Saturday, 18 February 2012

Hello... is this thing on?

Er... hello, my name is Nick and I am an Australian living in Hong Kong.

After stepping off the plane at Chek Lap Kok it quickly became apparent that I wasn't in Melbourne anymore.  The public transport is efficient.  The coffee is appalling.  They have a homonym of a rude word in the name of their airport and only I appear to find that amusing.

Barely a day passes when I don't see something that strikes me as weird and I wish I had another Australian next to me who I could elbow and ask "what on God's green earth is that all about?"

So in lieu of that, I turn to the interwebs to vent my confusion, amusement, frustration and admiration for the city of Hong Kong, its people, its culture, its manners and its absolute dread of communicable diseases. I hope you learn some valuable cultural lessons, or failing that, have a mild chuckle.

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