Thursday, July 24, 2008

Duets


Hi all!
Last night was a great night! We decided that we would go to the Avenue of the Stars and soak up the night life and the skyline. During the day we went out to the Ladies Market and Pauly bought the most stuff! Ironically it was me who did the buying in the Technology street! It was all clothes and bags and the like, which is always fun! It's obviously a place where a lot of tourists go as we saw several beggers. They weren't just any old beggars though! There was one boy, about 11 years old, who was in something that looked like the down dog yoga position (hands and feet on the ground with bum in the air) but he had one foot wrapped around over his back with his foot next to the opposite ear. When we saw him, we both gasped out loud. It looks like it really hurts! His knees and joints were hyper-extending. It was crazy. We gave him money in the hope that he stopped!

Anyway, after the markets, we came back to the hotel...just in time for happy hour! Usually we just help ourselves to the food and drink in the lounge upstairs, but this time they kept refilling our drinks for us, so we kept missing the hotel's bus to Tsim Sha Tsui and just had to keep on drinking! After missing the final bus, we caught a cab at 9ish. We made it to the avenue of stars for a look around and some photos.

It was a lovely view of the Hong Kong Island (we are on the Kowloon Peninsula, which is attached to Mainland China). We missed the light show, which is at 7.30 I think. In the light show most of the buildings have laser lights and strobes etc flashing around and writing in the sky. I'll make sure we don't miss it on the way back!

After soaking up the sights and taking photos of the stars' name plaques and hand prints on the avenue...ok, we only knew Jackie Chan!

We decided it was time for another cocktail. We had a couple at a blues bar overlooking the skyline, again...it's pretty amazing, I can't believe we are actually in Hong Kong! Then Pauly decided that as I had not yet sung Karaoke, I had to partake in this 'rite of passage' and I had to do it tonight! So we jumped in a cab and the driver dropped us off saying 'it somewhere around here'...he didn't know much english! We eventually found one after asking around and then had to request some songs. We were the only westerners in there and they didn't have any of the songs we asked for...except one: 'My Heart Will Go On'. Let me just say...I nailed it. Then I think they found the only other english songs they had: 'Where have all the flowers gone' and another one about 'finding my man' or something to that effect, which Pauly did an awesome rendition of! Then they took the mic's of us.


After another couple of cocktails, we decided to approach the table of rowdy boys playing a dice game. They agreed to teach us how to play and we picked it up pretty quickly! Let's just say...I'm awesome! The game went a little like this:
Everyone had a cup with 5 dice in it and we all shook it and then the loser from the last round got to pick how we'd play it: either Lucky or Liar. If it was lucky, we all took our cups off and showed everyone and the one with the lowest hand got another chance to roll whichever of the dice he wanted to improve. If he was still the lowest, he drank. If not, the next lowest got a chance etc. That's 'lucky'...now for the part I shone in...'liar'! This is a lot like poker. You have a look at your dice and then say something that you think that either everyone actually has, or you bluff it! Example: "5 4's" in all the dice on the table (we were playing with 6 ppl, so that was 30 dice) I was guessing that there were 5x4's rolled. Then the next person would have to say either 6 4's or 5 5's, they have to go up at least one. I was great at bluffing so I would say something like 7 6's and then someone would say 8 6's and then I'd call them. I'd win coz I didn't have any 6's!!!!!!! HEHEHEHEHEH I'm awesome. Then there was this other game that was a lot like the crazy game that Barney, N.P.H., played on How I met your mother.

((Side note...this is why we don't belong in the executive suite: Paul is sitting on the couch eating macca's and spilt ketchup from his chips on the carpet...I turned around in time to see him trying to RUB IT INTO THE CARPET!!!!))

Ok, back to the game: It's not going to make any sense as I still don't think we understand it!!! We would watch them and it just did not make any sense at all!!! It didn't help that they would speak in Cantonese! Ok, so two people play. They put their hands in fists out in front of them and then it works a little like 'scissors paper rock'...ish. One person calls out 5, 10, 15, or 20. (this is how many fingers there are...) as they call out the number, they flash their hands out. The number they call is a guess of how many fingers the other person puts out as well as theirs. Is this making any sense? I didn't think so!

ANYWAY....it was fun and we played it all the way home on the taxi. The driver was laughing at us! We got home at around 4am. Here are some more photos of the night:

1 comment:

Cheryl M said...

Us two old ones missed that part of Hong Kong..might have had something to do with catching up on sleep.....think shopping for a day a half was it! Have told all my friends about the shopping and am organising one of those outlet shopping bus tours...do you think that will work? Maybe some sights at the end do you think, and some karaoke to finish??