Christmas in Hong Kong

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas holiday! It certainly does not feel like Christmas out here! We miss you all back home!

Stanley Market

Dave and I went to Stanley Market on Saturday. It's a small market with art shops, cheap clothing and Chinese souvenirs about 30 minutes away from the city. I have been wanting to get out to take some photos lately so this was a good opportunity.

Tropical Cyclone

The sunny skies from July are over. We're getting the first tropical cyclone of the year right now. It's been raining a ton. The rooftop across the street from us now looks like a swimming pool.

Junk Boat

We've been so lucky to have blue skies in HK all month of July, so we rented a junk boat with some friends this past Saturday and went around HK island and out to Lantau Island. So much fun!

Lantau Island. We had to swim to the shore from here.

Another funny sign. This was in the bathroom on the boat.

Our New Apartment

We got all moved into our new apartment this weekend. It's really nice! Here are some photos and a video of the new place. I was playing music pretty loud as I was walking around with the video so you may want to turn down the volume on your computer. I'm happy to have an awesome stereo system to listen to my music again! The shower and remote controlled blinds are also pretty sweet :) Today is also Dave's 29th birthday!!!

So nice to have a larger kitchen and fridge!

Living room

Dave's new favorite game.

Hallway from bathroom through the bedroom and into the living room.

Bedroom

View from our windows of all the other buildings across the street.

Discovery Bay

Dave went to play golf with some guys from work at Discovery Bay yesterday and took some nice pics. They got rained out on Monday, but luckily Tuesday was gorgeous! I haven't been there yet, but we're going to go when I get back from the US.

We went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 on Saturday. It was OK. At least it was better than the second one. On the way to the movies we saw one of the best mullet combos ever. Had to get a pic! It's hard to tell in this pic, but it's a flat top mullet with a really long back. The crazy shirt he's wearing is just icing on the cake. What makes the pic even better is the dude with the "pullet" ponytail-mullet he's sitting with and the chick in the background picking a wedgie. HILARIOUS!

I also found out that the quote from Wayne's World, "nay ho lan ah" really does mean "You look pretty" in Cantonese. Now I just need to find out if ZANG really means excellent.

We leave Friday morning to fly back to CA! I need to start packing! When I get back on July 6th we'll move into our new apartment.

Lots of Rain

In less than 2 weeks we'll be on our way back to the US! It's rainy season here and it's been pouring outside lately, so we are happy to be getting back to sunny CA!


We looked at a new apartment today! We really like it and are planning on moving in right when I get back from CA. It's very close to where we live now, but these apartments are brand new and very nice. We'll post our own pictures once we move in, of course. You can see some of the photos on their website http://www.theputman.com/

We went to the street markets in Mongkok yesterday after the rain stopped. I think it's the most densely populated place in the world. Here are a few pictures.

What is Wrong with People in Hong Kong?

For a city that requires lots of walking, LOCALS HERE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WALK. They walk so slow, smack right into you, step on you, stop right in front of you for no reason, etc. It's like a constant traffic jam of people swarming around like blind flies. It's driving me insane. Today, some dumbass was standing in the middle of a busy sidewalk, turned and looked directly at me (I know she saw me coming) and continued to walk right into me like a moron. The worst part is as I tried to dodge her stupid ass, she contined to walk into me and refused to change direction! WTF. I wanted to punch her, but I had just come from boxing at the gym and I was too tired to punch anything else, lucky for her.

Another thing that drives me nuts is people here who just do not understand the concept of forming a line. I was at the grocery store standing in line to check out and this lady just walks right in front of me like I wasn't even there. I got so annoyed I said, "AM I F*CKING INVISIBLE?" She pretended not to hear me and continued standing there. I was like oh hell no and walked right in front of her in the line. That move by her was pretty ridiculous. Who the hell does things like that???

Oh, and what the hell is up with people spitting? It's so disgusting! People are hacking and spitting as they walk down the street and they don't care if they hit someone else with their nasty saliva. SICK!!

This should be a Seinfeld episode. It would be great.

Who's hungry for some...duck necks? GROSS!

Hong Kong Sevens Rugby Tournament

The Sevens rugby tournament is a pretty big deal in Hong Kong. It's pretty much a huge party and everybody dresses in cosutmes and gets wasted. We had tickets for the whole weekend, but we only went on Saturday. We decided we couldn't handle it again on Sunday after all the partying on Saturday!! It was a lot of fun, though!

The people in the south stand are some hard core partiers. Those guys in pink are in pig costumes for the year of the pig.

This is inside Goldman Sachs executive box. They had it as a castle theme and everyone had crowns and wizard hats. It was awesome. I love fun hats!

Of course the party glasses came out!

Everyone went to Lan Kwai Fong afterwards to continue drinking at the bars. This is the street packed with drunk people. Crazy!

We leave for our Easter trip to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia tomorrow. Pictures when we return!

My 25th Birthday

Dave brought me home some beautiful roses before we went out to dinner for my b-day last Thursday. I can't believe I'm already 25. Horray for lower car insurance and car rentals! :)

We went to dinner at Grissini in the Grand Hyatt. The restaurant has some gorgeous views of the city and the food was really good! This is the lobby at the entrance to the Grand Hyatt.

Here is the view of the city from our table at Grissini. The building that looks like a rainbow is Dave's work.

I was laughing at "mullet" on the menu.

I will also be putting up photos from this weekend at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament soon.