New Years eve/morning

Justin and I walked around the Central malls (Landmark, ifc1, ifc2) for a couple hours before heading to his parents' place for dinner and getting ready for the evening festivities. His hair is appropriately crazy and I do have to hand him that even though he is kinda metro in LA, he is one of the least dressed up of the HK population walking around Wan Chai and Central. I gushed to him about my impressions and we both agreed that HK is way crazier than LA. Although it's a small city, there are 1.5mil ppl packed into north HK island, so when you're walking around you feel like you're in New York on the busiest day there.
We went home and had new years eve dinner there before heading out. He was pissed off at his sister and was complaining how she's the princess of the family because she had their driver take her home and wouldn't pick us up, so we had to find a cab. I think this explains a little bit about why he's such a baby in LA. They are really strict about where cabs can pick you up here. They can't at a double yellow line on the side of the road, and we snuck into one anyway, but because the cop standing nearby saw us he told the cabbie to kick us out. So we had to actually get out of the cab because we boarded in the wrong place!
Justin's parents (Henry and Gloria) are funny. We were discussing at length the pine candle in the middle of the table and how it didn't really smell like pine and they were ripped off (in a joking way). Justin's sister Prudence is engaged to Benson, who is from Australia, so he has an awesome accent. Dinner was amazing. It was pasta and bbq and it was cooked by their maid of course. She had the day off the next day and it was so funny watching Gloria try to find stuff in the kitchen. I mean, she didn't know which drawer the knives were in. Can you imagine how much time you save having a maid? It's really the way to go. Oh and also Justin calls her on her cell phone from his room to order his breakfast!
So back to New Years, we got dressed and went to this ball at the Grand Hyatt, which had paparazzi out front when we walked in. It took forever to get them to leave me alone geez... No, but really, pictures from this ball were in tabloids the next day. I guess they thought mine were too classy to put in a tabloid so I wasn't in there. I was pissed at Justin because he scared me that I have to be all dressed up for this thing, and he wore a hoodie! What the hell, I could've had comfortable shoes. Anyway, the ball looked pretty cool - it was purple theme and had purple trees everywhere. Also, they made the whole room a little foggy and played club music, but then people were still finishing their dinner (which we would've had to pay a lot to go for that too). Unfortunately my camera is the size of a small puppy (and not nearly as cute), so I didn't take it. Hopefully I'll get JC's friends' pics later.
After the ball we went to three different clubs (I think... there was a lot of champagne at the ball) in Lan Kwai Fong, and then to sing karaoke after that. The streets were packed, but I'm sure it was worse around midnight. There were also billboards, signs, decorations, music coming from everywhere, just all around crazy HK nightlife. A lot of the night I was mostly just observing cuz they speak Cantonese a lot of the time, either that or switch between English and Cantonese every few words. I have actually gotten pretty good at catching the gist of coversation just from the body language in the last few days.
The night ended at 8am. When we walked out of the karaoke bar there were people doing their morning Tai Chi in the park nearby.