Hong Kong here I come!

I know I said I'd try to keep this blog updated but been a little too busy and too tired for blogging.

Was busy with work last week and my boss was driving me a little nuts. It all started last week, with me having to make flight and hotel bookings for him and another partner for their business trip this week - they're going to Jakarta for a conference - and then I had to arrange yet another flight/hotel booking for my boss and his friend - they're going to Bangkok in early September. I must say I'm getting to be a bit of an expert on this travel arranging stuff, so much easier to do it yourself through the net than with a travel agent, actually works out cheaper (if you know where to do your bookings that is).

Who knows when I'll be booking my next vacation but at least I get a free vacation from the firm. This year we're going to Hong Kong!!! I can't wait. Haven't been back since I left there in 1995 - I lived and worked in HK from Sept 1994 to Sept 1995. It will be nice to see the differences. Shall try to take as many pictures as my poor little digicam will allow - it's been very temperamental these days, only allowing you to take a few pics at a time even though there's tons of space on the smart card.

Was busy over the weekend again. Spent Saturday at home working on my cheong sam top. You see the theme for our dinner and dance in HK is "Shanghai Swing" so I figured I'd make a cheong sam top and wear it with jeans. Sunday was extremely busy for me. Woke up early to go to the cemetery with my mom to pay our respects to my grandparents - it was my grandma's death anniversary on the 5th - after that I rushed back to go to church with my dad and Terena. After church I went home, had lunch and rested a while before getting back to work on my cheong sam top. Stopped in the evening cos they were showing "Signs" - I just love that show. I love how they sort of give you teasers on what's happening so that you have to sort of imagine what's going on based on the sounds. Finished most of my top by late Sunday night and ended up finishing it yesterday.

Here's a little info about our HK trip. Half the firm will be going up on Friday back on Sunday and the other half will go up on Saturday and back on Monday. D&D will be on Saturday night. We're flying up on Cathay Pacific (never flown on them) and staying at the Conrad - woohoo!!! 5 star!!! Mealwise we get free daily breakfast and of course dinner on Saturday. Normally we load up on breakfast so that we can afford to skip lunch or have a light lunch. Luckily I know what kind of places to go to for some cheap food in HK. Gonna give the night life a miss so that I won't be too tired from late nights, early mornings and all day shopping and walking.

I'm going to try and squeeze all my stuff in a backpack (note to Cor - not the big one we both got but something smaller) so that I can just have carry-on luggage but I'll make sure that I have a spare bag inside to carry all my shopping hehehe. This is what I did last year for our Bangkok trip except I didn't bring a spare bag cos you can buy bags really cheap there but I don't think it will be so easy or so cheap. Going to go to the airport via bus cos my flight is at like 8 am which means I'd have to be at the airport by about 6 - 6.30 am.

Well more about the trip when I get back...gotta get back to work.
Ventelated by MeiBao @ 2:28 PM