Sometimes there are good things about head colds. I am sure I contracted Thing 2’s mold induced virus last Friday, sneezing constantly, my head pounding like a Chinese gong. I had zero on my social calendar so indulged in the luxury of taking to my bed. Glorious, ‘twas. I worked [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
Bread Schneider/Pie in Shanghai
This week, before my head cold set in, I went to a lunch downtown at a swank establishment with the Shanghai Expats Association. The menu was created by a local hottie celebrity chef, Dean Brettschneider, whose latest cookbook is called The Global Baker. (My father later joked that Al Gore must [...]
January 25, 2008
Package Envy/The Nose Knows
Disclaimer: Not for Shrinking Violets or Those with Sensitive Sensibilities
Package Envy is the bane of every expat. There is always an expat out there who managed to negotiate, wheedle, lie, or haggle his or her way into a better “package”. There are expats with paid R&R (Rest and Relaxation) trips to [...]
January 22, 2008
I Miss Normal
While Thing 1 and I were eating gourmet Lebanese meals this weekend in Beijing, Mr. Understanding was eating duck elbow joints in Guandong. I did not know that ducks even had elbows. Thing 1 and I traveled to Beijing to visit with an OBF (old best friend) of hers from Brazil [...]
January 19, 2008
Expat Princess left Town
Hello All,
I am the “guest blogger”. Expat Princess wanted you all to know she went to Beijing. For how long, I have no clue. I’m guessing the weekend. Must be nice, right? Perhaps I’d put up with Stinky Glama Villa if I knew I could jet to HK one [...]
January 15, 2008
This is Not a Club
Before I take you back to Hong Kong , readers, I want to write a little about something a dear friend recently wrote me in an email. She said that she enjoyed reading the blog but was not ready to comment quite yet, that it felt like a club. It was an interesting [...]
January 15, 2008
Sayonara V2
So sorry no write. After my kids returned to school I spent an entire week alternately taking down Christmas decorations and goofing off, going out to lunch in my quest to find a new best friend. I also had a hideous headache for three days, no doubt due to the mega pollution [...]
January 9, 2008
To Ping Lam
Hong Kong was exactly what this Expat Princess needed to rejuvenate herself for 2008. I was, and I do not exaggerate, headed for a breakdown which could only have led to my staying in bed for a month, visiting a shrink and begging for meds, or getting on another airplane, this time headed for [...]
January 2, 2008
Bonkers 4 Honkers
know a few people who have moved from Hong Kong to Shanghai and now I can say I understand their grief a lot better. IT ROCKS! IT ROLLS! It is breathtakingly expensive; it is for the elite; it makes no apologies. I am underdressed and I am trying my [...]
January 1, 2008
To be continued . . . (?)
That’s what the signs say, To Be Continued, as you wind around the Shanghai History Museums’ lifesize historical dioramas of Shanghai under the Oriental Pearl Towers. Continue This Way is what the signs mean, urging tourists through the museum. After first ascending into the two globes of the Pearl Tower [...]
