New apartment - Part 2

Saturday was moving day.

I packed up my apartment over the past 2 weeks. Lots of boxes.

I hired movers which was the best idea ever. They sent crew of 6-8 men who had everything out of the apartment and loaded in 10-15 minutes. After 15 minutes to get to new apartment, they then unloaded in 15 minutes. Overall the move took under 45 minutes and went super smoothly.

I spent the afternoon unpacking and only have a few boxes left to unpack.

View from my bedroom during day and at night.

New Apartment - Part 1

So after 3 years of the company supporting me by signing my apartment lease, now that I am on local terms I have to grow up again and sign my own lease. 

In January I looked at apartments but didn’t find anything I really liked that would cause me to move. So figured I would just stay in my apartment. My landlord was slow to come to new terms for lease. Well in mid March my agent found another apartment to look at it and I loved it. So long story short, I’m moving apartments!

New apartment is in Sheung Wan the next neighborhood over from where I currently am. Super nice French couple own the place. They renovated a 2 bedroom into a 1 bedroom and lived here for 5 years. 

Apartment is 1 bedroom. Walk in closet. Oven (which is rare for Hong Kong). Heat (which is also rare). Semi-furnished (need to buy mattress and couch). Built in Bose speaker system. Did I mention the walk in closet? :) Oh yeah and its $500 USD cheaper than my current place. Closer to a train station too which will be good for upcoming summer heat. Yay! 

Outside of the building.

This is what it looked like when landlords lived here.

Here is the empty view

In process work...

New couch was delivered.

Mattress finally arrived.

I move in tomorrow!!!! More pics soon.

Delhi & Agra

Hello. I know its been a while since I have posted.
I started off 2018 by taking a work trip to India. I visited Pune, Aurangabad, and Delhi.
We of course visited a toy store in the airport and I just thought these Barbies were beautiful localizations.

Landed in Delhi to transit to Pune... the app says sunny but I beg to differ when I can't even see the airplane sitting right outside that window.

Not sure I would want my kid learning to spell here...

HISO... Hasbro India Sourcing office!

View from the office

My record for this trip was 4 people on a motorbike... who needs a smart family sedan.

One of the vendors gave us all (men and woman visitors) these gorgeous flowers. I was flying that night so I gave my bouquet to a woman working at the hotel.

Wind farm off in the distance.

It's an India fable similar to tortoise and the hare... except in this case, the car crashed and the cow will overtake him shortly.

So after work days, I stayed after to explore Delhi sights (with a tour guide of course)!

First stop was to Qutab Minar. Qutab Minar is a soaring, 73 m-high tower of
victory, built in 1193 by Qutab-ud-din Aibak immediately after the
defeat of Delhi's last Hindu kingdom. The tower has five distinct
storeys, each marked by a projecting balcony and tapers from a 15 m
diameter at the base to just 2.5 m at the top. The first three storeys
are made of red sandstone; the fourth and fifth storeys are of marble
and sandstone. At the foot of the tower is the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque,
the first mosque to be built in India.

Then I went to Lotus temple.

On Saturday I made the 4 hour journey to the Taj Mahal.

Quick drive past Red Fort before the 4.5 hour journey to the airport!