Welcome to my blog...

I recently noticed I got some new visitors here.

When I started to write this blog to get my friends updated about my life in HK
I didn't expect that much attention.

But... whoever finds my blog: enjoy and feel free to comment...

One night in Hong Kong...

On saturday afternoon Julia arrived after a 26 hour trip.
Saturday is usually the night to go out but I did not expect she would stay out long because of the trip and the jetjag.

Lets see :) ...

8 pm dinner at a thai restaurant. She could manage to use chopsticks.

10 pm cocktail at the Aquabar in Tsim Sha Tsui.
From here you have a nice view to HK island.

11.30 pm: on the way to HK island Julia and Uli had a stop over at seven eleven for a beer.

11.30 pm Featherboa in Central.

Its a beautiful bar with great mango daiquiries,
the glas is wrapped with chocolate.
Its difficult to find this bar; no signs outside.

But once you find it, you love to come back.

Just behave inside, the owner is a strikt lady and kicks out guests she doesn't like.

0.30 am on the way to LKF bar in the 19. floor of LKF hotel. A great but expensive bar with DJ on saturday and a fantastic view from the terrace.

Its better to come here during the week. At the weekend there too many people and you cant enjoy the view.

1 am Icebar @ Balalaikas, a russian reaturant in Lang Kwai Fong. You can drink wodka inside and because it is so cold, you can wear (fake) fur.
Julia brought "Ahoi Brause"(sherbet??). You put first the sherbet and than the wodka into your mouth, shake your head (mix the things together) and swallow.

Lang Kwai Fong at 1.30 am



Bar Insomnia at 2 am. This bar supposed to be open 24 hours, live bands all the time.

I never checked but this time the band was good and we finally danced.

Julia starts to like chinese beer.

3.00 am at one bar (forgot the name) in Lang Kwai Fong. A english girl offered us "jelly shots".

Dont know, whats inside... for sure alkohol; maybe only alkohol :)

Later we went to Wan Chai.

We where dancing in "Neptun 2", made some new friends in "Dusk til dawn" ... luckily from this time I have no fotos.

Than, at 6 am we got hungry...

... and ordered boneless chicken feet in "Fenwick".

Jule doesn't like it..

7 am; finnaly at home and tired....

About my job....

Until now I wrote mainly about parties and you might think, I do nothing else.
But actually I m here for work... so after 2 months its time to write also about my job:

There 2 points of view, depend on my mood:

1. I can make a collection by myself, have the knowledge, machines...
Its exciting to do all from the beginning... idea, sketch, select the yarn, knit,

see the final garment....

2. Its a big pressure to do all alone when the expectations (my and those from the company) are so high

The machines are still not good as there should be and there too many limitations
I dont know enough about yarn, sizes, production...

The reality is probably somewhere in the middle.
We had a booth at the Hk fashionweek last week and for that I made some knit and wear garments.
It was difficult to make something in this short time and with the yarn I got and with the machines we have but I could manage to finish something and we even got an order (very small... but its a start).
I m not so happy with the styles and the sizes I made but its the best I could do under these circumstances and I m also kind of proud that I could finish something.

The good things are; I still like this job and I m able to deal with the pressure and (hopefully) I learn fast the missing knowledge.
People in my office are nice and help me and I get help from friends in HK, China and Europe.

Wow... this was a bit more seriously than the other posts.

Next time more about parties :)

Here some pics of the garments I made and from the exhibition.

HK grows

80's Party and shoes...

On saturday we went to an 80's party in central at sodaclub.
http://www.hkclubbing.com/Latest_News/Nightlife_News/Its_all_about_the_80s_at_Soda.html

It turnt out, that the party was not so good we expected.
The music was ok, but not special and there was no much place for dancing.
The club was full and the people funny dressed but after a wile we got bored and went to an other place.

We had to go down some stairs and than it happened......
My
new
favored
expensive
red
SHOES
BROKE!!!!
(....again, some of you know the story of the pevious pair)

It was too early to go home and I was in the mood for dancing but whit those shoes I could not even walk anymore.
So my friends went to the store to get some tape to fix the heel.
We tried to fix it in a bar and all the waiters where waching.
Then one of them brought a big black tape and fixed the heel perfectly (ok, you could see the tape, but who cares at 2 in the night).
Later I was dancing at the stage in "Cavern" and of course we finished the night in "dusk til dawn".

If somebody knows the phone number of the shoe designer of costume national, please give it to me!!! :(

Walled city in Hong Kong

When I found the book "city of Darkness" few years ago, I couldn't wait to see this very old part of HK. http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/city%20of%20darkness.html

Unfortunatly this part was destroyed already
years ago.... no chance for me to visit.

At the picture I found in internet, you can see how it looked like.

Now I read about a still existing walled village in HK and I convinced Uli to go visit this with me.
We took the train for about one hour, than a bus.... but we choose the wrong direction.
Finally we arrived at the village by taxi but it was a big disappointment. Only few part of the village where old, the rest new reconstructed and renovated.
Not so much to see at all and it was very hot that day (The rain stopped; I should not complain).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_villages_of_Hong_Kong

But in the end we found the oldest businesswomen in HK. There waiting in the village for tourists and then they ask for a lot of money for taking just one foto ;)