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Hey HongKongTravel,
This post is admittedly very early but wondering if anyone has any suggestions for NYE parties/events? (December 31, 2023). My understanding is that this will be the first NYE since the beginning of the pandemic without strict quarantine/social distancing.
It's going to be my first time back to HK - this time with my girlfriend - after spending 5 months here on exchange back in 2017 (some of my best university/college memories).
Would prefer something semi-private (dinner and drinks with views of the skyline, rooftop bar, boat across the bay at night, etc.) but also open to more public things like hanging around the avenue of stars or the IFC rooftop.
Any suggestions/recommendations would be awesome and hopefully this can serve as a starting point for others as well.

So there's this really sweet guy I've been acquainted with for a while now and I kind of got the sense that he is into me too. Long story short, we've been talking now for the past couple of weeks through Instagram and then text. He's a pretty dry texter, but we've maintained having a few short exchanges throughout the day everyday. We went out on one date this past friday and it went so well. We had deep conversations and joked around a lot. While we were out he was talking about going out again and later that night we texted briefly and I mentioned that I'd like to see him again and right away he suggested next week.
In all my past dealings with guys, I've usually been the one to text less. I myself am a boring texter and I'm not good at keeping up with my phone which I will usually share with the other party right off the bat, because it's not always indicative of how I feel about them. I just prefer in person or over the phone and don't want to learn everything about a person through text. But recognizing that this is how most people connect and show their interest, I wanted to adapt a little. This is the first time I'm on the other side and I definitely got in my head. I thought it might be worthwhile to bring it up, by simply asking how what his usual texting style is. On the one hand, I don't want to be overthinking things when his messages are one way and our in person interactions are another. On the other hand, I want to know what he likes and doesn't like and share my style too.

When I saw posts here. I really wanted to have a happy situation to tell. But as of 3 1/2 hours ago I got rejected. I'll start top to bottom of my day. But first Backstory. I've been loving the heck out of this girl since 7th grade and we are now sophomores. At the Beginning of Freshman year, I asked my friend who did have her number If I could have it. (I could at that point never have done it myself.) Finally last day of Freshman year I texted here saying
"Hey -----! This is ----, I got your number from a friend. Just wanted to say Hello! We've been waving in the hallway and such all year. But how's life going? How have you been doing this year? Anyways just saying hi right now and I hope to see you next year!"
I sent this May 26th and didn't get a response and I decided to make sure I had the right number even
Hey! it's me ----. Is this -----'s phone number? Just wondering.
Then about 4 hours ago I got a response finally.
Sorry, wrong number. Please stop texting this number.
My heart sank. I truly was in denial I went to my friend that gave me the number and I asked him Did I get the right number like is that ----- -----------'s number? and he said
"Yes it is."
And I just broke down crying I haven't done anything but sit in silence I don't think I've said a single word accept insulting myself while crying. I have been building up this day and putting many things of my very small attention size due to ADHD to the side for this and I'm just defeated... I don't know what to do. What doesn't help is that earlier today I put down my dog that has been in the family for 14 years (he was a 19 year old Labrador) I've known him all my life and I've put that guy down. I've known this girl since pre school and this relationship Is either put down or will never be the same. Idk what to do. I have nothing to support mey mom can't drive me to counseling and I will be working this year my family hasn't had a job in 7 years now so I have been carrying this household family friends bring me to the store and I grab items and soon that's gone cause I will have to drive. I'm crying and I don't know what to do. I need something out there I've got no one.

My boyfriend(M17) and I(F17) have been having problems and I’ve been crying over it the whole time but I feel like I don’t have a right to because I’m the one that caused him to be like this. The 2 1/2-3rd month of our 7 month relationship we would hang out and during those hangouts I’d always try to check his phone and at first he’d get defensive but he would let me look through it (I just did it because I wanted to so I guess red flag one because I didn’t really suspect him cheating) I will say he does have like 3 close female friends which he’s shown and proved to me that are strictly platonic. Once I’d see that he would get defensive, even after I checked, I still got mad at him and would push him away when he’d try to comfort me asking me why I’m being like this and trying to understand, I would shove my hand in his face and push him away physically with everything I had because I just felt bothered by the fact he didn’t let me see his phone the first time. This became a habit and would continue to happen every hangout we’d have, when I’d go to his house we we

