Hong Kong Blog

One afternoon you enter your local convenience store to buy the weekly groceries. Aside from the cashier who is as oblivious to your entrance as he is to the entire universe, you are alone in the store. You slowly wonder up and down the isles until, stopping dead, you notice an unnatural heat radiating from one of the lonely back corners. You decide to investigate. As you draw nearer you see the unmistakable flickering of a spreading fire. Do you A) Shout and alert the shop keeper. B) Run out of the shop, call the fire brigade as quickly on as possible and then tell the shop keeper. C) Ignore the fire completely, pay for your groceries and leave? Well according to the Hong Kong Fire Department, the answer ‘of course for most people’ is C.

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Hello and welcome my friends. It has been a long, long week! I have been so busy I feel myself being worn to the point of collapsing. On the whole though, I have had some brilliant days and nights in the mean time. The highlight blatantly being a party I attended on Monday night which was insanely brilliant with me meeting many a new face. So where to start? I guess with Alan’s new phrase. I have mentioned many a time in Alan’s presence the phrase “…taking the piss out of me”. Alan has obviously taken this up wrong and has now adapted it to the all new and utterly brilliant “don’t piss on me!” This is a brilliant phrase, outshining the original by a clear mile! If anyone says something vaguely aimed at putting Alan down in some shape or form, it is normally greeted by “Don’t piss on me” accompanied by the good old wave of a finger. This makes me laugh without fail every time.

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I had fully intended for this blog entry to highlight events from the last two/three weeks and it is instead with great, great sadness that I write this tribute to Robert Jordan, my childhood hero, on the day of his passing.

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Hello and Welcome people to the renowned Hong Kong blog Good news, I am the first result for the Google search for Hong Kong followed by my name so I am proud that I have finally made an appearance, as my sister dutifully pointed out to me. On another note this week has been hectic to say the least. It has been non-stop so I have not been able to give my time to things such as this blog, I will not complain though as it has allowed me to have many an exciting day and night. For instance it’s not everyday I go swimming at the beach with extremely fit Aussies and French birds, which believe me when I say should be done by everyone once in a while

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The phrase ‘never make the same mistake twice’ is one I should probably analyse so as to make sure I’m completely 100% certain on the matter. The concept is clear enough; it’s just the implementation I seem to be having problems with. Readers of the previous incarnation of the blog will remember that during my first week at the University at Kent I inadvertently wandered into (and became trapped in) a Christian Society meeting for about four hours. Well guess what…

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