My Girls

I read in a magazine once that your girlfriends are just as important an investment as say, a health insurance. They are your "emotional" insurance so to speak. Thus it's important to spend time with your girls and the fun is doubled when you do the things you do best: dining and shopping!

This past weekend was just that, all of it! Saturday was spent sleeping in until around 12 noon then I met up with Stephanie (my bestest Honky!) for lunch. I wasn't in the mood for Chinese so we had lunch at this Italian upstairs cafe (places that are in higher floors of bldgs., they have people distributing flyers in the streets to announce their existence-- another of the HK space quirks). It was good Carbonnara Alfredo and even better girl talk! We had a trip down memory lane-- how different we were before we left the country (Steph was with me in Jakarta before but she left earlier) and how "grown up" we are now. From our fashion sense to our perspective on life and MEN! My regular weekend time with Steph (she is based in China so we just have weekends to meet) is always a breath of fresh air.

My other girls were out shopping in Mongkok (a very "exciting" shopping district in Kowloon--very touristy!) so after Steph had to go for a prior engagement, I rang to meet up with them. Mongkok is always an exciting trip.. the exhilaration of getting a $100 top down to $30 is a victorious feeling unmatched by any other! I got a silk halter top (very BCBG according to the girls) for 30 bucks and it fit like how you'd expect a thousand grand top would! Haha! Very proud of that purchase. The only downside of Mongkok is the crowd-- it's like a MANGO sale multiplied as much as a peso to a US dollar. Wicked crowd. To get away, we boarded a bus to IFC (a posh mall in Central, HK Island). There we had some coffee and muffin at Starbucks followed by a Japanese dinner. My day was made.

Bart (a crazy Polish friend who's like a big brother to me) came by HK from Manila where he was based for the last 6 months before he flies back for a short holiday in Europe then another assignment in Bangkok (whatta life!) and he's staying at my place (I had to take him in after the boxful of shoes he hauled from Manila in his last HK trip and the promise of taking me to the beach when I visit Thailand) so we spent Sunday morning together. Had lunch at this Indian resto in Wan Chai and talked about his "silly, little dramas" then he was off to meet some old friends from his 2 year stay in HK.

Ceha and I then went to Pacific Coffee in Cityplaza for a quiet afternoon reading of the fashion magazines Bart brought from Manila at my ardent request. At around dinner time, we got some take out from KFC and met up with my favorite girls, the North Point crew (we live in the same, friendly neighborhood) at the Marble Road Apartment, our HQ. There we talked about past & present loves, categorized men into 3 groups based on our very limited experience, gossiped about who's gay, who's dating who and who has been with who, all this over spicy chicken wings! Hot. ;P

Time with my girls is always a weekend well-spent.