Alice in Wonderland | My daily adventures in Hong Kong... and more.

Posted by admin on 4 May, 2012

Green Thumb

Today I spent the day in the garden, or what stands for a garden in Hong Kong: our 2 square-metre balcony. Although what I did can hardly be called gardening — it was more like purging — and would more closely equate to ploughing the field than sowing the seeds. The few plants I do own were long dead, except for one nondescript piece of greenery I bought from Ikea that could survive a nuclear war....

Posted by admin on 2 Nov, 2011

An Affair to Remember…

Ours was a passionate love affair that crept up on me, until one day it dawned on me that I was in love, even if I didn’t want to be. At first I thought him strange, beautiful in a way that I knew I didn’t quite understand yet, and completely alien, so that we would meet, introduce ourselves, make small talk and then resume our separate lives. But he pursued me — relentlessly, subtly — slowly...

Posted by admin on 11 Sep, 2011

Howling at the moon…

For the last month or so the supermarkets, department stores and convenience shops have been filling up with colourful mooncake boxes and the hell money shops on Queens Road West have gradually traded their massive, cardboard dogs, ipads and designer handbags for brightly coloured lanterns. A neat row of mooncake posters has popped up in every MTR escalator and tunnel, and the sides of buses and tram...

Posted by admin on 10 Jun, 2011

Changing lives and taking photos…

It was a beautiful day in Hong Kong: at 8am it was already 32 degrees and about 70 percent humidity. I’d left the house a little late at around 8:07, although I know from past experience that the rest of my team were probably still trying to find each other in amongst the tents selling food, water, coffee and personal filter bottles and the mass of people around the starting line in Hyde Park. As I set...

Posted by admin on 29 Apr, 2011

My Achy Breaky Heart…

Today is the day of the Royal Wedding and, despite the slight premature balding, hearts are snapping like twigs all over the world (including my own). It’s not often you get a front row seat to your childhood crush’s wedding (and I’d venture that didn’t happen for many with Charles). Today Kate Middleton becomes the future Queen of England, so I put my jealously aside and decided to celebrate the...

Posted by admin on 28 Apr, 2011

Penny Blossoms…

It’s amazing how the landscape of Hong Kong can change in such a short time. I’ve been in Sydney for a month and whole buildings have gone up and come down, construction sites have been replaced by shiny shops selling who knows what (dried things usually) and restaurants have disappeared, new hopefuls sprouting in their place (although that happens day-to-day). To my surprise and delight they...

Posted by admin on 27 Apr, 2011

Please Queue Here…

Today’s unusual errand involved me picking up a rare slot car for my dad from an obscure toyshop in an obscure building in an obscure street in Causeway Bay. I decided to take the bus directly there rather than navigate the spiraling tunnels of the MTR. I also remembered that the bus had free wifi, so I figured I could use my new iPhone to be productive along the way. The bus was freezing — why...

Posted by admin on 11 Mar, 2011

Tai Chi and Scones…

It wasn’t my new year’s resolution but today I did three things normally unheard of for me. The first — I was up and dressed before 8am, and out on the streets! Ok, so this was solely motivated by the fact that I HAD to have scones from the Catherine Bakery, just up the road, for breakfast, but I was up and out and that should be enough! I decided to take a loop through Hollywood Road Park to drop a...