Robyn is back
Robyn is back from "Nam". She arrived pretty much on time as expected and is doing the tourist stuff with her Dad and Sam. Luckily she is not walking around shouting "good mooooornin Vietnam" or anything annoying like that. One of the other girls she went with though is now saying "When I was in Nam", or "Back in Nam", like an old war hero. Luckily she does not live close by.
It's early morning here (9.45 am) and it is promising to be a stunning day. The smog and general fog that has reduced visibility over the last few days has cleared and the sky is crystal clear. Hannah (the girl next door) has her sister visiting as well so everyone is in full tourist guide mode at the moment. Tonight we should be going to a beach and floating lanterns into the sea. This has a festival connection but I will write more about it once we actually get to the beach in question and get some pictures.
I am starting to have to carefully consider what i'm going to do next year once Robyn leaves. She is jetting off at the end of May, at the same time I am being kicked out of the flat because they are gutting the entire building. Top this with the fact that I am going on three weeks holiday at the start of June and I am going to be really busy at the end of next month. One of the hardest things to get used to in Hong Kong is that everything is done at the last minute. If you go to a travel agent to book a holiday 2 months before you want to leave, they will laugh you out of the building. The same principal applies to flats, I can't start looking for a new place untill one week before I need it, any earlier and it would be a waste of time because the market moves so quickly.
Having said that my worry has been relieved by browsing the Asia ex-pat website. I have discovered there are tons of opportunities to find flat shares and good deals for single room flats through this site. More importantly, it saves having to go through a property agent. I don't want to bore you too much, but the problem with going through a poperty agent is that when you find your flat, you pay a month in advance, a months deposit and the final month of the flat all in one go. That is quite a large sum of money.
Anyway, I know that future Chatteris employees are reading this in England so at least they may find it useful :)
bx
It's early morning here (9.45 am) and it is promising to be a stunning day. The smog and general fog that has reduced visibility over the last few days has cleared and the sky is crystal clear. Hannah (the girl next door) has her sister visiting as well so everyone is in full tourist guide mode at the moment. Tonight we should be going to a beach and floating lanterns into the sea. This has a festival connection but I will write more about it once we actually get to the beach in question and get some pictures.
I am starting to have to carefully consider what i'm going to do next year once Robyn leaves. She is jetting off at the end of May, at the same time I am being kicked out of the flat because they are gutting the entire building. Top this with the fact that I am going on three weeks holiday at the start of June and I am going to be really busy at the end of next month. One of the hardest things to get used to in Hong Kong is that everything is done at the last minute. If you go to a travel agent to book a holiday 2 months before you want to leave, they will laugh you out of the building. The same principal applies to flats, I can't start looking for a new place untill one week before I need it, any earlier and it would be a waste of time because the market moves so quickly.
Having said that my worry has been relieved by browsing the Asia ex-pat website. I have discovered there are tons of opportunities to find flat shares and good deals for single room flats through this site. More importantly, it saves having to go through a property agent. I don't want to bore you too much, but the problem with going through a poperty agent is that when you find your flat, you pay a month in advance, a months deposit and the final month of the flat all in one go. That is quite a large sum of money.
Anyway, I know that future Chatteris employees are reading this in England so at least they may find it useful :)
bx
posted by robynandben at 8:26 AM
1 Comments:
as long as u have somewhere to live ben......we are missing lamma island and cannot wait to get back there...
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