valter is back

Christmas is getting closer.
The air is cooler.
And Valter is back...

Wishing you all a happy and cosy first advent.

wow

I wanted more when the show was over.
I wasn't ready to leave.
I wanted more dazzling and daring performances.
I wanted more of the fun and fantastic.
I wanted more of that wow feeling.
I wanted more of that happy grin that wouldn't leave my face through out the performance.
Encore, encore...

cirque du soleil

It all started in Baie-Saint-Paul, a small town near Quebec City, in Canada. There, in the early eighties, a band of colourful characters roamed the streets, striding on stilts, juggling, dancing, breathing fire, and playing music. Already, the townsfolk were impressed and intrigued by the young performers – who included one Guy Laliberté who became founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil. Now more than 20 years later it has become one of the world's most spectacular performances, playing to packed houses across the globe.

The Cirque du Soleil, French for the "Circus of the Sun," mixes circus arts and street theatre and features original music, special effects and spectacular costumes. It emphasizes acts of human skill and daring, but unlike traditional circuses it does not include animals. Each Cirque du Soleil production centres around a unique theme and features spectacular theatrical effects by performers that are masters of clowning, stilt-walking, trapeze and other acrobatics, juggling, contortionism, mime, and other traditional circus arts.

Tonight I’m taking the ferry across to Macau to see this spectacle with my own eyes and I can’t wait!

dog's life

Meet Derek.
Probably one of the cutest cocker spaniels ever.
Saved from a dog shelter by one of my friends, and now he's supposed to be in my care for a week, while my friend is in Thailand.

I'm saying supposed, because it's not going to happen. Unfortunately.
Why? Well, earlier tonight he decided to bite my friend Erica in the foot. 4 stitches later (!), I have decided that he is going back to the dog shelter, at least until my friend is back and can decide what he wants to do.

Poor Erica and poor little cute doggy (a devil in disguise...).

postman duties

The last two days I've been a true postman.
A company we use for local deliveries didn't manage to do their job properly, so I took care of things instead. If you want something properly done you do it yourself, isn't that how the saying goes?!

So out on the streets I went.
And I got many surprising looks along the way when I as a tall blond gweilo (ghost face, i.e. white person), did hand deliveries around the city.

Have seen many new places and probably used HK's very efficient public transport more during these two days than I've done the last year... Trains, buses, trams and ferries took me to all the places I needed to go, and sometimes (when I got a little lost...) I had to jump into a taxi as well.

Anyway, mission accomplished and I've taken off my postman hat for this time. But who knows, now that I know my way around I might hit the streets again...

good neighbours

A few months ago I got new neighbours.
Haven't really seen them until yesterday, when I decided that a foot and back massage was the answer to my Friday fatigue.

And it was soooo good. Will definitely visit them again!
After the massage I felt a million dollars and went out for dinner and drinks. That those drinks later lead to a spinning head is a totally different story...

sunday hike

My friend Ilissa and I have a new tradition.
Sunday hiking.
It's great!



Not only do you get to see so many new places and sides of HK that way, but the feeling you have when you are about to go to bed is great, a combination of being tired and re-charged at the same time.

Am really intending to keep this tradition going.

halloween

HK was a mad place the other night...
That's what Halloween does to this city.
Like it though!

And me, well I turned into a "scary" purple witch.