March 9, 2005

• …sushi buffet, enough said…

  Tonight was fantastic! First, I finished off the tennis season undefeated , but my college still took second, but oh well, we still did well. We played Shaw College tonight, and it wasn’t much of a competition. I played Fumi, this Japanese student who totally speaks Mandarin well. I was up 5-2 and was at 30 all, when things just went sour. My serves were still kicking butt, but for some strange reason, my groundstrokes just weren’t there tonight. In any event, I wound up giving up two more games to him and finally finishing him off at 6-4. It was an okay win, but I definitely should have done better. I need to work on closing things out better. He was a good guy though, and really sweet too. His serves need work though, I think he was really nervous. I was going to offer to help him with it, but he disappeared after our match and I didn’t get to exchange numbers with him. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll see him on campus some time. Anyhow, James and Jenny came to watch my match again. They’re so cool. They’ve consistently come to all of my matches and cheered me on. They’re so awesome! I’ve never had people come watch my matches before. People usually think it’s so boring, but yeah, I was totally jazzed that they even came to one, let alone all three. Wow, what troopers! Aww, I love you guys!

  After the tennis match, Kevin, Heidi, Daisy, Matt, Jenn, Shirley, Vlad, James, Don, and I all went to this incredible sushi buffet place in Jordan. OMG, sooooooo much food, and it was all soooooooo good! As usual, I ate quite a bit of food; I always feel like such a glutton, but whatever, food is my friend, hehe. Besides, it’s the only way I’m ever going to gain any weight around here. Yeah, it was nice, I had to have eaten at least $500+ worth of sushi, but only had to pay $160–yay for buffets! I’ll bet they never thought there’d be someone like me to come around when they set the price, lol. Either way, I’m happy, hehe…

  Ok, so I’ve mainly been mentioning the fine and dandy things about Hong Kong, but I just wanted to take a moment to gripe about some of the minor disadvantages of being here in Hong Kong…

  1) Roommate: I’ve never really had a roommate before in my life and it kind of sucks to have one in my last semester of college. Yes, it’s an experience to be had, blah, blah, blah, blah. I’m over it. Each day that passes by that I have to deal with him, the more I look forward to having my own room and space again back in the US! He’s a nice guy and all, but in all honesty, we just don’t click. He does his own thing, and I do mine, which is fine, but there are just some things about him that really irritate me. For example, he still uses hairspray. That’s right, I said HAIRSPRAY! Ok, not only is it bad for the environment because it’s an aerosol can, but it also makes me GAG! It’s incredibly disgusting and I swear I’m going to develop some kind of allergic reaction to it by the time I get back to the States. A part of me just wants to tell him off and have him spritz his crap in the bathroom instead of in the room, but I just feel bad for the poor sap, ugh! DAMNI IT! GET SOME GEL OR GARNIER STYLING GUM ALREADY!!!

  2) Gay life sucks: It’s incredibly expensive to be gay here. There’s only one real gay club here, and that’s Propaganda–not much of a club at all though. The DJ really sucks, the music is mostly house and trance, the men are generally older, and cover is almost like $30 US–NOT COOL! At that rate, I’d be better off just going to a different country and clubbing there, it’d all wind up being about the same, give or take $100 HK, but that’s negligible. In any event, it’s better to just go to a different country, hence Singapore…

  3) Mosquitoes suck, enough said.

  4) Did I mention I dislike my roommate?!

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