Bicycle
It’s been roughly two years since I last rode my bike and recently it has been calling to me. It began softly at first, “move your legs more. Round and round and round. It will help your running” and has […]
Author: Ms Shallot
Party Like it’s 1999
Happy new year to all! I’m breaking the blogging sabbatical with an update of December and plans for 2010. The Phuket triathlon saw us having an extended weekend in Thailand. I experienced my best leg wax ever. I was a […]
Ice Ice Baby
I’ve just experienced the coldest November day on record for HK. It felt even colder as it came on the back of a week where sitting made me sweat. The contrast between dawdling into work from the ferry pier one […]
O Christmas Tree
The multitude of festivals, holidays and other events means that decorations and products tend to appear around a month before that particular event. That’s long enough to me. In the last few months, we’ve had National Day, Mooncake Festival, Halloween […]
Material Girl
As far as my technological life goes, I am now complete. Many, many, many years ago now, I received an electronic organiser. That was the beginning of my desire to have one gadget that could do everything. I spoke to […]
White Wedding 2
Chinese, English, French and Jewish cultures melded for a fusion wedding yesterday. In Chinese fashion, a large group of us were invited to the reception rather than the wedding. We were served drinks and wedding cake on arrival. The bride […]
Coffee Shop
I’ve been missing coffee and sleep-ins for the past week and it’s set to continue until Friday night. This is when Mr Shallot returns from working in China on a climate change program. Unlike the various surf trips he’s done, […]
It’s Raining Again
We should have known better than to go into Central and Causeway Bay on a rainy Sunday. Fortunately we did start the trip early. Mr Shallot is going to China tomorrow for a two week work trip about the climate. […]
Light my fire
This week saw two public holidays in Hong Kong: Thursday for National Day where 60 years of communism was celebrated. Seems odd given the ‘one country, two systems’ that China espouses for HK means that HK has never been a […]
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The past two weeks have seen Mr Shallot and I complete a food, family and friends tour of the Eastern Seaboard of Australia. Landing in Sydney, driving to Canberra the following day, back to Sydney the day after, the Gold […]