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Oh, here are all my photos from HK. Anyway, mostly for self-reference, these are (most of) the things I bought in HK (excluding food and travel expenses):

• One pair of pants
• Three tourist t-shirts. I bought some that cost a bit more than the ones in Mong Kok, because I thought the text was more correctly printed! But it still had mistakes… 🙁 Well the t-shirts themselves are okay I guess, and it wasn’t supperexpensive, so I shouldn’t complain.
• Kirby slippers
   
• 4 posters (Bleach, Fate/stay night, Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy: Advent Children)
  
• Laptop cooler pad (a really cheap one that doesn’t really work all that well)

Rubber air pump, like the ones used for cleaning camera lenses (or for sucking snot out of noses)


• 802.11n wireless router + USB adapter (Belkin, I found out later that Belkin isn’t a very good brand. Ah well, at least it kind of works, just installed and left the router in HK anyhow…)
• Wireless mouse (I didn’t realize it was PS/2 instead of USB… but it costed only 20 HKD, so I guess it’s almost ok even if I haven’t found out where to use it yet)
• A hooded sweater (my parents bought it actually)
• Sunglasses that are kind of curved, making me slightly dizzy when walking around with them
  
• Umbrella that can open and close at the click of the button! (My old one broke.)
• Card holder wallet with many transparent pages. I like these since I can show my ID card and bus tickets without having to take them out of my wallet.
• Key holder wallet, my old one was getting kind of dirty and frail, also it was Camel-branded, so I didn’t really like it much.
• Mobile phone belt clip holster. Now I don’t need to worry about the phone being scratched by my keys! So I don’t really need the key holder wallet as much… but it does prevent the keys from pricking my legs.
• Bigger shoulder bag (since the old one couldn’t fit A4 papers)
  
• Thin jacket, got kind of tired of always using the green one when it was too warm for thick jackets and too cold to go out without a jacket.
• A pack of tack-its. It was an impulse buy, mostly.
• Self-adhesive velcro bands to try and fix the broken velcro on my old bag. Didn’t work too well, as expected. Bought a new bag anyway.
• Scissors (to cut the velcro bands)
• More rechargable batteries, haven’t even used them yet. But it’s good to have spares.
  
• Computer screwdriver set. With lots of fun screwdriver heads, even triangle ones and mini hexagonal ones!
• Sasuke minipillow. It was at sale! 20 HKD! I think. Or was it 10? Don’t even remember.
   

Hmm, the list did turn out to be longer than I expected. A lot of the stuff are cheap small items though… So I guess it’s probably a very boring list.

Whenever I look at the HK photos, these things seem to catch my eyes the most:

I think I need to find to find a place in Oslo that sells ice cream parfaits/sundaes. Or I should start making it myself. Although that might be dangerous. At least when I have to buy it expensively, that will prevent me from eating it too often…

While I did briefly consider blogging when I was in Hong Kong, I eventually found that there just wasn’t enough time. Most of the days I went out shortly after getting up, and was too tired to do much after I got back home. I’ll try to roughly summarize what I’ve been doing.

	Tue Dec 16th Flying to HK	Wed Dec 17th Relaxing at home, family dinner	Thu Dec 18th Disneyland	Fri Dec 19th Seeing some Glasgow friends, shopping in Mong Kok, going to the toilet	Sat Dec 20th Playing at the beach	Sun Dec 21th Visiting relatives, pon choi family dinner
Mon Dec 22nd Karaoke, Korean BBQ	Tue Dec 23rd Met Stella and Julie, saw Twilight	Wed Dec 24th Putting together some furniture for our new house	Thu Dec 25th Met Maggie and Jonas and Ken, then went home for Christmas BBQ party	Fri Dec 26th Met some Norway family friends in Po Lam	Sat Dec 27th Ate sushi with Jimmy and Ivy, went to the Peak with them and William	Sun Dec 28th Mega Showcase convention, electronics and food! Dinner with mother’s old classmate.
Mon Dec 29th Meeting with Ivy one last time before she leaves HK	Tue Dec 30th The Peak again, this time with my family and some cousins	Wed Dec 31th Met Mandy, watched Ip Man with family and Glasgow friends, saw the countdown back home on TV	Thu Jan 1st Went to some garden and temple, ate vegetarian food, also family dinner party in the evening	Fri Jan 2nd Some shopping in Sheung Shui, also cake!	Sat Jan 3rd Shopping on Mong Kok, cake and hotpot at aunt Cheng’s home	Sun Jan 4th Church, shopping and eating in Sheung Shui
Mon Jan 5th Golden Computer Arcade, packing luggage	Tue Jan 6th IKEA, more cakes, last family dinner in Hong Kong	Wed Jan 7th Bye bye Hong Kong…

