Now, where was I?

I’ve neglected you. I’m sorry. The thing about a blog is that you cannot just leave it there to fester. No. Like dogs a blog is for life not just for Christmas. So it’s been an age since I last updated with a rather cruel cliff hanger to boot. So what gwan? Well, I decided to plump for the company that loved me, wanted me and believed in me. I think I have, thus far, been proven correct. I rejected the yanks. Again. Ha! I will never work for them I know it. It’s fate. It will always be. Anyway these smaller guys have been taken over by a big huge company so it looks like the old swings and roundabouts cliché would be appropriate here. I have been there a few weeks and so far it ace. The thing is my old factory was so bad that it warped me. It warped my perceptions of HK and my perceptions of the locals. My Cantonese friends that I know outside of work are mostly great people but then I contrast them with the beasts I worked with and found the two worlds difficult to balance. Looking back I was so naïve when I landed here and I had no idea what the subtle nuances are when working and living in Asia. Not a clue. I was awash with conflicting signals and isolation and it has taken me a year to adjust to the Hong Kong riddim. Now I get it. Just.

So I wander away from my painful year in the Handbag Factory bloodied and blinking in the bright light. I was truly at the crossroads wondering if all HK could throw up in terms of creativity was western emulation. I am relieved to find that is not the case. There are people here that can design and produce great, original works based upon their own thinking. Lovely stuff. I knew it had to be there but I was some hammered from my previous experience I didn’t know where to look. Anyway now I do. The company is very odd actually. There are lots and lots of expats mixed in with locals. The good thing is that said expats are not people that cannot cut it back home, no these guys seems shit hot. All v plumy UK accents making it seem somehow colonial although we all know that ship has sailed. No, all in all I think I made the right choice and I am happy. We moved too. We moved apartments and that has made things easier. Now, after a v shit summer things are routine and mundane and settled. It’s a great new sensation.

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