It’s quite a funny feeling living in my first home again after 20 years’ of absence; it’s a mix of familiar and new experiences, and those new experiences can be ‘fascinating but sometimes bizarre’ as quoted from an interview that I read from a newspaper last Sunday. After all I’ve spent most of my life in Western societies! 回到離開了二十年的家定居，既覺熟悉也有點新奇，那種新奇也可上星期日前在報章一篇訪問中那句 fascinating but sometimes bizarre （引人入勝卻奇異）來形容——畢竟我在西方社會浸淫太久了！ Then let me begin from my experiences shopping in the pharmacies, occasionally still called dispensaries here in Hong Kong. 那就先從我到藥房（藥店）購物的遭遇說起吧！ I arrived in the bright hot days at the end of July. Having lived in Australia for ages, sunny summer days naturally reminded me of sunscreen lotion. I decided to buy a couple of bottles from a local small shopping centre as I didn’t bring any with me. The shopping centre had two pharmacy chain stores and 4 smaller independent pharmacies. I first poked my head into those smaller pharmacies, and they all had