I just logged into Facebook and noticed a posting for 2009 Freshers Week at my old University. After some mental maths (I love working with numbers in my head) I realised that I attended that 18 years ago. Then the real heart synching moment set in – most of the people attending this years event […]
My favourite Chinese food – slices of thin beef cooked in chilli oil with extra chilli’s added to ensure maximum flavour. I could eat bowls and bowls of this – though the next day I always have a sore stomach ! In HK ended up eating masses of food like this, as well as some […]
Grabbed this picture at the airport in Shanghai. Sadly lighting was rather poor, but I think this sums up the service you get perfectly “The desk of advising” with nobody at the desk…
A couple of pictures taken in Hong Kong (sorry for the poor quality pics from the iPhone)…
Writing this sitting at the bar on the flight back to London. I like the collection of magazines they have on Virgin flights. GQ (I’d already read that), Sunday Times Traveler (good magazine), Newsweek. Sadly they don’t have any of the political magazines anymore like New Statesman (my favourites), but there is ‘Hello!’. I was […]
.. or is that annihilation ? Writing this on the Virgin flight back to London. A great weekend in Hong Kong, although of course spending far too much money. I don’t know what it is about HK, but you just feel compelled to burn cash on things. I guess it is in part due to […]
Does an environment of ‘happy’ people make you happy ?On the flight to Hong Kong last night I was in a really good mood. Yes, it might have in part been down to the couple of glasses of wine I had. However, I realised that I had been with some really great people over the […]
Blogging from hotel room in Hsinchu Taiwan, just presented to a group of people at a technical seminar. Yesterday I commuted to Taipei on the high speed rail and used the metro system. It made me realise just how I miss living in Asia. Today talking to people I felt really relaxed and happy – […]