My Neck, My Back...

First off...

Happy Father's Day! Happy Birthday, Patty! Happy Graduation, Patty!

These past few days have been really really relaxing. I didn't do too many touristy things except go up to Victoria's Peak and take in the view of Hong Kong and Kowloon. It really is beautiful to see at night. I mostly ate a lot of good food, walked all the local and not so local shopping areas, checked out prices on some electronics and such...read a good bit. The greatest thing I did was go see this crazy chiropractor. Fai Fai's dad's friend's friend is a well-known chiropractor that you have to book appointments with weeks in advance cause he's so amazing. My neck has been hurting for a good 3-4 weeks so I thought I would get it checked out while Jayson got his lower back looked at. Apparently we got this huge discount and were squeezed into an appointment. There really were a lot of people there...made me feel a little more comfortable. The treatment was one of the most painful things ever, yo! Most of you know that I'm really sensitive to pain in my shoulder area and he kept moving my head in different directions to make a certain tendon or muscle bulge and then "massaged" the hell out of it. I wanted to cry and my face was all sorts of messed up from the pain. At one point, he stops and says "Wah, lay deem mm deem ah?" which is like...Dude, are you okay/can you handle this? And I just had to apologize for my expressions of pain and was just like...DO IT. I didn't know until after but he asked Jayson what happened to me and if I got in a car accident because my neck was so out of alignment. I wonder what I did...? In any case, my muscles are a little sore but my neck doesn't hurt anymore and now I have full rotation of my neck. Tight!

We also met up with Charles (Hu) from Berkeley. He lives in HK and took us out to Lan Kwai Fong. LKF is the area near SoHo that has a gazillion bars and clubs with flashing lights and different music. There's this one bar that only plays 80s and 90s English music--I like!!!! I think the best part about it is that it has this great blend of foreigners and locals and everyone is so friendly and just wants to enjoy themselves. What's nutty is that happy hour doesn't start until 3am because the bars don't close until 5am! We went to this super cool Russian Ice Bar. They have a room that is basically an ice freezer with the walls and furniture all made out of ice. They give you (fake) fur coats to wear to go in there. It's so neat! There's a vodka bar inside and people just take shots wearing fur coats and sitting on ice chairs. Afterwards, we met up with some of Charles' friends at Armani Bar. Did you know that Armani has a bar??? It was okay...a little too bourgeois for Jayson's and my taste. Then we headed up to a club on the 28th floor of some building. The clubs are really small, but the worst part is that people are allowed to smoke inside! How are 920483290 dancing people packed into a 800 sqft. room supposed to breath with smoke everywhere? Yuck. The people don't really dance that much...they kind of two step the whole night. Jayson and I looked like CRAZIES. We kept getting looks and people pointing at us. Oh well! We also ran into Dorothy Xu from Movement--weird! We left at 2am and people were like...it's so early! ??!? I was so tired. How do people go out that long?

I wish more of ya'll were here with us--it'd be so much more fun! Fai Fai is actually leaving tomorrow morning for Taiwan for an entire week. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do by myself here...but I'm pretty sure I'm going to take some dance classes and head over to Lamma Island for a day excursion. I'll probably see what some of the people living here are going to be up to and see if we can hang out a bit. OH! Old friend is also going to be in HK for a week for work, so I'll be seeing about meeting up with her. All in all, it's been a really chill and relaxing vacation...which is good! Hope you all are doing well too =)