However if i get a grand , relaxed kind of getaway within the mumbo jumbo of a city...all i can say is ' i have the best of both worlds' or i am having the cake and eating it too........Well that exactly is what Grand Promenade to me....we came across this piece of real estate tucked away in the eastern part of HK island in our first few days in Hong Kong. The look of the building was grand...security in expensive clothes waiting to give you the nod as soon as you enter the elevator. The elevators give away most of info about a piece of real estate.....just as loos give away info on any house you visit. I step into the elevators and they are large ; buttons on both sides; quick...no standing for long with bated breath looking up at the ceiling waiting to reach the desired floor....a L6 and a 23....you get to the main lobby ....a nice 5 starish hotel lobby...and you meet a bevy of building managers all buttoned up and suited who greet you with an absolute fabulosity.....and then after cracking a complex code you get to your building and the building elevator.....the building elevators have numbers from 1...............70. I have never been more awed by this kind of number game in my life than now....how could i stay in a building towering all of 70 floors. However the high point of my journey to grand promenade has still not reached...
i enter our flat and we see the view....the hk syline by the harbour. The ship cruising on the waters...the still panoramic view of hongkong offered fresh from my balcony; the mountains in the backdrop of the skyline. The clouds hovering above the balcony.....i get transported to a beautiful, scenic, world.....the feeling was surreal....even today as i sip coffee in the balcony i feel like talking to the clouds they keep moving from one end to the other rearranging to suit our aesthetic needs:-) my husband loves to stare at the seas...its like getting lost into the oblivion and sometimes when i stare a lot at the sky i see the rain starts falling...well this is the thrill about HK it never is what it appears to be......i keep my umbrella and my sunglasses in the same bag as i dont know what will i experience hours after stepping out ...the rare contradiction amazes me.....and i can see all of that the flora , fauna, the sky from the balcony voila!....gives me a kick...yes i am in a sea facing apartment and i am not shelling out top dollars to get this :-) talk about aphrodisiacs ...nothing beats the sea view with the entire sea spreading from one end to the other...in an almost 240 degree spread if not 360 degree spread.
I happened to stay in the apartment a lot after taking a break from work...sometimes i would stay hours in the balcony as it remained an outlet to my outer world...i could see the road, the ship, the cars, the mountains, the concrete skyline, and the sky...could i ask for more....no not in my wildest dreams.. infact so much so that at the end of these two years my appetite for a sea facing view seems to have got reduced...we are not hung up on getting a sea view place any more...as we lapped up every bit of it while it lasts.....
The credits scroll would be incomplete without talking about the club mailto:club..Club@Sea....beyond the obvious gym, pool and bowling alley the club is my second home i used to spend hours in the study room reflecting on priorities.....the lavish club has it all- a big reading room, a study room, the video game parlour, the minitheatre...i would get to the reading room and get lost there in the silence....on a normal sunday we would take a coffee from the vending machine and sit to catch up on everything....from Time to Fortune to Forbes....and the very own south china morning post....the large newspaper with stories of china and beyond. I cannot decsribe in black and white words as the whole magic of creating a slick style modern apartment with luxury was a tall order that Henderson has successfully created...On a christmas the club would get filled with christmas carols and on Chinese New Year the dragons would take the centerstage....i saw the korean and the japonais festival...saw a few movies in the minitheater.....and it was fun....how many people can see spiderman 3 while reclining on an osim massage chair....and did i say i didnt brag..:-)
Real Estate and its power in a city where money is a religion....you get many houses but very few houses give you the warmth of a home....here it was my home for two solid years...
as i plan to leave this house i envy my huband who would continue to stay in the magic of grand promenade....live life king size. I will leave my home with stars in my eyes....some day i will own this slick sophisticated piece thy home .....the land of opportunities will give me all the money that i could come and own this place...someday...with stars in my eyes...i say someday...this will be mine!
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