Kowlooooon

You can see by the time stamp that it is 5:34. the problem is that it is opposite, and my stomach is pining for that snack it usually gets before I ride home from work.

I'm here in HK, but really Kowloon, its on the mainland, and used to be the seedier side of Hong Kong, but these days its a lot harder to find the seedier side in the city limits itself.

Unlike my experience with BA last summer, the flight from JFK-NAR, left on time, with my baggage. I got to sit upstairs, which, 2 hours in, I was wishing was a bar instead. I think one of the hardest parts of long flights is the lack of communication and talking with anyone. I spent hour 6 talking to a couple young people who had sneaked up stairs.

At NAR I went to the new gate, watched sumo in HD on a beautiful 50inch Panasonic. This is not the sumo of the 70s. while the sport is probably exactly the same, watching each match on slow motion reply in High Definition was pretty amazing. every salt crystal, every fat ripple, every skin condition, every butt zit, HD.

From there, another 474 to HK, and pretty standard. One thing I noticed, the boarding times are a lot faster, somehow those little Japanese hands can board everyone a lot faster.

Movies watched:
21, *** (interesting story about MIT kids counting cards in Vegas)
Street Kings, ***.5 (Keanu in a wannabe Training Day)
weird JTV show about local oddities in Japanese prefectures,***( never really understood what was going on.
1998 Masters tournament where Tiger lost, **

Dad and Yaya were there to pick me up, yaya was having a ball watching people come through customs on these two huge jumbotrons that were setup so people could see when their people were coming out. If I had only known they were there, I would have done a little dance, or something just to entertain all those people who had been there all that time.

we took the train, had a hell of a time trying to get out of the Kowloon station, and then walked to the boarding house. The boarding house is amazing, its straight out of In the Mood for Love, but unlike the movie, its full of Indians, Pakistanis, white students, Arabs, and Africans. The bathroom is like my and Luis' in CPH, no shower stall in the bathroom, and a triple occupancy is a twin bed on one side, and a double on the other.

We went out to get some noodles, a beer and I think the whole thing was 3 dollars.
we went to sleep around 2:30 pm and I am up already, tired, but I think I am going to go out and take some pics.

Kowloon is amazing, its grimy, all the lights are fluorescent, all the AC units, of which there are thousands, drip on to the sidewalk, and I love it.

Its getting light out, I'm going out to take pics.

K.