Circumcision, slips, massage & choccies

Before I get onto today (which is what the title refers) I shall fill you in on the last few days. Thursday as you may remember my manager resigned, and friday at work I met with the MD and had a discussion that is getting repetitive.
He asked me whether I will be around for short term or long term. Now if this sounds familar to some of you, thats because the MD of my previous job (JP@Squiz) asked the same thing. What it is about me? Do I not seem dedicated? Is it my fault ppl keep giving me boring ass jobs???

Anyway friday night I met up with Amy (who is back from the phillipines). BTW Amy was the american lass I met in the bathroom of the expat party. Amy, Pau-Ling and I went for a drink (and met P's boy) and then Amy came round for food. We then went out to LKF and then met the teachers at a house party (on a roof) in Wan Chai. Was great fun, loads of really fun ppl and plenty of drink! BTW there are now 2 groups of teachers, 1 are the ones I went on the junk with, the others are the ones I met through wearing a sundress. So I shall call one junk teachers, and one sundress teachers. Friday night was sundress teachers (although I was wearing jeans) and we had a great time. I went home at 2am and felt like I was piking! (Amy stayed til 4am and had a great time too!)

Saturday I got woken at the crack of dawn (9am) by Dj's friend that was in town. Had a fun day wandering, shopping and eating. DJ has sent me 3 ppl now, and they've all been great! I'm hoping he'll send me someone that stays for more than a day!

Went out last night with Dj's friend (Matt) and some other dude from his hostel and Amy. I love Amy, we have the same bitchy thoughts. The other dude Matt brought along was annoying and I love that Amy agrees! Also we took the boys to an expat drinks and its the same people and their very sweet but its so much effort meeting new ppl all the time. They're not as loud and obnoxious as I'm used to!!

Today I woke up at the crack of dawn (yet again)to go to Mira's baby brit. Another very cute boy (called Asher), which was then followed with a sit down breakfast, with 100 married ppl & kids. I didn't know anyone and no one spoke to me. I was standing outside and tempted to run away before the breakfast, but I couldn't find Mira to say goodbye. So I sat through a very lovely breakfast, where no one spoke to me and I was the only single person with no kids. It was awful.I wore my lovely new black and white dotted Zara dress and Caity's black wrap shoes that she left behind. I looked lovely and still no one spoke to me!

When Caity left, she put 3 pairs of shoes in a bag to throw out. So one of them was the black wrap shoes. Walking back from Shul I slipped over and almost killed myself 3 times. Now I remember why Caity was throwing them out!! Bugger.

So I finally got home in a foul mood, and there was a package waiting for me from Zeina. She sent me very cute hair clips and homemade chocolates from habberfield. I can't wait to try them after dinner!!

Oh did I mention I woke up with a terrible sore throat this morning? I figured the time had come for a massage, so I just got back from a lovely 50 min massage (cost less than $40) I really should try and get one every fortnight at that price! I then stopped by the market and chemist and picked up a load of fruit and veg and vitamins. So going to have a quiet night with lots of movies, fruit, veg, vitamins and Zeina's choccies! Thanks Zeina! Oh and Basil's dead - I'm sorry!

Just when you think things are working out - it all goes to hell!

Woe is me! I got into work at the crack of dawn, and by 8:30 already had been irritated by a number of stupid ass users. (And no people, I am NOT the helpdesk!) When Pau-Ling rocks up at 9am, she asks how I am and I tell her "it's going to be one of those days".
I HATE IT WHEN IM RIGHT!

Most of the time at work I can ignore the fact that what I do is a total waste of time and serves no purpose whatsoever. Today it was hard to ignore. The highlight (or lowlight) of my day was an impromptu team meeting that was called by my mgr Pip. Pip is the reason I took this job - Pip is cool, Pip is fun and Pip is probably the best mgr I've had (sorry McCabe). Well who wants to guess what happened. Bloody Pip RESIGNED!
So now I'm stuck in Hong Kong, doing a job no one cares about with a manager who's never met me - and who will be managing our department along with her own - I'm sure that'll work great.

So I wandered home past a dodgy dvd store and picked up these classic buys (for less than $20 for them all)
Xmen
5th Element
Black Book (who knows, some chick flick)
White Stripes Double album
Arctic Monkeys album

And now I'm watching a very scary (in the shockingly bad way ) movie called aneconda 2 (or something) . Oh bugger the hot guy just got eaten - how annoying! (heheh he's name was Ben! He now has no legs!Oop now no head! Poor Benny!)

My dinner is smelling yummy - fish baked in tomato, olive, parsley, sauce with rice. Looks good. Then I have to clean up my kitchen. This is why I need a guy - to impress with my cooking - and tidy up after ;)

I'm sure I have plenty more to say - I had a great night out on independance day - and really like my new friends (although they haven't invited me out this wkend yet:(
Time to check out my dinner....I really need someone to impress with this cooking!

9:30pm - Dinner was yum. Watching some random local "lifestyle" show. No wonder I haven't found a hot boy here yet--> I'm watching this show about latest fashion for men (in HK) and they have one asian model and one gweilo model , and both are foul, and have less muscles than me! I shall be alone forever!

Caity's gone- independance day - and too much grog!

