Back home -in Hong Kong

When you go to the movies and then the credits starts, then you know that the movie is over. When you see the well known view from your own house again, you know that your holiday abroad is over. So here our view is for you to enjoy too, and from this very morning, the day after the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic. I didn't manage to post something before now. I've had jet lag and being sleeping a lot since touch down on the 5th of august. I've even slept through a typhoon passing through Hong Kong early in the morning on the 6th. Since then it has been raining a lot and it seems to continue the next days too, so it seems as not much has changed around here, as the last 6 or 7 weeks -before we left for Europe- was the start of a very heavy rain season.
I mentioned the Beijing Olympic before, and finally I thought that we would be the one's in advantage; and be the one's who could sit down in front of the tellie and enjoy something at a decent time, and not like the Euro 2008 championships, where the matches started at 2.45 am. So yesterday we gathered at our friends -The Stearns- house, to enjoy the spectacle from Beijing. As we live in Hong Kong and have the NOW Broadband TV from PCCW, we thought that it of course would be shown on all channels. So there we sat, had coffee, tea, wine and snacks ready and flicked through all channels just to realize that there was nothing from the opening ceremony on these channels, and if we wanted to see it we should have the local TV, which is not offered by the fancy NOW TV Broadband from PCCW, and at the end we had to sit and watch some Columbian TV channel on the internet on Bob's lap top, to enjoy the amazing show. And I guess that's that for us enjoying the Olympic's at a decent time then, as we only got this NOW TV.