against all odds...

ever

'Gambling is prohibited'...'Customers must refrain from eating chewing gum within the premises'....'Hair dying or any hair treatment is not permitted within the premises' (yeah cos I'd go to the gym to do that!)...and my fave - 'the gym does not accept customers with tattoos and reserved the right to cancel any existing customers who had tattoos without compensation' (is that legal??)

1. The crowds. And I thought Oxford Street on a Saturday was bad....
2. The whiff of nastiness you get every 100 feet or so walking pretty much anywhere in HK. I wont metion Al's special name for it.
3. The feeling that you are certain you are always being ripped off. There is absolutly nothing you can do about it.
4. The construction above my flat on a Saturday morning. Before I moved in they said that there was construction going on.

1. I'm tall. Clocking in at a mini 5ft 3(and a half on a good day) I am positively gargantuan here.
2. Everything works. I ask for the phone in my flat to be set up to dial internationally and I receive a call within 5 minutes to say it will be enabled in an hour. It was. It took TalkTalk SIX WEEKS to set up my broadband in London.
3. It takes me 10 minutes to get to work. Nice.
4. The shopping is incredible.

....was the opening line of the newspaper announcement at my birth. I wasn’t meant to be here. My mother was told that she would never have children - despite visiting every doctor around including the one that would go on to create the first test tube baby. I like it. It implies a certain defiance and victory.

Ok - so Ive put it off....joining the land of blog....and am finally jumping into the 21st century. I guess its taken so long because partly I dont know where everyone finds the time to do this and because I cant possibly imagine what I have to say that hundreds will find interesting...I tend towards the one-to-one chat over a coffee approach - a little more personal than sharing what colour underwear I am wearing and other inane deatils about myself with half of HTB.