Hong Kong Blog

Hello and Good morning world. Time for yet another thrilling and exciting instalment as we venture forth into the world of the big HK. Well, well, well, where to start. Arcades I suppose. I don’t know have I mentioned it before but the boys here play a lot of arcade, it’s bloody wicked. I go out with the boys, wolf my lunch down, and then get to some serious gaming. Now these are very professional companies we happen to work for respectively. We all stick-out like sore thumbs, all suited and booted yelling onslaughts of Chinese insults at each other. It’s bloody funny! I almost beat the punch bag thing the other day, I had 4 turns and almost had it but I decided to leave it for another day. I am most definitely leaving my mark on Hong Kong in the form of the high-score on the punch bag though.

My boy Matt has left the JP work place…terrible, terrible news. Matt is nothing short of a proper ledge. He is the sort of company I would keep back home, a sharp tongue and even sharper wit. He is my best-mate over here, I talk to him on the phone everyday and most days end up meeting him for something or other. He has gone to work for the bank UBS and has doubled his wage, fair-play to him. (Although he knows he has let himself in for some proper donkey work). I first met Matt through our basketball team and since have gone to exquisite lunches and dinners with him. I have also been back to his newly bought house a few times and stayed the night. Words cannot begin to describe how nice his house is! It is one of the more expensive areas of Hong Kong called Tung Chung, beside the airport. He has a sea view and everything is beautiful there including his girlfriend who is a proper stunner. J

The airport over here is something else. After badminton on Sat one time, Matt and I busted a move toward the airport. Matt informed me he had actually worked there as a teenager before, this boy seems too of got round a bit. The airport is made-up of 2 terminals and what does not lie within these four walls is not worth mentioning. There are restaurants, clothes shops, supermarkets and my personal fav the 4D cinema. For those who do not know, a 4D cinema is a film in 3D which includes the naturally occurring elements of the earth such as water, wind, and…other things I cannot recall (of course includes light and sound or it wouldn’t be to much of a film, more so a dark room/concentration camp) J.

I know Rich has detailed the typhoon so I will not linger on the subject, just know that natural disasters are wicked and should be worshipped. Every little face was bobbing-up-and-down with excitement as I was hailed their lucky star, as apparently I had somehow unknowingly brought a #8 typhoon to work with me that day according to my colleagues.J I was told to evacuate the workplace ASAP and who was I to argue? So I got my skates-on and advanced through the tropical rains with a big fat smile slapped across my face. I wish we had a typhoon every Friday J

My new pad is every boy’s haven. We had to up-sticks the other week from the brand new Hall 7 (bloody plush) to Hall 1 (not so plush), the rooms are now much bigger but it just doesn’t have the shine to it that Hall 7 did. Although I needed the extra space for all my new toys (not sex toys). As I have mentioned I was not really one for gaming before I came over here because I deemed myself as someone who had a life (Pro Evo is exempt from this statement of course! Everyone knows the transition from an adolescent to that of man is not merely just down to puberty alone, No, it is indeed aided by Pro Evo.) Anyway everybody and his wife in China wears glasses, this is because everyone is glued in-front of a PSP or Nintendo DS doing battle. I thought it strange at first especially when I see massive groups of people break-out their handhelds around the dinner table in restaurants and do battle with each other via WiFi. It didn’t take long for the craze to catch-on though. J I now have the new model Samsung 26″ HDTV baby sitting in all its pride and glory on my bookshelf; this is hooked up-to my PS3 baby (with all the best games) and also to my notebook baby (picture quality is like nothing I have ever witnessed before!). I also have bought a cracked NDS lite baby with 1000s of games, and my Nokia N95 baby. Now that’s a lot children! I plan to blow every last dollar I have before home time as I am not here to save, so it feels great being a Coleen for the year and enjoying myself to the max! (Coleen = Rooney’s bird). (Fav purchase either N95 or HDTV, prob N95 though. There is nothing in this world like a good quality Nokia, I have stood by them from as a young kid and have never been disappointed (I know it very sad but wait till you play with a N95) J )

