Blogs from Lantau Island, Hong Kong, Asia - page 16

After my stint in Bangkok, it was a flight over to Hong Kong: and how I love in-flight movies. I managed to fit in Beauty and the Beast, which is one of the coolest movies ever, and the beginning of Alice in Wonderland. But really, the coolest feature of the back-of-the-seat TV screens that were on the plane was the ability to watch take off and landing from a pilot eye view. Turns out they actually do know what they're doing. Anyway, I arrived at Hong Kong airport, but unfortunately my sister Bindy's plane had been delayed for an hour, so the grand plans of meeting each other in Hong Kong customs were soon dashed. Not that it would have worked anyway, for some reason customs didn't have any people staffing it, and when I walked ... read more

Hello all. Here's your first bulletin from Hong Kong. We have now got our 90 day visas for China and have been biding our time doing touristical things. Staying on Lantau Island which is off HK Island by 30 min ferry ride. An excellent antidote to the noise and bustle of HK and a fraction of the cost. Gawped at Big Bhuddas on the day that we arrived but was so tired that I fell asleep everytime that I sat down. Visited the tiny fishing village of Tai O on Lantau where the livelihood seems to involve drying unidentified fish parts and making industrial quantities of evil smelling shrimp paste. Lunch there was a step too far, so took an exciting ferry trip round to another town to catch the bus back to Mai Wo. Got ... read more

We left wet wet Chengdu in the morning and headed to the airport in a taxi which took us about 20 mins to hail. You see empty taxis all day long until you actually want one...crazy. Anyway the flight to Schenzhen (just outside Hong Kong, it's cheaper!) was pretty normal and our transfer to kowloon where we would get the metro to our apartment was simple, even customs was a breeze. We arrived at our metro stop managing to resist the urge to go one stop more to Hong Kong Disney Land and got a bus to cousin Roberts apartment which he very kindly let us have use of whilst he was away, we just crashed on the sofa. We were in Hong Kong for 5 days so allowed ourselves to relax. We were staying in ... read more

2007年8月30日 Hong Kong International Airport 現在的時間是下午四時四十分, 我獨個兒坐在35號登機閘口, 準備向夢想飛行。窗外的天氣還不錯, 晴朗映照下的大堂, 顯得份外通明, 一個人的旅途快要展開。 一年前的今天, 我一定沒想到自己竟然踏上流浪之路, 還以為教書是我終生的工作, 今天我不知從那裡拾回來的勇氣, 把我帶到陌生的新西蘭。對於來一年的生活和挑戰, 我沒有想太多, 只想用心去感受每分每秒的經歷。 如果我要問自己現在的心情是如何? 那麼我的答案是平靜的, 既沒有傷感, 也沒有興奮。或者四周的人們都默不作聲, 只是偶有傳來的廣播聲支配了空氣粒子的流動, 候機室的氣氛仍是安靜的。 不管如何, 我今天許下一個承諾: 我要平平安安, 帶回許多回憶回到香港。 香港, 下年再見吧…… The Hong Kong time now is 4:30 p.m. and I was in gate 35 waiting for boarding. The weather seemed to be very fine with sunlight shining on the cocourt and my long-waited journey to New Zealand will be soon to start. When it is backdated to the same day of last year, I would never think of bringing myself to rambling road because I believe teaching would be my life-long career. It's funny that I finally picked up the courage existed somewhere bringing me to a really strange country to me - New Zealand... read more

Well, today was Disney day. Did the whole park, including the teacups, Cinderella's carousel, and Dumbo all twice. Caught a lot of the shows, and even got "interacted with" by Stitch, which was cool in retrospect, but a bit embarrassing when it happened. This was during a show--Stitch was an animation. I'm assuming it uses the same technology as fix8. Despite all the walking I've been doing lately, I can feel today in the knees and feet. Expect pictures on Shutterfly at some point soon. During the shows, Mickey and company spoke in Cantonese. It was pretty cool. One land in the park had been taken over by pirates, and I think today was the last day for that. I'm guessing that it's just a complete coincidence that the date coincides with the 10 year anniversary ... read more