Showing posts with label HKhoyeah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HKhoyeah. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 July 2014

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! 

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Packing starts!

And I finally had the urge to start packing for HK today (ironically, after a tiring day of building my loft bed for 3 hours straight, but more of that in another post...if I ever get round to it lol).

Mum had bust out the suitcase of crazy dinosaur-us proportions which my brother lugged to Germany for his internship 7 years ago, a couple days ago. Since I foresee that my next couple of weekends will be busy while I try to put in my bit of work for the new apartment, I thought I had better start somehow this weekend!

It started with the shoes (all new) !



After 1.5 hours...it morphed to this. Not too shabby I think?

Please excuse the woolly sockies thrown in (literally) at the side. I think this is almost half of what I'm bringing over. Just a couple more work ensembles, some fall-winter coats, cosmetics + toiletries, and I'm good to go! Weee~~~Oh yea wait, I think I forgot the undergarments...

With this move, I had to also get a laptop. I've always worked on desktops most of my life, aside from the laptop for work and the ASUS mini notebook - which by the way, I was the first ten peeps in SG to lay my hands on it. 
Image taken from GoodGearGuide. Unfortunately, my purchase didn't come with a a view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Anyhows, I got myself this a couple of weeks back. Think it's actually pretty good for value, considering it actually is touchscreen and goes below a thousand dollars. Hurray for milking the best of my moolah!

Ok, gotta go catch some sleep...cos Universal Studios here I come! 



Wednesday, 4 June 2014

A step closer to 許留山 (and I don't mean the outlet in JB)

After a bad spate of events yesterday, things finally got much better today - Yippee!

The visa application form is finally ready! Just gotta paste on my no-nonsense professional mugshot and a couple of docs, and it's good to go!

Never realised how regal-looking my passport actually is!

Anyhows, I'm still nursing the remnants of the sticky cold which has taken an apparent liking to my body and refuses to budge! Been coughing so much that my mum had me take some bird's nest (I think she may be secretly trying to impart me ways of being a tai-tai.. LOL)

Oh no, the news flash just reported that a part of the population's Singpass has been compromised (cue McD's curry sauce joke, K&K haaaa)...Gotta check out what that is all about in the news later hmm