Civilization regained and soon to be lost.
So apart from sitting in the luxury of Eliot Fisk's amazing apartment --this is the view and watching a few DVDs, I did bugger all in Honkers. I did take a tram all the way to the pool, but it was closed. It was a similar story in Singapore, where apart from an intellectual lunch with Mun-Kew Leung's colleagues at the Lab for information science--one of 16 government research labs making sure that the model one party state stays ultra competitive in the next decade--I just sat by the pool at JB and Rebecca's house. Well that does rather gloss over the party Roger Owens had in Hong Kong, (full slideshow photos here with a few of HK towers, or just look at the beautiful dancers) and the followng night out in Singapore where Hugh McDorfman (minus wife and kids for the night) joined us in a 20 years to the day (bloody nearly) Girton college, Cambridge reunion). Both 4 in the morning jobs. JB (here with daughter Clova, who thinks she's a boy incidentally!) was his usual self, getting me up after 3 hours sleep (apparently I was on the bog) to get the plane, and then the next day getting Roger up to play Rugby at 9am!
After much hanging around and getting 400 photos uploaded with Mun-Kew's help, I eventually got on a bus for Melaka in Malaysia. A quiet start to the night changed dramatically when seeking shelter in a restaurant from a huge thunderstorm, I ended up being "shown the town" until 4 am by two Russian gymnasts (No, I'm not kidding). I now have to go out and see the town sober. There; you're up to date now!
