Birthday Weekend

So…all in all, my birthday was good. I wish I could have spent it with my friends and family back home, but celebrating in Hong Kong was really fun! I went to Korean BBQ for dinner and then took the Star Ferry to Central where we went to Club 9. Basically, the entire club was filled with students from CUHK and Hong Kong University because it was the last night the club would be open! After a night of partying, a couple of us went to 麦当劳 (mai dang lao—that is the Chinese name for McDonalds) and then got back to I-House around 4:30 am.

 Me and Trevor.  They made me wear a crown since I was the birthday girl...it was kind of embarrassing.

The next day, Lena, Jean, and I headed to Shenzhen around noon for the Queen’s Spa. Once you cross the border into the mainland, there is barely anyone who speaks English. Lean is Japanese and Jean is Korean and neither of them know a word of mandarin so they relied on me the whole time to communicate. The funny thing was though that whenever we were trying to get somewhere or do anything, people would automatically turn their back to me and speak Chinese to the Asian girls. They were always shocked when I then would jump in and say they don’t speak Chinese, but I know a little.

When we got to the spa it was fantastic. We checked in and got lockers to put our things in and then explored the first floor which was full of a steam room, sauna, multiple hot tubs, and 3,000 meters of different kinds of pools. After spending a while there, we showered off and were given these POW like pajamas to wear. Then we ventured off to check out the rest of the spa. The third floor was full of hundreds of recliners with personal TV’s, a movie room, fruit bar, ice cream machine, and restaurant. If you wanted to get a leg or neck massage on this floor, you could pick your masseuse by looking at their photos on a computer.  Pretty much no one spoke English here, but they had a few workers who wore badges that said "ENGLISH" for those of us foreigners who could not really communicate. This was the point in the weekend where I got really sketched out because everyone was wearing the same pajamas (men in grey and red and women in different shades of pink), and lounging in recliners with people massaging them and cleaning out their ears.  I literally felt like I was in 1984 or Axiom—the place where the humans live in Wall-E (which I am pretty sure that Queen’s Spa is where they got the idea for that).  It was really weird.

Queen's Spa!  I like this picture because of the Missy sign on the bottom.  It is a little ironic, because in Shenzhen, people always call you missy when they are trying to get you to go to their store.

POW pajamas.  There was a pocket in the shirt.  Also, we had to sneak into the bathroom to take these pictures because you were not allowed to take pictures.

After experiencing the third floor, it was off to get our pampering done. First we got a facial and a body scrub where they scrubbed all of the dead skin off our bodies. Then Jean and I got a Hong Kong Massage. This is the type of massage where the masseurs stand on you and use their feet to massage you/crack our back lots of times. It wasn’t as painful as I thought, but I think I like the normal type of massages better. It was really awkward when they were massaging our front side too because they kept trying to talk to us.  Our conversation was a little weird because they only knew a little English and I know a little Chinese, but basically I told them we were students in Hong Kong and they asked why we didn’t have Chinese boyfriends because they are so attractive. They also taught us how to say “that tickles” and “that hurts.”

By the time we ate dinner and got all of our massages and stuff done, it was almost 2:00 am. We realized that since the lighting was dim and there were no windows, you lose track of all existence outside of the spa. We went to the second floor to go to the bed area to sleep. This wasn’t that weird for me having slept on the sleeping porch in my sorority before, but I wasn’t use to lots of snoring and crying babies. Other than that, we slept well and left first thing in the morning.  It was nice to go outside and see there was still a world out there.  We then got some dim sum, and headed back to Hong Kong.

 Lean and Jean eating their ice cream.  The Queen Spa turned them into zombies.

明天是我的生日！

So my midterms went…okay. I am just glad that they are over.

On Tuesday, I went to Macau. My Chinese teacher announced in our class that there was an American professor visiting and he was looking for non Asian students to be in an educational video. I thought it would be fun so I met with the professor and got picked to be in the movie! It was just me and another professor from CUHK who went. We left at 4:00 pm, shot for about 10 minutes. I just talked with the professor while the other professor video taped. And the best part was that it didn’t matter what we said because our voices are going to be dubbed over with native Chinese speakers. I guess American teachers do not want their students to hear anything but perfect Chinese. After walking around Macau, he treated us to dinner and then we headed back to Hong Kong. He said he would be done editing around September and will send me a copy of the video. I can’t wait to finally hear myself speaking perfect Chinese!

