I totally I forgot I had this video on my iPhone from my Christmas visit back to the States. I am not sure exactly what her mix is but I know she is part poodle. She gets her name EB from both of my Grandparents name combined, Elaine (E) and Bill (B). Anyway, she does this wicked funny hopping on two legs thing when she is very excited. I think its pretty cute and funny so thats why I am posting it here for your enjoyment!
Check back soon as I am overdue for a new catch-up post about my life!
EB- My Grandparents Dog
A blog of William H. Greider III's thoughts and adventures.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
January 18, 2012
Lei Ho and Happy New Year!
This is my first post in the new year and I know its been a while since my last post so I will do my best to catch you up on everything I've been doing. As I mentioned in my last post Tucker has returned and after the new year my other roommate Ben also returned. So now we have a full house and there is pretty much always someone in the apartment to talk to so that is nice.
The month of December actually went by really fast we had a few company lunches as well as our company party. I was part of the planning committee for the party believe it or not and on the day before, I was asked by the company to actually to be one of the MC's for the party. At first, I was a bit nervous but then I decided it would be a good opportunity to put my face in front of our Hong Kong office and meet as many people as possible. The party was 60's theme, I decided to go dressed as the Mad Men style of the 60's, so literally I just wore my black suit, simple. To be festive I added a Santa hat to my outfit. The party ended up being a really good time even though it was on a Monday. It was all you could drink and everyone enjoyed the games and the excitement of the raffle. The company gave away some big prizes including two ipads and trips to Australia, USA, Singapore, and South Korea. Here are some images from the event.
In December, we also had a bonding event for just our global marketing team where we went to a popular local pizza joint and made our own pizzas. It was a blast, as it was free drinks and free pizza. When my pizza came out of the oven the manager of the restaurant that it came out perfect and was a perfect pizza. However, I must admit a secret when I was rolling out my pizza I was having a hard time getting the perfect circle so I asked the manager to give me one of the pizzas dough's that had already been rolled out by one of their cooks. In argument I actually did place the perfect amount of sauce and toppings so I did have a hand in conceiving the perfect pizza. Here are some photos from our night as gourmet pizza chefs.
Some good news that most of you know now is that I was able to take 3 days off and go home for week to celebrate Christmas and New Years with my friends and family. It was probably this single most anticipated trip of my life as I was counting down the days till I would fly home and see my family. Another major reason for my intense avidity, was the fact that none of my Grandparents and none of my extended family save a few new that I would be home for Christmas.
It ended up being the best Christmas of all time, when you are disconnected from your family for a extended time, seeing them on Christmas just made it all the more extraordinary. On New Years Eve I celebrated the coming of 2012 with my friends Nick Zaleski, Billy Mason, Pat White, and my cousin Greg in Hartford. It was a blast and I may have had a little too much alcohol to get on a plane at 9:00 am, but I do not regret a single minute of it. Tara also came down for a few days during the week so it was good to spend some quality time with her. Aside from spending quality time with friends and family I also pigged out hardcore style on as much American grub as possible. On Christmas eve I had Pierogi's at Babci's house along with vegetables and other various Polish dishes. Then on Christmas day we went to my Uncle Jerry's where we were treated to prime rib and lasagna and it they were both cooked spot on. On Tuesday of my week home, my parents held a holiday party at our house for our family and friends to celebrate and so that I could see as many people as possible. The food was fantastic for this party as there were a ridiculous amount of appetizers, along with salads and pasta. Besides home cooked meals I also ate out a few times including Moes for dinner one evening and for lunch the following day. The catch is that I did not eat breakfast in between those Moe's trips so I actually had Moes for consecutive meals!
My parents wanted to take me out to dinner to celebrate my 24th Birthday since I would not be home on my actual Birthday. So we went out to dinner to a restaurant in Hartford called First & Last where we had a delicious Italian meal on that night. Also while I was home I was graced with a visit from two very good friends of mine (even though they are from the dirty jerz) Andrew and Matt Mariani. On their trip they were kind enough to bring up a case of Yuengling, they were not the only ones however, Mr. Engel also stopped by with a case he brought up from Eerie, PA. So throughout the week I had two cases of my favorite beer in the world to drink from, can't beat it.
