Hangover season
Not only is it almost Christmas but it would appear almost everyone I know has something to celebrate at the moment. Although fun I don't think this is going to be good for me!
To fill in a couple of blanks I left out in my last e-mail... in all the excitement of telling you about the show I saw in Bangkok I forgot to mention the great Thai food and the not so great the cake I ate there.
Though I didn't eat anything especially weird or new it was all delicious, except that is the traditional Thai birthday cake which was something else. Gelatinous and multi coloured and just plain bad!! I was told it was made of flour, sugar, coconut milk and food colouring. How they made such innocent ingredients so awful I don't know.
Other than that a couple of weeks ago I headed over to Macua (a quiet Portuguese version of HK about an hour's boat ride away) with Darren and explored the city for a day. Think its fair to say the place was nice for an escape from the pace of HK but it didn't quiet have the power to keep us from heading back for Saturday night in Wan Chai cheering the mighty mighty England to victory over the Aussies (we'll not mention either rugby against NZ or cricket in general!)
This weekend wasn't what you could call a quiet one. It started with the first Christmas do of the year on Friday - a fancy dress Christmas party no less. In the spirit of it I painted my body green, purchased and plugged my eyes with green/ blue contact lenses and shredded a pair of charity shop jeans for the occasion (I was Dr. David Banner recently back from being The Incredible Hulk it you hadn't guessed).
Unfortunately the venue was too dark to see I was green and no one really knew I've normally got brown eyes so I just looked I've a half naked bloke with bulging eyes (I'd never worn contacts before!). On the bright side it was a free bar!
The weekend didn't easy up once I woke up on Saturday morning surrounded by freshly green sheets (d'oh!) as I then had an all day BBQ for Sean's 30th. Sunday continues the trend towards liver failure as I managed to fit in not one but two all you could drink wine buffets for yet another birth celebration, happy days!
To continue sharing the knowledge, the latest Chinese phrases I've sort of mastered are;
Door tse - thank you (for a gift)
joe sun - good morning
hi - hi (tricky one that!)
Whiy (raising like a question) - hello, uh!, general non committal noise
mai yut, dar gip - don't move, this is a robbery (not sure when I'm going to use this one)
So all that leaves me to say is that I'm back in London for virtually no time at all over new year but will be in "The Blue Post" in Soho most of the afternoon and night of January 1st 2006. If anyone's there and fancies catching up it would be great to see you - I'll send another e-mail shortly with full details.
So until the next time.
Jonathan
Hong Kong.
To fill in a couple of blanks I left out in my last e-mail... in all the excitement of telling you about the show I saw in Bangkok I forgot to mention the great Thai food and the not so great the cake I ate there.
Though I didn't eat anything especially weird or new it was all delicious, except that is the traditional Thai birthday cake which was something else. Gelatinous and multi coloured and just plain bad!! I was told it was made of flour, sugar, coconut milk and food colouring. How they made such innocent ingredients so awful I don't know.
Other than that a couple of weeks ago I headed over to Macua (a quiet Portuguese version of HK about an hour's boat ride away) with Darren and explored the city for a day. Think its fair to say the place was nice for an escape from the pace of HK but it didn't quiet have the power to keep us from heading back for Saturday night in Wan Chai cheering the mighty mighty England to victory over the Aussies (we'll not mention either rugby against NZ or cricket in general!)
This weekend wasn't what you could call a quiet one. It started with the first Christmas do of the year on Friday - a fancy dress Christmas party no less. In the spirit of it I painted my body green, purchased and plugged my eyes with green/ blue contact lenses and shredded a pair of charity shop jeans for the occasion (I was Dr. David Banner recently back from being The Incredible Hulk it you hadn't guessed).
Unfortunately the venue was too dark to see I was green and no one really knew I've normally got brown eyes so I just looked I've a half naked bloke with bulging eyes (I'd never worn contacts before!). On the bright side it was a free bar!
The weekend didn't easy up once I woke up on Saturday morning surrounded by freshly green sheets (d'oh!) as I then had an all day BBQ for Sean's 30th. Sunday continues the trend towards liver failure as I managed to fit in not one but two all you could drink wine buffets for yet another birth celebration, happy days!
To continue sharing the knowledge, the latest Chinese phrases I've sort of mastered are;
Door tse - thank you (for a gift)
joe sun - good morning
hi - hi (tricky one that!)
Whiy (raising like a question) - hello, uh!, general non committal noise
mai yut, dar gip - don't move, this is a robbery (not sure when I'm going to use this one)
So all that leaves me to say is that I'm back in London for virtually no time at all over new year but will be in "The Blue Post" in Soho most of the afternoon and night of January 1st 2006. If anyone's there and fancies catching up it would be great to see you - I'll send another e-mail shortly with full details.
So until the next time.
Jonathan
Hong Kong.
posted by JP at 10:30 pm
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