.....the 5th of November.......

Happy Guy Fawkes Day guys! 

I came across this list recently on a website of the 'top 10 cutest traits of Japanese girlfriends' It came from a survey of Japanese guys who have girlfriends, and what they felt were the nicest things about them:

1. She links arms with you

2. She makes you bento

3. She does her best to help out in your daily life

4. She asks “Do you love me?”

5. She always spends the weekend with you

6. She asks “What were you doing?” if you don’t see her for a day

7. She wants to accompany you everywhere

8. She cleans your room for you

9. She does her best to match her hobbies to yours

10. She’s jealous of your last girlfriend

I thought they all were cute too to say the least! 

I wrote a few weeks back that I was busy with work of late, but I didn't get to explain exactly what sort of work that I've been involved in. After some encouragement from Elle recently (who thought I should mention it in my personal blog), I'm glad to say to everyone here, that I've just been landed a dream role. 

At the start of last month, I was appointed an official distributor in HK and Macau for a German brand of fine art paper called Hahnemuhle. It's a very famous brand of paper in the art and photographic world, and has been around in HK for a while but never really properly distributed and serviced in HK/Macau itself. I've waited for a long time to see this happen (you could say it was one of my ideal dream jobs coming to HK), and now I'm that finally in charge it's my goal now to make this work for everybody. Because if I do, it means that HK's art users and buyers can benefit from having more material more readily available and at a slightly better price than from before (because up until now, most people had to wait for longer periods for stock to arrive and some had been paying for grey imports, which had very high importation costs). It all results in.....being able to create more art in the region, so more people can enjoy it in HK! So if anybody knows anyone in HK in need of such material please let me know. Oh, and I can also print it for them if they don't have a large printer. :) 

I bet you can't guess what this is?

Shall I tell you? It's a long story......

About a week ago I was helping to clear my turtles tank. I clear their tank almost every week because they eat and defecate a lot (they are just big turtles). Because we have to dechlorinate the water, everytime I clear them out I have to separate them so that they are not affected by the changing water, otherwise it damages their skin (chlorine reacts with their skin badly).

Anyways I was doing my usual thing.....clearing out the tank, the pumps and the pipe in the other room for at least 45 minutes and I thought to check up on them. When I came back to check how they were doing......I was astonished to find something rounded and white sitting in the middle of the bathtub! I had a load of turtles all crawling around, and somehow something white, slippery and round turned up in the middle of the tub.............I went to my family and we came to the conclusion that it looked like one of our turtles.......had laid an egg!!!  I was absolutely flabbergasted.....and had no idea this would happen!

So the photo that you see.......is a pic of the egg we have put in normal plant soil.

We are told if we incubate it for a few months, it may hatch a little turtle!

Came across some pics of these amazing creations recently....check it out! ^^