Sunday, January 15, 2006
TOKYO HK MACAU KL
Gotta get this thought out before i forget: i've been spending 80% of my waking hours day dreaming about equities and commodities.
Anyways....Skipped work cheeky early to run to Narita so that I could be ontime to hear the 'flight delayed notices'. Landed in Hong Kong after being delayed for about 2 hours. Got to the train station, and balked at the $100 train fair to the city, so I headed for the bus stop. Spent the time walking to the bus stop being suitably impressed with myself for actually caring about the difference between $40 and $100. If I was in Japan, I am quite certain it would not have mattered. Get chucked off the bus for asking for change from $500 and head back to 7-11 for change. Buy a nigiri, dose it in wasabi and reminisce about Tokyo. Finally get the bus, and arrive at 2am, only to find out that I booked the hotel for Friday night, not Thursday. At least the guy put me up. Woke up thinking "Japan is better". Checked out, bantered with the doorman, got the info i needed and headed out. Hong Kong is cool. Because populous, dense cities are cool. It's been so long since i've really travelled, and it felt strange. All the holidays I took last year were with other people, and I there is no doubt about it, company is good at night, but bad during the day. I like to be alone while I decide where I'm going to eat lunch. Having been spoiled in Japan, Hong Kong didn't strike me as the most hygienic place - despite being cleaner than the UK - so I grabbed lunch in the restaurant next to the Ministry for Food Hygiene. Bulletproof.
Headed down to the Macau ferry port, by foot, which took forever with my payload. Found a free internet cafe and killed some time emailing. Got on the ferry, got more stamps in my passport, jumped onto a plane heading South. I have a knack of meeting interesting people on flights, and this time i sat next to a 19 year old Australian, who had just lived in London for 9 months. I can't imagine moving to Sydney for 9 months when I was 18. It was something that didnt even warrant dreaming about. Spent the rest of the flight filled with jealously, and the notion that I should have tried to grow up prior to going to university. I've now realised that, in hindsight, I did grow up, albeit in Bristol and Edinburgh. At least I did have that opportunity, and nothing is ever wasted. Except internet surfing and TV watching. I saw the twin towers poking a little proud of the other buildings when flying over KL at night. Land, immigration, taxi. Scene cuts to Naan bread at 1am with Vic in Taman Tun. Reminscing about our ignorance, immaturity, and how: {this time, it'll be different}.
Shobie's parents said two things to me: Mother: "You're fat"; Father: "You're bald".
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