I must admit that it wasn't just the beer, it was terrific seeing Mr. and Mrs. Engel for a while, and I had an absolute with the Mariani Bro's. Andrew and Matt came up on Tuesday night right after the holiday party and I took them along with Tara, Lauren and Laur's friend Victoria to Hong Kong House in South Windsor for some Scorpion bowls. We not only had a blast but I also found out something about my sister; she knows how to fight! Thats right, you heard right, little miss seem so friendly to everyone has a dark side. The story is I ended up getting mouthy with some kid and his girlfriend did not like it so she slapped me in the face. Lauren decided she did not like the girl hitting me and literally punched her in the face and drew blood!!! Yeap, hence Laur's new nickname "Tyson".
Unfortunately, as you all know all good things must come to an end so after our New Years bash in Hartford, I slept for about 2 hours sitting straight up on my living room couch, woke up at 6:30ish went to the bathroom threw up all the demons, took a shower, said goodbye to all my friends and left with my family to the airport. My trip back to Hong Kong was not the ideal one as I would be stopping in Detroit (which no matter what they say about the city, the airport is beautiful!) for two hours and then I flew to Tokyo where I had to chill for 5.5 hours. and then another 5 hour flight to Hong Kong where I arrived at 10:30 pm on January 2, 2011.
Even though my stop in Japan was long, I am actually glad I was able to experience as the airport had some neat features in it. The first thing that I checked out was the automatic beer pouring machines. I was recommended to check them out while I was there from my roommate Tucker and one of Michaels lax teammates father. The way it worked was the worker took my cup and put it in the holder, the machine then slightly tilted the cup and poured the beer from the tap automatically and created a perfectly poured full beer.
They also had all kinds of randomly shaped furniture all around the airport that people were reading on and taking naps, so that was neat. While walking I had the opportunity to taste some free Japanese Green tea which I felt tasted a little different then the green tea I drink in Hong Kong but I really have no idea how to describe it.
My favorite part of the Tokyo airport was the origami museum. So much detail, I took a ton of pics of my favorites from the museum which you can see below.
When I finally landed in Hong Kong and arrived back at my apartment it was about 11:00pm so I quickly unpacked and got ready for work the next day. The following day was January 3, 2012 and was my 24th birthday, I was jet lagged like you would not believe (actually I was jet lagged the rest of the week as well) but my colleagues Jessica and Celia went an purchased a Birthday cake for me which was very thoughtful!
Later that night after work, I wanted to go out and treat myself to a nice Birthday dinner. So I made reservations at the Peak Lookout which is one of the oldest restaurants in Hong Kong and is located up on the peak overlooking the Island. Tucker joined met me in Central and we took a minibus up to the top of the Peak. Dinner was very tasty I had grilled salmon which I have not had in a long time, so that was refreshing. Although I really liked the Peak Lookout and I thought the food was delicious, and a very nice romantic place to take a date with the music and dark setting, I thought that they should offer better sides with your entree. I had a baked potato with my fish and it was literally just a baked potato with nothing else on it. It was a bit odd even the side salad I had was tiny and was hardly a salad.
The Peak Lookout Bar is not even the nicest restaurant that I have been to since I have been back in Hong Kong. Last week Tucker, Ben and I all met after work in Central and had dinner with Ben's father at SEVVA restaurant & bar in the Princess building. Aside from fantastic food SEVVA has arguable the nicest view of all other bars in Hong Kong. It actually has a 360 degree patio that goes all around the building, below you can see some pictures from our night at SEVVA. I think the single most thing that stood out about SEVVA that sticks in my mind is that while you are looking at the menu, they attach little personal light clips to everyones menu so you can see without struggle....FANCY!
This past weekend Ben was quite jet lagged from his trip back to Hong Kong so he did a lot of sleeping. He did make it to the Yacht club for lunch, however Tucker and I took a trip to Stanley market and beach which he opted out of. Check out the mini Lassie we saw in Stanley!
Here is a cool pic I took at the yacht club.
That's it for this post, as it is just waaaay too long at this point. So I am going to stop it now, but fear not I will be posting here again very shortly as I still have a few more things to catch you up on, including some Chinese words and phrases that I have learned, cute pups I saw while I was home and a look at Chinese New Year decoration in Hong Kong!
This is my first post in the new year and I know its been a while since my last post so I will do my best to catch you up on everything I've been doing. As I mentioned in my last post Tucker has returned and after the new year my other roommate Ben also returned. So now we have a full house and there is pretty much always someone in the apartment to talk to so that is nice.
