Friday, January 22, 2010
Eggs.
Eggs, eggs, eggs. Funny word, eggs. Why am I writing about eggs? Well, today after school, I was going to make a nice breakfast for myself with eggs and spam and pancakes. BUT GUESS WHAT?! For the first time in my life, I looked for eggs but couldn't find any. Eggs are great. They have many uses. This is a boring blog. But I still like eggs. You know how sometimes if you read or look at a word too much, it looks weird? That is happening to me with the word eggs. Well, since I really don't have anything interesting to say, I'll close up. This really sounded like a good blog idea when I thought it up. I guess not.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Hong Kong: Part Deux
Continuing my thoughts on Hong Kong...the movie theatres are different too. You buy a ticket for a specific seat, which means you don't have to go to the theatre until right before the movie starts. On the downside, you have to buy your tickets usually the day before. I still like this system better though.
One thing I found weird and kind of funny in Hong Kong: when I went in a big elevator, there was a old guy sitting on a stool pressing the buttons. Apparently, that's his job. Just to press the open buttons and whatever floor the people want to go to. Amazing, the types of jobs available during the recession.
Back to the fast food topic, Hong Kong has the same fast-food restaurants as Vancouver (KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, etc.) but different culinary options. For example, at McDonald's you can buy a shrimp burger and an ice cream cone with grape syrup. They also have macaroni in soup during the mornings. At KFC, they have chicken rice and egg tarts. The egg tarts are good, by the way. I also went to this really interesting restaurant called Modern Toilet. You may have seen the pictures on Facebook. There are toilets for seats and the table legs are sinks. The food comes in mini-toilets, bathtubs, and wash basins, and the drinks come in urinals. I thought the urinals were gross, but everything else was fun. Surprisingly, their restrooms were rather ordinary.
One last thing. People in Hong Kong are very easily frustrated or irritated. On busy streets, horn honking is common. Sometimes people will hold their horns for 10 seconds and this will just provoke more people into pressing their horns. Also, if you go into a store to try clothes or shoes and don't buy anything, sometimes the employees will get mad at you for wasting their time. People there are definitely not as amiable as here in Vancouver.
Anyway, thanks for reading these long, possibly boring blogs. I will try to write blogs as often as I can.
One thing I found weird and kind of funny in Hong Kong: when I went in a big elevator, there was a old guy sitting on a stool pressing the buttons. Apparently, that's his job. Just to press the open buttons and whatever floor the people want to go to. Amazing, the types of jobs available during the recession.
Back to the fast food topic, Hong Kong has the same fast-food restaurants as Vancouver (KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, etc.) but different culinary options. For example, at McDonald's you can buy a shrimp burger and an ice cream cone with grape syrup. They also have macaroni in soup during the mornings. At KFC, they have chicken rice and egg tarts. The egg tarts are good, by the way. I also went to this really interesting restaurant called Modern Toilet. You may have seen the pictures on Facebook. There are toilets for seats and the table legs are sinks. The food comes in mini-toilets, bathtubs, and wash basins, and the drinks come in urinals. I thought the urinals were gross, but everything else was fun. Surprisingly, their restrooms were rather ordinary.
One last thing. People in Hong Kong are very easily frustrated or irritated. On busy streets, horn honking is common. Sometimes people will hold their horns for 10 seconds and this will just provoke more people into pressing their horns. Also, if you go into a store to try clothes or shoes and don't buy anything, sometimes the employees will get mad at you for wasting their time. People there are definitely not as amiable as here in Vancouver.
Anyway, thanks for reading these long, possibly boring blogs. I will try to write blogs as often as I can.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Hong Kong: Part 1
So this will be my first "personal" post of 2010. I went to Hong Kong this Christmas break. It was a lot of fun, and definitely a lot different from spending the holidays in Vancouver. First of all, the weather. In the Lower Mainland, it's always cold and rainy. This year, it didn't even snow. In Hong Kong, it was mostly cloudy and the temperature was around 15 degrees. A couple days it was over 20!
Also, everyone takes public transit there. The MTR, Hong Kong's subway, is always packed. Hong Kong has a genius system called Octopus. You get this card, which is similar to a debit card. You scan it at the gate of a MTR station and then scan it when you leave. You can also use it to buy drinks from vending machines or use it at stores like 7-Eleven. I like this idea. I think it would be a good idea for BC. Also, you can buy iPod shuffles and umbrellas in vending machines. I thought that was weird.
Everything is way cheaper in Hong Kong too. A meal here is usually about 7 dollars, plus tax. In Hong Kong, it usually ranges from 25-30 Hong Kong Dollars, which is about 4 dollars Canadian. Also, there isn't any tax. I bought a lot of clothes in Hong Kong.
The restaurants are a lot different too. At most restaurants, you order your food at a counter, then you get a receipt and you wait for your food at a food counter. It gave the restaurants more of a fast-food feel, which was weird.
The night scene is way different as well. Everyone is wide awake at 10 and the malls are still open. One mall that I went to was open 24 hours a day! The food courts are full too. One time, after I had dinner with family, I went on the street and it was so bright it was like an artificial daytime. There are just as many things to do at night as there is during the day.
I guess I should stop now. This is the longest blog I've ever written. I will finish my thoughts on HK in a second blog. Tim Cheung, signing off.
Also, everyone takes public transit there. The MTR, Hong Kong's subway, is always packed. Hong Kong has a genius system called Octopus. You get this card, which is similar to a debit card. You scan it at the gate of a MTR station and then scan it when you leave. You can also use it to buy drinks from vending machines or use it at stores like 7-Eleven. I like this idea. I think it would be a good idea for BC. Also, you can buy iPod shuffles and umbrellas in vending machines. I thought that was weird.
Everything is way cheaper in Hong Kong too. A meal here is usually about 7 dollars, plus tax. In Hong Kong, it usually ranges from 25-30 Hong Kong Dollars, which is about 4 dollars Canadian. Also, there isn't any tax. I bought a lot of clothes in Hong Kong.
The restaurants are a lot different too. At most restaurants, you order your food at a counter, then you get a receipt and you wait for your food at a food counter. It gave the restaurants more of a fast-food feel, which was weird.
The night scene is way different as well. Everyone is wide awake at 10 and the malls are still open. One mall that I went to was open 24 hours a day! The food courts are full too. One time, after I had dinner with family, I went on the street and it was so bright it was like an artificial daytime. There are just as many things to do at night as there is during the day.
I guess I should stop now. This is the longest blog I've ever written. I will finish my thoughts on HK in a second blog. Tim Cheung, signing off.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
New Year! 2010!
Yay! It's the new year! FIRST POST OF 2010! I haven't written a blog in exactly one month now. This new year was special because I counted down twice. HOW? I spent the first one at the Hong Kong International Airport, waiting for my flight back to Vancouver. Hong Kong is 16 hours ahead of Vancouver, so when I got back, it was still 8 p.m. on the 31st! Yay, fun, fun, fun.
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