Went up to Sheng Shui/Fanling to play with my lovely “kids” PK and Rita today!!! Can you imagine? When I first got to know them at the HKPDS debate camp back in 2007, I was just about to enter university and they had just finished the HKCEE… Now I’m a university graduate, and they’ve already completed their first year of university! How time flies!!!
I dragged PK and Rita to KFC for lunch. And for this I totally blame E Wan, for tempting me with all the pictures of fried chicken she’s been putting up on her Xanga. Ha ha ha. Oh, and the cheese wedges/ criss-cut fries/ whatever-those-potato-things-are were REALLY GOOD. Highly recommended! :D

Sheung Shui market was pretty small, but really interesting. Lots of really fresh-looking vegetables, salted fish and old toys that were probably stocked at least 10 years ago but no one ever got round to buying. I also got really, really excited when I got to see a green taxi, and literally gave a little loud squeal when I saw it, ha ha ha.
Rita brought us to her aunt’s home inside the Sheung Shui walled village- it was a very nice, comfortable home with 4-storeys that seemed bigger on the inside than it looked from the outside. Lotsa mosquitoes though. >,< We also walked around the village and visited the local ancestral hall. Felt so lucky to have Rita with me, cos she knows a lot about the area and gave us a very interesting and educational (!) commentary about practically everything we saw. She even knew the names of the random orange fruit we saw growing on the trees!!! =,=’’’

After that we went back to PK’s home to play with his very cute and extremely intelligent cat. He found this cat under a tree on Pokfulam Road, and brought it home- I think my mum would murder me if I tried to do the same thing, ha ha. Anyway, it was really hard to get a picture with the cat because it was such a hyperactive little ball of energy that simply refused to sit still. Cute!!!

Anyway, I’m feeling really sleepy and am not really in the mood to provide too much commentary. But to sum up, PK went back to hall for Hockey training after that, so we took the train to Mong Kok together. Walked around Langham alone for a while after dinner with PK (wonton noodles), and came across this shop display. Contrast the not-conventionally-attractive middle-aged man with the “sweet young thing” with a deer-in-the-spotlight expression on her face. Clearly the “range” of men who are perceived to be able to “sell clothes” is much wider than how women are “allowed” to look in the fashion industry. Soci Images training just makes stuff like this scream at you, does it not? :)
Aaargh my legs are so tired from all the walking so enough talking... Good night!!!