The month of December actually went by really fast we had a few company lunches as well as our company party. I was part of the planning committee for the party believe it or not and on the day before, I was asked by the company to actually to be one of the MC's for the party. At first, I was a bit nervous but then I decided it would be a good opportunity to put my face in front of our Hong Kong office and meet as many people as possible. The party was 60's theme, I decided to go dressed as the Mad Men style of the 60's, so literally I just wore my black suit, simple. To be festive I added a Santa hat to my outfit. The party ended up being a really good time even though it was on a Monday. It was all you could drink and everyone enjoyed the games and the excitement of the raffle. The company gave away some big prizes including two ipads and trips to Australia, USA, Singapore, and South Korea. Here are some images from the event.
In December, we also had a bonding event for just our global marketing team where we went to a popular local pizza joint and made our own pizzas. It was a blast, as it was free drinks and free pizza. When my pizza came out of the oven the manager of the restaurant that it came out perfect and was a perfect pizza. However, I must admit a secret when I was rolling out my pizza I was having a hard time getting the perfect circle so I asked the manager to give me one of the pizzas dough's that had already been rolled out by one of their cooks. In argument I actually did place the perfect amount of sauce and toppings so I did have a hand in conceiving the perfect pizza. Here are some photos from our night as gourmet pizza chefs.
Some good news that most of you know now is that I was able to take 3 days off and go home for week to celebrate Christmas and New Years with my friends and family. It was probably this single most anticipated trip of my life as I was counting down the days till I would fly home and see my family. Another major reason for my intense avidity, was the fact that none of my Grandparents and none of my extended family save a few new that I would be home for Christmas.
It ended up being the best Christmas of all time, when you are disconnected from your family for a extended time, seeing them on Christmas just made it all the more extraordinary. On New Years Eve I celebrated the coming of 2012 with my friends Nick Zaleski, Billy Mason, Pat White, and my cousin Greg in Hartford. It was a blast and I may have had a little too much alcohol to get on a plane at 9:00 am, but I do not regret a single minute of it. Tara also came down for a few days during the week so it was good to spend some quality time with her. Aside from spending quality time with friends and family I also pigged out hardcore style on as much American grub as possible. On Christmas eve I had Pierogi's at Babci's house along with vegetables and other various Polish dishes. Then on Christmas day we went to my Uncle Jerry's where we were treated to prime rib and lasagna and it they were both cooked spot on. On Tuesday of my week home, my parents held a holiday party at our house for our family and friends to celebrate and so that I could see as many people as possible. The food was fantastic for this party as there were a ridiculous amount of appetizers, along with salads and pasta. Besides home cooked meals I also ate out a few times including Moes for dinner one evening and for lunch the following day. The catch is that I did not eat breakfast in between those Moe's trips so I actually had Moes for consecutive meals!
My parents wanted to take me out to dinner to celebrate my 24th Birthday since I would not be home on my actual Birthday. So we went out to dinner to a restaurant in Hartford called First & Last where we had a delicious Italian meal on that night. Also while I was home I was graced with a visit from two very good friends of mine (even though they are from the dirty jerz) Andrew and Matt Mariani. On their trip they were kind enough to bring up a case of Yuengling, they were not the only ones however, Mr. Engel also stopped by with a case he brought up from Eerie, PA. So throughout the week I had two cases of my favorite beer in the world to drink from, can't beat it.
I must admit that it wasn't just the beer, it was terrific seeing Mr. and Mrs. Engel for a while, and I had an absolute with the Mariani Bro's. Andrew and Matt came up on Tuesday night right after the holiday party and I took them along with Tara, Lauren and Laur's friend Victoria to Hong Kong House in South Windsor for some Scorpion bowls. We not only had a blast but I also found out something about my sister; she knows how to fight! Thats right, you heard right, little miss seem so friendly to everyone has a dark side. The story is I ended up getting mouthy with some kid and his girlfriend did not like it so she slapped me in the face. Lauren decided she did not like the girl hitting me and literally punched her in the face and drew blood!!! Yeap, hence Laur's new nickname "Tyson".
Unfortunately, as you all know all good things must come to an end so after our New Years bash in Hartford, I slept for about 2 hours sitting straight up on my living room couch, woke up at 6:30ish went to the bathroom threw up all the demons, took a shower, said goodbye to all my friends and left with my family to the airport. My trip back to Hong Kong was not the ideal one as I would be stopping in Detroit (which no matter what they say about the city, the airport is beautiful!) for two hours and then I flew to Tokyo where I had to chill for 5.5 hours. and then another 5 hour flight to Hong Kong where I arrived at 10:30 pm on January 2, 2011.