So I had a brilliant wk with Caity, I just dropped her at the airport train station, and now im sititng here after once again too many drinks, and this time watching an exciting abc reality show called "The Shearers". Yep you guessed it, about sheep shearers in aus - exciting stuff!
Other highlights of today - i bought a new wrap dress from Zara (thanks Trudes) - a red one, and we (for the last time) enjoyed happy hour in hong kong. Oh and the teachers invited me to join them for Independance day - so more drinkies tomorrow. Oh and I got a text from the gay boy I met on Thurs night - so at least the gay boys still love me - I haven't lost my charm! So I still have married men and gay boys - at least all ain't lost -> now back to reality tv....ABC style

Have a good flight Caity - and thanks for my new friends!

A boat full of drunken teachers!

Well it's been a busy week and to prove it I slept to 1:30 today! Was great and very needed! Caity got up at the crack of dawn to meet her friend and go to Shenzhen for massage and shopping. Apart from sleeping, I got laundry done, uploaded some photos and sorta tidied (not really). BTW my new photos are here: Nats new photos!

Thursday I had an irritating day at work (as per normal) and called up Caity to meet me at a bar near my place,that has 2 for 1 happy hour that I had wanted to check out. So we had a couple of drinks, then went to another pub to meet a friend (but missed her) had another drink, then headed to another pub for some food. We then decided to check out another pub near me, that has open mic night on thursday that I had wanted to go to for a while. A lovely bar with friendly (canadian) owners. We ended up getting quite drunk and meeting a lovely group of teachers with musical skills. (aussies, brits, yanks and canadians).

Friday morning (slightly hangover - and the day off work) we were heading to one of the islands (cheung chau). On our way to the ferry stop, Nick (one of the teachers from the night before) called us and invited us a on a junk party on saturday, with 45 others! So instead we decided to head to Lamma on friday. We had a yummy seafood lunch, and walked to the other side of the island, stopping at a deserted beach (about 5 other ppl) and coming across many spiders and a snake!! We have had such amazing weather - and a brilliant time discovering Hong Kong.

Friday night we met up with my friend Pau-Ling and some random canadians - and heading home, ran into a bunch of very amusing aussies and kiwis - another bunch of teachers. So ended up staying out half the night with them - before getting up early to meet Nick and the teachers for our boat party!

Had a great day on the junk, and met some lovely people, and we both got sunburnt knees! We then got invited to one of the girls places for pizza and cranium (a board game), a perfect day and hopefully some new friends!

Oh and Nick is Derya's equivalent. I don't think hes as psychotic as she is, but he collects friends and organises events - so definitely a good person to know! Oh and all the teacher's on the boat knew each other because they were in the same intake for the english teaching program in HK a couple of yrs ago. And Boz, it turns out teachers in HK can make a fortune, maybe something to consider ;)

It's sunday night, and Caity's on her way back from China - so the big question - should I cook or buy some dinner?

Oh and Basil is sooo almost dead - I'm sorry Basil...

Caity leaves tomorrow night, and them I'm on my own again. And another week of work ahead - gotta love sundays night....

I now know why chicken (rare ones) are tied up

So Caity has spent the day in Macau, and she sent me a text that she was running late. I decided to make her a yummy dinner. On Sunday (as well as spending the day in Stanley - more about that later) we bought an electric oven. Very cheap, and very functional. For Sunday dinner, we made roast veg and lamb. Today I decided to try out the rotisserie function of the oven. So it took me 3 supermarkets to find an affordable, non avion flu effected bird. I finally got home, with bird, mango and brocolli (and ice cream) turned on the oven, and started reading the instructions for the rotisserie. I dressed the chicken in garlic, onion, salt, pepper and oil and was finally ready to begin. I managed to get the chicken in the oven (on skewers) and turn it on. And I noticed the chicken legs were scrapping the bottom of the oven, so I took the chicken out, and found some cotton and tied up the legs, and managed to get the chicken back on the rotisserie. It started up again, and one of the wings kept falling, so it wasn't roasting smoothly - out came the chicken, and more cotton to tie it up. Unfortunately not enough cotton, or not tight enough knots, and the wing was free again. So getting fed up I managed to find a hair elastic, and now (after spilling my wine) my chicken is cooking happily. (I really need to get kitchen string). And more importantly Caity got home, after a fun day in Macau, and was very happy with my rotisserie experiment. Oh and she's presently preparing the veg, because it seems rotisserie chicken only takes about 30-40 mins!
BTW we had a great weekend, and discovered the other side of Hong Kong Island. Who knew it was a tropical island? Check out this:

More to discover this wkend! I've got friday off work to spend with Caity and whole wkend of fun before she leaves on monday. Lucky Me!! Oh and Basil is dying :(
(Oh and the chicken here didn't come tied up!)
10:30pm OK The chicken kicks ass!! I love my rotisserie! I love that i paid less than $50 (aus) for it! And I'm sure it bakes too! Bargain!! Yummy rotisserie chicken with potato/pumpkin mash and oyster bay wine, with monaco bars and chocolate fridge cake for dessert. A perfect meal. I stated to Caity that I generally prefer what I cook to what I buy out. And Caity reminded me, that I am a brilliant cook. She's right!