Anyone know if there are any places in HK that sell Frye boots? Dug out my one old pair of Frye’s to wear on Xmas eve and couldn’t even get them on. Kind of worn inside but it looks like it says they are size 8-1/2 … and I wear size 11. How long have I had these?
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Xmas eve was actually not that good a night. Out with friends and my gf decided it was a good night to get drunk. And she decided it was a good night to mix her liquor – vodka, tequila, beer – meaning that by midnight she was in the toilet puking her guts out and shortly after that three of us had to carry her to the car – had no help in getting her from the car to the house though.

But Xmas day was one of those days that I really enjoy being here. In the US, the traditional Christmas day meal for Jews is Chinese food – and that’s not a problem here! (The reason is that decades ago, Jews would want to get out of the house on Xmas day to get away from all the Xmas shows on TV and the only restaurants that were open in those days were Chinese restaurants. And now it’s a tradition.)

Decided to do the tourist thing – 5 minutes into Sai Kung town, waterfront seafood restaurant. The waitress (who was at least my age) kept calling me “handsome boy.” Okay ….

One lobster steamed and covered in garlic, a pound or two of clams in black bean and chili sauce, another pound or so of steamed prawns, dau miu stir fried in garlic, fried rice with salted fish. Sitting outside because the weather was really fine, watching the parade of people passing by (and a cute girl at the next table wearing Ugg boots, leg warmers and gym shorts)(and a group of girls dressed like Japanese cos-players – wish I’d had my camera).

Just thinking to myself how nice it is that I’m living minutes away from this funky little town that offers so much choice on just three short streets, country living on a mountainside with a sea view, less than 45 minute commute to the office …. sometimes I really appreciate Hong Kong. So it’s not Thanksgiving but I found myself thinking about how thankful I am for the way things have turned out.

On the other hand, today is one of those days when I’m sitting around, kind of bored, no idea what I want to do.
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Having now played around with the WD TV box a bit, I’m mostly pleased.

It can play all the MKV files that my previous box didn’t. It’s been kind of hit and miss with displaying subtitles, but still an improvement over what I had before.

Came across this one odd bug – it has this built in “media library” thingie in which it scans and saves metadata for any disks attached to the box. Straight out of the box, the media library is turned on. I later found it in the menus and switched it off.

So here’s the bug. I unplugged the USB drive, added new files, and in one particular directory did a mass renaming of the files in there. Plugged the drive back into the box and went to that directory. All the box “saw” was the old file list, now reporting that each file was only 0 kb in size. I had to turn media library back on to force a rescan of the disk. Following that, it worked just fine.

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A new watch from the good folks at Tokyo Flash.

I like the black one. They won’t ship to Hong Kong. The only place I know that sells Tokyo Flash watches in HK is at Delay No Mall and they don’t seem to have the latest models.

Yeah, because on a grey day like today, all I can think about is shopping.

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Well, it’s not quite all I can think about. I’ll leave you with the former Mrs. Salman Rushdie and current host of Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi.