all sorts of delicacies

i feel grounded after watching Anastasia on tellie and getting back to my russki roots. 

After a week i am convienced that the new intern - Wing - is not a spy sent my 'management' to trick yasmine and i into telling deepest and darkest secrets. no, actually she is great so all is good on that front. we are a strong and united team - no im serious, its (passive aggressive) war building within the four walls of this particular publication. 

Tomorrow night im going to see Equus with Yasmine which will be good, you all know how i cant resist a bit of thee ay ter. and also next saturday we're going to see cosi which is even more exciting - LOVE IT! 

i also forgot to say anything about craig david. biggest dissapointmetn ever. yasmine and i only went to see whats your flava and we missed it casue we were late. eugh - so dissapointed. then we had to stay to take photos for the section where there are all the photos of events. 

but honestly, i havent even been here half the time im going to be and yet you can already see the different - im steadily gaining my 'winter' layers although were going into summer here. im talking cakes. this issue the food feature is cakes for mothers day. and we cant stop eating. to be honest i have a perfectly good excuse - journalist extraordinaire leaves no rock unturned or cake uneaten - it is all in the name of good honest research but i don't think anyone will be dying to seduce me at the rate i am going.  

nixy i have continued my overseas culinary experimentations  - this time eating fish stomach spring rolls and cow liver. wing is a vegatarian so limited in how many food reviews she can write and yasmine seems quite impressed with my ability to eat anything. she did then try the fish stomach... clearly not the machine i am... spycam in action captures the moment. 

as you can probably tell, wing doesn't look too impressed either. Fish stomach really isn't her thing. 

that was on friday at a chinese restaurant that started off as a bakery that sells chinese wedding cakes. we were there for our cake feature but they surprised us with some local dim sum as a special treat. just a bit of excitement for my friday night. to be honest that's as exciting as it gets. but along with our plans to stick it to the man we have been deciding to be far trashier and to get the job that we should be doing done and that is being the seedy dutch, belgian, australian trashbags that we should be, no more of this work nonsense.

anyway, this thursday we are going to the opening of the vodka festival that will be running for the next month.... so there is a start. all these events make it hard in a way cause it turns it all into work. oh well, i will have to embrace a proper 'clubscene' work ethic. 

oh tasman - an update on free shit. two passess to defiance and the baader meinhof comlex that can be used where ever whenever as shakira would say. as i've said yasmine and i have tickets to Equus and Cosi (looking forward to the afterparty) and im about to demand tickets to the macau fringe fest so i can see hofesh shechter (pretty much the new love of my life - google away its worth it) 

for all my bookish friends (most of you i'm guessing) there is the most fabulous second hand book shop under the escalator - when i have more time i am going back in with a list of my lit books from now until i finish uni (i'd say another five years assuming phd? - highly ineffective waste of time by any standards a phd in lit...)  

i've turned into a sick crime reader. i cant stop. i hope it doesn't turn me into a murderer because that would be inconvenient but the addiction is starting to get in my way of my social and work life. im always thinking about what will happen next. very distracting when im meant to be researching panda enclosures. 

yahanns and rosie i would like to hear more from you so im planning on writing you both an email this week. and i expect lovely replies from both of you within a week from when you recieve it. or i will cry. i really want photos of you all in my room. it hasn't happened - at the moment i only have that one of us aim in the back of tnels' childboozeproviding van. we don't have wireless, getting it tomorrow, so once that happens i will get my act together and look at your hideous faces everymorning and everynight.and i keep having the most bizarre dreams about all of you - probably best not to share them online but all very strange.  

yasmine is looking for romance (in case you didn't notice it used to say love but she made me change it), there is french jt on the cards who we met at the karen millen party but he has been away for the last few weeks so i cant wait to tease her about whatever happens next. but more excitingly at teh restaurant we went to tonight there was the most divine chef in the world yasmine couldnt stop this huge grin from taking over her whole face when he came over and i thought something exciting had happened but no - she was just overwhelmed by his absoloute babeness ( i really need an angus thongs quote here but cant think of one) anyway she is already planning when we will next be going back and since the food was great and he was beautiful i am happy to comply. oh, and her last night in hk is apparently being spent there too (i wonder what she has in mind... yasmine isn't really sneaky at all and im a bit envious of her uncalculating, upfront ways.)

the restuarant is on the 31st floor and has a rooftop lounge - tres tres chic. 

anyway, feast on all the details i've drowned you in. 

kisses and shit, xo

ps. ed i took your camera in today- im amazing i know