Hong Kong - Blood, Sweat and Beer

It has been a pretty quiet start to the week actually. I must say that I feel a whole lot better for the sleep I managed to get in the weekend and any effects of the flight are now completely gone. It is back to life as I know it in a different location.

Those of you that know me will understand when I say the Humidity does not agree with my body and needless to say the deodorant is flowing freely…sorry to go into detail but it really is steaming hot out here. Everyday I look out the window at cloud that would make me consider wearing a coat in England and I forget that all the clouds do here is raise the humidity. Even after the week I still get a bit of a shock when I walk out the door and feel like I can’t breathe properly.

On Monday night after work I went down to catch the shuttle bus. As it had not yet arrived I decided to take a few pictures and play with the settings on the camera a little. The results are posted below and I thought they came out pretty well. I had to wait 5 minutes after taking the camera out as it steamed up from going between the air con comfort of the office and the 30+ degrees out side!

Nighttime down on the waterfront is pretty awesome. And looking back up the hill towards Mid Levels is a great view. I swear that the buildings on Mid Levels are built on hills steeper than even a Swiss engineer would consider normal. Maybe I should be considering a bike to get to work, or a skateboard then I don’t have to ride it home.

Although it was reported that the girls were in bed early on the Monday night when I got home they woke and proceeded to want to come and say hello to me. They did so and then of course there was no way they were going back to bed in a hurry. I think the best part of that session was when they disappeared into the kitchen and suddenly all was quiet. Catherine went to check it out and they were swigging from an open beer can that was in the fridge, both of them. I tell you they slept all right once they did go back to bed.

Tuesday was my first real taste of the hours they do here. I started at 9am and finished at just before 11pm. I have to be back in the office for 6am to speak to people in Hawaii. Will be doing my best not to make a habit of it.

Well Catherine is making plans for the weekend and I am going to try and convince her to post some stuff on here during the week because all in all my week days are more about work. I don’t want to tell you about work and I don’t want to have to write about my perspiration problems constantly so Catherine….PLEASE????