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Non religious girl here. Please do not try to make me believe in what I don't, as I won't, and won't ever again. I've found my peace, and spiritual freedom. I'm finally happy within myself and my life, and that's something I did on my own. Not some "God". That guy's a tyrant.
Anyways.
Whenever I'm at peace like this, sometimes something happens, and I feel like it's "God" cursing me for not believing, and that "God" is forcing me to believe in itself, like I would need "it" y'know?? And it's really fcking annoying. Really. I've already said a million times I'm an atheist (not even spiritual at this point anymore, because all of it is just bullshitt to me, and doesn't benefit me or my lifestyle in an way whatsoever.). But from USED to being religious/Christian , I'm paranoid bc of the things the bitchble- whoops I mean bible- taught. Like I just had a sleep paralysis yesterday, at something pushing my back down I guess. Yeah I'm mentally diagnosed with illnesses, so it makes sense kinda. Constantly hear things and get scared easily... Have OCD, so when I have intrusive thoughts I literally think it's Satan himself talking to me, sending his demons out to get my soul or something. Idk. Have the delusion that I'm god, and feelings of grandeur and whatnot.
Still having religious OCD to this very day .. yadda yadda. Btw don't tell me to pray. Been manifesting recently and it's been working far better than a "prayer". Tell me what to do about this (not like medication wise, but like inner shadow work or something. Like a way to get over this feafears. Bc deep down inside I know none of these "entities" exist. I have experience. Personal experiences. But yeah, just need these things to stop completely. I don't believe in Satan, but I get tired of my mind telling me I worship him everyday. The harm OCD has stopped bc I no longer have fears of me hurting myself/others... But the religious OCD still remains. That's what's wrong with religion. It makes us terrified to think a certain way and that isn't love.)
Srry you had to read this long post. Just any advice? No christians please. Don't have time for another war argument😐.

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It started with a book ”Many Lives, Many masters” by Brian Weiss
Psychiatrist Dr Brian Weiss had been working with Catherine, a young patient, for eighteen months. Catherine was suffering from recurring nightmares and chronic anxiety attacks. When his traditional methods of therapy failed, Dr Weiss turned to hypnosis and was astonished and sceptical when Catherine began recalling past-life traumas which seemed to hold the key to her problems.
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At the time in New Zealand I was looking for to have a past life regression but never took into serious consideration till I moved to live in London and due certain exceptionally experiences I decided it was time, a guy among others I felt drawn and few weeks later I was on my way to New Malden the London Korean community, it was a surreal foggy evening I could barely seeing where I was walking, despite that I reached the house of Nicolas Aujula a famous character in the psychic world, he was nothing of what I could expect, slim, elegant, friendly, a normal guy that would easily pass unnoticed, we introduced ourselves and he took me in the living room where I sat in a really comfortable sofa, he explained me what he was going to do and told me to relax, we started, I’m honest I don’t believe he hypnotised me but I can’t deny that weird things happened, images popped up in my mind in unchecked way where I realised to be a man living in the middle ages abusing of a girl I felt instinctively was Julie, a Korean girl I met in New Zealand and played a massive role in my spiritual growing.
This girl still playing an important part in my life and as much I’m trying to forget seems impossible, is like she is part of me and anytime she feel I’m trying to cut the cords of attachment she is coming back in my mind and soul shaking me within, I can’t cut the cords or maybe subconsciously I don’t want.
Five years in London have been a roller coaster of happy and sad moments where Many events unfolded sometime in the most unexpected way till I made the most unexpected decision, to come to Scotland, it was meant to be ? It seems like, all my friends knows that this country was the last I would ever choice to come to live and kept repeating I would never come, so how I ended up here ? I don’t know but I believe that something or someone played with my life, an entity I’m unable to see but I perceived in few occasions, who is that ? I can’t answer to this question but I know that all the synchronicities I experienced pushed me to come, like the fortune teller from Milton Keynes told me I would move to live somewhere else and like other things she predicted then over the next twelve months they occurred, who is in charge ? What is all of this ? I had the chance to see something, a glimpse but no more, I’m frustrated like I know many others out there are, the only thing that keep me going is the fact that all of those experiences made me a better person, so after all this mystery that is life might be Really into teaching us to spiritually grow up.
Scotland, Edinburgh, since I come for the first few months I had an incredible amount of dejavu’, I never experienced so many, this sensation to already have been here it never occurred so much in Italy, Australia, New Zealand and in the other countries I lived, but up here my instinct is telling me there is something for me, something to understand, maybe what happened on Wednesday it is what I needed to remember or just a part of it.
I wanted to reach Glasgow walking by the Union canal from Edinburgh, I didn’t make it but something else would turn me upside down, I was talking with my Mum….oh well, actually arguing when I got a message on Kakao Talk, the Korean version of Whatsapp, it was Julie that replied me to something I asked few days ago, I thought I would never hear from her again but things happening when we less expect them, she couldn’t understand my message and asked me to explain it in a simple way, that day I felt pretty emotional and I got stressed out, to relax I put it on a music track on my Ipod from the movie Cloud Atlas that I got the chance to watch after a colleague recommend it to me, nothing happen by coincidence and everything is connected to each other like a big puzzle, the movie talk about a bunch of people that are bounded to each other and in every new life they will meet over and over again to finish unfinished business or to meet and share the endless love that Twin flames carry to each other forever.
I needed to tell Julie everything I felt, everything I experienced, regardless she would think I was crazy or not, it was something I wanted to share with her for so long and then….a Swan, it reminded me of the ballet performance the Swan Lake and felt compelled to take a photo and to share it with her but when I looked at the pic what I saw blown my mind

