Hong Kong - So yea, the place I am staying - no internet connection. No internet cafe nearby AND no coffee shops with free wifi. Obviously, its a blessing and a curse. People say ‘oh yeah it’ll be nice to have 3 weeks without the internet’ but then again, keep in mind that I spend most of my time at work on the internet and it is a primary source of information for me. So yea, I have no idea what is going on in the world right now and it kind of sucks to be without the internet, as I am in the fantasy hockey playoff finals right now.

i’ve been in Hong Kong for 4 days now and here are some initial notes.

• despite the fact that I have not lived in Hong Kong for 21 years, it still feels a bit like home.
• Hong Kong is really clean city. The streets are always clean it seems. This is because they have employed people to be constantly cleaning the city. Why doesn’t Toronto do that? we have a lot of homeless people..hire them and make them clean up the city. Money for them, clean for us.
• Indian food is starting to get popular here, ive noticed quite a bit more indian food influence around, like at food courts and what not.
• girls here are more fashionable, and they are mostly skinny. actually, not that many fat people anywhere. however, the whole fashionable female thing has upside and downside, downside as in there are a lot of 45 year old ladies out there dressed as 18 year old girls as well. i dont know, when you are that old, miniskirt + knee high socks + hooker boots doesnt seem that appropriate.
• everything here is efficient. the hong kong transit system kicks the ttc’s ass in so many ways it is not funny. but i knew this already. still, having it re-enforced is something else all together.

Thats it for now.