Hong Kong Blog

Hello once again people. I have been up to too much this week, so I was wondering when I would get around to blogging this baby. Anyways no better place to start than with Durian. Widely known and revered in Southeast Asia as the “King of Fruits,” the fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and a formidable thorn-covered husk. When I say unique odour I mean unique odour. It is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia. Believe me this is for good reason! It can be smelt from over a yard away and animals can smell it from over 1 mile away. There are many different descriptions ranging from “…flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy…In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.” Other descriptions also state “its odour is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock”. I definitely agree with the latter description. It is not so much the smell because I can handle that, it is the taste and what it does to my nervous system when I try to consume it. My face loses all control and I have an unbelievable urge to twitch along with heave and a wanting to tear my digestive tract out. This food is absolutely indescribable, unlike anything I have ever sampled because it is not often I choose to eat pig faeces or chow down on soiled diapers.

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Another day, another blog. Meeting with MT Chan later. He is our placement supervisor over here; this meeting has been greatly anticipated. MT to the Chan has been deemed somewhat of a ledge by Rich because of his name. I hope he lives up to this title or there will be trouble.

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Welcome to the second installation of my information divulgement. Much has happened since my last blog/essay/bible but it is hard to fit everything in without wearing thin my fingers and the minds of those who follow. I guess there is no place better to start than that of Rocky I the movie. What a film, I mean it must have been 12 years since I last viewed this masterpiece. It’s a brilliant love story (without getting all Dawson) that involves an underdog getting a shot at the champ, and includes the butchest transvestite known to man to boot (Stallone and his bloody funny painted on eyebrows). Saying this though I love the man, a pure beast (not to be confused with the sexual beast that is Tyler). This inspiring film is the sort that has you wanting to run up a stairs really really fast, or even running outside to conquer the world bit by bit while being a little bit naked (depends how saucy you are). That is why Rocky works well and rules, because he gets the girl without pretending to be gay or having a really deep emotional side. Plus he is a nobody who turns it all round and lets everyone know they have the potential to be great *Spoiler alert* (even though he loses in the end). I feel the need to tell people again to watch the new transformers movie. It is the dog’s private parts.

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Hello the whole world, or at least to the person reading this. My name is Joe Heaney, a placement student in Hong Kong, and I love it long time as the Chinese would say. I was chosen by University Kent Canterbury to represent along with a fellow student named Richard Cohen to divide and conquer Hong Kong I work for JP Morgan Chase in Shatin, where the work is hard and long but the ‘family’ are very accommodating. With the term ‘family’ I really mean family, these guys and girls are some of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting in my life, and I am not exactly the sort of person who suffers bad company well. I am the new attraction at work, everyone wants a piece and to know anything and everything about our culture back home (England). This has meant I have made many new friends in a short space of time, which I love because it means I am always preoccupied, after all the devil makes work for idle thumbs. I know Rich has blogged the hell out of arrival so I will not bore you with more trivial details. Just note one thing if anything, Hong Kong is hot, like being branded every morning you decide you might dare to venture forth.

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