Hong Kong Airport

Hi everybody! I've landed in Hong Kong after 14 hours of travel at around 7PM Local time. (But the pic is from LAX airport before I left, at around 1pm) Having a watch is awesome, but I struggled for a little while trying to figure out whether I should turn it forward by a couple hours... turn it forward by a couple hours plus twelve, or just to go backward a couple hours and then change the date... but that must have only been because I napped an astounding 8 hours on the plane! All thanks to that fantastic special cookie John baked me.

And boy am I glad I had it. The whole plane was filled with Indian and Chinese infants and toddlers, screaming up the whole plane. The crazy Cathay Pacific seats didn't help either - reclining just slides your whole butt down, rather than actually letting you recline backward. I also didn't find out until the end that the headrests could be curled around your head, keeping your neck from rolling around like a zombie and landing in your neighbors lap!

As for in flight entertainment, I watched some pretty serious shit (Harry Brown) followed by the more lighthearted but EQUALLY SERIOUS Fantastic Mr Fox. The lady sitting next to me told me she was going to Bangalore. Lucky her; her son is getting married in a couple of weeks and she's going to prepare the wedding. But we only started talking at the VERY END of the flight, after I watched her be dramatic over having a headache and not being served a vegetarian meal. They said they'd hook her up with a vegetarian meal on her connecting flight, so I hope everything worked out for her.

Well I landed safely, hungry and tired. I brushed my teeth in the bathroom, before realizing the water would KEEELLL MEEE! but I rinsed my mouth with U.S. water when I was done so hopefully I saved my intestines from some damage. I kinda wandered for a bit; used my unspectacular Chinese skills to ask "where is" (chinese) "gate" (english) "23" (Chinglish) and eventually found my way. I struggled with an ATM machine, unsure if I was going to withdraw $200 USD into HKD or if the ATM was going to give me $200 HKD, so it wasn't so bad. I'm glad I did it, too, because it let me eat THIS!


#16, Singaporean style fried noodle, with bbq pork, ham, and shrimp. Pretty awesomely delicious, with curry flavor, bell peppers and onions, and lots of meat. Some of the best fried noodles I've ever had, sadly.

And here's some pics of the fantastic HK Airport. I saw a girl with a shirt that said "Nevada | 83 | Lucky" and I was like, waaah? Nevada?! How random.

=( I could use a shower. But not one that I'd have to pay for! Eff that! Sounds like raunchy things happen in a "pay-in shower lounge"



And check this fasmatasmic construction! That roof is hiiiiigh. And arched.

And finally, use the power of black hole to suck in light! Problem is... you'll never get your light back. You'll never get your arm back either... AHH don't reach in!

My flight to Mumbai is in another 50 minutes! Wish me luck!