Autumn in Hong Kong Update

so this is a bit of a miscellaneous update as it has been a while since i wrote anything.

i am very much looking forward to being back in new york in november but hong kong has finally cooled a bit and it is nice - warm and sunny.  the funniest thing about shopping here is that they stock from the west (us and europe) and therefore the styles are all very hot.  i went into a store the other day and they had wool trousers.  i thought how that could be a messy situation here as it never really gets that cold.

so anyway, this past weekend i was on a junk and this loud mouthed english girl was going on and on about how she was to spend 3 months in new york.  she said she was looking forward to it other than the americans and their ridiculous "black people names like sheniqua - i just dont get that!"  after i spoke a bit more with her, she realised i am american and said she thought i was vietnamese...um...ok.  after telling her i was american but korean descent, "take off your sunnies" she demanded.  i did and she said, "oh, youre very beautiful."  nice save...kinda...not really.

and we had a work event to kick of the race season in hong kong.  i put down 80hkd on two horses and won 340hkd.  not too shabby of a return.  here are some pictures from that (somewhat boring) work event:

Life Goes On...Oh Blah Di, Oh Blah Da!

back to BAU.  talks with the ny firm are very slow and just "friendlies".  am so unsure of how long this will take but am thinking a few months, at least.  so, i am just living life and ticking happily along until i know more.

this weekend was good - chilled.  some dinner on friday with a friend just back from a nice long hols; paddling was cancelled due to rain on saturday so taking advantage of that, much needed laundry and cleaning was successfully taken care of and then out for petanque and a new resto on saturday evening.  the resto is called doppio zero and is a former batali chef so of course it was "foodie" with bone marrow on the menu.  i had some nice gnocci and dry chianti.  sunday was lazy and topped off with seeing "horrible bosses".

on a couple of not so positive notes, i dont know what is up with the partner i work for.  i think hes hit menopause.  its like the more senior people become, the more ridiculously childish they think they can act.  and i just found out that my quality hong kong health insurance doesnt cover eye specialists.  ARE YOU KIDDING?  so i have paid over hkd17k and still have more visits to come.  i mean, that is more than my rent!?!?  i do have to say, IF you have insurance in the us it is damn good not like this pathetic british import here.

anyway, the next thing i can look forward to is a bank holiday junk and a friend in town both occurring next week.

until then - stay strong and keep your $hit tight.
xxo