Should be going Thailand soon with the boy’s. Alan the man himself, wants a lads holiday over there for ‘food’ and the beaches (yes beaches, not bitches as I first thought he had said). I personally thought Thailand was famous for other things beside food, like pulling a fit bird, bringing her home, and then finding out she has a bigger version of the ‘equipment’ you normally carry around L Looking forward to it though (not the ladyboy part), as Alan is my main man along with Matt. These boys are like the Chinese brothers I never knew I had (they could even be, I better ask my mum ) they both are very witty and we just wind each other up all day and all night. I am going to a basketball game at 10:00 tonight with Alan so I will see the other tripod leg Matt tonight. Should be fun. Gyming it every night aswell now after work so I must admit I am always knackered up until about 6:00pm, then I have a good work-out and am wired until the early morning which reeks havoc with my sleep pattern.

Me and Rich travelled through space and time the other day, well not really we just missed our stop on the bus but close enough. We were transported to an alien Hong Kong, a place like no other, on the PURPLE line of the MTR (*sinister music*). I kept my wits about me, but I was afraid Rich was growing weaker by the second. The blood had left his face and I was pretty sure he had been infected with the chimera. He complained of stomach pains and I could see the life had left his eyes. I had to watch my back and keep an eye out for any further signs, I felt my senses heighten as I became more aware of my own heartbeat. I just wondered how long I had left before he…turned. Sorry got a bit carried away back there. Not that bad at all. Got ‘involved’ with the NDS on the bus journey back from badminton and travelled from the furthest East of Hong Kong to the furthest West of Hong Kong, not to long a journey considering. Although I am deadly serious about the PURPLE line. Ask me no questions, I will tell you no lies. Just STAY AWAY!

Couple more important points:

Food from Japan and Macau is also gorgeous; a couple of my superiors brought some grub into work for our team the other day. Lovely sheets of sweet-like pork from Macau, and assorted flavoured pancakes containing Red Bean from Japan were to name a couple of my favs. Delish!

My former gay bathroom-sharing-next-door fella’s new Chinese name is ThumbInBum as decided by myself (this being due to the excruciating face he makes during conversation J )

An even more unfortunate name is that belonging to a girl working in a restaurant that I had the good fortune to visit the other day. I say good fortune because her name was reason enough to visit this particular restaurant. Her name was…Shita. Thats right the poor girls name was Shita, my mind was going like the clappers to try a devise a means of snapping a shot of her name tag without looking like a mentally-unhinged Westerner. Try saying that name to her face without laughing, believe me when I say it cannot be done J

I think I have already mentioned a few other classic names such as the shop Wanko which has become a brilliant personal joke between my boys now I have explained its connotations back home. Also the ever great street called Fuk Wa, if only Wa had began with a letter a couple further down the alphabet then I would have moved there without question for the pure comical value alone.

The Chinese drink more tea than anyone or anything I have ever witnessed. Forget the English being famous for their tea; they were outdone alone by the Irish as far as tea consumption is concerned. This ability though is paled in comparison to the Chinese knack for tea drinking. I reckon the average Chinese born person would be able to consume more tea on an average day at a greater rate than me or you could pour down a sink in a single day given an infinite supply of tea.

Seen my first double-decker train today. Completely random I know but I thought it was something special as I have not even heard of such a thing. Maybe I’m just ignorant or the rest of the world did a bad job or informing me but none-the-less it was still a sight to behold.

Was seriously considering when applying for my Hong Kong ID as to whether or not I should enter my Chinese name as Hung Well. I was on the brink of putting pen to paper but after such a long wait I thought I better not fxxk this up J To my credit though when entering Hong Kong again from Macau in order to activate my visa I did fill the applications ‘Sex’ box with the age old classic of ‘Yes please’. Not many people would have the man-bits required to put their visa for a foreign country on the line, but I can at least hold my head high J

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