what a difference a night makes.
for the first time since i arrived in hong kong, i had a full 8 hours' sleep. it's been 2 and a half weeks, and it's now 13.56hrs on a saturday but i have none of the sloth's waking-past-noon flak to dust off. i feel fresh and ready to take on the world. i feel brave and snapped to a decision to not feel obliged to go see more of hong kong, to go see chiang's village, to see his mother's village's once-a-decade festival nor to have to do anything but spend some time alone.
its nothing spectacular - far from it. i have laundry to do, grocery (i.e. crisps and cold drinks for after work) to stock up on, michelle's shopping list to check off. i will do all these and then decide whether i do anything tonight. rayvees has proposed something later in the evening and that is something to look forward to.
why? only a little ode to them would suffice as explanation.
rayvees and anng, the lovely couple, have been making me feel at home in hong kong - taking me to food hotspots and making sure i don't mull at home when i have bad days at work - are absolute gems. rayvees and anng, bold husband and wife tandem venturing not just to the midlevels of hongkong but who have spent their years together in all sorts of wild lives. rayvees, exchange student in cornell, architect in boston, landscape architect in hong kong and china, two years' of being true to a love a long distance from his body but obviously not his heart; anng, brilliant malaysian neighbour in singapore showing everyone there how it should be done, brilliant in school and still working on her own terms, architect and interior designer in singapore, architect in hong kong, steadfast and strong through two years' of separation from her now-husband, modest but unmistakably intelligent, and always a joy to have around. rather than chasing lifestyles, they take on all sorts of work and places to occupy themselves, they live their lives in very adventurous tangents and far from the lost being able to judge others' decisions, i do think they will become a very potent force to come. all that, plus the fact that they are excellent company - intelligent and funny, caring and happy. gems.
all the churnings in my stomach are in subsidence, if not permanently going away. the worries that i have about the guangzhou west tower project and whether i have communicated all the important decisions and deadlines, facts and crucial whispers back to mothership in wea-uk, london for them to chase, seem a bit more manageable. there seems to be a way to manage (that favourite word of the English) the feeling of having the carpet pulled under you daily and not being able to come to grips as things keep flying past you as you struggle to not fall flat on your face. it's a slightly helpless feeling i am fighting and i do think that its a symptom of being overwhelmed not just by the tight programme jetting me from office to office, meeting to presentation every two days but also to the novel nature of my job-scope. but in line with the optimism that good rest and a clear head brings, i will deal with it all properly through tactics of organisation and keeping to it - checklists and priorities list, follow-up schedules and daily-t0-do lists.
alright. laundry room, stationary store, lunch, grocery, laundry room, tv (epl anyone?), laundry room, mich's shopping list. that is all that is important today. all else are bonus. simple.
for the first time since i arrived in hong kong, i had a full 8 hours' sleep. it's been 2 and a half weeks, and it's now 13.56hrs on a saturday but i have none of the sloth's waking-past-noon flak to dust off. i feel fresh and ready to take on the world. i feel brave and snapped to a decision to not feel obliged to go see more of hong kong, to go see chiang's village, to see his mother's village's once-a-decade festival nor to have to do anything but spend some time alone.
its nothing spectacular - far from it. i have laundry to do, grocery (i.e. crisps and cold drinks for after work) to stock up on, michelle's shopping list to check off. i will do all these and then decide whether i do anything tonight. rayvees has proposed something later in the evening and that is something to look forward to.
why? only a little ode to them would suffice as explanation.
rayvees and anng, the lovely couple, have been making me feel at home in hong kong - taking me to food hotspots and making sure i don't mull at home when i have bad days at work - are absolute gems. rayvees and anng, bold husband and wife tandem venturing not just to the midlevels of hongkong but who have spent their years together in all sorts of wild lives. rayvees, exchange student in cornell, architect in boston, landscape architect in hong kong and china, two years' of being true to a love a long distance from his body but obviously not his heart; anng, brilliant malaysian neighbour in singapore showing everyone there how it should be done, brilliant in school and still working on her own terms, architect and interior designer in singapore, architect in hong kong, steadfast and strong through two years' of separation from her now-husband, modest but unmistakably intelligent, and always a joy to have around. rather than chasing lifestyles, they take on all sorts of work and places to occupy themselves, they live their lives in very adventurous tangents and far from the lost being able to judge others' decisions, i do think they will become a very potent force to come. all that, plus the fact that they are excellent company - intelligent and funny, caring and happy. gems.
all the churnings in my stomach are in subsidence, if not permanently going away. the worries that i have about the guangzhou west tower project and whether i have communicated all the important decisions and deadlines, facts and crucial whispers back to mothership in wea-uk, london for them to chase, seem a bit more manageable. there seems to be a way to manage (that favourite word of the English) the feeling of having the carpet pulled under you daily and not being able to come to grips as things keep flying past you as you struggle to not fall flat on your face. it's a slightly helpless feeling i am fighting and i do think that its a symptom of being overwhelmed not just by the tight programme jetting me from office to office, meeting to presentation every two days but also to the novel nature of my job-scope. but in line with the optimism that good rest and a clear head brings, i will deal with it all properly through tactics of organisation and keeping to it - checklists and priorities list, follow-up schedules and daily-t0-do lists.
alright. laundry room, stationary store, lunch, grocery, laundry room, tv (epl anyone?), laundry room, mich's shopping list. that is all that is important today. all else are bonus. simple.
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