Downpours and Dim Sump

A few brave souls (including myself) ventured out yesterday afternoon

to visit a historic area of Hong Kong Island. Five minutes into our explorations and the heavens opened. Lordy, those typhoons pack some serious rain. We had to take shelter in an antique shop and the nice family running it gave us some seats and even a book on Chinese history (english version) to pass the time. It eased, so we made a run for it and of course got caught. Needless to say it was a soggy trip home. A group of us ended up at a tapas place around the corner from the Salisbury and next to Ned Kelly's. Yes a fair dinkum Owustralian Bar where you can enjoy a Bondi Burger and Bundy and listen to jazz (?). If you are into that sort of thing. I am not. The Tapas place did however have buckets of beer and cocktails. Needless to say we shall be going back tonight.

Workshops again today and I went and heard about Y Care International's approach to project management. It was a good session and great to make a contact at Y Care as their work is really interesting to me. It was somewhat reassuring to hear that other Y's are guilty of being too busy in the doing and focusing on the activity rather that the outcome. We did some group exercises using project logic frameworks. Engaging stakeholders was also covered and the Y needing to get better at being able to state what the problem is, what we are going to do about it and why us (our unique seeling point) really hit home. Particularly in an increasingly competitive funding environment.

Dim Sum was the call for the afternoon at Maxim's Palace at the City Hall. Meh... was ok, but I am looking forward to tasting the dumplings the cheapest Michelin-star restaurant soon.

Last day of the World Council tomorrow, so my final chance to offload some clip on koala.

Till then!