Hi everyone. I’m back from the trip to Cheung Ka Kai. It was, if nothing else, an eye opener to places I thought about going, but would never go on my own and so I am grateful for the experience. I look forward to sharing with you what I saw. Please be patient however, as I have to wait until the show for this trip airs on TV here before I can put up the photos.

In the meantime let’s be distracted with a Random. Someone asked me what this meant:

Ça va trés bien. J`avais retourné! Ça me fait suprisé que il y a même des personnes qui parlez Français à ce blog.

It reads, “I’m very well. I have returned. I’m surprised there are people who speak French [reading] this blog.”

Also at your request, another word for juxtapose is contrast. When you juxtpose two things you are basically contrasting them. Although I am comfortable living in Hong Kong, sometimes the  laidback Canadian lifestyle habits is juxtposed against the ever-changing and fast-paced living here.

And because this is a Random, I choose to touch on multiple topics today including posting photos I took a few years back from a trip. They are photos from when I went to Banff, Canada. A well-known place, because it is surrounded by the famous Rocky Mountains.

In the car. This was me behind the wheels, but I do miss driving.

This is Banff Street.

You can ride in this carriage around town.

Banff is a small town and its main street is lined with individual shops. The building in the photo is probably the largest shopping complex they have there.

Word of the Day: Spent

I thought this was previously published when I was at Cheung Ka Kai, but probably due to a mishap it wasn’t. Well here it is. An event I attended back in October.

The Hong Kong Squash Opening is organized and in part sponsored by Cathy Pacific Gale Well. We were honored to be invited to the HK’s very own Squash Opening this past October. We met several of the world’s best male and female squash players. It was an impressive turnout for the evening. Here are some photos from the event. Please enjoy.

Find more information about the squash in Hong Kong here.

http://www.hksquash.org.hk/

Word of the Day: Sportsmanship

Thank you to Tidus for dropping links here now and then. Tamtam thanks for visiting at the aiport. I am in Cheung Ka Kai right now along with the girls and Mr. Hong Kongs. We had a good day yesterday. There was some rain, but it wasn’t too cold. Keep you updated~

美．食．推．介

我在五、六歲大時就和家人移民到加拿大，每年我和家人都會回來，加上還有很多親人在港，所以香港依然給我有「家」的感覺。

我經常在深水埗區出現，因為我麻麻住在那區的老人院，有些親戚亦住在那一區，好多人覺得那是一個很舊的區，治安不是太好，但我就覺得它有其傳統特色，有好多美食，服裝、布料、飾物批發的地方，很多外國人都會來這買貨。

近期深水埗區最hit的是某間店的豬膶麵，但覺得這間店最好味的卻是牛腩河，因他們的牛腩不會很肥，炆得「火念」之餘，又煙煙韌韌，湯汁濃度又剛剛好，不會太甜或太鹹。而他們的河粉又爽口，不會黐牙。而且無論甚麼時間去食，他們都可以保持到同樣水準，真的是很難得。

在參選期間有雜誌拍攝到我去茶餐廳的相片，我看過他們的報道後，不明白為何他們會把這形容是一種很「寒酸」的行為。其實，我覺得「茶餐廳」絕對是香港飲食文化之光，在很多國家都有人以「港式茶餐廳」作招徠，像在台灣某個夜市的「菠蘿油」就晚晚排長龍。反而在香港卻有人看不起茶餐廳，真是很奇怪。

如果要我推廣香港的優點，我一定會向大家介紹香港美食，我保證我介紹的一定是我試過好味道的，絕不會是鱔稿。

參選初期很多人批評Mizuni不夠美麗，但她就對自己充滿信心，說：「若我真是這樣差，我的朋友應該會老實跟我說。」