this was a slow and easy day..
initally, I was planning to do to Jiji today but woke up late and body is aching from all the walking, so I decided to just stay in the malls today.
I started with a korean food at the food court in 星光三越. Not great but it fills me up.
Suddenly, there was an urge to watch a movie. It been ages since I watched a movie and the movie theatre was just upstairs. It was a choice between Wall street and Eat, Pray, Love. I went for the latter since it was 1pm when i got to the ticketing counter and the movie starts at 1.05pm. If it is not for the timing, I probably would have gone for Wall street.
Indeed, it is a good movie. I guess it is pretty applicable to myself at this stage of my life and the exact situation I am in right now. The movie got me thinking a little bit and I particularly like the phrase 'dolce far niente'. Living in Hk in the last few years has made me increase the pace of my life totally. I aim for efficiency, perfection and maximize every minute of my time. Weekends is not for resting, but for running errands, meeting up with people, going places that I want to. I can be out from morning 10am and be back home only at 11pm. If something small goes wrong, even as insignificant like ordering the wrong drink during lunch can make me feel uncomfortable, just simply becos things are not perfect. I become harder and harder on myself and people around me to deliver what I think should be, or more of what this world expects of us, not only in work but also in life.
I think the decision to just take it easy for the day is not a co-incidence. I believe God wants to me do just that and watch the movie. Believe it or not, I really heard God telling me yesterday night that I need to slow down. He told me that It is fine if I decide to just stay in the hostel after dinner. I do not definitely have to arrange for programs after 6pm. Afterall, I am on holiday.
The thing is, I thought already slowed down and I started the day thinkin that I am going to waste the day today. But now, I think it was a great day and i guess i need to be slower and enjoy this time, really.
so, enough of philosophy.....
one interesting thing happened today while I was looking around Sogo (the second mall today). 2 college kids suddenly came to me and started exclaiming how nice my bag was. They started chatting, ask me where I was from, where i bought the bag, then started talking about a skin doctor. Initially, I really thought they were friendly. After awhile, they keep insisting that they want to show me where the skin doctor is, then I start to think they are trying to pull me to some beautician salon and they get paid for it. Why would you insist on recommending a skin doctor to me when I told them that I am only here for a few days. In the end, i politely decline. The girl made a comment that really got me laughing but i guess she was trained this way. She say that my skin is fair! hmmmm........ i guess this is probably the first time I hear anyone saying that I am fair-skin!!!!!!!!! after she said that, I knew something was fishy.
and... when i told them that the bag was from 耐克。They couldn't understand me. They only understood Nike. Isn't Nike called 耐克 in taiwan?
then, i walked to the back of sogo where they are supposedly tonnes of eateries (and indeed!) Unfortunately, i had quite a unhappy encounter at the food outlet. They did not deliver some of the food I ordered but they lost my receipt! When I asked them about it, they question my order and was so reluctant in sending me the things that they missed out. The worse thing is that the person who took me order knocked off and they had to call him to verify!! Gosh, it is probably something that costs only NT40, the cost probably is what, NT5??!!! Did they have to do that?? I was totally pissed... they send the remaining food eventually and I told them tha tI did not want the food anymore and walked out of the store even though I paid for it. Guess what, the receipt was somewhere else in the kitchen and they found it while i was walking out of the door. Well, it was a unhappy 鲁肉饭 dinner. Not satisfying at all! but still going to post the pics here, but only the food, not the outlet because I dun want to do free advertising for them. The sad thing is that their food is really not bad and if the service was perfect, I would have posted up pics of their store as well. too bad! I will just need to find another 鲁肉饭 place to fully satisfy this craving.
along the way as I was walking to get a bus back, saw this cute cafe in a semi-detached house. Next door is actually someone's home. Interesting. I think it is a theme cafe with cartoons characters which of course, I will not know!
really have to go Jiji tomorrow la, if not no more time. but, who knows, I might decide to watch Wall street tomorrow instead. haha...
sudden craving for ice-cream... shootzz....
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