thirty something days of no classes, no schedules, no temptations, and no homies...
now, in a situation like this what do you do? well let me tell you what i've been doing.
this past month, i have not been clubbing and have not been partying like i used to. i've used this time to relax and just lay back and do absolutely nothing. yes, NOTHING. wake up after the sun has risen and about to fall. take a shower when i want to and not need to. eat what's left over from last night/two nights ago or use everything in my fridge to cook up something new. i mean.... how much more nothing could you get?
well i took a break for about a week. and went on a nice family vaca. to korea.
hong kong--->busan--->kyungju--->seoul--->hong kong
cabbages survive in the cold.
crab cooking on a mini grill? mini grill...
so now, what have i really been doing to pass the time?
reading endless issues of HK Mag. Going straight for Dan Savage, Mr. Know-it-All and of course the horoscope section. oh how i love reading my horoscope. who know's what it is, its just a comforting blurb for the mind and soul that generalizes all of you who know what your zodiac sign is. and have you ever read through the whole page? through all the blurbs for the different signs? they all sound the same.
Well no differently, today i started flipping through the HK Mag issue i picked up last night after a night out with some people from high school. I didnt stay. can you guess why? Anyways, so woke up and looked at the cover. unlike other issues, there were no little sneak peeks at the articles inside so i opened it right up.
Page 5 carries a column titled "Last Week in Reality". Now I'm trying to decide which one of these are REALLY worth your time to read about. The first baby born in Hong Kong on January 1st of 2009? Maybe... but hey! this baby was carried from mainland China to Hong Kong so the mother could give birth to the child here. Why? So they could bypass the one-child policy in China. Yay for the first 2009 baby of Hong Kong who isn't even a local.
What really catches my eye is this small box on the corner of a page that is titled in bold letters "WTF?!" I start to wonder what this is about, i read through... Now, Hong Kong is pretty known for organized and well displayed protests. This time, around 100 people were planning a protest in front of a hospital regarding an old man who collapsed at the doors of this hospital. When his son asked the hospital workers to aid his father and treat him, the hospital told this man to call 999, the emergency number. WHAT? alright... well good job hospital you did quite an amazing job and doing your job. instead of giving this old man immediate care they let him die at their doors. shocking right? so this protest was supposed to be on new year's day. well........ our protesters were too hung over from the partying the night before. that only 5 out of the expected 100 showed up.
Five exciting things I found in this issue:
1. Chic Corea and John McLaughlin Five Piece Band in Hong Kong
2. An evening with David Byrne Live- featuring the songs of Talking Heads and David
Byrne/Brian Eno.
3. Mogwai in Hong Kong
4. "My Blueberry Nights" and "The Piano Teacher" now playing in Arthouse.
5. An advertisement put out by the Fringe Club displaying the words "Open for Ideas".
