SKYHOVER: April 2006

Toothbrush Story

Good mama, dear has promised dino1 to buy a braun toothbrush for him in this UK/HK trips. We were browsing high and low in London, then Sheffield. Finally after comparing the prices in the Argos catalogue shop, Superdrug and Booths. We spotted one in the Booths, Meadowhall, Sheffield.

Why, the price for this is only £5.90 - very cheap - (we almost ended up not buying one for him at all because the price we saw is too expensive for a toothbrush to us :-P), so we happily brought thetoothbrushh to the cash till.. Ting Ting!! The price scanned was £15.99. What !!! We took it back and walked back to the display rak and check the description and price tag.

The description matched and the price tag indicated is £5.90. For me, I just told dear to forget it because the scanning system should be right. Having worked in the retail industry , and a mum wanted to please a pampered child :-P - she insisted to check with the shop assistant and ask them to honour the price they display...

Oh dear, not in a foreign land though Sheffield is like a second home to us :-P. So I called up the shop assistant, show them the price and description tag with the item. They "happily" said they will check for us. After about 30 minutes, finally they came back and appologised for the waiting, and admitted that they were wrong and it was their mistake and they would sell the item with the price they put up. The grin appeared on my dear's face immediately.....

Will this happen in Malaysia?????

Greedy dear said: "Aya!! We should ask whether we can buy two at that price and dino 2 has one too!!!" - oh what a "dear" dear!!!

We were wondering why dino1 would request such an item, we thought it is under the charm of Miss K :-P Hehe!!

We had a good time with our friends in HK. Both couples have stayed in HK for more than 2 years.

Couple A, the wife married with a Hkee, so she has been "imported" to HK and stayed there about 5 years plus. We met in Exchange square - a financial district in HK - and hop into a high class restaurant. Oh Oh, dear and I just came back from Macau and we were not well-dressed at all, so we met the husband there first, and quietly asked him whether we should change the venue and go somewhere more common like Starbucks. The husband called but she insisted to stay, so we were uneasy at first, where the waiter "professionally' served us, the few set of folks and spoons that lay before us that we have no clue how to start with...

Luckily the conversation and fellowship took the uneasiness away and we spent hours and hours catching up news with one another. Friend of us has been "converted" into a typical HKee, when she speaks there is HK slang in her :-P

We finished our dinner and enjoyed the musicians singing for us at the end.....Food was unique but we did not order Peking Duck (Though dear was dying to try it after conversation with Mr. Zen), we respected the host's choice anyway (Of course, bills went to them, not me :-P)

Couple B, who both work as in house legal advisors in one of the US company in HK brought us to this Mongolia Steamboat House to eat their specialty - lamb meat. The picture you see is the steamboat to cook the veg and meat. Awesome and delicious. We talked and fellowshiped. They seemed to plan to stay in HK for good as the conversation hover around how our country has failed in many aspects to them. They still care for their home land, I guess.

We were really happy to meet them, we'd like to meet friends and talk about heaven and earth rather doing something aimlessly, we both happy that friendship among us is still there though we are seas part away, it kills our time in HK, we rather chat with them than window shopping..

Perhaps, they may be the reason we will revisit HK...

HK2

The star ferry that brings us from Tsim Sha Tsui to HK Island

Bruce Lee - Avenue of Star

HK3

No No It is not the Apple MAC Store, it is "Apple Jeans" store :-P

Trams that run through HK Island ... You can host your wedding with it if you want to...