My family keeps a white dog. Beautiful he is but I think I am less of a dog man. Yet to explore if I am a cat person instead. This dog demands attention all the time. He sleeps after I do and wakes up before I do. Every time when we leave home is always a constant struggle with us and our dog as he becomes very upset to be left behind.

After escorting my wife Cynthia to the California Fitness (yet within the 5 minutes walking radius), it was my free time. So I ventured into the shopping malls 298, 198, and 188 (see previous blogs) and check out more in-depth the local scene.

The shop space in Hong Kong is tiny but you will be surprised how many goods they can hold. For instance, back in Singapore, I always find it hard to buy Japanese music. Here in Hong Kong, I am greeted with shops that sold nothing but Japanese music. The selection is so “Japanese” that I can’t even make out who the artists are (in pure Japanese and not some alphabets). As for the computer games, I reckon these shops have more selection than Challengers in Singapore. How could that be? Simple, they don’t waste precious space to display more than one item of the same sort. Smart, huh?

The variety offered by the Hong Kong retail shops or any other shops for that matter is amazing. Is it because the consumers in Hong Kong are so different from Singapore? I wanted to develop a theory of how Singaporeans are moulded due to Government’s intervention to our lives but the cigarette smoke from the malls gave me a bad headache. (As my theory goes, because Singaporeans are so “alike”, Singaporeans less appreciate the varieties one may offer.)

As I walked back to the California Fitness to pick up Cynthia, I have come across people carolling on the street. The outfits that some of the girls wear on the street was so darn adorable. All for the spirit of Christmas I guess.