Tomorrow is my birthday so a bunch of us are going to Korean Barbeque in Tsim Sha Tsui and then out to Lan Kwai Fong to celebrate me being 21!!! Then on Saturday, me and a few girls are going to Shenzhen in China to a 24 hour spa were we get two hour massages, facials, manicures, pedicures, all you can eat ice cream, pools and baths, and a bed to sleep in all for around $200 Yuan! It is going to be an excellent way to celebrate my birthday. I can’t wait.
Miss you all!

I Love Hong Kong!

Lately I have been traveling a lot and I feel like I have been neglecting beautiful Hong Kong! So this weekend, I decided that I would cram all of my studying into Sunday and spend Friday and Saturday exploring with my brand new camera!

On Friday morning, Steph, Alaina, and I decided to go hiking. We went to Tai Wai to hike to Lion Rock. When we were almost to the top we discovered that you could not actually hike to the rock, but to a great view of the rock. This was okay because we also got a fantastic view of Hong Kong! From the top you could see all of Kowloon and part of Hong Kong Island. I have found that most of the time Hong Kong is foggy/smoggy so you are lucky if you get a good view, and we were lucky.

 

Beginning of the hike.

  

Warning signs for rabid monkeys...

  

Lion Rock.

  

Beautiful view of Kowloon.  You can also see parts of Hong Kong Island.

 

 It may not look hot, but it was hot and humid.  That combined with the hiking made us all really sweaty, which is evident in this picture.

A few days ago, I was listening to Phantom of the Opera and my roommate, Eva, had never heard it before. She really liked it and we ended up YouTubeing a bunch of other songs from movies. That turned into me making a list of very famous American movies that she has never heard of and I am going to make her watch before I leave. The next day I rented the first one on the list from the United College Media Library on campus and we watched it when I got back from hiking. It was Grease! She loved it. During one of the scenes in the movie, they dance to an Elvis song. This was when I discovered that she didn’t know who Elvis was. After the movie, I Googled him for her and she quickly realized that she knew him, but as his Chinese name, 猫王 (Mao Wang which means cat king). Even though she knew him, she has never heard any of his songs so we spent about the next ten minutes listening to Elvis. That somehow turned into us listening to Footloose (which was when she found out that I can tap dance and was in the musical in high school), and then we started watching videos from Happy Feet—which she also hasn’t seen.  After that we listened to children’s songs including Old Mcdonald, The ABC's, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, etc.  Finally, about an hour later, I found myself teaching her the hokey pokey, the chicken dance, and the Macarena. I don’t know how these tangents occur, but it is sure fun to be the one who shows her all of these new things.

The next day, Lena and I ventured to Diamond Hill in Kowloon. We first went to Lian Garden which has some charming bonsai trees, a rock museum, and a beautiful golden pagoda.

 

I love how you can see the big Hong Kong buildings in the background.

  

The cleanest koi pond I have seen.

  

Bonsai trees:  they are grown to be small trees that look like big trees.

 

 The rock museum.  It was a lot cooler than it sounds.

The garden was connected to the Chi Lin Nunnery, so after walking around for a bit we headed over there. The Chi Lin Nunnery is a Buddhist temple that was built in 1990. It is actually amazing because it is built following the style of Tang Dynasty traditional Chinese architecture which means it is standing without the use of any nails. All of the wood is held together by pieces interlocking into other pieces through cuts in the wood. It is the only building in Hong Kong like this.

 

 The nunnery.

 

 It was raining before we got there so my bum got wet from this picture.

One stop up on the MTR is the Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple so we stopped there on our way back. This is a Taoist temple and it is the most famous in Hong Kong. There we got to see a turtle pond, Good Wish Garden and of course, a temple.

 

There were so many turtles!

  

Outside one of the temples.

  

Good Wish Garden.  If you look closely, you can see me on the bridge.

 

 Another temple.

Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple is also famous because there are about a hundred soothsayers and fortune-telling stalls. While we were there, Lena and I decided it would be fun to get our palms and faces read. My fortune went somewhat as follows:

The first thing he said when he looked at my palms was “You are very independent. You’re parents do not have a good relationship and they got divorced when you were young.” I thought this was freaky since it is very accurate. Then I told him the year I was born (which is the year of the snake) and he continued. The only negative things my fortune told was to not drive fast this year (specifically not over 150 kilometers/hour), and when I am 39, do not go scuba diving because I have a high probability of hurting my ears. I will have a happy life, but I will have to work extra hard on being happy between the ages of 45 and 50.

The rest of my fortune was great! He continuously kept telling me how lucky I was and that I had a “golden hand”…whatever that means. He said that I have not been so lucky in the past, but that is changing and I will have really good luck until I am about 60 years old. This year, I am also going to find a boyfriend! I will marry this man at the ripe age of 25, and we will have four or more kids. My husband is also going to be successful and will love me and know how to care of me. He also said that I am going to be a very good wife and mother and take excellent care of my husband and children. I am going to have a long life (past the age of 85) and I will never have to worry about my accommodations. When I get old, my children will take care of me, and this will be easy for them because like their mother and father, they are going to be very successful.

As for school and my future career: I am a quick learner and I will own my own business by the time I am 28. He kept telling me that I was going to be filthy rich. If I ever choose to work and live abroad, I will not have any troubles. I will also have no problem in school at CUHK and I am good at learning new things.

Then he read my face and told me how my ears show more good luck in my future. By the end of my reading, I though that he was just b.s.ing me because I was paying him and therefore my fortune good, but then he read Lena’s fortune. Hers was not good at all! He told her that she has a bad stomach and lungs, and a bad relationship with her boyfriend. He said that she won’t get married until she is around 30, and that she will get divorced. Apparently, Lena will also have to get surgery on something when she is around 60 years old. The only semi-positive things he said to her was that she will live until 88 and have three children—which is how many she wants.

 I have "soft hands" and good luck in my future!

When I got home from my busy day of sightseeing, Eva and I watched Aladdin...in Chinese!  No subtitles either.  We watched Mulan the other day (in English) because she hadn't seen it, and she discovered my love for Disney.  She says that if I watch movies where I am familiar with the plot, it will help me with my Mandarin because I am not trying to figure out what is going on the whole time.  I barely understood any of the movie, but she helped me when I had questions.  I actually learned quite a bit.  I now know that the word friend is different in conversation than it is in songs, and Prince Ali = Ali Wangzi.

Overall, it was a great weekend and I have a busy week of studying ahead of me—two Chinese midterms coming up

Grand Adventure Part 3: Thailand and Singapore

Luckily we made it on the bus. The only thing that kind of sucked was that we were planning on spending the night in the Bangkok Airport so I did not get a shower until we were in Phuket: and in that humidity and heat, my skin got really sticky and I am pretty sure I started to smell. Anyways, the first bus we got on had no storage in the bottom and there we only about three empty seats. The bus was pretty cramped and there was no air conditioning. It was like that until we got to the border which luckily was only a three hour drive.

Crossing the border into Thailand was one of the sketchiest things I have ever done. After the bus dropped us off on a dirt rode and drove away, we were on our own until we got to our next bus in Thailand. We crossed the border out of Cambodia and had to walk a kilometer before we were in Thailand. Oh and a side note, I am working on converting to the metric system while I am here because Americans are the only people in the world who don’t use it, and I get really confused when people say temperatures in Celsius, heights in centimeters, and weights in kilos.

 Tuk tuk in Bangkok.

When we got to Bangkok, a few of our friends were staying there for an extra day so they let us put our stuff in their hostel. We spent that night on Khao San Road which has the best nightlife in Bangkok. I got to work on my bartering skills and had a great Phad Thai for dinner. Then it was off to the airport to stay the night and catch our early flight to Phuket in the morning. The airport was so cold that I could barely sleep. I wandered around for a while and ran into a computer with a webcam, so I Skyped my momma for a bit.

 Trying to catch some z's in the airport.  My rice hat served many purposes.

When we got to Phuket I finally got my shower! And by shower, I mean that I only shaved my legs because we were headed to the beach. None of us had packed any towels with us so we tried buying ones on the street. That was an epic fail! Phuket is probably the most touristy place in Thailand and they really overprice their beach towels. Not just over priced for Thailand, but over priced for anywhere in the world. One guy tried selling us a towel for $350 baht! That is around $12 USD, and we couldn’t get him any lower than $10. He claimed that he bought it for that much, so we told him that he got ripped off. We ended up just using out bath towels from the hostel for the next couple of days which we also used to take showers. That was the point in the trip where I started to constantly have sand on and that was also the day we all got sun burnt on the beach.

