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Friday, March 25, 2005
23rd March, 2005

23rd March, 2005 is a date need to be memorized.
We have signed our provisional agreement for the casa. And the court also issued the judgment for my labor arbitration. Not so good as they deducted my monthly salary to two thirds but I got supported for the four-month salary to be refunded by Foreign Service. (Apart the judge has used another tricky way to say due to I didn't work in June so the salary will not be given) Any, anyway, it is not so positive in the financial point of view, at least I felt the case has been somehow justified that they fired me without any reason.
But even this is no more important to me. I just have to move on and forget all the bad memories. And I am going to have a casa in HK with a garden. :-)

Moreover, I will spend my birthday with An in Lijiang. A place I would like to share with him. And then I will take more time to be around Yunnan and rush back HK once the transaction of casa is completed in order to decorate the house.

Sounds I will be quite busy in the following months. With things to do, at least, will not drive me too mad... Several friends have urged me for my remaining travel blog for Sichuan. I should really push myself to do it. If not, after the trip in Yunnan I will be piled up with Yunnan trips. OK, girl, be less lazy and wake up earlier!!!!

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by gattomatto 12:21 AM                             (2) comments


Thursday, March 17, 2005
看房记

发现自己有好久没有写中文帖子了。真的很是担心自己的中文水平。习惯了在电脑上打字,时常会不记得某个字怎么写。更有胜者,当静下心来想写点东西的时候,竟不自觉用英语的多。

好了,言归正传。下面我要写的就是这近一个月来我在香港的看房记。在香港看房已有一个月了。中间和过十个房产中介打交道,囊括中原,美联二家香港最大的房地产中介。

背景自然是今年香港的地产出现蓬勃景象。房产交易十分之火爆。不知诸位对香港的房子和房价有否了解。如果答案是否定的话,我可要多费写笔墨了。靠近香港岛和九龙较市中心地区均价在5000~6000每平方尺,也就是说相当于5万到6万每平方米。新界地区好一些,因为较远,所以均价在2000~3000每平方尺。再好的地段如半山之类的,均价在上万每平方尺。据悉香港是仅次于东京房价的城市。也正应为这寸土寸金,香港的房子实在是迷你的可以。50平方米左右的面积生生给隔出个三房两厅。主卧的床通常是一边靠的,这样才有空间进出。厕所和厨房是仅能容一人。

尽管上述不利因素种种,可是想拥有一个自己的地方,可以养养小狗小猫的愿望,还是让我们挤进了看房的浪潮中。好在是在香港,身为中国人的我还是有很大优势的。先买一份专业地产杂志研究,然后打电话给地产中介看房。就这么简单。和这么多人的交流中,我最喜欢的方式是我这边说普通话而对方说广东话,慢慢的讲双方都还能理解个七七八八。

到今天为止我们已经有比较中意的地方。如果不出意外的话明天就会定下来。为此下午我还要做最后一次出击。。。

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by gattomatto 11:30 AM                             (2) comments


Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Mimosa-Buona festa della donna

Non posso trovare Mimosa a Hong Kong. Quindi ho preso una foto da internet.
Oggi, Buona festa della donna a me. :-)

Mimosa


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by gattomatto 7:48 PM                             (2) comments


Thursday, March 03, 2005
Once per 14 days back China

I was a little bit lazy recently without having any new post. And now I have to write sth. down. Actually the first thing came across my mind is this trip I have done to Shenzhen.

In order to continue to stay in HK, I have to exit from HK to China every 14 days and then I will be re-credited by another 14 days' stay. Even it sounds so troublesome, I am able to keep staying as having a annual multi-entry pass to HK.
One thing I really hated to be a Chinese, is the visa thing. Everywhere we want to go we have to gain a visa first. Oh, one good news for our Chinese fellows, we don't need visa to go to Vietnam any more...

So I have taken the bus from Tian Shui Wai to Sheungshui and then I switched to the East Rail to Luohu. I was a little bit worried for the re-entering later on because I have once been caught by the Hong Kong customs about why I am always hanging on Hong Kong. Anyway, for the going out part was not a problem at all. I got out at Luohu and happily found the new Shenzhen MTR was operationg like over a month. It was a little bit funny when I saw people were lost in front of the automatic ticket dispenser and there were a bunch of guilds helping people buying the tickets. It looked like MTR was really a pretty new thing in Zhenzhen. So I decided to take a ride and get out from one station, and just get used to one part of Shenzhen.

Even I was not able to find out a household appliance store, the wandering was a kind of interesting. But the weather was not good at all. I might just hide at home if it was not the fault of 14-day-credit. Then I did a silly thing. I went into the Seibu department store just to warm myself up and ended inside Max & Co., There was a nice white high collar without sleves sweater which looks very nice though it costs more than 1000 yuan. I asked for a trial. And guess what. I screwed up leaving my eyebrows drawings on that white sweater. Oh my god. The worse is it looked like I have lost almost a eyebrow due to the clean up. Few days ago I decided to razor my eyebrows off. But it looked really weired when I get out from home. So I sloved it with drawing them. That moment was really bad. Needless to mention it is an expensive sweater. I left out the trying room leaving the cloth inside. And before the salesgirl reached it I sneaked out from the store. That was pretty close. :-)

The reture was fine. In the shopping center next to the customs I bought a non-code-limitation DVD and 12 good DVD9 pirate copies. Without a single question I passed again the customs and have been credit 14 days again.

Since the trip to Shenzhen is mandatory, I just guess I have to explore more Shenzhen and enjoy my little adventure every time.

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by gattomatto 12:00 AM                             (3) comments