Sunday, September 24, 2006

Sunday 24th September

Good thing we declined Auntie Cecilia’s invitation to lunch at Repulse Bay today – it’s rainy and overcast.

Decided to make some soy sauce chicken wings and pumpkin soup for Abi since she doesn’t seem to eat much of what we offer.

Abi slept for 3 hours from 1-4pm and was refreshed. To Causeway Bay by tram for the sake of an outing – it’s packed cos its Sunday night and all the maids are having their day off. Some shopping (expensive stuff here) so snucked into the Justco (cheapy $10 shop) to buy some toys for Abi (nice clay cutting set).

Abi enjoys the neon signs and commotion of traffic along the Causeway Bay Streets – didn’t want to turn into any street or driveway without the excitement elements. Noticed external elevators and pointed them out saying “up”.

Ate dinner at a nice noodle eatery instead of Maxim/Café de Coral. Abi was hungry and had demolished some soft pizza bread and milk before we fed her rice noodle (from stir fried beef dish bit salty). She was impressed by the performance of the minor cooks. Charmed all with her smile and bruise which has transferred to between her eyes so she now looks somewhere between a Klingon and a heavy metal chick.

Walked home via Victoria Park – so many maids sitting on the pavement chatting, selling clothes, etc. Saw the mid-autumn festival display in Victoria Park being set up – steel framed fabric constructions – should look great this Friday.

Around 9pm there was a great commotion from flat 20A above us. We heard a man and a woman shouting, and the banging of something on their floor. The people in the flat in the adjacent building flat crowded around their balcony for a ringside view of the fight. Chris called Auntie Cecilia to ask if he should call the cops. Instead she gave us the phone no. of the security people and Priscilla called to ask them to investigate. It seemed that no-one else in the block had called despite the noise having gone on for about 15 minutes. Soon after we called the noise stopped when security arrived.

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