my little adventures.

Yes, I have been a slacker in the blog world lately... So here's a few images to tide you over, haha. Hong Kong is great, I've had a blast here so far... but I'm not done yet! I've decided to stay in Asia a little longer than originally planned. I will continue working for the same company doing product design. I'll probably start heading west in May or so, hopefully by way of Europe... We'll see.

Anyway, here's a good way to spend the weekend in November. My company rented a party junk for a work party several weeks ago. This is a little of the scenery.

A great way to spend the day; jumping into the sea and chilling with my coworkers.

So here's more of Singapore, I've been slow at getting them up.

Mmm... There is a good reason why Singapore is known for it's food. We had Malay food, which was great, who knew coconut rice with dried anchovies and peanuts would be good. Same with Indian fish head curry; far better than it sounds. I miss the food already.

The colors and types of flowers were incredible, here's just a little sampling...

Cities at night are always fun to see. Here we have the Singapore Merlion, this one is spitting, the city, the Esplanade Center and an exhibit in it.

Rachel and I along with some of our friends that we met at the zoo.

Here's some images of little place called Singapore.

The airport, a strange van/bus on the way home and Rachel outside of her house.

The Island of Sentosa, which is right beside Singapore, which is where the southern most point of continental Asia is.

None other than the luge at Sentosa, not what I'd call a scary ride, but enteraining all the same. Haha, Rache was good.

Turns out, if you take a bus for 20 minutes or so, you can leave the city and find the ocean. Just a few shots from Stanley.

The markets at Stanley, you can buy all sorts of stuff there...

And a little bit of color as the sun set on the water.

This is what I found just around the corner and up a street or so from my flat.

A few streets in my area. The first, Des Vouex Road, is the street that work is along. Apparently, it's the dried seafood street, and that's almost all they sell along it, as you can see from the other images. The second is the one I live along.

Here's my little flat, also known as my little box. It's small, but it works.

I met a couple girls visiting from Seoul at church and played in Hong Kong with them later that week. So here's a little from our adventure, starting at the Temple with KaRyn. We headed across the Harbour on the MTR to have dim sum and exploring. Lumina loved the circle building, we later found out is the Jardine House, which at one point was the tallest building in Hong Kong.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was a couple weeks ago, I'm a little slow at getting it up. It could also be referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival, as there were plenty of both. Around this time, everyone is eating mooncakes, which are heavy dense cakes traditionally with egg yolk in the center... definitely not a new favorite dessert, but worth a try. It could take months to eat one... So here are a few images of Victoria Park and the festival there.

A little elevator ride in the Hopewell Center for a great view.

Kowloon at night is quite a crowded place, especially at the markets. The Temple is gorgeous. I found a boat that looked like it could be a pirate ship, it's a little blurry, but at least Nicky can know where he can live when he grows up to be a pirate. And, the Pennisula Hotel... I don't think I make nearly enough to even have tea there...

I love the lights at night! It's always amazing and it was fun to see it with Rachel... So the images are a little blurry, but it's still incredible.

I have learned that you can't come to Hong Kong and not have dim sum. It's pretty good and different every time I've had it. So the Tan's chose the dishes. Does vinegar pork look good to you? (It's actually better than it looks). Not sure what the next ones are, but they're good... and Rachel and I did enjoy the meal, haha.

Hong Kong is an interesting mix of British and Chinese... These streets were right next to each other, but the first one is very Chinese and the next one, very British... That's Hong Kong.

Here's more pictures from Hong Kong.

The view from The Peak at night.

Definitely an incredible site.

So this is for Brad... look at what you do...

Or at least your company does.

Grandma would be in heaven here.

Fabric heaven with people to help her... haha.

Oh, Hong Kong!

Alright, so I made it here, despite some delays along the way (namely, a fun little overnight layover in San Fransisco with Aunt Margie). Hong Kong truly is an amazing place. I love it already and have so much more to do and explore. After a few days of exploring, I was able to find a place to live and its relatively cheap for Hong Kong 9(a definite bonus). This past Monday I started work also, which has been really good so far. Anyway, it's easier to toss up pictures and I'm better at those than words, so here you go.

A view of Hong Kong.

The Laughing Corner in Victoria Park, a good place to be.

Times Square in Causeway Bay of Hong Kong. Basically, a very nice giant shopping center.

One of the many streets lit up at night.

Festival Dragons.

Hong Kong Temple.

Little us in front of the Temple.

A little jewelery shopping at the Jade Market.

Fresh(?) meat at the wet market...

Light show on the Harbour.

Before I left the continent, I thought a quick trip to Canada was in order. So I headed up Labour Day weekend with Victoria and 2 of my roommates, Bethany and Ginette. Obviously, a trip to Waterton, with a stop at the Cardston Temple, were necessary, so here are just a couple of pictures.

Once again, it's been a while...
I'll do the quick update on this one:

Before I took off for Hong Kong, I got to do a couple different things, much more easily displayed in pictures than in any words of my own, so here you go...


A little lake up by Payson, nice for some kayaking.


Hanging out with Parker when he and Natalie were in town.


Chilling with Grandma and my favorite Asians on Temple Square.


Victoria, Maren, Carly and I at the Joss Stone concert in Park City.

So here are some pictures from sending Thomas into the MTC. He's doing well. It was fun to see him go and to hang out with the family.