I'm home and alive!
and totally, completely on the wrong time zone. Not in any of the time zones I was staying in, but somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Doctor appointments yesterday, DMV today. I am officially healthy and once more a liscenced driver in the state of West Virginia.
It was a long flight, but not unpleasant. Watched all the in-flight movies I wanted, and then rewatched them in a different language. Security in chicago was absolutely ridiculous, though. That alone was reason not to want to come back. No liquids my ass. unopened bottled water from JAL airplanes are obviously part of terrorist threats.
Actually being back is nice though ^_^ if only I could be awake during daylight.
Hong Kong, absolutely fabulous. It could be in the running for favourite-est city of all time. That opinion might be helped by the inexpensiveness of living there on an American dollar. But I prefer to think it's the convenience and business of staying in tsim sha tsui. That area of town, at least, feels like things are happening It makes you feel like you're in a real city. Though the clothes aren't quite as much fun as Tokyo (in the respect of people watching on the street, not shopping); and the prices are so much better.
Hong Kong is probably smaller than the Tokyo metropolitan area in square feet, but it compensates by actually building up. So it was actually a lot more convenient than Tokyo because there wasn't a need to take public transportation anywhere to get somewhere. You could walk down two blocks and pick up just about anything you'd need.
Also, the construction pwns.
Everytime I walked outside a building, my glasses fogged up. They kept everything inside so cold, and outside it just wasn't.
We went to Ocean Park. It was...a good way to get out aggression. Since there were a bunch of people who seemed unfamiliar with the concept of standing in line, I got to be quietly bitchy and simply not let people pass.
On the other side of the fence, I was back to being unable to read any signs because they were all in traditional Chinese, and I had to sit through a few yum cha. demo, kazoku dakara sho ga nai darou.
It might not be a place you could leave and come back to. 5 years from my last visit and all the old shops had moved somewhere else. 10 years since my aunt's (my aunt and one cousin came with us to HK), and she was completely lost (granted, she seems to have a sense of direction like mine, so it might not have changed that much)
Shantonese food ftw. Best Chinese food ever.
I'm hopefully getting my computer fixed tonight. *lurves on the jianjian's friends*
need to write to kaa-san.
Doctor appointments yesterday, DMV today. I am officially healthy and once more a liscenced driver in the state of West Virginia.
It was a long flight, but not unpleasant. Watched all the in-flight movies I wanted, and then rewatched them in a different language. Security in chicago was absolutely ridiculous, though. That alone was reason not to want to come back. No liquids my ass. unopened bottled water from JAL airplanes are obviously part of terrorist threats.
Actually being back is nice though ^_^ if only I could be awake during daylight.
Hong Kong, absolutely fabulous. It could be in the running for favourite-est city of all time. That opinion might be helped by the inexpensiveness of living there on an American dollar. But I prefer to think it's the convenience and business of staying in tsim sha tsui. That area of town, at least, feels like things are happening It makes you feel like you're in a real city. Though the clothes aren't quite as much fun as Tokyo (in the respect of people watching on the street, not shopping); and the prices are so much better.
Hong Kong is probably smaller than the Tokyo metropolitan area in square feet, but it compensates by actually building up. So it was actually a lot more convenient than Tokyo because there wasn't a need to take public transportation anywhere to get somewhere. You could walk down two blocks and pick up just about anything you'd need.
Also, the construction pwns.
Everytime I walked outside a building, my glasses fogged up. They kept everything inside so cold, and outside it just wasn't.
We went to Ocean Park. It was...a good way to get out aggression. Since there were a bunch of people who seemed unfamiliar with the concept of standing in line, I got to be quietly bitchy and simply not let people pass.
On the other side of the fence, I was back to being unable to read any signs because they were all in traditional Chinese, and I had to sit through a few yum cha. demo, kazoku dakara sho ga nai darou.
It might not be a place you could leave and come back to. 5 years from my last visit and all the old shops had moved somewhere else. 10 years since my aunt's (my aunt and one cousin came with us to HK), and she was completely lost (granted, she seems to have a sense of direction like mine, so it might not have changed that much)
Shantonese food ftw. Best Chinese food ever.
I'm hopefully getting my computer fixed tonight. *lurves on the jianjian's friends*
need to write to kaa-san.