China

I've been training-up for the Shanghai White-Collar Boxing event, which comes up in a couple of months. It's a charity event for The Foundation for Newborns with Respiratory Failure.

The training is excellent! I never thought I'd find boxing as interesting as I do. It's mostly due to having an instructor like Michelle Aboro (21-0-0; Super Bantamweight World Champion). Tres cool!

The only trophy I've received so far is this shiner under my left-eye. ;)

My mate, Charlie, had a few of us down to Hong Kong for a bit of a boys hunting weekend, replete with a case of red claret, a bottle of the King's Ginger and four pheasant drives (and one duck - separated with tea and a f-ing amazing lunch). If everyone hadn't been hungover and bruised from dinner, drinks and what by all accounts was a rather feisty game of freda (I'd passed out in my room by then), the birds might not have gotten off so well.

Well . . . I made it.

I arrived at Pudong Airport last night and Shanghai is home for the immediate future. I'll blog more on my global travels (and China in particular) soon. At the moment, however, I'm still a little jet-lagged, humidi-fogged and over-caffeinated.

I just wanted to mark the occasion with something on the ol' blog.