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I can count from 1 to 999 in Cantonese. Yat, yee, sam� And I can say �thank you� and �here� and �there� and a few others like �how much� and I can�t remember what else. Nobody was willing to teach me swearwords, so any offer of lessons would be appreciated. You only truly know a language when you learn how to swear.
I vaguely remember a shoe shop in Causeway Bay where my mother and sister went on the *thinks* second(?) day to buy shoes. They were inside for the good part of an hour while an enthusiastic salesman ran to the storeroom and back with amazing speed to get them shoes which fitted. He looked so satisfied with himself! And finally they were satisfied and he took the shoes� And they decided to NOT buy the shoes and walked out, leaving him staring in disbelief. He did give a name card of some sort in the hope of luring them back� But we never went back, and he died of a broken heart� joking.
Ohyes! HK isn�t really the shopping paradise it�s supposed to be� But Shenzhen to the north is. Haha. They sell fakes at an enormous shopping complex there. And they even have different grades of fakes! D, C, B, A, AA� Doesn�t that remind you of something�.? MY sister bought AA ones of course. Nike Shox. It�s amazing. They cost like about twice the normal amount but look exactly like the real thing� Haha. And you have to bargain like mad. From HK2200+ to HK650 and we could have got 600. for 4 pairs.
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Honestly, the trip got better in the last few days because we spent more time with relatives over there. There�s actually quite a lot of them there, and they�re very nice. And their children are so cuuuteee! I�ll post pics ASAP�
Oh yes. We were at Macau at some famous fort place. And they had these pay-to-use enormous binoculars. So I was pretending to look thru the wrong end and then Kat and I walked off and left it like that.. And an Asian guy came and actually looked through them that way. Then he turned them around and looked thru the correct side. Obviously he still couldn�t see anything (there wasn�t any money inside) so he looked thru the wrong side again. He stood there looking bewildered until his friends came along and pointed out the coin slot. I think he went rather red, but It might just have been the 18�C temperature.
Overall it was rather fun. More next time.
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Funny how when you hate someone you just keep trying to convince yourself how nice they are.
written at 7:09 p.m.
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