Not updating my blog for more than a month, quite a few changes in my life recently, and have been pretty busy to cope with my new routine. We moved away from the affluent, expat area in Mid-Level in Hong Kong island and moved to the grass-root, traditionally considered working class, gangsters fighting, prostitutes standing at the corner area in Kowloon. It is in the heart of the business, tourist frequenting district - cheap food, shops, and every day life stores.
It is very different from Mid-level where only English speaking Expat lives (of course, Some Chinese love to live there as the symbol of status), I think the Maids are speaking better Cantonese than the Madam in most households. The expats are not interested in local culture, language or food, hence they have re-created (or the market has created the shops to cater for them) another English speaking neighborhood.
Yau Ma Tei, where we moved to, is completely opposite - all shops are doing things selling stuff making foods for locals. Not the best quality of air nor the view (our apartment has pretty good view though, we can see far out to the west end of the Kowloon peninsula and get some sea view when the air is clear) but it is full of life, full of actions - I have not yet tired of walking around this area day or night. It is right next to an independent movie theater, and temple street where the famous clay pot rice is. I can walk to Kowloon park swimming pool where the boy club sometimes showing off their oiled bodies under the sun (Jon and I sometimes giggled behind their backs).
The commute to work is much more pleasant because the train is very reliable (I used to commute by bus back to mid level, believe me, you wouldn't want to walk the hill after a days of work in the hot summer evening).
Oh my hair has never been this long in my life, the good thing about it is that I don't need to wash it every day because it takes too long to dry. I think I save a lot of water and shampoo.
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