July 22, 2004
Today was another outing to Sham Shui Po except to supposedly look at computer accessories.It's "supposedly" because Uncle Joe (Calvin's dad) told us we could buy a portable burner there when our burner was not functioning (it is actually just because of wrong settings). The place is actually for buying desktop PCs, copying supplies and modding your PS1, PS2, XBox, Gamecube, etc. It's mainly a gaming mall, and my dad and I didn't find much. We did find out though that P-mall is ripping off tons of money from anyone that mods their PS2. Pay $100CDN to mod your PS2 in P-mall, or pay $100HKD (~$18CDN) to mod your PS2 in HK.
After getting out of the "computer" mall, we went to buy batteries, tools, and chargers (for the batteries). Dad overspent on batteries and we filled an entire backpack with the batteries. The other backpack was already filled to capacity with bulky chargers and tools. I still have to look for the cordless headphones, and a new transformer as we burned out one of them recently.
After filling our backpacks we went back to Grandma's for lunch, and finished the day off as any usual relaxing day.
July 23, 2004
Uncle Joe and Aunt Winnie (Calvin's mom) don't show up for dinner anymore (actually it's been like that for the past few days). Perhaps they fell that freeloading food and always taking Uncle Titus' serving of food is not good. Well the cousins still come during the day to play with my bro and I.
Anyways, there's illness everywhere too as mom seems to be having a stomach flu, Ivan coughs with phlegm, Grandma actually has a slight flu, Titus has a slight temperature, dad sometimes needs to go to the washroom, and I sneeze or have a runny nose in dusty areas. Mom stayed home at Diamond Hill while dad, bro and I went to Grandma's like normal. I somehow fixed Dad's laptop and I configured the burner properly, so all I have to do is get some CD-Rs to backup my cousin's games.
July 24, 2004
Today my cousins from England and their mom Aunt Julia landed in HK. Hei (oldest of all my cousins, but still younger than me by 2 years, Calvin is 4 years younger and I'm not sure if I mentioned that earlier) is perhaps the coolest looking guy in the family, and I'm probably the nerdiest. He's still fun to be around, as he plays Ragnarok Online(RO) and Gunbound(GB). Hei's got me started on RO, but it'll take time for me to be addicted I think. Hin the younger cousin (about 1 year older than my brother, or 7 years younger than me if you wish to use me as the reference point to picture the age of all my cousins), but he's a lot more physical (as in he likes to punch, kick and shove a lot) than my brother. I think my brother is pampered too much because his tolerance to even the game of Slap It" makes him cry. Atleast my brother learned to play Big 2.
A surprise to the day was Aunt Winnie, Uncle Joe, Calvin and Ivan coming as well. The apartment has never been busier and Uncle Titus' room was like yearbook office during school. The room had all the cousins in it playing something (little ones watching Cavlin and I play video games, and Hei playing RO). Also Aunt Winnie and Aunt Julia were in the room as well, and despite the air con being on, it became very hot in the room. Dinner was a competition for both seating and food as we didn't expect Calvin's family to come. We left early after dinner and some video game playing as to let Aunt Julia's family take some rest from their flight.