Of milk and horses....

Last night I did my first real piece of grocery shopping since I came to Manila....quite a few oddities from chocolate toothpaste (will try later in the name of research!) to a huge variety of milk all taking up three complete aisles in a very big supermarket!


If you can't find it here...I don't think it exists!!!

Television viewing last night was Hong Kong's horse racing scene via the National Geographic channel, if you ever get to see this program, do it's worth it...they really managed to capture the spirit of horse racing in Hong Kong... a few facts and figures I jotted down whilst watching...

US$10 billion a year is spent on horse racing in Hong Kong

Given the amount of money that is bet over a year's time...that could ensure that every piece of money printed or cast in Hong Kong would pass through the Jockey Club's hands at least once

The amount of tax the Jockey Club pays makes up 70% of HK's tax revenue

The program also follows the lives of a few people involved in horse racing - a trainer, a reformed gambler, a tipster and a guy who managed to win two triple trios within a month and then bought a flat, put the rest of the money into a bank account, went on a long holiday and when he came back he found his wife had emptied his bank account of the HK10million....he went to court, he lost and is back at the track side looking the elusive third triple trio win....