We have seen an increase in COVID cases. 9 cases. Imported cases used to mean they were caught in the airport. Now, there are cases out there linked with the imported cases. Because of this, the EDB decided to put the primary schools online. Secondary schools remain in school thankfully. […]
The mountains The people. The cows. The payoff at the end: Mulled wine.
Amidst the COVID stuff and being told we can’t go home for Christmas (because, you know, 3-week quarantine), our school decided to make one of our Friday after-school meetings a wellbeing day. We had a choice of about 20 options to attend for the afternoon. My first choice was my […]
Same Hike from Ma On Shan to Sai Kung. Same awesome people. And me. I love this hike. We are going to try to do it once a week. Hopefully, we do.
Typhoon Kompasu came in right after Typhoon Lionrock. We had one day of nice weather in between where we were able to enjoy the outdoors. The monster and I were […]
The last couple of days were… Nuts. 8th OCTOBER 2021 We had been watching a typhoon coming in for a couple of days. Actually, there were two typhoons in the […]
Monkey applied to Hong Kong Design Institute in the spring. We found out right before school ended that she wasn’t accepted because we had filled in the application incorrectly. C suggested speaking to the further education department at school, and their suggestion was the community colleges that are in a […]
I’m not sure why, but for a long time I felt my long hair was a defining feature of my identity. Maybe it was. It had gotten so long and after I had bleached some of it a couple of times, there were places in my hair that there just […]
My friend, C whom I work with was house/cat sitting in Sai Kung and invited me to a vegan BBQ on the rooftop of the village house. I’m not vegan, but I’m not opposed to it. We were all meant to bring something, so I baked vegan scones. I honestly […]
Work friends needed a fourth to attend a lesson to learn mahjong. It sounded like fun. It’s this guy who gives lessons into Hong Kong style mahjong. From what he was saying, there are many different versions of the game depending on region. There are even different tile sets. We […]
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