Super Guesthouse Hong Kong

... Tsing Yi to study and prepare for his exams next week, the rest of us took the MTR back to the campus. Time to upload some pictures in my facebook profile and to write another blog entry. I have two more weeks left in Hong Kong, three examinations to go and soon I will have my farewell party as well. I already know that I'm going to miss Hong Kong a lot. I really had a wonderful time over here and made some very nice friends which I'm going to miss a lot.

... evident from driving across bridges and paying attention to road markings and different cultural icons from an era now long past. Having lived and worked in U.K. for three years, this had reminded me of things British that I was now once again observing. However, typical of Briton's post colonial legacy, Hong Kong seems to have a mixture of wealthy and not so wealthy people, living in contrast of ultra modern well kept and not so well ...

... and my first impression was that of taking off into out** space. My bus was smooth, quiet and cool and I was much more comfortable than on the planes. Outside, lights in the buildings w**e all I could see above and below me (since – to detract from the fantasy – the lights in the bus w**e too bright to see anything else outside prop**ly), and they rose up too far for me to see wh**e they ended. The man beside me said he knew some Irish people who “ ...

... we could find on the island, even though we had to sacrifice not having a window for a week.

Getting lost is pretty easy in Hong Kong, everything looks the same, scyscrapers in every direction. We got used to wandering around for half an hour until we would find a sign for Patterson St. The weather was also so lovely and hot that we went swimming with Iain and Sarah in Victoria Park. The lanes were twice as long as we're used to so it was a bit of a ...

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The way back...
read the news and turned into a Typhoon 3- So waters were rough. I was keeping my cool, until the water swells that we were floating over... One started having a white cap... I grabbed the life vest and was getting ready. - Really not exaggerating on that one..

Luckily, just around the bend we approached calm waters again- and got back safe and sound.

Afterwards we headed to ...

... guy from the south of England and Daeho Bae from South Korea. We caught the world's ...

... a restaurant we saw earlier called Cicadas and ordered chicken lard (minced) in rice wrappers and peanut encrusted lemon grass chicken before taking the MTR back to the airport. Our flight was delayed by 1/2 hour so we decide to find a computer/internet. We had to purchase something at a cafe, but received 1/2 hour of internet at no additional cost. So, I had a tea and Bill had a beer. I was able to start this blog and catch up on some emails. We were a bit early ...

... loads of fish - v.proud! was amazing food overlooking the harbour. Then found the coolest bar which was basically hidden and full of pilots so we jumped on the band wagon and decided to be air hostess's!! ha! Did chocolate covered glasses with strawberry daiquri (change from the buckets of samseng!) which were amazing but possibly horrific in calories... oops! Managed to bag a hotel room at Hong Kongs best hotels! Island Shangri-La!! bit ...

... the jungle canopy on a man-made walkway, and playing with a wild orangutan. When we could finally walk again, we headed back to Kota Kinabalu and spent a couple days at the beach, basking in the glory of conquering the world's 20th highest mountain. We woke up Monday morning at 5 a.m., flew to Macau, caught the 11:00 a.m. ferry to Hong Kong, arrived back at the University at 12:45, and I was sitting in my finance class at 1:30 p.m. This past week has been ...

... swinging their handbags. But mostly it's just a quiet street running away to the east, lined with bars. Their lit signs hang out into the road, hung in mid air, the metal supports lost in the shadows. After a hundred yards the bar signs come to an end and the road kinks away to the left.

The drinks keep going down. Sat alone with a drink and a view that's neither exciting nor dull, my mind drifts away, thinking of the trip so far and the trip yet to come. Through an ...