Thursday, July 9, 2009

Resident Card

Wonderful news!  I have now obtained a (temporary, yet still official) Hong Kong Resident Identity card!  Meaning that I am now an official Hong Kong resident!  I will now enjoy privileges such as having my thumbprint scanned upon re-entry, and many other cool things which I will I discover along the way.   I'll get the real card sometime in the next couple of weeks (for now, I just have a swanky piece of paper), but this is still an exciting step!   

Being an official Hong Kong resident kind of makes up for the fact that the rest of the day was not stellar, particularly when I tried to exchange a few faulty items at the Sha Tin shopping centre that they would not take back (read: would not refund me for) since I did not have the original packaging.  Apparently "satisfaction guaranteed" is still a concept in Hong Kong, but you just have to know for sure you'll be satisfied with it before you remove the plastic wrap.  Bit of a paradox, no?

Cantonese is picking up - both my knowledge of it and the speed of the class, though not at equal accelerations.   Guess which one is slower, hahaha. ;)  But our teacher Terry is fantastic, and I'm enjoying getting to know the people in the class, so...  wait, instead of elaborating more on the class, I should go do my homework shouldn't I?  That's probably a good plan.  
Bye everyone!
xoxo
Jenny

2 comments:

  1. Yea, you're officially living there now! Glad your classes are going well, what did you have to return...or try to return? jmc

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  2. Yes what was going back that they wouldn't take? You're quite persuasive so I'm very curious. So just for arguments sake- this new resident scard fo yours - is this what the Aqua Net ho at DFW needed? Not that you'll be there anytime soon but you know, just wondering.

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