Kung Hei Fat Choi – part 2
It’s Chinese New Year again and this one is the coldest in 12 years. For that very reason, Mr Shallot and I have spent most of this long weekend indoors doing fairly mundane things unlike last year. We’ve watched a […]
Chop Suey
I’ve just returned from another land of heated toilet seats. It was even more appreciated by my rear in Korea where the temperature was below zero for my four days there. This was another business trip so not much chance […]
Forever Young
Happy Australia Day! Typically this day for us is spent outside, having a bbq and listening to Triple J’s Hottest 100. Today is slightly different because the weather is lousy. Instead, we are inside listening to Triple J’s Hottest 100. […]
Masquerade
It’s not often that a bridesmaid has the opportunity to wear her dress twice. I was given this opportunity and grabbed it with both hands earlier this week (lucky it was a dress worth wearing again!) Rather than having Christmas […]
Money for Nothing
A few weeks into the New Year and HK retailers appear to be in a bit of a quandary. Typically, with Christmas over, it would be time to start selling Valentines gifts / cards followed shortly after by Chinese New […]
You gotta love this city
It’s official. Mr Shallot and I have been living in HK now for one whole year. The time has gone pretty quickly except for my period of unemployment which seemed to be somewhere between endless and forever. I’m actually missing […]
Funky Town
Over the Christmas period, Mr Shallot and I have been playing tour guide to my aunty and uncle. This has made me realise that over the year, I’ve evolved from being a shell-shocked, over-stimulated jobless immigrant to a relaxed and […]
Santa Claus is coming to town
With nine days to Christmas, I am yet to catch even a glimpse of Santa Claus. He’s been on no street corners, hasn’t been trying to get me to donate money to the Salvos, and has generally been keeping a […]
Friends
My running partner completed her first fun-run today. It was a great first effort considering that it was a 10km hilly course. She clearly got caught up in the excitement of race day as she sprinted up the hill start. […]
Now I’m here
I have discovered one of life’s simple pleasures – heated toilet seats. I went to Japan last week for work and not much was what I had expected. Massive high-rise / skyscrapers, flashing neon signs in Japanese, a billion trillion […]