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| Picture I took on the way to Japan |
Even though my stop in Japan was long, I am actually glad I was able to experience as the airport had some neat features in it. The first thing that I checked out was the automatic beer pouring machines. I was recommended to check them out while I was there from my roommate Tucker and one of Michaels lax teammates father. The way it worked was the worker took my cup and put it in the holder, the machine then slightly tilted the cup and poured the beer from the tap automatically and created a perfectly poured full beer.
They also had all kinds of randomly shaped furniture all around the airport that people were reading on and taking naps, so that was neat. While walking I had the opportunity to taste some free Japanese Green tea which I felt tasted a little different then the green tea I drink in Hong Kong but I really have no idea how to describe it.
My favorite part of the Tokyo airport was the origami museum. So much detail, I took a ton of pics of my favorites from the museum which you can see below.
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| Santa's Elves in the workshop |
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| T-REX |
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| flowers and landscape |
When I finally landed in Hong Kong and arrived back at my apartment it was about 11:00pm so I quickly unpacked and got ready for work the next day. The following day was January 3, 2012 and was my 24th birthday, I was jet lagged like you would not believe (actually I was jet lagged the rest of the week as well) but my colleagues Jessica and Celia went an purchased a Birthday cake for me which was very thoughtful!
Later that night after work, I wanted to go out and treat myself to a nice Birthday dinner. So I made reservations at the Peak Lookout which is one of the oldest restaurants in Hong Kong and is located up on the peak overlooking the Island. Tucker joined met me in Central and we took a minibus up to the top of the Peak. Dinner was very tasty I had grilled salmon which I have not had in a long time, so that was refreshing. Although I really liked the Peak Lookout and I thought the food was delicious, and a very nice romantic place to take a date with the music and dark setting, I thought that they should offer better sides with your entree. I had a baked potato with my fish and it was literally just a baked potato with nothing else on it. It was a bit odd even the side salad I had was tiny and was hardly a salad.
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| My Salmon with my plain potato and lame salad on the right. |
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| This is me in front of the old tram up on the Peak. This is how the cable trams used to look back in the day. |
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| The Caprese appetizer I had...best fresh mozzarella I have ever had. (Tri-color tomato, basil , mozzarella, some sort of delicious berry.) |
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| Prime Rib perfectly cooked with no fat. |
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| Ben standing on the patio. |
This past weekend Ben was quite jet lagged from his trip back to Hong Kong so he did a lot of sleeping. He did make it to the Yacht club for lunch, however Tucker and I took a trip to Stanley market and beach which he opted out of. Check out the mini Lassie we saw in Stanley!
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| Mini Lassie! |
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| Me at Stanley Beach |
Here is a cool pic I took at the yacht club.
That's it for this post, as it is just waaaay too long at this point. So I am going to stop it now, but fear not I will be posting here again very shortly as I still have a few more things to catch you up on, including some Chinese words and phrases that I have learned, cute pups I saw while I was home and a look at Chinese New Year decoration in Hong Kong!
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Happy Birthday Dad!
Hello Everyone!
Today is a big day! Today is the birthday of one of my favorite people in the world, my Father. Yes, today William H. Greider Jr. turns the big 51. My Dad is one of the people I look up most so I am very appreciative of him being born! Happy Birthday Dad, I love you man!
Looking forward to the opportunity to work together too!
Today is a big day! Today is the birthday of one of my favorite people in the world, my Father. Yes, today William H. Greider Jr. turns the big 51. My Dad is one of the people I look up most so I am very appreciative of him being born! Happy Birthday Dad, I love you man!
Looking forward to the opportunity to work together too!
Thursday, December 8, 2011
December 10, 2011
Hello Everyone! Ni Hao! Lei Ho!
So it’s been an interesting week since my last post. My
roommate Tucker returned from his US holiday on Sunday. So now I have someone
else in the apartment besides my shadow!
This past weekend I really did not do too much, Ben came over Friday and
stayed at the place all weekend so we pretty much just hung out and watched
movies. Then on Sunday Tucker came back
like I said, so all three of us were in the apartment together for the first
time since Tucker left. To celebrate his return we decided to go out for Sunday
dinner together. The restaurant we went
to is called “The Jockey”, it is located in Happy Valley right next to the race
course and is owned by an American. It is actually right next to Happy Valley
Bar and Grill, the place I sometimes go after Lacrosse.
Ben and I actually had the same thing; a blue cheese bacon burger. I thought it was overpriced for sure, the burger was not bad, but
not worth $15 US. Tucker was actually so jet lagged that he barely took any
bites of his meal! So after dinner we just went straight home and crashed
for the night.
