Crikey!

This apartment came complete with teddy bear sheets and sand-paper towels, so of course the first thing I did was scurry out and acquire new — a hair-raising experience as shopping anywhere here is akin to a European soccer riot.
The place was cleaned today, the lil’ darling even sweet enough to pick up my dirty socks from the floor (charmed, I’m sure) and fold them into neat piles arranged by hue. (Or is it crustiness?)
Anyway, they absconded with my $250 worth of new sheets and towels! I’m back to the sand-paper, my bed now sporting a bi-polar nautical/sunflower theme.
Tomorrow: I brave the supermarket! Edge of yer seat, ain’tcha?

Oh, Kylie!

Sleeping on a Cliff

My apartment here is on the 31st floor on the eastern side. I’m told that, for Hong Kong, it ain’t half bad: small, functional, cleaner than most restaurants.
The combo washer/dryer has all manner of settings foreign to me, and for being a computer engineer, it took me a remarkably long time to locate the soap cup. I’ve always thought that combining a washer/dryer into one unit was smart, but in execution it takes about 5 hours to complete one cycle and the maximum load is about 2 shirts and 1 sock (not both).
The bed is elevated and butts up against the bedroom window. I’ve mostly overcome my fear of rolling over in bed, having the window promptly pop out, and waking up somewhere around the 21st floor and about 7 seconds before I become a strange stain on the sidewalk.
Pictures:

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bedroom view	window of death	living room
balcony view	kitchen/laundry?!

Obligatory Touristy Snaps

From the Sky Lounge in the Sheraton Kowloon:

From the ferry back to Wan Chai:


And from Victoria Peak:

Today went Canon 30D shopping in Mong Kok, without the assistance of a local. Utter chaos. During the week going to drag someone ‘in the know’ down there. Prices I was getting today were at least $280 less than the US, but I think if I go into some of the places off street level I can go a bit cheaper. I may pick up several unlocked phones to hock on eBay as well — there’s all manner of 750, 810, 900, SLVR, RAZR’s and the like to be found.
Move out of the hotel and into our ‘company’ apartment tomorrow. There’s a clothes washer underneath the burners in the kitchen. No dryer. Kwazy.

No Naked Smoking

Reprimands

Fay Gwai Lo

…or ‘fat white devil’ in Cantonese. You learn so much here!

Origins of ‘Stinking Drunk’

‘Space Steve from the Future’

…as a co-worker put it earlier. It’s 3pm Thursday in Hong Kong right now, 12:06am in SF.
13 hour flight from SFO to ICN, then 3:30 to HKG… I’m, uh, really gross. Sadly, the promise of an in-flight fashion show did not materialize, but it’s what’d you expect from an Asian airline: cloned, meek and perfect female flight attendants, not one detail over-looked or missed.
My hotel is a-skank-ey…
More later… shower time!