 

Sunset on the beach we were at our first day in Patong.

 

 Tan lines/burn from just one day on the beach.

The next day we went to a beach just outside of Patong (where we were the first day.) It was exactly as Lonely Planet described it, “a little slice of paradise”. We hung out there all day and went back to Patong for sunset. That night we got to experience nightlife in Patong. Let me just say I have never seen so many transvestites, or as the Thai call them “lady boys”, in my entire life. Just on one block there were probably over 20 just standing there on the sidewalks. There were also a ton of strip clubs with lady boy dancers. While walking along the street I saw these guys holding iguanas trying to get tourist to pay for pictures with them. Right as I walked by, one of them followed me and put an iguana on my arm. I was just standing there trying not to freak out and trying to ignore the pain of the lizard on my sunburn when another man came up to me and placed another iguana on my other arm. Sadly, no one took any pictures.

 

Little slice of paradise.

 

 Lady boys.

In the morning we hopped on the Phi Phi Cruiser to none other but Koh Phi Phi (pronounced pee pee). The boat ride was quite fun. We all sat on the top deck because inside was way too hot. It was so beautiful when we got there. There were tons of boats and the water was an aqua blue color. I really liked Phi Phi because it was small with no cars and the views were amazing! After we found a place to stay, we walked to the beach where a kid’s pet monkey tried to steal Mike’s towel. A couple hours later, we hiked up to the top of one of the mountains and watched the sunset.

 

Hanging out on the Phi Phi Cruiser.

  

 Shoreline on Koh Phi Phi.

  

I wasn't lying when I said a monkey tried to steal Mike's towel.

Top of the mountain where we watched the sunset.

After the sun went down, we partied Thailand style. We started with some buckets at a reggae bar—yes, they serve you your alcohol in a bucket. Then we went to the beach where there were several bars; all with fire dancers, fire jump ropes, fire limbos, and rings of fire! Crazy right? All of them had specials too where you could go and get a free bucket during certain ten minute periods. At point, we also got orange designs painted on us. After things started dying down, we found some foreigners playing guitar on the beach and joined them for a bit. That was a great night!

  

Our buckets!

  

A guy doing some fire jump rope.

  

I was scared of the fire being so close to my face so I went extra low.

  

I jumped through this hoop three times to get this picture!

  

This paint stayed on my legs for about two days.

The next day we did a day trip where a boat took us around to several beaches and snorkeling spots. The snorkeling was incredible! I saw tons of rainbow fishies and other bright color fishies in the perfectly blue water. We also went swimming in a blue lagoon and got to visit Maya Beach where the movie “The Beach” with Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed. We ended our day by watching the sunset from the boat.

 

On Bamboo Island.  This was the boat we took around the whole day.

  

Great snorkeling here.

  

Swimming in a lagoon.

  

Floating towards Maya Beach.

 

 Self explanatory.

Thailand has some great food as well! I had a ton of fruit shakes—always banana though because that is my favorite. I also tried Thai pancakes…several times. Thai pancakes are AMAZING!!! I am going to learn how to make them. Basically it was like a crepe, kind of crispy though, with bananas on the inside and Nutella on top. Soooo yummy!

 Suntans!  Thanks to my gramps for the olive skin!

The following morning we took the boat back to Phuket because our trip was coming to an end. We stayed on Kata Beach this time. Our hostel had tons of bugs in it, and I think I had bed bugs in my bed or the window was left open because when I woke up in the morning, I had about twenty bits all over me.

We flew to Singapore the next day and toured the city only a little bit. Luckily, I had already been there because we were all so tired from the previous ten days of traveling, walking, sun, and lack of sleep, that we just kind of hung out after about an hour of city touring. At night we went to Little India for dinner where I ordered a dish that was supposed to be “not that spicy”, but my mouth was on fire and my eyes were watering after the first bite. Then, Steph, Kiwan, and I went to Clarke Quay where we got some Japanese ice cream and hung out by the river. Steph and I caught the MRT for our last sleep in the airport once when it started to get late: we were not too keen on the idea of paying for a hostel to get four hours of crappy sleep and then having to pay for a taxi to the airport, so we just toughed it out one last time.

