Friday, February 25, 2011

Hong Kong

I have never been to Hong Kong until two months ago. Chinese people from mainland China traveling to Hong Kong still need a visa. Before we applying a visa for Hong Kong was not easier than applying a visa for Germany.In recent years, there are more and more mainland Chinese going to Hongkong to do shopping, whom brought big economy to Hongkong, so the visa applying process is getting simpler than before.

Right now because of my job requirements, I will need to go to Hong Kong often. So far I have been to there only twice, so except the area of our hotel I haven't been to so many tourists places. I am waiting to go together with Martin one day to explore the attractions. When I am alone, I prefer to spend my time in the shopping malls.

This is the boat we took to another island where the big shopping mall located. Taking this boat is much cheaper than taking the subways. It costed only 2.5 HK Dollar. Hongkong is a heaven for our girls. Delicious foods and many shops. The shops are open until very late(most of them open until 23:00).
Walking on the streets and in the shopping centers, I can always hear people speaking mandarin. Just like me, people in all the shops are mostly come from mainland. The sales people are also speak good mandarin. Shopping shopping...............


In the first two trips, my main focus was at the local foods. I tried many of the local foods in small restaurants with my colleague. The second time after two days eating local food, I felt a little bit sick to my stomach. Until then, I started to miss the simple German bread.
One night I couldn't sleep due to the time difference, then I decided to go out to see how the early morning looks like in Hongkong. At about 4 a.m, there are already some people started to work, and near the hotel there are some restaurants open 24 hours.
The real estate in Hongkong. I heard the local people are very stressful because of the expensive apartments. But I think the people in mainland are having more stree for the apartments now.
Outside of the hotel window.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Sport

Except working, recently my focus is at making sports and losing weight.About two months ago I found I have gained about 4-5kg weight, then I decided to stop eating too much and to do some sports. It is so hard for me to stop eating in winter time, especially when I don't have to work and staying at home.Then I choose not to eat too many cakes and chocolates, instead to eat fruits,like apples and oranges,whenever I feel want to eat something. Then I started running every afternoon when I don't go to work about 1 hour and doing 45 minutes yoga in the evening and then 100 situps.

Until now(after one and half months sport), I have lost only 1KG:-((

It is very strange, in the first year I came to Germany, I didn't control my diet at all and I often overate but only until 2 or 3 months ago, my weight suddenly from 48 kg jumped to 53kg:-(((

This is the reason why I don't like to take photos of myself recently-I don't like to see myself been fat in photos.I will post a photo here to celebrate when my weight is back to 48kg.........