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this is a picture of the mtr (subway system) in hk. i guess they were showing arthur when i was there. the one thing i love about the mtr is that it's ridiculously clean for a subway system in a major city.

i'm at the library again. i froze a computer earlier so they decided to move me to one that has windows and is in english.

after i left the coffee shop yesterday, my parents wanted to eat out. they tried calling my grandparents to see if they wanted to come along as well. my mother couldn't reach them, so we decided to go home for dinner. on the way home, my grandmother called and said that she was in the showers earlier. a little later we all got into a taxi and headed out to dinner at some chinese restaurant.

it was very good. they had sliced pieces of roasted goose and some small oyster fried in eggs, two of my favorite dishes. we also had some pig intestines which was interesting. after dinner, we rushed home to catch the detective show. at this point, the detective is investigating some cult that forced girls into prostitution by giving them "holy juice."

my dad went to see the doctor yesterday. every since his operation, where they removed a kidney and part of his bladder and urethra, he's been complaining that different parts of his body hurt. so finally we got him to go see a doctor, and the doctor told him that he's doing fine. that he should do some light exercises like walking and swimming. maybe some jumping jacks as well. but nothing too stenuous. my dad has this fear that he's going to die because the surgeons didn't get all the cancer out. but the doctor yesterday told him that he shouldn't worry about that. medically, they've done everything they could in getting all the cancerous junk out, but who knows what will happen. he continued by telling my father to just enjoy life and not worry about it any longer. i guess that gave him a new outlook on life.

on our way home, he mentioned that he wanted to go on a short trip to singapore, malaysia and indonesia with my mum and i. it's kinda weird having that coming from my dad. i would much rather they take the trip by themselves and not involve me. i'm perfectly comfortable being in hk rather than having to travel to southeast asia. we'll see.

it's kinda funny how i'm blogging more than i do when i'm at home in the states.

i don't think i can survive here in hk if i have to live here the rest of my life. i don't know how people do it. i look at the all the foreigners out here and i think to myself, boy, i can't imagine having to live here for money. i mean, can anyone really honestly say they love living here? it's hot, humid, crowded and dirty. sure there are good parts about hk. it's not like completely horrible. but if i had a choice, this wouldn't be the place i would chose to be living in.

it's time to go have lunch now.