20150531
Ethos
Have been itching to visit Ethos (actually it's ethos without the capitals, but I'm going to capitalise it for the aesthetics of my own blog because I'm anal like that) for the longest time since it opened, but I knew I wanted to camwhore like crazy there but on the weekends, it's always full of people. Obviously I couldn't go during the weekdays because I work 9 to 6 in an office. In May, I couldn't take it anymore, so when Clar and Whitney suggested having lunch there because they were both in HKU at the time, I agreed. The café really is beautiful! I vow to return again after my year-out ends and camwhore to my satisfaction, ha! The minimalistic wooden and concrete decor... every architect's dream, I tell ya. And yes, we did all order the same thing. Guess who you're close with really influences who you are!
20150525
Affordable Art Fair 2015
More art, more art, and more art please! For reasons I can't remember now, I got free tickets to the Affordable Art Fair 2015 held in the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, so I invited Clar along! It reminded me of Art Central 2015 back in March - just as enjoyable and captivating haha! Sorry if you think I sound real enthusiastic to the point of being phoney - but I seriously just love art... I hate to admit it but more than architecture! Here are a selection of my favourite works. :)
20150519
The Kinder Surprise Returns!
If you were a 90s kid in Hong Kong like me, you'd have grown up with the Kinder Egg Surprise. I loved it when I was a child, because not only was the thin, milky chocolate yummy, there was always a little toy inside! Actually, I didn't care much for the chocolate - I was more of a crisps and savoury snacks sort of kid - but that surprise toy, inside the orange capsule that I had to get my Dad to open for me every time... just wow!
The Kinder Surprise is still being sold at many other countries, so what you may not know if you're not from Hong Kong is that it was banned here many years ago. I don't know, I think it was banned in the US as well (please don't take my word, I am 95% sure it's wrong) but because of whatever place it was banned in, it was not allowed in Hong Kong too. The reason is stupid: children in the 2000s are apparently so dumb that they choke on the toys... alright, if you say so! But what happened is that in Hong Kong, the Kinder Surprise has long been replaced with the Kinder Egg Joy, which tastes disgusting to me because I loathe white chocolate and c'mon... how the eff would it ever measure up to the almighty Kinder Surprise?
You could imagine my joy when I found a place setting the Kinder Surprise. I found it through Instagram actually - a fellow user was posting about how she found it in "360", and silly me just assumed it was Threesixty in Elements, so despite the expensive MTR fees to cross the harbour, I dragged Jason with me... only to find that the girl meant 優品360° (Best Mart 360), which is a cheap snack store located all over Hong Kong. I made that mistake because I can't read Chinese, LOL. Jason could not stop laughing at me!
The Kinder Surprise is still being sold at many other countries, so what you may not know if you're not from Hong Kong is that it was banned here many years ago. I don't know, I think it was banned in the US as well (please don't take my word, I am 95% sure it's wrong) but because of whatever place it was banned in, it was not allowed in Hong Kong too. The reason is stupid: children in the 2000s are apparently so dumb that they choke on the toys... alright, if you say so! But what happened is that in Hong Kong, the Kinder Surprise has long been replaced with the Kinder Egg Joy, which tastes disgusting to me because I loathe white chocolate and c'mon... how the eff would it ever measure up to the almighty Kinder Surprise?
You could imagine my joy when I found a place setting the Kinder Surprise. I found it through Instagram actually - a fellow user was posting about how she found it in "360", and silly me just assumed it was Threesixty in Elements, so despite the expensive MTR fees to cross the harbour, I dragged Jason with me... only to find that the girl meant 優品360° (Best Mart 360), which is a cheap snack store located all over Hong Kong. I made that mistake because I can't read Chinese, LOL. Jason could not stop laughing at me!
20150518
Intense Cards Against Humanity
Met up with my girls from SIS one weekend night. They'd all gone to a junk party during the day and I couldn't go because ha ha I wasn't allowed according to my doctor. Like remember how I was hospitalised not long ago? Anyway even if my doctor allowed me my parents would nail me to my bed, lol. I got to choose where to eat though so I picked my favourite Outback Steakhouse as always! We had such a cute waitress as well, she volunteered to help us take a group picture when our food arrived but instead we had her take a picture of us afterwards playing an intense game of Cards Against Humanity. It was actually my first time playing it and we were loling our heads off. We only stopped because we felt so bad how we were just occupying the table with our game when there was a huge queue for the restaurant outside.
20150517
The Print Market at Ethos
Random blog post alert! Before I show you the pictures from The Print Market held at Ethos, here's an ensemble of random pictures with Clar after I left the hospital! We met up several times actually, once being our visit to Wipe Out at PMQ, but we only bothered to take pictures on one occasion where we shopped for cheese in Great Food Hall like two "see lai"s. Either way, enjoy our lesbian-friendship photos, haha.
20150510
Wipe Out by Invader
Not long after being discharged from the hospital, I caught up with Clar several times. On one such occasion, the Wipe Out exhibition by French artist Invader in PMQ was on, and since both of us wanted to see it, we went to check it out together! We had a wander around the rest of PMQ afterwards too, checking out all the artsy-fartsy shops as you do. ;) It was honestly nice being out and about after being hospitalised (and being on house arrest before that) for so long.
20150503
The News Room Diner
As soon as I got out of the hospital (in one day, may I add), I met up with Twiggy for her late bao rice! I'd missed the proper one back in December when everyone else went, so this time, it was just me and her alone. Really missed her though!
Since I wasn't allowed to stray too far from my place, we decided to have brunch in Taikoo Place and chose The News Room Diner, since it looked nice and neither of us had ever eaten there. I just had a chicken caesar salad (so light and refreshing after my humongous meals at the hospital) and she had an egg's benedict!
Since I wasn't allowed to stray too far from my place, we decided to have brunch in Taikoo Place and chose The News Room Diner, since it looked nice and neither of us had ever eaten there. I just had a chicken caesar salad (so light and refreshing after my humongous meals at the hospital) and she had an egg's benedict!
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