Arriving in Hong Kong

First thing I gotta say is that I love Hong Kong. You maybe wondering how I’m able to say that so quickly. That is because life moves fast in Hong Kong and let me tell you why. After arriving at the airport, my dad had arranged a brother from church to pick me up. His name is Daniel and he was super nice for treating me and my cousin for dinner. Thank you brother. Driving from the airport to HKU gave me a better sense of geography of Hong Kong. HKU is located on the west side of Hong Kong Island and the place resembles SF since it’s combination of really tall sky scrapers and steep hills. After I settled in to my room 822, I met my roommate – Remo, from Germany. He told me he has been studying in Taiwan before he came to HKU and his English and Chinese were really good. Later that night, I was invited by Remo to go out with some of his friends who are also really chill. We took a minibus down Pok Fu Lam RD to a hookah/bar place called Sahara located in SOHO (south of Hollywood RD). Then I came to realize a few things about Hong Kong:

-The MTR (HK metro) doesn't run 24 hours.

-Hong Kong is a really diverse place, among the people I went out with, there were Germans, English, Dutch, South Korea, Singapore, UCSD and some others…

-The place we went to had a great atmosphere and mixture of white and Asian people. I realized that unlike places like JP/Kor/China, foreigners are attracted to Hong Kong because English is the language for fun. English is used in bars, clubs, restaurants and just about every other place that a foreign person (myself included) would go to for fun.

-Hong Kong is not a cheap place, I ordered a redbull + vodka and Asahi beer (which tastes 100 times better than in the US), cost me about $150 HKD (roughly 20 USD).

-The women here are beautiful (younger ones) and they know how to dress so that men only know how to think with their head (pun intended). However I’ve made a commitment to resist temptations, after all, it’s just mind over matter.

-Like me, the mindset of a foreigner in Hong Kong is 99% about how to have fun. Hong Kong has something to offer to everybody who has that mindset. Just pick an MTR station and go.

After few drinks and conversations, I found out one of the girl that went out with us is actually a good friend with a very successful party promoter called Destroyed HK. She said she will introduce me to the guy who organizes events, fingers crossed.

It is now 5 AM and I seem to have already misplaced my charger for my new phone...I slept for roughly about 3 hours and was woken up with my heart racing at the thought of just how exciting my life is going to be the next 4 months. So I stepped outside to the fire escape to watch the sun rise…I got a full day ahead me that involves 10% work and 90% fun. Stay tuned.

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