Time for a quick note

It's Monday morning again. Things are starting to become familiar around Hong Kong now. We got in a taxi last night and the driver didn't seem to know exactly where to go, but we managed. The streets started to look like we should recognise them, so I guess we mostly knew where we were.

After saying that the phone is organised, we found out on Friday that it's going to take around 10 days for them to install. Turns out that PCCW (the largest supplier) does not have lines into the building. As I understand it, the building developers agreed a contract with another (smaller) supplier, so PCCW now need to apply to that company to have a line allocated to them. Oh well, we don't need to watch TV that much anyway.

The flight back from Tokyo on Friday night ended up getting in on Saturday morning. It was delayed by about two hours, and I eventually arrived home about 2am. Not a great start to the weekend.

Saturday was spent mostly waiting. Waiting for the groceries to be delivered (order online). Waiting for Ikea to show up and install the wardrobes. At least both of those things happened. We now have wardrobes in the bedroom and wardrobes in the office. I'll have to post a picture because the space left in the office is only just big enough for a desk. If you sit at the desk, your back will be touching the wardrobes! Still, now we have some storage space, some more of the boxes can be unpacked. Clean clothes that are different to what we wore yesterday!

Yesterday afternoon we went across to Horizon Plaza in Ap Lei Chau, which is a separate island to HK but considered part of HK overall. It's a furniture "mall", although the word does not really apply. It's really a building with lifts. There is no sense to the layout, so while you can pick up a directory (list of names and floors), it's then really pot-luck. We did find (in no particular order) a chocolate shop that does good coffee, a wine shop that stocks a decent range of NZ wines, and an Italian grocery store. And quite a few furniture shops of varying quality.

Time to get off to work now. Bye.