Disneyland Hong Kong!!!

…..is awesome!

Just how awesome? Well you just have to be there to experience it. I’ve resolved not to blog about it, I wouldn’t do it justice.  I got to meet some really cool Disney stars, including Tarzan, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Mickey and Donald, and many others.  Everybody who is or has ever has been a kid should go there.

Ivana in Disneyland

Alice is hawt!

Me and cousin Elle in Disneyland

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Family Pilgrimage

We’re having a family reunion.  Kind of.  Although it’s probabably more a pilgrimage to see where we came from.  It’s something everybody should do.

My granddad was born in China, but left with my great-grandad to Malaysia when he was ten.  There is a family home in Nan’an, near Quanzhou in Fujian Province.

It’s funny how many people assume that because you’re Chinese, you must be from China.  None of us have ever been to China.  And most of us left Malaysia when I was a kid.

So here I am in Hong Kong.  My grandads Sister lives here.  She talks in three languages and dialects.  Very very fast.  And mixes the words.  So a sentence will start off in Hokkien, interspersed with Mandarin and Cantonese, some Hakka thrown in, and bit’s of English.  Oh, that’s five!  I have a job trying to figure out what she’s saying.  She has been busy rebuilding the family residence in China.  Not that any immediate family reside there, just some distant cousins.

So Hong Kong…..Let me just say it’s one of the busiest places I’ve ever been in.  The streets are a swarm of people.  The shopping is good.  I have been busy stocking up on many things I don’t need!  We went to Stanley Park, then had lunch in Kowloon.  I attempt to practice my very rusty Cantonese, only to have the shop assistent roll her eyes and talk back to me in English.

Meh.  I’ll figure it out by the end of this trip.

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