2nd Day at work!

Ok, honestly, have you seen anyone who is that happy to go to work (just look at the title of this post)? :P

Anyways, surprisingly, my email and computer access was up and running on my first day at work! Hurray to efficiency! My PST folders however, are another story....

I had a chat with my boss for him to find out what I had been doing previously and I basically told him I'm ok to take any portfolio. The team here is further split into 2 sub-teams and the overall team strength is twice that of back home...so there seems to be light for my social life! woop woop

And on the social life front, it seems to be getting better! An ex-colleague who will be going back to Singapore will be bringing me to the Dai Pai Dong tomorrow for dinner, and has invited me to drinks on Friday with some other Singaporeans working in HK :D
Feeling extremely grateful for this friendly gesture; for those of you who don't know, it can get pretty boring if you don't have a group of core friends here. We were both whining to each other (yes being typical Singaporeans what else!) that despite what most people say, your social life is really dependent on whether you have that core group of friends to hang out with. While I have friends in HK, I probably don't count as their core group so it does feel a little on the superficial front sometimes. Yes, I was already feeling lonely on Day 3 in HK

2 of the guy colleagues brought me out for lunch today and they're really fun to hang out with! Plus they give me lots of tips about my apartment hunt, which apparently might be tough for me since it's the peak season for house renting now with the new semester starting and the students looking to enter the market....Cross your fingers that I'll be able to find something affordable and to my liking!

And I was feeling quite bored with nothing much to do while my boss ponders on my portfolio (which I guess I will probably get to know by end of the week)...so my boss decided to me to help him with writing minutes for a meeting. Lest you think I am being sarcastic, I was really grateful to be doing something productive finally except that....I. Did. Not. Bring. My. Headphones.

Asked the guys and the department admin if they had any spare but turns out nope. So there was no choice but for me to have the recording played out on the Desktop speaker and plaster my ear near the CPU. (Yes, please" laugh....)...until my other senior colleague saw me and asked me what I was doing! I replied honestly and she said she had a set of spare headphones (thank the heavens!) so I was saved! But not before she had a good laugh cos seriously guys, it was quite a helpless sight!

Day 2 in Hong Kong

Yesterday went by so quickly. ..before I knew it, I was off the plane onto terra firma ...on the land of HK!

Claimed my 60 kilos of luggage off the belt and made my way to the concierge. ..only to be told that I had to make a prior booking for them to be able to forward my luggage to the apartment!  Though now that I think back, it makes sense logistics-wise...

Anyhows I took a taxi to the apartment..and was extremely grateful to the taxi uncle who helped me with the luggage and even looked after them as I got someone from the apartment's management to help with my bags.

A summary of my happenings so far:

How I'm feeling: content lounging in my apartment.  Haven't got down to the agents for the hunt on my long-term abode but a short neighbourhood walk this noon revealed a few agents I should be approaching.

Food: dinner and dessert was free last night, thanks to my HK friends who threw me a welcome dinner. Turns out a friend also owns a shop at Causeway Bay selling Leica cameras and they were holding a photo exhibition so was quite a cool experience ;)

Weather: Humid to the max omg! Yes it is worse than Sg's! One of the reasons I don't mind chilling at the apt

Social life: non-existent at the moment haa...unless you count 我和僵尸有个约会3 reruns company.  Maybe I should hang around cafes of Central and Sheung wan and chat up random strangers...

Mastery of Cantonese: getting there! Just need to feel more confident about using it in daily conversations!

Food: have had Vietnamese food for two meals in a row! Prices have gone up. ..from 7 years ago haaa! It's about 10 bucks for a bowl of noodles ..about the same as Sydney!  Looks like I'll be doing more cooking...

Some shots of the apartment at 21 Whitfield. ..I do get a side view of Central and Wanchai , and Victoria Harbour at the front of my bed - pretty awesome! 

7 more sleeps!

Just a week to go!

Updates!

Oh finally downloaded the Blogger app, so I can post on-the-go! Pretty nifty!

Anyhows there is a reason for the lack of posts - there isn't Internet connection at the condo. That's right - the inaugural move has happened!  ;) Well, it's more of a "soft" move ( ala soft launch ) since there's no fan fare and all, and it isn't fully decorated as I would have it.

I might just do the details when I return for the holidays...and framing of the batik paintings from Yogyagarta ...

What else...? Oh yes flight out has been confirmed! Saying adios to SG for a while on 26th and to the HK office on the very next Monday. Yup, no breaks! 

And kudos to my relocation agent who managed to still get me Twenty One Whitfield (see earlier post) despite the change in dates and some apparent high occupany peak season. :D

Ending the post with a picture of my furry "flatmates"..