Today, I visited the new Timetech watch factory in Shenzhen, China just 2 hours from Hong Kong. It is a new factory – having just opened for ‘operations’ today. The factory encompasses a large plot of land where watches are made, fixed and designed. Modern furniture, technological equipment and vast tracts of land are immediately visible to the human eye.

toiling away…

Being the linking city between the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong, Shenzhen has boomed for quite a few years. Factories have sprung up in the city centre and property prices have soared threefold. These developments have left the city gasping for air, water and electricity. Foreign investment has declined in 2004 and city spokespeople have cited the need to redevelop the city’s infrastructure and aging utility facilities. Pollution is also on the top of the city’s priorities – in conjunction with other cities in the Delta. This is good. Hong Kong needs clean air. I need clean air.

Nepal’s capital is in a state of shock as leftist maoist rebels attacked the main luxury hotel – the Soaltee Crowne Plaza in Kathmandu. Bombs were hurled from cyclists into the compund but there were no injuries.

Blasted politics. Now we can’t even visit the tourist heaven!

At the company I’m working for the summer – right now, there are two noble houses. Noble in the sense that they try to earn profits. I’ve been flitting between the houses doing work for both of them. That practically means doing 2 jobs at once. Its not too bad but if you have experience, you’ll know what I mean. When there is a critical job that needs doing, there is a tug of war competition to see who Cliff will work for. The house with more executive firepower usually wins…