It's the little things that matter...

Some recent minor but semi-amusing accomplishments:

1) Opening the seal on my bottle of sesame oil, which was similar to a beer bottle...with just a fork. Where's Nick and his bottle-opener sandals when I need him/them? =P

2) Saving four guys from being locked into their apartment (the lock was broken, so they handed me the key and we managed to get it open with them pulling it open from the inside as I turned the key.

3) Finding a store that actually sells packages of chicken breast meat, not just whole chickens or chicken wings/feet/heads. It's frozen, but it works.

4) Buying a pomelo for 6 MOP (about $0.75 US) instead of the usual 20+ MOP ($2.50+ US)

5) Finding the Fortress and Park 'n Shop superstores in Taipa...and realizing just how small Taipa really is (they're just around the corner from the BNU where we opened our accounts)

6) Writing a thank-you note in Mandarin for the super-helpful security guard downstairs, to go with the mooncakes we gave him =P

7) Talking to four different people at HSBC to reset my credit card so I could purchase TigerAir tickets to Singapore for Halloween weekend...took about half an hour, but I finally got through!

8) Finding a potential place to take Chinese dance classes, but no one was there last weekend (public holidays) so I'll have to go back this week to actually talk to someone about signing up.

9) Helping some Filipino guys on the bus back from Hac Sa improve their pronunciation of numbers in Cantonese (they overheard Susan and me teaching Holly), then learning "salamat" (thank you in Tagalog)

10) Cutting open a pomegranate without slicing through more than 10 kernels...twice =D