Sexxx and Cyberport

On yesterday's Tuesday afternoon, two floor mates and I decided to watch a movie at Cyberport. It is a IT-themed infrastructure hub area on my side of the island. The architecture is very futuristic looking. I think I saw the Jetsons at the post office there. According to good ol Wikipedia, the design and area is suppose to attract quality IT companies to "help make Hong Kong the digital city of the Asia-Pacific region." Amazingly though, the area is quite isolated. I would think such a cool looking place would be filled with people! I mean, everywhere else in Hong Kong is packed with people. I guess it's because there aren't any retail shopping stores...Anyway, we watched a HK produced tragic romantic film called "Butterfly Lovers."

We were going to watch "Painted Skin" instead, but the trailer for Butterfly Lovers looked much more appealing. Plus, I was leaning towards a cantonese language movie since I am eager to improve my cantonese! Turns out, we regretted the choice as soon as the first 25 minutes passed. OH MY GOSH. I never felt such fake romance. They had famous actors in the movie, but the director and production of it all was just too over-the-top for me. Charlene Choi, one of the Twins, had such a fake and bubbly personality that just didn't fit the period of the movie. I don't even want to go on and list everything that was bad about the movie. The only justification for my staying in the movie was that entertainment in HK generally lacks quality--so I pretty much asked for the disappointment when I chose to see this. I swear I looked for reviews, but since it's a new movie, I couldn't find any.

I still haven't made my huge blog about my stay here, but for now, I will just try to update on what has been going on. If I don't ever write anything at all and just waited until I wanted to write one big one, I don't think I'd ever get to it. So, writing little blogs now will keep the ball rolling.

Dum dee dum dee doooo. Cultural moment of the day (though not a big one)! I sometimes walk around or wash my fash with my towel wrapped around my head for my wet hair. It's fair to say that girls do this. Well, when I was in the restroom washing my face with my towel on my head, a girl came in and exclaimed a surprised,"OH!" She then spoke in cantonese saying,"Wow, how interesting! Why do you do that?" I told her why and she said I'd have to teach her how to wrap the towel around her head sometime.

I have cultural moments almost everyday. I should keep note of them because they remind me that I am an alien here. Yesterday, a floor mate asked if I have ever watched pornography. I told her I've only seen porn in a motel because that was all that was available on TV. She widened her eyes and said,"Really? I thought you'd be the type who watched porn all the time!" Oh well, I wasn't offended. They thought I arrived to Hong Kong single and ready to mingle with 100 ex-boyfriends from the past. A100 (status equivalent to Available with 100 ex's). She wasn't as surprised as me though! Here is a girl who is a virgin and who has not had one boyfriend. She thinks that having pubic hair would decrease the friction of penis penetration during sexual intercourse, thus less "pain" would be inflicted upon the female. WHAAAAAT!?!?!?!!? Oh, that's another topic to be talked about. Sex education in Hong Kong is very poor. Well anyway, before I diverge any farther, let me go back to her interest in pornography. So I asked her if she watched porn, and she said she did. I asked,"Why do you watch porn?" (That's a fair question to ask in this scenario. It is given that people usually watch pornography for pleasure, but in this case, I highly doubt that.) She said it was for fun and for interest. If someone is bored, why not watch it? That sparked another question...if she was interested, wouldn't that mean she was sexually curious? This fascinated me--the thought of a innocent HK girl being sexually curious with porn and yet so oblivious to the idea of sex. So I then asked her,"So do you get horny at all when you watch porn?" The answer was,"Of course not!" You would think she were lying, but I don't think she was. It's funny. She started talking about how crazy Japanese porn was. She suggested that we should watch porn together when there was some free time...like as if it is just a tv show I'd normally watch plopped on the couch with a friend.

Wow.