I have rented a Service Apartment, in the Causeway Bay area on Hong Kong Island. This area is known as the shopping mecca (well, all of HK is a shopping mall), and is popular with local youth. There are a gazillion restaurants and stores within walking distance of the place I am staying in. It's interesting (to me) that despite the wide variety of restaurants in the area, I always seem to end up eating Japanese food. I think I am going to turn into a salmon pretty soon, with all the sashimi I've been eating.
Last week, I managed to catch a cold. I suppose that is not that surprising, considering the throngs of people all over the city during New Years. It was not a bad cold, but it did slow me down a little. I was lethargic, and pretty lazy. I stayed indoors most of the time watching movies.
Over the last 10 days or so, I've been sorting and sifting through the 10,000+ images I've shot since I left Canada. It's a tough job to weed out the mediocre images and choose the best. It's time consuming and boring, really. But I am glad I've done it. I've had to upgrade my skills using the editing software on my computer. I am using Adobe Lightroom 2.1, and it's a very deep, impressive software. It's taken me a while to get the hang of it, but I quite like it. I spend most of the day working on images now, and will be updating my online portfolios in the next week or so. Here are some sample images that show some of my recent work of a guy in Bangkok named Tommi.
I've applied for my Visitor's Visa for China this week. China has not relaxed their restrictions enough, though. The best I could get was a double-entry 6 month Visa. It allows me to enter the country twice, but for a maximum of 30 days. It's not very good, but it's a start. I have not chosen a date that I will go to China yet. I may stay here in Hong Kong another month and then go in April. I have to make a decision soon, I guess.
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