Hong Kong - Day 4 (02/07/12)

Why is there no day 3 I hear you say? Well, it's not every day that I get the luxury of having time and internet coincide in order to be able to write a blog entry you know! Infact I'm writing this from the future... It is now day 6 in HK...

I spent my afternoon playing badminton! I was warned by my parents about how I should not proceed to go and play with these people I have met online incase I was the next victim of a scam which involved playing badminton, because you know how bad these HK people are... Well, turns out they're not as bad as my parents had speculated them to be. There were 7 people including myself, the group consisted of one young guy (me), one mid-age woman (the organiser) and five older dudes (one of which is the woman's husband). They consisted of varying levels but none were so bad that were unplayable, so I guess it wasn't so bad as I had anticipated some low level players... I was relieved. All of them spoke English, which is very interesting as I had not thought that they would be English speakers, but the one thing which surprised me most is that none of them were youngsters! Why would no young people join their crew I wonder? Or is it simply a matter of not being able to find this group or vice versa? Who knows? Anyway, I am happy I did attend the badminton session as they were decent people with some level of skill, I will be playing them more over my stay here in HK so I will see how it goes...

After badminton I thought I would go round to Sai Wan to go to my aunt's to pick up some stuff and get ready to go for dinner with some family in Sheung Wan, but as my girl was in Causeway Bay, I went round to go meet up with her instead. We walked around a bit and had a bit of food as well (I hadn't had lunch yet) and then walked over to Wan Chai. Now, the reason why I said Wan Chai was because I had to snoop around and look for what I had came to HK for in the first place... PSVITA! Now I couldn't miss this chance, so I went to 188 Orient to have a look around for prices and eventually found a decent store so I bought it... Eventually!

There isn't much to say about dinner really...

I went back to MK and then I took the mini bus again back to SK thinking I shall get the taxi over to home from the harbour... But with it being a public holiday, turns out lots and lots of people had went on mini cruises out to sea that day, so a lot of people were waiting for the taxi at the harbour... There were lots of people waiting for the bus as well, forcing me to take a more traditional way of traversing these dangerous roads... Walking. I said I had the worst trip on foot this holiday the other day, but I think this one was probably worse... By a mile. I would never do that again!

Hong Kong - Day 2

Typhoon 8 only lasted 4 hours in the end, I could've waited but I guess that would've been ridiculous. I ended up waking at around 3pm and not surprisingly half my day had gone by already... Why do I feel that this isn't new to me, wasting time?

But hold on, what time am I wasting? I'm not even busy, I got nothing to do, I'm on holiday! Everyday is a day to relax! But why do I feel that my time here in HK not as relaxing as I thought it would be? It's hard enough dealing with my results hand out... I don't think I can handle much outside this spectrum... Emotion wise I think a little less pressure would be good...

Anyway, despite the late start I got back to SK and got changed. I decided to walk back to the SK city centre from my place and it was hot. Goddam hot! Took me 20minutes in total and it wasn't easy... I think it must have been my worse trip so far this holiday!

I took the mini bus back to MK and then met up with my girl again. We were planning to have dinner back at hers around 8pm, so we decided to take a walk around MK for a bit before going back. In MK I went to go and have a look at the badminton rackets on offer as I needed a replacement for my broken Z Slash... I went back to the one I bought my previous Z Slash from to see if I could get one there... Turns out they don't stock JP versions of the racket and they were out of SP ones for now, I was about to leave when suddenly... Somebody says my name, and who is it? It's none other than my bro, Kit! He and Mandy were having a day trip in HK and coincidentally
was looking at rackets too, quite the coincidence indeed! We then took the streets again and then called up an old friend... Fung!

We agreed to have dinner together at Tsim Sha Tsui at a Japanese restaurant. It was a good catch up with Fung, but unfortunately the food served was a bit under average... But anyway, overall the day was quite well passed and quite hea... Nice...

Hong Kong - Day 1

Well, it's been a fairly up and down day as my flight from Newcastle to Amsterdam was slightly delayed due to the amazing weather Newcastle received... Lightning and thunder, rain and wind, what more could an excited traveller like myself want? A delayed flight? Well, why not! May as well! Damn. Anyway, got here fine, the plane was on time from Amsterdam to Hong Kong but there was a slight scare when the air stewardess announced that some people's connecting flights were going to leave without them, luckily mine wasn't on the list... Thank god, I would have been one day late to HK I imagine if that happened! So I got here in the afternoon and tried to use the sim card my mum gave mr, turns out it wasn't working. Things were just starting to get worse... I used the airport courtesy phone to call up my friend Jacky, whose place was offered to me as accomodation for my two months here, and to my dismay he couldn't pick me up from the airport as agreed. Shucks. Got the taxi eventually and got settled down in his cosy home in Sai Kung to the eastern coast of Kowloon (miles from the city centre). So anyway, I get sorted and leave for the centre which turns out isn't really that far from SK, around 30mins in the mini bus to Mong Kok so not as bad as I thought it would be! I reached MK at about 6pm and ti my dismay, I seemed to have taken less money out than I needed so I guess I didn't have much to work with so just window shopping around Sneaker St and Tung Choi St. I eventually got myself a sim card for my phone and with 3G giving me the power of data!!! I was back, and connected to the world again, I felt like I was home. I went round to Kwai Hing to pick up my girl as well as see her for the first time in around 10 months... It has been quite the moment I've been waiting for! Excited and flustered by the heat I decided to go wait at the tower building she works at. It was a pretty long wait, and to make it worse the time we spent apart coupled with the anticipation, every minute seemed likr a year... We met up eventually and I guess it was good. Not sure whether it was because I was over excited or maybe just because the time apart made things worse, but I felt uneasy inside yet I was extremely glad... Dinner was at her home with her parents as well, was good bit with me being just off the plane and a bit tired I felt I couldn't eat much, I think my body is playing up again.. :/ By this time, typhoon one was in effect in HK and it was said on tv that typhoon eight was going to be in effect at 1120pm, so I decided to leave to get back to SK at 1030pm, but I was too late. By the time I got downstairs of her home, it was windy like no tomorrow, the rain was just as bad, I felt as if someone had just splashed a bucketful of water over me... Then I got a call from my girl telling me to stay the night instead.if going back to SK which would have taken ages, so I stayed. Uneventful night really, but before sleeping, I received a message from JK saying that results emails were out and being the impatient person that I am, I opened up my email and looked. I just couldn't resist a peek. I almost died. I couldn't believe my eyes and what I read, I had failed both Jurisprudence and Wills and Estates. The first thing that came to mind was emotional breakdown, I had spent so much energy and effort on my Jurisprudence essay yet all I received in return was a measly 35 marks... I can't describe the feeling but I knew that this was going to jeopardize my two month holiday in HK and I knew the shit was going to hit the fan with my parents... I've yet to tell them. My options now are to return early back to the UK or do my assignments here in HK but to be honest, it was hard enough doing it back home, it would be near impossible to get it done here... I am destined to return early I think.