I kind of feel like I didn’t get to shop as much as I wanted to. But meeting friends and family is fun of course! And also I should bring a bigger trunk next time if I really intend to shop so much…

Oh, there are a bit more photos on Facebook: part 1, part 2, part 3

I’m leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing my relatives and to shopping and eating. A bunch of friends are going to Hong Kong too, so I’ll try and meet up with them. My relatives are having a new house built at the village we’re living in, far north in Sheung Shui. They’re not finished yet though, so we’ll still have to stay in the old house that they never use except when we or other relatives are visiting.

Maybe they’ll even repaint the road sign!

We’ve been cleaning the house the last few days, because people will be staying here during co-workers weekend. Hopefully they don’t mess up the house. I made Enoch sign a paper which said he’ll clean our house if it gets too dirty, so it’ll probably be fine.

Oh, and the youth group went to Hemsedal in the beginning of december! It was kind of fun. I went snowboarding with some others. All us were noobs though, so we all fell down 5-6 times before we arrived at the kids’ slope. Eventually Trygve came and taught us how to not fall so much, before we went to the normal “easy” slope. It was OK fun once I got the hang of it, but I was so sore after only one day that I couldn’t snowboard properly at all Sunday… so I gave up and just took the ski lift up and down a few times (before it got too cold). I also had to take a day off from work on Monday. I probably just need more exercise, since I think I was just mostly stiff, rather than being too sore from falls.

There, I put it on, did you take the picture yet? OK then, I’m done or today.

I have actually done snowboarding once before, although that was at least 5-6 years ago, and that was also the last time I did any type of wintersports. Wintersport is a kind of pointless activity anyway… what’s the point of going up the hill, and then down again? It’d be like if I took the bus to the end station and then back again, for no reason at all! Taking the bus is even more comfortable and cheaper too… The ski elevator pass cost 610 NOK for the weekend. For that price I could take the bus, subways, trains and route ferries in Oslo for over a month! And I wouldn’t be sore for several days after taking the bus. Man, buses are nice.

But anyway, Hong Kong for three weeks! We’re considering going to Disneyland early since it’s cheaper when it’s not a peak day. Then we won’t feel as ripped off when we get bored there because it’s so small! Although we might get ripped off if we eat any meals there and it’s twice as expensive as in the rest of Hong Kong? Or maybe not. I guess it could be fun too! Must think positive thoughts.

I actually kind of like shopping now, even clothes to some degree. But I still think there are too many clothes stores in most malls… How many clothes can a person need? I prefer games, electronics and funny stores! Although I still haven’t finished many of the games I bought last Christmas to myself, uh, as a Christmas gift. Right. And I even bought a few more games in London! PC and Wii games I need to finish:

• BioShock
• Resident Evil 4 (I’ve had this one for even longer!)
• Super Paper Mario
• Zack & Wiki
• No More Heroes

A lot of the games would’ve been finished much quicker if I didn’t always try to look in every corner to see if there are any secrets hidden. It’s kind of a collection mania… I eventually managed to make myself play BioShock a bit without trying to search for helpful items in every single trash can I saw. It was actually kind of relieving… I’ll have to try and make myself play more games this way.

It’s interesting, but gets boring… Might be more fun if I stop my collection mania.

I’ll try not to buy too many useless things in Hong Kong… although I’ve kind of considered getting one of those ultra-portables that are so popular nowadays… and probably some clothes… maybe try out more various kind of snacks… I probably won’t get a DSi though, since I replaced the touch screen on my DS fat… Anyways I should really get back to checking my luggage and cleaning the house.