Wong's Weblog

Me No Speak English

So last Friday, I went out with my sister and our old friend Claudia and her boyfriend Kevin (a new friend). We had a great night out going to dinner and then grabbing drinks.  Afterwards, we had to grab a taxi because it was too late to take the bus back.  The name of the landmark that identifies where I live is Zung Fu, which is a Mercedes dealership on the 1st floor of our building.  Now the proper pronunciation of how to say this is “Yen Foo”.  I was pronouncing it “Young Fu”.  Needless to say, the way I was pronouncing it was not correct.  So instead of saying take me to this Mercedes dealership, I was telling him to take me to “my unfaithful wife”.  Boy that would have been a disaster.  Luckily, Kevin told me to call home to get the location and saved me a world of embarrassment.

Also, my pics can be viewed online now at http://www.picasaweb.google.com/mwong.az so that people don’t have to be on facebook to see them.  

Hmm..

So there I was sitting at the Hong Kong Immigration office bored out of my mind trying to figure a way to get get my identification card for easy access into the country.  Then I thought, hmm I have playing cards in my backpack.  BUT wait, these were no ordinary playing cards.  These were American Flag playing cards (thank you Karen Scheffe)  So there I was sitting playing the old Red, White and Blue trying to get into another country. Irony? Yes sir.

I’ve posted pics onto facebook so Erica, yes you will need to join the darkside once again if you want to see pictures.  Otherwise, I need another outlet to post pics because posting one by one on here is way too difficult.  Any ideas from you guys would be great (that means you Britt).  

I will post some 2nd week observations of this new fantastic culture in the next week so until then go out and cheer for Planet Orange.