Hong Kong Book Fair 2017
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elusivekI made a quick trip to Hong Kong of Saturday just to visit the Book Fair (something I do every year), however, due to my parents being out in Europe, I can't spend the whole day in Hong Kong. So I tend to go really early in the morning and then have to come back on an early ferry.
This year, my pals J and R joined me.
This year, I didn't buy much :-/
But what I got for myself, it's hilarious. So I got myself this Cantonese, explained book. It's even got pictures!
This explains some common idioms in Cantonese that would otherwise make no sense (idioms, of course), if you translate it through Google translate. I thought this was a good book to have handy. It's really fun to read this. I LOLed already so much.
Then I got another book, but not for myself. I remember seeig on Facebook about a new "girls' book" but not about pricesses, instead about power figures and such. I saw this book there and posted on Facebook saying I found it. I had one friend immediately ask for it (she just had a daughter some months ago). However, when I came back to Macau, and late into the evening, another friend asked for it too. I hope there will be no hard feelings, but I only bought one book. Both friends are not in my super-closed knit group of friends. Anyway, I promised the second friend to keep a lookout for this book around town here. It's just that, it's really hard to find specific books in Macau.
Apart from that, we didn't do much in Hong Kong. We had to hurry back due to... my friends buying a lot of books at the Book Fair and it was getting heavy for them, and I had 4.30pm tickets to get back. So all other plans to go elsewhere for some other shopping, cancelled. We had a glorious lunch, then did some supermarket shopping. Yeah. I got myself some rocket lettuce and baby spinach. In Hong Kong. Extravagant? You don't find that kind of stuff in Macau.
This year, my pals J and R joined me.
This year, I didn't buy much :-/
But what I got for myself, it's hilarious. So I got myself this Cantonese, explained book. It's even got pictures!
This explains some common idioms in Cantonese that would otherwise make no sense (idioms, of course), if you translate it through Google translate. I thought this was a good book to have handy. It's really fun to read this. I LOLed already so much.
Then I got another book, but not for myself. I remember seeig on Facebook about a new "girls' book" but not about pricesses, instead about power figures and such. I saw this book there and posted on Facebook saying I found it. I had one friend immediately ask for it (she just had a daughter some months ago). However, when I came back to Macau, and late into the evening, another friend asked for it too. I hope there will be no hard feelings, but I only bought one book. Both friends are not in my super-closed knit group of friends. Anyway, I promised the second friend to keep a lookout for this book around town here. It's just that, it's really hard to find specific books in Macau.
Apart from that, we didn't do much in Hong Kong. We had to hurry back due to... my friends buying a lot of books at the Book Fair and it was getting heavy for them, and I had 4.30pm tickets to get back. So all other plans to go elsewhere for some other shopping, cancelled. We had a glorious lunch, then did some supermarket shopping. Yeah. I got myself some rocket lettuce and baby spinach. In Hong Kong. Extravagant? You don't find that kind of stuff in Macau.
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