leaving the hk airport for the taxi stand
hk is a really ironic place. there are mountains like these everywhere, yet the apartments are super small and built extremely densely together, because flat, buildable land is really limited. quite a sight to see vast expanses of mountains and then squashed up houses right?
i realised hk has MANY MANY bridges, of varying designs! i think it's cos there's a lot of sea, and the roads are built over as bridges over the waters..
finally reached my hotel room! this is my toilet! clean and extremely sufficient, with a hot shower and hair dryer!
my room's really tiny that i didn't have a good angle to take a picture of the entire room at once! my luggage is actually behind the bed by the curtains..
i have FOUR pillows to myself!
view from my room window 1; i live on the 15th floor
view 2; you can get a feel of how close the buildings are to one another
we started exploring the area soon after!
stopped by a tea cafe for lunch at around 4.30p.m. this guy is called bruce lee! he's south korean, but will be working in singapore ops too..
lan kwai fung; a place well-known for its bars and night-life, rather near our hotel..it's the world cup season as you can see..we arrived the day of the finals..
night market at temple street; nothing to buy at all though
we stopped for dessert at a roadside stall; it was SUPER humid i was sweatingggg! these 3 are the other 3 whom i was on the same flight with..the guy on the left is super nice, though i'm always teasingly mean to him...i'm really glad he's in this group..if i lag behind he would wait for me, unlike the rest who would hardly even turn around to check..i'm used to my more caring and thoughful friends! like diana who would turn around and check even in an l4d game! hehe..anyway this guy is originally from china, but studied in sydney, and is gonna work in singapore with me! you know he has a gf of over TEN years...super impressed..they have been maintaining a LDR since 2003..wow..anyway the girl is very pretty right!
typical psychadellically-lit streets of hk
walking up the numerous flights of stairs back to our hotel on a hill! START OF DAY 2:
we have a daily shuttle bus to ferry us from the hotel to our office building. today's bus left earlier, at 7.45a.m.
the view from our office at one island east is just BREATHTAKING.
we had allocated seating; mine was right beside the food table!
the japanese hires were super adorable! during a much-needed snack break in between presentations, they gave out little snacks they brought all the way from japan! i was very amused by the one of the left- it's called 'tokyo banana'!
a peek of our room..there were presentations the ENTIRE day, from 9a.m. all the way to 6.30p.m. i can't believe how draining it was! i really rather be doing work instead of simply sitting there- i'll fall asleep! i dozed off numerous times, think the hr caught me once..but i was not the only one..almost everyone else was trying their hardest to keep awake seriously..each presentation lasted an hour straight, with 5-10min breaks in between..and no offence, not that the speakers (senior mgmt from various depts) were extremely entertaining or something too..but appreciate that they took time off to talk to us, nooby new hires..
view from our presentation room window
more photos of my room! again, restricted angle..
contented with my tv (with which i could've caught the world cup finals if i wanted!) and boiling flask :) to me the biggest thing that i can remember of today was my menstrual cramps..i can't believe it was so bad! when i sometimes don't even get it at all..i wouldn't call it cramps, just a super queasy feeling, like an extended bladder, super unbearable..i've never felt so alone in my life..it felt so painful yet i had to pretend that i was all normal, listening to presentations and chirpily striking up conversations with my japanese and hongkong colleagues as everyone networked during each break..soon i couldnt take it anymore, and during lunch i just hid inside the toilet cubicle and sat down on the toilet seat..i kept praying for the pain to disappear..what i hated most was not the pain, but having to act like there was no pain in front of the others..i wish i could just sit inside the toilet forever and not return to the room..i just felt like leaving the training halfway and going back to the hotel to rest, but i knew it was impossible..for one, the extremely pricey taxi fares in hk already put me off..
i missed home soooo much, i resented that i was all alone to fend for myself in a foreign land..with no one i could tell that i wasn't feeling well..sigh..everyone seemed too amibitious to really show genuine concern for another person..i know i'm being too cynical, but that was really what i felt today..i felt so desperate to call home or sth but i didn't get a calling card and it would be so ex..
i wanna go back to singapore, where i can be surrounded by my loving family and friends.. :(
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