receipts verified for free parking. The requirements are, you’d need a total of $180 shopping receipts, in that, in order to be qualified for points, you’d need to make purchases of which where it is less than $200 with cash, more than $200 with credit cards. Since there is no way you can make $200 for cash purchase, you can have them added up and averaged to the closest $200. There must be 2 purchases on the same day, one for restaurant one for shopping… add a couple drops of blood from your mother-in-law, 1 garlic, 2 table spoons of your sons saliva….. what, are we on MacBeth, or somethin’?!
As it turned out, points are collected for redemption of other coupons, not for free parking.
So we were supposed to have 3 points collected but the computer would not print out the 3 points on the membership card despite having it registered in their logs and records. Well, in order to kill time one must waste some time, I suppose.
these for your “drives”, perhaps?
Went to the Golden Beach again last Sunday for the third time as well as the Sunday before. I was late last Sunday and only arrived at 9:05am but I was early the Sunday before and arrived at 8:30am, however, it was raining before I got there and there was a black cloud just covering the sun with its edge until about 9:00am before it moved away from the sun so I ended up having almost exactly the same amount of time for my tanning session all three times.
The breeze was a little stronger last Sunday so it was very nice and seemed to have gone by a lot faster than the first two Sundays. I meant to get out of the house much earlier but when I got up at 6:30am it was just poring so I slept in for another hour and a half before I got up again and saw the sunshine. This was just one of those phenomenons where the hot area gets cooled down the rain starts to come until the area gets hot enough to clear away the clouds, I suppose. So getting up earlier in the morning would not necessarily get me more tanning time. And this is already the Tuen Mun area where the sun always shines more than other parts of Hong Kong. I wanted to try the Silver Line Beach where it is much closer to home than the Golden Beach and it faces East for the morning sun but that’s near Sai Kung where the rain always fall more than other parts of Hong Kong.
Besides, unlike the Golden Beach where the beach is right beside the parking lot, the Silver Line Beach is like a 2 million step staircased cliff below the parking lot, which is much too much exercise for beach bumming time, man dude.
BTW, since I am way over the racing brief, never liked the hip hop baggy style that would only fit King Kong, and I am bored of the Ralph Luran Hawiian trunk, I bought a pair of ah…. short “flat-end(leveled leg)” – a la James Bond style swimming trunks in plain Navy Blue instead. Albeit just a Marks and Spencer, not the La Perla Grigioperla Lodato. However, I still have that tiny bit of muffin top (after an alcoholess week and before breakfast) just below my belly button to get rid of but at least the style no longer squeezes every pieces of flesh(fat) out in all of its edges even with a size Small! ‘Though without the Omega, it would be tough to match up with Daniel Craig and impossible to catch up to Pierce Brosnan.
I am on the beach as I write this. Came to the Golden Beach at the Gold Coast for some sunbathing this morning. Obviously, I didn’t bring my computer nor my PDA with me. However, since I had injured my right hand, writing on the Ciak Pocket with the pen that came with it here is not as fun as it should have been.
After losing some weight, I thought I should get a slight tan to go with my physique to be. I don’t want to turn myself into a construction worker look, so some morning sun should do the trick. For those who hate putting on creamy and oily suntan lotion or like me that you too simply can’t get any chick that would rub your back, may I suggest the Neutrogena Fresh Cooling Body Mist Sunblock. It is a spray so you can spray your own back and it leaves the skin cool and non-greasy to the touch a few minutes after application.
I was going to come earlier but by the time I got up and figured out where I could go and then got here it was already 9am. Not many people are here yet and the breeze is very nice and cool. I should come back much earlier next time.
Before the year 2005, I have never ridden the same taxi cab twice. This morning, the strangest thing happened to me. I was on the same taxi cab that I had ridden twice before within 2 years! ie. This is the third time in the same taxi cab with the same female driver. Once to work, once from work, and again this morning to work.
It might have been a little easier if all three times were going the same direction; but both ways? On top of that, a female driver in a male dominant occupation?!
It’s been a while since I have blogged. A lot has been going on lately and have been keeping me busy. Generally, it’s been fun and enjoyable.
First of all, I have been sitting in a course at the Chinese University. The course is Hong Kong and Macau Archaeology. Which is something that I have been interested in general. There have been a couple of field trips with one of which is not directly associated with the course. I took some photos which I have yet to find the time to post process and post.
I have also bought a couple of gadgets so far this month with another one on order. Namely a Mavizen MyBlu iPod remote with Bluetooth for cellphone, a Softbank X01HT PPC cellphone (which is just a variant of the Dopod 838Pro/HTC TyTN) with a Holux M-1000 Bluetooth GPS module, and an Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset that I have reported earlier. So I am busy testing them out. Hopefully I’ll be able to report them here one by one soon.
Incidentally, I am typing this blog out directly with the Softbank PPC via a Wi-Fi connection. It does take some getting used to but the screen is quite good. I think I would skip putting the hyperlinks in until I get back to my real computer though.
Anyway more about them later.
WhaUSay?!