in HK!!

I've been here for 2 days already and I'm liking it! It helps that E1 lives in a really nice apartment in Soho *grin* hmm.. where to start...

For one, I like hearing Cantonese, even if I'm not very good at understanding it and even worse at speaking it. It's just a very comforting language from childhood.. And the food!! It's a place I could easily grow fat in =P I also love both the very well designed parts of the city, the attention to detail in the MTR trains and stations, as well as the unplanned but so organically beautiful parts of the city... I supposed I have yet to experience the full crush of Hk crowds or fast paced life or even really spoken to any locals at length, but so far, I love the place.


quick rundown of the past 2 days:


We arrived Thursday night, then had dinner and planned our itinerary for the next few days. On the airport express to the HK island I saw an advert for the Chanel mobile art exhibition, container by Zaha Hadid, which as it turns out E1 had also wanted to go to, so on Friday morning we walked over. Unfortunately you had to pre-book slots to see it, and the earliest available ones were on the 25th. So that's when we'll be going, and that's probably when I'll be leaving Hk as well.


After that we went to Wong Tai Sim where I had my face/palm/fortune read. Very good prognosis overall. In fact, it was too good. Though I was quite impressed with the accuracy of some of his observations.


Another place I love is ChiLin Nunnery which we went to next. The zen calmness of the Buddhist complex was a good contrast to the Taoist temple earlier. It's a place to linger in...


Dim Sum this morning with e1's friend. yum. CKH joined us for dinner and drinks.


Also, I found out just before I left Singapore that HK Architecture Biennale was on till today, so E2 and I hopped over this afternoon. It was a much bigger exhibtion than I expected, and I found myself inspired and excited by architecture in a way I haven't been for a few years... I only wish I had had the chance to visit both yesterday AND today so i could see and digest all the exhibits properly. It was also nice to see some of the exhibits from the local school of architecture and recognise some of the student exercises as similar to what we had to go through in our first year and compare the different approaches they took as compared to us.


HK film fest starts next monday, so I should be able to catch a few shows! yay! They're showing appleseed ex-machina! and I'm not there! I hope tickets are still available...

Have not had much time to sit and reflect and write and blog and upload photos. Prob will be able to do that after monday... g'night!

I will try to upload a few more photos here when i can