| [How are you finding
Hong Kong?] Hong Kong – I think I’m loving
it a lot. It’s at the beginning I thought, "God,
it’s a lot like Sydney, very modern, very multicultural."
[It’s like a big Chinatown or something in Sydney.]
That’s right. We’re a multicultural city
in Sydney. I find I’m actually missing Sydney
for all the wrong reasons. Not because of family, not
because of friends, not because of work [uhuh] but really
it’s because of my dog [so really if your dog
were here, everything would be fine?] That’s right.
I should have brought the dog over – I don’t
know how much it cost. My dog is a golden labrador.
He’s only two years old but I just love him to
bits. [That’s two dog years or two people years?]
Two people years! [yeah] Two dog years is like six months
or something like that. I first met him when he was
about eight weeks old. He’s actually was given
to us from the Royal Guide Dog Association. So we been
training dogs for several years – all different
kinds of dogs – black ones, golden retrievers
and then we had Falcon, a golden labrador [Falcon –
that’s the name of your dog?] That’s right,
yeah, and the problem was the problem was that after
one year we had to give him back, after we did training.
[Oh how come? Oh you train them?] You train them and
then they become you know like guide dogs for the blind
people, to help people who are vision-impaired [uhuh].
But however my dog was a little bit too curious, too
smart – I tend to think so – for his own
good, so [Did he get like attached to your family, like
is that what happens to guide dogs?] Yeah the temperament
of my dog like any labrador is that they just love you
to bits and you can’t but become very attached
to them. I found him adorable, I go home and he’ll
jump all over me [Oh he’s so gorgeous]. I’m
the only one now because he’s so big – he’s
35 kilos – to be able to pick him up and surprisingly
that’s what I miss. I now know when talking back
home, he actually still sleeps in my room and there’s
no one there and stuff like that and at night he goes
to my room [So he’s like inherited your room while
you’re away.] That’s right. I hope he’s
not making a mess, though. Well that’s one story
from Sydney and now that it’s so it brought up
a bit of emotions. I’m feeling lonely.
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