pre-script...... I drafted this, left it for a bit... and was caught up in the trip to s'pore.... meeting an old bishop's school chum from poona.... he's an evp with a hotel management group... carlson...... and the grad class of 69..... and the rest of s'pore.... but that's another story........
ciao ccc.....
Dear A.
Certainly, the temperature in Ottawa must now be diametrically opposite from here.....lol..... it's 19C low and 25C high with 90% humidity...... more like summer in Ottawa than winter in HK. Apparently Melbourne is experiencing 47C highs.... but then it's their summer....hahahhaha... I don't miss the winter much, but feel it such a waste to have lugged fall clothing to HK.....
my trip to perth will be postponed......
Wine... HK has the best and prices to match... I am now regularly drinking, when i can with my condition/concerns re liver, C$100 a bottle of wine... that's HK$700. Nice wines are very available here with Margaux, Paulliac, Lynch Barges, Smith Lafitte, which runs around HK$5000 a bottle, almost ashamed to open one and I'll be damned if I can find something to go with it...... Had a Penfolds Shriaz, Magill Estates HK$1500, with some spaghetti with pesto; and prosciutto and melon and it seemed such a waste of a great wine..... and a St Emilion Grand Cru, Chateau Corbin Michotte with some Tasmanian smoked salmon and artichokes and sun dried tomatoes and some mux lux.....
Conspicuous consumption is endemic to HK. Money talks, bullshit walks must have been created here... either that or LA....lol....
I hope the Chateau Olivier Passac Leognan, Graves was successful. Should have been reflective of the gravelly soil and hearty nature of the region..... think a prime rib, rare would have done it justice.....
don't even want to think of the Christmas candles that T gave J last year. We had to travel all the way to Paris to get that.... T is actually quite 'that way', so it's an interesting adaptation process.....
as for things to do, we are going to Singapore for the weekend, valentines day and Phuket over Easter. Depressed... not, just a little shell shocked at the pace and materialism and how to deal with it..... and also the expectations and attitudes....
already wore the tux... to a wedding on Jan 9th, which is the Chinese Valentine's day, as it is the 15 Jan of the Chinese new year and full moon. Very auspicious and the wedding was held at the jumbo seafood floating restaurant in Aberdeen.
ciao ccc.......
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