It's always nice to be greeted by your cat when you arrive home. Except in our case our adorable tuxedo cat greeted us from outside the gates as I and my partner were opening the lock. I guess it can hear the chains of the lock or smell us from a mile off whenever we do and just comes bounding towards us with a warning meow. I asked the cat where he's been and what manner of adventure he's done but he only tells me he's hungry. As usual. We have a little hole in our window where he can come in and out whenever he pleases. We also don't repair it because the cat'll get crazy cooped up inside all day. What can we do? He likes the outdoors since he's an adopted stray.

Anyway, it's nice to be home after a hectic few days at work, especially since I'm not feeling well at the moment. We had a few of our colleagues from Hong Kong come in to do some meetings so I've been running around preparing for the meetings, attending meetings and such. Yesterday night we took them to a fancy Filipino restaurant in a once-military-fort-turned-commercial-shopping-district called Fort Bonifacio and fed them some iconic Filipino food. Stuff like pickled green mangos, deep fried pork knuckle, cow tongue in peanut sauce, fermented salted krill paste, the obligatory fried fish, taro leaves with coconut milk. Of course, I stuffed myself too. Yum! We talked about the Cantonese language, funny work stuff, and food, and how I missed Hong Kong and wanted to go back. A lot of my clothes and style came from shopping trips to Hong Kong, though people here always mistake me for a Korean because of the way I dress..stockings and knee high socks, layers, bangs, that kind of stuff.

(I miss shopping in Hong Kong)

Oh, my partner is now calling me to play our regular video game session. But before I play with him, I need to play with the cat lying so cutely on its bed. Bye for now!