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Jeff Caylor and Jonathan Lee

2009-05-13 3:54PM / 標準BLOG

So, I've been talking to a friend about this site, cos I was talking about coming to the Anniversary Party, and she told me that she checked out the site and discovered that one of our church musicians is on the site. I checked out his page, and he's an official artist. Yay! Anyways, he's got a CD release party coming up on the 29th May, so anyone who is in Hong Kong, please support!

She also mentioned someone else and I found out that he's an official artist on here too, so I guess I am remotely connected to the site a little more now. I have only met one of them and only once, so I can't really say I know them, but I'll still support them 100%.

Jeff Caylor

If anyone decides to go, but needs help getting there, I'm happy to give you directions from the Quarry Bay MTR station (though I don't know how to get there by other means).

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AliveNotDead 2nd Anniversary Party

2009-05-11 6:19PM / 標準BLOG

Oh shoot. I got mentioned on a few blogs, so I guess I gotta at least say something, right?

I know I've been MIA for a few months now. Since I don't have internet access at home, I like to make the best use of my time on the internet by focusing on applying for jobs.

I'd been invited to several AnD parties, but because of my current living arrangements, it's kinda hard to attend late night parties. I almost made it to one two weeks ago, but there was a minor hiccup (um, like me getting lost in Central!) and I didn't make it inside.

But I can proudly say that my first ever AliveNotDead event was their 2nd Anniversary Party.

Raffi was busy, so the first person to recognise me was Patrick. I was actually surprised that he recognised me. He introduced me to the rest of the crew there and eventually found Raffi and told him I'd arrived. I don't think Raffi told anyone else I was in Hong Kong because no one expected me there. In fact, some people thought I'd flown in especially for the Anniversary Party. So I'd like to clarify that I'm hoping to live in Hong Kong for at least a few years, and I've been in the country for a few months now, but since I'm still job searching, I don't know if I will be in Hong Kong for the next few years.

Anyways, here are some photos from the party.

Sorry, no time for captions. The fire alarm bell has been ringing (for a few minutes now, but no one in the library is moving, apparently it's next door) and my laptop battery is almost out of power, so I'll have to leave my blog as it is.

Thanks guys for a great night. I really enjoyed it.

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Life in Hong Kong

2009-02-19 2:51PM / 標準BLOG

My life has taken on a pattern now. I wake up, go to Yum Char with my granddad and "poh poh", go home, bum around, have lunch, head to Harbour City in TST, go home, have dinner, bum around, and go to sleep.

LOL, I used to think our family was pretty Chinese, cos we ate Chinese for dinner almost every night. Now I have Chinese almost every meal! I never noticed it when we came here on holiday, cos we always went out during the day, and only ever ate one meal a day at my granddad's, and only if we were staying there. When we stayed at a hotel, we hardly ever ate at granddad's. My friend talked about how she had to go out for yum char every morning whenever she came to Hong Kong. I now understand how she felt!

I can't wait til I get my own place (with a shower!) and buy myself a toaster! And some cereal! My friend asked me if they even sell toasters in Hong Kong! Haha, I'm sure they do. They must, since so many expats live here. I can't wait til life takes on more of the pattern I had at home. I don't normally eat breakfast at home, but I'm sure I'll have the time now. Unless I have to start work really early and I live fairly far away from where I work.

I've been spending my afternoons in Harbour City cos I can get access to free wireless internet here. As soon as I've finished lunch, I head straight out. There's nothing to do at my granddad's. There used to be lots of stuff to watch on tv whenever I came to Hong Kong on holiday and it used to be really bad cos I struggled to decide whether to go out or stay in. Now, I can't wait to get out cos there's absolutely nothing on tv!

I've applied for two jobs so far. One of them sounds really, really nice. It's in Sheung Wan and all the details suit me really well, so it's the one I want most, but I applied for another one which sounded pretty nice too. Then I got frustrated and gave up applying for anything else. I always spend ages writing, cos I have to make everything sound perfect, so every email I send is (mostly) different to each other, and focus on the points outlined in the ad, and it always takes a lot out of me just to apply for one job.

But apparently I'm really good at writing. I had to send out warning notices to all staff back in my last job, and always got emails back saying how well I wrote the email. It was really nice getting those emails. I should have printed them out and saved them to use in my applications!

