escapades of the elusive kat

oooh.... TRAVEL! Although it's just to next-door Hong Kong, I did go through immigration, an-hour-long transport, needed foreign money, and so, this is my SECOND travel since the pandemic. (First was a quick 2-day to Shunde, China, which, after that, everything went to hell and we had a draconian closed-border policy).

Usual morning view.

( And the rest of the day! )

Hope you enjoyed my traveling day! :-)

Hello world!
I missed the 19-November GAMD and it could have been exciting, as it's the Grand Prix in Macau. However, I don't really like the Grand Prix, and I didn't go anyway, so I have nothing to show about that. Here I am with my 23-November instead.

The morning starts pretty much as usual.


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And that was my day! Hope you enjoyed!

Ah... a GAMD on a Tuesday... luckily I just so happened to have something out of the ordinary going on today to make it a tiny bit more interesting.

However, half the time I forgot to take phtoos today, so I have some random-ish photos to show. I forgot my morning shot. Which in retrospect, is always that window in my room anyway. Here's instead a shot of something like an "inner courtyard" of the building estate where I live in. This was taken after taking the dogs out for their walk.


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Hope you enjoyed my day!

x-posted on LJ

I missed the 4-August GAMD, and I haven't gone anywhere on holiday (well, I did, but I already wrote about it in the June GAMD, so, not repeating myself), so I'd just do a GAMD today.

It's Saturday, but my sister needs to work, so, early day, and it was overcast and very windy.


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I know the actual GAMD is 24-July this month, but, this is unprecedented times for me here in Macau. We had a relevantly easy time through Covid since 2020, pretty much controlled, no real lockdown (only the initial 2 weeks in February 2020), but right now, we have this draconian "it's NOT a lockdown!" lockdown. You can't even go walk the dog, according to the police. So. It's a lockdown. Officially started yesterday, so I've established a targeted routine for myself for the rest of the week... and the expected week after (the conspiracy theorist in me is convinced that the government will see "oh hey! it's so nice to have these people locked up. Let's extend it for another week for sh*ts and giggles!" Don't worry, I'm not at the foil-hat level conspiracy theorist yet.). Here's yesterday's newspaper front page for your leisurely review.


( And the rest of the day! )
Midnight and lights off and sleep. Well. Seems like I still got a pretty full day despite being stuck at home almost all day.

(X-posted on DW glimpseatmyday)

The challenge: Show a different meal each day during the week 23-27 May 2022. No 2 consecutive same meals (e.g. breakfast and breakfast)

Monday 23-May-2022, Breakfast
Lately, the family has been loving this Nissin breakfast granola cereal thing. Nissin is known for their instant noodles, and breakfast cereals are pretty new, at least to us. We've tried a few of the flavours, and my personal favorite is this one: Matcha. Next on my favorite is the Caramel Nuts. The Strawberry one is okay, but I vehemently dislike the other 2 flavors (which I haven't even cared to remember what the flavor name is), because they've got RAISINS in it. I.hate.raisins.

Tuesday 24-May-2022, Snacks
Alright, if you check the photo exif data it shows the photo was taken on 23-May, but that's because I took the photo on this day. We've been happily munching on this all week.
As a kid, my Mom would buy this weird red-colored something-strips for snacks. It's pretty delicious, a tiny bit sweet, and tiny bit of spicy for a kick. I never knew what that was, but that Mom would buy that from an... either a Chinese apothecary or a Chinese dry goods store. But that store closed down, and I haven't had that since. It just so happened that a specialty store imported this from Hong Kong and I saw their post on facebook, so I had them reserve it for me. NOW, I know it's actually some kind of dried and seasoned fish strips.

Wednesday 25-May-2022, Lunch
I had a meeting in the afternoon at an off-office location, and I wanted to check out their F&B, I anticipated I would be snacking around there, so for lunch, I decided to have a light lunch of a Spicy Lentils Soup and some toast.

Thursday 26-May-2022, Dinner
This is a bit of a cheat, because... it's a very many photos LOL. Well, I went for a private dining kitchen thing, おまかせ Omakase. I know the chef guy from before already, but one of my friends really wanted to try it out, and he moved to a new location, so we went to try. He outdid himself again. Since it's a special menu, I'm posting the menu as well (it's a mix of Japanese and Chinese, translation for reference):

日替前菜 蛸🐙mariné 縁側魚炙🐟 三文魚牛油果🥑沙津盛      鮪漬け 熊本和牛叩き 東京巨蛋豬煲 咖哩豬扒🐷 流水素麺🌊 KIKA雪糕🍦

Appetiser Marinated Octopus Seared... Flounder maybe Salmon Avocado Salad Pickled Tuna Kumamoto Beef Egg with veggies and mushroom hot pot Curry Pork Cutlet Nagashi Somen (Soba noodles served in flowing stream) Kika (brand) ice cream (no photo; Okinawa Sea Salt flavor)

Oh, and I forgot the MOST IMPORTANT thing... he has a dog. I forgot to ask for the dog's name. But as you can see, I made a new friend LOL!
Friday 27-May-2022, Supper Dessert
Actually, I had another amazing Japanese dinner on this day, but I couldn't show two same meals consecutively... LOL so here my post-dinner dessert. The dessert at that Japanese place wasn't particularly enticing (just the usual ice cream in frozen fruit, which you can buy in the local supermarkets anyway), so we decided to go to a specialty sweet-soup shop. What I have here is a Black Sesame and Walnut Paste/Soup. 芝麻合桃糊. Not the best I've had. The best I've had was in China, just at the border before coming to Macau. I wonder if that shop is still open. I've heard it's since shut down due to lack of business... but I don't know. I don't think I'd go through all the hassle of getting a Visa for China, and then having to go through all those travel requirements (PCR/NAT test, certificate of vaccination, and all that) just for a sojourn of 2 hours in China for dessert.

X-posted from glimpseatmyday 

As it's a Sunday, I'm not in the office, so I haven't got a photo of the view from the office (which is more interesting than this, I guess).

You can see I stuck some glass stickers on the left side of my window, that's because the left window looks directly into the neighbour's window, and I hate closed curtains, so I stuck something there instead. Still lets light in, but neighbour can't see me. (Once as a kid I didn't realize the neighbour was there and I was changing and he saw me stark naked)


Looking out of the window, you can see the neighbour's balcony on the left, and the plants you see on the right are from our own balcony. The buildings opposite us are not too tall, so we still get a good bit of sunshine and sky view.

(X-posted on LJ glimpseatmyday and DW glimpseatmyday )

Another big hello from... dreary Macau! It's overcast, it's humid, it's foggyish, it's grey. It's also Monday, so there isn't really much to show about today. I also didn't want to show the same few morning ablutions images, so there are some different things being shown today.

I kind of binge-watched Netflix for a while last night (I did force myself to lights off and sleep at around quarter past midnight, so it wasn't that bad), but I was still tired this morning at woke up at 7ish. One bulb left on my orchid to open! Look at that beauty!


( The rest of my day… 33 photos! )
Hope you enjoyed my boring work day!

Cross-posted (in case the community glimpseatmyday closes one day)

It was the Chinese New Year just on Friday, so we have a long weekend this week (Friday through Tuesday public holidays), so today, a Sunday, was supposed to be a lazy day. However, the timer of my growth lights seem to have gone wonky, and they lighted up earlier than the supposed 8am... so I was up before 7am.


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I hope you enjoyed my day! I certainly found it fun!

Just a quick link to say I have a post at Glimpse at my day / A day in my life right here if you are interested!

https://glimpseatmyday.livejournal.com/127556.html