Shopping

Almost time for Ireland. Almost time for Christmas.
Figuring out what to buy people is something I'll never get used to.

beerling

It turns out that beer is stronger than bowling and due to random finger injuries I didn't actually bowl much at all. Instead I made signs and sat on the floor rating everyone's performance.

It was great!

beer and bowling

hello there, How nice of you to drop in and chat.

Less than two weeks till Ireland.
Less kids, more beer and family galore. I'm stoked.

I bought a nintendo ds for sharon as a christmas/anniversary gift. She seems to really love it, which makes me damn happy.

On tonight's agenda:
Sharon's out with friends and I'm off to sha tin after this last lesson for some beer with kachun, gabe and others...then....BOWLING!

sweet!

relax

Yesterday was such a great day. I relaxed, watched Indian Jones and the Last Crusade (I had never seen it before. It's awesome) met Sharon in Kowloon Tong for some ice skating, had some gelato and pizza for dinner and in the morning I tried out some new cantonese and ordered one of my new favourite dishes from a restaurany near my flat. Generally, a very pleasant day.

Oh, Rob and I picked up a big spongy, alphebetical jigsaw mat for our floor. It's not really for us, rather the rabbits. We spent some time last night blow drying the floor where it's starting to stain for rabbit piss. Now the rabbit dwelling section of our flat is lovely and colourful.

Tonight. I want sake, chess and possibly a movie at home.

ahh..

flying VVVVVVV

A couple of weeks ago my band played a charity gig at a youth centre in front of, you guessed it, a load of sixteen year olds. It was a surprisingly a great gig even though I managed to break my bass. Well, now I'm very happy to announce that I am now the proud owner of a brand new, pale creamy yellow, flying V, epiphone bass guitar. It's so good! I of course had no money to even consider getting a new bass. My AMAZING girlfriend, Sharon bought it for me.

Yes, that's right.
Sharon bought me the most beautiful bass guitar I've ever seen.

What she doesn't know however, is that she's bought herself some competition.
lol

oh me oh my

time to go la
bebs

vacation

Booked!

My flight from hk to london is all set for the 18th-4th. Now, all I need is a connecting flight from london to cork.

And, I finally remembered to mail off some postcards that have been hanging around my flat for a few weeks. Sorry for the delay to everyone who's been expecting one much sooner.
If anyone else should want one just let me know.


that's all for tonight!
cheers
brendan

a beaver and a wedding

what a lovely wedding

england or no?

Here's the big one!

Does anyone read this thing? The answer usually would not matter because I enjoy keeping my blog. Now however, I need some feedback.

I'm going to ireland for christmas, and quite excited for it.
I have the chance to go to england for a couple of days after leaving ireland, before returning to hk.

should I go to london?
who the hell do i know that still live in london?
where do I sleep?

not sure not sure not sure
maybe i'll just save london for another time.


responses are welcome....quick....go!

halloween was grand

Sweet corn and mashed potatoes!
Turnip Cake and spring rolls!

yummy food!

I'm not sure why but for the past five days I've had a really dry mouth. It's such a pain in the ass. I keep having to drink more water than usual, which i'm sure isn't all that bad, but the result is a near constant need to know where the closest toilet can be found.

Alright, for halloween gabe, rob, kachun, cora, sharon and I all dressed up and went to a house warming halloween bash for Roy and Andrew. There was plenty of wine and spirits. I stuck to carlsberg for most of the night. When we turned up there were already a lot of people, nearly all lacking a halloween get up. Rob was cheered when he walked in in his full body official scooby do costume. It really was awesome.
I bought a pirate costume that turned out to be too small for me, so I was showing a bit of belly, and the black pants were fairly transparent. nice.
Hong Kong has a long interesting history with pirates. Most of the outlying islands were established by famous pirates who avoided authorities in all eastern seas. Legends. Anyway, I'm positive that I was the gayest pirate to ever walk this land. I brought along a small air pump and a load of narrow balloon's as well and spent a good deal of the night making balloon animals, which was pretty fun.
Gabe was a massive inflatable fire truck. He was too big to even sit down or really move around the flat. When blowing it up with the balloon pump he looked like he was nearing his last breath. kachun was a far classier looking pirate and the gals, sharon and cora were matching chinese ghosts. They were wearing traditional red chinese dresses with long slits of each side, faces painted pure white, red lips and dark black makeup around the eyes. They were actually very freightening.
Taking the train from my place, where we all met, to Jordon was funny.
Some people just ignored ua like nothing at all was out of the ordinary. Others asked us questions or just laughed. As a rule Hong Kong people ignore anything strange or amusing and stare offensivly at more normal things, like western minorities or anything that you happen to be reading.

tartar
mr. harrington

noise and dusty rails.

almost one month from my last update.
sorry

my girlfriend sharon is still in the country 'til late december-january.
my sis changed her mind again so she's staying in australia.
she changes her mind a lot. bad for work, good for life.

lately i've been joining the kids when they play with toys. animals and lego make me feel good. sitting on the floor is a must as well.

this past weekend was rockit festival. My band didn't make it. oh well. I went and had more fun than i could have expected.

Shaun has been payed off finally. I owe gabe a bit now but i've been grabbing extra classes this month so everything will be fine next month.

I'm daydreaming more. Doing less. I feel light in my chest. I can't wait for ireland.
I want a new adventure.


thank you
brendan