Of cats and toothpaste
I couldn’t resist it…Chairman Mao meets his name sake….
That was after he realized that hiding the cupboard was not going to do him any favours!
I have been told before that where a cat decides to hide is normally a place where there is really bad Fung Shui…don’t know if it’s true or not…but thanks to Chiang Kai-shek, I think I need to avoid the end of the bath…..this seems to be her favourite hiding place at present….
gratuitous cat pictures as requested by Friskodude.
Actually, looking at that picture of Chiang Kai-shek, given that she hasn’t the nicest of natures, her fur coat would make a great pair of gloves…
As promised, I tried out the chocolate flavoured toothpaste….in a word….disgusting. Any thoughts of it tasting like an After Eight chocolate are not true. If anyone comes to visit, they are more than welcome to try it…I have kept it in the bathroom.
Dusk on Wednesday evening….will be boring you to tears with the view from my apartment…the weather and pollution cause such huge changes in the scenery…I have to document them.
Yesterday was my day off…had a few things to do….firstly I needed to go to the bank….when I first received my ATM card I could withdraw 50,000 Pesos per day (about HK$7,000), then this week it gave up the ghost and told me I could only have 10,000 and then I had reached my daily limit. Plus the Visa electron thing on my card – which I was told was like EPS wouldn’t let me buy anything over 5,000 Pesos. Now I don’t normally spend vast quantities of money…but I had to hand over the deposit on my flat and pay for some furniture so needed cash. So I went to the bank to speak to my friendly bank clerk (no sarcasm intended, she is genuinely friendly!). I love the bank I use…it is all so incredibly low-tech and lacking in security! Anyway, it seems that the 50K daily limit is stretched to two days at the weekend…i.e. 50K for Saturday and Sunday, not 50K each….and then the situation gets worse during a public holiday as we have just had….50K for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday..….must remember that. And the highest amount I can have on the Visa Electron is 10K and for that I have to apply specially! Given the long public holiday weekend we have just had…I would have thought it was in the banks (and therefore the country’s) best interests to free up as much cash for people to spend as possible. Obviously not. Anyway I have learned my lesson. The reason I am not using my credit card…..very simple….I limit its use because a few years back after a holiday to Malaysia I received a call from HSBC asking if I had just been to Taipei and filled up a small jet with fuel and bought a Chinese banquet for about 60 people….of course I didn’t pay those charges but the hassle of getting a new card was just too much, hence I keep the limit on my CC fairly low.
Next thing I had to do was to await delivery of my first ever ‘grown-up’ piece of furniture…i.e. not Ikea! A chest of drawers…the deal was that I would pay the balance of the payment to the drivers when they delivered….so I did, later when passing the shop I popped in to check they had received the money…I was greeted with “Good afternoon Madam, How’s your chest?”….now I am aware that my chest is not easy to miss…but being greeted like that is a first!!!...Reminds me of a friend of mine when she was moving house in HKG….she was considering all her furniture and how to get it packed….and then came out with the classic line….”I hope my chest will fit in the elevator”….
Then to the picture framers where I finally, after about 6 years of carting it around in poster form, put one of my favourite pictures in for framing….
El Souk, Friday’s Market
Maher Morcos
To finish the day I went to Rockwell to Fully Booked, which must have one of the best cookery, wine, food literature sections I have ever come across…it is actually a great book store….something like that would do well in HKG…spacious, well lit, huge selection and a good variety of books. After Fully Booked I went for a bit of a grooming session, hair, nails and unfortunately a spot of waxing….categorically the worst waxing session I have ever endured….normally it’s all fairly swift and relatively painless…, this took over an hour and was utter agony….I would have left but with a waxing session it really is best not to walk out half way…..
That was after he realized that hiding the cupboard was not going to do him any favours!
I have been told before that where a cat decides to hide is normally a place where there is really bad Fung Shui…don’t know if it’s true or not…but thanks to Chiang Kai-shek, I think I need to avoid the end of the bath…..this seems to be her favourite hiding place at present….
gratuitous cat pictures as requested by Friskodude.
Actually, looking at that picture of Chiang Kai-shek, given that she hasn’t the nicest of natures, her fur coat would make a great pair of gloves…
As promised, I tried out the chocolate flavoured toothpaste….in a word….disgusting. Any thoughts of it tasting like an After Eight chocolate are not true. If anyone comes to visit, they are more than welcome to try it…I have kept it in the bathroom.
Dusk on Wednesday evening….will be boring you to tears with the view from my apartment…the weather and pollution cause such huge changes in the scenery…I have to document them.
Yesterday was my day off…had a few things to do….firstly I needed to go to the bank….when I first received my ATM card I could withdraw 50,000 Pesos per day (about HK$7,000), then this week it gave up the ghost and told me I could only have 10,000 and then I had reached my daily limit. Plus the Visa electron thing on my card – which I was told was like EPS wouldn’t let me buy anything over 5,000 Pesos. Now I don’t normally spend vast quantities of money…but I had to hand over the deposit on my flat and pay for some furniture so needed cash. So I went to the bank to speak to my friendly bank clerk (no sarcasm intended, she is genuinely friendly!). I love the bank I use…it is all so incredibly low-tech and lacking in security! Anyway, it seems that the 50K daily limit is stretched to two days at the weekend…i.e. 50K for Saturday and Sunday, not 50K each….and then the situation gets worse during a public holiday as we have just had….50K for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday..….must remember that. And the highest amount I can have on the Visa Electron is 10K and for that I have to apply specially! Given the long public holiday weekend we have just had…I would have thought it was in the banks (and therefore the country’s) best interests to free up as much cash for people to spend as possible. Obviously not. Anyway I have learned my lesson. The reason I am not using my credit card…..very simple….I limit its use because a few years back after a holiday to Malaysia I received a call from HSBC asking if I had just been to Taipei and filled up a small jet with fuel and bought a Chinese banquet for about 60 people….of course I didn’t pay those charges but the hassle of getting a new card was just too much, hence I keep the limit on my CC fairly low.
Next thing I had to do was to await delivery of my first ever ‘grown-up’ piece of furniture…i.e. not Ikea! A chest of drawers…the deal was that I would pay the balance of the payment to the drivers when they delivered….so I did, later when passing the shop I popped in to check they had received the money…I was greeted with “Good afternoon Madam, How’s your chest?”….now I am aware that my chest is not easy to miss…but being greeted like that is a first!!!...Reminds me of a friend of mine when she was moving house in HKG….she was considering all her furniture and how to get it packed….and then came out with the classic line….”I hope my chest will fit in the elevator”….
Then to the picture framers where I finally, after about 6 years of carting it around in poster form, put one of my favourite pictures in for framing….
Maher Morcos
To finish the day I went to Rockwell to Fully Booked, which must have one of the best cookery, wine, food literature sections I have ever come across…it is actually a great book store….something like that would do well in HKG…spacious, well lit, huge selection and a good variety of books. After Fully Booked I went for a bit of a grooming session, hair, nails and unfortunately a spot of waxing….categorically the worst waxing session I have ever endured….normally it’s all fairly swift and relatively painless…, this took over an hour and was utter agony….I would have left but with a waxing session it really is best not to walk out half way…..
posted by Madame Chiang at 8:00 am
3 Comments:
Chairman Mao is either the biggest cat in the world, or you have a very small TV.
You're right....CM does look huge! No, I have tiny TV...!!
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