Day 5 & 6 [pt.1]

I got lazy, and I really didn't do much other than shopping, eating and watching the olympics.

Day 4
Sunday! Of course, that means I went to Sunday mass at Holy Family, where the priest a Chinese speaking Indian! Woohoo, his Chinese wasn't too smooth but it was pretty good I guess. The mass just felt really long (either mass @ CMCC was sped up to make up for the homily, or that every song in the HK mass was sung 10x slower).
Had dimsum @ HK Polytechnic Uni, (yep... that campus has TWO dimsum restaurants in the main building AND the student residence there has a full ocean view...UBC has trees.) And lucky us, that was the same day as FROSH for the first years. I kind of started panicking about university at that point, but the food distracted me :).
Went to the HK style supermarket with my mom, uncle/aunt, to buy groceries for dinner. Since the housekeeper has Sundays off, the family is left to figure out the one meal of the week which seems like a big deal ._." So my mom got really REALLY excited to get everyone involved in Sunday dinner where everyone is in charge of making one dish.
HK markets are messy but organized (if that makes sense), its seperated into sections of: Meat, Frozen Meat, Vegetables, Fruits, Fresh Seafood and Frozen seafood. Each section has 3-4 stands/stalls of basically the same thing, where the owners across from each other would chat on top of customers.
What I love about these markets is it's friendliness and the neighbourhood feeling, because everyone knows each other. And if they don't have what you need, they'll recommend you to other stores (plus its cheap and fresh).
Went home and everyone started cooking :)
Except for one of my cousins (who shall not be named, but arrived at the household with his Lolita girlfriend/now a permanent resident in this household...WITH plenty of time to cook or even make a salad *which my other cousin and his gf did ._.) And my grandma (she was exempt from cooking of course, since she's the boss lady)

DINNER:
ME: chicken fried udon
MOM: lemongrass pork and green apple/celery salad
BIG UNCLE/AUNT: honey garlic chicken wings
COUSIN/GF: crab meat and tobiko salad
UNCLE/AUNT: salt roasted duck tongue (yep.)/salty egg yolk fried prawns
-Salmon sashimi we brought over from Vancity

Side note: I really like my cousin's gf (not the Lolita one, no not her, I can't talk to her. She's only a year older than me and I really can't find anything to talk about with her, idk why... lets call her K).
Ah Se, is the one I like though. Even though I can't really find anything to talk to her about either (maybe that's just my problem), although she's really quiet you can tell she's really paying attention to what you're saying. She actually makes an effort to talk to people (esp me... maybe because I'm the youngest one there or something, but she never ends up saying much). She seems more interested in what we have to say than anything else. The only thing I don't get is how she's still with my cousin for 2+ years, because honestly he doesn't treat her very well (maybe just in front of us, but he's very hostile/un-chivilry-ous (i cant spell for shit right now).

SIDE NOTE 2: I almost cried when the Malaysian badminton player for singles lost to Lin Dan from China. I really wanted him to win and beat China for once :(
*although I support China 99%, I think they should still give other countries a chance at medals/gold...