Classic dad injury a week ago banging my shin into a heavy piece of patio furniture, while focusing on the kid instead of where I was walking. Was enough pain that night to have it x-rays came back negative. And ER doc said I was fine to put weight on it and moving it would be better for it.
Dealt with slight pain and swelling all week but pretty much went about my business. By Friday evening my ankle was several shades of purple, and not the contusion site is swelling. No pain in the ankle, but worsening pain at the spot of the collision with the patio chaise from hell.
I’ve been icing when I can, but had to be on my feet most of day today so things have worsened.
Should I seek another x-ray? Or just stick with rest and ice for another week or so before I get it checked again?

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Hey all, my fiance and I recently acquired a house and are planning to turn a section of the property into a walking garden with a small pond (50'x50' with max depth of 6' or so) and was curious what kind of pump would be necessary?
I plan to have a small 20' or so "brook" sourcing at a dead tree stump where drainage will also terminate and leaf to the pond (my hope is the rock bed of the stream will assist in filtering out fish and duck waste)
Is a 1 to 1 GPH ratio recommended for a pond of this volume (>50,000 gallons)? My assumption would be no but I wanted to know what yall think
We're currently starting small with a footprint of 12x12 and max depth of 4, mainly to divert water and have a place for the ducks to keep them happy while we work on the rest

I woke up to a loud scratch on my front door, immediately I knew it was my dog and ran down and got him. He was literally shivering so badly and it’s god damn midnight. I had to wake my mum up and everything. I know it’s normal to leave your dog out in the DAYTIME, but we don’t. My dogs always inside and the only time he’s outside is for walks and when we are. My grandad currently lives with my mum and brother and me and has since I was born. I wouldn’t be as mad at him for this, but I’ve had it with his selfish and malicious behaviour of me and my family. He has been selfish to me and my family my whole life. He has never taken me or my brother out his own grandchildren once in the 13 years I’ve been alive. He has only been out with us when it has been other people who most likely is paying. He also treated my mum like shit even though she pays the bills and lets him stay here. He can treat everyone wrong and expect favours. He never apologises unless it’s of risk of getting kicked out of my house. He’s done this before to my dog but I have never said anything. This time for 2 hours at midnight, in our front garden and my dog potentially being taken and freezing. We are already on bad terms because I told him to take responsibility for his actions in a argument LAST MONTH, he’s acting like a 4 year old and refusing to speak to me. I don’t really care how dramatic I’m being, i have honestly had enough of his petty and selfish behaviour. How do I handle this? I’m at my last straw.

My 8 year old schnauzer was diagnosed with pancreatitis and is currently on antibiotics (still at the vet). The vet said it is mild - moderate pancreatitis and he will stay overnight... hopefully able to start oral antibiotics after he has his appetite back. He hasn't had any GI issues before this.
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