貴妃煮酒: 2012

Thursday, December 06, 2012

Two of a kind

新X坑立即外帶，趁開會前空檔用public wi fi 回電郵。再邊開會邊jot notes，個場景我幻想咗好耐了，係爭杯咖啡做props就裝戴完成。

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Monday, November 05, 2012

[JOY RICH] [新歌] 羅力威 - 雙子情歌(Feat. LLV)(完整發行版)

自己同自己合唱仲要廣東歌. 講二打六,有排未到佢.鄧健泓top my list.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Queen Elizabeth II - is NOT the rightful heir to the throne of England

誠然是歷史的偶然. "What if"又如何?

Friday, September 28, 2012

Sunday, September 09, 2012

[HD] 羅力威 Adason Lo - 無所謂 MV (分手後的五個悲傷階段)

未買碟添. 希望睇佢一次live. 又是回到K場時.

Monday, September 03, 2012

大長散初體驗

Hea咗個幾月,一把年紀先學人開始做自由攔斯,so far so good,要學習掌握嘅亦不少:

pricing;
time management;
when to say no...

on top同時身兼兩份兼職,如要做full time都要出年先得.睇吓點囉.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

More on Cuba

These are a few things that I didn't have time to cover in my radio programmes:

Raydel is the owner of Casa Obrapia in Havana, who looks like a young and slim version of Jean Paul Gautier. As a requirement to operate a casa particular (home-stay), he has to pay 150 CUC (Cuban Peso Convertible, 1 CUC = 1 US approximately) per room per month to the government, plus a certain amount for the common areas. The water and electricity costs are paid in Cuban peso instead.

He has his ways to get what he wants in this country, many of which are considered to be a rarity. He's got a laptop computer with internet connection, facebook-ing, having a gmail account for his business. Heard that it's extremely difficult to get personal internet connection in a normal household. He's even got a smart phone too and let me send an overseas SMS...generous! He managed to get a power generator to cope with the 72-hour black out in old Havana. God knows what kind of connections he has and how much he's paid for that. He's very smart indeed. There's virtually nothing which he cannot arrange I suppose.

His casa is always filled with young and gorgeous guys, doing different things for him, from renovating the rooms, cleaning the air-conditioners to cooking good household dinner. On the day I left for the airport at 6 am, he just came back to the casa with another yummy guy. What a life!

When I asked him to arrange a private taxi to take me to the different embassies and wait for me in-between tasks, he quickly picked up his friend, David, to do the job. Charging me more or less the same per journey as a normal taxi (5 CUC), David took me to and from different locations and served as an interpreter in his vintage American car. Initially, I was a bit puzzled how he managed to take this 'job' during normal weekdays cos he did't seem to have to go to work. But then I realized what is the point of going to work for an average income of US$25 per month, when you can make as much as 60 CUC per day by driving people around. His gorgeous wife, who joined in the ride one day, didn't seem to have to work too. I still remember his words of console, "Don't worry. You have purity." "I'm your Cuban friend." Why did I still manage to trust them again? I dunno.

Met a couple in Trinidad. The husband is a Hong Kong-er who has relocated to Singapore for 20 years and the wife, a Chinese-Singaporean. They stayed with me in Havana after hearing our recommendation of Raydel's casa and we had a jolly time. Thanks to them, I managed to go out and enjoyed Havana at night even after the terrible ordeal. Turned out that the husband is working for the much-regarded travel website for independent travelers. So thrilled to have met them and looking forward to our reunion either in Hong Kong or Singapore.

Just told by my travel mates that after I left Trinidad, there was another robbery to 4 girls. They fought so the robbery wasn't successful. And also after I left Havana, the city suffered black out again for 20 hours. I was lucky to manage to go home in one piece indeed.

The HK hotline 1868 is useless in Cuba. Cannot get through. When I called the Immigration Department hotline, the woman only advised me what I've known already i.e. to contact the Chinese and Canadian Embassies, without even trying to ask further my information e.g. HKID number, passport number etc. Utterly disappointing.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Well then, the fact was I was robbed by two men one night in Trinidad and my passport, phone and camera were all gone.

Could have been much worse really and luckily my money and other identity documents were saved so, after contacting the Chinese and Candian Embassy in Havana, I can at least go home, intact.

See you soon in Hong Kong.

Gwaifei@Toronto