Weekend Update

I went to Hong Kong this weekend with Da. We stayed at the beautiful and fragrant (I swear, the lobby smelled like ylangylang) Kowloon Shangri-la Hotel in East Tsim Sha Tsui. First we ate a lovely breakfast with all the Eastern and Western delights, then picked up Daniel's suits at Sam's Tailors, which had pictures of celebrities posted all over one wall, including David Bowie! I wonder if Sam remembers what fabric Bowie used...it was probably white.

We took the Star Ferry to HK Island, with it's crazy pedestrian walkways connecting one office building to another. Lunch at a restaurant in Hong Kong Park, then we parted ways and I dropped some serious money on a Nikon Coolpix S8 and various silk goods. I really wanted this mod bashful geisha statue but decided against it. I pictured myself constantly dusting her little bent head...

Hong Kong felt so nice. Historically, it's far from the culture of my Chinese ancestors from Ningbo and Beijing, but its seamless combination of British and Chinese influences sits quite harmoniously with the modern me, big black-haired halfie that I am. If only they got rid of the Cantonese...no I take it back, any language that incorporates such sing-song phrasing is ok in my book. Mmmgoi, la la la!

Now I ask myself, am I really going to keep up the diary entries? They're kind of dry, aren't they. Maybe I need a theme, or at least a method. Alpha-Femmes-at-large? (Gotta give Karen Fu props for the term Alpha Femme. More later.) Musings on Modern China? Hybridity? Travelogue? HOW TO PUT FORTH INVISIBLE UNTOUCHABLE A-MUSINGS?