4weeks to gooooooooo

Thanks God for the cameras integrated in mobiles phones to remind us where have we been, what have we done...

In fact:
my memories are pretty much based on the pictures snapped with my phone!
You just can't memorize everything in this life, can you!?

Ok, i have to admit something:
Hong Kong started growing on me!
Slowly, but it is getting there...
I start feeling comfortable, i don't mind the smell on the street. I don't mind the rude people all around. I don't mind the noise of the air-conditioning at night!
I started seeing the good things, the good food, the good people, the GOOD life!


Let's start with the ONLY good thing in this model flat:


Each model flat has one good thing: sometimes it's the blender, sometimes the oven, sometimes the shower..sometimes the GYM or the pool..
here (unfortunately) none of those..
but we've got a STEAMER to iron our clothes! Such a luxury item!
(See, you just have to learn to see the positive side in every bad thing)

We call this cute lady "THE PONYTAIL".
Her fruit stand is just around the corner from our flat and she has really good fruits and makes us fresh MIXED JUICES!
So this is a normal conversation here:

A: Where did you get your pineapple?
B: From the PONYTAIL.
A: I bought this huge mango from her yesterday. It was sooo good!

I thought myself, how to open a coconut without having a particularly sharp tool around, which technically means that I can survive on a desert island!!!!

Feather Boa

After taking this picture the staff ran to me:
"no picture, no picture and the music no copy no copy"
The ambiance is nice and cozy, French style!
But why do Chinese always think that people would copy anything they'd copied themselves from someplace else...
Jeeeeeez

Hereby I officially address them:

Dear Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macao,
We, proud Europeans, DO NOT COPY things! We invent them!
THANK-YOU-VERY-MUCH!
the Feather Boa specialty: chocolate strawberry daiquiris

Hong Kong made me into a jogger only for the view...and the smell of the ocean!

the bathrooms with the best view on Earth: FELIX in the Peninsula on the 28th floor!

"the long table" @ FELIX in the Peninsula! Amazing view!

Some good SUSHI @ IFC
the most amazing cakes @Sevva,
amazing location on a rooftop terrace
with a great view

www.sevva.hk

and here same thing:
"NO PICTURE NO PICTURE"
Jeeeez
HARD ROCK hotel in MACAO

Some creative dessert called "sex on the beach"
by 2-Michelin-Star chef Alvin Leung
@ Bo Innovation
(ginger cookies sand, strawberry jelly filled with coconut milk...)

apple carrot juice @LRC
note to my agent:
i am being healthy, it's not like i eat only cakes!
in fact, i just take pictures of them and smell them!

healthy fruit platter @LRC

Beer Festival@LKF

ok...after drinking up a couple pepper pineapple martinis, can't really remember what that cocktail with the apples was called and why the hell did i take a photo of it?!?!
...in fact: i hardly remember anything from that night!

dessert @ THE GLOBE: mereng, ice-cream...

few seconds later

the bird market in Prince Edward MTR

flower market and those weird flowers

Bamboo @ the flower market

Alarms, sirens, bells and whistles:
BUUUUUUUUGSSSSS!
Huge bugs in bags!
I could speculate here and say:
"They fry them and they eat them!"
But no, don't worry: They just feed the birds with them!

bald little birds!

Sunday in the ocean!

Needless to describe the scene: Di Caprio and Kate Winslet!
Classic!

Lunch on a boat! Lychees, cherrys, grapes
...and some pizza

Some rowing! We did that too...

JUMBO the floating restaurant in the Aberdeen Marine Club

Sunset in the sea

Hehe, I know, great shot!
Thanks!

Green Tea Latte @ Sevva before going to bed

View from Sevva

My mom just asked me: What are those pictures? Are you on a holiday there?!
Jeeez
She doesn't get it. Nobody does.
I WORK.
This is my job, ok!?
It is not easy! It takes a lot of sacrifice and strength
to be far from home,
far from your family,
far from those you love most!
It might sound ironic now, but I swear I seriously mean it!