Lost Horizons

Expensive glasses

My Mandarin lesson, yesterday, wasn’t as painful as I expected. Maybe I am a cynic, but I am sure she makes it easier to encourage me to sign up for another batch of lessons! Anyhow, I was quite pleased that I hadn’t forgotten as much as I thought I had.
After the lesson I headed down Wanchai, as I wanted to price up a couple of lenses for my camera. One lens I had read good reviews of was the Canon EF300mm f2.8L; but, at HKD32,500 I think that this might be a bit extravagant, even for me! Having said that – knowing how weak willed I am I will probably splash out on it. I will let you know.
After visiting the camera shops, I managed to catch the end of crazy hour in Carnegies. Lockhart Road seemed quite busy for a Wednesday night; I supposed there must be a trade fair on, or something. I declined to hang around for ladies night, and decided to grab some food from the Thai food hut and head home to call Peanut, as I had promised to do.
It was really nice food, but, by the time I got around to calling Peanut, she was already in bed (8pm Thai time!), watching TV, saying she had to get up early for work today. Twice today she has sent me texts – she knows I have important meetings all day, so she hasn’t phoned me, but she hasn’t been this eager in a long time – I detect the influence of her mother behind all this.
Really positive meetings today with parties from Australia and China, so all I have to do now is take them for a meal tonight. We have a table booked at Isola, which I recall having a great meal at last time, so I hope they have maintained their standards. Fortunately the view will be much nicer this time; the weather in the last few days has been really good, I just hope it stays like that for the weekend.

posted by Luke @ 3:52 PM