Luncheon with Alex

(Yesterday I fell asleep half way through typing, shall continue today!)

Today I met with up Alex, my ex-secondary classmate for lunch. He's working in Laos, an island near Bangkok. He's staying in HK for about 2 weeks, leaving this weekend. We had lunch at the Green Place with his sister. Basically just touching base and sighing how 'old' we are now, we've been friends for about 15 years now since secondary school! Alex is going to get married next year and will probably move back to HK then. Unfortunately his father passed away last year. I remember the last time I saw him he was really thin. He had diabetes and heart attack. Passed away on a taxi :( Though his family is doing fine, his mother is still working, sister will be studying in ChuHai (another campus of HKBU) majoring in Teaching English As Second Language. At least she'll be able to come home every weekend. So they are all moving on nicely.

After lunch, they walked me back home, then I met up with hubby to do some shopping in Wellcome and then have his haircut. He needs to look presentable for a meeting with the British Council people sometime this (or next) week. More updates later!

Today I called the TownGas people, we are going to have gas!! Instant hot water for shower and no need to wait for the boiler to boil and all that hassle. This is their promotional month, so we get 30% off the boiler and special price for a cooker. They'll come up and install the equipment this Friday between 10-11am.

This morning in school was OK, I had one meeting for the Life-Planning Team. Then I did some more tidying at my table and I got my desktop copies for the textbooks and stuff. Afternoon we went to Yeh Lam Kwok for lunch (9 of us in total!) After lunch, I headed home, met up with hubby and we went to grab the HK version of 'cream tea' in the UK :) it's a pineapple bun with a slice of butter in the middle and a cup of (milk) tea. I have been in HK for all these years and I haven't had this tea ever :) so I thought I'll try that today. We found a local 'tea restaurant' that does it. We enjoyed it but next time I'll just buy it in the bakery shop :) (half price!). By the way, pineapple bun has nothing to do with pineapple, it doesn't taste like pineapple either. But I guess it's the crisp on the top looks like pineapple's skin, that's why. I think Momsie and Paula will love this bun :)

Last night I made asparagus and sausage salad, hubby liked it and was asking for it for tonight. Though after lunch today we found this Green River restaurant that Louis mentioned before, so we'll go try that tonight. I'll make the asparagus salad with sausage for hubby so that he can have it for lunch tomorrow.