no matter where you go in HK, you're bound to see lots of people, lots of restaurants, lots of lights, lots of buildings and just lots and lots of things. amidst all these lots and lots', you'll notice a lot of 周大福, a high end watch retailer, and you'll wonder, how can there be so many watch stores in HK? there's half as many watch stores in HK as there are 711's in taiwan? there are as many mcdonalds in the US as there are watch stores in HK? what is going on? then you walk around a bit more and u think......i bet the 周生生 watch chain was founded by the brother of 周大福....but the brother probably slept with his 3rd wife. the youngest of the triumverate. and so they had a big fight in causeway bay. machete and pipe style....chock full of dragon tattoo's, leather jackets and dyed streaks. and if that's how the 周 watch chains split, what about cafe coral and fairwood? maybe fairwood was an busboy at cafe coral and secretly stole wonton's from the freezer...worked his way up the chain, threatened cafe coral that he would unleash the secret recipe if he wasn't given shares...was rejected with a bat to the head....and so he left and started fairwood. which caused wars btwn the two chains with flying cleavers btwn bloody aproned 叉燒 chefs chasing each other down nathan road with the final duel @ kimberly road. really gets you thinking when roaming the streets of HK.
the availability of information on the web is completely insane. the www is an anonymous DIY medium that holds the answers, opinions, experiences of all that is right-wrong and completely ridiculous. and from one successful informative link, one helplessly falls into that deep hole of "related links"...and as each tangent whirpools you further into messy curiousity, it's not necessarily the links that you yourself come across that bring tears of pain or laughter, it may be what a peer has come across and has tangented todays lunch conversation to shed light on what he or she has most recently stumbled across. without being too vulgar here, lets just say that i've recently seen a tutorial on squirting....and so now, when we walk around the atrium of whores in 尖東...the "point out the whore" game has now been replaced with...."she looks like she squirts"....hahaha...
i now have a taiwanese nickname....
白熊...(bei hiung)
which means...polar bear
白熊...(bei hiung)
which means...polar bear
for the record, the past 2 weeks i've been in HK, i have not been in LKF once. and last night, for the 2nd consecutive friday, i found myself dressed up and watching tv. and while i popped my "californication" cherry and caught up on the first few episodes of entourage season 5, my buddy next to me, whom was pre-occupied with his text messages all night, found enlightening parallels btwn him and johnny drama/jacqueline. but rather than spilling love guts on "the view" with whoopi, i over read this sms on my buddy's phone. "when you hurt, i jealous" or was it the other way around...hahaha....
VICTORY!
while i was in china, after a long day on the ride back to the hotel, there was only one thing spinning around my head
"I NEED TO WASH MY FACE"
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developing countries give me a hard on. the moment i land into an environment of unkempt pedestrians, raucous cell phone users, spitters, cracked sidewalks, moldy walls, urine smelling elevators, and the overall dusty blanket of life, i sigh the relief of "opportunity". it's chaos but it's invigorating and really makes me feel alive. current location: CHINA (replacing jakarta/bangkok/malaysia/vietnam)
i haven't been in china for over a year...and it's gray skies of industrial buzz brought me back into a daze. it's routine for me to sit in the car, stay quiet for the first 3 days just soaking up the surroundings. i stare at the sheer size of the country, what its land mass correlates to in terms of natural resources, i ask basic questions of population, infrastructure, telecom, transit, standard of living to map out the borders of it's cultural necessities. it's not that im some wannabe financial analyst, but it's these basic functions of a society that give me a better understanding when conversing with locals and foreigners in that region whether for business or for business ktv. hahaa.
i'll always jump at the chance to see raw industries. to see the source of how modern civilization has come to be, to see how such a technologically advanced world still sits on a very primitive, very labor intensive foundation is always fascinating. when i was in energy, it amazed me to see how the basics of refining and shipping still remained heavily labor intensive even though computers had heavily upgraded a lot of their systems. this time in china, when studying assembly lines of manufacturing, the amount of hand crafted detail into everyday essentials will make anyone spend a few moments at awe of how much manpower still remains to keep the world running like it is today.
anyways, im back in china next week.
"I NEED TO WASH MY FACE"
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developing countries give me a hard on. the moment i land into an environment of unkempt pedestrians, raucous cell phone users, spitters, cracked sidewalks, moldy walls, urine smelling elevators, and the overall dusty blanket of life, i sigh the relief of "opportunity". it's chaos but it's invigorating and really makes me feel alive. current location: CHINA (replacing jakarta/bangkok/malaysia/vietnam)
i haven't been in china for over a year...and it's gray skies of industrial buzz brought me back into a daze. it's routine for me to sit in the car, stay quiet for the first 3 days just soaking up the surroundings. i stare at the sheer size of the country, what its land mass correlates to in terms of natural resources, i ask basic questions of population, infrastructure, telecom, transit, standard of living to map out the borders of it's cultural necessities. it's not that im some wannabe financial analyst, but it's these basic functions of a society that give me a better understanding when conversing with locals and foreigners in that region whether for business or for business ktv. hahaa.
i'll always jump at the chance to see raw industries. to see the source of how modern civilization has come to be, to see how such a technologically advanced world still sits on a very primitive, very labor intensive foundation is always fascinating. when i was in energy, it amazed me to see how the basics of refining and shipping still remained heavily labor intensive even though computers had heavily upgraded a lot of their systems. this time in china, when studying assembly lines of manufacturing, the amount of hand crafted detail into everyday essentials will make anyone spend a few moments at awe of how much manpower still remains to keep the world running like it is today.
anyways, im back in china next week.
it's not only that i love the idiosyncrasy's of cultures, but in an almost condescending way, i find severe joy in the little things that make the world go round. for instance, it's already quite the oxymoron that we call the reticent tatooed gangster timothy the boyish nickname of timmie. but as he's assimilated to the local depths of hong kong...he's has seemingly also adapted the pet name...
TIM TIM.
hahahaha.....seriously. just say it out loud in your best CANTONESE ENGLISH. "AH TIM TIM HEI BIN AH?"
now try that with someone else's name?
TIM TIM.
hahahaha.....seriously. just say it out loud in your best CANTONESE ENGLISH. "AH TIM TIM HEI BIN AH?"
now try that with someone else's name?
this flipping phone is such a pain in the arse to use. anyone have any tips//recommendations on how to ease it into everyday life?
