Dear Diary, Day 7 of 21 days of quarantine. I’ve made friends, Diary! Online! It’s funny how quarantining together in the same hotel creates a sense of camaraderie. I guess sharing a traumatic experience collectively really does bring people closer together. The hotel I’m staying at has a designated whatsapp group created by volunteers who’s […]
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Dear Diary, Day 8 of my 21 day quarantine. I thought I would be adventurous today and go on a walking expedition. Nothing too wild, just a beginners journey. Started from one bed to the other. Encountered a suitcase tucked away in it’s non-natural hábitat, sleeping under a table. After arriving to the other bed,
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Dear Diary: It’s Day 6 of 21 at Regal Airport Hotel (RAH). My relationship with cabbage and mushrooms (of any variety) have changed. These seem to be the staple during hotel quarantine. Cabbage and mushrooms with a side of some unknown meat. If you’re a vegetarian expect to eat cabbage and mushroom every day, all
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Dear Diary: It’s Day 5 today. 16 days left of mandatory quarantine. I have fallen into a nice rhythm. I think I can do this forever. A vacation from my kids, from cooking, from responsibilities! I sleep and wake up whenever I want to, food is prepared and delivered at my door. The outside world is
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Dear Diary: Day 4 of 21 days of mandatory hotel quarantine and missing the little things in life. Life in quarantine has made me realised how I use to take the littlest things for granted. I never knew how everyday mundane little things that go unnoticed in our daily lives are actually really important. Like
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Dear Diary: Day 3 of 21 days of prisoner of quarantine hell mandatory quarantine in Hong Kong. There have been moments of boredom and horrific discoveries as I’m navigating myself in this strange world of hotel quarantine living. I have gained not only insight but a new phobia on how dirty hotel rooms actually are.
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Dear Diary: Day 2 of 21 days of mandatory hotel quarantine in Hong Kong I wake up before the crack of dawn thanks to a 16 hour time difference. My 2 roommates are still in deep slumber. I walk over to the window and peek outside, still dark. 5:42am. Drats. I’m wide awake. Oh well,
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Dear Diary: It is Day 1 of 21 days of being stuck in hotel quarantine. 13 hours, 46 minutes later, my plane lands into Hong Kong International Airport after 6 weeks away in Canada. Am I ready to be stuck inside a stuffy hotel room that I’m forced to pay out-of-pocket, for 21 days?! NOPE!
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Have you ever been imprisoned in a hotel for 3 weeks? Well I have. Remember when our world was hit with a little thing called Covid? Well, in Hong Kong, the city that I was stuck in had turned itself into a fortress due to “Zero Covid Policy” to protect it’s citizens. I’m talking, moats,
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