सो;ऐ ह्क्र्द जोर्क तोद्क्य!

Van HongKong+Macau-April2009

ha! I hear you think: what is this gibberish in the title?

Well, my dear friend, it's not gibberish, it's a foreign language (I guess: Hindi). It suddenly appeared when I typed the titel of today's blog, when I was in the lounge of the hotel (we have internet there too, and the hotel provides laptops). Probably the user before me was Indian :-)

so why keep this title in foreign language, when noone can understand it?

Because that was what my day today was all about: many contracts, many interpretations, and after all discussions, nobody agreed about anything, each one sticked to his own interpretation. In short, the story of Babel, where people couldn't understand each other anymore.

All this took me many hours: I left the hotel at 8.45 am and I returned at 12 noon, and then I worked on the file till 2 pm ... hour after hour trying to fix misinterpretations and prepare the way for a better understanding between parties. It's the work of a lawyer: prepare for the worst case scenario, and meanwhile make the best of out of it.

Once my work was done, we went for a refreshening stroll in the Golden Mile of HongKong: Nathan Road in Kowloon. An endless neckless of shops and billboards and sounds, with the traffic as the most dominant vibration! Interesting, but not to be repeated. Next time we'll take the underground to go to our destination, and stroll there :-)

And a quick word about yesterday: I worked on the file for this morning, and we prepared my underground trip to the lawyer's office today: we searched how to reach that office in the most convenient way (which is underground + the Octopus card, so that we don't have to buy tickets every time).

In the area of the lawyer's office, there was a protest going on, obviously by Filipino workers in Hong Kong. I remember that, when we were in the Phils, there was a commotion about a Hongkie writer, that called the Phils, with the typical Hongkie finesse, "a nation of servants" ... was this the result? The uprising of the servants? We didn't stop to find out :-)

Another quick word about our daily swim here. The pool is heated, but not too much, good enough though not to get goose bums. But what is really pleasant, and almost decadent, is the hotwaterpool with a magnificent view on Victoria Harbour ... soaking there in the real hot water (38°C), dreaming away over the harbour, makes your soul fly away with the eagle that circles over us ...

In the evening, we went to the walk of the stars, to admire the sound & light spectacle, impressive indeed, I posted 2 movies on youtube!

And now, time for a chat with Allan & Elsie, about things that go on in Bohol :-)

Stay tuned!
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