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After a fantastic buy we walked across the street to Cobby’s favourite brand – Adidas! There we got Cobby a beautiful backpack – he loved it SO much he kept showing off the everybody that night.
We strolled along aimlessly and found ourselves at the harbor!
It was a little wet and cloudy as they were expecting a typhoon soon, but it still seems fine to us, so we leisurely strolled along the harbour. Sis wanted to meet us for dinner, so we hung around at a nearby Starbucks to wait for her to knock off.
At around 4.30pm, we were in the middle of our tea and chocolate molten cake when suddenly Sis called us. “The radio has announced that they were going to declare a category 8 typhoon at 6pm! Ok I want you two to get into a taxi immediately and go home NOW!” So we quickly finished up our tea, hopped onto a taxi and went straight back to sis’s apartment.
You see, in Hong Kong, if they declare a category 8 typhoon, everybody gets to go home. So when EVERYBODY gets off from work at the same time, it would be impossible to get into a bus or train. So thanks to our early warning, we got home nice and easy. Sis wasn’t so lucky, she had to fight the other commuters, buy dinner and brave the wind and rain before getting back.
We were worried how our parents were supposed to travel back from their China trip that night, but after much difficulty, they managed to get home, safe but wet. So after dinner we all hung around the living room watching TV, chatting and viewing the crazy wind and rain from the windows. Even though we didn’t get to visit much places today, it was eventful enough.
The next day, the typhoon has stopped, but the skies were still quite cloudy, so we opted for an indoor outing today. Mom accompanied us to this new shopping centre at the Tung Chung (東涌) MTR Station where there were several factory outlet stores!
There’s even a Food Republic Food Court there. So we shopped around and had our lunch there. Half way through eating, the rain came pouring down like mad again, but it’s quite cool because we can see people running frantically outside from the dry comfort behind the glass windows of the food court. Haha… So evil…
On the way back mom asked us if we wanted to check out this new Olympic station (just one stop away). Actually with the rain and everything, I really wasn’t interested. But since it’s along the way, we just stopped by and take a look. When we were there we found hundreds of people of all ages queuing outside some local bank. We thought it was some freebies giveaway or something, but we found out later that night that apparently some idiot was spreading rumours via sms, saying that the bank was in trouble and closing down and you won’t be able to get back your savings.
Naturally, it caused a nationwide panic where people rushed to withdraw ALL the money from their accounts. So when so many people withdraw money at the same time, of course the cash in the banks would run out right? When that happened it caused even MORE panic – You can almost hear the panic. “THE BANK HAS NO MORE MONEY!!! DIE!!!” Yah, you can imagine.
Anyway, other than the chaos and not so interesting shopping center, there’s nothing there. So we decided to head home instead. On the way home mom brought us to the neighborhood wet market. It was quite an eye-opener really! The market is like our typical wet market, but, interestingly, it’s air-conditioned, and it doesn’t smell so bad!
The produce there is amazing! I’ve never seen a wet market with such variety, freshness and huge vegetables! (are they on steroids or something) And the seafood section is not for the faint hearted. Almost all the fishes are alive and kicking and swimming. They also have those huge deep sea fishes, where they would chop it up and display for sale. Confirm fresh. How do I know? Well, you can SEE it’s HEART still beating among it bloody insides!!! Gross…
So mom bought some fish and we ate a wonderful home cooked meal that night. Sigh… It has been SO LONG since I ate mommy’s cooking that I ate 2 servings of rice! What a wonderful way to end the day.
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