 

Singapore skyline.

 

 Clarke Quay.  This place lights up at night!

The next morning we caught our final flight back to HK and then it was off to school. By this point, I had sand in everything I brought with me, peeling skin, and a million bug bites—all signs of a fantastic trip!

 The start of my peeling that eventually spread to my arms, stomach, legs, and hands.

Grand Adventure Part 2: Cambodia

Journeying to Cambodia was a very unforgettable experience. It started in the morning when we had a taxi take us to the bus. Instead of driving down the one-way street and going around the block, our driver thought it would be much more convenient to back down the road into the middle of a busy intersection and then pull a u-ey in the middle of the street. All of us were kind of freaking out while this was happening, but we were not at all surprised after experiencing a few days worth of driving like this. Then, when we got onto the bus to Phnom Penh, the assistant guy made us all surrender our passports. At first we were apprehensive, but he said it was so he could fill out our visa paperwork: and really, where could he escape with our passports while on a moving bus? When we got to the border crossing, it was weird to contrast the security into Cambodia to that of America’s: the man who was in charge of scanning the x-ray as our bags passed through was texting people on his cell phone, and the man at immigration stamping passports was smoking a cigarette directly in front of the no smoking sign. Before getting back onto the bus we all had to go through a health screening, which luckily we all came through with flying colors. Then it was time to catch a few z’s before arriving in Phnom Penh. This was quite tricky seeing as every time we passed a scooter or car on the road the bus driver would honk; and I would say we passed well over 100 scooters and cars.

 One of my first glimpses of rural Cambodia.

We arrived in Phnom Penh around 4:30pm which is almost the time all of the site seeing attractions close. Since we were leaving the next morning for Siem Reap and wanted to see some of the famous things in this capital city, we hired a tuk tuk driver to take us to all the main sites just to walk around and take some photos. Cambodia is truly a beautiful country. The architecture is really amazing! To no surprise, when we asked our tuk tuk driver to show us the Royal Palace, he took us straight there and drove around the whole thing. The only frightening part of this was that he wanted us to get a really good view, so he drove on the opposite side of the road against all of the oncoming traffic!

 

A cute little Cambodian baby I was making faces at, then got to hold for a little bit.

  

In our tuk tuk getting ready to see Phnom Penh.

 

 Center of the city.

After our city tour we walked around a market that was close to our hostel. We ran into some people who were also staying at our hostel and they were chilling on some rugs eating street food. We decided to join them and chatted for the rest of the night. One nice thing about Cambodia is that they use US currency. It was nice to hold American green in my hands again, but I was not used to how skinny and long it is compared to all of the other currencies I have used. Although they use USD in Cambodia, they do not use any of our change. Instead, they use their own currency—Riel—where a $1,000 note is equal to $0.25, and they only price things in quarters.

 Five of us with some people from our hostel in the background.

Our original plan for traveling from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap was by river boat, however, the river boat was far more expensive than the bus, so we opted for the bus. The bus was not scheduled to leave until 10:00am, so Steph, Mike, Lena, and I decided to wake up early and see the famous Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. We didn’t realize until we were almost there that it was Valentines Day, and Steph joked that “nothing spells love like a genocide museum”. The museum is a high school that got turned into a prison where people were tortured before being sent to the killing fields during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 70’s. Out of the nearly 17,000 people who went in (this number does not include women and children) only four survived. There is rusted razor wire surrounding the entire perimeter of the high school, and we saw prison cells, torture devices, photographs of prisoners (both dead and alive), and paintings of some of the things they did to torture people. I lost it and started crying when I saw a painting of a Khmer Rouge cadre trap shooting a baby. It is hard and incredibly sad to believe that these things were happening not even 50 years ago. We couldn’t stay here long because we were all very emotional.

 Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

After heading back to the hostel, we hopped on the bus to Siem Reap. The man that I was sitting next to on the bus was sitting with his child on his lap. When we stopped at a small shop for lunch, I bought a bag of banana chips and shared them with the boy for the rest of our ride. Halfway though this journey, a family had got on the bus and sat right next to us. This family included the stinkiest baby I have ever smelt. We all felt like we were going to throw up for the rest of the ride. The bus then stopped in this extremely rural area where we thought we were picking up more people, but this was where we were getting off. The first thought that went through my head was exactly what did I get myself into. We got a tuk tuk to navigate us through the dirt roads to our hostel, and once we arrived we made a deal to hire him for the entire next day to drive us around the temples of Angkor.

 The boy I shared my banana chips with.

After settling into our hostel—which happened to have the biggest and cleanest rooms we had stayed in yet at only $3.00 a night—it was so hot we needed to find a swimming pool. Lonely Planet recommended this great pool bar named Aqua, which took our tuk tuk driver forever to find and ended up being an eerie bar with no pool. That was the first time Lonely Planet led us astray. We found another pool after that short detour and got some swimming in before bed.

The next day it was rise and shine at 4:00am. We went outside in the pitch black to head off to Angkor Wat and watch the sunrise. When we got there, none of us could see a thing. We walked about 10 minutes where we got to the spot by a pond to watch the sun come up. There were a ton of people already there and we purchased a chair and hot cocoa from some locals for a dollar which made us confident we were in a good spot. That was the most amazing sunrise I have ever seen in my life. It was like looking into the obscure darkness and the next thing you know, the sky is illuminating over the most massive and astonishing temple you have ever seen. That was my first glimpse of Angkor Wat. Waking up at 4:00am was definitely worth it. Before the sun fully rose, we hurried off to walk through the temple before the masses of people arrived. It is hard to believe that something constructed in the 12th century (during the reign of Suryavarman II) is still standing today. Angkor Wat is the most famous of all of the temples of Angkor and was built for the Hindu God Vishnu. This temple can be seen on the Cambodian flag. It is surrounded by a moat over 200 meters wide and the entire temple is covered with bas-reliefs (some measuring up to 800 meters in length and 3 tiers high).

 

Angkor Wat during sunrise.

  

Sitting on the edge of Angkor Wat.

 

 Taking a nap in some hammocks during lunch.

We visited some more ruins before heading to Bayon. Bayon was just as cool as Angkor Wat. It has a disputed number of towers (somewhere around 50) each having faces carved into them. It is said that Bayon has over 200 faces towering overhead. Another favorite temple of mine was Ta Prohm. This is the one where they filmed parts of Tomb Raider. It is so old that it has trees rooted around the walls.

 

One of the many faces of Bayon.

 

Ta Prohm.  Look familiar?

 

 Some more of the ruins.

It was most definitely a long day seeing the temples in the scorching sun with begging children constantly attacking us: at one point, a young girl was chasing Lena (I mean sprinting after her) trying to get her to buy a book. Our tuk tuk driver even got a flat tire while transporting us between temples. Our touring ended around 2:00pm and we still wanted to watch the sunset. With our extra time, we went back to the hostel for a bit to nap, but I couldn’t sleep. Then we went back to see Angkor Wat again and after that hiked up a hill to watch the sunset. One day was not enough to see all of these temples. Some people spend a week there and you can even get guided tours that explain the history behind all of the temples and tell you the stories of the reliefs. Angkor is definitely a place I am going visit again in my lifetime—it was simply incredible. Annnnd, I will have to go back anyway when I adopt my Cambodian child.

 Sunset on top of the hill.

 

 Our feet got incredibly dirty.

 

 Climbing down the steep steps after sunset.

After a long day on our feet we went into the town where we grabbed dinner and got a fish massage at the night market on Pub Street. We submerged our feet into a kiddy pool of kissing gouramis and they nibbled away at the dead skin on our feet. I am so ticklish I could barely stand this, but it was a lot of fun.

Fish massage!

We got back to the hostel for the final time around midnight, and I had to make a phone call back to the states regarding a summer internship. I didn’t get an answer so I headed to the computer to send an e-mail to follow up the message I left. It took me forever to find the e-mail address for the recruiter, and I did not end up going to bed until around 3:00am. I had been up for nearly 24 hours! I was so tired and fell asleep while setting my alarm. I guess I did not hit the set button on my phone because I woke up at 7:00am to Lena freaking out asking what time it was. 7:00am was the time our bus was leaving to Bangkok.

To be continued…