My new year resolution was to buy a computer. I did, on Wednesday. I now type to you from my brand new laptop. It is lovely and shiny and new.Because I had a hard-drive with my old computer stored on it, I plugged it in and immediately had all my old things. All my software,... Continue Reading →
Christmas, Cats, and Trams
For the holiday we were cat-sitting a feline named Veronica. She is a gorgeous grey with stripes and a bushy tail, almost like a fox. I have never had a mammalian pet, and I was utterly fascinated. She is quite playful, so we made her toys; she would catch them and then forget about them,... Continue Reading →
Holidays
It's the holiday season! It has been since Halloween, really. Hong Kong is decked out in fake snow and a plethora of poinsettias. It is actually mostly tasteful. There are lovely blooming poinsettias lining my street and in my office. Some stores have tasteful decor-the Cartier store is lovely with thick greenery and lights, for... Continue Reading →
Money
This week in Hong Kong I received my electricity bill and it was a whopping zero dollars. It said: "please pay this amount: 0.00" We used 95$ worth of electricity, and the HK government subsidy is 150$. Our bill resulted in a negative balance.I took some rugs to the dry cleaner, and she noticed I... Continue Reading →
Strangeness in advertising
Hong Kong has some of the most fascinating advertisements in the world. I think this mostly because I live here, and don't see much other advertisement. However, there are some decidedly weird things going on. One of these is in mannequins. One street at which I enjoy eating, has a clothing store whose mannequins wear... Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving
When you don't live in America, Thanksgiving is a time when you invite everyone you know to cook something and bring it to one of the larger apartments. So last week I spent an evening cooking--Pete made bread and I made wild rice stuffing and a pumpkin pie--and we trekked over to a friend's place.... Continue Reading →
10 bazillion buddhas
Erica and I went out on the light blue line yesterday to see a place called "Ten Thousand Buddhas." It is called this because it has roughly 13,000 statues of Buddha, with varying facial expressions, hair, posture and face paint. I thought it was fun and exciting and here is a gallery of many portraits... Continue Reading →
Adventuring
I have been relatively lackadaisical in my going out and about in the city lately. I have noticed a few things in my regular life, but I have been spending my weekends lazing about the apartment reading and writing and drinking tea. This became more apparent to me on Sunday, when I was taking the... Continue Reading →
Christmas at Starbucks
It's November and that means it's Christmas at Starbucks. We are now subjected to the aromas of Toffee Nut Lattes (made from the fabled toffee nut tree found far into the North Pole) and Gingerbread syrup (made from corn) in our beverages. They have a two foot tall pine tree, with shiny gold balls, on... Continue Reading →
Escalators
Hong Kong is rife with escalators. I take at least 4 a day. There's one to get up to the footbridge-you go through a wet market, and if you go up the next one you'll be in a set of restaurants. There's one to go down from the footbridge, there's one to get to the... Continue Reading →
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