It seems like I’m running into more and more attractive, older women lately. By older, I mean older. Like Julianne Moore or Jodie Foster around-40-but-still-attractive older.

I try to explain this to Trolley, and he gives me the squinted eyes look, as if he’s thinking, “Forty? Did he just say forty? Maybe he meant fourteen. But that’s even worse! Where’s my beer?”

I think it just comes from the fact that these women are still physically attractive at a stage in their lives that’s generally not associated with that sort of thing. I can appreciate the fact that they keep in shape at their age, even after they’ve had kids. I suppose that it’s a bit of a correlation, that they’re willing to work on such things for their husbands, and that’s what stands out to me. Maybe I’m just sick of the girls I meet that are my age.

There seems to be lots of cute girls in Hong Kong, although this might just be my recent lack of action speaking (that added to the whole cute phase I’ve been going through lately, such as WOAH ISOBEL WITH TIE). I’ve always been of the opinion that Chinese people are rarely attractive, but the ones who are, are VERY attractive, so this sort of changes everything.

I met a man who was born in Ireland and grew up in England, currently teaching at one of the universities in Hong Kong. He’s been here for three years, can understand quite a bit of Cantonese, and can even speak bits and pieces although he can’t hold a conversation. I found it funny that he tones down his British accent so that people can understand what he’s saying. He’s very enthusiastic about living here; he’s lived in several other countries and thinks that Hong Kong is the best to live in. Even though I’ve always believed that I could never live in Hong Kong due to the humidity, but his reasons for living here definitely outweighed the reasons against.

His wife, a Chinese woman who grew up in Hong Kong and studied at Cambridge, spoke English very well with an elegant British accent, and I must admit that it is very, very shexshay.

turn on: tight neck turtlenecks
turn off: loose neck turtlenecks

turn on: speaking more than one language, speech impediments
turn off: speaking English poorly

turn on: glasses
turn off: eye shadow

turn on: brow, tongue, labret, cheek, hood piercings
turn off: nipple, nail piercings

turn on: hands
turn off: feet

turn on: swearing
turn off: burping

turn on: Scottish accents
turn off: Chinese accents

turn on: nail polish
turn off: lipstick

turn on: retainers, braces
turn off: gummy smiles

turn on: chokers
turn off: spiked collars

turn on: floor touching skirts
turn off: capris

Sarah Mclachlan has grown her hair long again as a new look. I’m a bigger fan of the short haircut she had from Mirrorball, although I’ve always found her cute simply because she reminded me of Ashley. Still nowhere near as cute as Holly though, with the boxy glasses and the labret and the screaming and the oh my goodness.