I wouldn’t call everyone I know on facebook as ‘friends’. But these people in the collage? They’re the closest people to me. I hold them near and dear to my heart. I know I can count on them. And I’ll do the same for them.

friends are forever.

I met up with Katie today for some shopping on the other side of HK. First up, Langham Place at Mong Kok! Crazy high ceiling on the lobby level.

Walking around Langham Place was a challenge and a half. So many levels! So many escalators! So many steps! We were so tired just from walking through this building. After some high-class window shopping, we went somewhere cheaper – 新之城. As we walked around, we noticed a lot of the younger girls were eating these noodles from these tiny little baggies. Turns out they were from the main floor! These stands that were just making customized snacks. And they were only $10HKD.

For some even cheaper shopping, Katie and I headed over to Ladies’ Market. There really wasn’t a whole lot of shopping since it was quite touristy there. We really didn’t need any more of those I <3 Hong Kong tshirts. But it's always nice to walk through these streets.

Dinner was at Hokkaido Katsu Sushi, just a random place that we picked. We met up with G+Chi (from Teacher’s) and Charlie+Jackie+Grace. Maybe it was because we went late, the fish really wasn’t that fresh.

G+Chi had to head back earlier to pack since they were going home first thing the next day. Charlie+Jackie+Grace(?)+Katie+me just hung out around Mong Kok. haha so jokes. I forgot how much fun Charlie is and just how random Jackie is. He’s the mini 方大同~！

Went to see The Sleeping Beauty with Ori. Everything was amazing. It took us a while to figure out the story of Sleeping Beauty. The one with the beast? Nope! The one with the dwarfs? Nope! The one with the long hair? Nope! It’s the one with the needle! Ding ding ding! We probably should’ve brushed up on our fairytales and Disney Princesses.

But back to the show, the ballet was really amazing. I loved how extravagant everyone was. Especially the Lilac Fairy. She was SO good at floating around the stage. I thought she was on rollerblades for a second! The wicked witch was also pretty awesome. Her costume was quite over the top. Halloween inspiration! =]

Princess Aurora and her prince charming did an amazing Pas de Duex together. *sigh* I wish I was dancing on pointe again. Things just seem so much better with it’s on pointe!

Anyways, after the show, we crazily hurried around to get dinner. Street food? Nah. Being the crazy sushi fanatics that we are, we hit up Sushi on Bloor for some takeout goodness. Definitely ended the night with a big bang!

Today was a pretty long day. I drove into Waterloo for some quality house-hunting time. Bad idea. Baaaaaad idea. Turns out that it was Laurier’s homecoming football game that weekend, so kids were getting drunk left, right and center. At noon.

And guess where I was house-hunting? That’s right, right across the street from Laurier and close to the football field. Oh, and did I mention that mother nature wasn’t being very nice and blessed us with a horrible thunderstorm? ’twas a great day, indeed.

Thankfully, Jo was able to come out of her studying hole and we spent some time together. We grabbed lunch at our favourite local veggie restaurant, Lotus Tea House, before the house-hunting madness, and took pictures eerily similar to the ones we took last time we were there together. But during my house-hunting, never have I seen her get such a bad case of road rage! She had to drive my car around as I checked out the houses, since there was no parking spot around. Jo’s a trooper for being there!

After that crazy Waterloo morning, I headed back to the quiet peaceful Markham… until Derek came over with a box of fresh oysters! We shucked half the box and brought the other half to his buddy’s place. So yummilicous! (yes, I just said yummilicious. Deal.)

Michelle and I went to see the new Cirque du Soleil in town. It was amazing. The performance was spectacular! And the story was just so adorable. My favourite was probably the couple who aerial danced with ropes. They were absolutely beautiful. Makes me wanna learn it too. And there was also the dude who walked (and biked!) across a wire. holy! i think my heart stopped everytime he attempted to jump!

It’s a great show. Highly recommend it to everyone. Plus, it’s inside the big tent too!

Presenting the fab three, MSO!
Well, we planned to go the Veg Food Fair… but we didn’t make it in time. We helped Mich found (and bought!) a beautiful black dress at FCUK for Marcus’ wedding. I also found this gorrrrgeous blue dress that I’m waiting for it to go on sale to buy. We ended up spending 2, 3 hours at Eaton’s.

After that, we went back to Michy’s (old) place to chill. Got my bags of stuff from Taiwan! whee! =] it was like christmas all over again!

We didn’t eat dinner til late… 9ish. We headed over to 7 West because that place makes the yummiest 24/7 food! To finish off a great night, of course we headed to Dolce Gelato’s! Insane drive trying to head into Little Italy, but the drive was well worth it! =]

Morgan volunteered (or maybe pushed?) to work at the barbeque for us. Mmhmm… and thanks to Ivy, we had some amazing food! Shrimp skewers, garden salad, grilled veggies! Delish!