The Deterioration of Intelligent Life

My brain feels like pudding.
It's Thursday; I'm at the office with 4 hours of sleep.
Life is sweet.

Me and Chi watched Edward Scissorhands yesterday. It's a damned brilliant movie. Anyone who's not seen it should be forced to watch it, possibly a kind of a concentration camp - called Edward Scissorcamp. Or something.

Chi also did some home-cooking which I always find fun to observe. Being used to the Finnish way of cooking, the Chinese alternative seems peculiar. When my brother and sister were in HK we decided to dedicate one evening for Finnish food. So we bought a lot of stuff to make a few rather simple Finnish dishes. All and all, we spent about HKD 300 in the grocery store. Chi made pretty much the same amount of food but only paid HKD 60. I need to learn to make these things... saves money. There are hardly any spices, everything is simple to make and quick, yet it comes out just wonderfully. There is something terribly suspicious going on.

Otherwise yesterday was pretty much normal. My workload at office has been increasing again a little bit which is nice, actually, and that means I have more and more stuff to do again. I actually prefer having a lot of things to do over just sitting around, browsing the internet and chatting with people. Having enough work makes my time a bit more worthwhile.

Remember when I earlier promised I would start learning Cantonese? I even called it my "written proclamation" of such learning-project. Well, things haven't been going quite as I planned but I'm glad to tell that I have, in fact, been learning some Cantonese.

The original plan was to just start studying from books but it has been slow at best. However, going out with Chi has helped my learning a lot. I don't know how to write most the words I know (even transliterated into English) but my practical language vocabulary has been growing. Unfortunately I can successfully implement only a few on regular basis (which people around me probably have realized to the point of irritation) due to limitations in supporting vocabulary. However, I remain confident that within a reasonable amount of time I may, in fact, be able to convey some simple thoughts in Cantonese, successfully, without too much hesitation.

At this moment, I can merely comment in Cantonese - I hope in the near future I can make statements too. Even if very simple ones.

Oh, and I really need to learn restaurant/bar-vocabulary so I can go to some local places on my own as well. I've realized it's not too difficult to speak Cantonese to the locals as they very warmly welcome any attempt. Furthermore, speaking Cantonese to the personnel would further separate me from an average gweilo/tourist and that, if any, is a worthy goal.

Gweilo's suck.

Anyway, off to have lunch now.

With my guests gone and life back on its normal track, everything seems to be going just great! Life in HK has never been better.

"You fool! You've given cheese to a lactose intolerant volcano god! Do you know what that means? You've brought about the Coming of the Divine Dysentry! Run for your lives!" - Lemonhead (from Monkey Island)