An update (after some prompting, I admit). Sitting in the Tokyo airport after a week working in Japan. It's been good being back here after an abscence of a few weeks. Tokyo is very hot...
Meeting Sonia this afternoon back in HK. She is flying in from India about the same time I land. Then it's back to the house to repack her suitcase ready for her flight to Auckland at 9pm (today). I suspect it will be a busy afternoon.
Oops - the flight has just been called so I guess I have to go.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Alternative investments
Have just started an experiment with alternative investments. In this case, of the liquid variety. Or more specifically, two cases of French wine.
First case: Chateau Lynch-Bages.
Second case: Chateau Pontet-Canet.
If everything goes according to plan, these two cases of wine will sit safely in the warehouse in the UK for a minimum of 5 years, at which point they can be sold for "ginormous" profits. Both cases of wine are 2006, which has just been released ("en primeur"). They are cheap because no-one is really sure how well they will age. Except of course if you speak to the brokers who are selling the wine, in which case they will all be excellent value. Funny that.
One of the two cases did rise relatively quickly over the past week as the release sold out. We bought our case for GBP 399. The current price is GBP 420, so I guess that means we could claim a profit of 5% in a week? At this rate we'll be able to retire shortly!
We will see what happens.
First case: Chateau Lynch-Bages.
Second case: Chateau Pontet-Canet.
If everything goes according to plan, these two cases of wine will sit safely in the warehouse in the UK for a minimum of 5 years, at which point they can be sold for "ginormous" profits. Both cases of wine are 2006, which has just been released ("en primeur"). They are cheap because no-one is really sure how well they will age. Except of course if you speak to the brokers who are selling the wine, in which case they will all be excellent value. Funny that.
One of the two cases did rise relatively quickly over the past week as the release sold out. We bought our case for GBP 399. The current price is GBP 420, so I guess that means we could claim a profit of 5% in a week? At this rate we'll be able to retire shortly!
We will see what happens.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Sunday night is here again...
We are getting slack and not updating the blog so often... suspect it is because there really is not a lot going on :-)
It has been a really long week for some reason. Andrew was off in Japan from Wednesday through to Saturday morning. He managed to catch up with a friend (and ex boss!) from England while he was there - I think he enjoyed being able to talk about England and catching up on what the people we worked with there are up to. I spent a rather boring week at home, but never fear, my days of hanging around HK are over for a couple of weeks at least. This week sees me heading off to Malaysia for a couple of days - should have a chance to find time to search out some mamee noodles for the nephews and nieces and have a mocha or two at Coffee Bean! Definitely looking forward to being back 'home' for a few days.
The end of the next week sees me not working anymore (yeah!!) and heading off to India to visit with Wendy and Karyn. Should be fun. We are having a couple of days in Bangalore first, and then heading back up to Ooty to catch up with the kids as well as Ian and Chris. I am looking forward to the visit with much anticipation! Then I will be starting the new job back with Bravura, and they are kindly flying me to NZ for my first week of work. It will be good to catch up with everybody again.
That is about all I am up to. Andrew is feeling increasingly frustrated at work. His new boss is a total pillock (Andrew's word not mine!), and seems to think that his primary purpose for being put on this earth is to run around after her. All is not boding well for a long and fruitful relationship!! We shall see....
That is about if from us this week, except to say that last nights thunder and ligthning was the moat amazing we have ever seen in Asia - truly majestic. Even managed to blow the cover right off the barbeque...
Till next time - be good :-)
Sonia
It has been a really long week for some reason. Andrew was off in Japan from Wednesday through to Saturday morning. He managed to catch up with a friend (and ex boss!) from England while he was there - I think he enjoyed being able to talk about England and catching up on what the people we worked with there are up to. I spent a rather boring week at home, but never fear, my days of hanging around HK are over for a couple of weeks at least. This week sees me heading off to Malaysia for a couple of days - should have a chance to find time to search out some mamee noodles for the nephews and nieces and have a mocha or two at Coffee Bean! Definitely looking forward to being back 'home' for a few days.
The end of the next week sees me not working anymore (yeah!!) and heading off to India to visit with Wendy and Karyn. Should be fun. We are having a couple of days in Bangalore first, and then heading back up to Ooty to catch up with the kids as well as Ian and Chris. I am looking forward to the visit with much anticipation! Then I will be starting the new job back with Bravura, and they are kindly flying me to NZ for my first week of work. It will be good to catch up with everybody again.
That is about all I am up to. Andrew is feeling increasingly frustrated at work. His new boss is a total pillock (Andrew's word not mine!), and seems to think that his primary purpose for being put on this earth is to run around after her. All is not boding well for a long and fruitful relationship!! We shall see....
That is about if from us this week, except to say that last nights thunder and ligthning was the moat amazing we have ever seen in Asia - truly majestic. Even managed to blow the cover right off the barbeque...
Till next time - be good :-)
Sonia
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