Greetings Truthseekers
Greetings truthseekers,
It's been about 3 1/2 months since I've written anything here and, this time, I have a reason why. In October my computer broke down and was away for repair for a total of 22 days. In the end, the Hewlett-Packard repair centre in Hong Kong decided to throw my hard drive in the rubbish bin thereby deleting a lot of data including one particular program that I used as an e-diary before uploading some of that information to this web site.
So what's been happening in 'Alanworld' since I last wrote here? Hmmmmm,........... well he's a bit of a summary of what's been going on.....
Apart from computer problems, things have been going well in Hong Kong. Business life and social life was good and I was starting to make major inroads into major projects into my area of endeavour. The business side of this has since all come crashing down during the world financial crisis caused by the Americans sub prime market. I'm not in financial services, I am a service provider and often work on major projects and developments, in Asia are those are mostly casinos on Macau. Unfortunately for me and my company, all of the projects we were about to start on have been either postponed, delayed, or totally cancelled. I am still intending to stay in Hong Kong and see what happens over the coming months.
Leading up to November, I was also doing a course of study in my profession. It's the equivalent of a CPA in accounting. The exam was held on Saturday, November 1 and my compatriots and myself toughed out the four exam and then crossed their fingers for the next two months hoping for the best that we had passed. I got my results in the week before Christmas and there was no one more surprised than me to find out that I had not only passed the exam, but passed well, especially as I then found out that a number of other people had not been successful. I can now call myself a CPP or Certified Protection Professional. It's nice to have but I don't let it pump up my ego, my head has not swollen so much that my head won't fit through the door, and you don't have to genuflect if you seen the passing by.
As I mentioned above, my computer was out of action during October. As I needed to continue my work I bought an Apple iMac as a desktop computer and as a backup to the laptop that I normally use. One of the benefits of having the iMac is that it has a good on board camera and has a really easy way of uploading videos to You Tube. Being a curious type of guy, I took advantage of this and you can see some of the results at http://au.youtube.com/user/Sushinoodleguy Please just take it for what it is, a bit of fun.
Speaking of web sites, I also updated my other web site that has some of myinformation. You can see that at www.sushinoodleguy.com Again, it's just a bit of fun.
Living in Asia continued to be fun and I have enjoyed my three years in Hong Kong considering that I initially only ever went there for a one-month holiday. Not only have I had a wonderful holiday, but I have lived my dream of not only visiting Asia but live in fair for quite some considerable time. I really do feel that I'm one of the most privileged and fortunate guys walking around the planet.
I continued with one of my other loves, creative writing, during past months too. In particular, I wrote two short stories with the Hong Kong Writers Circle, a writing group that I am associated with for a project called ' Hotel China'. The idea is that a number of writers will write short stories based on a fictional hotel in Wan Chai, a suburb of Hong Kong but also has a famous red light district. The compilation of short stories is then intended for publication at the 2009 Hong Kong Book Fair. You won't have to buy the book though and you won't even have to fly to Hong Kong and go to the book fair to read the stories as you can just follow this link and read them for free www.talesofalan.blogspot.com
On the 1st of December I flew down to Melbourne to spend Christmas with there with family and friends. I am currently in Melbourne and writing this blog entry from there. Things have been good in my time here and I must admit that at times it has been quite difficult to leave my beautiful home and venture out in the world as I just feel so relaxed and comfortable sitting in my family room, looking out into my very private and peaceful rear garden and watching native birds including parrots feed on some food that I'd put out for them earlier. Its 9:30 a.m. in the morning, the weather is mild, the sky is a beautiful bright blue, the sun is shining and is just bliss.
My stay in Melbourne has been good and I really did enjoy a night time at my friends Mandy and Wards house on Christmas Day, as well as going to other friends Cheryl and Beau's on Boxing Day. These are probably the two days that I look forward to most each year. Also whilst in Melbourne I was able to catch up with a lot of other friends and, in particular, play music with some of my mates including my good friend and bass player Robert Edwards as well as my young friend Mark Donat. You can see Mark perform music if you follow this link http://au.youtube.com/user/markdonat If you are a good detective and also check out the song 'No Other Baby' on my You Tube site and then you will see Mark playing in the band with me when he was 14 years old. Please note that there are two versions of 'No Other Baby' on my You Tube site and you will need to look at the birthday party one to see Mark.
So that's it to now. A short update to let you know what's been happening since my previous blog entries.
Cheers for now and I hope to catch up with you again soon. As always.................... don't forget to wipe.
