Categotry Archives: Personal

Our plan for the fifth day of our trip had initially been to visit Beihai Park first thing in the morning. We had an early breakfast at the hotel and walked north up Xuanwumen and then dallied briefly through some Hutongs before heading east on ChangAn. Having studied the map at the start of the day we identified the large… (more…)

Our first real day in Beijing started out with the staff of the hotel restaurant refusing to let us into the breakfast area because we weren’t on their list so we headed down to the lobby and checked that our booking had been sorted and got one of their staff to set the restaurant staff straigh which took it’s time… (more…)

The second was a travel day. We arose bright tailed and waggly eyed, all our stuff packed back into our cases and headed down to the hotel foyer and checked out. After a brief wait in the lobby our bus arrived, in the most literal sense of the phrase. A huge eighty person coach turned up outside the hotel and… (more…)

On our third and last real day in Hong Kong we headed out to the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Park. The walk was long and the weather was hot and our feet were already still sore from the day before but it was Mayday or HongKong Labour Day so we saw a procession of some kind, possibly a protest… (more…)

We began the day with a very long walk from the eastern end of Wan Chai to the star pier at the northern part of central before taking the ferry over to Kowloon. We loved Kowloon park with it’s little Aviary and it’s ponds and fountains and the viewing cone and we got a nice lunch from a bakery in… (more…)

Our first real day in HongKong began with a quest to find an A.T.M. we thought the hotel assistant was crazy when she directed us to a shopping center several blocks away but they really are stupidly rare. I suspect that wight the proliferation of Eftpos and the HongKong Octopus Cars they are simply closer to being a cashless society… (more…)

Emily and I have embarked on our honeymoon. Three days in Hong Kong and a Week in Beijing. The idea being that Emily, having visited Hong Kong before, and I, having visited Beijing, could show each other the cities we’d previously been to in our lonesome. The flight over from Adelaide was three fifths of awesome though delayed by a… (more…)

On Friday I was a boss. I woke up at a reasonable time and got started on my uni assignment and worked on it in chunks throughout the day, interspersing it with my usual messing around. By eight thirty I was done, assignement complete. To be honest I’m pretty pleased with myself. As a bonus the settlement for our block… (more…)

Wednesday I spent pretty much entirely working on my assignments. I’m actually quite proud of my efforts. 8 Hours Sleep: 240 7 Hours Uni Assignments: 420 Total Score: 660 Thursday I was gonna do more uni work but I instead did my tax return, washing and internet fucking around till work in the evening. Then after work Spligitmoose and I… (more…)