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Chinatown Bus, Worth the Risk?
If you ever step onto a Fung Wah bus and notice dozens of them hanging inside, DO NOT GET ON. Here's why...
Summer Embers
Some experiences are seemingly unremarkable when we live them and prove to be significant only afterwards, glittering like gems hidden under layers of cortical detritus and beckoning us to unearth them through reflection. Other experiences are not latent and are immediately meaningful.
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Five Reasons Why You Should Visit Xiamen
Located in China’s Fujian province across the strait from Taiwan, Xiamen is a bustling coastal city offering all the usual amenities for travelers with Western sensibilities as well as a rich plethora of traditional Chinese culture and customs.
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Why I Wouldn’t Live in Hong Kong
"For creature comforts, Hong Kong is unsurpassed, but Hong Kong is culturally barren. Living there is something like living inside a cash register."
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Tai Mo Shan, Done
A sign reading "No Trespassing," a ten foot high fence wrapping all the way around, barbed wire everywhere? Sounds like an unambiguous invitation to me.
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Getting Away From the Machine
There’s a digging machine at a construction site near my workplace in Hong Kong Central. Enormous, cylindrical, and piston-shaped, it prepares the foundation of a new building on Pedder Street by driving a sheer metal shaft at least two feet in diameter into hard, raw concrete. When steel collides with stone, the ground shakes and an ear-splitting clangor pulsates through the air as the threatening piston trembles and rises to strike again. An auditory manifestation of the city's pace of development, the piston slams into the ground again and again – a metronome beating out the urban tempo.
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“It’s like all the Mexicans in NYC just stopped working one day.”
Imagine every Sunday all the Mexicans in NYC with low-skilled jobs stop working, go to Wall Street or Times Square, and just throw one big street party.
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What Is a Trowel?
troweling: using a trowel, digging a hole, pooping, wipe with leaf, then refill the hole.
Massive, Harmonious Madness
A day spent experiencing HK's is enough to put any urban-dwelling American to shame.
CEO HK Interns
Here are some additional flattering pictures of the CEO contingent.
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Kowloon Tong
All that's missing now is a towel elephant with complimentary chocolate mint for eyes eagerly waiting to greet me when I return from work.
“I was picked on at school.”
My seat in 36A is next to the window in the wing section. I once heard the wingbox is the strongest section of the plane, but it's not necessarily the safest. Thinking about Air France Flight 447, I mentally plan out my escape plans for various scenarios: fuselage coming apart in midair, water impact, etc.
World’s Biggest Dildo Factory
It’s t minus ten hours before I wake up at 4am for a direct flight to Hong Kong via Cathay Pacific, and I am as excited as an intravenous drug user who’s won a lifetime supply of needles, to put it mildly. Here’s one reason why: a mere 2.0km from where I’ll be living in HK is a place that once housed one of the biggest dildo plants in the world.
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