Taboo

Today Missy, Nic, Lara and I went out to Sha Tin to have dim sun with Matt and his co workers. Dim Sum was yummy as usual and we left there completely stuffed. Then we headed over to Lantau Island to se the giant bronze buddha and the monastery at Ngong Ping. It was a long day of travelling, since Sha Tin, Midlevels and Lantau Island are in three opposit corners of Hong Kong.

By the time we got home we were very tired, so Missy and Nic went to get massages. Lara, Matt and I decided we watned to play Taboo the board game but we needed a fourth person. Then we remembered the young Australian guy, Steve, that we had met in the elevator. So, we went to track him down, thinking that he would think we were really strange for trying to get him to play taboo with us. When we asked him, he did seem sort of surprised, but he came up to play with us and it was really fun. My conclusion at the end of the night was that I am very good at Taboo. :) I was on the winning team both games. (It was probably just luck though...usually when Matt and I are on a team together we get lose by a landslide.) The last game we played was guys against girls, and so of course the girls won. The losers had to take the winners out for a drink, so we went out down to Wan Chai. Everything was dead except for this one place, Fenwick's. It was definitely an amusing place, but Lara and I stuck out like sore thumbs. I wasn't sure what was more fun: watching the Filipino band or watching the Filipina/Thai ladies in the bar. The band was playin everything from disco to hard rock, and the guitar players looked like they had permanent grins plastered on their faces. It was sort of scary looking...like those tribal masks you see or like faces on a totem pole. Pretty much all of the women in Fenwick's were Thai or Filipina and they were there with a purpose. Most of the men were older, western business men who looked very pleased with themselves as the women fawned over them. We met an American guy from Washington DC and he said that Fenwick's is where he always takes his clients when they come into town. I don't think the women or the men liked Lara and I being there. But hey, it was the only place with live music that night, and we were just dancing and having a good time.