Actually on Saturday, Ben went out to lunch with his Father
and a family friend so I spent some of the day running errands. I
finally got a haircut, the first one I have ever got in Hong Kong! The place I went to came recommended from a few of the guys I met on Thanksgiving, they
told me I had to ask for Ash to cut my hair. So on
Saturday morning I called up ‘Vickies Salon’ and booked an appointment for 2:00
pm.
I planned on taking the tram from Causeway Bay to Wanchai where the salon
is, however when I got to the tram stop, I realized I had no idea which tram I
had to get on! So I ended up just taking a taxi and told the driver to take me
to Wanchai Market, as I knew that it was near the Salon. However, when I got out of the taxi I found
Wanchai market but could not find the salon anywhere! So after walking around in
circles for about 10 minutes I finally just called the salon, but that did not
work at first because I could not understand much of what ‘Vickie’ was saying.
I guess when I did not show up for a while, she realized I was still lost and
had an English speaking worker of hers talk to me. I finally found the place with help and only
had to wait for about 10 minutes to get my haircut.
Overall, It was a pleasant experience
because I thought my haircut looked nice and he service was superb. One thing that really stood out was that after receiving a haircut I always hate little hair particles all over me.
Even when they blow dry it off there are always some left itching. So at Vickie's they will rinse off your hair after the cut as well! Compared to the other places that I saw this was a terrific price as well, it only cost $136 HK and every other place cost around $200 or more!
Even when they blow dry it off there are always some left itching. So at Vickie's they will rinse off your hair after the cut as well! Compared to the other places that I saw this was a terrific price as well, it only cost $136 HK and every other place cost around $200 or more!
After I was all done with 'Vickies' I decided to walk around the Wanchai market for a little while as I had never seen it and heard it was quite big. I'm really glad I did as well because I ended up purchasing a couple items. The market is huge and just like the Wet Market we have in Causeway Bay, there is a section for fresh seafood and meats, except unlike in
Causeway this section in Wanchai is actually inside a building. The outside section of the market is composed of 3 adjoining streets and just like most of the markets in Hong Kong you can buy just about anything there. I ended up leaving with a bag of mixed candy, a huge bag of almonds and also a Santa Cap. I bought the candy because I knew it would get eaten between Ben and I, and the almonds were for work as I like to snack. If you buy them at the grocery store the price triples for far less. The Santa cap cost me $10 HKD and was basically a impulse buy, however their is a chance that I will be doing a Christmas bar hop on this coming Saturday so it could come to good use then. If not then I will wear it on Christmas as I open my gifts and video chat my family.
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| Some of the Fresh Seafood |
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| Small portion of Wanchai Market |
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| Taco Loco |
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| Some of the people in the Barhop |
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| Demonstration (not real thank god!) |
Monday was an exciting day for me this week as I finally was able to go pick up my custom suit which my parents bought me as a Christmas gift! It came out great and I really like the way it looks on me, but I will let you be the judge. My only issue with it is the fact that I asked for the inside liner to be a baby blue and they forgot so it ended up being just plain black. They ended up giving me $200 HKD off for the mistake so I let it slide.
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| Mr. Taco Truck Burrito's |
Taco Loco was not the only Mexican place that I have ate at recently, in fact on Wednesday, Tucker and I decided to grab lunch together. He has this app on his iphone that you can search for any type of food around your location and it will give you results plus rating, pictures and reviews. So we searched Mexican and found this place called 'The Taco Truck' and it was located in Quarry Bay which is 4 stops on the MTR away from Causeway Bay. Yesterday after work Tucker and I headed to Happy Valley to watch the horse races. It was a big event at the race track as it was the Cathay Pacific International Jockey Championship. They even had fireworks which Tucker and I watched from outside the track so we could get a nice view of the fireworks. At the track we met up with a couple of our English friends who live in our building on the 17th floor. They are a good group of guys and all work as engineers here in Hong Kong. Out of all of us I think only one of us won any of our bets, so it was pretty much a losing night.
That's really it for now, I do have a big weekend which I am pretty excited about! On Saturday night we will be celebrating my friend Pramond's birthday at this club called "Prive". Pramond actually rented out all of the tables at the VIP section in the club so it should be one hell of a time with friends! Then on Sunday I will be pretty busy working on a project during the day but at night I will have my second Lacrosse game with team Skyers, after the game Tucker and I talked to Jordan about getting together for a couple beers. So I am looking forward to that as well.All I have left to say is Go Patriots, Go Bruins! Until next time...Adios!
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