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April photos

hktimes — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:56:27 +0000

April, a set on Flickr.

Calypso

hktimes — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:53:46 +0000

Untitled, originally uploaded by kietiekat.

Calypso

hktimes — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:53:29 +0000

Untitled, originally uploaded by kietiekat.

Calypso

hktimes — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:53:14 +0000

Untitled, originally uploaded by kietiekat.

Just some images I took of her recently

Catch up

hktimes — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:52:34 +0000

Howdy!

It’s been a while since I posted any updates and a lot has happened in this time. Firstly, I changed jobs! Yeah! I am now in a position that is more akin to what I did before and a lot less stressful. Those are the good things. The bad things are that I work weekends and only get home past 7h30 every night. But I am enjoying it and see a lot of room for growth in the company, which is good.

We’ve just come back from a holiday in London. Well, I say holiday, actually Morne was there for work for 3 weeks and i joined him on his last week. It was great to see old friends again. Naturally I did a LOT of shopping! Living in Hong Kong has its perks but I certainly am not rich enough to shop in the designer shops as everyone else does. There is no middle ground here. Its high end or market stalls. So going to the UK was great as I stocked up on a lot of work clothes and shoes for summer. Oh summer! It’s back! I’m sitting here with all the windows and sliding door open. Our aircons are still out due to the renovations on the building so we have to rely on fresh air for now. Now as good as fresh air sounds, it really doesn’t help. It’s 95% humidity and hot and not a breeze. You really do need an aircon. Hopefully they will be done with the renovations soon which means our aircons will be installed again. It also means that the scaffolding will be taken down and we will see daylight again for the first time in 6 months. Can’t wait!! Poor Calypso gets cabin fever living in the dark.

I’ve also started my own little company selling my handknits. Check it out at www.mishababi.com

2010 in review

hktimes — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:02:09 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,400 times in 2010. That’s about 8 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 14 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 69 posts. There were 108 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 217mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was August 2nd with 44 views. The most popular post that day was What mosquito bites look like in HK.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were superbhandbag.blogspot.com, blogger.com, newishnursyknitter.blogspot.com, ravelry.com, and feeds.feedburner.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for mosquito bites, chinese new year fireworks, pictures of mosquito bites, year of the tiger, and mosquito bites pictures.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

What mosquito bites look like in HK July 2009

Welcome to the year of the Tiger! February 2010
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Hong Kong dog rescue December 2009

Calypso January 2010
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About May 2009
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Dog day

hktimes — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:57:25 +0000

Dog day

hktimes — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:43:49 +0000

Tongue? What tongue?

hktimes — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:41:17 +0000

Beautiful day

hktimes — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:01:22 +0000

Another beautiful day in Hong Kong. The hot weather is finally cooling down and leaving the flat is actually possible as we won’t melt! With Halloween this weekend, HK goes stir crazy again. There are ‘dead’ people everywhere, spiderwebs in restaurants and we even saw a foot hanging from a roof! We managed to have a cold pint of beer OUTSIDE the bar as the evening was nice and fresh. Yeah no sweat! Haha!
This weekend is hopefully the last of our big painting days, finishing up the new flat. It’s been hard work but totally worth it as it will save us a lot in rent over the next 2 years. Pictures coming soon!

Well I’m off to get some paint while dodging zombies! Have a nice weekend everyone!