hair today, gone tomorrow

Every day, while on vacation in Hong Kong, we end up with a bit of a "program". I've pretty much settled in a routine of where in the mornings, we see my grandfather and take him to have yum-cha (mandarin-speaking people and Americans say eat dimsum, but the Cantonese know it as yum-cha -- literally drinking tea). So Sunday, we did that and my favorite two dishes were the fried glutinous dough ball with black and white sesame seeds on the outside with black sesame seed on the inside, and a vegetable cheung-fun (long flat sheet of noodle wrapped around vegetables.) I've never had that one before, usually I've had shrimp and cha-siu filling.

So that Sunday, then while my Aunt was studying, my mom and I went to Kowloon-Tong stop and hung out at the Yau-Yat Sing shopping mall where it was great fun to check out what are the latest fashions and styles here. I really do love the shoe styles here, and there was this very cool department store that had all the little cool things that you don't really need. Like miniture magnets of baseball players - how cool is that! And then we spent an hour or so there having a hot drink, eating snacks and trying to play WordsUp, which is like a scrabble game but you can change words by stacking tiles up to 5 high. We think some of the pieces were missing and mixed up with a Scrabble bag. It was a bit annoying -- I had so many vowels, and my mom had so many consonants. I won by a few points.

Monday, besides the morning visit with my Gong-Gong, the afternoon was all about getting our hair done. We got scolded by the hair dresser. He told us to never come back to HK with such bad haircuts again -- because he had to spend so much time fixing mistakes. Guess I won't be doing the Chinatown special anymore. My mother had a particularly bad cut from DC -- everything was uneven and ugly, as she put it, like a bad Liza Minnelli. Luckily, we are beautiful again. I went for color as well -- black with thick red (scarlet?) highlights? Pretty cool, and about as radical as I can get without going for purple or blue. That was about 3 hours of sitting in a chair. oh, and we had oil treatment for our hair so now it's really soft :)

I'll have more later. Today, we're heading off to Macau for a day trip. Hopefully the scattered thunderstorms in the forecast will be just that... scattered.