Weekend and Hottest Day on Record

Friday afternoon Hasbro has a friendly basketball match with one of our vendors and then we all went to dinner. I didn't play but went to watch and support the teams. It was slightly unfair because we had almost 30 people rotate in to play and they only had 10-15 people. So their team was much more tired than ours.

 

Both teams in the photo.

 
 Hasbro team and spectators... I am in the front row (pretty easy to spot me).

  Some of the spectators (Irene, me, Josephine and Carol).

Then we went to local hot pot restaurant for dinner. Here is my boss holding dinner.

This was the Cantonese speaking table. We had one specific English table for Americans, Indians and Indonesians as well.

 

Emir on left is Hasbro Indonesia country manager, then Amit who is head of HFE office, me, and Julie from Kam Hung vendor.

In hot pot, they bring you the raw food and you cook your own food in the boiling broth in the middle of the table... yes, you pay to cook your own food. Genius business idea.

Saturday was the hottest day on record since they started keeping records 130 years ago. At the observatory the temperature hit 36.3 C (97 F), some areas though reported 37.9 C (100.9 F).

Saturday Natascha and I ventured to Sham Shui Po to do some shopping. I wanted a DVD player and then we found a road with a bunch of DIY craft stores. I decided to embrace my crafty side and made a few purchases. The time pieces in the upper left I am going to make pendants and I bought chain to make necklaces for them. Then the flowers are going to become brooches to wear on my suit jackets. Let the crafting begin!!!
 

Oooo shiny things - I love the bling! Swarovski crystal creature and me. I'm on the left if you can't tell.

Sunday Natascha, Allison and I went to Ping Sham in New Territories to walk the Heritage Trail. 

Me, Allison and Natascha before we started (aka minimal sweat).

Do you see the Michelin man?

They used to build these walls around their houses to protect themselves from pirates.

Cool ceiling woodwork.

Where kids bikes go to die.

This lady yelled "hello" and we were immediately hooked. She then proceeded to make us handmade pork and onion dumplings.

Yum!

Fishy!

These are white trees and the first like it I've seen in HK.

View of Ping Sham area.

And another picture at the end. Aka this is the sweaty pic!

I need more days in the weekend!