Tuesday morning.

Chillin’ in the apartment doing laundry, watching Sex and the City reruns, and perusing Airbnb looking for a long-stay place for the month. There are some really great options for pretty decent prices. I only rented my current place until tomorrow because I wasn’t sure what my plan was. Now I know I want to stay here for a month and work on my stuff.

I made my final decision at dinner last night. I went to the restaurant upstairs, which turned out to be Star Wars-themed. It had Coruscant vibes and I was LOVING it. I was like, “Yes, I need to stay here for at least a month. This city is a vibe!”

I had this picture taken for reference:

I definitely needed this vibe to help me get over Hong Kong. It’s time to let it go. It belongs to the Evil Empire now. Wait, that’s not right. It belonged to the Evil Empire before. Are both of these Empires evil? I don’t know. I don’t know what to think anymore.

All I know is that there is a massive typhoon that has already caused major destruction in the northern Phillipeans heading straight for Hong Kong as we speak, so yeah, probably not missing out on very much, as it turns out.

Anyway, I decided to treat myself to a very fancy, very expensive steak dinner last night at this rooftop Star Wars restaurant. It was incredible. I have no regrets, even though the price tag was… LOL. It’s definitely not what I would normally spend on a meal, but I did get a very good steak and an orgasmic chocolate dessert and three glasses of red wine from Bordeaux. I still clocked in under $200!

You know what? I never do this kind of thing for myself. It was a treat. I’m upping my standards here. Now every man I meet has to compete with both this steak dinner and with the Rare Pokémon’s talents in bed. Raise that bar, Queens. Raise that bar.

You can’t afford to take me out to dinner at this Star Wars steakhouse? You don’t get to date me. You can’t give me an orgasm? You don’t get to fuck me. The End!

Done and done!

Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am.

Ugh, it’s so hard to look at his Instagram and see his real life and know in my heart that I am absolutely nothing special to him. I am just another one of these girls he meets on the road, uses up, and casually discards. That’s really painful to see. I should unfollow him so I can stop torturing myself. Men are just so… ughhhhh.

Anyway, funny story, the restaurant was totally empty last night except for me and this Chinese guy who spent the whole time on the phone with his fake digital girlfriend. I’m not sure if she was AI-generated or a human using a filter to make herself look like an AI-generated cartoon character. Whatever she was, she was definitely live-streaming herself singing in Chinese and chatting with multiple streamers. He was seated right at the table next to mine, which totally killed my vibe. You have a whole empty restaurant to work with and you have to seat this guy who isn’t even using earbuds to chat with his fake virtual girlfriend right next to me while I’m treating myself to a fancy steak dinner because I’m sick of men treating me like crap?

Vibe Killer!

It was actually quite sad to watch. He was buying “her” drinks and offering them to her digitally before drinking them by himself. I just kept thinking to myself, “This is why men are lonely. I have no sympathy whatsoever. None.”

I bet this waiter doesn’t either. He probably thought seating this guy next to me would get him to look up from his phone and notice there’s a real woman living in the real world who he can buy real drinks for and have a real conversation with. Nope. Craziness.

Honestly, not sure that guy is my type if that’s how he spends his free time and money. Yikes on bikes.

So much for that theory that the Chinese are gonna take over the world. They’re gonna have to get off their phones first, lol.

Anyway, it was sad, but also pretty funny. At least I got a free sideshow with my expensive dinner, lolololol. Always a nice bonus.

Okay, I need to shower and eat something now. I’ve been feeling a little bit down today even though I’ve decided to stay and explore this fabulous city for a month. Probably because I had another nightmare about Andrew. Any dream he appears in is automatically classified as a “nightmare” to me. I wish he would just go away! I don’t understand why he won’t just go away!!!!!!!

Ugh, I was going to go out but for whatever reason, the dryer keeps shutting off after five minutes. This happened to me in Thailand too. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. The machine is in English! it’s very straightforward. It doesn’t seem to matter what setting I put it on or what time I choose, it just keeps shutting off. Ugh. So annoying! Now I have to stay here and babysit the machine so I know I’ll have dry clothes later.

Ugh, it just stopped again after two minutes. I just don’t understand what is happening or why. So annoying!

Alas.

Off now. Have a nice day!