December 02, 2003

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A few for the quirky Hong Kong files:

1. Went to Stanley for dinner last night. Headed for a place that serves Indian, pizza and assorted fried and other foods in one of HK's specialities: eclectic food menus. Being a Monday the place was quiet so we found a table near the front, looking out over Stanley waterfront and the bay. Casting our eye on the scene we were taken in by one thing in particular: 40 locals line dancing. Country 'n Western style. That's not the weird part. The area we were eating at was open air, and this line dancing cabal was about 20 metres (I think that's about 50 feet in the old scale) from us. Yet there was not a single bit of music playing. They were just line dancing to nothing. We spent about an hour and a half at dinner and these people didn't stop. We left them to their own devices.

2. Our tower at Disneyland has a security code to access the doors (like how I've adopted the American custom of verb-ising nouns?). They change it every 3 months. That means I've finally remembered the old code when they change it and I have to spend 5 minutes each night trying to remember the new code, or ringing Mrs M for it.

3. Last night I finally got into our tower, only to find 10 security guards instead of the regular 1. Why? Because they were changing a light bulb. There's a joke here somewhere. But it wasn't just any light bulb. The atrium in our tower is 15 metres, floor to ceiling (look it up, you non-metric heathens). There are a multitude of lights up there. It all looks very impressive but I had always wondered how they changed them. It turns out they get a flippin' long pole. One guard holds it, two others stand either side to make sure the pole holder doesn't fall, four to watch and make sure the residents don't get too close, one to hold the globes, and everyone to scream instructions at each other. All I know is by the morning the globe was changed.

That's the great thing about Hong Kong: everyday there's something completely unexpected happening.

posted by Simon on 12.02.03 at 10:54 AM in the




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Question: when you head to the tower, do you yell out "I'm goin' to Disneyland!!!"

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Just wonderin'.

posted by: d fresh on 12.02.03 at 02:28 PM [permalink]




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