Friday! It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday!

It’s official! I sorted out my situation with Hong Kong immigration and I received my HKID card. I am officially a resident of Hong Kong, meaning I can get a job anywhere!

Hurray!

Now all we need to do is go get my stuff back from Thailand, which WILL happen. It will. I choose to be positive and hopeful about everything. I will get my stuff back. I will deliver the gifts I bought for my Aunties. I will get my chance to say “See You Later!” (because there is no word for goodbye in Lakota) to all my friend at the American Bar. I will manifest this.

I’m so happy right now. I’m celebrating with lunch at my fav bougie restaurant, Feather & Bone. You have to say it with a snotty posh British accent.

In my mind, I’m imagining myself dancing through the streets of Hong Kong, jumping on and off the Ding Ding, can-canning down the stairs, cartwheeling across the street, all to the tune of “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang. Celebrate good times, come on!

Weird to say that with so much darkness hanging over the city right now. The Tai Po Fire is such a tragedy. I can’t stop thinking about all of the children and animals and people in general who were lost. It’s so tragic. I must say I am impressed by the speed with which Hong Kong authorities looked into the cause of the fire and arrested the renovation developers for trying to cut costs by using the illegal materials that helped the fire spread so fast. Straight to jail. In the U.S., it would just be “Hashtag Thoughts and Prayers” and then zero action whatsoever. Some billionaire would probably make even more money off the insurance. No one would receive any help. No criminals would be punished.

Say what you will, but it is what it is.

So many local businesses have stepped up. Even the Luxury hotels are offering to house people. There’s donations, shelters, blood collection pop-ups, lost & found, government payouts to everyone affected. I was so shocked by how everything is being handled. It makes me proud to be a new resident of this city. People look after each other here. They care about their community. In the U.S., all anyone cares about is themselves.

It’s been an eye-opening experience, for sure.

It’s very busy here today. Everyone is here for Thanksgiving dinner. I didn’t realize they were running a week-long Thanksgiving dinner special. There’s still a chance I can have my turkey! Hurrah!

Oh man, I can’t wait to call up my grandmother and rub this in her face. I told her I couldn’t stop thinking about Hong Kong and I truly felt I had left something unresolved. As she does with literally everything I say, she told me to leave it in the past and just get over it and just move on.

As per usual, she was wrong. And I just love to rub people’s faces in it when they are wrong. I can’t help myself. I was raised by a lawyer.

Once again I have proven that advice like that is terrible. This is why I don’t “listen” to anyone who randomly gives me unprompted advice. I literally didn’t fucking ask you. Shut up! You sound like a gaslighting asshole with no empathy when you say dumb shit like that, probably because that’s exactly what you are.

Plus my grandmother appears to be a garden-variety racist who dislikes Chinese people. She’s not a Dump supporter. She just lives in her little small town bubble that she has never left and can’t understand why it’s okay for cultures to just exist. She thinks she knows everything because she’s read every book in the library, but the truth is that she has very little experience out in the real world. I have too much life experience in the real world for me to take any “advice” from her, or most people in general. It is what it is.

It’s like those idiots I met at the yoga retreat in Bali. They just repeat what they’re told to say. They don’t listen. They don’t care. It’s all just me, me, me, me, me, me, me. My Instagram, my social media, my life, my spiritual path, me, me, me, me, me. Oh, you set a boundary with me? Let me shout you down and attack your entire personality to make myself feel better about the fact that I acted like a selfish piece of shit.

Ugh. Disgusting.

I’ve really grown to despise all this pseudo-spiritual, new age, self-help crap. It’s just an excuse for people to continue acting like selfish assholes so they can exploit third world countries for Instagram posts.

So glad I’m back in Hong Kong. It feels like a real city. Everywhere else I’ve been in SEA (with the exception of KL) felt like Disneyland. It’s not for me.

Okay, so, we have so many things to sort out. So many things. As we say in the States, let’s get ‘er done.