All too soon the gang of former work colleagues gathered in Hong Kong. SailorJeow, followed by GAJan, MrKap, MrLin and GAAow were all here. After everyone was settled and had put their things down at their respective habitats for the next few days, we all gathered for some late night supper at Tsui Wah. Where else ?

The next morning saw us gathering at City Hall for a big dim sum breakfast, before taking a walk through Central. While the rest of them took trips around, I headed for a few hours of mahjong as well as a dinner at a Chiuchow restaurant with some of my HK mahjong gang. We had so much food I almost puked and I rushed home at 11 so that I could go to bed early as I would be running the HK half marathon early on Sunday morning.

I was so full the next morning I did not need to eat breakfast but I ate 3 eggs. Just in case. The race was exactly the same as the previous year. Which meant I was pretty familiar with the course. I wanted to die after the first 3 km, and wanted to go home after 10 km. By the time I reached the Western tunnel, it was too late to go back, so once again, cursing myself for joining, I finished the half marathon. If you add this to the one last year, I have ran a whole marathon !!! I am still pretty proud of myself for finishing it again, even though my time was exactly the same as last year, within one minute's difference. So weird. Although this year I actually did more preparation, such as running at the gym and so on. So there was less pain after the race compared to last year.

I remembered last year, I just collapsed in bed after a shower before going on a 3 hour massage spree and sleeping again before limping around in soreness for the next week. This year, I went home for a shower, played mahjong for an hour with GAJan and GAAow, before meeting all the others again for a porridge brunch. Then we all trammed from WanChai to Central before walking up the Escalator for a 2 hour massage. Then it was off to Sham Tseng for a roast goose dinner. The gang even brough a yee sang box that we ate there. So funny, because the proprietor probably thought we were nuts for asking for a big plate and then tossing food onto the table cloth. But fun.

I then rushed home while the others met up with other people for drinks. I needed to do some last minute packing and then it was time for me to go to Japan again ! But this time for a much awaited holiday, one in the works for 3 months !

Tell you more about that soon.

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