1st week home...

back in macau for a week... the place has become so different since september... new casinos and hotels, new restaurants, new shops... more (expensive) cars, more chinese tourists, more foreigners (tourists and employees of big companies stationed here)... the streets are crowded and the shops are packed... the place is looking more and more like a "metropolis"... im actually finding it a more enjoyable place to live or relax...

been walking through some new shops and there are a lot of things i want to buy... there is this new quiksilver store right in front of grandma's and they have really nice sweaters and zip-up jackets this season... saw a couple of very cute tees but they're for men... giordano is having new year sale and i bought a "lover" jacket which i can wear on dates with my dear chidong... i saw my wallet in tough and its the same price as in beijing!! and i still want that ipod case i saw in prada in september...

well, aside from shopping, life so far has been very relaxing... actually waking up and sleeping at normal times... staying home in the afternoons... taking time to "talk" to my mom... eating dinner and tea with my grandma... it has been good except that my friends all have jobs so i can only see them when they are really tired after work... and some are so busy i dont even get to see them after so long... well, hope i can have enough time here to meet all of my busy friends...

tomorrow will be family day again... first, i can finally go "yum cha"!!!!!! "cha siu bao, pai guet, siu mai, cheung fun... here i come!!" and then for tea, my dad said we will go get "chris patten's favorite egg tart"... and then dinner at the african restaurant in fisherman's wharf... i hope they don't serve insects or i will really faint on the spot...

talking about eating, i have already expected to gain some weight during this vacation... and i think i already did gain a bit fat on my face... i devoured a whole mcdonald's value meal for tea today, finished the sausage egg muffin in a record 1 minute and then ate the whole cup of potato wedges... im so in love with those potato wedges i think im getting those again tomorrow after i finish with the egg tarts... haha, i cant imagine how many kgs of fat and how many pimples i will get in these 20-some days...

and a list of the restaurants (food) i want to go:
1. lord stowe's bakery -- natas (portuguese egg tarts)
2. mcdonald's -- curry pork-chop burger and A LOT OF potato wedges
3. jade garden-- sweet and sour fish
4. "chu kei" -- wonton "yee min"
5. wynn chinese restaurant -- dim sum
6. westin resort -- tea buffet
7. sands grill -- steak and salmon fillet
8. "fei jai kei" -- "ngau jap meen"
9. haagen dazs -- ice-cream fondue
10. hotel lisboa japanese restaurant -- teppenyaki
11. 4-5-6 shanghainese restaurant -- eel and river shrimp
12. "nan hu ming yue" at macau tower -- thousand layer fatty pork
13. antica trattoria or pizzeria toscana -- lasagna
14. la comedie chez vous -- mushroom cheese crepe
15. hotel lisboa bakery -- black forest mousse cake and "egg drops"
16. 7-eleven -- fake shark's fin soup

haha... im gonna get really fat!!!

edit: harry potter 7 will be released july 21... i have 6 months to re-read book 6...