Alan
It's been about 3 1/2 months since I've written anything here and, this time, I have a reason why. In October my computer broke down and was away for repair for a total of 22 days. In the end, the Hewlett-Packard repair centre in Hong Kong decided to throw my hard drive in the rubbish bin thereby deleting a lot of data including one particular program that I used as an e-diary before uploading some of that information to this web site.
So what's been happening in 'Alanworld' since I last wrote here? Hmmmmm,........... well he's a bit of a summary of what's been going on.....
Apart from computer problems, things have been going well in Hong Kong. Business life and social life was good and I was starting to make major inroads into major projects into my area of endeavour. The business side of this has since all come crashing down during the world financial crisis caused by the Americans sub prime market. I'm not in financial services, I am a service provider and often work on major projects and developments, in Asia are those are mostly casinos on Macau. Unfortunately for me and my company, all of the projects we were about to start on have been either postponed, delayed, or totally cancelled. I am still intending to stay in Hong Kong and see what happens over the coming months.
Leading up to November, I was also doing a course of study in my profession. It's the equivalent of a CPA in accounting. The exam was held on Saturday, November 1 and my compatriots and myself toughed out the four exam and then crossed their fingers for the next two months hoping for the best that we had passed. I got my results in the week before Christmas and there was no one more surprised than me to find out that I had not only passed the exam, but passed well, especially as I then found out that a number of other people had not been successful. I can now call myself a CPP or Certified Protection Professional. It's nice to have but I don't let it pump up my ego, my head has not swollen so much that my head won't fit through the door, and you don't have to genuflect if you seen the passing by.
As I mentioned above, my computer was out of action during October. As I needed to continue my work I bought an Apple iMac as a desktop computer and as a backup to the laptop that I normally use. One of the benefits of having the iMac is that it has a good on board camera and has a really easy way of uploading videos to You Tube. Being a curious type of guy, I took advantage of this and you can see some of the results at http://au.youtube.com/user/Sushinoodleguy Please just take it for what it is, a bit of fun.
Speaking of web sites, I also updated my other web site that has some of myinformation. You can see that at www.sushinoodleguy.com Again, it's just a bit of fun.
Living in Asia continued to be fun and I have enjoyed my three years in Hong Kong considering that I initially only ever went there for a one-month holiday. Not only have I had a wonderful holiday, but I have lived my dream of not only visiting Asia but live in fair for quite some considerable time. I really do feel that I'm one of the most privileged and fortunate guys walking around the planet.
I continued with one of my other loves, creative writing, during past months too. In particular, I wrote two short stories with the Hong Kong Writers Circle, a writing group that I am associated with for a project called ' Hotel China'. The idea is that a number of writers will write short stories based on a fictional hotel in Wan Chai, a suburb of Hong Kong but also has a famous red light district. The compilation of short stories is then intended for publication at the 2009 Hong Kong Book Fair. You won't have to buy the book though and you won't even have to fly to Hong Kong and go to the book fair to read the stories as you can just follow this link and read them for free www.talesofalan.blogspot.com
On the 1st of December I flew down to Melbourne to spend Christmas with there with family and friends. I am currently in Melbourne and writing this blog entry from there. Things have been good in my time here and I must admit that at times it has been quite difficult to leave my beautiful home and venture out in the world as I just feel so relaxed and comfortable sitting in my family room, looking out into my very private and peaceful rear garden and watching native birds including parrots feed on some food that I'd put out for them earlier. Its 9:30 a.m. in the morning, the weather is mild, the sky is a beautiful bright blue, the sun is shining and is just bliss.
My stay in Melbourne has been good and I really did enjoy a night time at my friends Mandy and Wards house on Christmas Day, as well as going to other friends Cheryl and Beau's on Boxing Day. These are probably the two days that I look forward to most each year. Also whilst in Melbourne I was able to catch up with a lot of other friends and, in particular, play music with some of my mates including my good friend and bass player Robert Edwards as well as my young friend Mark Donat. You can see Mark perform music if you follow this link http://au.youtube.com/user/markdonat If you are a good detective and also check out the song 'No Other Baby' on my You Tube site and then you will see Mark playing in the band with me when he was 14 years old. Please note that there are two versions of 'No Other Baby' on my You Tube site and you will need to look at the birthday party one to see Mark.
So that's it to now. A short update to let you know what's been happening since my previous blog entries.
Cheers for now and I hope to catch up with you again soon. As always.................... don't forget to wipe.
Alan
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