Wake Up Hibernation 2

It has been too long, much, much too long, dear, dear Shiny. Well, it has, hasn’t it? Anyway, since the past month a lot has gone on.

First of all, I went to Hong Kong, originally to skip our Chinese long test, but then the aforementioned test was postponed so I was just skipping school with a somewhat valid excuse. The excuse: there was no one home because my mom went to Hong Kong. That was a total lie, by the way, one, which my mom made up. Lol. And parents are supposedly supposed to be our role models. Either way, the trip was fun. (We went to Disneyland! XD) But I’m getting ahead of myself, I have to explain why we went there in the first place, noh?

There was a convention, of cosmetics, no less, there called Cosmopac of which my mom had to attend and introduce her replacement to PACC’s suppliers and customers, actually, I don’t think they had any customers on the global scale… Oh well, like I care. I'm not interested in this kind of business and never intend to get into it.

The convention was really cool though, fascinating. I’ll list them off…

1. The booths.

You don’t expect people to just walk up to your booth in its plain boring-ness, now do you? So of course, to attract, well, people, some companies went crazy on the designs. I swear, too cool to be true. Some seemed to be made entirely out of glass, another one was practically all pink; another one (which I really liked) was all black. Others even brought out a couple of their machines of which they used to make their products.

2. The products.

Right, so your booth’s interesting enough to draw the crowds to it, but it’d all be useless without the right products to appeal to them, heck, that’s the whole point of the convention, to advertise your stuff. XP Some of the products there were totally boring to the normal consumer, like what normal man/woman would be interested in the cap of a can? But this is a cosmetic convention, which is obviously inclusive of perfumes, make-up, and other beautifying products.

These kind of things have to appeal to the beautifying yourself people, so in turn they are beautiful. I was in awe of the lipsticks and powders and even the eyeliners there. And to think, I hate make-up… Anyway, have you seen a lipstick with a design on it? And I mean on the actual thing you apply to your lips. Well, have you? Have you even heard of such an idea? It’s a really awesome idea and got me staring at them through the glass.

The face powders were like that as well, they had such beautiful designs that even an artist would be at awe, heck, it looked like some really artistic kid went crazy on his mom’s powder there. They even had jigsaw-like ones… I mean that they had groups of powders beside each other, forming powder artworks in their shiny glass make-up galleries.

Unto the boring looking eyeliners I go. So what’s so cool about the eyeliners? Do they have like super-awesome-cool looks? No, but they’re very unique I’d have to say… Ok, so with pencils (the writing instrument) you have a normal Monggol pencil, a magic pencil, and a mechanical pencil. I wouldn’t know of any other types. But eyeliners are like normal pencils right? Eh! Now the mechanical eyeliner has been invented! Dun-dun-dun-dun!!! You twist its body to make the lead come out and I doubt you have to sharpen such a pencil. Too cool!

One really weird product there, which kinda falls under the cosmetic description (But not quite to me…) is the bath soap I found there… Right, bath soap… Bear with me for a moment, but you do know about the plastic dingy you use while swimming, right? Take that, and remove the air then put your bath soap, liquid form, duh. And Tah-daah! Really weird container for bath soap! That’s not all, but you can apply the design theory to it. (The theory where when you have a nice container, you get more customers! >.> Ok, I made that up…) So there was a Halloween theme, a Christmas theme, a Valentine theme, and a *shockhorrorgasp* “Naughty theme… *silence ensues* Wha-? Yes, yes… When I first saw it I stopped and stared for a moment and thought to myself, “Was that a penis?”

So ends the description of the products, with a lot of snickering and probably some blushing as well. Anyway, out of the three-day convention we only spend two days there, so we couldn’t go crazy buying the rad stuff there.

And on the third day of not resting we went to Disneyland! It’s still the same cool place, but the advantage of going on a weekday that isn’t vacation time yet is that there is hardly anyone there! Whoot! Three-minute line on Space Mountain! The crappy thing was that when I tried out the newest attraction there, Autopia, there was like a 30-minute wait for it. And it was a crappy ride to boot. Gah! I wasted four rides on the rollercoaster!

So, since our flight was later that day, we hurried to the train station at 5:30 to take the Airport Express, which was fast, but took about 20 minutes, probably…

But this does not end my description of my trip. That was just what we did… *Big grin*

My two best friends must be influencing me, but the clothes of those in Hong Kong were really cute. Compared to the Philippines, the only place I can say that would interesting to watch out for cute clothes is Greenbelt, but in Hong Kong, whoa. Just walking down the street you can see them, the fashionitas of Hong Kong that Olay is promoting. Ah, the joy of visiting a fashion capital. You do not see people in the Philippines wearing knee-high boots… Apart from the policemen in the rain… *shudder*

So, while I’m comparing the two countries, I may as well do the common comparison of how fast these people do things, from walking, to eating, to serving the food you’re supposed to eat. Eep, fast food there really is fast food. And they’re serving noodles.

*Stares at palm… Tennis lump*

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Anyway, being a car freak another thing I noticed was that they have awesome cars there… I saw an S15!!! :D (People: Eh?) Anyway, it seemed like the most common car there was the Toyota something… Crown or Corona I think, basta, something along the lines of that. Not surprising though, seeing that Toyota is one of the top three car companies in the world, based on sales. The thing is that the most common car is the taxi, yep, the Toyota taxi.

But somewhat surprisingly, the second most common car is the Mercedes-Benz. Pfft… Rich much?

The most common cell phone however is probably the Motorola. Yep, Hello Moto is really popular there, while it’s only gaining popularity here. Ahem, Razor…

Another things that seems significant (to me) about Hong Kong are the players there… No, not the dating too many people to count them, players, I mean the Initial D Arcade Stage players. I even heard that the best Initial D player is from there. :D I so wanted to check out the arcade there, but to no avail… Boohoo. So what?

But, before I forget about the most amazing and shallow part about out trip, I shall announce to the invisible crowds of my blog that HMV is the best! It has… *takes a deep breath* Jpop, Jrock, Kpop, Krock, Cpop, Crock, regular Rock, regular Pop, and ANIME!!! But most importantly, INITIAL D!!! They have the OSTs, and even the actual anime there! They had the 3rd and 4th Stage there, complete on DVD! If I didn’t expect that the subtitles would be in Chinese, I would’ve bought it! But oh well, I did purchase a CD of K and of Move. So there was some avail to it all. XD

It’s frustrating though; it’s very expensive compared to the Philippines, duh. That goes very much without saying.

And before I close this very long post, I would like to say that walking around in the morning I saw some schoolgirls in their uniforms. It isn’t as cute as anime puts it to be, but heck that was not Japan. XP