So, overseas huh?
So, finally made it to Hong Kong! Leaving Melbourne we managed to get our flight delayed by 2 hours because some fellow in Adelaide brought sand onto the plane, but someone identified it as a ‘mysterious powder’ so it had to be closely examined. Nice one. Then once we were on the plane, an incoming pilot had apparently heard or seen an ‘explosion’ on the runway, so there goes another 20 minutes! Where do they find these people?
But once actually in Hong Kong we had a great time. We went on a day tour around Hong Kong Island and went to a market there. I took heaps of photos, but I’m still trying to put them up, work in progress! 
It seems like they have a huge amount of faith in bamboo here. I knew they used it instead of scaffolding sometimes, but it turns out they will cover a whole building in the stuff, with the characteristic green cloth. Can that stuff really be that sturdy? After the tour we went for a stroll down Nathan Road, called the Golden Mile. It’s an amazing street full of people and neon Sony lights, and a random food court where we had dinner, and no-one could speak english - very authentic!
I saw a couple of random things in Hong Kong:
- A guy arc welding on a floating restaurant
- A guy with a non battery-powered angle grinder in the middle of a floating fishing village
- About 4 policemen texting thier mates
- Double-Decker buses.
- Double-Decker trams!!!
Now it’s on to London! Apologies if there are spelling/grammar mistakes, sleep on longhaul flights is hard to come by!
June 28th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Sounds awesome dude. Keep it coming.
Re. the bamboo. At least it prolly gives you some kind of warning before it gives way, by bending a lot for example
Re. the angle grinder? Wind up, like a toy? (for everyone that doesn’t know me - yes I’m joking).
Re. plane people. Don’t ask. They sit in small rooms all day, largely staring at clouds. He probably got excited by the view of tarmac and wished for more excitement - kind of like a mirage. An explosion mirage. hmm.
Take care of yall selves,
~SST
PS. “YAARGH”
June 28th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Yay, at last, some news of the travellers
Explosion probably someone with a flare left over from the soccer @ Fed square
: those things are nasty when they go off directly overhead!
Hope you get some proper rest really soon.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:38 am
I’m drunk after getting mike all kinds of drunk and throwing up so please excuse whatever i have to say:
1. I was about to call about some random shit that happened on the tram that i knew you would appreciated, but then soon realised, much to my dismay, you were out of contact! cry a little?
2. I hope your havin a ball, but am jealous.
3. Please don’t post those second grade photos on here… only further proove how god awful ugly you can be behind a lens… haha!
4. as for arc welding, an efficient ay of getting food ready!
4. Go Will!
4. Buy me a gift while away, and not the gift of love… i’m not a mastercard add, i have needs and feelings!
4. YAAAARGH back at SST. (and between me and him i did manage to achieve my mission and was able to run 3km home!)
miss u oh great one
Dave
June 29th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
You really are a blog geek!!! not even out of the country for 48hours and blogging and internetting already!!!
You make me giggle… Have fun and… if you can’t be good… be safe!!
July 1st, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Yeah I’m a geek, it’s true! But I thought you all might want to know what I’m up to!
Trying to be safe, can’t really comment on the being good part!
As for the explosion mirage SST, I’m not too sure!
aRnold, fair effort with mike, nice one!
July 1st, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Re: the bamboo. I hate to out-geek you, but consider than bamboo is a composite material (fibres in some kind of resin) like fibreglass or carbon fibre. So its actually a pretty damn good material to build scafolds out of.
p.s. watch out, internet cafes in the UK seemed expensive (maybe I was just looking in the wrong places) and internet in hotels etc ridiculously expensive (£24 for 24 hours, WTF?)
Anyway, have an awesome trip, look forward to seeing your photos.