They were actually discussing it at my first farewell function. One of them said that the Deputy Chief Executive was talking to them about one of my warning emails (people were stealing biscuits which were meant for meetings before the meetings had even started!) and said to them "I think we just got told off"! LOL, I couldn't stop laughing at that.

Anyways, the last few days have taught me that I can't stand Chinese for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can handle dinner, but not lunch, and definitely not breakfast! I slept in the last two days so I could avoid it for breakfast! Haha. Didn't work so well yesterday though. As soon as I got up, they were like, "right, let's go have yum char!" LOL! But this morning, poh poh went out and bought me some sandwiches. I'd come back fairly early on Tuesday, and bought a sandwich to snack on so she must have figured it was a safe bet. I figured I could sneak out before lunch (there is one programme on at 11am, which is pretty good, so I watch that) but she'd been cooking lunch while I was watching tv and by the time it finished, lunch was almost ready and she made me stay for lunch.

Sigh, I guess that's life in Hong Kong.

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Getting lost in Mongkok

2009-02-17 3:18PM / 標準BLOG

So, I'm really stubborn.

I was searching for the Ladies Markets cos I wanted to find a few things which I figured I might be able to get for a nice price at the markets. I had a quick look at the map when I got to the station and headed to the correct exit. Unfortunately, I didn't check to see which way I should be headed. I must have gone round and round in circles for ages before I decided to go back into the MTR station and have a look at the map to see which way to go. Anyways, I didn't find what I was looking for at the markets, but decided to go to the street full of electronic stores, which I'd walked past on my first search of the markets. But now I couldn't find that street! And I was too stubborn to give up. I think I searched for half an hour before I decided I'd gone in too many circles and finally gave up.

I didn't really wanna go back to my granddad's yet, so I decided to go to Jordan and try the Night Markets, see if there was anything there yet. This market I knew how to get to. I don't know why I didn't know the directions to the Ladies Markets, considering I've been there so many times, but I just really didn't. I either go with other people, or just stumble across it, so I've never really known how to get there.

One thing I did discover was that Jordan's air is fresher than Mongkok's. It's a really weird thing to notice I guess, but New Zealand has fresh air. The term “just going out for some fresh air” is much more accurate when used in New Zealand than in Hong Kong. One thing I did worry about when I decided to move to Hong Kong was how bad my lungs were going to get with the bad air. I'm exposed to a lot more second hand smoke over here. And then there's the smog. And the summer air. I remember almost suffocating last time I was in Hong Kong, which was the first (and so far only) time I'd been over in the summer. I'd been standing in the street with my mum and the luggage waiting for my granddad to come down and pick us up, and after about 30 seconds, found it hard to breathe. I really thought I might suffocate! And then I got light-headed when I returned to Wellington! Too much fresh air!

Anyway, I returned to Sham Shui Po and decided to try Fortress World. I'm looking for a memory card reader. I bought one off TradeMe back home, but my sister uses it too, so I decided to leave it at home and figured I could find one easily in Hong Kong. I should have just bought another one off TradeMe and brought it with me. Then I could have transferred the photos I took in Australia onto my friends' computers too. Anyways, I found some at Fortress World but they could only read SD, mini SD and MMS cards. Mine's an XD card. I decided to ask them if they had any which could read XD, but left after waiting about 15 minutes. I'd gone to Watson's just before that, and waited 10 minutes at the counter before I gave up and decided I would get the stuff from Wellcome. Not impressed with the customer service I've received so far! And I just realised I never got the item I was really after.

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I'm in HK!

2009-02-17 3:07PM / 標準BLOG

I've made it to Hong Kong and have finally found somewhere I can tap into the net from my MacBook. I knew Starbucks had access, but I don't know any Starbucks near Sham Shui Po, where my granddad lives. I did a search for wireless hotspots, but had to rely on memory cos I didn't bring pen and paper with me to the internet cafe and couldn't find it when I went looking for the one place I did have memorised so in the end just travelled to TST to find a Starbucks. Which only gives me 20 minutes to catch up with everything!

I wrote a blog yesterday while everything was fresh in my mind so I'll post that up next. Won't be catching up on my feeds so hope I didn't miss anything.

Hope everyone's doing well.

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