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in chongqing/chengdu for 4 days (never been here before) and im most looking forward to the food and drinks bc it's hitting 38 degrees here

i'm still deeply self conscious of the quality of my cantonese (bad bc lack of vocab and odd pronunciation and also weird use of grammar…my dad told me i speak canto w english grammar and it sounds weird) especially since i grew up in hk so it's not like i grew up overseas and wasn't immersed etc. but also english fluency is a sign of socioeconomic privilege (in hk) so i should b grateful for that at least

haven't gotten drunk enough to experience bed spins in a while and i miss it so bad

listening to achilles come down in 2021 as simple appreciation for a nice song vs listening to achilles come down in 2026 as an anti-suicide tract

there's a certain beauty to how quickly welts come up on the skin after a mosquito bites you...

2 am just got home from picking up my dad from the train station (20 min drive) after his trip up to the mainland that my mum is mad about and she's also probably annoyed that i went to pick him up bc she thinks he should taxi home since it's his own fault he was out so late having dinner w his friends

fml i forgot to put on mosquito spray n wore shorts outside and now i have 30+ mosquito bites on my legs ahhhgh

but since i grew up in the city im a city person forever.

i say remote village bc i (my parents) do live in a village and it is remote as villages here go but it's also weird bc whoever heard of a village in a city!! (and yes ik hong kong is technically a special administrative region tm but most ppl think city skyscraper concrete jungle etc and they would be mostly right) but also it really is a village. no streets here and there r cows on the road and everything

it's strangely relieving that even in my remote village there r ppl playing pokemon go at midnight (as evidenced by my pokemon getting kicked out from the gym at that time)