Possibly the hardest and toughest Valentine's Day/Weekend ever in my life.

Friday night started with a huge team dinner at Sang Kee in Wan Chai. It was a really huge dinner with about 12 courses including fish, prawns, crab, abalone, pork, chicken, beef, congee and I cannot really remember much else. But it was good fun as it was quite some time since the whole team had an outing together, and it was more informal this time as everyone has now been working together for a while, so there was no need of the "Everyone tell something about themselves" kinda segment. After dinner, which was really about half past ten, I went home to wait for ParkyBear who would be spending two nights here on a stopover back to China. We talked a bit but both fell into bed exhausted.

In the morning, I brought ParkyBear along with me over to Chinese class where we played some games and also tested our oral. The teacher was fun enough to keep score on our Chinese, and of course was quite amazed at his vocabulary. Then we made a visit to the Sun Yat Sen memorial, at Caine Road, and it was pretty nice. The building itself actually used to be a big mansion, owned by the once richest man in Hong Kong. At one point, ParkyBear actually turned to me and told me that he would buy it. So would I, if I could. It was about 4 floors, which wood panelling, and carpets, a beautiful staircase, wonderful tilework, huge marble fireplaces and was altogether something that you would expect in the early 20's in a good suburb in London. Amazing.

We got home so that I could get changed for tennis, then we got picked up by FredBear. We dropped off ParkyBear at Causeway Bay, and then it was tennis time. But spring was definitely here and it was terribly hot ! After the game and some lunch, where we shared burgers and salad, we went up to FredBear's place for mahjong. Fun. At about seven, I then met up with ParkyBear to watch the Symphony of Lights at Victoria Harbour. Unfortunately the heavy fog meant that the lights show was not as spectacular as it usually was. We walked around TST for a while before heading home since GAG, MrTam and GABish were coming over for more Mahjong ! ParkyBear actually got a fair idea of how to play by the time we were done.

Due to the late night, ParkyBear and I only stirred around 11 and we had some bacon, eggs and sausages for brunch as he had to leave to catch his train to Guangzhou by 1. I did my long procrastinated laundry and ironing before heading off to Kowloon for some golf at the driving range. After golf, went back to FredBear's place where we had some coffee and watched the movie Ip Man. Not too bad, and it was quite a while since I watched these HK Kungfu movies. Went for hot pot dinner with his dad as well before the two of us went to play table tennis with GAHil and GAG at Kornhill. We were there for about 2 hours.

And now that the weekend is almost over I am pretty amazed that I did so much sports over the weekend. It was fun, but I sadly neglected my French. I shall try to catch up this week.

P.S. For the Year 2009, I am down 2.5 kg. That is seriously good news. And need to be improved.

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